Review responses!
Sonny April- I relate to your sympathy in regards to Fernando and I might have come up with a plan for Steven so you will just have to wait and see.
Softkitty55- I'm so glad you liked my idea of Rainbow rocks, and I like your idea for Steven but I might have already made plans for him.
Girlpower54- Well at least Steven has one fan! You will just have to keep reading to discover more.
Dragonserpent18- That was my intention, you have no idea how much fun I had writing that scene!
Mattthewriter072- I'm happy you liked the candies in the previous chapter, I hope you like this one too!
JOHNHAMMOND1993-I like the Laffy taffy idea, that might make an appearance later on...
Mr Wonky Wonka- I love your username and yes she is a little devil! I do hope you continue to enjoy the story.
Stormwing3670- Thank you so much and keep reading to find out!
Guiding the six remaining guests along the corridor, Charlie chose to stay silent as his mind ran through the unplanned events of the tour so far. Grimacing at each time something had gone wrong, a harsh feeling of shame stuck to the chocolatier like glue as the guilt continued to eat away at him. It wasn't until he heard an exclamation from Joseph that he was snapped out of his thoughts.
"Where are we going dude?" Joseph asked, eager to know where Charlie was about to lead them next.
Forcing a smile on his face Charlie turned to reply to his question with,"that's for me to know and for you to find out."
"Aw, man" Joseph complained, earning an eye roll from Steven.
Continuing to walk through the corridor Eleanor patted Claudia's shoulder as she kindly asked, "what do you think of the tour so far?"
"It's great" Claudia replied, trying her best to smile nicely.
"It's a shame those bad things happened to Mandy and Fernando" Eleanor suddenly stated, creating a lump in Claudia's throat.
"Yeah" Claudia agreed, hiding a frown as she spoke.
"Although maybe if we are extra careful, we could end up winning the prize together! Wouldn't that be fantastic?" Eleanor cheerfully said, grinning as she went to wrap Claudia in a hug.
"Er, maybe" Claudia quickly responded, unaware of just how quickly she spoke, pulling away from the hug seconds later.
Before their conversation could go any further Charlie turned to face the guests when they arrived at a large red door that said, The devious delights room.
"Devious delights room? Sounds interesting" Claudia stated, raising an eyebrow when thinking of what could be at the other side.
"I bet it's something fabulously outstanding!" Eleanor cheered enthusiastically, clapping with glee.
"Indeed it is" was all Charlie responded with before slowly releasing what was hiding behind the other side of the door.
As the door opened the guest's eyes were greeted to the sights of all different types of candy filling out the entire room. Although it was similar to the chocolate room, this time everything had its own individual place with clear labels of what each object was.
"This everybody is the devious delights room, where each candy has a purpose" Charlie proudly declared, the guests gasping at what was in front of their very eyes.
"Sounds sick!" Joseph exclaimed, grinning at Steven who rolled his eyes.
"Fascinating" Steven sarcastically added a few moments later.
Ignoring Stevens snide comment Charlie gestured for everyone to follow him until they ended up stood in front of a machine, which was smoothly popping out square light brown colored sweets onto a conveyer belt.
Taking one of the candies off the conveyer belt he held it up so everyone could see it.
"Now this people is one of my favorite candies, the cavity filling caramels. These are for the kids who consume a few too many sweets than what is healthy for them. And what these do is when they discover a cavity, all they then have to do is stick it where the cavity is, which instantly fills it in so it's no longer there! Isn't that neat?" Charlie explained, mentally wincing at his last part of his sentence that instantly reminded him of Willy Wonka.
"It's extraordinary" Fiona commented, showing no worries of displaying her amazement.
Gaining a little more confidence Charlie then walked over to another machine, this time it was producing what looked like normal Wonka bars.
"Mr. Bucket these are Wonka bars and my favorite kind too!" Eleanor cheerfully exclaimed as she saw they were Chilly chocolate creme flavored. This earned her a smile from the chocolatier.
"Quite right there Eleanor, however, these are not any kind of Wonka bars. These are Wonka bars that grow back into a whole bar within seconds, even if you have only taken the smallest bite out of it!"
"Wow" Eleanor whispered to her aunt who nodded with agreement.
"How pointless" Steven mumbled, catching the chocolatiers attention.
"These bars are specifically made for those who get very little allowance money, how is that pointless?" Charlie asked as calmly as he could manage to the glaring blue haired boy.
Steven rolled his eyes as if the chocolatier was an idiot.
Before Steven could even open his mouth, Joseph interrupted by saying, "please don't do it, bro". Needless to say, he was ignored.
"Look you obviously know nothing about business. You say that this will benefit thousands of people right? However all these people have to do is buy one chocolate bar, then never have to go to buy another one. This will eventually make your business go bankrupt, and all because of one stupid sale." Steven bluntly explained, still giving Charlie the same facial expression.
