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Chapter 24: looking through another's eyes
My dreams were weird again, though I have no clue why. I was whoever I was last night, but this time I could see hair waving in front of my eyes every once in a while. It wasn't choppy this time, it was one scene. I was in a cave. Light shined through an opening far above my head, but it didn't do much. Through the dim light, I couldn't see much. I did, however, see small lights from the distance. One was coming from somewhere behind a ledge I couldn't get over, and another was coming through some cracks in the wall. The scene faded as I looked at the ledge again. I woke up confused. Thinking about it, I thought to why I would dream about it at all. I remembered that when the dreams about Olimar had started, it was the first injury I had gotten when one of my machines backfired. Well, another thing to blame on the cold, but who was I? Oh well. We ate, and then we landed. It was peaceful outside, unlike my head, which was so full of thoughts, I was surprised I could think at all. I tried to put that aside as I remembered where the Zirconium Rotor was…how did I remember that name? Not important at the moment. The walls were already gone, so we took out the blues and headed off. I was glad the blue onion had stopped wobbling, and Aqua was almost to her old self. The blues were able to quickly pick up the part and bring it to the ship. It was amazing how fast they were getting. I decided to put the blues away, except for Aqua who would just stay nearby, and I talked to Olimar. "You've been very anti-social lately, what's up?" I asked him "I just miss my family, so I'm trying to distract myself, that's all." He said. I knew how he felt, I was feeling the same way. If he could understand the pikmin it would be easier, but he can't, so he's stuck to writing records instead. "Well, maybe I can distract you" I said. He turned to look at me "what's up?" That wasn't a 'hi' what's up, that was a 'what's wrong?' what's up. I sighed "might as well start from the beginning. When I was really young, I had a dream. In this dream, I was looking through someone else's eyes. The first night, I saw a lush forest through a space suit, then I saw a big metal ship. Every night I'd have a dream where I was the same person, except I would be somewhere different. Little by little, the scenes would be longer, and I could make out more details. Eventually, I had seen a whole scene play out. I had never made sense of the series of dreams that I had gotten, until yesterday when I had a different one. Yesterday, I realized those dreams were about you." I paused, letting that sink in, but he knew I wasn't done. "Wow" he said, "and the dream?" he knew exactly what to ask me. "Well, yesterday night was a bit scattered, and was mostly of bushes and random enemies, but last night, I dreamt of a cave. All I know about the person is they have long brown hair that gets in their eyes, which meant she was a girl" I sighed "I just don't know who it is!" "Well, you didn't know me, so it's probably someone you don't know yet." Olimar suggested "what do you mean, yet?" I asked "well, you dreamed about me, and now you know me, maybe you'll meet this girl your dreaming about" he replied "wait, are you suggesting I have a 'future sight'?" I asked "in a sense, yes, much like you can communicate with the pikmin." He said. Wow, was this normal on his planet? "Is this a normal thing for hocaticians?" I asked "not at all, but maybe the planet reacts differently to you, giving you ability's no one else has" he suggested. Wow, that made me completely rethink my life. What if I had superpowers? What if I had a more advanced mind? Wow, this was amazing. I looked over at Aqua, who was the only pikmin out, and thought about what she would think. She would be too sick to give me a good answer, but I should give her some pikmin to play with. I let out some blues and reds, while Olimar let out some yellows. The pikmin started chasing each other again. I smiled "it's amazing how similar pikmin are to us, isn't it?" I asked Olimar "their like children that can fight, it's amazing." Olimar said. He was right. Just like what he wrote in his notes, the pikmin were like children. They were curious, they played games, they even had undeveloped personalities! I watched them play, and I noticed Aqua the most. Aqua was definably different from other pikmin, there was no doubt about it. She had the quickest mind, she showed the largest range of emotion, she was the one who had changed the most, she seemed like she could pass for human if she had the right proportions. And the glances shed give…I couldn't quite piece her together, though the others were pretty easy to identify. The watch showed it would be sundown soon, so we gathered the pikmin and put them into the onions. I would be sad when they left, well, if they left. I climbed into the ship alongside Olimar, and we took off. My mind was still a bit foggy from the cold, and I had what felt like ten million things bouncing around in my head. I yawned as I laid down for bed. My final thoughts were about lily, and wondering if she was ok.
Whew, almost done! I really have to figure out something more to talk about, it's getting hard to fill in the gaps. I can't wait until the final, there's more than one surprise there. my computer glitched and I couldn't write for this chapter earlier, so I already have prolouges for both pikmin games, just in case. Remember the usual: I love criticism, Reviews encourage me, and I'm open to input. Also, I'm having trouble coming up with time spacing for pikmin 2, if you want me to make a story for it I will, but I probably won't. Anyways, bye for now!