Hey peeps, it's time for another chapter but first the review responses!
Girlpower54- Ah well you will have to keep reading to find out who the winner may be.
SonnyApril- On this chapter, you shall find out what's in store for this lot!
Dragonserpent18- I think you're the only Steven fan here!
Turrislucidus- Ah yes something will happen you're quite right :)
Softkitty55 - I agree with your statement 100%, and she might be you shall just have to read to find out :)
Fled out- Thanks for your comment and you aren't the only one feeling sorry for Fernando.
Mattthewriter072- As I said your not the only one who thinks Bryant should be punished, you will have to keep reading to find out. Oh and I do hope you like the candies your about to witness on here!
Guest- Well if you got yourself an account on here I could always PM you some of the characters who didn't make it in my story, as I had loads of character ideas before settling on these five.
"This ladies and gentlemen this is the inventing room where all our present and future ideas for new candies are stored." Charlie said, smiling at all the guests even if the smile was focused more on the two girls.
"Sounds fascinating!" Claudia said, returning Charlie's smile from earlier.
"It truly is" Charlie happily stated before adding, "and these machines that surround the entire room are only a fraction of the candies I wish to have selling worldwide in the future!"
Looking around the room the guests were greeted by the sights of various machines, each and everyone one of them producing a different type of candy. Although the machines took up a good majority of the room, towards the distance a wide chemistry set was seen with all different colored liquids inside each conical glass bubbling away.
"Oh look, auntie, a real chemistry set!" Eleanor cheerfully pointed out, giggling with excitement.
"Ah I thought that would catch your eye, however, I cannot let you touch any of it as there as some chemicals which could lead to lethal results" Charlie warned, however, the smile remained on Eleanor's face.
"That's ok, I understand" Eleanor replied, making Charlie smile at her level of understanding.
"Right everybody you may explore the room just like you did with the last one, but this time please don't touch anything. Oh and please do not get tempted to sneak a peek next door, as there's some important product testing is going on" Charlie said, waving his hand as a signal for them to have some free time.
Just as they did with the previous room, the guests rushed off to the machine of their choice.
Unlike the others it had taken a bit longer for Claudia to work out which machine she wanted to see. Once she had made a decision she and her mother both went over to it, until Sonya misjudged a step which caused her to nearly trip over.
But the slightly odd thing that occurred just as Sonya had nearly tripped over, her left leg stretched a little wider than any other person's leg would. Claudia's eyes widened when noticing this along with the weird stare Bryant was giving her and her mother.
"Stop gawping at her, she's not a clown!" Claudia snapped, instantly regretting it soon afterward.
Luckily nobody else had been paying attention to her snappy sentence. Bryant only huffed at her before walking off.
However, the attention had soon passed over to Eleanor who was asking Mr. Bucket what a certain type of candy was. Soon enough the whole group had walked over to Eleanor and Fiona, wondering what she had found.
"It's a good thing you asked actually" Charlie began as he waited for the guests to crowd around him. "Now these are rainbow rocks, you just suck on them and they turn you into all the seven colors of the rainbow in the correct order!"
"It sounds wicked!" Joseph stated with a grin.
"Sounds stupid" Steven muttered under his breath.
"Sounds dodgy to me," Bryant said, giving Charlie a disbelieving look.
"Well there's only one way to find out, so who would like to try one?" Charlie asked, looking at each person as he spoke.
Claudia was the first one to answer the chocolatiers question.
"I think I'll pass thank you" Claudia politely declined.
"No way" Steven muttered soon afterward.
"Joseph?" Charlie offered, his offer was soon met with beady eyes from the older Fox brother. Unfortunately, all it took was a blunt comment from Steven to put him off.
"Fernando, would you like to try it? Since you haven't actually tried anything yet." Charlie asked, not daring to say the other part of the sentence that plagued his mind.
Fernando let out a small smile towards Charlie, but as he reached out to accept it Bryant smacked his hand away instantly grabbing the sweet out of his grasp.
