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Fire-Breathing Horses

Fire-Breathing Horses Difficulty: Easy Its a horse, its a fire, well, its a fiery horse. Stay out of reach of the legs and the flame, and victory shouldn't be a problem.
History A Fire-breathing horse is a magical species of horse that breathes out fire through their nostrils.
Appearance As big as a large horse, possibly as harmless as one to, yet their mane is on fire, they have circlets of fire around their hooves, and their tales are on fire, leaving them, a fiery mess.		Interactions {{{interactions}}}
Strengths They're on fire. Powerful legs to kick with. They can breath flames out of their nostrils, allowing them to spray, and stream the fire. They can also swipe at things with their tail.		Weaknesses Large amounts of water. Jagged terrain. Falling from heights. Falling into pits. Long range weapons such as arrows and spears.
Tactics To head on rush the enemy to try to trample them. Rushing by them while exhaling fire, in an attempt to burn the enemy. When surrounded or when enemies are within striking distance, the horse will stand on its hind legs and attempt to hit enemies with its front hooves. The horse when in the same scenario, will try to kick an enemy with its powerful, bone crushing legs.
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Giant Scorpions

Giant Scorpions Difficulty: Easy WIP
History A Giant Scorpion is a huge monster scorpion. Daedalus in the alias of Quintus ordered some giant scorpions from Triple G Ranch. He kept them in boxes in the Sword Fighting Arena. He eventually let them out in the camp's forest for a game.
Appearance They being the size of a small to medium sized car, are rather large and intimidating when faced with the challenge of fighting or escaping. They have large pincers and sharp mandibles, the monster is usually a color coordinating to the type of terrain it lives in.		Interactions {{{interactions}}}
Strengths Their large stingers can pierce armor. They are capable of climbing rough terrain. Their large claws can crush a decent amount of materials.		Weaknesses Their soft underside is vulnerable to sharp objects. They are extremely weak to elemental damage.
Tactics They use their keen senses such as smell and vibration detection to find prey and enemies alike. With it's pincers, it will attempt to snap and crush enemies. With its tail it will thrust the tail forward and attempt to poison enemies. It will also grab enemies and prey with its pincers and stab it with its tail, poisoning them and leaving the enemy or prey to die slowly. They will hide in crevices, nooks, and or shadows, in an attempt to surprise enemies and prey.
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Harpies

Harpies Difficulty: Easy A group could be defeated by one or two demigods
History The harpies were the spirits of sudden, sharp gusts of wind. They were known as the hounds of Zeus and were despatched by the god to snatch away (harpazô) people and things from the earth. Sudden, mysterious dissappearances were often attributed to the Harpyiai. The Harpies were once sent by Zeus to plague King Phineus of Thrake as punishment for revealing the secrets of the gods. Whenever a plate of food was set before him, the Harpies would swoop down and snatch it away, befouling any scraps left behind. One specific breed of Harpies (commonly employed by Camp Half-Blood) have shorter wings and fly much slower than normal Harpies.
Appearance The Harpies were depicted as winged women, sometimes with ugly faces, or with the lower bodies of birds.		Interactions {{{interactions}}}
Strengths Their claws are very sharp and can tear through armor. They can fly very quickly.		Weaknesses Their flesh is susceptible to any basic attack. If their wings are disabled many of their strategies are useless. It is also belived they are susceptible to elemental attacks. When they swoop, dodge and aim for their wings. If a wing is injured, they will fall and can be easily beaten.
Tactics They can fly and they use their claws in combination with this.They will fly low and rake with their claws before they fly up so you cannot hit them. Another popular tactic is swooping down and lifting enemies into the air and dropping them from high heights.
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Hellhounds

