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Eddy was changing. He was growing a long, green, curvy tail, and his entire body was growing longer and longer, and a giant snout was protruding from his face, with a beak like a turtle. There were bright green scales covering his body, and he had so much muscle that there were veins rippling through his entire body. It was very strange looking, because Eddy's plaid shorts and oversized button-up greasy blue shirt were still on him.
"What…What are you?" I said. I was surprised how much my voice shook, like it was jail cell bar that was rattling and rattling. He laughed in response, or at least I thought it was a laugh, though it sounded more like a hiss. "You're…a snake?" Eddy, or what was left of Eddy, choked on his own hiss-laugh. "A sssssssssnake? He exaggerated the hiss more than he had to, obviously happy to be in snake or whatever he was again. "I am not a ssssnake! I am a dragon! The great Python who guarded the oracle! Ssssssnake! Why doesssssss everyone ssssay that?!" His voice sounded almost the same from when he was Eddy. Almost. "The oracle? Like, the Greek oracle? That doesn't make any sense!" I replied shakily. Great. I sounded as scared as I felt.
He laughed/hissed again. "Come on, ssssstupid hero, have you not been paying attention? I have known who you are sssssince the beginning! Oh, Hermesssss hasssss gone very out of the way for Hera! I wonder what dirt she hassssssss on him? Bessssidesssss, did you think it was the Roman oracle?" Hero? How could he say/hiss that I was a hero when all I was doing was standing here, with my teacher at my feet, doing absolutely nothing. But…..neither was anyone else. The entire cafeteria was perfectly calm, like this was an everyday bullying session, and like there was not a huge snake(dragon, whatever) attacking a student. Eddy's gang was staring stupidly at us, which is what they always did. Cindy was moving along the food line, looking at me sympathetically, just like all the other days when I would get bullied. How did they not see this? "Come hero! I am growing bored! The fight with Apollo, that wasssss interesting! Now, only a few millennium later, the herosssssss are like thisssss!" he looked to the sky in fake hurt. "Won't you sssssssend me a challenge? And thissss protector! Doesn't one like her deserve special attention? Not this old rod!" I swear that thunder rolled. In. The. Cafeteria. I must have been dreaming. Only problem is, I didn't have any imagination, so I must have eaten something funky for breakfast. But that wasn't possible. Martha checks my food everyday, you know, overprotective and all. So…..what? This was real?
"Hero, there issssss nowhere to run! And I am very, very hungry after three thousand yearssssss. I am losing my patienccccccce."
"Uh….Uh….. did you say you fought Apollo?" My voice was at least three octaves higher than usual. I had to keep myself under control. Distract him, distract him. How did Apollo beat him?
"Yessssss," he hissed, pleased to have the situation focused on him, "When Zuessss and Leto ssssssired Apollo and Artemisssss, Hera sent me after them! When the children were born anyway, Apolloheld such a grudge on me that, eventually, he came to fight me."
"Oh, did he?" I asked, trying to sound interested, though Latin never was my strong subject. "How long did the fight last?"
"Very long time!" He boasted happily. Then his face fell. "But then he shot me with- Hey! I realizzzzzzzze what you're doing! I am sssssmarter than that, demigod! You cannot defeat me!" he whipped his tail around and it hit me in the ribs, hard. I fell over, and Mr. Covner's shifted, so I could see his face. He looked a sickly shade of green. Adrenaline rushed through my body, and, this must be proof that I'm ADHD, I charged the giant monster who wanted to eat me.