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Hades: The Greek Myth

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One day while Hades was doing whatever he usually does (sitting on a throne) a random dead person waltz in and started screaming about some unholy beast. That sounded right up his alley so he punishes the person by making them be tortured every day. So hades (flown?) the way to the area the beast was reported. The beast was a cyclops picking up houses (Does The Underworld have houses for the dead? Oh well, It's in the myth.” and eating dead people so they will forever live in the beast's stomach. Hades was not gonna have that. (Warning: This part of the myth is gonna get REALLY BUSy. Meaning I doubt Hades can do these things. Still here? Good.) So Hades started shooting fireballs everywhere while the cyclops ate them. Not knowing what to do,
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Hades responded with “Do you think I want a war, godling?” (Riordan 311). Percy found out that he had the lightning bolt the whole time, it was in the backpack that Ares gave to him. They left the underworld by smashing pearls at there feet to float themselves back to the Santa Monica Pier. Ares was there and Percy fought with Ares and then Ares said “You have made an enemy godling, you have sealed your fate.

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