Greetings. Welcome back to my story. I thank you for reading!

I must be pretty determined to get parts out for this story given that this is the second part I've written today! 0_o

I shall point out, that my style of writing is pretty much in Bullet points. Like a list. This is just my style of writing.

(I don't know whether the artificial river would have chlorine in it. I've added that to demonstrate Blu's nerdiness.)

T'was around 8pm in Rio.

The jungle enclosure where Blu and Jewel were being kept in by Tulio was in a simulated night. The lights were darkened, the ambient noise had changed to the sorts of noises that more nocturnal creatures would make. It didn't fool either bird, though. Both knew that it was fake, and designed to make them feel at home.

To Jewel, it felt like a prison.

To Blu, it was a paradise of a cage.

But since last time, Blu and Jewel haven't really gotten along well...

It was many hours afterwards, but eventually, Blu grew hungry, and had to ask Jewel for some sort of nourishment.

Jewel, herself, was in a hollow in one of the trees. Blu, in her search for her, first looked in the air vent, but found she wasn't there.

He must have been searching for around 10 minutes, before he finally discovered her, snoozing peacefully in one of the hollows.

Blu had not yet seen Jewel's face, and found himself shocked at what he saw.

Jewel looked simply angelic.

Her sensuous body, was a divine mix of slender, and muscular. Her white facial markings complimented the light, sky blue colour of her luxurious feathers, and 10 to 12 feathers with light curls on their ends protruded from the back of her head. Her eyelids had a lavender tint, and her lashes were long and beautiful. Jewel obviously cared a lot about her appearance, since she seemed to maintain it a lot. Even the way she smelled.

She had a luscious fragrance of mangoes and tropical aromas around her.

As you can imagine, seeing such beauty like this, Blu couldn't believe his eyes... This beautiful creature was laid out, her body in full view to him, and I regret to inform, that Blu found himself looking at Jewel's peaceful, sleeping figure, for 2 full minutes, before he snapped out of his trance, and reluctantly, remembered that he had to wake her up...

"J-Jewel?"

Upon hearing her name, she stirred a little, but stubbornly refused to arise.

"Jewel?"

Again, she remained asleep.

"Jewelll?"

This time, something different happened... She stopped breathing, causing Blu to wonder what had happened, and then, both of her eyes slid open, revealing two luscious blue irises.

She spoke in a silky smooth whisper "You dare to wake me? You have a death wish, my dear."

"Oh, No no no! This is a misunderstanding!" He protested.

"You have an excuse for everything! I told you to get outta my sight!" She yelled.

"But- But-" He protested.

"YOU'RE PUSHING THE LINE HERE. YOU BETTER GET READY TO BLEED AT THIS RATE, KID." Screamed Jewel, seizing him by the throat for the second time this day, and throwing him to against the ground, inside the hollow, and was looking at him with a gaze of pure, unbridled rage.

Blu shrieked in fear, and tried to desperately tell her that he was just in need of nourishment.

"I was just in need of something to eat! I haven't eaten in hours!" He shouted, his voice shattered by fear.

Jewel's grip slightly relaxed, and she appeared annoyed. "BLU! WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST SAY SO IN THE FIRST PLACE!?"

"Be-Because..." He stammered.

Jewel inhaled, presumably to make a snide remark about how he stammered, but Blu finished his sentence.

"Because I was terrified that you would do what you just did..." He finished.

"Blu, I might be stone-hearted, but I can't deny you something you need to survive..." She replied.

"I... I know, but, it scares me, still... You're frightening to me... I've been bullied before, but, never physically." He told her, fear dancing in his eyes.

"Well, I apologise. That's just who I am, and I can't help that." She admitted. "I think that, since you've woken me up for it, I should at least try to find something to eat. I'm rather hungry, myself."

"Ah, thank you, Jewel." Came Blu's reply.

And so, they made their way to the hatch. Jewel had been here for a long time, so she knew her way around with no problems whatsoever.

"Alright. Wait here, I'll be back in 15 minutes. DON'T drink the water from there. I found out why it isn't a good idea the hard way..." She instructed.

"Of course. I wouldn't have, anyway. They put chlorine in it." He told her.

"Hold on... Is that some sort of... Poison?" She asked.

"Oh no. It just doesn't taste nice, is all." He answered.

"Well ah... Alright then. I'll be back..." Finished Jewel.

She expertly levered open the hatchway which Blu had entered through hours earlier, and simply left, leaving Blu on his own in the fake jungle for a while.

+=+=+ We now take Jewel's perspective, effective until the end of this part, or indicated otherwise! +=+=+

The hallway was dark. The only light in the building was in the room belonging to the stoic security guard, and he was of no problem to me.

Very much like a cat in the night, I stealthily made my way around the building, my body low to the floor, as that way, I didn't show up on the bird nut's cameras which had caught me out on numerous occasions before.

My destination was one I knew well, the living area. Through the treatment room, towards the back, and to the left was a storage unit filled with goodies.

Halfway to said storage unit, I encountered a feeble chirping. Someone calling something... Calling for help...

I was passing by the location of the chirping anyway, so I decided to check it out. The source of the noise was a cage on the floor, tucked away into a hole in the shelves where several other cages were kept.

