Blu, Jewel and the kids arrived at the pit of doom after their breakfast. The place seemed was less crowded since it was just an ordinary day. Birds were flew above the valley and some sat down on the huge rock that was separated by a single rock sitting in the middle.
There was a match going on between the scarlet macaws and spix macaws, and it was rather friendly than competitive. Both the teams seemed to enjoy their time playing against each other even though they weren't the best players. Blu sat down on a rock with his family and watched the match go on.
After the spix macaws scored two goals and scarlet macaws scored one, Will and Maria showed up and landed behind the spix family. Jewel noticed something behind her and turned around, she greeted them as she saw them land.
"Hi guys, are you here to watch some soccer?" Jewel asked them.
"Yeah, how long have you guys been watching?" Will answered to Jewel and sat down beside her.
"We just got here and watched them play for some time now." Jewel said," Are you good at soccer Will?"
"Umm, I'm not sure. I played them before but never really practiced it much." Will said as he scratched his head.
"Well, if we never tested your skill, how would we know if you are good or not?" Blu said to Will," We should go ask them if we can play with them."
"They will definitely say no because I'm an eagle and I might 'scratch' them too hard." Will denied as he shook his head.
"I'm sure they will let you play, I'll talk to them if I have to." Blu said still looking at the game.
"Ok, I'll try, don't blame me if I do too bad." Will thought about it for a moment and said.
After the match ended, both the team sat down on the rock resting and waited for the next match. Blu came over and talked to them," Hello guys, I watched you guys play and it was quite impressive, so can we join the next match?"
"Sure, is it just you or is there more?" A scarlet macaw didn't mind more player and asked him.
"There are three more actually." Blu said to the scarlet macaw.
"Then two for the spix and two more for the scarlet, simple as that." The scarlet macaw said but then was shocked to see an eagle and a falcon landing beside them. He kept calm and asked Blu," Umm, is that an eagle and a falcon I'm seeing?"
"Yeah, and they were really eager to play with you guys." Blu nervously said to the scarlet macaw and hoped that he won't scream and fly away.
"Of course you can, we accept anybody that wants to play with us." The scarlet macaw acted that he wasn't intimidated by them at all and said," What's your name big guy?"
"My name is Will, and this is Maria, my girlfriend." Will introduced himself and Maria to them.
"Umm ok, You and Maria will be in our team, and Blu and Jewel will be in the spix team." The scarlet macaw looked at him in a weird way and set them into different team.
"So what's the rule?" Will asked the scarlet macaw.
"It's simple, score the ball into the opponent's goal, but no kicking, ramming, or grabbing the ball in mid air. Only the goalkeeper can use his wing to get the ball." The scarlet macaw explained the basics of the game.
After setting the teams, the spix macaws and scarlet macaws both went to their own side. Maria was playing around the middle but Will had no idea where to go, so he just flew around like an idiot and hoped that he would get the ball somehow.
The ball was passed around the spix macaw team very often, they passed it to their teammate quickly and the scarlet had hard time following the ball, Blu seemed to be very skillful with soccers and easily broke through the scarlet defense and shot directly in the corner of the goal. The goalkeeper couldn't reach the ball fast enough and the ball went in, and the spix team cheered for Blu as he received a fistpump from his teammate.
It was 1-0 and the ball was in scarlet's hand, the scarlet team tried to do the same technique used by the spix but failed. Jewel received the ball while the scarlet passed it to each other. She swiftly passed through two of the defending scarlets but was stopped by Will. He almost bumped into her when he stole the ball from her, and Jewel spinned around a few times before finding her balance again.
"Will, that's a foul." Jewel said to Will as he ignored her and tried to balance the ball in mid air desperately. He didn't know what to do with the ball so he kicked the ball and passed it to one of his teammates. The scarlet got the ball and repeated the same method, they passed it around and finally scored a goal.
1-1 was the score and the spix had the ball again, the spix macaws quickly passed the ball to Blu and hoped that he can make some epic move. Blu used different skills to make his way through half of the team but was stopped by a scarlet as he was behind Blu. The scarlet passed the ball to Maria and she passed it towards another scarlet, they repeated this until they were finally in front of the goal. Maria used all her force and shot in the middle of the goal. The goalkeeper dived to the left and wasn't able to catch the ball.
They kept playing with each other until the match ended, the score was 2-1, the scarlet won the match and they cheered for their win. Blu didn't want to try his hardest because he doesn't want Will and Maria to feel bad, but he has to admit that they are pretty good.
After they rested on the rock for a while, Roberto and his team came in the pit with Eduardo for their daily training. They landed beside Blu and Jewel and sat down with them. Eduardo looked around and was furious that the eagle returned.
