The Heart Five

Prologue: The Essential Verse

Essence also known as Spirit, Core, Heart... that which gives meaning to life. It is not the soul which is necessary for life. Even when a mortal has that SOUL inside, without essence... the mortal becomes an empty shell existing for nothing. Our father, Lord Xpir, created us pure and perfect. He doesn't want us to soil our bodies and so he never gave us body parts for procreation. He never even gave us genders, but we know who among us are males and females... not by choice, but by physical attributes that define which is which. He also forbid us to have relationships with our fellow Essential Beings. Yes, we are called Essential Beings. Each of us embody one single essence... positive essences like Compassion, negative essences like Murder, and neutral essences like Happiness. As for me, I, Gazbleir Celxion, dark master, am the Essential Being of Courage.

Essential Beings like us live forever, we have a core inside of us that fuels our immortality. We also grew old to a certain point called the age of perpetuity which is twenty-five years old. We might embody those powerful essences within our cores, but we are never those essences. I might be Courage, but I am not courageous all of the time. We were also gifted with unique abilities as essential beings with my ability being the odd ball called Heirloom. Aside from that, we actually live in peace and unity with the lesser ones that Lord Xpir also made to support us and called them Essence Beings. The Essence Beings are those under us. For me, they can't be called lesser gods for Lord Xpir gave them something that they did not wish to have, mortality. Every century, they succumb to old age. However, the thing that Lord Xpir gave them that we would’ve wished to have is the capability to have relationships, families, and children of their own. Even so, we work together to deliver the essences to the mortals of the Verse. During those work times, we often accompany our fellow essence beings with us. Those dedicated to deliver the essence of courage work under me. I always treated them as equals. They might be different in terms of physical features and colors, but I see them as families of my own. Fun fact, the colors of essential beings range from the palest purple flesh to the lightest mortal skin to the darkest of brown mortal skin color. Essential beings have it different with their color ranging from the lightest of greens to the darkest of blues.

I've had my share of births and deaths of my followers throughout the span of eternity. I've also experienced a lot of positive and negative events like contests, performances, brutal accidents, murders, and wars. Most of the essential beings became sick of experiencing and reliving those traumatic memories that they decided to ask Lord Xpir to device a way for them to reset themselves, both memories and personalities but the experiences would have to remain. Some of us, like me, hated the idea of having to wipe out all memories and personalities, but Lord Xpir loved his perfect creation so much that he created the Rebirth System, the mistake that broke us apart. I’ve had my share of issues that I brought up also during the time that they were bringing this up. That time, I was in love with another essential being. She, Dizane Lamx, the ice queen, was the essential being of Fear, quite the opposite of my essence. Along with others, I fought for the right to have the relationship ban lifted. He did lift the ban but in doing so, he never saw us the same again. To his eyes, we were still perfect but no longer are we pure.

When the Rebirth System came about, those who wanted a soft reset of their lives had their taste of becoming young again. For mortals and essence beings, it would take nine months to give birth. Lord Xpir, being the Supreme Being that he was, made it a century. The system turns the essential beings into newborns in the body of three-year olds. They look like toddlers going to preschool age but technically they are newborns. With such innocent minds, what could go wrong? The answer is everything… The followers of the essential beings who underwent the system took the liberty in taking care of the children… some of them to care of them in the worst ways I could ever imagine. A group of essence beings who secretly wanted to overthrow us, cooked up their vilest and most cruel plans ever… corrupting the essential children. As a result, it sparked an internal warfare against essential beings. The leader of the side of the corruption was the essential being of Trauma, Azalan Ixiden. Falling into their trap, Lord Xpir also suffered greatly in the war as he was put to traumatizing events caused by the leader herself.

Essence beings and Essential beings chose their sides of the war. It lasted for two years… until it ended with us being the victors… the side of the good. Sadly, we had to pay the ultimate price. I had to kill essence beings and even the corrupted essential beings. I was the one who played the major part of the war because I slew the essential being of Trauma. My beloved, she saved me in order for me to when I was about to be killed. I told her to leave and get backup, but she… *tears drop* …went all the trouble just to push me from the incoming attack. The attack that could’ve ended my life… she took it.

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I’m so sorry… for not listening… Gazbleir,” she had multiple holes on her chest, but she bothered to talk to me, her lover, until the last breath. “I love you…“

“DIZANE!!!” I yelled in anguish.

