Note: This is pretty long compared to the last part lol
Since Don Juan is now well and all, he makes his way back to the kingdom. Of course, he looks dishevelled, and his clothes are torn.
Upon getting to the castle, he goes straight to his father and kneels in front of him. However, the king still can't move because of his illness, and what's worse is that he can't recognize his own son.
No one bothers to tell Don Fernando that his youngest son is right there, so the bird does, through song. It changes its appearance and its feathers come back, resembling gold, and then tells the king that the one in front of him is Don Juan, and he has suffered a lot to do what he was tasked to. It also sings about how the other two princes failed to do so and turned into stone in the process.
The Adarna bird then changes its appearance a second time, with its feathers even more beautiful than the last set. It then tells the king that Don Juan endured challenges and took away the stone coating from the brothers' bodies.
After this, the bird changes appearance a third time (if you've been following what had been said before about the seven songs and feathers, you know what's up), making it look a varnished type of shiny. It then sings of how the three brothers went back to the hermit's house, had a feast, and how the hermit gave them advice as if they're his sons.
The Adarna bird changes its feathers a fourth time, and now it's like diamond. It sings of how Don Juan had his wounds healed after they ate.
After the fifth appearance change, the bird speaks of how Don Pedro talked about killing Don Juan and how Don Diego prevented it from happening. And after the sixth change of feathers, it sings of how the two chose to beat up Don Juan in the middle of the field and left him when he couldn't move anymore, taking the bird with them.
At the seventh change in appearance, where it now looks like a ruby or a carbuncle, the Adarna bird sings of how an old man saw Don Juan and healed him. It also tells the king that Don Juan be the one to inherit the kingdom.
The bird then falls silent, and the king gets better shortly after. Don Fernando doesn't waste any time calling on his council and deciding on Don Pedro and Don Diego's punishment, which is banishment.
It's pretty nice that the Adarna bird gets to tell people (or rather, the king) about what happened, although I wonder how it knew about what happened to Don Juan after it got taken away... Perhaps we could just say that it's magic?
And man, the king and the council were swift in deciding on the punishment (if only it was like this in real life...) I'm guessing they all really love Don Juan, and the Adarna bird is a very convincing witness. Then again, who wouldn't believe a magic bird who talks?
However, considering that they've probably known the princes for a while, I think they might have just needed that push to take action. Who knows?
But I wonder, what happens after this? And what does Don Juan have to say about all of it?