Chapter 19: Augustus Splashes Away
Author's Note: I bet you didn't expect to see an update so soon, huh? In fact, Chapter 20 of this story is already done and will be posted in a couple days. But in the meantime, I hope that you'll enjoy this one. Let me respond to your reviews.
Avimo, an often overlooked fact is that the Vermicious Knids were referenced in James and the Giant Peach as one of the creatures the New York citizens thought the insects were. However, unlike Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, they were called "vermicious Knids", like the last chapter, rather than "Vermicious Knids."
Sonny April, for the main part of your review, please refer to my reply from Avimo. I hope that you'll enjoy this chapter!
mattTheWriter072, Augustus' demise is finally here! I hope that you'll enjoy it! :D
Guest, Willy Wonka in the Sahara isn't cancelled. I've had plans to continue it for a while now. I'm just brainstorming more. I appreciate that you love that story! :)
And now, enjoy the next chapter, everyone!
"This stuff is terrific!" Augustus Gloop exclaimed.
"Oh, no!" Mr. Wonka cried, running towards the river. "Please, Augustus, please! Come away! Come away at once! My chocolate must never be touched by human hands!"
"Augustus!" yelled Mrs. Gloop. "Didn't you hear what the man said!"
Mr. Wonka and Mrs. Gloop were now directly behind Augustus. Mr. Wonka was poking the boy over and over with his cane, but this was to no avail. All Augustus Gloop could hear was his stomach.
"Oh boy!" Augustus exclaimed. "I need a bucket to drink it properly!"
"My chocolate!" Mr. Wonka cried, hopping up and down. "My beautiful chocolate! You're contaminating the entire lake!"
"You don't know how he's contaminating it!" Mrs. Gloop added. "He's still infectious from German measles!"
Mr. Wonka was in complete hysterics now.
"Oh my gracious me, that's really done it!" Mr. Wonka exclaimed. "There'll be a million children all over the country catching it next week!"
"Be careful, Augustus!" Mrs. Gloop shrieked. "You're leaning too far out!"
SPLASH!
Augustus Gloop fell into the chocolate river!
"Help!" Mrs. Gloop cried. "Save him! Augustus! Where are you!...Is it deep?"
"Very deep," Mr. Wonka answered calmly.
"Help!" Augustus cried. "Help!"
"Get out, boy!" Mr. Wonka exclaimed. "Get out!"
"Don't just stand there yelling!" Mrs. Gloop cried. "Do something! Go in and save him!"
Across the river, the Oompa-Loompas were falling on their back with laughter. Augustus Gloop went under the chocolate then resurfaced a few seconds later, shouting, "Help! Help!"
"Dive in!" Mrs. Gloop exclaimed. "Pull him out! Save him!"
"It's too late," Mr. Wonka answered.
"What!" Mrs. Gloop shouted.
"He's had it now!" Mr. Wonka answered. "The suction's got him! Look!"
Around one of the pipes, the chocolate began to swirl around and form into a giant whirlpool. Augustus was right at the edge of it. The pipe began to slowly suck up the chocolate as Augustus was being drawn to the whirlpool.
"Augustus!" Mrs. Gloop cried. "Come back! Swim boy, swim!"
It was too late, for Augustus Gloop was sucked underneath the river. Everything was still.
"Where is he?!" Mrs. Gloop cried, absolutely hysterical.
"Watch the pipe…" Mr. Wonka answered. "Here he comes!"
"Where?" everyone said at once. "Where? I see him!..." the group pointed. "There! In the pipe!"
Augustus Gloop was slowly being sucked up the pipe as chocolate swirled and bubbled all around him.
"Help! Murder! Police!" Mrs. Gloop screamed. "Call the Fire Brigade!"
"It's a wonder 'ee don't block the ruddy pipe," Mr. Salt remarked.
"Don't worry, he will!" Mike Teevee said.
"He's going to stick!" Charlie Bucket cried.
"I think he is!" Grandpa Joe exclaimed.
"By golly, he has stuck!" Charlie cried.
"It's his stomach that's done it!" Mr. Salt remarked once again.
"He's blocked the whole pipe!" Grandpa Joe said.
(Now, I don't normally include scrapped segments in this story. If I did, they would be in italics and with a notice, like this one. I thought this scrapped segment was rather amusing. It takes place right after Grandpa Joe's quote, and right before Mrs. Gloop's:
"Augustus!" Mrs. Gloop cried. "Come back!"
"'Ee's stuck all right!" Mr. Salt said. "He's got too big, that's what it is!"
"Disgusting letting his stomach get to be that size," Mrs. Beauregarde said.
"I quite agree," Mrs. Teevee said.
"What happens now, eh Wonka?" Mr. Salt asked.)
"Smash the pipe!" Mrs. Gloop yelled.
"The pressure'll get him out," Mr. Wonka said. "Watch it build! Terrific pressure is building up behind the blockage!"
"He's moving!..." the group remarked. "No, he's not!...Yes, he is!...Any moment now!...Wa-it for it…"
POP!
Shooting upwards at an enormous speed, Augustus Gloop disappeared completely.
(Roald Dahl also questioned if it was "more fun if the pipe has many twists and turns")
"He's gone!" Mrs. Gloop shouted. "Where's he gone to?"
