Adapting to a new life. Chapter 10 (Cleaning the slate)
As Jewel and Blu watched Nigel scuttle back into the vents knowing that he could never do a surprise attack ever again there attention was brought over towards bubbles being formed in the pond near them, remembering that Nigel was not alone they both quickly flew back other to their children who were all huddled up together also looking at the pond. The three kids hid behind their parents waiting for something to happen. But eventually Jewels patients ran out and she started to do the same mistake Blu did about 5 minutes ago, slowly moving forwards towards the pond. Although still nothing happened.
"He's probably drowning!" Bia yelled with everyone looking at her.
Blu volunteered to see if he had drowned or not and walked to the edge of the pond, sticking his head in seconds later. Once he opened his eyes he would expect to see either a bird rushing towards him or a floating corps...But he couldn't see anything besides water of course but in the corner of his eye he saw tail feathers leaving the pond, instantly he re surfaced and looked over towards the area that he saw the feathers near.
"He's over there" Blu said to Jewel "Stay here with the kids ill shout if I need your help"
Blu then took off over to the other side of the pond and started to look around, quickly discovering a trail of wet footprints in the ground. He crouched down and slowly followed the trail to find a wet Lear's macaw breaking off a branch of a tree and breaking the smaller branches until it looked like a wooden pole. Blu got closer and hid behind a tree and noticed that he was talking to himself.
"God dammit!, I shouldn't of trusted that dodgy cockatoo! making me attack children? for his sake I hope his age kills him before I do also I wonder if them Spix macaws have forgotten about me?, yea then I could probably sneak my way out of here" Joe mumbled as he tried to process the situation that he was in "Just hope Dan's doing better than I am"
While Joe had his back turned Blu decided to confront him hoping to get answered out of him before Jewel does.
"Cough Cough" Blu tried to get his attention
Almost instantaneously Joe swiftly turned his head towards Blu and froze on the spot with his eyes widened from shock and beak opened from being caught. Blu was about to say something but Joe tried to run away and ended up tripping over one of the broken smaller branches Blu moved over to him to ensure he couldn't get away. Suddenly Joe kept swinging his make shift weapon at Blu while he attempted to stand up Blu on the other hand became more disappointed and snatched the pole from Joes grip only to throw it into some bushes.
"Why did you try and attack my children?" Blu asked to break the ice.
"I thought they were adults" Joe responded while keeping his shocked eyes locked onto Blus.
"What do you mean?, do they look like adults!" Blu questioned sarcastically "Also why was Nigel here!"
"I got blinded by something" Joe could only say.
"And Nigel?" Jewel asked while landing beside Blu followed by their children
"He-he wanted revenge on you for ruining his career!" Joe shouted as he started to take courage from the fact that they were apparently cruel birds.
"Career?...You fool! Nigel doesn't have a career unless you count tormenting others as one!" Jewel yelled back
Joe stood there for a moment to thing about the possibility that he in fact had been used to help end the lives of others, the way that he instructed to hold off children and honestly that little story he was told off seemed to be an exaggeration eventually he came back to reality to see the mother of the family was getting more aggressive towards him.
"WELL?" Jewel screamed
"What?" Joe responded
"ARE YOU DAY DREAMING OR SOMETHING?, WHY DID YOU HURT MY CHILDREN!" Jewel screamed again.
"He said he was blinding by something and told that they were adults" Blu stood in and said to Jewel
"I-I'm sorry I should of known better" Joe softly said as he lowered his head and water soaked wings.
Blu looked over at Joe and sighed.
"Kids, did he hurt you in any way? I mean did he leave any marks or injuries?" Blu whispered to his kids
Carla, Tiago and Bia looked around their body's and behind each others backs before shaking their heads at Blu
"No all he did was not letting us move" Carla responded
Blu then went over to Jewel who was still angry at Joe but his apology and explanation did calm her down a bit.
"Honey Nigel has a lot of trick that he can do I wouldn't be surprised if deceiving others birds is one lets give him a chance he doesn't really seem all that bad" Blu asked Jewel
Jewel sighed
"Fine but I just need to know one more thing" Jewel mumbled "Who ever you are, What did Nigel say to you or even did he promise you anything?.
As soon as Jewel mentioned 'Promised anything' Joe immediately remember about how Nigel would help him finding his owner...now he was back were he was before with no help. A couple of seconds later Joe held his head back up again and looked over at the group.
"Both, He said that you all destroyed his career and he promised me that he would assist me finding my owner" Joe spoke
"Wait, you had an...owner but that means your do-" Blu was about to finish
"Domesticated yes...and I'm trying to get back to my owner... heck I don't even belong here!" Joe explained
Everyone went silent with Jewel and Blu processing what they have been told and Joe who was imagining what he would do to that deceiving 'Coffin dodger' (My country's Slang for "Old people"). Blu then felt a small poke coming from his wing he looked down to see Tiago looking up at him
"Can we help him?" Tiago asked with the other two nodding "Its more fun that staying here"
Jewel couldn't help but to feel a little bit of sorrow for this foreign Lear macaw. She looked over towards Joe and back to Blu
"I guess...there isn't a real harm in helping right?" Jewel whispered
Suddenly they all started to hear footsteps, Joe was walking away from the group towards the vent he came from with his head hanging shamefully Jewel had to make a decision does she agree to help or does she keep safe and let this stranger walk away. Just as Joe was about to disappear a wing landed on his shoulder stopping him dead in his tracks he slowly turned his head wondering who it was. Blu had made the decision for Jewel as he removed his wing and kept it by his side, Joe turned around to face him in the process
"We'll help you find your owner it shouldn't be that hard should it?" Blu asked as the rest flew over behind him
Joe looked at him for a moment wondering why he was being kind to him but he couldn't refuse an offer like that
"No it shouldn't be...Thank you" Joe said smiling
Everyone else smiled with him
"Right shall we get going?" Jewel said
"Ah sure but how are we getting out of here?" Joe asked while looking around the room
"Don't worry we can get out anytime we want after we all know the owners of this place" Blu responded
They all started to walk to the exit door to the room and somehow managed to turn the handle allowing the door to swing open, They now took flight and headed towards the exit to the building. They were automatic doors so there was no need to turn handles, on the way out a pair of familiar Humans waved at the group of macaws Joe shrugged it off as he didn't want to know about it. They were now In the open and already the heat began to roast them.
(MEANWHILE)
Nigel was at the end of the vents hiding behind the corner while catching his breath, occasionally he checked to see if Blu or Jewel was about. After 5 minutes he started to relax and ex-haled but just as he did it he looked over to see a pink and purple frog looking at him without taking a second to tell if it was a frog nigel started to run as fast as he could with the frog hoping towards him...
"NIGEL COME BACK!" The frog shouted