Shimatta and kuso: both are Japanese for "Damn!"
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Sarah was having so much fun in Neopia.
She was getting better at Ultimate Bull's Eye, and had made friends with
the Tiki Tack Man. The Neopian Times was something she looked forward to
every week, and she had found out that if you went through a portal in
someone's shop or guild, it would actually bring you to another world.
She soon found out that this was how to travel through the internet. On
the web sites about Neopets, she could bring along one of her own Neopets.
She was particularely fond of PinkPoogleToy.com back on Earth, so she made
a link to it in her shop to go there whenever she wanted. She had also
managed to make her own badge with a fanart picture of her favorite anime
character, Tomoe Hotaru, and put the words "Long Enough" at the bottom
so she wouldn't get blinded when her badge changed each month. She also
had fun complaining out loud about Dr. Sloth, insulting him outright for
listening in on conversations, knowing perfectly well that he was listening
then.
Sarah was so used to this routine,
she barely thought of Earth. About a month after her arrival to Neopia,
she was going out to do the daily freebies with Ivy, but found her front
door locked. Feeling a bit lazy, she decided to go out back instead. She
had walked to the edge of her Neogarden, but both she and the Peophin walked
into invisible walls. "Strange," Sarah commented. She looked down at her
Peophin. "Hey Ivy," she asked, "does this normally happen when Neopets
is down?"
Ivy looked around, and shook her head.
"No. If you look around, you can see other people moving around just fine.
Besides that, everyone goes to a secret room in their Neohome when Neopets
is down. It's filled with games, and you can't find it unless there's a
small error in Neopia. You know, when you get that picture of an angry
Faerie Kougra, and you can play games, but you won't earn Neopoints?"
Sarah nodded. "So why can't we get
out of the house?"
Ivy looked around. "Technically, we
are out of the house, but I know what you mean. I seem to remember something
like this happening a long time ago...we found out that your computer was
messed up, and it wasn't possible to access Neopia for you. We were trapped
for about a week before you finally came back. Thank Borovan the safety
deposit box is inside the house. You always stored food in there, so we
were able to survive."
Sarah gasped. She remembered on Earth,
her mom had been planning to do something to the hard drive to fix the
computer, and it seemed to have worked...but considering the situation,
it must have messed up something. "SHIMATTA! Baka! Crap! Kuso! We can't
fight in the war! Shimatta! I was looking forward to it! And we're stuck!"
Sarah screamed before she sat down and cried. She could only wait for her
mother to fix the computer again.
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Unfortunately, I can't access neopets. Considering others can, I'm assuming it's the computer. Hopefully, it will be fixed before the war starts. If it starts before then, then hopefully the computer will be fixed before the war ends. Baka Computer...It's the same with bored.com, Snopes.com, and oxymoronlist.com...all I can do is read and write fanfiction. Gomen Nasai. (Japanese for I'm Sorry.) Btw, review! reviewers are the only reason I'm still posting stuff here, because fanfiction.net is EVIL!