Chapter 5: Ansem's Candy Shoppe

By: Rikku24

Ansem was evil and knew it. He was obsessed with chocolate. Loved it in fact. He had a giant stash of it in his basement. His favorite chocolate of all time included his FAVORITE and MOST USED word…DARK. Yes, dark chocolate was his favorite type of chocolate. He had at least 5,000 EXTRA-LARGE dark chocolate bars in his basement.

So, one day he was thinking. Thinking was easy for him because he always thought up strange plans for strange reasons. AND HE HAD AN IDEA! A GOOD IDEA! This is very rare for all of his ideas and plans were BAD and always failed (except for the plan when he took over Riku's body). But Riku was his old self again, enjoying life with Rikku24.

Okay, back to the GOOD idea. Ansem's GOOD idea was…a CANDY SHOPPE! Yes! He would create a Candy Shoppe that only sold chocolate. It would sell Dark chocolate as a primary sale and other kinds of chocolates (milk chocolate, chocolate with nuts, chocolate with that rice stuff, chocolate with peanut butter filling, you get the point) as secondary sales. He would become RICH and buy heartless instead of creating them. He would be able to buy GOOD plans that were evil if he became rich.

There was only one problem, though. Where would Ansem get chocolate for his Shoppe?

He went on Yahoo and searched…and searched…and searched…and searched…and FINALLY he found a company that sold chocolate to Shoppes. He filled out some on-line paper work and sent it in. Next, he looked for some place to open his Candy Shoppe. Ansem decided to go to Traverse Town and look for stores on sale (empty store areas that are being sold to people who want to start a business). It took a while but Ansem finally found a place nearby Cid's Shoppe.

~One Week Later~

The 300 boxes of different kinds of chocolate finally arrived along with 500 boxes of dark chocolate. After a few days of setting up, Ansem's Candy Shoppe was finally opened and ready for business. He stood behind the counter with his arms crossed. Ansem waited…and waited…and waited…and this sounds vaguely familiar…and waited…and finally got a customer.

Actually it was two customers. Riku, oh how he hated that boy, and some young and very pretty girl. She followed Riku and pointed out some dark and milk chocolate bars. Riku got two of each and went to pay for them.

"Eight dollars and forty cents, Riku," Ansem said.

Riku gave him a hateful and dangerous look before paying the money.

"Thank you, Riku," the young girl said.

"No problem. I'd get almost anything for you, Rikku24. No let's go enjoy our chocolate," Riku said to the girl, Rikku24.

The couple left eating their chocolate bars. Ansem felt mad and happy at the same time. He felt mad at Riku for spoiling his OTHER plans and happy for the young couple that were now enjoying chocolate.

A bunch more people came that day. So far, so good Ansem thought. He had made around $235 dollars today. Ansem started to pack and lock up the shop. Even his little heartless buddies had come to buy dark chocolate. More than half of his sales were due to his little heartless buddies.

The next day resulted in even more profit then the last. His first few customers were Aerith, Leon, and Yuffie. They all bought light chocolate (a.k.a milk chocolate) and ate it on their way out of the store. Next came some shadows that all bought dark chocolate, of course. Several more customers came in after the shadows. Ansem was becoming bored. This wasn't the fun and VERY GOOD plan he had thought up. This was a Candy Shoppe with slow business. Soon it was time for lunch.

"I don't need to buy a lunch. All of my lunch is here," Ansem told himself.

He started to eat the EXTRA-LARGE dark chocolate bars. He ate about ten before lunch break was over. His first after-lunch customer was Sora. Ansem despised of Sora as much as he did Riku. And the funny part was that both of these horrible boys came with little girl friends. Ansem recognized Sora's girlfriend. It was Kairi, one of the princesses and another person who ruined his last evil plan. Kairi was almost as pretty as Riku's girlfriend, Rikku24.

"Would you like some dark chocolate, Sora," Ansem said.

"Even dark chocolate has a light within it. It is not completely dark. And no, I would not like to open my heart to darkness today Ansem," Sora said bravely.

Sora bought 2 EXTRA-LARGE light (milk) chocolate bars. He left the store with Kairi following him and looking over her shoulder.

"I hope you choke on it," Ansem said after Sora.

Luckily (or unluckily) Sora didn't hear Ansem's comment. Business went very slowly for the rest of the day. It was VERY boring and Ansem almost fell asleep several times.

~Closing Time: 9:30pm~

Ansem was closing the shoppe when he heard angry banging on the window. He turned to see a VERY angry and green-faced Sora banging on the glass doors. Ansem went to open them and let Sora in.

"STOP BANGING, YOU LITTLE KEY BLADE MASTER BRAT!" Ansem yelled at Sora before opening the doors.

"YOUR LOW-QUALITY MERCHANDISE GAVE ME FOOD POISONING! I'M NEVER BUYING CHOCOLATE HERE AGAIN!" Sora yelled at the top of his lungs.

"I'm very sorry to here that," Ansem relied calmly with a smile.

Without a word, Sora ran to the shoppe's bathroom. Vomiting sounds came from it. When Sora returned his face was still a bit green and he didn't look too good. He gave Ansem a hateful glare and left.

"Thank you and come again," Ansem called after Sora.

The next day the all-powerful Health Department came and inspected the chocolate.

"Sorry sir, but all of this chocolate has a bacteria called Evil Bacteria. This bacteria causes food poisoning and illness. Due to test results, we can conclude two things. One, this bacteria formed during lunchtime. Two, this Candy Shoppe will have to close. Sorry and have a good day," explained one of the Health Inspectors.

The team painted the words "CLOSED DUE TO HEALTH ISSUES" on the front of the doors before leaving.

Ansem sat there and wept. At least I still have my $456 Ansem thought.

One of the Health Inspectors entered the store, took all of the money out of the cash register, and said: "This should be enough to pay for our work and the infected people's doctor bills". The Health Inspector left leaving Ansem poor, once again.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Ansem yelled in frustration.

So he was out of business and poor. Ansem vowed that he would get another job VERY soon.

Hope you liked it. The next chapter is the last one (not including the SPECIAL REVIEW CHAPTER). Please submit reviews because I want at least 15 reviews if I am to make a SPECIAL REVIEW CHAPTER.