Hellhounds Difficulty: Easy Due to the nature of their attacks, once dodged they are easy prey
History Hellhounds were sons and daughters of Nyx (mother) and Cerberus (father). Hellhounds are feared by half-bloods (except by children of Hades). The most famous hell hound is Cerberus, who guards the entrance to the under world. He has three heads, a tail or mane (depends on version of myth) of snake(s), and is tall enough to make men feel like ants. Cerberus also has a brother, Orthrus, who has two heads. They were said to bring the souls of the dead or dying to Hades. It is said that hell hounds have the ability to shadow travel, the ability to travel through shadows. Hell hounds are considered evil because they work for Hades/Devil.
Appearance Hellhounds are usually described as being large, black mastiffs with glowing red eyes. The average size of hellhounds are about the size of a grizzly bear or a rhino, but can be as large as a garbage truck.		Interactions {{{interactions}}}
Strengths These beasts are large and powerful. Their size can range form a large dog to the size of a garbage truck. They are surprisingly quick for large creatures. Their paws can crush most armor and shields. Their jaws are powerful enough to bite through armor. Hellhounds can also Shadow Travel, which means they move through darkness to any other location. They are immune to heat and fire.		Weaknesses The flesh of a hellhound is vulnerable to most attacks. They cannot shadow travel in well lit areas with no darkness. They cannot turn around quickly so attacking them from behind is the best strategy. The best thing to do is to try to avoid the first leap and when it is offbalance, kill it. If it hits you with the leap it will kill you before you can do anything.
Tactics Hellhounds tend to spring at you from great distances. Pouncing is their main tactic. After the hit an enemy they use their paws to pin their victims, then tear them apart with their fangs.
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Scythian Dracanae

Scythian Dracanae Difficulty: Easy They posess no great stregth or distinguishing characterstics, making them no more challenging than another demigod.
History The first ruler of the land of Skythia. She was a woman from the waist up with the serpentine tail of a Drakon in place of legs. When Herakles visited her realm leading the cattle of Geryon, she stole some of the herd and insisted the hero mate with her before she would return them.
Appearance The Scythian dracanae are described as humanoid females with twin serpent trunks instead of legs. They have been described as "Dragon women" or "Snake women". Their walk has been described as "a combination of walking and slithering like walking on living skis" by Percy. When they talk, they hiss the letter "S" when they say it.		Interactions {{{interactions}}}
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Stymphalian Birds

Stymphalian Birds Difficulty: Easy All you have to do to disorient them is make some noise, and from there they are easily dispatched.
History In Greek Mythology, Heracles' sixth labor was to beat the Stymphalian birds. He did it by using brass bells to scare them into the air, and when the birds took off from the swamp that they rested in, Heracles shot many of them down with his bow and arrows. Although some escaped, they never returned to the area that they were terrorizing.
Appearance Stymphalian Birds are a species of monstrous pigeon-like birds.		Interactions {{{interactions}}}
Strengths Stymphalian birds have sharp celestial bronze beak that can tear through flesh. They are also incredibly quick and agile flyers.		Weaknesses Physically speaking these birds are vulnerable to most attacks. The method for dealing with large group is noise. Loud bells, or music will disrupt the faculties of these birds, causing them to become greatly confused.
Tactics These birds are rarely found alone. They are often in groups which they use to their advantage. They swarm their prey and like flying pirahna that can pick a human clean in several minutes. If in small groups or alone, they will dive bomb and tend to aim for eyes and exposed flesh.
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Telekhines

Telekhines Difficulty: Easy Their flippers make them incapable of posing a great threat
History They invented the art of metal-working and were said to have crafted the scythe Kronos used to castrate his father Ouranos and later a Magical Trident for Poseidon which the god used to level mountains into the sea and form the islands. Their malignant use of magic, particularly, they produced a mixture of Styx water and sulfur, which killed plants and animals, angered Zeus, who cast them beneath the sea or into the very depths of Tartarus. Telkhines were sometimes described as having the head of a dog and fish-flippers for hands. They're also known as "fish children."
Appearance Telekhines have faces like dogs, with black snouts, brown eyes, and pointy ears. Their bodies are sleek and black like seals. They have stubby legs that were half flippers and half foot, and human-like hands with sharp claws. Percy described that if you blended together a Doberman pinscher, a human child and a sea lion, they'll look a bit like a Telekhine. Fully grown adults telekhines can be up to seven feet tall. Telekhines bark and growl, and they waddle instead of walking.		Interactions {{{interactions}}}
Strengths Being aquatic in nature, Telekhines pose the biggest threat underwater, as they can easily outmaneuver even children of sea gods/goddesses.		Weaknesses A demigod's best bet when fighting a Telekhine is to disarm is as quickly as possible. Once unarmed, they are slow and clumsy.
Tactics Telekhines rely heavily upon the uses of weapons to fight.In most cases, when unarmed, they do not serve much of a threat, unless, of course, they are underwater, in which case, chances of survival are reduced by half
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Unique Creatures

