Lord Chiroman and Nestor arrived at the farm. The farm was really huge, about 20 acres. There were stables along the side, and there were no sign of the Unigasus. The two heroes strolled around the farm, hoping to find the cages.
“Where are the cages? I think Medusa wouldn’t be stupid to put it on land to let us take Unigasus easily. She might have hid it somewhere,” Nestor said as he kicked the sand below. “It might even be under this piece of earth.”

                 Lord Chiroman clicked his finger and ran towards the farmhouse. Nestor quickly followed after him, asking, “What are you up to? Where are we going?”

               “Thanks for cluing me, Nestor. I just remembered that Medusa has a secret pathway under this farm. Unigasus and all the other creatures might be trapped there. The farmhouse should lead to the pathway!”

             Lord Chiroman went in the farmhouse with Nestor behind. The farmhouse was dark and damp, and the smell is not too pleasant. Lord Chiroman grabbed a wooden stick by the side and blew out fire. The whole place was lit, and the farmhouse was extremely spooky. There were untidy runes written all over the walls, and that those runes were written with blood. There were cobwebs all over the place and all the mirrors in the house were broken. Nestor walked towards the   walls and read the runes softly. “Damnation will return on November 28. Five heroes would fight evil. You don’t think you would be able to fight them. Don’t look at yourself in the mirror, keep away. Prophecy written by my own blood, Medisan.”

              “Medusa used to have a sister. After Medusa boasted her beauty to the Goddess, she was turned into a demon. Knowing that her sister, Medisan is prettier than her now, she made Medisan exactly like herself when Medisan was asleep at night. Early in the morning when Medisan woke up, she looked herself in the mirror and was stoned. Her reflection killed her,” Chiroman told Nestor, “This must be Medisan’s house. I think the secret pathway might be behind the mirror. The secret pathway has to be somewhere where the owner loves the most.”

               Lord Chiroman pressed his fingers into the broken mirror. A bright light shone at once, and took Chiroman into the mirror. Nestor quickly held on to Chiroman’s legs and went right into the mirror together.

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                “Medusa must have ordered you to come over here to kill me, but how sorry I am that to tell you that you are coming here to be killed!” Andromeda shouted as she threw the blade ring to cut off the wings of the first bee. The ring smoothly turned round and round, cutting the wings like scissors cutting a piece of paper. The bee fell immediately onto the ground and tried to fly. “Want to fly, let me help you.” The princess pushed a small whirlwind with her hand, as the bee was lifted up high in the sky and hit against the walls. Slowly, the bee slide downwards as a trail of blood followed.

                   Andromeda faced towards another bee and threw three or four razor blades into the eyes of the bee. The bee flew clumsily above the air and fell onto the ground without any movement. The princess ran back towards the statue of Alexandria and reached out for the statue. Unfortunately, she felt a sharp pain at the back of her shoulders. The princess turned back to see the bee that she had blinded was not dead. It had stung her with the tip of its elephant’s tusk sting. Andromeda cried of pain and swung her blade ring to the bee, chopping of its body from head to toe. The sting broke off from the princess’ shoulders, leaving the tip in her skin. Andromeda quickly pulled Alexandria’s statue towards her and carried it behind her back.

                  The whole cave vibrated and the rocks from between fell onto the ground, creating four huge stone trolls. Andromeda knew that she was going to pass out and she couldn’t fight those trolls with the strength left in her as the bee’s sting was poisonous. Andromeda quickly tied Alexandria to a huge pillar and limped towards the stone trolls. She lifted up herself and chanted, “North Wind meets the south, the strongest since birth, East wind meets the west, bravery from all the rest, show me thy power for once and for all!”

                 Big gust of winds from the four directions met each other and crashed to one other. Soon, two huge tornadoes were formed in the center and spanned in high speed. Andromeda pointed her finger to the stone trolls and one of the tornados approached the troll. The troll tried to attack the tornado; however he was broken into tiny bits. The first stone troll was taken in by the tornado and met his death.

                   Andromeda showed the tornado another direction and it went on to destroy the second troll. Without luck, the tornado suddenly disappeared into the thin air. Blood was flowing out form the princess’ mouth and she knew it by then, that the poison had seriously affected her, and she was so close to death. She had no more strength to bring the tornadoes to destroy the other two, and no more strength to slay the trolls. Andromeda crawled towards Alexandria and untied the ropes. She saw the stone trolls approached her slowly; she rose up her hands and whispered, “Take me out.”

                Andromeda became the whirlwind, taking Alexandria out of the cave. The trolls trended after the whirlwind but were too hug to get through the small entrance of the cave. The whirlwind twisted and turned and fell dead on their half way to the harbor.  

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             “I don’t think I could help you think, young Haven. This question is so difficult! It is all about battles and !” Balius wailed.

                 “This object should be something that involves greater in battles. Something that had been attacked by several weapons. It couldn’t be a warrior, because it clearly state out that this thing is an object. What could it be,” Joshua wondered.

                      “Give up, boy. You are not going to get it. Time’s running fast,” the sphinx insulted.

                Joshua stared at the sphinx and gave a annoyed look, “Let me think, you ugly creature. I am getting close! If you kept on disturbing me while I’m figuring the answer out, I won’t give you the answer but have your head instead!”

                    The sphinx pursed her lips and allowed Joshua to have more time to think. The intelligent boy kept on repeating to himself about some object that had been in wars, and that had been attacked by several weapons. He shook all of his brain cells and forced them to think but came up with only one answer, “I am not going to make it.”

           “Sphinx, please give Joshua just one more hint. Please?” Balius pleaded sweetly.

          “I belong to the group of objects that had been mentioned in this riddle,” the sphinx said.

            “A sword, a hammer, wars-blades are weapons. The object should be a weapon, and the only weapon that had been attacked by many other weapons, which are not mention in this riddle is only a shield,” Joshua snapped his
finger. “The answer is a shield. This should be a shield. It fits every sentence here. It definitely got to be a shield!”

         The sphinx threw a huge shield to Joshua and took a long sword out. “Adios, Farewell, young man. I have underestimated you.” The sphinx sliced her throat with the sharp sword and collapsed onto the ground. Joshua widened his eyes and saw the corpse of the sphinx on the pool of blood. Joshua tapped the corpse six times as the sphinx was buried just like the Minotaur.