Zarana Gale's Challenges (The Olympian Games)

First Quest
Great. Stheno, the gorgon. In a dark, damp cave. Gives me the creeps.

I rubbed my key anxiously. I know Medusa is the only one who can turn people to stone, but I also heard that Stheno is the "forceful one", having killed more men than all her sisters put together.

As I entered the yawning cave, I summoned my sword, StormClaw and searched for my monster.The faint light of the sword gave me some relief. A bit. I blinked a few times, adapting myself to the darkness.

Just then, I heard a sound like sobbing. At the end of the long cave, kneeling on the earthen ground, was a woman with her gloved hands covering her face. She was crying on a boulder, I could tell, her shoulders shuddering. She was barefoot and wearing a ragged red dress.

Then the moaning became a hateful hiss. "What do you want, half-blood?" She said, raising her head. She was wearing a broad veiled hat. Her voice was awful, like a snake's snarl and a lion's roar mixed together.

I found her. Stheno.

"You are going to take my head for the silly Olympian Games, no doubt." She spoke, now standing up. "Don't you have pity on me? I have lost everything! You selfish demigods, only wishing to appease the gods, to gain pride."

I narrowed my eyes. "Well, you are a monster.You need to be disposed of." I said, shrugging and hefting my sword.

Shouldn't have said that.

Stheno bellowed and made a run for me. Her veiled hat fell off, revealing a hideous, wrinkled face with red coral snakes for her hair. Her eyes were a mix of red and orange. Her gloves melted off her hands, revealing bronze claws ten inches long.

My sword collided with her claws and sparks flew.