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Author: Sedaiv

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Rating: PG-13

Warnings: Language, Action, Brief Nudity

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Fairy Tail: The Bellator Brothers & Steel's Sorrow
Chapter Twenty-one: Urza's Painful Memories

11/14/12

The following morning, each member of the team took their time waking up. Wendy and Hanzo weren't feeling too well and stayed in bed a little while longer. Everyone is sitting calmly around a table as Urza joins them. The smell of poached eggs, hot fresh toast, cured ham and freshly picked fruit fills the air as fairies look to see Urza has brought a massive plate over.

"Good morning, children." The aroma of freshly cooked food fills the air, and Urza take a deep breath over it.

Natsu and Happy's mouths begin watering as the smell of the food fills their nose. The plate is lifted up, and Urza opens his wide in what should be impossible way. It opens as extremely widely, and pours all the food in his mouth. A loud sloshing sound is heard as Urza chews loudly. Everyone in the room stares at Urza in amazement as he eats like an animal before them. Reaching out, he grabs a large pitcher of orange juice and pours it into his mouth and drinks it almost instantly, and belches loudly vibrating the glass.

Silence is heard in the rather crowded room as everyone stares at Urza. He pays them no mind, and cleans his teeth with a tooth pick. The silence is broken when Natsu and Happy finally speak up.

"Where'd did you get that food?" Happy tries to contain his excitement have seen the delicious food old man Bellator ate.

"Try the buffet over there." He points a finger so that the Fairy Tail guild members can get something to eat.

No sooner had they left did Urza notice they returned. The young mages returned with a near full plate of the complimentary breakfast; except Natsu with five full plates. They sit down at a separate table and converse lowly about their night sleep. Looking around for something to keep him occupied, Urza opens a newspaper and acts as if he doesn't hear them.

"Erza, how far are we from the doctor's home?" Carla asks holding a strawberry to face and eating it slowly.

Placing her silverware down for a moment, Erza sternly looks at her teammates. "We only have half a day or so by foot. We should wake the others up soon."

"Are you sure? They said they weren't feeling well, so why don't we let them rest and recover?" Worried Lucy speaks up for the two young Dragon Slayers.

"I understand your concern, but they need to come with us. I promise Lucy, I won't let harm come to them." The mages feel that there's no doubt in Erza's voice, she won't let Hanzo and Wendy get hurt.

"If you want, I have some spells and medicine that should help." The fairies look over to see Urza flip a page in his newspaper. "Oh my, vintage pogs are on sale. I should check those out."

"Wait what?" Over hearing the older mage, Natsu turns around and looks at him.

The newspaper bends over and Urza looks at them. "You heard what I said. I travel on the road almost every day of the year; I've learned how to cure sicknesses picked up when going to new lands."

"Vintage pogs are on sale? Man I haven't seen those in years! Remember those Happy?!" Everyone in the room's jaws drop hearing that Natsu is more interested in useless junk than helping his teammates.

"Aye! I remember when you use to play with those all the time!" Happy jumps up excited having fond memories.

Gray drags his hand down his face, feeling mortified that he's near Natsu. "We're not talking about pogs Natsu… although I admit I do miss those."

Carla puts her strawberry down and looks at Urza and flies over to him. The old man looks at the cat, their brown eyes meeting. "You said you can cure sicknesses… I want to see if that's true."

Setting the paper down, Urza crosses his legs. Most of the people except the Fairy Tail mages have gone back to eating. A cracking fire is heard, the wood popping from the heat and one man lights a cigarette from the flames. Looking the cat over, the older mage thinks to himself a moment before responding, unsure if he wants to be rude or not.

Choosing his words wisely, Urza looks at the Exceed. "If it'll get you off my back, I will gladly fix your sick teammates."

Landing on the ground, Carla walks towards the stairs. The old man shrugs his shoulders and follows her. While Natsu continues eating, the others follow Carla and Urza up to their room. In only a few moments Urza is let in, but Erza and Lucy grab the pipe he had just lit. His eyes fall flat on them as the young ladies put out his pipe. A coughing sound is heard from Carla, the old man turns and walks over to her and looks at the kids, both asleep, on their backs. He looks at Hanzo, presses his right hand against their head for a moment, getting a feel for his temperature. A bright green light emits from his hand and Hanzo's cheeks aren't flushed and his breathing returns to normal.

"Wow…" Gray is left speechless.

Urza grunts loudly, clearly happy and cocky. He gets on one knee and finally looks at Wendy. He pauses a moment, and she opens her eyes looking at him. Fear strikes the old man as he rushes back and slams his back into the wall. A deep frantic breathing is heard from the old man, the others aren't sure what's going on. Tears run down his eyes as he looks at Wendy.

"Wendy…" is barely heard coming from Urza's mouth as he sits there crying.

"What…" A tiny voice is heard coming from Wendy's mouth as she passes out.

Carla runs over and up on Urza. She pulls her claws and presses them on Urza's face, he doesn't move. A scratching, searing pain coming from five claws is felt on the old man's face as he sweats bullets looking at Wendy, lost in his mind. They look at chair and see Urza's hand touching, is causing it tremble violently.

