Medusa, Beginning the Sixth

{2 months later}

{Leeds Point-New Jersey, June 29th 2003}

I once again stood before the place where the monster I needed to slay was hiding, a garden statuary shop with the words Aunty Em's Garden Gnome Emporium and if that wasn't a big enough giveaway the giant stone structures of monsters and humans at the entrance where there to make sure anyone would know this was the place where Medusa the Queen resided.

Soon a woman with more Mist surrounding her than even the Pygmaioi tribe came out to receive me, she was wearing a black gown, a normal looking body, and a veil that covered her face a small smile on her face that would probably fool most demigods but she had one thing that betrayed an intense red aura bigger than even her sister's.

"You know you can take your veil off I am blind." I couldn't help but say as I looked more at the Mist of a monster. "Oh no, I wouldn't want to scare you with my features." She said in a soothing voice that even commanded the Mist as it reached my ears.

"Charmspeak." I couldn't help but mutter as I saw how her voice changed the Mist in the same way some Aphrodite kids were able to do so.

"You are very knowledgeable young demigod how would you like to come in for some food, I am guessing you are famished after such a long travel." Medusa said still hidden behind the layer of Mist.

"I don't eat with people who disguise themselves." I replied back as I snapped my fingers dissipating the Mist around her, which transformed her dainty human form into what she actually looked like or at least was cursed to look like.

Two huge bat wings, boar tusks instead of fangs, scaly skin, long claws just like her sisters, the only thing that remained hidden was her snake hair since the hat-veil was real.

"Much better but if you wanna eat and talk how about you also take off your hat." I couldn't help but say almost patting myself at the back at the good job I had done at removing the Mist that had been clinging to her.

"Well if you would like that I shall do as you ask after all to have company you must fulfill their request right." Medusa replied to me as she slowly took of her veil, with hundreds of small snakes suddenly slithering out and about while hissing at me.

"Now isn't that much better, we can speak to each other truly face to snake now." I added a smile gracing my face once more.

"Well women first." I continued as we both walked into the building where I knew it would spell her doom, but why not grab a good home made meal on the way.

It seemed she had been waiting for my arrival as we slowly entered a dining room which was already filled with food, ranging from turkey, to salads, to salmon.

We seated ourselves each at one side at the table in silence while she continued looking at me with a smile as if she were still trying to turn me to stone.

I decided to start the conversation "So how exactly did your story go, I mean there are like 4 different iterations of it." I started saying. "My story?" Medusa said puzzled at my question.

"Yeah I mean your sisters' story is kind of like a one and done deal but you have a ton of different ones, like in some you were born this way like your sisters, in others you were cursed by Athena after either sleeping with Poseidon or him r*ping you, so yeah I am interested to know which is the right one." I finished explaining

"My story. I was a priestess who gave everything I had for Athena but then a dashing man came and told me tales of wonder and he enchanted me, so yes I slept with him." Medusa finished.

"Ok then I got your anger towards Athena but why not towards Poseidon he just left you there after being cursed and you losing your beauty." I continued as I munched on some salmon.

"Why don't I hate Poseidon, huh maybe because I loved him." Medusa continued our conversation which she honestly seemed to be focused each second more in.

"I mean I hate Poseidon cause you know he tried to drown me, so don't worry we are between haters of certain gods here, you can tell me if you hate Poseidon, the lover who left you to be cursed for all eternity." I added trying once more now munching on some turkey.

"No! He loved me!" Medusa yelled standing up from the table her snake hair hissing at me, "Hey, no need to get so defensive at me, I am just saying he is a god, and after big Z up there Poseidon is pretty much the horniest one." I laughed at myself.

"I have been trying to treat you as a guest in my home-" Medusa started saying, "To kill me." I interjected in the middle of her sentence, as suddenly without even a second to respond nine shadowy tendrils gathered from the corners of the room shooting at her, ensnaring her wings, arms, legs and neck.

"I think we both knew where this was going after all I killed your sisters, but it is good that you aren't as battle hungry as the other two." I said as I wiped my mouth with a napkin.

"Still I don't understand how you were more feared than both of your other sisters Euryale seemed the fastest and Stheno was the strongest is it just because you are my famous, if so Euryale really had the short end of the stick when it came to pseudonyms." I finished saying while Medusa continued wriggling trying to escape my tendrils as her snake hair hissed at me.

"Maybe it is because your petrification sight is stronger, well either way it doesn't matter." Standing up from my seat I edged myself closer to her summoned my spear into my hand and decapitated her, her head rolling on the ground as she turned to dust with one final scream.

I grabbed her head by the snakes which were also dead weirdly enough and threw it into my shadow. "Now I have three heads, but nothing to use on them these are sad times we live in."

As soon as I placed the head in my shadow the familiar cracking sound of a shackled being broken reverberated across my body just like it had each time before, and after the feeling of the broken shackle drowsiness started spreading through my body, as I tumbled over falling asleep on the spot.

{Odysseus Dreamscape, Time Unknown}

"Hello again, dear father." I said once more at seeing I had been brought to the same place as always, millions of eyes, infinite space you know the drill. "Hi, Odysseus you have done well on your last labor." My father side his voice spanning through the entirety of the space.

"Thanks, now what else do I have to do come on I want to get stronger." I said impatiently towards my godly parent. He sighed as he said "For your sixth labor you must defeat the Amazons and the Solymoi Tribe. Based on deeds of Bellerophon. As for your hint it is in their names."

I nodded at his words, allowing myself to sink through the floor and the space shattering around me as I left my dreamscape.

[Greek Myth Fact: Today's fact will obviously be about Medusa but probably obscured details about Gorgons that you guys didn't know, if you did know them good job👍. One cool fact about Gorgons is that on one the left side of their body their blood is incredibly poisonous and on the right side their blood is capable of healing almost anything. Medusa also has two sons with Poseidon who are born from her beheading by Perseus, one is Pegasus who was later either tamed or given to Bellephoron a son of Poseidon and the other was Chrysaor a young man whose name means he who bears a golden sword.]

*Author Note: I started a patreon called Joanjudo Stories it will end up having 10 chapters in advance, access to the secondary fanfic (will write in spare time) and polls to decide some of the future plots/characters.*