Hi, everyone. After much reconsideration about writing fanfics for the Rio archive after leaving a number of months ago, I have decided to return to the archive, largely because I have missed writing stories for the series. The Rio series may not be one of my strong favourites but still. The first story I will be writing will be Rio 1 and a Half like previous times. The storyline will be similar to the plot to the old one but with major changes. For example, in the previous version of the story, the main antagonist was Brutus the Doberman, a hulking and rather violent dog and leader of the pack of poachers' dogs (though not as violent as Nigel the cockatoo). In this upcoming version, the main antagonist and leader of the poachers' pets will be a violent swan named Vecna (named after a character from the TV series Stranger Things). The other poachers' pets will consist of cats and dogs which will include Brutus the Doberman who is still quite brutal but not as brutal as Vecna. Additionaly the poachers pets will also have ravens for additional aerial assistance. My cast of main characters will also be recycled from my previous version but will be modified but the main canonical Rio cast (that is, Blu and his family, Nico, Pedro and Rafael) and some others will still be present. OCs from my previous film who will be recycled will be Aurora, a female Spix macaw with the unique pigtails; Zephyr and his sister Brisa the Spix macaws from the Amazon Rainforest; Sirius, a male glaucous macaw and his eventual mate, Samara, a female glaucous macaw from the Amazon Rainforest also, and Ahsoka, a female Amazon flying fox (a made up species of flying fox) and her eventual mate Orion, a male Amazon flying fox from the Amazon too. However, Bellatrix who was Sirius' sister will be removed and replaced by a male Lear's macaw called Milo (initially Bruno), the Lear's macaw being another blue macaw species that is endangered. Antares who was Bellatrix's mate will be replaced by a female Lear's macaw called Celeste, again from the Amazon. These are just a few of the examples of the changes that will come in this rewrite and reupload of Rio 1 and a Half and there will be more on the way. Additionally, my Rio fanfics will ONLY be written around the Rio and Rio 2 films and ONLY those two films as they are the original films released by the now-shut-down Blue Sky Studios. ANY Rio media released by Disney Plus will NOT be included. Anyway, without further ado, let's get into the first chapter that will mark my return to the archive:

Chapter 1- new family additions

Rio de Janeiro or Rio for short was a Brazilian city located on the East coast of Brazil where it bordered the Atlantic Ocean. Because of this, the city had an excellent view of the sunrise where the sun ascended from under the Atlantic horizon and into the sky at the start of each day. Rio was a diverse city and was known for a number of key landmarks. One of these was the Christ the Redeemer statue, a grey statue carved after the Biblical figure of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of mankind from their sins, built atop a hill while another was Sugarloaf Mountain, a natural landmark resembling a cake topped with icing sugar. Surrounding Rio was a natural forest, Tijuca Forest and living within this forest was a wide variety of exotic animals Brazil was often known for, such as parrots (especially macaws) of which there was a huge diversity of. However, this jungle also bore a dark and troublesome history and that history often involved the animals living there.

Morning came one day in this forest and the sun slowly peered from under the Atlantic Ocean and began its morning ascent into the sky like it always did. As the honey gold disc climbed higher into the eastern sky, its reflection rippling with the glistening azure Atlantic carpet bordering the human city of Rio with a strip of pale brown separating it from the cityscape (Copacabana Beach) and its light painting the dawn sky with a gradient of gold and orange and turning any nearby cloud into fluffs of pink, the ecosystem community within Tijuca Forest rose with it. The vast majority of this community were birds of various colours and various species. Many of them were macaws and parakeets but toucans, small birds such as finches and honeycreepers and larger birds such as rosette spoonbills and even frigatebirds were present as well. Almost every morning, these birds would flood and decorate the air with their colourful feathers and cheery singing to start the day. Non-flying, non-avian tree-living creatures such as marmosets would also at times join in and they would happily watch their flying friends swoop and perform acrobats in the space between the branches. However, scattered among the colourful feathers were drab balls of fur with membranous wings. These were bats, the only mammal able to flap-fly, and they would sometimes join in with the birds to participate in the morning dance. Most bats retreated into roosts for the day as their 'day' was actually night but still, some bat species were diurnal or day active. The most popular morning song the Tijuca Forest community would sing and dance to was 'Real in Rio' but they also had other songs they would choose besides this one. After all, singing the same song each and every morning would make that song grow stale and boring, something the animal community did not like for they liked variety and diversity. And once the morning song was finished, the animals would start their daily activities and routine, such as going out to forage for food, especially if they had babies to feed, or just simply go about their lives. When it was the annual Carnival season, the Tijuca Forest community would definitely boil with excitement.

