Thanks again for keeping up with my story, but before I continue I have some news to share that I know you won't believe but I know I'm not lying and there isn't anything you can do to change that. Apparently someone, and I think some of you may know who that is starting with authors he's talked to like PinkLemonSprinkles, the fanfic family, and Phil Platter (and if you do you can PM me) has daddy issues and grew up around his mom and mostly women, which is why Jewel always hogged the kids so annoyingly much and Blu didn't get a jack shitting chance to have anything special with them but every other bird did and Blu was treated like a worthless good for nothing loser. It's sad really, I mean Jesus this is what happens when you take your personal issues out on a family movie, and then the audience has to swallow it. No wonder it turned out the way it did.
Piece of advice if you're reading this, get a therapist otherwise quit screwing with Rio and making it suck just because Blu is a father.
Aw who am I kidding, now that I know I know there is no hope of Blu ever being a father emotionally instead of biologically, and he'll keep on being treated the same and their so called 'family' will never change. Basically I give up any hope at all for Rio 3, the trailer pictures and other things will come out the same as they all were for Rio 2 and then the movie will end up in the same manner. But that's why I'm sticking to fanfiction, here authors know more about what a family is even if they don't have one or have issues with their own, my own mother went into a severe addiction that took her life and almost destroyed our family but that doesn't mean I love my dad more than I love her, I had to go through abuse both physical and emotional, I have many scars from those days, but that doesn't mean someone else can't be a good family just because mine wasn't. Because at first when I was a kid she was very sweet and she would always sing to me before bed, and then she took her own life, but I love BOTH my parents equally no matter what happens and I wouldn't want to treat my dad like a loser.
The way I pictured the macaws as a family is that Blu would be there for them to share wonderful moments and protect them and the kids would give Jewel the love and respect she deserves because she made it all possible, but from what it turned out to be it looks like there was no point in Blu and Jewel getting married or Blu saving Jewel.
Who knows where but Tiago was sure to keep on going, stopping every so often to nibble on a piece of papaya or anything else he could get his talons on. It just wasn't fair, it really hurt the little chick to feel so out of place in his own home, 'what good is home?', he thought to himself.
What reason did he have to deserve this, maybe once or twice he went too far; maybe. But still why would his father have any reason to dislike him? It was these kinds of mental thoughts that kept him up all night to begin with. Virtually no sleep, just wandering through the night with his mind disturbing him.
All he knew is that he sure wasn't going anyplace he wasn't wanted. But for sure if he were to stay out here in the wild his mother and grandpa would send the whole tribe in pursuit to find him, it was only a matter of time until they did.
But where, where could he go that would be the last place they'd ever find him? 'That's it' he thought to himself.
"I'll move back to Rio," Tiago said to himself "Yeah; they'll never think to find me at mommy Linda's house,"
With that he snickered while rubbing his wings together, such a devious plan. It was sure to work, maybe too well, maybe this would be the last time he'd ever get to see his family. His grandpa, his sisters, his mother…his dad. Once again the tears started, as much as he wanted he couldn't fight it.
"Bye Mom, bye Bia, goodbye Carla, goodbye..Dad. Hope you guys have fun without me" he said before taking one last look at the Amazon, he spread out his wings and puffed up his stomach with a persistence to the west back to Rio.
He was headstrong in wanting to get away from it all that he picked up speed; the more he flapped the more he was beginning to lose it again.
It hurt, it just hurt so much for the little macaw. But not as much as it did bumping into another bird headfirst while he wasn't looking. Reverting back he landed flat on the ground.
Tiago rubbed his sore little head "Ow,"
The bird he rammed into turned out to be another blue spixs macaw like himself; only this one was an old female.
*bark* she barked at him for some reason, she was becoming more aggressive with him. Apparently she didn't like being disturbed; this was getting both scary and weird for Tiago. God knows why, but it looked like for whatever reason this bird thought it wasn't a bird, it looked like she thought she was some kind of dog.
But whatever was going on through her mind Tiago didn't like it.
*bark* *bark* *bark* she kept going "Uh, uh, get away. Leave me alone!"
He was sure to get the heck out of there but like a dog, as soon as he showed signs of fear she stood on the chase.
