Disclaimer: I don't own this. I don't own this. I don't own this. I don't own this. I don't own this. I don't own this. I don't own this…You get the point.
In this story the family decided that they didn't want to live in the factory but that Charlie would visit them for dinner or whatever.( Mostly cause I don't want them in the factory. ) Book two won't happen here or at least I don't think…who knows. I might improvise, or they'll just go into space…
This story begins about two weeks after Charlie accepts WW's offer. So I suppose it will soon be Christmas! Since I'm going to pretend that the contest was in early December instead of February first. I didn't realize I had made that mistake until after I wrote most of the last chapter.
Be cautious if you haven't seen the 2005 movie yet because who knows what I'll write.
Horse name was decided by a dice 'throw' (I threw it across the room) and credit will be given at the bottom.
WW might seem a little OC but I think it's mostly because he has no choice but to be serious in this chapter…you'll see why. He'll be back to normal soon. (Charlie might be too…)
Chapter 4: Waiting Part 1: On to Ireland-Skittles saves the day!
Charlie slowly opened his eyes the next morning and stretched. He had the strangest sensation that he was being watched so he looked over his shoulder and-
"Arghh!" Charlie yelled. Mr. Wonka was like RIGHT next to him.
"Good morning Charlie!" Mr. Wonka said cheerfully.
"…Morning Mr. Wonka…eh…Were you watching me sleep?"
"I came to see if you were awake!" Mr. Wonka sighed. "But you weren't…So I decided to wait!"
"…"
"Well uppity uppity Charlie! We mustn't dilly or dally! We can't even dawdle! We have important matters to attend to!"
After Charlie got ready they got into the elevator and Mr. Wonka pressed the button that would take them to the geese.
"Why are we going here, Mr. Wonka?"
"Well for some reason the geese that lay golden eggs are only laying silver eggs! So we have to figure out why, and soon because I have several important orders to fill! I didn't say the eggs were fit for a king for nothing!"
They entered the room and Mr. Wonka immediately went to the Oompa Loompa's. Without his consent Charlie's body drifted over towards the corner where there were big containers labeled plants, wheat, alfalfa, corn, milo, rice, grass, clover, and pond weed.
"Mr. Wonka? What's this stuff for?"
Mr. Wonka came over, followed by the Oompa Loompa's, and looked at what he was talking about.
"These, my dear boy, are what we feed the geese."
"Maybe it's the food that's causing the geese to lay silver eggs instead of gold. Are you giving them a different type of rice or something?"
One of the Oompa Loompa's pulled on Mr. Wonka's coat tail until he looked at it, and told him something.
"Uh huh, uh huh! Uh-really? Hmm…" Mr. Wonka turned to look at Charlie "Well it seems that the clovers aren't coming from Ireland, (clover and leprechaun land!) But is instead, coming from England!"
"Why aren't they coming from Ireland?"
"The leprechauns refuse to give them to us."
"Leprechauns?"
Of
course! Where did you think four leaves clovers come from? Only a
leprechaun can find a four leaf clover!"
"So regular clovers from Ireland don't work?"
"Of course not! Though these geese are rather special, they need luck to produce a gold egg every time they lay an egg! It's hard work for them and they need all the luck they can get! After all this time of constantly producing all golden eggs using luck, they won't be able to produce any golden eggs without it! I bet that's just what the leprechaun's want! They waited until my geese were dependent on the luck before they took it away!" Mr. Wonka started pacing. "They want something from me…" Mr. Wonka said quietly to himself.
"Well leprechaun's love gold. M-"
"That must be it! These type of geese need to lay golden eggs at least once in a while! If they don't they get sick! The leprechaun's know I know this and are counting on me to feel bad for my geese! They know I would never allow my geese to get sick or possibly die!" Mr. Wonka gasped. "The horror! They know I'd do anything to spare them from that fate! Even go as far as to give them to the leprechaun's so they can be provided with four leaf clovers!"
"So they want the geese for their eggs?"
"Precisely, my boy, precisely!"
"Isn't their anything else they would want? Don't they like your candy too?"
"Everybody loves my candy, Charlie, everybody! But leprechauns love gold more then anything! Even my candy! There nothing left to do but to go to Ireland!"
Mr. Wonka started for the elevator.
"Go to Ireland! Well-How long till you come back?"
"We will come back as soon as we solve this problem!"
"You want me to go with you?"
"Yep! I don't know how long this will take, Charlie, leprechauns are tricky, so pack a lot of sweaters!" Mr. Wonka paused in his steps. "Actually…I don't think we need to pack…I have an idea!"
