Many legends tell of a strange, reptilian, chicken-headed creature that can make anyone turn to stone simply by casting their gaze at its eyes.

It has caused such distruction and dismay amongst people during times of old, it does not care about status. It would make anyone from the richest king to the poorest boy become a stone statue.

The only way to defeat the cockatrice is unknown…

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"Boy I tell ya Fred, d'you believe a WORD of this bologna?" The anthropomorphic chicken asked his equally bipedal lion compatriot.

"Nope." Fred replied.

"SUPER CHICKEN AND FRED HAD BEEN TAKING THE DAY OFF, EXPLORING THE PITTSBURGH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY—WHICH RECENTLY OPENED AN EXHIBIT RELATING TO MYTHICAL CREATURES FROM AROUND THE WORLD."

"I am SO glad those things aren't real, bud, I mean, could you even IMAGINE havin to deal with one of those?" SC chuckled.

"Nope." Fred replied. "Thay, lookit that!"

"SUPERCHICKEN AND FRED NOTICED A MASSIVE STATUE OF A COCKATRICE NEAREST THE EDGE OF THE EXHIBIT."

"Must be a new installation." SC commented.

"LIGHTNING FLASHED AROUND THE STONE STATUE AND THE STONE AROUND IT BROKE TO BITS, REVEALING BOTH FEATHERS AND SCALES. THE COCKATRICE CAME TO LIFE ONCE EVERY PIECE OF STONE WAS REMOVED, AND GAVE A LOUD, EVIL ROAR..."

"BUK-KAWWWW!!"

"Fred, you're seein' this, right?" Superchicken asked his friend, feeling just a little terrified.

"yep..." Fred replied, then gave SC the Supersauce. "And you can handle thith beatht, IM' OUTTA HEREE!!"

"COWARD!" Superchicken hollered at his lion assistant.

"THE MASSIVE COCKATRICE GLARED DOWN SC AND APPROACHED HIM, HISSING AND SNARLING…"

"Heheh, you don't wanna eat me!" SC stammered, laughing awkwardly. "I'm a chicken like you! Well, a full chicken, y-you're half-snake…NOT LIKE THERE'S ANYTHING WRONG WITH BEING HALF-SNAKE!"

"THE COCKATRICE RESPONDED BY BURNING THE EVER-LOVING HECK OUT OF SC!"

"Okay, now you (*COUGH!*) really asked for it!" SC gagged, his entire body was now burnt to a blackened crisp.

"SUPERCHICKEN USED EVERY BIT OF STRENGTH HE HAD TO THROW HIMSELF AT THE COCKATRICE AND UTILIZE HIS LASER EYES AT THE SAME TIME!"

"EEYYAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!" SC exclaimed, his laser eyes burning both the Cockatrice and his own eyeballs as well. "I really wish I didn't have this sort a' power..."

"THE COCKATRICE NOW ACTIVATED SOME LASER EYES OF ITS OWN. THE PROBLEM WAS, WHENEVER IT GAZED AT SOMETHING, IT TURNED IT INTO A STONE STATUE!"

"AAGH!" Superchicken flipped out of the direction of the eye beams, causing a slumbering security guard to get turned into a solid marble statue.

"THE MASSIVE CHICKEN SNAKE HYBRID PROCEEDED TO BLAST ITS EYE BEAMS ONCE AGAIN, THIS TIME TURNING THE FLOOR INTO STONE, SINCE SUPERCHICKEN NARROWLY AVOIDED IT."

"How'm I gonna defeat this thing?" The superhero chicken pondered.

"GAZING UP AT A GIANT MIRROR GAVE SC THE GREATEST IDEA HE'D EVER HAD AT THE MOMENT. NOW, HE HAD TO PUT IT INTO ACTION…"

"YO STUPID!" Superchicken whistled for the Cockatrice.

"THE COCKATRICE IMMEDIATELY TURNED TO FACE THE CHICKEN, GIVING AN ANGRY CLUCK. IT CHARGED DIRECTLY AT SC, WHO LED IT ALL THE WAY DOWN THE MUSEUM'S HALL TO THE MIRROR."

"Why don't ya TAKE A LOOK?!" Superchicken exclaimed, ducking out of the way right as the Cockatrice fired its eye beams for the final time.

"THE COCKATRICE HAD NOW BEEN TURNED TO STONE BY ITS OWN EYE BEAMS, AND HAD A PERMANENT GASP ON ITS FACE. SUPERCHICKEN EMERGED FROM THE MUSEUM, VICTORIOUS, JUST AS FRED APPROACHED."

"Tho how'd it go?" The lion asked. "Did ya kill him?"

"Ehhh, sort of." SC replied. "He just needed a little time for self-reflection."

End.