Chapter 2

After Lily had calmed down, I cooked the Dwarf Bulborb into steaks. After eating, I told Lily of what happened. She seemed excited and when I mentioned that the next day Olimar was coming, she went and took a bath. What's that gonna do? We sleep on dirty stuff. That night, as we were star gazing, we saw the Dolphin and Onion go into the air. "That's him." I said, pointing to the Dolphin. "Wooooaahh." I chuckled at Lily's awe. I nuzzled her head and she nuzzled back. Pretty soon, I heard her breath even out and stay repetitive. She's sleeping. I shrugged and decided to sleep as well, so with one last look at the stars, I closed my eyes and went into the realm of the subconscious.

***The next morning***

As usual, I woke up and went hunting. But since we were having the extraordinarily rare guest over, I decided to get something tastier. Instead of a Dwarf Bulborb, I got three Male Sheargrubs. The females this time of year laid eggs, so they weren't that tasty. Getting back, I took three sticks and pierced the Sheargrubs, putting them over the fire. Lily woke up and said,"Good Morning, Shadey.""Morning, Lily." Going to her usual position behind my back, she glomped herself on me and watched the Sheargrubs roast.

After a while, we both heard a roar. We looked up at the sky to see the Dolphin and Onion come down. I smiled and said,"Well, you wanted to meet him. Let's go." We climbed and jumped through the trees to get to Olimar. Well, I did. Lily just held onto my back. When we got there, Olimar was getting out of the Dolphin. "Hey, Olimar!" He turned to me as I jumped down from the tree. Lily got nervous and hid behind me. "Good morning, Chaos. How are you today?""Good. You?" He groaned and stretched. "I could be better. I can't wait until I get the cabin back." I chuckled and said,"This is my sister, Lily. Say hi, Lily." I moved out of the way so He could see her. Lily seemed shy, but said,"Hi." Olimar smiled and said,"Hello, Lily! I'm Olimar. It's a pleasure to meet you." Olimar held out his hand, and Lily perked up. She took it and they shook."It's nice to meet you to, Ollie!" There's my little sister.

Olimar seemed confused. "Ollie?""Yeah, she gives nicknames to everyone she can. Come on. The part's this way." I went to take a route he could follow, but it was blocked off by a wall. "Oh." This could be problematic. Olimar took the Pikmin out and joined me. "Yeah. There's a wall in our way. How are we supposed to get past?" I looked at him and then to the Dolphin."Can't you fly the ship over the wall?" He shook his head no. "In order to land the Dolphin, there needs to be a place it can land without tipping over. That's the only safe place." Oh. Well, we have a problem.

Hmm… The Pikmin were said to be strong in numbers. Maybe they could help? "Crimson, take the others and attack the wall. Take it down." Crimson nodded and and the Pikmin all attacked. At first nothing happened, but after a little while, it started to break down. "There we go! Now we're getting somewhere!" After a few minutes, and me helping out by punching it, the wall was destroyed. "That's one obstacle overcome!"

We walked out and there were a bunch of Pellet Posies and a few dwarf bulborbs. "OK, Olimar, take the Pikmin and throw them on top of those DB's, Lily and I got the Pellet Posies." Olimar looked confused."DB's? what are those?" I pointed to the Dwarf Bulborbs and said,"Those are DB's. Short for Dwarf Bulborbs. Throw them on top of them, throwing them any where else might get them eaten." He nodded and went to deal with the DB's. I turned to Lily and smiled. "Well, sis, let's do this." She nodded and we went up to the Pellet Posies. They were about ten times our height, so when Lily was around, we would do a little something. I would throw her up onto the pellet of the posey, and she would pry it out, even if it took a little while. After that, she would flip the pellet of the plant, and, as the posey was wilting, ride it down.

We worked as a team and, before long, we got them all. Lily stacked about three pellets onto me and as I was carrying them to the Onion, I saw the Pikmin carrying the DB's back, also. We reached the Onion about the same time, and the Onion absorbed the stuff we brought and spit out more Pikmin. I still don't get the logic of that, but I learned to accept it. While Olimar and Lily were plucking the Pikmin, I went and scouted the area for any parts that might be there. I came across a part that looked like two cylinders on top of a circle. But close to it was an adult Bulborb. I contemplated what to do here. I decided to do something stupid. I walked up to it and jumped. When I reached the height of the eyeball, I slashed it.

It awoke with a screech and saw me. I had a poker face on. "Whelp, that didn't work." I took off running with it at my heels. It wasn't stopping and there was no way I was going to lead back to the others. So I stopped, turned around, and ran at it. It wasn't expecting that and couldn't stop in time to try and bite me.

