Nico and Pedro were still busy searching the city for Jewel. They hadn't found found a trace of her, not even a feather. They had run into each other during their hunt and joined. They thought that even if Pedro found Jewel, he wouldn't be able to keep up with her in the event that she tried to run.

"Man, where is that bird at?" Pedro asked, as if Nico could answer.

"I don't know. Sure hope she's okay."

"Yeah."

"Scarla, have you found her?" Antonio asked Scarla as he flew past her.

Scarla came to halt, but continued to flap her wings to keep herself suspended in the air. As he also stopped, she faced him and said, "No, I have no idea where she could be." Concern colored her voice. "What about your friends?"

"I've only run into one of them since I got 'em, and he hasn't seen any sign of her."

"What did you tell him she looked like?" Scarla asked while looking around, as if she would somehow find Jewel.

"All blue. Row of feathers on her head that curl upward, right?"

"Let's just keep looking."

"Alright," Antonio said before flying away to continue his search.

As Scarla flew in the other direction, she began to hear music. The further she flew, the louder it got. Though she knew she had to find Jewel, her curiosity took over. She began to follow it, trying to find the source. Getting closer, she started hearing what sounded like monkey noises. "What the heck?"

Not even a minute later, the source of the sound was practically in front of her face. She landed on a tree branch and was amazed by what she saw. An entire army of marmosets, bigger than the army of Rafael's children, was jamming out to the music coming from a boombox. They were all wearing or holding some shiny object or other, and the various dances they were doing were the main cause for their ridiculous appearance. It was a ridiculous sight, Scarla thought. Her first reaction was to burst out laughing, but cut herself short when she got an idea: they could help look for Jewel! But why would they listen to her? They didn't know her, and they didn't have a reason to help.

Scarla looked around and memorized the location before flying off to look for both Blu and Jewel, whichever came first.

Where are they? Where are they? Where are they? Blu asked himself as he scanned the forest for a pack of marmosets to aide him, though he wouldn't mind finding Jewel first. He hadn't eaten at all today, so the searching was really taking its toll on his health. Still, he pushed himself to forget about food and focus on finding Jewel.

Should I get Linda, Túlio, or Fernando instead? No, they wouldn't be able to look fast enough and get to high places.

Nearby, Rafael was searching, just like everybody else. He had also gotten the idea to find some marmosets to help find Jewel. Now he was looking for either Blu or Jewel, whichever one he could find first.

Suddenly, he spotted Blu flying by. "Blu! Hey, Blu!" Rafael yelled after him.

Blu looked back at him and landed on a tree branch. "What is it Rafael?" Blu asked, wanting to end the conversation as quickly as possible, so that he could get back to searching for Jewel.

Rafael landed next to him. "Blu, I just got an idea. You know those marmosets that attacked us before?"

"Yeah I thought of that too. I'm looking for them r—"

"Blu!" Blu heard Scarla call.

Blu looked in the direction of her voice. As she landed next to him on the branch, she said, "Blu, I just found a pack of marmosets," she said as she pointed in said direction. "and I think you could use them to look for Jewel."

Blu's eyes widened. What a coincidence, he and Rafael thought. Blu took a step toward Scarla and hugged her with all the strength he could muster at the moment. "Thank you, Scarla," he told her before flying off.

Scarla and Rafael continued their search for Jewel while Blu went to plead with the marmosets for their help.

...

Blu flew straight in the direction that Scarla had pointed him to. Three-quarters of the way there, he began to follow the music he heard. He landed on the branch of a tree near the site and took a look at the pack of marmosets, who were still dancing. Blu somehow managed to hold back a laugh. He took a closer look at them and noticed one brown marmoset amongst all the other gray ones. He looked oddly familiar... Oh...Ofallthegroupsthatmustbeinthisforest,shehadtofindthis one.He took a deep breathe and exhaled slowly. "Alright, Blu, just play it cool. Stay calm. Maybe this won't be too difficult," he tole himself aloud. Then, he rolled his eyes. "Who am I kidding?"

