Yup, an another fic. I had a hard time to choose what Game/manga I should use but because I have written Tales of- fics I was like, whatever and so, I choose Tales of the Abyss! Again! I'm hopeless... But the characters really fit in this story!

So... this story is like mixed version of Tales of symphonia, Peter Pan, Eternal Sonata and many, many other Movie/game/anime/books.. Mainly it will be much like Tales of Symphonia... I can't make anything original...-Sigh-

Warnings: Shounen-ai (Boyxboy), cursing

Pairings: SyncIon, AschLuke

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Tales of the Abyss! Hell, I don't even own a copy of it!

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As The Nightingale Sings...

...The people are celebrating.

Prologue

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A girly man in his twenties walked on a street. The people around him were celebrating. The man dodged the celebrating people and glared at the drunken men on the street. To them, it was a holiday. The whole world was celebrating. The man stopped to listen the storyteller who was telling fairytales to the children. The people around the world were happy. Well, expect one. The man sighed sadly, raising his gaze to the sun.

"Come and taste the delicious cotton candy! Only one gald per cotton candy, only today!" A shopkeeper shouted to the crow, making the man to flinch. He turned around to look at the shopkeeper and smiled. He walked to the shopkeeper, taking two coins out of his pocket.

"Can I have two cotton candy, please?" The young man spoke softly, giving the coins to the shopkeeper. The other man gave the candies to the younger man. The young man walked away, holding two pink cotton candy in his hands with his shopping basket with full of food. Soon, he turned to an alley, away from the happy people. The alley was dark and smelly place but he kept walking. Two cats were eating at the fallen trash can, mewing to to the man. The man took a small fish from his basket and tossed it to the cats who ran to their new meal. The man smiled and kept walking. Soon, he stopped in front of a brown door and knocked. He listened how two children were fighting behind the door as the door opened, revealing two red headed boys.

"Finally!" The younger boy sighed annoyingly. "That took so long time-" The same boy's eyes widened when the man showed the cotton candies. He took the pink candy and ran into the apartment. The other red head otherwise stayed, rolling his eyes but took his cotton candy too, thanking the man politely.

"You guys don't have any idea how crowded the city is! Everybody is celebrating!" The man sighed, placing the basked on a table.

"Yeah. Everybody expect us..." The older boy glared at his younger roommate. The younger boy stopped eating his cotton candy and stared at the floor sadly, tears forming in his eyes. The man gave a warning look to the older boy.

"You go and say sorry to him!" The man whispered warningly. After all, it wasn't the younger boy's fault that he had got a serious fever and had to be at home with somebody who would watch after him.

"Yes, Mother..." The older boy muttered sarcastically, walking to the other boy who was now crying at the corner.

"I'm sorry. Stop crying!" The boy said or more likely, ordered. But it was enough to the younger boy. He made a loud shrill and hugged the other boy.

"I love you!" The younger boy whispered, making the other red head to blush.

"Y-Yeah... Whatever... Now, get off me!"

The oldest man looked at the scene between the two red headed kid, smiling. He was happy that they found each other after their promise. He was happy that he had found them too. He had found them at an orphanage five years ago when they were four years old. The orphanage's owner had said to him that she had never seen something like this. The boys were so much alike but they still weren't brothers or even relatives. But she didn't know anything. The man just smiled as the older boy was now chasing the other boy who had stolen his cotton candy. It was like ten years ago...

But it wasn't the same without him...

"Asch, Luke. Stop it now. We must lit the candle and pray and thank the gods for giving this happy day to us." The man said, taking a long blue candle from the basket. Actually, he thought that this 'happy day' was just ridiculous since he knew the truth. But even if he would tell it, the people wouldn't believe him. But he hated how people were celebrating this day. He hated that he couldn't do anything to save the princess.

"But why? Praying is boring! And what good is it in this day?! Why everyone are celebrating?" The younger boy, Luke asked.

"Haven't you listened what the teacher told us!? And quiet you moron or The Six God-Generals will come from the heaven and take you with them to torture you slowly and painful!" The older boy, Asch almost shouted, shaking the other red-headed boy.

The man otherwise couldn't take it anymore. He was just about to lit the candle but instead, he cracked up and laughed as the minutes went and the other boys just stared at him, looking at him like he was crazy.

"What? It's true! The traveling priest told to us!" Asch shouted, sounding little hurt. He didn't like that people laughed at him.

"S-Sorry Asch b-but it just that..." The man tried to start but started laughing again after looking at Asch's face. Luke who didn't have any clue why he was laughing, started laugh as well, making Asch even more angry.

"SHUT THE FUCK UP BOTH OF YOU! You don't even know why he was laughing!" He added, glaring at Luke who's eyes started to get teary again.

"Where did you learn that word!?" The man gasped.

"Dunno. Some drunks used that word when I was... hanging around." Asch shrugged.

"Don't use that word anymore."

"But you stopped laughing."

"Umm..." Luke tried to stop their argument.

"I'm sorry that I laughed at you but you mustn't use that word again!"

"What the fuck!? It just a word!"

