Ladon

Ladon is the massive dragon that has exactly one hundred heads. He guards the Garden of the Hesperides that the tree of the Golden Apples of immortality reside in.
== History ==
Ladon was a monstrous son of Typhon and Echidna, and was later hired by Hera to guard the Golden Apples in the Garden of the Hesperides.
===Encounter with Heracles===
Many years later, Ladon encountered the demigod Heracles, who needed to obtain a Golden Apple from the Garden for the second last of his Twelve Labors. Ladon, however, was too powerful for Heracles to defeat. Because of this, the demigod went to the Titan Atlas to get the apples for him and in exchange, would hold the Sky on his shoulders until he returned. Atlas readily agreed and went past the dragon to get the apples, but when he returned, the Titan saw a chance to escape his punishment. Atlas offered to deliver the apples himself to King Eurytheuses. Heracles, however, saw the trick and pretended to agree, but asked Atlas to hold the Sky for only a moment, while Heracles padded his shoulders with his thick Nemean Lion's Pelt. This seemed reasonable to the Titan, who took the Sky back, but Heracles simply took the apples from him and left, leaving an outraged and infuriated Atlas to endure his punishment once again.
==Appearance==
Ladon is described as being terrifying, enormous, with one hundred heads, "like a hundred pythons had been fused together". His serpentine body is thicker than a booster rocket, and his bright scales shimmer like copper. According to Azon, Ladon's breath smells like acid, making the demigod's eyes burn, his skin crawl, and hair stand on end. He describes the stench of it being similar to that of a dead rat, but "a hundred times stronger".
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