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Chapter Eight: A Grand Day Out

They say the early bird gets the worm. Or in this case, the early bird has to get up, find Linda and the doctor to inform them that he and his girlfriend want to see some friends to tell them that they're okay. No need to guess who that is.

Blu woke up, and speedily remembered what Jewel wanted to do yesterday, so he went out of the AJ (artificial jungle) to find his new friends.

"Hello? Hello?" He called out since he thought that they both lived in the aviary. He just spent the whole morning walking inside the building, seeing nothing but the dark hallways, and anything that would look creepy at the time. As he kept walking, he kept getting scared since he never went through a human building at night, but the more he kept getting scared, the more he kept mentally slapping himself saying, "No! You've survived in the jungle by yourself for a whole year, you've learned so much from it and from the city, and best of all you had Jewel by your side. If you can save her from a falling tree, then you can definitely save her the time by finding Linda and the doctor yourself."

So he kept walking around, and heard a yawn. He turned to see a young toucan sleeping in a cage above a counter. He thought the fella was in a pickle so he wanted to help him. Despite Blu still having to live with a broken wing, he used his strength to climb to the cage, and when he made it, he woke up the toucan.

"Hey. Hey buddy, are you okay?"

The toucan yawned again while waking up. "Huh? What? Who's there?" He asked, Blu answered, "Hi, I'm Blu."

"I'm Rafael."

"Hey, uh...Rafi, so do you need any help getting out? Because I know how to open these things."

"No no. No no. I'm good," He stood up explaining things while stretching. "The people who brought me here have been treating me and the other birds here very well."

"Other birds?" Blu was confused until Rafael pointed his wingtip to another corner of the room, where many different birds were sleeping in their own cages. "Try not to disturb them. This week's been pretty dramatic for all of us."

"Wow. So the humans here help all these birds?"

"Yep, but where have you been hiding? I've never seen you here before."

They continued, "Oh, well, I too have never seen you guys before, and me and my girlfriend have been here for-"

"Hold on a sec, you have a girlfriend? Is she pretty?"

Blu gave his new friend a smiling glare. "Hey don't get any ideas, buster. But…yeah, she is pretty…beautiful." He kept blushing. It was like no matter what happened, Blu always felt nervous when it came to his relationship with Jewel. "Anyway, where is Linda and Dr. Monteiro?"

"I don't know anyone named Linda but Dr.M will be coming here soon. Why? Do you need a doctor to give you lovebird advice?"

Blu felt annoyed. "Ah! No, anyway, I'll just be going back to Jewel. Nice meeting you Rafael."

"Nice meeting you too."

Just as Blu was walking back to Jewel, he was near the building's front door when it just opened. He saw Dr.M and his son Tulio. Blu became ecstatic at finally seeing them, even though it was more of a shock to Dr.M.

"Hey. What are you doing out of your cage, buddy boy?" He asked. Blu tried explaining himself and what Jewel wanted, but unfortunately, he, like every bird in the world, was unaware that humans couldn't understand them. "He must've gotten out and just needs someone to help him get in." Tulio said, and Blu tried to protest that guess but Tulio just carried him and brought him back to the chamber, where he could see that Jewel was finally awake.

"Blu!" Jewel yelled as she came to charge at him and gave him a strong hug. "I was so scared here, where were you?" He began to notice her tears, but tried stroking her back. "Hey it's okay, I'm here, and…I'm sorry." He knew that ever since he met Jewel, she being all alone, especially at a young age, was sickening for her. He tried to do something good for her, and didn't think about her one fear. "Oh, I'm sorry Jewel. I didn't mean to leave you alone. I just didn't think it would take this long. You see I was just trying to save you the trouble of remembering Eva so I wanted to get Linda to see if she could help take us to them."

Jewel stopped crying. "Oh Blu, really?"

"Really. I spent the past hour lurking in this creepy place and kept my courage to help you, because…because I love you, Jewel."

Jewel felt something come up to her. The feeling of more love and gratefulness. "Oh Blu, thank you so much, but still…I really wish you didn't have to do all of this for me. Can't you please let me do something for you?"

"I make no promises."

They both laughed, and enjoyed their morning doing their usual things, and still wondering how they were going to convince the others that they wanted to see Eva. Just then, Linda came over to see Blu and Jewel. She came as she saw Blu and Jewel hugging each other on a pile of leaves again. She giggled seeing how cute they looked together, and spoke up. "Hey guys. How are you doing?" Hearing her brought them out of their peaceful trance, but were excited to see her since they've grown very fond of her for a while now, seeing that she seemed to understand them more.

"Oh." Blu remembered, after he and Jewel got up, he began trying to tell her what they wanted, but all she could still hear was squawking. "What is it?" Blu then got frustrated then Tulio came in. "Morning Linda."

"Morning Tulio, hey do you know what's wrong with…him?"

Tulio took a closer look seeing that Blu was still trying to talk. "I don't know. Earlier this morning, my dad and I found him outside the room, I thought he wanted help getting back inside."

"Well, it looks like he's trying to tell us something else."

Blu wing-palmed himself, feeling more annoyed until Jewel rested her wing on his shoulder and gave him a smile, convincing him to calm down. "I'm sorry, Jewel." He said.

"I know."

"I wish they could listen."

"Me too, but I don't see how they can."

Just then, a big idea came to Blu. He gently got out of Jewel's wing, and looked around the room to see if there was a stick or some dirt to use. Once he found it, he got to work. During his time surviving in the jungle, he still learned much from observing humans (as he already established), and one of these things he (barely) learned from them was how to write. So he got started with what he knew.

"Blu what are you doing?" Jewel asked

"Communicating with them. I hope it works."

Linda and Tulio, we have friends in the jungle, and we want to see them now so they can know that we're alright.

Linda and Tulio saw the whole thing, and were completely awestruck seeing that a wild bird knew how to write English words. But they put that aside as they saw and understood the message that Blu gave them. Tulio went out of the room to inform his father, and he too was impressed with what he saw, though Blu had to write it again just to prove it to him. So Dr.M thought it was alright, and the three humans spent the rest of the hours trying to put on some gear as they were about to carry Blu and Jewel out to the jungle. To see if they could find their friends, and only the three were hoping to see if there were more blue macaws somewhere.

Sorry for not publishing this chapter soon enough. I'll still be going through this, My Ending of Rio 2, and figuring out how to properly continue TGS:HU. That has become a little tough lately.