"What are you doing boy?" Bryant snarled before hastily adding, "do you want to turn into one of those fat spotty slobs you see on the streets?!".
Fernando gulped as his father then turned to Charlie, slamming the rock shaped sweet back into the chocolatiers hand with a muffled sentence of, "no thank you, Bucket."
"I do apologize, " Charlie said, a hint of sadness in the chocolatiers eyes.
In the end, it was Eleanor who stepped up to try the candy, placing yet again another smile on the chocolatiers face.
"Please, may I try it?" Eleanor kindly asked.
Now having been given the sweet, she wasted no time in carefully putting it into her mouth. A tingling feeling developed immediately after she began sucking on it, she then looked down to her hands as they along with her face turned red. After a few seconds, her face and hands transformed into a bright shade of orange followed by yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.
The others stared at her in shock that the sweet had swiftly turned her into each color of the rainbow in the correct order.
Claudia cringed when Eleanor had been in the process of being blue.
"Wow, that was amazing!" Eleanor exclaimed once her skin color had returned to normal.
"It was extraordinary" Fiona added, patting Eleanor's shoulder as she spoke.
"Well, I can assure you that's not the only thing that you will find fascinating in here, come and have a look," Charlie said, gesturing for the group to follow him.
However as the group made proceeded to follow the chocolatier Joseph hadn't been concentrating on where he was going, therefore causing an incident. This lead to him bumping into Steven who crashed into a machine, which spilled a good portion of juice down the front of his hoodie that soon turned into a noticeable stain.
"Joesph you utter buffoon!" Steven yelled, looking as if he wanted to punch his brother.
"I'm sorry bro, I -" Joseph was cut off by Charlie who had something in his hand.
"Actually this gives me the perfect opportunity to show you my latest invention," Charlie said, now holding up what looked like a can of drink.
"Oh yeah? And an ordinary can of drink works wonders does it?" Steven challenged, giving the can a strange look.
"That is where your wrong Steven Fox, you see this is not a drink," Charlie explained, Steven frowned in response.
"Here, I'll show you" was all Charlie said before opening the can and splashing some of the liquid onto where the stain had surfaced on Stevens hoodie.
"What was that for!" Steven shouted, glaring at the chocolatier while Joseph stood next to him with his mouth wide open.
"Look at your hoodie" Joseph whispered, pointing down to where Charlie had splashed him.
Looking down at his hoodie Steven found that the area where the stain had been had vanished, "what the actual…" Steven trailed off as his sentence came to a sudden halt.
"As you can see the stain has indeed disappeared!" Charlie cheerfully stated, a grin forming on his lips.
"But how?" Fiona asked, amazed at the effects of the product.
"Well, my dear guests what I had just used was my new invention the stain removing shake. This is for the messy kids whose parents are fussy about keeping their clothes clean, one splash of this and the stain is gone!"
"Oh and another great thing about it is it dries instantly after being splashed onto something nor does it smell or leave a sticky substance behind." Charlie happily added, enjoying the astonished facial expressions from some of the guests.
"Awesome!" Joseph exclaimed in response.
"Does it work on any kind of stain?" Eleanor asked curiously, giving the can an interested gaze.
"Oh yes, and it's portable so you can take it with you whenever you need it, even if it has already been opened" Charlie replied, the same smile remaining visible since Eleanor had tried his rainbow candy.
"Works on any stain eh?" Steven said to himself before snatching the can from Charlie's hand and pointing it towards Fernando.
"Hey, I wonder if I splash enough of this all over him, perhaps it would make him disappear!" Steven jeered, laughing when seeing Fernando's anxious reaction.
"Get lost," Fernando said, choosing to walk away from the insult.
"Now I shall let you have your free time like I intended, so go on and enjoy yourselves!" Charlie said for the second time, in a matter of seconds Charlie found himself standing alone.
