'Essence'

(1800 Words)

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After Aiden started training on his own from the age of 12, Mikael was angry at this as Aiden was almost out of his control but he couldn't do anything because Aiden never rebelled no matter what he did.

So to prevent this from happening again he was very strict with his other children and his behavior had gotten from a worse state to a non-repairable state.

He would beat the other children If they didn't follow his training and they had been beaten very badly many times.

They even started to hate him so much so that they even planned to kill him in sleep but couldn't stab him due to lack of courage.

Aiden also didn't stop this from happening as he knew that their hatred against their father was the very source of their power and he had seen this through his own eyes.

They were getting stronger day by day in an attempt to pass Mikael's power.

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(Aiden POV)

He was currently training in the forest with a metal dagger and trying to break a boulder with it, this technique was one of the most difficult to master and it took him 3 years to master it.

He was standing in front of a boulder of a very large size and had a metal dagger around 45cm in his hand.

He launched the dagger with his full force and it struck the boulder on a particular point, this was a weak point attack and as soon as it touched the boulder, it broke into small stones and the dagger broke into 2 pieces as it was not able to handle this much force.

He sighed seeing the broken stones and was preparing to go back but he heard a voice that made him smile.

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Elijah, Niklaus, Rebekah, and Kol came to him injured with tattered clothes and shouted,

All of them "Bigbrother!!! Father is beating us again."

He looked at them smilingly and took out some medicine from under the ground like he knew that they would come, he applied it to each one of them carefully while saying,

Aiden "You know I will be always there for you but you also have to get stronger, not for father but yourself, see I am now strong enough that father has nothing to teach me and mother has also taught me to use all her magic so I can train by myself, So if you train you can also become like me."

He could also use magic to heal them in instant but he didn't want them to think that everything was easy.

They all nodded and happily smiled.

Like that he spent his evening with them enjoying it while talking and eating.

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Also, At night Freya, Fin, Henrik would come to him for help as they learned magic from their mother

He always helped them and always treated them with love no matter what mistake they made, that's why they all loved him as he was not like his mother or father.

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Today Aiden had gone especially far away from the normal forest area he would train because according to Livie he was about to unlock his Essence anytime now.

He was sitting in a fixed position for hours with his eyes closed and just concentrating on his body.

He was just waiting for the Eseesnce to release,

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Then something happened and winds started blowing in all directions, trees started shaking, and animals started running far away from Aiden.

Inside Aiden, pitch-black energy was silently moving in his entire body being absorbed in it.

Aiden controlled it just like magical energy but it was a little difficult due to its different nature.

(7 Hours Later)

Aiden had fully controlled Essence but no animal still dared to come to look for him, due to their instincts they could sense death near him.

Aiden opened his eyes and breathed deeply, then he heard Livie's voice.

{You have unlocked 'Essence' and it has changed your body.

Now any type of energy directed at you will not be absorbed but it will be devoured by Essence and then used to nourish your body, this ability will also have a limit and excess energy will still hurt you so you must increase your physical power to increase capacity for devouring more energy.

And from now on you will not be able to store any type of energy other than Essence in this body and to use any type of energy other than essence you have to use it directly.

Essence will only be produced inside your body, so If you want to increase the speed of producing it then you must practice the manual you will get now.}

After that Livie's voice stopped and the memory of manul came to his mind.

He didn't ask Livie to tell him about it as he knew that this must be studied by himself.

He then started walking home while thinking about his future training.

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(5 Years Later)

Aiden had grown 20 years old and strong enough to defeat his father and mother one on one.

He had also mastered beginner-level use of Essence and his body could produce enough of it to cast a forbidden spell in a day.

The forbidden spells required 4 witches of his mother's level to cast and he could cast it alone.

In conclusion, he reached the maximum capacity he could reach in his body's '1st Stage'.

He also asked Livie about the conditions for the second stage but she only told him that he was not allowed to know.

He ignored it as he was powerful enough to survive, for now, so he would find it later.

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Near forest area,

Mikaelson Children were talking, with all of them sitting together, out with a bonfire.

Kol spoke,

Kol "Why does Big Brother Aiden not eat with us and these days we rarely see him."

Rebekah laughingly said,

Rebekah "Fool, Big brother has to do training, and don't you see he and father don't talk much."

Niklaus made a serious face while saying,

Niklaus "They don't talk much because our father has no control over him, no he is stronger than him also whenever father says something to provoke him he completely ignores it."

Before anyone could argue more Freya stated the facts,

Freya "Anything doesn't matter, don't you see no matter what wrong we do, he never stops loving us, unlike father.

Henrik "He is better than both father and mother, father only is good to us if we do good in training and same with mother but he doesn't care about that."

Finn was like mothers shadow and didn't like that someone said bad about mother so he asked,

Finn "Then why does he let us get beaten by father if he can stop him."

Elijah was like a noble brother who remained calm all the time to take care of his siblings.

He knew that matter was going worse so he butted in and said,

Elijah "If he protects us from everything then we won't have the motivation to get stronger and if you still think that then ask our mother how he did his training, you will understand.

Kol was always the energetic one and said hurriedly,

Kol "I asked her, she said he did 10 times training than us, regular without a break, and that also when he was only 5 years old, and now he is 20, we can't guess how much training he might do alone in the forest.

When Niklaus was about to speak he felt something and shouted,

Niklaus "Henrick duck!!!"

But Before Henrick could react, a sharp claw went through his heart, he stopped breathing and everyone went cold.

Finn became very scared and asked with a trembling voice,

Finn "What is happening?....when he said that wolves came out and surrounded them."

Kol shouted,

Kol "Wolves have surrounded us."

Elijah saw no getting out without a fight so he said the best thing he could,

Elijah "We must fight together, remember what big-brother said, "When the family is together no one can defeat it" do you understand." he shouted.

Listening to this everyone remembered Aiden's teachings but they were still not able to protect each other as when all the wolves died only Elijah, Niklaus, Rebekah were left alive and were unconscious due to injuries they received.

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Sometime after the attack of werewolves on Elijah and others.

Mikael and Esther were fighting 'Dahlia'.

Dahlia was the elder sister of Esther and the strongest Dark Magician of all time.

Dahlia was seeing down on Mikael and Esther on the ground with bloodied clothes in their last breaths.

She shouted while staring at them,

Dahlia "Nothing like this would have happened If you had given me your firstborn, why do you think you can resist the curse of fate."

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Esther was cursed by Dahlia, that she can't have children because it was against fate but she didn't listen and got pregnant with 'Mikael' and gave birth to Aiden but they never thought about giving away such a brilliant child to Dahlia and hid somewhere far away.

But today she found them and collaborated with werewolves then attacked, leading to this.

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Esther just meekly smiled and said,

Esther "I did not kill you when you were weak because you were my elder sister and I regret It today.

I also know that only Elijah, Niklaus, Rebekah are left alive but you can't kill them now, as the firstborn you want so badly is going to come back anytime soon.

Dahlia listening to it laughed and said,

Dahlia "What is there to be happy about him coming, I will enslave him and also enslave the other 3 children to become sacrifices for my dark magic."

At the time 'Mikael' started laughing and said,

Mikael "You want to enslave Aiden, even I can't do anything about him, he is stronger than both of us.

Doesn't matter, you will see soon enough."

Dahlia frowned listening to their confidence, so she decided to kill them, and to prevent any mistakes, she uses her strongest spell.

She launched her strongest spell but as soon as the spell reached them a pitch-black shield came from nowhere and neutralized the spell then disappeared.

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