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Diante and Blu were still up in the tree, they couldn't see them anymore. But they knew they were still there. Waiting, lurking in the bushes.
"We have to get down from here. One way or another…." Diante said.
"How? Your wing is broken, I don't even know what is wrong with my foot, we can't do anything!" Blu said, regretfully.
Good question. How were they going to do that? They had to, time was ticking, they had no idea where Clyde and the rest of the group was. They spent in total nearly two and half days off the trail. Too much time. Who knows what the other three were thinking?
"Look, Blu. Wasn't it you who gave me the courage to leave that animal cage we were in at Buenos Aires?" Diante asked his (supposed) brother.
"Mhm…."
"You gave me hope and courage. If it wasn't for you I would be rotting away somewhere inside of a stinky cage next to some diseased pigeon or something!"
"Yeah, so?"
"I need you to do it again!"
Blu laughed a little.
"What do you think this is, Diante? Huh, this isn't some fairytale where the knights in shining armor always win, and come back home. This is real life. And in real life, things don't always end happily ever after." Blu said.
"You're the exact opposite of what I just asked you to do, you know that right?" Diante looked at him, disappointedly.
"What are you, half stupid?" Blu jested.
"Well if I am half Blue macaw, that means the part of me that is half stupid, is one hundred percent you!"
"Your math is blowing my mind right now."
"Come on, we need to get out of here. So either you help me get out, or I leave you here to die! Pick or choose, Blu!"
"We are both dead men, Diante. Both dead men! The problem is some of us don't know that yet." Blu hissed back at Diante.
"Then what was the point? The point of any of this. Why are we even trying to get back home? I thought you wanted to go back home to your family? What about them, huh? I thought that was the whole point of coming here, in the first place? Or was this all just a big waste of time?"
Blu said nothing back. Instead he stood up so he was about eye level with Diante.
"Okay, I'm in." Blu said after a while.
Diante smiled, Blu did likewise. And they got to work.
After a few minutes, they worked out a plan. Blu could fly. Diante could run. Together, they should be able to move as one.
Blu remembered when he tried this with Jewel, back when he couldn't fly. But things went…. Well, lets not talk of that now. But this time things are different.
Blu would piggyback on Diante, with his wings free, while Diante was able to run around. They tried this on their tree branch and it worked okay.
But the problem was, Blu could only fly so far because of Diante's weight. So they would have to run off their tree branch, jump, Blu would fly them to the next tree branch. And they would repeat.
"You ready?" Diante asked Blu.
"More than I will ever be!"
"Alright, lets do this!"
Diante began to run off the tree branch, he jumped the two flew into the sir and began to fall, but Blu was able to flap his wings enough to keep the two airborne. They landed safe on the next tree branch.
"THAT WAS INSANE! Yes! It is working!" Diante let out a cheer after they landed.
"Come on, we still have work to do. Next tree branch is over there, LETS GO!" Blu cheered as well.
They ran off their branch, jumped, flew towards the next, repeat, run, jump, fly, don't die (very important), land repeat. Run, jump, fly, land, repeat. Run, jump, fly, land repeat….
Before they knew it, they covered at least 50 feet. They left the wolves behind.
"I think we lost them!" Blu said to Diante after they landed on what must have been the twentieth or so tree.
"Yeah, hold on I need to take a breather!" Diante said, they were both exhausted from the run.
After a while, they lowered themselves from the tree branch, onto the ground, so they could start walking.
Diante and Blu were in arms. Blu still needed Diante to walk a little.
"So, where to next, Brother?" Diante asked when they stood up.
"We walk."