The joy of having the opportunity to try one of Mr. Buckets latest inventions stuck to Eleanor like glue. "Hey, auntie!" Eleanor called, gesturing for Fiona to come and join her.
"What other extraordinary candy have you found Eleanor?" Fiona asked, walking over to her niece to join her in her new discovery.
Eleanor didn't answer straight away as she began to reach out for one of the sweets when it suddenly jumped into her hand, giving her a slight fright. Soon afterward her fright had turned into a lighthearted giggle from both girls as they realized what the sweet was.
"Jumping jelly babies," Fiona said while softly laughing.
Charlie turned to where Eleanor and Fiona were standing, once again smiling at how much general interest she took in the factory and the chocolatier himself. For only a few seconds he could see his eleven-year-old self loving Mr. Wonka's entire factory and his incredible inventions.
Shaking himself out of his thoughts Charlie went over to see what the others were doing.
Meanwhile, Joseph Fox had been standing near a completely different machine for over five minutes and was standing alone until Steven had approached him with a bored facial expression.
"Why are you just standing there like a lost dog waiting for a home?" Steven asked, rolling his eyes when Joseph gave him a grin.
"I'm eating chocolate" Joseph replied, Steven frowned when noticing there was nothing in his hand.
"No your not" Steven bluntly said.
"Yeah I am dude," Joseph said, wiggling his eyebrows as if he was being smart.
Steven huffed at his idiot for a brother. "For god sake, there's nothing there!" Steven shouted, grabbing his arm to find that he felt something odd in his brother's hand.
"Care to say that again bro?" Joseph asked flipping his jet black hair, earning a scowl from his younger brother.
"Go on then, surprise me," Steven said, returning back to his usual snotty tone of voice.
Joseph didn't respond as he stepped away from where his body had been blocking the label which read, Invisible Chocolate Bars for Eating in Class.
Steven groaned. "Pathetic" he mumbled moments later before walking off to bother Fernando who was being fussed over by his father by telling him to look his best.
When Bryant went to focus on his own appearance Steven approached Fernando, a sly grin on his face.
"I swear your parents dropped you of the Eiffel tower when you were born," Steven said, earning himself a glare from Fernando.
"Go away" was all Fernando said in response, tempting Steven to annoy him even more.
"No wonder your dad thinks your a disappointment" Steven continued, laughing at Fernando's reaction.
"No, he doesn't, he loves me!" Fernando snapped, "at least one of my parents bothered to take me" he added. Steven whipped his head round to face him, with a murderous facial expression.
"Want to say that again squirt?" Steven spat, clearly angry at Fernando's sharp response.
Fernando let out his first confident smile. "You criticize me for apparently not being worthy of life despite being one of the top three models in Paris, yet your parents couldn't give a toss about what happens to you!"
Steven let out a mock yawn. "Oh do excuse me while I die prematurely of passive boredom!" Steven growled, getting dangerously close to losing his cool.
"It's just the truth, is that what you find threatening? If so then why don't you do everyone including myself a favor and get lost." Those were Fernando last words as the smile he developed was soon swept off his lips as Steven came charging towards him, with his fist firmly clenched.
"Right that's it!" Steven roared, grabbing Fernando by the hair and punching him several times in the face just as his brother, Bryant and Charlie came rushing over to break up the fight.
"No bro!" Joseph shouted as he got Steven by the arms, dragging him away from Fernando who was heavily breathing from the impact of Stevens punches.
"Get off me you animal!" Fernando cried as soon as Steven had been taken away.
"You don't look so fashionable now, do you, pretty boy!" Steven yelled, struggling to free himself from his brother's grip.
"You two stop this please!" Charlie shouted before calmly adding, "I can clearly see that a disagreement has taken place, but for the sake of the others can we please just do the decent thing and apologize."
"No, he still has a face!" Steven snarled, shooting a fierce glare at Fernando who was still left in a heap on the floor.
