Tulio finished with his medical files, was putting them into his document cabinet when Trevor and Krystal flew into his office. They landed on the back of his chair; Trevor noticed the laptop sitting on the doctor's desk. Trevor landed next to it and happily squawked at Tulio. Tulio realized what the bird was planning and flipped open the laptop, and started notepad. Tulio held out his hand to the laptop signaling for Trevor to work his magic. Trevor found it harder to type on the laptop keyboard, due to the fact that the keys were flat, however he still managed to get his point across.

Where are the other bird?

Tulio read the question, "Oh, they went off into the jungle, probably to see their friends. I'm sure they'll be back soon."

Krystal stood by as the human and bird carried out a full conversation, she was impressed, the ability to communicate with humans like this was intriguing and a very useful skill.

Blu cant fflie tho.

"Actually, I removed his cast this morning before they left, he's made a full recovery and should be fine as long as he is not too rowdy and is careful." Tulio said smiling.

Trevor gave an understanding nod and looked back at Krystal, she still sat on the back of the chair.

"Guess we have to wait then." Trevor frowned.

Krystal flew down next to him, "Yea I guess. Do you think that maybe you could teach me how to talk to the humans later?"

Trevor felt a sense of superiority come over him, "Uh yea sure…it's not easy though." He said grinning.

"Trevor, your friend that you guys brought in last night, the cockatoo, I think that maybe you guys should go visit her. I have her in the recovery room with the other birds." Tulio told him.

Trevor nodded, and began typing.

Im not goin bak in ther. And she not my frend…she blus.

"Okay, well I'm not forcing you to. I guess that we can wait for the others to return. Do you want to go play in the break room until they get back?" Tulio said extending his arm out to the birds.

Trevor squawked happily, and hopped onto Tulio's arm in a matter of seconds. Krystal followed, not knowing what the human meant by break room, but Trevor seemed to be excited so it must have been a good thing. Tulio walked out of the hall and took a left, walking towards the break room.

"Oh, it feels so good to finally fly again!" Blu exclaimed, he ascended and did a quick barrel roll.

"Blu, I'm really glad for you but remember what Tulio told you, just be careful please." Jewel said concerned. Blu grunted like a little kid, and obeyed. The three birds were in sight of Rafael's hollow now, they saw a few of the chicks playing what seemed to be hide and seek at the base of the tree. The three birds landed next to the chicks.

"Guys, where are your parents?" Jewel asked urgently.

"Mother is out and about doing errands or something, and papa is up in the hollow taking a nap." One of the chicks said. The trio flew up to the hollow and found Rafael sleeping.

"Rafael, get up." Blu said, nudging the toucan.

"What?" Rafael said, slowly rising up to his feet.

"Rafael, we need your help with fin-."

"Finding Nico?" the toucan said completing Blu's sentence.

"How did you know?" Jewel asked.

"Everyone knows about what happened last night; a few of the birds came by last night and told me about Pedro. When they said Nico was missing we set out to look for him. We looked all night with no luck." Rafael sighed.

"Well, we have someone who will know where he is." Blu grinned.

"You do? But who is to say he hasn't been killed just like poor Pedro?"

"Because, the bird that killed Pedro is looking for us." Jewel said.

"He is!"

"If you think that is surprising you won't believe the rest."

Jewel and Blu explained the entire story to Rafael; at the end he stood dumbfounded.

"Oh you have to be shitting me right? Another Nigel!" Rafael yelled, he muttered something under his breath in Portuguese.

"Yea I know it's bad, but we have Rob's sister back at the sanctuary. She is willing to help us find Nico." Blu said.

"What the hell are you talking about?" Jewel questioned, looking at him upset. "We haven't told her shit yet, who is to say that Trevor isn't wrong and she will go on a killing spree?"

"Don't worry, you just have to trust me on this, please." Blu softly said. Blu looked at Jewel, her eyes were worrisome.

"Okay, I trust you." Jewel said to her mate, Blu took her wing.

"I'll go in and tell her alone, just in case something does happen." He said reassuringly. Rafael cleared his throat, bring the attention to him.

"Well I can't leave yet, no one will be here watching the kids. Eva went out to look for Nico, she said she'll back soon though. I'll make sure to come by the bird sanctuary when she relieves me of them."