"Hey, what are you doing here? Didn't I tell you not to approach our tribe?" Eduardo said to Will as he walked towards him.
"Dad, stop it right now." Jewel came over and stopped Eduardo.
"How do you know he's not just gonna grab you and kill you?" Eduardo stepped back and said.
"Because he's been living with us for almost three month." Jewel said to Eduardo hoping that he can let him stay.
Eduardo grunted with annoyance and asked again," And who's this falcon here?"
"I'm Maria and I am his girlfriend. If you have a problem with it, we don't care." Maria said to Eduardo without any sign of friendliness," We lived with Blu and Jewel for two month and the kids you can ask the kids for proof."
"Did he do anything bad to you guys?" Eduardo asked the kids and they all shook their head as a no. He then said to Will and Maria," Fine, you can stay here as long as you don't hurt any macaws here, including scarlet macaws."
"Ok, Blu already told us that." Will said to Eduardo and was relieved that he can let him and Maria stay.
"I'll be watching you two." Eduardo said in a low tone and pointed his wings at his eyes and Will and Maria. He then turned his attention to Roberto and his team, he clapped his wings and commanded them," Let's get to training, fifty push ups let's go, last one finishes gets half the diet."
"Geez, he's really kind to us." Will said sarcastically.
"Ugh, there are muds all over my body, let's go clean in the waterfall. We haven't really taken a shower yet." Maria said looking down at her dirty feathers.
"What about Blu and Jewel, are they coming with us too?" Maria asked.
"I don't think they are going to come, they just took one yesterday." Will said to Maria as he turned to Blu and Jewel, and asked them," We are going to the waterfall, do you guys want to come?"
"Nah, We are going to visit Lucas and Julia because I think it's better to not disturb their training." Jewel said as she pointed towards the spix macaws who are now doing push ups.
"Yeah, well, we'll be going now, see you all later." Maria said to Jewel as she waved her wings at her.
"Bye." Jewel said and flew the opposite direction. Blu, Jewel and the kids all flew to the scarlet side which isn't exactly theirs anymore, it was shared between the two tribes, but there's still more scarlet than spix. They crossed the river and entered their area, there were a lot of scarlet macaws and only merely some spix macaws roam around the forest looking for food. It was hard to distinguish who was Lucas or Julia, so they yelled out their name and hoped that they can hear their yell.
"Lucas, Julia." Blu squawked out loud hoping someone would stop and look at them with a familiar face.
"Over here." A voice responded as Blu and Jewel quickly knew that it was Julia's and they flew to the origin of the voice. Julia was trying to cracking a nut and saw them flew down to her, she dropped her nuts and greeted them.
"Hey Blu, Jewel and kids, what brings you here?" Julia said to them happily and tried to crack open the nut again.
"We are just seeing how you guys are doing in the jungle, and maybe give you some tips if need any." Blu said to Julia as she successfully opened the nut.
"Thanks, but I think me and Lucas got it, it'll be more exciting to find these on our own." Julia said and started eating the nuts.
"Oh, I thought you guys were back at your hollow." Lucas flew down at them and said, looking surprised to see them here.
"We decided to see what you guys were up to." Jewel said.
"Can we play tag with you uncle Lucas? I'm really good at it and my sister knows it." Tiago asked Lucas.
"I didn't say that, I said that you were really slow, like a turtle." Bia denied Tiago as Carla just kept listening to music and pretended nothing is happening.
"Sorry kiddo, your dad and I got some stuffs to take care of." Lucas smiled at Tiago and said, trying not make him feel bad.
"Aww, parents always say that." Tiago said sadly and dropped his wings on the ground.
"Anyways, can you show us where you live?" Blu asked Lucas where he and Julia settled.
"Yeah, I was just going show you guys." Lucas said to them.
"Great, let's go." Blu said and flew up, but he was stopped by Lucas.
"Actually, we just live on that tree." Lucas laughed and pointed to a tree just a few meters away from them.
"Oh, how convenient." Blu said and flew to the hollow that is right beside them. The inside of the hollow is just like any hollow that you would expect. A large nest enough to fit two birds in, red yellow, and blue feathers laid motionlessly on the ground and were easily picked up by the wind, and the hollow itself was actually big enough to let everyone in.
"This is where we live, and I think it's pretty good." Lucas said as he led them in.
"It must've took you some time to find one of this." Blu said with astonishment.
"Not really, me and Julia just looked around and found this empty hollow, we don't know why anybody else is taking it. It's clean, big and comfortable to live in." Lucas said to them.