They entered the elevator.
"We're going to take my Wonka Jet! I've wanted to use it for a while now! It just had new turbo boosters installed! We'll be in Ireland in two shakes of a tail! Most specifically your horse's tail!"
"Were taking my horse?"
"Yep! That's where I got him in the first place! I figured he might be homesick so I want to take him along. You can ride him there! There are lots of grassy areas in Ireland!"
Mr. Wonka pressed a button that said 'ground port'.
"Why's it say ground port, Mr. Wonka?"
"Well it's underground of course! And I can't call it an air port unless it's in the air!" Mr. Wonka stated matter of factly. Then he said to himself. "I don't know why other people call the air ports air ports…I've never seen one in the sky…"
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The jet was of course purple, but Charlie didn't mind, it was a nice color. What he was concerned about was the fact that they were underground, yet he didn't see a way that the plane could get to the surface. Were they going to fly underground?
Charlie could see the Oompa Loompa's trying to get his yellow horse into the back of the jet, with no luck. He walked over to his horse and patted it on the head.
"Come on boy, its okay, we just want to take you with us to Ireland. That's your home right? You'll get to run in the fields while were there!"
The horse seemed to agree that this was a good deal because it went into the back of the jet and the Oompa Loompa's closed the door.
They got into the jet and strapped in. Charlie prayed that Mr. Wonka knew how to drive the jet and that they weren't just going to collide with a wall.
Mr. Wonka put on a head set and had Charlie do the same with the other headset. He pressed some buttons and the jet turned on. Charlie could tell that the jet was going to be REALLY fast.
"Purple to Blue4, purple to Blue4. Come in Blue4."
There was some clicking on the radio which Charlie knew was an Oompa Loompa talking.
"Preparing to take off Blue4. Open hatch 180. I repeat open hatch 180. Do you copy?"
More clicking and the sound of a big door being opened mechanically could be heard over head.
"Are you ready Charlie?" Mr. Wonka asked turning to him.
"Uh-yeah!" Charlie said nervously.
"Okie Dokie! Hold on!"
Charlie immediately grabbed on to his armrests and closed his eyes preparing for the worst. He could hear Mr. Wonka pressing more buttons.
"Taking off Blue4. Make sure team25 takes good care of factory1 for me. Over and out!"
The noise of the engine increased and Charlie good feel the jet lifting up. He held the headrests tighter and opened his eyes, figuring that if he was going to die he'd want to know it.
Charlie gasped. They were in the air! He wasn't dead! At least he thought he wasn't…All he could see were clouds and it didn't feel like they were moving. It felt like they were just…floating.
Mr. Wonka turned and looked at Charlie.
"How'd you like my jet Charlie! It's nice isn't it?"
"Yeah…are we moving?"
"Yep! But my jet is soooo good that you don't even feel movement! And were floating on an air current as well so…yeah…"
"Floating on an air current?"
"Yeah! Oh! And a cloud current! Can't forget that! The clouds are our cover! Can't have normal people seeing my ultra super rad and hip, super turbo boostered super jet, which can double as a space ship, now can we?" Mr. Wonka said really fast.
"Er…guess not."
"We'll be there real soon so prepare yourself. Leprechaun's are really tricky!"
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They landed on a cliff that faced the beach and let the Indigo horse out of the jet. They went down the path that was on the side of the cliff and walked across the beach, with the horse close behind.
"Ew…" Mr. Wonka said after they had reached the road and he had to shake himself off. "Too much sand! It always gets into my shoes and I can never get rid of it!"
Mr. Wonka pulled out a remote and pressed a button. A purple car came out of no where and stopped in front of them.
"Say hello to Charlie Wonkamobile!"
"Hel-lo Char-lie!" A mechanical voice said and Charlie had to stop him self from screaming. (Like a little girl)
He hadn't really thought Mr. Wonka was serious when he told the car to say hello. Now he told himself that he should always take Mr. Wonka seriously since the man could do anything. If he wanted a car to say hello then it would.
"I call him Mobi for short!" Mr. Wonka told Charlie as he got into the back. "Come inside Charlie! Mobi has leather seats from India! (Cows are sacred in India so this would actually be impossible. That's why I say there from India! Mr. Wonka can get anything!)"
"What about my horse?" Charlie asked indicating his orange horse.
"You'd be surprised how fast that horse can run. Don't worry he'll be right next to Mobi, well if he wants to anyway. He'll be fine either way. Let him run around a little."
