Subject: RPG Stana -Kansas tornado
  Date: Thu, 14 May 98 11:44:49 -0400
  From: Skyechan <skyechan@ptd.net>  Save Address Block Sender

    retake:
  Teri leaned towards the computer, twisted a little so that she didn't
  bump
  stana, who was occupying the chair. As you know, it's always a little
  difficult using a mouse when you're not right infront of the computer,
  and as
  it was, Teri was having a bit of trouble searching for America Online.
  She
  knew that Paul had had the program a while ago-- though some sort of
  strange
  bug had eaten up his account, so he no longer used it. But she didn't
  think he
  would have deleted the program so quickly-- after all, spiffy had AOL,
  or
  instant messenger, or something like that..

  "Ah-- ok," she whispered as she found the program and clicked it up--
  Mac's
  weren't nearly as user-friendly as PC's (  =P  ).

  The program was taking awhile to load, that stupid little
  circle-mouse-icon
  thing was turning round and round. Teri tried clicking a
  couple-of-times,
  as
  if that would make the machine remember what it was trying to do, and
  work
  faster.

  "C'mon--" she hit the monitor lightly, as Stana suddenly cried, "You
  blocked!"

  and Paul countered with, "of course!"

  Teri shot a glance at the two while the program opened, then typed her
  login-
  stuff and connected. Mail! Great!  She opened a file from some strange
  address-- usually she just deleted anything she didn't recognize, but
  this one
  said "Hi Teri, It's me" in the subject heading... so she must know the
  person,
  right?

  Reading the body, she saw that it contained an attached file of a
  Fushigi
  Yuugi picture-- so she immediately forwarded it to her friend Estella,
  from
  home. (Estella was another avid FY fan)... and then started downloading
  the
  file.

  Suddenly the screen started flickering. Narrowing her eyes, Teri tapped
  the
  monitor again-- maybe there was something wrong with it. The one at her
  school's computer center turned pink randomly...

  But the hit only made the screen flash a brilliant white that caused her
  to
  squeeze her eyes shut-- she cried out from the pain-- and fell
  backwards,
  knocking stana and her chair over in the process--- everything went
  white--
  then black-- and then cleared, leaving Paul's room completely empty of
  people-- Princess Bride still playing in the background.

  -------------------

      "What the heck happened?!" Stana exclaimed, finally managing to pry
  an eye open. Thee were large bright colored spots floating and she
  waited
  for them to clear.
      "Ummm..>Teri? Paul? What just took place? Did the VCR explode or
  some----" her question stopped as her sight cleared. "Oh dear. Guys-"
  she
  turned her head.
      Noone.
      She looked the other way.
      Noone.
      The other.
       Just more trees and singing birds.
      The other.
      Water.
      *Blink Blink*
      "Hello?" she cleared her throat and repeated her greeting louder.
      "This doesn't make sense!!!!" she screamed in frustration. "If this
  is the Rapture than where the heck is everyone else?!?!" she quickly
  flipped through to the book of Revelations and scanned the few passages
  dealing with the "Translation" of the Christians prior to the
  Tribulation. "Doesn't say anything about trees and birds here-just being
  taken to be with the Lord-and I'm not sure but He's not right here
  physically anyway... TERI!? PAUL!? okok-Don't Panic-and it's not
  Thursday
  so you can deal with this...."
      She was babbling..she tended to do that when she was upset about
  something. Like having been in a familiar setting not five minutes
  ago-and suddenly being caught in a road trip to the middle of
  nowhere....
      "Olly Olly Oxen Free?"
      "Ni?"
      "ecky ecky ecky...." she broke off, sighed, rubbed her head, removed
  her hat, put it back on and then hugged Woodstock closer.
      "ok-Girl Scout training here-what am I talking about I was a Brownie
  for crying out loud. Ok Common sense..."
       She stopped. Common sense? Who was she kidding? She was the girl
  that had eaten a cucumber shaped soap because her sister had told her it
  was candy. And she had gone back for seconds...
       "_Girl_Scout_ training." she repeated "I read the manual anyway..."
  she realized the birds had stopped their singing.
       Seconds later the sky opened up and the rains fell in buckets.