In his mind, he can still hear the screaming of innocent people. A haunting laughter of mad men killing innocent people, as Urza and Mishra arrive in town as much younger men. The younger mages are talking to each other, clearly yelling but Urza couldn't hear them: he was lost in his memories trying desperately to get out. He remembers that day perfectly, as it's a day that he could never forget.

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It nearly ten in the morning, from what Urza's homemade sundial told him. He saw hundreds of men and women hard at work in the fields behind him. A woman with brown eyes, and long red hair down to her waist approached him in a simple full body linen dress. The wind isn't moving much, causing a small sweat on people under the sun.

"Master, your brother Lord Bellator has arrived." The young woman bows her head slightly to him.

"Tell Mishra I'll be joining him shortly, Sara. I need to talk with Wendy and Lucero." said Urza.

Sara bows before him and walks away. In reality Urza's eyes had shifted to Erza who looked a lot like Sara except not as tanned from the desert sun where Sara had grown up. The memories from long ago pulled Urza back into them, despite his trying to escape. More memories come rushing to him. A green spectral horse neighs loudly; Mishra sits on top of it, as he waits on his brother.

Mishra is wearing a long tanned poncho with only his arms visible, but oddly enough isn't sweating from the heat of the sun. Urza exquips into cotton short sleeved white shirt with brown slacks being held up by suspenders. Shaking his head disappointedly, Mishra looks over at his big brother.

"You look like a farmer or some inventor nerd." The younger, stockier brother sighs loudly.

Grunting loudly Urza stops dead in his tracks. "Because I am a farmer… and inventor?"

"We're of Argivian Nobility, at least dress like one when we're going to our guild."

"Fine, if it'll get Mother Hen off my back." Urza closes his eyes and equips a beautiful purple robe, red interior with golden line patterns and a pair of blue steel Spaulders on his shoulders, connected with a golden chain and the Ubume summoned in his hand.

"Daddy, daddy! Can I come?" Urza's young daughter Wendy runs up to him from the house.

He turns around and gets on one knee stopping her. Her eyes light up, hoping he'll take her along. Placing a hand on her hair, playing with her pigtails and smaller ponytail, Urza smiles but has to decline. "I'm sorry Precious, but not yet. You're almost thirteen, and when you are thirteen I can teach you the wonders of magic and you can join our guild. Okay Wendy?"

Pouting, Wendy looks up at her father. "Fine… can you bring me back something from Penregon, please daddy?"

"Of course, be good for your mother." Urza walks over to his brother and joins him on a chestnut colored steed, he looks back to see Wendy joining Lucero.

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Back in the present day Urza is being violently shook by Gray, while Natsu pounds his fist on the old man's head hard. Low spoken words are picked up by Natsu who stops pounding him. Feeling more cat scratches; Urza's brown eyes look at Carla who is furiously scratching his face. Urza continues mouthing something that everyone else couldn't pick up on. Everyone stops arguing and yelling and listening to him.

"Bring me back something from Penregon, please daddy… please daddy…" The old man's eyes shine as if he's going to cry.

The room comes to a creepy silence, and everyone is shocked to see Urza suddenly stand up. He doesn't say anything as he walks over to Wendy and puts on hand on her head, and the same green light glows brightly curing her sickness. Shuffling his feet, feeling more depressed now than he has in years, Urza begins leaving the room. Natsu runs over and stops him with Erza grabbing him from behind.

"What's wrong with you?!" Erza puts and arm across Urza's neck and tries stopping him by chocking him.

"Seriously, first you break down crying and then you suddenly leave? What's your problem?" Natsu sits on the ground, wrapping his legs around Urza's to try tripping him.

Much to the Salamander's success, Urza falls over like a tree. Feeling the full weight of both Erza and Natsu, a popping sound and cracking is heard inside of Urza's head. Boiling with Angrily, Urza throws off the other two mages and sits up holding his head.

"What's the big idea? I healed your children now leave me alone."

Worried that the old man is lying, Carla jumps onto the bed and walks across both children's legs and sits on Hanzo's chest. Their normal flesh tone has returned, but both children are still sleeping. Not wanting to be rude Lucy calmly places a hand on his shoulders and stops him.

"Mister Bellator wait…" Lucy says kindly, causing the old man to turn his head towards her. "Thank you for helping Wendy and Hanzo, I'm sorry about what they did to you but we're not ungrateful."

"Yeah, it's just we don't have people doing what you did. First you heal Hanzo, look at Wendy, then almost have a mental break down and then leave." Gray walks up and offers him a ball of ice for his cuts on his face.

Taking the ice ball and applying it to his face, Urza clears the tears out of his eyes and looks at the ceiling. "It's nothing."

"Of course it's something!" Happy flies up to his face and offers him a fish, which he grabs and eats instantly.

"I have a question for you. How do you know Leo?" Lucy nervously asks, not sure if she wants to know his answer with his current state of mind.

"Because I owned him… and he was there the day… the day my wife and daughter died… I don't blame him… I blame myself for not being there." Urza says feeling the room get very dark, and very cold.

Shock and confusion fills the teenage mages. Frantic for more answers, Lucy looks through her keys and finds Leo's key. Just as she's about to summon him, Gray stops her and points to Urza who is now turning around.

"Sit down children, because I'm going to tell you how I once saved the world by killing my family." A light glows beneath and behind Urza as he takes a seat on a summoned wooden chair.

TO BE CONTINUED…