Chapter 3

A/N: Hey guys. Sorry about last chapter. My fight scene was a bit brutal. I already got the villain, though! It's more like a extremely powerful creature, but still. They're going to have a bad time fighting it. Anyway, here is Chapter 3!

My eyes flickered open and I yawned and stretched. I looked around, expecting to see the forest, but was greeted with red walls. I almost jumped up, but remembered that we were in the red Onion. I relaxed and looked at Lily, who was on top of me. She was snuggled into my chest and snoozing away. That's my little sister for ya. So clingy. I felt the Onion jolt and figured that we landed. Well, can't leave her here to go hunting.

I nudged her a little and she just groaned and snuggled into me deeper. Oh, this was going to be fun. "Lily, wake up." I nudged her harder, but she said,"No, five more minutes…" "OK" I grabbed her, threw her over my back, causing her to squeak in surprise, and just started twirling in a circle. "SHADEY, STOP!" She started giggling and said,"YOU'RE GONNA MAKE ME HURL!" "WELL, YOU SAID FIVE MORE MINUTES, SO UNLESS YOU GET UP NOW, FIVE MINUTES OF TWIRLING!" Needless to say, she got up.

We went to the legs and saw a couple other Pikmin there. Crimson and Derpy, along with a few unnamed ones. "Heya, Crimson. What's up? We going out there?" Crimson looked at me and nodded. "As soon as Bubble Boss calls us out, we'll be going." Bubble Boss? Crimson must have seen the confusion on me face, so he decided to clarify. "You call him Olimar, we call him Bubble Boss because of the bubble around his head." My God.

Finally, Olimar called us out and we slid down the legs. Well, everyone except me and Derpy did. As I was sliding down, I heard Derpy's voice yell, "Look out!" I looked up and saw Derpy sliding towards me faster than I was sliding. "Uh oh." Is all I could say before she collided into me and we both fell down. Hitting the ground with a thud, we both slowly got up and groaned. I looked at her and said, "Let us never speak of that again." She looked at me and nodded. "Agreed."

We joined Olimar and I said, "Hey, Olimar? I need to go hunting, I'll be back later, OK?" Lily perked up at this. She always wanted to go hunting, but was always asleep whenever I went. "Take me with you Shadey!" Wow, she seemed excited. "Well, I don't know. It's dangerous." Then she whipped out the most dangerous weapon known to Dryad kind. The puppy dog eyes. "Pleeeeeeaaaaasssseee?" Sweet Gaia, my defenses are not strong enough for this. "Fine. You can come. But if it's anything to dangerous, you hang back and let me do the work." "Yay!" Heheheh, my little sister is just to adorable.

We walked out into the field as Olimar gathered the Pikmin to look for food. I thought that easy pickings was wogpoles. "Hey, Lily. Want some grilled wogpole?" She looked up at me with a beaming smile. "Yes, please!" "OK, then, you know how to use your claws, right?" She nodded and sharpened the tips of her fingers. Unlike the ancient human race that were our races ancestors, we didn't have finger nails. Finger nails are so useless, they can easily come of.

We dove into the pond and Lily swam around, trying to catch the wogpoles. That doesn't work. You have to sit still and wait. Like what I was doing. I sat in the water, perfectly still, waiting for a wogpole to come close enough. Then I saw Lily swimming toward me, and she was crying. I immediately went to her and asked,"Hey hey hey, what's wrong." When she lifted her head to look at me, I saw a giant red mark on the side of her face. I could already guess what happened.

"Which one?" She pointed to a wogpole that was giving me the evil eye. And on the other eye, were two scratch marks. It was that bratty little wogpole from yesterday. I looked at Lily and said, "Wait here." I started swimming over the wogpole with killing intent. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, hurts my little sister. This wogpole knows what's good, because it got out of there, FAST! I glared at it as it swam off and turned back to Lily. She had stopped crying, but was still teary eyed. "Hey, how about you go and treat that? I'll get breakfast." She nodded and swam to get out of the pond.

OK, I wanted to get her some breakfast, so I did a little trick that hurts. A lot. I was too impatient to wait, so I shot vines from my arm like a cannon. I do this my enhancing the growth of the vines in my arm to where it shoots out. It impaled a wogpole, sadly not the one that slapped Lily, and I reeled him in. After a few minutes, the pain of shooting my arm out subsided. It feels like a burning feeling, probably what Olimar would call tearing a muscle.

Bringing the wogpole onto the shore, I saw Lily sitting under a tree. She was rubbing the place that wogpole slapped her and pouting. I put the wogpole on the ground and built a fire. "Hey, Lily! You always wanted to learn how to cook, so come on! Lemme show you how to cook as great as your big bro!" She perked up immediately and ran over. "Yay! Time to learn how to make yummy food!" I looked at her face and nearly burst out laughing. Her smile looked like one of a cats. (A/N: She has the famous anime cat grin.) "Alright, time to learn how to cook a wogpole, Sis."

*****Cooking with Dryads*****

"OK, Lily, first, you fillet the wogpole." She nodded, keeping that grin on, and said, "How do I do that?" "Like this." I took my pointer thorn and ran it along the belly of the wogpole, making a cut in it. I opened the cut and the innards then proceeded to become outards. Lily has now lost the grin and replaced it with a grimace. But she was determined to learn how to cook, so she stayed. "OK, so now you just gut it and remove what skeleton there is." After saying this, I proceeded to rip out the organs, rib cage, spine, and skull. Lily was looking a little green at this point.