Ophiotaurus

Ophiotaurus Difficulty: Easy "Serpent-bull"
History OPHIOTAURUS (the "serpent-bull") was a monster born with the foreparts of a black bull and the tail of a serpent. It was slain by an ally of the Titanes in their search for a victory against Zeus. The Ophiotauros was probably placed in the heavens as the combined Constellations Taurus and Cetus (bull fore-parts with a sea-monster tail), alongside the kite as Lyra, and the altar Ara. This story may have been part of the lost Greek epic known as the Titanomachia (War of the Titanes), in which the giant Aigaion was represented as an ally of the Titanes. Ovid here calls Aigaion Briareus, the name of his son in both the Titanomachia and the Iliad.
Appearance Ophiotaurus was a monster born with the foreparts of a black bull and the tail of a serpent.		Interactions WIP
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Orthrus

Orthrus Difficulty: Easy WIP
History KYON ORTHROS (or Orthus) was a two-headed, serpent-tailed dog, a brother of monsters such as Kerberos and the Khimaira. He mated with the latter, siring the Sphinx and Nemean Lion. His master was the three-bodied giant Geryon, king of the sunset isle of Erytheia. Orthros was set to guard his master's fabulous herd of red-skinned cattle. When Herakles was sent to fetch these as one of his twelve labours, he slew Orthros, the herdsman Eurytion and Geryon. The word orthros in Greek means "morning twilight." His name was also spelt Orthos, after another word meaning "straight" or "height."
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Cerberus

Cerberus Difficulty: Easy WIP
History NOTE Cerberus is not a monster normally fought, but could come up in a quest if you were trying to get a soul out, or get in without pissing him off, you MIGHT need to fight him, however he would never be randomly out and about fighting demigods, you'd only fight him if you were in the underworld. In The Lightning Thief, he stays in the front of the EZ Death Line. As one of the children of Echidna, he is the only one who works for the Olympians directly. Cerberus has three heads and one body and likes to play with Mrs. O'Leary and rubber balls. One of the labors of Hercules was to bring Cerberus from the Underworld to the Earth above. Hades agreed to let Hercules take Cerberus back to the world of the living, if he could remove Cerberus from the Underworld, with only his brute strength and without killing him. In that myth, when he took him out of the living world, Eurystheus immediately told him (by messenger) that to complete that labor he had to return Cerberus. He is the father of the hellhounds by Nyx. Despite being scary and fiercily deticated to his duty, Cerberus is quite docile, playing rubber balls with Annabeth and quickly socializing with Mrs. O'Leary. He's also very large, dwarfing even the biggest hellhound, since Percy claimed that Mrs. O'Leary (whose height is that of a garbage truck) is a puppie if compared to Cerberus in terms of stature.
Appearance Cerberus (Κέρβερος in Ancient Greek) is an enormous, semi-transparent (he grows more visible the closer you are to death), '"pure-bred rottweiler" with three heads, found at the gates to the Underworld.		Interactions {{{interactions}}}
Strengths WIP		Weaknesses Rubber Balls
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Charybdis

History

Charybdis was a sea monster, later rationalised as a whirlpool and considered a shipping hazard in the Strait of Messina.

Kampe

History

Kampê was a jailer for the giants, the Cyclopes, and the Hekatonkheires (a.k.a. the Hundred Handed Ones) during Ouranos' and Kronos' rule, before Zeus freed them and started the First Titan War.

Tactics

Kampê wields two poisonous twin scimitars that will kill you, after you shrivel slowly into dust. This does not kill Cyclopes or Hekatonkheires (Hundred Handed Ones), though it causes them great pain, according to Tyson.

