A/N well, I would first like to thank a few people. First, battleship lid, for the constant reviews and encouragement. Second, all the anonymous reviewers(other then one particular reviewer, her review got deleted for extreme obscenities and threats to report me for no reason whatsoever.) I would also like to thank chistoni, bluecatcinema, cnt wolf, and last but certainly not least, Reviewer.

Whoever the hell he/she is, I would really like to thank him/her. Thank you for kicking me in the ass and getting me inspired again for this story. It is reviewers like you that make a writers job not only easier, but also a delight. So, without further adieu, here is my nitpicked, fruit of my soul chapter. Hope you like it, and if you don`t, may you choke on it. ;D

Storylover Alpha 01, AKA The author of this story, is not responsible for any choking related deaths and/or injuries obtained from reading this chapter.

To be fully honest with herself, Jewel had never had such a feeling of heart crushing dread in her whole life. The feeling was suffocating, it killed any hope and happiness she had. Nothing had even come close to the soul shattering feeling that she now harbored inside her chest, slowly sapping her already drained reserves of strength.

Not when she watched as a human demon child grabbed her beloved mentor, the only creature that ever shown her kindness when she shown up at the San fransisco zoo, grabbed her mentor through the bars of the cage by the tail and started beating him off the sides of the cage he was trapped in for no reason what so ever.

Not when she watched him slowly die from internal injuries in his cage while security grabbed the 14 year old monster and took him away, nor when she watched him take his last shaky, pain riddled breath, showing his inner peace by telling her not to become bitter and to forgive humans, which she never did.

She didn`t feel near this bad when she was taken away from the few friends she had obtained in her first zoo and was transferred to the zoo in las vegas to mate with another Blue macaw, nor when she learned that the Other macaw was a bloated, all full of himself hotshot actor that thought he was doing her a favor by attempting to get her gravid at the age of 7, the age that she became sexually mature.

She never even considered to mate with him, but instead attacked him, clawing out one of his eyes and effectively neutering him, forcing the zoo keepers to separate them. But back to the subject. She had never felt this horrible. No ,matter how she saw it, there was no silver lining to this cloud.

Just dark, stormy clouds to represent the overall mood, high winds for the worry and despair, and some earth shattering lightning for the fact that she was in the cage with the love of her life, who also happened to be dying a slow painful death while she was forced to watch.

No happiness here. Not even Blu, who was normally a happy, optimistic guy, had any hope. His last plan failed, the Bungee cord he barely managed to tie to the nearby fire extinguisher snapped before it broke the roof of the cage.

Even when He had somehow managed to open one of the locks that kept the cage closed, breaking several claws in the process, he quickly realized that the other lock was a combination, and Blu knew he didn`t have a chance to unlock that at all. Or at least, as he put it, not without a stethoscope, whatever the hell that was.

So, he sat there, beat up physically and now mentally, pondering his next escape plan, and silently praying that a small bit of inspiration would strike him. Even if the plan would only save jewel, he would be happy.

While Blu worried about that, jewel worried about another thing. How would she get blu out of here? He couldn`t fly, and he was to heavy for he to carry. She might be able to get a few of the birds that were trapped with them to help her, but that raised another question. Who would help Blu with his injuries?

When she thought of this, Jewel looked over to Blu, who was slumped up against the wall of the cage, his injured wing sitting at a strange angle and oozing a strange, yellow tinted clear fluid out of the large gash that was located By his upper right shoulder, near the wing joint. His eyes were closed with concentration, his beak silently moving as if mouthing a unspoken prayer.

She winced and looked away, the sight of Blu broken was torture equivalent to the seventh circle of hell to her, and that was being massively diminutive to the fact.

No matter how much she tried, she couldn`t help but cry whenever she looked at Blu`s broken body, the gashes around his neck, the blackened eye that was now swollen to tremendous size, the raspy breathing that he had whenever he became slightly over exerted, hinting towards several broken ribs.

