Summary- After the fall of Akzeruith Luke decides to live in the wilderness on his own, will he survive? Or will he get some supernatual help from an unknown source?

Hello this is my first fanfiction so I hope it's not to confusing for you. Oh and I do not own Tales of the Abyss NAMCO owns it. I only own some of the OC's that are in this story. Don't worry their not like me sercretly inserted into the story and fall in love with the main character. No, does not happen. This is a Luke/Tear fic later on. I would really love to read some reviews good or bad, just don't rip my soul apart. Also Italic words are when Luke is thinking.

So enough of me rambling, please enjoy the story.

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The sky was a sick purple color and the clouds seemed to be a dark inky black. Bellows of dark purple smoke rose from the ground chocking out clean air. The ground was like a quicksand of mud that threatened to swallow everything, It was just to much for him to bear. Luke clutched his stomach and found himself emptying it out in front of him. His stomach knotted as he kept on dry heaving as he knelt on the ground. Akzeriuth was gone it was all gone, and everyone in it. And it was all his fault.. no it was Van its wasn't his fault.

Luke looked around desperatly searching for anyone to help him. He staggered up and walked slowly through the deselent wasteland looking apon the horror that was created. He dragged his feet and kept chanting in his head. 'Van's fault not mine, Van's fault not mine...'

He was about to turn around the corner when he heard the murmur of voices. He felt his heart leap it was his friends! He was about to run to them when he heard Guy's voice.

"I can't believe this everyone is dead! Why did he do this!!" Luke shuddered at his voice he had never heard Guy so angry before.

"This is beyond unforgivable he killed thousands of people." Tear's voice was cold and uncareing showing no remorse.

"I hate him! I don't want to see him Again I...!!" Anise's voice started to crack and he could hear her crying.

Who were they talking about Luke thought, was it Van?

"I believe this is where our ties end with Luke, I will not travel with a murdering fool." Luke felt his heart stop as Jades words echoed in the air. He felt he hands shake and his his stomach flip. They were talking about him!

"I think we should find Ashe..he should be able to help us stop Van." Natalie spoke.

"But shouldn't we look for Luke? I mean we can't leave him here to die.." Guy stuttered.

"Why should we?! So we can bring a murdering idiot with us so he can screw up again?!"

"Ansie calm down we can't just.." Tear started but was cut of by Anise.

"NO!! I won't travel with him!! I hope hes dead!!" Anise's words were like daggers stabbing Luke slowley and painfully. They hated him they really detested him! '

'Why did they hate me so much? It was Van's fault not mine!...right?' Luke couldn't even move closer to them as his legs were paralyzed in fear. It was like his own body was telling him not to go to them. He stood there shaking, wondering about what to do next.

Run

The word echoed in his mind and soon found himself following it's whim. He spun his heels around and ran as fast as he could away from the group. He would occasionaly trip from time to time on the mud, but would get up and run on. he pushed his body to limits and felt his heart hammering on his chest. He stopped and gathered precious air into his lungs and looked at his surroundings. He was on the outer edge of a forest that looked over the ruins of Akzeriuth.

'Mabey I should go into a town and..' he immediately stopped those thoughts and felt a great unease. What if the others would tell other people that he destroyed Akzeriuth? They would try to kill him for sure!

'I have to stay as far away from people as possible or else.' Luke looked back at the ruins like it was the last sight he would ever see. He turned around and slowly made his way into the forest. Slowly the sky started to rain and pelted against the leaves of the trees. The wild beasts of the forest retreated into the safety of their dens and nests. Luke stopped and fell against the back of a tree for some shelter under it's branches. He was soaked to the bone and his wet, muddy cloths stuck to his skin. He curled into a ball with his arms around his chest trying to gather as much warmth as possible.

'Was it really my fault that Akzeriuth was destroyed? Van was the one who told me to do it! Van told I that it was gonna save everyone and I would be a hero.' Luke's eyes started to water and he could feel the warm tears fall down his cheeks.

