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The Swamp

439 replies · 23,706 views · Started 20 June 2003

*BOOM* Orophin arrives fumming with rage, "now the generator is gone aswell? how the heck am i supposed to watch my ZDNet.co.uk streamed feeds?"..."heads are gonna roll".
he notices Laura walking off with her laptop and a tiny insect following her....."prepare to die, bug.....muhahahahhahahaaaa"

'Hey you with the unpronounceable last name!' shouts Laura, seeing Orophin's blazing eyes. 'Your should read your biology books more carefully. This ecosystem could not last if it weren't for mosquitos! This is his swamp, remember?'

"but but but....i just wanted to......i didnt mean.......ahhh, screw it" Orophin storms off (literally, wheather doesnt change that quickly around here) to watch the Cowboy Bebop movie.

[quote="LAuRA"]'Hey you with the unpronounceable last name!' shouts Laura, seeing Orophin's blazing eyes. 'Your should read your biology books more carefully. This ecosystem could not last if it weren't for mosquitos! This is his swamp, remember?'[/quote]

Hey smartie, this is not my God damn swamp. It's everybody's swamp. If it was my swamp then how come Mr. chlorophill is messing around?!

[quote="LAuRA"]'Hey you with the unpronounceable last name!' shouts Laura, seeing Orophin's blazing eyes. 'Your should read your biology books more carefully. This ecosystem could not last if it weren't for mosquitos! This is his swamp, remember?'[/quote]

btw, it's not just the ecosystem who can't go on without mosquitos. All of my buddies can't go on with me too!

Realizing that she had just succeeded in making everybody mad, Laura crawls back to her south-eastern corner. And this time even the laptop is cold to her.

Peter wakes from his long slumber, yawns and stretches and looks around the Swamp. Realizing the Swamp had changed (somewhat dramtically from the playground it was for him and his special friends JadepViper and Laura) since JadeViper went on her weeklong trip, he decides to lay back down and sleep until she returns.

HEY mosquito,I visit our AAS forum every day,..Maybe you didnt see me,coz i visit COMMUNITY WAFFLE section rarely.I VISIT NOKIA 3650,series 60 multimedia,and symbian gaming sections every day.MOSQUITO you are almost right its not crime,love is beuatiful :angel: ,LAURA,i am 16teen,but i am not a kid,kidy kid,i am pretty a teen,and i know all about love.... 😉 :bday:

Laura silently enters the stage again from her south-eastern corner. This time she has covered her head with the ugliest veil and her body with the loosest kaftan and she makes no eye contact with anyone around. Cautiously she approaches peter. 'Hi' she says. 'Here is the brush that Jadeviper left behind. I have kept it and now I want you to take it. You can give it back to her, I am sure she will appreciate the gesture. I may not be here tomorrow to greet her, but I trust you will be...' Having said this, Laura again melts in with the shadows of the bushland.

Orophin walks in feeling good about the movie "that was great, Sunrise Co. really pulled out all the stops for this one". He then notices a veiled figure crouched down in the shadows of the south-eastern-corner of the swamp, with great stealth he floats towards it then notices the unmistakable golden hair of Laura hanging out beneath the veil.

"whats up Laura, why the gloom and doom?" he says with the softest voice he could muster. he hoped it wasnt cos' of his reaction earlier, but he decided to appologize anyway.
"Hey, i'm sorry for storming off like that, it wasnt your fault, i was just being silly....showing off, you might say" he say with a coy grin on his face in hopes of raising a giggle from her.

He raises his hand and in a flash of light he transforms her old cold laptop to a Mac G4, Panther OS enabled powerbook and leaves a hot cup of coffee to warm her cockles. 😊
"Well, i'll leave you now to gather your thoughts, but just call if you need me....gomen nasai (i'm sorry)" he gently pats her exposed hand and then flies off.

The warmth spreads within Laura and she is astounished. 'What is this... is it the coffee...?? Ahhh the laptop is alive again! WIeeeee!' says she (she is well behaved and does not shout since she does not want to wake the others). 'And what... the screen comes off... I HAVE A TABLET PC' she rejoyces.

