Before Xena knew it, days passed by before her very
eyes as if it were happening at the blink of an eye. However, only
some days passed that quickly, while other days passed by so
slowly, it was a slow and painful torture for Xena. Those days
turned into weeks and those weeks turned into a month and before
Xena knew it, a month had passed by and then another and all she
knew was that she was missing Ulysses terribly but it did help that
Athena often had missions for her and when she was at home, she
relaxed for about a day or two before she helped her mother and her
brothers out. She found that if she worked hard enough, she
exhausted herself and it made it a lot easier for her to go to
sleep at night but those times when she wasn’t exhausted, she
often lay there for hours and hours thinking about Ulysses,
wondering what he was doing and if he was okay. It had been a
couple of weeks since she last got a message from him and sent hers
out.

 

 

She knew from Ulysses’ messages that Ithaca
was at war with a neighboring kingdom and in the beginning it was
just a few skirmishes but it was quickly becoming more. In a matter
of a couple of weeks, they had gone from small skirmishes to all
out war and Xena was worried about Ulysses. She knew he was capable
of protecting himself and others but she was in love with him and
she just hoped he would be careful and realize how much she loved
him, how much she needed him. There was one time when she really
needed him, she had been on a mission for about a week and so far
this was her toughest mission.

 

 

She had to save an entire village from a warlord
who was bent on destroying the village because they wouldn’t
pay him protection money. So Athena sent her there to protect them
but she had no help, so she had to train the villagers on how to
fight in such a short time. When the time came to fight they did
and they were getting wounded, however the leader whose name was
Cortese was a greater fighter and commander. He came after Xena and
they started fighting. For Xena the fighting was getting intense
but she wasn’t worried about it, especially since she was
taught by the best and her body began to just flow with
everything.