Teaching Bandicoots to Swim
After we touched down on the beach of N Sanity Island, our group proceeded through the areas of the island and we soon learned some very cool things. For one, we met a sentient floating mask that promised to protect us from danger if we got hurt by any foes. Second, Crash, Coco, and even Tawna found out they could spin extremely quickly and use their feet and hands to completely knock out any kind of enemy in our way. They did it to man-eating plants, turtles, crabs, even monkeys! But the most impressive thing was by far what we were coming across as we went further into the areas. We started to find some very cool-looking gems that shined very vividly. I managed to find one that was the color orange and Coco manage to find five gray-black ones. And Crash? He found a red one quite easily.
"These look important, but who cares? These could look very pretty as jewelry, wouldn't they?" I smiled at Coco with a smile.
"I agree on that much, Sasha... but we should probably wait until we get some downtime after defeating Cortex," Coco said with seriousness.
"Fine, we'll wait until we get some free time to check it out. Until then, I think we should hide these in our pockets and bags," Tawna said as she put her gems in a small purse she had on her... how she found it, I had no clue, but it was quite a good accessory for her. It was pink in color, but with a purple stripe and a locket shaped like a red heart.
We continued to walk through the jungle areas until we hit an area that had tons of water and a whole lot of lily pads in front of us. "Um..." Coco shuddered as I simply dove into the water and began to swim as I loved to before.
"What's the matter, guys? Come on in, the water's fine," I smiled at them as I got a mouthful of it and spit it like a fountain.
"Well.. we'd love to... it's just that we don't know how to swim," Tawna said, me looking at them with a frown as I caved in.
"Okay, it's easy, guys... look at this," I smiled as I laid on my back and the group was amazed at what happened. Though the current carried me southward for a few seconds, I was floating on my back and then proceeded to swim the backstroke. "As you can see, it's quite easy. Just let go of any kind of fears you may have, lay on your back, and start to move your arms and legs gently like I am. Kick your legs at intervals, move your arms like propellers. It'll be just like you're a boat," I smiled.
"Some boats sink," Coco frowned.
"Hah, only if they crashed into something, and even then, do you really think you're going to sink by hitting just one tiny log?" I smiled at them.
"Okay... if you say so... Crash, follow our lead..." Coco said as she breathed in and then jumped in, immediately righting herself so she was looking at the sky with her back on the water, her looking a bit scared at first before she saw that she was floating just like I was.
"See? What'd this sloth girl tell ya?" I smirked, Tawna smiling and jumping in after and also getting on her back, followed by Crash, who also got on his back and me then looking ahead and smiling.
"Okay, it's a straight shot until a small waterfall ahead, guys. When we reach it, get out on the bank, go up it, and then back in the water," I smiled at them.
"Sounds great," Tawna smiled as she started to kick along with Coco and Crash followed after me, our group having to take out some fish on the way through, as they were piranha, but the bandicoot trio found that simply spinning in the water would eliminate them as well as give them quite a good speed boost. We reached the waterfall and went up the side on the bank before we then got into the water again. But when I got in it, I felt something under my feet. I dove under and picked it from the bottom to see it was another gem. This one looked exactly like the orange one as before! But the thing with the orange gems was that they were much tinier than the others we'd been finding. Almost as big as my fist for each one.
"These gems look pretty cool, but boy are they the tiniest of them all... I wonder..." I smiled as I got out of the water temporarily and put them in my shoes, right behind my heels. When I did so, I gasped as, out of bloody nowhere, I actually felt them enter my skin! And when they did, I immediately tried to run forward and I gasped as did the bandicoots at what I did. I RAN ON FUCKING WATER BABY! I ran all the way to the end to what looked to be the entrance to a native village, me waiting patiently for the other bandicoots and smiling at how they got to me with smiles on their faces.
"What the hell was that awesomeness?! You just ran on water!" Tawna beamed at me.
"I don't know what the hell happened, but when I put those gems in my shoes, I felt them enter my feet! And then, when I ran, my feet moved so fast I was able to run on water! I'm Jesus!" I smiled widely.
"Well, let's not go that far," Coco smirked at me with a chuckle.
"Fine, fine, I'm just super fast," I smirked.
"That you are," Tawna smirked as Crash gave me a knuckle bump.
"Time to go to this village... I wonder what we'll have waiting for us when we go in there?" Coco smiled. When we went through the gates, I smirked at how the place had some pretty cool streets but also had a nearby pen filled with warthogs.
"I've got a silly idea, but how about you guys hijack those warthogs and you ride them through the village?" I smirked at them.
"Do we have to?" Coco asked. I was all smiles when, unbeknownst to her, Crash had already rushed to the pen and jumped on the back of a warthog, the pig trying to buck him off, but Crash staying on and pulling on its ears to make it obey.
"Well, Crash looks like he's eager to do so. Besides, they don't look to dirty. And we may even be able to score some food if we can get through this village and onto the other side with them," Tawna smiled.
"Uh... aren't we herbivores, though?" I asked... my stomach responded by growling the moment I thought of bacon. "Dammit... looks like our mutated genes made us omnivorous... my stomach doesn't usually growl for anything relating to meat..." I groaned as I held onto it with a frown.
"Well, time to wrangle up these pigs, then. You get the natives out of our way and we'll eat once we get out of the village," Coco smiled. I then waited as she and Tawna got on their hogs and I then proceeded to run ahead of them and smack the tribesmen out of the way with some super speedy punches, there being at least ten in total before we reached the end and it happened to be a large door with a keyhole to it.
"Damn... knew it wouldn't be that easy. We need the key and I'm pretty sure the one to have it would be the chief. Any ideas on where his house would be?" I smiled at the trio. It was Tawna who pointed to a house overlooking the gate from the top of a hill.
"It's that house right at the top of the hill. His name is Papu Papu and he's gonna be tough if he's the chief," Tawna said.
"Nice to know. But with my new super speed, I highly doubt he'd be able to be a match for me," I smiled as I ran up the hill and wondered what Papu Papu would look like, sound like, and smell like.