Fatal-fame does not own Tales of the Abyss. This is a parody, nothing more.
Treasure Hunter
Yulia City, Tear's room
Luke shot up from the bed and put a hand on his forehead.
"Guess the channels closed." Luke said to himself as he lightly massaged his skin. When he felt better he took his hand away and surveyed the room. The first thing he noticed was the lack of a blue woodland animal.
'That's right.' Luke thought to himself. 'Anise took Mieu.'
Luke thoughts went back to when she took him. How the little guy did everything to get back to his master. He scratched, bit, attacked as they called it, and even tried to light her on fire. Luke couldn't help but smile at that.
'Even with the way I treated him, he still wanted to stay with me.' Luke mused sadly as he picked up his sword. He turned to walk to the stairs, only to stop when he noticed the mirror.
Luke walked in front of it and simply stared at it. In it he saw himself, yet not himself.
'We really are the same.' Luke realized as he raised a hand to his face, lightly brushing his bangs away. 'I really am his copy.'
After an eternity Luke pulled himself away and walked towards the stairs.
'Nobody I know is here.' Luke thought 'So I'll ask the mayor if there's a way back.' He walked outside of Tear's house and turned right towards the main building. On the way he heard the whispers of the people.
"Isn't that the replica?"
"It looks exactly like the other one."
"Shh what if it hears you."
"Why? It not like it has feelings."
Luke just looked down at the metallic ground as he walked forward.
'I deserve it, after what I've done.' Luke thought as he walked into the middle building. He quickly walked up the ramps and went into the meeting room.
"Ah you must be the replica." The mayor said as he noticed him. Luke just nodded to him, still keeping his gaze downward.
"You must be looking for a way back to the surface, correct?" The elderly man asked him.
"Yes." Luke said quietly. The mayor walked up to him and motioned for Luke to follow.
"Do you still feel bad for Akzeriuth?" Teodoro asked Luke. When the replica didn't respond he continued. "If so, then there is no need to. For it was written in the score." He continued, much to Luke's shock. Luke was about to respond and call him crazy, but stopped before a word left him.
'What right do I have to scold him?' Luke realized as they walked into a room with a large white fonic glyph in the center.
"Now, stand in the center and I'll say the incantation." Teodoro instructed him. Luke did as he was told and moved into the center. "This will take you to a place called Aramis Springs. Just go through the cave and head west to find Daath." The old mayor told him. When the mayor got a nod from the redhead he murmured the incantation. As light started to fill the room, the mayor gave Luke one final comment.
"Don't worry, the score has a plan for everyone." The elder told him. Luke just smiled slightly.
"Somehow." Luke commented. "I doubt that."
With that Luke disappeared in a flash of light. The mayor just stared at the now empty room.
"Somehow." Teodoro whispered to himself. "I do too."
Aramis Springs, inner cave
Luke reappeared in a flash of light. He quickly looked around to see that he was in some sort of clearing. The next thing he noticed was that he was in water up to just below his knees.
"Uahh!" Luke exclaimed as he jumped out of the pool.
"It dumped me into the water." Luke said to himself, but he noticed that his clothes were dry.
'Huh, weird.' Luke thought as he walked towards the cave entrance. He looked inside to see a cave filled with water and monsters.
'This will be tough.' Luke thought as he drew his sword, but stopped and stared at it.
'Maybe I should let one kill me." He wondered as he looked into the eyes of the reflection. 'It wouldn't hurt anybody.' He looked up to see a merfish approaching fast, it's weapon waving wildly.
'This is it.' Luke braced himself for the attack. The merfish raised it's weapon and swung at him.
Only for Luke to bring up his own sword in defence.
'Guess I can't just die.' Luke mused sadly as he pushed the merfish away. As it stumbled Luke cut it in half.
'Doesn't mean I won't though.'
Tartrus, middle of the sea
Guy sat on one of the many beds of the Malkuth Landship. He had been given a break by the others so that he could get some sleep. This proved to be a useless endeavor, as his thoughts always went back to his charge.
