First, who remembers my passionate complaints about the lovely SSL Connection error? Yeah, that stupid page that would come up every time I tried logging into something. Some of the pages included the W101 homepage, P101 homepage, blogger login, facebook (for a while), and also yahoo (for a while).
The "for a while" pages were kinda fixed, but they looked really weird. All white with tiny boxes for logging in.
It also interfered with school pages.
Let's just sum it up with: "uber annoying".
However, they are now fixed. I'm not sure I should exactly tell you how, but I finally convinced my parents to help change it when I needed to buy Minecraft ( :] ). Since it's only available on the account that downloaded it, if I downloaded it on my dads side (who doesn't have this problem) I would constantly be having to go on to his side, and I don't know which would be more annoying.
To sum it up (haha, again) I'm writing this post from my own lap top.
^_^
C:
:D
I don't really think you guys will be as happy as I am, but this now means you'll see more clips of my writing, and more posts too since the laptop is easier to access.
For example: GWB part four.
At least... I think we're on four.
Let me go check
* checks *
Yes, I am right. Part four.
As a quick over view of what has happened so far:
-- Time has been frozen in the Spiral, all except Fallon Willowstone and Llewella Rubywater. Seeking to find out why, they decide to investigate the strange monster that had been seen around the Spiral. They find him in Krokotopia, also frozen. The area around him seems distorted, as if it were melting.
-- In our world year 2045, a man named Luke Smith finds a floppy disk, an ancient device that stores information. On it is scribbled WizBot - ultimate virus protector. Soon after he tries to download it he receives a mysterious emial from someone named Aalliiee.
-- At the end of part three, Fallon accidentally touched the area around the monster, flies down a tunnel of multicolored squares, and tumbles into small room and into a man. From Luke's perspective a young girl came catapulting out of his computer screen.
Got it? Cool. Read on to find out what happens.
Enjoy!
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Part Four: ejected
Luke Smith
I gasp as the breath was knocked out of me. I coughed a few times.
I was about to push the girl off of me when I realized that she was already as
far away from me as possible.
She looked incredibly scared.
I stand up and back up to the wall. She follows my every move with
piercing silver gray eyes. But what stuns me most is that her hair is a light
purple.
“Where am I?” she whispers. I look at her confused for a second. I
had almost thought she couldn’t talk.
“What?” I say.
“Where. Am. I?” She says through clenched teeth. Now she sounds
rather angry.
“New York City. Southern end.”
“Not what town you idiot.” I was taken back by her words. “What
world?”
“Uh… Earth? What other world would we be in?”
She looks down at her hands, a confused expression on her face. “Did
Ambrose discover a new world?”
“Who’s Ambrose?” I ask.
Now she looks at me like I’m the most stupid person she’s ever met.
“Ambrose? Merle Ambrose? Headmaster of Ravenwood? Know him now or you just that
dumb?”
“Well pardon me for now knowing. But all I know right now is that
you just shot out of my computer. You’re wearing the strangest clothing ever
seen and you’re pointing a sparkling purple knife at me. Can you just calm
down?”
The girl takes a deep breath and nods. I nod too and say, “I’m
Luke. Luke Smith. You?”
“I’m Fallon Willowstone.”
“Ok, Fallon. Wherever you’re from I’m pretty certain you’re not
there any more. You’re on Earth now. And the only world we know of is Earth.
Everyone lives here.”
“Ok. I’m from the Spiral. Can you please tell me how to get back?”
“I have no idea what the Spiral is. And I have no idea how to
explain the weird phenomenon of how you came out of my computer. Unless…” I
trailed off. I turned to my experimental computer. The WizBot disk had popped
out of the hard drive.
The screen now read:
Data disk ejected.
I walked over to the bed and pick up the floppy disk. “What’s
that?” Fallon asks.
“It’s a floppy disk. You know. For storing data.”
“Huh?”
“Never mind.” I look over the disk. It looks completely ordinary.
Nothing odd. Yet since I had found it and tried to download it some pretty
weird things have happened. First the e-mail form what’s-her-face and now a
teenager girl had popped out of my computer.
What was happening?
***
Fallon Willowstone
The first thing I noticed when I was thrust out of the tunnel of
color was a brief, sharp, pain in my side.
Then I saw this weird shiny layer of see through paper. Like glass.
I could see a room and a man in the glass. Then the glass broke as I shot out
at him.
As soon as I could gain my footing I leapt away from him. It took
him a few more moments to register what happened before he stood up and
observed me.
