Fan fiction for Clash of the Titans (Medusa's Solitude)

This is my version of the scene of Perseus entering and while being in Medusa's Lair.

Medusa's Solitude

Evening in the Temple of Medusa

In a dark and diverge entrance, the place was lit with broken cascades of cold sky light from caved and cracked portions of the roof. Toppled pillars and walls. Stone debris and broken columns on the ground.

Draco and Perseus walked through blindly through the mess. Perseus steps over what he believes to be a pile of dust and rubbles. A petrified corpse, grey and porous flesh and fingers curled excruciating. Everywhere there were bodies of men locked in cowering moments of pure soul-stripping horror. All the fragile statues had hollow eye sockets and crumbles easily like flake dusts. Silence in the air. A silhouette- MEDUSA...

A head of hissing hair and a woman's torso, crawling, savage, on her hands, dragging, waist-down, the slinking tail of a rattlesnake.

She lurks thru pools of shade and light, baring charcoal scale head-to-tail shedding in dry flaking tatters, hair of snakes, hissing and striking one another. Medusa hisses showing her forked tongue.

Perseus and Draco on opposite sides of the room dare not make any sound. They turn very slowly, weapons always up and ready. Medusa stealthily circles Draco. He listens to the rasping of scales on the stone.

DRACO

Perseus, I hear her!

She coils and surrounds Draco without touching him.

DRACO (continued)

She's over here. I think I've got her.

Her torso safely behind him, she lures her tail in front.

She RATTLES it, loudly.

Draco spins and slices the air towards the sound. The RATTLE

Stops suddenly. A relieved smile on Draco's face.

Draco sees just the tail before him. Startled and not thinking, he instinctively looks behind.

PERSEUS

(Sensing her strategy)

Draco don't!

Draco sees Medusa. His eyes widen and his muscles lock. His flesh scorches, shrivelling close to his bones. Draco’s body started to harden to scabrous pumice-stone. Medusa seems to get a high from the vapour of the drying ash corpse. She succumbs to a brief but euphoric shudder. She eyes Perseus, hungry.

Perseus shakes and breathes very hard, losing it. His heart pounds harder and harder, jerks at the slightest sounds and he makes sure that he holds his shield close. At first, Medusa doesn't seem to be anywhere around him.

Perseus gradually steps back. Until he bumps into a column. He jolts with fear, but he quickly steadies himself. On the column above, Medusa clings, her snake body coiled tight around the top. She slowly crawls down towards the base of the column. Closing into Perseus.

Yet Perseus insists on keeping his back flush against the column- a false security blanket. Above, Medusa reaches slowly for his blindfold with the meticulous patience of a snake. She pulls the knot out. The blindfold falls. Perseus instantly lowers his head and squeezes his eyes closed.

He slashes the air in front of him. He rakes the sword back to one side. Nothing. He sweeps the other side.

Nothing. Where is she?

Slithering sound slowly mixed with a moan, Medusa speaks

MEDUSA

Please apologize for my behaviour. (With a grin in her tone)

PERSEUS

Where are you and why should I believe you!

Yelling on the top of his lungs

PERSEUS

You have killed so many men, is this one of your tricks?

Medusa drags herself to the other side of the room on top of the toppled columns.

MEDUSA

No, I know why you are here. (Slightly pain and tear in her voice)

You are here to kill me, to slay Hades son. Kraken.

PERSEUS

I am here to slay you to help the citizen of Argos!

Perseus steps back with his sword up to his shoulder, closes his eyes and turns his back and swings his sword, slicing the thin air. Dust flying. Perseus reins in his panicked breath. He listens and thinks, he cracks his eyes and peers down into the basin of his shield. His darting eyes find a patch of polished bronze.

Above, unseen, Medusa nears. Her hair of snakes tenses and focuses on Perseus. They coil for the strike, to startle him into turning around. Medusa settles again and slowly hisses and speaks.

MEDUSA

I just wanted to be able to speak to someone like I did years ago!

To be talked to, to laugh with someone one, be touched.....

And be looked to in the eyes...

Hearing the sadness and frustration in her voice.

MEDUSA

I have been on my own (medusa sobs) for many years!

(She started screaming, crying and slithering up and down the broken columns)

Perseus angles the shield to reflect behind. No Medusa.

He tilts the shield to see above. He watches the scrap of

Scenery glides over the slash of burnished metal.

MEDUSA

What have I done so wrong to deserve this?

All this years you call me the monster!

She hisses and yells

I AM THE VICTIM! Always been and always will be. Cries

PERSEUS

Let us calm down Medusa, I have heard your story.

I cannot say that I feel your pain, but Medusa we can re write history. I will tell the events that happened here. What you really are. Just like us, everybody else. Wanting to be talked to. Companionship.

MEDUSA

I cannot trust anyone, NO ONE! But tell me this demi god. Do you keep your word to spreading my real story to the world?

As Medusa slithers down from the column and drags herself towards Perseus. She moved very close to Perseus, behind him.

MEDUSA

Don’t turn around just yet. I want to end my horrid life. I cannot take this lonely and dreary so called life of mine.

Perseus feels the cold shiver knowing she is behind him, holding his sword up towards his face with his eyes closed shut.

PERSEUS

Take my word Medusa, you alone can save hundreds and thousands of people. (Shaking) Do this, I will end your horrid life and you will die to me and for everyone else with commendation.

MEDUSA

You are as what they say, trustworthy.

Goodbye, Perseus, Demi God.. Save Argon.

Perseus shuts his eyes and wheels around to cut. A soft FTHMMP as the blade slices thru something... A fractional silence. Perseus holds his breath. His eyes dart again to the reflection to look at the shadow that still looms. He still feels her presence.

But suddenly, Medusa's head thuds and rolls on the ground. The headless reflection topples over, she is dead.

PERSEUS

I will spread your real story. Goodbye, beautiful maiden.

Perseus looks at Medusa head on the ground.

Medusa’s face was beautiful, she died with a smile.