14 Cosmic Training-1

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Breathe in.

Inner. Peace.

Breathe out.

Inner Peace.

Breathe in.. breathe out... In... Out...

Under the guidance of Uatu, the Watcher, whose whole race is the literal personification of patience, I have spent my last 2 years meditating, and only meditating.

TWO WHOLE YEARS, DAMN IT! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW BORING IT IS?! It wasn't that meditation was hard. It was just that the bastard Uatu has a pretty high standard when it comes to meditation, and so does the Cosmic Energy.

"Control your emotions, Theos. I can practically see the frustration on your face. Haven't you learned anything in these two years?" Uatu's annoying voice says, from in front of me.

Breathe in... Inner Peace... Breathe out. Must not try and harm the watcher. Breathe in.. I'm too weak to actually touch a hair on the Watcher's bald head. Breathe out...

Agamotto had returned to Earth a few times, with him also bringing mother along. While mother doesn't like to stay away from her planet for long, she is perfectly capable of leaving it. Surprisingly, Uatu was actually useful for once, the first time mother came to visit.

----Flashback---

About a month after I had begun my meditation, which I was still struggling with, I was taking a break, just flying around using the wind. Somehow, the lack of control in my Cosmic Energy had little to no effect on my Magic. So, none of my training with Mother was useless, thankfully.

Landing down on the dry ground, I look up at the stars, not recognizing any of them. We're literally like 50 galaxies away from Earth, and that's not counting the interstellar space.

As I'm musing about the red sun above me, I see a golden portal opening in front of me. Agamotto is the first to enter, and he just nods at me. I receive a surprise, when the person behind Agamotto reveals herself to be my mother, Gaea herself.

"Mother?! What are you doing here?" I ask, shocked. She's never left her planet.

Never.

Even when her other fellow Elder Gods started Killing themselves, or when that one Celestial came to Earth, got infected with the Horde thanks to the infected Progenitor, and attacked every being around.

Mother chuckles at my shocked look, and shrugs. Hugging me, she says, "I missed you, my son. This is the first time you've been away from me for so long. So.. I asked Agamotto to take me with him."

Uatu, who had been silently- and creepily- watching us talk, speaks up then, "If.. someone wants to claim this planet for themselves, by making it their own, you know there's nothing I can do to stop it, right?" startling all of us.

I have no idea what he meant by that, but judging by the widening eyes of my mother, she does. Turning to Uatu, she says, "You know.. I did not expect you to actually suggest what I just heard you suggest. I never even thought of it myself."

"I suggested nothing. I have taken an oath of non interference, and I stand by it. What you do is none of my business." Uatu says, and starts silently walking back to our small camp, leaving us all confused, with mother excited too.

Turning to mother, I ask, "Okay, what did he suggest?"

Mother has a glint in her eyes, as she giggles- GIGGLES!- and says, "When I merged with our planet, I gained an ability separate from my original Nature Goddess ones."

Then, without any warning or explanation, my mother STABS her hand right within her chest, making me immediately scream in fright, and hold her hand, hoping to pull it out by myself.

"Mother!? What the hell?! I can't lose you too! Agamotto! Come help, you idiot, why are you laughing?!" I scream out, sending healing Magic towards mother, while trying and failing to pull her hand out of her chest.

Mother just chuckles, ignores, the laughing Agamotto, and the hysterical me, and says, "You can let go of my hand, Theos. I am not hurt. At all."

As she says that, I feel her own healing Magic enter my body, and I feel the panic ebb away. Now that my head is clear, thanks to Mother's magic, I see that mother is not actually hurt, and her hand isn't actually within her chest. There's some sort of pocket, hidden in her Magic, that's only accessed by stabbing her hand inside her chest. Gross, but smart.

As I take a few steps back, letting mother finally do her task, she pulls her hand out of her chest, along with a glowing green heart shaped object.

"I really hope that isn't your heart, mother." I warily state, looking at the object with a disgusted look on my face.

