'There's the light I finally see it!' Axel was very happy as he got to die for the very first time. For most people this would be scary, but for Axel it's more like a new adventure waiting to happen.

'I wonder where I am it's all slimy and gross, kinda like the Yusha sector.' The Yusha sector was a disgusting place in the galaxy where there was only one organism. Which are single celled gloop stuff. 'Ugh they just kept on growing and growing, I tell you, you don't destroy stuff for a few hundred years, and that happens.'

"UUUUGGGHHH" said a female voice.

"C'mon honey I know you can do it, just breath breath." said a more masculine voice

"Shut up Greg, I'm try-UUUUGGHH."

'Oh so that guys Greg, I'm guessing he's Dad, so that's why i'm all slimy and gross. It's because i'm being born.'

Sometimes my ingenuity astonishes me.

"I see a head, you're gonna have to breath and push, slow long breaths." sad another voice this time another Female

Females always perplexed Axel. They always get angry over the weirdest things, and call guys stupid. I got a girlfriend when I was only 1000 years old and after constant verbal abuse I called her a 'dirty wench that should just fall in a ditch' she started crying for a long time until I apologized. Me. Apologize. She later called me and told me how she was suicidal after (she was totally lying) and how her ripped boyfriend Pixel was. I think she had a thing with people who had -xel at the end.

"Ugh I can feel it UUUggghhh" said the women with another gut-wrenching cry of pain.

'This is starting to get annoying, when will this end?!'

"You're almost there honey I can see his eyes now!" Said the Dad clearly happy that he almost had a son.

'Soon apparently.'

"Baby you better get out of my body soon or AAAAH!!" Said my Mom

'How rude what if I was enjoying my stay." The baby Axel gave a slight hmph

"Congratulations Mary, you gave birth to a healthy baby boy." Said the Doctor handing over the baby boy to the mom smiling.

'My Mom is so fucking hot!! Why did she have to be my Mom she's practically an angel.' Axel just stared wide eyes. 'She really is all motherly though, like freaking Hestia' Thought Axel remembering his favorite Goddess Hestia who let him stay at her house and eat chips, making a mess, and not even getting mad. She was rather sexy to. The epitome of a goddess.

'Thank me I died' Axel prays to himself because he is God by the way. More like the God of Gods. Either way he didn't care right now he was just so happy to have something interesting to do after so long.

"Mary he's got you eyes!" Said the Dad happy Axel didn't get his lackluster blue-grey eyes. They were really dull in his opinion.

"Doc. is it ok that he isn't crying, I mean isn't he supposed to?" said Mary worried.

"No not always, but we shou-."

'Anything for you my Goddess.' Not wanting to worry his beautiful Mother he made himself cry. "Waaah wahh."

*everyone stops*

"Looks like we got another Momma's boy" said the Dad

"Greg he's an only child?"

"I know I meant me!"

"HAHAHAHA!" Everyone laughed, the situation just called for it.

'I'm hilarious' thought Axel

"What should we name him?" said the Dad looking intensely at the baby.

*Hmmm*

"Daniel" Said Mary resolutely

"Daniel it is!!" Said Dad

'At least I wasn't named Datnam of Sir Cooties Land' or something like that thought Daniel

one week later

'Ahhh I can finally open my eyes." Daniel has been keeping his eyes closed ever since he was born because he thought that was what babies' do. He wanted to be sure not to worry his Mom. Daniel knew for a fact that he was being carried somewhere right now, most likely shopping. Dan didn't know for sure because, he well has never opened his eyes yet.

'Ahh the sun, so painful' Thought Daniel wincing at the sun with his half open eyes. Daniel looked around mystified, he never used to have normal eyes, before he could literally see every atom in the universe if he wanted, but now, but now he didn't have the burden of that power, and could see the true beauty of the world. 'Everything was so colorful, but not like the flow of mana, or life. It's just so, so good.'

Daniel started crying because this was one of his life long dreams to see stuff normally.

Mary looked down, she was afraid after hearing her baby boy crying. "Is he okay he never cries?" Mary got the food she needed and  immediately rushed home.

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Mary was a lower class noble essentially a second class person, so her house was big but she didn't have any servants or anything like that. "Greg, Greg! Daniel's crying I'm worried."

Daniel crying to loud didn't hear his mother's pleads.

"Honey, we both know crying is normal with baby's', Daniel's probably just a late bloomer." Said Greg trying to console his wife, but only for it to be for  naught.

"Oh baby shhh, shhh it's okay little one." Turning her attention to the baby.

After two hours I finally stopped crying. Man am I a baby. 'Ha'. Daniel was mad and worried about his mother. She fell asleep holding him, she had used all her energy worrying about me.

"Ma..Ma-ma" Said Dan trying to pronounce it correctly with his barely used vocal cords. He did this for an hour until he got it right, and then he fell asleep. He was gonna have a huge surprise for his mom in the Morning.

'Anything for Mom. Anything and everything.' Thought the Baby slowly falling asleep.

Little did he know his Dad walked into the room with food he made for his wife. He was worried and wanted to make she was okay like a good husband. But when he got in the room he heard something. It was silent, barely audible. "Ma-Mama."

Greg slowly crept around the room staying hidden from sight until he could see what was making the noise. He didn't want to disturb it and make it run away, or wake up his wife. Then he saw it. His son Daniel. Looking up at his mom wide-eyed, clearly trying to say something. It was a miracle considering he hadn't opened his eyes since after birth. They were starting to get a little worried to.

