This was a fanwork I did back for one full year from 2011 to 2012 and it is my only completed work so far. I won't call this a fanfiction but rather fanwork as I wrote this in dialogues complemented with the scenes from the anime series and posted in a Chinese forum. This work is originally written in Chinese and the whole series comprises of 5 seasons of about 147 chapters, I'm sorry I lost count, was officially ended on 18th July 2012. If anybody is curious, feel free to pm me for the link to the original work in Chinese.

As this is originally a story retold with the available scenes from the anime. Hence readers will find a lot of similarities on this fic and the scenes from the original anime series. See my profile for the summary for the future chapters :).

I enjoyed the process of creating this series. One of my resolutions in 2013 is to novelise this series in English. This is my experiment. I'm not sure if I ever will complete this novelisation but appreciate your support.

Important note: Please don't flame me on the pairing in the process. I had my reasons and my inspiration led me to some of the pairing which seems different from what everyone is thinking of. The character setting is AU. For example, Natsu is NOT brought up by a dragon and his first name is not Dragneel but Dragion instead and Juvia DOES NOT stalk Gray. You shall see why. The prologue was unreleased in Chinese

PS: I took some of the ideas from fallenxone, my friend who assisted me in the first chapter. Thank you.

Prologue

"I'm Lucy the strongest Celestial Mage of Fairy Tail, the Chairwoman of Celestial Spirit Committee and the most famous writer in Fiore. I'm currently writing my story under the Sakura tree which never wilts."

Lucy took a deep breath as she put down her pen. How many years had it been? Many things had happened throughout her life. Lucy had never gotten married despite her age.

Too much of her stubbornness.

Even her twin sister and her brother-in-law already had a grandson and they were living a life of bliss. Her brother-in-law was always nagging at her to find her happiness. Even Juvia had overcome her sadness from the loss of her ex-husband and was happily married to Lyon Bastia. Lucy was happy for her. She owed her a big time. She was sure that she seen a glint of disappointment from Gray's eyes on the day when she was married. He spent too much time on her, and as a result he lost out for his happiness when he realized that the one he truly loved was Juvia.

Lucy always liked to write under the never wilting Sakura tree. Here she found inspiration whenever she needed it. She had written many stories on her adventure with her friends in Fairy Tail, but yet she had never been able to start writing about the most important part of her lifetime and about him, whom she was never going to meet again. She had resolved to write "The Variation of Destiny". She knew that she would want to finish it before her time on Earth is up. She was not young as she was years back, full of life and energy.

Perhaps, I should not have tried to defy fate. We might not be together no matter what choice she had made. He would not be able to escape his fate either. A boy with salmon hair came to her mind.

"It's true that life is not as smooth as one will like it to be. Fate is always making a fool of all of us. But no matter how fate is cruel to us, all of us fought it head-on. Don't you agree, Natsu?"

Lucy smiled looking up at the Sakura tree which was blooming in life as if it was agreeing with her.

"Lucy…"