"Is someone t-there?" Came the voice.

I approached the cage cautiously, still in a state of stealth, and called out to the creature that was stuck inside. "You okay, there?"

As I got closer to the cage, I could pick out the face of the animal contained inside.

He was a young scarlet macaw, about 5, and absolutely terrified.

The poor boy replied, "No! I've been captured, and I can't escape!"

"That bird nut is taking things too far... Alright, I'm gonna get you outta there kiddo, don't worry." I told him.

"Please do, miss. I'm scared." he squeaked.

Seeing the boy so frightened, I slipped my wing through the cage, and he held it. I repeated to him, "I'm not just gonna pass by, I'll get you outta here, I promise."

"Thank you..." he said.

"Alright." I replied, gently pulling my wing away from him, and latching my beak around, what's known to you humans as, the bolt of the cage.

I clamped down on the flimsy piece of metal, and after biting into it with all the strength I could muster, the bolt split in half with a metallic clunk.

I forced the door open, and picked up the bird in there, and held him close. I said "Tell me how you got here."

And he told me "I was out and about, and I hurt my wing. And, then it was all a blur... I got caught in this net, and then everything went dark... That's all I remember."

Now, I was not pleased to hear that, so I gave the poor kid a big hug, and told him that I would get him back out into the wild.

But to our terror, light spilled into the hallway, from the room of the burly security guard. The sound that was made when I cut the door bolt was fairly loud, and must have alerted him.

The boy let out a squeak of alarm, and I could only cover his beak, before the guard knew our location.

"Easy, son. Let's not give away our location." I told him, kindly.

I held him off of the ground, so as to not risk him making a noise.

Having to scale my way past his line of sight, and keep the boy quiet at the same time, I began, in an attempt to keep him calm, to ask questions.

"So, what's your name, buddy?" I asked, while hugging the wall, to evade his sight.

"I'm... E-Emile..." Came his fear-stricken reply.

Sylvio was beginning to close in on our location, though he didn't know we were there.

"Hello there, Emile. My name..." I began, but had to pause when extra attention was needed, as Sylvio had come level with us.

We slid past him, as silent as the night. He went right by us.

The wake of his footsteps caused a brief problem for me, and I lost a part of my balance, though not enough to make me have to take any sort of action.

I regained my composure and finished my sentence, "...My name, is Jewel. It's nice to met you, my dear boy.."

All the while, I kept an eye on the ample framed security guard, to see what he was up to.

It looked as though we were going to get away with it, when I remembered I hadn't gotten any food for Blu, or myself, nor did I know what to actually do with Emile.

"What am I to do with you?" I asked.

"If... If you could just, let me free from this place?" He replied.

"Absolutely." I confirmed.

We kept on moving, though not at as fast of a pace as I would have liked.

"Where is he?" Emile asked.

I told him "He's behind us, nothing to worry about."

Sylvio was confused as to what he had heard, and he muttered to himself in frustration. He then started to come back, but as he was more frustrated, he took to stomping.

Emile let out a quiet whimper.

"He's leaving, don't worry my boy..."

But to our frustration, he reached the door... And flicked on the light switch.

The light from the room of the security guard was little more than a trickle compared to the light cast by the powerful ceiling lights.

And as you can guess... We were spotted immediately...

Sylvio was a burly man, but he was passionate about birds.

He knew of Jewel's behavioural issues, and was no stranger to the damages she can cause to him, though she had never attacked him specifically, before.

I didn't want him snatching Emile, so I told him to "Get behind me."

And so, I put on the most threatening pose I could, and he could detect that every fibre of my being wanted to be left alone.

"Easy now, bird." He said, a little bit of fear in his voice.

I walked towards him, giving out a low, threatening squawk.

The guy was wise, and he stood perfectly still.

"Emile, go and get some nice fruit from that white thing over there. If you can't open the door, let me know..." I told him.

Emile was a bright kid, and his keen eyesight soon spotted, what was known to humans as a 'refrigerator'. He flapped over, and tried to prise it open, but it was no use.

"Jewel, I can't get it open!" he called.

"Alright."

And so, I walked backwards away from the guard.

Once we were in sight of the 'refrigerator', I looked towards it.

He understood what I was trying to say, went over, and opened it.

"Ohh... You guys want some food?" He asked.

"Isn't it obvious?" I said, though he couldn't understand me.

"Well uh... What is it exactly that you want?" Sylvio remarked.

"I like Mangoes." Said Emile.

"Me too. Could you push one forwards so he understands?" I instructed.

Emile did as he was told and the guy picked up two plump, juicy mangoes inside the fridge, and walked back towards me.

And so, he followed me when I walked, and when Emile did, too, Sylvio cut in "Ah Ah, little bird. You need to stay in here."

Emile looked at me in fear.

I squawked aggressively, and the burly man freaked. It was also just then that he noticed the broken bolt on the cage.

"Ah! Whatever you say!" He yelped.

Slicking back my plumage in victory, we walked back along the corridor and into the artificial rainforest where Blu awaited me.

Shh... I edited this together, now that I have time. ;)