Okay guys, before we go on to the next chapter, I have a lot of things to say!
First, I would like to thank FelipeMacaw01 for me being one of his first favorite writers as well as adding another fav and follow to this, as well as Zachmoviefan's fav too! So thank you guys!
Second, we have yet another new FFN sibling on here! Please say a big welcome to ThePixelledPie if you have not already!
Third, I would like to thank Cats 'n' Cheese for putting a review on "The Secret Life of Rio"! I can now finally write for that again! And Catty, I will have that as soon as possible! Probably Friday or the weekend!
Fourth… I'm a bit upset, to be honest, at you guys, for not paying attention to some other writers. For example, Florafionpetals, with "The OWCA Files of Alex and Maggie" and 34TOR, with "Rio-Life". Whatever happened to supporting our FFN brothers and sisters? Please show them some love, because these two stories are pretty awesome! I know because I actually been reading them!
And now we can finally get on with the chapter!
Chapter 13: Back in the Tribes
While Alex was in his self-exile, the area of the Blue and Scarlet tribes were as busy as the inside of a beehive. One by one, the other macaw tribe leaders and their closet winged birds came for the trial, Military, Blue and Gold, Green Winged, Hyacinth, Lear's, all of them were there to put in their votes for the banishment of Alex and Lily. Although since Alex was not here, only Lily would be subject to the trial and the timing could not be worse.
As the day wore on, with the first meetings going on between the tribe leaders to discuss the issue at hand, Jewel flew into Lily's hollow to get her to determine if she was indeed pregnant with eggs. Jewel found Lily in sorrow, of course, over Alex still gone, which was not good for Lily because she could damage the eggs and risk losing her chicks.
"Lily, come on, it will not take that long." Jewel pleaded with Lily, pulling her wing to get her up.
"Leave me alone Jewel, I'm not getting up until I die or Alex comes back." Lily sadly said as she refused to get up.
Jewel sighed as it was useless. She couldn't violently get her up without fear of hurting her. Jewel decided to trick her friend to get her up. She decided to fake Alex's voice so she would think Alex came back.
"Okay Lily, I will leave." Jewel said and walked out of the hollow, with a deceiving smile on.
Lily went back to laying down and having the tears flow out of her while Jewel went to the hollow side, outside and cleared her throat softly and prepared to mock Alex's voice.
"Here goes nothing." Jewel thought to herself and spoke. "Lily, guess who's back?" Jewel did her best Alex voice and hoped it worked.
It did, because Lily heard it and was very surprised.
"Alex? Is that really you?" Lily replied, shocked as she got up, with some struggle, and went to the hollow entrance and walked out, only for Jewel to grab hold of her with her talons. "Jewel! How dare you trick me! Let go of me!"
"Sorry Lily, we need to find out if you are with eggs. It's for your own good." Jewel replied seriously and holding onto her friend, flew to her aunt Mimi's hollow.
After a tiring, but short trip to her aunt Mimi, Jewel finally put down Lily inside Mimi's hollow, Mimi a bit curious as to why the two younger females were here. And after catching her breath from the exhausting trip, Jewel spoke to her aunt.
"Aunt Mimi, I think Lily here is pregnant with eggs, can you make sure?" Jewel said to Mimi, with a begging look.
"Of course!" Mimi shouted in her happy voice. "Can you leave me alone with Lily?" Mimi requested of Jewel.
"Alright." Jewel returned and faced Lily. "Please just let her do this Lily, I think Alex would like it if you did this."
"Fine Jewel, I will this for him." Lily sighed.
"Thanks." And Jewel went outside so her aunt Mimi and Lily can have some private time.
While Jewel was doing that, Blu, meanwhile, was stuck in the meeting with all the other tribe leaders. Roberto was next to Blu and he and Blu were not liking where the meeting was going. It looked like all the macaw leaders were in sync with banishing Lily from her tribe, which she something Blu really did not want to have to do. Maria, the Scarlet tribe leader, rose up and made the calling for the pre voting to determine where everyone was going.
"Okay, now that we talked this over a bit, who here agrees that we banish the female Blue macaw?" Maria stated.
"Her name is Lily." Blu said under his breath, as he got a little mad, Roberto noticing Blu's face.
