weird crap ahead. forewarning.

also, this is mostly based off 2005 willy wonka but i have a lot of quotes from the older one here. there is a mix but the plot is coinciding with 2005 movie. that being said, there is a line interpreted that i have no idea what it really means, i just used it and thought i might have it right.

"Didn't you wear that yesterday?" Veruca asked Charley as she put on her clothes.

"This is a different shirt but the same pants… why?"

"You don't have any other pants?" Violet said, putting on a matching purple jump suit.

"Not really…" she said, making a face. "What does it matter to you all anyway?"

"That's so disgusting." Veruca said. "How can you even do that?"

"Did you all see that we got another letter from the prince?" Augusta said, eating some tiny chocolate bars.

"How can you eat candy so early in the morning?" Michelle asked, making a face.

Charley ignored them as she reached for her letter that was at her bedside.

Dearest Charlotte,

I know that you pride yourself on where you come from and I would never want to degrade you in any way, but I fear that your humble home environment may not be able to live up to the others here who live in at least moderate status. After breakfast, please ask Genevieve to take you to the clothing room. These girls will not be kind to you, my gentle girl, and I do not want them to discourage you. Please do not take this as an attack or a haughty tone about your home life but as a survival guide. I know you have tenacity and I want to see it to the end.

Stay strong!

Sincerely,

William Adamsburg

Charley wasn't sure how to really take the letter. She understood what he meant and even though he said that he wasn't trying to demean her, it still seemed that way. But looking around, she realized that he may be right. The people of her village never paid her much mind but these vicious and power hungry girls would do anything they could to break her spirit down. If not for herself, then for her family did Charley even want to do this. She would fight long enough to say that she didn't give up, even if she didn't win the prince's hand. *Besides,* she thought. It's very hard to take into context something written in text. I think I'll take up the offer… The girls filed out and headed to the dining room for breakfast.

As it was before, the dining room was set for six and Charley went to the window to wait for Ian to come in as well as the food. As she overlooked the labyrinth, she thought she saw something within the snow. She tried to get the frost off of the window to see better but it was on the outside. It looked like an animal of some kind but it was on two legs…

"What do you keep staring at outside this window?" Veruca said, scaring Charley.

"Just the labyrinth outside."

Veruca looked outside. "I have three of those in my backyard. Besides, they're in bloom and are really hard to get through."

"I didn't think you'd actually try out your own labyrinth…"

Veruca laughed. "You poor people are so funny. I never said that I knew firsthand; I watched a couple of butlers who pissed me off get lost in them. They're infinity labyrinths, you see."

"What's… that?" she asked, skeptical.

"It means that some of the walls were shaped around pivoting poles that can block or unblock whenever a button is pushed. It's so fun watching them get confused."

"It wouldn't be fun if it were you in there."

Veruca looked at her angrily. "That's why I never go down there, of course."

"Ladies, good morning." Ian said, coming into the room. "I hope you looked over your itineraries for today. You're all in for an exciting treat. We'll begin an encompassing tour of the factory today. We'll start off in the chocolate river and end up taking the rest of the tour in the glass elevator."

"What will a glass elevator do? This place isn't high enough to have a tour up and down."

"You really shouldn't mumble, Ms. Teevee, it's very unladylike."

"But I wasn't-"

"You'll see how this all works soon enough." Ian said, ignoring Michelle.

She pouted and Charley tried to hide her smirk.

"The overall tour might not take that long if everyone keeps to the vehicles and allows me to explain everything I need to explain. If all goes well, we will meet back at the Candy Room and go into extensive detail, knocking off a day."

"When will we stop for lunch?" Augusta asked.

"How can you be thinking about lunch when we haven't even had breakfast?" Veruca said with a disgusted look.

"If all goes well, as I said, before we go on the extensive tour, we will stop for lunch. If we take longer than usual, then we will stop before we go on the elevator. If that is the case, no one touch a bunch of buttons. We don't need anyone vomiting in there."

Everyone looked at each other in confusion. Ian smiled at their obvious confusion.

"You'll understand why I say that shortly. Oh, and for the pinpointed extensive tours, everyone will be wearing the same thing. We're letting you settle into things as of right now but we feel you must all be treated on equal levels, including clothing. The detailed tours is your chance to learn about the castle-factory and gain knowledge that can help our business as well as the prince's rule. We will not be doing anything based off of status or looks but solely off of your ability to bring something to the table and the ability to follow directions. Attitude, personality, demeanor; inside qualities."

The kitchen opened and Genevieve rolled out the breakfast trays.

"Ah, breakfast is served. Eat up; we'll be doing a lot of walking."

"But I thought you said we were going to go by river and elevator?" Augusta asked.

"I have a feeling we'll get done quickly with the encompassing tour and thus the detailed tour will require walking."

"Or rolling, in your case." Veruca said.

Augusta didn't take her comment into consideration as the trays of food were placed in the middle of the table and everyone dug into the meal.

Once they were finished they headed off down a hallway that was supposed to lead to the entrance to the factory. As they descended the hallway, Charley noticed it was getting narrower and narrower as the group started getting closer to each other.

