Chimera
Title
Vital Statistics
Gender	Male
Family	Typhon (father) Echidna (mother)
Status	Alive
Eye Color	Unknown
Hair Color	Yellow
Height	Unknown
Other
Affiliation	Monsters
Weapons	Fire Venomous Snake Tail
Species	Monster
Home	Unknown
Greek/Roman form	None
Appearances	The Lightning Thief
Actor	None
Quests	None

The Chimera ("she-goat", also spelled 'Chimaera') is the monster offspring of Echidna and Typhon.

HistoryEdit

In ancient myths, the Chimera was killed by Bellerphon on Pegasus when Bellerphon jammed a lead ball into its mouth. The ball melted, killing it with lead poisoning and suffocation. The original Chimera died long ago at the hands of the hero Bellerophon, though lesser chimera still prowl the labyrinth of Crete.

Percy Jackson and the OlympiansEdit

The Lightning ThiefEdit

Percy Jackson is cornered by a fat lady and her pet Chihuahua at the top of the Gateway Arch. The lady constantly refers to her pet as "sonny" or "son" and it is only when Percy is forced to wait for a second elevator down and left without the company of Grover Underwood and Annabeth Chase that he discovers that the fat lady really is Echidna, mother of all monsters.

The Chihuahua transforms into his true form, that of the Chimera, and attacks Percy. As Percy tries to defend himself and a few innocent bystanders with Riptide, he is outwitted by the creature and ultimately forced to dive out of the Gateway Arch (via a hole conveniently provided by the Chimera) into the Mississippi after being poisoned by the snake-headed tail.

AppearanceEdit

The Chimera has the head of a lion, the body of a goat, a blood-caked mane, and a ten-foot-long diamondback snake-headed tail which grows out of its shaggy behind. The Chimera secretes deadly venom released through a bite and breathes fire.

AbilitiesEdit

The Chimera has many powers including:

• It can breathe fire.
• Its snake-headed tail has venomous fangs and excretes a venom that is acidic.
• It has human intelligence.
• It is immensely strong.

TriviaEdit

• In The Lightning Thief film, the part where Percy and his friends encounter Chimera and Echidna was replaced with them fighting the Hydra at a replica of the Parthenon in Tennessee.
• In The Lightning Thief, Echidna calls the Chimera her son. However, in most ancient myths, the Chimera was a female, along with the fact that her name means 'she-goat.'
• In some myths the Chimera had dragon wings.
• Chimeras in botany are usually single organisms composed of two genetically different types of tissues. The word derived from the monster's name because of its several body part structure.
• In Paleontology, a chimera is a fossil which was reconstructed with elements coming from more than a single species of animal.
• For some myths, it has a knife in its body right after it bites its prey.