He flew down to the ground, keeping his distance, so as not to startle them. He slowly and awkwardly walked toward them, desperately hoping that they wouldn't run. Unfortunately, one noticed and shut off the music. The marmoset yelled, "Ruuun!" and the crowd immediately dispersed.

"No, no, no! Wait!" Blu ordered, but naturally, none of them listened. He saw the brown marmoset and figured that the only way he would be able to get their cooperation was to capture their leader. He leapt after him, using his wings to propel himself further and faster, and pinned him to the ground. "Please, don't run!"

The brown marmoset ignored his plea. "What... Wh-What are you gonna do with me? Look, I'm sorry about what happened at the club. That cockatiel, Nigel, made us do it!" he asked.

"I don't care! I won't do anything to you. Just call everyone back. Please."

The marmoset looked at this predator who had him pinned and could kill him in a second. He obeyed to save his own butt. "Hey! B-Boys, come back here."

Through the bushes, the herd of marmosets slowly walked back to the area they had just left, fearing what may become of them.

"Okay, I got 'em. Now, let me go."

"I don't think I can trust you," Blu replied.

"Wh-What do you want, then?"

"I need you to help me find someone."

"And if we don't, I suppose it's flying lessons, right?"

"What the heck are you talking about?" Blu asked.

"He threatened us to bring you and your girlfriend to him."

"Well, I got rid of him already. Now are you going to help me or not?"

"Wait, what was that?"

"I got rid of him."

The marmoset's eyes widened in surprise. This awkward guy did all that to Nigel? he thought, remembering a picture he had taken about two weeks before. He doubted it. He looked over at one of the marmosets and said, "Hey, you! Could you bring that camera here?"

The addressed marmoset got another to help him tip over and unzip a medium-sized bag. They pulled out an old-looking camera, and picked it up together, being careful not to damage such a valuable object. They cautiously brought the camera to the brown marmoset, who was still pinned down by Blu, and set it down next to them before running away.

"Could... Could you get off me?" the marmoset requested.

Blu slowly took his foot off, allowing him to stand and more easily operate the camera. The leader marmoset turned on the camera and started navigating through a bunch of embarrassing pictures of other marmosets. When he finally reached the desired picture, he tilted the camera to allow Blu to see it. "Was this you?" he asked.

Blu's beak dropped. It was a picture of Nigel... completely naked... attempting to cover himself with a leaf... Blu couldn't even react to it. The picture was just so... out of the blue. He's still alive?

"The look on your face says it all. Sure, I'll help you."

"WHAT?" all the marmosets yelled in unison.

"You will?" Blu asked, surprised by how little persuasion that took.

"Of course. You got that jerk out of our hair and gave us that awesome picture. Now, who is it you're looking for?"

"You know the girl who was chained to me? It's her I'm looking her."

"What, did you break up or something? Cause I'm sure that there are plenty o—"

"She's my mate," Blu cut in. "She ran away, and I don't know why. Can you help me?"

"Speak no further," the leader replied. He turned to the rest of the marmosets. "Alright, boys, remember the other blue bird we were trying to capture?"

"Uh-huh," they all chorused.

"Good, cause we're looking for her. This is urgent, you hear? When you find her, report back here. Don't approach her. Go, now." At his whim, all the marmosets ran in different directions to begin their search. He turned back to Blu. "You should stay here, okay?"

Blu nodded in agreement. It was probably for the best, since this way he could get Jewel's exact location. "Thank you."

"No problem. Call me Mauro. Sorry about the club," Mauro said, putting a hand out to Blu.

"It's okay. I'm Blu," Blu replied, shaking Mauro's hand with his foot.

...

As Mauro slept in his chair and Blu nervously paced back and forth, a marmoset came back. Blu's heart began racing, hoping that it was a report on Jewel's location.

Mauro woke up. "Did you find her?"

"I think so. I was up on the cliff and saw something blue on top of that huge statue in the city through some binoculars."

Huge statue? Blu thought. He realized that he meant the Christ the Redeemer statue and wanted to smack himself for not thinking of that before, the place she went to to think when troubled.

"Thank you," Blu said before taking to the skies in the direction of the statue.

"Anytime!" Mauro and the marmoset yelled.