When ever she looked at him, she found a new injury, a new affliction that she hadn`t noticed until now. When she first looked at him when they got put inside the same cage, she would have classified his injuries as minor to moderate, But now she would rate them as critical to life threatening in the least, yet he still somehow manages to try to fight and try to get free, when he should be simply fighting to stay alive.

But now, he looked physically spent. He just sat there in the corner, panting and coughing and looking like he was barely managing to stay relatively conscious, But he still was somehow thinking of a way to get them free.

So, she slowly walked up to him and sat down beside him, silently wrapping her wings around him and holding him tightly, hoping to comfort him as much as he comforted her. But he didn`t react, He was just hoping that by some miracle or divine act of god that they could be freed and get safely back to Rio.

Then, without warning, Blu stood up, slipping out of jewel`s grasp. He then walked over to the side of the cage, not at all noticing the sides of the wings that were still desperately trying to hold him close slip away.

He then stared at the side of the cage for a few seconds, observing the wire that held them in and trying to thing about how much force it would take to break it. While Blu did this, Raphael, Nico, Pedro, and all the other birds stared in wonder and awe, wondering what he had planned and silently praying That he would succeed.

He ignored them, and continued to stare deliberately at the cage wire, already finished thinking about the power needed and now wondering about the technique he would use. He looked around the cage, and outside, wondering if there was anything of value. And that was when he saw it. A old discarded chicken bone, sitting right beside Pedro and Nico`s cage.

Blu stared at it for a few seconds, wondering if it had the tinsel strength for the job. He did the math in his head, But no matter how he did it, He came to one conclusion. It wasn`t strong enough to break open the cage.

Maybe hold it the wire open long enough to let someone slip through, but not strong enough for the jail break he had hoped. But still, fulfilled the main perquisite for any of his plans, It got jewel out of the god forsaken cage, so he went with it. He then looked over to Nico, and cleared his throat. When Nico looked over to him, Blu spoke.

"pssst. Hey, Nico, throw me that chicken bone." he whispered quietly, hoping not to raise suspicion from Nigel, who was in the cockpit and still visible through the window in the door.

Nico looked at the bone for a second, then back to Blu. "There is no way I am going to touch that thing! It`s covered in slobber and chicken flesh and….ewwwwwweeeee!" he replied, sounding disgusted and shuddering at the same time.

Blu growled and rolled his eyes, and in a uncharacteristic outburst, glared at Nico with a ferocity he had only seen in one other person before. Jewel. Nico stared back for a second, then quickly grabbed the chicken bone, and threw it towards Blu.

Blu watched as it flew towards him in slow motion, and he quickly realized something. He couldn`t reach it with his foot. So, he reacted in the only way he could. Blu quickly stuck his head out of the cage, and caught the bone in his mouth, barely making the catch.

When Pedro and jewel saw this, they both blanched. He quickly brought his head in, and spat out the bone, which to him, tasted like everything he didn`t like at once.

When He thought about what he just did he gagged. He then tried the age old technique people have used for many years when they had to deal with something gross. They acted like it was something else.

With this in mind, he picked up the bone with his foot, and looked at it comprehensively for a second, trying to see what he had to work with, before quickly realizing that His plan of acting like it was something else... wouldn`t work.

With this fact staring him straight in the face, He violently gagged again. He then dropped the bone like it was on fire, and ran into the corner, and completely emptied his stomachs contents, Which was basically nothing.

"Blu!" Jewel ran up to him and attempted to grab him, But stopped when she saw him dry heaving. She wanted to hold him with every fiber of her being, to hold him in her wings and tell him everything would be alright and he would be Ok, to caress him like the hatchling she always wanted But never had, But the sight of him puking set something off.

She stared at him in shock, The sight before her reminded her of a repressed memory she had buried deep within her self, locked inside the deepest reaches of her very soul. She suddenly had somewhat of a vision, or a flashback if you will.

Jewel saw a young adult female blue macaw puking from the side of their hollow, her feathers a drab blue, and when jewel looked into her face, she looked extremely ill. "momma? Are you ok?" jewel asked, her voice small and delicate.

