Chapter 2
"Klaus! Klaus! Where are you?" cried Fiona as mushrooms began to cover the floor of the exit.
"Klaus! Klaus? W-what are you doing?" asked Violet as she stared at her brother in shock.
Fiona gasped. "The mushroom…he must of…"
"Who cares about that!" Klaus shouted, sounding braver than he actually felt. He squinted at the floor and began the search for the file he had dropped.
"Klaus! We have to go! The exit is closing up with mushrooms!" screamed Violet.
"We can't…I can't…the file…" mumbled Klaus as his vision began to blur.
"Get him! We have to take him to the hospital! He touched a mushroom and he only has…a…few hours to…to…" Fiona's voice trailed off.
Violet gulped. She understood what Fiona couldn't bring herself to say. Turning to her crawling brother, Violet raced to him and grabbed one of his arms. "Klaus? Come on, let's go. We can still make it if we go now Klaus, and you will li…"
"…I can't…I…dropped…it…" Klaus coughed, each word struggling to come out of his mouth.
"Dropped what?" questioned Violet.
"Glasses…file…" Klaus managed to say.
"It's too late for the file!" Fiona cried, "We need to get you to a doctor!"
"Glasses." Sunny said which meant something along the lines "I'll get your glasses!"
Fiona grabbed Klaus's other arm and together both she and Violet began to drag the middle Baudelaire to the exit, and at the same time were trying to dodge the mushrooms.
"We need the…file…" Klaus whispered, his eyes closed and his head rolling.
"It'll be all right…Klaus, it'll be alright…" whispered Violet, tears forming in her eyes for the second time.
"P…r…o…m…i…s..e…?"
"I…I…promise Klaus…" Violet vowed. "It'll be alright…"
But I am sorry to say, that it would not be alright, and that it never would be. I wish I could go back and warn the four of the mushrooms blocking the exit, but I can not. For no one can ever go back in time and change the terrible things that happened to the four of them.
And no one noticed anything except for the youngest. "Waxing!"
If you have ever had that weird experience when you can't get the words out of your mouth, then you would know that it is very hard to get a message out to someone. This has a phrase to it which is "Lost for words". I've had a bad experience with trying to get the words out to someone and find that the wrong message come out instead of the right one. For example, I was talking to a girl when suddenly she said to let her have it, and then I was so shocked that I couldn't get any words to come out of my mouth. And it still troubles me today, that I am shocked for words, when ever she begs me to kiss her on the lips.
To the Baudelaire children, it wasn't because someone had sounded so desperate for love that they asked you to kiss them! It was because the children had to find a way to heal Klaus from the poison in a few hours before he left to that happy place in the sky.
"We've got to find a doctor!" Fiona spoke much braver than she felt "Why don't we head for Heimlich Hospital?"
"No!" Violet said "We won't get there in time!"
"Mushy!" Sunny cried which meant around the lines of "Note to self: Don't ever touch evil looking mushrooms" or "Damn Mushrooms"
As the girls looked for a place to lay Klaus down, they were blown away of the possibilities of if Klaus didn't get attention quickly, then what might happen to him? But it brings joy to me to write that the attention Klaus needed me was there all along. They didn't need to rush him to a hospital. The girls found a abandon shelter which they stopped and laid Klaus on the tree leaves they found outside.
"We need to find an antidote for this poison" Violet said "We can't take him to a doctor"
"Violet…" Fiona turned and said "Do you know what colour the mushrooms were"
"Um…"
"Yellow!" Sunny yelled
"And red" added Violet
As time wined down, and Klaus had not much time. According to my research the mushroom was common in the time of the Baudelaires. And which also meant a common antidote. Fiona closed her eyes and thought of all those books and studies that she had read about and was trying very hard to think of what the mushroom was called and then it hit her.
"uh-oh" Fiona said
If you have guessed what Fiona has figured out than all I can say is that you should close this chapter and await for my next chapter. For what Fiona finds out is very sad indeed. As Fiona try to look up the two Baudelaire girls and try to break it to them she suddenly she couldn't get the words which has a phrase which is "lost for words"
The Baudelaire sisters looked at her and started to get a feeling that there was going to be a twist in the road of finding the antidote.
Fiona gathered her courage and looked the sisters in the eye and said
"it's I…M…P…O…S…S…I…B…L…E!" she managed to get out
"what do you mean Impossible?" Violet questioned
"The ingredients for the antidote are found…" and then Fiona's voice trailed off.
Fiona grabbed her bag and got a paper and pen and then wrote out one sentence.
If only I could turn back time and go to the Baudelaires hand them a bottle which contain the antidote inside. Because the what Fiona wrote down tears me heart into millions of tiny pieces.
As Fiona put the pen down and showed the Baudelaire girls where the ingredients were, they became "Lost for words". On the paper was written this message,
INSIDE THE MUSHROOMS!
"It doesn't matter…" Violet said "We can still…"
"I'm… sorry!" Klaus muttered. He struggled to get the words out, but in the end he got only one word out "Goodbye…"
To this, the girls were (as I quoted) "Lost for words " for none of them knew how they could get the antidote from the mushroom and at the same time try and keep Klaus alive. And as Fiona looked on and kept an eye on Klaus, Violet was already tying her hair with a ribbon, to keep the hair out of her eyes. Violet would only do this, when she put the gears and levers of her inventing brain into action.
She looked down and around her surroundings and could only find the bag and some log poking stick in the shelter.
"Fiona, can I borrow your bag?" Violet asked
"Sure…" Fiona said and handed her bag.
Violet got onto her knees and started to pick up the log pokers and put them into the bag. While this was happening, Fiona and Sunny were sitting beside the mattress they had made for Klaus to lie on.
"Klaus?" Sunny whispered
"Klaus, don't worry!" Fiona whispered. She started to form tears in her eyes "I can't lose you! Please hurry Violet"
"F…I…O…N…A…" Klaus stuttered. He grabbed the pad and pen off Sunny and wrote a few lines really messily…
"If I don't make, I want to let you know I love…" and then he dropped the pad and blacked out