Charlie sighed. "Alright let's just give everyone some space and move on." Was the chocolatiers suggestion which was soon followed through. As most of the guests went back to looking at the machines and the candies they made, Bryant yanked his son up off of the floor and dragged him to the back of a huge machine.
"You're a mess!" Bryant growled, lifting Fernando's head up to examine the bruises which had already started appearing on the areas where Steven had struck him.
"Tidy yourself up boy!" Bryant spat, giving his son a hard shove. Fernando winced at himself as he saw that his shirt was covered in creases along with a tear on his left sleeve. His hair was in a tangled, messy state along with his trousers having picked up a large amount of dirt from the floor.
Fernando sighed in remorse as he went off to do what he was told.
Claudia's POV.
After witnessing that fight, i think its time to get part two over and done with.
Alright, as much as I want to do this I can't help thinking it should be for another certain person. Unfortunately, this certain person (Bryant Cruz) just wouldn't fall for it so I'm afraid it's gotta be you, Fernando.
I mean anyone with common sense would agree with me when saying that Fernando isn't that bad of a person, he's just misguided with insensitive comments and constant berating. No wonder he tries to act vain.
I mean look at him, he's skinny as a string bean and his bones practically peak out from under his shirt!" I can't imagine how anyone could want this as an ideal figure? By the looks of him if he was to be jumped on by a dog his bones would snap in a matter of seconds.
If I was an adult and half his size I would give that beastly Bryant a piece of my mind…
Anyway enough of the sympathy, I'm not supposed to be feeling sorry for these brats!
So while the others were all fascinated by the incredible inventions I had sneaked off to the testing room next door, and let's just say I found something rather interesting just lying around on the table.
This object of interest turned out to be a list of all the inventions that had some issues with all the information I needed of what had gone wrong in a good amount of detail.
One thing, in particular, stood out from the rest, it was a product called the fizzy lifting drink. It turns out that this fizzy lifting stuff is supposed to make people fly up into the air almost as if they were flying, and burping is the only way to get back down. However, the issue with it was that every time the product was tested it would make whoever was experimenting it expand into a huge ball of gas. Interesting eh?
That would certainly leave Bryant with something to shout about!
Without a moment to lose I quickly discover where all the failed cans of the fizzy lifting drinks were kept, snatching one from the top row I then promptly making my swift exit to join the others back at the inventing room.
As I suspected they had all wandered off in different directions, meaning that I have to be extra careful when walking around in case I get caught. But being as skilled as I am at being secretive it didn't turn out to be such a problem.
Now for my second best talent, creating a distraction.
Even that didn't take much effort as I found Fernando and his foul father silently stood by a machine. Bryant's eyes were fixed on Fernando as if he was a dog, his voice being the lead.
All I had to do to ensure my distraction would be good enough to gain Fernando's attention was to aim one of the machines that makes these exploding candies.
Soon after a few changes were made in the wiring these exploding candies did indeed explode straight in Bryant's face, who was being helplessly smacked by these little blessings. His face was priceless as he kept receiving a group of them continue to aggressively hit him like blades.
Come to think of it his words must have the same effect on Fernando.
I then took my chance to grab Fernando's attention, asking him ever so nicely to follow me and to my slight surprise, it worked. Given the fact we had never spoken before, mind you Bryant would probably think I was some kind of peasant trying to inflict changes to Fernando's style.
Ok, the conversation didn't go quite to plan as it took a bit longer than expected.
"Uh hello?" was Fernando's suspicious greeting.
In the sweetest voice, I could manage I politely told him that my name is Claudia and I had wanted to speak to him about an interesting discovery.
Fernando gave me a questioning look which is understandable so I get him to trust me by throwing a few compliments here and there, (which by looks of him wouldn't go amiss).
"You know your probably one of the more decent kids here today," I say before adding, "not to mention that you seem like a nice person."
"Uh… thanks" Fernando replied, still looking wary of me.
So I decide to get straight to the point.
