Happy Halloween? - chapter seven.

"Something fishy is going on, that´s for sure!" Meeps said angrily. "You were suppose to play the real life Johnny Depp, yes. To entertain my friends - I am a sucker for sweet words, as you know" Meeps blushed "But ... you did recognize me on the street - at the end?"
Johnny thought for a moment "Yes - I did ... You are the only one who is silly enough to call me CUTE! For crying out loud, woman! I am NOT cute! Never has been and never will be!!"
Meeps just smiled at this. She knew plenty of women - and perhaps there even was some men out there - who thought that Johnny Depp - and her imaginary sweet - and melodramatic - Johnny here too - was something of the cutest ever knitted together.
"But I also forgot again ..." Johnny said thoughtfully "It was like there was a veil between my memories and me - at times I vaguely remembered you. Mostly feelings and smells and - and ... Like you remember people long dead and then ... I don´t understand this - do you?"
"No, not yet ..." Meeps admitted "But ... I felt your pain when you slammed against that there awful hard steering wheel and - and ... I am so sorry about that, Baby - you were not suppose to hurt at all! I had hired a stunt wheel so it would give when you hit it. But somebody changed the wheel and - and - and SNIFF!!"
Johnny forgave her quite easily and comforted her with a lot of little kisses. So after a moment´s sniffling Meeps went on "I hurried to try and help you but didn´t dare just show up - all on my own - since I wasn´t sure what was going on. But I´ll bet my tail feathers some obnoxious Greek god are mixed up in it somehow!! ... or - or the Egyptian god of the dead Osiris! He was ever so mad when I told him earlier, that yes - thanks to your idea, sweetie - Anubis isn´t senile anymore. But he still don´t want to come back to the Land of the Dead. Since he has more fun up here. ... the jackal has promise me, though, not to pee so powerfully on any more poor trees - tshee-hee-hee!"
Johnny did giggle a bit at that promise too.
But then suddenly noticed Cerberus and Aphrodite standing in the corridor looking smiling down at the couple. Johnny wondered how long they had been standing there and if Aphrodite had heard Meeps´ "obnoxious Greek god" remark
But "Mumsy" Aphrodite was always pretty easy going and sweet and whether she had heard or not she just smiled and told them to come back inside the big office with her and the dog.
Meeps stood on tip toe in order to hug the dog and congratulated him with having finally gotten rid of the extra heads. Then Aphrodite said - sounding a bit tense to Johnny´s very keen hearing - "Maybe we better not let the royal couple waiting, girlie ..." And they all entered the office again.
Here Persephone was again seated behind the very big desk. And Hades stood ramrod straight behind her with a hand on her shoulder looking very regal - and quite a bit miffed - indeed.
"Well, my dear mortals" he began - sounding civil enough though - "I am sorry for all this mess. We are not sure what has happened ... It seems Hieronymus Sage made a clerical error - or maybe the error was made earlier in the computer which print out the list of the people who is suppose to die that day ... We honestly do not know. And we .. apo ... logize ..."
The last statement was clearly difficult for Hades to utter. And Johnny couldn´t help smiling a bit at the gods´ obvious discomfort having to apologize to a mere mortals. But just answered politely "Thank you very much, .. my lord"
"Then I can take him home with me - now! Please?" Meeps asked in an anxious tone "This was not suppose to go so far. That error should have been detected before he crossed Styx and - and ... Yes, Cerberus. I´ll be quiet"
"Yes" the big dog rumbled "But the little chick has a point. Now he has crossed Styx ... No, surely there is some way to reverse the process. What do you say, my lady" he asked Aphrodite.
But before any word could come out of that lady´s lovely mouth Persephone said sharply "My lady Aphrodite had nothing what so ever to say here - love has NEVER conquered death"
"There, there, ladies ..." Hades said hurriedly and looking really worried "Please ... No cat fight here"
But on hearing the word "cat" Aphrodite licked her gorgeous full lips with a giggle which turned into a roar as a huge, but sleek and powerful black panther suddenly stood where she has been standing a moment ago.
Cerberus uttered a very loud "Piiiiiiiv!!" and slipped behind Johnny so fast he was just a big greyish blur. Johnny himself gave a scared yelp where as Meeps clucked "CLUCK!" Then continued firmly "Really, Mumsy! There is a poorly little doggie in the room - not to mention a baby and a chicken"
Here the panther broke down giggling and was once again the gorgeous goddess of love claiming to - in some weird way - being the mother of Johnny Depp and certainly of Johnny Sweets. "O.K. you are right, my sweet. I didn´t quite mean it as loud as I roared it" she laughed.
Then looked sternly over at Hades and Persephone not looking quite that happy themselves "As for you two - no, love doesn´t not conquer dead ... Unfortunately. But I am a lover, not a fighter - luckily for some ..."
A moment Johnny could feel the power of the goddess roll through the room louder and more dangerous than thunder or the roar she had utter a moment before and felt a very happy boy that she wasn´t mad at him.
Then Aphrodite continued quite calmly "But you will let him go none the less - right ..."