I slid under it and jumped on it's back. These things are rather stupid, so maybe I could use its size as an advantage. It shook itself, trying to get me off, but I dug my claws in and held on. It fell down, trying to use vibrations to get me off, but I was using a little trick I learned over the years.

You see, Dryad's are part plant. So we can grow our plant parts at will. Since I had my claws in it, I could push the rest of my arms in by tearing away the flesh. Which exactly what I did. Ignoring the blood, I jammed both arms in, causing the Bulborb to screech. I started growing my arms into it. My arms are a vine type, like my dad's, so I can grow a lot faster. The plan was taking over the Bulborb's body and use it against anything else. It has to be alive and the heart pumping, however. This is the first time I used it on something so big.

This Bulborb proved to be smarter than it let on. It rolled onto its back, causing its weight to be pressed on me. This wasn't good. While Dryad's have the ability to grow, we don't really have that strong of skeletons. I could already feel my bones cracking. I used my feet to grow roots and pull under the ground and caused the Bulborb to get stuck. I resurfaced a few minutes later a few inches away from the Bulborb. Plenty of distance between us. Or so I thought.

The Bulborb moved faster than I could get out of the ground and got to me before I could run. It bit my leg and picked me up. This wasn't good at all. Is this were I die? It threw me up in the air and waited for me to fall back down with its mouth wide open.

As I fell, I thought that this is definitely the end of the line. I hoped Olimar would take care of Lily while he was here. I was almost to the Bulborbs mouth, but then something tackled me out of the way as the Bulborb's mouth snapped shut.

We rolled along the ground a bit before stopping. I looked up to see who my savior was and was surprised. "Crimson?!" This little Pikmin saved my life. "Hey Boss! You can't die on us yet!" I was starting to like this Pikmin. But before I could say anything, a shadow loomed over us. The Bulborb was about to eat both of us.

But before it could move, from its side it was hit with a barrage of Pikmin. I looked over to see both Olimar and Lily throwing Pikmin onto it. The Bulborb shook itself, but couldn't get all the Pikmin off of it. I decided to get back in the fight. "Shall we?" I asked Crimson. His expression turned into what would have been a smirk if he had a mouth. "You got it, Boss!"

I picked him up by the stem and threw him onto the Bulborb and jumped after him. We both landed beside each other he started whacking it with his leaf and I tore into his flesh again. Only this time, my aim wasn't taking control. It was killing this thing. When I opened a hole big enough, I stuck my feet in, causing Crimson to stop hitting the Bulborb. "Uh, Boss? What are you doing?" I grinned at him as my feet grew roots into the Bulborb's flesh. "Just getting rid of a pest, the old fashioned way."

I pulled myself into the Bulborb and burrowed through it. Yeah, I know, not that pleasant, but it got the job done. I could feel vibrations in this guy. Guess he was screaming in pain. 'Let's see here, the heart, the heart, where are you? Ah! Here you are!' I grabbed onto the heart, which was as big as a pellet, and squeezed.

My claws ripped into it and soon I had the thing all but destroyed. I had to get out of here fast. My breath was running out. I burrowed through the flesh and found the sternum. Perfect. I squeezed through the ribs and tore at the flesh. Soon, I had It weak enough for me to escape. I burst through the chest and out to sweet, fresh air.

I gasped and got my breath back, happy to breath once more. After awhile, I got up and walked back to were the others were. Crimson saw me and came running. "What was that? Did you kill that thing from the inside or something?" I nodded and said,"Yep. Squashed its heart. You and the other Pikmin take it back to the Onion, I gotta take Olimar somewhere.

He nodded, saluted me, and did as he was told. I went to Olimar and said,"Hey, I found one of you parts. It's not the one at our place, but it should work." I then looked at myself. My clothes were all bloody. I looked back at him and rubbed the back of my head. "Eheheh, give me a minute, alright? Gotta wash up." He nodded and said,"Go ahead. It looks like you've been to a slaughter house."

I walked to the pond that was there and just jumped in. I swam around for a bit, letting the blood wash out of my clothes. I was about to get out when I felt something hit me. I turned and saw a wogpole. It wasn't like the others. It almost felting like it was trolling me. We stared at each other for a bit before I got out. As soon as I got out, it jumped in the water and splashed me.

I turned and stared at it with a death glare and it didn't give a shit. I turned and started walking away, but this, THIS BRAVE ASS WOGPOLE, jumped out of the water and tail slapped me back into the pond. I was beyond mad now. It got back in the water and stared at me. I swiped at it, but missed. This thing was taunting me. It stayed just out of my reach. I got back out and it tried the same thing, but I swiped at it and hit its eye. It now had two scratches along its eye and was half blind.

