A/N(Authors Note):
Hello there, whoever is reading this story! This is my first fanfiction story. Please review and review and review! xD By the way, I'll be using first person POV(Point of View) on Chapter 1 so please tell me if I'm better off with the third or first. ^_^

*WARNING!:
If you don't want spoilers from the characters of the Tartarus arc, leave immediately and come back later when you finished reading the latest chapter of the manga.

*DISCLAIMER:
I do not own Fairy Tail! I do want it to be mine but it wouldn't be as good as it is right now if I have. LOL.

Forgotten Memories (The Curse of The Nine Demon Gates)

Prologue:

"Give up now Demon King or should I say, Mard Geer. You and the Nine Demon Gates are already defeated. Surrender now and we'll give you mercy." Makarov stated with both hands on his back.

The Celestial Spirit King has finally defeated Mard Geer resulting for the Fairy Tail guild members to return to their normal form from being a part of the Plutogrim. Fairy Tail defeated all the Five Demon Gates remaining, including Neo Minerva.

"Why won't you just kill us?!" Mard Geer hissed, exasperation written all over his face.

Makarov glared at him and simply said, "We're not killers, Mard Geer. You know that." Mard Geer stared at him, skepticism were obvious on his face. Makarov pushed aside that fact and continued. "The officials will be heading to this place now inspecting us from what happened here. They will be placing all of you where you cannot use your curse magics." He finished and then something flashed through his mind, making him flinch.

Erza asked in confusion, "What is it master?"

"O-our guild! Our guild was bombarded!" Tears suddenly started to roll down his cheeks as he remembered the destroyed guild. He then glared at the Dark Guild Tartaros that were looking at him in awe, not expecting the sudden break down of the Fairy Tail guild master, Makarov. "You..." He gritted his teeth, rage boiling inside of him. "I changed my mind! I'm going to kill all of you!" He snap and instantly became humongous, tranforming into his Titan form.

"Master, calm down. As you said, we're not killers and they are already going to have their punishment from the Magic Council when the townspeople finally has the chance to ellect the new Magic Council members." Mirajane, knowing as the more patient one, made her move and tried to calm him down. "Besides, I think they're going to have a very heavy punishment for killing the Magic Council members and trying to erase all the magic of Earthland." She said a matter of fact and smiled warmly.

"You're right, Mira-san. I would've killed them if you hadn't reminded me." He smiled, finally returning to his jolly self.

"We're not going to let you!" Kyouka, one of the Nine Demon Gates said, barely standing due to the damages she gained from her previous battle. "Nine Demon Gates of Zeref! Stand up, we're going to cast One of The Restricted Curses." She ordered.

"One of The Restricted Curses?" Gray wondered. "What the hell is that?" He wrinkled his forehead in confusion.

"One of The Restricted Curses my face! If you're still up, let's have a rematch. The rest of the guild can rest. I'm going to take care of all of you!" Natsu smirked arrogantly as always and fist pumped.

Lucy rolled her eyes and face-palmed at Natsu. "One of The Restricted Curses? What's that supposed to mean?" Lucy raised an eyebrow in confusion. "In your state, I don't think you can still perform a spell." She looked at them knowingly.

Jackal tried to stand up. "Yeah, Kyouka." He put his hand on his knees as he tried to gain his composure. "She's right."

Kyouka just smirked. "That's why I'm asking all of you to stand up. We're going to use our remaining curses to cast the curse." By that, the Nine Demon Gates rose from the ground. Kyouka looked at Mard Geer. "Demon King, we're going to perform the curse. You shall continue our dream to reunite with Zeref, no matter what, revive master and kill all human beings." She stared at him as if asking him desperately. He nodded.

"Whatever that spell is, we're not going to let you cast it!" Makarov hissed. "Fairies, stop them!" He yelled as he transform back to his Titan form.

The Fairies tried to stop them from casting the curse but Silver trapped them in an ice shell preventing them from moving any nearer to them. He smirked. "We're not going to let you ruin our last resort."

Gray tried to absorb the ice but the ice gets more and more thick. Gray didn't give up and continued to absorb the ice but it wouldn't budge. "Damn! My magic power is getting drained from time to time I try to absorb this damn ice!" He complained. "Screw you, Silver!"

Natsu tried to melt the ice but he couldn't. It wasn't an ordinary ice. Besides, their magic is weakened because of their last battle with the Demons.

