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Third person POV

The Cyclopes are giant one-eyed creatures. Three groups of Cyclopes can be distinguished. In Hesiod's Theogony, they are the brothers Brontes, Steropes, and Arges, who provided Zeus with his weapon the thunderbolt.

In Homer's Odyssey, they are an uncivilized group of shepherds, the brethren of Polyphemus encountered by Odysseus. Cyclopes were also famous as the builders of the Cyclopean walls of Mycenae and Tiryns.

The fifth-century BC playwright Euripides wrote a satyr play entitled Cyclops, about Odysseus' encounter with Polyphemus. Mentions of the Hesiodic and the wall-builder Cyclopes also figure in his plays.

The third-century BC poet Callimachus makes the Hesiodic Cyclopes the assistants of smith-god Hephaestus. So does Virgil in his Latin epic Aeneid, where he seems to equate the Hesiodic and Homeric Cyclopes.

From at least the fifth-century BC, Cyclopes have been associated with the island of Sicily and the volcanic Aeolian Islands.

Entry into Tartarus is guarded by a hydra with fifty black, gaping jaws, which sits at a screeching gate flanked by adamantine columns, a substance so hard that nothing can cut through it, akin to diamond.

Inside the walls of Tartarus sits a wide-walled castle with a tall, iron turret. Tisiphone, one of the Erinyes who represents vengeance, stands sleepless guard at the top of the turret lashing her whip.

Roman mythology describes a pit inside extending down into the earth twice as far as the distance from the lands of the living to Olympus. The twin sons of the Titan Aloeus were said to be imprisoned at the bottom of this pit.

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Priamos turned around with a confused look on his face. He heard stories about Tartarus and the monsters and Titans banished their but he was beyond confused about what stheno meant by 'let's get you banished to Tartarus'.

He stood up from where he sat the snake still hanging from his neck. He jumped in surprise when hades appeared behind him wrapping his arms around his neck. Priamos grumbled angrily trying to shove him off.

Hades reluctantly took his arms off priamos and faced stheno. "What do you mean" priamos asked her curiously. She handed them a book filled with all the people banished to Tartarus and then some.

"Let's get you banished to Tartarus" she repeated.

"Yea but why" he asked her. She pointed the all the monsters in the book and read there synopsis. "Listen, these are dangerous beings that got banished here for crimes they did against Olympus" she explained.

"Ok, and" he shrugged his shoulders.

"Let's get them to help us" she said. Priamos still looked at her confused. "We obviously can't defeat literal Greek gods alone" she stated. "I actually can" hades interrupted. "Shut up" stheno said.

Hades rolled his eyes but still kept quite. "If we can get them to team up with us, we can kill all of them easily" she explained. nodded understandingly, but even if he agreed how was he supposed to get out.

"Yea but if i go in how am I supposed to get out" priamos asked confused. Stheno turned her head towards hades "that's where he comes into play" she stated. She must have saw his confused face so she continued taking.

"Once you've got all of them out of their prisons that's when you give the signal for him to break the gate" she explained. Priamos nodded. It was a good plan and one that was likely to work.

So they agreed to the plan leaving hades with bo choice but to go with it. They are literally not even consulting him just making up a plan without him and silent giving him things to do as he watched in disbelief.

The snake on priamoss neck suddenly started hissing at the door to the throne room. Priamos softly petted his scales hoping to calm it down but no vale. Hades smirked sat on his throne putting one leg over the other.

Suddenly the door opened revealing Zeus in all his glory smirking as if he just one the lottery. Priamos just looked at the ground making sure not to accidentally turn him to stone.

"You have a family, right priamos" Zeus asked.

Priamos nodded hesitantly. Zeuss smirk widened and stheno looked at him confused and slightly worried. "And what would it feel like to watch that family burn" he spoke lowly. Priamos tensed up and clenched his fist.

Suddenly a hologram was placed in front of his face and on it was ...

His house up in flames.