The jungle community continued to sing their morning song, the choice being the aforementioned popular song 'Real in Rio'. The space between the trees was festooned with the flaps of colourful wings while the branches were decorated with colourful feathered forms with the occasional drabber furry form interspersed within the feather bundles. Macaws, toucans, smaller birds and the odd bat acrobatically flapped and swooped around each other, around some of the tree trunks and also through the branches in elegant patterns. Some macaws even performed group patterns in wide open spaces with their wings and acrobatic talents, such as a flock of green-winged macaws. It truly was a sight to behold, watching these aerial acrobats flood their air with colour and the dancers on the elevated branches decorate those woody arms. Additionally, their melody was music to one's ears but once the song was finished, it was all over and the animals broke up their patterns and groups to start their daily activities. As the community members of the various animal species began the routines following their morning song, two specific macaws flew into the scene, their eyes fixed on a particular tree, a mango tree. Both of these macaws were male and were completely unlike any of the other macaws living in this community. One of the macaws was a lush blue and his beak and feet were dark grey. His eyes were bright yellow and he had a blue-white patch enclosing each eye. However, the patches were joined together by a band over the beak, giving the male macaw the appearance of wearing spectacles, items humans with vision difficulties wore to help see clearly. The macaw had a flick of a few feathers sticking up from his crown and he had a fairly stocky body build. The other macaw was a lighter blue, specifically azure coloured, but most of the undersides of his wings and tail, as well as his head and neck, were a pale grey. The grey melted to azure down his neck and the macaw had yellow rings around his eyes and a piece of skin behind his lower beak called a lappet. His beak and feet were a darker grey, his eyes were dark blue and he had a short sheet of feathers on his crown. He was more slender than the darker blue macaw but still somewhat stocky. Both these macaws were fathers with families which was why they were here browsing the mango tree for any ripe mangos, having decided that mango will be their choice of breakfast this morning. Both these macaws were part of two macaw species that were EXTREMELY rare, the Spix macaw and the glaucous macaw though the latter was FAR rarer than the former. In fact, the glaucous macaw was the rarest of the blue macaw species and is thought to be extinct in the wild save for Tijuca Forest but this was just a theory without any flesh. However, the two macaws weren't the only animal species to be extremely rare in this community.

As the male Spix and male glaucous macaw continued to browse the mango tree for any ripe mangos for their mates back at their hollows, soon finding a pair and going to pick them, a green-winged macaw, also a male, turned up and smiled at them.

"Morning, Erico and Alvin," said he, "How are your respective mates Clarinda and Isabella doing along with your chicks and eggs?"

"Oh, fine, thanks, Henrique," replied the Spix macaw named Erico as he took hold of the mango and hoisted in his talons ready to carry back to his nest, "Our son Tomas and adopted son Bruno are also doing great and our second egg is due to hatch shortly."

"So is our clutch of two eggs," said the male glaucous macaw named Alvin with a proud smile, his talons also clutching a ripe mango. Henrique's beak widened its smile.

"That's excellent news," said the green-winged macaw who was a close friend of these two rare blue macaws, "Our daughter Ellery has just learnt to fly, something I look forward to seeing your new additions to your families, along with your adopted Lear's macaw son, Erico, once they are old enough."

Erico and Alvin smiled and nodded in agreement. Then Henrique landed on a branch and formed a disgusted scowl on his face. Alvin and Erico perched near him with their mangos, their faces matching the green-winged macaw's.

