Mello Wonka

Chapter 4 – Fat people and s'more

After the little episode outside with Light and the oompa loompas, Ryuk decided to re-enter the building. At least inside, there might be something that could satisfy his boredom. Yeah, maybe he would stalk Light's so called girlfriend, Misa. Ryuk looked around for the window in which everyone had entered earlier. When he found it and took notice at the size of the opening, he shook his head and then approached the front door. Without hesitation, Ryuk lifted his right leg and kicked down the door. Of course, instead of walking through the wall (which shinigami were supposed to do anyway), kicking down the door seemed like some entertainment.

He caught the group just exiting the chocolate room. They all looked confused as the door fell hard onto the white tile floor beneath them. Who could have done it though if there was no one standing before them that they couldn't confront? "Whatever, must have been the wind or something." Mello said, brushing it off. Ryuk flew silently over to Misa and began following her from behind. She was walking behind everyone else. Now, all he had to do now was get Misa to notice his presence. After all, wish Misa's busy life style, she probably had a lot more entertaining things to do than that self centered boyfriend of hers. Without thinking, Ryuk ripped a piece of a page out from his Death Note and lightly tapped her shoulder with it. Now Misa was able to see him. It wasn't until about two minutes later that Misa got the feeling that someone was stalking her. Nonsense, the oompa loompas must just be following the group. Misa thought. She turned around to be sure, but she saw no oompa loompas.

Immediately Misa came to a complete stop, and screamed. Ryuk had to laugh for her expression was indeed better than Light's. Misa wanted to say something but it felt as if she had no voice anymore. It was gone. The group also came to a stop. Ryuk was obviously not visible to them. Suddenly, something or someone busted out of the crack in the wall next to Ryuk. To Misa, it was just another monster. As for Ryuk, it was his female friend, Rem.

"Holy shit!" Misa blurted out without thinking. Mello rolled his eyes and glanced at his watch.

"Look blondie, I don't have all day so stop hallucinating and get your ass in gear." Mello said impatiently. He motioned the group to follow him onward, leaving Misa frozen in shock. She finally noticed them and forced her legs to move. Meanwhile, Near noticed something that he thought might have had to do with the Kira case in some way… or the secret investigation that he was conducting against Mello. First there was said to be people having massive hallucinations at the grocery store, then this girl is having some sort of hallucination as well. Near thought.

Rem and Ryuk started following close behind Misa. It was Rem who then spoke. "Ryuk, how is she able to see me as well as yourself?" Rem asked. That's right. I touched Misa with my death note so Rem should actually be invisible. Ryuk thought.

"I don't know. Why are you here anyway?" Ryuk asked. Actually now that you think about it, how did Rem even know that Ryuk would be at Mello's factory? Makes you wonder holyman.

"I came to get my death note back." Rem replied, looking at the death note that Ryuk claimed was his. Then, she snatched it off of his belt.

"Hey! This is my death note! No wonder." Rem said, rolling her eyes. Ryuk grabbed it from her hands.

"Thanks. Now it's mine." He said. Suddenly Misa spun around with an annoyed look on her face.

"God shut the fuck up!" She shouted. She was so busy listening to them, that she hadn't noticed Mello was explaining something at the same time. He turned around and gave Misa the most furious look.

"Is there a problem?" Mello asked, trying so hard not to beat the shit out of Misa because when Mello is mad, Mello smashes things. She shook her head, and they continued with the tour. Rem almost forgot what she was supposed to say when Misa first saw her, although I don't think Misa would really care now.

"We are shinigami, and no, we will not eat your face off. We're on your side." Rem explained. Misa felt somewhat relieved from the statement, and couldn't help but smile. She began talking to them. What she didn't know was that Near was about one foot in front of her. He was secretly eavesdropping what Misa began mumbling. Who is she talking to? Near thought. He was thinking of all the invisible things that you could talk to, except imaginary friends because they don't scare the living hell out of you. Then, making his thoughts audible, he blurted out what would lead the small group to their next destination.

"That's it! A shinigami!" Near blurted out. Before Mello could comment on his enemy's outburst, L, who was standing next to Watari in front of Near, spun around so fast that he almost fell over. His eyes looked as if they might pop out of their sockets any moment. He also looked as if he'd been touched by death himself.

"S-shinigami?" he said in almost a whisper. Suddenly, L threw his arms up and went ballistic. He started screaming and running in circles. After twenty seconds, his big toe got caught on the bottom of his jeans. L tripped and fell forward through the wall to everyone's right.

"Well, I suppose I can show you this room first." Mello said stepping over the small part of the wall which remained untouched. "Actually I have this invention that I wish to show you." Mello added. Watari helped the fallen L back to his feet, and they caught up behind the others.

Mello led them over to a large machine. It was a big bulky piece of metal with a whole mess of buttons on the left side of it, and a slot on the right. Mello pointed to a sphere which everyone turned to, and began explaining. "This is where the ingredients are mixed together. Now over here," Mello continued pointing to a set of buttons on the side of the rectangular piece. "These are for the flavors. I'm still inventing flavors so these aren't the only ones. The blue is for chocolate, the green for caramel, and white for cookies and cream. Those are the best according to the oompa loompas." Mello paused when he got to the red button and threw himself in front of it. He had his cane ready as if to beat someone with it. Then he continued his explanation, wrapping it up. "This button starts it. I know that red buttons are tempting to push so I armed this with a whole crap load of electricity. There's a code to disarm it." Quickly Mello punched in the code. Shortly afterwards, Near raised his hand slightly to ask a question.

