Chapter 1

Life was good for me and my sister. We had the life of a normal dryad, and for that I was grateful, if not slightly bored. Every morning, I would get up first, go hunting, bring back a Dwarf Bulborb, cook it and an egg I would find in a nest nearby, if I could find one, that is. Then Lily, my little sister, would wake up to the smell and come eat, we would play together, move on from the place we spent the night last night, and find somewhere else. We were nomadic. I had green hair that came down to my forehead and covered my ears, had twigs with leaves on them growing from the top left side of my head, my right eye was covered in buttercups, my eyes were green, and I had black marks on my cheeks that were actually birth marks. My arms are made of green plant material and covered in red thorns. My fingers are just three red flexible thorns, two fingers and a thumb. My hands are quite large in comparison to my body. I could grab my whole head with it if I want to. I wore a simple green hoodie and white t-shirt and yellow shorts. My legs are made of rough and course wood with spikes of wood coming from the knees. My feet are a little bigger than my hands and have three toes pointing forward and one pointing back. I have a unique ability to shapeshift my face and contort it into any shape I want. When I do this, it looks like my face is melting. My name is Chaos Nightshade, by the way.

My sister, Lily Nightshade, has longer brown hair, with her hair covering her left eye. On top of her head is a piece of hair that goes up into the air and curls back down a little, and no matter how hard she tries, she just can't keep it down. Her eyes are brown and she wears a yellow shirt and white shorts. Her hands are woody, only smoother than regular wood, like wood that had been ground with sandpaper. You know, that kind of smooth wood. She has four fingers and a thumb, lucky girl. While having only two fingers doesn't hinder me in any way, having four fingers allows her to be more hand-eye coordinated. Her legs and feet are the same as mine, woody, only hers are smoother than mine. Normally our days are boring and repetitive, but today was the day that everything changed.

I had just got back from hunting, this time with something different. I had just put it on the stone slab over the fire when I hear my little sister start to get up. She's 15, and I'm 17, but I still consider myself to be a LOT more mature than my age says. Lily sits up out of the leaves that served as our bed the night before and stretched, letting out a cute yawn. I smiled at this. I don't care what you offer me, I will never trade this life with my sister for anything in a million years. Lily is still a little groggy so I greet her to wake her up more. "Morning, little sis." She perks up at my voice and looks at me. She smiles at me and says,"Morning, Shadey!" Shadey, she started calling me that when she was five. It's not very clever, since it's our last name and all, but I have someone earned the title of Shadey from her. I don't mind at all.

She sniffs the air, obviously expecting the usual Dwarf Bulborb, but I grin as her face adopts an happy smile. She looks at the meat sizzling on the stone and smiles even wider. "Wogpole meat! I love that!" I chuckle and say,"I know, why do you think I swam in that pond today just to get it?" I then gesture at my still wet clothes. I flipped the meat as Lily gets up and walks behind me. 'Ooohhhh boy, here we go.' I think as I brace myself for whats to come. Lily glomps herself on my back on nuzzles her cheek on my cheek. I smile and nuzzle back. She giggles and rests her head on my shoulder, lazily watching me cook the Wogpole. The rest of the day was rather uneventful, but something happened that night.

We had found a place to spend the night, safe from the predators, and were looking up at the stars. Lily's head was rested against my chest as I sat behind her, protectively wrapping my arms around her. While we might be safe from Bulborbs, something else could get in and harm us. I'm not about to let that happen. As we were gazing up at the stars, Lily asks me a question. "Do you think that there's someone up there?" This question confused me. Did she mean a god or another civilization. Or any civilization for that matter. The last civilization was the Pikmin, and they had gone extinct after a war between them and the monsters of this world. So I answered with a simple,"Hmm?" "Do you think there are other people up there, living in a group?" Ah, that. "You never know, there might be. One might be coming right now." I gently rub her head. She sighs contently as she press her head into my hand for more. She really likes head rubs for some reason.

Just then, we see something. Lily perks up and says,"Oh! A shooting star!" I look closer, and I don't share the same happy look as my sister. A shooting star appears and vanishes within the time of a second. This, THING, was getting closer to the Earth's surface, had fire surrounding it instead of light, and had smoke trailing behind it, and the smoke stayed for a while before dissipating. "Lily, I don't think that's a shooting star." She looks at me confused and I keep looking at it. Suddenly, things start flying off of it, going to different directions. One is heading this way."YEP, DEFINITELY NOT A SHOOTING STAR!" I yell as I grab Lily and throw both of us out of the way. The flaming projectile flies into were we used to be and embedded itself into the ground.

