Rio A Blue Bird's Past

Chapter 1 Blu's Parents

Fifteen years ago in Rio

It was a bright and sunny day in Rio and the birds of the jungle were just waking up. In a tall tree with a hollow were two adult blue macaws; they were a mated male and female, the female was holding her only son in her wings. The baby was only a week old and the mother was smiling as she rocked him back and forth as he was sleeping. The father smiled and put his wing on his wife's shoulder; she gently placed the baby in the center of the nest and they both left the nest to get food for him. When they were searching for food they came across three smugglers; one of them had a white feathered cockatoo on his shoulder, the cockatoo was ugly but evil as he ate the last meat off of a chicken leg.

Marcel: "Alright boys, lets bag some birds!"

The blue macaw parents were worried and knew that they had to get to their baby before it was too late.

A few minutes later

The birds of the jungle started singing and dancing, suddenly the baby blue macaw woke up and started dancing around in happiness. He looked and saw a mother yellow macaw toss her babies out of the nest and then they started to fly into the air. The baby smiled at this sight and he looked into the trees and opened his wings as he was about to fly. Suddenly some cages and nets started trapping birds of different species; the baby blue macaw shook in fear and then fell out of the tree. The baby emerged from the bushes and chirped in nervousness as he could not talk yet; suddenly a cage fell on the baby blue macaw and the evil cockatoo was standing on top of it and looked at the baby with an evil eye.

Suddenly the smugglers came and Marcel said, "Excellent work Nigel, he's young but is worth a lot."

The smugglers loaded the cage onto their jeep with a bunch of other caged birds. They started to drive away when the mother and father blue macaws returned to the nest to find their baby was gone. They became worried and looked around until they saw the jeep driving away with him; they quickly flew after it. The smugglers drove to their hideout in the jungle; when they stopped the jeep they walked inside and left the cages in the car. The baby blue macaw's parents arrived and opened the door to his cage; the mother grabbed the baby in her legs and held him up to her chest; he was smiling until the smugglers and the cockatoo came out and saw them.

The parents quickly flew away and Marcel yelled, "Nigel, get them!"

The ugly cockatoo started flying after them; he swooped down a few times and tried to grab them but both the parents managed to dodge him. The smugglers were also running after them. The parents knew they couldn't lose the cockatoo so they saw a plane that was going to take off. It was with people that were catching and selling birds legally and humanely for a pet store. The blue macaw parents were sad but knew what they had to do; they flew to an open bird cage and put their baby in it. The baby started crying and they too cried for having to leave their son, the mother and the father quickly silenced their son and hugged him and the mother kissed him on the head. They slowly started to leave and closed the door as tears ran down their faces. Suddenly the cockatoo came and grabbed them both by their necks; a shadow appeared over the baby as the cockatoo used his talons to kill the parents. The baby cried in both sadness and fear and the cockatoo turned to see him in the cage and flew towards him.

He opened the door and slowly reached for the baby while saying, "Don't worry; I'm not going to hurt you." When he grabbed the baby, he said, "…Much!"

He was holding the baby in his foot and pulled him up to his face; the baby suddenly showed an angry expression and pulled out a bunch of feathers beneath the cockatoo's left eye. The cockatoo screamed in pain and the baby scratched him with his talons. The cockatoo accidentally tossed the baby back into the cage and fell underneath the table it was on. A man came to the table and closed the door to the cage and loaded the cage onto the plane. The baby was now terrified. The door to the cargo hold slowly started to close and outside the baby saw the cockatoo get up when the smugglers came.

Marcel: "Wow! Nigel, what happened to you?"

Nigel did not know what he was talking about and then he saw his reflection in a nearby mirror and said to himself, "That little bird ripped out my feathers!"

The baby bird injured Nigel to where that area beneath his eye would permanently be a bald spot.

Then as the smugglers started to walk away, Nigel said, "If I ever see that bird again I will kill him!"

The plane took off with the new orphan baby blue macaw inside it.

A few days later in Moose Lake, Minnesota

A truck was driving by and the driver suddenly saw a red light and came to a sharp stop, the back door opened and a wooden box with holes in it fell out and onto the street. Inside the box was the baby blue macaw, he looked around the box and started chirping sadly and lonely. He lied in the corner of the box in a small bed, he closed his eyes, shivering from the outside snow and missing his parents. Suddenly the top came off and a little girl opened the box and saw him. She slowly put her hands to him; the baby blue macaw flinched in fear.

The little girl said, "It's okay, it's okay."

She picked him up and gently petted his head and said, "I'll take care of you."

She closed her eyes smiling and put the baby blue macaw to her cheek. The baby smiled and closed his eyes and rubbed his head on her cheek.