"Whisper," Came a voice behind me. I turned to the source.

"What do you want, Spark?" I asked the yellow pikmin.

Spark was the simple kind of pikmin. She wore two blue bracelets around her stem, which would jingle as she walked. She had a bud, something that I was always a tiny bit jealous of. Still, I would give anything to have even a leaf.

"You're doing it again..." She said to me. She stood to my left and stared at the structures ahead of us. "Counting..." Her eyes drifted to me.

"I'm orry, you know how I get when I start thinking about-

"It's okay, I just wanted to make you stop. It was getting annoying after 100," Spark said with a chuckle. She was trying to brighten my mood as usual. She'd been trying since she found me lost, mumbling about things like an insane min.

"So when are we going to have to set off for shelter?" I asked, avoiding her staring gaze. She did that often. I expected it from regular pikmin, though... You didn't normally see mushroom pikmin walking around without attacking you on sight.

"Soon... The shelter is a quarter of a day away. It's afternoon though, so we have a little time," Spark answered. She began to walk back to her work area.

Spark was the kind of pikmin that liked to tinker and investigate things. She would study them until she figured out how everything worked. After I had figured that out about her, I didn't question why she had taken me under her wing when she found me.

We were currently in a desert area. It had strange structures that protruded from the ground. That was not the reason we were here though. Spark was here to study one of the common creatures that lurked this area. They were long and thin, and had the ability to swim underneath the ground. When they sensed a pikmin, the burst forth from underneath and snatched them up, killing them in an instant. The had a hard metallic body with razor teeth, and they had no eyes at all.

I was no afraid in the least of them. The species avoided me, for some odd reason. Spark used it as an advantage when we came out this way.

Slowly, it became evening. I turned and walked over to Spark, who seemed in heavy thought. "We must go, we are already late. We should have been heading back awhile ago..."

Spark looked up at the sky, and then at me. "I just need a little more time-

"We don't have a little more time! You know what creatures lurk here at night, and we don't have the casualty of them avoiding me," I snapped at her, grabbing her up by the arm and yanking her to her feet, I said, "We can come back tomorrow."

"Whisper, you know that the night creatures will eat the corpse!" Spark argued.

"We can find another one," I growled, and pulled her along in the direction of the shelter. "And I've told you about calling me by that name... That is not my name, and you know it."

"What else would I call you? Blank? I had to come up with something, and Whisper came to my mind first!" Her arguing and the jingling of her bracelets were annoying.

"We'll talk about it at the shelter, we have to focus on getting there quickly right now," I said, looking to the sky with a feeling of dread looming over me.

'You won't make it in time...' My mind teased me. I glared at the sky, trying to ignore the pestering in my head.

As the shelter came into view, I saw the moon rise. That dreaded circle only meant bad things.

Spark ran into a sprint to the shelter. She was much faster than I was, but she had been running slower for my convenience. With the shelter so close, she had decided that I could make it there without her to help fight unsuspecting monsters.

But as she made it closer to the shelter, something massive burst from the ground. I froze in my spot as I heard Spark's muffled scream as the monster swallowed her whole.

The monster looked like one of the daylight creatures, but it was much bigger, and had two more rows of razor teeth.

"Spark!" I cried out, but I couldn't save her. It was too late, the monster dove back into the ground. My only friend, the one that put order into my life, was gone.

I ran into a sprint to the shelter as I heard a shrill shriek from a creature behind me.

I ran into the dark cave and collapsed onto the ground from exhaustion. Tears were pouring from my eyes, the image of Spark dying imprinted in my memory.

I closed my eyes after quite awhile, not caring if a monster somehow managed to get in the shelter and eat me. It didn't matter, because without Spark there to help, I was lost.

I was already beginning to miss that jingling of those bracelets.

Slowly and eventually, I fell into deep slumber...

Lol they're in a sandbox. xD

Hello! I really hope you enjoyed this first chapter! I know, I already killed off a character... That's how it is in the pikmin planet though! (Actually the pikmin planet is earth... .3. )

There are probably a billion murhsoom pikmin stories out there, but I bet not one of them has a friendly mushroom pik who doesn't mean harm (until he's pissed off)!

Actually there are probably a lot...

Thanks for reading! I hope you like it and continue reading future chapters (Eventually)!

P.S. I love reviews. :)