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If you find yourself falling asleep during reading this chapter, do not blame yourself. I nearly gave up writing this story because I was so bored during this chapter! But please do no let this hinder you from reading this: by all means, read on.
But, in the role of Lemony Snicket, I would deeply advise you not to read on, due to the unspeakable horrors, which lurk inside this chapter.
At this point, I had read a description of the tenth book, which only told me Quigley was alive. (Only (!) I was so upset! But, never mind…)
C h a p t e r Three
Sorry to leave you hanging there, but being in a cave where a hungry bear has just woken up is not a very good place to write an account of these events, and I had to make a quick getaway.
The siblings screamed and tried to run away, but it was only when Sunny shouted 'STOP!' did they realise that the creature was only trying to lick their faces – it was a huge dingo. The Baudelaires paused, then relaxed and laughed, each taking it in turns to stroke the enormous animal, as a person came of the V.F.D. tent.
"Hello," he said. He was tall, had short hair, and seemed vaguely familiar. "I heard there were new residents at the I.D.V. tent. You will be working in the Abnormal Animals section. We hope you enjoy your stay at the Fun Festival."
"I'm sure we will," replied Violet, and, for the first time, she thought, I meant it.
"Inita?" asked Sunny.
The boy looked oddly at Sunny. "I beg your pardon?" he asked.
"What our sister means," Klaus explained quickly, "is if every tent here is named with initials."
"Oh, that, yeah. Don't ask me why, though. I do know what some of them stand for…"
He pointed to each tent in turn, then named them, counting on his fingers.
"Those ones down there, they're personal tents, for the staff, you know. That's why they always have the initials 'ST' before the members' initials. To the left of them, there are the visitors' tents. Then these tents, here, are the animal tents. They house the animals, of course, and the people who look after them. So here in the V.F.D. tent, I look after the Very Friendly Dingoes, along with two others, also my siblings. We're triplets, and orphans, you see. You'll be working with the I.D.V., which is very rare. You are lucky, but I hope you don't mind living with a snake."
"Snake?" asked the three siblings as one.
"Oh, yes. Your snake is called the Incredibly Deadly Viper. But don't be fooled. It's a –"
"Misnomer, we know," finished Klaus. "We lived with the very same snake last year."
"You lived with it?" asked the boy in awe.
"Yes, with our guardian, Uncle Monty," Violet said.
"Snake!" shrieked Sunny, throwing her hands up into the air.
"It was Sunny's favourite snake," translated Violet sadly, with a sigh.
"You sound like you've had a rough time, to come to this place," said the boy. "It once was a 'last resort' camp for orphans. Run by some guy with an eye on his ankle…"
"Count Olaf?" Klaus asked quietly.
"Is he here?" inquired Violet anxiously.
"No! No! No!" shouted Sunny, which meant something along the lines of "I hope not!"
"You've met?" he asked in wonder.
"Let's go inside, we'll tell you everything you need to know," suggested Violet. "Besides, it is getting a little cold out here…"
"Good idea," said the boy. They were just about to turn around and follow him into the tent, when Klaus suddenly asked,
"What's your name? You seem familiar."
The boy smiled. A nice, warm smile. "Of course, we have not introduced ourselves. My name's Quigley. Quigley Quagmire."
The name seemed familiar, too.
"Well, I'm Violet," said she.
"I'm Klaus," said he.
"Sunny!" shrieked she. "Baudelaire!" she added.
"Well - "
"Quigley?" asked a female voice, emerging from the tent. "Is anything -"
"Isadora?" asked Klaus.
The girl gasped and nearly dropped the black notebook she was holding, while rushing back into the tent. A second later, a boy emerged with her.
"Duncan?" asked Violet.
"Baudelaires?" asked Duncan, the last Quagmire. "Come in, come in!"
So in they went, into the large and colourful tent of V.F.D., where the Baudelaire siblings and the Quagmire triplets informed each other about their experiences until they were all up to date. It appeared that Quigley, as the survivor of another mysterious fire, had taken refuge in some mountains, and it was still oblivious to him how he had got there.
"I mean, (Quigley was saying) one minute, I was standing in the middle of ashes and ruins, staring mournfully at the bodies of my dead parents – our dead parents. I was crying so much; I had no idea where Duncan and Isadora were, and I was soon in a disturbed sleep. Somebody must have found me because the next thing I knew was that I was all alone, with mountains all around me…"
They continued well into the night and it was only when a V.F.D. dingo came and started drooling on Sunny, did they leave.
On entering the I.D.V. tent, they noticed it was much different to the V.F.D. tent. In fact, they had never seen anything that looked less like a tent.
The inside was done up so it was made to look like a rainforest: the trees, (bonsai trees) the ferns, even the humidity. Apparently the Incredibly Deadly Viper liked rainforests, or it just wanted to camouflage.
Violet, Klaus and Sunny changed and went to sleep in separate compartments of the tent, (just as green) happier than they had been for most of their lives; they were with their friends and a certain reptile that Sunny was fond of. Alas, I cannot say that they had an untroubled sleep, for the slumber of the Baudelaires will never be untroubled, as the fateful day at the beach will always stay in their minds, haunt their dreams…
A/N: Well! There we go! That's chapter 3. Now for the little stars I put…
Sorry to make the Baudelaires seem quite dumb and forgetful at this moment, it was just that the meeting would have less of an impact if they had remembered them straight away.
Is Isadora's notebook black? I only own books 1-4, not 5, so I don't know what colour her notebook is, so I guessed.
Here comes the second part of the Author's Note…
When Quigley was up in the mountains, he visited the Hotel Denouement, who sent him down to the Fun Festival. Before this, as the Hotel Denouement is up in the mountains, (so I think) Hector and his self-sustaining hot air machine had crashed a few miles away, and Hector and the Quagmires had gone to the Hotel for shelter. Isadora and Duncan met Quigley, and they all were sent to the circus together. Hector stayed at the Hotel Denouement.
(This just seems all too convenient, doesn't it? And too happy. But believe me; it gets worse… much worse… mwahaha!) Please R&R!!