Karin: Hi everyone

Karin: Hi everyone. I've returned from Otakon! Great year, great year. But enough about that! Let's get to the story!

Sasuke: Why am I not here yet?

Naruto and Karin: because you suck!

Sasuke: And yet I have more fangirls than either of you

Karin: Shut up! I'm a girl so that's understandable! Besides, I got fans in general for cosplaying as Naruto! The people at inner harbor even asked to take pictures of me! And I even had a person say hi to me from a moving vehicle!

Naruto: Take that Sasuke! I have more fans than you!

Sasuke: Hn

Disclaimer: No owning of Naruto or Matantei Loki Ragnarok, but I do own this story so there!

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The atmosphere was dark and damp. Water drippings were steady yet constant. The dreary room with its rats and cobwebs was the home of something dark hiding in the shadows.

As the creatures smelled all the tasty human souls walking around, he couldn't help but grin and lick his lips as he caught scent of something else entirely.

"Hmm…what's one of them doing here?"

Matantei Sakura Ragnarok

Chapter Three

The Hunt for the Demon

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The sky was a beautiful shade of blue with the sun shinning brightly in the sky. Konoha Gakuen radiated nothing but a peaceful atmosphere with birds chirping along the campus grounds…

"NANI?!"

…well, they used to be before that loud exclamation scared them all off, along with the peaceful atmosphere.

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Sakura stared amusedly at the human boy. His jaw was gaping like a fish while his eyes were wide as saucer plates. It took all her self-control to not burst out laughing at his expression. Really his expressions were just too hilarious.

'Really, did he honestly think a simple locked door would stop me?' she thought to herself with a smirk. It was so easy to unlock that door and walk out of his apartment like it wasn't locked in the first place. Just because most of her godly powers were gone didn't mean she couldn't unlock a door. She even stole a plate of waffles from this breakfast joint on the way here without being noticed.

Then again, he didn't know she was a god so she guessed that it was a big surprise to him.

"H-how?" Naruto spluttered out as he shakily pointed his index finger at her. He looked like he was staring at a ghost or something. "I even locked the door!" he exclaimed.

"Eh? You know her Uzumaki-kun?" a girl asked. Everyone turned their attention to the spiky haired boy with curious expressions. They couldn't be siblings could they? They didn't really look alike.

"Is she your cousin? She's so cute!" another girl said to him. Even the boys wanted to know what the relationship between the mysterious child and their freaky classmate were.

"Not as cute as you ladies I'm sure" Sakura said with a charming smile. "I wish one of you lovely nee-chans was my sister" she told them with her charming smile still in place. She kicked her legs back and forth and cocked her head a little to the side to enhance the cute look.

"KAWAII!!" the girls screamed with blushes on their faces. This nonsense needed to stop now, Naruto concluded.

Naruto raced towards the desk and was immediately dragging her out the door by the back of her collar.

"Oi! What's with you?" Sakura asked him.

"You're not supposed to be here! Go home, okay?" Naruto told her. However, Naruto's attempt to get rid of the insufferable pink haired child was cut short.

"Come on, Uzumaki-kun! Let her stay" one girl begged.

"She's so cute! I wish my younger sister was as cute as her!"

"Who is she anyway, Uzumaki?" a guy asked. The others all nodded urging the boy to spill. The fact that they thought Naruto didn't have any friends was apparent on their surprised faces.

"I live with him—"

"—Next door!" Naruto hurried finishing Sakura's sentence. He didn't want his classmates getting the wrong idea. There was no way they could pull off being related so Naruto would have to go with the next best thing. "Yeah, she has this really big crush on me and likes to follow me around and stuff!"

"Excuse me? Who would willingly like you—"

Naruto covered her mouth in an attempt to shut her up. Why couldn't she just be a quiet girl who doesn't like annoying him for once? He laughed nervously at his classmates.

"She's really embarrassed about it so she denies it a lot. You know first crush and all" he said praying that they'd buy it. It wasn't like he wasn't good looking since he did get a few looks from girls on the streets, but his mystery obsession tended to be a turn off for his female school mates apparently.

"Awww, first loves are so adorable!" a girl said. The other girls swooned with her. The guys nodded their heads in agreement.

"Well, I guess even Uzumaki can get girls despite his personality" a guy said. The others nodded in agreement. Naruto chose to ignore that comment and sigh in relief that they bought it.

Sakura struggle under Naruto's grasp. Her irritation reached its peak finally deciding to free herself by chomping on his hand.

