Chapter 5
"You're p-p-pregnant?" Lilian nodded slowly, sad about his reaction. But suddenly he picked her up and swung her around. "I'M GONNA BE A FATHER!"he shouted in glee. "WOOHOO." He hugged her tightly, then remembered about the eggs forming in her. "Oh, right. Gotta be careful." Lilian rubbed her belly. "It's fine. The skin is thick enough so you don't hurt them. You do realise this means that certain things will happen like me getting moody and hungry and sick alot. So you had better prepare yourself, because it might start tomorrow. I should ask Jewel for advice, and maybe Rafael, but how will I get to him? Mauro. He'll help me get to him. Lilian noticed that he was in the clouds again. "Hello, Cody. Need you down here." He blinked himself back to reality and looked her in the eyes. "Sorry, just thinking. Listen, I need to see someone quickly tomorrow. Is that okay?" She nodded. "Of course, sweety. But you better be back soon."
The next morning, Cody went out while Lilian slept. He reached her room and heard yelling. "TIAGO! GET OFF YOUR SISTER! BIA, PUT HIM DOWN! CARLA, HELP ME HERE PLEASE?" He knocked on the door and the yelling stopped. The door opened to reveal Tiago. "Hey little T-bird." They bumped talons and Cody came in. "Come on into the crib C-bird." Cody sat down in a chair next to Tiago. "Listen, Jewel. I have to ask you something." Jewel guessed what it was about, and shooed the kids out. When she closed the door, she returned to the table. "Let me guess, you don't know how to deal with pregnancy?" He nodded. "How did you know?"
"Women's intuition. Blu wondered the same and asked Rafael. If he was here, you could ask him." Already got a plan. "Don't worry, Mauro will help me get to him. Then I can ask. Hopefully it's not too much." Jewel looked at him in surprise. "I see. You are very good at planning ahead. I think you'll be fine." And that's why I wanted to see Rafael, because I'm not just fine. "Well, I better be off. See you later." He took off through the window to avoid Lilian seeing him leave. "Good luck." She returned to her nest after closing the window to sleep some more.
Cody arrived at the place he knew Mauro was hanging out. "Hey, king buddy, it's me, Mauro." He was greeted by a marmoset who was hanging by his tail. "Hey bird. How ya been?" Cody decided to go straight to the point. "I need help. I need to get to Rafael." Mauro rubbed his chin. "Why should I?" I knew he was going to ask that. "You might not know, but I'm about to be a father, but I don't know how, so I need his advice." Mauro grinned happliy. "Well, first of all, congragulations, and second of all, I will take you to him now." He grabbed the unprepared birds wing and disappeared with him.
Rafael was sitting in the nest, watching his kids. He began drifting asleep until he heard a loud squawk outside. His eyes shot open and he quickly sat up. He moved to the entrance to see Cody laying there. "Hey amigo. How'd you get here?" Cody pointed up to the sky. "Mauro calculations on altitude were a bit off." Rafael understood and helped him up. "So, what do you need, my friend?" Cody rubbed the back of his neck. "Well, you see, Lilian is, um, pregnant and-" he was interrupted by his friend. "I see. Just like Blu. You need help in knowing what to do. I'll give you the same advice I gave him, which worked. Follow your heart." Cody rolled his eyes. "That's just what Jewel told me, except in a different way."
"Then she was right. Believe me, I have lots of kids. Now how wil you get back?" They heard someone above them swinging on a tree. "I never left, big nose." Rafael made a quiet growl at the name he called him. "I still don't trust you, but it's the only way." He put a wing on his shoulder. "Good luck, amigo." He flew into the tree, which was the last Cody saw of him before disappearing once more, unprepared again.
Lilian woke a bit, seeing Cody not there. Well, he did say he was going. She started to get up, and heard someone behind her. She turned from the wall and whacked the newcomer in the face. "Ow, nnow I know how Boah felt." She saw Mauro standing over Cody, who rubbed his beak. "Sorry. Didn't know." He got up with Mauro's help, who disappeared after. "I brought you breakfast." She looked to some blue berries with mangos. "Aww, thank you honey." They nuzzled eachothers beaks before she chomped the food down. "I see what they mean by hungry." She greedily ate as he reached slowly for a berry. He mumbled to himslef as he reached. "A bit closer, bit closer, almost there, and...OW!" He felt Lilian's beak snap on his foot as she went for the berry. "What?" He stared at her in disbelief. "What? Is that all you ask? Didn't you feel something like a foot?" She shook her head. "Maybe you shouldn't have put it in there. Why did you anyway?" He continued to rub his talon as he answered. "I was hungry." Lilian grabbed a mango and gave it to him. "Here. Eat." He began eating, watching her carefully to make sure she wouldn't chomp on his mango. "I'm going to sleep. Wake me when it's lunch time." He watched her as she went into the nest and slept.
Later that night, Cody went to the nest to sleep. He crawled into it, then sat next to Lilian. He began to lay down before she rolled over. He felt feathers on her back and saw she took up the whole nest. Great. No nest, just like the first day I met her. He moved over to the chair next to the door and sat, cold and tired. He finally drifted to sleep in the cold, dark room.
He woke in a dark abyss, floating in the air. He was floating down to an area bathed in light. He landed softly and looked around. Another light appeared to reveal a blue bird, who then disapperaed. "Hey, wait! Where am I?" He ran to where the bird was, and another light turned on to reveal the bird again. When he finally reached the bird, he couldn't believe who he saw before him. "It can't be."
"Oh, but it is my friend." All he could say was one word. The name of the bird before him. "Blu?"