The birds exchanged their goodbyes and parting hugs before they left Rafael to attend to his kids.

Tulio set the two birds down in a chair together and walked over to the TV. He took the remote off the top of it and set it next to Trevor.

"I'll be in my office; if Blu and Jewel come back I'll make sure to tell them to come here." Tulio said before he walked back into the hall.

"What do you want to watch?" Trevor asked Krystal.

"I don't know, I have never watched TV before." She chuckled. "Surprise me."

Trevor clicked the red power button and the screen shot to life. He began browsing through the channels, after a couple of minutes he looked over at Krystal.

"If I could have a certain interest it would be easier. Like cartoons, music, documentary, movie. Something like that."

Krystal thought about it, "Aren't cartoons like kid shows?"

"Yeah I guess mostly, but still, I like some of them." Trevor said.

"Show me then."

Trevor looked back to the remote, and began changing channels. Finally he stopped on a channel; in the bottom right hand corner was a black and white CN. Trevor settled in, focusing on the screen.

"This is such a good show."

"O rlly? Well what exactly is it?" she asked.

"It's courage the cowardly dog. Basically it's about this dog who always sees all these monsters and stuff that no one else sees them or believe him about it, until it's too late. He tries to warn his family, Muriel and Eustace, but they never listen and he has to save them in the end."

Krystal looked at him strangely, "Okay…sounds interesting enough." she said as she sat next to Trevor. She turned her attention to the TV.

The show was without a doubt unlike anything she had ever seen before. The main character was a small pinkish colored small awkward dog. He communicated to his owners by talking in gibberish and changing his entire body shape into objects. His owners seemed to have been completely oblivious to the things happening around them. At first she took the show to be stupid, but after a couple of minutes she began laughing alongside Trevor.

They were enjoying the show, talking about it during commercial breaks when suddenly they heard a loud shriek from outside. The two flew to the window to see what the source was; they saw Blu, Jewel, Laura, and Nico standing at the entrance to the sanctuary. In the middle of the pavement two white cockatoos were fighting, one was Lucy and the other was her brother.

~Previous night~

Lucy squawked in pain as Tulio swabbed her cuts with the alcohol damped cotton ball. Tulio restrained her from moving the best he could.

"I know, I know it hurts but please stay still." Tulio grunted as he struggled to finish cleaning the wound. Finally after a long two minutes he began wrapping Lucy's chest with gauze. Lucy let out a sigh of relief thinking that it was over. But when Tulio walked away to a cabinet and came back with a clear syringe she began panicking.

"Get the hell away from me!" she squawked backing up.

"Come on now, please don't make this harder than it already is." Tulio pleaded. Lucy refused to be what was in her mind tortured. She tried to take flight but Tulio was quicker, literally snatching her out of the air. He kept her beak shut with his hand, and brought her over to a far side of the counter. Lucy heard a light Clink. She looked down at her claws and saw that Tulio had chained her to the wall.

"Once you calm down and let me give you this shot you can be unchained." Tulio cautiously approached the cockatoo, once he was in range Lucy retaliated and tried to bite his hand off. Tulio scoffed and walked over to a drawer. He moved things around and shut the drawer, and opened the next one. He found what he was looking for, a heavy thick leather pair of gloves.

Tulio once again approached the cockatoo, the size of the gloves made his hands look like bear paws. Lucy back away from the doctor, in her mind she saw him slowly approaching her with an evil grin on his face and red fiery eyes. Her back hit the wall and she began yelling at him.

"GET AWAY YOU MONSTER!" she pleaded. When Tulio grabbed her with his free hand she bit as hard as she could on the glove. Tulio hardly seemed to notice and didn't withdraw; Lucy just got a mouth that tasted like leather. Tulio quickly poked Lucy near her rear with the needle, Lucy cried out in pain. When Tulio finished he put the gloves back and threw away the syringe into the red biohazard box on the wall.

He took a seat next to Lucy, she glared at him with hateful eyes.

"Oh, c'mon now it wasn't that bad. Besides if I didn't do that you could very well be dead within days." Regardless Lucy continued to stare him down and Tulio chuckled. "Jeez you are worst then Jewel when I give her shots."