"Ita!" Naruot cried out as he felt Sakura's teeth sink into his flesh. Damn that girl could bite! "What was that for?!" he yelled at the pink haired brat.

"Don't cut off my breathing supply you baka" Sakura told him with a glare. Naruto glared right back at her with equal distaste. Everyone sweat dropped as they saw static pass between them.

"Hora, hora, what liveliness we have this morning" a new voice chimed in.

Everyone turned to find Mizuki-sensei at the doorway with a smile on his face. He leaned against the doorframe as he looked upon his students.

"Ohayo Mizuki-sensei" the class greeted in sync.

"Ohayo minna," he answered back. He then proceeded to his desk. "Please take your seats so we can begin" he commanded them in a kind yet stern voice. Everyone complied while Naruto and Sakura were still in the front.

Sakura glared at the teacher as she stood next to Naruto in the front of the classroom. Dislike was clear on her features as her shoulders were tense.

"Oh? And who is this?" Mizuki-sensei asked as he noticed Sakura. Sakura only glared harder at him.

"Sakura" She told him "I'm here for this baka" she jabbed a thumb at Naruto. Mizuki-sensei seemed to have considered this for a moment before looking apologetically at her.

"Sumimasen, but children aren't allowed to be on school campus if they don't attend here" he told her sincerely.

"He has to watch me" Sakura replied with a tiny snarl. Only Naruto and Mizuki-sensei were able to catch it since it was low. "Where ever he goes, I go" she told Mizuki-sensei.

Naruto was shocked at Sakura's intensity and conviction to stay with him. He also noticed that she didn't seem to like Mizuki-sensei much either if the glare was an indication.

'What's with her?' Naruto asked himself. Mizuki-sensei was one of the nicest teachers in Konoha Gakuen. To not like him was like him giving up mysteries!

"Oooh, Sakura-chan's so possessive" a girl swooned.

"Man, I wish a girl would be like that for me" one guy sulked.

"Why does Uzumaki get the devoted ones?" another guy sulked.

"Sakura-chan, you can't stay with me while I'm in class" Naruto told her. "You should be at home anyway. I'll be home to see you as soon as I can" Naruto explained. He needed to get Sakura out of here before things got out of hand and he got in trouble.

He also needed to give her the lecture of her life and make sure that something like this never happened again. Kami-sama knows how many hectic occurrences this girl will cause him if he didn't lay down some rules.

"Maybe another time, Sakura-chan" Mizuki-sensei told her. The mocking tone only noticed by the pink haired god. Such disrespect to her would result to him being burnt to a crisp when no one's looking.

Her glare intensified tenfold. Her emerald eyes swiftly flickered to Naruto without anyone noticing except Mizuki-sensei before going back to him.

Surprisingly, Sakura turned towards the door and began to walk out. Naruto had expected her to make more of a fuss but it seemed that Sakura knew when she lost. With a quiet sigh of relief, Naruto ran a hand through his spiky blonde locks when he heard the door shut behind Sakura.

"Now that our guest is gone, we might as well get started with attendance" Mizuki-sensei said to the class while he retrieved the attendance sheet. "Naruto-kun, would you mind taking your seat?" he asked the blonde with a smile.

"Eh?" he voiced out before realizing that he wasn't in his seat. "Ah! Sumimasen sensei!" he exclaimed with his cheeks a red hue in embarrassment and raced to his seat in the back in order for their homeroom teacher to make attendance.

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Sakura sat on a tree branch outside the windows of classroom 2-B with a serious expression. She was easily concealed from them with a simple spell to hide her appearance.

However, her eyes narrowed as she watched the classroom, she knew he could see her perfectly. Not that she was trying to hide from him. Her presence did after all prevent him from trying something funny. Even if there were many witnesses, she didn't want to take any chances of Naruto being in danger.

"Hmph, listen to yourself Sakura, getting worked up over some human" her eyes narrowed while her expression was that of distaste at herself for being soft.

A sigh escaped her lips, with her closing her eyes and dropping the expression into that of solemn thoughtfulness.

"Demo…"

Suddenly, she felt two hands place themselves on her shoulders. Her emerald eyes snapped up to see the human looking at her with empathy. His deep sapphire eyes staring at her with sadness and pain.

"Oi," he said gently, "You don't have a family or home, do you?" he asked. She could see this human had painful experiences with his parents.