'I wonder if he's doing alright?" Guy thought as he stared at the ceiling. 'I mean we were pretty harsh on him, but he did need a reality check.' His thoughts were interrupted as Mieu walked in.
"Hey Mieu." Guy greeted the small cheagle. Mieu just looked up at him for a few seconds and turned to walk out the door. Guy just sighed at the cheagle's disrespect.
'Every since we left Luke he's been acting like this to everyone.' Guy thought as he stared at the door. 'But we'll be getting Luke in two days, so that will cheer him up.' With that Guy laid his head down and tried to sleep.
But he couldn't get rid of the foreboding feeling in his heart.
Aramis Springs cave
Luke fought through the cave with all his strength, slashing every monster that got in his path.
'Thank goodness for FCS.' Luke thought as he used Steel to heal himself from a tough battle. As he was doing this he failed to notice the iron crab that snuck up behind him. He turned to see it as it pulled back one on it's claws and hit him head on. Luke flew back and landed in one of the surrounding pools of water. Luke quickly swam to the surface and prepared to swim to one of the rock paths. However, he noticed something at the bottom of the pool.
'What the?' Luke wondered as he dived in to grab it. After two more attempts he had finally managed to grab it.
'Got it.' Luke thought triumphantly as he swam back to semi dry land. When he had pulled himself out and walked to a dryer area, he checked his prize.
It was a blue jewel, shaped like a musical note. Luke looked at it for a few seconds before putting it in his pocket.
'Might be worth something.' Luke thought as he started to walk again.
Later
Luke found his way out of the cave and covered his eyes from the sun.
'Glad to be out of there.' Luke thought as he moved his hands from his eyes and started to look around. He saw that he was in a clearing and quickly walked past all the trees. He found a cliff and looked around to see any landmarks.
'Is that a port?' Luke wondered as he saw a small town like area. 'If so Daath should be.' Luke turned to the left 'This way.'
Luke started to walk down the path he had found. As his feet traveled the dirt road he started to think of what he should next.
'I guess I should go to Daath and stay there for a few days.' Luke planned 'And if the others don't show up then I'll head back to Baticul.'
After a few hours of walking, without getting attacked by monsters, he had finally made it to Daath.
'This is Daath?' Luke wondered in awe as he gazed at the cathedral. 'Wow.' After a few seconds Luke managed to tear his eyes away from the large building and started to make his way to the merchants area. There he looked around and saw a man standing outside of the inn, he could tell by the sign.
"Excuse me." Luke said to get his attention. "How much for a couple days?"
"Just for yourself." The man asked him, to which Luke nodded. "Four days for two thousand gald." Luke dug into his pockets and realized something.
'I don't have my wallet.' Luke thought frantically as he tried to remember where he could of left it. His mind recalling when Asch and the others were in the meeting. Anise was holding something black and rectangular.
'Anise stole my wallet.' Luke realized with horror. 'She actually stole my wallet.'
"Is something wrong?" the man asked him.
"No just forget about it." Luke said as he turned to walk away.
'What now?' Luke wondered as he put his hands back into his pockets, where his hand hit something. He pulled out the musical note that he had found earlier.
'This has to be worth something.' Luke mused as he walked over to one of the many vendors.
"Excuse me." Luke said to the women across the stall, who was reading a magazine. "Excuse me." Luke tried again, a bit louder. When she still ignored him he put the jewel on to the table. "I'd like to sell this." The women finally glanced at him and the jewel, then went back to her magazine. Her eyes then widened as she looked back at the jewel.
"This is a song of water." She said as her gaze snapped to Luke. "How much do you want for it, I'll give you ten thousand." Luke's eyes widened in shock as he heard how much he could sell it for.
"Twenty thousand then." She implored as she saw his face. Luke's eyes widened even more.
"Forty thousand and that's my final offer." She told him in a tone that left no room for debate.
"Deal." Luke said quickly, still in shock as she handed him a huge bag of gald.
"Y'know, these are really rare." She said offhandedly as she studied the jewel. "Are you a treasure hunter?" Luke was about to respond, to tell her that he wasn't, but something stopped him.
