I pondered writing another fanfiction, as my others amounted to spectacular failures when I could not finish them. I toyed with the idea of one, and I got started on it when the first 3 chapters I had written were deleted by a freak virus that got into my computer. Great luck, eh? I shall get to rewriting that as well, for I believe writing things a second time can always make them better. That'll be great.
Then again, there's this one story that plagues my imagination with random twists and turns late at night. Anyone remember the tragedy that was "Turned to Maple"? A very well reviewed one, I loved the attention, but it completely exploded in my face when I got sidetracked. I am determined to regain whatever it was that had me going for Turned to Maple in the first place, and I proudly now present Turned to Maple, redone in all its glory.
Also, when that freak virus destroyed my files, I lost my old Microsoft Office. I'm now apparently using notepad to type this Author's Note, and I'm moving to OpenOffice something-or-other to start writing. I real pain in the ass, so far, but hopefully I'll get this started nicely. Happy reading, and here we go!
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A loud peal of thunder resounded outside, causing the entire house to rattle. I briefly looked up, and around, then went back to my game. Grinning, I crushed the my opposing team with a flurry of throwing-stars directed at the monsters, and smirked even bigger when a banner proclaiming "WIN" flashed across the screen. I punched the air in triumph as my character glowed and declared "LEVEL UP".
I noticed one of my buddies was on line, and decided to chat with him and see how his progress was going.
The window opened with a little snick.
Ping. DaRkxHuE has entered.
EdgeStrife: Hey Darky! How's it going?
DaRkxHuE: sup pik!
DaRkxHuE: i just got 89, can't wait to use my casters
EdgeStrife: Oh, nice. I just got level 41. .
DaRkxHuE: lol, GRATZ! why don't you play pik anymore?
EdgeStrife: It bores me. I never caught up to you guys, even though I started higher leveled.
DaRkxHuE: you don't play as much as we do
EdgeStrife: Yeah, I have a life!
DaRkxHuE: oh shut up
DaRkxHuE: well i have to train if i wanna make it to 90 anytime soon.
EdgeStrife: Okay, cya Darky.
DaRkxHuE: cya pik
Eh. He would always be higher leveled than me, it seemed. I was his oldest friend in MapleStory and I wasn't allowed in his own guild because I was too low leveled. Not that I wanted to join, but it was kind of insulting all the same. I sighed and clicked closed the laptop on my lap. I stretched, then padded into the kitchen for a snack. Zoey got up from the empty food dish and sniffed around my socks, mrrowing for food.
I leaned down to pet her, got a granola bar from the bottom shelf of the food cabinet, and headed toward her dish to feed her. Uncapping the huge container that held the cat food, I poured some of the pellets into three dishes, making a loud rattling sound. I heard two distinct thumps upstairs from my other two cats jumping off one of the beds in the bedrooms upstairs. Zoey started to eat while I went on to eat my granola bar, idly checking out the newspaper left on the kitchen table. After reading one article (about sports, which I didn't really care for), I looked around.
Zoey had finished her meal, and was licking her paws and rubbing them over her head to clean herself. Memo and Valentine (my other two cats) were nowhere to be seen. I looked upstairs, where I had heard them before, and they weren't near the top of the stairs or in any line of sight at all either. I walked up the stairs, looking around.
As I got up to the upstairs hallway (which was empty), I heard a loud hiss coming from my room. The cats were fighting again, great. I sighed, walked into my room, and jumped. Sitting in the middle of the floor, squeaking happily, was a gigantic ball of a substance that seemed to resemble Green Jell-O. I stared at it in amazement, then snapped to attention when my cat, Memo, hissed at it again. Valentine, being the frightful cat that she was, was crouched in the corner behind him.
The Jell-O gave another happy little squeak and noticed me. I then continued to stare at it in wonder. The green jelly-like creature seemed to be one I knew all too well. A character, a monster, from the game I had just been playing, MapleStory. It was a Green Slime, a weak monster that didn't pose much of a problem. Dealing with one in the game was easy, it didn't have any special moves or anything, it really only tackled you, and you just had to kill it. Of course, I didn't want to kill anything here...
While I was thinking this, the slime seemed to do a motion similar to a person cocking their head when thinking (A curious motion in which the slime's face and big happy smile rotated 45 degrees to the left). With one last gleeful squeal startling me from my thoughts, it jumped into the air (a startling four feet), and tackled me.
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I have my second chapter written, and I'll be submitting it when I have either the third chapter or the fourth chapter done(if I'm in a really writing mood).
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