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Both Mu and Murrue walk inside Ulen's home holding each others hand. This however did not pass Ulen's eyes "so when did this happened? When did you two started to become intimate with each other?" Both lovers blushed together before Mu had the encouragement to answer his old friend's question "I believe it was after Naraku's defeat"
"How could I ever forget that!" said the smiling blond as he remembered the aftermath that came after Naraku was killed. He looked back at his guest and remembered. He needed to make them feel comfortable. " Oh my, wheres my manners. Tea or perhaps something stronger. I believe I 've got a few bottles of the vineyard left, 1296 very damn good year. Much as old as I am ha, ha."he placed Mu's staff and hat as he raced off to the kitchen to look for some kind of refreshments for his friends. "It was laid down by my father, lets say we open one"
"Just tea, thank you" replied Mu
"Are you sure? What about you Murrue, I'm sure in your condition you can handle a sip of wine?" yelled Ulen from the kitchen. Muurue replied in a kind manner. "Thank you for your jest Ulen, but I'll take just the tea if thats alright!" Ulen obliged her wishes as he continues his search. Murrue accidentally hits one of the lower chandlers. Mu temporarily let go of her hand and steadies it. However it did not save him from getting bump in the head by a hanging unlit lamp. As Mu nursed his pain. Both he and Murrue enters Ulen's study and both saw a map of a lone mountain attached in a frame. Mu picked it up the frame and he Murrue examine it.
"You know, I was expecting you to arrived last week Mu, but I never expect you to appear with Murrue. Both in love and pregnant with your child! Not that it matters, after all since you two are mages. You come and go as you please. You caught me a bit unprepared, I'm afraid. We've only got cold chicken and a bit of pickle ... Oh, there's some cheese here- oh no, that won't do. Err, we got raspberry jam. Wait a minute I have some cake. " says Ulen as he enters the study with a plate of cake. "I could cook some some eggs if you like...oh, Mu, Murrue? Where you go?"
"We'll just take the tea thank you" Mu appears as both he and Murrue appeared behind Ulen as the two of them took a seat in the kitchen table.
"Oh, Okay" Ulen then looked at Murrue's direction "Wants some cake Murrue?" Murrue pondered that suggestion for a minute before replying. "I guess I piece would not hurt." As she was about to grabbed a slice when a sudden incessant knocking on the door and a woman shouting disrupted the transgression. It almost made Ulen dropped the cake."Ulen, I know your there!" "I'm not at home" he said in a whisper as he tip toed and took a peak at his unwanted visitor(s). " It's Caridad and Huruma Yamato! There after the house. They never forgave me for living this long." the two unwanted Yamato's continue knocking before giving up and try their luck again later. Ulen returned to the kitchen and placed the sliced piece of cake for Murrue and put the remainder down at the table. "I've got to get away from these confounded relatives hanging on the bell all day, never giving me a moment's peace!" Ulen stares from his window before continuing. "I want to see mountains again, Mountains! And then find someplace quiet where I can finish my book. Oh right, the tea!" He hurries to prepare the tea for his guest.
"So I take it your meaning to go through with your plan, huh!" Murrue says as Mu lifts the teapot and Ulen pours the hot water in it.
"Yes, yes Murrue, all the arrangements have been made."
"You know when me and Murrue saw your son Kira on our arrival here. He suspects something you know" said Mu as he sip his tea.
"Of course he does" answered Ulen as he was glad Kira knew about his plan. "He maybe a Coordinator but he's a Yamato. Not some block headed Bracegirdle from hard bottle"
"You will tell him, right"
"Yes, yes Mu, I will tell him"
"Your son is very fond of you. You know!" Murrue said as she and Mu know about Kira and his parents. But did not addressed that. For it still is part of a dark memory that have not yet healed.
"I know, believe me I know" Ulen wanders to his window. "He probably come with me if I asked him, but I think in his heart. Kira is still in love with this colony. The woods, the fields, the little rivers"
"I'm not young anymore" Ulen says as he comes away from the window. "I know I don't look it, but I'm beginning to feel it in my heart." both mages gaze where drawn downwards to Ulen's vest pocket as he frigged his fingers inside, which cause them to frowned. "I feel thin. Sort of stretched...like butter scrape over too much bread." Ulen then sit down wearily at the table. "I need a holiday... And I don't expect to return. In fact I mean not to"
That evening. Murrue went down to the festivities to see if she can aid in last minute preparations but heed carefully not to strain her body, while her lover Mu sat in a log peacefully smoking along with his friend Ulen.