Polyphemus

History

Polyphemus was a character in Homer's The Odyssey. When Odysseus stopped at the island of the cyclopes, he saw a cave and thought there might be food in it. He and some of his crew went to investigate. His sailors insisted on taking what was there and leaving, but Odysseus insisted on meeting the 'person' who owned it all, thinking he would present a challenge to them.

At sundown, Polyphemus let his sheep back into the cave before moving a massive stone to cover the door. When Odysseus and his men try offering him some of their food, he instead grabs two of the men, tears them apart, and eats them. He asks Odysseus what his name is, and the clever hero tells him his name is Nobody. Odysseus then gets Polyphemus drunk on wine and puts him to sleep.

While he slept, Odysseus and his remaining men took a large stick and sharpened the end of it (in some versions they charred it too), and stabbed it into Polyphemus' eye. The monster woke with a start and called for his brothers, but all he said was 'Nobody has blinded me!', and so they thought he was merely stating the obvious and left him alone.

Later, when Polyphemus lets his sheep out to graze, he reaches down and feels around them to make sure Odysseus and his men aren't on their backs. However, Odysseus tied himself and his men to the sheep's undersides and were able to escape. As they left the island on their ship, Odysseus bragged to Polyphemus that he had escaped and in his boldness told the cyclops his real name. This allowed Polyphemus to ask to Poseidon to curse Odysseus, which served as yet another setback on his journey home.

Sometime after this, Polyphemus stole the Golden Fleece and hung it on a tree on his island (what happened to the other cyclopes on the island is unknown; it's possible they moved to different islands). Along with making his island a paradise, it lured satyrs there in search of Pan, the wild god, whom Polyphemus would simply eat.

Sybaris

History

In Greek mythology, Sybaris was a dragon that terrorized the Greek city of Delphi. When the Oracle was asked how to stop it, it said to sacrifice a young man. Eventually, a demigod named Eurybaros, son of the river god Axios, was chosen, but he defeated the dragon by hurling it down Mt. Kriphis. A fountain is said to have emerged there and a city is said to be named after her.

Antaeus

History

Greeks of the sixth century B.C, who had established colonies along the coast, located Antaeus in the interior desert of Libya.

He would challenge all passers-by to wrestling matches, kill them, and collect their skulls, so that he might one day build out of them a temple to his father Poseidon. He was indefatigably strong as long as he remained in contact with the ground (his mother earth), but once lifted into the air he became as weak as other men. Hercules, figuring that he could not beat Antaeus by throwing him to the ground as he would regain his strength and be fortified, discovered the secret of his power and, holding Antaeus aloft, crushed him in a bear-hug. The story of Antaeus has been used as a symbol of the spiritual strength which accrues when one rests one's faith on the immediate fact of things. The struggle between Antaeus and Heracles is a favorite subject in ancient and Renaissance sculpture.

Strengths

Antaeus was one of the greatest warriors of his time who specialized in unarmed combat, and was only defeated by Hercules. Being the son of the lord of the seas and mother earth he was a very powerful being. He had superhuman strength, speed, endurance, and stamina. His greatest power was that with every injury he received he would heal at an accelerated rate due do being a son of Gaea and can only be defeated by being killed in midair.

Arachne

History

Arachne was a great mortal weaver who boasted that her skill was greater than that of Athena, goddess of wisdom, weaving, and strategy. Arachne refused to acknowledge that her knowledge came, in part at least, from the goddess. Offended by Arachne's arrogance, Athena set a contest between the two weavers. The goddess was so envious of the magnificent tapestry and the mortal weaver's success, and perhaps offended by the girl's choice of subjects (the loves and transgressions of the gods), that she destroyed the tapestry and loom and slashed the girl's face. “Not even Pallas nor blue-fevered Envy Could damn Arachne's work. The goddess raged at the girl's success, struck through her loom, tore down the scenes of wayward joys in heaven.″ Ultimately, the goddess turned Arachne into a spider. Arachne simply means "spider" in Greek. In another version of the myth, Arachne lost the weaving contest. She then hanged herself out of embarrassment. Later on, Athena finds Arachne's body and takes pity on her, before resurrecting her as a spider. Both these legends explain why spiders can weave webs.