"Help!" Tiago yelled.
So desperate to get out of this situation he used up his bag of tricks to try and evade this dog macaw. Tiago zipped through the narrow thickets in the leaves small enough for him fly through but not her, however that wasn't enough and she cornered him from the other side.
He made a huge dive through the canopy, he had his eye on a wasp nest.
"Bingo," he torpedoed himself straight through the nest, making out with a few large wasps in his talons.
Once he was ready he fired them straight to his pursuer with everything he had, but for such an old bird she was really swift and agile; not to mention pretty noise.
"Aw shoot," Tiago felt hopeless.
With all the fear shooting through his body he worked up as much strength as he could spare to break free out of this. Bit by bit his barking pursuer was getting smaller and smaller, he was sure to lose her now.
Tiago kept going, focusing his attention only at the trees in the direction ahead of him, 'Rio here I come' he persisted.
However all his hopes were taken away once a large figure charged him from above. Plastering him cold on the grass with its talons, growling at him with an almost deadly glare. She neared her cold beak closer and closer to him.
All hoped seemed totally lost for Tiago at this point. The last thing he remembered was someone whistling from the distance.
"Hey!" whoever it was shouted "The heck's wrong with you you honky Ma you better get that boy outta your feet, and the drool outta your mouth, and get up here,"
Like a loyal companion the weird bird let go of Tiago and approached the bird. So shook up by the experience Tiago started to blubber again.
"Momma!" another macaw appeared, this time a female "Geez woman, there ain't no way I ever came outta you, I'm just gonna keep on sayin' it until I can believe it,"
As a typical canine she sat there looking all innocent with a cute whimper, based on the current evidence her daughter (as it seemed) just caved and petted her fuzzy head gently.
"Don't act all innocent," she chuckled "Aw mom what am I gonna do with you?"
Shifting from that clueless scenario the macaws finally took notice of the little chick who was wallowing in a puddle of his own tears.
The male was the first to ask "Hey, wathcha cryin' for boy,"
But it was no use trying to get any words out, he was too sad and shaken to speak. The mates – from what one could probably guess – decided to be a little more sympathetic and lend a wing to the disturbed little boy.
The female, despite what her mother may be, approached Tiago with a nice warm motherly vibe. The second she placed a wing on him Tiago wanted to fly away, but they wouldn't allow him that while getting the wrong idea of them.
He fussed all over, but it only made the birds get amused over his behavior.
"Hey, hey, where're you goin'?" they held him firmly but gently."Geez kid, chill," the male chuckled.
It was useless to resist so he buried himself in the female's feathers and continued to throw a tantrum. She was really nice to him, like his own mother, he noticed, patting him on his back to soothe him. The male patted him gently, they both smiled at him, despite what he might have thought of them at first they seemed like a really decent pair of birds.
"There we go, there we go, shh-shh," she put her head besides his "What's wrong?"
Tiago found the strength to find his speech, coming out muffled with a few stutters in between words "M-my d-dad hates me!" his eyes burst out in tears again.
The two macaws felt touched by this poor little wandering chick, whoever he was, he needed help. But they could tell he wasn't getting it at home.
"Aww don't look so down," the male wiped the tears from beneath his pupils with his right wing "Boy you look almost as bad as you feel. You oughtta get somethin' to eat first,"
"Would you like that?" the female looked at him with those sweet honey almond eyes of hers.
Though his plans were to leave first things first, Tiago thought it wouldn't be so bad to stick around and have a bite before he left on his big journey back to the city.
Yeah, a little food wouldn't hurt, what did he have else to lose anyway was his thoughts on it.
He agreed with an innocent nod of the head "Uh-huh,"
"Great," the male clapped his wings together "Momma let's go,"
He pulled together a vine he was carrying with and strapped it on tight around her neck. She started to growl but her son-in law wasn't taking any risks or excuses this time.
"I said let's go!" he tugged hard, pulling her only a few inches with him.
"Sorry about Momma," the female apologized to Tiago "She may be a little…off, but she don't mean any harm,"
"She's your mom?" Tiago wondered curiously.
[…]
When they suggested dinner Tiago took more than his fair share of beatles, larva, and other types of insects they had laying around the large hollow where they lived. He dug in like a monster; a whole beak festered with beetle juice painting it green.
