CHAPTER EIGHT: AN UNEXPECTED WELCOME
Now, after the lovebirds' long night of enjoyment, it was officially morning, and after feeling more clear and well, they were more than ready to head home.
"Alright, Jewel, are you ready?" Blu chanted, and Jewel gave a chuckling reply. "Haha, yes Blu, I am and now how many times are you gonna ask me that?" "I'll stop once we make it, haha!" So the two flew off the boat and were racing toward each other and to where the tribe is. However, they seemed to be caught more on the laughter and thrill of the flight, rather than focus on where they're going. But you would be normal for a married couple until after a while.
But after awhile a small part of Blu was expecting to snatched by one of the tribe soldiers like last time. Only to put aside to enjoy more time with his wife.
"Haha." Blu and Jewel continued for almost an hour, just laughing and feeling like little kids until Blu sighed and saw something. "Huh, hey Jewel, look?" He pointed out…the entire territory of the tribe. In fact, they were right in the middle of it all.
"Woah." Jewel said. "We're…we're here but-" "Where the heck is everyone?" Blu and Jewel were finally home after a long and good flight but to only see that the place is deserted.
"What is going on here?"
"I don't know, honey. But look."
They spotted Roberto's hollow and landed over to it. "Wow." "I know, it's Roberto's pad. Hmm…I knew he never really built this thing himself." Blu said with a serious humph, and Jewel chuckled at his comment, seeing how his feeling of jealousy may have softened but not changed, so Jewel kinda like it after a while. "Either way, Blu, I don't see how anything here makes any sense."
"I know. I-I mean, with every summer trip we've been through, we've always gone the right direction and made it back here correctly. Since we've been doing it for years, I just don't see how this could be any different."
"Except we are four years early, Blu. Do you think they use to have migration plans before we came here from our previous timeline?"
"I doubt it. When we originally came here, Eduardo was pretty strict about any macaw leaving the tribe without projection. Unless…"
"Unless what?"
"Unless the whole tribe decided to evacuate."
"Right. Dad did they say they've been running, or flying, away from humans for years until they found this place."
"Then they must be somewhere else."
"Ok, that's solved but just where and how do we find them?"
"I don't know. But let's hope that we might soon."
"Hopefully."
So Blu and Jewel made it back but wasn't hoping to be…well, home alone. But decided to make the best of it until they were ready to find them.
Going by more hours, the two still enjoyed themselves alone but were still unaware of the trouble coming up. Nigel. For many days since he found out where they were, he's been following every track he could, and seemed to be getting closer by…well, by the set of 2 days. But now he's really close. In fact, it was now sunset and he was flying by over the same harbor that Blu and Jewel were at last night and needed to settle down a bit.
"Ugh!" He yelped after landing. "Days, weeks, what comes after? Months? I don't know how much longer I can go on like this until I do reach those cerulean peasants." He was just exhausted, more than he ever was in the previous timeline. "Ugh, this mastermind needs a break." Still focusing on his ego, still trying to rest, and while he was soon on to that, he didn't notice that someone else was there.
A lonely female pink/black poison-dart frog was laying down in a glass jar near a little market stand, feeling total boredom for being quarantined for years and having no one by her side, except only a dancing ant-eater to call a friend. But even that wasn't enough. Through most of her time, all she could do was just lay down, draw circles, talk to herself, and possibly play tic-tac-toe with her slime.
"Ugh!" She yelped. "Oh Charlie, I'm bored, as always. It's as if the sun itself doesn't move no matter how much I wish it. Or that these days just keep going by with nothing new. Like one of those 3…Dung whatta-macall-it stuff that people buy. You make the pictures move but they never do anything new." The frog, who calls herself Gabi to her friend, the anteater, looks like she just wishes the boredom will just kill her already. "Sigh. When? When will the day come of when I finally get out of this jar, or when we at least make a new friend? Or at least when I might make…a really really really special friend." She sighed again, but more out of sadness than boredom. So she rested herself again on the floor of the jar thinking she could just fall into the common slumber, until she looked down and saw a mirror. A mirror that was reflecting a face that would she change her whole world.
"Oh my." She said. She saw a white cockatoo. A very tired and seemed to be beaten down one. "Oh that poor thing." Somehow as Gabi kept looking upon the bird, that was Nigel, she felt something beating awfully fast and furious inside of her, and just made wanna speak up to him. "U-U-Uh...hi there!" She said with a friendly and gushy tone, and after saying that again for the third time, Nigel finally opened up and turned to her. "What the?" He, however, was getting a very weird feeling. "Why is that amphibian...? Hmm...maybe she can help me get directions." He thought, so he flew to her, and though the feeling for her wasn't mutually, he just wanted to find and take down Blu and Jewel. "Hello, ma'm." "H-Hi, are you a tourist? I've seen you-" "Yes, my little amphibian, I'm new around here. Now I'm not one for friendly greetings, I just need to know if you've had seen any blue macaws and are aware of their next location." "Blue macaws? I usually do see some new birds come by everyday and take the boats to the jungle but I've never really focused on their col-" "Yes, thank you, that'll be enough." He was about ready to fly off but Gabi, of course, stopped him.
"Wait, wait. What exactly do you need them for?" "Uh...nothing important. Just trying find two foes who ruined a good deal that could've changed my life for the better." Gabi gasped over that, and of course, blinded by love, she took pity on him. "Oh you poor dear." "Yes. I give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o'er wrought heart and bids it break. So I thank you, dear lady for the tip, and am grateful for this. Goodbye." "Wait." "Ugh, yes?" "Take me with you." "Why? Just my trip to here was anything but thrilling, and I am certain that a girl I just met will not find it any better." "Yes there's that. B-But if you need someone to help you stop those dirty bird, I'm your girl. I am a poison-dart frog, in case you didn't notice." She seemed like a real Gabi to him now, but it did sound like a good plan to him. "Hmm...I don't kn-" "Oh please, please! Look my life I've been alone in here and never had any excitement during my days and I can promise I can help you grant myyyyyy-!" Gabi began pleeding and screamed as Nigel carried the jar she was in. "Alright, alright. I'll let you help if it'll shut you up." Nigel yelped. "Oh thank you." Gabi whispered, then yelled goodbye to her friend Charlie as she and Nigel were heading the farthest moving boat.
Making this the new version of the partnership of Nigel and Gabi.
Done, and Done. What do you guys think? Of both chapters 7-8.