"Silver, can you hold on a bit longer?" Kyouka asked. He raised an eyebrow. "I just want to explain how the curse will work after this." She laughed.

"Fine. Just make it fast." He evilly smirked.

"First, fairies, you're going to be sent to a world like Edolas, a world with no magic but a lot more different. They've been living their life without magic right from the start when their world was created. So they're already used to it." She smiled sweetly, but you can see a hint of evil in her eyes. "You can still use magic, of course, because your body is a living thing that can produce magic on their own, BUT sorry for you because you're going to lose your memories." She laughed, a sinister one. "Your memories will be replaced by people who are already dead." The fairies narrowed their eyes in disbelief. Before Kyouka can continue her explanation about the curse, Erza interrupted.

"And what will you gain by doing that?" Erza hissed. She was furious. She was trying to break the ice, reequipping again and again when it doesn't work.

Kyouka smiled sweetly at Erza, making her more furious than she already are, does making her guild mates afraid of Erza. "Well, Demon King can finally do his job without you, pesky fairies trying to interfere with our business." She snapped. "Oh, and did I mentioned the reason why this curse is restricted?" She raised an eyebrow while smiling. "It's because when we cast this spell, we'll be sending ourselves to that world to. But unlike you, we will still have our memories and we can still use our curses and by that, we will hunt you down one by one. We will be your predators and you will be our preys," She laughed and smiled evilly. "Does hitting two birds with one stone!"

Lucy covered her mouth, 'She's insane!' She thought to herself. Natsu was going berserk. He can't let this happen! But he just couldn't do anything. He was kicking, punching, emitting fire from his mouth but it won't break nor melt. It was all useless and it was driving him crazy.

Jackal laughed at the pathetic scene he's watching. The Celestial Spirit Mage that defeated him when she cast the spell 'Urano Metiora' and the one, who summoned the Celestial Spirit King that brought the Demon King down, was in extreme agony that he couldn't help but to laugh at her.

"Oh, yeah I forgot. I was just in the first part of the curse." Kyouka said with her hands on her hips, remembering that Erza cut her words awhile ago. "Second, we will be leaving those Exeeds' memories. But remember little cats, you can't just tell them about this world. Why? Because there are always a proper way to lift a curse and when you do it the wrong way, the curse will remain forever. So be careful not to slip." She giggled. "Third, there will be flashes of memories that you'll remember. The only way to lift the curse was for all of you to reunite as group, and create your own bond all over again, but sadly, you won't be able to remember everyone's faces. Impossible, right? That's how this curse is so hard to lift." She smirked before continuing. "But I'll repeat, the only way to lift this curse is to reunite as a GROUP," She emphasized the word 'group'. "If not, the curse will never be lifted. What happens if I kill even a single one of you? You're all doomed!" She smirked.

"Kyouka, you're revealing too much…" Jackal grumbled and heaved a sigh of irritation.

"I don't care. Even if they're memories return back to their stupid heads, and remember the way to lift the curse, it's useless if someone died." She stated, still looking at them with her vicious eyes. "The most complicated problem here is, they won't be able to remember everyone's faces anyway, does making the curse impossible to lift. But don't worry, we're leaving some other members of your guild because of our lack of power. But it's irrelevant now, anyway." She gave them her signature evil smile.

She started writing something in the air and two giant curse circles appeared below and above the fairies. They were similar to magic circles but were different in a way because it was emitting dark auras. The other members of the Nine Demon Gates stood up and they all performed a chant and lifted their hands in the air, all pointing to the two giant curse circles.

The curse circles disappeared and a huge black hole suddenly appeared from above and started to lift and suck the fairies from the ground.

"Natsu!" Lucy yelled as she reached for Natsu's hand. Tears were streaming down her cheeks that were also being sucked up. She doesn't want to forget everything about this world; about fairy tail and she especially doesn't want to forget everything about Natsu. It was obvious that it is because she loves him but Natsu was just so oblivious of what she feel. She was slowly being sucked by the black hole but Natsu tightly held her hand.

"Lucy!" He yelled. "Please, don't let go!" They held hands as Natsu grabbed an ice pillar to resist him from being sucked up to a different world.

'Don't let go!' Natsu said to the ice pillar in his head as if it was alive.

The ice pillar suddenly disappeared from his tight grip, making his worst nightmare happen and they were both slowly being suck by the huge black hole.

