The Wandering Whisker:- A Cat's War Odyssey

Chapter 1: The Eternal Observer

"The orange cat padded silently through the sleek corridors of the spaceship, its paw making no sound on the polished metal floor. It stopped by a large window, its emerald eyes widening in awe as it looked at the blue and green orb suspended in the vastness of space. Earth. The cat had seen it countless times, but the sight never ceased to amaze it. The planet looked so peaceful from up here, a stark contrast to the chaos and turmoil it had witnessed over millennia.

The cat's mind wandered back through the ages, recalling its long existence on Earth. It had been cursed with immortality, though it had no memory of who or what had bestowed this fate upon it. All it knew was that it could not die, and it had watched humanity evolve from primitive beings to the advanced civilization that now explored the stars.

Its thoughts drifted back to the beginning, to a time when the world was wild and untamed. The scene shifted, and the cat found itself in a vast, open landscape, covered with dense forests and sprawling plains. The air was fresh and filled with the sounds of nature. In the distance, a group of early humans—Homo sapiens in their most primitive form—huddled together for warmth and protection. They wore no clothes, their bodies covered in dirt and grime, as they struggled to survive in a harsh and unforgiving world.

The cat with its nature of curiosity followed a group of humans who walked on two legs instead of four as itself. Firstly it felt odd for it to watch a new species walking on two feet traveling in a group with half of them looking similar while the other half looked similar. Throughout the day the species walked in the direction of the light up in the sky and at night they would stick together and sleep.

The Cat couldn't understand the behaviour of new species as they only relied on the raw meat of small animals such as rabbits. One time one of the humans tried to attack it and had to run for its life as it walked way closer to them. The cat understood that it was safe to keep a distance from them. The climate changed as days passed and was the season when the water would fall from the sky, sometimes it was a normal shower and sometimes it was a downpour. It could hear the large noise of thunder that would scare it as well as the humans. They both feared it thinking of it as a large animal roaring in the midst of day or night.

Soon the group of humans met with another group while climbing up the mountain,both the group were vary of each other as it was their first time meeting someone from their species. The Cat climbed up the tree to stay safe and out of sight.

The humans started to do gestures with the hands and head trying to have conversation between them as they howled together same as animals, after which they both started to walk downhill on the other side. The cat felt odd and decided the follow them to understand what they were upto,but before it climbed down it looked back and realised it had came long way from its home and it could go back if wanted to but as its a nature of a cat its curiosity made it follow the humans.

After few days the humans encountered a large brown animal with sharp claws and large body, as it smashed the humans picking them up and biting them. The red water fell from the human and they stopped moving. Some of the humans climbed up the tree while some started to run and throw stones at it. The concept of blood and death was unknown to the animal, while it was same for the humans they were unaware of the bravery and courage which they realised while saving themselves from the bear.

One of the human fell on top of the bear with the branch of tree wounding the animal as the other humans realised the trick to overcome the situation and followed the same by jumping on the bear holding the branch. Soon the bear died as the humans overpowered it with their numbers. Cat couldn't believe its eyes as it saw tiny humans win against a large animal and saw the humans tearing the bears body as they started to eat its meat.

After eating some meat the humans fell asleep under a large tree after pulling all the dead human bodies near them. The cat was hungry and decided to eat the bears meat, after it was full it came towards the dead humans as their blood gathered and was flowing on the ground. It tried to taste the blood, but it didn't like the way it tasted.

After many nights the humans reached the end of the land on a cliff and all they could see was a vast blue land, one of them tried to walk towards edge as he fell down in the water which they believed as blue land. They all went to the edge and saw the person who was trying the swim but couldn't they realised they couldn't walk on the water as the man drowned and couldn't be seen. The Cat after seeing the scene couldn't believe what it had just seen. The humans stayed there on the cliff with few mountains.

After sometime humans had invented the concept of fire which was warm and could light up the surrounding during the night when there was no light in the sky. The fire was a light of hope as the humans started to form a cave inside the mountains by breaking it. and lighting up the fire making the cave brighten with light and warmth spreading. The fire was helpful in rainy days and cold nights, sometime later humans used the fire to cook the meat of the animals they hunted with the weapons made from sticks and stones.

Humans started to wear the skin of the hunted animals as clothes which made the cat wonder why they wear someone else's skin on them as it didn't knew humans in their naked form couldn't protect themselves from the cold. It saw the humans talking from hand gestures to creating drawings on the walls using the blood and the juice made from beating up the flowers of different colours and leaves. The cat enjoyed going out with the humans following them and eating their leftovers. Everyday was a new adventure for the cat as it saw humans die and fight for the survival and food.

The humans started to make troops based on day and night where some humans will sleep while others stayed awake during night and during days a troop will go hunting while other would stay back to look out for their settlement. The humans were no more hostile towards the cat as their taste for the meat of large animals grew they didn't hurt the small animals anymore. The cat would get the cooked meat sometimes as the humans would feed it some leftovers, soon the cat became a companion of a human who interacted with it daily. The cat followed the human in the field every time he went hunting but one day the human died while hunting as it was crushed under the feet of an animal with a large tusk (Mammoth). This was the first time the cat felt something in its body ache while water started to gather in its eyes as it was the feeling of grief and sadness. It followed the other humans back with the body of the man.

The cat couldn't sleep at night as it kept remembering the memories of the human who died."

---Roro >.<