Aries

Aries, "The Ram" (アリエス 白羊宮の星霊 Ariesu, Hakuyou-kyuu no Seirei), is a Celestial Spirit that is one of the 12 Golden Zodiac Keys. Her key is currently owned by Lucy Heartfilia and formerly owned by Angel and Karen Lilica.

Appearance
Aries is a female spirit which resembles a young girl with pink hair, brown eyes and a pair of twisted horns on her head. Aries usually wears clothes based on a wool-like style, white and fluffy. Her outfit changes, however, as the story progresses. In her very first appearance, Aries did not have a satchel on her waist and her neck was covered in white wool rather than the pink wool shown in her recent appearance.

Personality
Aries is very shy and polite. She will always apologize (sumimasen), even if she didn't do anything wrong to her owner. Still, she is very sweet and nice and able to appreciate how kind an owner Lucy is. And, despite her fears, she is willing to fight for her.

History
Three years before the current storyline, Aries was owned by Karen Lilica, who treated her terribly. Karen used Aries to keep her "boyfriends" away from her. Blue Pegasus's Guild Master Bob sees this and warns Karen to take care of her spirits. In a rage, she accuses Aries of ratting her out and physically assaults her, although all that is seen is Aries getting shoved to the floor.

As punishment, Karen tries to keep Aries in the human world for a week, but before she can act on this threat, Loke steps in by summoning himself to take Aries' place and tells the Celestial Spirit Mage to break her contracts with Aries and himself. When she refuses, Leo threatens to remain in the human world until she agrees, rendering Karen unable to summon any other Celestial Spirits. As a result, Karen was killed by Angel of Oración Seis and Aries' key was taken.

Oración Seis arc
After an exchange in the Celestial Spirit World, Aries is summoned by Angel to battle Loke and Lucy. Despite the two not wanting to fight each other, they choose to fight for the sake of their pride. However, due to Aries' non-combative nature, she fights a losing battle with Loke.

As the battle progresses, Angel summons Caelum and uses it to blast through Aries to hit Loke, causing them both to return to the Celestial Spirit World to heal. After her defeat, Angel is arrested and her contracts with her spirits are broken. Aries, along with Scorpio and Gemini, seek out Lucy and form contracts with her.

Edolas arc
Lucy summons Aries to prevent the Edolas soldiers from capturing her and her friends. Aries then proceeds to attack the soldiers with her Wool Magic, which allows Lucy and company to escape.

Tenrou Island arc
Note: Events in this arc occur only in the anime and do not constitute canon material.

Key of the Starry Sky arc
Note: Events in this arc occur only in the anime and do not constitute canon material.

Grand Magic Games arc
Aries celebrates Lucy and her friends' return from Tenrou Island when Virgo brings them to the Celestial Spirit World. During the celebration, Aries dances with Scorpio, Natsu, Loke, and Levy. When the celebration ends, Aries says goodbye to Lucy and her friends, telling her to take good care of everybody.

Aries is later summoned by Lucy during the Event of the Games' Fourth Day, Naval Battle, in which the competitors must knock each other out of a giant water sphere. When Lucy is about to be thrown out of the sphere, she summons Aries and Virgo, both of whom are wearing swimsuits. Aries creates a Wool Wall that prevents Lucy from going outside the sphere, apologizing if it was too fluffy. They later help Lucy by holding her hands after a powerful Water Magic spell from Juvia Lockser nearly sends her outside.

Magic and Abilities
Wool Magic: Aries' Magic allows her to manipulate wool for combat.
 * Wool Bomb (ウ－ルボム Ūru Bomu): Aries conjures a massive amount of magical wool around her opponents, in which she can ambush them in any given direction and lull them into a relaxed state, bringing the battle to her advantage.


 * Wool Shot: Aries blasts little bursts of pink wool at her foes which attach to them, and, like her wool bomb attack, feels warm and relaxing to the recipient.


 * Wool Wall: Aries conjures a thick cloud of pink wool which protects her from attacks, and like her other wool attack, feels very soft.


 * Wool Cushion: Aries conjures a massive woolen cushion that spirals from the ground. It acts as an airbag which allows those falling from high ground to remain unharmed.

 Hand to Hand Combatant: Despite not being as strong as her friend Leo, Aries has shown some skill in hand-to-hand combat, even using a jump spin kick against Leo right before Caelum shot them.

Immortality: As a Celestial Spirit, Aries cannot die, unless she is forced to stay in the Human World somehow. .

Fairy Academy - Yankee-kun and Yankee-chan!
Aries appears as the school nurse of the Fairy Academy who informs the students of the attack from Courage Academy. She and the other Celestial Spirits make up the school staff.

Video Games
Aries appears as a support character in the DS Game Fairy Tail Gekitotsu! Kardia Daiseidou upon being unlocked.

Major Battles

 * Lucy Heartfilia vs. Angel (owner)
 * Lucy Heartfilia (owner) vs. Edolas Royal Army
 * Lucy Heartfilia (owner) & Cana Alberona vs. Freed Justine & Bickslow (Anime Only)
 * Lucy Heartfilia (owner) vs. Kain Hikaru (Anime Only)

Trivia

 * The astrological sign Aries means 'Ram', a male sheep. Aries, however, is a female.
 * Lucy's quote when summoning Aries is: "Open the Gate of the Ram! Aries!"

Quotes

 * (To Karen) "It, It's not my job to serve these guys."
 * (About fighting Leo) "Even if we owe that enemy a great debt, for our master's sake, we must defeat them... That is... Our Pride!"
 * (To Leo) "So you found yourself a great owner... I'm glad..."