Disclaimer: I don't own Rio or any of its characters; this chapter is going to be shorter than the others.
Chapter 3: The Rescue
"It's been quite the adventure hasn't it, my sweet." Blu said, starting their long conversation as Luiz gave them a ride to the parade, although they were now free of the chains, Jewel decided to sit with Blu instead of flying alongside them, as it wouldn't make a difference of how long they would take.
"Yeah, yeah it has. But Blu, why did you actually come here in the first place, you said you were from Minnesota, but why did you come to Rio, what was the reason behind us meeting."
Blu had a thoughtful look as he remembered the reason why Tulio had sent him to Rio. He remembered Tulio saying ' "Blu is the last male bird of his kind, and we've found a female bird for him to mate with…" '.
"I remember Tulio saying something, he said that I was the last male bird of our kind, and that they had found a female, which is you so therefore they brought us together to…er, how do I put this." Blu's face started to redden "They brought is together to mate, yes I said it, mate, so that we could preserve and keep our species from going extinct, extinct means that all of our kind will be dead and gone…forever." Jewel's expression changed from mildly embarrassed to shock as she heard Blu talk.
"So you're telling me that we could possibly the last of our kind." Blu nodded solemnly. "Wow, no pressure on us then is it." She continued, Blu smiled, so even if we wanted to or not, we would have to mate to keep our species alive, I guess we're lucky that we actually love each other, or this whole thing would be so much more difficult." Blu smiled in response, glad that his love understood the serious situation they were in, they were going to have to mate, and sooner rather than late.
Jewel then interrupted Blu's chain of thought by asking him, "So what did you do back in tinysota." Blu smiled at Jewel's joke and lightly chuckled.
"Well, Linda runs a bookstore back at my old home…" Jewel took note of the way Blu said old home, which lifted her hopes of him staying after they had done what they need to do. "So every day except Sunday we would run the bookstore and people would come in and buy books, Linda and I developed a routine of doing this and I had my own way of getting from my 'bed' to the actual store, it involved skating on a toy police car and sliding down the rails on the stairs." And every day Linda would give me a nice cup of hot chocolate with six marshmallows, you could say I lived in luxury, not having to worry about getting anything, knowing that Linda would keep me alive and healthy…" Blu paused and noticed that Jewel was completely engrossed in his story. So he carried on "But I'll be honest with you now Jewel, even though I had everything provided for me and I lived in luxury, I always felt that I was missing something, and now I've finally found it." Blu said, finished his short monologue.
"What was that thing that you've found now?" Jewel asked completely misreading the way he looked at her when he said he found the thing that he was missing.
"Jewel, it's you of course." Blu said smiling and gazing into her deep blue eyes.
Jewel gazed at Blu with loving eyes and she found Blu so sweet that she decided she would reward him when this was all over.
"That's so sweet Blu." Jewel said softly. "I never thought that I would be the one thing you were missing."
"Of course you are Jewel you are my everything." Jewel blushed and Blu's statement, she found him so sweet and he was always kind to her, even when she showed him no kindness in return.
Luiz spoke up to the two blue macaws that were riding on him. "Sorry to interrupt your love fest but we're here."
Blu gasped at the sight of the parade, it was huge and it included crocodiles dancing and people on huge stilts and also beautiful vehicles, except that Blu couldn't help but notice the ugly looking float.
"Wow, now that's a sight." Blu muttered. Jewel murmured an agreement. "Let's find Linda." He said.
Luiz bounded down into the parade were Blu was hoping to find Linda. If Blu's hunch was right, then when Linda spots him and he starts to move away she'll follow him.
They looked all over the place for Linda and Tulio and couldn't see them anywhere. Until they finally saw her dressed as a Spix's macaw on the top of a huge float in the middle of the parade. To the right of the float was Tulio, now the problem was attracting their attention.
"Jewel I need you to do something for me." Blu said
"Of course I'll do anything for you, want do I need to do." Jewel replied. Blu smiled at her and then said
"I need you to catch Linda's and Tulio's attention, so think of something, go near to Tulio and call him, he'll recognise the sound you make, and then he'll tell Linda. What you need to do after that is to make sure that you get them to look at me. So you could point your wing in my direction or something like that.
