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Chapter 10: Where's Alex?

Next day came, with the atmosphere now changed, the calm that existed between the Blue and Scarlet macaw tribes was now tense and heated up. As Lisa woke up, she went to check on her big brother, to see if he was doing okay after what happened yesterday. He came home, angry at his mother, but also sad for the hardship he brought on Lily and just went straight to his room and laid down without saying anything.

Lisa sighed as she went out of her room, trying to smile the best she could for her brother and peeked her head in to receive a shocking surprise. Alex was not there.

"Big brother?" Lisa called as she came into Alex's room and looked around.

Alex was not present, Lisa started panicking and came out of his room to come face to face with her mother and big sister.

"Great job mom!" Lisa shouted, angry at her mother as well. "He left because of you!" And Lisa ran up and started hitting her mother's belly with her wings, sobbing loudly and making a fuss.

"Lisa, calm down!" Liz shouted and grabbed hold of her little sis, who kept returning to hit her mother.

Liz kept on grabbing hold of Lisa, who wanted to let her anger out. Eventually Lisa got very tired and she just let her big sis grab hold of her. Lisa just cried her eyes out into Liz's chest while Liz patted her on the back with a wing while holding onto her with the other, trying to calm her down.

Maria only replied…

"I'm going to tell this news to the Blue macaw leader, I'll be back."

And Maria flew off to the Blue macaw tribe to tell Blu that Alex was nowhere to be found in the Scarlet tribe. Meanwhile Liz kept on holding to a crying Lisa.

"Why did he leave us?" Lisa asked, from a break in her crying.

"I don't know, little sis, he will come back, he wouldn't leave us forever." Liz replied, trying to sound reassuring.

Maria flew on and got to Blu, still in his hollow, enjoying a quiet breakfast with his family before going for his tribe duties. As Maria showed herself in the entrance of the hollow, Blu saw her and came up, something serious must have came up.

"What is it Maria?" Blu asked respectfully.

"Your brother seems to not be in my tribe, he was not in his room this morning. Maybe he came here, maybe he is still mating with that Blue macaw he calls a mate." Maria asked.

"Hey, watch your tongue!" Jewel came up and said sternly before Blu could say anything. "Those two are perfect for each other and you should get out if you say otherwise!" Jewel demanded.

"Yeah, you tell her mom!" Tiago shouted, Bia and Carla also admiring their's mother bravery.

"Okay, I will, but I'm still having that trial, even if my son is not there. I would hope you will attend Blu." Maria stared at Blu, knowing if he didn't attend, the Blue macaws would get a bad reputation.

"Of course." Blu replied to the shock of Jewel, although his tone of voice was a sad one.

"Blu?" Jewel asked him, confused.

"Well good day than." Maria said her goodbyes and turned around for home, only to come face to face with Lily, with tears ready to burst out.

"What do you mean he is not in your tribe?" Lily said, tears starting to make its way out.

"Lily…" Jewel said as she came out to her friend.

"It's not true, he would never leave me. He loves me with all of his heart. You're lying!" Lily ended up shouting, feeling her legs go weak, she started to collapse, luckily Jewel caught her in time.

Lily just continued to cry loudly while Jewel hugged her and made soothing sounds to her. Maria still stood her ground on her opinion, despite seeing Lily in sorrow.

"Well looks like my son decides to leave everyone, I'm not surprised, he is rather the unsocial type." Maris finally finished and flew off for good, back home.

Blu looked at Maria for a few seconds and then to Lily, Lily looking at him.

"How could you?" Lily said softly, tears staining her face.

Blu couldn't say anything and Jewel just helped Lily to their hollow, to rest and lay down. Blu sighed as he knew he was going to regret being up with the other macaw tribe leaders, being forced to potentially block his brother from ever seeing him again and agreeing for Alex and Lily to never see each other made Blu's heart feel cold. However Blu, currently, only really wondered where was his brother?

The night before…

Alex was moving around in his sleep, his head hurting him from overthinking as he kept on rolling around, trying to get comfortable. He opened his eyes and sighed as he rubbed his face with his wings, they came out a bit wet from Alex actually tearing up a bit.

"What is going on with me?" Alex asked himself quietly as he walked out of his room and stood at the hollow entrance, sighing as he thought of Lily and what has happened during the day.

Than something snapped in Alex. Maybe it would be better if he just left and was never seen again, not even back to Rio, but deep in the Amazon rainforest, where no one can find him, bird or human. He didn't want to drag Lily down with him, so he figured it was best that he didn't tell anyone he was leaving.

He knew it would certainly break Lily's heart a lot. She would most certainly fall into a deep depression and if Lily was indeed pregnant with eggs, then that meant she would feel the physical pain as well without him by her side to hold onto her wing as her body ached.

Alex thought about it for a bit longer, he was going to leave despite some part of him not wanting to. He first needed to see his family members and Lily for one last time.

Going back in his hollow, he looked at his mother, who even thought she heavily disapproved of his relationship, she was still his mother and he still loved her like one. Then to Liz, who was much better now as a sister, she still showed the roughness of her, but she was more caring now, so Alex was proud of her. And finally Lisa, the one who probably would be most upset, because it was Alex who changed her, for the better looked up to him as a father figure, now he would be gone.

Alex took a few minutes longer looking at his younger sis until flying off to the Blue macaw tribe, careful to not be spotted by the patrols going around and landed into his brother Blu's hollow.

First going to the three kids, looking at them. They were so happy having Alex as an uncle and now they will no longer have that, they enjoyed bird piling up on him and laughing while on him as well as supporting him in his relationship with Lily. Alex then moved on to Jewel, the one that he trusted fully to keep his relationship a secret, which she did so, never telling anyone. Finally to Blu, the one who knew since the two were young chicks, growing up together in Minnesota and then Rio, to the Amazon, treating each other like they were blood brothers, even thought they were of different colored feathers.

As Alex finally finished with his blue family, he made one last stop to the one that he really regretted to leave, the one who was now a mate and forever will be to him. Lily.

As Alex flew into Lily's hollow, he could see her sleeping uneasily and twisting around like he was and felt sorry for her. She turned towards Alex so he could see her face, all dried up with tears. Seeing this made Alex's heart really ache and feel cold to leave her in her present condition.

Alex wanted so much to hug and kiss Lily and tell her goodbye for one last time. However she would probably hold onto him and never let go like her life depended on it. Alex restrained himself from touching Lily and went back to the hollow entrance and looked back at Lily's sleeping form for probably the last time.

"Goodbye Lily, I will always still love you with all of my heart." Alex softly said before flying off, deep into the Amazon rainforest to get lost and live the rest of his life alone.

(Tears start coming out…)

Well… I left… Is the story over? Far from it!

No, my readers, we are still a long way from that!