And what pray tell is the story I have to share with you today? Well, I don't have one!

"Madame Trista, why are you so mean to torture us poor innocent urchins by offering to tell us a story and then taking it back? "

I am not mean (well maybe I'm a little mean), just unprepared. ^.^ Fear not my dears, when there's no story for storytime, what do you do? Clumsily make it up as you go along of course. Follow along with the post above yours, and add what happen's in our little Susans story next.

Example:

Poster A - Once upon a time there was a train.

Poster B - It was a magical train filled with lollipops and gumdrops.

Poster C - The train blew up!

Poster D - The only survivor was a loan, surviving walrus.

Understand how to play? Good! Don't be afraid to stretch your creative mind now, you can write as much or as little as you want in a single post. I'll start us off.

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Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Susan. All she wanted in this world was a large scoop of pickled ice cream on a cone (gross). Susan was a special little girl, she had the power talk to elephants; she didn't know it of course, having never met an elephant. But little did she know, one day, this power would be a key in helping her save the world from the forces of evil.

One day she decided to prance into the forest unattended by an adult because she's rebellious like that. But then! Something scary, exciting, and random happened.

Little did our little heroine know, that Portia was actually savage, mutant monster who wanted to peck out her brains and feed them to her brood. As Susan reached out to shake her hand, a mysterious figure yelled "No! Stop!!" Portia, irritated by this disruption, morphed into her true form; a big, nasty, hairy black beast with huge fangs. It was time for them to engage in battle.

As the Portia monster closed in on Susan and bit down on her neck, Susan awoke from her horrible nightmare in a sweat.  It was 2 hours before she had to wake up for school but she couldn't go back to sleep.

Susan wondered why her dream was still going on even though she had woken up. 

It appears even though Susan was dreaming, she had awaken to see that she was in the exact same situation as when she was dreaming. >.<

Laura may have had spirit, but she was just a tiny morsel. Within seconds, a giant bird appeared, grabbed her, flew away over the mountain, and ate her.

Now it was just Portia and Susan, and who was this mysterious figure?

Susan woke up for real this time.  "Wow, that was really disturbing" she said to herself.  She could almost still feel a pain in her stomach where Kathy had sliced her.  Lifting her shirt to check it out, she found a scar there that she never had before.  "What is going on here?" she muttered to herself, sure that she was still partially asleep and imagining it, "I have got to stop reading those Get Along Gang fanfics".

"Wait, that wasn't a dream within a dream, I fell asleep again!!!!!!!!!!!"

School was starting in 30 minutes. As she had intended before, Susan got up to rushingly get ready for her day.

Susan walked up behind Laura and whispered to her, "I had this really creepy dream last night.  You were in it"

Susan's jaw dropped and quickly tried to hide her shock.  This was too much for 9:00 in the morning. "No, no....mine was different"

"Football!!!" A large football player punted Laura as hard as he could by mistake. She went through the ceiling and flew hundreds of feet into the air while screaming her lungs out.

Susan wiped her eyes. "Wait, was I just talking to........ Oh boy...... Talking anthropomorphic squirrels. Hope I don't have to start crazy pills"

With that, she went on her way.

As Laura was helping herself up, a mysterious figure came about and punted her even harder through the wall, where she soared in the air for several miles until she landed into a group consisting of every Get Along Gang person except for Portia, who was doing her own thang. Upon impact, she blew up, killing them all!!!!

....

Susan got up and sat into her chair next to Portia, because unlike the rest of her kind, she chose not to play hooky, because she wanted to learn! And she didn't know they were dead. Portia and Susan had never met before, she was simply curious that a talking porcipine in a little school uniform was existing, and without causing a ruckus! "Okay class, turn to page 47," said her old, teacher lady.

Just then, the mysterious black figure who had killed the rest of the Get Along Gang came crashing through the window, making a scene....

As the janitor people carried the body outside the classroom, they discovered that what they were actually carrying was just rags.... Seconds later, the door shut! And locked it self. "MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! FOOLISH RUNT!!!!!!!!!!!!" The mysterious black figure made itself huge and stared Portia down in her face.

"Meep!" went Portia. She froze in terror and then wetted herself. The large, mysterious cackled maniacly and slapped her into the ceiling, where she got a black eye. The rest of the class ran around screaming in terror.

Susan rose up as a ghost with a little ghost tail. "How rude!" she exclaimed. Just then, the mysterious figure rematerialized. "MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" With that, he bit off Ryoko's arm, blood goring everywhere all over Portia's white dress. (She was unconsious on the floor)

"NOTHING YOU CAN DO WILL HURT ME FOOLISH MORTALS, ATTEND TO YOUR BUSINESS, I HAVE MORE PRESSING MATTERS TO ATTEND TO" And with that, he flew at lightning speed out the window"

The classroom was a mess. Tables were turned, blood was everywhere, kids were crying, the old teacher lady, who was having an emotional breakdown, had hair that was even whiter, and Ryoko needed serious medical attention.

Susan's ghost flew up to Ryoko's face. "Haha that's what you get you old hag!!"

Susan's ghost rematerialized. "Portia nooooo! It's a trap! And I did not kill your gang wut da frack? I'm just some little girl going to school!!!!!"

Seconds later it became apparent that this wasn't the real Laura. "CUR!!!!!!!!!! I WAS PLANNING TO SUCK HER BRAINS OUT!!!!!!!!!" She then transformed into a large, multi-armed bear beast. It snatched up Portia and held her in it's palms, torturing her by squeezing her repeatedly, but not killing her. Another blinding light appeared and Ryoko came, viciously attacking the beast but to no avail. This one bit off both her legs. "Damn!" She exclaimed as she regenerated her legs.

"OH MY GAWD THAT'S THE LADY WHO KILLED ME" yelled Susan as she went over and ate her arm that grew back. What she didn't realise is that Ryoko's weird superarm gave her weird, temporary ghost powers. Susan uncontrollably grew into a gigantic ghostly being and shot a large celestial light into the bear monster, burning a hole into it's chest.

....But it wasn't enough. Susan's ghost imediately shrunk back into her small ghostly frame. It became apparent that the two of them, Susan's ghost and Ryoko, would have to work together to defeat this thing.