But he didn't stop there; no, it didn't seem enough for him. Snapping the thorax off a wasp like piece of chicken would be to a human being, then moving on to crickets that went down like lays potato chips, he mudded his beak until his hunger was quenched and went out with a large-
*Beeeeellllchchch*
He patted his tummy with a satisfied look on his face. The two mates looked at with a queer look, "Uhh," Tiago was starting to feel sorry for his table manners.
"That was awesome!" the male macaw slapped him on his back.
He doubled forward, Tiago's face met the rock he was eating off of. "Oww, gee thanks,"
"Want some more ya freakin' animal?" the female offered him another leaf full of bugs to munch off of.
Tiago rubbed his wings together wickedly "Sure!" once again he wolfed down the whole pallet with his beak, then he was starting to talk with his beak full "Gosh I never had bugs for breakfast, ohmph sorry," he excused his manners.
"Naw you kiddin' kid, manners never got nobody nowhere," the male was modest to him.
From what it looked like it seemed as though etiquette wasn't really much of a hot topic where they lived. All you could see was a bunch of peels, left over insects, not to mention sap hanging from the walls. How does a bird live in these conditions, but to Tiago it was his idea of paradise, you could do whatever you want, act however you want, you didn't even have to bother cleaning up after yourself like his mother kept nagging on him, meeting these birds Tiago had to wonder if he was adopted into the wrong family.
That's when he remembered, his family, and why he was so upset earlier on. Suddenly his stomach wasn't feeling so wild anymore, he set aside his leaf to let all the bugs buzz off.
"There it is," the female noticed "There goes that same sad face, what's wrong kid?"
"Nothing," he lied.
"Well you don't have to tell us jack about anythin' if you don't feel like it, wouldn' hurt but your business is your own," the male patted him on the back gently.
"Thanks sir,"
"Ricki," he smiled, he got up to introduce his family starting off with the one who thought she was a dog "That's my mom in law Lolita,"
She barked with a cheery expression, her son in law patted her head. Then he introduced her to his mate.
"And that's my momma," he joked suggestively, however she didn't like it and she bumped him hard on the stomach.
"The heck's wrong with you, there's a child present," she glared at him, but immediately changing it to a more pleasant look once she introduced herself to Tiago "My name's Lola,"
Tiago shook her wing "Hi, it was really cool meeting you guys,"
"So where're you headed anyway since your off from home wherever that is," Ricki wondered.
"I don't have a home," Tiago explained a bit solemnly enough to notice "…at least not anymore, my family doesn't want me there, so I'm going to live in the city with my mommy Linda,"
"The city!" they seemed surprised.
"Boy," Ricki judged "this kids' tougher'n we thought, I mean to live in the city. You must really hate your family,"
Tiago shook his head "That's not it,"
"Well'n what is it then?" Lola kindly perched herself beside him with a nice wing laced around his tiny body "You can tell us, your surrounded by friends here,"
He felt jittery at the moment. "Really, you guys are my friends?"
But before he could answer he heard an eerie squawk coming in from where the entrance was. From it popped another blue macaw, only this one was much younger than all the rest with a funky jazz of feathers coming from up his neck then dangling at the top of his head.
"Guess who's home?" he hollered so intrusively, one could tell he had about as much if not less of a tainted character like the rest of the flock.
"Shoot, that's my man!" he slapped Ricki's wing, soon he happened to notice the strange little bird sitting at where they usually eat "The heck is this character?"
Lola slapped him upside his head strongly "Boy," she scolded him "Where's your manners? We have a guest in our tree,"
"Cool it Ma, geez I was only…"
"Zip it jack head. Axle, say hi to our new friend,"
Axle spit on his left foot then held it out as his own way of gesturing hello to him. Tiago liked this game, so he did likewise with his right foot and shook Axle's generously, however being much older he used his strength to bob him up and down.
"'Sup," was his way of saying hello "Aw sweet, beetles," he shoved him aside and wolfed down the rest of what Tiago left over with as less manners as possible.
"Don't mind this moron," Ricki ruffled his son's head "May not look like much but he's my special idiot and we love him,"
"Love you too daddy-o," he said with a beak full, afterwards letting out an enormous belch.