Tulio stood up and left the room, leaving Lucy by herself. She immediately began trying to escape, gnawing on the shiny silver chain, pulling on it, trying to slip her foot out of it. But none worked and she sat against the wall in defeat.

"This is some bullshit." She mumbled, hitting the ground with her fist. She began thinking about her brother and niece, and how they were probably worried sick about her. Eventually she began drifting to sleep.

Tulio came back into the room an hour later; he was actually watching the birds that made themselves home in the artificial jungle. When he realized that he forgot about Lucy he hurried back. He entered the room to see her sleeping peacefully on the counter. He chuckled to himself and unchained the bird and took her in his arms. She opened her eyes, seeing the evil doctor again she began freaking out.

Tulio silenced her with his hand, "Shhhhhh I'm bringing you to some other birds." He whispered.

Tulio quietly opened a door; inside was about 20 or so other birds sleeping in cages. Tulio set Lucy down in a cage and quietly closed the cage door. Tulio walked out and quietly shut the door; Lucy could hear his footsteps fade down the hallway until they were out of earshot. She looked around, she couldn't make out much, as the only light was moonlight shining in through a small window.

"Hey." Whispered a voice from behind. Lucy freaked and turned around, before she could scream her beak was covered. A palm cockatoo stood in front of her, with a feather over her beak telling her to be quiet.

"I'm not going to hurt you." He said with a heavy Australian accent in his voice. He slowly lowered his wing from Lucy's mouth. "The name is O'Malley." He held his claw out for a shake.

"I'm Lucy." Lucy returned the shake. She began to notice how much larger he was then her, towering nearly 3 inches above her with a sharp curved beak.

"So, you got here tonight I presume?" he asked walking over to the other side of the cage.

"Yea I did, um you're a palm cockatoo right?" she asked.

"Yes, why do you ask?"

"Well it's just that I've lived in Brazil nearly my entire life, and I haven't seen any of your kind since I was a chick back in the homeland." (She is referring to Australia, and the surrounding areas. That is where cockatoos originate from.)

"Yes it is true, I haven't seen a single one of my kind since I arrived here after being smuggled from Australia. The Brazilian authorities caught word of a shipment of smuggled birds coming into port and when the boat arrived the smugglers were arrested and the birds either released or brought here for recovery." He told her.

"Oh that is awful, how long have you been here for?"

"Nearly two weeks, I was severely malnourished. But now I'm fully recovered, I hope to make it back to my home. But right now that doesn't seem probable." He sighed.

The two birds stood in silence for awhile; O'Malley was looking out the window up at the moon, thinking about his past life.

"I'm going to go back to sleep." He said.

"Okay." Lucy said, she walked to the other side of the cage and laid down. O'Malleylaid with his back to her, his dark gray feathers shining in the moonlight. Eventually she drifted off to sleep.

~Present time~

"Get up!" Rob ordered, kicking Nico.

"Alright I'm up!" Nico said getting to his feet.

"Get flying; take me to your friends." Rob said. Nico stood his ground, refusing to show him. Rob lost his temper and slammed Nico against the wall, holding the canary by his throat. "If you don't want to make my face the last thing you see then I would suggest you start obeying what I say."

Rob dropped the bird and ordered him to begin flying again, this time Nico obeyed.

Rob flew next to Nico, "Don't try any funny shit, or I'll just kill you on the spot. Now take me to them."

"I don't know where they are for sure!" Nico yelled.

"Take me to where you would think they are!" Rob screamed before falling back behind the canary. He flew side by side to his daughter.

"Dad, are you sure that this is right?" She asked.

"Sweetie, don't worry everything will be fine." He smiled at her, she frowned.

"I want to see Aunt Lucy."

"I do to, but first we need to take care of this." Her father told her.

They followed behind the Yellow Canary for a good ten minutes, Nico was desperately trying to search for anyone who could help him but not cause attention or Rob would kill him. He looked back over his shoulder, Rob glared at him. Nico looked forward again; he could see the tower of the sanctuary in the distance. He noticed three blue dots flying towards the sanctuary as well; he automatically recognized Jewel and Blu as two of the dots.

Shit. He thought.

