THE STORY OF MEDUSA

The blond guy had already gone and had gotten his three letters name.

"The last person?" Set called out and Ming Zhu walked forward knowing she was the last person.

She walked forward and stopped once she was instructed to do so then she clicked on a letter on her left then decided to click one at the bottom of the keyboard. It made a beep once her finger comes in contact with it.

She pondered where she would click next. but gave up knowing that this would be temporary anyways. Her name was Ming Zhu so no other names matter. So what if she ends up choosing 'Eat' as her three letter name, it wasn't hers just to hide her identity, once she escapes this place the name won't matter at all.

She didn't know where to click next but just decide to go back to her left and click whatever her hands fall in.

She opened her blindfold to see the name she had made, although it didn't matter she was still hoping it wasn't another bad name like a lot of them there.

She blinked once to clear her vision as she had been blindfolded for quite awhile.

But once she regained her vision properly she checked it out again.

At the top, written boldly was the three letters she picked.

EVE

"Oh wow, how lucky you are. It's an actual name you know." A woman said from the crowd of people.

Ming Zhu was thankful it wasn't a bad name and nobody would refer to her as 'Eat' or whatever but she still remembers it doesn't even matter.

"So what?" She rolled her eyes. "The name doesn't matter cause that's not who I am. It's just so these Medusa's beheaders could properly address me until I get myself out of here." Ming Zhu sassily remarked.

"She's right. Once you get out of here, those names will be null until we meet again." Set agreed.

"So we'll actually be getting out of here? You weirdos will let us go?" The blond guy asked.

"Yes." Set simply answered.

But Ming Zhu did not care about that part, what she was interested in was the next thing she said.

"What do you mean until we meet again, if we leave here we'll never meet again. Actually that's the best thing cause I will get you arrested if we ever cross paths." Ming Zhu threatened angrily.

"If you're still that angry then you won't leave here at all." A voice echoed in the room and a door opened up again and a man walked out.

He was dressed in the same uniform as the rest of the men with the Jacket and snakes for hair woman.

He had rolled up his sleeve and some tattoo was on his arms.

"So these are the trainees." The man happily said.

"Who are you?" The black girl asked whilst eyeing like he was thrash.

The man chuckled.

"Personalities! I love that about us humans but that won't last here." The man simply said then walked up to Set.

"Now you can all reveal your name tags." The man instructed them.

Set nodded then tapped her chest, a name tag with her name appeared. The rest did the same and name tags appeared.

They all had three letters name as well.

"And as for me," the man tapped his chest as well and a name tag appeared. DAD was on it.

Some of the new trainees roared with laughter.

"Yeah yeah, I just clicked whatever my touched quickly." Dad laughed with them.

"Dad can I go home now, please?" The black girl joked and some continued laughing.

"What are you laughing at? We have been kidnapped remember?" Ming Zhu reminded them annoyed.

"Wait." A dark guy suddenly shouted and gained everyone's attention.

"Why does all these people keep shouting?" Someone whispered.

"They still like attention even in this situation?" Another said.

But the guy ignored whatever they said as a form of a whisper which was audible for almost everyone to hear nonetheless and walked forward to the Medusa's beheaders.

"Does this mean you all were also brought here like we all have been?" The guy asked, dread and realization were the most apparent emotions on his face.

"That is correct." Dad answered him.

The guy went silent. He widened his eyes and kept staring at them one by one without saying anything.

Ming Zhu was also in the same dilemma. She was getting scared again.

This definitely mean that they will not be free from this people. That reminded her that she still hasn't figured out who they were and what type of trainees they were.

"Now will everyone settle down for the big reveal?" Set popped in and said.

Everyone looked at her in anticipation. No one was laughing anymore nor thinking any name was funny.

"First of all we ask this question to all those coming for the first time. Why is murder bad?" Set began. "Now I want the answer from you all."

"No, we've been doing exactly what you weirdos has been asking from us, even risking ourselves now you answer us." The black man demanded with his arms crossed. He growled at him like an animal and he was trying to seem intimidating but that didn't move anymore.

"It's because it's wrong by law." Ming Zhu answered over him which earned a 'hey!' from the guy.

"Because we're humans, we can't kill each others." The blond guy also answered.

"Look who's talking!" The short hair woman with parted bangs shouted at him.

With that the guy frustratedly closed his eyes.

"It's because we aren't animals." The dark guy answered as well staring at Dad in his eyes.

Dad chuckled but he did not seem moved or intimidated by him.

"We've given our answers now what do you guys think?" The brown guy asked.

"We think it's nothing in other to survive. Once that human threatens lives then we must kill it." Set answered.

The crowd roared with 'what?' and murmuring ensured.

"Okay but what do you mean by that?" The blond guy asked.

Ming Zhu was also wondering about that as well. What ever they said always had a hidden meaning, that she understood from them.

"What? Why are you all so judgemental? Wasn't this woman fighting with him because he could have caused her death? Aren't murderers supposed to be ruled out?" Set speech.

"Okay but what does that have to do with us?" The dark guy asked?

The screen Infront of them suddenly blanked then a picture appeared.

The was the picture of the snake headed woman they all have been seeing on the people's outfit.

"Want to know who this is? This is medusa, a Gordon." Set announced. "Gordon is a creature that instead of hairs like every other human being, they have snakes in it's place." Set explained and everyone listened attentively.

"There's this ancient Greek mythology but it's no mythology. Do you know why it's considered as one? It's because we made that happen." Set proudly said.

Dad rolled his eyes, "Okay Set let me handle it from here now." Dad said dismissively and then walked over to the screen.

"If we allow you to tell the story then they'll never hear it." Dad mumbled. Set didn't seem to be embarrassed or kept it really hidden.

