"Wait!" a voice yelled, its voice stirring up a distant memory of mine as the scarlet macaw flew down to the circle, its face hidden by a up raised cloak hood, as well as a down cast view. "What?!" I screeched at him impatiantly, wanting to yell my dad's fate at that moment; I considered not even giving the bird a chance to speak. "May I ask a few questions; these will change your mind and tell you he is more like you Jace, more than you think" the figure said. I stopped moving for a second; I was called that was a chick, but it stopped there. Confused out of my mind on how he could know that, let alone guess that so accurately, I nodded regardless.

The scarlet macaw turned to my dad before speaking, his voice firm but with a faint amount of emotion. "What did you do on June 14th 2000?" he asked first, the date personally meaning nothing to me. "I was hanging out with a friend of mine, a very good friend" my dad answered quickly, his eyes covering with mist, as if recalling a memory; I guess it meant something to him. "Was this friend a male?" was the second question; this seemed like a odd question to me. "Yes" my dad whispered; I barely heard him. "Did you like him?" red asked; I raised an eye-brow at that. My dad's body shook before he nodded, causing me to gasp with shock. "Was his name... James?" the macaw asked before removing his hood, his face looking just like mine...

"James?" my dad whispered, his eyes tearing up. "The one and only!" James smiled, his own eyes filling with tears; I passed out when I realized who the macaw was as I was thrown back to the past.

-flash back-

I screeched out in joy as I rode on my 'uncles' back, his scarlet feathers standing out in stark contrast to my dark blue. "Faster Jay, faster!" I cried out in joy. "I would Jace, but Zac would kill me" James told me. After doing a few more tricks, James started going back to my hollow, telling me that my dad wanted me back home soon.

As we closed in, I could hear daddy and mommy yelling at each other. James landed softly and held me close as we peered inside. "How could you cheat on me?! We have a kid for gods sake! Do not even TRY to deny it; I saw you myself! The day we became mates, I knew you would not be loyal to me. For all I care, you can rot in hell; we are done!" mommy yelled at daddy. James hid with me behind a branch as mommy flew away, but I saw her eyes before she disappeared; her eyes were heavy with tears.

James led me in the hollow, but I ran straight to my dad and hugged him in a attempt to make him feel better; he was crying. James also tried to approach him, but daddy told him to leave. "Go! Just go!" my daddy yelled, refusing to look at him. "Zac... I love you... please..." James said as he tried to hug my dad. "I don't love you anymore! Leave!" my dad yelled at him, tears falling freely now. James backed away with a hurt expression, tears in his eyes. He just left, but not without saying something. "You will be my one and only, that I swear!" he vowed, leaving behind only a single feather for fourteen years. Till now.

I know that this chapter was relatively short, but the next chapter will be longer, somewhere around 1200-1500, as it goes into deeper detail of Zachariah and his love life in the past before he met Jason's mother