The three birds were making their way back from Rafael's, Blu flying slightly ahead, turning left and right, enjoying the feeling of flight again. They were about 100 yards from the entrance of the sanctuary when through the sound of rushing wind Blu heard a familiar voice calling his name. He turned around and saw a small yellow dot nearly 150 yards away yelling at him.

"Nico?" Blu muttered under his breath. Then Blu saw the charging white cockatoo, heading straight for Jewel, his claws at ready, and eyes full of excitement.

"JEWEL LOOK OUT!" Blu yelled at the top of his lungs, pointing at Rob.

Jewel turned her head to see the charging white bullet. She maneuvered and barely avoided a direct hit from the cockatoo. Rob flew next to her, trying to attack her mid air. He reached out and grabbed Jewel's neck, before he could finish the job he was hit from behind. Laura had charged the bird from behind, sending him crashing towards the tree tops. Rob narrowly regained control before hitting a branch.

"We need to go!" Laura yelled. Jewel looked towards the sanctuary; they were only 30 yards from the entrance. The three birds flew as fast as their wings would carry them. Rob was in hot pursuit, he turned his attention from Jewel to Blu, Blu was slightly slower than the other two birds, making him easy prey.

Blu tried his hardest to keep up with Jewel and Laura, but his wing burned in pain. It was still not as strong as it once was, causing him to slowly fall behind. He could hear Rob's heavy breathing behind him. Blu dared to not look back, if he could hear Rob's breathing then he knew that the murdering bird was too close for comfort. Blu shut his eyes and flapped harder, fatigue became full swing and Blu could feel himself starving for breath. He opened his eyes; at the ground he could see his shadow and the shadow of the pursuing bird. He watched in horror as his shadow was engulfed into Rob's. He looked over his shoulder and saw Rob inches above him smiling.

"Hello pretty birdie." Rob snickered before pouncing on Blu, sending him to the ground. Blu hit the pavement in front of the entrance to the sanctuary with a dull THUD.

Jewel looked back and saw Rob standing over Blu, ready to kill.

"NO!" Jewel screamed as she turned around, flying towards Blu. But she knew that she wouldn't make it in time, and already the thoughts of living her life without Blu were circulating in her head.

~Five minutes earlier~

Lucy awoke that morning after all the other birds; she spotted O'Malley looking out the small window in the room. She flew up next to him; he turned to her and smiled.

"Good morning." Lucy greeted.

"I wouldn't say morning, it's more early afternoon." He chuckled.

Lucy slightly blushed, "I slept that long?"

O'Malley nodded and presumed to stare out the window.

"It's something else huh?" he asked.

"What is?" Lucy asked confused.

"The wild, I feel like an entirely different being when I'm out there, being free with no boundaries. But I'm stuck in this brick and wood hell, left staring at the place I long for most through glass." He said, punching the window.

"Yea you're right." Lucy said looking down. She knew what O'Malley meant, birds were not meant to be restrained like this, she knew that the humans had good intentions on keeping them here, but she still resented them for it.

The two birds sat in silence staring out the window together.

"Wait what is that?" O'Malley asked, "Looks like there's a fight of some sort going on." He pointed out to the right of the window. Lucy focused in and after a few seconds she recognized the blue figures as her friends, there was a white bigger bird attacking one of the birds. It took her a few more seconds to focus in on the white bird. When she realized who it was she gasped.

"Oh shit!"

She immediately began frantically searching for an exit, by a miracle Tulio walked in the door, bags of feed in his hand.

"Lunch time guys!" he hollered joyfully, the birds began flying towards him, chirping happily.

Lucy darted past Tulio, "What the hell?" he asked when he saw the white flash dash by, nearly knocking him down.

Lucy navigated through the hallways, looking for any way to the outside. Finally she found a window slightly cracked open, she barely manages to squeeze her way through it. She made her way to the front just in time to see Rob push Blu to the ground.

Lucy didn't hesitate to take action, she charged her brother and tackled him off the blue bird right before he slit Blu's throat.

A.N.-kk guys, next chapter will be tomorrow I hope, and yes there will be a fight between brother and sister, I mean when is there not?

And yes I changed the name of the palm cockatoo to O'mali instead of Alexander, you'll understand later. DON'T QUESTION ME!

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