"OK, now you just take your claws and elongate them to about a foot long to cut the meat up." We both elongated our claws and got on each side of the wogpole. I dug my claws into the wogpole and started cutting into the meat. We cut it into steaks and put it onto a slab of meat. "Now we just put some stone over the fire and let that heat up." Lily looked toward the stone slab I had picked out for the grilling. She seemed to want to put it on, but she has trouble lifting a wogpole while I can drag a Bulborb. That stone was about the weight of a Dwarf Bulborb.

She walked over to it and tried to lift it, but couldn't. She kept straining to lift it, but she wasn't even budging it. She was starting to worry me. What finally got me laughing was when her hands slipped from the stone and she fell flat on her butt. When I walked over to help her up, I saw that she was pouting and whining. This was just to funny. I grabbed her arm and hoisted her up and said,"You OK?" She was still pouting and said,"My butt hurts." At this I burst out laughing and fell to the floor. WHO JUST SAYS, MY BUTT HURTS? Her face turned red and she said, "It's not funny, Shadey!" I beg to differ.

I got up and wiped a tear away from my eye and said, alright, we wasted enough time already. Let's learn how to cook it." She had her cheek puffed out angrily, but decided to stick around and learn. The stone was moved by me to avoid any further butt aches. After a while, the slab was hot enough, which I checked to make sure by flicking water onto it. When the water sizzled and danced, it was ready. "OK, you have one slab, I have one slab. Let's cook this." We put our wogpole meat slabs onto the fire at the same time and I gave tips about it as it cooked.

"OK, don't poke it with you twigs to much, OK? The more holes in this thing, the more juices leak out and thus less flavor." She nodded and continued to manipulate her twigs to check if it was ready to flip. While I am a vine attribute, Lily is wood, like our mom. She can grow wood, but it takes a little longer to grow. But once she grows the wood, she can manipulate it at a reasonable speed. So while I was patiently waiting for the meat to cook, she was constantly checking under it to see if it was ready to flip.

When it was ready to flip, I said, "OK, flip it." the moment I said that, her twigs flipped it over…and off the slab. Luckily I was fast enough to grab it with the vines I had out, but she had been to excited. Putting it back on the stone, I looked up to see Lily with most relieved face I had ever seen. "Be careful, OK, Lily?" She nodded and we went back to cooking. After a little while, I said, "Take it off, it's done." She took it off, wrapping her twigs around it completely this time. She had the most intense look of concentration I had ever seen, like she had been preparing her whole life for this moment. She managed to successfully put it on the leaf that was were the finished steaks went and sighed in relief.

"Now for the taste test. Lets try yours since you already know what mine tastes like." We both grabbed a piece and took a bite. It…wasn't that bad actually. In fact, it was rather good. "Huh, it tastes good! Nice job, Lily!" She got stars in her eyes from the praise and had the proudest look on her face. We continued to eat and Lily cooked the rest of the steaks alone. I'm proud of her. She needs to learn this, I might not be around for much longer, with all these creatures trying to eat us. I saw Lily get an extra leaf and put a steak on it. I was curious about what was going on, so I just watched. She walked up to Olimar and handed him the steak, and I could see her beaming up at him. He looked at the steak for a moment before taking it and smiling. He rubbed her head and I could see his lips move in a "Thank you" motion. I have never seen my sister more happy than someone accepting her cooking.

*****End Cooking with Dryads*****

Well, with breakfast over, and Olimar in the Dolphin eating his steak, I went to the Pikmin and said, "Breakfast, anybody?" Surprisingly, they actually did have mouths. They were just really, really tiny. So they accepted the breakfast and went to the steaks. They absolutely demolished Lily's cooking and complemented her on it. Her face was brighter than the sun right now, she was so happy. I don't think she knows I know this, but after the Pikmin left, she did a little happy dance. I love seeing her happy, but this was the happiest I have ever seen her. Well, time to get to work. Since after Olimar leaves, we will be in control of the Pikmin, I decided to get Lily used to the leadership.

Going to the Onions, I gave Lily control over twenty-five yellows and I took control of twenty-five reds. It was time to teach her how to command the Pikmin. "OK, Lily. Now, what we want to do is find Olimar's ship parts. Think of it as a game of Treasure Hunt." We always played that in our free time and she absolutely loved it. Even now, since it's now a game of Treasure Hunt, she is beaming. "Yay! Treasure Hunting!" Good Lord, she is excited. "OK, hold on." I walked up to the ship and knocked on it. "Olimar, you got a map of where your parts are? We sorta need it." The only reply I got from him was him throwing out a map. Apparently this was his, "Whimsical Radar", or whatever.

Going back to Lily, I could see that the map was actually a map of the whole area. It took me a while to figure out how to move it around. This magic stuff isn't what I'm good at. I saw that the ship parts were listed as stars instead of X's like I'm used to. Well, lets do this. "Hey, Lily, I got the map. Look at this." She crowded next to me and looked at the map. There was a part not far from where the yellow Onion was. Then there was one farther in the woods.

"OK, you look for the one near where we found the yellow Onion, I'll look deeper." She nodded enthusiastically, but then stopped. "Um, what do I do then?" I facepalmed. Well, this is a predicament. "Electra, teach her the ropes." As I walked away from the group, I could see Electra try to teach Lily when I looked back, but was failing. Miserably so. This was gonna be a long day.

A/N:Sorry everyone for not completing the day, it was taking to long, and I'm a little stuck on this. Let me know ideas, and how you liked it! Geno out!