Chapter 8
// chasing cars is a song that kinda reminds me of cyanna and Duncan. They for separated and have to do it all without each other, so the line "We'll do it all everything" and "on our own" but the song just reminds me of them.
Quigley and I sat there with the snow scouts we have rejoined. Two people where In the shadows of the cave.
"Carmelita Spats" A girl's voice said as they knew who she was, a familiar voice. Quigley and I looked at each other knowing there was trouble we put our masks on.
Klaus's POV
"Go away cakesniffers! This is a private cave! " Carmelita demanded. The older lazy walked over.
"Carmelita who are you talking to?" The women asked.
"There In our cave so obviously there cakesniffers" Carmelita said with disgust I'm her voice. Violet and I just stood there. Carmelita gasped "Wait you're the orphans from prufrock prep! Who lost there parents in a horrible fire and the vice principal Nero expelled you"
"No we never been to prufrock prep " Violet lied.
"He didn't Expel us" I said, disgusted.
"I knew it!" Carmelita announced "You're the Baudelaires.
Cyanna's POV
As Carmelita said "You're the Baudelaires!" Me and Quigley instantly looked up.
"I hope not" The lady said "I read about those terrible children in the daily punctilio it said they are murders and arsonists and started that horrible fire that's still raging across the hinder-lands"
Violet squinted "Well- Well where not them where uh" Klaus tried to think do something.
"Mountain climbers" Violet said quickly.
"Mountain climbers" Klaus repeated.
"Oh" the lady said in delight.
"Where looking for our sister" Klaus said.
"She's about this tall" Violet put her hand at about sunnys height "And she has a good set of teeth and he's traveling with a bunch of dangerous people"
"Sunny" I mumbled looking at Quigley.
"Have you seen her?" Violet asked.
"We haven't seen anyone" the lady said "we've been in this cave hiding from snow gnats but we have a map of the mountain consult"
Quigley and I got up. "No!" Carmelita yelled "No! Snow master bruski this cave is for snow scouts only and there obviously the Baudelaires look at there little orphan faces"
Quigley and I started walking over. "Now Carmelita" Snow master bruski said "Snow scouts should be accommodating it's the first word of our pledge"
"You're snow scouts?" Violet asked.
"Troop 113 is the most exclusious snow scout troop city only non cakesniffers with rich living parents are aloud to join" Quigley and I inched closer "isn't that right bruski?"
"I have to carry there luggage" Bruski said.
"It's designer" Carmelita said
"You should carry your own luggage Carmelita"
Quigley spoke up "And you should join us by the fire we have extra parkas and snow suits if you're cold and extra masks" Quigley said.
"Why would we want mask" Violet asked.
"Of you're outside they keep the snow gnats away" Bruski said.
"And when your inside they make a very furtive disguise" Quigley said. Violet and Klaus looked at each other.
"Now cmon" I said smiling.
We walked over and started telling stories.
"Cinderella told Prince Charming that she has a even more beautiful sister who's name is Carmelita so he married her instead and then she divorced him and took all his money! The end!" Carmelita said happily. Everyone clapped. "Now this is the story of sleeping beauty's even more adorable younger story-"
She was interrupted "Carmelita you've told 9 stories already" Bruski said "Maybe someone else would like a turn I bet mountain climbers have interesting stories"
"Yeah" Carmelita said crossing her arms "Has anything reallyyyy terrible happened to you"
Klaus and violet looked at Carmelita "We'd rather not share" Violet said.
"You should be more accommodating" Bruski said "After all"
"Snow Scouts are accommodating, basic, calm, darling, emblematic, frisky, grinning, human, innocent, jumping, kept, limited, meek, nap-loving, official, pretty, quarantined, recent, scheduled, tidy, understandable, victorious, wholesome, xylophone, young and zippered - every morning, every afternoon, every night and all day long!" Everyone said, besides Quigley and I.
"That can't honestly be your pledge" Violet said.
"How can anyone be xylophone?" Klaus pointed out "It's not a adjective"
"You can't Change the worlds of the snow scouts pledge and the whole point of the snow scouts is we do the same thing over and over again we where the same parkas we recycle the same pledge and every year we celebrate False spring at the top of the mount fraught and we always make Bruski carry our luggage" she raised a brow at Bruski. Bruski frowned.
"What's false spring?" Klaus Asked, Carmelita went on about false spring.
"Are you sure you two don't have a story I'd love to here a very fascinating drama" Quigley said.
"Yes please" I said after him.
"We know all sorts of stories" Violet said.
"Stories about vastly frightening danger" Klaus said.
"And vein fashionable divas" Violet said I noticed it was V.F.D.
"Have you read the story of Anna Karenina" Quigley asked.
"Our mother read it to us" Violet said looking at Klaus.
" we were very young so she would stop and explain all the words" Klaus said.
"Boringggggg" Carmelita interrupted.
Klaus started defending anna Kareina.
"Either way it's getting late you all should get in your sleeping bags you guys should stay here for the night we have extra blankets" she looked at my siblings
"You cakesniffers should sleep far away from us those blankets smell like nail polish" Carmelita smirked.
"Oh and why is that" I said annoyed. "Cause you spilled nail polish on them"
Everyone got in there sleeping bags.
Quigley and I got up and went to my siblings "Goodnight travelers the fire should die out in a few hours" Quigley said. "Something serious is here to find in the dark" he handed the blankets over.
