The Park [Afternoon/Evening]

[fh_beasties]

There was something new lurking in the pond today. Something even more terrifying than the scylla.

The water on the pond was bubbling, shaking, almost as if something was moving.

Approach...if you dare.

[And here is the hydra! This thing has nine heads, is badass, has breath that could kill you, and a sharp tail. Attack at will!]

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[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka, walking by, stared at the bubbling pond. "Oh, no. Seriously, no. I think I'm done for the day. You just... Run along back where you came from."

He tossed a few handfuls of salt onto the water.

[fh_beasties]

The hydra erupted from the water, looming over Sokka and dripping water onto the dear boy.

It hissed and fixed eighteen pairs of beady eyes on the boy.

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka took a few steps back. "What ARE you?!?!" he asked, wide-eyed with terror. "You have too many heads! TOO MANY HEADS!!!"

He launched his boomerang at the thing, trying to cut one of them off.

[fh_beasties]

The hydra swatted the tiny weapon away with a flick of it's tail and then one head lunched at Sokka, teeth bared.

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka's eyes followed his rapidly departing weapon, and he was almost too distracted to dodge the lunging head. Almost. There's something about a huge set of sharp pointy teeth that tends to catch your attention.

He rolled to his feet, drawing his club for an all-out attack, but his eyes flicked back to the boomerang, still sailing through the air. "Wait here!" he told the monster. "I'll be back to kick your butt in just a minute!"

He ran around the pond and off into the park, to retrieve his boomerang. It was TOTALLY not a retreat. Totally.

[fh_beasties]

The hydra's heads spun in Sokka's direction but they didn't follow. Others would come.

[suit-of-awesome.livejournal.com]

Barney couldn't believe he'd been roped into this. "Freaking monsters everywhere and I'm out walking a litter of dogs!"

He made his way warily around the water, twitching and looking behind him repeatedly. "Do your business already!"

[fh_beasties]

Something broke he water's surface then. Something huge and smelly, something that was hissing and growling and dripping water onto Barney and the dogs.

[suit-of-awesome.livejournal.com]

"Oh perfect," Barney said, trying to brush the water off his suit. "This is imported Italian!"

Then he noticed the monster. "Frelling squirrels can't even count heads," he said, shaking his head. "Dief, attack!"

Right, like that was happening.

[fh_beasties]

The hydra roared loud enough to probably pierce a few eardrums before its tail reared back and came flying at Barney.

[cheminthehead.livejournal.com]

Gladys had been looking for the satyr (no, don't ask why). What she found instead was a huge monster trying to eat one of her teachers.

Golems could move fast when properly motivated, and Gladys was in front of Barney and reaching up one huge hand to grab the monster's head. "That Is Not Acceptable."

[fh_beasties]

The hydra roared directly in Gladys's face, trying to shake free. The other heads were catching up and coming down towards Gladys.

[cheminthehead.livejournal.com]

She held on tight, eyes flaring. "You Are Not Allowed To Hurt People," she informed it, and aimed the head she was holding at the incoming heads like a club.

[suit-of-awesome.livejournal.com]

Barney watched as the dildo cozy maker seemingly saved him from the beast. She'd have to be rewarded. "So, um, I'll just make that my cue to leave!" He drug Robin's yapping beasts and Dief away from the water.

"If any of you have an accident in my house..." His voice trailed off as he hurried back toward Apocalypse Avenue.

[fh_beasties]

The hydra, meanwhile, yowled in pain having had it's own heads used against it as a weapon. It's tail whipped around, intending to strike Gladys and end this right now.

[cheminthehead.livejournal.com]

Gladys was pushed forward a few feet, along with furrows of dirt, but she dug in and yanked hard on the head, reaching out to grab another one.

[fh_beasties]

The hydra was screaming, screeching loud enough to break windows. Two heads came down from above, mouths open in an attempt to just chew Gladys up for dinner.

[cheminthehead.livejournal.com]

"That Is Not A Good Idea," she told it as its mouths closed on her. "It Is Going To Hurt." She didn't let go, though, kept hanging on, tugging on the head like she was just going to pull it right off.

[fh_beasties]

The mouths closed around Gladys and...did nothing. The hydra roared, the noise surrounding Gladys like a shield.

And still nothing. Another joined in, trying to take out Gladys's body.

The heads in Gladys's gripped strained painfully, the eyes of the hydra going wide with something akin to fear.

[cheminthehead.livejournal.com]

"Do Not Rip My Dress." Her eyes flared brightly. "It Is The Only One I Have." Moving as best she could while being chewed on by a monster, Gladys planted her feet and pulled with all her considerable strength on the heads she was holding to get some slack, then tried to tie their necks in a knot.

[fh_beasties]

The two knotted together heads pulled on each other, trying desperately to get away. When that failed, they started butting heads together out of frustration.

It's only reaction was to send it's tail whipping towards Gladys, right for the front of her dress.

[cheminthehead.livejournal.com]

Gladys froze when its tail ripped through her dress, then her eyes flared red, and she grabbed for two more heads, moving to tie them together, too. "That Is My Dress. A Lady Can Not Go About Unclothed. It Is Not Right." She was about as angry as a golem could get.

[fh_beasties]

The hydra was struggling even more now, two of it's heads trying to get apart while two others tried to prevent the same fate from happening.

One single head came roaring down at Gladys in an attempt to knock her off her feet.

[cheminthehead.livejournal.com]

She thrust one huge fist in the air to meet it.

[fh_beasties]

And that head went flailing backwards, a wounded keening coming from it's mouth. Another head came swooping low, trying to knock Gladys down.

[cheminthehead.livejournal.com]

It knocked her over and she hit the ground with a thump, her torn dress fluttering, but she grabbed at it as it went past.

[fh_beasties]

The head in Gladys's hand was close enough to start trying to bite her face, trying anything to get out of his bionic woman's grasp.

[cheminthehead.livejournal.com]

In one thousand and fifty four years, her head had never been inside something's mouth. On the whole, Gladys didn't think much of it. Or of being bitten, especially not when its teeth actually took several chips out of her. She grabbed at its jaws to hold them apart. "You Should Stop Now."

[fh_beasties]

The hydra didn't listen to instructions.

It had a problem with authority so it just kept trying to force it's jaws down onto Gladys's head.

[cheminthehead.livejournal.com]

And Gladys opened her hands and let it. Her dress was already ruined and she was quite confident that she could break out of its mouth.

[fh_beasties]

The hydra's mouth engulfed her and started chewing, trying to just eat, swallow and digest her.

[cheminthehead.livejournal.com]

Golems were very bad for the diet, and completely indigestible. It didn't help when they were aiming solid blows at the roof of the mouth trying to eat them.

[fh_beasties]

The hydra had never tried to eat such a tough piece of meat. Instead of trying to chew on her, it picked Gladys up between it's teeth and flung her away from the pond.

[cheminthehead.livejournal.com]

Gladys went tumbling through the air, flying a fair distance, and crashed into the ground hard enough to crack the concrete. And to get another chip.

She would have gone back, except her dress was in tatters and she was practically naked. Wrapping it around herself as best she could, she hurried to get inside before someone saw her.