Chuckling, mother ignores my reaction, and explains, "This.. is the ability I gained after merging with our planet. And it was an instinctive understanding of this ability, that led me to.. nurture the life there as I wished. Every being on our planet, even the Gods were made under my care, thanks to this... My Seed of Life. Even you, my son."

Seed of life, seed of life. I've heard that term, and I've read of it in the fandom someday, but for the life of me, -heh.. pun- I can't remember it.

"Fascinating." Agamotto whispers, looking at the Seed with wonder in his eyes.

Now understanding that it isn't actually her heart, just the representation of it, I approach it and look more closely. The Seed did actually look like a human heart, which I remember seeing the diagrams of in some Biology books before. It was brown and green in colour, and would periodically emit a Golden-green light from it. Kinda like a heartbeat.

Not just light, I correct myself, when I see that a few saplings had started to grow on the ground below us.

"Amazing!" I whisper, seeing that, and just feeling the energy of the Seed.

Smiling at our reactions, mother explains, "The Seed of Life can be used to bring life to anything. If I put this seed inside a dead being, they will be reborn as a demigod, if they're mortal, and a full Nature God, if they're Divine. Although not as tuned to nature as you or I, they will be pretty strong."

As we both listen, captivated, she adds, "If I put it within this planet..."

Reverently, Agamotto finishes for her, "The whole planet will become fertile! Just by the amount of Magic within it, I can tell that within a few years at most, the whole planet will be as lively as our own. Green trees, water, some small insects. Everything."

Although I'm fascinated by the subject, I look up at the visibly small Red Giant star hovering above us, and ask, "Yeah.. but that star is not staying alive for long. I mean, sure, it'll still be burning for a few hundred million years, a billion at most, which is enough for life to evolve peacefully, but the sunlight probably won't be enough."

Mother just waves her hands, dismissing the problem, and says, "The life here won't be exactly identical to our own planet's. Whatever lives start here will evolve in their own way, and it's not our job to force it to be identical to our own."

I nod, understanding the answer, and her sentiment. There was an astronomer back home, Carl Sagan, who said something along the lines of, "If we find life on mars, I believe we should leave it alone. Mars belongs to the life on it, even if it's only single celled organisms that live there."

I don't remember the exact quote, sue me.

That same applies here. Within a few years, as Agamotto said, this planet will go through an evolutionary process of what amounts to billions of years of planet Earth. Maybe, within a few hundred thousand years, small animals might evolve too. Who knows?

--- Flashback End---

And yeah, mother buried the Seed of Life deep within the planet's mantle, semi merging with it too. So, now, she can come and go from the two planets instantly. Which I was also happy about, as firstly, I met her more often.

And secondly, this gives us another Planet to live on when the mortal life evolves too much. I know, how humans will evolve to be. And I know how much they harm the planet. No way I'm letting mother simply watch by as they do it, without giving her a peaceful place to live on.

So, yeah. That happened almost two years ago, and now, only bits and pieces of green grass was growing on it, and there was an ocean forming from the melting ice. It was slow going, contradicting Agamotto's claim of a few years.

But, to be fair, the planet is pretty big. Like, the size of Neptune, big. It's also just as much further away from the sun, which ensure that the plants do not burn. Thankfully, the sun was a Red Giant, which meant the plants also would not freeze with cold.

Other than just chilling with my mother, and practicing Sorcery with Agamotto, I did try and use my Cosmic Energy.

It was.. slow going, to say the least.

I've only by now learned how to shot pure destructive energy from my hands, and legs. The second of which, I learned on the first day itself, albeit by accident. Other than that, I was pretty much disappointed.

No matter how much I tried to control it, the Cosmic Energy never listens to me. It refuses to. Despite being my own! I can move it within my body, within a limit, sure, but it's not much use. Plus, I can't use it outside my body.

And sometimes, embarrassingly, it just comes out whenever it wishes, to create life, or destroy it. Why, just a few days ago, a big wave of Energy was released from my body, and seeped into the Earth. And you know the end result?

The grass shot up into the air, more than 4 feet, within a second, all over a radius of some 3 miles.

Sigh.

