The Book of Cosmi

Chapter 15: Worlds Apart

| Elizabeth |

Here I stand on the beautiful realm of all eternity, the realm of the divine, the realm of Gaea, the creator of our Omniverse. I am Elizabeth "Cosmos" Terra, Gaea's most trusted subordinate has been ordered to rule and preside over this realm whilst Mother Gaea attends to other important things. In this realm there are Guardians who are beneath me, they categorize within four sections.

Mainland Guardians
Eternal Guardians
Gate Guardians
Omega Guardians

But me? I am something greater than all four combined. I am the One Above All, the ruler of the God race, the right hand to Gaea herself. It is a true honor, but I do not know my true origins. My memory feels all but faded and fuzzy... as if I'm missing something in my life or just missing a part of me, maybe I'm being restrained, maybe my power is yet to be unleashed and unlocked. I don't know. I continue on my duties though, day to day, every day.

Gaea on the other hand though, she has very unique origins. She told me this very story: trillions of years ago atoms, elements, substances, cells, everything came together and morphed into a large sphere. Practically everything within the Omniverse came together to form this sphere, this sphere resides in the mortal realm going by the name "Terra" or "Earth" the given name of it. Within this sphere was Mother Gaea herself. She arose from this planet as a fully grown woman, this is how Gaea came to be. She wandered the vast Omniverse she said, going around visiting races of beings learning about their cultures and customs. Bizarre, but that's what inspired her to create this beautiful race of Gods. She created this beautiful realm, which spanned on for about the size of the average single multiverse, very large, but nothing absurd. Each multiverse contained about 12 universes within it, and each universe contained anywhere from just a few galaxies to 100 plus galaxies. The size of the realm was definitely spacious enough. In this realm is where she formed the race of Gods, saying that I was her first creation. It's amazing what she's capable of as the ruler of the Omniverse, she truly is a pinnacle, and I really look up to Gaea.

I don't fully believe her though, I don't think I'm her creation, there's something she won't tell me, I know for sure, but I guess every master has their hidden away secrets, regardless if Gaea treats me like her daughter.

S̶o̶m̶e̶t̶h̶i̶n̶g̶ i̶s̶ j̶u̶s̶t̶ o̶f̶f̶ a̶b̶o̶u̶t̶ h̶e̶r̶ i̶f̶ I̶'m̶ b̶e̶i̶n̶g̶ r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ h̶o̶n̶e̶s̶t̶... I̶ j̶u̶s̶t̶ c̶a̶n̶'t̶ q̶u̶i̶t̶e̶ p̶u̶t̶ m̶y̶ f̶i̶n̶g̶e̶r̶ o̶n̶ i̶t̶ e̶v̶e̶r̶y̶ t̶i̶m̶e̶ I̶ t̶r̶y̶ t̶o̶ r̶e̶m̶e̶m̶b̶e̶r̶... I̶ j̶u̶s̶t̶ f̶o̶r̶g̶o̶t̶... I̶t̶s̶ l̶i̶k̶e̶ a̶n̶ e̶n̶d̶l̶e̶s̶s̶ l̶o̶o̶p̶

I wandered about the realm peacefully passing by multiple places in the realm... Cursed Tower... Great Oriental Table... Tree of Time... Grand Mansion... Zexaos Inferno... these places all housed guardians, very powerful ones. The most notable of them all was the guardian of the Cursed Tower, Xander. Cold, strong, malicious, insane. Those are the only words that could describe such a man. I visit him every day, and he yells at me every day. He gets so mad so easily, yet it doesn't hurt me emotionally. Xander is unbelievably harsh, but I spend most of my days with him. I've learnt a lot about him. He came from an ancient race of "Celestial Dragons" who were ruthless, he was the sworn king of the race... he was destined to commit genocide on his own race, that was the purpose of the king, to be the sole survivor of the Celestial Dragon. It was weird, even he couldn't explain it but tradition is tradition I suppose? Later on, after years upon years of loneliness, he finally had contact with someone, Ose Gaea. Gaea came to him and offered him to train under her to become a guardian here in the realm. It took a lot of convincing I heard, but in the end he gave in and came to the realm where he's resided for a very long time now as the guardian of that tower. He said he's never seen me though, not until recently, he said I'm unfamiliar, new. He said that me being a creation of Gaea's is suspicious to a high degree... which then raised my suspicions as well. It's confusing but needless to say, I love that maniacal dragon, some day he'll be my husband, I know it!

