Neb: I do not own Ducktales. I've done flashbacks for each of the family members landing on Dewey, who's flashback was lackluster. This was due to the fact that Vincent had spent his time with the other duck family members and Dewey never actually got a chance to have a one on one conversation with Vincent. Huey visited him in the hospital, Louie invited him to work for McDuck Enterprises, Lena and Webby had several chapters dedicated to speaking with Vincet, and Violet had even been studying Vincent's abilities and his enemies. Now that we've gotten more on our Current Vincent, it's time to look into the other timeline. Cassandra will reveal the story of how she met Vincent and Artifact. I hope you all enjoy.

Cassandra's Flashback

Cassy headed down the marketplaces of Quackington in a hurry. She had just ditched her mother in a clothes shop, giving her enough time to find the docks. Once she's found the docks, she'll sneak aboard a boat that's heading to Europe. Then she'll be able to see her dad again, and tell him to get his butt back to the states. Her family has been a wreck ever since he left with that French woman. Her mother had been working two jobs just to keep their house and Cassy had been falling behind on her studies. Ok, well she wasn't that great at studying before anyways. But she did ok when her dad was there to explain stuff to her.

She headed down towards the docks and started talking to individual sailors. Most of them said no, others of them said if they went to Europe, it would be a one way trip. Cassy assumed they were joking. She shook her head and continued her search. "What is with these people? Why can't anyone help me?"

"Get a plane," one of the sailors yelled at her.

"Rude," she humphed.

"Have you seen this little girl?", a man spoke up.

Cassy turned her head to see a police officer was questioning the local sailors. She saw that he had a picture of her and she ducked away. "My mom must have caught wind of me running away. This sucks, I'm never going to get an opportunity like this again."

"What's the hold up?", a young boy yelled at a pair of wolves. "Come on, we gotta go."

"Help load the cargo or get out of the way mage," one of the wolves responded to the boy. The boy wore a blue, cloth, robe like, jacket with odd symbols of stars across it. He also had a pendant with two blue crystals dangling from it. His white feather like hair dangled over one of his blue eyes.

"Blue on blue on blue," Cassy commented. "My mom would disapprove."

"The boss won't be happy if we have to wait another hour before setting out for the Temple of Poseidon," the boy explained himself to the wolf. "It's your funeral when he gets mad."

"Fine, fine, I'll hurry," the wolf grunted. "Just... grab a crate okay."

"Whatever you say Fang," the boy shrugged before helping the wolf.

"Poseidon... he's a Greek god. Greece is in Europe!" She headed towards their boat to ask for passage, but she could hear the officer getting closer.

"Excuse me," the officer called out.

"Eep," she responded before slipping into a crowd of people.

"Slow down," the officer yelled before chasing her.

She then slipped back out of the crowd the same way she came in without the officer noticing and then gave herself a quick pat on the back. Then she noticed the boat she wanted to sneak on was starting to set sail. "Great," she responded before running towards it.

"Grab that last crate Tailfeather, and lets go," Fang shouted.

"What? I'm a mage, not hired muscle," the boy yelled back. "Get Ronny or Donny to do it, they've been sleeping this whole time."

She saw the crate they were referring to, and when they were distracted arguing. She slipped inside the crate. Lucky for her, there was fresh produce in this one.

"Out of all the," the boy complained as he grabbed the crate. "I have a wide range of knowledge from multiple different pantheons and cults, and these guys got me lifting crates... wow this thing is heavy."

"Jerk," Cassy thought.

There was one inherent flaw in Cassy's plan. They didn't go directly to Europe, but an island that was quite some ways away from it. The island was covered in marble pillars and stair cases, it was a wonder that Cassy had never heard of this place. She peaked out of her crate as three different boats docked at this island. She might be able to slip away on one of them, but they look like they needed to be crewed by more than one person.

"Just my luck," Cassy thought.

"Perfect," a deer man spoke up. "Now we have the fang brothers, Ronny, and Donny. Ah, Tailfeather, I've heard of your reputation through my acquaintances."

There were others, rabbit people, pig people, and more wolves.