"Si…nao, I am very ill, my young daughter… I need to rest… wake me when your father gets back…" jewel nodded quickly, and watched as her mother laid down and slowly fell asleep, her breathing a deep, raspy wheezing. Jewel then sat there, worried for her mother, and hoping that she would feel better soon.

This had been the worst week of her life. Albeit she had only been alive for three weeks, But this was still the worst. She was now the only one alive out of her whole brood, her brothers and sisters falling to the same illness as her mother, and they slowly, one by one, fell asleep and never waking up.

She had never felt so alone, She had no one to play with, other then the neighbor's children, or as the remaining number currently was, child. His siblings had fallen asleep after they became sick, and never woke up, like her`s. Although, it happened a while ago, he didn`t even remember his siblings. Although neither of his parents had fallen sick, they were a older couple, nearing the end of their mating life, and weren`t around much for him, as they were mainly flying around helping other new parents with their newly hatched children and giving out pointers, or trying to help other parents get over their loss.

So, she sat down, and waited for her father, and listened while her mother`s breathing became more and more quiet over the hours, until she couldn`t hear it at all. When she finally noticed this, she hopped up. Apparently, this meant momma must be better! She quickly hopped over to her mother, and shook her.

"Momma, get up, You`re getting better!" she said joyously, shaking her mothers side. When she didn`t wake up, she guessed that momma wanted to play peek a boo. So, she giggled, and put her eyes behind her tiny wings, and waited for her mom to say peek a boo. But it never came. She sat there for several minutes waiting for her mother to peek a boo, but became worried.

Maybe momma wasn`t wanting to play? Or maybe she did something wrong, and momma was mad at her. This thought frightened her badly. She didn`t want momma to be mad at her while she was sick. She quickly ran up, and hugged her mother's side, and started crying. "Momma? I`m sorry, I didn`t mean it…momma?"

She held her head in her side for a few minutes, and when she pulled her head back, She immediately saw her father doing the same thing. Hugging her side, and crying silently. Was he in trouble too? She quietly walked up to him, and hugged his side. "Why won`t momma wake up?" She asked innocently, hugging her fathers warm side and burying her head in his nice, soft feathers.

He looked at her, and cried a bit more. He then let go of her mother and his mate, and looked at jewel. "Lyra…. I mean, your momma won`t be waking up…" he said slowly. When she heard this, she froze. Her small mind couldn`t understand the concept. No world without momma? Is that possible?

Upon seeing her confused face, he sighed and looked at her, his eyes still full of tears. He then said "Why don`t I take you to see little Blu, while I… take care of Lyra…" Jewel nodded, and she smiled. She was going to play with the neighbor boy, Blu.

She licked his name, it was funny. But She still didn`t understand why her dad was sad, But she reasoned that it would get better. Grown up things always got better. So, she felt her father`s claws wrap around her small frame, and felt as they gently took off. When they left the hollow, she heard singing. She liked it, and looked up to her father. "Even in the middle of a plaque, there is still carnival…"

They quickly made way to The neighbors, but when they got to the hollow, everyone started screaming. She looked around, and saw strange things flying around and grabbing people. Then, suddenly, she felt her father shake, and they flew straight into a nearby tree, where she heard a her dad's head make a strange pop noise.

She then felt her dad release his grip, and rolled onto the ground down a small hill. There, she looked up, and saw her dad`s head sitting at a strange angle. Before she could get up and grab him, a large, soft pink foot thing grabbed her.

The foot lifted her up, and she found herself looking into the eyes of a human. Then, felt herself start sliding as the foot she sat on started tipping. She then fell into a small cage. Her mood changed from curious to frightened in a instant. She then watched as they carried the cage to a dark looking box, and put her inside.

"Man… are you alright?"

Jewel shook her head, completely caught off guard by the forceful removal of her memory. A memory she didn`t even know she had. She found herself still staring at blu, who was still dry heaving. She quickly ran up, and grabbed him with her wings, and held him until he stopped dry heaving. She had already forced the memory back down, and was focused on the subject at hand. Blu.