Today was a day I wouldn't visit Xander though... I passed by the tower. I looked down at the ground, the dark soil of the area, the perpetual dark storm clouds that loomed over the tower, the large steel doors. It's ironic but it's always so nice to visit here day after day. But as I said, today is not a day to visit the tower... I had to ponder my thoughts. I felt something, something that was possibly worlds apart from me calling to me. It felt like something that could help me understand myself was going to come, I couldn't get too excited, but I knew this was important. I've never ever felt a "calling" before in my life, this was something I had to figure out. Maybe Xander could help me, then again being in that tower is crushing, the atmosphere is so tense. I had to ponder these thoughts, I had to figure out this "calling" while Gaea was gone...

. . .
| One Republic / Cosmic |

"𝚄𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜, 𝚞𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚈𝙾𝚄 𝙰𝚁𝙴! 𝚈𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚙𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚛 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚗 𝚒𝚗𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚕, 𝙲𝚘𝚜𝚖𝚒𝚌, 𝚊𝚜 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚗 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚒𝚗𝚏𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚘 𝚘𝚏 𝚉𝙴𝚇𝙰𝙾𝚂 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝙾𝚜𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚜𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛'𝚜 𝚖𝚎𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜, 𝚢𝚘𝚞'𝚕𝚕 𝚜𝚕𝚘𝚠𝚕𝚢 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚐𝚘𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚗. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚎𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚢 𝚘𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚢 𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚜𝚌𝚞𝚕𝚎, 𝚜𝚘𝚘𝚗 𝚒𝚝'𝚕𝚕 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚊𝚋𝚜𝚘𝚕𝚞𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚢 𝙽𝙾𝚃𝙷𝙸𝙽𝙶. 𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝚞𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚕 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚐𝚘 𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝚊 𝚗𝚎𝚠 𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚜... 𝙾𝚗𝚎 𝚁𝚎𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚌. 𝙱𝚎𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞'𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚝, 𝚊 𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚕𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚌 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚘𝚠𝚗 "𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝" 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚛𝚎𝚒𝚐𝚗 𝚜𝚞𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚎... 𝙲𝚘𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚊𝚖𝚎: 𝙾𝚗𝚎 𝚁𝚎𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚌. 𝚈𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚎𝚛𝚊 𝚒𝚜 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚊𝚗 𝚎𝚗𝚍."

"You're a lowly scum, Gaea."

"𝚂𝚑𝚞𝚝 𝚒𝚝. 𝙳𝚘 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚍𝚒𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚖𝚎? 𝙴𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚍𝚊𝚢 𝙸 𝚙𝚛𝚊𝚢𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚢𝚘𝚞, 𝙴𝚅𝙴𝚁𝚈 𝙳𝙰𝚈! 𝙽𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚍𝚒𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚊𝚗𝚜𝚠𝚎𝚛 𝚖𝚢 𝚙𝚛𝚊𝚢𝚎𝚛𝚜, 𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚍𝚒𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚙 𝚖𝚢 𝚋𝚎𝚊𝚞𝚝𝚒𝚏𝚞𝚕 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚎𝚝, 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝙴𝚅𝙴𝚁, 𝙴𝚅𝙴𝚁𝚁𝚁𝚁 𝚍𝚒𝚍 𝚊𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐..."

"I am not a genie... I do not answer prayers... I am not the God of a religion, I am more real than your fake dreams. I am not a wish making God, therefore I do not answer your wishes."

"𝙶𝚘 𝚘𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚘𝚗 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚎𝚡𝚌𝚞𝚜𝚎𝚜, 𝚢𝚘𝚞'𝚛𝚎 𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚍 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗, 𝚉𝙴𝚇𝙰𝙾𝚂. 𝙻𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚠𝚑𝚘'𝚜 𝚙𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚌 𝚗𝚘𝚠."

"You deceived my creations, my Gods, my people... I'll remember this all."

"𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝙸 𝚝𝚘𝚘 𝚊𝚖 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜, 𝙸 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝙾𝚖𝚗𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚎! 𝚈𝚘𝚞'𝚕𝚕 𝙽𝙴𝚅𝙴𝚁 𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚙𝚎 𝙲𝚘𝚜𝚖𝚒𝚌, 𝙽𝙴𝚅𝙴𝚁! 𝙱𝚞𝚛𝚗 𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚢, 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚊𝚜 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍'𝚟𝚎 𝚊𝚕𝚠𝚊𝚢𝚜."

"..."

"𝙽𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚊𝚢 𝚊𝚗𝚢𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎, 𝚎𝚑? 𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎, 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚍... 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚜𝚝."

"..."

"𝙼𝚊𝚗 𝚘𝚏 𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚢 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚜, 𝙸 𝚜𝚎𝚎. 𝚆𝚎𝚕𝚕 𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛, 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚋𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚗 𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝙾𝚜𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚔 𝚝𝚘, 𝙾𝚗𝚎 𝚁𝚎𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚌. 𝙶𝚘𝚘𝚍𝚋𝚢𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛, 𝙸 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝙽𝙾𝚃 𝚋𝚎 𝚟𝚒𝚜𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚊𝚐𝚊𝚒𝚗."

