I could see nothing. It was all darkness with no light in sight, and yet, several sounds could be heard, like someone was hitting something with a hammer.

(Where am I?)

"Is anyone there!" I shouted towards the darkness.

But nobody answered as the hammering sounds kept going.

Suddenly a massive earthquake was heard, making the previous sounds stop for a second, only to restart again, but this time, they where a bit higher.

(It seems that someone is getting closer?)

"Who are you!" I shouted again, hoping for an answer.

No answer came to me and instead, a second earthquake happened.

"Dammit! Why don't you answer me?" I screamed at repeated the hammering sounds.

(What the hell is happening?)

Afraid, with no idea on where or who I was, I waited for whatever was coming for me.

Another 4 earthquakes sounds formed, one after another, with the hammering sounds between them.

"I think..." I  mumbled at the direction of the sound only to get interrupted as I heard the seventh and loudest earthquake.

Silence fell around me for a moment until tiny quick steps could be heard.

"Hey little brother, you're not awaken yet?" (Unknow voice)

(Little brother? Is it me?)

I thought what to answer, upon hearing the male mature old voices question.

"What do you mean by not awaken yet? And why are you calling me little brother?"

"Because that's what we are to each other, brothers of the same race.." It explained to me. "We are both Heart Cores!"

"And a Heart Core is?" I asked, confused at his words as I didn't even know what I was.

"Ah! Right, you got the memory loss!" He explained to me. "We all have that at the beginning when we are born outside the Void!"

"Void?"

(I am getting even more confused, what the hell is he talking about?)

"Look, it's fine, don't worry, I shall explain veeery slowly." (???)

This brother told me what he knew, the Heart Core race was an immortal, unbeatable race, made of endless power with no physical body,  we were born in our realm, the Void and he stated that while we were unstopable in our home, in the end, our home was boring, the only thing we could do there was either swim around the darkness with our kind or plan to teleport into a new realm.

At the beginning, only a few tried it, but it soon enough became the major hobby of our race even with it's disadvantages.

"And now you are having one of it's disadvantages, memory loss! It might take years for you to remember everything..." (???)

"Okay, I think I got it..."

"It's time for you to awake, so imagine power, the power that you forgot, grab and fuse it at your own will until you are satisfied." (???)

"I, I will try!"

I tried to do as he said and tried to focus.

(It's not working yet?) Nothing happened, as darkness was still all around me.

(Focus!)

(Focus dammit!)

It took some time but now, it wasn't only the darkness that was present as I could see them, slowly, tiny fire spirits flew around me, dancing like they were in ritual.

(Come to me!)

At my command, one by one, the spirits came to me and I slowly joined them all in one form.

As a tiny fire ball was being formed, more spirits appeared in my sight, no longer dancing around and instead moving fast into me, a ball of fire, it seemed that they were attracted to me.

The fire ball grew larger.

Bigger...

Greater...

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Slowly I became one with the fire spirits as I felt no pain but a hot blazing fire inside of me.

My soul flew deeper into the fire ball...

And deeper...

Slowly I reached the core and minutes later, with 50 times it's first size and with streams of fire dancing all around it, I was now fused myself with it, the core was now beating, twice every second, it became my heart and the host for my soul.

But it wasn't a heart made of weak flesh, no, it was a strong dark red crystal and I was not sure how, but I knew it, I was about to wake up into a physical form.

Unknow Big brother:

(It seems that he has begun?)

I was so nervous at the beginning, at first when I sensed a new power surge, I thought that an enemy was coming to attack me from behind, so I sent out three of my imps to dig into it's direction and as I got closer, I heard a voice but decided to ignore it, after all, there's always a chance of it being a trick.

But once I reached the dark room, I realized that the preparation of my army was done for nothing, there was no enemy, just a room with a square stone altar in the middle, with 4 pair of stairs of 4 steps, each on one of the sides of the altar.

While I did not see my own birth into this realm, I witnessed two previous of my kin doing it, so the moment I saw the room, I knew what the power surge was about.

"I think ill never get tired of watching this!" I spoke through my Imp as my little brother was about to reborn.

My three Imps moved back to the entrance, as from past experience, I knew that they could die to what was about to happen if they were inside the room.

"Ahh! Here it comes!" I shouted with a crazy laugh as a tiny red fireball appeared, floating on top of the stone altar, lighting the dark room.

The fireball slowly started to rotate into random directions, speeding up every second, until it was ready, ready to explode.

Once ready, it stopped it's rotation just for a second and then shrank to half of it's size, only expanded with massive speed, power and a big boom.

From the explosion, four small fireballs split off from the big fireball, each landed on one of the four corners of the room.

They turned into torches as the room turned into stone, the floor, walls and roof was now divided into huge tiles, each with a red diamond appeared in the middle.

The monstrous fireball that floated on the stone altar slowly morphed into an eyeball, that stared at me.

"Welcome Red! How does it feel to have a body?" I asked the newcomer.

Red:

I could see now with my eye that three small creatures stood at the entrance of the room I was located in.

They had blue skin, long ears, pointy noise, a demon tail at the back and horns on their heads.

The first one was the most unique, it had horns as long as his ears and an aura of blue fire surrounding him while the other two lacked that aura and instead had small, tiny horns.

Each of these two creatures held a pickaxe.

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Upon hearing his question, I felt that the entire room was part of me.

(I feel it! This my body! I am...)

"ALIVE!"

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Day 1, 1st Month of the Winter Season, 600.AC