"Come on, we have to go!" Diante tried to usher Blu on, Blu had his wings wrapped around Diante neck and chest for support. But he was still limping badly. They weren't gonna outrun them.

"Ow!" Blu yelped as he stepped on his foot a bit too hard. The wolves were gaining on them. They couldn't see them, hear them or even smell them. But they could feel them.

They could feel the bloodthirsty savage hunger that loomed within them. And it was gaining fast. With Blu hurt they weren't gonna outrun them. No way.

Blu stopped the two of them.

"To the trees Diante! We have to get up there!"

"How?"

"We climb, there isn't much time, hurry!" Blu broke away from Diante and limped as fast he could towards a tree. He began to skillfully scale the trunk of the tree to get to a higher branch. But Diante didn't know how to climb trees, and his wing was still hurt.

"Diante, how come you aren't following me?"

"I don't know how to climb!"

Come on, take my wing!"

Blu reached out his wing for Diante to grab onto, when Diante did so, he began to climb back up the tree.

They were there. Blu could see them out of the corner of his eye. The plants moved aside and they revealed a gray wolf. The wolf was followed by the rest of his pack.

Blu hurried as fast as he could, Dia the grabbed onto Blu and climbed at the same time. One of the wolves lashed out after them, trying to follow them up the tree.

Diante swore to himself that he could feel its hot breath on his talon, as he kept climbing up.

They were just out of reach from the wolf pack. Blu and Diante hurried onto a tree branch, exhausted and breathing hard.

"That was too close," Diante said, out of breath.

"Agreed,"

One of the wolves, the presumed leader of the pack, started to laugh a little.

"You fools. Wolves can go weeks without food. You will haven't to come down sometime, and when you do we will be right here!" The wolf sneered at the two.

"I didn't think about that…" Blu said.

The wolves were understandably hungry. The forest fire burned down half of the trees in sight, and that meant most of the food was gone.

The tree Diante and Blu were atop of bore no leaves, neither dis its neighbors. They were all dead, no sign of life inside of them. Diante and Blu only had the rations they had taken from the rest of the group. Wait…

"Diante?" Blu called his name.

"Hm?"

"Did you bring the food that we brought with us here?"

"No, I thought you had it."

"I don't…"

Both of them groaned in pain. Diante looked exhausted. He looked towards the sky. Maybe the stars in heaven had an answer?

"We are gonna die here. There is no way we could last a week on this tree." Diante said.

Blu began to sob. Tears falling out of eyes.

"Why? We were so close. We are right here! Right at Rio! I was so close…" Blu cried inside of his own wings.

"Blu, sometimes, life just isn't fair…"

"I'm sorry Jewel. I'm not coming home. Not today, tomorrow, the week after, never. I'm sorry kids (sniff) daddy's not gonna be there for you!"

"Blu…"

"All my life! I have done nothing but live by the manual! I have played by the rules! I have followed everything and done what everybody said!" Blu started to get angry.

"Blu…"

"Why? I have done everything right! And I still get the short end of the stick! I can't (sniff) I can't die here!"

"Blu!"

"Diante! I swear to god if you say one more word I will kill you right here!"

"Fine, be that way. Die here in your own misery. If you wanna give up, give up, doesn't matter to me. I've seen a dead body before, I have seen people pass on."

Blu grabbed Diante by the neck and pinned him against the wall. Nobody had ever seen Blu this upset before. He had lost it.

"Diante! Ever since I met you have done nothing but complain and whine, and be absolute deadweight throughout this journey! I hate you! Because of you, I will never see my family again! Because of you…. I-I hate you!"

Blu shoved Diante away, he went to the other side of the branch and buried his head in his wings as he kept sobbing.

Diante said nothing.

The wolves were out of sight by now, but they indeed were still there. Occasionally the pair could hear one of them howl at the sky or bark at each other. The sun was setting in the sky. Blu wondered if he would ever see Clyde, Julius and Aberdeen again.

He worked his whole life to try and build up his perfect family. He did everything Jewel told him, he raised three children that he thought was perfect, he adapted to living in the tribe. All of it. And here jet comes crashing down.

The part he hated the most, was that the reason why this was all happening was sitting right there. Next to him. He took all of Blu's hopes and dreams and then slaughtered them with a axe.

Sometimes he wondered if Diante delighted in destroying peoples lives. Well this was the ultimate test, one they would really be gone forever. Jewel wouldn't have to worry about Diante anymore. He would've starved to death here on this god forsaken tree.

Hours of silence passed between the two. They were already miserable, and now this. The hunger was starting to kick in. They hadn't eaten since the morning. Actually no, since the morning before. They didn't even get to eat their food before the wolves chased them away.

Blu was starting to regret shoving Diante aside so harsh. He was after all only a bird too. He couldn't do that to him.

"Diante… I'm sorry. For what I said that is." Blu said to him.

"I've heard that sentence too many times from too many different people for it to really hurt anymore. Apology accepted, Blu. And I am sorry too. For being such a jerk. Its who I am, you know." Diante muttered to him.

"Aye. Listen, what were you trying to tell me? While I was freaking out?"

"Sitting here angry and upset, and hungry and cold is no way to pass on. If we are going to really meet the big guy in the sky, then we should do it with happiness. We shouldn't die here as enemies, we die as…"

Blu looked on at Diante, waiting for him to say the next word.

"Brothers." Diante finished.

"You really think we are brothers?"

"Come on, Blu. We look exactly alike. Except for color. We have the exact same memory of our childhood."

Blu grew a smile on his face. He stood up. Diante stood up.

They went in for a tight hug. Both of their wings wrapped around the other. Tears coming out of both of their eyes.

"I've finally found you." Diante said to Blu.

"Yeah, I guess I die with family. The best way to go, right?"

"Right on. Those wolves may get a new meal, but we found each other."

"They broke the hug. And they started to talk. About life, family, why the sky is blue, and the way the world works. They were happy. Even in the face of death.

I hope you guys liked this because frankly, this is the hardest amount of detail I have put into a chapter in weeks. Sorry for the delay.