As she, the Essential Being of Fear, dispersed into sapphire-colored glitters of light, my unique ability called the Heirloom activated granting me her core, her memories, her personality and her power of frost to me. It turned me into an overpowered essential being full of my own power which is darkness and her power which was frost. Sensing their defeat, the three leaders of the rebellion dropped their weapons and surrendered to let the mastermind escape.

“This was not part of my calculations,” the corrupted Essential Being of Dreams dropped to her knees and put her hands behind her head. “Your power is off the charts.”

The corrupted Essential Being of Pain did the same and just stared at him. “He’s going to kill us…”

“The shot was not meant for my sister Dizane,” the corrupted Essential Being of Trauma knelt down and wept. “We deserve to die…”

“No, you don’t deserve to die. The ones that deserve to die are your memories of this life and the corrupted personality that you have. Dizane, with our combined powers, I will make sure to end this war for good!”

With a strike, a mixed of darkness and ice burst out of the field. When I opened my eyes, the invulnerable cores of the three corrupted warlords were the only ones left on the field. As the strongest essential being, I made sure that all corrupted essential beings were killed. I became the leader and the hero not for popularity and fame, but because I wanted it to end. I lost my beloved because of this and so… this is it.

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When the war ended, they’ve gathered the cores of all of the fallen Essential Beings. They banished the rebels and marked them as defects. They also decided to do a screening on everybody in order to rule out any moles, and double agents. This was all done to prevent another war in the future. For once, Xpir desired for perfection. The rest of us surviving Essential Beings decided to create a complex system and headquarters called the ESSENTIAL CORE. Of course, Xpir was still the leader, but because of the trauma he had undergone during the war, he decided to close his doors to fully recover. He left us Essential Beings special presents so that in his absence, they can protect the Essential Core from the defects.

Robax Zensi the essential being of Counsel took charge in keeping the cores of the fallen Essential Beings for he wanted to guide the previous rebels in their growth and development. However, he decided to give each one of us Essential Beings, four cores to take good care of. I was given the cores of my beloved Fear, her killer Trauma, Cowardice, and Sloth.

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Ninety-eight years later

Green Kayak Squad Headquarters

“How is he doing?” I asked Maozter, the Essential Being of Happiness.

“The happiness therapy I am giving Lord Xpir is gradually working,” she pats his shoulder. “You should go visit him while I tend to my kids.”

“Your kids,” I raised my eyebrows. “You mean the reincarnated ones…”

“You’ll understand when you have yours,” Maozter grins. “By the way, Lord Xpir requests that he should be called Lady Ezen.”

“I think I don’t feel like visiting our delusional parent,” I just decided to leave. “He’s becoming gayer everyday…”

“He’s always gay.” Maozter chuckles, “I am proud that he’s our father… and our mother at the same time.”

“Yeah,” I nodded, “when we were still kids. Which reminds me… today is supposed to be their reviving day, the fallen ones that I got.”

“About that,” Maozter gives me a comforting smile. “I want you to be strong. She won’t remember you and your past with her. She’ll be different…”

“I know,” I sighed. “The Dizane I once knew and loved is gone. I suppose… the new Dizane will be much more like a daughter to me.”

“What about her murderer? I know you have the Trauma core as well.”

“I’ll make sure she doesn’t end up becoming what she used to be.”

“Are you sure you won’t be visiting Xpir?”

“I might… if he mans it up.”

“You know it will never happen, Gazbleir.”

“It’s nice to see you again Maozter…”

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“The color scheme Lord Xpir chose for us never makes sense,” Yxede Cazgat, the Essential Being of Leadership, whines about being color orange. “At least our father didn’t have to change the color of your hair.”

“You’re still unable to get over with the color scheme,” I laughed. “It’s been a long time since we’ve seen each other.”

“How are you doing? It must be tough.”

“At first it did,” I sighed. “I just had to involve myself with my Essence Beings to distribute courage and fear to the mortals.”

“Well brother,” Yxede pats my back, “if you need help, you know where to find us.”

“I’ll keep that in mind…” I acknowledged him and bid him farewell. “I need to hurry back today because they will be resurrected today.”

“I hope you don’t resort to p********a,” he laughs.

“I’m not like you,” I grinned and headed off.

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Black Rare Squad HQ

Routinely, the Essence Beings gather to greet their captain, me, at the gate. The population of my squad comprises mainly of Courage. Some members are from Fear, some are the remaining members Trauma, the remaining members of Cowardice, and the remaining members of Sloth.

“Who hatched first?”