Chapter 1

Author's Note: Before reading this please know that this story was mainly inspired by the movie "A Beautiful Mind" and some quotes will be used in this story. Everything written in "The Beautiful Mind" including character, title, plot, etc. is own by them. Also make sure to review so I could improve my story or at least say whether it was good or bad. Keep in mind that I tend to make a really bad beginning but bear with me. As the story continues, I guarantee that it will get better and more interesting. This A/N is pretty long. I should probably stop typing.

Blu was watching intently as Tulio was carefully putting on the cast for Jewel's broken wing. Somehow he doesn't feel comfortable when he see the love of his life being taken care by Tulio, despite the macaw's likeness for him.

It's not like Blu doesn't trust him or anything, but the nervousness is coming from his suspicion of Tulio's knowledge for bird caring. The macaw knew that his mind is intellectual, but he is definitely not as smart as Tulio.

After a long while, Tulio has finally finished wrapping the cast and Blu worriedly flew over to where Jewel was standing.

In a concerned voice he asked, "Are you alright? Is there going to be an infection? Will your wing ever heal…?"

Jewel interrupted Blu's 20 questions and sweetly said, "Don't worry Blu I'm alright, Tulio said it himself."

This made Blu even more worried. There could be a possibility that the cast could be set wrong and it might mortally injure Jewel, or Tulio's prediction of her getting better could be a mistake and Jewel might have to live the rest of her life as a flightless bird.

The door opened, and at the end of the air-conditioned room, a head peeked.

"Umm Tulio, are you done taking care of Jewel?" Linda asked.

"Oh yes," Tulio happily said as he was taking off his elastic glove. "Why? Do you need anything?"

Linda nodded and signaled him to come outside with her.

Tulio took a quick glance at Blu and told him, "Make sure Jewel doesn't move around too much and tell her that she is going to be in that cast for promptly three weeks."

Jewel's lower beak plummeted to the floor and her pupil shrank to the size of a tiny speck of seed, when she heard what Tulio just said.

Insider her head a voice rang out and cried, "I CAN'T FLY FOR THREE WEEKS?"

Not noticing Jewel's facial expression, Tulio walked out of the room and left the lovebirds alone.

Blu turned his attention back to her hotwing and dared to ask, "Jewel, are you alright."

The macaw only responded with an enormous twitch that came from her head, as Blu was trying to comfort her.

He didn't know what to do as Jewel's eye starting to jerk heavily and Blu gradually started to become furious at himself. How could he consider himself to be smart if he doesn't know how to treat Jewel's condition?

Blu scuffed at himself and wanting to prove that he was smart, he went around trying to find some cold water to pour on Jewel's face.

He decided not to fly because this might upset Jewel even more, and Blu was glad that he had thought of that because it was a smart choice.

Blu saw a glass container, and in black ink, clearly labeled "Water." Unfortunately, the container was perched at the very top of the tall chemistry shelf, which is like a skyscraper to the small macaw. Blu tried to climb it steadily and was making some good progress. His years of walking and climbing have him part macaw and part something.

Blu was angry at himself again and screamed in his mind, "Something!" He couldn't believe that his lack of vocabulary has led him to conclude that he was part "something."

The chemistry shelf suddenly trembled a little as if there was a small earthquake. The weight of the macaw was just enough to set the shelf off balance as the shaking was starting to become more aggressive and violent.

The test tubes made a lot of clinking noises that sounded like a glass bottle being struck by a ball peen hammer and the wood was starting to eerily creak.

Blu was about to fly away as he was sensing danger, but the shelf soon gave way as the polished wood splintered and crackled; sending the doomed bird falling to the bitter ground as he was crushed by the combined weight of the tubes and chemistry shelf.

Jewel snapped out of her trauma, realizing that her Blu could be possibly dead.

Jewel wanted to help Blu but her wings could not allow her to move anything, let alone lift a heavy shelf.

Tulio and Linda rushed into the room and instantaneously saw the downed shelf. Linda looked around and worriedly said, "Where's Blu?"

They glanced back at the shelf and realized that he was trapped under it.

"BLU!" Linda screamed as she was frantically digging through the glass and wooden debris.

Tulio saw a small patch of blue feather and dug around it. Blu was finally revealed under the rubble and Tulio snatched him.

The bird was unconscious and a small stream of crimson red liquid was starting to drip from the corner of his beak.

Tulio ran back to the operation table and laid him down next to Jewel who was yelling, "Blu wake up! Wake up!"

He immediately performed surgical operation on Blu as two veterinarian and a nurse came bursting through the door to assist in the operation.

What was suppose to be a happy ending, turned into a horrible nightmare as Blu's condition started to worsen.

His little bird skull was cracked, about one-tenth of his bones were broken, and his body was going into shock as Blu was starting to lose some blood.

The surgery lasted for four days and it might last even longer, if Blu is able to hang onto his life.

Both Linda and Jewel were sick to the stomach and couldn't eat anything over the past days, waiting outside of the operation room and straining to know whether Blu would continue living or become extinct. Permanently.