Tiago admired how much Ricki appreciated his son Axle despite how anti social or seemingly obnoxious he may be, both his parents seemed to love their son very much no matter what he may be.
"Cool," his down trodden face returned.
"What's your problem soda-head?" Axle kept on munching "Don't you love your daddy or what the hay?"
Tiago was getting a bit irriated by his remark "Wull sure I do,"
"Sure don't act like it," Ricki smirked.
"I have the best dad in the world…" Tiago explained, he helped himself to another cricket while he was at it "…He's the youngest dad in the whole Amazon and that's what makes the other kids jealous, and he's super brave too, you know he once saved a whole flock of birds against a bunch of humans?"
That only made the family chuckle, Lola giggled a slight remark "The things these boys come up with,"
"It's true," he whined "My dad is strong, and he has guts like no other bird I ever met, and I wanna be just like him when I grow up,"
"But that don't explain why you're so ready to leave the jungle," said Ricki.
Once again he found his disheartened face "…because he doesn't like me,"
"Says who?" Axle spit disgustingly.
"He did," he looked down at the floor "He said he wanted to get rid of me and that he was better off without me,"
That changed Ricki and Lola, they looked at each other for a moment. They decided the best thing to do was give him some hard advice.
Lola lifted the bottom half of his beak with a primary and looked deep into his chocolate brown eyes.
"I don't believe that," she said sweetly, however it confused him.
"What?"
"A sweet little fun guy like you," she smiled "I don't believe it for a second,"
"B-but my dad said…"
"Forget what your daddy said," Ricki came in next to them "do you love your daddy?"
"Sure I do, but..."
"Well then what good is there in arguing about it? What matters is that you love him, and nobody but nobody, even your dad isn't going to change that. You only get one chance to be a son, but you really want to throw that away?"
Tiago thought deeply about it, despite how he felt earlier and the night before, what didn't change was the fact that he enjoyed being the son of Tyler Blu Gunderson; otherwise he wouldn't have cried as much as he did.
"N-no, I guess,"
"Well then there's your answer," Lola rubbed his head "And I'm sure that deep down your daddy loves you just as much. And losing you isn't going to make him any better or feel any happier,"
"It isn't?"
That's when Ricki stepped in, this time more seriously than one could believe, he spoke in a tone of experience for some reason "Believe me, I know. You see I once had a son several years back, just a year after Axle was born,"
"Really?" asked Tiago "Where is he,"
Now Ricki and Lola were starting to feel a little sentimental, Ricki continued to explain "I don't know. It's been over sixteen years, just a few days old and somebody took him away. Never saw him again,"
"Gee, I'm sorry,"
"But how could you be if you wanna do the same thing and leave your family?"
That suddenly hit Tiago. I mean these birds were the nicest most coolest bunch he's ever met, but still they felt empty after losing a family member. Tiago didn't want to do that to his mom and dad and his siblings.
"Yeah," Tiago looked down "Yeah, I…I guess you're right,"
He suddenly felt the ability to smile again, he was sure to feel better about himself now and forget about his plans of going to the city.
Lola was kind enough to give him a kiss on the head, as sweet enough to cheer up his spirits. He picked himself from off his stool to make way for heading back home.
"Thanks again for the food mister, I really wish I could stay but I have to get home,"
That's when Lolita began to whimper over the thought of their new family friend leaving. She rubbed her head playfully on him, this time Tiago found it both humorous and nice.
"We understand," said Lola "Go on home to your folks…Uh…"
"Tiago Gunderson," he stated proudly with a puffed up chest "…and proud of it,"
"Well it was nice meeting you Tiago," Ricki slapped his back "Hope to see you again soon,"
"Thanks," he made way for the entrance, but he soon turned back to look at them one last time "You know, you guys are my type of birds. How come I haven't seen you before?"
"Who would take us?" they all said together as a family.
"Shoot we've been kicked out of every part of the Amazon and back," Ricki laughed.
