School...ROCKS! No really! All my teachers are awesome ESPESSIALY my math teacher! wow...I never thought I'd say that ^_^ But oh well.

after you're done reading, look on the authors note below for a fun fact.

ON WITH THE STORY!

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About 18 baby toucans(one of them fairly smaller than the rest) charged towards them.

"Every bird for themselves!" Pedro and Nico shouted before shooting off.

"What?" Patty shouted "You two are just gonna leave us here with-Ahhhh!" The 18 kids started chasing them. Nico and Pedro watched from their hiding spot.

"think we should help?" Pedro asked.

"Uh...I don't know" Nico said doubtfully "would you swim down to the bottom of a piranha infested lake just to get two pennies?"

"...Yes"

"My thoughts exactly, let's help 'em"

they stepped out a little bit, Patty swooped by, followed by the baby toucans. they yelped and ran back into hiding.

Patty flew as fast as she could, but the babies were gaining on her, the others already got Nicole (oh, how sad does that sound?). Patty flew around a tree a few times then flew upwards on a branch, watching as the baby toucans continued to chase each other, completely oblivious that Patty was missing.

She chuckled "you almost got me guys" She called down "hurry! you're on my tail!"

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Nicole was pinned to the floor by 9 baby toucans. two of them were pulling on her wings, one of them was jumping on her (which was extra painful since she was only a bit taller than them) another was pulling on her head, 2 of them were pulling on her legs and the others were flying around her.

"Alright kids" Nicole said through gritted teeth "get off me you little monsters" she said the last part under her breath.

The girls (or at least Nicole) where finally saved when they heard an older voice ring out.

"HEY KIDS! GET OFF OF HER!"

A male Toucan came in and the 9 babies started to climb all over him saying "Daddy! Daddy! Daddy!"

Nicole got up and tried to get the circulation back in her wings and legs.

"Augh. Aren't they little angel's?" She asked sarcastically.

"Yep" The older toucan answered "All 18 of them"

'Yeesh' Nicole thought "Eighteen?...busy guy'

"if you're looking for the other nine" Nicole told him "Then they're with my friend Patty and your kids are probably..." She looked to where Patty was "...Asleep"

"What?"

It was true. The baby toucans were asleep, completely worn out from chasing each other.

"How did you do that?" Rafael asked Patty, she shrugged.

"Easy" She answered "They chased me, I chased them, they chased each other around a tree and plop! they dropped like flies, It was no biggie"

One of the babies groggily opened his eyes and Patty (Somewhat forcefully) put his head back down "No biggie at all"

"Huh...well, would you mind baby-sitting a few times?" Rafael asked her, she shook her head.f

"Oh nonononono! If you want a babysitter, then you can ask Mr. Sunshine feathers and He who resembles The King of sea cows"

"Who?"

"Nico and Pedro"

"Oh they're here?"

''yeah, in that whimpering, trembling bush over there"

A few feet away from them, there was a bush that was trembling and whimpering in fear, Rafael sighed.

"Nico, Pedro the kids are fine. Half. of them are asleep and I got the others in control"

Pedro poked his head out "Are you sure?" He asked.

Patty walked up to the bush, reached in, and yanked Pedro and Nico out by the back of their necks.

"Everything's fine ya big babies! now hike up your skirts, take out your binkies and get outta there!" she roughly threw them to the ground.

"Ow!" Pedro exclaimed as he picked himself off the ground "Not cool girl" He turned to Rafael.

"Hey Ralfy"

"Hi boys"

"W-w-wai-wait" Nicole started "You're Ralfy?" She asked in surprise.

"Rafael actually" He answered.

"Wow" Nicole said dumbfounded "N-no offense, but I didn't expect you to be soooooo..." she kept stretching out the "oooo"

"You can say it" Rafael insisted "I know"

"...big"

"What?"

"I was expecting you to be like, a finch or something. Not a toucan. What did you think I was gonna say?"

"Never mind. Are you girls new around here?"

"Yep" Patty hip checked Nicole out of the way "We moved here from New York. We're pets" She said "We're pets" Like it was the best thing ever.

"Is that so"

"Yep"

"aren't you girls afraid that your owner might miss you?"

"Nah, not really" Patty looked behind Rafael only to see the little kids playing among themselves.

"Are your kids always like that?" She asked.

"Yeah"

"How do you manage to keep them under control?"

"I don't. That's my wife's job"

Nicole had to choke down a laugh.

"That's a good one" She laughed.

and so the 5 birds just chatted the day away.

The girls didn't have the foggiest idea that Amanda-Jo was worrying her head off.

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"Now be extra careful when you're working with macaws, some of them will try to get away. Jewel's care taker learned that the hard way"

Mrs. Gordon chuckled at Tulio's remark. He was showing her her station and what she'd be doing.

Amanda-Jo suddenly burst through the doors, her father, Bryan and Beebee following. A.J hugged her mom.

"Mom!" She cried out "Their gone!"

"Who's gone?" Her mother asked.

"Katrina" Mr. Gordon spoke up, addressing his wife "Nicole, Patty and Mouze are gone"

"What?"

"Did they just disappear?" Tulio asked A.J, who was still crying. she nodded.

"I-I-I-I just w-w-woke up a-an-n-nd N-Nicole and P-Patty weren't in their c-c-cage" she sobbed out, her mother rubbed her back.

"Shhhh, it's going to be okay A.J" she soothed.

A.J sniffed "No it's not" she sniffed again "Their so small and this city's so big, Mouze isn't that big either"

"Don't worry Amanda"

"Yeah" Tulio pitched in "Linda, Fernando and I will help you find them"

Amanda-Jo looked up, a look of hope in her eyes.

"Really" She asked.

"N-now Tulio, are sure you three want to do this?" Mrs. Gordon asked.

"Of course Katrina, not 5 months ago the same thing happened to Blu and Jewel. We'd be happy to do it!"

Upon hearing those words, A.J ran from her mother and gave Tulio a tight hug.

"Thank you" she mumbled.

A/N: Okay, outta 1-10 how was this? 1 being bad, 10 being awesome.

I've gotten kinda sick of the title Stickin' around, if any of you think of a name, I may use it ;)

Chocolate cake: No I'm not a star wars fan...I'm a HTTYD fan.

Fun fact time (Music lover 3212 already knows this): Patty's original name was Pitra (pronounced as Petra) then I changed it 1) because it sounded weird and 2) It was too close to "Pedro" (I didn't realize how similar "Nicole" was to "Nico" until someone pointed it out in Lost in New York. And Mouze's original name was "fluffy"

C U soon :)

-Glampyra