Very Frightful Days- REVISED EDITION

Chapter 1

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It has been approximately six years since the pleasant-looking and intelligent Baudelaire Children became the Baudelaire Orphans. It has been six years since a mysterious fire left the Baudelaire parents dead. Six years since the lives of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny changed forever.

They spent one year on the castaway island with their adopted daughter, Beatrice, the child of the late Kit Snicket who died of a vile fungus disaster. On the island was Kit's grave, along with the man who so desperately wanted their fortune.

Count Olaf was a tall man with one long unibrow and had a tattoo of an eye on his left ankle, and was also the leader of a group of Henchmen, which included The Hook-Handed Man, The Bald Man, The Henchperson of Intermediate Gender, and The Two Pale-Faced Women.

He was dead, killed by a harpoon gun. As for his troupe, no one knew where they were. Though there have been small reviews of The Bald Man, The Two Pale-Face Woman, and The Henchperson of Indetermined Gender becoming successful actors. Fernald left with Fiona in the Carmelita submarine, where the Baudelaire's last heard of them. As for the other friends and foes the Baudelaire Orphans encountered in their very terrible childhood, they may have died in the terrible fire that burned down Hotel Denouement.

After the Baudelaires and Beatrice left the island and survived a vast flood-like debacle, a word which here means disaster, they spent three years looking for the Quagmire Triplets. The Baudelaire's haven't seen Isadora and Duncan since they escaped on a hot-air-mobile-home with one of their many former-guardians at the Village of Fowl Devotees. As for Quigley Quagmire, he was last seen in the grom grotto where the orphan looked for the sugar bowl, where the burned pieces of a laboratory remained.

When Violet finally turned 18, 2 years after leaving the island, she inherited the enormous fortune their late parents left behind after it was revealed that every article in the Daily Punctilio was proven to be false. The orphans rebuilt their lives; the mansion they once lived in with the vast amount of money in the heart of the dirty and busy city, and each of the orphans received a special room that fitted in with their unique talent.

For the two eldest, Violet owned an inventing studio and Klaus had a study in the library. The extensive library was nearly restored to its former glory, the books being donated by researchers, scientist, and other study practitioners. For the two juvenile Baudelaires, Sunny and Beatrice spent their days practicing their new special set of skills. Sunny, who was now eight-years-old, practiced her cooking skills in the kitchen, becoming one of the finest child chefs in the world. Beatrice, now a young girl who was now the age of six, spent her time studying bats in a room filled with the small, furry creatures, much like the reptile room of the Baudelaires former-guardian, the herpetologist Doctor Montgomery Montgomery.

After putting the little ones to bed one night, the two eldest were in a secret room in Klaus's study. They were piecing together any notes they took about their lost friends and even the ones they've met, or at least the ones who haven't betrayed and/or tried to kill them during their series of unfortunate events when Violet brought up her latest invention.

"What is it?" Klaus asked, straightening his glasses.

"You know how in some science-fiction novels, people have made time-machines?" She asked, knowing her brother knew the answer.

"Yes, but traveling through time is impossible,"

"You can't know it's impossible unless you know everything," Violet smiled. "And nobody does, not even you,"

Klaus looked at his older sister. Even he knew that he didn't know everything.

She led him across the mansion to her inventing studio, which was full of blueprints pinned to the walls and equations written in chalk on the chalkboard. It never ceases to amaze Klaus with the work Violet has done to support the family.

The eldest Baudelaire walked to her desk and grabbed a machine and its blueprint. It was smaller than he imagined, only about the measurement of a very fair-sized dictionary. It was a cube-shaped piece of metal with four switches pointing inward and a clock and small screen on one of the sides, along with other small switches and buttons.

"This is it?" Violet's little brother questioned, examining the mechanical device in all the angles before looking at the blueprints.

"You don't sound very impressed."

"I am," He admitted. "It's just, most time-machines are a bit bigger and in most cases, they lead to disaster."

"That's in fiction," She pointed out. "I tested it this morning."

"Where did you go?"

"Well, I technically didn't go anywhere. I went to last night in the library and dusted off some books,"

"Okay, so you went to last night. That doesn't justify what you plan on doing with this? Do you even know how far it can go?"

"To answer both of your questions, I hope it'll take us back to when we were in the city on our way to the V.F.D. village. If we can make sure we all go to the hot-air-mobile-home, we all can be together. You, me, Sunny, and the Quagmires. Then we'll just leave a note saying that Quigley is on his way to the Mortmain Mountains,"

"We?" Klaus asked, puzzled.

"I need you to come with me," She explained. "You are the only one who remembers each little detail, including the exact time we need to go back."

"Did you even think this through? Did you think what would happen in the future if we go on with them?"

"I am well aware that all the events after the village situation won't occur but if anything too big happens, we could just go back and fix it."

Klaus thought about it for a moment, knowing this was a risky mission. No matter how small the change is in the past, it'll end in with a major difference in the future. He wanted to see his friends again, to see Isadora again.

"Alright," He muttered. "We go back, save our younger selves and the two triplets, and come straight back."

Violet smiled and motioned him to face her. The machine was in between the two siblings and the oldest Baudelaire quickly grabbed her small bag that had extra tools and blueprints. The woman typed in the date and with the help of Klaus. Once it was all set, the couple each grabbed two of the handles and looked at each other. They took in a deep breath and pulled on the levers.

They closed their eyes when a bright light appeared. A rush of wind blew through their hair, making small strands blew in Violet's face and nearly made Klaus lose his glasses. The eldest slowly opened her eyes, as did the middle child. They both saw that they were in a long hallway. On the walls were moving images, each one showing the terrible experiences they went through.

They saw when they were separated from Sunny on the slippery slope of the frozen waterfall and the days they spent in the Caligari Carnival freak show with the ambidextrous Kevin, Hugo the Hunchback Man, and Colette the contortionist. Another picture showed the siblings in disguise as Beverly and Elliot, the two-headed freak, who was about to jump into a vicious feline display at the carnivorous carnival and be eaten by lions and Sunny disguised as Chabo the Wolf-Baby. They even saw the moment Violet literally almost got her head sawed off at the hostile hospital.

Another bright light blinded them and the machine started to shake, making the brother and sister closed their eyes again. Violet and Klaus opened their eyes again when they stopped moving, seeing that they were home. Not the home that they rebuilt, but the home that they lived in with their parents. Everything was restored to its perfect state.