It squeaked and jumped back in the water. Have a nice life, pal. I walked back to Olimar and showed him the part. He was ecstatic. "This is the Eternal Fuel Dynamo! With this, I'll never run out of fuel!" I chuckled at his happiness. He looked like he was glowing from the joy he felt. "Glad I could be of service. Now lets get it back to the ship. Crimson! Carry this back, I'm gonna show Olimar the part at my place."

With another salute, he took the Pikmin and carried the part back to the Dolphin, but they dropped it on the way. "Hey hey hey, what happened?" Crimson pulled one of the Pikmin up to me and said,"This idiot dropped it, sir. The rest of us couldn't hold it." I looked at the Pikmin and she looked nervous and fidgety. "Hey, it's alright. Don't worry about it. Hey, from this incident, you get a name." She perked up instantly and said,"Really?! I get a name?" I smirked and said,"Yep. Your name's Derpy now."

She didn't look as excited now, but was still grateful for a name. Now for the part at my place. I turned and started walking, but saw from this distance that a wall was in the way. "OH, COME ON!" I walked back to the Pikmin and helped them carry the part back to the ship and plucked the Pikmin. This was getting frustrating fast. I went back to the wall with all the Pikmin and told them to break it down.

It took a much shorter time to break down this wall because we had more Pikmin. We walked through the destroyed remnants of the wall and saw a DB and a Bulborb. I deadpanned and said,"Alright, not doing this again." I walked past the DB and just impaled it with my thorns. Then I walked up to the Bulborb and used my brain…and took his. I pulled my arm back and dug my claws deep into his forehead.

It woke up and tried to get me off, but I knew what to do. I clawed my way to his skull and started scratching on it. I made a crack in it and grew my vines into it. After a while, the Bulborb fell to the floor motionless. I had dug into his brain. I walked past it, not caring in the slightest if it got taken back to the Onion or not, and I saw another Onion. It was really close to where we spent the past few nights. HOW DID I MISS THIS? I walked up to it and triggered the whole thing again.

After plucking the Yellow Pikmin and naming it Electra, I ordered it to get some pellets. After getting some Yellow Pikmin, I saw, guess what? ANOTHER WALL! I was getting triggered. How many walls were there? This time it was made of rock. I heard that bomb rocks were used by the Pikmin to blow up rock walls. OK, I'm going to have to find some bomb rocks, then.

I scoured the area for bomb rocks and found a few in a giant metal container. "Electra, take your Pikmin and get those bomb rocks, then throw them at that wall." "Yes, sir!" She immediately did as she was told and the wall was soon destroyed by the sheer power of the bomb rocks. Our place was right over here.

Olimar and I walked through and I pointed up to the slope where me and Lily spent the past few nights. "It's up there." We threw Pikmin up there and they came back down with it. Olimar did a back flip and fell to his knees. Wow, this guy gets happy way to easily.

"This is my Whimsical Radar! With this, I can find any of my parts!" Wow, that does call for some celebration. I remembered about the Sheargrubs and climbed up there. I saw them and that they were perfectly cooked. I took them down and Gave one to Olimar. "When you get the chance, eat that. It's good food." He hesitantly took it and said,"Thank you." I went looking for Lily and gave her a sheargrub and we sat down together to eat.

"What do you think of Olimar?" I asked her. She smiled and said,"He's really nice, and he wants to know if we're alright living out here, but I told him that we've been doing it all our lives, so we we're fine." I smiled, glad to know she liked Olimar. I looked up and saw it was nearly sunset. "Whelp, let's hurry up and eat. Ya wanna stay in the Onion tonight or sleep out here?" She looked excited and said,"The Onion! Let's sleep in the Red one!"

We finished eating and discarded of the sticks. As we were getting in the Onion, I couldn't but feel like I was being watched. It was probably nothing, but it still creeped me out. When we were both in the Onion, Lily snuggled up to me and said,"Goodnight Shadey." I chuckled and hugged her. "Goodnight, Lily."

As Chaos was getting into the Onion, from afar off, something was watching him. 'I may not be able to do anything this day, but one day, Dryad, one day, you will pay.' With that thought, the wogpole sunk back into the depths to await his metamorphosis and get his revenge on the Dryad that took his eye.

A/N: So, how was that? A full day in one chapter! And it looks like we got a villain. Well, a joke of a villain. I still need a villain that will be an actual threat to be in here through the whole fanfiction. Can you guys help me with that? Geno Out!