After a few moments, he stopped, and looked up at jewel. "Th…thanks." when jewel heard this, she smiled and nodded, then let go of him so he could stand back up.

After he stood back up, He grabbed the bone again, and shuffled over to the cage wall, and forced it into the base, using his weight to force the bone deep into the cage wire`s base. He then grabbed the top of the impromptu crowbar , holding it near the remaining cartilage on the top of the bone, and slowly started to pull back, slowly bending the cage wire outwards.

He continued to pull, and the more he pulled, the more the cage wall opened, until it was opened enough for Jewel to slip out. He then stopped, and called for jewel, fully knowing this would probably be the last time he could hold her. She quickly walked up and looked at him.

" Jewel, crawl through, and set the others free while I Open the rest of the cage."

she nodded, and hugged him. "If we don`t make it, I just wanted you to know…"

He looked at her, and felt his eyes already starting to tear up. He knew he had to stop her from continuing, if only so she would get out of the cage voluntarily. "Don`t think like that. We will get out of here." Blu said, staring at her with a very fake, but very convincing reassuring smile, all the while somehow holding back the tears.

She sighed, and nodded, and crawled out through the small hole Blu had made. When she got out, she looked back at Blu, who's eyes were now visibly tearing up, the tears he barely managed to hold back finally managing to break through. She stared at him for a second before she realized what he had just done.

A few seconds later the bone he was using snapped with a loud crack, and the cage wire closed behind her, completely making it unable for him to get out behind her.

"Blu!" she screamed as she took off and flew towards the cage. She hit it, and pulled at the sides, but the steel chicken wire refused to give even a little to her light weight. But the lack of progress didn`t distract her. She pulled, tackled, and in any way possible tried to damage the cage her soul mate was trapped in.

Blu watched as she attacked the cage, and felt something inside him snap. All he wanted right now was to hold her, to comfort her, But he couldn`t. But he knew it was for the best. She was free, and as safe as he could get her. He sighed, and wished he could get free. But even if he could get free, he would probably die from his current injuries. So, this really was the end.

"Jewel, listen to me. Get the other birds free, I`m…I`m done for…can you please... say…say goodbye to…Linda for me." While Blu said this, his eyes were tearing up and he looked heartbroken. He then looked directly into jewel`s eyes, and spoke. "Jewel… I've been wanting to say... I …I love you…"

When she heard this, she stopped the attack immediately, and stared at him. She felt her eyes immediately tear up, and, like a flood gate opening, she started to sob. She tried to speak, but the words wouldn`t come. Just tears.

She continued to cry, and everything was silent until blu spoke again.

"Jewel, save the others. Save yourself." When she heard this, she snapped out of it. She didn`t stop crying, not in the least, but she regained control of herself. If she couldn`t free him, she could at least fulfill his last request to him. Right now Her only regret was that she didn`t do what Nigel wanted, and mate with him. At least then she would have a reason to live. To raise their hatchlings.

She then stared at blu for a few seconds before she slowly nodded, and started wondering what would have happened if everything was different. If she got taken instead of Blu. If they were in separate cages, if Nigel didn`t nearly kill Blu.

If she and Blu could have been together and been happy. But no, life made sure that no one could get close to her without being viciously ripped away.

She literally had to tear her head away from staring at him, and focused on Saving the others. She quickly opened most of the cages, and set all the birds free, accidentally knocking a large selection of cages in front of the door.

She then looked around, seeing that she had successfully freed every bird. All but one. She then flew over to the cage that held Blu, and sat there for a few seconds, staring at Blu, who seemed to be fighting for his very consciousness, the wounds he had sustained finally catching up with him.

Jewel stared at him for a second, before she saw Blu`s eyes grow from glazed over to wide with fright. "Nigel!" She quickly looked behind her and saw Nigel flying right for her, flying from the crack in the door that was held open by a human hand.

