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Chapter 28: the capabilities of pikmin
I woke up to the jolt of the rocket landing. Wow, I guess I was still sleepier than I thought. I ate, and when I got out, the pikmin had already brought the part back. Guess I had taken longer to eat than I thought. "Morning Alex" Olimar said "you can keep resting, I'm going to go write more logs." He went into the ship. I think he was worried about whether he would be able to take off when the 30 days were up. I thought about it, wow, only 3 more days, and that's counting this one. It feels like only yesterday I had waken up and heard the whistling of his crashing ship, which looked a lot better now that I thought about it. I laid in the grass, not taking off my space suit incase Daisy was still contagious, though she seemed to have recovered already. I hummed the tune that the pikmin usually sing, the one that sounds kind of like their teasing someone. "~a ship that's in tatters~" I stopped and looked at the pikmin. Did they just sing? I hummed the tune again "~a captain trying to save her~" they DID sing! I picked up a stick and tapped a tune on a rock. The pikmin listened for a bit, but didn't seem to react. When I stopped, I heard the same tune echoed from nearby, and saw 3 pikmin drumming with twigs they had found. They stopped shortly after I saw them. Wow, they could sing AND drum! If there was something I could use for a guitar I'd see how good they were at strumming. My thoughts were interrupted as another beat started up, and the pikmin started chanting "pik-min! pik-min!" the chant went on as if they were trying to make a song. I waited for one of the pikmin to start singing. Daisy was twitching her ears, and Aqua's eyes were closed, probably lost in the music. I looked at Flame…and found he wasn't there. I noticed a few other pikmin were missing as well. Then I saw a few leaves being carried in, and they were arranged in a way that sort of made a stage. Flame looked around the stage, and at the other pikmin…then he started dancing. Oh my goodness, Pikmin can dance too! Daisy jumped up and started dancing with Flame, and I hadn't seen anything like it! The flexibility of pikmin allows them to move in ways that would break a human's spine, and it was incredible! The precise movements of Flame matched with the agile movements of Daisy was more breathtaking than any dancing I had seen humans do. On and on they went as the beat kept going, and the other pikmin took off in different directions. Where they were going, I had no idea, but I couldn't take my eyes off the two moving so perfectly together, playing off of each other's moves as if they were a couple. The beat got faster, and the two dancers started changing, making more and more contact. Finally, as the beat reached a point, Flame twirled Daisy, and then the music stopped, and he launched her into the air. Daisy flew up, and all the pikmin watched as she sored through the air, and landed on a nearby ledge, throwing up her hands in a 'ta-da!' motion. All the pikmin cheered, it was unbelievable. She jumped down. "I didn't know pikmin could sing, dance, and make beats!" I was SUPER excited at this discovery. "Actually, we didn't either" Flame said, Daisy seemed to giggle, which was the first time I had heard a pikmin giggle. "So, it just happened?" I asked "well, the dancing came naturally, you showed us the singing and beat-making" Daisy said. Wow, so they were fast learners too. Then again, I already knew that. Wow, every time they seem more and more human. Daisy was resting her head against Flame. "You ok Daisy?" I asked her. She giggled again "yea, just a little dizzy" she said. She stumbled over to a tree and slumped down against it. Looking at her, I realized the color had returned to her face, and besides the dizziness, which was probably from the quick movement, she seemed fine, and bursting with energy. I also noticed a look I Daisy's eyes, in fact, it was a look I had seen in my sisters eyes when she met her Boyfriend, though I could be wrong. Wow, pikmin had such amazing capability's you never saw in the game, as well as the ones you did see. I bet if I had enough time, I could even get them to act, or paint, maybe I could teach them some of our more advanced games. No, I didn't want to change them, they were fine the way they were. I yawned, and looked at my watch, realizing that the sun was going down soon. I put the pikmin in their onions, and I climbed into the ship. We quickly took off, and I thought about all the new things I had learned about pikmin since the start of my adventure with Olimar. As we ate dinner, I told Olimar about what I had just learned, and he was just as amazed as I was. I went to bed thinking about this, and everything else that happened. I missed my family a lot, but even if I never made it back, I'd never trade this for anything, that much I knew for certain.
One more chapter until the story finale! Originally, I was going to make a song at the end, but I wasn't able to complete the lyrics, so I put most of it into this chapter instead. I don't think I will make a story for pikmin 2, due to the fact that the caves have no time limit, but I WILL make a story for pikmin 3, because it has a set story line and a day limit. Remember: I love criticism of all kinds and reviews encourage me. Thanks for reading!