CHAPTER 3: Nightmare

"Blu..."

"Blu,wake up..."

Sound and light.

Sound came from someone's mouth (beak), and he presumed it was Jewel's beak.

Light...

Light...

Where the hell that light came from?

It was pretty strong,so he spent 10 next seconds adjusting his eyes to it. Once his vision became clear, he saw Jewel, standing in a nest,right beside him. Apparently, he was in some kind of hole. By the looks of it, it was a palm tree. What surprised him was Jewel's left wing. It was healed.

"Hey Jewel... Where's your cast?" The only thing he received was an confused look from Jewel.

"Blu,are you okay? That cast was removed a week ago." Blu's smart brain was heavily confused by now, trying to solve that mystery like it was some kind of atomic physics.

"Ahh... Whatever..."

Once he poked his head out of his new home, he saw that his tree was overlooking the whole Rio. As he turned his head to the left to inspect it more, he received a peck on his beak.

"Good morning,sleepy. Are you ready?"

"Ready for what?"

"Breakfast, of course."

Inside Blu's head, his confusion was dismissed when he figured out this was probably a dream.

Jewel then leaned out of the hole and prepared herself for take-off, when she was interrupted by and large explosion.

The whole hill shook, and Jewel fell to the ground, hitting back-first.

"JEWEL!"

Just then, Blu noticed three warships, probably frigates, firing on the center of the Rio. He couldn't make up whose ships they were, but he was interrupted by a scream of pain,coming from Jewel.

Then, Blu jumped down, and landed next to her. As he came closer, his heart was beating like a drum.

"Jewel! Are you okay?"

"Ugh... No... My back hurts... i c-cant get up." Blu then noticed tears rolling from her pain-filled eyes. He figured out that she couldn't fly either.

"Just hang on, i'll be back." But as Blu was preparing to leave, Jewel stopped him.

"Wait! Where are you going?"

"To find Tulio. Just hang on!"

As he left, he heard roar of the jet planes. As he looked up,he saw a formation of A-4AR Flighthawks closing in. But what horrified him, was the fact that they dropped their bombs in the vicinity of Tulio's aviary.

As he closed in, more and more grief and pain flowed over him as he saw his Aviary burning in flames. It was a big chance that Linda was in there,too.

But the grief doubled when he saw an Pucara counter-insurgency piston engine aircraft doing a strafing-run on the Corcovado mountain, right where his nest was.

Then he charged to the mountain, hoping to find a still-breathing Jewel, but it was in vain.

The same Pucara that did the strafe run now dropped two bombs on the same location. The explosion was so big, that a dozen of trees were blown up.

'No...'

He continued his flight, when he saw a low-flying A-4AR coming towards him in high speed,seconds away from impact. The jet was too fast to dodge.

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"NOOOOOOOO!"

He woke up, cowered in cold sweat. As he looked around, he saw that he was in Jewel's cage/room in the Tulio's aviary. Then he noticed now waken up Jewel staring at him, right by his side, in their nest.

"Blu, what is it?"

As Blu looked at Jewel's left wing, he saw that the cast was still on. A heavy burden fell off from his heart.

"Nothing... It's just a nightmare..."

"Just a nightmare? Blu, you screamed like you got stabbed in your heart."

"I got stabbed in my heart, actually. Mentally, of course." Blu forced a laugh, but Jewel was still dead serious.

"What happened in that nightmare?"

"I'll tell you tomorrow. Sweet dreams, Jewel." By now,Jewel was too tired to care, since Blu was OK.

"Oh,well...Good night, Blu."

MEANWHILE, IN THE CONTROL ROOM.

Tulio activated the camera that was fixed on the Blu and Jewel's nest. As he saw them snuggled, his heart warmed. Then he called Linda

"Hey Linda! You should check this out!"

As she came in the control room, she immediately knew why Tulio had called her.

"Awww, just look at them! They look so sweet together."

"Yep, that's right..." Julio was proud of himself and Linda. Together they managed to save the species from extinction, plus he operated Jewel.

"Sooo... What do you have in plan?" Linda asked

"Umm... I don't know. Let the nature do her job?"

"Sounds good to me."

"Well,my job is done here for today, uh... Linda, are you up for dinner or something?"

"Sure, why not."

He then shut down the camera and other unimportant devices, and then they left the building, holding hands.

But Linda didn't knew that Tulio had a big crush on her.

CHAPTER 4 COMING SOON.

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