Rio the series 4

Chapter 11 missing baby

During a relaxing morning in the Jungle of Rio de Janeiro, Blu slowly had awoken from his sound asleep dream, seeing Jewel, sleeping besides him, with her wings around, Rey, Azul, Crystal, and Jessica. Blu smiled, and put his wings around Jewel, and pressed his chest into her back. Blu didn't know that Jewel, had been awake, for almost ten minutes.

"Good morning, Blu." Jewel greeted, with her eyes closed and being awake.

"Good morning, Jewel" Blu also greeted, before pulling her a little closer to him "Can we not get up yet? I want to cuddle with you."

Jewel giggled in response

"Sure. But we can't be asleep to long." Jewel said, cuddling her head into Blu's neck.

"I know, I know." Blu replied, feeling is warmth over Jewel, enjoying the moment. Blu began humming to a song, as he kept one wing over Jewel, while stroking her head with the other.

Jewel sighed, and relaxed in Blu's wings, also enjoying the song, Blu was humming to. The lovebirds continued to sleep peacefully, in their tree. After almost 15 minutes or so, it was time to wake up.

"Okay, it's time to get up." Jewel announced, but Blu pulled her a little closer.

"No, Jewel." Blu protested groaning "Five more minutes."

Jewel smiled, and turned her head, and planted a kiss on the side of Blu's beak before slipping out from his grip. "Come on, Blu."

Blu sighed; not feeling Jewel cuddled with him anymore, and leaned up out of the nest.

Jewel walked over to Blu and put a wing over him. "Cheer up, love hawk. There's always tonight for us to cuddle."

Blu nodded in response. "I know. Don't worry, Jewel, this love hawk is at your command until then."

"Really?" Jewel smiled "In that case, Blu, I beckon you to go and get breakfast."

Blu bowed down. "Of course, your wish is my command."

Blu got back up, and took flight out of the hollow to fetch breakfast for his family. After he left, Jewel looked at her children, who were almost waking up.

"That's your father." Jewel smiled.

Blu soared through the air, feeling the breeze, relaxing to the peaceful loving Jungle sounds of Samba. Blu was close to the fruit tree when he stopped in midair. Blu could hear what sounded like, small-crying noises.

"What was that?!" Blu said to himself, looking around the area.

Blu continued to hear the crying noise, and followed the sound to investigate. The Blue Macaw followed the sound which had leaded to the bottom of someone's tree hollow. Blu landed by the tree and moved some grass and looked horrified and confused of what he was seeing.

Behind the grass, a small male-baby Scarlet Macaw was sitting in on the ground, crying his eyes out. His appearance wasn't fully covered yet, most of his body was red feathers, and with slightly green and blue, he may only be a couple of days old.

Blu quickly ran over to him, and picked up the baby Macaw in his wings.

"Sh, sh, it's ok, sh, sh, don't cry." Blu soothed, stroking his head.

The Scarlet Macaw baby covered his eyes in fear, getting scared of this unknown bird.

"It's okay, shh; I'm not going to hurt you." Blu whispered, gently pushing his little wings away from his eyes.

The baby was a little scarred, but soon relaxed, and chosen to trust the stranger.

Blu smiled, before releasing one thing: "Now, where are your parents?"

Blu walked away from the tree, still holding the baby Macaw, who had stopped crying, and snuggled into Blu's wings.

"Hello? Anyone lost a Scarlet Macaw baby?!" Blu called to know answer.

"Cheese 'n sprinkles!" Blu thought, looking back down at the baby, who had fallen asleep.

What could Blu do now? It was not his child, but he can't leave him all alone.

Blu didn't have a choice. Until he found out whose child it was, he had to take him with him under his car. Blu gently put him in his talons and took flight into the sky, heading back home, also forgetting breakfast in the process.