Lola added humorously "You're the first bird that stood our company for more than a minute,"
Even Tiago found himself laughing, next he decided to say his goodbyes "Well I'll be flying then, thanks again for the food Lola, I hope you guys find your son someday,"
"Oh that's alright," Ricki shrugged "Instead we got a rooster to take his place,"
He whistled to call in their house hold friend who turned out to be a petite chicken. Which Tiago found weird considering even he knew it wasn't a rooster, but he didn't want to argue with his friends.
"Say by to Tiago, Gus," he petted her head.
The chicken balked with a crazy feather flap. After that odd scene was over Tiago made his way back to the tribe.
He was feeling a lot better about himself, his stomach was satisfied, his mind was clear. Nothing could make him feel better than to soon be back in the comfort of his loving family, even if they weren't the type of family he preferred like Ricki and Lola.
'Who wouldn't like them' he thought, it must've been bad being all alone simply because no other bird could take their behavior. But they were happy being alone as a family and Tiago had his own relatives to attend to.
"Tiago!" someone called out from a distance.
"Tiago!" he heard it again, this time it was more audile and more clear, it sounded familiar.
That's when he recognized his father's voice.
"Dad!" he hollered.
He picked up speed to head faster in the direction the voice was coming from. Making a loop swiftly between the branches to spare no seconds in wasting time, he flew faster the more his father's voice came nearer.
Once he barged past an enormous tree blocking his way he could see his father from a distance, he looked worried, also very concerned.
"Dad!" he shouted.
That's when Blu noticed his son, but not before his son could ram into him with all his speed and strength. Pummeling his father onto a branch, he held him tightly around his neck, refusing to let go.
"Tiago where've you been?" Blu demanded "Your mom and I've been worried sick about you,"
"Really?" Tiago picked up his head to look at him "Y-you were worried about me,"
"Of course I was," Blu looked on him with an almost hurt look "…you're the only son I have; I don't want to lose you for any reason,"
Tiago felt an enormous weight lifted off his heart as his father held him. Rather than to let the tears over power him he gave in his emotions to give his father a strong hug, Blu returned it warmly, being the sweet father that he was that Tiago had taken the wrong idea of.
"I love you Dad," the poor little macaw blubbered.
"I love you too…son,"
"Aww," some voices said from around them.
The father and son pulled themselves out of the hug to realize that their friends were watching the whole thing.
"Let's hear it for our young daddy and his son," said Nico.
The tribe cheered all together, Blu and Tiago could see Jewel and the girls from a distance feeling touched by the fact that they patched their relationship.
Together Nico and Pedro decided to celebrate a family brought together. Picking up a few flower pods a group of macaws proceeded to play trumpet.
(grooveshark)
A Ray Of Hope
The Rascals
Most people got soul if they wanna try
Let love be your goal and let it fly
Cause it's easy to hate and to draw a line
But error is human forgiveness is divine
I know a lot of people who think like me
That this world can be a place that's filled with harmony
First there's a lot of things we've got to rearrange
Put an end to hate and lies
So peace can come and truth shall reign
As long as there is a ray of hope
Lord, I don't mind going out and doin' my work
Light up the way to brotherhood
Help us to make His dream understood
Sometimes the road gets a little bit rough
Your strength is all gone, you had enough
But there's people who win without making fists
Our world won't survive lest we think like this
I can't imagine any greater need
To treat each other as we'd like to be
It's a gas just knowing what is yet to come
Not unless we get together
Got to get together one by one
As long as there is a ray of hope
Lord, I don't mind goin' out and doin' my work
Light up the way to brotherhood
I got to keep on searchin', keep on searchin'
Till I find out
Keep on searchin', keep on searchin'
Till I find out
Keep on searchin', keep on searchin'
Till I find out
Gonna take a little look way down inside
Gotta find out Lord, why I'm alive
We'll pray for a day when all men are free
And people can live like they're meant to be
Meanwhile it's all up to you and me
Start working together towards this dream
As long as there is a ray of hope
Lord, I don't mind goin' out and doin' my work
Light up the way to brotherhood
Help us to make His dream understood
As long as there is a ray of hope
I got to wait my turn till I can vote
As long as there is a ray of hope
That ends this chapter, sure as hell nothing like that will ever happen in Rio 3. It would happen but they would so cut out Blu and replace that beautiful moment with his son and give it to Jewel like they always do, or with any other bird besides Blu.