THE CLASHING ROCKS MY NAME IS JASON AND I SHOULD BE THE RULER OF IOLCuS B MY FATHER AESON HAD THE THRONE TAKEN AWAY FROM HIM BY HIS BROTHER PELIAS MY FATHER HID ME FROM THE EVIL PELIAS AND I WAS RAISED BY A CENTAUR HALF MAN HALF HORSE NAMED CHIRON CHIRON TAUGHT ME WELL WHO I WAS AND WHAT I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE AA WHEN I ARRIVED IN IOLCuS TO CLAIM MY BIRTHRIGHT MAY UNCLE DIDN't GIVE THE THRONE TO ME HE SAID HE WOULD ACCEPT MY CLAIM TO THE THRONE ONLY IF I BROUGHT HIM THE FLEECE OF THE GOLDEN RAM OF COLCHIS HE SAID BRINGING THE GOLDEN FLEECE TO OLCuS WOULD GRANT HIM PEACE FROM THE GHOST OF PHRIXUS WHO HAUNTED HIM NIGHTLY AND THE ADVENTURE WOULD BRING TO ME GREAT glory
I BUILT A GREAT SHIP AND NAMED IT THE ARGO AND I GATHERED ALL THE HEROES I COULD FIND TO JOIN ME ON it WE ARGONALTS TRAVELED FAR ON OUR SEARCH AND HAD MANY ADVENTURES IE HEROES INCLUDED NOBLE AND VIRTuous PELEUS WHO WAS GIVEN A SEA GODDESS TO WED AND ZETES AND CALAIS THE SONS OF BOREAS THE L NORTH WIND BLIND PHINEus WHOM THE HEROES SAVED FROM STARVATION RODE WITH US AS WELL OTHERS SUCH AS HERCULES HAD LEFT US EARLIER HERCULES HAD SAVED HIS ARMOR BEARER HYlAS FROM DROWNING AND HAD STAYED BEHIND TO MAKE SURE HE RETURNED TO GOOD HEALTH THE TWINS CASTOR AND POLLUX BROUGHT THEIR YouTHFUL ENERGY WHILE ORPHEus BROUGHT HIS LYRE TO KEEP US ENTERTAINED THEN A NEW DANGER PuT Our VERY LIVES AT RISK JASON I CAN TELL FROM THE SOUNDS THAT WE ARE NEAR THE ROCKS KNOWN AS THE SYMPLEGADES I TOLD You ABOUT THEM NO SHIP HAS EVER PASSED THROUGH THEM safely
You're SURE PHINEuS THEY LOOK RATHER ORDINARY TO ME ORDINARY THOSE ROCKS WILL CRASH TOGETHER AND CRUSH WHATEVER TRIES TO GO BETWEEN THEM JuST DO AS I SAY I PROMISE You WE WILL BE SAFE NO MATTER HOW CRAZY IT MAY SOUND IF IT GETS ME TO THE GOLDEN FLEECE I WILL DO WHATEVER YOU SAY OLD MAN THE MEN MUST ROW AS HARD AS THEY CAN WE MUST BE MOVING AS FAST AS POSSIBLE WHEN WE ARE ALMOST TO THE ROCKS I WILL RELEASE THIS DOVE AND IT WILL FLY AHEAD OF us THE ROCKS WILL CLOSE UPON THE DOVE MAYBE THEY WILL CRUSH IT MAYBE NOT J THE ROCKS WILL THEN PULL BACK AND AS THEY DO SO WE CAN SAIL SWIFTLY BETWEEN THEM BEFORE THEY CAN CRASH TOGETHER AGAIN YOU ARE RIGHT IT DOES SOUND CRAZY TO ME THOSE ROCKS DON't LOOK AS IF THEY WILL EVER MOVE BUT I HAVE BEEN WRONG BEFORE WE WILL DO WHAT YOU say ROW ROW AS IF YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT BECAUSE IT DOES 8 NY
IN THE NAME OF ZEUS RULER OF THE GODS ROW ROW IF YOU ARE THE HEROES YOU CLAIM TO BE ROW ROW ROW ROW
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