The Bellator Brothers & Steel's Sorrow
Chapter XXIX: Hanzo & Wendy Return!
2/17/13
~*O*~ ~*O*~ ~*O*~ Fairy Tail Guild, Magnolia Town ~*O*~ ~*O*~ ~*O*~
Liliana and Zane have found their way to Fairy Tail. It didn't take long for them to meet Makarov Dreyar and almost instantly, he was interested in Liliana. The young woman sat before him, her coat removed. What we didn't see before was the tribal tattoos that are along the left side of her body. The tattoos were dark blue, being the perverted old man he is, Makarov had to know.
"Well you are a beautiful young woman and I do enjoy your cat friend. But tell me, what magic do you use and what are those tattoos?"
Liliana smiled at Zane, she got up and backed away from Makarov. Unfortunately for Zane, he knew what she wanted. The cat got up and stood by the door with a long face. "I'm glad you asked."
The dark blue tattoos on her arm began to glow brightly as she raised her hand up at Zane. A dark purple aura surrounded the cat and elevated him up, scared that something might happen to him, Zane's ears flattened against his head. "I'm a Valkyrie. When we're born, these tattoos are here from birth as a previous Valkyrie died. I don't know how many of us are around, but I'm the only one I know I've ever met. The powers of darkness and shadows bend to my will."
Zane landed on the ground, he panted a few moments. When Liliana picked him up, he started to feel much better however he hated the feeling of being in Liliana's magic. Despite using her pet as a target, Makarov was impressed by what she says. There's no telling how powerful a mage like Liliana could become. Plus it couldn't hurt the guild to have another beautiful and powerful lady in the guild. The smile on Makarov's face gave the two everything they needed to know.
~*O*~ ~*O*~ ~*O*~ Outside Tawnos' Home ~*O*~ ~*O*~ ~*O*~
Team Rayzer had finished ascending the mountain that Urza and his team crash landed on. Against all odds, Team Rayzer found their way in the right way. The wind was blowing so hard, it would easily kill exposed humans instantly; however Team Rayzer had stolen some thicker clothing and made their way to the house. It would only be a few hours before they reached their target. In the distance they could see the flaming, burning wreckage of the Ornithopter burning. Nearby the burned Urzas were laid out on the ground, still smoldering but alive. Tolenka spat on the ground but it was so cold, Tolenka's spit turned into ice.
"I've felt this cold before. It's about below seventy-five degrees Fahrenheit." Tolenka said with a smile on his face.
The other members looked at Tolenka; each of them had the same exact question. "How cold is it? I don't know what you mean." As their leader, Vladimir reminds him to translate that.
"Oh about fifty four below zero in Celsius." This news did nothing but remind them, an exposed human would die in less than fifteen minutes.
~*O*~ ~*O*~ ~*O*~ The Awakening ~*O*~ ~*O*~ ~*O*~
Lucy felt both the children's heads and sure enough, whatever Tawnos did their temperatures had gone down. Their breathing also wasn't labored which brought a great sigh of relief from Carla. Still the kids remained asleep and Carla never left their side nor did Lucy. Urza and Tawnos are heard yelling and arguing in some different language down the hall.
"What are they complaining about?" asked Carla, her ears flattened against her head.
"I don't know… it's not a language I know." Lucy said watching Urza and Tawnos enter the door at the same time. The two are stuck; each one fought the other to get in first. Thinking ahead at what's coming, Lucy grabbed Carla and backed away to a wall.
Tawnos and Urza stumbled forward and smash into Hanzo's bed. 'These two are the adults here?' Lucy and Carla thought to themselves. The two get up and fix their robes. However Tawnos is still not happy seeing Urza.
"Enough answer my question. What are these children?" demanded Tawnos.
'Why is he so demanding now?' Urza thought as he shifted his eyes from the children to Lucy and Carla over to Tawnos. "Why are you asking me? I don't know anything about them."