'Is this the fall of us, Fairies?' The thought brought dread and sorrow to Lucy's heart that was all clear on her face as more tears started brimming and falling from her eyes.

Natsu, noticing the look on Lucy's face, pulled her right hand with his and placed it on his right chest where his heart was located. His heart was beating so fast, his left hand was hugging her waist and their faces were inches apart as the black hole continued to suck them.

"Lucy, this is not the end. We're going to lift this curse no matter what. We are Fairy Tail! We're from the guild that doesn't know when to stop! We won't survive unless we keep running!" He said, a huge smile that was filled with hope was shown on his face.

Lucy smiled and nodded. She then suddenly realized their awkward position. She blushed when a thought flashed through her mind. She gathered all her strength and courage, looking up to Natsu. "Ummm, Natsu… did I ever told you that I love you?" She tightened her grip on Natsu's hand.

Natsu's eyes grew wide and on the spur of the moment, tears started to fall from his eyes. He was crying. 'Natsu's crying?!' Lucy thought.

"Why?" She asked worriedly. "Hey, Natsu. Why are you-" Her words were cut by Natsu when his warm and soft lips crashed onto hers.

Natsu pulled off. "Lucy, I… I love you too! I just couldn't find the courage to tell you." He confessed. "I'm so sorry I confessed to you in this kind of situation, Lucy. In a time like this where any seconds now, we're going to forget each other." He smiled sadly, disappointed to his self. "But Lucy, even though my beautiful and precious memories of you will be lost, my feelings for you will never change, never, no matter what." He ensured her.

Lucy didn't hesitate and grabbed him for another kiss. They kissed. But this time, it was more intimate. "Me too, Natsu. Me too." She said with a smile finally forming on her lips. In just seconds, all the dread and sorrow that was in her heart vanished.

"Whoa, whoa! That's nice flame-brain, finally having the courage to confess." Gray praised with a thumbs-up.

"A very sweet scene, indeed." Erza, on his right side said while eating her strawberry cake.

Lucy looked up. "Eeeh?! You're all still here?!" They were all above them. Fairy Tail, and also the new Crime Sorciere?! Lucy and Natsu blushed furiously and then noticed the strawberry cake Erza was eating. "And Erza, where did you get that?" She asked but shrugged it off. She knew that Erza hides her strawberry cakes in a place they don't know just to prevent them from eating them. She's exaggerating!

"I'm so proud of you! Lucy-chan!" Wendy exclaimed with her hands clutching onto one another. Lucy looked away and didn't say anything more much to her embarrassment.

"Scratched that, Why are you all still here? We thought you were all already sucked up by this damn black hole!" Natsu said, hiding his embarrassment.

"Well, it seems like the power of the Nine Demon Gates were not powerful enough to cast the spell so this giant black hole needs to gather magic power from our world. It's now mixed with curse and magic power." She stopped before continuing. "It lifted us from the ground and will suck us up when it finally gain the enough magic power for the curse." She looked at Natsu like she was reading his mind. "Don't dare to use your magic, Natsu. As I said, it's sucking up magic power so if you use your magic near it, it will drain your magic power and leave you unconscious, like what the Eclipse Gate did to you." She made a halt to end her explanation.

"Aye!" Happy said while eating his fish.

"Happy! Why are you eating a fish in a time like this?!" She grabbed the fish from Happy's tiny hands and tossed it over to Panther Lily. "Remember that we're the only one who will not lose our memories so you should be responsible!" She snapped.

"But I highly doubt it that Happy will not slip the details and get us all screwed." Lucy teased Happy like what she always do.

"Natsu! Lucy's being mean to me! She's a meanie!" The cat cried.

Natsu patted Lucy's head and smiled. "Don't worry, Happy won't slip." He ensured her and she blushed.

A sudden dark light came from the black hole and they knew that it's about time. Their guild master Makarov, raised his hands in the air. His index finger pointing up and his thumb pointed sideways, his palm facing back and the other side on the front.

"Farewell, Fairies! Even if we were miles apart, I will still be looking up to you!" He shouted.

Lucy did the same hand gesture and smiled, followed by the other Fairies.

'It's not the end. Even if we fall, we will still rise and fight again. After all, we are Wizards of Fairy Tail.' That was Lucy's last thought as the dark light engulfed the Fairies and the independent guild, Crime Sorciere.

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