River Hydra

Muscular green flesh erupted from the reeds, and where their bases met and their torn roots floated a powerful body formed.  It had four powerful legs that ended in clawed feet.  The reeds from which the flesh grew became long and flexible necks ending in stout serpentine heads filled with teeth.The creature had three heads, three mouths, six eyes and six ears.  It torn up and muddied the river bed as it struggled for purchase in a world to which it had been more mature, if ignorant.  Once its feet were planted on the rocks it stretched its necks and peered around, each one looking in a different direction.The reeds had not gotten far, and just up the river a deer stared at the powerful creature.  Its three heads all came around to stare back, and it exposed its many dozens of rending teeth.  The deer, always a sensible creature, ran.  Unfortunately it made the error of running through the river.  The three headed predator bounded after it, wide feet and long claws allowing it superior purchase on the mossy riverbed, and in one moment of action and violence the deer was caught in the hungry beasts maws.The lifeblood did not understand irony, but perhaps a voice within it did.  Nevertheless, the creature born of reeds devoured that which nearly ended it before it had begun.For it had begun.  All across the world similar creatures were born of the grass that grew alongside the riverbanks.  They were fearsome, capable, and uncommon.  For as the mundane predators they were they lacked a magic to ease their hunger.  They were large and required more food than was easily captured.  They would seldom breed, lest they exhaust their hunting grounds.They would never rule the world, but then that was to be expected.  It was from a simple reed that the River Hydras, rare terrors of the banks, came to be.https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5092631
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