Cerberus

## Rehor, Melin and Lexus

### Likes

His family, breathing fire, flying, playing fetch, roses, spending time with Hansel and Amber, children, dancing

### Dislikes

Fighting with each other, Wolfgang, family threats, Buzzy trying to sting someone, burping fire, losing his powers, muzzles

### Powers and abilities

Pyrokinetic breath
Superhuman Strength

## Family information

### Parents

King Theron (father)
Unnamed mother †
Queen Sadie (stepmother)

### Siblings

Each other (brothers)
Amber (stepsister)

### Other relatives

Milo † (stepbrother-in-law)
Hansel (stepbrother-in-law)
Yukon (step nephew)
Maize (step niece)

**Cerberus** (better known as **Rehor, Melin and Lexus**) is a major character in Elkwood's feature film, *The Enchanted Pup.* He's a demon dog from the Underworld and the stepbrother of Amber. When EverRealm is threatened, Cerberus joins the Enchanted Pup on an adventure to restore magic to the kingdom. Once the adventure is over, Amber marries Hansel and becomes the new queen of EverRealm. Cerberus moved into the castle and began to serve as Hansel's confidante, best friend, protector and brother-in-law.

## Background

Cerberus was born to Theron and his wife who worked as Soul Counters in the Underworld. Cerberus was taught by Hades to be a guard dog. During his childhood, Cerberus' mother passed away, leaving Theron to raise his son on his own. One day, when Cerberus was sixteen, he moved into the royal palace of Elkwood after his father married the widowed queen, making her, Cerberus' stepmother and her daughter, his stepsister. When Cerberus tried to make a good impression on his new sister, the anxiety of embarrassing himself led to burp fire on the flowers Amber was offering to her new brother. Despite ruining her flowers, Amber welcomed Cerberus into the family with open arms and the two dogs became fast friends.

### Development

In earlier drafts, Cerberus was a robot dog named Robo who served as the pet and closed companion to Matthew, the main character of *the Black Lion* franchise. Robo made his debut in a spin-off film known as *Return to the Present* where Matthew and his family time-traveled to the future to save his future-self from falling victim to a college rival. Robo was introduced as the pet of Dexter, Matthew's adult future-self. He starts to grow attached to Matthew and in the end of the film, he goes back to live with Matthew in the present.

When Prancer was re-creating characters for *the* *Enchanted Pup,* he decided to turn Robo into a demon dog named Cerberus who is a three-headed dog who guarded the gates of the Underworld. His relationship with the main character, Hansel would be brother-in-laws as Cerberus was the brother of Queen Amber, Hansel's love interest.

### Personality

Having three heads means Cerberus has three different personalities. According to Theron, Cerberus was just simply a nickname for the heads' respective names. The heads' personalities joined together gives Cerberus, an energetic, adventurous, clever and loving personality.

The first head, Rehor is shown to be athletic, agile and cares strongly about his appearance and what he puts in his body. He always makes sure to eat healthy food for every meal and when are the best times to eat sweets. Rehor doesn't appear to have an inflated ego about his appearance as his strength and endurance is who he is and it's in his nature to make sure that he's always strong and fast.

The second head, Melin is shown to be laid-back, easygoing, relaxed, mellow and unfazed most of the events. His mellow personality often clashes with Lexus' rather stern personality. Whether it was guarding the Underworld or living as a monarch, Melin hopes to live an easygoing life with no trouble. Melin usually expressed his emotions through facial expression, showing that even in the life-threatening situations, he remains calm.

The third head, Lexus is authoritative, intimidating, firm and somewhat impatient. Unlike Melin who wants to live an easygoing life, Lexus takes all of the work in life seriously and only relaxes during his leisure time. Although, he appears austere and tough, he does have a soft side to his personality such as caring for his other heads and the rest of his relatives.

Rehor, Melin and Lexus' unique personalities joined together lead them to help Hansel restore magic and hope to EverRealm while bringing honor, happiness, love and friendship to the inhabitants. The heads' unique personalities also helps them form loving bonds with their family and the people around them. Cerberus appears to suffer from stress and insecurities which is shown when he involuntarily breaths fire. For instance, the anxiety of meeting his stepsister for the same time led Cerberus to burp fire on the flowers she was offering him.

### Physical appearance

Cerberus is a black muscular dog with three heads. Each head wears a collar with different colors like Rehor wears a red collar, Melin wears a blue collar and Lexus wears a green collar. He wears a dark blue shirt with a brown leather belt and blue jeans.