"Okay, Blu I'll get this done as soon as I can." Jewel said and with one last glance at Blu, she flew off.
"Now all we do is what Luiz."
Jewel flew off in the direction of Tulio and called him. Tulio's eyes widened in disbelief as he heard the female macaw's squawk. He turned round and saw Jewel right in front of him.
"Jewel!" He said, thank God you're okay… but where's Blu?" Jewel made a pointing motion with her a wing to a bulldog, and Tulio's eyes followed. He saw the Male Macaw on top of a bulldog. "Linda!" He shouted "Linda!"
"What Tulio!" Linda shouted from the top of the float.
"I've found Blu and Jewel." He replied
"You have!" Linda said in disbelief.
"Look!" He replied, and surely enough, Jewel was by him and Blu was on a bulldog in the direction that Jewel was pointing.
"Blu!" Linda shouted and she slowly made her way down from the float, being forced to dance her way through until she landed in Tulio's arms. The crowd applauded at the show and the leader of that float praised her.
"Jewel back over here shouted Blu." Jewel flew back and landed in between Blu's wings. The two macaws smiled lovingly at each other until Blu looked away and noticed that Nico and Pedro had found them.
"Blu!" Nico said, "We've found Rafael, he's trapped in a rubbish chicken float in a cage come on."
Blu replied to the small yellow bird. "Come on let's rescue him."
Luiz started bounding his way towards the chicken float.
"Blu, where are you going?" Linda shouted and gave chase to the bulldog with Tulio following. They fell behind slightly as they are having much more trouble getting through the parade than the Bulldog is.
Luiz hurried his way towards the chicken float and said.
"Now that's a crime in itself."
Seconds after he said that Blu and Jewel were knocked off the bulldog by a dressed up crocodile's tail. The dog started pulling angrily on the costumes tail, causing the human to fall over.
Blu spotted a skateboard and said to Jewel " Follow me". They both ran towards the skateboard with Jewel saying, "Inside foot, Outside foot, Inside foot, Outside foot," continuously until they jumped onto the skateboard.
Jewel wrapped her wings around Blu as he navigated his way to the float. He saw the perfect opportunity to get inside the float and used a pole as a ramp to propel him onto the float with Jewel. After they caught onto the float, they snuck in through a hole in the cover.
They both saw Rafael in a cage and Blu said
"Don't worry we'll help you get out."
"Rafael looked up with happiness in his eyes, which turned into horror as Nigel hit Blu and Jewel into a cage.
"Do you really think that it would be this easy, I already got your other two friends as well by the way."
Blu and Jewel looked to their right and saw Pedro and Nico stuck in the cage.
"Friendship is such a powerful and stupid thing." sighed Nigel
Blu and Jewel looked at Rafael said this. "I've also heard rumours about you two as well." The white bird said looking at Blu and Jewel. "Rumours have been going round that you two are in love, ha surely that can't be true?" When he received no response he laughed, causing Blu and Jewel to flinch at the noise. "So it is true." The bird cackled. " The bird nerd and the independent princess are together, aww you make such a cute couple." The bird said sarcastically.
The two blue macaws were struggling to keep their anger under control as Nigel carried on. "I can't wait until you get bought and sold off to different homes, how heart-breaking would that be."
The white bird left the room after that, leaving the other birds wondering what is in store for them in the future.
Blu broke the silence, "I guess our only hope is that we're lucky enough to be able to create a contraption that can break the cages from things near me on the plane, or if Linda and Tulio save us." Things were not looking good for the captured birds.
"Blu?" Jewel said.
"Yes Jewel." Blu replied softly
"How likely is it that we will get out of this situation?"
"Actually it IS quite likely that we will make it out of here, if the humans act as stupid as they were in their hideout then we can most likely find a way to escape.
Jewel and Blu looked at each other and shared a quick kiss and Blu wrapped his wings around Jewel from behind and laid her on his chest as they sat down and relaxed in each other's presence, knowing that if things went bad, it would be the last opportunity to do something as romantic as this.
A/N: The shortest chapter has now turned into the longest chapter so for, which surprised me because I don't think I would write about much this chapter, but anyway I will hopefully update tomorrow, if things go to plan.
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