'I'm not a treasure hunter.' Luke thought to himself. 'It's not like I ment to find that jewel. Besides I have to get back to the others.'
'Or do I?' Luke wondered.
'I've spent my whole life just doing what others told me to do.' Luke realized 'Master Van said this, Asch said that. That's all I really do, base my actions on what others tell me.'
'But at the same time, no one was actually honest with me. No one told me that I was a replica, Van betrayed me, and Asch is just a prick who blames me for things I can't control.' Luke thought angrily.
'Everyone treated me like an idiot, even Guy did at points. They never really explained anything to me, they just assumed I wouldn't understand.'
'And then they just blame me for Akzeriuth without letting me explain anything. They even let Ion get off scot free, even though he was one of the main factors in it.'
'But that's a recurring theme with them. Wait until the last possible moment or when the information could have been used to save lives and blame the one person who had no clue about the true situation.'
'And then they just go with Asch, even though he was a god-general, for no reason other then he was the "real Luke" and leave me in the city of score obsessed nut jobs, even taking the one friend I actually had left.'
Luke's eyes widened as something became clear as day to him.
'I hate them.' Luke concluded 'I truly hate them. I hate Anise, the little money grubbing whore. I hate Jade, the man who knows more than he's willing to tell. I hate Natalia, the girl who refuses to let go of the past. I hate Guy, my supposed "best friend". I hate Asch, the spoiled brat who blames everyone but himself.'
'And I hate Tear the useless, annoying, naggy failure of a soldier.' Luke thought with absolute certainty.
'And if they want the "real Luke."' Luke thought with sheer venom. 'Then why shouldn't I oblige them.'
"Yeah, I'm a treasure hunter." Luke said finally. The girl just nodded at him.
"Gotta name?" She asked him. His first reaction was to say Luke, but he decided against it.
'I'm not Luke anymore.' The replica decided 'I don't want to be Luke anymore.' His eyes roved around for something to call himself, something that could give him a name. His green eyes quickly zeroed in on a poster on a wall.
'Join the Order of Lorelei today.' He read to himself, his eyes focused on one word and a name began to form.
"My name is…" He said after a moments hesitation.
Tartrus, middle of the sea
Tear was laying on a bed, having swapped shifts with Guy. She was also having troubles sleeping, her problem the same as Guy.
"Luke needed to be humbled." She told herself as she rolled onto her side. "Did he really think he could blame others for his own actions?"
"But what if it wasn't?" A voice spoke out in return, this caused Tear to turn towards the door. When she saw no one there she started to look for a source, but there was no other person in the room. Slightly on edge, she let herself fall back onto the bed and closed her eyes. Before sleep had taken her completely the voice said one last comment.
"I thought I trained you better…"
Padamiyan, cliff south-west of Daath, The next day
A young looking boy stood on a large cliff, using his green eyes to look out into the sea. The wind started to pick up, lifting his long red hair to dance with it. The boy grabbed the dancing strands with his right hand and pulled it tight. With his left hand he brought up a long sword.
The sword itself was a simple design with a round pommel and red hilt. The blade itself was a wide piece of sharpened steel around a piece of a nearly black metal that widened as it got closer to the hilt. Above the hilt was a small white triangle with a black and white design in it.
"With this." He whispered as he used the blade to slice through his hair, leaving it at shoulder length. "I say goodbye to who I was." He whispered again as he brought the hair in front of him and let it go, letting the wind carry it away. He stabbed the blade into the ground and then bent down to pick up a set of clothes.
"With this." He said as he glanced at the monster mark staring back at him, He let them slip out of his grasp into the ocean below. "I cut all my ties in my old life." He then grabbed a cutlass in a brown sheath with a gold line running in the middle of it, stopping just short of the end of the sheath.
"With this." He whispered as he pulled back and threw it as hard as he could. "I say goodbye to my old swordsmanship style."
'One more thing.' He thought resolutely as he pulled the sword from the earth and held it in front of him.
"With this." He said as he placed the edge of the sword on his face.
"I will never be confused with him again."
