Katina loved the smell of battle. The smoke of charcoal and metal sizzled into her snort. “I want blood! I want blood now!”

“Stay calm,” Labda said. “We must stay here to guard the gate.”

Cilla moaned. “Ooooooooooooo, we should have taken a bath. Our fur smelled like wet carpet.”

Katina growled. “I whether bath in blood than stand up here.”

“Eeeeeeeeoooooooo- gross! Blood is bad for the skin!”

“Heeheehee. Not exactly.”

Labda sighed. “Why are we cursed like this?”

Below the stone gate, an army of monsters charged across the barren field, outside the Black Grove forest. There were many kinds, all marching in enormous groups. Minotaurs, cyclops, serpents, spiders, worms, fish-men, and undead humans with rotten skins. 

All of them were prisoners in the underworld who broke out. Someone let them loose, allowing them to start a prison riot. Whoever freed the souls of the damned will pay in the burning pits of fire. But first Labda must keep the riots from reaching the gate.

The gate was the only passageway up to the mortal world. If anything gets through the gate and cross the River of Styx, the monsters will attack the humans and Hades will be furious. As the guardians of the gate, Labda, Cilla, and Katina must not fail their lord.

In front of the gate, the girls’ army held their ground, pointing their spears at the charging enemy. Like the girls, they were hellhound men, wearing gray loincloths and gauntlets on their wrists. However, all of them only have single heads. Labda, Cilla, and Katina were the true Cerberus of the underworld, sharing one muscular female body that would make any man lust for centuries. The other guard dogs were only minor versions of them.

When the enemy approached closely, the hellhounds held up their round shields and thrust their spears. The enemy front got stabbed, but the rest clashed against the hellhounds.

Both armies got mixed into a ferocious battle. The hellhounds ripe and bit the monsters, while the monsters beaten and crushed the hounds. Body parts and blood flew over the battle. Their cries and roars echoed through the air, like music to Katina.

“Aaaaaah-this is boring!” Katina shouted. “We should fight!”

Labda snorted. “We will fight if anything reaches here.”

“Why can’t we fight down there?” Katina complained.

“If anything comes over this gate, they will doom the earth!” Labda explained. “Do you want that to happen?”

Katina rolled her eyes. “Why should we care?”

“If anything happens to the earth, Hades will punish us,” told her middle head.

Cilla gulped. “I don’t want another spanking from him!”

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Katina growled. “I hate him!”

“Obeying him keeps us from being thrown into the river. If you want to complain, complain about-”

Labda paused when a dozen spots appeared in the sky, and they dived toward the gate. 

The girls’ heads beamed their eyes until they realized the dots were blue harpies; half-bird, half women. They looked like women in blue leather bikinis, but their arms were wings, and their feet were yellow talons. 

“Harpies?” Katina said. “How did they get out?”

Labda growled. “Quick! Get the bow!”

“But I am not good at shooting!” said Cilla.

“Let me do the shooting!”

Katina sighed. “I rather fight in close combat.”

Labda reached the weapon rack below the watchtower on the gate. She took one bow and a brown leather quiver. The quiver has ten arrows, enough to take out the harpies. 

She dashed back to the center top and faced the approaching harpies. They screamed like sirens, and air dived toward her.

Labda pulled out one arrow and held it on her bow. She aimed the arrow up with one eye open. Shooting may not be her skill, but she needed to shoot to protect the gateway to the underworld.

She shot the arrow, and it hit one harpie through her chest. The harpy screamed and fell to the ground.

“Woohoo!” Cilla shouted. “You did it! You did it!”

“Quiet! Let me focus!” Labda shot another arrow. It hit another harpy.

She smiled and shot more arrows at the harpies. She was doing good until one harpy landed on her.

The girls’ back hit the stone floor while the harpy slapped her wings against Labda’s face.

Katina bit the harpy’s neck. She chewed on the harpy’s neck and severed the head off the harpy’s body.

Labda pushed the headless body off and rose.

Katina licked the blood off her muzzle. “Winner winner, chicken dinner!”

The last four harpies landed around the Cerberus woman. Labda pulled up her sword and shield.

Katina smiled a mischievous grin. “My turn! I am so in the mood for fried chicken!”

The harpies charged.

Katina swung her blade, beheading two harpies. One harpy landed on the girls’ back and nibbled on Cilla’s pigtails.

“Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!” Cilla cried until she knocked the harpy off by her shield. “I totally need my hairdresser to fix my hair!”

The last harpy hovered to the mid-air and charged with her talons out. Her claws grabbed the girls’ large breasts as they landed on the floor again.

“Ouch! Get off our boobs!” Katina thrust her blade into the harpy’s stomach. 

After she pulled her sword out, the harpy’s blood and guts poured all over the girls’ body.

Cilla screamed. “Oh, my god! This is so gross!”

Katina laughed. “Now this is a bath!”

Labda pushed the corpse off her and rose. She brushed the gore off her chest and stomach. “Battles are never clean.”

“After this, we are totally getting a bath,” said Cilla.

“Pussy!” Katina shouted.

Labda glared at the left head. “Language!”

Katina rolled her eyes. “I don’t f**king care!”

In the sky, another figure appeared, flying toward the gate.

“Now what!” Katina shouted.

The creature has the body of a lion, but its face only represented a human face. Two large flapping bat wings were on its back and a scorpion tail. 

Something else was on the creature’s back. But who?

After the manticore landed on the gate, the female rider slid off her flying mount. She was barefoot, wearing a gray peplos dress. Her skin was green as grass, and she carried a scepter that has a crystal ball on it. Her short dark green hair was moving like wiggling worms, but they were snakes. And her serpent eyes were glowing red like fire.

The girls’ dropped their mouths. “Medusa!”