Disappointment filled Tawnos' head. Calming down, Tawnos walked over to the children and lifted Hanzo's shirt some, revealing an oddly colored pattern just above his naval. Urza walked over, looked at the strange tattoo-like marking on Hanzo's belly. Just as Tawnos moved over to lift Wendy's gown, Urza's fist smashed into the back of Tawnos' head. The doctor flipped over the bed and landed hard on the ground. Weakly, the back of his head was sore from the old man's fist; Tawnos got up and saw a very angry Urza.
"What's your point?" Urza's voice seethed with anger as he barely contained is anger.
"Dear God man! I'm a doctor, not a boxer!" Still scared that Urza would unexpectedly punch him again, Tawnos backed against the wall with a frightened Carla and Lucy. "That marking on their stomach, they're not deathly sick you stupid, stupid man. The equally terrified young lady told me they're Dragon Slayers, the markings on their umbilicus is proof of what's happen."
"Umbilicus: the new five kilogram word of the day. Okay so the children are Dragon Slayers, what does that have to do with their illness?" Urza crossed his arms and tapped his foot, while he waited for Tawnos to answer.
"I'd suspect a Ten Wizard Saint or a Planeswalker to have some knowledge-"
"Do not call me that!" shouted Urza and he angrily approached the doctor. "The Planeswalkers are Dominarian myths that I grew up with. I am not a myth." Backing down and putting distance between himself and doctor, Urza calmed down.
"Right… I forgot, you're not only a stupid, stupid man but you're also very illogical." Tawnos fixed his glasses and looked at Lucy. "The kids are fine, I don't know much about it or Dragon Slayers but I do know this is the first stage of Dragon Bonding."
"What's that?" a worried Carla asked, her ears still pressed flat on her head.
"Well like I said, I don't know much about Dragon Slayers. I thought their magic forever lost but I clearly thought wrong. I only know what little bit I could find from my extensive library. But when Dragon Slayers begin to form a romantic bond with someone, the bond mate will get ill as their body adjusts to the other. In this case they're both Dragon Slayers, so they both got sick. I already determined what they had and I gave them simple Immune System Boosters, they'll be awake very soon." Tawnos looked over at his patients to see Hanzo sit straight up and yawn loudly.
~*O*~ ~*O*~ ~*O*~ The Tower of Heaven ~*O*~ ~*O*~ ~*O*~
Meanwhile Erza, Gray, Happy and Natsu have gotten bored. Natsu and Gray started to wonder around in several rooms while Erza was paging through loose papers and bookshelves for something to read. While the boys making some noise, clearly horse playing in their clients house. Thinking she found a good book, Erza grabbed a book entitled 'Defying'. Perhaps it was a crime book, maybe it was a forbidden lust story, however she simply assumed it was a book about rebellion and humility. What she found was far worst. A momentary light headed feeling came to Erza but it quickly turned into anger and rage.
The first page she opened was highly detailed schematics of the Tower of Heaven. This couldn't be, how could a doctor have a book about reviving the Dark Priest Zeref? She quickly paged through it and realized it was the same Revive System that she spent her early childhood years in bondage constructing. Painful memories of Simon and Robs deaths along all the misery she suffered for years at the hands of Zeref's Cult rushed back. Angrily, Erza got up and left to find Tawnos and Urza. The one thing she saw was clear as day, despite the book being written in another language. It was the one who had written the book and most likely the one who made the original drawings. That one thing she understood was a name: Urza Bellator.
~*O*~ ~*O*~ ~*O*~ Erza & Urza ~*O*~ ~*O*~ ~*O*~
Still tired, Hanzo rubbed on his eyes. "What's going on?" Coincidentally at this time, Wendy woke up herself and Carla jumped out of Lucy's arms and back onto her friend.
"I'm so happy you're fine!" said Carla as she cried into Wendy's chest.
The children look at one another, not sure what to make of this. Dr. Illios walked over and shined a small flash light into their eyes. Sure enough their reaction was the same at the intense bright light, swatting at the doctor then rubbed their eyes. Tawnos wrote a few things down on his clipboard. He looked over at Lucy and Urza.
"More questions than answers. You're their guardian. You must let me study them." The suddenly erratic doctor was very encouraged by the children's reactions.
"What's going on?" Wendy asked as she looked at Lucy and Urza. "Why are you here?"