I pick myself up and immediately turn my attention to my sister. "Are you OK?" I ask. She looks up at me and I see that shes fine physically, but that expression she's making is one of fear. She's terrified right now. I hug her say, "It's OK, I'm here, I won't let it hurt you, everything is fine." I keep comforting her until I hear her breath even out. I separate myself from her to see if whatever landed here is a threat, and to tear it to shreds if it is.I slowly approach it and see that it's moving. It appears to be made of metal, so why is it moving? I then feel a thud in the ground and look towards the source. Smoke is rising from where it came from. Turning to Lily, I say,"Go to sleep, Lily. I'll be back in the morning." She nods, knowing that I can take care of myself, and goes into the hidden bed.

I turn to the smoke and start running. To avoid predators, I jump from branch to branch, tree to tree, vine to vine. I reach a small clearing and I jump down from the tree I was in. I'm cautious, slowly moving towards the smoke while checking out the area. I look at the source of the smoke and my eyes widen. It's a giant piece of metal with sparks flying off of it. It's still smoking, so I leave it be. I look in front of it and see something. It's a living organism, but I can't tell what it is. So I make camp there and wait until it woke up.

I must have fallen asleep, because the next thing I know, I'm waking up. I don't move a muscle because I can feel someone looking at me. The presence moves closer to me, getting in my face. I found this uncomfortable, so I shift my face into one of nightmares, open my eyes, look up, lean forward, and roar all at the same time. It was the organism from last night I was guarding. He jumped back and rolled in a backflip motion. Yep, I scared him. I started laughing from his reaction and walked up to him. He looks up with wide eyes and shuts them, waiting for the end. But I held out my hand and said, "Sorry about that. You invaded my personal space, so I decided to get you out of it." His eyes open and he looked up at me.

By now, I had shifted my face back to normal and was smiling down at him. He slowly took my hand and I hoisted him up. (A/N: Olimar looks like a human in this fanfiction aside from pointy ears. He also has some whiskers on his chin that could later grow into a beard. This entire fanfiction has anime graphics, fights, and logic. Also has anime physics.) "You speak my language." He says, stunned. "No, you speak MY language." I retorted. He blinks and looks around. He sees the giant hunk of metal, no longer smoking, laying stuck in the ground. "My ship!" He cries. Wait, what? "Is that thing yours? It was smoking when I got here last night." He seemed distressed. After all, the atmosphere around him turned blue with a series of dark blue line waving over his head. I sweatdrop and pat his back. "If it makes you feel any better, A piece of that thing fell into my house last night." He brightens up and stands with an air of authority around him. "What are we waiting for then! Let's go get it!" Then he stops and turns to me,"Hey, you don't mind if I go to your place and get it do you?" I smile and say,"Nah, it's fine. I'll lead the way."

I turn and walk away with him following me. I see something embedded in the dirt and it looks…like an onion. I started thinking about the history lessons Dad gave me and Lily when we were little and remembered that Pikmin relied on onion shaped ships to live in and reproduce, even naming the ships Onions. I walk over to it, intent on finding out if it's a regular onion or an Onion. As I approach it, I see marks on the side of it. All of a sudden a flower pops up and starts spinning. Yep, this things an Onion. I jump back, but the man stays there. The Onion pops out of the ground and throws the man back. It's three legs unfold as it spits out a single red seed. The man picks himself up and rubs his neck. "If this keeps up, my helmets gonna crack." he said. "Hey, I never got your name." I said. He stares at me, then a look of realization passes across his face. "Oh, sorry. My name is Olimar, Captain of the S.S. Dolphin. That's the wreck over there." He points to the piece of metal. I nod and said," My name's Chaos Nightshade. Nice to meet you." We shake hands and turn our attention back to the Onion.

