A/N: Hey guys! Welcome to my first story "A Carefree World". This is actually my first ever fanfiction I've written so I'd really appreciate reviews on how to improve my writing :) This idea came to me randomly but let's see where it will lead me. I've kept you waiting long enough, so enjoy the first chapter to this story!
PS: Sorry for copying the meeting off the movie in this chapter, I really didn't know another way to approach this. Oh, and italic text is mostly the character's thoughts.
Chapter 1: The Initial Meeting
-= Blu =-
As I was placed into the jungle I quickly became astonished by how beautiful the jungle looked.
Wow... this is truly beautiful. Except for the fact that I may get killed in this jungle considering how free-spirited she is... I thought worriedly.
I started walking towards the branch that helped me walk across the river, fearing for what might happen next. The artificial jungle looked so nice and lovely and my mind started to trail off.
"Umm… I come in peace," I said hoping it would lower the chances of something bad happening and as I was lost in my own mind, I saw her.
Lost in Jewel's beauty, I never noticed Jewel getting closer by every passing second until it was too late and I was tackled with great force, pinning me down by my throat.
"Quem é você? Quê está fazendo aqui?" Jewel said angrily not realizing that she was holding her own species by her talon. (Who are you? What are you doing here?)
I blurted out random strings of letters, still not able to talk because of Jewel robbing me of my oxygen supply, she asked again:
"Quê?" (What?)
"You're standing on my throat," I said hoping she would let go of her grip.
"Oh, you're an American?" Jewel asked confused, whilst loosening her grip completely
"Thanks. I need my throat for talking," I said gasping for some precious oxygen.
Jewel started to circle around me, finally realizing that I'm the same species as she is. Then she finally realized.
"You look like me!" Jewel pointed out.
"Oh... hi! My name's Blu," I introduced myself, clearing my throat, "you know, like the cheese with the mold on it," I quickly said not realizing what I had just said out loud.
Finally realizing my mistake I started banging my foot against my beak in hopes of knocking some sense into that small head of mine.
"Stupid, stupid, stupid…"
Then, Jewel grabbed me by my wings and turned me around.
"Come on, we don't have much time," Jewel said seemingly seductively to Blu.
Whoa! I didn't think this was gonna be this easy, judging from the women I've seen on TV shows I've watched with Linda back in Minnesota. I thought to myself grinning internally and thinking that I got the hint.
As Jewel was dragging me by the wing to come up to the tree with her, I unluckily didn't see the branch that was so conveniently placed on the same level as my head and it knocked me down for a second before lifting myself up again and climbing the tree via the installed pegs attached to the tree.
When I got up to the tree I saw her approach me.
"Are you ready?" she asked in an even more seductive tone than last time.
"Oh, uhh… okay! Confidence… crazy love hawk," I told myself in hopes of boosting my confidence levels for what I was about to do next; have a passionate kiss with her for the first time. But I was so wrong.
As I leaned into the kiss I quickly noticed Jewel not reciprocating that movement just yet and she pushed me off of herself.
"Woah, hi, what are you doing?" she asked confused but still knew in the back of her head where that was leading to.
"What you wanted me to? But just for argument's sake uhh… what are you doing?" I asked her whilst hoping I would get out of this situation as fast as I got into it.
"I'm trying to escape…?" she said with a kind of Isn't the answer obvious? and surprised tone.
"Oh, uh… yeah, escape. That's where I was going with that thing I just did," I said nervously, sensing that something bad was about to happen.
As if she caught on to my web of lies, fiery anger burning in her eyes, she asked:
"W-w-wait, did you actually think that we were gonna kiss!? We just met!"
"N-n-no! That's not what I was trying to do!"
"Then what were you trying to exactly do with that movement, huh?"
"I mean, I know how my feathers look, but I'm not that kind of bird-"
I was suddenly cut off by a disco ball popping up from the ceiling and the room going much darker then it was before and a song of Lionel Richie started playing.
Say you,
Say me
"Okay I had nothing to do with that," I blurted out and I assumed Jewel was as confused as I was.
"But, huh. You have to admit it's actually a pretty good song," I tried summoning some friendly aura into the air whilst at the same time trying to remember the words to the song from the few times I have heard it on the radio in Linda's car.
"Naturally, yeah sing it, Lionel…"
I felt something with huge force make contact with my neck and a result of that I was cut off from saying anything more and I was slowly falling towards the artificial jungle's floor. As if by some miracle, when I stood back up I noticed I was holding Jewel very romantically and next thing I knew she pulled me into the bushes and started chasing me around the jungle trying to get revenge.