Clearly Urza fought to speak. He tried to say something or do anything. Yet he couldn't, all Urza could do was fight back the tears of the girl who looked so much like his long deceased daughter. Sensing his pain, Lucy spoke up for him. "You and Hanzo got very ill. When we were at the hotel, we found Bellator-san and the doctor we were looking to help rescue is the same doctor who healed you."
The children bowed their heads and thanked Dr. Illios. Naturally the doctor accepted their thanks. They turn their legs to the side and quickly realize they're in hospital gowns. Hurried and embarrassed that they're not dressed for company, they grab their blankets and hold it up to their necks and turn bright red blushing.
"Relax children. Lucy changed the girl and I changed the boy under her watchful eye. You can trust me, I'm a medical professional." Once more Tawnos wrote something down, Urza attempted to peek over but was blocked by a slap of the clipboard on his forehead.
"How long do we have to stay, Doctor?" Hanzo asked. Yet in his mind, Hanzo thought 'What is with old men undressing and touching me when I'm not awake?'
"Well I used simple Immune System Boosters to enhance your immune system, however as you're mages, I haven't been able to fix all the problems. Your powers will return to you but for now your magic should be nearly fully drained. If I had to guess I'd say a few days-" Tawnos is suddenly cut off as the door is slammed open by an infuriated Erza.
She pointed at the old man who was still silent. "YOU! I NEED TO TALK TO YOU NOW!"
Sure as the wind blows, Urza ran to Erza and pulled the furious young woman with him as he ran down the hall. Hanzo looked at Lucy, the boy was clearly puzzled. "Did we do something?"
After putting distance between them and the children, Erza pushed the Ten Wizard Saint into a room. Several lamps instantly ignited as the two stood there. Urza backed up and fixed his robe. "What is it you want to talk to my about, Child?"
Erza held up the book he wrote 'Defying', some tears ran down her face it was difficult for her to old back so many years of pain and torment. Cautiously, Urza slowly reached out and removed the book from Erza's hand. It only took a moment at flipping through the book to know about it.
"So Tawnos actually kept it and perfected it. It's a sad shame that I deemed this a fruitless endeavor to undertaker." The book clearly meant little to Urza. A small fire appeared in his hand as he set the book on fire and tossed it into a metal trash can near him. Yet when the Saint looked at Erza, her face gave away all the pain and anger she felt.
Unable to control her anger any longer, Erza lashed out and pinned Urza against a wall and held him up by the collar of his robe. Erza's tears ran down her cheeks as her arms shook violently. After all these years, she found out that the R-System wasn't a creation by Zeref to revive himself but an abomination created by Urza Bellator. But what was his reason? Why would a Ten Wizard Saint defy the laws of God himself and want to revive a person?
Not wasting any more time, Erza demanded answers. "Why!? Why did you create the Tower of Heaven!? Don't you have any idea what it would do?! Didn't you know how much pain it caused innocent people?!" She shook the old man.
"I never had a chance to finish my memory. But since you asked, I sent my brother back to my home to protect my family. By the time I recovered enough to make the trip back home, my brother was there and discovered all but one of my indentured servants dead, my wife killed and crucified on my barn and my baby girl murdered. She died in my hands as I and Mishra desperately tried to save her life and failed. I spent the next thirty years in a self-destructive downward spiral. No parent should ever bury his child. My daughter should have buried me, NOT the other way around.
"I devised a plan that I thought would be successful. It could bring a person back to life, my goal was to sacrifice myself and restore life to my wife and daughter. I crunched numbers and even with me at my youngest with my current power, I could only bring one person back. I'm not a murderer; I would never sacrifice an innocent person to bring back my family. Even if I was that heartless, it would require one hundred people to revive one person. The math doesn't work out and I am not God." Urza's voice was cold, distant and very depressing.
Even though the Tower of Heaven meant so much pain to her, Erza felt that Urza was sincere. Her grip loosened and let him back down on the floor. What she didn't see was that Urza was prepared; in his left sleeve was a dagger which he silently casted. But once she let him down, Urza had no choice but to unsummon his blade. One question remained on Urza's mind. "What does the Tower of Heaven mean to you?"
