Disclaimer: The characters of Rio belong to the rights of Bluesky and Fox studios.

Rio: merry Christmas.

Carlos and Rafael flew in the white covered jungles. The Toucan chick was indeed having a hard time keeping up with his dad since the Toco toucan's wing span were bigger and more strong.

"Vamos, mi Son." exclaimed Rafael with a smile as he peaked over his shoulder to look at his son.

Carlos shouted, panting breathlessly as his tiny wings flapped quickly beside him "Easy for you to say!"

He panted some more "When will he get there?" Carlos asked as he finally caught up to his dad, looking around carefully as he spoke. The two toucans had been flying for 3 minutes and this was passed the zone which Carlos barely known. Absolutely nothing in this area seemed familiar to the Keel billed/Toco toucan chick and he began to feel weary of everything.

"Oh, you'll know it when you see it." said Rafael to the young chick as he did a loop-Di-loop to soar into a thin gap in between two iced together palm trees which blocked the way to the adult Toco Toucan's favourite spot.

Carlos watched in amazement as he saw his dad perform this amazing stunt and he decided to be a daring devil and do something a little different. He too did a Loop-Di-loop before he stopped flapping his thin wings and placed them by his side, spinning around in a clockwise angle in slow motion as he barely made it in between that thin gap.

Once Carlos had made it passed, Rafael praised impressively as he spun in midair "Well done, Carlos! That was well-performed!"

The toucan chick bowed in a gentle-man manner before the two Toucans soon arrived at a waterfall which had been frozen and the waters had been frozen still. It seemed epic from the outside but it was the inside which Rafael wanted to show his son. The two flew behind the subdued roaring wall of water and the young bird was awestruck.

"Impressive isn't it?" asked Rafael as he folded his wings with a smile on his orange, black-tipped beak. He looked over at his son who was flying right beside him.

"Aye...Corumba..." gasped Carlos as he saw the inside of the cavern. Inside the waterfall was white and crystallised since the frost and snow had entered from the cold, chilling air. Even the ivy on the walls and ceilings were covered with some frost and a lot of ice and there was a few icicles on the ceilings.

The two toucans flew inside, being careful of the icicles up on the ceiling, and landed on a nearby crystallised stone but Carlos had a hard time keeping himself on the stone since his feet were slipping a lot.

Rafael chuckled lightly as he saw his son slipping on the rock and he picked Carlos up in the beak before placing him on his back. "Dad, Why are we here?" asked Carlos as he looked at his dad with a worried frown.

Rafael smiled gently before he replied "Car, I wanted to have a pep talk with ya."

Carlos lied with a sad frown "But I'm fine..."

The toco Toucan knew his son was lying and he picked his son up in his wings before he placed him down on the rock but he held him tight to make sure he didn't slip. The Carnival loving Toucan bird asked "I know it's hard seeing you're friend in pain, Carlos but you gotta help her through this and if you help her through this and everything that's hard, she'll return that trust and do the same."

Carlos was confused and he tilted his Head. What was his dad talking about? The little Toucan chick sadly felt himself slip up and fall on his tail feathers. He sighed sadly as he was pretty much the most clumsiest bird in Rio.

Rafael watched his eldest son in worry "Are you ok?" he asked, looked down at him but Carlos just stared at his reflection in the marble like stone. His reflection was a bit wonky and it made him look like his his beak was extraordinarily longer than it already was.

"I...I'm fine, Papa." replied Carlos as he sighed again "I want to tell you something but I think you'll laugh..."

Rafael chuckled lightly and arched an eye ridge with a smile on his banana-like beak "I won't laugh. What's on you're mind, mi menino?" the Toco Toucan asked as he placed a kind wing on his son's shoulder, giving him a gentle stare.

Carlos sighed. Maybe his dad really wouldn't laugh and plus, his dad was very good at keeping secrets...Except if his mom, Eva, got involved. Maybe it wouldn't hurt to tell his dad his little secret.

"...I have a crush on Jasmine..." admitted Carlos as he looked away from his dad, expecting him to laugh but to his surprise, such a thing did not occur but instead Rafael was over the moon! He yelled in glee, he danced around and he exclaimed "My son's in love!"

He was just about to yell again but Carlos held his dad's beak in order to keep it shut and Carlos glared and pleaded "Please don't tell anyone anything about this." he said sternly.

Rafael nodded and did a zip mark across his own beak, telling him silently 'my beak is sealed'. Carlos smiled before he suggested "Why don't we go and fetch Nico and Pedro and maybe Rapper too?"

Rafael nodded "Sure. We could use the company for Natal Dinner." But then his smile faded as he looked down at the ice-covered floor. He didn't want to admit it but he lived here when he was a chick. This was his home and this is where he and his family lived before poachers had come and Rafael was forced to be abandoned to be protected.

Flashback

It was a peaceful evening and a family of four Toucans lived in perfect harmony. The father was a Toco Toucan who looked lots like his son despite having his head feathers styled rather differently and he had a scar across his right eye and scratches on his beak. The mother was a Chestnut Mandibled Toucan who was the same shape as Eva but she was a bit more graceful and she had large eyelashes.