And for the first time in her god life, she felt empathy for a human.

"Not really" she replied bitterly. What was she supposed to say? "My best friend took everything away from me and banished me into living as a human" No, definitely not.

The human ruffled her hair gently. Normally, she would snarl and shoot a fireball at anyone who tried that without her consent, but she felt strangely relaxed by his caring nature.

She heard the human sigh and give off a smile.

"Okay" he told her. "You can stay here until my uncle comes back. Then, we'll figure out what to do with you" he told her.

A smile graced her features and her gaze softened. She placed a hand under her chin as she gazed upon the Uzumaki boy.

"He's one interesting guy"

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"I should've known you didn't go home" Naruto grunted out as he saw that Sakura had returned to his classroom during recess.

"Oh don't be such a pussy. Eat something before you waste away" Sakura told him as she sat on the desk in front of him. She was yet again eating another batch of waffles. Naruto began to wonder where she was getting them from.

"I would if you would go back to the apartment already" Naruto muttered out as to prevent from someone hearing. Nonetheless, Sakura heard him perfectly.

"Nn, don't feel like it" she replied and plopped another piece of waffle in her mouth from the plastic container she had it in. Thank Kami-sama for forks or else she would have to get syrup on her hands. Her waffles were practically floating from all the syrup in the container!

"Ugh!" Naruto banged his forehead lightly on his desk. This girl was just too much!

"Naruto" she called to him. He looked up at her only for a piece of waffle to be shoved in his mouth. "Eat" Sakura commanded him with a stern gaze.

"mmffmfm" whatever angry thing Naruto was going to say was cut off by the waffle shoved in his mouth.

"Honto ni? That's scary?" a girl's voice sounded. Sakura ignored Naruto choking on the waffle and turned her attention to the group talking over at the corner of the room.

"Yeah, Misayota-san from class 1-A was found in the hallway last week" a guy said.

"And Rutaka-kun from 3-D was found yesterday hung up by some strange goop on the first floor hallway" another girl chimed in the conversation.

"I heard that their bodies were all rotted and stuff" another guy spoke as he waved his fingers creepily to scare the other people in the conversation.

"So why isn't anyone doing anything about it?" a girl asked.

"Because the principle still believes it's some school prank. That's a load of bull!" another guy said.

"I'm definitely not staying after school near night time that's for sure" a girl said as her eyes shifted around as if she was making sure nothing was going to jump out at her.

The conversation caught Sakura's interest. Deciding to investigate more, she left her perch on the desk and walked over to the conversing students.

"Cough—Sakura-chan—you—" Naruto was finally done with his hacking session and was about to give the girl a piece of his mind before he noticed she wasn't there anymore. "Eh? Sakura-chan?"

"So, what's this about bodies being found?" Sakura asked curiously. Something tells her this wasn't going to be good.

"Eh, well, Sakura-chan, lately when a student has stayed at Konoha Gakuen at nightly hours, their bodies are found rotted the next day on the first floor" a girl explained.

"There were also incidents where people would find this strange horrible smelling slime too" a guy explained.

"Some people even claimed they saw a shadow of something" a girl said trembling.

"Sou ka," Sakura muttered out. "How long has this been going on?" she asked. Her eyes narrowed in thoughtfulness.

"Eto… maybe a month or so" a girl replied to her question.

'Damn, it's been around longer than I would've thought. Looks like it's getting more engrossed in its meals' Sakura thought with distaste. Obviously the more time it spent getting used to its environment, the more gruesome his meals will be as he devours someone.

"Yeah, that should be right. That was around the time Mizuki-sensei came" another girl said.

"You mean there's something eating students in the school?" Naruto asked giving his full attention. He never heard any of this; perhaps it was because he wasn't included in high school social life, but who cares at the moment! A mystery is afoot! "Does anyone know what it is?"

"Well, the only thing that could've caused this is…" the girl trailed off and her eyes darted around before turning back to them. She lowered her voice as her eyes were serious.

"…a demon."

"Demon?" Naruto raised an eyebrow. His eyes sparkled excitedly at the mention of the word. Definitely a mystery!

Everyone else nodded; unaware that Naruto was entering "mystery-mode".

"Everyone's too scared to even be in the school a second after the bell rings" a guy says.

"Seriously? It's that scary?" Naruto asked with a big grin.

Meanwhile, Sakura was left to her thoughts as she glared down at the tiled floor. Her emerald eyes were narrowed as she felt her suspicions coming clear.

