Day 24- Multiple Limbs (Hecatonchires)

    In Greek mythology, the first two types of monsters born into the world were the progeny of Gaia and Uranus (Earth and Sky). These were the Cyclops and the monstrous Hecatonchires (Heck-A-Tonk-eh-reez). Say it out loud...it's fun! Each of them possessed 100 arms and 50 heads. They were absolutely colossal, and possessed endless amounts of strength. Like their cyclopian siblings, their appearance disgusted their father, and both were banished to the underworld. Even after defeating their father, the younger siblings of the monsters, a.k.a. The Titans, would not free them. They feared the strength of the Hecatonchires more than anything. So afraid were they that the Titans convinced a powerful, evil dragon to guard the entrance to the monsters' prison. When Zues led his war against the Titans, he freed the great monsters from the underworld. While the Cyclops forged weapons for the gods, the mighty Hecatonchires beat down the Titans, and hurled boulders the size of mountains at them. When the Titans were defeated, the Hecatonchires gladly pushed them into the underworld and stood guard at the entrance.
    This is Pangaea (Yes I realized she doesn't have 100 arms and 50 heads...but that wouldn't be doable in one day ). She and her sister, the cyclops, are children of the primordial gods. Their father despised both of them and imprisoned them within the earth. Their more attractive siblings roamed free and mocked them, convincing an evil dragon to guard the entrance to their prison.
    Within her impenetrable cell, Pangaea fumed. Each day, the dragon taunted her. It spoke of her suffering and how her fair younger siblings mocked her existence. She raged endlessly against the walls of her prison, causing great earthquakes on the surface. Yet the walls held fast. On the day that the strange being released her and the cyclops, Pangaea raged forth against the dragon. The creature was strong, and it's breath deadly, but it was unable to overcome the furious power of the hecatonchires. Savagely crushed and beaten, the dragon impacted the earth lifelessly. Pangaea roared in triumph and all around the world, her siblings trembled in fear. While her sister set forth on a quest to discover who had freed them, the hecatonchires set forth to destroy those who had abandoned them. Wherever she roamed, the world cowered from her. Within their homes they trembled as the heads of the monster called out the names of her titan brothers and sisters on anger. Those who wished to live cleared away from her thunderous path. She would have glorious revenge, and soon the world would shake with the collapse of the titans.