— Year 1550 (Gaia calendar) 12:00 PM, Saturday, June 30

  Lios Town

  Aries was walking home from church hand in hand with his parents when some thing caught his eye. He turn to him mother, who was wearing a stylish blue and white dress and said with an exited voice.

  "Mommy! Mommy!"

  Amanda looked down at the exited young boy, "What is it Honey?"

  "Ice cream!" the boy looked to the store with the sign that said

  his face glowing and sparkling.

  "No. You'll get your ice cream and cake tomorrow when it's your birth day." She replied with a stern expression, "We can't spoil you too much now can we." She glared at her husband who was on the other side of their son.

  Hoooo! Hoooo! Hoooo!

  Keel looked away and whistled, knowing he was guilty of overly providing Aries with everything he asked.

  Aries looked down disappointedly, his glow and sparkle lessening significantly.

  Amanda paid it no mind and turned to the figure of a man who was rushing toward her with a worried expression.

  "Arthur? What happened?"

  He stopped right in front of her. "Its Alice."

  Amanda nodded understanding what he meant and grabbed his hand ang quickly walked to the direction of his house. She turned back to her family, "I'll be back soon, sorry."

  Keel nodded understandingly, "It's fine."

  The the two quickly rushed away.

  Aries watched as the the two disappeared from his vision. He then turned to his father and raised his arms.

  Noticing this, the burly man picked up the young child and headed for home.

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  Keel exited Aries' room after laying him his bed, leaving him to sleep soundly. Aries' sleeping figure looked quite peaceful, his chest moved up and down, accompanied by soft breathing sounds.

  Not long after the door closed, his eyes shot open, his golden eyes seemingly emitting a dim light.

  'It's time.'

  He pushed his small frame off the bed and took a small capped glass bottle of blue liquid from it, in it was many small stones and a white flower. Each of the stones had a cracks on them, revealing a blue light from with in.

  It was a simple potion mad from purified water, a white flower, and six regular stones soaked for at least a week, this particular one was soaked for a month. This was a potion of chi, it absorbed chi and imparted that chi onto whoever drank the potion.

  Aries took a cup he had prepared in advance and poured the liquid into the cup, making sure to not let the solids to come out as well. He looked at the blue liquid that seemed to glisten and gleam.

  'Though a little early, time to take full advantage of my golden period.'

  This was a period between the ages, 6-12, where the body was not only stable, but extremely malleable. This was the perfect time to intake chi into the body while maximizing it's effects, and Aries planed to take full advantage of this period.

  Aries swirled the blue liquid in the cup for a moment, before drinking all its contents. He hurriedly sat down in a meditative posture and spread his senses out ward, feeling the blue specks of light around him. Turning his focus inwards, he found a large, bright blue ball of light within him, constantly trying to seep out from him.

  He gathered his focus and pressed against the light. The ball of light began to shrink and flow into streams, flowing through each part of his body, from his chest, it flowed through his neck to his head, also flowing through his arms and torso, eventually ending at his feet.

  At the center, where the shrinking ball of light was, more light gathered and formed a second, spiritual heart that quickly burst, but left an impression on Aries' entire being. At that point with in his body, more light began to form and circulate passively throughout his body.

  Aries opened his eyes and checked his body from the outside, feeling that not only was his body sturdier, his skin was healthier, silkier, and softer. He then checked his inner being and sensed his chi.

  'With this, I should have a larger than average chi amount.'

  The Chi potion had not been to catalyze the process, but to enhance it, giving him an edge compared to others at his level.

  Aries rose from the floor and turned to the table that was to the wall. Walking toward it, he channeled his chi and allowed it to exit him and clump together to form a dim light source. He scanned the table and picked up the mirror on it.

  Using the light source he made, Aries looked at himself. Although he had inherited good looks from his parents, those looks were enhanced quite a bit. His skin, though pale, was smoother, his hair was silky and soft, his eyes were like golden gems. All these aspects came together to make him quite a beauty.

  He smiled as he looked at himself, knowing this was just the first step. He placed down the mirror and extinguished the light and turned to his bed. He climbed on to it and drifted into a quite, serene slumber.