One fateful evening Heracles returned to the family villa to be met by two small but fierce and burning-eyed demons in the doorway. He charged them at once, grappled them to the ground, broke their backs, and stamped on their screeching heads until they lay crushed and dead at his feet. Suddenly, a great dragon came screaming out of the house toward him, fire streaming from its mouth and nostrils. He rushed at it, closed his hands around its scaly neck, and squeezed with all his strength. Only as the life went out of the monster and it slipped dead to the floor did Hera lift the mist of
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