Meanwhile with Carla and company, the trio of spix siblings and Miguel were getting closer and closer to Eduardo's ravine where it was raining heavily still. Blu and Jewel were frantically waving their children down to their tree hollow and inside with them are Eduardo, Mimi and Abigail who was forced to take refuge in Eduardo's territory due to the heavy rainstorm. The quartet dashed into the hollow soaking wet and they were immediately enveloped in leaf towels and the wings of Jewel.

"We were so worried about you!" Cried the mother macaw as she fussed over her soaked-to-the-bone children. Bia, Carla and Tiago were immediately being wiped dry by their fussing mother and Abigail while Miguel dried himself up with a leaf towel offered by Blu. They were lucky to have made it in time or they'd be completely too drenched to even fly some more. The teenager group glanced at one another in relief but then there was concern.

Blu and Jewel had counted their chicks only to find three instead of four. Indeed, one of the young spixes are missing and the parents began to panic, gazing out into the hollow exit. "… Where's Diaglo?" Jewel's question came out quiet which sent the four teenagers to stiffen in confusion. Diaglo was right with them wasn't he? Of course he's here!

"What are you talking about mom? Diaglo's right here..." Tiago's confident voice trailed off when he realized that he was holding out his wing to an empty spot. There was no cerulean macaw in glasses around them at all and this was enough to make the usually fierce and brave mother macaw panic.

"Diaglo? … Diaglo!" Jewel's teal eyes swelled up with terror at seeing her youngest child absent. The same had sunk in Blu and the elder macaws with them and they all flooded by the entrance jutting their heads out to look for their missing boy.

Carla and her siblings and Miguel were still with flabbergast and horror as they gazed at one another. "I don't understand... I thought he was flying with us!" Bia's voice was quiet and then it raised with utter confusion and distress. Carla had covered her beak with her wings and started to tremble and Tiago was gaping in shock. Bia began to break down into tears of worry and fled into her old room, wailing for her youngest brother amidst the frantic calls of her parents and grandparents and grandaunt.

"I'm sure Aglo is safe out there. He's a smart boy - He knows when to stop flying when he needs to do he must have stopped for shelter somewhere in the sanctuary!" The remaining three teenagers overheard Abigail reassure her upset son and daughter-in-law.

Eduardo and Mimi shared hopeful looks and the latter had clasped her wings in muttering a hopeful prayer. Their young Diaglo must be somewhere out there. They can go find him in the sanctuary when the rain slows down. It'll be a piece of cake...

If only the macaws knew that they're making a mistake in keeping their hopes up with that statement. Finding Diaglo will be easier said than done.

It was only a couple hours later when the rain storm started to slow down and the sun was starting to appear through the remnants of raincloud in the sky. A ray of that post-rain sunshine shone through the open hole of a rather large tree hollow that contained a certain, dark cerulean form in one of its rooms.

Diaglo began to groan quietly as he stirred, turning his head. A smell of burning fire entered his nostrils causing Diaglo to gasp and sit up, his gold eyes full of terror as he spotted the blurry outline of a small fire burning in a dip of the hollow's floor.

Fortunately the dip was too deep for the fire to completely get out and even so, the fire was hardly more than just ash glowing orange with smoke billowing out. Nonetheless it still scared Diaglo and he winced, what with the trauma involving fire he'd heard of Eduardo's tribe going through.

"What's that doing here?" Diaglo whispered and he tried to get up, only for pain to shoot up his back in the action. A cry of agony escaped from Diaglo's beak and he was forced to lay back down. Strangely when he did so, he felt something leafy covering his back and he looked down on his waist, realizing that he was bandaged with herbal leaves, possibly to ease whatever injury he had on his back.

'Must have been struck by that lightning,' Diaglo thought to himself as memories came to him at one go. He had been flying after his siblings to evade the storm only for a round of lightning to strike his back. He remembered falling into the river and nearly drowning.. Even now he's feathers are still a bit soggy, but not to much for somebird had cared to grab him from the river and dried him up...

Wait a second.

Diaglo suddenly looked around to take in his surroundings. Now that he thought about it, the hollow he's in seemed too unfamiliar for him. It looked like a hollow belonging to that of bird family and he took a moment to investigate one of the nests he's in. Amongst his own cerulean ones, there were hints of lapis blue strewn in the nesting causing Diaglo to tilt his head. Even though his blurry feathers he can tell those blue specks are feathers, clearly not his. Who's hollow is this? He turned his head around in trying to find his glasses only to find it was nowhere. Did he lose them in the river?

Diaglo suddenly dreaded to think that. It wasn't easy to get those things! If he loses them he'll have to make another trip to the avian optometrist in Rio again and those things can take a while to make! He mentally groaned in frustration anf plopped his head against the nesting in annoyance.

"Curse you storm," Diaglo muttered to himself and suddenly, he stiffened at the sounds of incoming voices coming his way. Both were female, one of an adult and the other sounding like that of a teenager. Diaglo winced and he shrank back into the nest, his gaze fixated on the hollow entrance where a couple birds had made their arrival...