"I've heard so little about you Mr. Elite," Tailfeather responded. "I would have thought with a name like that, you'd have a larger reputation."

"Insolence," a rabbit girl responded, but was silenced by the deer man.

"We prefer to keep to the Shadows," Mr. Elite stated. "Hence the name, the Shadow Syndicate. Ronny and Donny were adventuring back when I found them, which is why they have a reputation. But to their fortune, they've become the face of the Shadow Syndicate. Crime organizations and adventurer guilds know to run and hide when they see a pair of big bears like them."

"Boss, you're making me blush," Donny responded. Ronny facepalmed when his brother stated that.

"Serious Donny, we are supposed to be serious."

"I like them," Tailfeather shrugged. "They were quite useful on my last adventure."

"Really, I thought Rosina had gained control of them?", Mr. Elite pointed out.

"Better them then me," Tailfeather smirked receiving a death glare from Ronny. "Anyways, the Temple of Poseidon, I heard it was rich with Mage Crystals."

"Indeed," Mr. Elite nodded. "My men only care about what they can sell, and I only care about the items wielded by Poseidon himself. So of course you can help yourself to the crystals."

"Much obliged boss," Tailfeather bowed his head in respect.

"Anyways, I would like a full magical scan of the area before we enter the temple," Mr. Elite ordered.

"I... don't know how to do that," Tailfeather answered, but was ignored.

"If any curses happen to my men, I will expect you to fix it. If you fail to do so, you will receive a pay cut," Mr. Elite smirked.

"And there it is," Tailfeather facepalmed.

The others... the Shadow Syndicate begun making their way towards the temple. Cassy took that time to leave the crate. She needed to steal a boat that could be crewed by one person, then she could get out of there. Whether she went home or Europe were both fine options, because she knew she didn't want to be here the moment they started calling themselves the Shadow Syndicate. They must have been some underground criminal organization. Also, what did the Duck boy mean by mage crystals, what did the deer man mean by items held by Poseidon? Poseidon was a myth and magic wasn't real. She shook her head before heading down ruin cover beach looking for a boat her size. She ducked away when she heard the Pig Gentleman returning to their boat.

"Guess they didn't need us after all," one of them laughed. "We'll wait here until there's cargo to carry."

"Better to let Mr. Elite get a feel for the new guy anyways," the other pig gentleman pointed out.

She slipped away undetected and saw there were still quite a few people hanging around their boats. She couldn't sneak by them or fight them. "Great," she groaned in her mind. As she continued to circle the beach hoping to find an opening, she happened upon the entrance to a large temple. That was when she was spotted by one of the wolves, Fang.

"Intruder," he called out.

She backed away and ran, but bumped into the blue hooded boy, Tailfeather. "Don't hurt me."

"W-who are you?" He reached out to her, but received a kick to the stomach before she bolted away. "Athletic," Tailfeather groaned.

"Thank you," she called back before getting snatched by by the bears, Ronny and Donny.

"What's the commotion?", Mr. Elite wondered.

Fang panted as he and his brothers made it towards the rest of the group. "Intruder... there's an intruder."

"I see that mutt," Mr. Elite rolled his eyes. "Dispose of her."

"Wait," Tailfeather yelled in panic as he ran over to them. "Don't hurt her."

She looked at him confused along with the rest of them.

"Do you know who she is?", Mr. Elite wondered.

"Yeah... um, she's my sister," he explained. "I think she snuck aboard one of our boats. I'm sorry, please don't kill her."

"Let her go," Mr. Elite nodded.

Cassy was put down and sighed.

"Don't get too comfortable," Mr. Elite smiled. "Your brother will receive a pay cut for your insolence. I offered him all the mage crystals, now he only gets half."

Tailfeather groaned and she hid behind him.

"Thank you and sorry," she stated. "I'll pay you back."

"Not for those, those are priceless Artifacts," he shook his head. "But it's fine, I'm glad they didn't hurt you."

"Why did you help me? Who are you?"

"I'm an Adventuring Mage," Tailfeather explained. "My name is Vincent."