The Special Olympics (3)
“Henrietta, Henrietta,” he called. Henrietta just ignored him and kept swimming, she thought it was her fans cheering from the riverbank.
“Henrietta, Henrietta, stop a while, this is important.” he shouted. She stopped.
“Billy, whatever is the matter?” she asked.
“Ozzy Otter and Berty Badger are cheating, they´ve already attacked Jimmy and Steven. I think I can take care of them but before I do why don´t I give you a head start, sit on my head and I´ll swim you further on down the river.” said Billy.
“You most certainly will not. They may cheat but I won´t lower myself to their standards. I´m going to win this race fair and square.” said Henrietta indignantly.
“But can´t you see they already have something planned, if we don´t cheat they will attack you like they attacked Steven Stoat and Jimmy Jackdaw.” pleaded Billy.
“Forget it son, I´ll win this race my way.” and with those words she swam off. Billy knew what he had to do. He wiggled around a bit in the water and waited for Ozzy and Berty.
They caught up soon enough and easily enough because both of them were riding jet skis. “Oh for the love of god”, said Billy when he saw the cut of them. They were even wearing diving suits and goggles. How was he going to stop those machines. He had no choice but to follow them until they caught up with Henrietta and wait until they disembarked and were vulnerable.
Finally they caught up to within inches of Henrietta. They abandoned their jetskiis and diving suits and swam as fast as they could. But not fast enough. Another thing I think you should know about Billy is that he was a big snake for one good reason. He wasn´t a snake at all. Henrietta and her friends had never been to the zoo and I´m almost certain they had never seen a boa constrictor. Billy the snake was really Billy the boa and he knew exactly what had to be done to stop the two villains. Just as they were about to swim to either side of Henrietta, Billy coiled around both of them and gave each one a bit of a squeeze.
The roaring and screaming out of the pair of them was deafening, so, afraid his mum would turn around, he swallowed them both, goggles and all. Then he swam to the river bank where he threw both of them up. They were so scared they ran off home abandoning the race to the other woodland creatures.
Now it just happened that Henrietta did hear the screams of the cheats. She did turn around and she did see Billy swallow the rotten pair and she was not happy. She swam to river bank to where Billy was rubbing his tummy.
“Billy,” she started, “did I or did I not distinctly ask you not to cheat on my behalf?” she growled.
“I´m sorry,” apologised Billy. “Maybe it´s time you went back to the zoo.” said Henrietta. “The zoo? why the zoo?” inquired Billy. Henrietta didn´t answer she just returned to the race.
She crossed the finishing line with ease. The crowd cheered happily. She searched the faces in the crowd for Billy, he was nowhere to be seen. “Oh dear, he´s sulking.” she said to herself.
She strolled triumphantly to where they were giving out the prizes.