Prologue: The Lucky One

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Lucy Heartfilia was born at noon, after a grueling fourteen hour labor, on July 1 of the year X767.

She was born at home with a midwife overseeing her, a doctor on standby and an army of servants flitting about the room and hallway. She was held first by her father then, swaddled in a pink blanket, given to her tired mother who beamed the moment she was in the woman's arms.

It was the perfect day for the small family…and it was all a lie.

I am Lucy Heartfilia but, before that, I was someone else.

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Everyone wishes to be rich at some point but, the thing is, being rich isn't really better then, well, not. I was never rich Before, never knew anyone better off then 'upper middle class' and it was fine, I was happy even if I couldn't buy all the things I ever wanted to. Being reborn(?) into a rich family was fun for all of one year, the time between remembering Before and being deemed old enough to be assigned a tutor.

My tutor, Hinamori Hana, went over the expected things of reading, writing and basic math but also added things like dancing, speech, etiquette and even politics– each one more unpleasant then the one before. Meaning? Dance was fun, speech alright, etiquette 'eh' but politics was something I could have really done without.

Now, if I am entirely honest, I was kind of oblivious about the world- the role– that I was born into.

Sure, it was apparent that I wasn't in an English-speaking nation and I was an heiress to a newly wealthy family but the life-style I was raised in was rather western and it was likely that my new parents were trying for a male heir already so the heiress bit didn't really concern me. That said, I had no idea until I was six- four years after I remembered, three since I was assigned a tutor- that the world I was born into was anything but normal or that my family was rather insignificant (despite the wealth) in the grand scheme of things.

I knew my name was Lucy Heartfilia, it was hard not to when Hinamori-sensei had me practice writing it in a calligraphy style, but I had thought that it was a coincidence, that my parents' were Heartfilias and, when they had a daughter, they decided that it'd be a bit amusing to name me Lucy.

Then I turned six and Kaachan decided it was time to introduce me to magic.

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Basically, the Fairy Tail 'verse has consumed my free time as I finally managed to procure means to watch the rest of the anime (and I have to say: holy shit, Aquarius- Igneel).