"Old Toby. The finest tobacco weed in the Southfarthing." Ulen said to Mu before he blows a large ring of smoke which hangs gently in the still air.
Mu regards it for a moment, and then, sucking his cheeks in and out, blows a majestic, full-rigged ship that sails right through the ring.
"Mu my friend, this will be a night to remember"
The party was in full swing; the fireworks are going off and festivities are well underway. The colony's staggering under the load of a huge birthday-cake with candles already lit, while the others, including young coordinator Kira Yamato where dancing to music being played by the band. Two people were dancing lovely with each other. It was no secret to the colony's village about those two. They were Tolle Koenig and Miriallia Haw. Meanwhile Kira's father Ulen was greeting his guests at his party, "Hello, hello, Fatty Bolger, lovely to see you! Welcome, welcome"
Kira took a break from dancing and sat down to his friend with orange glasses named Sai Argyle. He looked at his face as he stared at the sight of a girl with brown eyes with rough black hair enjoying the festivities.
"Come on Sai, ask Julie for a dance," Kira said, but Sai just shakes his head nervously."No it's alright besides she's much stronger... I think I'll just have another drink." Kira could see right through his friends stubbornness and decided to take action by grabbing his wrist"I don't think so" and pushed Sai right into Julie's direction.
Sai became nervous right in front of her. Suspecting to get hit, Julie only grabbed his hand and they both dance with each other. "ha ha mission accomplished" Kira feeling proud of helping his friend out.
At a tent children began bragging about if Murrue's child will be a boy or a girl.
"It's going to be a boy!" argued the boys.
"No, It's going to be a girl!because boys are icky!"counteract a couple of girls. Murrue decided to settle there arguments. "You know what. If you prey very hard, your proposition can come true!" she said while holding her arms among the two arguing sides. When they heard that. They thought it as a challenged. Much to Murrue's decree, meanwhile Mu was dancing among the other inhabitants. As for Ulen however. He was talking to other children about his early adventures.
"There I was, at the mercy of three monstrous spiders.And they were all arguing amongst themselves about how they were going to eat us, whether we would be swallowed whole or whether they should use their claws and one by one, squash us into jelly." A young child gasps and leans forward to hear more. "They spent so much time arguing the wither-tos and why-fors, that the sun's first light cracked over the top of the trees — poof!" The children gasp and one falls back in surprise before sitting back up. "And turned them all to stone!"
Mu has finally left the dance floor and retrieved some new fireworks from his cart and heads over to a group of children waiting for him. A boy with squinty eyes name Kuzzey Buskirk looked around his area to see if anyones around and jumps up into the cart looking through which fireworks to take.
"Whoa, there they go," Mu says laughing as the firework butterflies fly around him and the children run around him trying to catch them. As soon as Kuzzey found a big red dragon like firework. He quickly jumped down and ran off. However Sai saw this and made a apologizing excuse to Julie and runoff to see if he can catch him.
Ulen return greeting guests again, and one lady seems to have an inexhaustible amount of children "Mrs. Bracegirdle, how nice to see you! Welcome, welcome. Are all these children yours?" Mrs. Bracegirdle laughs and nods. "Good gracious. You have been productive!" Mrs. Bracegirdle passes on. Ulen watches as everyone has fun when his ears are assailed by a familiar strident voice.
"Ulen, Ulen Yamato!" Haruma says. Ulen quickly turns to Kira who came over."Kira - Sackville Yamato's ! Quickly! Hide!" Ulen exclaims as he and Kira quickly hide behind a tent fold while Caridad and Huruma search for them before retreating. Ulen lets out a huge sigh of relief. "Thank you my boy." He sighs again ."You're a good kid, Kira," Ulen says becoming very serious. Kira stares at his father, perturbed by his sudden change of tone. "I'm very selfish, you know. Yes, I am, very selfish… I don't know why I took you and raise you after you mother died giving birth to yo, but I assure you. It wasn't out of charity. I think it was because, of all her numerous relations, you were the one that showed real… spirit"
"Dad, have you been at the Professor's home brew again?" Kira asked with a raised eyebrow."No. Well, yes. But that's...that's...not the point. The point is, Kira... you'll be all right." Ulen hugged his son before they both rejoining the party.
Elsewhere inside a tent Kuzzey succeeded in lighting up the firework. Now he was thinking on what was the next step until-"Kuzzey what are you doing"
"Uh Sai!" Kuzzey said in a surprised as he was holding the evidence of a already lit firework in front of him. "This is not what you think!"
Sai took action and try to put it out but it was too late for him to do anything as the firework explodes upwards, throwing them on to the ground and taking the tent up with it. High above the crowd, it bursts into the shape of a flaming dragon, turns and swoops slowly towards the merrymakers. The colony villagers made a hurried attempt to get out of the way.
"Look at that!" A person exclaims for everyone on the crowd. Kira's face is lit momentarily by the dragon's flame and he shepherds Ulen out of the way."Dad? Watch out for the dragon!" Kira exclaimed.
"Dragon? Nonsense! There hasn't been a dragon in these parts for a thousand years…" Ulen said as Kira pushes him to the ground. The dragon swoops low over the ninjas' heads, flies off and bursts into a beautiful finale over the lake. Everyone claps and cheers at the finale and both Kuzzey and Sai stand up, now covered in soot.
"What a rush!" Kuzzey says with a smirk gazing proudly at his accomplishmen however Mu, comes up behind them and grabs them each by their ear.
"Aah!" The two exclaim in pain.
"Kuzzey Bushkirk, I should have known." Mu says. The aftermath of Kuzzey's ignorance was him and Sai, under Mu's watchful eye, washing the piles of plates from the feast as a punishment. Sai didn't saying anything but a hateful glare towards Kuzzey said otherwise.
In is a large tree at the middle of the party all the citizens gathered in front of it as Ulen walks over to stand in front of the tree on the platform that the band was playing on earlier.
"Speech, Ulen! Speech!" Everyone shouts as Ulen steps up onto the platform and raises his hands for silence and laughs as he does."My dear Yamato's and Koenigs,Haws" Ulen watches a glance of both Mir and Tolle together for a bit before continuing " Bushkirks and Argyles, Grubbs, Chubbs, Hornblowers, Bolgers, Bracegirdles and Proudfoots," Yondaime says and everyone lets out loud cheers as their last names are called.
"Proudfeet, Ulen, Proudfeet!" A voice yells out and the people laughed out before Ulen waves at the voice dismissively.
"Today is my 65th birthday but alas my life is far too short a time to live among some excellent and admirable people"everyone cheers and hollers in agreement. "I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."There is a dead silence from the crowd as they gaze at each other blank-faced, trying to figure out if they were just insulted. Murrue found Mu in the crowed and joined him while he shakes his head and smiles.
"I, uh, I h-have things to do." Ulen said as he fidgets the Ring. Hidden behind his back before he whispers to himself, "I've put this off for far too long." He speaks up to the crowd, "I regret to announce — this is The End. I am going now. I bid you all a very fond farewell." He looks in the direction of everyone one last time before saying "Goodbye." and puts the Ring on and vanishes.
Everyone exclaims as Ulen disappears in front of them. Even Kira's smile disappears.
" Mu, he!" exclaim a shocked Murrue to her lover
"I know, I know. I guest I'll have to do something about it!" he said it to her before disappearing.
AN:At first I wanted to put Shiho as Rosie in this story. It didn't turn out that well. So I choose the next least character. If you don't know who she is. Check the Gundam Seed website. Even though I have not got reviews on this story yet. I'm still going to continue writing it because I like how it goes. The Cosmic era named has already been fix and it is now called Cosmic Earth as in reference to Middle Earth. I'm going back to continue writing the Star Wars/ Gundam Seed crossover of mine as well as the Gundam Seed/ Macross fusion story. Well thats it for now.