Any Truth, Proper Grammar, or Correct Spelling is totally coincidental if not accidental. All characters are fiction. This story is fiction. This story makes no claims about any real person.
By Charles Peters Copyright 2022, 2023 All Rights Reserved
Chapter / Episode List of the Heathville Serial
Billy Bingo remained on the ground while Hera, Jesus, and Zeus returned to VM’s spaceship. Mayor Hollis Bare had already returned to his own spaceship and separated it from the VM ship. He flew down to ease next to Billy who was talking with Barry Whitehead about Barry’s half brother Nat, bragging on Nat. Mayor Hollis Bare beamed both Billy and Barry on board his spaceship.
Mayor Hollis told Billy, “We’ve got a problem. You’ve revealed too much.”
“I don’t understand.”
“Hera and Zeus are going to cause you problems.”
“Why? I came to help the Virgin Mary and Hera to rescue the people of Whitehead and Baretown.”
“You pretty much did it all by yourself.”
“No. I didn’t. Lucifer was there. The Virgin Mary was there.”
Lucifer appeared next to Billy. “He is right. The Virgin Mary sent a warning to me. Zeus, Hera, and Jesus are going to lock your powers and alter your memory. Zeus and Hera are fucking assholes.”
“But Jesus would do that to me?”
“He is in a situation. He doesn’t want to start a new war against Hera.”
King Arthur appeared in the ship. “We need to get you to Merlin.”
Barry Whitehead said, “I don’t understand. Don’t they need Billy to help protect them from Satan and Belial.”
“I don’t fully understand their reasoning either but the Virgin Mary confirmed what Merlin had warned me about when I told him what you had done. Merlin wants you with him and for more reasons that just to protect you. I will tell you right now, he has his own motives but you can trust him.”
“What about Victor? Is he in danger from them. He had the power to send Belial to hell from Pluto Viso and that scared a lot of people.”
King Arthur said, “He is most likely in danger but I don’t have a clue to where he is. I don’t think we can save him. And I will be honest with you. We will be lucky if we can save you. When Hera sets her mind to something, she is a dangerous God.”
Billy began to change back into a child of 13.
King Arthur asked, “Are you doing that?”
Billy shook his head. “No.”
Mayor Hollis Bare moaned, “Of fuck. I feel Hera on the ship. She is here.”
“There was laughter but still she was not visible.”
Billy again began to turn into an adult. “Bitch, you had better run. You had better run fast. You are not invisible to me.”
Suddenly there were screams. Hera was screaming. And Billy was smiling. “When I tell you to run, you run. And you run to Jesus and Zeus and you tell them to get their asses back to Olympus and the hell out of Hades.”
Zeus bellowed, “You don’t give us orders.”
Lucifer bellowed. “Zeus, back the fuck off and leave Billy alone.”
“He can not be trusted. He will turn on us. He is as much as threat to us as he is to Satan and Belial.”
“And that is why he is in Hades. But you know what. I can send him to normal earth.”
“You wouldn’t do that.”
“This is the realm of my father and me.”
“Which you were losing.”
Hera screamed, “Which you would have lost if it was not for the Virgin Mary and me.”
Lucifer said, “The rescue was mostly the Virgin Mary and Billy and with a little help from me. You did nothing.”
King Arthur said, “Hera, I am not even certain what side you were actually on. I heard whispers that you were actually trying to lead the Virgin Mary into a trap but Billy fucked it up for you.”
Zeus asked, “Is that true?”
“Of course it is not true. You know I love Mary like a sister.”
Zeus said, “Like a jealous sister. I know that.”
Hera said, “Billy is a danger to us.”
“I am not a danger to you, unless you make me a danger to you.”
Hera said, “Did you hear that threat. He is threatening us. We’ve got to lock his powers and change his memories before it is too late.”
Billy said, “Okay. Enough of this shit. Back to Olympus with the lot of you.”
Mayor Hollis Bare fell back in his chair. “He sent them back to Olympus.”
Lucifer asked, “But for how long. I feel they’ve already returned.”
Fires began to appear around Billy. Everyone backed away from him. He changed back into a child. He fell to the floor of the spaceship. On his knees he whispered, “Iapetus.” And the fires went dark. And Billy stared at everyone as blood came from his mouth. His eyes had a faded light and were almost hollow. And then his eyes closed and he fell with his face hitting hard against the floor.
Jesus and the Virgin Mary appeared. They both had tears in their eyes. They told Billy, “We were not part of this.”
Billy’s eyes opened and he turned over. He stared up into the face of the Virgin Mary and then he looked at Jesus. “You do know that I love the two of you?”
Jesus knelt next to Billy. “I know.”
Mary whispered, “And we love you. Please do not fall into the sleep. Do not become like Amelia.”
“Without my powers I am helpless. What is the point?”
Jesus said, “The point is that you are a boy and now you can live a normal life as a boy. That is not a bad thing. Remember when we were born as brothers and we lived our lives without using our powers. I cherish the memories of that life when I had Billy Bingo as my brother.”
“I love you brother.” Billy Bingo closed his eyes. He went to sleep.
Jesus screamed, “No.”
The Virgin Mary shook her head. She and Jesus vanished and returned to Olympus in the V-Ship.
King Arthur said, “Maybe Merlin can wake him.”
Mayor Hollis Bare said, “Maybe, but I need to return him to his mother and his sister. And I will need to face their hate because they are going to hate me. I think I even hate me right now.”
Barry Whitehead put his arm around Mayor Hollis Bare. “Don’t. Just love Billy and love what he did today. Look down at Whitehead and Baretown. Billy saved so many people from the cages. He saved me from a cage.”
King Arthur took a deep breath. “Take Billy home. I will return to Merlin and tell him about this day and I will try to do it sober and without tears.”
Lucifer said, “My father and I are back in charge of Hades now. Maybe we can do a better job than what we had been doing. Billy, if you can hear me, know that I will always be your friend and I will never betray that friendship.”
Barry Whitehead asked Lucifer. “Do you think he will ever awaken?”
“Yes. He is Billy Bingo. He has to awaken.”
Leroy came aboard the ship. He asked, “What is going on?”
Mayor Hollis Bare told his nephew, “Zeus and Hera locked Billy’s powers and began trying to change his memories. He has fallen into the sleep.”
Leroy screamed, “No. No. No!” Then he looked at Lucifer. “Do any of us have any hope of being saved by such vengeful, jealous, Gods that would do this to Billy?”
Lucifer said, “Zeus and Hera were never your hope.”
Leroy said, “Will Amelia ever awaken?”
King Arthur said, “She is our only hope.”
Lucifer said, “In case she does not come out of the sleep, Hades is working on an alternate plan.”