"Look I have something here truly spectacular, just like your appearance" I replied, earning myself the tiniest smile from the French male model.
I then pull of the drink which I pass over to Fernando to look at, he gives me a blank look.
"Uh, why are you showing me this?" Fernando questions, just as suspected. Luckily I'm quite quick to come up with suitable answers when necessary.
"I'm showing you this because your the only one I can fully trust to keep it a secret, Eleanor would only blurt it out to Charlie and Steven would make some sort of snide comment towards it," I replied, noticing Fernando wincing at the mention of Steven.
"Right, and what is this?" Fernando asked, gesturing towards the can that read fizzy lifting drink.
Now that he had asked that golden question, it was the perfect time for the mind blowing answer!
"You see I made a journey to investigate what they had to hide next door and I found the very product that's in your hands, which just so happens to improve your appearance."
Before Fernando could question my motives I then say, "this drink right here is designed to help people who care about their looks as much as you do without making any effort whatsoever."
"How so?" Fernando asked while I try to remain calm despite getting slightly irritated on how long it was taking to persuade him to drink it.
"Well, the fizz inside the drink lifts and dissolves any evidence of past, present and even future zits occurring on your silky smooth skin." This sentence does attract Fernando's interest.
"So my father could also take this ?" Fernando asked. By this time I was tempted to force it down him.
"No, it's specifically made for those entering their preteen and teenage years, as acne is a cruel condition to capture." But speaking of his father puts an ideal finishing touch to the discussion.
"Think about it? Imagine how proud your father will be when he sees your fabulously flawless face?" Now that was the last straw which leads him to actually drinking it!
Suddenly he brings the can up to his lips and gulps the stuff down his throat. I didn't think he could drink so much in such a short space of time.
"Go find your father!" I exclaim, gesturing for him to go over and show Bryant his new discovery.
(It will certainly be a discovery alright)
After thirty seconds of trying to find his father, Fernando suddenly stopped in his tracks to find himself feeling a bout of discomfort. Luckily he had got himself far enough to be in full view for all the others to witness.
Glancing over to my left it wasn't long before someone else notices some changes and wastes no time in informing Bryant who had now escaped from the sweet attack.
"Uh, is Fernando gaining weight?" I suddenly hear Fiona ask, grabbing the attention of the body bashing Bryant Cruz.
"What?" Bryant mumbled before turning towards his son who had now begun the process of bloating up.
Bryants disbelieving look transforms into one of a mix between shock and rage.
"BUCKET!" he roars, catching the chocolatiers attention. Once Charlie comes rushing over, he then adds a high pitched sentence of, "what kind of trickery is this?!"
Charlie can only squeak for a pure second before making that weird trilling noise again, at least a group of ten Oompa-Loompas gather around him.
"How did he manage to find that?" I hear Charlie anxiously whisper, sweat beginning to gather round his forehead.
One of the Oompa Loompas helplessly shrugs as they all turn round to watch Fernando's mishap.
By this time everyone had walked over to witness the big event, some finding it more entertaining than others.
"What's happening to him!" Bryant snapped, fiercely glaring between Charlie and Fernando.
Charlie awkwardly coughs before explaining. "Well this fizzy lifting drink is supposed to lift you into the air, unfortunately after a few extra things had been added to give a bit more of a kick ended up in these disastrous results."
"And!" Bryant snapped, demanding more of an explanation.
But his extended explanation got interrupted by a small-voiced pitiful plea.
"Help me, please!" Fernando begged as he continued to blow up like a balloon causing some of the buttons from his shirt to ping off. This only earned him a hysterical laugh from Steven.
"You did this didn't you!" Bryant yelled when hearing Steven laugh, whipping his head around to point an accusing finger at Steven who wasn't fazed in the slightest.
"Guess again Sherlock Holmes." Steven retorted.
Bryant then turned to face his son, seething with anger. "Fernando you foolish boy!" he yelled as well as shouting something in French.