"Open your eyes." Uatu says, probably noticing that I wasn't meditating anymore.

Once I open my eyes, I see at the high collared Uatu, looking at me with an even stare. Creepy, I tell you.

Before I can say anything, he starts, "The Cosmic Energy is the source of every kind of Energy there is, except one. That means that every energy you've ever seen, heard, felt... They all were born from the evolution or devolution of Cosmic Energy."

Seeing me listen patiently, which I actually am, he continues, "Heat, cold, life, death, time, power, space, mind, soul, reality, magic, Divinity, Demonic Energy, and more. Every energy you know of, has its source within the Cosmic Energy. It was here before the Singularity that gave birth to this Universe, and it was there when the one before this one existed. And the one before it, and all the way back to the First Cosmos."

This is the first time I'm seeing someone even mention the multiple Universes that existed before this one. And it is fascinating to listen to!

"The Celestials, your ancestors, and your brethren, were born being instinctively able to use this Cosmic Energy to do their bidding. The Cosmic Beings, and the Abstracts, all have their own flavours of Cosmic Energy, and they too, were born able to use it. Us, Watchers, though, were not. We could not even sense it, or feel it."

As Uatu pauses, I was thinking. After a minute or so of silently thinking, I ask, "How did you learn how to do it then? How did you even sense it? And why can't I use this Energy instinctively?"

Smirking, Uatu states, "Patience. We had to first evolve to be functionally immortal before we can even try. After which, we meditated for thousands of years before we could absorb a sliver of the Cosmic Energy within ourselves. But, since we had so little in the beginning, we learned to use it within a year or two. As the amount we absorbed increased, our focus, and our control increased with it. As for why you cannot use it instinctively, it's because of your parentage."

I listen to the first part, getting disappointed and dropping my head by the second. When he says the last part, I snap my head back up, and ask, "What do you mean? What's wrong with my parentage?"

Shaking his head, Uatu explains, "There's nothing wrong with it, other than some rather unfortunate result of your mother's actions."

Before I can argue in defence of my mum Madonna, he adds, "When your mother sealed your connection to the Cosmic Energy, which was necessary during the time, she unknowingly did two things. First, she made your Divine nature the dominant force within your body."

"And second?" I ask, already dreading the answer. Actions have consequences, and now, I'm facing the consequences of my mum's actions. This just tells me that even with the gift of foresight, mum was not Omniscient.

She did not know everything, and she could make mistakes. She just had a few visions, like me, but probably more, of important stuff. This was not that important, and it was probably a last minute decision by her, to hide me.

Uatu chuckles at my dreadful face, and explains, "While your mother locked your access to the Cosmic Energy, she could not, or did not know to, seal away the connection between you and the Universe. Little by little, the Cosmic Energy your body absorbed, but did not use, and was locked up thanks to your mother, kept getting stored within your body. There, but hidden from everyone, including you."

Oh.. fuck! I could have blown up!

Ignoring, or relishing my horrified face, Uatu continues, "That big storage of Energy kept getting bigger and bigger, over the years, and you did not even use it subtly, as in to enhance your body, or your armour. This is why your control is so... despicable."

I just drop my head back down, frustrated. I can't even blame mum for that, as she was just doing what she thought was right at the time. I can't blame myself, as I did not even think on it at the time beyond trying everyday.

Sigh. "Can I expel it all and start from the bottom?" I ask, hopefully, as the one thing I know is to expel the Energy.

Uatu shakes his head first, and then pauses. Thinking it over a few times, which makes me more hopeful, and again shakes his head, and says, "It can work.. I think. But it is a bad idea. It will make you hungry for energy even more, and you'll go mad with hunger, then eat a high energy source, and then we're right back on step one."

"So.. meditation then?" I say, sulking a bit.

Uatu just nods, and says, "This time.. while meditating, focus on something you want the Energy to do for you. Maybe plain old Watcher Meditation does not suit you."

"Gee. You think?" I ask, completely serious. I could have dropped this months ago, if I could. But everytime he would say, 'We did this for thousands of years. You can handle it for a few years.' Bloody, bastard.