I stare wide eyed at the sprout that waves back in forth in a non-existent wind. I slowly approach it, but then I say,"Olimar, pluck this sprout." He looks at me funny, but obeys. After plucking it, I can see that I'm right. It's a Pikmin. It looks at Olimar for a second and says,"Hi, Boss!" Olimar doesn't seem to understand it, but I do. "Olimar, that's called a Pikmin, and the thing it came out of is called an Onion. But I don't understand, they went extinct a decade ago." Olimar stares at before asking, "What do I do?" I look at the Pikmin and say,"Hey, Crimson!" The Pikmin looks at me."See that Pellet Posey?" I point to a flower with a red center and a 1 on it. He nods. "Knock it down and bring it to the Onion. Then do the same thing to any other Pellet Posey you find. You find a stray pellet, you bring it here. You find one you can't lift, come get me." It nodded and went to do what it was told.

"What was that supposed to accomplish?" I replied with,"Well, if my History lessons are correct, then the Onion is a Pikmin breeding ship and if I'm correct," I trail off as Crimson brings back a pellet and puts it under the Onion. The Onion sucks it up and spits out two more seeds as Crimson goes to the next Pellet Posey. "Yep, I'm right. The Onion sucks up nutrients brought to it by the Pikmin or something else and converts the nutrients into more Pikmin. With our help, this single Pikmin can save its whole race." Olimar's eyes are bulging out by now with all this information. I chuckle and look to see Crimson had come back with three more pellets by this time and had walked up to me. "Hey, Boss, I found something to heavy for me." He pointed to some bushes and looked back, awaiting orders. "Thank you, Crimson. Now keep looking for things you can move. Olimar, go pluck those Pikmin."

As the two move to do there assigned tasks, I go to the place Crimson pointed to. It's a 5 pellet about ten time my size. Nothing to much. I've moved fully grown Bulborbs before, so it's a piece of cake. I pick it up and place on my back. I drag it to the Onion and let it suck it up. More Pikmin are spit out and Olimar plucks them when they sprout. We now have ten Pikmin. I walk over to a box and climb it. I look around and see more pellets and something else that's made of metal and moving. "Do you see anything?" Olimar called up. "Some more pellets, some piece of metal that's moving, it might belong to your Dolphin." "What's it look like?" He called up excitedly. "It's round, has six sticks moving on top, three pushing out and three pulling in at any time, and it won't stop moving and making a weird sound." Suddenly I feel the box moving from underneath me. "HEY HEY HEY! WARN ME NEXT TIME!" I yelled, falling onto the box. "Sorry!" He called.

When the box stopped moving, I descended and rejoined him. He looks ecstatic as he looks over the item. "Sooo, is it yours?" I ask. "Yes! It's my engine! Without this, I wouldn't be able to take off!" Ooooooookay then. "Well, then lets get this back to your Dolphin." I bend over and grab it. As I pull up, I notice how heavy it is. "Chaos, your not gonna-" I lift part of it off the ground and keep going. "Oh, wow." Olimar states. "Hey, Olimar, take the Pikmin and go get the pellets up there, I got this." He nods and runs off. I start dragging the engine back to the ship, albeit slowly. I'm halfway there when the Pikmin come back with a horde of pellets. When the pellets go in, Olimar orders the Pikmin to help me. It made carrying the thing easier. We got it to the ship and it was picked from our grasp by an unseen force. "What the heck?!" I exclaimed. The engine shrunk as it went into a small hole in the ship's front, causing it to flip onto three metal fins. The engine suddenly appears on the bottom of the ship. "Telekinetic Beam. Used to beam Hocatanians and items on board the ship." Olimar says from behind. I turn to the ship, and back to him and say,"Huh. Cool."

I look up and see it's almost midday. "Oh man, hey Olimar, I'm gonna leave things to you, keep bringing up the population and at sunset, find somewhere safe. My homes in that direction. I gotta go hunting and get home, my little sisters probably worried sick." I say. We say goodbye and I run off. On the way I grabbed a Dwarf Bulborb and an egg. I get there and see Lily with her face in her knees, hugging herself, crying. I don't like to see her cry, so I set down the Bulborb and egg and go up to her. "Hey, don't cry, I'm here now." She looks up and says a strained,"Shadey?" I look at her and see tears on her face, her eyes red. She must have been crying for hours. "I'm sorry Lily. I got caught up with things, but I'm here now. I'm never gonna leave you for that long again, I promise." She looks at me for a second, then hugs me and keeps crying. I hug her back and we stay there for who knows how long. I didn't care one drop.