Notes & Disclaimers:

• Rio is Blue Sky Studios IP.

• This is a prequel to Alexriolover95's story.

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Chapter One: A Sickening Time

Two weeks…it has been two weeks since the two blue macaws, Blu and Jewel, have gone on their first date and have fallen in love with each other. Since then, they've been calling each other, texting, and having more dates by dining out. Blu even got to meet all of Jewel's friends and they liked him, and even their parents, Eddie (Jewel's dad) and Mary (Blu's mom), got to know each other more. From there, to their present, the two have been falling more in love with each other than any of their friends gave them credit for.

In the present, it was Valentine's Day, and Blu wanted to make this one really special for his one and only. But life can sometimes have other plans.

Blu and his mom took a break from working in the bookstore for the occasion, and he already gave her a good Valentine's Day card, and she gave him her gift, enough money to help Blu buy something great for Jewel.

"Thanks, Mom. I'm heading off to Jewel's soon with her gift. Love you." Blu said as he made it out to his car, and Mary waved to him saying, "Bye sweetie, enjoy your time with Jewel today."

Blu drove away heading to a tech store, and Mary had a tear coming out of her eye as she saw the view of the car getting smaller. "I can't believe my little Blu's all grown up. Take good care of him, Jewel." Mary told himself.

Blu wasn't far from the tech store. He was feeling energetic with getting his girlfriend the perfect gift, but that wasn't his only feeling. On his way, he was feeling pretty drowsy but knew he had to focus on his driving, or else. He continued and made it to the tech store, ready to buy Jewel's gift. He parked his car, and then from getting out of it, he felt light-headed and too weak to walk. In fact he felt like that since he woke up.

Earlier when he woke up, he would just do his usual stuff: Hearing the alarm clock and almost breaking it, checking the calendar, getting dressed, and setting up breakfast for himself and his mother. Mary soon came out of her room to see Blu.

"Morning dear." She said to him.

"Oh, morning Mom." He looked at his mother and took a red card out from his pocket. "Happy Valentine's Day. From your loving son to my loving mother."

Mary gasped, "…Oh Blu, thank you so much." She was obviously touched by her son's gift, and it was quite a pretty card.

It was all red, with glitter, beautiful decorations and handwriting. It kind of reminded her of how Blu used to do so much of that stuff at home when he was young. Then after reading the amazing words that were inside, tears just kept flowing out her eyes.

"Mom? You don't like it?" Blu asked.

"No i-it's not that. These words are just so touching, a-and the way you made this card…it reminds me of how much you've grown."

Blu smiled at her mother and hugged her. Taking a minute, Mary finally said, "It's just so upsetting to see that you're growing up so fast. I just wish I had more time for your youth. I don't know what I'd do if I was gone, or if you-"

"Hey Mom, calm down. I'm not going anywhere, and I know you won't either for a long, long time. You know why?"

"Why?"

"Because it's like Dad used to say: 'You are ageless' and I promise I'll be around for a long time."

"Really, Son? Both of us? Even when I become a grandmother?"

"Even when you…" Blu paused for a second, then said, "MOM!" He released the hug in annoyance, and Mary laughed over his reaction to that joke.

"Hey come on." Mary said. "You and Jewel have been dating for two weeks now, and never stopped staring at each other's eyes for even a second." Blu kept blushing as she continued, "Do you honestly think that you and Jewel won't talk about marriage, and moving in together, and even starting a family of your own?"

"Ugh, Mom! It's a bit early to be thinking about that, isn't it?" Blu was still blushing and Mary shook her head until Blu started feeling something.

"Aw-aw-aw-ACHOO!" Blu made a massive sneeze after turning his head and then felt his throat hurt from that.

"Bless you." Mary said and moved her wing to Blu's forehead. "Are you feeling okay, sweetie?"

"Ouch. Yeah Mom, I'm fi-fi-fi-ACHOO!" He sneezed again, and that one flash made him remember something.

"Wait. Sorry Mom, but I have to go. I need to buy Jewel's Valentine's Day gift, and I'm planning a dinner date for her later."

"Really? But are you sure you're feeling-?"

"Yes Mom, I'll be fine, don't worry. Now I'll be heading off."

"Okay, but wait." She reached into her pocket and gave her son his cut for working hard in the bookstore lately (and considered it as her Valentine's Day gift to Blu). So he kindly took it so he could use it and the rest of his own money to buy Jewel's gift.

Blu and Mary said goodbye and were both off.

Back to the present…

Blu was still feeling tired on his talons but continued approaching the tech store. However, with his own will power, the heat was still going on, not to mention that all the cars were going a little fast, and everything outside was getting too loud for Blu's ears. Nonetheless, he was more than determined to keep going because he had the best plan for Jewel, and wanted to make sure it was more than perfect. So he wasn't going to get a little drowsiness get in the way. Until he sneezed very hard again, and felt worse. He seemed to have felt delirious then, and close by the entrance of the store, was an older blue-macaw reading the newspaper by the store's outside bench and heard Blu's sneeze. That bird was Eddie.

"Gesundheit. Wait, what?" He dropped his paper down and was happy to see Blu on the other side. He waved to him but even though Blu was very close to the entrance, he didn't notice Eddie. He started to think Blu was being odd as he saw him continuing to walk forward, almost looking like a sick zombie. Then a speeding car caught Ed's attention. It was heading straight toward where Blu was walking, and he didn't even notice it.

"What the?! Blu, move out of the way!" Ed yelled, worried that his daughter's boyfriend might get hit. "Blu! Move! Blu!" But Blu still didn't respond, just kept walking to the store and looked terrible. So as soon as the speed demon came closer and Blu wouldn't react, Ed had no choice but to run towards him and push him and himself away. Which was exactly what he did. He jumped, tackled Blu away, and the speeding car didn't hit either of them or anything but a brick wall.

Eddie was on top of Blu, relieved that they were both safe, and turned his now angry face at Blu. "Blu, what is wrong with-?" But he cut himself off when he saw that Blu didn't look right up close. He seemed to be unconscious. "Oh no." Ed stood up and brought out his phone to call 911. Afterwards, the ambulance came and brought Eddie and Blu to the Moose-Lake Hospital, and everyone, especially Jewel, heard about what had happened.

Blu was then being strolled to the emergency room, having his eyes nearly open and felt like he could hardly breathe. All he could see was a couple of doctors near his head and handling the stroller, and he could see Jewel very close to him, holding his right wing. To his eyes, it looked like she was crying, and even though his hearing felt off, it sounded like she said to Blu, "Hang on, just hang on. Whatever's going on, I know you can get through it." Nearly hearing that made Blu almost smile, then he shut his eyes again.

Two hours later, Blu woke up back at his house.

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To be rewritten.