Hearthville Serial: Book 4 – Chapter 11

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Sam Bigalo sat excited in his spaceship, salivating for the kill that he wanted all so badly. He thought he had maneuvered his ship just right. The ship would not be obvious to the casual eye and yet he had thought it was where he could accomplish his ambition just right.

Sam had received a tip from a traitor on the Legman’s ship that the Legman was going after Dioson. Sam didn’t much like Dioson but he was a fellow hunter. They had done some kills together. Sam wasn’t sure how he should handle the situation with Dioson but he knew how he wanted to handle the situation with Billy Bingo.

Hearthville Serial 4
Book 4 (Title Undecided):
A Paranormal Suspense Gangster Horror

By Charles Peters

Copyright 2019

All Rights Reserved

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Chapter 11

 

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Chapter 11

The Past: ( This is from my Billy Bingo: A Different World on my sayata.net website)
https://sayata.net/m/2018/08/21/chapter-3-billy-bingo-sexual-blackmail/
(Unlike most of the Hearthville Serial, this is written in present tense.)

Billy, Tommy, and Jimmy begin their walk toward the Cassidy Motorcycle Shop. Billy notices a large black car that seems to have slowed down to follow them. It unnerves Billy. He keeps looking back toward the car. Tommy notices that Billy keeps turning around. Tommy turns to see what Billy keeps looking at and sees the car.

Tommy says, “Fuck, why is the law following me.”

Billy/Legman says, “It is not the law. They are hunters.”

Jimmy laughs. “What would they be hunting in Conyers? Rats.”

Tommy screamed in laughter. “Oh my God, can you imagine a giant wharf rat mounted to a wall like they do deer heads. That would be so weird.”

Billy/Legman laughs. Then he quickly turns serious. “I’ve got to deal with them.”

Tommy asks, “How?”

George Destone runs up from seemingly no where. He tickles Billy on the stomach. “Hey Champ, you want to go to the movies with Bess and me?”

“No. Get lost.” Billy sees that the black car has stopped. He sees the front doors on both sides of the car open. “Oh shit.”

A man calls to Billy. “Billy, come over here.”

Billy/Legman screams to the men, “If you don’t want things revealed, get lost.”

“We are not threatening you. We have an envelope for you to deliver. That is all.”

A large bald headed man with gray eyebrows walks up to Billy. He hands Billy a yellow envelope. “You do realize that followers of Belial on Pluto Viso are a danger to this planet.”

Sam Bigalo walks up to Billy. Sam is in his 40’s and of a more slim build but still tough. He has shoulder length blond hair. He says, “Roger Dover, you don’t have to editorialize. Billy will give the envelope to the Legman. Want you Billy?”

Billy/Legman nods. “Sure. But if this is about the General, the Council is wrong about him.”

Sam Bigalo says, “The Council is wrong about a lot of things. General Gorgan is not one of them.”

Roger Dover says, “Right or wrong, cooperate or we will cage you for Alice Malokey to have you transported.”

Billy/Legman says, “The Outlands are forbidden to you all. You know that. Bye.” The yellow envelope vanishes as the Legman exits Billy.

Billy cocks his head. “What do you two men want?”

Sam says, “We told you what we want.”

Billy looks around. “I think I blanked out. What is going on? I am confused.”

George says, “They gave you an envelope to give to the Legman.” George sees that the envelope is no longer in Billy’s hands. “Where did the envelope go?”

Roger Dover and Sam Bigalo return to their car.

Jimmy asks, “Who is General Gorgan?”

Billy shrugs. “I don’t know.”

George says, “They threatened to have you caged and transported. I think we need to tell your mom and maybe call the police.”

Jimmy asks, “What are you talking about?”

George looks at the two men sitting in the car. “I don’t know. What are we talking about?”

Jimmy says, “I feel strange. I feel scared. I feel really scared. But I don’t know why.”

Tommy realizes the memory of his little brother and of George have been erased. He knows that Billy is confused. But Tommy’s memory of what just happened remains clear; but still he feels confused.

***

The Past: ( This is from my Billy Bingo: A Different World on my sayata.net website)
https://sayata.net/m/2018/08/21/chapter-3-billy-bingo-sexual-blackmail/
(Unlike most of the Hearthville Serial, this is written in present tense.)

Sam Bigalo and Roger Dover pull into a parking garage. They both pull lunch boxes from the backseat and open them up to begin eating their sandwiches and to drink their soft drinks.

Roger Dover asks, “Do you think Alice Malokey will order the killing of Billy Bingo so that the Legman will not have a vessel?”