"Hello?"Luke tried to get their attention, failing.

"I said that don't use that word!"

"But I want to use it!"

"And I thought that you were the smart one of you..."

"HELLO!?" Luke almost shouted, glaring at the oldest man.

"I am the smart one! Luke can't even spell 'Fonon'!"

"That has nothing to do with this!"

"Yes it has-"

"I THINK THAT VAN GRANTS HIMSELF IS NEXT TO ME!" Luke screamed, finally getting the others attention and almost causing a heart attack to them.

"WHAT!?" They both shouted, turning pale.

"Finally! Now, can somebody explain why we are celebrating today?" Luke asked with his I'm-so-sweet-and-innocent-that-even-a-Cheagle-looks-like-a-ugly-and-smelly-mud-monster. Too bad that it didn't had any effect to Asch. Well almost.

"D-Don't ever make any fun of him! And you gave me almost a heart attack!" Asch said, blushing because Luke's puppy eyes.

"Okay Luke. Asch will explain because I have to cook." And Asch started to explain as the man took a knife and started to slice meat into smaller pieces.

"W-Well... The teacher said the when people are celebrating like this, it means that the world won't destroy and the people are in safe the next 15 years."

"How?" Luke asked, not understanding it completely.

"Because 'The Maiden of Hymns' has born today." The man said from the kitchen. It was true. Today the king told them that the newborn princess is The Maiden. It was a huge honor to their family. But the man felt sorry to the princess. He knew what would happen 15 years later.

"Who?" Luke asked, making Asch to groan.

"Don't you know anything?! The Maiden will save the world and go to Daath and live there forever with the other Maidens and the Six God-Generals!"

"Why?"

"Gah, you're so annoying... Well... I don't know why she'll live at the heaven but she just does! Get it? Now shut up and think about what I said!" Asch groaned. Luke just kept staring at him, tilting his head slightly.

"I'm sorry Asch but you're wrong." The man sighed. It was time to tell the truth. He had always wanted to tell it to somebody, especially to the red headed boys. They needed to know the truth.

He promised.

"What!? I'm not! The teacher said that it's the truth! It's like a common knowledge! So tell me, if that legend is wrong, that means that our whole religion is wrong!" Asch was getting really angry. The man knew it. Asch hated when people corrected him. And he thought that the teachers are some kind of gods. They couldn't be wrong.

"I don't mean that that is completely a lie. But you know how people likes to think things better from what they are. How they just... ignore the truth." The man sighed, shoving the vegetables into a pot. Asch just glared at the man's back, saying nothing.

"...Yeah, I know. But then... What is the truth?" He whispered, waiting the answer. The man in front of him turned around, smirked to the angry boy.

"I'll tell after we had eaten and you guys are in the bed."

"Yay, we are getting a bedtime story!" Luke screamed, rushing to the table and sat on a chair and took his fork and knife. The man just smiled. Asch and Luke hadn't changed even after they... Well...

Asch just groaned but followed his 'crush'.

"I'm surrounded by children..." He thought as he sat on the chair.

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"So tell it! Tell it!" Luke repeated, jumping on his bed, only in his pajama pants. Asch just rolled his eyes and sat on his bed.

"Okay Luke I'll tell it just sit down and put on your shirt!" The man laughed, holding a blue shirt.

"Take that stupid shirt so he can start it!" Asch snarled, getting a glared from the younger boy.

"Well... This happened before you guys even were born-" The man tried to start.

"When? Give me a year!" Asch ordered. He wanted to know every detail about this 'story'.

"Just let him tell the story!" Luke snapped.

"Well... It happened about ten years ago...-"

"Not so long ago..." Asch muttered under his breath.

"Asch be quiet!" Luke almost punched the other green-eyed boy.

"Do you want me to tell it or will I just leave you to sleep?" The man sighed playfully.

"NO!" The boys yelled in unison.

"Good." The man smiled, taking a better position on his armchair.

"Well... Once upon a time..."

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Eheheee... This probably was pretty confusing but don't worry! I'll try to update soon! I hope that you all know who this mysterious man is. And I know that 'The Maiden of Hymns' is reeeeaaallllyyy stupid and corny name but I had created some name which refer to Tear. And you'll find the reason soon! Well, maybe not soon but... Someday.

Was I the only one who started to laugh to that part were Asch just yelled to Luke about how the Six God-Generals will come from the heaven and will kill him? -Looks around- Looks like I was... -Sigh- And when Asch said 'Hanging around', I didn't meant any twisted thing. Truth is that he had been playing with Luke but seriously, can you imagine Asch saying "I was playing tea party at the garner with my dolls and plushies when couple of drunks walked past and shouted something."? CAN YOU?! It just that even though Asch is a kid, he still tries to act like an adult. And he thinks that adults don't play around. That's why the whole swearing argument too. Because adults used that word, he thought that if he would use it, it would make him more like an adult. Ugh, why am I making such deal with it...? But, just that you know...

Aww.... Isn't Luke cute?

Anyway... R&R? (Or Ion will come and slap you on your face!)