Fernando who was now at least a five-foot tall ball of gas tried to explain, beginning the process of pointing towards me before his face also swelled up, leaving him unable to talk.
"What's he doing now?!" Bryant yelled, taking a couple of steps closer towards his son whose skin color was now rapidly turning a ghostly shade of white.
"Careful, he might explode!" Eleanor warned as she gently pushed Bryant aside.
"Because of the extreme amount of gas that's inside him it causes a drastic change of skin color, " Charlie said, anxious to look at Bryant's seething facial expression.
"He's supposed to be modeling at the Paris awards ceremony tomorrow!" Bryant yelled, torn between pointing at Charlie and Fernando.
I was tempted to grab that man by the shoulders and violently shake him while yelling, your son is clearly distressed due to blowing up like a frickin balloon and all you can do is rant on about some pathetic award ceremony which will only make you worse as a person!
However I was suddenly snapped out of my thoughts when we all noticed Fernando's feet slowly floating off the ground, I couldn't help noticing his eyes were slightly watery as he felt himself being lifted up until his head was squashed into the ceiling.
Bryant who had the same disgusted look since his son's mishap started then turned to Charlie, showing actual concern but not for his son's well-being.
"What if he doesn't go back to normal? He may never model again!" Bryant shouted, spitting spraying Charlie's face as he spoke.
"Ugh, what a disaster that would be" Steven sarcastically scoffed. I was pretty much thinking the same thing.
"If I hear one more word!" Bryant threatened, snapping his head around to give the uncaring blue haired boy a death stare.
"WORD!" Steven shouted out. He then looked at Bryant as if he was silently saying I said one more word, so now what? Even I must admit that was quite funny.
Bryant's fists were clenched as he decided to ignore Stevens comment. He then sadly huffed as he unbelievably blurted out, "I can see it now, he'll be a laughing stock and I'll lose thousands by the minute!"
Steven then approached Bryant, giving him a mock comforting pat on the shoulder just before saying, "you know you could always donate him to science research, they love abnormal things."
Bryant aggressively shoved Stevens hand off his shoulder, growling at the blue haired boy's insult.
"Better still why don't you trade yourself in while you're at it" Steven muttered before walking back to his brother.
At this point Fernando who had now finished swelling up along with floating up in the air tried to move then talk, having soon realized he couldn't move nor speak he let out a disappointed moan.
"Bucket, what do you have to say for yourself?!" Bryant demanded before fiercely adding, "you better do something about this!"
Charlie then gathered round the group of ten Oompa-Loompas from earlier and gave them instruction to gently pull Fernando down from where his head was currently leaning against the ceiling. They were then to get all the gas out of him once they had managed to bring him down safely.
The Oompa Lompa who was given the order did the same bow along with crossing his arms, before he and the others went off to complete their task.
Is that it?!" Bryant harshly shouted, as if he was expecting more which he wasn't a stranger to make loud and clear.
"I shall have you know that if anything goes wrong during the procedure, I will be suing this factory for millions I tell you, so mark my words Bucket!" Bryant spat.
Charlie sighed, "I assure you Mr. Cruz that Fernando will be back to his normal self in no time" was all Charlie could say, despite the look on his face showing that he didn't really know what would happen.
Charlie then gathered the rest of us into a line as we left Bryant and the ten Oompa-Loompas to deal with Fernando's fiasco.
"Even for you Bucket, this is outrageous!" Bryant roared just as we were about to leave.
Walking out the door I took one last look at Fernando, who had his head bowed down as if he was about to receive a good old ear bashing.
I almost felt sorry for the boy.
On the other hand, that's one less kid standing in the way of my plans.
Au revoir Fernando.
Hooray, you made it to the end :) Just to say I continue to thank you all for your reviews as they mean so much to me!
Question time- How would you like to see Bryant or Steven punished? (I'm not saying they will be) it's just that I thought I would ask since they are the two most hated characters in the review section :D