"So what did you do on the first day?" Jewel asked Lucas and Julia.
"Oh we first…" Julia started saying the story to Blu and Jewel as Will and Maria just arrived at the waterfall.
"Ahh, feels so good to have some fresh water on my feather." Maria relaxed in the water as she rubbed her body with her wings.
"You said it, it's always good to keep our body clean from bacteria and virus." Will said and dug his head deep in the water and raised it up. Water splashed everywhere and some got on Maria's eyes.
"Ow, thanks Will for that water in the eye." Maria said rubbing her eyes," Now I'm catching your sarcasm, just great."
"Sorry Maria." Will silently laughed and went over to Maria, he began preening on her feathers and she moan as she felt the electric feeling of his beak running down her feathers.
Just about twenty meters away, another eagle was preening himself and saw those two birds just beside them. He was surprised that he would see them again in such a place, he approached them slowly and tried not to be seen by them.
In the corner of Will's eyes, he spotted something rather unusual. He suddenly stopped preening Maria and looked at that direction, and he saw it. It was a harpy eagle staring at them in a weird way. The harpy eagle realized that he spotted him and flew away as fast as he could. Will didn't know what his deal was but decided to chase to chase him anyways. Maria saw Will was chasing the unknown eagle and joined in. She shook the water off her feathers and flew after them.
The harpy eagle stood no chance against Will as he used his hyperspeed. Will rammed the harpy eagle on the ground and questioned him," Why ar…"
"Don't kill me, I just took your food that's all, I have no other intention." The harpy eagle closed his eyes expecting a quick slash on his throat.
"Wait what?" Will was now confused," You stole our food and creepily stared at me and my girlfriend's bath? What kind of weirdo are you?"
"I'm sorry, that's my only way of get food to make me not starve, and I didn't mean to watch you." The harpy eagle opened his eyes a little bit to see Will' face.
"You are a harpy eagle I think, then you can hunt by completely by yourself, and you can even take us down if you really try, why are you scared of us?" Will asked him and let him get up.
"I...I...I don't know, and I don't like hurting stuff." The harpy eagle stared down on the ground with shame, he thinks an eagle that can not hunt is a coward and should always be isolated.
"Did someone say hurting stuff?" Maria landed beside them and asked.
"Don't mention it, it's too cruel for me." The harpy eagle said in shame.
"Why not? You are an eagle just like him, you guys should have the same quality of a deadly hunter." Maria asked.
"I don't do it, I think it's bad, and we should all be friends and not kill." The harpy eagle peeked Maria and admired her beauty.
"Are you serious? If you be friend with all animals, what would you eat? And it will not make you the top of the food chain if you eat grass and dirt." Maria sighed in disbelief.
"I don't care as long as I live." The harpy eagle said," My name is Jason if you want to keep insulting me."
"We are not going to make fun of you, you should just man up, that's all, you don't even have to kill and you can show everybody that you are a real man. It's just how you look at it. My name is Will and this is Maria, my beautiful girlfriend." Will said to Jason and moved his face up so he faced everyone.
"She's your girlfriend? I thought she's just your prey and you were washing her when I first saw you guys together." Jason said to them.
"I was but until we fell in love with each other." Maria said dreamfully remembering the days when they were still friends.
"Those were the times." Will sighed as he wrapped one of his wing around Maria.
"I don't know how you guys got together but congratulations." Jason said to them but changed his tone to a saddened one," Too bad I'll never get one of my own."
"Don't worry Jason, you'll find one eventually. I'm sure there are a lot of females that likes your kind." Maria said to him as she laid her wings on his shoulder promising him.
"Thanks guys, I've never met anyone that kind before, can I live near you guys?" Jason asked Will and Maria if they can live with them.
"Don't you have a hollow or something?" Maria asked Jason.
"No, I actually don't have one, I tend to roam around and sleep wherever I feel like it." Jason said sadly.
"You can live with us, as long as you don't steal our food or harm any macaws around here." Will accepted him to live with them.
"Of course I won't, now can we go to your place, I feel hungry right now." Jason asked them.
"Alright, let's go." Will said as he flew back to his hollow followed by Maria and Jason.
A flash of image came across Jason's mind as he flew with Will and Maria.
"How could you?" A voice called out to Jason with sorrow.
"What?" Jason looked around and only saw trees, but for a second he saw something else more disturbing, but he couldn't make out what they are.
"It's all your fault Jason." The voice rambled and echoed in Jason's head as he let out a tear when he recognized the voice.
This chapter is written while I was listening to 'Karma battlefield hardline', it is an awesome song and I was totally not sponsored.