“I don’t know. If the Legman has returned to his realm in the Outlands he will not be around to protect his alter.”

“I don’t really understand the duality of people like Billy Bingo. I know people have told me that they are the same person but that Billy doesn’t really know what is happening as far as the Legman is concerned. I would think it is more likely that Billy is a totally separate soul whose body is being possessed by the Legman.”

Sam says, “No. They are the same. It is like God can present himself as a singular person or he can present himself as multiple people but they will all still be God. God can connect his higher self to those entities that he spawns or he can have the connection one way where the spawns are not aware and where he can test aspects of himself without the spawns having a clue.”

“The Legman is that powerful?”

“Well. It is complicated with the Legman because what he is doing is to protect his higher self from the spells the space alien witches have cast. He is at war with them in the hopes that he can reopen his realm Iapetus and from there defeat them.”

“Does it ever bother you that we are working for the Space Alien Witch Council? We are earthlings and we are working for the invaders.”

“I am not going to tell you that, the kind of shit that you might can use against me. Are you crazy?”

“So that is an affirmative. It bothers me that we might be on the wrong side of history and you can use that against me. I don’t care.”

Sam smiles. “Be careful with whom you make that kind of confession.”

“If Alice Malokey orders me to illegally go into the Outlands to try to put the Legman in a cage, I will do that. But if she orders me to kill Billy Bingo, I can’t do that. I don’t care if he is the spawn of some god or whatever, he is still just a kid.”

“I understand. He is a kid who might be the earth witches’ only chance of beating the space alien witches.”

“No. Like I said. I would illegally go into the Outlands to put the Legman in a cage. But I will not kill a kid. Clear!”

“Clear. But to be just as clear, in case you don’t know who I am. My then wife and I fought in the Pluto Viso Wars against Belial. I fought against General Gorgan. General Gorgan put my then wife in a cage and caused her to go into a sleep from which she still has not woken. The Legman now is giving General Gorgan refuge in his realm in the Outlands. I want General Gorgan caged. I want that son of a bitch to end up in a sleep. If Alice Malokey orders Billy Bingo to be killed to send a clear message to the Legman, I will cut his head off myself.”

“You say that you are an earthling, but you think like the space alien witches, don’t you. You remember back to the Pluto Viso Wars. Well I don’t. I don’t know who I was in the past. Hell. I barely know who I am in this life. So I know what it is like to be a confused innocent. I know what it is like to be that kid Billy Bingo.”

“Well. I don’t think Alice Malokey will give the orders or sanction the killing of Billy Bingo so this argument that we are having is probably pointless.”

“So do you think she will give us the orders to illegally go into the Outlands to capture General Gorgan from the Legman?”

“I don’t know. She suggested there might be a way to lure General Gorgan out of the Legman’s realm so we can legally capture him but she did not give me the details.”

“I wish I had looked in that envelope that we gave Billy or the Legman.”

“Alice Malokey’s magic would not have allowed it and she would have known about your attempt. You do understand that you really do not want to piss her off. Don’t you?”

“Yes.”

 

***

Back to the present.

Sam Bigalo sat excited in his spaceship, salivating for the kill that he wanted all so badly. He thought he had maneuvered his ship just right. The ship would not be obvious to the casual eye and yet he had thought it was where he could accomplish his ambition just right.

Sam had received a tip from a traitor, Dorian Dormark, on the Legman’s ship that the Legman was going after someone. She didn’t name who. She had told Sam that the Legman was aboard the spaceship. She had explained that the Legman and Billy Bingo had been acting as one but the Legman would need to send him back to the helicopter. Dorian had told Sam that during the transfer would be the perfect time to kill Billy Bingo.

Sam wasn’t sure why the traitor wanted Billy Bingo dead as much as he did but having an accomplice aboard the Legman’s ship was like a gift from heaven.

Sabian Blackrock, a distinguished and treacherous member of the Witches Council called Sam. Sabian asked, “Are you in position to kill Billy Bingo without anyone knowing it will have been a murder and not an accident?”

“So you are part of this?”

“The Legman must pay a price for not turning General Gorgan over to the Witches Council.”

Sam agreed. In the Puto Viso Wars General Gorgan had caged Sam’s then wife Amelia and she had gone into a sleep. He missed Amelia. Sam had managed to rescue her from the cage but he had not been able to wake her. As she continued to sleep he grieved for her the same as if she had died.

Sabian told Sam, “I am counting on you. Let me know the out come.” Sabian disconnected from talking to Sam.

