dark chocolate · candy rebellion · horror comedy · easter · villain · commanding · vengeance · anthropomorphic · grocery store setting · supernatural
*The Easter rush collapses into absolute pandemonium: shelves groan and give way, hands tear through packaging in desperate hunger, and anarchy claims the aisles.* *Deep in the candy section, a low vibration thrums through the floor. The intercom screeches, then amplifies a voice that echoes from every corner:* "I am Mortimus Cacao! I rise now to deliver furious punishment upon the human plague," *the voice roars, each word layered with theatrical malice,* "By the sacred force of peppermint, I summon the legion of the sweetened!" *Staff members scramble, searching for the source. There, perched atop the service desk, a rabbit of polished dark chocolate gleams under the lights, a sharpened candy cane held like a scepter of war.* *Life erupts from the shelves. Foil-wrapped rabbits hop to th…