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This story starts off with a King named Acisius. Acisius decided that he would go to the oracle to figure out when he would have a grandson who would be able to take over as king when he died. The oracle told him that his grandson would grow up and kill him. Acisius decided that the only way to avoid this would be to lock Danae (his only daughter) up in a cell where no man would be able to make her pregnant.
Life in the cell was pretty hard for Danae. All she got was a single water glass and some biscuits to survive. There was a vent at the top to make sure that she could get a bit of air. This will be important, don't worry. Zeus heard that Acisius locked Danae and decided that he wanted to pay Danae a visit. Zeus wanted to make a wonderful impression and figured that the best way to do that would be to turn into a shower of gold and come through the vent in the ceiling. I did tell you that the vent was important.
After Zeus made it in the cell through the vent, he did his ‘Zeus’ thing and got Danae pregnant. Acisius did not know that Danae was pregnant until he heard the cries from the baby after it was born. As soon as he found out, Acisius put Danae, and her child (Did I mention that the baby is Perseus?), in a box and tossed them into the ocean. Zeus saw this happened and convinced Poseidon to let some small fishes get into the box for food and keep the waves calm so she could have an okay ride. Zeus gave her some light rain for some fresh water.
Danae eventually made it to an island, Seriphos, where she met a fisherman and his wife. The fisherman and his wife took pity on Danae and her baby and decided to help her raise Perseus. The fisherman happened to be the brother to the king, so he did have to inform the king about Danae being washed ashore. The king, Polydectes (the name in my notes says Polydicktes however I figure that I should put his proper name), thought that Danae was very pretty. Danae did not want to marry him.
One day Polydectes asked Danae to marry him; however, he got rejected. Polydectes would have demanded her to marry him however he was scared of Perseus. Polydectes figures that the best way to be able to get with Danae would be to send Perseus to do something that would almost certainly kill him. He somehow managed to convince Perseus to go on a quest to kill the gorgon, Medusa.
“Hey Perry? You like to prove yourself, right?”
“My name is Perseus and yes I do like to prove myself.”
“You know killing medusa would be a good way to prove yourself.”
“That sounds like fun! I’ll go do that right now.”
Perseus was on his way to visit the grey sisters when he was stopped by Hermes. Hermes gave Perseus a sword, some sandals with wings, and a reflective shield from Athena. Perseus was able to put on the sandals and fly over to where the gray ladies lived.
The grey ladies, for anyone who doesn’t quite know who they are, are a group of 3 ladies. These three ladies share one single eye and one single tooth between the three of them. They are very protective over their eye and tooth.
When Perseus found the grey ladies, they were about to swap their eye and tooth between two of them. Perseus did some quick thinking and figured that the eye and tooth would be very good bargaining points. Perseus was able to stand in between the two that had the tooth and the eye without either of them noticing. When the grey ladies threw the tooth and eye at each other, Perseus caught both of the bargaining tools and quickly stepped out of the way of the old ladies.
“Hey, you said you would throw the tooth!”
“I did! You said you would throw the eye!”
Perseus quickly interjected.
“Actually, I have the eye and the tooth.”
This was not a good way to get their attention as they were really good at hearing and moving quickly. They quickly tried to attack Perseus however he managed to be a bit faster than the old ladies and not get attacked. He told them that he would drop the eye and the tooth if they told him where the gorgon's lair was. They told him to go to the Garden of Hera and dig up an old, rotted tree where he would find some things that would aid him. After he got the things, he would have to go West for a while before he would find the Lair.
Perseus flew to the Garden of Hera to dig up the old stump. In the stump there was a sack for the head of Medusa and a helmet that turned the wearer invisible. He flew over to the gorgon’s lair where he waited outside for nighttime. Once he was sure that the gorgons were asleep, Perseus snuck inside with his invisibility helmet on, and his shield raised high. A weird fact about Medusa is if you look at her through something such as a reflection then she won't be able to turn you into stone. Perseus used this fact to be able to look at where he was going and chop her head off. He put her head into the sack and flew away before the other gorgons could wake up and kill him.
Perseus was going on his way home when he looked at a nearby rock and noticed that there was a pretty lady chained to a rock right next to a sea monster. Perseus, being an embodiment of ADHD, was very distracted by the pretty lady and flew over to the girl to see what was happening with her. When he flew up to her and asked her what was happening, she merely said that her mother, the queen, had managed to anger Poseidon to the point that he sent a sea monster to terrorize the kingdom. Poseidon told them that the only way to get the sea monster to go away would be to chain their daughter, Andromeda, to a rock as a sacrifice. Perseus did not want this pretty lady to die so he told her to close her eyes. Once her eyes were closed, he pulled the head of Medusa out of the sack and turned the monster to stone.
“So do you want to get away from your crazy parents and maybe marry me?”
“Yeah, okay”
Perseus got himself a girlfriend and he flew home with her so he could introduce her to Danae.
When he was able to get home, he discovered that his mother was about to get married to Polydectes. Perseus somehow managed to be amazing with his timing skills and arrived before the vows. While Perseus was gone, Polydectes somehow managed to convince Danae to marry him. Perseus was not happy about this. He barged into the marriage place and announced that he did not agree to his mother marrying Polydectes. He shouted that anyone on his side should close their eyes. He pulled out the head of Medusa and turned Polydectes and most other people in the room into stone. Danae was safe and a couple others, but Polydectes was declared dead. Seriphos needed a king so Polydectes’ brother, the fisherman that helped Danae raise Perseus, became king and everyone was happy.
Many years later Acisius, Danae’s father in case you forgot, travelled to Larissa to see the Olympics. His favorite event happened to be discus throwing. Acisius was standing on the sidelines, standing as close to the field as he could, ready for the discus throwing to start. Now Perseus also happened to really like discus throwing. Perseus happened to like it so much that he decided to participate in the actual throwing of the discus.
When it was Perseus’ turn, he stepped up to the circle on the floor and got prepared to throw. He spun around a couple times and let go of the discus. It seemed to be going very far when a big gust of wind came from nowhere and blew the discus straight into Acisius’s head. Acisius did not survive the hit to the head and died.
You might remember the prophecy about how Danae would have a son that would cause Acisius’ downfall. Well thanks to Perseus throwing a discus at Acisius’ head, the prophecy was fulfilled.
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