Apparently I was in some New York City in Earth and Luke was looking
at some small, square plate called a floppy something.
I looked around the room. It seemed ordinary enough. There was a
bed and a desk and closet. Then there were these black things on the bed. Both
had the weird glass I had been looking through before I was shot into the room.
The room also had this aura about it. It was familiar yet
drastically different. It was like none of the rooms I had ever seen before.
I put my Bolt Blade in my belt. I tried to ignore the nagging pain
in my side. It was dull. Like a small stitch from running too far or too fast.
I took a few deep breaths and headed for the door.
“Where are you going?” demanded Luke. I turned around.
“I’m looking around. It’s not everyday I’m thrust into a new world
and have no bearings.”
“Fine. Just don’t leave the house.”
“Right.”
The real reason? Sure I wanted to look around. But being in the
room with those black things and that small, square plat thing made me feel
uneasy. But the feeling doesn’t go away as I leave the room.
I follow a hallway down a flight of stairs. The stairs end right in
front of a door. The door window has rain on it so I suspect that this the main
entry. I turn past the stairs and head towards a lit up, white room.
I haven’t seen a single candle or book.
Once in the white room I stop and look around more carefully. I do
say this place is like no place I’ve ever seen before in my life. I think I saw
these kinds of lights in Marlybone before. But they were a dim yellow and they
still used mostly candles. These were a bright white and almost blinding to
look at.
It was like this place had figured out how to capture the sun in a
sphere.
…
That was actually kinda cool.
Satisfied that this place was safe for now I head back up to the
room that I left the Luke guy. He’s putting away the floppy disk thing between
some books.
“Is there food here?” I ask. He spins around as if he didn’t want
anyone knowing where he had put the disk thing.
“Yeah. In the fridge.”
“The what?”
“The fridge.” He takes in my confused expression and adds, “The
place where you keep cold stuff.”
“You mean like the icebox?”
“Yeah. Sure.”
I shrug and turn back around and head back downstairs. Once back in
the white room I started opening up cupboards. I figure out which one is the
icebox when I’m met by a blast of cold air.
I rummage around in it for a bit before finding an apple. I close
the icebox and lean against the counter, at least what I presume is the
counter. Soon Luke comes downstairs. He opens a cupboard, not the icebox, and
pulls out a bag that seems to contain some assortment of grains.
We stare at each other from across the room.
Finally, I can’t bare the silence anymore. I have to say something.
“Ok. So obviously you’re as confused as I am. I don’t know where I am and you
don’t know where I came from. I think we need to work something out. Sort of
get on a first level acquaintances you know what I mean?”
He nods. “All right. What do you want to know about me?”
I shrug. “I don’t care.”
“Ok. I just graduated college. I’m 22. My parents disappeared when
I was seven so I’ve been living with my grandparents. I work for Intel. And
this is my first house.”
“Cool. I’m in the Master class at Ravenwood. I’m a Storm Wizard, or
Diviner. I’ve had my own house since I was thirteen. I own two actually.”
“Two houses? How?”
“Well, my best friends aunt is like sell-out rich. She bought me a
giant house. It has transparent walls and everything. Then she also bought me a
second house. I haven’t decorated it yet. And I probably never will.”
“Seeing as you’re here and everything?”
“Yes.”
“Well, I think the first we could do I get you some different
cloths. You can’t exactly go out looking like… that.”
I look down at my Dragon Uniform. It seemed all right to me. But I
had to remember I was a different world. I nod. “Fine.”
Luke disappears up the stairs and comes back down with a large
flannel t-shirt and denim pants.
“This is big. But it’ll have to do while we go to the mall and buy
cloths.” He hands them to me.
“Thanks.”
“The bathroom is right down there.” He points down the hallway. I
nod and leave.
***
Luke Smith
She is so weird!
She dresses weird, she takes weird and she has two houses! If only
I could afford that. She acts totally crazy. She didn’t know what a fridge was!
I don’t even know if she came out of my computer. That’s the craziest part of
all.
I swear I saw the reflection of a teenage girl on my computer
screen before this random girl named Fallon comes shooting out of it!
Not to mention it’s almost like being haunted. Besides the purple
hair, she looks exactly like my mom.
Silver gray eyes. Natural tan skin. Narrow face. Long hair. Not to mention mom
always said that if she had a daughter she could name her Fallon.
Creepy.
“This is way too big.” I look up. Fallon walks in with what looks
like some giant’s cloths on her.
