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Chapter 3: path of fire
A loud alarm woke me up. "Enemy detected" a voice echoed "protection of human commencing"
Protection of human? Suddenly, the obelisk glowed red, and a stream of fire shot out along all of its sides. I quickly shielded myself, not that leaves would do much good. When the obelisk finally stopped, it looked like nothing had happened.
"I must be imagining things" I mumbled, standing up.
The sun was bright, just a little brighter than yesterday. I could see the bright red markings reflect the light as if they were glowing…which I thought was pretty cool. I noticed that the top section of the obelisk was a bit different from the rest. It was curved in more, like a normal obelisk, but the symbols on the red side were understandable, but the other sides weren't. On one side of the line, there was an onion; the other side had the number zero.
The onion landed on the circular symbol on the ground, and I called out all 20 pikmin. I looked at the obelisk again, and now the number 20 was on the side where the number 0 was moments before.
"I must be hallucinating" I mumbled to myself.
"Pikmin don't get hallucinations" Flame said "we just accept what we see as real, and don't try to understand it"
I shook my head "whatever, let's just go down another path" I said.
"There's one that way!" Amber said, pointing to a path that had yellow lines leading to it.
"Let's go then" I said. We headed down the path. I looked at my gamepad, which I had put in a pocket in my suit, and I noticed this was a path going towards the signal, which was good.
After a bit, we got to a dirt wall, which we quickly took down. Behind the wall was a large, circular arena. The arena had scorch marks everywhere, and behind it was a wall of fire, supplied by a row of fire geysers. Behind the fire wall, I could see two figures, one with a red suit and one with a blue…Olimar and Louie.
"Olimar?" I asked, running up to the wall.
"Alex!" he said, also running up to the wall "and you have pikmin!"
"I told you" I said "do you know how to take down this wall?"
"Try the pikmin" he said. I didn't even have to say anything as the pikmin went up to the wall…and stood there.
"These aren't closeable" Flame said.
"I don't think they can do anything" I said.
"Oh" Olimar said "well, I have a fire proof suit I might be able to use. I can help you adjust it once we get to your ship"
I was about to reply, when a loud roar echoed through the forest. "I think I'll take care of this thing first" I said, turning towards the source.
The wind picked up, throwing dust everywhere. The pikmin started running around frantically, but because of my helmet, I could see through it…and I saw a large bulborb with some red goo on it. The dust finally cleared, and we all looked at the Bulborb…who was now one large fireball.
He roared again, then looked at me, unmoving. "Uh…hi." I said, trying to keep my voice calm.
"Why are you in my nest?" the beast growled.
"Well…I kind of need to take down that fire wall" I said, pointing at the wall of fire blocking Olimar.
"No" it said "the fire is there for a reason, and I don't have to explain it. Now get out of my nest, or face the consequences"
I sighed "the consequences involve us fighting, don't they?" I asked. It nodded "well, I'm not leaving without the spaceman"
"They you don't leave at all!" it roared. Without warning, it shot a fire ball. I knew the pikmin would be fine, so I quickly moved out of the way…only to find out that the pikmin hit end up going crazy.
For about 10 minutes there was chaos between the fire bulborb trying to hit me and the pikmin running everywhere. Oh, did I mention I had gotten 100 while getting to the arena? Yea…I actually don't know how that happened myself…
So, you have pikmin running everywhere, I have a bulborb trying to fry me, and then there's the fact that my suit was going crazy from the heat. And then, the bulborb attacked…with its teeth. 5, 10, 15, 20, this guy was taking them in handfuls! With half the pikmin gone, he stopped…and the reds retaliated.
I had absolutely no idea what was happening now, and I was pretty sure Olimar felt exactly the same way.
"You've seen pikmin before, right?" I asked.
"Uh…" he stared at the fight speechless.
I rolled my eyes "that's a no" I muttered to myself.
The creature let out a loud roar, then fell. The pikmin jumped down and cheered, then, all at once, they started carrying the now dead creature back. I had to keep telling myself I had never told them to attack it in order to calm myself down. The strangest part was, the fire wall was still up and the sun would set soon.
"Come back tomorrow, we'll talk again then" Olimar said, finally regaining his voice.
"o-ok" I said shakily "see you in the morning" I walked off, trying to stop myself from crying.
I HATED when anything died. I didn't know why, I just did. I think it might have come from something that happened when I was younger, but I wasn't sure. But even though the beast wanted me dead, and I wasn't the one who killed it, it still hurt me to know something died in front of my eyes.
I got to the pikmin and plucked the 50 pikmin that had sprouted. The sun was setting, so the onion took off. I also noticed the walls with symbols were back, but I just ignored them. I laid in my normal spot and quickly fell asleep.
Yay! Two chapters in one day! This was supposed to be uploaded yesterday, but…oh well. Remember that I said the events are very dream-like, so that's why things may seem a bit…unrealistic. Remember I love criticism, reviews encourage me, and I'm open to input. Bye for now!
