Before we continue, I would like to thank Dark Blue-Bird for the wealth of suggestions for chapters, thank you, dude, for helping me to get unstuck from writers' block. Keep those ideas flowing my friend and anyone else who has an idea for a chapter.
Chapter 16: Getting to know his Parents
Credit for this idea for the chapter goes to Dark Blue-Bird, but the writing is mine
After Blu's birthday, Blu (AKA, Tyler), has been doing a lot of thinking. Blu has never thought that all those years his parents spent without him, that they can still remember so much about him, yet Blu hardly knew about his parents' life before they were reunited with him. Blu decided to change that.
David and Sarah were waking up together when they saw their son standing, waiting for them.
"Morning, Mom, Dad, how did you sleep?"
"Great, what has you up before us?" Sarah asked, curious.
"What? Your own son can't greet his parents in the morning?"
"Well, that is very nice, Tyler." David said.
"Listen, I thought that maybe we could spend the day together, you know just us three, like the old days."
"That sounds great, but what about your family, don't they want to be with you." Sarah said.
"It's okay, Jewel can watch over them, you know she is even tougher than I am, I'm sure one day won't hurt."
After Blu said bye to Jewel and the kids, he joined his parents so they could spend the day together.
"So what was I like back than?" Blu asked, somewhat nervous to ask.
"Well, my son, you were very energetic, but also very shy, you had a lot of trouble making friends with other kids." Sarah said.
"But that does not make you weird, my son, I still hoped you would become a great bird and look how you turned out." David said with pride in his voice.
Blu was close to shedding tears at what his parents were saying and soon it got to his eyes. His parents noticed this and knew that Blu was happy.
Soon the family arrived at their first stop, a relaxing swim by a pond, this took David and Sarah's mind back to the past, when Blu first learned how to swim.
"You know, Tyler, I was a little worried when we first took you out for a swim, but your father insisted on it." Sarah said, gently nudging David.
"Well, I mean he had to learn eventually, and he was alright."
Blu was touched by those words, his parents were really caring, but they also sounded happy as the family spent the time in the water.
Next stop was lunch, where they went to a tree with fresh mangos on it, Blu's favorite. Blu took out three mangos with his beak, ever since Blu came to the Amazon, he strayed further away from using his swiss army knife, and has been learning to use his natural abilities.
"Wow, Tyler, you are very strong and have good tastes." His mother said as the three began digging in.
"Well, the Amazon has taught me a lot of things, besides I am happy to bring food to my mom and dad, now let's dig in.
When the family finished, David spoke. "Well, that was surely delicious, what is next, my son."
"I was thinking about a nice walk."
Soon the family flew down and started walking through the jungle, where it was peaceful and quiet with animal sounds every now and than.
"This surely brings me back, son, I remember your father and I would walk wing in wing and you would walk out in front, chasing butterflies." Sarah said, remembering old memories.
"Yes, it surely was wonderful times, and here we are, finally enjoying the moment again." David said.
Blu was happy, but also sad. He was glad that his parents were finally with him again, but Blu could not forgive himself for all the years his parents spent without him. That got Blu thinking. "I should have at least tried looking for them, maybe shorten the time they spent without me, I feel like such a fool."
When the day was over the family flew back home, where Jewel and the kids greeted them with big smiles. As the kids and Blu's parents spent time with each other. Jewel noticed Blu looking a little down as he walked to the entrance of their home and just stood there.
"What is on Blu's mind now?" Jewel wondered.
Jewel went up to Blu, who was deep in thought and did not realize that Jewel came up beside him. "Blu, what is wrong now?"
Blu sighed and told Jewel. "Jewel, do you think that I am a bad son? I mean look at all the time I spent in my life, not one second did I even bother to look for my parents!"
Jewel could see that Blu was getting angry at himself and hugged him to comfort him.
"Blu, that does not matter anymore, your parents are here, you are here, and you have each other now, don't stay in the past, look to the future."
Blu realized that Jewel was right, his parents are with him now. "Sorry, Jewel, It's just that today made me realize how much I missed them. Let's go to sleep."
The two lovebirds, wing in wing, went to bed and Blu in his sleepy mind, was looking forward to the times he would have with his parents.