Life in the Enclosure (Part 1)

The lights in the enclose started to slowly turn back on. Just like he had been raised, Blu always was always up early in the morning. He looked down to see Jewel snuggling close to his chest. He smiled and gently started to scoot away from her to let her sleep.

"Guess I really am the early bird." He said to himself, chuckling.

After stepping back a bit he started to take flight into the trees in the enclosure. He started to look for food. "We'll see how happy she is when i bring her a little breakfast in bed." He said thinking of all the times he had made breakfast for his owner, Linda.

"Now... all i need is some pancake mix and some..." He started to look around, remembering he was in a cage and had no access to kitchen ingredients.

"Uh oh.." He said flying over to a nearby branch and perching up on it, trying to think.

"What now? No pancake mix? No Coffee? No toast? Not even an orange?" He said frantically looking around. "What kind of place doesn't have coffee?" He said dissapointed. He started to think. "What do birds eat?" He said starting to think about all the bird documentaries he had watched on TV.

He started to look around for any kind of food in the trees.

"Oh!" He said spotting a few brazil nuts in the trees above.

"I've seen these before." He said trying to take a bite out of one. He quickly opened his eyes wide and pulled the nut away from his mouth. "Ugh!" He said disgusting. "You call this food?" He said dissapointed. He sighed.

"Well i guess Jewel is more accustomed to this...stuff...than I am." He said flying through the trees, grabbing one nut in his beak, and grabbing one in each foot.

His flying through the trees caused the leaves to fall and flutter in the air.

Jewel's eyes started to open slowly. The first thing she saw was the leaves falling from the trees.

"Oh!" She said with a smile. Enjoying the leaves falling. She rolled over, laying flat on her back as the leaves fell. She closed her eyes as she smiled.

"Morning Jewel." Said Blu as his wings flapping came to a stop, dropping three nuts on the ground inbetween them.

Jewel looked at the food he had brought her and smiled even more. "Awww...Blu..." She said happily.

Blu walked over to her, looking down at her on the ground. He leaned over her.

Jewel's face lit up. She could see his face and in the backround, leaves falling around them. No sight in the world was more appealing to her.

Blu bent over to give her a quick kiss.

She happily accepted his kiss and even pushed back a bit.

"Breakfast time!" He said looking at the nuts, trying not to think of how disgusting they were.

"Oh?" She inquired. The smiled at the food that he brought her. "That was very thoughtful of you." She said softly. She placed her foot on a nut and brought it up to her mouth. She started to eat it after breaking it apart with her beak.

Blu looks down to a nut of his own. "Hmm..." He mumbled to himself. He picked it up and tried to eat it like her but still found it disgusting. He shivered in disgust. "Uck!" He exlaimed.

Jewel chuckled at him. "Whats wrong, Silly? No human food here?"

"Guess not. Do you even like these things?" He said observing the disgusting piece of 'food'

She rolled her eyes and chuckled at him. "You're a bird, Blu. Not a human. This is what our kind eats." She said finishing off her nut. She looked over at him trying to fit the whole thing in his mouth and she giggled a bit, covering her mouth with her wing.

"What? Is there something stuck in my beak?" He said looking down.

"No, Silly! You don't eat the whole thing. You break it up with your beak into pieces." She said still giggling.

He tried out her advice, breaking the nut into pieces and munching on a few pieces at a time. "Mmm..." He said a bit sarcastically "Delicious. Heh." He said unconvincingly.

Jewel chuckled. "You'll get used to it." She said looking away from him to look at the pond in front of them.

Blu finished off his nut with disgust written on his face. He kicked the third nut away and looked over to see her looking in the pond. "Everything alright?"

"Yea, I was just thinking. If we're going to be living here for a long time, we should probably find a better place to sleep than in the dirt. She said looking down to her dirty feathers. She looked up a tree to find it hollowed out. "What about up there?" She pointed to it for him to see.

Blu noticed a series of pegs leading up to a hollowed out spot in the tree for climbing. "Hopefully pegs aren't too much trouble for a smart bird like yourself." He said to her teasingly.

She huffed at him playfully. "Hmph. I'll show you." She said walking over to the tree. Blu had already flew into the air, waiting for her at the top of the pegs in the hollow. He got comfortable and started to watch her.

Jewel took a deep breath. "Alright I can do this." She said placing both of her feet on the base peg and started to clumsily grab the next one with her beak to try and pull herself up. She flipped herself up onto the next peg. "Easy breezy."

Blu chuckled, amused.

She placed her foot on the next peg, taking an eternity to get her other foot on it. She eventually slipped up and fell to the ground. Though she wasn't hurt since she was only a few inches above ground.

"You okay?" Blu asked her, concerned and amused at the same time.

"Okay I will admit this is harder than I thought." Jewel said frustrated.

"Let me help." Added Blu as he glided down to the base of the tree. "Watch and learn." He said cockily.

Jewel rolled her eyes again playfully and chuckled.

Blu got one foot onto the peg and onto the next. He skillyfully started to swing and step and jump from peg to peg, working up the tree at a masterful pace. He flipped and jumped and hopped and pulled himself up the top finally resting in the hollow.

"See? Easy!" He said smiling.

Jewel gave it another try. Getting her feet on the first peg and onto the second, trying to mimic his actions. It took her an eternity to get to the third peg. By that time she tried to jump to the fourth peg but messed up, grabbing it with her beak and dangling from it instead, unable to pull herself up.

Blu laughed a bit, trying to hide it.

"Not funny!" She said still struggling to pull herself up. Her beak started to lose grip and she fell. Though before she hit the ground, Blu was already in the air and caught her with his talons.

"Gotcha!" He said proudly. He started to carry her up just like he did when he caught her the first time when jumping out of the plane. He flew her up to the hollow in the tree. "Not bad for a first try, Miss Fancy Feet" He said jokingly.

She rolled her eyes again. "Ha ha, very funny." She said trying to forget about it. She looked around the inside of the tree. It was very smooth on the floor and very spacious.

"I like this place!" Said Jewel. "Very roomy and not as dirty." She said walking around a bit, looking about.

"I suppose this can do." He said looking at the ground." Still chuckling about the pegs earlier.

Jewel looked to him. "You better not tell Raphael and the others about me climbing" She said trying to hold back a laugh herself. "I'm warning you, Blu!"

Blu chuckled a bit and gave the gesture for zipping his lip. "Mum's the word!"