Charlie got in and closed the door. Mr. Wonka laid back and sighed. "They take such good care of their cows its amazing." He moved around the seat a little. "The leather is so soft…"
"Where to, Mis-ter Won-ka?" Mobi asked.
"Leprechaun coves." Mr. Wonka said sleepily and Mobi took off.
Charlie laid back. Mr. Wonka was right. The seats were really soft. Maybe he'd close his eyes for a little while and relax. Just for a little while…
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Charlie was running along a meadow with his horse following. He past a cow which being brushed by a man from India. The man waved at him with a smile. "Helloooo Charlieee…"The man and the cow said. He saw Mr. Wonka leaning against the cow saying "So soft…amazing…"
His horse started running around him as he walked saying "Skittles! Neighhhh! Taste the rainbow!" It neighed a little more and it started raining skittles.
"Can you taste the rainbow Charlie?" Mr. Wonka asked while riding his horse. Mobi came out of no where and followed Mr. Wonka around the meadow.
It soon stopped rained and Charlie looked up. There was a big rainbow made out of skittles floating above him leading far away across the meadow. He couldn't see where it leads to but he knew that he had to get to the end. The sky started to get darker and he couldn't hear the sound of hooves hitting the ground or Mobi's rumble anymore. He looked back and didn't see them. He wanted to go find them but he couldn't stop running. He looked ahead. There were a bunch of leprechaun's up ahead running from sick geese with four leaf clovers in their hands and laughing evilly.
He heard hooves and looked to his side. Only a purple horse was next to him.
"If you want to reach the end" It began. "You just have to-"
The sound of a car screeching was all Charlie heard.
"What?" Charlie asked. "I didn't hear you!"
"Wake up Charlie." The horse said in Mr. Wonka's voice. "Where here!"
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Charlie woke up and save that they were outside a group of coves.
"Somewhere in one of these coves is the four clover leprechaun clan. We just have to figure out which one it is. They change everything around all the time. Leprechauns are tricky. There are more coves then usual. There expecting us…"
"How do we tell which one is where we have to go?" Charlie asked as he went over to pet his blue horse.
"Hmm…That's the tricky thing. Last time they weren't hostile. Now that there after gold they'll be ruthless. Some of the coves are Illusion. Others will lead to danger. Though they won't kill us…yet. They need us to get the geese. We have to find a way to see through their trickery!"
Mr. Wonka walked around looking at random stones and plants and hmming once in a while.
Charlie just patted his purple horse on the head. "Do you know how to get to the leprechaun's Skittles?"
Mr. Wonka paused and looked at him. "You named him Skittles?"
"Yep! I had a dream, kind of, and Skittles was in it telling me to 'Taste the Rainbow'."
Suddenly Charlie felt like he had just gone through the wash and he felt dizzy.
"You did it Charlie!" Mr. Wonka said excitedly looking at the last three caves. "That must have been the password! All the illusion coves are gone now! Now we just have to figure out which is the safe cove…"
"Do you know Skittles?" Charlie asked petting the green horse.
Skittles neighed and started walking into the middle cave. Mr. Wonka and Charlie followed.
They came at a fork along the way but Skittles just went right and they kept following.
They after a few twists and turns they came to a room filled with gold and yet Skittles didn't even stop but walked past the gold and continued to the back were there was a hidden pathway. They walked for another five minutes before they reached a room that wasn't filled with anything but Leprechaun's.
"I see ye lad's weren't fooled by me false riches. Ye be smart lads but ye still can't have me clovers." Said a leprechaun at the end of the room.
They walked over to it.
"You evil, evil, fiend!" Mr. Wonka said dramatically. "Why have you stopped giving us four leaf clovers! I give you lots of my fabulous candy, don't I?"
"We do enjoy the candy coins…but that's not what we be wanting, Willy Wonka. We used to be the top gold havin clan but now the leprechaun charm clan has more gold then us! We be needin ye geese to become the top gold havin clan once again."
"So your going to force me to give up my geese for your selfish ways! Never! You could never properly care for my geese! Not even if you had all the four leaf clover's in the world!"
"Ye have no choice! Ye geese need me clovers, we all know that!"
"My geese need more then just clovers! They have more to their diet then just clover's!"
"They need love." Charlie said. "And compassion! You could never give them that! You're too greedy! You pay more attention to gold then you do yourselves! When's the last time you've had a bath? You don't even remember, do you? If you can't even take care of yourselves, how can you take care of the geese!"