She, relying completely on instinct, quickly jumped out of the way, and Nigel collided solidly into the side of the cage, which broke free from its anchors and fell onto the floor, knocking her onto the floor as well.

She fell first, and when she hit the ground, she looked up and saw several cages that were held up by the ropes that snapped when Nigel crashed into Blu`s cage falling right for her. She rolled, and she cleared most of the cages. She stopped rolling and saw that there was one last cage. She started rolling again, but The cage fell down onto her wing, which made a white hot lance of pain shoot up her entire wing and forced her to stop rolling.

She gasped in pain, and tried to move, and when she did, she felt the now broken bones in her wing shift, making her wing feel like it was deeply dipped into molten lava, as well as making her breath in short, pained gasps.

She winced and looked around for Nigel, But instead found Blu. The cage was broken open by Nigel, and Blu was now slumped up against a nearby cage, looking dazed and confused. She quickly looked from Blu to the cage, and found Nigel stuck in it, covered in really deep cuts and having a wire forced into his throat, around the voice box area.

Nigel was conscious, although he couldn`t see well, due to a large bloody cut the went down the middle of his left eye. He was trying to get out, struggling against the wire that bound him. Blu coughed and stood up, and half limped/ half walked over to jewel, and with the help of all the other birds, lifted the empty cage off of jewels wing.

Blu then looked over to raphael. "Raphael! you see that (cough cough) that lever behind you? pu(hack) pull it down. It... It opens the hatch so..." Blu started, pausing a few times to cough. "man, I got it." raphael answered back, interupting him. the hatch opened, and the vast majority of the birds flew out, with the exception of a few larger birdswho volunteered to help carry Both Blu and jewel out. they were getting ready to leave the plane when suddenly Nigel got free, and flew towards them.

He quickly tackled the bird that was to carry Jewel, knocking him into the other large bird, knocking them both out of the plane. The force of the blow knocked jewel over as well, making her fall over onto her injured wing, making her gasp in pain. Nigel then swung around, and grabbed Blu by the throat, and started to squeeze, slowly strangling him.

"I knew you would be a pain in the ass..." Nigel said, his voice sounding much different then usual. It sounded more gravelly, and more rough, like he was gargling glass while talking. Suddenly, the plane started to bank, leaning to the left and making things slide around.

Nigel continued to glare at him, when a fire extinguisher rolled towards them. Nigel saw this, and quickly let go of Blu and backed up to avoid getting ran over by the cylinder. When the extinguisher passed, Nigel stepped forward, but The extinguisher continued to roll, and bumped a large cage, which started to slide towards Nigel, who somehow didn`t notice.

Nigel then walked towards Blu, and, before he could continue, was crushed by the cage, sliding into him and pinning him against the wall. Nigel struggled against the cage for a few moments, and started to cough and gasp. Then, everything went silent.

Both jewel and Blu stared at his now limp form, and looked at each other, shock plastered across both of their faces. Suddenly without warning, the plane started to gain altitude, forcing Jewel to slid towards the edge of the hatch. Blu watched hopelessly as she started to slid, before something inside him finally clicked, and he realized what was truely happening.

Blu quickly ran towards her, shouting. "Jewel, hold on! I am almost there!" He continued to run, catching up to her, until the plane started top bank right, causing him to fall over. he forced himself to stand, and tried to catch up to her. but he was too slow, and was forced to watched helplessly as she fell out of the plane screaming.

He stood there for a second, his heart thumping, and without truely thinking, He jumped out of the plane after her. He quickly dived, or whatever you call falling and flailing around, and when he got to the same alititude as her, stared at her for a second before grabbing her with his wings, forcing his injured wing around her as well. She stared at him for a second, saying nothing, as words have failed her at this point. Then, she leaned in and gave him a deep, passionate kiss, as her way of saying goodbye. she pulled her head back, and looked him deep in his eyes. When she did this, she found herself speaking. "Blu... I love you."

