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Mangaka: I know what you're thinking. "Mangaka in Training, what are you thinking? You're supposed to be writing the next chapter for A Soul Like Mine: REDUX"! Well, I can explain that. I've hit a slight snag in my writing, so I'm doing this little side project to try and get my groove back. Anyways, here's what you should know. This story starts right after Lind returns to Heaven after taking care of the Angel Eater on Earth. That's basically when it takes place. As for where, it's based in Heaven, but in the future, who knows? Anyways, enjoy, my readers!

Chapter 1

Childhood starts

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"Whooohooooo!!" a young blonde exclaimed happily as he raced through a hallway full of distressed system maintenence workers, his long hair waving wildly in the wind. A lone Valkyrie chased after him, screaming at him the entire time.

"Maximilian Reginald Valentine! Slow down right now!" the blonde warrior screamed at the young man. "On second thought," she said, dodging a flying piece of debris, "Just stop moving altogether! And where did you get that glider from? You don't have the authorization to- gack!" A piece of rubble smacked her in the face as she chased after her charge.

Max ignored her up until the debris hit her. At that point he jumped off and landed on the ground safely, with almost cat-like ease. However, the glider which was supposed to be used for goddesses training to fly, went flying off uncontrollably and crash-landed into the wall. As it caught fire, multiple gods and goddesses moved in to extinguish it with water based magic. The young blonde raced over to the Valkyrie, obviously worried. "Velda! Are you okay?" The young man was met with a powerful punch to the face. Said Valkyrie then pulled the boy into a nelson, holding him down on the ground.

"Am I okay?! Next time I say slow down, slow down! What in Heaven's name is wrong with you?! And where did you get the glider?!" The Valkyrie was obviously a bit peeved.

Max struggled uselessly against the goddesses grip, only making himself more uncomfortable. "I'm sorry! Jeez! I got it from a trainee after I promised her a date, okay?"

The blonde goddess seemed to become angrier at this. "A date? A DATE?! You know that you're prohibited from such activity!! I can't begin to tell you how many rules you've violated in the past fifteen seconds!"

"Did I break any records?"

"SHUT UP!!!"

With that, Velda tightened her grip on the poor boy, making him yelp out a bit. An older god with long brown hair approached the two, smiling and laughing at the sight. "Velda, please. He's only human."

"So what Yrutai? That's no excuse for his behaivior!"

Yrutai smiled as he pulled her away from the boy, and observed the chaos around him. "I know that. I mean you'll break his body if you keep wrestling with him like that. But Maximilian, you realy should consider what you do before you do it. After all, just look at this mess. The Almighty One will not be pleased with this." Max sighed and looked at his feet, a bit of guilt in his tone.

"Sorry... it's just so boring with Velda constantly playing the bore patrol, that's all."

Velda huffed a bit at that. "I'm the "bore patrol" only because you constantly get into trouble. If you'd sit down in the library or something else quiet, I wouldn't need to be wasting both our time."

Max shook his head. "Nah, nah. Reading is for nice sunny days when you can sit on a hill all alone and enjoy the view."

The Valkyrie exploded at that. "IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY HERE!"

Max plugged his ears with his fingers, nodding. "Yeah, but I'm never left alone. I constantly have you or some other Valkyrie chasing me around. And the only one who ever likes to train me is Lind. You guys just say "it's too dangerous" and "you're only human, you'll get killed"!" he said with a mocking tone as he imitated the blonde goddess.

Yrutai smiled nervously, placing a hand on Velda's shoulder. "Hey, listen for a second Maximilian, it is dangerous for you. Lind is different, she doesn't really understand that you have your limits. Actually, the Almighty One and I have been discussing whether or not we should let her watch you anymore."

"WHAT?!"

Yrutai's nervous smile grew a bit as he took Max aside, walking away from the destruction that was already mostly repaired. Velda simply huffed angrily and walked towards the direction of her division.

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"Max," Yrutai began, "You have to understand, you're a very special person. We can't simply allow you to put yourself in harm's way, that would be a breach of contract."

Max mumbled before speaking clearly. "If you wanna keep me out of harm's way, you should keep me away from Velda. She's the real threat here." Yrutai chuckled and threw his cloak over Max.

