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The origin of the Chupacabra

Myth, a rumor of a fact or at least that's what some would assume would be its original definition. They were tales of the old and what was revered and or worshipped. Monsters, heroes, gods, goddess as well as spirits and demons alike all coexist in this genre. The whorl was ruled by these tales and created culture and diversity among the mankind. Since there are about over hundreds of hundreds of tales worldwide, it's not uncommon for a few if not a majority of the stories to intermingle and cross.

Some myths that have been cited like the Yeti, Big Food, the Lockness and the Chupacabra are ones that have been recently created by mass media and believers of urban lies. However, there is a story that has been not been told within many years. It hasn't been told because it's hasn't been recorded because no one had witnessed it. It was the battle of Heidrun and the Chupacabra.

Most people would think because of recent settings the Chupacabra is a contemporary myth when in reality it's actually older then Christianity itself. The Chupacabra didn't originate over in Puerto Rico or South America. It manifested its first time in Scandinavia as the Strigoi. The Strigoi had long talons that it used to sink it's prey's flesh, keeping it within its grasp before using it's sharp teeth to bit into its flesh and withdraw all the blood from its body. Its body resembled an amphibian and it had eyes that were large and black like a fish's. It was said that the Strigoi had frog legs, a head of a sea monkey and the torso of a lizard but was the size of a small bear.

The Strigoi ran rampant and free all over the 9 worlds of Norse Cosmology and did what would please itself and it didn't care much for any other animal around it. The favorite preys of the Strigoi however were goats and it wasn't the fact that they were slow and the Strigoi was lazy. Goat heads where usually the main offerings to Odin and all the other Norse gods whenever the humans needed of strength or plentiful crops. The live energy ran thick in goat blood and what's what the Strigoi loved about it. The blood made it stronger, more powerful and of course above all else it was delicious.

However one day a Strigoi was tired of just hunting for normal animals. It was in the mood for something more complicated something far more defiant toward the gods themselves. What this Strigoi wanted was the mythical Goat of Valhalla, Heidrun.

Heidrun itself wasn't the type to show itself anywhere nor did it really go anywhere else. Heidrun was always reported near the Tree that held up the world, Yggdrasil, the tree that holds up the world, so it's important that her diet is rigorously controlled. Not only that the she-goat is entrusted to brew all the mead for the dead warriors rejoicing in Valhalla.

This particular celestial goat was the manifestation of the ultimate trump for the Strigoi. For months, it searched for the mythical tree Yggdrasil, he searched high and low, upon the clouds around Valhalla and the gates of Hell. The location of the tree was safely guarded by the Gods due to possibility of the 9 worlds crumbling and falling if anything where to happen to the balance of Yggdrasil. Finally he found Yggdrasil after jumping in-between a divide between 2 of the 9 worlds. It was difficult to find the particular divide as most of them would lead the beast into other worlds instead of the actual location of the tree.

It was there that he found Heidrun sleeping under the mythical tree and his eyes were blinded by the sight of his prize. Creeping up on the she-goat, the Strigoi was about the pounce upon the mythical creature till the horrible stretch of its rancid breath woke it up. Seeing the Strigoi, the she-goat jumped up and through the divide of the words, disappearing for the time being to escape the menacing goat-sucker. Angered by the months of effort gone to waste, the Strigoi began to run amok across the 9 worlds, killing all the live stock in the process.

The humans, angered by the Strigoi's devilish rampage prayed to Odin to stop this menace. Without the animals, none of the gods had been giving an offering within months and so Odin sent out his trusted warriors, the Valkyrie to ride the 9 worlds of this monster.

The Valkyrie met up in front of Odin's hall in Asgard and planned out how to hunt down the spiteful being. The warrior women decide to visit Heimdallr, a Norse god that is said to be able to hear and see things for hundreds of miles. Using his mighty gift, he helped the Valkyrie seek out the pest they were to stop.

When they found the beast, he was transformed into something more hideous then the original form of the Strigoi due to his rage which forced them to take more desperate measures. Trapping him, the Valkyrie removed broke off his talons and plunged the blunt ends into his back slowly one by one. After that they tore off his nose and fed it to the ravens that accompanied the Valkyries. In this form of torture, he was left to bleed and wither in pain for hours on end as the nose continued to grow back and the Valkyries would rip it off the monster and fed it to their birds. Every time it grew it was shorter then before till eventually his nose was as flat as his face.

Eventually the Strigoi was cast to one of the lower 9 worlds, Muspelheim the Flame land. There it suffered the terrible heat that burned his flesh daily during the day and re-grew over night. After that no one knew what happened to the Strigoi until the mid 1900s in The southern hemisphere where there had been reports of live stock, mostly goats, beings rained of all blood. It had been rumored in Scandinavia of the Strigoi returning from Muspelheim to wreak havoc in a world where Odin could not touch it

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