Chapter 14: The Hero

It was the morning after the bad meeting between Bia and Andrew's father. Bia was turning and twisting in her sleep with bad dreams once again in her head, she snapped out of her thoughts when Andrew woke her up.

"Andrew, what are you doing here so early in the morning?"

"Well I couldn't sleep very well because of you know, last night."

"I hear you, but I feel a little better now that you are here." Bia smiled sweetly at him, which Andrew returned.

"Come, I have a surprise for you."

As Andrew and Bia flew out, Andrew's mom and dad were also preparing for a surprise Andrew's mother prepared in order to calm John's head. Martha's plan was for the two of them to meet Andrew and Bia "by accident" and enjoy a walk together for John to get to know Bia. Andrew had his doubts that it would work, but he put his faith in his mom.

"Andrew, what are we doing here?" Bia asked, when they got to the pond, where Andrew has his breaks.

Andrew was about to answer when he saw his mom and dad walking up.

"Hi, mom, dad, what are you doing here?" Andrew asked innocently.

"Hello, my son, we were just taking a little walk. Oh, look you bought Bia, how nice, maybe we can walk together." Martha said cheerly.

John, however, was furious, but chose this time to keep his anger bottled up and ignored Bia and Andrew.

Bia could see John was ignoring them, but kept her sadness bottled inside as well.

As the four walked together through the jungle with Andrew and Martha in the center, Andrew and Martha talked about Bia, hoping John would see that they were perfect together. However, this did not happened and Andrew and Martha started to give up hope the plan would work.

Up ahead the path the four were walking was tree that was struck by lighting a few days ago and the tree was ready to fall. When the four birds neared the tree, it started to fall. Andrew was the first to see this and pushed his parents and Bia out of the way and than tried to get out of the way himself. Lucky the huge trunk missed him, but a branch still whacked Andrew right in the head, leaving him unconscious.

After the dust settled from the fallen tree, Andrew could be seen lying still.

"Andrew!" was all his parents and Bia said as they ran towards him.

Bia was the first to speak. "My parents' home is not far from here, we should take him there."

Even John was scared about his son's condition and did not argue, Andrew's parents and Bia quickly picked him up and carried him to Blu and Jewel's hollow.

"Mom, Dad!" Bia shouted as Blu and Jewel rushed outside to see what was the matter. "Andrew has been hurt badly, we need your help."

Blu and Jewel wasted no time in helping to bring Andrew inside and make him comfortable.

Only time would tell if Andrew was going to be alright, as Bia and Andrew's parents could only hope he was going to be alright.

"I'm very sorry, my son, I love you." His father said in his ear, before he left for his home.