'All I wanted was to be a hero someone that was something more...I..I'

Luke didn't know what to feel anymore after he thought of his friends words. Was he really a murdering monster? Something that had no right to live? He hands were trembling again, placing them on his face all the emotions he carried today exploded in one anguish cry.

Luke felt the last of his energy sucked away and found his eyes slowly closing against his will. His subconscious slipped into a dark slumber and along with it the cold rain into the night sky.

He felt a bright light was shining in his face and grumbled as he slowly opened his eyes. His eyelids felt like the weighed 100 pounds each, he got up from the tree and wobbled to his feet. His stomach roared telling him what he should do next before he even had to think about it. He checked his pockets to see if he had any food on him to discover he only had some lint. He sighed at what he knew what he had to do.

The only way he was gonna get a good meal was to hunt, meaning kill a monster. His spine shivered at the thought of cutting it up and then cooking it. "I'll kill a boar first, then I see what I'll do from there.." He told himself.

He moved his hand to the side to get his sword only to find himself catching air. Luke felt himself pale and whirled around and checked his sheath.

"My sword is gone!" He checked around were he had slept with no luck of the finding the sharp item.

" Where the hell is it!! Where could it have?!...Oh no.." He gulped at the realization of it's location. It must be still in Akzeriuth somewhere when he was running and fell.

Gripping his chest at the very thought of going back there he decided against it.

" Maybe I can just catch a small rabbit and...and...tear it apart with my hands." He groaned at himself and felt his stomach give another protest.

"Okay I guess I'll go look for some berries or something."

He walked around the forest a bit careful to avoid the eye of a wandering beast as he looked. Unfortunately he was not as stealthy as he thought and found himself running from them allot. One sent him straight up a tree for a good 2 hours before it let up. After climbing down he came upon a bush with multipule berries on it. He cheered in delight and started to pick away at the bush leaving it bare.

As he sat down to feast when he saw there were two types of berries. One with a red hue and the other was greenish purple color. He stared at them for a minute and wonder why they looked so familiar.

"Wait I think Guy showed these to me one time saying one was okay to eat and the other was posion."

He kept looking at the two bundles in his hands trying to figure out which one was okay.

An hour later he was growling in frustration as he fumbled with his hair at the situation. "I can't remember for the life of me which one it is!" He cursed at himself for not paying attention at what Guy was saying at that time.

"Screw it! It must be the greenish purple ones that are poison! Red seems more like a berry color!"

He swallowed a bundle of red berries and chewed on them slowly to savor the flavor. He gulped down on the mass and grinned at himself.

"There! I feel fine looks like I picked the right...!"

All of a sudden he felt a burning sensation in his throat and fell to the ground twitching like crazy. He suddenly blacked out and and could feel the burning sensation in his throat and stomach all day. When he came too again he sprang up and upchucked the red mass and flooped on the ground again. He clutched his stomach as it throbbed in pain, Luke swore he could hear it cursing at him. He looked at the pile of sick and came to one conclusion.

"I am never eating those goddamn red berries again."

He looked up and found that it was night time, he wasn't tired though since his poison experience had let him get enough sleep. He sat up and looked at the other pile of berries, the greenish purple ones and picked one up.

"Well I guess this ones the right one, figures."

He gulped it down and waited for any bad reactions to turn up. He let out a big sigh after 3 minutes of nothing and he began eating the rest. After his meal he found that his stomach was soothed for now and laid on his back again and looked at the starry sky. The moon was a brilliant pale white and the stars seemed to dance around it merrly. He wondered if he was really gonna survive without his friends.

'No I'm not gonna depend on them anymore." He siad to himself and watched the stars for the rest of the night.

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Well that's the first chapter should have the next one up soon. This is how I would imagine Luke in the wilderness but I'm sure in reality he would have given up by now and gone to a town ha ha. But not in this fic dannit! I also seem to notice that Luke and his stomach seem to have a talkative relationship 00. Anyway stay away form evil red berries and I hope you will come back to read the second chapter.