Hello everyone! I'm so happy, this is my second story on this site now and It's honestly just freaking crazy. I'm so sorry it's just that, this idea just came to me and refused to go away. So of course I just had to write this insane story, Let me know your thoughts, I honestly need all the critique I can get in order to improve.

Prologue

"I saw it around here, I swear!"

'No you didn't. Just turn around and go away!'

"Are you sure? This village doesn't usually see many monsters."

'I'm…..I'm not-'

"Of course I'm sure, i-it had serpents all over its head, I heard those kinds of creatures have the ability to turn a man into stone the second they lay their beastly eyes on him. I was lucky it had turned its back on me and I had enough time to get away."

'I let you get away'

"Pft, I'm sure all you saw were a couple of garden snakes and was too much of a coward to kill them yourself so you created this fable so I'd have to do the dirty wor-"

"Hssssssssssssss"

'Shut up you stupid idiots, they're gonna see us!'

"Ah! There, you hear that?! I told you we have a-a m-monster on the loose! In our very woods, we'll all be-"

"Be quiet you,...I think whatever it is, it's around these bushes."

'No no no no no, go away I'm not here'

"I think I see where the little pests are, yeah they're right over her-..."

"...Euandros, what were you about to sa- *Gasp* Euandros! No no no no you can't be- AHH YOU! I-I... g-get away you m-murdering m-monst-..."

'I-I didn't mean it! It was an accident, I-It's not my fault! You should have stayed away….'

"Hssssssss"

There were times when the young gorgon boy who had just unintentionally murdered two men by turning them into stone silhouettes of their former selves, wanted nothing more than to rip his 'hair' out by every last snake, because even if it would be painful at least he wouldn't have to hear the loud hissing of a thousand companions he never asked for, anymore.