“They’ll have to do. Come on.” She follows me out the door into a
heavy rain and to the car. “Open.” The doors open and we climb in. I look over
at her and gasp. She’s perfectly dry.
She looks over at me. “What?”
“You’re all dry and it’s pouring rain outside.”
“I’m a Storm Wizard. What did you expect?”
“There’s no such thing as Wizards.”
“You’d be surprised how many things you probably don’t believe are
true.”
“Yeah. And dreams are messages telling us stuff about our destiny.
Right.”
“Exact… lee…” She pauses. “What did you just say?”
“I said dreams are messages telling us stuff about our destiny.”
“My mom used to say that all the time. Dreams are just your mind wandering into other worlds. Dreams are
messages. Listen to them.”
We stare at each other as if we expect either one of us to jump out
and say some long prophecy about saving of the world. When neither of us do I
turn back to the steering wheel and pull out of the parking space.
We drive about ten minutes through the rain until we come to the
city mall. I pull into the garage and park the car and climb out. Fallon all
the way had been looking like she had been about to be sick. Now she was
struggling with the seatbelt.
I sigh and walk over to the passenger side door, open it and help
her. She follows me into the building. Not as many people are here as there
usually are. But perhaps that is because it is a weekend on a holiday.
“There’s a lot of people here,” comments Fallon.
I laugh. “You’re kidding! This is almost no one. It’s Abacus Day.”
I take in Fallon’s blank stare and suddenly remember that she knew nothing of this world. “Ok. Um, today is
the day to celebrate computers. Computers are metal boxes that do very smart
things.”
“You mean people made things that are smarter than them to do smart
things for them so they don’t have to? That sounds lazy.”
I shrug, ending the conversation.
“Hey Luke!” I look to my right to the pretzel shop. It was Cairine.
We had gone to high school together then lost touch in college. Then we had
found each other not two months ago, coincidently living in the same city.
I lead Fallon over. “Hey Carrie. What’s up?”
“Not much. Who’s this?”
I look at Fallon. “This is Fallon…” I trail off. I couldn’t
remember her last name.
“Willowstone,” Fallon finishes and reaches over the counter to
shake Carrie’s hand.
Carrie takes it and replies, “I’m Cairine Lipinski.”
“Nice to meet you.”
“Nice to meet you too. I like your hair.”
Fallon blushes and knocks away a strand of purple hair. “Thanks.”
“You’re welcome. How did you get acquainted with Luke?”
I freeze. There was no way to explain how she had popped out of my
computer. “Well… she is the daughter of my… cousins sister. The… one from…”
“Pennsylvania,” finishes Fallon. She smiles, going along with my lie.
Carrie smiles back.
“I didn’t know you had a cousin in Pennsylvania.”
I wanted to say, “Neither did I,” but instead I said, “Yeah. Long
distance. Twice removed or something like that.”
“That’s nice. Did she forget her suitcase or something? Because I’m
pretty sure those aren’t her cloths.”
“Yeah. Her luggage was put on the wrong plan. I think it went
somewhere in Europe. So before we get it back we have to buy her some new
cloths.” I smile. Man, I was a better liar than I thought I was.
“Well that’s nice. Have a fun time shopping!”
“Ok!” We part.
Once we’re a good 30 feet away, Fallon asks, “You like her don’t
you?”
“What?” I was taken back by the question.
“It’s obvious.” Fallon points to a store. “Is that a robe store?”
Pretty sure that ‘robe’ meant ‘clothing’ I nodded. “Yep.” Fallon
smiles and dashes in. We took about 45 minutes in the store and finally she had
five new outfits and a sixth one on.
It was a drastic transformation. Out of the almost armor looking
clothing she had arrived and out of the baggy cloths that were mine, she looked
surprisingly normal in a pair of jeans, white, long sleeve shirt with a silver
vest and pair of high top convers.
“You hungry I ask?” It was past six o’clock and I was starving.
She shakes her head. “No. I’m fine.”
“Alright.” I buy a sandwich and a bottle of water and eat as we
walk back down along the mall.
As we walk I think maybe this strange phenomenon won’t turn out bad
at all.
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How was it? I know it was unedited, but deal with it.
So. Two more days huh? And the new blog goes live. I'll have a super long post talking about what kinds of things will be up on the new blog, and maybe somethings that will come up in the future.
Oh, and one more thing. I've been working on Black Ivy somewhat recently. Remember that one? Anyway, you may want to expect to see it when the new blog is here. So~...
See you in two days!!
Laterz!
~Emma
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