Sorry guys for the very long delay, but here is the next chapter.
Chapter 9: Meeting Rafael
Morning in Rio de Janeiro started again and birds in the surrounding jungle woke up to do their normal routines, except for the last two blue macaws who were chained to each other.
Jewel had an idea to break the chain, and it involved Blu's strength, which made Blu happy.
"Okay Blu, I mean Tyler." Jewel correcting herself. "I need you to just start banging away at the chain with this rock and I will do the same."
"Okay." Blu said, still unsure, as Jewel handed him a rock that had a sharp end on it.
The two started banging away at the chain to no effect, unknown to them, many eyes were watching them.
After just a few minutes, the two became tired. "Any more ideas, princess." Blu said, very annoyed.
"I don't know, maybe…" Jewel stopped mid sentence. "Did you hear that?"
"You must be hearing things."
But than the bushes near the two started to rustle and Jewel became scared, while Blu held his cool.
"Who is there? Show yourself."
A few seconds later, two toucan chicks poked their head out and flew over to the blue macaws.
"Kids! This is just great." As Blu frowned and crossed his wings.
"They are so cute!" Jewel said as she scooped one of the chicks in her wings, hugging it.
"Come on, Tyler, they are so nice." Jewel urged Blu on.
"Fine." Blu said in defeat as he picked up the other chick, but did not hug it.
Blu than heard a scream coming from Jewel. "They are just kids, relax." And Blu turned around to find the chick that Jewel was holding was attacking her.
"What the…" Before Blu could finish he could feel his chest feathers being pulled and taken out. Blu made a painful face.
Soon several more toucan chicks were attacking Blu and Jewel. Some were biting the tails, others were busy pulling off feathers and even one of them was hitting Blu's head with his beak like a woodpecker does.
Blu and Jewel were so under attack that they did not hear the father of the chicks shout. "What's going on there?"
The father than flew down to the ground. "Go, go, off with you."
The chicks than proceeded to climb up on their father. "Daddy, daddy." The chicks were shouting.
"Okay, guys, calm down." The father said. "Right in the eye." As one of the chicks crashed into his dad's eye.
"Precious, aren't they." Blu said in a very annoyed tone.
"Yeah, seventeen of them and another on the way. Hey stop shaking your brother!" The father shouted at two of his children who were shaking an egg.
"They are giving me gray feathers." The father said, clearly tired, but than changed his mood. "So are you two lovebirds here for carnival?"
"No, me, I'm don't even like her." Blu said, unaware that Jewel's mood was down that Blu said that."
But the adult toucan noticed this. "Okay than, so I'm just going to guess that you two are chained up."
"Exactly." Jewel said, still down. "Can you help us take it off?"
The adult toucan thought about it. "Lucky for you, you know Rafael and Rafael knows everyone." But than two of his children landed on his eyes.
"Again with the eyes, you want me to call your mother?"
"No." All of his children present shouted and flew off of their father.
"Works every time, they are scared to death of her."
"Call me for what." A female toucan walked up to Rafael, wings at her hips and had a stern face.
"Oh, Eva. I must take this young couple to Luiz." Rafael said while coming up to Blu and Jewel and forcing them to crash into each other.
"Luiz? You don't fool me for a second, you and your friends just want to go to carnival."
"Oh, carnival, the magical moment where I met the most beautiful bird in the world." Rafael said while coming up and kissing Eva's wing.
Blu gave a disgusted face while Jewel felt awkward.
"Huh." Eva said as she turned away from Rafael.
"I still remember the song when we first met." And Rafael started to sing and dance with Eva.
Jewel actually thought Rafael was good and was nodding her head to the beat while Blu just gave her a disbelieving look.
"Take it." Rafael shouted to Eva.
And Eva started to sing. And boy was it the worst singing ever, for Blu and Jewel had to cover their ears.
"Like a river of the sweetest honey. "Rafael said, unaffected by his wife's singing.
"I think I need a hearing aid." Jewel commented.
"Come here." Rafael said and started hugging and kissing his wife, much to their kids' disgust.
"Okay, you can take them to Luiz, but hurry back." Eva said.
"You are an angel, I'm miss you."
"I'm miss you too…" But Eva was cut off hearing her children fighting again.
"I can't believe she let me go." Rafael said while walking away with Blu and Jewel on either side of him.
"So how far is this Luiz?" Jewel asked.
"Not far, thirty minute as the crow flies."
"And how far as the macaw walks." Jewel said, nervously.
"Princess here can't fly." Blu stated.
Jewel got a little angry. "Stop calling me that, okay."
Rafael was caught in the middle and not wanting to offend a lady, said. "Okay, we can work something out, but we should go away from here." For Rafael could see Eva having a hard time with the kids.
"Agreed." Blu said, as he knew what Rafael was talking about.
And the three birds walked away from Eva and her crazy children.
