Prologue

“Come on Candy! Get up, get up, get up!” that annoying voice was bothering me to wake up like it had done every day the last week.

I looked up from my misery, Kiki was kicking her small feet against my back as her growing teeth tried to bite the restraining bag she was in. I felt her try to crawl down, and my hands grabbed her setting her on my lap. “I am up.”

“No! I mean, get UP! They’re holding an honorary dance for us! Don’t you want to come?” his gray eyes twinkled with delight as he held out his hand to me.

Nicholas pushed Morious’s hand aside, “I think she’d rather sit here, far away from fire-breathing dragons, away from living lakes, and people-shrinking trees! In fact, I think she’d just like to stay here where it’s safe…” Nicholas crossed his arms. “Isn’t that right, Candy?”

I let out a sigh, “I don’t think here is even safe. I think the only safe place is home.”

That was the first time I had said that, but then, I knew very well that my father would never allow the factory to harm any of us. I was missing home. I missed my mother, my uncles, who were at the moment letting me down. What was the use of having William Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson as my uncles if they couldn’t find me? But then, it wasn’t their fault, especially Uncle Holmes’s. How was he to know that I was currently inside the belly of a giant version of the Loch Ness Monster? It was impossible even for me, who was in here, to believe!

Nicholas took Kiki from my arms, “I agree, I think that that is the smartest thing you’ve said all week!”

“Well, alright then! I’ll be heading off without you…” Morious made his way into the Great Glass Elevator and waved at us from the inside. Frantically, I ran and knocked on the glass walls.

“Wait! Wait! Where are you going? You can’t just leave us!” I shouted, but he just smiled giving me a two thumbs up. He couldn’t hear me. Why did Dad have to make the thing sound-prove?

All I heard Morious say was, “I’ll be back for the three of you in the morning!”

The Great Glass Elevator blasted off and he was gone…

For the first time in the entire trip I actually cried. I was scared, and I was hungry. Looking at Nicholas, he turned around as he cradled Kiki. Great, now I was friendless too. And then, if I had a friend like me, who got me into this gigantic mess, I’d stop being friends with someone like me too.

I huffed as I kicked an ice rock; one would think he was used to this too. After all, I always messed things up like the time I decided I wanted to slide off the Munchy Crunchy Rock Chocolate Ice Cream Mountains and we ended up caught inside a cave with over 200 tons of ice cream blocking our exit. Dad… he had saved us that time.

Then there was that time when I decided to make my own candy, and I turned Nicholas blue. So, mistakes where very common with me. I felt someone hug me and a pair of small arms try to hold on to my arm. Looking to my side, Nicholas was smiling with Kiki trying to climb over my shoulder. “It’ll be okay. He’ll be back in the morning!”

I shook my head, “No. He won’t.”

“I know that Morious is a little whacky,” I gave him a look and he continued, “okay, very whacky! But that doesn’t make him a bad guy… He’ll be back.”

I shook him by the shoulders, “you don’t understand, do you? Even if he does decide to comeback, how will he get here? The Great Glass Elevator picks a random destination! And if he could pick… he wouldn’t remember where to come back to!”

“So… in other words, we’re screwed?” he inquired placing Kiki over his shoulder.

“In a few words…yes.”

So I guess you’re wondering how all of this happened, right? How is it that Willy Wonka’s daughter became a run-away with her best friend Nicholas? Or how it is that we got Kiki and met Morious? It’s…all pretty simple really.

But like my father says, the beginning is always a good place to start, so I will.

N/A: Is anyone interested? I promise that in this one Channel is not a Mary Sue. :D