"When I was young, I was kidnapped from my home village and brought to an island to build it. Many people were kidnapped from their homes and brought to that island. Two people I loved very much died there and a third was mind washed by the spirit of Zeref." She looked up and saw Urza nod as he understood. It kind of looked like he was hiding something, yet maybe it was paranoia. "It doesn't matter now. The tower was destroyed."
"I'm sorry my plans caused you so much trouble. I gave this book to Tawnos as a gift as he devoted his life to medicine. I didn't think-" A loud explosion caused the house to shake. Urza reached out and grabbed the young woman stand close to him.
"What the Hell was that?" Erza shouted as she ran to where she though the source was from. Urza followed close behind her.
~*O*~ ~*O*~ ~*O*~ Lucy & the Children ~*O*~ ~*O*~ ~*O*~
Hanzo and Wendy were very uneasy around the other, not just because they were in the same room but they were also wearing hospital gowns. Wanting to man up, Hanzo turned to Wendy and saw Carla on her bed. Lucy handed him his clothing from drawer near him. "You should probably get dressed."
Wanting some privacy, Hanzo walked into the small bathroom near them. A few minutes passed and the boy got out fixing his beige vest. Hanzo looked up to see Wendy also changed and was holding Carla on her chest, petting her. Even though a cat was so close to him, Hanzo didn't feel the same fear he had before. At first, the Bone Dragon Slayer thought it was simply uneasiness or the medicine that was used that made him disoriented. If it was the medicine, he wanted to enjoy it. Hanzo approached Wendy and Carla; the two looked over at him.
"Yes Hanzo-chan?" Asked Wendy, there was still a hint of a smile in her face and joy in her voice.
With a hand slowly stretching out towards Carla, Hanzo looked at her. "I want to pet her… if that's okay Carla."
"If you think you won't get scared, you can pet me." The cat purred against Wendy's chest, feeling safer that her friend was finally awake and safe.
Hanzo took several deep breaths as his hand got closer to Carla's head. Interested in how Hanzo will react, Lucy watched him intensely. Wendy and Lucy shared a sister-like relationship, so it was only natural that Wendy went to Lucy for advice and told her about Hanzo and his fear of cats. It was obvious for a while that since Carla, Happy and Pantherlily were members of Fairy Tail, Hanzo really tried to get over his fear. Now it was time to either shut up or nut up.
Carla smiled at Hanzo as she saw how hard he tried to pet her. Slowly and cautiously his hand loomed over Carla's head. Unable to look at the Exceed any longer, Hanzo turned away and looked at Lucy who was smiling at him. Lucy and Hanzo let out a sigh of relief as he felt something furry touch his wrist. Hanzo gropes, fondles, and caress the first thing that he touched.
"Wow… cat's feel weird but they feel really soft." A pleasantly shocked Hanzo turned his head over.
The three humans and cat are looked at Hanzo's hand and were completely shocked. Not only did Hanzo succeed in patting Carla on her head but it was only with his wrist. His hand on was fondling and grabbing ahold of Wendy's left breast. A move that not only shocked and surprised everyone, but it also made Wendy's Exceed Carla VERY angry. They were beyond words; no one in the room could believe what Hanzo had done. But what they all agreed on was to scream. Hanzo hit the wall and collapsed, he started to bow, cry and beg for Wendy's forgiveness. Lucy grabbed Carla and prevented the cat from attacking Hanzo. The entire time, Wendy blushes feeling embarrassed, angry, complimented and mortified that Hanzo actually missed her friends head and found her that attractive.
The commotion in the room ceased as an explosion shook Dr. Illios' home. Wendy and Hanzo got up, forgetting what he did and ran to the door. Their Celestial Spirit Mage friend got ahead of them, looking back she yelled to them. "Wait behind me a little bit; your powers haven't recovered yet." Even though they wanted to help, Hanzo and Wendy agreed with Lucy.
Everyone gathered in the main hall where they saw the doors were broken down. Team Rayzer stood there stoically. Tawnos on the other hand began to sweat heavily recognizing them. Vladimir Rayzer stood there as the freezing air blew in and the two nurse robots laid in pieces on the floor.
TO BE CONTINUED…
