Not nemean snakes as it turns out, basilisks. They caught Cindy and Lexi with their gaze. Cindy bounced back from it easily enough; she usually does from most things. But Lexi’s not nearly so tough, and you could tell that it’d done a number on her. And elsewhere in the city Victor was fighting a three-headed snake that could only have been a hydra. The children of Terra were out in force, apparently.
The fight itself was short and brutal, as most of them seem to be. The girls were hammering the basilisks, though the things seemed able to take more of a beating than I’d guessed. And that gaze of theirs certainly made their counter-attacks dangerous enough. I went straight for the handler, and he was every bit as tough as I thought. Oh, my hit hurt him, I’m sure of that. But you wouldn’t have known it from looking at him. And in response he threw me into a building with enough force to bring the whole place down around me.
But while his attack may have looked a hell of a lot more impressive than mine, it wasn’t any more effective. I wasn’t hurt in the least, just slightly inconvenienced by having to plow through the rubble. By that point only one of the basilisks was left, and Andrew had mentioned something about cauterization just before I went through the wall. So I blindsided it with a flaming fist while it was focused on Cindy, dropped the bastard like a stone.
That just left the handler. But as soon as I dropped the handler someone else appeared on the scene. He happened to take the form of a thirty-foot suit of bronze and gold armor that had little trouble immobilizing and carrying away the handler. An impressive display of strength, since I know the giant was stronger than I was.
General Goras, or just Goras as he seemed to prefer to be called, showed up right about then too. Apparently Terra used an earthquake a while back to slip a bunch of her creatures into this world, and all the legendary individuals gathered here for the wedding drew them to this city. Goras had anticipated it, but his troops were just slightly too far away to make it in a timely manner.
It’s enough to make me wonder, though. If Terra’s on the offensive, then why in the mists of Niffleheim are all the Dodekatheon wasting an entire week focusing on this wedding?
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