Weaknesses

Hubris

Chrysaor

History

Medusa, the most beautiful of the Gorgon sisters, and the only mortal one, offended Athena by having relations with Poseidon in one of Athena's sacred temples. Chrysaor and Pegasus were said to be born from the drops of Medusa's blood which fell in the sea; others say that they sprang from Medusa's neck as Perseus beheaded her, a "higher" birth (such as the birth of Athena from the head of Zeus).

Chrysaor, married to Callirrhoe, daughter of Oceanus, and was father to the triple-headed Geryon, but Geryon was killed by the great strength of Hercules at Erytheis beside his own shambling cattle on that day when Heracles drove the cattle toward Tiryns, when he crossed the stream of Oceanos and had killed Orthus and the oxherd Eurytion out in the gloomy meadow beyond Oceanos.

Strengths

Swordsmanship: Chrysaor is excellent with a blade, has he has had eons of practice. He has been using a sword even before the Romans named Imperial Gold. He is described as being a good a swordsman as Ares, even managing to disarm Percy twice in only a matter of minutes.

Tactics

Piracy: Chrysaor has been sailing the Mediterranean Sea for a very long time. He is an amazing pirate and has a crew to back up his abilities. After the Seven defeat Chrysaor and his crew, Hazel says she can sense over six million dollars worth of gold aboard Chrysaor's ship

Erymanthian Boar

History

As part of his twelve labors, Hercules had to capture the Erymanthian Boar. He subdued the beast by driving it into a snowbank and then tying it in chains. In the primitive highlands of Arcadia, where the old practices lingered, the Erymanthian Boar was a giant fear-inspiring creature of the wilds that lived on Erymanthos.

Strengths

It has the ability to travel vast distances in a relatively short amount of time. It has immense strength. It has a connection to the god Pan.

Clazmonian Sow

History

The Clazmonian Sow was one of the monsters whose mother was Echidna, who was called mother of monsters. Others relate that Phaea was a woman, a robber full of cruelty and lust, that lived in Crommyon, and had the name of Sow given her from the foulness of her life and manners, and afterwards was killed by Theseus.

Weaknesses

None known( although it has only ever been defeated by sons of Poseidon in the past)

The Furies (Alecto, Megaera, Sisiphone)

History

The When the Titan Kronos castrated his father, Uranus, and threw what was left into the sea, the Erinyes emerged from the drops of blood, while Aphrodite was born from the sea foam. According to a variant account, they issued from an even more primordial level—from Nyx, 'Night'. For the Orphism are Hades and Persephone the parents of the Erinyes.

History recognized three:

Alecto, "The Angry" Megaera, "The Grudging" Tisiphone, "The Avenger" In the story of Canto VIII of the Inferno they confront the poets at the gates of the city of Dis. The heads of the Erinyes, whom the two poets met in Canto IV, were wreathed with serpents and their eyes dripped with blood, rendering their appearance rather horrific. Sometimes they had the wings of a bat or bird, and the body of a dog. Since the Greeks were afraid of saying their names they are called by different euphemisms.

Strengths

The Furies are among the fastest reformers in existence. Taking only seven to twelve days to reform.

Tactics

They attack with fiery whips

Agrius and Oreius

History

Agrius and his brother were the illigitimate spawn of a woman whom Aphrodite commanded must marry. The woman herself chose not to and fled to Artemis, but Aphrodite put a trance on the woman to make her fall in love with a bear and thus she was cursed with monstrous children as well as the hatred of both the gods.They were the illegitimate spawn of a woman whom Aphrodite commanded must marry but chose not to, instead fleeing to Artemis. Artemis allowed the woman to join the ranks of her Hunters, but Aphrodite put her in a trance and made her fall in love with a bear thus resulting in her monstrous children and the hatred of both the gods. After falling in love with the bear, Artemis, in disgust, threw her out of the ranks of her Hunters.

During the time of Percy Jackson's second year at Camp Half-Blood, the Bear Twins had found employment in Luke Castellan who had aligned himself with Kronos.