"Exactly!" Said Mr. Wonka wondering where all this was coming from.
"Would you ever go to another country to convince a bunch of smelly creature's to give you what is owed to you so your geese can stay healthy? No, you wouldn't? Know why? Know why? (Is he acting like Mr. Wonka? Hmm…) Because your to busy counting your gold!"
'Wow! He's on a role!' Mr. Wonka thought.
The leprechaun clan leader had a sad expression on its worn face. "Oh…I never thought of it that way…I feel so…so…SICK!" Its expression changed to a disgusted one. "What the schenelly was that! They need love and…compassion! Oh oh! The poor geese! Blahhh! Are ye tryin out for a soap opera!"
Charlie just glared at the leprechaun.
"It doesn't matter! I'm not givin ye me clovers and that's all there is to it!"
"You owe me clovers! I been giving you candy for year's and I saved your father's life! That has to count for something!"
"As ye can see, me dear ol' da is not around anymore! I won't pay his life debt! And ye can keep ye candy! I find that in the end gold is the sweetest thing!"
All the leprechaun's cheered.
"Nothing is better then my candy! Gold is like dirt to me, if I wanted it, I'd have it! But I don't! I'd rather have candy over gold any day!"
"If ye can get gold so easily why don't ye do it?" The clan lord laughed. "I think ye are full of-"
"Candy? Nope. I haven't eaten anything yet. Been to busy trying to figure out why my geese are laying silver eggs."
"No s-"
"Shrimp? No. Like I said, I haven't eaten anything yet!"
"Shi-"
"Shitakie mushrooms? No. Like I just said twice now, I haven't eaten anything yet! Now can you stop? You're really starting to bum me out!"
"What can't the little lad handle sailor words?" The clan lord laughed again. "Aw! Isn't he the innocent thing? Never heard a curse in his life! We wouldn't want to say bad things in front of him would we boys?"
All the leprechaun's gave evil grins. But before they could start saying things that would most likely ruin hurt Charlie's innocent ears, skittles started neighing. It seemed that the leprechaun's noticed Skittles for the first thing. The clan lord gasped.
"Is that-?"
"Yep! Yet since you won't give me clovers…"
"If ye get the pony (Skittles huffed in indignation) to use it's magic, we'll give ye all the clover's we got!"
"No. You'll give me all the four leaf clover's you ever get forever! Not just the zero clover's you have now."(Leprechaun's are tricky)
"Aaa so ye caught me trick! I'll have to ask me clan first."
The leprechaun's started talking in some weird language and Charlie wondered if the other leprechaun's had understood the conversation at all.
"Ye got yerself a deal, Willy Wonka! We will give ye every four leaf clover we get."
"Okie Dokie!" Mr. Wonka turned to Charlie and smiled at him.
They stayed like that for a minute and a half before Charlie realized that Mr. Wonka wanted him to ask Skittles to use his powers.
"Skittles? Can you use your magic?"
Skittles neighed in affirmation and headed back the way they came.
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They reached the outside quickly and past Mobi. They went further into the forest until they reached a clearing. Skittles raised his head to the sky and neighed loudly. It started to rain Skittles and Charlie looked behind him to see Mr. Wonka running around catching the skittles in his mouth. Soon it stopped and Charlie saw that there was a rainbow starting from Skittles head and arching up and into the distance. Charlie knew with a certainty, since every thing in his dream so far had come true, that you couldn't just follow the rainbow to the prize at the other end. You needed to get there by special means. But how?
"How are we going to get to the other end, Mr. Wonka?"
"Your going to ride Skittles to the other and before the rainbow disappears. Hurry now, if the rainbow disappears, the gold is gone forever."
Charlie looked at Skittles.
"Can I ride you to reach the other end of the rainbow Skittles?"
Skittles bent down so he could climb on. He had no idea how he was going to get on even if Skittles lowered himself. Skittles was after all, just like other fast horses, tall.
He suddenly felt himself being lifted up and placed on Skittles back. He looked over his shoulder and saw Mr. Wonka backing back up to start near the clan lord.
"Hurry now Charlie!"
Charlie nodded and told Skittle to run as fast as he could.
When he had told Skittles to run as fast as he could, he didn't think that meant Skittles run as fast as light. The next think he knew he was next to a gigantic pot of gold.
"What do I do now?" He asked Skittles who started to eat some grass.
Skittles answered him by bucking him off so that he landed on top of the gold. The rainbow soon disappeared but the gold stayed and soon after that, Mr. Wonka came with Mobi. Attached to Mobi was a cart which carried all the leprechaun's who, not expecting Mobi's speed, were all groaning in dizziness.
