Grendel Vs Beowulf

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Grendel is a dark monster who lives off of terrorizing the Geats. The Geats live happily at their football practice every single day working hard and sweating with their star captain Beowulf. Grendel is the star captain who plays for Grendel High. The school is named after him because he punished the school until they named it after him. The reason that Beowulf High is named after Beowulf is because he is such a respectful person; his family name has lived on for him to carry and the whole town knows of him. Grendel comes to the practice when Beowulf is having a meeting with the coach and bullies the Geats, when Beowulf discovers this he cannot wait for the opening game against Grendel High. After a long day of 2 a days on the schools summer break, the Geats are beat tired and Beowulf goes to have a meeting with the coach Hrothgar about how to smash Grendel in the game against Grendel High. Grendel’s practice ended before Beowulf High’s practice. Grendel decided to visit Beowulf’s practice when he saw Beowulf and Hrothgar were in a meeting. He is not only full of anger and evil, darkness but he enjoys terrorizing and killing the ones weaker than him so Grendel ran onto the field and grabbed three Geats and slammed them into the ground, the Geats head bounced off the ground like a bouncy ball. When Grendel …show more content…
The first Geat was kicked over and over again across the field like a soccer ball, Grendel then punched the other Geat in the kidney so hard

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