Meanwhile at Jewel and Blu's tree, Jewel and her offspring sat in the nest, waiting -patiently for Blu to return. Finally, Jewel heard flapping coming from a distance, and she immediately knew that was Blu. Blu landed down by the hollow entrance/exit with his back facing Jewel.

Jewel looked at her mate and noticed he was holding something in his wings. She also noted that he took a lot longer than usual.

"Blu, where have-" Jewel was cut off when Blu quickly shushed in a whisper.

"Sh, Sh!" Blu whispered fervently.

Jewel looked confused until Blu turned around, revealing a baby scarlet macaw in his wings. "Blu, who's is that child?"

Blu shook his head, not removing eye contact from the baby. "I don't know. I found him lying outside a tree, I couldn't just leave him."

Jewel walked over to her mate, and stroked the little chicks head.

"You did the right thing taking care of him." Jewel said, taking the baby from Blu's wing's into her own. "But we should find his parents."

"I know, I talked to Rafael before I came here-since he knows the Jungle better than I do-and he said he would have people search around for any scarlet macaws. Blu explained.

Jewel smiled in response, and looked down at the little chick, who had smuggled into her wing. "What do we do now?"

"I don't know. I have to go and find his parents-they might be looking for him as we speak." Blu said, as he began to walk towards the hollow entrance/exit.

"Blu?" Jewel said, getting his attention before he could even extend his wings.

"Yeah?" Blu replied, turning his head to see his wife.

"Be careful. It could have been smugglers." Jewel warned.

Blu smiled in response "Don't worry, Jewel. I'll be careful; you just take care of that baby."

With that said and done, Blu jumped out of the hollow, and took flight out of the hollow, hoping to find this baby's parents. The second he was gone, Jewel looked back down at the little chick, who was slowly waking up.

"Mommy, what is going to happen to him?" Crystal inquired.

"I don't know, sweetie." Jewel replied, as the baby Macaw suddenly began to cry, once again.

"Sh, it's ok, sh, sh, sh, don't cry, please don't cry." Jewel whispered sweetly, rocking him side to side. Jewel looked to her side where she could see a couple of grapes that were left over from the night before.

"Azul, past me one of those grapes, please?" Jewel requested, to Azul, who was closest to the grapes.

Azul nodded in agreement and picked up the fruit, and handed over to his mother.

Jewel gripped the grape in her wing, and held it to the baby's beak. "Here ya go."

The little chick stopped crying, and started sniffing the grape, getting to feel its scent, even though he didn't really need to.

The little chick gently nibbled the grape, and began to eat his breakfast. Jewel smiled, remembering when she used to do this with her kids, and gently held him up so he didn't chock.

"That's it, good boy, eat up." Jewel said, smiling.

The baby chick finished the mango, and licked his little beak, enjoying its taste. The Scarlet Macaw closed his eyes and snuggled into Jewel's chest again.

Shortly after dropping the baby Scarlet Macaw to his wife and children, Blu flew through the Jungle, looking at every Bird's tree hollow, hoping to find any adult Scarlet Macaw's.

"Now if I lost a Scarlet baby, where would I be?" Blu thought with a toe on his chin "There is a place. I can't quite put a talon on it."

Blu took his talon, from his talon, and continued to fly until he spotted a slight black speck in the distance. Blu immediately recognized that speck.

"Hey, Rafael!" Blu called, waving a talon.

The Toucan heard his name being called, and flew over to Blu. The Macaw and Toucan perched themselves on a branch.

"Hey, amigo." Rafael greeted.

"Did you find anything?" Blu asked.

Rafael shook his head "Sorry, Blu, I couldn't find any family who lost a baby Macaw, but I'll keep trying."

Blu looked down, also sad and disappointed, and took flight back into the air.

"Thanks for trying!" Blu called, flying away as he now was blended in with the sky.

Back at Blu and Jewel's tree. Rey, Azul, Crystal, and Jessica had gone outside of the tree to play, in Jewel's sight of course. Jewel watched her kids playing outside, as for the baby Macaw, Jewel had put him in the nest after he was sound asleep.

