
Percy initially tries to defeat it by slicing off its heads, but succeeded only in making more. She says that Hermes' children found a way to use the Hydra's life-force to make a new chain of stores. According to Annabeth, another Monster Donut shop popped up every time it grew another head. It had many rows of razor-sharp teeth, its hands were clawed, had a tail, and spat acid. It was large and lizard-like, with long necks and nine heads to match. Tyson, being a monster, was somehow able to summon the outlet bringing the Hydra with it. When Percy Jackson sent Tyson to look for powdered doughnuts so he could talk to Annabeth, Tyson went out and came upon a Monster Donut store. When Percy Jackson visits the Oracle of Delphi in the Big House Attic, he notices a stuffed Hydra head amongst the collected spoils of war. Percy Jackson and the Olympians The Lightning Thief However, Eurystheus said that labor did not count as he had help, so he Hercules had to do an extra labor make up for it. After defeating the monster, Hercules dipped the tips of his arrows in the Hydra's bile, rendering the weapons extremely venomous.

The hero eventually defeated the monster by having his nephew Iolaus cauterize each stump after he had cut it, then tearing off the immortal head with his bare hands and crushing it under a giant rock. When one of the Hydra's heads was decapitated, two more snake-heads would grow in its place.Īs the second of his Twelve Labors, Hercules was tasked by King Eurystheus to kill the Lernaean Hydra. The monster terrorized the Kingdom of Lerna, chasing all of the inhabitants away with the toxic acid and fumes that it spewed at them and killing livestock. While not the most powerful of its siblings, the Hydra was a fearsome and vicious monsters with nine heads (at birth). The Lernaean Hydra was born to Typhon and Echidna.

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