Fastest Hero Alive Ch 1

So here I was in the bottom of the Underworld being chased by a pack of hell hounds for stealing some fruit that wasn't even being eaten in the first place. It all started about a week ago when a friend of mine was attacked right outside the borders of the camp by a hydra. She ran back to the camp but one of the heads managed to bite her arm and poison filled her systems. I had heard the sound of her screams and ran as fast as I could and was followed by several campers who just couldn’t seem to keep up. By the time I got to the scene, I saw Megan on the ground and the hydra going in for the kill. Before I knew what I was doing I had already grabbed my weapon and knocked one of the three heads out cold. Why didn't I cut the head off with a sword?

First off, cutting off a hydra head results in two more taking its place. Some dummy tried that about four years ago and almost got his friends killed, but they were saved at the last minute by Clarisse. Second, my weapon of choice isn't a sword, but a sledge hammer with a celestial bronze hammer head. Not the kind of weapon one would use for cutting but it sure packs a punch when combined with a demigod running at full speed, especially me. The two other heads noticed me right away and began to growl and snap at me. I tried to attack again but the middle head snaked under my arms and hit me right in the chest, knocking me to the ground. As it began to run toward me I was sure I was doomed until the head on the left that I had knocked out earlier actually got tangled in the monsters feet and it fell to the ground with enough force to make the ground shake. I used this moment to grab my hammer and slam it down on another head while it was still stunned. Two down and one to go, but I had made a huge mistake, in my rush to attack I had left myself open to an attack from the still moving head. It looked at me and went to take a bite out of my rib cage as I closed my eyes tight waiting for the pain to come but it never did. When I finally got enough courage to open them, I saw the hydra turning to dust as the arrows that had flown into its head only moments before fell to the ground.

"Swift...one of these days I'm not going to be here to protect you when you run off and do something stupid like, oh I don't know....FIGHT A HYDRA BY YOURSELF!" It was my friend Malcolm Archer from the Apollo Cabin and he was unsurprisingly a very good archer even by camp standards.

I looked at him and gave out a small smile as I said "But that day isn't today so I have nothing to worry about. Hurry, Megan is over there and I think she is hurt."

The campers brought her back to the infirmary to see how bad the injury was. The hydra's poison had spread to almost every part of her body. Now obviously the first thing we went for was the nectar and ambrosia, but that only slowed down the rapidly spreading poison in her system and to much of the stuff could kill you. We learned that she would die unless a special kind of fruit was used to make an antidote, a fruit that only grows in one place in the world, or should I say the Underworld. The fruit that grows on the tree of Tantalus. In order to save her, I needed to quest, some help, and a whole lot of luck.