Father

For some reason when I looked at the grin on his face and his outreaches arms; I began to cry. My tears may have something to do with the fact that I never really had a father and I have subconsciously desired for one. My father squeezed me tighter as he heard my tears.

"Son it's okay. I'm here for you"

I stay in his embrace for a little longer trying to savory this happy moment for as long as possible.

"Son we can catch up in the morning it is very late and you need your rest"

I nod and let him carry me to my room.

"Goodnight son sleep dreams"

I quickly nod off to sleep with a grin on my face. I awaken rather excited to spend time with my father. I throw on some clothes and I rush down to find that a huge meal has been prepared for me.

"My boy, happy birthday"

I dig in to the plethora of food before me. The good thing about being a one year old is that no one cares that I'm eating with my hands. I thoroughly enjoyed my meal and my father seemed to be rather pleased with my presence. I end up spending most of the day playing with him, Jasmine, and Nia. We played around in our lake and had a wonderful time together Sadly my mother was unable to make it since she had business to attend to. But I didn't mind at all. I don't really care for my mother; Jasmine is a lot better. She seems to actually care about me and wish to spend time with me. Sadly my father must leave because of the war.

We end our night under the stars gazing at them together. Finally I got the dad I always dreamed of. But happy moments don't last forever.

"Son I don't even think you can understand me yet but I won't be able to see you for awhile. I just want you to know that I love you very much. I want you to try your best at everything. Remember that your not better than anyone. We are all humans and you should treat every as equals."

He stops for awhile and gazed up at the sky with me thinking until finally saying, " I wish there wasn't any war so I could stay here with you but I have a duty to the people of Lareon."

He stops and I can see the true sorrow in his eyes of the loss of getting to be with his son as he grows. We fall asleep there together under the stars.

I awaken in a bed and see a note left for me of the night stand.

Dear Aaron,

I know you won't be able to read this letter now given that you are only a year old. I'm writing this now because I do not know the next time I will see you. But I have hired an assistant and advise you in my place. He will help train your mana core and teach you about this world. He will be given the the power to spend from our treasury as he sees fit to further your development. At the age of ten you will begin to receive your own allowance so you can have your own spending money. Your mentor will arrive and begin teaching you at the age of three. Remember try your best, never give up and know that your father loves you.

Love,

Henry Brawn

I put the letter away wishing for my fathers safe return home. I look around taking in what I assume to be my new room with an actual bed. I then dress myself with much difficulty and begin meditation. A couple minutes later Jasmine comes in and is a bit surprised to see dressed and ready to go. Since as I have staying in her room she as been waking me and dressing me.

"I guess you were ready for your own room," she says. "You sure do mature fast"

She takes me down to eat breakfast with her and Nia. We play for most of the day and Jasmine tries to do some reading with us.

The next two years are passed in a similar manner lots of playing, reading, eating, sleeping and meditating. It is unfortunate for Nia since I much prefer reading to playing with her. I still do my fair share of playing with her since all that reading with make you go mad. My mother appear on my birthday but even when she is home she is very busy with her work. I'm getting rather impatient with my meditation since I have not yet finished formation stage. It feels like all I do is meditation with no progress. This does not deter me. I have been wondering what will my mentor think if I'm already through with the foundation stage when he arrives. Should I wait and try and finish when mentor is here? I don't think I will. Hopefully he will just think I'm a genius and not a baby with a teenage mind. Now Jasmine gives me a lot more freedom since I'm older since she knows I'm very mature for my age. She does still make all my meals and clean my room which I am very grateful for. She also believes that I'm very smart since I can already read at the age of three. So she lets me looks at whatever I want I guess she just thinks I'm curious or putting on a facade or something. But I don't mind. Over the two years I have learned that the garden we have had a relatively high amount of ambient mana so I have been trying to meditate out there.

That is how today is going to go. After I ate my breakfast I went out to the garden to meditate. I sit down and close my eyes. I start trying to bring the light closer and spread it out. I bring the light towards me with an inhale and spread the light with an exhale. As I'm meditating all of the sudden the light surges, fills my vision and then disperse throughout my body. I have done it! I finished formation stage! Now I can begin to manipulate mana and start doing some freaking magic. All of the sudden my eye lids become very heavy and I pass out from exhaustion in the peaceful garden.