"You know she has your best interests at heart. She's just very protective of you. Some might say she's developed a crush of sorts on you."

Max shook his head and laughed sarcastically. "Yeah, I think you have that put together the wrong way. What you really mean is that she's developed a will to crush me." Yrutai laughed at his young friend's humor, he himself couldn't tell a good joke to save his life.

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Velda sighed as the hot water rained down on her. She sat down cross-legged, letting the water soothe away her tension. "That boy is such an idiot." She looked up at the ceiling, which was actually a type of illusion. It looked like a blue sky with moving clouds scattered around it, and was almost realistic in every way. Such was the type of magic that worked in the Valkyrie division of Heaven.

Another Valkyrie joined in her lone conversation. "You're talking about Max again huh? We all heard what happened. He kind of has a knack for getting into the kind of trouble that blows stuff up huh?" Velda looked up to see one of her comrades walk up to her, and sit down next to her. "If we ever needed a weapon against the demons, all we'd have to do is send Max down after them!" her comrade joked.

Velda laughed with her, smiling. "Yeah, I guess. The good news is that my week to watch him is over. It's Lind's shift tomorrow."

Her friend laughed nervously. "Actually, Lind's away on buisness on Earth right now. Which means... ehe..."

Velda laughed again, nudging her friend with her elbow. "Which means it's your turn by default huh Binya? Don't worry, he's probably used up all his fun attitude with this little escapade!"

Binya groaned and looked up to the ceiling, where even the warm water cascading down didn't seem to soothe her worries. Her jet-black hair glimmered in the water, and she layed back on the floor, groaning again in distress. "Why... why did it have to be meeee?!"

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Yrutai and Max enjoyed some lunch before the two friends began to head back to his quarters. Suddenly, Max looked up, as if he was aware of something that Yrutai didn't see. "... Maximilian? Maximilian, is something wrong?"

Max didn't answer, he only looked out at the sky. Slowly, a small smile crept accross his lips. "Lind... Lind's back home!" With that, Max sped off, running in an arbitrary direction. Yrutai looked at the space Max once occupied only moments ago blankly, and then began to realize what was going on, although it took him a second for his mind to catch up.

"Max, wait!"

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The showering duo laughed as they made their way out of the shower, towels wrapped around them. They made their way to the locker room, which was basically a room with seperate pocket dimensions for each Valkyrie and their things. Every door opened up when a Valkyrie used her unique sigil to act as a combination for the locks.

Binya was the first to notice that there was someone else in the locker room with them. A blue-haired goddess clad in a standard Valkyrie uniform greeted them with a dull expression. "Oh thank the Almighty! Lind, I thought you were gone? Oh who cares, thankyouthankyouthankyou!!!" The excited Valkyrie bounded up and embraced her comrade happily.

The blue-haired goddess looked at Binya curiously, not understanding just why she was being so warm with her so suddenly. "Binya, why are you hugging me? I've just come from my work on Earth, I need to get some relaxation. Will you get off please?"

The black-haired goddess jumped off and floated in the air rather than landing. She spun happily, knowing she wouldn't have to put up with Maximilian the next day. While she was doing her little dance, Velda smiled and greeted her comrade warmly. "Lind, it's good to see you back. When did you get here?"

Lind opened up her personal locker, waving her hand as a unique symbol spread over the lock. "Only a few minutes ago," she replied, keeping her militaristic attitude. "And why is she so excited?" she asked, pointing to her still-dancing comrade.

Velda grinned in a matter-o-factly manner. "Isn't it obvious? Max has been causing trouble again. It's actually your turn tomorrow, but because you weren't here, she was afraid she'd have to do it again."

Lind opened her door and placed a few things inside, also taking out a towel with a golden embroidered L on it. Her uniform materialized away and she wrapped the towel around her. "You know, after my week is up, it'll still be you turn anyways Binya." Binya's little balloon seemed to pop as she heard that, and she sank back to the ground sadly.

"You just had to bust my bubble, huh?"

