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Chapter 10: the gift and the leaders
The blankets were still wet from last night. Olimar really upset me when he yelled at me. I ate quietly, still too upset to say anything. That is, until we landed in the forest of hope. Why did we land here? I said, my voice a bit shaky. "I saw something I want to look at, but wasn't able to reach. You're not still upset, are you?" his fatherly attitude was back, and I was able to stabilize my voice because of it. "A bit, but not too much." I said smiling. We then called out 34 reds, 33 yellows, and 33 blues, with some bombs near the yellows. Where's the next enemy, I want to show it who's boss!" one of the reds said. "Maybe there will be a new pikmin today!" a yellow said excitedly. "I want to blow something up!" one of the bombs said. "Not like that can bring back our families" one of the blues said. That one really surprised me, but I couldn't dwell on it. My guess was Olimar wanted to look at the Sagittarius, his sons present to him. They kept talking as we walked, but I didn't listen to most of it. Occasionally, one of their comments or questions would catch my attention. "I wonder is there's any electricity nearby?" one yellow said once. "Oh! I think I smell a fiery bulbax!" one of the reds said once. "Maybe I could blow that wall up." One of the bombs said at one point. "Is that a wollywog?" one of the blues said. That one really caught my attention. I stopped in my tracks, making several pikmin bump into me, and then into one another. Olimar, who was in front of me, stopped shortly after. "What's wrong Alex?" then I saw them. In the pond where the wogpols should have been, stood 4 yellow wollywogs. Of course, that didn't scare me, it just surprised me. I shrugged and figured I'd ignore them, they were far enough away anyways. We quickly built the bridges, and got to the part quickly. "The Sagittarius!" Olimar cried. "A gift?" I asked. Olimar nodded. "From my son." The pikmin took it back, making sure not to go near the wollywogs. The only parts left were ones that required boss battles, and I didn't want that. The sun was already half way up the sky. "I'm going to take a rest today Olimar, I'm going to need it for tomorrow." Olimar nodded and went off.. I sent the pikmin away and went to sleep. At around noon, I woke up to some sounds from pikmin, I knew I had put them all away though. "Ok, now that formalities are done, can we get to strategizing?" I swear I was dreaming. I looked over to find 3 pikmin, one of each onion color, talking with each other a little bit off. "Come on, these guys are easy!" the red said. "Says the best fighter." The blue grumbled. "Come on guys, don't have it be like last time!" the yellow said. "That was one of your pikmin, daisy, not mine!" the red one said. "Hey, my pikmin aren't hot heads!" the yellow said. I assumed the yellow was called Daisy at this point. "You want to fight sunshine?" the red shot at Daisy. Before she could reply, the blue interjected. "Seriously? This is exactly what happened last time!" the others stared at the blue for a bit. "She's right flame." Daisy said. "We really shouldn't be fighting." Flame sighed. "I guess you're right, thanks aqua." Then flame hugged the blue. The blue smiled (the gills made it possible). "Ok, now let's get to strategy." Aqua said. At that moment, Daisy looked at me. "I think Alex is up." She said. The other 2 turned towards me. I smiled as I sat up. "Great, he'll probably be angry at us now." Aqua said. "I'm not" I replied before any of the others could speak. "He just replied to us!" Daisy said. "Cool it Daisy, one of my troops already told me about It." flame said. "Doesn't mean it's any less exciting!" Aqua said. She then joined Daisy in some kind of happy Dance. flame rolled his eyes at me. "Females." I chuckled at that, they were so similar to humans, it was amazing! They shortly got done, and apparently they remembered they hadn't introduced themselves. "I'm Daisy, the yellow leader." Daisy said, still jumping with excitement. "I'm Flame, commander of reds." Flame said, a hint of previous anger still in his voice. "And I'm aqua, blues, uh, ruler?" Aqua said, giving a shaky bow. Flame pushed her. "Way to mess up your introduction." He said. "I couldn't think of anything." Aqua murmured. I could already see personality's different from the other pikmin. Daisy had a work together attitude, flame had a power hungry mindset, and aqua was nervous and awkward. Then I realized something. "How come there isn't a bomb leader?" I asked. "The bombs are a new species." Was Daisy's reply, "their too crazy." Flame replied. "They don't have an Onion." Aqua said. I figured all of them were true. "We yellows command them normally." Daisy told me. That put me at ease. I checked my watch and realized the sun would go down soon. "Ok guys, you should go back to your Onions." I said. They nodded, and with a collective "good night!", they went to the Onions. Olimar came back shortly after, and we got into the ship and took off. "Get plenty of rest?" Olimar asked when the ship was in orbit. I nodded, and after dinner, went to sleep. My dreams were mixed that night, as I thought about the pikmin leaders, and the bosses ahead.
10 parts down, 20 to go. I used names that matched the personality of each pikmin for the leaders. Originally the blue was going to be male, but I see Aqua as a female name, and it makes more sense when the red one hugs her now. School starts tomorrow for me, so I might be slower on writing for at least the next few days, but after that I'm not sure. I changed my mind mid-chapter about adding a boss in this chapter, but the next one is defiantly a boss battle. This chapter is a bit more closed to ideas than others, but I'm still open, and I might add the idea in a latter chapter. I love criticism of all kinds, and reviews encourage me greatly. Bye for now!