"I still cannot BELIEVE that Bruno's biological parents would be SO irresponsible and cruel in forsaking that poor little chick like that, SHORTLY after his hatching as well," Henrique grunted in disgust, "That Lear's macaw couple had been UTTERLY foolish in having that one-night stand, leading to the unplanned conception of Bruno when that couple was NOT ready to be parents."

"Having a family is a BIG responsibility and raising chicks, even just one, is a full-time twenty-four-seven job requiring the dedication and commitment of BOTH parents who MUST stick together and be committed to each other and ONLY each other for life," said Alvin seriously, "A life-long commitment one must NEVER enter into lightly and unfortunately, that Lear's macaw couple did just that via that BIG mistake."

"And then they went a flight further by abandoning the poor newly hatched chick and leaving him for dead," put in Erico, "First the father left while Bruno was still an egg and once Bruno hatched, his mother took him to the forest floor and left him to either die from the elements or from the jaws of a forest floor predator such as a margay or a snake. It's a good thing Alberto whose mate Lily is pregnant with their first pup, and those two other Amazon flying foxes had found that poor chick in the nick of time, nursed him back to health and then brought him to us to raise for they, being bats, cannot raise chicks though few of the flying foxes had done before."

"Lear's macaws, like the glaucous and Spix macaws and also the Amazon flying foxes, are UTTERLY rare unlike my species, the green-winged macaw," said Henrique. Then the three male macaws put aside this sad backstory of little Bruno as the glaucous and Spix macaws prepared to return to their nests where their families were waiting.

"Anyway, we must get back to our hollows," said Alvin.

"Indeed," said Erico, "Our hungry mates will be giving us an earful if we stay out here too long chatting with friends."

Then after bidding each other goodbye, the three males parted ways and began their return flights to their hollows.

Erico and Alvin, together with their mates Clarinda and Isabella; Erico and Clarinda's son Tomas, adopted son Bruno and their unhatched chick, and Alvin and Isabella's clutch of two unhatched chicks, were of three species of macaws that were SO rare, they had NEVER seen another macaw of their species their entire lives apart from their families before they left their nests, paired and settled with families of their own as they were doing now. Bruno's species, the Lear's macaw, was also rare though there was a colony of Lear's macaws living in the Bahia area, a region a LONG way from here. However, Lear's macaws were UTTERLY rare in this area of Brazil. The species of Alberto, Lily, their soon-to-be-born pup and their small clan, the Amazon flying fox, was also UTTERLY rare and they, too, had never seen other bats of their species outside their family and little clan. They were the ONLY flying fox species in Brazil as all the other bat species were small bats, many of them nocturnal or night-active. However, Erico, Alvin and Alberto and their families and the Amazon flying fox clan had a dream of venturing beyond the outskirts of Tijuca Forest in search of other macaws and bats like them, a feat most of the other community members of the forest found too unnerving due to fear of the unknown of what lay out there, especially regarding dangerous threats, and the blue macaws and the flying foxes wanted to go out there together. However, the blue macaws and the flying foxes had one setback: Bruno and the three unhatched chicks but the blue macaws had in mind to start the journey once these chicks learned to fly. The flying foxes had no such problem for the mothers can simply carry their babies on their breasts during the flight, something ALL mother bats did before their pups were weaned and their wings grown enough for them to fly by themselves, so Alberto and Lily need not worry about waiting for their pup to take their first wing flaps before the journey. This journey would be an excellent one as not only would the blue macaws and the flying fox clan find others of their kind but their young would also have a future in making friends with other macaws and bats their species with the chance of finding their own mates and having their own chicks and pups. This would especially apply to Bruno for he was the only Lear's macaw in the community and Erico and Clarinda did not want him to live a lonely life, but all that was in the future.

In two hollows in the trunks of two trees close to each other (about a stone throw apart), two certain blue macaws stood on the rim of the exit/entrance hole, waiting for Erico and Alvin's return with the food for them and, in the case of the Spix macaw family, Tomas and Bruno. At the Spix macaws' hollow was a female Spix macaw named Clarinda. She was a lovely and beautiful female Spix macaw whose feathers were a light blue, almost maya, and her build was slim. Her blue-white face marking was a heart-shaped mask enclosing her eyes and beak, the boundary meeting at a downward-pointing corner in front of her. Clarinda's eyes were lime green and she had an unusual set of head feathers that was utterly rare among macaws. They were two sets of long head feathers sprouting from two points on her head and cascading downward but Clarinda preferred to keep them tied into pigtails using vines to stop the feathers from flopping all over the place and make her look untidy. Clarinda's beak and feet were dark grey. The female glaucous macaw at the other hollow, Isabella, had a grey head and neck and yellow eye rings and beak lappet like all glaucous macaws but her blue feathers were dark blue, darker than Alvin's and as blue as Erico's. Her eyes were green and she had a flick of feathers pointing out from behind her the base of her head just above the neck, coloured grey. She had a slim build and was somewhat voluptuous in her stature. Unlike Alvin, Isabella's underwings and tail underside were bluer like the rest of her body plumage and not grey. Both the hollows had a nest containing precious white orbs; one for the Spix macaw family and Bruno and two for Alvin and Isabella who did not have any older chicks.

Waiting with Clarinda were Tomas and Bruno. Tomas was the son of Erico and Clarinda and was approaching adolescence. He looked a lot like his father Erico, almost a spitting image of him in fact but he had Clarinda's maya blue feathers and lime green eyes, the only traits he had inherited from his mother. Bruno, however, was still a hatchling, having only hatched a short while ago but he had grown his feathers. He was a little chick with dark navy blue feathers and hints of dark green markings on his face, and yellow eye rings and beak lappet, all characteristics of a Lear's macaw. His eyes were green coloured but because he was still very young, his other features were still dormant and he was currently unable to fly. As described by Erico and Alvin, Bruno was the adopted son of the Spix macaw couple who had been brought to their nest by Alberto the Amazon flying fox and two of his clan-mates when they found him abandoned on the forest floor by his cruel, uncaring mother. He was loved dearly by Tomas and his adopted parents despite being a completely different species and Tomas looked on him as his own little brother and he hoped that the new addition to the family will see him the same way. Alvin and Isabella sometimes babysat little Bruno and they looked on him as like a nephew despite him not being a glaucous macaw. Both the Spix and glaucous macaw couples loved Bruno dearly, clearly unlike Bruno's biological parents who did not want the responsibility of a child and they wanted to give Bruno the much needed love and family all chicks required.

In the Spix and Lear's macaw family's hollow, while Clarinda waited for the return of Erico with breakfast, Tomas gazed over the white ball in his parents' nest while nearby, Bruno played with some pebbles gifted to him and Tomas by a friend of the family.

"I can't believe I was once this, Mom," the preteen macaw squeaked with intrigue.

"ALL us macaws were once those, Tomas," said Clarinda with a smile, "We are born out of the shell while our bat friends are born live like other mammals such as the marmosets."

"Despite having wings and the ability to fly like us macaws?" asked Tomas. Clarinda nodded. Suddenly, an excited shriek exploded from Alvin and Isabella's hollow close by, seizing Tomas and Clarinda's attention pulling the pair's gazes in its direction. Little Bruno, however, was too preoccupied with the pebbles.

"Your eggs are seconds from hatching, Isabella?" called Clarinda, Tomas looking on with a wide smile. At the glaucous macaws' hollow, the blue and grey female glaucous macaw excitedly looked around for any sign of Alvin and Erico returning before she turned her gaze to the Spix macaws, her green eyes sparkling.

"Yes, one of them is shaking a little," cried the mother-to-be, "I REALY hope our mates make it back soon or Alvin will be missing the moment!"

"I wish I can come over to your hollow and see one of your eggs begin to hatch but I have to keep an eye on mine," said Clarinda, "But it's great that your eggs are starting to hatch."

Then Isabella, flooded with excitement with parenthood being so close now that she could just taste it, then darted back into the glaucous macaws' hollow and to the nest containing the two precious orbs, one of them shaking. Then a second later, a crack appeared in its shell. Just then, two male blue macaws appeared and melted into view. The moment Clarinda saw the pair; she shouted to the azure and grey one.