As the time slowly past, the baby slowly opened his eyes, where he couldn't really see much, apart from, the hollow walls, the nest, and Jewel's back. The little chick, used his wings to get up, and got out of the nest, and proceeded to walk over to Jewel.

Jewel continued to watch her offspring, who were playing, what looked like hide and seek, until she felt a small tugging on her right wing. Jewel looked down where she could see the little chick with his small wings open, as a symbol of he wanted to be picked up.

Jewel understood, and picked him up in both her wings.

"Hello there." Jewel said, giving him a stroke on the head. The Scarlet Macaw looked out of the tree, with a sad face. Jewel thought she understood that he was missing his Mom and Dad.

"You miss your Mommy and Daddy?" Jewel asked, giving him another stroke on the head. "Don't worry; you'll be back home, soon."

The baby Macaw gave a little smile to her. Jewel smiled back, and the baby re-snuggled back into her wings.

Back to Blu, he continued to look around the area where he found the chick. There was nothing around. Blu had even tried talking to other people, but they said "We don't know, sorry."

Blu continued to fly, almost on the verge of giving up,

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Until

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"Hey, you, help us, please!" a male voice called out.

Blu heard the voice, and flew down to the ground, and was shocked, where he could see two Scarlet Macaws, male and female, trapped in separate nets.

"Please get us out!" the male begged.

"Please, we have to get our son!" the female begged, crying.

Blu went wide eyed, excitedly and worried. "Wait; is your son, about one week old?"

"Yeah, how'd you know? The male asked.

"It's ok, I found him, and he's safe and sound." Blu reassured, hoping to calm them down, as he flew up to the rope that was holding them up in the nest.

"Where is he? Is he ok?" the female asked.

"Don't worry, I found him outside a tree. I took him in." Blu explained.

"Oh, thank you so much!" the female gratefully thanked, finally managing to put on a smile.

Blu cut the rope that released them from the net. The second they were free, the female quickly flew over to Blu.

"Where is he?" she asked.

"He's at my tree. Relax; my wife is taking care of him." Blu said, calming them down.

The three Macaws' took flight into the sky (the Scarlet Macaw's following Blu).

"I'm Blu, by the way." Blu introduced.

"Nice to meet you. I'm Sally, and this is my mate, Carlo." the female also introduced.

"And our son is named Jose." Carlo added.

Back at Jewel's tree, Jewel continued to rock the baby in her wings, who was trying to sleep.

"Jewel?!" Blu called from a distance.

Jewel looked up, where she could see Blu, by the hollow entrance/exit with two Scarlet Macaw's.

"I found them." Blu said.

Jewel revealed the baby in her wings to the Macaws. "I believe this little one is yours." The two Scarlet Macaws quickly ran over to Jewel. Sally took Jose into her wings.

"Oh, my baby, you're okay, you're okay." Sally said thankfully.

"We'll never leave you again." Carlo promised, holding onto both Sally and his son.

Sally lifted her head up, to see Blu. "Thank you."

"It's ok." Blu smiled.

Jose snuggled into Sally's chest, and opened his eyes open, where he saw Blu and held one of his wings out.

"Blu, I think he wants to say goodbye." Sally assumed.

Blu smiled in agreement, and gave Jose a stroke on the head. "Well, little guy, it was fun taking care of you, but now it's time to go home."

Sally set Jose down, safely in her talons and flew out of the tree with her mate.

"Thank you!" Both Macaws called, flying away into the distance.

Jewel put one wing over Blu, and rested her head on his chest. "You did a good thing today, Blu. I'm proud of you."

"Thank you, Jewel. I am a nice person after all." Blu replied with a smile. He felt great to do a good deed for the day.

Ok that's this chapter done, A good deed of Blu to take care of a baby. Next chapter coming soon