Response Time: To TheIndividualist, Thank you. It makes me happy knowing that I am making good characters. To Sonny April, I did have a bit of fun writing that line. To mattTheWriter072, the flowers fighting was my favorite part writing. Yes he will be, and I'll notify you when there's a new chapter until it gets fixed. To cheesecake4life, Yep. On to the next chapter!

Chapter 6: Messed Up Creatures

It was the afternoon, and Mr. Wonka woke up from falling asleep on his desk. He suddenly smelled a rather lovely smell, which made him get up and investigate what it was. He went to the Grilling Room to find Charlie standing outside the door. "Hello, Mr. Wonka. Enjoy your nap?"

"Yes, I did. But who's grilling in there? You shouldn't stay out here when meat's on the grill." He looked inside to see Augustus Gloop. He was looking very trim and was grilling pork chops and steak burgers.

"I promised him a cook-out, so long as he does the grilling. He brought some of his food from the Gloop Butchery. He wanted to celebrate him becoming the CEO."

Augustus looked up and said, "I vish my daughter were here right now, but she's in America on a tour." (Yes, I just made a low-key reference to Claudia)

After the grilling was done, Mr. Wonka stated, "Everything certainly looks great, and I must compliment you on your cooking."

Augustus replied, "Zhank you. I've been doing fabulous at home. I wonder how ze others are doing, though. I've only heard from Violet."

Charlie asked, "Oh really? How is she?"

"We've become very good friends. She said she's been doing much better zince her skin came back. Ve talk all ze time. She vanted to apologize for not telling you about her condition, but she haz a lot on her plate. She said she vill promise to visit when she can."

"I see. Thank you for telling us, Augustus. Is she doing okay?"

"Ja."

As they ate, an Oompa-Loompa notified them of a new ticket winner. Mr. Wonka turned on the TV as they continued eating. "Good afternoon everyone. We've just received word that the fifth golden ticket has been found. Now we go to New York City, New York, where 16 year-old Rowan Barnstorm hails!

Rowan was alone in the house. He had black hair, green eyes, wearing a black shirt and tie with a blue vest, a trilby, black pants and brown shoes. Rowan said, "My parents aren't here right now. They're too busy hunting in a safari. Me? I have my own interests." At that moment a black dog walked up to him, and starting climbing on him. "Cut that out, you mongrel! Now as I was saying-" The dog continued to climb, so he pushed the dog off with one hand. "I said, knock it off, you dumb animal!" The dog barked, so Rowan lifted his foot as if he was going to stomp, scaring the dog away. "My parents got that dog from out of the country. I'm from Australia, but I've lived in New York my whole life. I hate that stupid mutt. I pretty much hate all animals. They're just messed up creatures. Let me show you."

He escorted them to his room, where there were fossils, dead insects in jars, and animal trophies. "This here are my collections of animals that I've hunted, fossils that I've dug, and insects that I've used in experiments. I take certain breeds of insects, seal them in a jar and see how long they live. So far the cockroach lasted the longest, followed by the click beetle. Some say I'm weird with it, but I couldn't care. I've done worse. One time, I got put in juvenile hall for tying an iron ball to a cat's tail."

He opened up the closet to show something. "This is my prized possession. It's a prehistoric dragonfly encased in amber. I got this when I dug it out of a tree that's lived for a long time. When I saw it, I realized how truly stupid animals are. A dragonfly got stuck in sap and never got out. It lost it's life because it was stupid. Nowadays, it spends it's afterlife being showing off to other dumb animals."

Mr. Wonka was fuming. "This is getting way too out of hand. I will not have a troublemaker like that becoming my heir!"

Augustus replied, "Even as a butcher, I'm humane to the animals. Zhat is ironic."

The other winners before Rowan saw his interview. This is what they had to say...

Bridget: He doesn't sound so bad. I've met worse.

Jeffrey: He's lucky he went to juvie instead of dealing with me!

Ella: Jeez, who spit in his food today?

Agatha: What a psycho.

That's the chapter! Sorry it took so long. I procrastinated a bit. Next up is the sixth winner, so get excited for that. Take care, everyone!