A twist of Fate

Prologue

The seemingly plain card was placed in the middle of the old table. The symbol on the card itself was the Wheel of Fate – the time changing card. The rarest card of all magical cards, the one that existed only once and after it had been used, it would always disappear and trade places with another card which made it the Joker among all the cards which were out there. Only a few Card Mages knew about this card and most of them prayed that they would never find it because even the most powerful card was pretty useless if you needed a Lightening Card.

For the last nineteen years, the card had been gone and no one had known who had been the last to receive it – but if someone had remembered, it would have been pointless because the previous owner had been dead for a long time.

"It took me quite a while to find it," Cana Alberona, Fairy Tail's resident Card Mage' said softly as she rested her fingertips on the edge of the table. "The Wheel of Fate … the most powerful of all magical cards … and the most unpredictable."

"How did you get it?" her father asked.

"I got my mother's old cards … and she possessed it," she replied. "Anyway, you really want to go back in time, father? Even with all the risks ahead of you?"

He nodded slowly. "I cannot live with my decision and my guilt any longer … and with the chance to make up for my previous mistakes … how could I keep going without taking this chance?"

"Very well," she said as she rested the bag with her own cards on an abandoned chair. "So, we should really go now before we get any second thoughts about this."

"Y-you will go with me? What about-"

"If it's really meant to be, it will happen again … and I have to go with you to perform the spell correctly so there isn't much of a choice for me anyway."

"You are choosing my happiness over your own?"

She shook her head. "It will be my happiness as well," she replied as she picked up the card.

"You aren't the one who has to redeem herself," Gildarts said calmly.

"I know," she said as she held up the card. "Here we go … Wheel of Fate, turn time and allow us to make up for previous mistakes. Fortuna, decide on our destiny and allow us to go back to where we strayed from our rightful path!"

A bright flash of light swallowed them and a lonely, nearly empty card fell onto the dusty floor, showing nothing but a single symbol: a mother.

A second later, the door opened and a blond man with a lightening shaped scar entered, looking around before he picked up the card on the floor and looking over his shoulder. "Hey, Cana!" he called out as he looked over his shoulder. "You lost one of your cards – again!"

Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail.