Nico, Pedro and Rafael were all playing a scuffed football match, with no real teams or anything just kind of kicking the ball around and having a laugh.

"Hey Nico!" Pedro yelled ,"where's Blu at? I thought he said that he loved football. Did we forget to invite him?"

"No," Nico replied ,"I told him alright. He's probably just busy."

At that moment Blu swooped in from the sky and landed on the court. He touched down and when his foot glanced off the pavement he immediately knew he had come in too fast. He stumbled forward in a sort of gallop, tripping right past his three friends, eventually coming to a stop a few feet away.

"Sorry I'm late," Blu apologised, turning around and walking back to the group "what did I miss?"

"Not much," Rafi answered ,"where you been?"

"I just got off the phone with Jewel," Blu explained, "she…"

"You know how to use a phone!" Nico yelled, cutting Blu off ,"you got a big brain there my friend."

"Good on you buddy," Pedro congratulated ,"did you unleash your crazy love hawk?! AAAUUURAAU!"

The two birds closed in on blu, Crowding around him, eager to know more of the juicy gossip.

"Did you get your charm on?" Nico asked, raising his eyebrow playfully

"Did you do any smooth talking?" Rafi questioned nudging the bird with his elbow.

"No, not really. We just sort of chatted," Blu answered awkwardly.

"Well, what about?" Pedro asked, intrigued.

"Well, just stuff," Blu replied ,"just random, meaning less stuff. I felt like I could have just talked forever."

Nico and Pedro fist bumped each other. (wing bumped?)

"That's our boy," Pedro

Rafi cleared his throat, getting all their attention.

"Enough with all this chitter chatter," he said ,"let's play soccer."

Rafi kicked the makeshift ball they were using at Blu, who jumped forward and headered it into the makeshift goal.

"Nice shot," Rafi said ,"I dibs Blu on my team!"

"Oh it's on!" Pedro replied.

The birds positioned themselves on opposite sides of a small concrete clearing, with sticks wedged into the ground as goal posts.

"Game on," Nico said as he booted the ball to the opposite end of the clearing.

Rafi stopped the ball with his foot and then kicked it over to Blu who kicked the ball high in the air. Meanwhile, Pedro who wasn't paying attention was standing in goal picking pieces of food out of his beak. Suddenly the ball came down from the sky, bounced off his head and went right into the non existent net.

"GOAL!" Blu cried sliding on his knees across the hard concrete pitch which must have hurt.

"Looks like blue bird here is a pro." Nico said ,"first to five!"

Nico passed the ball to Pedro who chipped it up in the air and bounced it up and down on his beak a few times before Blu came rocketing out of the air and did a flying kick, sending the ball right into the goal.

Blu continued to Dominate, swooping ,kicking and shooting perfectly. However on the final point of the game blu got too excited. He lined up the perfect shot. He kicked the ball directly into the goal but since there was no net, the ball flew right into the deep dark jungle behind the pitch.

"Oh yea!" Blu sang as he got to his feet and started dancing ,"I've still got it."

"Great job Blu," Nico said ,"but how are we going to get our ball back?"

Blu looked up at the menacing deep jungle.

"Don't tell me the ball went in there." Blu said

No one replied.

"Well come on," Blu continued ,"did the ball go in there?"

"Yup," Pedro replied ,"but you told us not to tell you."

"I didn't actually mean to not tell me where the ball went, it's a figure of speech." Blu explained.

"Like I said," Rafi reiterated ,"nothing you say makes any sense."

Blu took a deep breath, "I'm going in."

And with that Blu turned and confidently waddled into the jungle

"How long do you think he'll last," Rafi asked

"Ten seconds and counting," Nico replied

Nico started counting. He whispered each number and counted on his wing feathers.

"... 3, 2 ,1"

"Nope nope nope nope nope," Blu said repeatedly, waddling back out the jungle, covered in cobwebs and wet moss, "the jungle is not for me. It feels like everything's alive and watching me!"

"It's ok buddy," Nico said ,"the jungle isn't for everyone, why do you think we live in the city and run a samba club, we'll just find a new ball don't worry about it."

The four birds walked away into the city,Blu looking back at the jungle periodically, dreading the idea that when jewel gets back, he's gonna have to live there.