Alright guys, next chapter!

But before we begin, I have decided to stop my crime story and focus on this entirely.

I also have a very exciting sequel to this already planned, so that will come up after this!

Let's continue!

Chapter 11: The Nut Incident

Alex and Liz flew through the tribe until Liz swooped down and landed in front of several male Scarlet macaws, her patrol group for the day. Alex was a bit surprised, he expected a bunch of females.

"So this is the group?" Alex asked.

"Yes." Lisa replied. "You got a problem with that bro."

"Well, they are all boys, I expected a group of girls." Then Alex decided to have a little fun. "Any of them asked you out sis." Alex giggled.

However Liz did not laugh, much less smile at Alex's comment, she gave him a stern glare.

"Next time you say that, I will tell mom to send you back to school, clear?" Liz stared at Alex.

"Crystal clear." Alex returned. "No humor here." Alex said under his breath.

"Alright, let's get this patrol over with, so I don't have to babysit my brother." Liz told the group and they took off for the border.

As the group flew around, over the same path they always fly to make sure the tribe is safe, Liz was telling her brother the ways of the tribe. How they should act tough and strong and and never give in, to never compromise.

However Alex was not really listening to his older sister, he just pretended to listen by nodding every once in awhile, luckily his sister never asked what she just said. Alex was really thinking about if he should take this opportunity to sneak away from the group and go to his real family. However the thought of leaving Lisa behind, shook any thought of that. How could he leave her to suffer and live under such circumstances and be happy? Plus he promised her he would return home as soon as he could and he intended to keep that promise. I mean, even if he went to his real family, Jewel's hot headed father would just kick him out again.

"No Alex, you promised Lisa you would see her at home." Alex said in his head to diminish any thought of sneaking away.

"Look what we have here." Liz suddenly said to no one in particular to the group. "An intruder."

Indeed it was an intruder, but not just any intruder…

"No." Alex simply said as he saw the bird in the Scarlet territory.

The "bird" was none other than Blu and he looked like he was having a tough time, as he had a branch in his beak, looking like he was trying to get a nut that was attached to the branch. Blu shook the branch violently and was struggling as he was totally not aware of his surroundings.

Suddenly Blu heard something and let the branch go for a second, when he saw nothing, he went back to his business. A couple of seconds later, a red feather floated down in front of Blu and he stared up to find Liz, with the males around her, looking down at him.

As Blu looked at the Scarlets surrounding him, he saw a very familiar one behind Liz, in the very back, with a sad look. It was Alex and he was very worried for Blu. Alex wanted very much to just shout out to his adoptive brother to run, but that meant that the rest of the Scarlets would know about their relationship. Both brothers stared at each other before Liz spoke.

"Well, well, what do we have here?" Liz menacingly said to Blu. "I guess old Eddie's rules don't apply to everyone." And all other scarlets, except Alex laughed. "You're on our side."

Now Blu was focused on the issue at hand as he responded to Liz.

"Really? I didn't know that, sorry." And Blu, who was holding the branch with the nut on it, let it go.

The branch was sent flying towards Liz, however with quick lightning speed, she caught it with her talons, an angry glare at Blu.

"You come here, take our food, and now you dare attack me?" Liz stated. "What kind of male disrespects a female?"

Alex, at this point, was getting angrier at his sister and clenched his talons, trying to hold back from just punching the rest of the Scarlets. Blu took a quick second to see his brother's angry face and had that "don't do it" face. Alex so wanted to do it, but his brother was right, it was better if only one of them had to suffer. Blu then replied to Liz.

"No, no, this is all just a big misunderstanding." Blu backed up a bit, a little nervous at what will happen.

"So you say." Liz replied and flew down and landed next to Blu. Even thought Liz was a bit shorter than him, she was certainly frightening at the moment. "You are lucky I am a girl and I have some understanding unlike a boy."

"I am." Blu said back, confused.

"Yes, otherwise it would have been war!" Liz said angrily. "But, my leader would not like that, so this is your first warning, next time you will not be so lucky."

"Thanks, I guess." Blu replied. "Have a nice day, I suppose."

Liz didn't even say, "You're welcome", and just flew off along with everyone else, laughing at the stupid bird that was Blu, who wandered into their territory.

"That blue macaw better learn some manners." A Scarlet said as he flew past Alex who seemed rooted to the branch he was currently standing on.

Alex looked at Blu, not saying anything, with a sorry face on. Blu gave Alex the "I'm fine" look and nodded his head to tell his Scarlet brother to go before the others got suspicious of him. Alex flapped his wings and rejoined everyone as they were talking along themselves.

The rest of the patrol was uneventful and when Alex got back home, Lisa was eagerly waiting for him and came up to her big brother with a warming hug, which Alex really needed.

"You kept your promise." Lisa happily said as she wrapped her tiny wings around Alex.

"Of course I did." Alex returned and smiled. "Lisa, I forgot to tell you something, but you must promise to not tell anyone, okay?"

"I promise."

The two siblings then went to Alex's room and Alex made sure no one was in sight.

"I bet you never heard what happened with most of life when I was taken from here." Alex asked.

Lisa heard about Alex being lost and presumed dead when he was nowhere to be found, in reality being captured by smugglers.

"Well, I heard you were lost, but no." Lisa replied, curious to hear about her brother's life.

"Well it all started in a cage with a younger blue macaw…" Alex started.

Meanwhile back in the blue macaw tribe…

"You went to get a nut for me?" Jewel asked Blu.

"Yes, but a big group of Scarlet macaws surrounded me and told me I was in their territory and told me that I was lucky that they will let me off with a warning. Alex was along them." Blu reported to his mate.

"Blu, that must have been hard." Jewel comforted him.

"It was, Alex really wanted to help me, but I gave him the silent saying of "Don't do it", I didn't want us to get hurt." Blu sighed.

"So what do we do?" Jewel asked.

"I think it is best we keep this to ourselves, I don't want to have Alex and us eventually become enemies." Blu replied. "I have an idea."

"What?" Jewel asked, curious.

Blu then told Jewel his idea, to which no blue macaw should know about it, for indeed it would spell war between the two tribes if anyone should hear of it.

Wait what!

So the nut incident does not cause a "war" to break out? So what will? Also, what is the idea that Blu has?

You guys have to wait until next chapter to find out!

And also, let's just say the loggers are delayed for a bit…