Cassandra's Blessing
The story of Cassandra's curse is a well known one, but the story of her blessing has never been told. This blessing came in the form of a child. However, because of the child's lineage, many humans would have thought it to be another curse, but Cassandra saw what would become of the child and, as was the curse set upon her, not a single being she told believed her. Not a single being, that is, except for the child's father.
So it came to pass that the people living near Cassandra tried on many occasions to bring about the child's death, but the attempts were made in vain. Cassandra worried very little over this because of her knowledge of the child's future. When the child had become old enough, she sent it away for schooling in military as well as reading, writing, and other such skills.
It so happened, however, that the child was a girl and was not accepted for a Greek education. It was at this point that Cassandra began to worry. How could her daughter become what she was in the given prophesy, if she was not even allowed an education? Many times she attempted to convince the Greek council over education to let her daughter in, but it was to no avail.
After nearly nine years, when the girl was about twelve years old, Pluto came to Cassandra, having favored her child, and offered to give the girl an education himself. He told Cassandra that he would take care of her as long as she was in Hades and teach her well. Cassandra agreed and Pluto took the girl with him. There, he raised her to become one of the finest warriors the world would ever see and gave her a new name. The little girl that had left Cassandra at the age of twelve would return to her at the age of twenty-three as Illiandra Sallesth, Cassandra's Blessing.
Author's Note: This part is short, I know, but the next chapters are going to be longer, I can assure you. I already have most of this written. Originally, this was for an English assignment for which we had to make up our own hero, or heroin, and write about him or her. Just to let you know, Illiandra is not entirely human, but she is most definitely not a descendant of any Greek 'God.' With that, I leave you until the next chapter, which I will post in a day or so.