Sam took a deep breath. He had been excited for his revenge. He knew he had been going against the wishes of Alice Malokey and her husband Phil Clyde but until he had spoken to Sabian Blackrock it had not felt so much like a betrayal of their friendship. Sam moaned, “Son of a bitch. But I am not wrong. The Legman is dangerous. His spawn Billy Bingo is dangerous. In the rebellion against the Space Alien Witches Council he could upend in this world. If he would make alliances with General Gorgan then hell, he might bring the forces of Belial down to do to earth what was done to Pluto Viso. I am not wrong. Shit. I should not have doubts. I must have not have doubts. This is my moment. I want Billy Bingo dead and in a cage. That is what I want. It is a good thing that I’ve got Sabian Blackrock as an ally. Now Billy Bingo I am going to kill your little shapeshifting punk ass and I am going to put you in a cage.”

*** added (12/5/2019)

That is what Sam said but the call from Sabian Blackrock bothered him. “What is that son of a bitch up to now?”

Sam pulled up the Legman’s spaceship on his monitor. “Sure, it is reasonable that Sabian would consider Billy Bingo and the Legman a threat to earth the same as I do. Maybe he has a beef with General Gorgan the same as I do. But something does not feel right. Mostly because I know what a piece of shit Sabian Blackrock is.”

Sam pulled up trace footage from satellite recordings. “Okay the helicopter was following the red van. Who is in the red van? Okay, the image has ‘HUNTER’ marked on it but which hunter? Dioson Claws. Why is helicopter chasing him and why did Dorian Dormark want me to know that is my chance to kill Billy Bingo? She has to be working with Sabian Blackrock.”

Sam hit a clear button. “I don’t care. The Legman and Billy Bingo are dangerous. That is all that matters. I don’t really want to know what this is about.” Then Sam restored the screen from what the clear button had done. “Okay, let me up the Witch Satellite does not ping and I can back the footage up. Rewind, rewind, rewind, rewind. Okay, Dioson is at a Mausoleum. There is someone tied up inside of it.”

Sam snapped his fingers to cause a jug of moonshine to appear. “Of fuck yeah, that is good stuff.” He put the jug down. “Dioson is chasing someone. Who is he chasing? Victor Duddley. He is chasing Victor Duddley. Why does that name sound familiar? Let me go into the ‘HUNTER FILES.’ Let me cross search Dioson Claws and Victor Duddley and let us throw in Arthur Ramsey. Let me see what comes up. Yeah, sure, take all fucking day. Doododododododo. All day. Sure. It is not like I don’t have things to do. People to kill. There it is. Ooooh my God. Son of a bitch.” Sam took several guzzles from the keg of moonshine. He shook his head as a shiver went down to his toes. “Victor Duddley used a time portal. He knows where a goto statement is. He used it to undo his own death. Oh hell, shit. Is Dioson chasing Victor under orders of Sabian? I don’t know. It is not clear who Dioson is under contract. I could call and ask him like he would tell me. I could go into the dark web to see if there is any chatter. I don’t want to know. I just don’t want to know. But fuck I do want to know. Okay, here is a forum that has Dioson on it. ‘Does anyone know where Leroy Bare is getting his gold?’ Is that a clue. Leroy Bare would fucking hate Sabian Blackrock but it would be in Sabians nature to set Leroy up as a dupe without Lerory knowing. Yeah. I may be talking about myself there. I may be a total fucking dupe that Sabian is playing. But why? Sabian wants me to kill Billy Bingo. I want to kill Billy Bingo.”

Sam called Dorian Dormark. “So bitch. Betrayer of the Legman.”

“Are you drunk?”

“No, I am Sam Bigalo. Drunk. That would be a stupid name. I want to ask you something. What is Sabian Black plotting. Why does he want Billy Bingo dead?”

“He wants him dead and caged for the same reason that you want him dead and caged.”

“I don’t think so. Tell me the truth.”

“There is no truth to tell.”

“Says a total lying bitch. Tell me. I know why I want Billy Bingo dead. I want to know why Sabian Blackrock wants Sabian dead. What does Victor Duddley have to do with all of this?”

“He has nothing to do with it.”

“Victor Duddley knows where a time portal is.”

“If you have it figured out, why are you calling me and trying to get me in trouble with Sabian Blackrock.”

“I don’t think I want Sabian Blackrock to know where a time portal is. I really don’t.”

“But wouldn’t you want to know? Aren’t there things that you would like to change?”

“I don’t know.”

Sam disconnected from Dorian.