Saying that, I just close my eyes, and focus on my energy. I had already been able to move the energy all over my body, so I start doing that. The Cosmic Energy goes from my hands, to my legs, my head, to my toes, my neck, to my back, my pus.. never mind.

Banishing the thought away, I start again, and gently coerce the Cosmic Energy to gather towards one part of my body, and just one. Then, I move on to the next, and the next.

A few hours later, when my body is used to the flow, I finally follow Uatu's advice, and think hard, 'Echolocation. Emit small amounts of Cosmic Energy. Echolocation.'

Using my meagre control over my Energy, I focus on that one instruction, and only that one. After a few minutes of focusing on it, I finally manage something.

The Cosmic Energy, which I had kept condensed within my chest, starts spinning. With each complete rotation, it pulses, and a small, minuscule amount of Cosmic Energy is emitted out of it.

That small Cosmic Energy wave packet explodes out in a spherical shape, with me at the epicentre, and I gasp.

"Magnificent! This.. this is amazing!" I whisper out, with my eyes still closed, but somehow still able to see.

The Energy did exactly like I told it to do, and it is still doing it!

I can somehow see Uatu, at least the shape of him, and I can even see him smiling. I can see the condensed ball of Cosmic Energy within his heart, which is exponentially denser than my storage. There's also a lot of Cosmic Energy focused around his eyes, which I already suspected of.

I can see the ground beneath me, the plants slowly growing, the microscopic organisms floating around, and our small house behind me. All in black and white, with the only colours being the different kinds of energies, like my Mother's soft green magic within the plants, and Uatu's yellow Cosmic Energy, which I think he's purposefully showing me.

But that's not all. The Energy wave did not stop there. It travelled in all directions for miles and miles, stopping just shy of the stratosphere in the upper direction, while it used the ground as a medium to go even deeper within the planet, stopping at the heart of it.

And I could see the spinning heart of the planet, made when my mother's Seed of Life merged with the core.

Finally opening my eyes, I absently note that I can still see the rest through the back of my mind, and gain a head ache.

Immediately stopping the pulsing of Energy, I use my Magic to heal my head, or try and fail to, and ask Uatu, "Do you see everything like this? It was..."

"Amazing? Disturbing? Unsettling?" Uatu asks, not moving to help me at all.

I said the energy was minuscule as compared to my storage of it, not that it was actually miniscule. It was enough to go thousands of miles underground, and about a 50 miles upwards. On the surface though, it went as far as a few thousand miles at most. Not enough to cover the whole planet, but enough to cover a small country.

Thankfully, I couldn't see everything at once and had to focus on something to see it clearly. Or the headache would have been soo much worse.

Grunting, as the headache finally dissipates, I mumble out, "All of those. It was amazing! I felt like nothing can hide from me! But.. I never knew Celestials could do that."

Shaking his head, Uatu says, "They usually don't. Why waste Cosmic Energy to see farther, when you can just destroy anything that offends you. Us Watchers had no instinctive control of the energy, and so, we had to invent creative uses for it. One of those, you just discovered."

Smiling, he adds, "Congratulations, Theos. You have just passed the first stage of your training."

Smiling wide, still high from the Cosmic acid trip I just went through, I lay down on the ground, close my eyes, begin echolocation again, and ask, "What's next then?"

"Next. You meditate and bring this ability under your full control." Uatu says, and I swear he's smiling underneath the indifferent facade he has on right now.

I just groan, already hating meditation. But well, I did succeed in it once, I can probably do it again.

And with that, I sit down, and begin meditating again, this time, keeping echolocation active. Yup, still beautiful.

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A/N: Yes, I blatantly stole the Seed of Life from my own previous fic, Legends of Baldur. But.. it also exists for real in the Marvel Comics. The Life Seeds are created by Celestial Gardeners to plant life into planets.

In the MCU, it's the Seed of Ego that he plants on different planets to take over them.

While I won't copy everything from my previous stories, I will definitely take inspiration, and steal a few ideas from myself.

Anyways, tata!