Cassandra's Odyssey

Chapter 3: The Road to Sami

No matter how many times Kassandra traveled the roads from her home to Sami, she can never get over just how beautiful her surroundings are. Compared to her previous modern life, the wild nature is positively bright and teeming with life. There was no smog from the air pollution plaguing the air due to excessive machinery, there were no wrappers, cans or bottles littering the floor. It was still so bizarre to her, and she has been living in Kephallonia for eighteen years now. Kassandra let out a breath as a smile tugged on her lips as she inhaled the fresh air of mother nature, feeling utterly content. Hoisting her pack on her back, she once marveled at the differences of her life from before and now.

Kassandra frowned as she thought about the revelations she discovered before her departure. If she was, as she suspected now living the life of the main protagonist of the Assassins Creed Odyssey videogame, she was in for a long journey. The differences that she had spotted so far are minimal, at least the ones she realized in the last hour or so of her discovery. Kassandra huffed and rolled her eyes at herself at not figuring out everything years ago. "Just how many little Spartan children are flung from a fucking Mountain due to a fucking prophecy?!" Kassandra growled to herself in anger and kicked a rock into her path into the bushes on the sound of the road.

A yelp broke through her anger, and she paused. Keeping still, she turned her hearing towards the bushes that the yelp came from and could hear a faint whimpering and growling. Slowly drawing her bow from her back, she gently knocked and arrow slowly as to reduce the noise. Just as slowly she approached the bushes, steps as light as a feather to not provoke the creature, keeping her arrow firmly aimed at the bushes. The closer that she came, the more she recognized the sounds of the creature as the whimpering of a wolf, a pup by the sound of it.

Pausing before the bushes, Kassandra rolled her eyes at herself for being scared of a wolf. Not even an adult wolf either, but a pup. Kassandra was about to walk away, having not taste in killing babies, even animal babies. Besides, she had no need to hunt since she had enough furs to keep her warm for the upcoming winter and had enough meat to last for at least a week before she needed to hunt again. Kassandra preferred to hunt animals who attack her or other humans or older animals that can no longer give birth or sire any children. That way she is not endangering any animals needlessly. Kassandra had not even taken a step when the pup stumbled out of the bushes and looked at her whimpering in distress.

Kassandra closed her eyes tightly and shook her head. She knew, she just knew if she looked at the pup, she would adopt it. She couldn't help it; she has a weakness for cute things. It got Cassandra in trouble in her past life as well and that was one of the traits and weaknesses that had carried over into this life as well. A gentle nudge at her foot and a tiny growl broke her resolve and before she could stop herself, she turned to the pup, opened her eyes and was gone.

The adorable little pup must have been barely a month old; her fur was still short and fuzzy. Kassandra had no idea how, but she could tell just looking at her that the pup was a girl. The pup's fur was a light grey, almost white with hints of red on her muzzle, left ear and her left front and right back paws. The pup had adorable doe like blue-green eyes that seemed to sparkle at her. Kassandra could practically hear the plea to keep her and love her.

Even though there were more than enough reasons to walk away, she just couldn't. With a sigh, she knelt on the ground before the little whining pup, keeping eye contact with her, Kassandra presented her hand before the pup to take in her scent. Being sure to maintain eye contact to declare herself the Alpha Female, she kept her palm flat up and directly in front of her and waited. After a moment of eye contact where the pup just watched her, she slowly approached her palm. Once directly in front of her hand, the pup hesitated for a second before she gently placed her muzzle in Kassandra's palm and her small chest rumbled with a gentle purr in approval of her new Alpha. Giving the adorable pup a small smile, she gently ran her lithe fingers against the soft fuzzy fur of her new companion. Ikaros, who had been carefully watching his human companion greet their new friend, gave an approving caw, and landed on the Kassandra's shoulder, startling the young wolf pup who had released a sudden growl that wouldn't have intimidated a rabbit, much less Ikaros. Gently shushing the pup, she used the hand that wasn't in the pups fur to soothe Ikaros feathers.