These two - Eurystheus and Hercules - had already pretty bored each other.
- Well, how much one can make up feats? Don't I have anything to do? He bothered me, oh, how tired I am.
With these sad thoughts the king was lying on the couch, reading a newspaper and drinking cans of cola, when his daughter Admete came in.
- Daddy, I have bad luck.
The king smiled.
- Only your cares were missing, my daughter.
- Are you kidding, dad? I don’t laugh. I broke the buckle of my belt, that's what happened. And you know that there are no jewelers in the city.
-But how? What about the Armenian, whatever his name is, Ashot? Where is he?
- He moved to Athens.
- And Shmulevich? Did he also move?
- No, dad, he died.
-He died? I didn’t know about it.
- You were on a business trip.
- Well, my daughter, we'll figure something out.
At first Eurystheus wanted to send Hercules for a jeweler, but then decided that this request cannot be considered as a feat. And he suffered until dinner, and having drunk a stack of oversea-wine coming from far Malaga, cheered and an interesting idea immediately came to his mind.
- Belt! The famous belt of Amazon Hippolyta! And daughter will be delighted and a new mission will be given to this personage.
Hercules listened grimly the next task of Eurystheus. The hero, oh, how he didn’t want to contact with women. But business remains business and Hercules engaged in preparations of the journey.
The piquancy of the situation was that this unfortunate belt was presented to Hippolytus by insidious Ares, with whom Hercules was in a very tense relationship, though, on the other hand, he was patronized by Athena of who Ares was quite afraid.
In those days the Amazons lived in Abkhazia, today this place is called Gagra, and that’s why a week later the twenty-oar galley under the command of first-rank Captain of Hercules (the title at the request of Athena was awarded to him by Poseidon) came out to sea and headed to the Amazon. Disembarking in Pitsunda, near the mouth of the river Bzyb Hercules and his companions moved inland.
- Who are you and what do you want?
- We are voluntary travelers, and my name is Hercules.
- Oh, - astonished the Amazons - so you are the famous Hercules?
- Yes, - playfully spoke hero and casually dropped over the lion's skin, revealing his muscled torso.
The Amazons immediately threw their spears down and crowded around him.
- Girls, here are the muscles! Here is the body!
Exactly at this time arrived another group of Amazons headed with the queen of the country beautiful Hippolyta.
- Your Majesty, just look at his muscles...
Of course, Hippolytus guessed who stood before her.
- What do we owe the presence of the great Hercules?
- I’m an honest man, and I talk to you without any uncertain terms. I came here for your belt, lovely Hippolyta. If you want - I can buy it or change it for something. Frankly I don’t want to take it by force.
- I appreciate strong and honest people, Hercules, and this belt, although it is dear to me, I will give it to you.
I bet ten to one that now a conditionwill be followed - thought the hero.
- But there is a condition...
- Bingo!
- And the condition is that you will have to spend a week here as my personal guest.
However terrible disaster happened. Evil Hera, pretending to be one of the Amazons, exclaimed.
- Do not believe them. They want to take our queen away with them into slavery. Beat them!
The herd instinct worked and furious warriors attacked. In an instant, more than half of the team was killed from the arrows and spears of the Amazons. Prothoe in an instant killed seven soldiers. Hercules got terribly angry and taking the famous bat joined to the battle.
There was no mercy for anyone, the hero killed almost all the attackers and the sister of Hippolyta, Melanippe was captivated. The Amazons were scared. Hippola pleaded.
- Forgive us, formidable and ferocious Hercules. Here, I entrust you my belt and I beg you- release my sister.
- Well, so it will be.
Sad hero sailed home.
- The fame is not that little to win a bunch of women - thought Hercules –it’s ridiculous.
Whatever it was, the way laid through Troy. Moored to the shore the squad saw chained to a coastal cliff top model Hesione, the daughter of King Laomedon. The story was as follows. On New Year party Laomedon invited Poseidon and Apollo to his palace.
After copious libations Laomedon announced to gods that he came up with a new game and he would like to show them. King got chess and explained to them the rules of the game. Gods were extremely pleased by the game and a trio moved the figures until morning up to the moment when cunning Laomedon, having delved into some tutorials in advance, offered to play "for fun".
- You, mighty Poseidon, if you lose, you will have to build me half fortress wall around Troy, and if I lose- I will hand you the palm of the authorship of this game.
Putting Poseidon into a Légal Trap, Laomedon on the same terms beats Apollo.
The annoyed gods wanted to turn the king into a golden hamster, while for that stood up Zeus himself.
- Poseidon, Apollo, have you forgotten the law? Lost - pay. Sell your last shirt and let the duty a sacred thing, be accomplished. I sentence you both to fulfil the conditions.
Laomedon rubbed his hands.
- Well, my friends. Got caught, pigeons? Go ahead and build the wall, but try to build it stronger, or ha ha-ha- can order your ears - snip, snip.
Apollo and Poseidon got terribly angry. However, the wall they had yet to build , but right after that Apollo afflicted Troy with plague and Poseidon once again made the sea monster , devouring people, and with such a condition that it should have been appeasing sacrifice Hesione, the daughter of the king . Seeing this poor one, Hercules -a kind soul - decided to release her, but not so simply.
- What will you give me if I kill the monster and save your daughter?
- And what would you like?
- Nothing at all, only horses donated to Troy by Lord Zeus.
- Swept out.
The hero didn’t hurry to release Hesione. According to his plan, she had to serve as bait for luring the dragon.
And there it was, the sea foamed and gradually a terrible monster got out of there and licking headed for poor chipping girl in chains. Hercules immediately jumped out of the shelter and cut the serpentine tail off with a sword, depriving the dragon from proper coordination, and when the enraged creature turned to see who had dared to attack him; the hero plunged his sword to its heart, and smashed his head with a club.
Laomedon, however, refused to fulfil the condition.
-If you want, I can give you my daughter, but I won’t give you the horses. And if you speak - I'll kill you and your companions.
The hero left and felt a deadly insult. And a few years later he returned with an army, took Troy by storm (with the help of Apollo and Poseidon) and killed all the royal family, leaving alive only Priam, because he reassembled very much to his friend Iolaus.
- Admete, daughter, where are you?
- Here, dad.
- Can you guess, my sweetheart, what I'll give you?
- A fur coat!
- No.
- French lingerie.
- No.
- Italian sandals.
- No.
- I don’t know.
- Come, have a look! This is the belt of Hippolyta, given by himself Ares.
- Oh my God, so lovely. You are the best dad in the world.