Rio: The Aftermath

Chapter 1: back home, safe and sound

WARNING, FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT WATCHED RIO, THIS STORY CONTAINS SPOILERS.

For those who have watched Rio the movie which was created by Blue Sky Studios, as you are aware Blu had learned to fly and had carried Jewel to safety. But instead of showing us what happened next, it skipped next to a few weeks later when Jewel had recovered and she and Blu were released into the jungle to live their new lives

This is a story which what would have happened if we got to see what happened during the time Jewel's wing was recovering.

Let's read to find out.

It had been quite an adventure for a certain bird in the beautiful and magically city of Rio de Janeiro. He was a macaw, but not just any a macaw, a very special one which almost any person would try and get their hands on for money.

He was a blue macaw (AKA Spix macaw) who was born in Rio but was taken away to a state in America called Minnesota and had lived a domesticated life with a women for 15-years.

His name was Tyler Blu Gunderson (Blu for short). Blu was a 15-year-old blue macaw with busy dark blue feathers, hazel brown eyes, dark grey talons and beak. Blu had been taken to Rio to mate with the last female of his kind.

A feisty female blue macaw named Jewel who had light blue feathers-except her's were tidy unlike Blu's-turquoise light eyes, light grey talons and beak and was a little shorter than Blu.

After Blu and Jewel were chained together and had traveled through all of Rio to try and figure how to get the chain removed from their talons. During their time together, Blu and Jewel's relationship was turning from hate into good. Until they were re-captured and taken onto a smuggler's plane to be deported and sold.

After Blu and Jewel had successfully freed all of the birds from the plane, they still had one problem: Blu could not fly and had no chance of escaping. Before they could figure what to do, the sulfur-crested cockatoo known as Nigel, who worked for the smugglers, had knocked Jewel aside which caused a cage to fall down and break her left wing, leaving her flightless.

Blu however did not give up and used his intelligence to use the fire extinguisher he had used to escape to launch Nigel out of the plane and save himself and Jewel.

But before Blu could think of a strategy to save them both, the plane was beginning to loose altitude and a bunch of boxes and cages were falling out of the cargo part, including Jewel.

"BLU!" Jewel cried out for help to Blu while trying to hang on with her good wing.

Before Blu could get to her in time, Jewel lost her grip and fallen out of the plane.

"NO!" Blu yelled, holding his wing out as he watched Jewel fall down towards the ocean while desperately flapping her good wing to try to fly but it was hopeless.

Blu stood back up and gulped, still looking down towards him. He realised at that point that he was going to die either so he did what has to be the bravest and stupidest thing ever: he closed his eyes and jumped out of the plane, desperate to be with the bird he loves.

While falling through the sky with his eyes closed, Blu was beginning to have a flashback of when he was a little chick and was falling out of his tree hollow just like how he was falling now.

Blu then opened his eyes and began screaming while flapping his wings hard to try and catch up to Jewel before she could hit the ocean. Blu finally got to Jewel and without hesitation, he clutched onto Jewel tight in his wings and held her close like he never wanted to let her go again.

Blu and Jewel slowly spun in circles in the sky as they were falling closer to the ocean.

Jewel was in complete shock to what Blu had done and was slightly angry. "Blu! You are crazy, what are you doing?!"

"I'm not gonna let you go!" Blu replied, still holding Jewel tight in his wings while looking into her beautiful eyes. "We're chained-to-each-other-birds."

Jewel could not believe what Blu had just said to her. Only now did she really that Blu loves her from the bottom of his heart, and Jewel knows she loves him too.

Shocked and touched by Blu's risk, Jewel closed her eyes and locked her beak into Blu's into a passionate kiss.

Blu was completely off guard with his eyes wide opened as big as they could go, but he closed his eyes and enjoyed the kiss.

Just as Blu and Jewel thought this was their last moment together, Jewel released the kiss and looked at Blu, who still had his eyes closed. Blu could feel his heart beating and beating a lot faster then it ever did before.

Blu let Jewel go out of his wings and spread them out for the as wide as they could go.

Blu's eyes then opened wide again and before he knew it, he was flying for the first time ever, with Jewel safely secured in his talons. The kiss from Jewel had finally awakened Blu's heart to the samba.

Just like their friend Rafael said. "It's not what you think in here, it's what you feel in here."

Blu was now flying across the ocean while still holding Jewel in his talons by her shoulders, and he was still a little shocked from what just happened. "Oh wow,"

Jewel was too shocked by how Blu was suddenly flying and couldn't help but cheer out in excitement. "BLU, YOU'RE FLYING!"

"Yeah, you're right, I'm flying. I'm not an ostrich! I'm not an ostrich!" Blu enthusiastically screamed out at the top of his lungs.

Now that he had saved himself and Jewel, there was only one more thing to do, and that was to take Jewel back to Tulio. Though Blu knew well fact that Jewel hates humans by the way she said: "It's cause of humans I lost everything!" but Blu knew if Tulio didn't help Jewel, she may never fly again.

Jewel was so happy that Blu could fly now, she had almost forgot about the pain in her wing. Jewel couldn't help but cry out some excited cheers. "Woo-hoo! WHA!-"

Blu had almost crashed into one of the cable carts but he quickly dodged it just in time before he would make impact. Blu looked down at Jewel to see if she was okay, and Jewel looked back up at Blu to see if he was okay too.

Blu did not know where to go next do the best thing to do was to go back to the airport and look around to see if Linda or Tulio were still around carnival looking for them.

Chapter 1 is complete. This is my second story so please don't be harsh, and reviews would be appreciated too (Members or non-members). Thanks for reading so far.