Notes & Disclaimers:

• Rio is Blue Sky Studios IP.

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Chapter Four: Continuing On (Part 3)…

With A Friend

An official year has passed. Jewel was still sticking around in Eva's place, and everyday she hung around with Blu. The two of them have been doing great with each other. Blu taught Jewel how to survive in the jungle, and they had fun when nothing ever seemed like a challenge to either of them, until one new special day came.

"Whoo-Hoo!" Blu yelled. He and Jewel still didn't know how to fly yet, but they had fun while racing on the ground. Running through the jungle.

"Hey wait up, wise guy!" Jewel teased, starting to use all her strength to catch up, and as they were both about to approach the finish line, she tripped on a small crack, causing her to fall on Blu. They were then rolling together and both made it through, and apparently got a real reward. As they stopped, Jewel was on the ground, and Blu was laying next to her. As they noticed, they were staring at each other and couldn't stop even though they turned into red macaws. Blu eventually stood up and helped Jewel.

"Well…that was...fun." Blu sheepishly said.

"Yeah." Jewel replied the same way, so they just decided to walk back home.

They didn't say a word on the way. Since they met, they both really liked each other but never knew how to show it, revealing that flight wasn't the only thing they both lacked.

As they were walking, Blu did begin to form up something. Finally asking, "Hey Jewel? I wanna know something. Um…do you believe in…love at first sight?"

"Oh um. I don't know…maybe. Why do you ask?"

As Blu was about to answer, the sunny sky started to get cloudy and dark. It was about to rain, and thunder began to drum. "Oh boy. Jewel, we're not very close to home. We need to find shelter." Blu declared, Jewel agreed, and lightning struck down a large nearby tree. It made the trunk crack and start to lean.

As it was falling down, it was about to come straight at Jewel but then Blu pushed her away. He then tried to move himself, but he wasn't quick enough. The tree landed on his right wing.

"Ah!" He screamed in pain, Jewel saw it and came to him despite her fear and feeling of helplessness.

"Uh, uh uh, calm down Blu, I've got you." Jewel hugged him, hoping it would help calm him down and it almost did. Blu's wing was still trapped under, so Jewel tried to dig under next and yell for help. "Help! Help!" She continued, rain was pouring down, and the ground became too muddy for Jewel to dig Blu's wing out. She saw that she couldn't do anything. All she could do was hug Blu more and hope for a miracle, and the more he felt her comfort, the less pain he felt.

After a few minutes, Blu lost the feeling on his wing, the storm was getting worse, and Jewel just continued comforting her best friend. Until a miracle did happen. A little girl came by. She saw the two and helped. She successfully dug Blu's wing off of the tree, and carried both of them to where she was heading. An aviary. It was night time then and the rain kept getting worse. But the girl made it to the aviary. She was carrying Blu and Jewel in her raincoat as she walked in. She was soaking wet, and tried to be silent because she was on a school field trip and went away from the group (which was inside the aviary) so she could help Blu and Jewel. When she took off her coat and set the birds down on a table, before someone surprised her.

"Linda?"

"Ah! Oh, Mrs. Swift, you scared me."

"Where were you?" Mrs. Swift mentioned the girl's name, Linda, and Mrs. Swift was her teacher. When she asked her where she was, all Linda could do was move out of the way let her see Blu and Jewel. They were both still quivering out of fear and coldness.

"Aw. W-Where did these guys come from?" Mrs. Swift asked.

"You see, while I was with the group, one of the windows was open and I heard loud squawking. I knew that it was raining but I didn't wanna stand by and wait for help. So I went out, and found that the squawking came from them. I even saw that one of them had their wing under a tree. I wanted to help and I brought them here." Linda explained, and luckily Mrs. Swift let her off with a warning. So as Linda was trying to gently pick them up, they quivered back, especially Jewel when she put her wings around Blu.

"Aw, how cute. She's protecting him. I'm still wondering what kind of birds they are." Linda said. "Hey guys, it's okay. I'll take care of you. Come here." She reached her hand out, giving them a chance to trust her. Blu stood up and gently walked to her, when Jewel still had her doubts. Blu stood on Linda's hand and she slowly stroked his head. "There we go." She rested Blu down, and Jewel gave another hug to Blu, mostly because she was still scared to be in a building with two random humans. "Hello?" Said a man, which made four humans. An adult and his little son came out noticing Linda, Mrs. Swift, and the chicks. "Hey, I don't remember these birds in our aviary." The adult was a top worker of the aviary, and his son was like his little assistant. Linda explained the whole story to him and asked, "Who is this?"

The boy replied, "Oh, my name's Tulio."

"Nice to meet you, do you two think you can help them?"

"We'll see." Said the doctor. Linda approached them again, Blu had no problem with her, but Jewel wasn't feeling mutual. Blu noticed her a little distressed, so he gave her his good wing, after Linda brought her hand. Jewel looked at Blu's wing, and began to feel guilt. So she took it, and they walked to Linda's hand.

"Where to?" She asked. The doctor led her to one of the rooms. Jewel was quaking a little still until Blu put his good wing around her.

"Hey Jewel. It's okay. I don't think they're gonna hurt us."

"Maybe…but I'm scared. Remember when I told you about my last experience with humans?"

"I know. Loggers, but these guys look friendly and it looks like they wanna help. You trust me, right?"

"Absolutely."

"Then please trust me by staying. You can do that, right?" Blu and Jewel looked into each other's eyes. Jewel smiled and hugged him again, showing that she still trusted him and would try to trust the humans. "Besides, these humans might become good friends."

Notes & Disclaimers:

• "the less pain he felt": Emotionally speaking.

Another big twist. Imagine if in the first movie, Linda and her schoolmates were going on a field trip to Rio, but she didn't want to go because of her responsibilities to Blu. But in this alternate universe, since Blu never came to Linda, she had no excuse to stay home, which is why she's here now.