Young chicks; Rafael and Marlene, were playing with sticks since they couldn't fly yet and they giggled cutely as they were having fun.

The Toucan parents wrapped their wings around each other in pride as they watched their beloved chicks playing with one another. Proud smiles were on their beaks as their eyes looked down upon their babies whom had hatched 3 days before-hand. It was Christmas eve and the two chicks were unaware of the fact that they were going to have a very special visitor that night.

But suddenly, foot steps could be heard and loud voices were piercing along with those steps, crackling the lush green grass. It made the parent Toucan's eyes widen in horror as they knew that humans were coming and the thing that paranoid them the most, was the clanging cages that banged against eachother as each foot step was made.

These humans were poachers! The two parent Toucans each took a baby chick in their talons and they swiftly flew out of the waterfall, finding the blinding hammering of the waterfall making their escape difficult but that didn't make them let go of their babies.

But as the female was carrying a frightened Rafael, she and her mate were forced to separate and she heard a gunshot shortly afterwards. She froze in her tracks as her eyes widened towards the direction of whence she came. Her mate and daughter was dead...

Rafael's mother knew she had to go on and she flew as fast as he wings could carry her before she found the perfect place down below and she saw a nice, quiet hollow which was inhabited by a couple who couldn't have a child of their own so she knew this was the perfect place to intrust her baby's life to.

With a single swoop, the Chestnut Mandibled Toucan female landed on the follow and gently removed the toucan chick from her talons and picked him up inside her banana-like beak before she placed him down on his back. She rubbed her beak against the baby Toco Toucan's and told him "Be strong my little Rafael. Be strong and always have a good time. Remember that." Without another word, she took flight but after a few seconds, another gunshot was heard, startling the baby toucan and he began to cry loudly.

Little Rafael wailed and cried as he wanted his mother back but suddenly, a pair of chestnut brown feathered Kookaburra came out of their hollow and the female scooped up the crying Rafael in her wings and sushed him "It's ok, little one." she comforted whist the male Kookaburra stood by her side and he ran his wing across the Toucan chick's head feathers.

The male Kookaburra knew who this chick was. He and the chicks father were good friend but he had yet to introduce him to his wife, Angie.

"What shall we name him, darling?" asked Angie as she looked from the now sleeping hatchling to her mate with a smile on her pointed, blackish-grey beak.

The male suggested "How about Rafael?" he folded his wings proudly before he winked at the little sleeping Toucan. He actually met Rafael when the boy first hatched with his sister Marlene but he had to wonder; What happened to Rafael's family?

The two took Rafael inside their hollow and the Kookaburra waited for someone to come looking for him...But nobody did.

End of Flashback.

Rafael sighed as he remembered that dark day of when his parents and sister died by the hands of poachers but he was a forgiving bird and if anyone was going to apoligize for this crime, they had better come up with a darn good apology.

Carlos looked back at his father and looked concerned "Hey. You ok, Papa?" he asked as worry marred his facial expression. He was just walking out of the waterfalls cavern and was about to fly off when he noticed his father wasn't following him and looking at the floor.

Rafael just continued to look at the floor and he sighed. His son had told him his secret and now it was time to tell someone his. Nobody knew about this place, not even Eva. The scars were too deep and he had to tell someone about this.

"Carlos. I have to tell you something..." said Rafael in shame. He didn't dare look into his son's amber eyes. He shuffled his blue talon nervously on the Icey ground before he confessed "This was my birthplace, Carlos. I was born here and I had a sister named Marlene."

Rafael noticed that his oldest son had sat down to listen and he now had no choice but to explain everything. He said how his family were shot down by poachers. How he was raised by party-loving Kookaburra and how he had no idea of his family since he was born 3 days before.

Carlos, of course, was shocked and he asked "Is that true, Dad?!" He voice held small sympathy and large amounts of shock and surprise "Did that really happen to you!?"

Rafael nodded at his boy before he said with a sigh "I wish I could meet my parents just once..."

Once Carlos said that, The young Keel billed/Toco toucan cross had an idea. His dad may not be able to see his real family but what happened if something rather similar happened? A family meeting or such?

He clicked two feathers together as his idea clicked inside his brain. He commanded sternly with a crafty smile spread across his black-tipped beak "Go get some Mangoes dad, I'll be back soon!"

With that, the toucan chick flew out of the waterfall and he flew to go get his dad's surprise together. Carlos' little ebony wings were flapping by his side as a kind smile spread across his small beak, his head feathers flowing in the chilled wind and he began his 10 minute flight to the Samba club.

Thats the end of this chapter guys. I know, Raffael's past was rather sad but look how it turned out! Anyways, what is Carlos' surprise?

Rico the Black hawk does not belong to me and neither does Rapper the red Macaw. I am having a few community issues here and must ask what is the Down list?

BTW, Natal means "Christmas" and Menino means "Boy" or "Infant". I meant it for "Boy".

Also if anyone wants their OC in this, any OC at all, just ask in your review. I don't mind a bit. How do I handle the characters of this story anyways?

I will try and update soon, alright? See you!