Secret 2 - The Third Ticket Winner

Author's note: Hello everyone! Before I say anything else, I have to clear something up. Drew was actually NOT the prototype for Yuna. He would have been an entirely new character, so there would have been eight winners if I chose to include him. The girl you'll see in this chapter was the actual prototype for Yuna. I hope you'll enjoy it. Now, it's response time!

Gs33022, I never caught that "GO, BRUCE!" reference until you pointed it out! It was completely inadvertent, but as you know, "Matilda" is also one of my favorite stories. :)

IcedTeaCinnaBons, it'll get even more interesting from here on, so stay tuned. :D

MysteriousMaker1185, I'm glad you liked how developed Drew is. Since this chapter deals with the actual Yuna prototype, you'll now have to pick either Yuna or her prototype as your favorite!

Sonny April, that's what happens when you forget about a scrapped character for almost two years. ;)

Softkitty55, as I said to a few other reviewers, while I do appreciate that you saw the similarities between Drew and Yuna, please note that this chapter will feature her actual prototype. Yuna and Drew are completely unrelated. I'm glad you enjoyed some of the hockey jargon I inserted! Hockey is my favorite sport, without a doubt.

JOHNHAMMOND1993, I'm glad you enjoyed it when Mr. Wonka told Charlie not to mumble via the loudspeakers! I was laughing very hard even while typing it. XD I will be updating those two stories in the near future, but at the moment, this story and "Chuck and the Cocoa Bean Processing Facility" are my two priorities. As for your suggestion, go right ahead and tell me! I will make sure to put that story on my "to write" list for sometime in the (hopefully) near future. And in regards to the disappearing stories, I have no idea which ones you're talking about. Sorry. Now, on with secret number two!

(Note: credit goes to MysteriousMaker1185 for contributing some ideas to this chapter.)

Three days later, Charlie and Mr. Wonka received the news of the third Golden Ticket.

"Good morning, everyone!" the news anchor said cheerfully. "This is just in! The third Golden Ticket has been found at approximately 9:30 a.m. in our time, by a girl named Kitsune Kobayashi from Tokyo, Japan! Stay tuned for our live report."

"Here's to hoping she won't be another bad lot," Willy said under his breath as they continued to watch the TV.

The interview was being held in a large house that was made almost entirely out of glass. The lucky winner, Kitsune, stood with her mother in front of a highly-polished white glass wall, which reflected the blinding flashes from the cameras like a mirror.

Kitsune had shoulder-length hair that was dyed a vivid shade of orange. She wore a black kimono and obi, which contrasted well with her peach-colored skin. Around her neck, she wore a bronze necklace which featured a pendant shaped like a fox. Her most peculiar trait, however, was the color of her eyes. Her left eye was green, and her right eye was blue.

Kitsune's mother, who also dyed her hair orange, wore a bright-red kimono with colorful floral patterns along with a similarly-patterned obi.

"Can you tell us about yourself?" a reporter asked Kitsune. "The whole world wants to know all about you! What's your name?"

"My name is Kitsune," the lucky child replied, "and I'm eleven years old. For those of you watching in English-speaking countries, please remember, the pronunciation of my name is kee-tsu-nay, not kit-soon. It means 'fox' in Japanese."

"How did you find your Golden Ticket, Kitsune?" the reporter asked, and Kitsune mischievously smiled at him.

"Well," she began, "I invited several friends here for a sleepover earlier this evening, and I bought over a thousand Wonka Bars by myself, both to share and to see who can possibly find a Golden Ticket. My friends asked me if they could unwrap all those Wonka Bars, and of course, I told them to go right ahead! I'll just show you the rest of the story on a video that I recorded earlier." She grabbed her phone and found the video, and it came up on the TV. "Turn your cameras over here, please." The reporters did what they were told, and the video started to play.

On the TV, everyone saw an enormous pile of unwrapped Wonka Bars on the floor, and there was an equally large pile of discarded wrappers next to it. Eight other children, who were about the same age as Kitsune, were madly unwrapping those candy bars like the squirrels did with nuts in the Nut Sorting Room. Behind them, Kitsune was relaxing in front of the TV, watching an anime show.

Suddenly, one of the children cried out, "YES! I GOT A GOLDEN TICKET!" Without saying a word, Kitsune whirled around, reached her arm out, and swiped the ticket from his hand in the blink of an eye. "Hey! How dare you!"

"I bought those candy bars with my own money," Kitsune said in a scarily calm voice, "so it's MY Golden Ticket now."

"No, he found it!" another one of Kitsune's friends piped up.

"Yeah, I found it all by myself!" the boy who had lost his Golden Ticket said angrily.

"Well, I bought them all by myself," Kitsune retorted, "so that ticket is mine since I paid for it! Get out! I want everyone out of the house, right now!"

The other children ran out of the room, and Kitsune slid the door closed to lock them out. She breathed a heavy sigh of relief. "Well, time to call the press over for my close-up!" The screen went black as the video ended, and the reporters turned their cameras back to the real-life Kitsune.

"You see, I always know how to deceive other people, just like a fox," Kitsune said with pride. "The so-called 'sleepover' was really just a scam that my friends happened to fall for, and that's how I won my Golden Ticket. Mr. Wonka and Charlie Bucket, you'd better watch your backs, because I will win with a method that you won't even know about until it's much too late."

One of the reporters turned towards Kitsune's mother. "What do you think of your daughter?" he asked.

"I adore her with all of my heart," Kitsune's mother replied sweetly, putting an arm around her daughter's shoulder. "She has a personality that can win over just about anyone who crosses her path. I believe it's perfectly normal for people to play clever tricks on others to get what they want. Children and adults do it all the time! As long as you fulfill your desires and wishes in the end, that's all that matters."

"Do you have anything else to say, Kitsune?" another reporter asked the young girl, who shook her head in response.

"No," Kitsune replied as she glanced at her phone, "but it's past midnight, so I'll be going to bed soon. Mr. Wonka, if you're watching this right now, I hope you're as excited as I am to meet face-to-face on the first of September! Sayonara!"

Mr. Wonka and Charlie continued to stare at the TV in shock, even after the news switched over to something else. Finally, Mr. Wonka broke the silence.

"What a nasty girl!" he roared in anger. "I can tell you, that kind of trickery will come back to bite her when she least expects it. And her mother is just as bad! She's supportive of this girl's behavior! I'll go write a song for the Oompa-Loompas, and Charlie, you can think of how to eliminate that rotten brat for us. She is most certainly NOT going to be our heir, and I'll make sure of that!"

Author's note: I hope you enjoyed reading all about Kitsune! Do you prefer her over Yuna, or vice versa? And how do you think she could have been eliminated? Tell me in your review, and stay tuned for the next secret from the vault. :D

FYI: The fourth and fifth winners were Mindy Bell and Daniel Sparkman, but they did not have prototype versions. If you read "Next in Line", then you already know about their personalities and how they won their Golden Tickets, so the next secret will be about the sixth ticket winner.