Happy Halloween? - chapter five.

Johnny entered a small dingy office on his hands and knees.
And disturbed a very tall man in a long grey robe. Or scared him more likely. Because the man shot to his feet with a frightened yelp and spilled warm coffee down the whole front of his robe.
"What are you doing here!?!" the man demanded to know in a high whine "Only maintenance ever go through that door! And you are certainly not the janitor for this section of the palace! He is a small fat man who can hardly get through that door anymore on account of his pot belly ... What are you doing here, I ask!"
Johnny hurried up and said something while the tall man drew in breath for another sally "This is a palace?" he asked. Then hurried on before the man could answer "I would like to talk to your superior! At once!! I think somebody named ... Somebody has made a big mistake and I would like for that mistake to be corrected at soon as possible"
Johnny talked as firmly as possible. Having found that "quiet, but firm" sometimes worked most better with some people than being polite and friendly. But he did get quite scared when the tall man suddenly smiled hugely - the man had bigger canines than Cerberus ...
"Hi. I know you. You are Johnny Depp. I'm the biggest - fan - eh ... Never mind ..."
Johnny wondered for a moment how many fans he had round and about. And you did meet fans in the strangest places too.
But then he suddenly realized he had seen the tall man before ... No, he wasn´t a man - he was one of the inner demons who had done their best to drive Johnny to drink, drugs and debauchery.
And while he still loved debau ... sex as much as the next man - woman, dog or demon - he did not like to be so unhappy he felt he had to numb himself with liquor or drugs in order to just live.
So seeing the demon in front of him smiling in a very friendly manner made Johnny so raving mad he surged forward with his hand high in the air ready to strangle the demon on the spot.
... even though one part of his brain said "You can´t kill demons, silly. Only - if you are lucky - and with a bit of help from your friends - drive them away"
Then - just as his hands closed around the neck of the demon - Johnny happened to look up into the demon´s very scared eyes ... And Johnny´s hands sank slowly down by his side.
He could have happily at least try to kill the demon if it had fought back. But he couldn´t kill someone looking like a scared little child. Albeit in this case a seven feet 'child' with very big teeth and long claws on his hands.
"I - I - I´m sorry, Jo-johnny - much of us demons didn´t want to t-torture you. Whi-which is why most of us also went away so relatively easy. Think about for a moment, my dear bo-boy - some have to fight their demons all their lives - be-because the demons thinks the humans deserve all the demons can do to them. But you are basically sweet so most of us didn´t really want to pester you. Just did it because it is our job ..."
"You just obeyed orders - like the Nazis use to say ..." Johnny said with a bitter sigh "O.k. I understand. ... but I still want to talk to your superior, Ha .. Your name is Harry ... Harry Compton, right?"
For some reason the demon beamed and nodded at Johnny, when he remember its name. And then happily rambling about "old times" lead the way out of the office. And Johnny followed it shaking his head feeling rather dizzy and realizing that the "evil" demon actually liked - maybe even loved - him.
After having followed Harry through what seemed to Johnny to be endless corridors they finally arrived in front of an expensive looking oak door with a gold knob.
Harry knocked very deferentially on this and when a woman´s voice said "Enter" showed Johnny in first.
They were in an enormous office. Pretty dark because it was still night outside. But Johnny could just glimpse the shape of white marble statues and huge urns standing along the panelled walls. Very dimly lit by a small lamp standing on a large desk at the far end of the room.
It was a beautiful office. But it seemed cold and unfriendly to Johnny.
And at the far end a beautiful - but rather stern looking - woman looked up from her work and said irritated "What is it, eh .. Compton, right? What do you want! I am busy ..."
So Harry tried to explained. But Johnny could feel that the woman was about to throw them out when Harry - almost accidentally - happened to mention Johnny´s name. Then the woman suddenly got to her feet. Turning out to be a bit taller than Johnny and very slim and straight of bearing.
She came fast forward peering curiously at Johnny´s face and saying "That Johnny Depp? My, my ... So it is. What ever are you doing down here. You should be upstairs getting ready for Di .. and ..."
Johnny was about to say that he felt exactly the same if "upstairs" meant that he could go back to his life when a door at the far end of the office opened and the most stunningly beautiful woman Johnny had ever seen entered - with a smallish brown and red feathered chicken tripping along behind her.
By rights Johnny shouldn´t have been able to take his eyes off the very beautiful lady who fit all the right beauty ideals. But he felt his eyes returning again and again to the little brown hen. And he also kept wondering where he had seen that particular bird before ...
Could one be in love with a chicken? When one is human??
The beautiful woman looked from Johnny to the chicken and back again with a happy smile. Where as the tall lady looked rather angry at the interruption.
"This is MY office, Aphrodite! You can't just barge in like that !!! ... and stop that charade at once, Magpie! You are NOT a chicken!! So come off it - nobody is fooled by those feathers ..."