Cerberus
Title
Underworld Guardian
Vital Statistics
Gender	Male
Family	Echidna (mother) Typhon (father) Orthrus, Chimera, Ladon, Hydra, and Nemean Lion (brothers) Sphinx (sister)
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 The Son of Neptune (in a flashback)
Actor	None
Quests	None

Cerberus is an enormous, semi-transparent (he grows more visible the closer you are to death), '"pure-bred three headed rottweiler" found guarding the gates to the Underworld.

HistoryEdit

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. Hades agreed to let Hercules take Cerberus back to the world of the living, if he could remove Cerberus from the Underworld, with only his brute strength and without killing him. 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.

Personality Edit

Despite being scary and fiercily deticated to his duty, 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 size is comparable that of a garbage truck) is a puppie if compared to Cerberus in terms of stature (which makes kind of sense, as Cerberus did father all Hellhounds, and being the first hellhound, they are all puppies).

Percy Jackson and the OlympiansEdit

The Lightning Thief Edit

Percy Jackson, Grover Underwood, and Annabeth Chase 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." Which only enrages Hades more.

The Last OlympianEdit

Mrs. O'Leary plays with Cerberus when Percy and Nico di Angelo are in the Underworld trying to carry out their plan for Percy to jump in the River Styx. Fortunately, he does not follow Percy and Nico to the River Styx, even though he wants Mrs. O'Leary to come back and play some more.

The Heroes of OlympusEdit

The Son of NeptuneEdit

When Hazel Levesque has a flash back and takes Frank Zhang with her they see Cerberus standing in the distance while Hazel is being judged in the Judgement pavilion.

AppearanceEdit

Cerberus is described as a huge black Rottweiler, twice the size of a wooly mammoth, with three heads. He wears a chain collor with three holes and has red eyes and sharp teeth and nails.