Yulia City, meeting room, an hour later
"HE'S WHAT?!" Guy yelled out.
"Not here." The Mayor responded in the same tone he used to answer the first question.
"Why did you let him go?" Tear asked her grandfather, worried about the redhead.
"What reason did I have for keeping him here?" He asked in return. "Even if he's a replica, he is still a citizen of the outer lands."
"You have a point." Jade replied as he rubbed his eyes under his glasses. "We will have to track him down it seems."
"Why?" Anise asked in a venomous tone "So he can screw up again?"
"It would be better if we took him to Baticul." Natalia said quietly. Anise nodded after a couple of seconds.
"If he is still alive he should have gone to Daath." Teodoro told them.
"We're going to Daath then." Asch announced as he turned to the door and left towards the Yulia road, the others following close behind, except for two.
"Guy is something wrong?" Tear asked when she saw the young man hesitate for a few seconds.
"Nothing really." He assured her. "I just have a…" Guy stopped to think of the best way to describe his hesitance "Bad feeling about what's going to happen."
"To be honest." She told him quietly "I think we feel the same."
Padamiyan, middle of the continent
The group walked down the road to Daath, only stopping to slay monsters that had gotten in their way. When they noticed a single person walking towards them.
From the persons body type, it was a male. He was as tall as Asch, wearing a brown cloak that covered his body, but was slightly open at the front. On his head was a wide brimmed hat, that was tipped so that it blocked them from seeing his face. As he and the group walk past each other, Mieu looked up at the man's face. When he saw green eyes looking down at him he wanted to yell out of joy. But stopped himself because he wasn't sure if it was his master. So he settled with giving the man a curious look instead. The man's lips just twitched upwards for a second before he turned away, raising one hand into a hush gesture. Even though it was only an instant, Mieu knew what it meant.
His master was alive.
Padamiyan, near the port
"Well what do we have here?" A bandit asked as the young man stopped in front of them.
"Might have some gald on him." Another said as he pulled out a knife. The boy just stared at them blankly from underneath his hat as he pulled his sword out of his cloak.
"Bring it on."
Daath market, same time
"Excuse me, but have seen a teen boy with red hair?" Tear asked a girl behind one of the market stands. The girl looked thoughtful for a second before responding.
"Yes." The girl replied without looking at Tear.
"Can you tell me where he is?" Tear asked, not fazed by her attitude.
"He left a couple of hours ago." The girl replied. "Probably looking for a new treasure."
"Treasure?" Tear asked the girl.
"Yeah." The girl replied. "He said he was a treasure hunter." At this Tear's face took on a shocked expression.
"Did this treasure hunter have green eyes?" She asked to make sure, starting to fear the worst.
"Yep." The girl easily replied. Tear thanked the girl for her help and went back to the inn, where the group was supposed to meet.
'If what she told me is true, then the person we walked past was Luke.' Tear realized. 'That means that Luke could be long gone by now.' Tear walked into the inn and sat at one of the many tables.
'If only I had stayed with him, he may still be with us.'
Near Daath port, thirty minutes later
The redhaired male looked down at the bandits that attacked him, all of them in a pool of blood. The boy turned to walk away, but a voice behind him caught his attention.
"Hey wait…" The voice of one of the bandits called out to him weakly. "Can I get your name?"
The boy just stood there for a second before throwing something at the bandit. The bandit caught the object with some difficulty and noticed it was an apple gel.
"My name." The boy said as he turned to the bandit, lifting up his hat so the man could see his face.
The most prominent feature being the scar that started at his nose and went down his right cheek to his chin
"Is Elei Lore."
Fatal-fame here and this is the first chapter of Treasure Hunter.
In my story Perfect Control, Luke still cares about a few people and is actively trying to save the world.
In this Luke does not care what-so-ever. He will desensitize himself to everything from killing people, to watching people die ect. Completely willing to sell out the group for a gald.
Luke no longer practices the Albert style swordsmanship. He will have a new style that is more brutal.
Check out my profile for my other ideas, and if you want more than the basics, pm me.
Tell me if I should continue this in a review.