'It seems I'd better take care of this as soon as possible.'

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Naruto tossed some of his clothes back not caring where they landed. His sapphire eyes searching frantically in his closet.

Sakura entered the room preparing to say something, but an old dirty t-shirt in her face prevented her from such.

"Oof!" she let out. The Uzumaki boy ignored her probably not even noticing his smelly t-shirt was obstructing her vision. "Oi!" she shouted out.

Naruto ceased his frantic shuffling to look at the pink haired girl. He raised an eyebrow when he saw one of his t-shirts on her face.

"Sakura-chan, why do you have that on your face?" he asked her.

Sakura quickly tore it off her face and threw the unbearably smelly obstruction to the floor in a huff. She then directed her sharp gaze at him fiercely.

"What are you doing?" she asked him crossing her arms against her chest. Naruto went back to the closet and began looking into some boxes.

"I had this book when I was little talking about demons and such. I want to figure out what kind of demon's in our school" he replied to her.

His bold statement caused her eyes to narrow in distain. Getting involved with this was the last thing she wanted to happen.

"Oi, don't be stupid. Kami-sama doesn't take kindly to stupid people" she told him.

"Blah shows what you know. There's no such thing as Kami-sama" Naruto told her roughly as he picked out another box to look through.

"No Kami-sama?" Sakura raised an eyebrow at him. Well, she knew for sure that was untrue. Come on, if there was no such thing as gods then what was she? An elf?

Sakura let out a sigh and shook her head. Deciding that this matter was pointless, she brought up a much more important matter.

"We're out of waffles" she said in a monotone.

At her announcement, Naruto raised his head from the boxes and looked at her.

"How can we be out? I have two full boxes!" he told her.

"Had" she corrected.

Naruto's eyebrow twitched. Did she seriously eat them all?

He let out a snort and went back to his searching. The little brat expected him to feed her when she ate a two weeks supply of his waffles? There was no way he was getting her waffles anymore!

"Find something else to eat" the blonde said. The pink haired girl glared at him when he told her that; her stubbornness taking over. She wanted waffles, not some kind of other human food! Did he not hear her when she said they were out?!

"I don't want something else" Sakura retorted. "I want waffles"

"Why are you telling me this for?" he asked the brat.

"Because I want you to get me some" she replied simply. Again, Naruto's eye twitched. She made it sound like he was her slave or something.

"No way! It's almost ten o'clock! I'm not getting you waffles!" Naruto protested. He was older than her and owned this apartment; Naruto would not be subjected to taking orders from an eight-year-old!

"Fine! I'll just get them myself!" Sakura growled out and stomped out of his bedroom. Naruto winced five seconds later when he heard the door slam.

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It was almost ten thirty and still no luck with finding his book. What made it worse was that his room liked like it was a battlefield for World War II. Naruto scratched the back of his head as he looked upon the catastrophe. He was not looking forward to cleaning this.

'Maybe I can bribe Sakura-chan with waffles to do it instead,' Naruto thought idly.

Speaking of the pink haired midget, she still hasn't come back yet. Naruto felt himself start to worry. It didn't take this long to get waffles, that he was certain. Even if she seemed to have a black hole for a stomach for them, Sakura seemed like the type of person to be quick about things.

'Quick or not, she's eight years old! You shouldn't have let her go out in the first place!' Naruto scolded himself. With that thought in his head, the blonde raced out the door—locking it behind him—and raced towards the nearest waffle place where he hoped he would find her.

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He panted harshly as he placed his hands on his knees. He must've circled the entire plaza square eight times already and still no sign of Sakura-chan. Where was she?!

Please let her be okay, he begged in his mind. Sure Sakura was a pain, but she was also his responsibility. He had to take care of her for she had no one else in this world. Without him, who would she depend on? Who would come to help her if she was in trouble?

Him; it was his duty to watch her and make sure she's safe. True she was only with him for about twenty-four hours, but that didn't matter to him. Sakura was alone in this world like himself. It didn't matter if he knew her for his whole life or for only a day.

He didn't want her to be alone anymore.

Just then, a speck of pink caught at the corner of his eye. Naruto snapped his head up in that direction and looked panicky around for the site of pink once more.

There! There she was!

Sakura was walking about 50 yards away from where he was standing; her back was facing him as she walked along. Naruto felt a giant grin in relief uptake him as he began to chase after her.

She was okay! She was safe!