He kissed her back, and found that he felt a strange feeling in his chest, one that grew more and more the longer they held the kiss. He then knew one thing. He was not going to let her die, at least not without him fighting. He then held her tightly with his legs, and opened his wings.

He quickly felt the wind and air rush under his feathers, and suddenly felt pressure under his wings. He then looked around, and saw that he was flying. He was barely remaining airborne, but he was flying nonetheless. He looked down at jewel with his one good eye and smiled at her, shocked that he was flying.

"Blu! You`re flying!" Jewel shouted, sounding ecstatic. Blu smiled at her, but then felt a strange feeling in his injured wing. If he had to describe it, he would say that it felt like a rubber band that was about to snap. He knew that he wouldn`t be able to remain airborne for long, and knew he would have to crash land somewhere.

Except, there was nowhere near here that he could land at. He continued to look desperately for a escape, and found one. The gondolas. He knew he couldn`t land on the top, mainly because of the angle of the gondolas, but he could fly through the window… he quickly considered it, and decided that it was the only way to save Jewel.

So, when he got close to the gondolas, he flipped his frame around, wrapped his wings snuggly around jewel, holding her against his chest, and crashed through the window. He quickly felt several new cuts form when the broken glass from the window dragged across his body, felt the blood start flowing, and that was before he hit the other window.

He then tensed up, and immediately hit the other window, feeling as the other window started to shatter, but somehow held together, and felt the sudden change in G force as his head whipped around and hit the other window, dazing him.

He then hit the floor of the gondola, hearing the screams and shouts of the frightened passengers. He then felt the muscle in his wing finally give, painfully rolling up and cumulating in his shoulder. This forced his right wing to let go of jewel, who rolled out away from his body. He then took his first breath since the crash, and felt the most pain he had ever felt in his life.

The pain washed almost everything away, everything but one, singular thought. Jewel was safe. He then felt a soft hand run across his body, and heard a short gasp of shock come from above. He then felt jewel, who was laying on his uninjured wing still, move, apparently in shock. When he felt this, he slowly opened his eyes, his head pointing towards the sky.

The first thing he saw was a familiar looking face. The scientist that's face was covered in cuts from jewel. "Blu? Jewel?" He asked quietly. He then grabbed his cell phone from his right pants pocket, and called someone while kneeling and looking at jewel, making sure that she wasn`t horribly injured.

"Mat? What is it? It better be Important, we just lost Blu and jewel to some poachers." said a very irritable sounding voice from the phone. Blu listened to the phone, and could hear linda crying in the background, mumbling about how they should have never came to Rio.

When mat heard this, he lowered the phone from his ear and gasped, and looked at Jewel and Blu. He then raised the phone again, and replied "Tolio, I just found jewel and Blu… They just crashed through the gondola`s window I was on…"

"WHAT! Bring them to the lab now!" When Blu heard this, he winced.

Mat sighed explosively, and went back to the phone. "tolio, we are going to need the whole vet staff when I get there, Got it?" He said angrily into the phone.

"Why? What happened?" Tolio asked, sounding worried. Mat sighed, and shook his head angrily, and put his ear back up to the phone.

"I will tell you later! I Have more important things right now, like stabilizing Blu." After he said this, he hung up, and knelt down to Blu. He comfortably rubbed his hand against his face and spoke to him. "It`s going to be alright…We are going to get you help…"

When Blu heard these comforting words, he slowly and painfully smiled, and started to fall into unconsciousness. He then looked over to jewel before he closed his eyes, and saw that she had just regained her bearings.

She stared into his eyes with tears running down her cheeks, and he heard one final sob before his hearing went blank and his body went limp. He watched as everything moved by in slow motion, and watched as his head fell slowly to one side, and stopped, his line of sight looking out a window. As his vision slowly started to fade, the last thing he saw was the statue of Christ the redeemer, welcoming him with open arms.

A/N there you go. Hope you liked it. And no, this is not the last chapter.

"'Reviewer', I have followed your advices and finished this chapter in a way I can clearly see that I have improved, and I want you to guide me."

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