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Chapter Nine: All's Well

Linda, Tulio, and Dr.M have been hiking around the jungle, carrying Blu and Jewel for less than an hour, hoping to see if their friends are still around.

"Hurry, we're almost there." Blu said to them. Linda was carrying him, as Tulio was carrying Jewel. Blu actually knew his way around the jungle better than anyone, and he knew where to lead his three human companions.

Just then, Jewel spotted a very familiar tree. It was Eva's home."Blu, we made it!" She yelled excitedly.

"Great. Guys, this is it. You can drop us off at this tree." Blu signaled them, and since the tree wasn't too high, Linda leaned up and placed Blu inside the tree's hollow, and Tulio did the same for Jewel.

"So this is where they live?" Tulio asked Linda.

"I don't know. If they did then maybe their parents would be here by now, but-"

Dr.M interrupted. "Kids, wait, get behind the bushes." He heard wings flapping close by, and thought it was their parents. So they did what he said, and as Blu and Jewel were standing on the edge of the hollow, they heard the flapping too, then heard some sort of speeding sound, and "JEWEL!" They turned, and bang! Eva jumped right on them inside the hollow.

"Guys! Aw!" Eva said, showing tears of joy while hugging her closest friends to death (figuratively).

"Hey Eva!" They both said returning the hug.

"Where have you been, I was so worried, and my parents too. In fact, they wouldn't stop looking for you." The three then sat together, and explained the story until they heard more flapping and two more birds came by.

"Toucans?" Said the puzzled Tulio, but his dad got him to be quiet to continue observing what was going on. They could see the five birds squawking to each other, seeing that they were having a friendly conversation.

As for the two other toucans, they were Eva's parents, and their names were Carlos and Sophia.

"Oh Jewel, we were so worried about you." Said Sophia with tears coming out, and Carlos joined in their hug.

Carlos opened his eyes from the hug and noticed Blu in his condition. "Oh hey Blu. W-where were you two, and are you okay? What happened to your wing?" Blu and Jewel then explained the story again, now seeing that things were good for them.

"So these humans helped you? Wow, I knew they were friendly but I didn't think they cared about us animals that much." Said Eva.

Jewel wanted to introduce them. "Do you wanna meet them?" The three toucans nodded, and Blu stepped at the edge of the hollow, and signaled Linda and the others to come out. Linda was the first one, and Blu signaled her to help bring him down. Then Carlos carried Jewel outside the hollow (since she still couldn't fly), as Sophia and Eva flew out. They all landed on Linda's shoulder, and she chuckled about the fact that she never had so many birds on her before. And Jewel decided to use that to her advantage for fun. "Hey Blu?"

"Yeah?"

"Do this." Jewel was the closest to Linda's neck, so she rubbed her head against it, and Blu did the same thing as he was on the other side. The others saw what they were doing, and moved in by gently moving their talons on Linda's arms, making her giggle to create some laughs. Tulio and his father saw the entire thing, and they came out to join in. The eight were all together, playing around, having fun, and afterwards Blu tried writing to his three human friends again (which was a surprise for Eva and her parents seeing that Blu could read and write things). He explained to them that Jewel lived with Eva and her parents, and that he lived not too far from them.

"Well in that case, since your friends now know that you're okay, then perhaps you won't mind if we take you back to the aviary?" Said Dr.M, but the two adult toucans moved up and put their winds over Jewel, showing that they didn't want her to leave. "Hey, it's okay. So far they've been fine under our care, and I can assure that they'll still be safe." Linda said to them, and showed them that they could trust her. So they did, but still had worries for Blu and Jewel. Then an idea came to Tulio, and once he mentioned it to Linda and his dad, they thought it could work.

The idea was to create a secure doorway for only Eva and her parents to come in and out to check on Blu and Jewel every once in a while. So through the rest of the day, the three worked on the doorway, while the five birds stayed put in the nest. It took a while, but when they finally finished, they brought the birds with them to the aviary and saw the whole doorway, and even Carlos and Sophia thought it would be great. So they agreed to let it go.

"You guys sure you'll be okay?" Sophia asked, and Jewel reassured her that they would be fine.

"Can I stay with them for the night?" Eva asked. She really wanted to spend more time with them since she felt like she hadn't spent enough after the past few days. They were okay with her staying the night, and as they were heading in, Carlos placed his wing on Blu's shoulder, gesturing that he wanted to talk to him.

"Is something wrong, sir?" He asked.

"No, it's just...we've known both you and Jewel for about a year now, and since then Jewel's been like a second daughter to me and Sophia. So I hope you can watch over her. Keep her safe for me, okay?"

"You can count on it, sir." Blu knew that with his experience of surviving in the jungle and learning like a human, he could protect Jewel, and deep down, he really liked the idea of protecting her. So Carlos trusted him, and the parents flew off from the aviary's new doorway, to their hollow, and the three kids were ready to enjoy their own little slumber party.

Eva, "Wow, so this is where you've been?"

"Yep. What do you think?" Jewel asked.

"It's...nice, but what do you do for fun around here?"

Blu smiled at that question saying, "Easy..." The three were near a stream inside the artificial jungle, so Blu splashed some water on Eva. "Ah! Oh, so that's how it's gonna be." Eva smiled and was ready to tackle Blu on the big stream, but he dodged it, and Jewel did it for her. The three chicks were playing together in the water, just splashing, and enjoyed what they could until night came.

Hours later, Blu, Jewel, and Eva were sleeping on a pile of leaves. But Blu and Jewel however did something else. And as soon as Eva woke up, she was going to be super shocked to see.

More Notes & Disclaimers:

Sorry if I'm late with the new updates again. Just so you know, I'm back at school, and I'm now an official JUNIOR. Now I just have to hope that this year won't be as troubling as the last. And I hope to continue my stories still. Also, don't worry about that last part, Blu and Jewel didn't do anything bad. They're still very young, and like I said before, I'm never gonna write "inappropriate stuff."

Also, you can probably guess that while Blu and Jewel were telling Eva and her parents the story, they purposefully left out the part that they became an official couple during the time.