"Saku—"he was about to shout, but something stopped him from making his presence known. He furrowed his eyebrows in confusion as he watched her departing figure.

Where was she going? The waffle places were all back to where he was. Sakura appeared to be walking in the opposite direction. Did she not see them? No, Naruto shook his head at the thought, he was sure Sakura would notice all the places that served waffles.

He didn't know what compelled him to follow her. Perhaps it was the mystery craving in him. Naruto didn't really stop to find out for he was too busy keeping his distance and yet still keep an eye on the little girl.

It wasn't until she arrived at her apparent destination that he was truly dumbfounded.

There Sakura was, still not noticing her follower, walking straight into his school! What in the world was she doing there?! Something wasn't right here, his instincts told him.

Something definitely was going on with that pink haired child.

Realizing a little too late that he was losing her, Naruto quickly scrambled into the school building. His eyes widened when he came across the front doors being unlocked. How in the world did someone unlock the doors? He asked himself.

The Uzumaki boy searched around for any signs of pink finding none. Sakura was nowhere to be found. The girl must've disappeared when he was lagging behind. Damn; and he calls himself a detective!

Naruto shook his head to rid of his thoughts. This has gone along far enough; he needed to find Sakura-chan and bring her back to the apartment. He made a note to add not wandering off by herself into his lecture.

Naruto traveled through the dark hallways looking around. His echoing footsteps were the only sound in the dark corridors. Not a source of light was in sight.

"Sakura-chan?" he whispered loudly. He looked around to see if the girl had heard him calling. "Sakura-chan?" he called a little louder.

Suddenly, a creak made Naruto nearly jump out of his skin. He placed a hand to his haste pounding heart and searching hysterically around for the source of the noise.

Finally, his azure eyes caught sight of what he recognized as the door to the school basement. The door was slightly ajar meaning that the creaking sound was from it being pushed slightly open.

Naruto took a cautious step towards it. Then he took another. Soon, the boy was right in front of it now.

"Sakura-chan?" he whispered out. He opened the door wider making it creak obnoxiously in the hollow halls. "Sakura-chan? Are you down there?"

Nothing answered him. However, Naruto was determined. He took a step down and continued his trek down the stairs into the vast, cold, creepy, and dark basement.

Once the boy felt his feet plant firmly on the ground again, Naruto squinted in an effort to try and see. Squinting didn't really do much since the place was almost pitch black. He could barely see a foot in front of his face!

"Sakura-chan?" he called out louder. He cupped his hands on his mouth to give a more echoing sound; "Hello?" he called out.

The echoing of his hello bounced off the walls. No female voice of the pink haired girl answered him.

Naruto put him hands down and began feeling around in order to help him see. He felt his hand slide across some boxes and the cool smooth concrete walls of the basement for guidance.

Consequently though, his hand came into contact with something moist… and… slimy.

"Gah!" Naruto let out a scream and pulled his hand away from the walls. He examined his hand and sure enough, there was some kind of clear brownish slime on his hand.

Attentively, the teenager reached his head forward again where the slime was and felt something else. It was slimly, but it also felt desiccated and it smelled like rotten eggs.

Naruto took closer steps to it. His hand continued to feel the strange substance. The shape he traced with his hand felt familiar; like he knew it from somewhere.

He reached closer to it; it was so close to his face now that the smell practically made him vomit.

Naruto's eyes widened and he yelled at the top of his lungs. He sprung back as his hands were shaking.

It was a body.

It was a dead, rotted, human body.

Naruto felt gasped deep breaths as he stared wide eyed. His knees buckled and he fell to the cold concrete floor. The smell and the impact of being right in front of a dead person caused him to vomit.

"Naruto-kun" a voice said.

Naruto looked around startled. Soon, his cobalt eyes came into contact with his teacher.

It was Mizuki-sensei.

"M-Mizuki-sensei…?" Naruto asked surprised. He then turned back to the floor as he felt himself vomit yet again.

"Naruto-kun, I was wondering when you would get here" Mizuki-sensei said as he walked over to the fallen boy smoothly.

"Mizuki-sensei! There's a body! A dead body!" Naruto was hysterical. His entire body was shaking with convulsions.

"I know" Mizuki-sensei smiles softly. Naruto simply stared at him. "Isn't it wonderful?" he asked the boy.

"W-wha?" Naruto choked out.

"She was so delicious. Oh and how she screamed and tried to get away; priceless. Her soul and blood were so delicious. I just couldn't help myself so I just devoured her" Mizuki-sensei said with a crazed smile.