Procrustes

History

Procrustes, (also known as Prokoptas, Damastes, or Crusty) was a rogue smith and bandit from Attica. Procrustes was a son of Poseidon with a stronghold on Mount Korydallos, on the sacred way between Athens and Eleusis. There, he had an iron bed in which he invited every passer-by to spend the night, and he killed everyone by stretching them if they were too short and chopping off the extras if they were too tall. Procrustes continued his reign of terror until he was captured by Theseus, traveling to Athens along the sacred way, who "fitted" Procrustes to his own bed.

Chimera

History

In ancient myths, the Chimera was killed by Bellerphon on Pegasus when Bellerphon jammed a lead ball into its mouth. The ball melted, killing it with lead poison and suffocation. The original Chimera died long ago at the hands of the hero Bellerophon, though lesser Chimera still prowl the labyrinth of Crete.

Strengths

It can breathe fire. Its snake-headed tail has venomous fangs and excretes a venom that is acidic. It has human intelligence. It is immensely strong.

Echidna

History

Echidna was described by Hesiod as a female monster spawned in a cave, who mothered, with her mate Typhon, almost every major and minor horrible monster in the Greek myths. Echidna was usually considered an offspring of Tartarus and Gaea, or of Ceto and Phorcys (according to Hesiod) or of Chrysaor and the naiad Callirhoe, or Peiras and Styx (according to Pausanias, who did not know who Peiras was aside from her father). Echidna was a dracaenae, with the face and torso of a beautiful woman (depicted as winged in archaic vase-paintings) and the body of a serpent, sometimes having two serpent's tails. She is also sometimes described as Karl Kerenyi noted an archaic vase-painting with a pair of echidnas performing sacred rites in a vineyard, while on the opposite side of the vessel, goats were attacking the vines: thus chthonic Echidnae are presented as protectors of the vineyard.

The site of her cave Homer calls "Arima, couch of Typhon." When she and her mate attacked the Olympians, Zeus beat them back and punished Typhon by sealing him under Mount Etna. However, Zeus allowed Echidna and her children to live as a challenge to future heroes. She was an immortal and ageless nymph to Hesiod (Theogony above), but was killed where she slept by Argus, the hundred-eyed giant.

Tactics

Attacks with fangs, tail, and claws

Typhon

History

Thousands of years ago, after the First Olympian War, Gaea was enraged at the defeat of the Titans (her children), and of how they were locked away in Tartarus. She attempted revenge by sending her last and most powerful child, the great monster Typhon to destroy the gods. Typhon alone is the greatest foe the gods ever faced, even mightier than the Titans themselves.

Having never anticipated such a rival, the gods were quickly forced on the defensive and they eventually went into hiding. Athena however stood her ground and convinced Zeus to fight by calling him a coward. This convinced Zeus and he went into battle with his lightning. Zeus struck Typhon square in the chest with the Master Bolt at point blank range, greatly weakening him. The gods were then able to trap him under Mount Etna, where his raw power itself causes lava to ignite from the mountain top in the form of a volcano. After the defeat of her most powerful child, Gaea admitted defeat and fell back to sleep and allowed the gods to rule Olympus without interference.

Strengths

Typhon is one of the most powerful beings in all of Greek mythology. He rivals the combined powers of most, if not all the major Olympian gods. The full extent of his power is unknown. He can create storms of tremendous power including tornadoes, storms and possibly hurricanes. He has unbelievable physical strength and durability surpassing that of any individual god. He was able to fight most of the major gods to a near standstill, withstanding all of their attacks throughout including multiple attacks from the Master Bolt, numerous lesser thunderbolts, the arrows of Apollo and Artemis, and numerous other attacks. He was strong enough to hit Hephaestus with enough force to create a new lake and smash Dionysus deep into a mountain. He presumably has the standard powers of a god, but surpassing that of any other

Weaknesses

Typhon has no known weaknesses.

Geryon

History

Geryon is the son of Chrysaor and Callirrhoe and is the grandson of Medusa. He was a fearsome giant who dwelt on the island Erytheia of the mythic Hesperides in the far west of the Mediterranean. A more literal-minded later generation of Greeks associated the region with Tartessos in southern Iberia.