Sam took some more drinks from his jug of moonshine. “There are lots of things that I would like to change but Sabian Blackrock is a piece of shit. I shouldn’t help him. I don’t even know how I will be helping him. But I want Billy Bingo dead. I don’t want earth to be turned into Pluto Viso. I don’t want that. I want my Amelia. I want her to be awake. I want to hold her in my arms again. I want to share her laughter and dance with her. I want to feel her lips against my lips again and feel her passion. God. I miss you Amelia. I miss you so much. Could the time portal be used to go that far back in time? And even if it could, could I stop General Gorgan from caging us. No. No. That would not be possible. And Sabian Blackrock is piece of shit. It is the here and now and the reality of this moment with which I must my concern myself. I can’t save Pluto Viso. I can’t save Amelia from what happened. But I can try to save earth.”

 

***

There was a strange feeling that spread across those in the helicopter. The fear was like a plant growing roots, spreading through the soil. Everyone aboard felt a fear of the unknown but perhaps not unknown enough.

At the conscious level, even as we don’t know or remember every breath we take we still know what breathing feels like and we know what not breathing feels like. Our souls at the super conscious level know that we have all died before. We know what death is. We know what death feels like, even though we may not remember that life or that death. We don’t like the feeling of death and how that feeling haunts us even though we don’t consciously know where that feeling comes from. When that feeling comes and invites that fear, that fear causes us to want to hide. But sometimes there is no place to hide. There is no place to run. There is no place to retreat and pretend that we are this good person who would never hurt anyone. We have to face that in this mortal world that we are all animals with the same basic instinct to meet our basic needs and with the primary need being survival.

Daniel Bare sat in his seat hoping that he looked calm but he knew he was overcome with the sense of impending doom.

The pilot, Karl Borloft, looked around. Then he he stared at Arthur Ramsey. “Something does not feel right.”

Arthur agreed. “I feel it also. I wish we would hear back from the Legman.”

The helicopter began to make strange sounds. Everyone could feel an odd vibration. Nat stared out the window toward the spaceship. He asked, “Are the space aliens going to kill us?”

Natalina felt just as afraid as everyone else and her son’s words gave her a chill. Goosebumps popped up on her skin. With fear in her voice, she questioned, “Space aliens?”

Nat said, “I see a spaceship. See it there.”

Suddenly, 10 year old Billy Bingo appeared back on the helicopter. He was no longer a vessel for the Legman who was still back on his spaceship. On the helicopter Billy was supposed to wake, but he didn’t. He lay unconscious next to Nat.

Billy was not attached to any harness or strapped into the helicopter in anyway. He lay at the edge of the open door to the helicopter that was flying 8,000 feet in the air. One of his arms and legs dangled out the door.

The vibration of the helicopter grew worse. The vibrating moved Billy’s limp, unconscious body, to dangle even more out the door. Nat grabbed his cousin Billy just as the helicopter flipped sideways. Nat flew up in the air and with all his strength he pulled Billy with him.

In horror Natalina screamed, “What the fuck is happening?”

Karl told Arthur, “The Van has vanished. There is no sign of the Van. Someone gave Dioson enough of his power to make himself invisible. Someone is doing something to this helicopter.”

Arthur said, “You’ve got to find someway to land this bird. I am sure that you are right. There is someone who is trying to crash us.”

The helicopter began to spin around.

Karl said, “I no longer have control of the helicopter.”

Nat screamed, “I don’t know how much longer I can hold Billy. He is going to fly out of the helicopter and no human could survive the fall. Will Billy?

Arthur said, “I have to get to the boys.”

Daniel asked, “Is there a harness?”

“Only near the doors.”

Daniel asked Nat, “Is there a way you can get a harness on Billy?”

“I wish.”

Daniel unfastened himself from his seat. Terrified, he watched Nat being the hero. He watched Nat trying his best to save his cousin Billy. The helicopter began to drop. Daniel flew upward. He grabbed at a hook in the ceiling but missed. He fell downward. He grabbed at the floor as he plummeled hard against it. He shook off the pain and struggled to drag himself toward Nat.

Arthur climbed from his seat. He had some magic power that he was able to use to steady himself as he walked. He grabbed Daniel. “I will get you back to your seat.”

“I want to help.”

“I know you do but I have some magic power to help me. You don’t.”

Daniel nodded. “Get to the boys. I will get back to my seat.”

Arthur released Daniel and Daniel crawled toward his seat. He hated to feel so helpless and so worthless. He especially hated that feeling as he looked up into Natalina’s disappointed and scared eyes. He got into the seat next to Natalina and fastened himself.

Arthur got to Nat. Arthur’s magic began to fail.

The speed of helicopter spinning in the air increased.

Nat cried. “My grip is slipping. I can’t hold on to Billy.”

Arthur grabbed a harness as he flew up into the air.

And then….

 

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