Notes & Disclaimers:

• Rio is Blue Sky Studios property.

Here we go. It has been a little over eight months, right? But now this story is BACK and with a handful of new chapters coming to you on the same day.

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Chapter Twenty Nine: Continuing On Again Part 1

Every new day meant a new beginning, and it was definitely a new beginning for a certain pair of birds. They were together in the jungle of Rio, sleeping in their large cozy nest and in each other's wings. Both Blu and Jewel felt warmth and comfort surrounding them before one of them decided to wake up.

It was Jewel. Her beautiful eyes opened up to the sunrise and smiled before gently removing herself of Blu's embrace. It was nearly sunrise so she quietly stepped out of the nest, admiring the orange young sky, the green jungly world, and the memory of what happened yesterday as she turned back to Blu. She smiled seeing him and remembering what Carlos and Sophia said yesterday. They wanted to move closer to Blu's "neighborhood." That way Jewel could spend more with him, and she was proud of it before thinking to herself…

"Wow. Oh ho. Yesterday was amazing. I secretly wanted to set up a party for Blu, he wanted the same for me, and then in the end…everybody did the same for both of us. Kinda funny with a life like this works. But…it all still turned out great. Especially since this now means I get to live more closely with the best bird in the world. Now the only question is how are we going to spend our first day together like this?"

She smiled and processed the decision maker that was her head, until she thought about letting Blu decide. So she smiled deeper and slowly moved toward him. He was still sleeping, but felt like waking up when he felt Jewel lay back near him, snuggling her head to his chest, added by a beautiful whistling tone in his ear.

"Huh? Jewel, is that you?" Blu finally woke up.

"Yep." Jewel chuckled.

"Oh okay. Hey, you're not gonna believe me but I had this big dream where everybody was throwing a birthday party for us, and in the end you gave me the biggest surprise by saying you wanted to move in with me." Blu said that in a weary tone (given the fact that he just woke up) and Jewel responded with a gleeful poker face, "Oh."

"Yeah…oh. Hehe." Blu realized what it was.

Jewel hugged him deeply, and he did it back as she said, "It was actually Carlos and Sophia who said that. Plus, I'm technically gonna be your nextdoor neighbor. Though…say if we were nestmates, you wouldn't find anything wrong with that, would you?

"Of course not. Any surprise like that is always a good one to me. That would mean one nest all to ourselves."

"Yep. Which was why I wanted to wake you up and ask this: what do you want to do today?"

"Hmm…good question. Other than helping Eva and her folks move here later, I can't think of anything. You'd think we would've thought this through already." Blu made Jewel chuckle again. "Well, do you maybe want to enjoy the morning view of the sky?"

"Sure."

They both laid down again but outside of their nest and did enjoy the sky. It was all dim and orange, and very beautiful to look at.

Especially when an idea just came to Blu. "Hey Jewel? Remember when I told you the other day that I thought of the sky as a painting?"

"Oh yeah, I remember that."

"Well how about we pass the time, what if we try imagining ourselves painting the sky?"

"Hmm. I say that sounds good. But don't think this gives you an excuse to go back to sleep."

"Oh the humor. Don't worry I'm not gonna be the bird of the house that sleeps all day. I'm always going to be awake so you can always have my attention."

"Good." Jewel smiled. "Now how about I start? Hmm…let's see. In the orange sky I can see only one cloud on top of us, but imagine if I could touch it and move it around to form something else."

That was what she imagined and Blu watched. She had her wings raised up and touched the cloud, moving it around, squishing and fluffing like it was a piece of plato. She continued trying to craft it until…"There we go. Now imagine it as the shape of you. The handsome bird with his wings wide open and flying up in the sky." That was her imagination and Blu did his best to picture it and also thought about how it looked while coming to life.

"My turn." He said, and did the same thing Jewel did. He tried "messing" with the cloud the same way and made it as…"Done. Now imagine you. Young and beautiful in every way, flying with the art you made. Both bird-shaped-clouds are in the sky, flying in the air to enjoy not just the wind blowing in their faces and feathers, but also enjoying the company they have. The two cloudy birds fly around like they were both dancing together and the most grateful one is the male." Jewel looked worried at Blu when he said that. "He is the most grateful because he gets to fly with a beautiful creature. The fact that he gets to fly with her…it makes him feel like nothing else matters." Blu sighed.

Jewel knew very well what he was implying so she decided to lighten it up.

"Oh really? Well…I'm pretty sure he's going to regret that soon."

"Excuse me? Why?"

"Because right now, just look at it." They looked up again and Jewel described…"They are flying but the female decided to ruin the romance by challenging the male to a race, and she was the first to start speeding up. They both go at sonic speed."

"Hmm." Blu started speaking. "Well I wouldn't say she ruined it, because right now he's catching up to her. He's using his wings to get past her and nearly succeeds, and the girl is having trouble trying to catch up because she keeps noticing him winking at her and showing off the strength with how he glides. She's getting too distracted to win the race while the finish line is at the nearest lake."

"Oh yeah? Well guess what? The female soon reminds herself that she's stronger than that so she snaps out of it and flies faster and faster. She's trying to fight for all the female birds of the world, and as she keeps reaching quicker, she nearly wins."

"That sounds good. But then the male stops her by forcing a huge fog in front of her!"

"But he quickly escapes it!"

"You would think so. But then they notice the lake once they get as close as they can get to it…AHH!"

Blu yelled and so did Jewel, because while they were narrating to each other and picturing too much about the sky, they never noticed that they were actually running and racing each other until they fell into a real lake. They were all wet and in a huge lake, deep in the jungle. So they placed their minds back to reality while looking around and then at each other…before laughing. "Ah hahahaha!"

"Oh that was too good!"

"I know!"

"Haha!" They continued laughing their tongues out and decided to have fun by swimming around in the lake and repeatedly splashing water at each other.

They spent an entire hour doing just that, and eventually sighed and relaxed by lying on their backs while floating above the water. Each of them were facing the sky but were laying in opposite directions.

"Ah." Jewel sighed in a peaceful tone. "This is nice."

"Yep. To think it took a little imagination for us to be distracted by a race to come here."

"Uh-huh. Hehehe. I've said this once and I'll say it again…it's kinda funny with how a life like this works."

"Funny? I say it's more amazing. And the type of fun adventures we go through just makes things more memorable for us too."

"When you put it like that, it actually sounds more amazing. And thanks for admitting that."

"You're welcome. And Jewel?"

"Yeah?"

"Just know that the adventures I went through, since the beginning of the samba club, wouldn't mean anything if you weren't in them."

"Aw."

She was indeed touched, so she swam herself to him and brought her head to his to snuggle with. While having their heads together, they just continued floating and enjoyed the feeling of everything around them. The cool wind blowing, the clean area of the jungle, the cool water of the lake, and beautiful morning sky that was starting to become blue. And the bluebirds loved all of it. Two kids that had each other and a beautiful world to live in, and it gave Blu the idea to try something…that could only be done up in the sky.

More Notes & Disclaimers:

Short, yes. But it will be continuing on, and that probably won't matter since this isn't the only chapter that comes today.