Chapter 1
If you have ever lost a love one to an ambition, another person or just for another odd reason, than you would know that you can't easily forget of all those good things you and this person did while you were together. In my case, losing loved ones such as my friend Lisa Kim, whom had moved from the school we were at, to another school in another place in the country. My Sister, Penelope left my family, in chase of the career she wanted as a Basketball player, so she left for her scholarship. And Lastly, there was and old friend named Lisa Kwak, whom had parted ways with me when I had gave her phone number to a friend of mine. You might be thinking, what the does this have to do with the story about the Baudelaires, well let me type it out to you.
The three Baudelaires: Violet, Klaus and Sunny have lost their parents in a horrific fire, they had lost the Quagmire twins in the city of V.F.D, lost many guardians who had fallen into the very hands of the causer of this all, Count Olaf and they had just lost the will to go on. As Violet, Klaus and Sunny sat and looked at the Grim Grotto, they looked at each other and just thought of all the good and bad times they had spent with their parents, guardians, and their friends. Normally one would just think it over and forget it straight away. But, the Baudelaires mourn for the lost of the parents, grieved for the lost of their guardians and cried for the loss of their friends.
"Why is all of these unfortunate events happening to us?" asked Klaus.
"I have no idea," Violet said, "It might have to do with V.F.D!"
"Olaf?" cried Sunny which meant something along the lines of "Maybe its because of Count Olaf?"
"Who knows!" Violet answered " But it might not have to with Count Olaf, I always thought that it was about the vast fortune that our parents left us."
Klaus looked at his sister thoughtfully. "You're right. Ever since our parents died and left us money, Count Olaf has been chasing us everywhere! But the good thing is, we don't have to wait long to get the fortune away from Olaf's clutches." grinned Klaus bitterly.
Violet smiled weakly at her thirteen year old brother. It was true, the Baudelaires did not have to wait long to get the fortune now because, Violet, the oldest of the Baudelaires--and the one who would inherit the fortune for them when she was 16--had turned 15 just recently. "At least that is one thing in our lives that's fortunate!"
As the Baudelaires were still on the run from the police, they knew that they had to last out till Violets 16th birthday, but until then… they have to be on the lookout for the authorities and Count Olaf.
"Well…" Klaus said, "We better start moving from here, before the authorities catch up with us!"
"Where?" asked Sunny which meant "But, where should we go?"
"I don't know…" answered Violet honestly.
"There has to be a place we can hide or a place we can stay!" exclaimed Klaus, frustration heard in his words.
"But where?" asked Sunny.
Violet picked up her little sister, who had now grown out of babyhood and gave her a kiss as tears formed in her eyes. "Don't worry, we'll find a place." whispered Violet.
"Promise?" mumbled Sunny, looking up at her older sister.
Giving her a watery smile, Violet placed Sunny down. "I promise."
Klaus smiled as he watched the scene before his eyes. He walked up to the two and smiled encouragingly at Sunny. "Violet's right. We will find some place to hide."
"Come." said Sunny which meant something like "Follow me." or "Let's go to the library." it was hard to tell now that Sunny was no longer an infant.
They turned and headed for the burnt down Anwhistle Library which filled the children with memories of their Aunt Josephine who had a library of her own, filled with grammar books. They stopped at the scene and just had a moment of silence for their Aunt.
"If only," Klaus began sadly, "we had known about this place earlier, than we could have found out about our situation."
"Let's search for anything leftover here." ordered Violet.
Under the rubble they searched for clues, hints, and even files that had survived the fire. Violet found a pile of papers that were the Daily Punctilio, Sunny found half a book on How to keep your Grammar intact- which almost made the youngster puke. But, it was Klaus' discovery that was the most helpful.
As you probably would have known that Klaus has a very interesting Idiosyncrasy which here means "A strange habit that one has" In the case of Klaus it is the habit of focussing on one thing and blocking the rest of his surrounding environment. As Violet and Sunny yelled at Klaus to listen to what they had found, they instantly knew that he was tapping into his very own Idiosyncrasy.
"Klaus! Klaus!" Violet yelled, "Come and see what we found." At that instance, Sunny crawled towards Klaus' leg and if you have already guessed it then you should just skim down to the next most important thing in the story. Sunny opened her mouth and with one tooth she bit his leg.
"Ouch!" Klaus shouted.
"Thanks, Sunny!" grinned Violet.
"Oki Dookie." said Sunny which meant something like "No problems."
"So what did you find out?" questioned Violet.
"Find out what?" questioned Klaus also.
Pointing silently, Klaus looked in the direction of where his older sister was pointing to and saw a burnt file.
"What does it say?" asked Violet as she and Sunny gathered around their brother Klaus, who was now dusting off the burnt file he had just picked up.
Shaking his head Klaus sighed. "I'm not sure. I can't really read it. The fire burnt off the first part of the title, see? All it says now is ony, cket." explained Klaus.
"What do you think that means?" questioned Violet.
"I'm not sure. What should we do?" asked Klaus.
"Open file!" shouted Sunny, because as you know, it is the most obvious thing to do.
"You're right Sunny." agreed Klaus. But just as he was about to open it someone else entered the room.
"What are you doing?" asked the newcomer.
The Baudelaires turned around, and Klaus swiftly hid the file behind his back just in case it was not a friend of theirs.But to their relief, it was only Fiona, who was a friend they had made when they hopped on board the Queequeg, and soon after they met her they found out that she was a mycologist. Now a mycologist as you may know is someone who studies fungi, so you can imagine how helpful Fiona was in the Gorganiaus (Note: Langa find the proper spelling! It's not Gorganian) Grotto.
Fiona's stepfather was the captain of the ship, a funny man who talked very fast and was a part of the V.F.D until Olaf had gotten rid of him. And as the Baudelaires remembered this as they looked at Fiona's sad face, they did not want to lie to her.
"We were looking around for information. And we found this file." said Klaus as he pulled out the burnt remains of a file. "Want to read it with us?"
Fiona's eyes went wide. "We're going to die if we read that file." she murmured.
"What?" muttered Sunny. "Why?"
Violet gasped. Klaus's eyes grew wide. Sunny's jaw dropped.
Small mushrooms began to shoot out of the library's sandy ground.
"The mycelium is waxing…" mumbled Fiona. "We have to get out…and quickly!"
Turning towards the exit, Fiona and the three Baudelaires began to run as fast as they could, Fiona in front, Sunny next, then Violet and lastly Klaus. As Klaus ran after Fiona and his sisters, he tripped and while in the air his glasses slipped off and I'm sure you know what happened next.
It is something that I dread to even write down to add to the poor Baudelaires' misfortune. And I'm sorry but what happened next, I can never change, even as I type down the part where Klaus crawled around, searching for his glasses and suddenly--touched a mushroom.
He screamed, and in his panic--and I wish with all my might that the next thing did not happen because it truly pains me to write this for all I want is a happy ending for the Baudelaires as the rest of you may want as well but--the file slipped out of his hand and fell to the floor, where the mushrooms greeted it, and buried it quickly underneath them. And not one bit of the file could be seen as more and more mushrooms, covered the area where it lay.