The Hydra

This is the Hydra the multi-headed, dinosaur looking monster of lerna. This is one of the siblings of Cerberus. It lives in the lake of lerna, where it is the guardian of an entrance to the underworld. The Hydra was killed by Heracles because it was the second labor of his twelve to do do so.

It was not easy to slay the hydra as it had a poisonous breath and heads which grew back with one more as one head is cut.Heracles needed the help of his nephew to defeat it. Everytime one head is cut Heracles's nephew Lolaus burned the open stump, and thus the head could not grow back. The Last head was immortal and Heracles buried it under a rock and used its poison to make his sword or arrow poisonous.The alternative to this is that after cutting off one head he dipped his sword in it and used its venom to burn each head so it couldn't grow back.

The Hydra is my favorite monster because i liked it when i was playing Age Of Mythology.