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Chapter 3: Aqua's morning

I was used to sudden awakenings by now, I can't tell you how many times a ship jolted and woke me up, but waking up to a sudden burst of light, followed shortly by a startled yelp and a thump, is not something you want. I sleepily looked over and saw Daisy on the floor. She must have been startled and fallen off the bed. In fact, she probably turned the light on by accident. Once we made sure she was ok, I let her and Flame get dressed, then we went for breakfast. "Ok, I made eggs for Flame and grits for Daisy, if the eggs are too tough for you let me know" mom said, serving them. She gave me a muffin like usual. Daisy once again made a mess, though I don't think there's a way to avoid it, but all Flame did was get grease on his clothes from wiping his hands, and May was able to quickly get it out. I should probably teach them about utensils once they could eat all foods. After we were done with breakfast, the Doctors called saying someone wanted to see me again. When we got there, they led me to a room that was cool and moist, neither Daisy nor Flame would go in though. "This one was different from the rest. She seems to have cold sweats, but we can touch her. She doesn't freak out when we offer her water, and we actually had to stop her from drinking so she wouldn't drown herself." The girl's hair was like Daisy's, except eye level down was brown and it was wavy. Instead of a suit, she was wearing a blue dress. Based on Daisy and Flames descriptions, I figured this was Aqua. I felt her arm, and it was moist and cool, even more so than the air. I lightly shook her and her eyes fluttered open. Daisy and Flame both had matching brown eyes, but Aqua's eyes were a bright blue "huh?" she said sleepily. "Morning sleepy head" I said. She immediately jumped up and hugged me, then she fell back onto the bed. I had to admit, she looked really pretty, not that I was in love with her or anything…anyways. "You should take it easy Aqua, you're not used to your body yet" I said "my body?" she asked, confused. I had forgotten that blue pikmin love water, and had thought she had figured out she was human, but I guess not. She looked at herself "whoa" she said, surprised. I was able to get her to eat pretty easily after that, and after she stopped sweating, I helped her get used to her new body. After my dad convinced the nurse to let her come home with us, we went outside. "Aqua!" Flame was the first to notice her. This time when he ran up to her, he only stumbled a bit as he hugged her. "Hi to you too Flame" she said, giggling. Daisy hugged her, taking a much slower pace, after Flame had let go. When we got home, Daisy was able to turn on the TV without breaking the remote, Flame went to help my mom again, and Aqua saw our pool, and immediately ran into the glass door. After May finished laughing, she opened the door and Aqua jumped in, fully clothed. That's when I noticed her dress doubled as swim wear, and actually helped her glide through the water. After watching her for a bit, I went down stairs to make her sleep wear. It took me a bit to figure it out, but I found out that each of the pikmin's abilities never actually left them when they changed to human form. The reason each of the three had something different about them is because the body was trying to harness the energy, and doing a bad job at that. When she came in, her clothes were as dry as before, it was as if she had never gone swimming! Then I handed her the clothes "put this on" I said. After saying it, I expected to go through the same thing I did with Daisy, but instead of putting the clothes over the dress, she walked into the bathroom. A few minutes later, she came out in her sleepwear "wow, this is SUPPER comfy!" she said. Huh, she already seemed more human than the others. While her teeth were still too weak to eat anything tough, she had no problem keeping most of the mashed potatoes off her clothes, she even used the spoon my mom had put there, though she had a hard time keeping it steady. Aqua seemed the most adapted, though I wasn't at all sure why. She did seem more human to me before, maybe it has something to do with how her mind formed. Trying to figure this out on only a little bit of observation was infuriating though, so I tried to shake the thought off. Aqua would not stop drinking though, I guess as a pikmin she had lots of water all the time, so she still wanted a lot. After a bit I had to stop her so she wouldn't drink too much. The others started playing tag, and unfortunately they weren't used to the human body and they kept knocking over things and tripping, which wasn't good. Flame was pretty easy to catch, but Daisy had the agility of a cat, and May was doing more damage than the two of them had trying to catch her. Luckily Daisy was less used to her body than Flame was, and she tripped, which allowed May to pin her down. "I think its bed time now" May said, panting. Aqua was more than happy to get into the bottom bunk of the next bed, and I ended up at the top. "Good night you guys" I said. Unlike the past few nights, I got a "good night" back from Aqua, who then quickly fell asleep. I figured I'd need my rest for dealing with tomorrow.

I forgot to put this up, I'm really sorry! This is before the last chapter because I forgot to put it, I usually don't, again, really sorry!