Strengths

Being a monster, Geryon is very hard to kill unless facing Celestial Bronze, Imperial Gold, or Stygian Iron. Even with these metals, his ability to regenerate allows him to tire out his opposition instead of fighting them head on. Because Geryon has three torsos, he also has three hearts which means he can not be defeated unless all three of his hearts are destroyed at the same time. Destroying one or even two at a time will weaken Geryon, but he will reform within moments. However without this ability, he isn't very strong and can be easily defeated.

Weaknesses

It will take about a hundred years for him to reform.

Ladon

History

Ladon was the serpentine dragon that twined and twisted around the tree in the Garden of the Hesperides, and guarded the golden apples. He was beaten by Hercules, who successfully stole one of these apples. The following day, the Argonauts, who were on their return journey from Colchis, passed by and heard the lament of "shining" Aigle, one of the Hesperides, and viewed the still-twitching Ladon.

Ladon was given several different parents depending on the myth, each of which placed him at an archaic level in Greek myth: the offspring of "Ceto, joined in heated passion with Phorcys" or of Typhon, who was himself serpent-like from the waist down, and Echidna or of Gaea herself, or in her Olympian manifestation, Hera: "The Dragon which guarded the golden apples was the brother of the Nemean lion" asserted Ptolemy Hephaestion. In one version Hercules did not kill Ladon. The creature is associated with the constellation Draco. Also, in some stories, the dragon was said to have a hundred heads.

Tactics

Attacks with teeth and poison

Nemean Lion

History

The nemean lion was one of task that need to complete by Heracles. When Hercules got to Nemea and began tracking the terrible lion, he soon discovered his arrows were useless against the beast. Hercules picked up his club and went after the lion. Following it to a cave which had two entrances, Hercules blocked one of the doorways, then approached the fierce lion through the other. Grasping the lion in his mighty arms, and ignoring its powerful claws, he held it tightly until he'd choked it to death. The Nemean Lion takes several years to reform.

Strengths

This lion has an impenetrable coat, that deflects all attacks, it is a bulletproof and swordproof pelt. The great size of this beast only increases the power of his claws.

Tactics

Attacks with its razor sharp claws

Weaknesses

This monster is only vulnerable in his eyes and mouth. It is not recommended to attempt to suffocate it like Hercules.

User Created Monsters

Braxas - The Skin Walker

Creator: Lotto

Monster Name: Braxas, the Skinwalker

Powers:

• It can "envelope" people, allowing it to control the victim's body, and in the case of demigods, control their powers as well.
• It is able to fly at high speeds, however at only moderate altitudes.
• It possesses vast physical strength.
• It often whispers with power in its voice similar to charmspeaking, but seems to only lull its victim's senses briefly.

Appearance: Braxas' form is that of its namesake. It is a misshapen, amorphous creature with fleshy appendages that resemble tentacles that are prehensile. This misshapen mass is covered in skin draped over it, almost worn like a cloak.It also has a single pink eye that in constant motion throughout its body.

History: For centuries Hephaestus has been jealous that Aphrodite is always cheating on him with Ares.So, to retaliate,he created a set of armor that looked exactly like Ares'. He then proceeded to put it on and seduced Aphrodite while wearing it. Aphrodite, being none the wiser consented.It wasn't until Aphrodite reveals that she's pregnant that Hephaestus ended his charade .Once the goddess realizes that she's pregnant with Hephaestus' child, she went into hysterics and ripped it out of her womb, creating Braxas. Having immortal blood but not being fully developed, it contorted and twisted into a horrid amorphous shape that now just seeks out something to feed on, using demigods as a source of strength it'll need to eventually become whole. Being a child of Aphrodite, it sought to be beautiful, so at one point, it took to taking skin from its victims, wearing it in a horrid display of vanity.

Strengths/Weaknesses:

Strengths: Being a formidable force of brute force, it is extremely difficult to defeat it in a head on assault. It often ambushes groups of demigods, enveloping the most powerful of them, and uses their powers to either kill the others or expend their energy so they cannot resist. It then proceeds to eat them.

Weaknesses: Its eye is its more pronounced weakness. If struck, Braxas, it will retreat from attack, and if struck repeatedly, it will die.If its "skin" is removed, it is also significantly more vulnerable.