[quote="jimmy-floyd"]HEY mosquito,I visit our AAS forum every day,..Maybe you didnt see me,coz i visit COMMUNITY WAFFLE section rarely.I VISIT NOKIA 3650,series 60 multimedia,and symbian gaming sections every day.MOSQUITO you are almost right its not crime,love is beuatiful :angel: ,LAURA,i am 16teen,but i am not a kid,kidy kid,i am pretty a teen,and i know all about love.... 😉 :bday:[/quote]

I am glad you made it to the swamp Jimmy Boy. What's up man? how is your battery bug now?

mosquito wakes up from his nightly death. It's a strange feeling that I'm feeling today. I don't wanna have breakfast. I wanna walk the earth just walk the earth. mosquito starts to wander around the swamp only to end up at the south-eastern corner of the swamp. What am I doing here? *mosquito thinks to himself*

mosquito finds Laura in her veil and what a surprise: her beautiful face shined from behind the veil like a pearl. mosquito suddenly hears one of the ravens putting on one of his favorite songs "Thunder / Love walked In". The song goes:

So tired of waiting
I walked an empty land
I was looking her something to help me understand
The bad luck kept turning my dreams in the sand

I didn't want pity
I had my share of friends
I wanted somebody more special than the rest
I was aching inside like I was approaching the end

Just about that moment the timing was so right
You were there like a vision send down to my life
I thought I was dreaming when I saw you that night

That's when love walked in through my door
That familiar feeling I had once before
Love walked in through my door
And it felt so strange
Like a long lost friend
That haven't change
Giving me hope again
Love walked in

After a short trip to the lakeside Laura returns to the bushveldt. She is eager to see what's been going on here. The powerbook she carries with her has again been repaired and the display re-attached to the laptop ('You should always wait for daylight before you start twisting screens around' Laura reminds herself). She sits down, logs on, and waits...

mosquito appears out of the oblivion thinking to himself *I gotta behave myself now or else I could hurt Laura's feelings again, making her feel that she drove me mad when she made the very slightly inconsiderate insensitive not cool bad hurting tough cruel .... takes breath ... wicked senseless remark :P about me being necessary for the stupid echo system*

mosquito tells himself *of course I don't want her feel any guilt at all*

mosquito being happy that no one can hear his thoughts, walks toward the angel, err, I mean Laura and tries to catch her attention by saying "it's a beautiful day, huh?"

mosquito stood still staring in her face for about 5 minutes thinking to himself *I think the whole world just smiled to me now, the trees, the earth, the air, the clouds, the sky*

mosquito wakes up from his thoughts then try to play with the ball she just in his court saying with a voice he tried to keep low to give her the impression that he is whispering like a bird where in fact he was trying to hide his sleepy voice *side note: everybody who hears mosquito in real life asks him to wake up because the tone of his voice is very sleepy where in afct it is not mosquito's fault, God created him with a God damn sleepy voice*, mosquito says " I hope everything went fine at work today. have you dussected any brains lately, perhaps discovered why something new about brains. If you don't wanna speak about the subject let's just speak about your trip to the lakeside. Was there much water? I mean how was the water in the lake? I mean what did you do? I'm not gonna ask whom you went to the lake with so as not to wake up frommy dreams so please don't mention anything about your date".

mosquito suddenly realises that he has been taling fast and all dierctions so he just shuts up and gives Laura the chance to answer.

Wondering why he is still whispering when it's noon already and no-one should be sleeping anymore, Laura decides to whisper back: 'Lake was fine, air +16 and the water +18 degrees celsius so a quick dip was enough for me. Rest of the time I was playing with my friend's children, two chocolate brown cuties born in Africa in fact'. 'What's up here?' she adds.