"Mizuki-sensei! What are you talking about?!" Naruto exclaimed.

Mizuki-sensei's steps halted. He looked upon Naruto with the same expression.

"Why isn't it obvious, Naruto-kun?" he asked the boy.

"Your soul, Naruto-kun," Mizuki-sensei grinned insanely. "It's like nothing I ever smelt before! It's so delicious and tasty… imagine what it would taste like!"

And with that, the silver haired teacher shed his skin to become something large and troll-like with large arms. His ugly face peered at Naruto with insane hunger of that of a predator.

Naruto was frozen. It was like his entire body shut down on him. It seemed all surreal and unbelievable to him.

He was going to die.

He was going to die.

He was going to die!

Abruptly, a flash of green light came out of nowhere and zapped the goblin away from the paralyzed Naruto. The impact caused the creature to fly back into the wall with a loud boom.

Someone landed in front of Naruto holding a strange staff with a crescent moon and a golden ring hanging off of the crescent moon. They were quite small and…

…and they had pink hair!

"So I was right in assuming that you were behind all of this" Sakura drawled out narrowing her eyes at the creature, "Grendel" she snarled out.

The creature groaned and began to slowly rise out of the hole that Sakura had blasted him into. He smirked when he saw just who the newcomer was.

"Ah, well if it isn't Sakura" the creature laughed out. "At first I didn't think it was you, but after this," he gestured to the hole and her staff, "I am positive I am dealing with Sakura the Trickster God"

A smirk appeared on Sakura's features. Her eyes sparkled with mischief as she gazed upon the beast.

"Ah, and you should've known not to mess with a god" she told him smirking.

Naruto simply stared at the exchange. His eyes wide with fear and awe as he looked upon the pink haired eight year old.

"Sakura-chan…" he finally found his voice whispering out her name.

"…What are you?"

Karin: Done! I hope you all liked it! Now, onto bigger matters. Do you know what day it is today?

Sasuke: the day you updated?

Karin: No! It's (drum role) NARUTO'S BIRTHDAY!!

Naruto: Yay! Happy birthday to me!

Sasuke: So?

Karin: So? This chapter is dedicated to Naruto and he deserves some birthday wishes today! Let's cut the cake!

Naruto: Is it ramen flavored?

Karin: Of course! By the way, the staff that Sakura has is the same staff Loki has if you didn't realize that.

Preview of Next Episode:

Sakura-chan's a… god? But she's just a little girl! How can she be a god?! Eh? You were banished?!

Next time—Sakura the Trickster God!

You don't know why you were banished from Asgard?

Sakura-chan's Corner:

Konnichiwa minna! Here's another exciting episode of Sakura-chan's corner—where you get to learn fun facts or read about characters. Today we have some fun facts for you!

Today's fun fact: The Myth of Grendel!

Grendel and his mother were some sorts of humanoid creatures that had existed since the time of when God punished Cain for murdering his brother Abel, referring to the passages of the Genesis of the Old Testament Bible.

Description of the Grendel (and his mother) varied widely, and was never made clear what they really was. Grendel had been called fiend, demon, giant, sea creature or simply just as monster. Often, modern scholars and artists depicted Grendel as a giant goblin, troll or orge, with long powerful arms.

Grendel and his mother dwelled in the underwater cave of a lake or the fen, near the hall built by the Danish king, Hrothgar, called Heorot. Grendel usually come out of his lair at night, and killed his unsuspecting victims while they slept. Grendel enjoyed the killing and devouring human flesh, and drinking their blood.

Grendel continued to kill and eat Hrothgar's people for twelve years. Though Hrothgar had fought the monster, his weapon were useless against the monster, because of some dark magics that made the creature invulnerable to weapon.

The Geatish hero Beowulf fought Grendel without a weapon, relying on his superhuman strength and powerful grips. Beowulf mortally wounded Grendel by ripping the monster's arm from his shoulder. Grendel fled back to his subterranean lair, where he died.

The next night, Grendel's mother grieved over the death of her son, went to Heorot and killed one of Hrothgar's thanes in revenge. Beowulf went to Grendel's lair in the subterranean vaulted hall, to kill Grendel's mother. Beowulf fought Grendel's mother, killing her with the sword that he had found; the blade was made by a giant. Beowulf had severed her head.

There you have it! Bye-bye!

See ya next time!