Hercules's 13th Labor

Hercules’s 13^th labor

Jaden Olsen
 

For Hercules’s thirteenth labor the king Eurystheus asked him to go and bring him the golden shoes of a giant.  The giant lived in a distant land in a huge cave.  The giant had a lot of beasts that were his pets that lived outside of his giant cave.  Eurystheus ordered him to go and kill the beasts that lived around the cave and to take the giant golden shoes that the giant wore.

Hercules set off on a boat across the sea to go and take the golden shoes.  After many days he arrived at land.  After arriving he began his long hike up into the mountains to where the giant lived in his huge cave.  When he started getting closer to the giant’s cave the different beasts began to reveal themselves.  One of the beasts was a four headed dog.  Another beast was a giant wolf like creature that walked on two legs.  When they got near Hercules he would use his strong grip to choke the beasts to death that came out of their hiding places.  As the giant’s cave came into view more and more beasts began to come out and started enclosing on him.  After fighting beasts for many hours Hercules killed the rest of the beasts that had encircled him.  Then he decided that he would wait until the sun had gone down and when all of the beasts and the giant would be asleep.  After killing the last of the beasts that were around him he ran off into the woods to wait until night so he could steal the golden shoes of the giant when he was sleeping.

After the sun had gone down and the beasts and the giant had gone to sleep Hercules set off towards the cave.  When he entered the cave the great giant was asleep on the ground of his cave and on his feet were the golden shoes that he was meant to return to the king. He choked the giant as he was asleep and killed him.  After the giant was dead he took the golden shoes from the giant’s feet.  Then he saw a giant golden sword hanging on the wall of the cave.  He took the sword off of the wall and kept it with him. While he was choking the giant he had awaken a few of the beasts that were asleep outside of the giants cave and they were now going to attack Hercules.  Hercules sat down the two golden shoes he had taken and used the sword to chop off the heads off the beasts that he had awoken.  After killing the beasts he began to kill the other beasts that were throughout the woods sleeping in their different places.  After he had killed all of the beasts around the mountain he began to make his way to the bottom of the mountain.

Hercules finally made it back to his boat that he had tied up on the shore.  Hercules got in his boat and put in the golden shoes and the giant golden sword.  He set off on the long journey back home.  After many days of sailing he returned.  When he got home he took the golden shoes up to Eurystheus and showed him the giant golden sword he had also taken from the giant’s cave.  The king was very pleased with him and he let Hercules keep both the giant golden shoes and the giant golden sword.