The Desert Beast

When Hercules went to see Eurystheus, he told him he had another task for Hercules. This task was hard even for the glorious Hercules. The task that he asked him to perform was to live in a land where there was nothing but sand and creatures that lived in the sand. The creatures were ravenous, bloodthirsty beasts. They fed on the poor unfortunates that wandered into the desert. They didn’t need water to live only the blood of humans. No person had even dared going to the desert knowing what was living underneath the sand. Eurystheus told Hercules to go and kill one of the beasts and bring three of the teeth from the mouth of the beast. They say the teeth of the beast are one million times sharper than the sharpest sword. The beasts have five rows of teeth, each row having 3,376 teeth. On Hercules way to the desert he found a large wooden staff sticking out of the ground. One end of the staff had a sharp point. So Hercules picked it up and kept going. The moment he walked 100 feet into the desert a beast had come out of the ground in search of the human. Hercules saw the beast coming and grabbed the staff and ran toward the open mouth of the beast and was hoping he would get close enough that it would stab into him or injure. He stuck it into the open mouth of the beast, choking it to death. Next Hercules had to use his metal sword to get three of the teeth out. He took them to Eurytheus. That was Hercules last labor.