After the events of the first *Enchanted Pup* feature-length film, Cerberus became a member of the Pup Family and began to wear clothes that corresponds with the current season.

### Powers and abilities

* **Demon/Dog Physiology:** Cerberus is half-dog, half-Underworld demon
* **Wing Manifestation:** In times of danger, Cerberus can grow wings from his back and fly.
* **Fire Breath:** Cerberus' prominent ability is being able to manipulate fire within him in a way that allows him to shape the exhaling of the effect. These shapes include bursts, blasts, streams, beams, spits, spheres and even a mist of it from his mouth.

## Appearances

### *The Enchanted Pup*

Cerberus is shown to be the guard dog of the Elkwood kingdom and alongside the royal guards, he keeps Elkwites from leaving the kingdom for their own safety. After Amber's husband, Milo died, Cerberus began to comfort his sister and her children as they were depressed over Milo's death and the loss of their freedom as Wolfgang restricted EverRealmians from using their magic or be executed. To keep her children's faith strong, Amber told them stories about the Enchanted Pup, a magical dog who protected the universe with his ice magic. Along with the Gold children, Cerberus was entertained by the Enchanted Pup stories.

In the present day, Amber receives a message from her messenger pigeon that he spotted the Enchanted Pup in EverRealm. Happy about the discovery, she ordered her servants to make dinner arrangements and ordered her messenger to send the Enchanted Pup, an invitation. Cerberus helps the servants with decorating the castle for the dinner party. Later that night, Hansel arrives at the castle as an invited guest. While trying to stay excited and controlled at the same time, Cerberus calmly introduces himself to the Enchanted Pup and strikes a conservation with him during dinner. Once the dinner was over, Cerberus helped clean up the kitchen and ensured that his sister has privacy while talking with Hansel.

When the dogs' romantic evening comes to an end, Amber bids Hansel, a farewell and makes plans to see him again tomorrow night. As Hansel departed from the castle, Cerberus was delighted that his sister has fallen in love with the Enchanted Pup. However, the dogs' second date was cancelled as Hansel had to prepare for a battle between Jordan, the merciless leader of the Twin Paw, a group of savage aliens. Along with Amber and the kids, Cerberus tags along with his sister to support Hansel and to give him fighting advice such as keeping his eye on the target and to always expect the unexpected. A few days later, Hansel was ready for his battle which was taking place at Pawpaw River located in Pawpaw Forest. Cerberus sat at top of the bleachers with Amber and the Pups. He rooted for Hansel as he managed to get the upper hand against his foe and then later cheered for him after he saved Jordan from falling to his death with help from the Water Spirit.

Grateful for Hansel's heroic deed, Jordan offers to help the Enchanted Pup with finding the elemental spirits. However, just as the gang was about to begin their journey, a fire monster known as the Smogtaur attacks the Pups forcing them to evacuate to Elkwood. While hiding out in the palace, he meets Hansel's pet bumblebee, Buzzy and the two become fast friends. He also comes upstairs to Amber's room where she tells Hansel how life became hard for her after father and husband died. Cerberus mentions that his mother died when he was five. Suddenly, the Smogtaur attacks the palace forcing the gang to evacuate to Lakeville, Buzzy's hometown. The town's leader, Buttons initially refuses to let Hansel and the gang enter his kingdom until Buzzy reveals himself to Buttons. Buttons learns from Buzzy that Hansel saved him from danger after he left Lakeville. Touched by Hansel's bravery, Buttons allows the Enchanted Pup and his family to enter the kingdom. While given a tour in the castle, the guards suddenly attack Amber and her children as it turns out that the guards have been hypnotized by Wolfgang.

Cerberus' fire breath proves to be useless as the Rhino Guards are impervious to fire. Fortunately, both Hansel and Yukon managed to subdue the guards, allowing for them to escape the castle and retreat to the cliffs. The Earth spirit gave the gang, a path leading to their residence of the spirits. While traveling up to the mountains, they instead find a sign which apparently leads to the spirits' residence. Upon reaching up to the top, the gang discovers that there's nothing. Believing that Hansel is running a wild goose chase, Charles scolds his brother on putting him and the others for his childish fantasies. Hansel tries to reason with Charles but this only makes it worse as Charles ends up disowning Hansel as brother, leaving Cerberus and the others in shock. Before Hansel could say anything else, Wolfgang, the guards and the Smogtaur comes to the mountain and corners the Pups. Just as Cerberus prepares to breath fire on the guards, Wolfgang magically puts a muzzle on Cerberus to keep him from burning up his guards. He then sedates Hansel and throws him off a cliff where he presumably drowns. Afterwards, Cerberus and the others are taken back to the palace to be dungeoned for harboring a fugitive.

