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Chapter 10: poisonous road
I woke up screaming, which apparently startled the captains, who came running.
"Alex! Are you ok?" Olimar asked.
"I-I'm fine" I said shakily. I had just had a nightmare where just about every bad creature had attacked me at once…at least, I think that's what it was.
"What happened? Did something attack you?" Alph asked.
"No…just a bad dream…" I said, slowly calming down. I couldn't remember most of the dream; just strange shadows that seemed to conceal my worst fears…I can't remember ever having a dream like that since I was seven.
"Well, nothing's going to hurt you now" Olimar said. The onions landed just then.
"Ok" I said "Alph, do you have Brittany's signal?" I asked
"She's down the grey path" Alph said.
"Ok, 100 whites it is" I said. We took out 100 whites, and then started walking down the Grey path.
It was really more of a dark Grey when I thought about it…not that a 10 year old should know the difference. The path itself was unremarkable, though it was also kind of barren. There were a few greenish-purple plants along the path, but otherwise just grass and walls.
We got to an arena area again, but nothing was there…again. There was a gate that had what looked like poison generators, but since we had the whites I figured it would be fine…until I tried to walk through it and almost suffocated.
"Ok…that poison is REALLY strong" I said.
"It seems to go through the space suit" Olimar mused.
Just then, I heard the roar. In moments, a cloud of purple gas started forming, twirling around itself like a cyclone. Parts of the cloud formed arms and hands, legs and feet, or other parts of a body. Finally, most of it had squeezed together, and standing in front of us was a large purple monster.
"Why are you here?" it asked, more curiosity in its voice than anger.
"We were following a signal" I replied, used to the monsters talking by now "I'm sorry if we bothered you"
The monster looked at me "then leave, that way we don't have a problem" it said.
"The thing is…we need to get past the wall of poison" I said, pointing towards the gateway "but the poison is too strong"
"Sounds like a problem" it said. Before we had time to react, it shot a ball of acid at us, causing the pikmin to scatter as we barely moved out of the way in time. The pikmin were fine, of course, but we wouldn't have been.
"You aren't getting past there" the monster said "so you can run, or you can try to fight…your choice" it shot another acid ball at us.
"Ok, he won't let us through" I said as we dodged another acid ball.
"I got him!" Toxic said. In a moment, the whites swarmed the monster.
It was a mixture of purple and white as the creature tried spraying the whites with poison, but had no effect. Chaos broke out as the creature started reforming itself as more than one, or even tried to distract the whites.
After what seemed like hours, the monster gave a final roar, and then burst. White goo rained down as the poisonous gas dissipated.
"Looks like that's done" I said
"Yea…but where's Brittany?" Alph asked.
I looked at my game pad "it says she's nearby" I said "my guess is she's somewhere passed the poison wall"
"Then why hasn't she come over then?" Alph asked.
"We can't get over there yet, so let's come back later" Olimar suggested.
"Good idea" I replied "I'm feeling a bit dizzy anyways" we headed back towards the Obelisk. Let me tell you, whites are VERY hyperactive.
"What are we going to do? Are we going back to the onion? Are we going to see other pikmin? Maybe we'll see new enemies!" Toxic went on and on…and Nock wasn't much better.
"Maybe there are other pikmin! I wonder what they think of us. What do the current pikmin think of us? Maybe I'll be a leader and make my own pikmin some day!" he just went on at 100 words a minute.
Most of the whites were either talking supper fast or running circles around each other, but I noticed Toxic would also look around her occasionally and point at things, or change the subject.
When we got to the obelisk, most of the pikmin went back into the onion. The only ones still out were Toxic and Nock, who both seemed to need to burn off energy. I knew whites were faster than others, what I didn't know, and now realized, was that their fast pace came from them being hyper all the time. Although that didn't explain why they were so weak…
"Can I go out? Please?" Nock was asking Toxic.
"No way, you'll get lost again" Toxic replied. Again? Something told me Nock was known for getting into trouble.
"Come on! I'll be careful this time, I promise!" Nock insisted "pretty please?"
"No" Toxic said firmly.
"But you never let me do anything!" Nock complained. I found their arguing kind of fun to watch actually.
"That's because you always get yourself into trouble" Toxic said. I noticed Toxic had a flower and Nock had a leaf, and I started thinking about the possibility of growth based on the flower they had.
"But I won't this time!" Nock said.
"How about you two get into the onion for tonight" I said. I decided it would be best if they just went to bed.
"Sure thing" Toxic said happily.
"Whatever" Nock muttered. They both went into the onion just as the onions took off.
I noticed Olimar had been watching, taking notes on a note pad I had found in the ship, but he soon wet off to bed.
I decided he had the right idea, and I went to my normal sleeping spot, and fell asleep quickly.
Yay! Another chapter done! I have no idea why it's so hard for me to come up with ideas…oh well! I have an idea for the next chapter that I've been wanting to use, so that should come quicker…oh, and I think the ending is going to be AMAZING, if a bit confusing. Remember: I love criticism, reviews REALLY encourage me, and I'm open to input. Bye for now!