"Fantastic job, my boy, simply fantastic! Now I believe have an accord er…gentlemen,
start looking for the four leaf clovers!"
The leprechaun's groaned and started to get out of the cart.
"Come now, chop chop! I haven't got all day!"
Soon they had tons of four leaf clovers and the leprechaun's were very happy.
After a short ride they were back on the jet and Mobi disappeared somewhere.
Skittles decided he wanted to take a rainbow ride back to the factory and headed of after Mr. Wonka told him to go into the open window on one of the tower's carrying with him the clovers.
"It's always open." Mr. Wonka said but he didn't say why it was always open.
After they were strapped in and they were in the air Charlie asked "So that was your entire plan and your real reason for bringing Skittles?"
"Nope! I just wanted to bring Skittles so you could ride him! My plan had been to give the leprechaun's some golden eggs in exchange for clovers!"
"What changed your mind?"
"Well I was sitting in Mobi on the way to the coves, relaxing, when I heard you say something about rainbows and the idea just came to me! Neat huh?"
"Uh huh."
"Of course y-"
An alarm suddenly started beeping and the jet started shaking.
Warning Warning Wonka jet is low on Fufu fuel Warning Warning
"This Charlie, is why you never use a jet with new installations without having it test driven first." Mr. Wonka said matter of factly.
"Why is it low on fuel?"
"Well I didn't count on the fact that super turbo boosters need a bigger fuel supply. At least there rad and hip. They got that going for them. But soon that will be the only thing going. I have to land or we'll crash. Hold on!"
Warning Warning
Beep Beep Beep
Fuel supply depleted
Beep Beep Beep
ShhhhhhhhBAM!
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I don't own the candy Skittles! I'll say that now so I don't get into trouble! Again I have not re read it so I might have to change some stuff.
Credit for the name Skittles goes to Bob! Thank u Bob! I'll tell you how I came up with this:
I flipped a die to find the horse's name.
I decided I wanted WW to crrep Charlie out because he was watching him sleep
WW neede a reason for being in the room
The idea of Charlie getting good ideas but didn't know it yet
rasomly decided that the food was the problem
looked up what geese eat
randomly decided that the clover wasn't coming from the same area
knew clovers came from Ireland
realized/ remembered that leprechaun's are Irish and come from Ireland
decided I wanted to bring Skittles along so I could introduce his name
phrase 'taste the rainbow' popped into my head
remembered that if you followed a rainbow, you'd be let to a pot of gold
leprachaun's love gold
14) Skittles is a rainbow horse
And thing's progressed from there
So that one die roll of fate, led to this chapter. Weird huh?
Creds to my peeps:
Bob: Thank you! Thank you!
Mithril Maiden: Me too! I'll let you pretend that you own Skittles Kay? You can tell your parents you have a color changing horse so they can send you to the asylum. I'm there already so I'll see you then!
Elizabeth: Better late then never I always say! We'll actually I don't but It's all good! I hate that too! I always's want to givemy input on something, but am too lazy to sign on, so I end up not saying anything…sigh…(Takes Gobstoper) Yay! (Puts in mouth and chokes on it!) Xx
Era Yachi: I'm glad I can make your day a little happier! (smiles) Yes I rule! (does peace sign) Oh and by the way…DUN DUN DUN!
Sherrrry: Well he's protective either way but I'd say-Hey! Who said he was the father! I haven't even got to that chapter yet! You guys are sooo smart! Of course anyone could figure it out…but at least I can drag it out right?
Devil Child Vorn: I hate suspense when reading other's stories but when it's mine…BRING ON THE SUSPENCE!
Caphius: Have we talked before? I could swear I've heard Squee before…hmmm….
anon: I think everyone and there grandmother can figure out who's Charlie's father but I was kind of hoping there would be at least one naïve child that is waiting for the chapter called Results. That will be up in about two chappies…maybe…
Tabbytha: Thanks. You'll have to wait a little while to find out the how. I'll just say that-nahh! It'll ruin it if I do! You'll just have to wait! Mwuhahahaha!
Sirius-Black-SFan: I loooove Sirius Black! Why did he leave us? WHHHYYYY! Anyway…I had thought something like that at first but then I figured that people would be like '……' lol cause it's the obvious choice.
Thanks to my peeps.(Which is you guys…I hope..) REVIEW! I just hope I didn't mess it up…since I'm too lazy to check…somebody check for me…