Wings came up from all the macaw leaders. All, except for Blu. Everyone looked at him angrily and they all, except for Maria, started to yell at him, to demand why he did not agree with everyone.
"What's the matter with you Blue macaw!" The military macaw leader shouted at Blu.
"Are you crazy or brainless?" The Lear's macaw leader demanded.
"Easy everyone, how about we hear his point of view." Maria explained and everyone quieted down to hear Blu speak.
Blu took a deep breath. He knew speaking out against this would risk his position as the Blue macaw tribe leader, but Alex was his brother and he was so happy with Lily. Blu swore to himself that he would stick by his views no matter what.
"Unlike all of you leaders, my conscious is in the right place on this issue. I can't and won't separate two birds who love each other, even thought they are of different colored feathers. And I will not banish one of my tribe members to fend for herself. Lily is in my tribe so I should have the final say to what happens!" Blu finished as he sat back down again, taking another deep breath.
"I say we strip this macaw of his leadership and replace him with Eduardo again!" The Hyacinth macaw leader yelled, everyone except for Maria and Blu joining him.
Everyone again shouted over each other as the meeting went into vocal chaos until Maria once again raised her voice to quiet everyone. Everyone eventually settled down to let the Scarlet leader speak for one last time.
"How about we adjourn this meeting until later, let everyone rest a bit and clear their heads." Maria said as everyone silently agreed with her and flew out to rest and catch their breaths.
Blu and Roberto were the last ones out, but Maria stopped Blu.
"Could I talk with you, Blu, is it?" Maria requested of Blu.
"Yes, and why?" Blu glared at Maria.
"Just a little talk." Maria replied, giving a fake smile.
Blu didn't trust Maria, even thought she was his adoptive mother in law.
"Roberto, leave us, and please find Lily, so I can talk with her." Blu said to the macaw next to him.
"Are you sure Blu?" Roberto asked.
"Yes, go." Blu replied and Roberto left, leaving Blu and Maria alone in private.
"I applause you for such bravery Blu, but it's useless, just agree with us and everything will go a lot nicer." Maria told Blu, an uneasiness in her voice.
"Why should I do that? Banish my own sister in law? For me to leave my brother's mate to just go out there and live on her own?" Blu said, as he tried to control his boiling anger.
"Don't let your personal feelings get in the way Blu." Maria sternly replied. "Do you really want your whole tribe to suffer on account of one pair of lovebirds?"
Blu couldn't say anything, he just wanted to punch something really bad now. Maria just continued speaking.
"You know, the Hyacinth leader has a good idea." Maria got thinking. "How about this, if you vote with us, you can keep your leadership, but against us, we are giving back the leadership to Eduardo. Think about it." Maria said, trying to bribe Blu to agreeing with everyone.
Blu didn't say anything and Maria flew off for home. He wouldn't change his mind, no matter what, Blu would stick to his heart and remain faithful to his brother and his mate even if his own life would change. Blu didn't feel like flying and he started walking away from the meeting space on the forest floor and found a pond where he can wash his face and refresh himself. As Blu was washing his face to relax and cool himself, Roberto came flying in and landed down next to Blu , panting heavily.
"Blu! Come quick! It's about Lily!" Roberto shouted and like a bullet, Blu shot up and with Roberto following, started flying to Lily.
When they got there, Blu saw Jewel outside Mimi's hollow with a smile on her face, clearly it was good news. Blu still wondered if something was wrong.
"Jewel, is something wrong with Lily? What happened?" Blu asked as he showed a face of concern.
"No, it's alright, it's good." Jewel replied and waited for Blu to calm down and catch his breath. "Lily is pregnant with two eggs." Jewel happily reported.
"What?" Blu returned, shocked. "Really?"
"Yes, she is." Jewel smiled and hugged Blu.
However this was bad, if the leaders found out, they would certainly just banish Lily without the trial or maybe even worse… Hurt her so much that the eggs would be destroyed and Alex and Lily can never enjoy being a family forever and live the rest of their lives happily with their two chicks. Blu was determined to keep it a secret so that would not happened. He just had to hope that Alex would eventually come back and help put a stop to this.
Well guys… To be honest… I don't think I did a good job on this chapter… I'm a bit tired when the school week starts.
And also… please! I'm like begging on my knees here! Please be mindful of the fourth thing I said in the author's note above!