Name: Andrés Cruz
Period: 5th
Teacher: Gladys Ngezem
Grendel
My life is based on a sad story, no one knows how it feels to be alone all the time… I used to be in a wonderful family, we used to get along well and go out and share with the others. Our days were based on joy and happiness; the nights used to be calm and quiet, sharing with the others was a pleasure, but suddenly, something happened. The darkness of that night covered all the knights. There was no light, everything was nothing but dark, and all the beasts started to bark. My family and I were in the woods, and a strange substance started to get closer to us. That black substance is the consequence of who I am today. I used to be a knight from France, but that substance turned me into a fiend // that knight is just somebody that I used to be. I was tired under three trees. Anyway, after the substance took me, it started to move and stick to my mom and to my father. The entire family was converted into fiends. It was five fiends fighting for their life.
No one accepts us so we had to move to the northern swamp, on our way to the swamp, a knight killed my father for no reason… Just to remember that makes me upset. I started to get tired of the people, their purposes and their happiness.
Then I went to Herot, but my mom stayed at the dirty ocean1. I was hearing the people laugh and smelling the happiness, therefore I get so upset and went to the hall. I just killed everyone. I left all those bodies swimming on a red sea2.
I got used to go to Herot to kill some people. Even the deaf heard when I gave death to the people of that place. I do not care if what I’ve always done is good or wrong, that is the same as thrash for me. As the saying, to err is human // to forgive divine. But, to err is human // To ignore that, is demonic.
Then, one night I went to Herot, ready to kill. I had a bad feeling that night… When I got into the hall I saw this warrior,...