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Hades: A Brief Story Of A Tragic Hero
Once upon a time, there was a girl named Megan. She lived in a cabin in Oklahoma. Her dad went hunting one morning and he never came back. The next day, Megan went out looking for her dad. She was walking in the woods near their house when she saw something rustling in the leaves. She went to go see what she had heard only to find a big vicious monster. The monster called himself Hades. Hades had a big bag he carried with him. Inside the bag, there were souls of people he had come in contact with through the years. Hades’ bag contained the soul of Megan’s father. Once Megan found out that Hades had taken her father’s soul, she began to scream and cry. She pleaded for Hades to give her the soul of her father.

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