Unbeknownst to Cerberus and the others, Hansel survives the fall as Bradley, who gained full control of his powers, saved Hansel from drowning. They then proceed to the Gold Volcano which is the true residence of the elemental spirits. It is revealed that Wolfgang murdered Blacktail and his wife in order to gain control over EverRealm and its magic. Now knowing the truth and willing to set things right, Hansel and the elementals heads over to the palace's dungeon to free Amber and the others from their imprisonment. Cerberus joins in the group hug along with Amber and the others. He exposes Wolfgang's crimes and plans to dominate Mount Olympus and the entire cosmos. By taking Marley's spaceship, they fly to Mt. Olympus where they see that Wolfgang has taken the Greek Gods hostage and prepares to have the Growlers, an army of demonic natural disasters eat them. Fortunately, Hansel saves Zeus before he was killed.

During a confrontation between Thawe, Cerberus manages to burn him alive as it turns out he regained his ability to breath fire. The Smogtaur is tamed and Wolfgang is defeated. With Wolfgang gone for good, Robert and Giselle can return to EverRealm and Hansel can take his rightful place as ruler of EverRealm. Having grown strong romantic feelings for one another, Hansel and Amber marry, leading her, her children and Cerberus to move into the castle. In order to start his new reign, Hansel uses his magic to create a winter wonderland for the Pups and the EverRealmians to enjoy and symbolize their right to use their magic now and forever.

### *The Enchanted Pup 2*

Taking one year after the events of the previous film, Cerberus has happily adjusted to his new lifestyle in the EverRealmian palace as a member of the Pup Family. When Hansel believed that the kingdom is in possible danger, he leaves EverRealm to find someone who can help him protect the kingdom in the future. Cerberus stays behind while Buzzy tags along with him to a village in Nepal. In the climax of the film, Cerberus heads to Wolf Town to help Hansel save the country from Wolfsbane's plan. In the end, Brodi and the Mastiffs move into the palace as it turns that they're members of the Pup Family.

### *The North Pup*

Cerberus plays a major role in the film. He tags along with Hansel, Buzzy and the high-tech North Winds on a mission to rescue missing children from Professor Whiskers, an evil scientist who has plans to turn the children into monsters and use a space laser to destroy them. During a mission in Paris, Cerberus offered to disguise himself as child in order to lure Whiskers into a trap. Unfortunately, the plan fails and what's worse is Cerberus is kidnapped by Whiskers. When Cerberus is discovered by Whiskers, he plans to use Cerberus' abduction as an advantage to capture Hansel and the North Winds.

When the North Winds are captured, Hansel is taken to the experimentation room along with Alex, Tysan and Jack, Whiskers prepares to test the space laser on Cerberus who is strapped to a chair. Once the laser was fired, it appeared that Cerberus was killed, devastating Hansel. Unbeknownst to Hansel, Cerberus survived the blast as it was revealed that he managed to free himself and fly out of the chair before the laser hit him. Free from Whiskers' clutches, Cerberus proceeds to free the North Winds and to tell them about Whiskers' plan to destroy the children with a laser after turning them into monsters. However, the children are turned into monsters along with Hansel and his comrades. Fortunately, Cerberus manages to free Hansel from his bind by showing himself. Once Hansel is freed, he tearfully embraces Cerberus, believing that Whiskers killed him.

Cerberus then works to defeat Whiskers and save the children. In the end, both Whiskers and his men are defeated and the children are reunited with their parents. As a reward for saving his brother-in-law, the North Winds move to EverRealm. Afterwards, Cerberus and Hansel reunite with Amber and the other Pups.

### *Animal Planet*

Cerberus joins Hansel and the Pups on an adventure through the mystical land of Basel's Garden.

### *The Karate Pup*

Cerberus stays behind in EverRealm after Hansel was chosen to protect a Chinese planet from Master Doom, a dangerous sorcerer.

### *Robin Hood*

Cerberus tagged along with Hansel and the Pups on a journey through the kingdom of Nottingham to restore peace and order that was destroyed by Prince John and his army.

### *The Fox and the Pooch*

Cerberus helps Hansel with protecting Foxwood and Wayne from the evil Bonetown king, Chief.

### *The Enchanted Pup: The Series*

Cerberus is one of the main characters in the cartoon series.