"Um, Mr. Ian, is the hallway getting smaller?" she asked.

He looked back. "Yes, it is."

"This is a pointless illusion and the wallpaper sucks." Michelle said, folding her arms.

"Actually, the wallpaper is an invention of Prince Adam's. He calls it Wall Taster." Ian waited for someone to catch the pun but rolled his eyes when he got blank stares. "It's a play on word sounds… paper/taster…" He sighed. "If you meet him, don't say you didn't laugh… Anyway, but the food represented is actually implemented in the wallpaper."

"So are you saying that the little bitty chocolate bars taste like chocolate?" Augusta asked, looking at one on the wall.

"Yup. The candy canes taste like candy canes, the cotton candy taste like cotton candy, the raspberries taste like raspberries, the snozzberries taste like snozzberries!" Ian said, getting over excited.

"What the hell's a snozzberry?" Violet asked.

Ian threw his finger over her mouth.

"We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams. In that context, don't let your dreams be dreams and you can make anything."

"So a snozzberry is something you guys made up?" Charley asked.

"Precisely."

"Why didn't you just say that?" Veruca asked.

"I'm starting to think this place is on crack…" Michelle mumbled.

Ian ignored Michelle's comment and turned back to the tiny door.

"Inside this door is the most important room."

"Then why is the door so small?"

"To keep all the big chocolately flavor inside, of course."

He bent down and used the key in the tiny hole of the door and turned it. The whole wall opened into what Charley could only think of as a dream. They walked in and the whole room smelled of sugar and chocolate and sour, just like a candy store.

"I know it's overwhelming but we're only passing through for right now. Don't get over-excited. Just stay completely calm."

"Is… is everything in here made of candy?" Charley asked.

"Yup. Everything in this room is eatable. Even I'm eatable. But that's called cannibalism and is frowned upon in most societies." The girls looked at him in confusion. "Yeah… anyway, follow me."

"So you can eat the grass?" Augusta asked.

"Yup. The grass is made of sour gummy straws. We're walking on hardened chocolate right now."

"How did you make all this?" Michelle asked.

"We are the music makers and the dreamers of dreams…" Charley said softly, her stomach rumbling even though she had just eaten breakfast.

Ian smiled at her but directed the girls towards a boat.

"Why is the water dirty?" Veruca asked.

"It's not dirty, it's chocolate!" Violet said, smacking her gum at the same time.

"You're absolutely right. Every drop of the river is melted chocolate of the finest quality. Those pipes up there," he said, pointing to the pipes. "Come down and suck up the chocolate from here and carry it all over the factory to be used in a variety of ways. I'll get into more details later in the detailed tour. This is one of the most important rooms here, though, so when we come back you'll need to pay strict attention."

Ian led them to a small dock where they could finally see the full of the boat. It looked like it was made of hard candy.

"Will we get sticky on that?" Veruca asked.

"Although it looks like it's hard candy it's actually just really shined up fiberglass, just like a regular boat. All aboard!"

They all got on and Ian sat in the front. He looked over his shoulder and muttered something and the small paddle wheel in the back of the boat began to move and push the boat forward. The boat was long enough that the girls were on one side and Ian on the other.

Michelle leaned in to them. "Hey, does anyone else think Ian may have gone a little wacko in the cabeza?"

"Why do you say that?" Violet asked.

"I mean, look at him, he's talking to himself."

They all looked over and saw that he really was talking to himself. They huddled back together.

"Plus, we still haven't seen the prince since we got here. I mean, don't you guys think that's a little weird?"

"Yeah, it is a little weird."

The girls gasped as Ian sat down between them.

"For your information, I'm not crazy. I was talking to the Wangdoodles."

"Wangdoodles? What the hell's a Wangdoodle?" Michelle hissed.

Ian directed their attention to the banks of the chocolate river where tiny men with bright orange skin and stark white hair were doing various tasks and seemed like they were talking to themselves as well.

"The little men are Hornswogglers and they are all talking to Wangdoodles. Wangdoodles are invisible creatures that live to work. If we had our special glasses on, we could see one. But to the naked eye they are invisible. See those flying things over there?" They looked and saw insect-like creatures flying overhead with different candies. "Those are called Snozzwanglers. They deliver different candies to the factory. They are kind of like butterflies in that they harvest the Candy Room… The Oompa Loompas work in the technical parts of the factory but you'll see them soon."

"You are talking complete nonsense, sir." Veruca said.

Ian looked at her. "The itinerary did mention that this castle-factory wasn't normal."

"Day 15!" Michelle said.

"Exactly. We'll go into more details about the creatures of Loompaland later."

"There's no such thing." Violet said.

"What?"

"My father's father was an explorer and has been all around the world. He's never encount-"

"Then he would have documentation supporting the terrible conditions Loompaland is in."

Violet seemed to understand what Michelle was saying about Ian.

"We're about to go into a tunnel. Is that planned?" Charley asked.

"Yup."

"Can a Wangdoodle see in the dark?" Veruca asked.

"Nope."