Greg quieted his breath and listened closer.

"M-Mama...Mam-a..."

Greg was a little disturbed but the feeling of being filled up with joy quickly came over and washed away that feeling. My little boy was trying to say 'Mama'.

Greg sat down with pride and silently watching his boy for an hour, until the baby finally got the word down and went to sleep. I was late after-noon now, and suspected his wife wouldn't wake up for a while, so he got up and shook his legs to wake them up. He left a note and went to his second favorite place in the world other than with family. The guild hall. It was basically a mall, but for weapons, normal shop stuff like food, books, clothes, guild sign ups, pubs, and for people trying to sell stuff they got in a dungeon.

Greg liked this place because that's where he hung out with his friends.

//Daniels Perspective again//

After dad left I got up again. Of course I knew he was there I'm like the God of God's. Anyway I gotta work out, 'cause I'm super weak right now. I got up and slowly crawled on Mom's lap. It was very hard since my legs and arms are so underdeveloped.

I started off by doing sit-ups because I couldn't do much of anything else. I also did my best to count to get my voice working properly.

"Un, Dew, Tree, Fur, Fiv, I give." and I sat down panting. I'm so weak now 'Hahaha' being crazy strong isn't exactly fun either. 'At least I have an objective now, become crazy strong again, and protect Mom and Dad.'

I waited what I assumed was five minutes, and began again. I did this process for about an hour. I layed down for thirty minutes, got up again and did planks for five second intervals. Once again counting. This time I only had a two minute break and I did these for an hour 'til my arms felt like snapping. Then I stood on one leg for ten seconds changing each leg then I waited a minute and repeated the process for another hour.

"Ugh I layed down, my whole body throbbing.

Time to absorb Mana I guess. God I hate this part it’s absolutely the worst. You’ll see why soon, but first I’ll explain something. First of all Mana is a conscious entity, only by a little, but it is. You can tell it something and it will respond. Second of all Mana doesn’t like being forced into someone’s body constantly, it much prefers a polite person, such as me. 99% of all Mana using beings force Mana into their body’s without a second thought. Mana has little options so it looks for a home. If you are raw and impure mana you go to the weak people first because you need to get more refined in order to go into stronger people who have a stronger base. The Mana works its way up until it is pure enough to go into a rank master who has a perfect Mana well with no impurities. But this only happens because people are mean poopy heads whose bodies are built to only absorb their specific kind of mana. That's why if you try to absorb very high quality Mana you will probably get a repercussion. People just got to be more accepting and they wouldn’t face this problem. Seriously you just gotta say please.

I send out a message out out to all mana with no impurities saying “Hey Mana, Daniel here, would you mind staying in my body, and letting me use you, I promise I’ll give you a good home and treat you nicely. Please will you stay.”

The Mana was very happy to say the least. Not only was there a kind human, but one who said please, and acknowledged them as friends not something to be used. Immediately the pure Mana started rushing in, and absorbing it was gonna be hard.

This is gonna be hard because my body’s still that of a baby’s, and I need to be able to adjust to the Mana.

“Augh Oww Dammit.” Daniel was in some serious pain and was crying out loudly waking up his oh so loving Mom.

Daniel’s Mom immediately rushed to get the lights at full speed.

//Mary’s Perspective//

“Oh God oh God!!!” I knew something

‘I shouldn’t of fallen asleep.’ The lights were on now and she saw her baby. He was shining brightly now with the purest white light she has ever seen. “Oh God” the color drained from her face. She saw her baby’s baby fat contracting almost as if gaining a little muscle, and the what really shocked her came next.

Her baby started to grow hair. It looked like a motion picture the mages once shown at a festival. It was like his body was in fast forward.

“Baby you’re gonna be okay honey alright.” she picked the baby up and started soothing him best she could. She would not leave her baby alone now, not ever.

//Daniel’s Perspective Again//

“Aaahhh Waaah” Daniel wailed out as he absorbed more and more Mana into his Mana-pool. “Gaah” Daniel cried out as his new tiny muscles contracted more growing a tiny bit. Mana accelerated growth in cells but it did not cause any genetic mutations, so it wasn’t like you actually got any older. Instead it made you healthier. Daniel could speak now but he decided not to because he didn’t wanna scare Mom. As soon as his Mana pool filled up to the brim, and a little more, he closed off the intake. The Mana spread through his body cleaning out any impurities that were there since birth and forced them out.

Daniel fainted when this happened in his Momma’s worried arms.

Mary at the time was extremely scared. A black liquid just started exuding from her baby’s pores at a rapid rate and wasn’t stopping.

“Honey I’m home, you won’t believe this…” Greg’s grin faded as he saw his wife holding their baby.

“Greg, help.” said a crying Mary

A few days later

“C’mon baby, wake up, wake up.” Mary had been by her son’s body for three full days refusing to eat anything as she didn’t want to miss anything. Greg would’ve done the same if he didn’t have to attend to his job as a military trainee teacher.

“You can , do it wake up.” Mary’s beautiful voice now hoarse and died down. She had been crying for a long time.

Then something happened…*Shake...Shake*

‘Where am I my head is killing me’ though Daniel remembering what happened. Better open my eyes.

Daniel opened his eyes only to see his mother praying for him to wake up.

“Mama”

Mom just looked at me for a second then

*faints.*