Cerberus
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| Cerberus | |
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| Title | |
| Underworld Guardian | |
| Vital Statistics | |
| Gender | Male |
| Family | Orthrus (Brother) |
| Status | Immortal |
| Eye Color | Unknown |
| Hair Color | Transparent |
| Height | Twice the size of a mammoth |
| Other | |
| Affiliation | Hades |
| Weapons | None |
| Species | Giant Three-Headed Dog |
| Home | The Underworld |
| Greek/Roman form | None |
| Appearances | The Lightning Thief The Last Olympian |
| Actor | None |
| Quests | None |
Cerberus (Κέρβερος in Ancient Greek) is an enormous, semi-transparent (he grows more visible the closer you are to death), '"pure-bred rottweiler" found at the gates to the Underworld.
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In The Lightning Thief, he stays in the front of the EZ Death Line. As one of the children of Echidna, he is the only one who works for the Olympians directly. Cerberus has three heads and one body and likes to play with Mrs. O'Leary and rubber balls. One of the labors of Hercules was to bring Cerberus from the Underworld to the Earth above, which Hades let him do if he could remove Cerberus from the Underworld without killing, which he did with Hades's permission. In that myth, when he took him out of the living world, Eurystheus immediately told him (by messenger) that to complete that labor he had to return Cerberus. He is the father of the hellhounds by Nyx. Despite being scary and fiercily deticated to his dutty, Cerberus is quite docile, playing rubber balls with Annabeth and quickly socializing with Mrs. O'Leary. He's also very large, dwarfing even the biggest hellhound, since Percy claimed that Mrs. O'Leary (whose height is that of a garbage truck) is a puppie if compared to cerberus on terms of stature.
Percy Jackson and the OlympiansEdit
The Lightning Thief Edit
Percy, Grover, and Annabeth encounter Cerberus and Annabeth manages to "tame" him by using a large red ball and some skills she learned at obedience school. Annabeth plays with Cerberus using the red rubber ball while Percy and Grover sneak past him. After Cerberus chomped the rubber ball, Annabeth tells him that they will play again someday and goes through, although she wipes a tear from her cheek because she knew that she could never come back and play with him.
Later, when speaking with Hades, Percy mentions to him that he should play with Cerberus more, saying that "he likes red rubber balls."
The Last OlympianEdit
Mrs. O'Leary plays with Cerberus when Percy and Nico are in the Underworld trying to carry out their plan for Percy to jump in the River Styx. He, thankfully, does not follow Percy and Nico to the River Styx.
The Heroes of OlympusEdit
The Son of NeptuneEdit
When Hazel has a flash back and takes Frank with her they see Cerberus standing in the distance while Hazel is being judged in the Judgement pavilion.
| Monsters | |
| Species: | Centaur | Cyclopes | Dragon | Drakon | Empousa | Harpy | Hyperborean Giant | Giants | Karpoi | Laistrygonian Giant | Pegasus | Stymphalian Birds | Telekhines | Empousa |
| Friendly Monsters: | Argus | Blackjack | Briares | Chiron | Don | Ella | Festus | Gleeson Hedge | Grover Underwood | Hippocampus | Mellie | Mrs. O'Leary | Ophiotaurus | Peleus | Scipio | Tyson |
| Enemy Monsters: | Agrius and Oreius | Basilisk | Charybdis and Scylla | Chimera | Clazmonian Sow | Colchis Bull | Echidna | Geryon | Joe Bob | Kampê | Manticore | Minotaur | Nemean Lion | Polyphemus | Sphinx | Typhon |
| Neutral Monsters: | Cerberus | Erymanthian Boar | Gray Sisters | Gorgons | Furies | Flesh-Eating Horse | Gryphon | Hippocampus | Siren |