There was a dip in the river and it began to rush quickly, turning more into a rapid. The girls held on tightly as eerie voices began to fill the tunnel.

"What's that singing?"

"The Vermicious Knids."

"And what's that?"

"The main predator on Loompaland."

"Why would you bring a predator here?!"

"Ecosystem balance. Plus, they are sneaky little buggers since they stick to almost anything like a little gecko. They sing to lure their prey to them. Don't worry, they only eat Wangdoodles."

"THAT'S WHAT'S DRIVING THE BOAT!" Michelle screamed.

She almost fell off as the river dove into another rapid but Charley caught her hand and pulled her back to her seat.

"There's no earthly way of knowing. Which direction we are going…" Ian started singing.

The river was getting so intense that it was starting to get hard for any of them to hold on, the boat rocking against the tunnel and turning sharply.

"There's no knowing where their rowing or which way the river's flowing…"

"Shut up! Stop singing!" Michelle growled.

"Calm down!" Violet yelled, holding her back.

"He's creeping me out! He's just sitting there like we aren't in mortal danger!"

"Not a speck of light it showing so the danger must be growing! Are the fires of Hell a-glowing?! Is the grisly Reaper mowing?! YES! The danger must be growing for the rowers keep on rowing and they aren't showing any signs of slowing!"

An unearthly scream suddenly surrounded them and they all screamed along, scared out of their wits as what sounded like bats screeched around as well. The girl huddled together in fear, a couple of them crying. Suddenly the boat lurched and Charley looked up to where they were docked at a small dock.

"Okay, everyone off." Ian said calmly as he stood up and got off the boat.

Michelle launched from the pile and after Ian, pushing him and slamming him against the wall.

"What the hell is wrong with you people?!"

"Didn't I have 'fun filled tour' in the description of today?"

"I know fun and that wasn't fun." Veruca said, shakily getting off the boat.

"That was messed up." Violet commented.

Charley had to admit that that was quite uncalled for. Augusta just shakily ate the chocolate kisses she had brought with her, quiet but equally scared.

"Sorry but the prince told me we needed to strike some fear into you. As I've mentioned before, the castle-factory isn't normal and there are things that… go bump in the night."

"Like that monster roaming the castle."

"The what?"

"I saw it." Michelle let Ian go. "There's a monster in the castle. It was standing over Charley's bed last night. I saw it."

"Ah, well… yeah…"

"Are there, like, creatures here?" Violet asked, smacking her gum in anticipation.

"We'll discuss that on Day 15. As of right now, we will take a small back tour and then on to the glass elevator."

"Wait, wait, wait, so explain that monstrous adventure to us again?"

Ian scoffed. "Fine. There are creatures here. Creatures that will lead you astray to get you in trouble, spirit you away. They act just like those Vermicious Knids and catch you in the corners of the night. The prince wanted you to understand that fear."

"That's a sick way of doing it."

"I… have to agree." Ian mumbled. "Onward."

The ladies walked in front of him as Ian looked up at a camera that was pointed right at them. He threw his middle finger up at it and walked off.

William was rolling on the floor in laughter. He had never been so entertained in his life. Genevieve watched her prince with a pensive look and he finally calmed down.

"That was the single most hilarious thing I've ever witnessed in my life!"

"Your sense of humor is quite wicked, sir." Genevieve said.

"Oh, don't be a sourpuss."

"I'm being practical. That was cruel, Will."

William got off the floor and shook out his fur, crawling back into his chair.

"Well, we needed to get the bitch out of a couple of people. Scaring the shit out of them seemed to knock them down a peg."

"Well it made you seem like a dick." Genevieve said, rolling a tray to him. "Tea."

"Uh…" He looked at the teacups as they pulled away from him. "Is there a way to get a different set?"

"I'm afraid this was the only set that hadn't hidden themselves. You give more care and concern to porcelain than you do human beings."

"Porcelain has made me happy thus far." He reached out to grab a teacup but it shivered away from him. He sighed. "Get me something else to drink out of…"

Genevieve sighed. "William, was that really necessary though? Truly?"

"Yes. What Ian's improved explanation said was true. There are creatures that are here from Loompaland that I don't know of that have taken up residence in the dark recesses of the castle. Plus, since apparently Michelle has seen me, the sense of fear will be high. Surviving that boat ride is just the beginning."

"You need to apologize to those girls and explain yourself a little better. Tell them why… and you could have endangered their lives, Will. Vermicious knids are carnivorous and could have grabbed any one of them up. Be careful with your pranks and lessons next time, milord."

Genevieve left to get a different glass as William brooded for a moment. If she's all butt-hurt about the Tumultuous Tunnel then she won't like it when these stupid girls start getting into things that activate the magic of this castle. With that type of uncontrolled fantasy, I have no idea what will happen.

adam is kind of a sick bastard but i did decide to have some other malevolent creatures about. the castle itself is enchanted in the respect of both objects and also atmospherically if you get my drift. that's why he was saying what he said at the end because there is some uncontrolled stuff going on so he can set up a situation but he had no idea what will happen.

btw, ian did not want to take them through that.

and we will be returning to the candy room for more fun times and merriment.