"Alvin, you'd better hurry to your hollow," she called, "Your eggs are starting to hatch."

Immediately, Alvin accelerated his flight, his talons clutching the mango, and rocketed to his hollow where Isabella was waiting. He was so propelled with ignited excitement that he nearly crashed through the hole and lost grip on his family's breakfast. However, he kept grip on the mango and scrambled in to meet Isabella and his hatching eggs. As Erico touched down at his family's hollow, he was greeted by his mate when suddenly, Tomas alerted them.

"Hey, Mom, Dad, I think our egg is also rocking slightly," he called. Immediately, his parents, the father putting aside the mango to be processed for the family, hurried over to the nest containing the egg. Clarinda went and picked up Bruno so that he could witness the birth of his new adopted sibling as well. Within moments, in both hollows, both families stood at the nests as the chicks within the eggs began to break out of their cradles.

Alvin and Isabella looked proudly on as the first egg continued to rock and develop more cracks. Those cracks elongated and within moments, a hole appeared in the shell. From the hole emitted chirps of the chick within. Alvin slung his wing around his mate and kissed her crown as she leaned proudly onto his chest. The pair continued watching on until finally, a tiny featherless form burst out of the eggshell. Immediately, Isabella reached her wings into the nest and scooped up the newborn, obviously to encase it in a blanket of warm feathers for macaw hatchlings were born naked and featherless. Without a clothing of feathers, they were prone to losing heat and fast. Isabella then cradled the newborn, her eyes sparkling with pride as she looked at her new child.

"It's a boy," she crooned lovingly, "We have a son."

"I bet he's gonna look like me when he grows up," Alvin joked.

"We'll see," Isabella cheekily replied. In the Spix macaws' hollow, Erico and Clarinda's second egg developed cracks and then a hole and from the little hole, chirps emitted. Tomas smiled as he watched his sibling then break out of the shell. The chick was then immediately scooped up by Clarinda and cradled in her warm wings.

"That was you when you came out of your egg, son," said Erico, "You looked like that."

Tomas smiled in fascination as Clarinda cooed at the newborn member of the family, a girl to which the proud mother noted to her mate and sons.

"Can I hold her, Mom?" asked Tomas, his wings stretched out. Clarinda handed the little girl chick to her older son and he gladly took her into his wings to hold. Nearby, little Bruno looked on in fascination at his new adopted sister.

"Yes, you now have another playmate, Bruno," said Erico with a smile. Suddenly, the little newborn chick burst into a cry, startling Tomas into immediately handing her back to Clarinda and backing away, wondering what he had done wrong.

"It's okay, son," said Erico as Clarinda took to cradling the crying chick, "You've done nothing. Newborn chicks will cry because they are hungry and will need their first feed. Speaking of..." he turned his attention to the mango he had put aside and went to it. As Erico went to cut up the mango, Clarinda said, "What would you like to call our new girl? Shall we name her after your mother?"

"Roberta? Absolutely not," said Erico as he held the mango, "That's a little bland," he then sliced up the mango with his beak to prepare it for breakfast, especially for his newborn daughter, "I know, how about Aurora? I have always liked that name. One of Henrique's aunts was called it."

"Aurora," cooed Clarinda, obviously taking a liking to the name, "Aurora it is."

Erico then resumed cutting up the mango and began to hand pieces of it to Tomas and Bruno to eat. Then he processed the rest of it for himself, Clarinda and their newborn daughter, Aurora.

At the glaucous macaws' hollow, Alvin and Isabella had named their newborn son Sirius after the brightest star in the sky for it was one of their favourite names. Then their second egg hatched, birthing a daughter which they named Belle, another name Isabella liked. After this the glaucous macaw family settled into a mango breakfast, especially for their newborn chicks which were very hungry and demanding their first meal. Both the Spix and glaucous macaw couples were indeed happy to have new additions to their families, but Alvin and Isabella most of all for their two chicks, Sirius and Belle, were their first brood.