Quite some time had passed since that happened and when I woke up from my slumber under a leaf, I quickly scanned my surroundings to find the source of the noise that woke me up. I soon spotted Jewel banging on the air vent with a rock in her talons.
"Ugh... excuse me? Please, I'm trying to sleep," I moaned as my sleep was disturbed.
"Oh, I'm sorry sleepyhead I'm trying to escape!" she countered my response.
"Escape? Why? This cage is awesome."
Jewel shared a laugh out of pity and said "Oh, what was I thinking? I wouldn't expect a pet to understand."
"Pet? Did you just call me a pet? For the record, I am not a pet, I am a companion."
"Ugh, whatever," she said as she continued to try to pry open the air vent to make a big enough hole to fit through.
-= Jewel =-
I spent the next 20 to 30 minutes or so trying to pry open the air vent so I could finally be free of this cage and be back to my free old self. Hmm, but what about Blu? Wait a minute, why am I even thinking about him? Does this mean something? After a long time, I finally managed to make a hole big enough for us to fit through. I dropped the rock and I looked over to Blu.
He was just circling around the artificial jungle this whole time in complete silence and looking around as if he had never seen a jungle in his life before. Oh yeah… he hasn't. What a stupid pet.
-= Blu =-
I spent walking around the artificial jungle the entire time Jewel was prying open the air vent, trying to find something to do to spend time or just look around and adore the jungle in all of its glory. Finally, I mustered up the courage and decided to ask Jewel something because within this time that we have been together, I've grown very fond of her, but knowing her, she already probably hates me and it'll be useless.
"Hey Jewel?"
"What?" she said rather irritatedly.
"Umm… is the jungle anything like this, or?" I asked very curiously, knowing that there really isn't any rainforests or jungles back in Moose Lake.
"Are you kidding me?"
"No, I'm serious."
"Not even close. Knowing you, you wouldn't even stay alive a full minute in the jungle," her tone was matter-of-fact.
I saw that the air vent was almost big enough to fit a bird through and my time was running short.
"Umm… well yeah, that's true. B-but can I ask you s-something?" I was now rather afraid on if she was gonna attack me or not.
Her expression turned curious and she stopped her activity and said: "Ugh, what?"
"C-can I come w-with y-you to the jungle?"
She flinched and it looked like she was starting to contemplate that question.
"Why would I ever take someone, especially you, with me out of here to the jungle? We don't even know each other."
"W-well… you're the only bird I've actually ever spoken to. Those 15 years that I spent in Minnesota have been very… lonely. I only knew of two geese who would just show up and mock me for being a pet, just like you are doing now."
I saw her soften up a bit and she said: "Well… fine. I'm going to be honest and say that I didn't have anyone back at the jungle as well." She sighed and just stayed silent until tears started streaming down her cheeks.
"Jewel? Why are you crying? Is everything alright?" I asked in a comforting tone and begged for an answer.
"Yes, it's just a bad memory," she reassured me.
I began to feel extremely bad for triggering such an emotional event and decided to make it up to her.
"I'm sorry Jewel, I-I didn't mean to hurt you like that."
"No no, it's okay. Don't worry," she replied as she cracked a faint smile.
"I'll be here for you no matter what even if you hate me right now. Let's get some sleep so we can try to convince Linda to let us be free in the jungle."
"Thanks, Blu. It really means a lot to me," she said as she cracked a bit less faint smile.
I let out a sigh of relief and we started going to our tree hollows. When I arrived up at the hollow I looked over to Jewel's hollow last time and she returned my gaze.
"Goodnight, Jewel."
"Goodnight, Blu."
I went into the hollow and set myself down in the nest. Thoughts began racing through my mind. Did she start liking me? At least I could hope so. Because if so, then that means I've made an accomplishment and our friendship may grow even bigger, but only time will tell. But another horrifying thought struck my mind. How would I survive out there in the jungle? As Jewel mentioned, I probably wouldn't survive even a minute. I let out yet another sigh. I didn't fall asleep for a few more minutes as these thoughts swarmed around in my head until I finally closed my eyes and prepared myself for the dream world to take me in.
-= Jewel =-
I made my way into the nest after saying good night to Blu and plopped myself down. I started thinking about the lovely and friendly action Blu had just done, despite the fact that I pretty much attacked him the entire night. I began to think that maybe Blu wasn't like all other pets, maybe he was something special, I started seeing a spark in him. So I decided to give him a chance.
A/N: Again I'm sorry for the boring first part of this chapter! I sadly had to copy off the movie. :( But please, reviews are greatly appreciated! Thanks for reading and stay tuned, I'll try to update as fast as possible.
NOTE: I do not own the movie Rio or any characters associated with it. What I do own is my own OC's.