Hold on, Jewel. I'm coming!

Jewel stood on the white surface of Jesus' head, thinking over her life. So far, it was sucking... a lot. She had lost her parents, Blu, and—

Her thoughts were interrupted by a light clack on the floor behind her. She turned her head back. She saw Blu staring at her, sad, but clearly excited to see her again. She turned her head back to its original position.

"Jewel, I've been looking all over for you. Why did you run away?"

Jewel remained silent.

"Jewel?"

Silent.

"Jewel?" Blu said again, taking a step toward her.

Blu stopped when Jewel spoke up. "Do you really want to know?"

"Yes, Jewel. Please. I don't want anything between us..."

Jewel didn't say anything for a few seconds. "Be... Because... Because..."

Blu listened attentively.

"I'm.." Tears began to well up in her eyes. "I'm pregnant, Blu."

Blu was unfazed. That's why she ran away? He started to walk up to her.

Jewel heard his slow, haunting footsteps, but didn't move. She didn't really care what he did...

Blu wrapped his wings around her. "Is that it, Jewel?"

"Mm-hm."

"But why did you run off?"

"I was afraid of what you would think. I thought that you weren't ready for a family, so I thought that if you found out, you would... leave me..."

This shocked Blu. He tightened his embrace as tears began to form in his eyes. "Jewel... How could you think that? I love you, Jewel. Last night, when I said I would love you forever, I meant it. I will always love you, Jewel, and nothing can ever change that."

Jewel began crying with him. "I'm so sorry, Blu. I... I put the lives of our children in danger."

"Jewel, please don't cry. I love you."

Jewel didn't reply. She just continued to cry in his wings.

"Jewel, look at me," Blu said, turning her around, so he could face her. And for probably the first time ever, hepulled herinto a deep, passionate kiss. Jewel accepted the kiss and kissed back, glad to know that she still had his love.

He took his beak off of hers and asked, "Do I need to prove it to you?"

"Please, Blu," she answered, showing him the faintest trace of a smile.

Blu smiled back warmly and gently laid her on her back. He got on top of her, being careful to keep out of contact with her stomach.

"I love you, Jewel."

"I love you too, Blu," Jewel said, crying tears of joy.

Their beaks met halfway for a kiss. Blu put his cloaca on Jewel's and began to make passionate love to her for the second time, this time proving the solidity of his love for her. Throughout, Jewel cried tears of joy, overwhelmed with the joy of being back with Blu. She knew that he would always be there with her, no matter what. It did not matter to them whether or not anyone saw them making love; all that mattered was that they could feel each others eternal love once again.

Sorry for the delay. School work, Skyward Sword, and MLP:FiM have all been distracting me lately. I plan on rewarding myself for finally writing this by watching three episodes of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic in the morning (WHY CAN'T I STOP?).

Also, if anybody needs a better idea of the first position Blu and Jewel were in while mating, google "cockatiels mating".

To : Seeing as how I'm in tenth grade, I don't think I needed to know. But thanks for sharing that information with me LOL.

To BluJet The MacawHawk: They're not the same thing.

To Dimitri The Soviet Spix Macaw: Thanks. I will

To Zero2o1o: LOL

To The son of The Scarlet Macaw: Hey, it's been a while. Well, yeah, of course "Sense of Security" is better. Holospartoi (too lazy to look up full name) is a far superior writer.

To Ton1546: Yeah, some oneshots get the anatomy completely wrong, which disturbs me for some reason.

To Lazy Reviewer: Lol, I lied the entire time. I wonder how many people expected me to write one. One of the best? Thanks! I view it the same way; at least, that's the way I think it should be, but you know how people are these days.

To Lazy Reviewer: Good to see you're eager.

To Bromine: I'll get to it.

To Lunyk Stormdragon: Yeah, lemons are basically sex scenes in fan fiction. Slashes are typically between males and femslash is between females.

To No-Remorse81: It's staying M, because of that scene.

To Ghostofinu: That, they have.

To Camicazi: You asked that just as I was going to upload this.

To whoever the 151st reviewer: I don't feel like waiting for the review page to update, so I'll respond in the next chapter.