"Calm yourself, dear lady," Mr. Wonka said soothingly. ""He'll come out of it just fine, you wait and see."
"He'll be made into marshmallows in five seconds flat!" Mrs. Gloop exclaimed.
"Impossible!" Mr. Wonka answered. "That pipe doesn't go anywhere near the Marshmallow Room!"
"Then where does it go?" Mrs. Gloop asked.
"It goes to a room where I am making a most delicious kind of strawberry-flavored chocolate coated fudge," Mr. Wonka answered.
"My poor Augustus!" Mrs. Gloop shouted. "They'll be selling him by the pound all over the country tomorrow morning!"
"Quite right," Mr. Salt agreed.
"I know I'm right," Mrs. Gloop said.
She turned to Mr. Wonka, who was laughing.
"What're you laughing at!" Mrs. Gloop yelled. "You think this is a joke? You think sucking my boy up into your Fudge Room like that is one great big colossal joke?"
"He'll be perfectly safe," Mr. Wonka giggled.
"He'll be chocolate fudge!" Mrs. Gloop shrieked.
"Never!" Mr. Wonka answered. "I'd never allow it! Augustus-flavored chocolate-coated Gloop! No one would buy it!"
"You dreadful man!" Mrs. Gloop growled. "If he's perfectly safe, then lead me to him this instant!"
From his waistcoat pocket, Mr. Wonka took out a slender, silver-colored whistle. He blew into it, and a catchy tune started playing out of it. A few seconds later, he stopped blowing it, and standing right beside him was an Oompa-Loompa.
"Where'd he come from?" Charlie asked.
"Now listen to me," Mr. Wonka said to the Oompa-Loompa. "I want you to take Mrs. Gloop straight to the Fudge Room…"
The Oompa-Loompa took one look at Mrs. Gloop and burst into peals of laughter.
"Oh, do be quiet," Mr. Wonka said. "Mrs. Gloop doesn't think it's at all funny."
"You can say that again!" Mrs. Gloop remarked.
"When you get there take a long stick and start poking around in the big mixing-drum," Mr. Wonka ordered. "I'm about certain he'll be in there. But look sharp! You have to hurry or he's liable to get poured into the fudge boiler."
This remark caused Mrs. Gloop to shriek.
"And that really would be a disaster, wouldn't it?" Mr. Wonka continued. "My fudge," Mr. Wonka said, giggling madly behind his beard, "would be quite uneatable!...Forgive me. I'm only joking...Goodbye, dear lady! Goodbye! I'll see you later!"
The Oompa-Loompa was in front of Mrs. Gloop, urging her to hurry. Meanwhile, everyone else began to hear music and turned to look at the other end of the river bank.
"Grandpa!" cried Charlie. "Oh, look!"
"Sssh!..." Grandpa Joe said. "Listen, Charlie…"
"Augustus Gloop!" the Oompa-Loompas sung. "Augustus Gloop!"
(As for the poem, Roald had in the script, 'marked in my book down to end of poem.' I contacted the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre about the aforementioned book, and their search for the book came up fruitless. As such, I'm just going to put the full poem from the book here, as well as all the other Oompa-Loompa songs from this point forward. Enjoy.)
"Augustus Gloop! Augustus Gloop!
The great big greedy nincompoop!
How long could we allow this beast
To gorge and guzzle, feed and feast
On everything he wanted to?
Great Scott! It simply wouldn't do!
However long this pig might live,
We're positive he'd never give
Even the smallest bit of fun
Or happiness to anyone.
So what we do in cases such
As this, we use the gentle touch,
And carefully we take the brat
And turn him into something that
Will give great pleasure to us all–
A doll, for instance, or a ball,
Or marbles or a rocking horse.
But this revolting boy, of course,
Was so unutterably vile,
So greedy, foul, and infantile
He left a most disgusting taste
Inside our mouths, and so in haste
We chose a thing that, come what may,
Would take the nasty taste away.
'Come on!' we cried, 'The time is ripe
To send him shooting up the pipe!
He has to go! It has to be!'
And very soon, he's going to see
Inside the room to which he's gone
Some funny things are going on.
But don't, dear children, be alarmed;
Augustus Gloop will not be harmed,
Although, of course, we must admit
He will be altered quite a bit.
He'll be quite changed from what he's been,
When he goes through the fudge machine:
Slowly, the wheels go round and round,
The cogs begin to grind and pound;
A hundred knives go slice, slice, slice;
We add some sugar, cream, and spice;
We boil him for a minute more,
Until we're absolutely sure
That all the greed and all the gall
Is boiled away for once and all.
Then out he comes! And now! By grace!
A miracle has taken place!
This boy, who only just before
Was loathed by men from shore to shore,
This greedy brute, this louse's ear,
Is loved by people everywhere!
For who could hate or bear a grudge
Against a luscious bit of fudge?"
Author's Note: That wraps up the first demise! What'd you think? As for me, I was a fan of the extra dialogue that happened before Augustus fell into the river, and I liked the touch of Augustus having German measles. As usual, feel free to review, and stay tuned for Chapter 20, coming in just a few short days! :D
Until then,
Gabe S. :)