"Okay folks, up here." Dad said to get the attention of everyone which was already with him.

He took swipe the picture to the side and another picture appeared, this one was that of a beautiful woman.

"This is Medusa when she wasn't a that freak. She was the only mortal Gordon so she lives as a human. She liked this goddess Athena so much so she decided to serve the goddess all her life. When she came of age she joined the temple of the goddess to be her priestess and she did wonderfully. But it was too well cause she was then eyed by many men back then who taught she was too beautiful so they came to the temple frequently. Some even said she was prettier than the goddess and loved the way her hair moved as she worked." Dad began the story.

"To make it short, the goddess was jealous and when the water God saw her, he desired her but she refused him cause of course she had to be pure to work for her goddess. But the dude just couldn't take no for an answer. Medusa ran away and went to the temple thinking she might get help from the goddess but the green eyed jealous witch did nothing and watched as the water dude had his way with her."

"After that, the goddess came down and accused Medusa for bringing shame to her temple and cursed her to become a real Gordon this time. She had snakes for hair but the curse was more severe than that."

Dad looked around before continuing, he had gained everyone's interest in the story and everyone waited for him to speak and continue his story.

"Whoever looks into her eyes turns to stone." He revealed.

"Is this some kind of a fairytale or what? That can't happen, right?" A lady laughed and some nodded in agreement but everyone was still waiting to hear more from Dad.

"It's far from being a fairytale, she existed." Dad clarified.

"You said existed, why is she such a big deal now?" The blond guy asked.

"She's a big deal because she gave birth to creatures like herself. No one knew what they were until a certain stage, they manifested their true colors and they turned lot's of people into stone statues." Dad answered. "According to the mythology, she was slayed by persus using a shield and sword but that was after she had given birth to some other mystical creatures but that isn't true. Persus did not finish the job."

"That's why you formed an association to kill her offsprings?" Ming Zhu asked flabbergasted.

"Hmm no. It was because we were the ones chosen to do so." Dad answered her.

"What do you mean?" She asked again.

"We didn't just pick up some random people for this job." Dad swiped the picture to the side ones again. "Paersus, the guy that slayed the Medusa also had children of course." The picture of a guy in his ancient Greek clothing was on display. He was holding a sword and a shield.

"Those weapons on him are not just any regular ones fortunately we have all the materials for the battle so it doesn't concern you all for now."

"So you're saying we were brought here to kill some monster?" A woman asked sounding really irritated.

Not only her but everyone there too.

"We never asked for any of this." Another one shouted.

"Let us leave!" Someone shouted and everyone joined in a begged.

Everyone except the blond guy, the dark guy, the black girl and black man. And Ming Zhu.

"No, I want to stay and kill some things. I like the idea." The black girl stepped out to say.

"Hey kid shut up, you have no idea what you're saying. This is serious business and these people are nuts. What Medusa? There's no such thing. They are all nuts and we have to get out of here." The woman that hit the black girl on her head before went out to scold her.

Dad sighed then he snapped his finger.

Suddenly guns were pointed at everyone in the room except for the Medusa's beheaders of course.

"No one is leaving until it's time. I don't want to hear anyone making such a request ever again!" Dad shouted. His demeanor had changed and he looked really angry and could kill.

"There shall be no more questions!"

"Wait one last one," the black girl raised up her hand ignoring the fact that a gun is pointed at her, "Why is a gun pointed at me as well? I said it looked fun and is willing to join." She asked.

Dad ignored her and looked at the rest. "I hope I have made that clear?"

"But we don't want to kill any body, that should be done by the government or secret agent or something." A man spoke up whilst shaking. He was terrified and the same goes for everyone. Everyone immediately became cautious.

"Hey stop asking questions on everyone's behalf. You're on your own if you get shot." A woman standing next to him said.

"Hey I'm fighting for us here regardless of my situation you ungrateful hag." The man curse at her.

"Ok listen, maybe we haven't introduced ourselves well enough, we are the secret agent who's been assigned to eliminate those creatures, we are government approved world wide because they know it's to keep humans safe." Dad clarified once more sounding much calmer now but he wasn't sounding patient at all.

"So everyone calm down and don't get ahead of yourselves. We all here are the chosen ones."

"You know what, everyone follow me." Dad ordered and began walking away.

But Set stopped him. "Where will you be going?" She asked him.

"You know where, now get out of my way." He ordered her.

"But you know it's not time they enter that room yet." She continues her objection.

"Move." He said we finality and this time she stopped blocking his path and allowed him to proceed.

Before he did, he snapped his finger and all the guns disappeared from sight.

Everyone was relieved.

"Well follow me." Dad ordered and everyone followed behind him like he was their leader.

At this point Ming Zhu had lost most of her confidence and was shaking.

The Medusa creature could not possibly be real right? She thought to herself.

Everything wasn't looking good for her. Her stomach formed nuts and she felt like puking inside her mouth. As everyone followed, she stopped to look at the screen on the thin air.

She swiped it back until the picture of the woman with snakes for hair appeared.

She looked terrible and greenish like a green snake.

She kept looking at it and the more she stared, the more she felt dizzy. She kept looking at the creatures eyes.

They were green and looked so inhuman.

"Hey! Why are you always behind?" The blond boy called out to her and she snapped out of it and followed everyone.

A door had opened up for Dad and everyone passed through it following him.

Passing through the door, it shut immediately behind her. She also saw that they were in a hallway.

A long hallway with one path, no other rooms or path visible only straight ahead which Dad went.

If anyone thought of escaping there was nothing to do now.

Everyone followed him silently until a they reached the end of it.

But it wasn't the end and a door opened once he was five feet away from the wall.

He stepped in and those behind him went in as well but as soon as they entered, screams were heard.