"Such as?" Klaus said.
"Missing persons" I said.
"Who are you two?" Violet asked.
"Cakesniffers whispering in a cave is there anything less adorable" Carmelita said with a small smirk. "Cmon we don't socialists with orphans"
Klaus sighed and looked at Violet. Quigley and I walked back over to the fire.
A few hours later Quigley and I got up and walked over to my siblings.
Violet was awake and Klaus was asleep Quigley shut the spy glass, Violet nudges Klaus which awokened him. "Shhh" Quigley and I said. Quigley guided them across the cave, we tip toed I led the way.
"I had to wait until the fire died down so we could show you" Quigley whispered looking up.
"Vertical flame diversion" Violet whispered.
"Indeed" i mumbled.
"It's not just a chimney it's a secret passageway" Quigley explained.
"How does she know was here"
Klaus said
"Ive read about it in a book called The incomplete history of secret organizations" Quigley said.
"As did I" I said looking at them.
"We know that book" Violet whispered "But how do you-"
"What are you doing?" Carmelita said we looked over she was talking in her sleep "Give me those earring Rachel" we all sighed in relief.
"We don't know who you guys are who do we know we can trust you" Violet said.
"Xenial is a adjective that begins with X it means being welcoming to strangers having a good vocabulary doesn't guarantee I'm a good person but it does mean I've read a lot and I'm my experience world read people are less likely to be evil" Quigley said and Carmelita started talking again.
"You could take your masks off now there asleep" Violet suggested.
"There are enemies everywhere" i said and we turned towards the passageway.
"Follow me" Quigley said. We stepped over everyone. And they we got to the latter I starts climbing where Quigley followed me then my siblings started as well.
"S- spider " Klaus exclaimed and the spider fell down right too Carmelita and she awoke but instantly fell asleep. Everyone started climbing again as Klaus caught his breath.
"Where close" Quigley and I said as the VFD symbol came in picture.
"What do you think we'll find up there?" Klaus asked violet.
"I know what I hope we'll find" Violet said.
I opened the hatch for us and climbed up "Here we are" I said.
"This looks like the tunnel we found under our house" Violet said.
"V.F.D build these passageways everywhere and underground organization needs away to travel underground according to the incomplete history of secret organizations the headquarters is behind that door" we walked towards it.
"It's a impressive lock how does it open?" Violet asked.
"It's called a vernacularly fastened lock" I said.
"So it opens with language?" Klaus asked.
"The keyboard is attached to the hinges you have too type in the right phrase" Violet said smiling.
"Three phrases" Quigley said "And if you get them wrong it locks forever" Klaus and violet looked at each other nervously. Quigley pulled his notes out
"The name of the scientist most widely credited with the discovery of gravity" Quigley said looking up.
"That's easy Sir Isaac Newton" Violet said as she typed it in. It was correct.
"the Latin name for the Lions found in the hinderlands" I asked and looked up.
"Panthera leo" Klaus said and he typed it in it was correct.
"What's the last phrase" Violet asked with a smile.
"The central theme of the novel Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy" Quigley and I both Said. "But I've never read it" Quigley said.
"That's why you asked about it at the campfire" Violet looked over smiling "You needed somebody to help you open the door"
"There's people I'm looking for people I've lost" Quigley said I nodded.
"Us too" Violet said.
"Our mother" Klaus said.
"Our father" Violet said.
"Sunny" Klaus said and they sighed.
"We can find them but only if you can tell me the central theme of the novel Anna Karenina"
" The central theme of the novel Anna Karenina" Klaus said.
"Is A rural life of moral simplicity, despite its monotony, is the preferable personal narrative to a daring life of impulsive passion, which only leads to tragedy" Violet said confidently.
"Our Mother had us memorize it" Klaus said.
"She waa preparing us for this" Violet said looking over. Klaus went and typed it in.
It started turning until it stopped "Why isn't it opening" Violet said.
"It sounded like it was working until the last word" Klaus pointed out.
"Maybe the mechanism is stuck" Violet suggested.
"Or maybe a daring life of impulsive passion leads to something else" quigley sighed. Violet was right it was stuck. It finished turning and we opened the door.
"We could walk in on the organization having a meeting" Klaus said full of excitement.
"Or one of our parents" Violet bit her lip and looked at Klaus. We opened the door and started coughing the whole place was burnt down. We walked in.
"Mother! Father!" My siblings shouted. Quigley and I looked at each other knowingly. We followed my siblings as they walked. The whole place was burnt down.
"This is where everything has lead us, the maps the codes" Klaus said.
"The snicket file" Violet said.
"our parents have to be here" Klaus demanded to himself. "Jacques Snicket said there was two survivors of the fire.
"There is" Quigley said.
"Two survivors" I said looking at Quigley.
"Where" Klaus asked and turned to Quigley and I.
"Here" Quigley and I both said.
"I survived the fire that destroyed my home" Quigley said and took his mask off.
"Duncan?" violet stepped towards Quigley.
"Quigley, Quigley Quagmire" Quigley said.
"Then who are you?" Klaus looked at me.
"I as well survived the fire that destroyed my home" I took my mask off I had my cassidy disguise on.
"Cassidy?" Violet asked me.
"No" I removed the disguise "Cyanna"
Klaus and violet looked at Quigley and I.
//hehe I just rewatched the episode for this chapter wow I've never wrote a chapter this long in this story hope you enjoyed.
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