Like that, Gaea was gone... and she kept her word. She did indeed not visit me again. Nothing. As I stayed chained limb from limb, an eternal fire beneath me, keeping me in sheer pain at every moment of the days and nights... but then again, I stopped feeling pain after so long... I embraced my torture and soon enough I stopped caring about everything and I was only left with my thoughts, the memories of my sister. The only person who cared for me, the only person who had ever been there for me, Cosmos. Now she is gone. Meaning no longer had any meaning for me.

My sister and I were worlds apart now and I had no way to escape...

That is what I thought for a while here. I had an idea or two on how to escape, the main one was to get into Zexaos' mind and control him myself. Then I figured, someone with such powerful control over consciousness such as Gaea can't possibly be counteracted, especially when I'm in such a weakened state. I thought about contacting Xander, then I remembered, he's too far especially with how deep I am within Zexaos, and if he's mind controlled as well, which is easy to assume that he is, then it'll be far too impossible to sway him to my side, that man is beyond stubborn and doesn't comply with anything...

I was ignorant. The truth is, during the battle with Xander, I was aware of who this "Gaea" was. I just didn't want to admit it. Gaea despite being a "minor" goddess within the greater scope of the Omniverse, she is a special type of goddess. She knew exactly what she was doing when she sought my blessing for power. Gaea is what I'd like to categorize under the Pseudo Cosmi God category of beings. Beings who are on par or even in rare cases are stronger than Cosmi Gods, but are not truly Cosmi Gods. There were many instances of these. Xander is one of them. As far as I'm aware, across the Omniverse there are very few of these Pseudo Cosmi Gods. What defines one as a Pseudo Cosmi God can vary from interdimensional control, minor reality warping, time shattering, so on. And they have these abilities from birth or later gain them on through natural means because of their blood or genetics. In Gaea's case she has control over the consciousness.
In certain ways this may not seem very frightening, but when there is a goddess who can give even Cosmos and I a run for our money, much like Xander can, Gaea becomes a whole lot more threatening. Dreams, nightmares, terrors, the subconscious, everything about the mind, you name it, Gaea can mess with. She practically plagued every god with an instant memory erasure. Because she could not permanently erase memories, she went with a smart counter, constant erasure. With this constant erasure she essentially reprogrammed every god's mind to forget me, Ose, who Cosmos was, and make them think she was the creator of the vast Omniverse, right from the beginning. Everyone is basically her pawn now, ticking time bombs. If they lay their eyes on me, I become public enemy number one and would probably get destroyed like a stack of cards being blown over by the wind. It wouldn't take much to kill me. Despite Cosmos being on par, arguably stronger than me in some instances, she did not have as much of a developed or strengthened mind as I do. There's no two ways about it. She's childish. Though Gaea couldn't do too much to Cosmos, she was still able to break through just enough to erase me from Cosmos' memory. As for Ose, Gaea knew exactly what she was doing there. Ose has the strongest mind out of everyone. Her training in the Cursed Tower made her that way. Her mind was nothing short of "perfection." But, that did not make Ose imperviable to Gaea's other ability of perception shattering and dimensional warping. She managed to sneak attack Ose far before her initial attack on the realm, breaking her perception and sending her here, Zexaos.

I ignored Gaea's existence and all her requests for one reason only: I didn't care enough to respond. I'm not a genie, I do not grant wishes. I would like to say I gladly made genies and I do not regret making them the most arrogant beings ever. Now you all know not to make stupid wishes!

From the start, I knew Gaea's intentions. It was to take over the Omniverse. She was never for any good. Well maybe she was... at first she wanted to work with the Everlords, but why would I ever want that let alone grant someone to be on the same level as Cosmos and I and allow them to have equal power to us. It just wasn't a good decision for me to make. Seems it was just a double edged blade though. Gaea got her way. She's smart, she's manipulative, she's deceptive, but above all, she succeeded. She was smart, truly. Targeting Ose halted her from dealing with a second uprising of Ose, through Xander. Though his mentality is very disobedient and rebellious, which makes him instantly weaker than most of us, he was on pace to be strong minded much like Ose. But that was quickly halted when she disappeared during the creation of Izea and Xander was unable to ever reach her degree. Why I ignored Gaea and didn't heed the warnings, I do not know. I was too confident in my own abilities and didn't even begin to analyze my opponent. When Gaea was conceived all those years back, I had thought she would've eventually turned her ways, but how could I not learn from my mistakes. How could I not... nothing... nobody... nothing... nobody... ever... changes... it's all simply just a cycle of perfect imperfections.

I no longer had my sister to stand by me. I no longer had my body to fight back. I no longer had anything. All was lost and I was one. I was no longer the great Cosmic Cosmi.