[quote="LAuRA"]Wondering why he is still whispering when it's noon already and no-one should be sleeping anymore, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. 'What's up here?' she adds.[/quote]

again, the funny remarks. Laura, your are driving me mad with these remarks. I am the one who is supposed to use surcasim as a self defense mechanism. Now why are you using surcasim...I know, I know....To make it clear to me that I should just stop acting like a hopeless lover....Ok, I got the message....but remember, we are all having fun here. Don't be afraid of me...I'm not gonna travel from Africa...Egypt...to stalk you in Finland....so just cool it, alrighty?

mosquito starts to listen to Metallica's "Damage Case", originally performed by Motorhead:

Hey babe, don't act so scared
All I want is some special care
I'm on the run from some institution
All I want is some consolation

Hey babe, wait a minute stop
Don't run away don't call a cop
I ain't lookin' to victimize you
All I wanna do is tantalize you

Suddendly realizing that the mundane bits of info cited above were totally out of place here at the swamp, Laura rewinds and starts again. Still whispering though. 'I had a pleasurable day swimming in a cool secluded lake, with no need to cover my naked body. The sun then dried me when I lay on the cliff and listened to the warm breeze in the nearby forest trees.' ('I hope I did better this time' she thinks to herself).

[quote="LAuRA"]Still whispering though. 'I had a pleasurable day swimming in a cool secluded lake, with no need to cover my naked body. [/quote]

mosquito strikes his forehead when he realised that an much deserved and expected outflux of insults from Laura's lovely mouth didn't happen.

mosquito with his good old sleepy voice says to Laura while looking her directly in the eyes: "I am not insane to fall in love with you! I mean who wouldn't! That lake's water may have had the prevelidge of surounding your body with the comfortable feeling of water in a hot summer ...... but ...... I had a far more better prevelidge ...... you wanna know what that is ...... I have the prevelidge of talking to you, occupying a part of your day here in the swamp ...... taking your words into my heart and responding back at you ..... maybe the response can be impulsive and without forethought ..... but it is a response afterall..... tell me did that lake respond to you when you talked to her .... no way, not in the way that I would have responded to you if you choose one day to swim inside my ribs and beside my loving heart.

mosquito, having said that, rushes out of the swamp and probably never to be seen again so as not to harrass Laura with his presence again.

As the whispering sounds disappear to the horizon, everything in the swamp is silent again. With a faint sigh Laura opens her notebook and starts a game of solitaire. 'Where is Jadeviper' she ponders. 'This swamp definitively needs new characters'.

Peter wakes up and stretches again. He has been sleeping a longtime. The smell of JadeViper still lingers in his senses and he longs for her return. He finds her hairbrush and wonders why he still has it. He also wonders why he can't get that awful Metallica song out of his head. *The only thing they were good for* he thinks to himself *was coming out very strongly against Napster and unauthorized downloading of copyright material*. He never did like that drummer of theirs--the one with the Viking name---*Lars*---which reminds him....*Vikings*...*Finns*....*Laura*....perhaps she can keep him entertained. *The Samp has become so boring.*

Just above the treeline, about a metre or so, Orophin floats abserving the current affairs of the swamp. with his legs and arms crossed, he sits/floats thinking to himself 'the chaotic ramblings of mosquito really get to me, especially when directed to the goddess that adorns this squalid quagmire we call a swamp'......'alas, the goddess herself now exudes indifference and boredom'.............'what can be done?'

He continues his pondering, then stumbles upon a wonderful thought...'oh yes!!! that could change things around here, but i must proceed carefully, i do not want to end thing prematurely :P '.......thus with this plan, he powers up to 1/3 of his power and flies off into the horizon.

The trees shook from the force of his depature, ergo Laura breifly gazes up to accertain the cause. seeing nothing, she resumes her activities on her tablet pc.

[quote="Orophin Anwarunya"]'the chaotic ramblings of mosquito really get to me[/quote]

Couldn't have put it better myself

Jadeviper returns from her trip to Cornwall to find the swamp somewhat changed, particularly in atmosphere since she left. She hopes that the basket of scones, jam and (especially) clotted cream will help bring everyone back together, talk over their differences and rebuild the closeness once shared here.

Waiting for the others, she strips off and steps into the lake to wash off the dust from travelling.

Laura is sincerely happy to see Jadeviper. Unfortunately she can onlu greet her from a far distance since the swamp is again cloaked from her. Communicator Aids help her get the message through, thank god. Hoping to be able to come back for real later, Laura closes the long distance data call.

Jadeviper smiles as the virtual image of Laura fades, and starts to dry herself off, standing on the bank of the lake. Squeezing the water out of her hair, she wraps it up in the towel and settles down on a warm rock to sun herself and wait.