From one man to another, let me tell you being a demigod sucks. Sure you get all these cool powers, and you get to live a life full of adventure, and women trip over themselves when you walk by, and really its not too difficult surviving as long as you know the proper way to hold a sword as monsters tend to be as dangerous as a drunk man with a knife once you have enough experience.

No, it sucks because you have to deal with the god dammed gods. You're probably wondering what's so bad about dealing with them, let me tell you its their thrice cursed pride. For example, my uncle Zeus wanted to make my cousin Heracles immortal, but Hera doesn't want another one of Zeus's illegitimate children to be immortal. Not completely unfounded mind you, Zeus has lots of kids, and most of them didn't come from Hera. Apollo comes to mind, so does Artemis, and Athena, and Hermes, and Dionysus, and Tyche, and Persephone, and the original three Muses, and the nine Muses that came after that, and the fates, and … I think you get the idea. Point in matter Zeus has give or take 59 immortal children, 7 of which are from Hera, and lets just say Hera's not to keen on making it an even 60.

Where do I fit in with all this you may ask, truth be told I'm not 100% sure, but I have a fair idea. You see, Zeus can't just make anyone he wants immortal, else his daughters, The Morai, AKA The Three Fates get angry, funny how that works. Anyway, in order to make Heracles immortal, Zeus manipulated the King of Tiryns into making Heracles eleventh labor steeling an Apple of Immortality from the Garden of Hesperides. At this point you may be wondering what these labours are about, let me fill you in, you see once upon a time Heracles had a family. However, Hera didn't like Heracles, so she made Heracles temporarily insane. In his goddess induced insanity Heracles killed his family. Seeking to rid himself from his guilt he ventured to the Delphi where he met the Oracle of Phoebus Apollo. The oracle instructed him to seek out the King of Tiryns, who would give him twelve tasks, labours if you will, and upon completing these tasks he would be free of sin. Sounds good right, anyway as I mentioned before Zeus manipulated the eleventh task to steel an Apple of Immortality.

This is where I come in, Hera in all her shrewdness manipulated my father Poseidon into to giving me the same quest. I think she was hoping I'd find taking the Apple from Heracles a better prospect than facing Ladon, the guardian of the Tree.

She obviously didn't know me. You see, I liked Heracles. Very nice guy, he loved his family (before he killed them), slayed the monsters bothering the mortals whenever he came upon them. Wasn't really one for words though, but still he was a cool dude and I wasn't about to ruin his quest, so I camped outside the Garden, and waited for him to come out with an apple, and when he did I went in.

Or was about to anyway when this girl ran in to me.

"Watch where your going!" She Shouted.

"Oh, my sincerest apologies, you see I was just on a quest to steal an apple of Immortality. I'm afraid I sort of got lost in thought, hence I didn't see you." I replied back smoothly.

"You too?" She asked angrily.

"Oh, I see you met Heracles, nice guy isn't he."

"Him nice, hmph! He promised me we would run away together, but no. Just as he finished the steeling the Apple he ran off. Because of him I got disowned, and lost my immortality…" She trailed off, then proceeded to cry.

"I wouldn't judge him too harshly, he probably saved you from a fate worse than death. You see, his step-mother Hera really, really hates him. If he had actually married him it wold have brought the wrath of Hera upon you, something that tends to be bad for your health." I said sombrely.

"Still, my life is ruined because of him." And she continued sobbing.

"So… Would it help if you were immortal again? I guess it wouldn't be too difficult taking an extra apple." I asked.

"Well, I guess it would, but why would you do that for me?" She asked, her tears finally stopping.

"What can I say, I just don't like it when beautiful maidens cry." I winked at her then ran full sprint into the Garden.

I must say, the Garden of Hesperides certainly lived upped to its name. It was beautiful, magical flowers of every variety neatly formed rows in front of me, roses, lilies, petunias, sunflowers, and a whole lot of other cool looking plants that I didn't know the names of covered every inch of the ground. In the middle of the massive garden was a gigantic pedestal. Dead center on the pedestal there was a huge apple tree in full bloom. From its branches hung golden apples.

The only problem was that in front of the tree, there was a dragon the size of a large boat with an uncountable number of heads. The good news, it was sleeping.

Now normally, I would try to find a way to lure away the dragon from the tree, but I hadn't had a good fight in a long time. So, I reached into my shirt and pulled out a trident shaped pendent. The moment I removed the pendant from my shirt, it magically separated from the chain the kept it tied to my neck and it started to grow. Soon enough I was holding a seven-foot-long Trident, it was a gift from my father. If you looked close enough it would read τυφώνας – tyfónas—or Hurricane.

I pointed the points Tyfonas at the beast, and from it erupted a great torrent of water. With that I charged. Now I may not be as well known to the greater world as Heracles is, but that didn't necessarily mean that I wasn't as strong as him. Based on out last spar, we were actually pretty close in terms of strength. The only reason I wasn't as renowned as him was because I strangley enough I was pretty darn lucky. In the sense that I didn't really have much in the ways of enemies. Or a step-mother that hated me. Yeah I was pretty lucky in that regard, mainly because my Amphitrite wasn't the vengeful sort. Thank the gods.

Anyhow, back to the fight. It was awesome, I jabbed, and I swatted away draon heads on at a time. Ducking and weaving in-between its long necks, I would go into more detail but I've always found it difficult to describe my fights so I'm just going skip to the end, where I heroically destroyed the last head of the dragon, sending it to Tartarus. When the dragon was gone, I cheerfully skipped towards the tree and plucked two golden apples right off.

On my way out I noticed three women standing together, their jaws hanging. I respectfully waved my hand and left the garden.

Outside the garden I saw the women from earlier and hobbled towards her.

"Here you go." I handed her the Apple.

She looked at me in shock. "I didn't think you'd be able to defeat Ladon." She said, her voice filled with awe.

"Eh. It wasn't the hardest fight I've ever fought, nut its definitely up there." I responded nonchalantly. Absentmindedly I took a bite from the apple in my hand. "Oh fuck! I didn't mean to do that." The change was almost instantaneous, all my injuries healed, and I began to feel rejuvenated, the same feeling I get when I step into the ocean. Yeah, that part was kind of anticlimactic.

The woman stared giggling of all things.

"Yeah so I'm out of her I announced, hope you enjoy he apple!" I called out as I left the clearing we were in.

"Wait! What is your name?" She yelled at my retreating figure.

"Perseus!" I shouted back.

"Zoe!" She yelled back at my retreating figure. As I