"So, what does it do?" Near asked.

"What?"

"What does it make?"

"Well, I was getting to that Mr. Nate the great." Mello said, silencing him with a smile. Near hated it when Mello called him that. He gave Mello a scornful look in return. "Now, if you would follow me over here." Mello continued, pressing the red button. The group silently obeyed and watch in amazement as they went to the other side of the machine. The machine began the process. It roared for a moment, and then there was a churning noise from inside. As the machine mixed the ingredients, Near glanced over at Mello and began thinking again.

There is something behind all of this. I just know it. That brown wrapper wasn't from your chocolate. Near thought. Halle interrupted him to show that the machine had finally stopped. The noise died down and a small object shot out of the slot. It looked like a Hershey's kiss, but not with Hershey's chocolate. Mello held the piece up with his thumb and index fingers. "Well, do I have any taste testers?" Mello asked. He looked at Matt standing all alone to the right, from Mello's point of view. Matt noticed and quietly took the piece of candy.

"It's alright I guess, but there's something familiar about it." Matt said. Mello noticed Near's suspicion after that statement. Before Matt went, he noticed that his skin tone began to change. It was getting darker, and he was getting fatter.

"Dude are you okay?" Mello asked. That wasn't supposed to happen. The item was already tested on the oompa loompas and only one had gotten the reaction. Matt couldn't move. He was very plump now, and not the kind that is pleasing. His skin was brown like the chocolate he had eaten only a few seconds before. Mello had no choice but to call upon the oompa loompas again. He couldn't leave his friend in this condition. As they all walked through the door, all of their eyes immediately fell on Matt. He was bigger than the machine! Some how the oompa loompas had predicted this. Three of them stood on one side of matt, preparing to roll him away, while the other two stood on the other side, ready to direct them of where to roll the poor man.

Before the oompa loompas began to make their departure, Mello stopped them. "What is it now Wonka? We're about ready to annihilate these damn whack jobs." Jack said, sounded impatient.

"Well at least does he get a song?" Mello asked. Matt was his friend, but what made Light so special? He acted obnoxious and now he's probably squashed flat on the side of the road. I wouldn't want to be the person cleaning that up. He added quietly to himself.

"Sure." Rod said with a false smile that he forced upon his face. He nodded to the other oompa loompas and then as hard as he could, kicked Mr. Wonka in the knee. "That's what you get you chocolate slut!" And with that, the oompa loompas along with Matt exited to a room where Matt would be shrunken back to normal size and have his skin its old color. After a minute of rolling in pain and absorbing the words that Jack so harshly said, Mello sprung to his feet and stared towards the others.

"Why are you looking like that? Matt won't share the same fate as that other kid." Mello said. Obviously that's not why they were staring. It was the violence that had just occurred right in front of their faces. Ryuk's stomach suddenly growled.

"Getting kind of hungry." He said, pulling out an apple. Misa took notice and without thinking, said the same thing. Everyone locked their gaze on her once more. Mello glanced at the round analog clock on the wall.

"Well I suppose we could eat. Alright follow me if you want food." He said. Near's curiosity had his mind racing again. I know you don't stare your chocolate bars Mello and it's the only thing you have to eat. If it was another brand though, perhaps… Near got distracted and stumbled into Misa who returned it with a brutal slap to his face. He began rubbing the pain away as they halted at a bright orange door.

"Why is the door orange?" Halle asked. It seemed to stand out from everything else.

"What is there a problem with the color orange?" Mello asked. Before Halle could continue anymore, Mello started going on again. "You know maybe I like the color orange ok did you ever think of that?" He asked, sounding offended. Halle once again tried to talk to him but he simply cut her off and began leading them into the room. "Instead of giving you all a chocolate bar, I think we should make s'mores or something instead. I have marshmallows and those cracker thingies." Mello explained. The room that they were led into did not have much to it at all. The door was painted a bright color, but the inside wasn't painted anything. It was sort of gray looking, like a depressing room that hadn't been touched for a while. Mello took them to the center, where a bunch of sticks were thrown into a pile. "I've been wanting to do this for a while. Everyone stand back. Getting your face burned off is not our responsibility."

Mello took a lighter and held it over one stick. Eventually they all lit up and there was a huge fire in the middle of the room. He had to open windows so the smoke didn't suffocate the people. As he was opening them he explained that that was not his responsibility either. After that he grabbed all of the supplies that they would need and told them to grab whatever they would like. Misa however, decided to stare at the fire. "Wow I wish Light could be here to see this." Misa said. As she went to go get the food to roast over the fire, she didn't notice that there were a few sticks on the floor left to put the marshmallows on. Misa wasn't looking down at the floor at the moment and got her foot caught on one. She stumbled to her right, where the fire sat. Without anything or anyone to grab onto, she began to burn to death in the orangey flames.

Absolutely no one dared to go near the flames to help her. They sat and watched like it was a TV show. Misa screamed for help over and over, but no one moved. Mello didn't feel like getting up anyway. After a few minutes, the fire was still roaring, and in the center of it, Misa lay motionless. "Well, I think I just about lost my appetite." Watari exclaimed. Mello ate the last two pieces of his chocolate bar.

"I agree. Well, there are only two of you left. Look at that. Let's just hope you don't screw up like the girl. Now, I really want to show you this one room. It is truly outstanding." Mello said, looking at Near who still seemed to be suspicious. I will find you out Mello and tell everyone that you are a fraud. This is not your chocolate. The people will soon find out. Near thought. Little did Near know, Mello had the perfect plan for him and it was about to take action very soon.