Suddenly a large commotion was heard outside, and a yell of "you can't go in there!" was heard before the door to the showers was thrust open, and a blonde streak made it's way to the trio. Lind had no time to defend herself as a hyperactive blonde boy tackled her to the ground. "Lind! Lind Lind Lind! You're back you're back you're back!" shouted an excstatic Max as he hugged the life out of the Valkyrie. "I missed you so much! When did you get back? Did you bring me a t-shirt? A souvenier? How was Earth? Was it great down there? Did you find a boyfriend down there? Didja fall in love?"

Lind answered all of the questions effortlessly and in perfect order. "Only three minutes ago, no, no, it was fine, I suppose, no, and what do you think?" Apparently, she was used to Max's little hyperactive questionarres. "Now would you please get off of me? I'm tired and I have to take a shower."

Max stopped moving completely for a moment, not even bothering to move off of his friend. He moved his face closer, and sniffed the air around her a bit, almost like he was testing something. "Hmmmm..."

"Max," Binya started, "Are you going to-"

"Something's different," he said, interrupting her. "Lind, what happened down on Earth, huh? Something happened, I know. You're different." Lind lifted herself off of the ground, sending Max tumbling to the floor. He sat up and looked at Lind curiously. "Well? C'mon, you can tell me. Oh, I get it, you can't say in front of everyone here, right? Okay, I understand, you can tell me tomorrow!" With that, Max got up and turned around. He was surprised to see at least five angry Valkyries staring back at him. The last sound he made before losing conciousness was a meek little "eep".

Lind shook her head and sighed, knowing it was her turn to take care of the "blonde hurricane" tomorrow. Velda and Binya patted her on the shoulders as they watched the long-haired menace get dragged away by the angry fighters.

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Entry number 427

January 14

Guess what? Lind came back today!:heart heart: I'm so happy:heart: And just in time too! If she hadn't come back today, I would've had to spend the week with Binya! No offence, but she's kind of whiney. She acts like it's a bad thing to hang out with me. Then again, alot of people think that...

Lind was on Earth, so I'm hoping she'll have something to tell me when she comes over tomorrow! I can't wait to hear about Earth, it sounds so cool! Plus, it's the place where I was born too. That must mean it's a special place. I'm so giddy I can't even sleep! Also, today I did something a bit stupid. I crashed a glider into the building where all of the system maintainers for Yggdrasil work. Last time I did that, the head sys admin Urd almost fried me! I'm lucky she wasn't around today. Come to think of it, I haven't seen her for a very long time now, or her little sister either. Hmm...

Velda chewed me out for it later, and she got hurt chasing me. I feel bad about that. But Yrutai came along and saved me! I'm thankful he was around. But then he actually suggested that Velda LIKED me. I'm sure that she doesn't completely dislike me, but she doesn't like me, not like that, I know that much for sure.

If there is someone I like... hmm... I'd have to say it'd be Lind:heart heart: She's nice to me, and I get to have fun with her when she watches me! She's teaching me how to fight. Oh yeah, Yrutai said that he and the Almighty One talked about making her stop watching me. I don't like that idea, and I don't know why they would do that. Sure, training is dangerous, but it wouldn't be fun if it wasn't at least a bit dangerous! That's why Lind doesn't use magic on me, she doesn't want to hurt me. And I know that she's holding back on me. I've seen her train, I know she can do better than what she does to me.

Also, the other day one of the Valkyries said that I needed to act my age. I'm not quite sure I understand, I've never seen any other humans my age. Apparantly, I'm around 13 in human years. I got some books from the library about humans, and apparantly I'm going through a natural stage of human life called "puberty". I'm supposed to get taller and grow facial hair and other cool stuff. But it sounds like what some of the other gods my age went through when they got their angel. Does that mean I'm going to get an angel? I wonder... I'll ask Lind tomorrow.

Anyways, I managed to sneak and angel's egg out of Lind's locker when she wasn't looking. I don't know why she had it, she already has a really cool angel. But something is different about her now. She seems different, and I'm almost certain something happened on Earth while she was there. I have alot of questions for her to answer.

That's all for now! 'Night!

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Just so you guys know, every chapter will end with a little diary exerpt of Max's, so you can get inside the character's head a bit better. And remember, I beg for your reviews!