"You know you really shouldn't mumble, I can't understand a word you're saying" Charlie replied. A twisting sensation developing soon after finishing his sentence.
"Deaf, as well as dense" Steven darkly muttered, earning a sad look from his older brother who he rolled his eyes at.
Having heard the blue haired boys mumbled statement, Charlie smiled as he promptly put Stevens snide comment behind him.
"People, I shall now let you explore this room for yourselves" Charlie announced, "go on knock yourselves out, but not literally!"
The six guests then scurried off to look at a candy of their choice.
Eleanor and Fiona who for once had gone their separate ways for the first time since entering the factory. Eleanor had found pillow shaped sweets which looked like they were made of marshmallows, she was soon proved correct as she laid her head onto the pillow, letting out a pleasant sigh as she leaned back into it. Gently ripping a small piece of it off she was greeted to the soft texture of the marshmallow as it melted into her mouth.
Turning to look at the label she saw large bold orange letters with a mini explanation in a smaller font at the bottom which read, Eatable marshmallow pillows- no more cravings for midnight snacks!
"Wonderful" was all Eleanor could say as she took another small piece of it.
Her aunt Fiona had found herself looking at a machine that was producing ice creams in ice cream cones, but the unusual thing was that the ice cream had steam coming from it.
"Well this is new," Fiona said as she gently took one from the conveyer belt and began to dig into a vanilla flavored ice cream. Soon enough she was gasping in delight as a warm feeling traveled down her chest, which soon left every part of her body with the same warm sensation.
"Delightful" Fiona stated as she saw the label above her which read, Hot ice creams for cold days.
Fiona softly chuckled to herself before deciding she wanted more.
However, things weren't as calm with Joseph Fox as he had been frantically running around the room as if he was an athlete. Not having a good idea on what he wanted to settle with he had decided to rush around the room, scoffing as many sweets as he could in one go.
After having rushed around for the past five minutes Joseph had finally stopped over to a tube that was popping out small, round red sweets into small boxes of six at a time.
Joseph's eyes lit up when discovering the interesting looking sweets, he was then successful enough to grab one just as it had popped out of the tube. Once he had placed the sweet in his mouth he wore a happy facial expression, that was until he felt a burning sensation forming inside his mouth soon after sucking it. His face then turned into a deep shade of red as he felt the burning sensation almost unbearable as each second went by.
Now finding the pain horrendously excruciating, Joseph screamed from the impact of the extreme burning as fire blasted from out of his mouth, just like a dragon. When the fire had stopped Joseph was left breathing heavily as he struggled to recover from his sudden shock.
Steven who had been standing behind him since he had first felt the burning sensation, rolling his eyes at the fact his older brother hadn't read the label.
Despite still heavily breathing Joseph had managed to notice Steven walking towards him, an unimpressed look filling his facial features.
"Look to your left" Steven emotionlessly said a few moments later.
Doing as he was told Joseph turned to his left to find a label in flashing red bold letters that said, Devil drenchers- to set your breath alight!
Before Joseph got the chance to respond Steven interrupted him, "if you had the common sense to read the label before scoffing sweets into that mindless mouth of yours, you would have known about the scorching consequences."
Joseph sighed as he listened to Stevens sarcastic comment, he then walked away with his head hanging in shame.
Meanwhile, Claudia who had distanced herself from the others was currently eating a yellow luminous lollipop which made her whole mouth glow. But unlike the others she did not display her joy over the various candies, instead, she lifelessly stood and stared at the others with a serious look on her face. Eyebrows firm, her brown eyes suddenly darker than before and her arms folded as if she was trapped deep inside her thoughts.
Claudia then turned her head to look at the Fox brothers. Joseph who had taken the spicy sweet well over five minutes ago was still desperately flapping his hands near his mouth to get rid of the remains of the pain. While Steven stood near a machine, taking no interest in it whatsoever.
Claudia narrowed her eyes at the bored blue haired boy before turning to focus her attention elsewhere.
That attention was then set on Eleanor and her aunt who had got back with each other to talk about their experience with the candy they had just tried.
"You should have tried some Auntie it was amazing, I can hardly wait to try even more as everything here is so magical!" was all Claudia heard of their conversation.
Claudia let out a deep breath as her facial features softened at just how much glee was displayed in that single sentence.
However her tender moment was soon lost as she felt herself being elbowed by Sonya as if to silently say, don't get fixated. You must stick with the plan and make a decision.
Claudia sighed before determinedly nodding her head in agreement.
And it wasn't long before Charlie had called for everyone to gather around him, announcing that it was time to move along. Gesturing for the guest to follow him down another corridor, Claudia took one last glance at the devious delights room before making her way to catch up with the others.
Sorry for the shortness of it, the next one will be much longer!
So what do you lot think Claudia was thinking about?