Red: Chapter I
I felt my seed being generated from inside my onion, and it only took a split second. Suddenly, I soared into the air and sunk into the ground. I felt the soil nurture my body, and I was beginning to grow legs and arms. Shortly after, my eyes appeared, though it was too dark in the ground to see, and a nose. Three claws grew on my arms and legs. My stem shot upwards from the ground. I was ready to be picked!
I waited shortly, until I felt a tug, and flew upwards. I was a Red. I knew instinctively that I could withstand extreme heat and was better at fighting than other pikmin colors. Speaking of which, I noticed that there were no other colors, only us Reds, and there were only four others Reds besides myself. We must be a new colony.
I looked around, observing the surroundings. It was a very green area, with much grass and shrubbery. Some flowers were scattered here and there. There were stumps where large trees used to be. No enemies were in sight. It was a pleasant area.
I searched for our Leader. He was in a strange space suit with a clear globe around his head. Even though this perplexed me, I saw a long antennae on him that was red, so he must be one of us. He blew his whistle, and I and another pikmin ran towards him. He took the five of us to a large, red pellet. He commanded us to grab it. I did so, and we made our way back to the onion. When we placed it beneath the beam coming from my onion, it was sucked up and more seeds came out. As the Leader plucked them up, I took the chance to greet my fellows.
"Hi, how long have you guys been here?"
"We all just got here today, and I was the first," said one of the pikmin. He seemed a little stronger than the rest of us, and I was jealous of it.
There were now ten of us. The Leader took us to a small box. We swarmed the box and pushed it. Finally, I was getting to do some real work. We easily pushed it out of the way. I looked to my right and saw something really strange. It was an item. It was round and had many cylindrical objects moving up and down repeatedly. The Leader saw it too, and I noticed that his eyes lit up when he saw it. He signaled for us to go get it. We obey without hesitating. But, try as we might, the ten of us could not do it.
He pulled us back. He was taking us back towards the onion. Then, he grabbed the pikmin nearest to him (it was the strong looking one), and threw him at a large flower. The pikmin hit the flower with his leaf until it collapsed, releasing a small pellet. He grabbed the next closest pikmin, me. He threw me in the air. I never knew that this would be so enjoyable. I landed next to the pellet. I was able to lift it by myself. I took it back to the onion as the Leader took the rest of the Pikmin to another flower. When I reached my destination, the onion once again absorbed the pellet, and two new pikmin were made.
The Leader took us back toward the strange item I saw earlier, but this time he commanded us to carry three small pellets and one large pellet back to our onion. When we were all done with that, there were 25 of us. I figured that 25 pikmin would be strong enough to carry anything, and I was right. We carried the item from earlier with ease. I don't know why, but some reason we knew we should not take this to the onion. Instead, we took it to a large, metallic-looking onion that looked like it was stuck in the ground. We set the item down in front of this strange onion, and it sucked the item up, just like my onion sucked up the pellets.
The onion flipped in the air and landed what must have been right-side-up. The piece I helped carry earlier was now placed at the bottom of the Metallic Onion. Just now did I notice how dark it was, and even though I was a Red, I was afraid. I knew that other creatures fought more aggressively in the dark. Luckily for me, the Leader seemed to know this as well. He dismissed us to go back inside our onion. We crawled up the stalks leading up to the onion and went inside. It was nice and warm.
I heard a loud nose. The Metallic Onion was lifting off the ground. My onion folded its stalks and followed the other. We rose high into the air, until I could no longer distinguish any details on the ground. I was afraid of the hight, but it was also peaceful being up here.
I found a nice spot inside the onion to lay down in. I thought about all that I did that day. It actually wasn't that exciting. There were no battles. I knew that fighting bigger enemies should be avoided if possible, but I wanted to fight. It was in my blood. I am sure that we will have to fight eventually. Anyway, if there is fighting tomorrow, I best get to sleep now. My first day was over.
I know the first chapter is not that exciting, but it was the first day. Please review.
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