Fatal-Fame here with a new sample. This one is a Persona and Tales of the abyss.
Well I have two ideas, one for Persona 3 and one Persona 4.
This is a sample for the Persona 3 version
I do not own tales of the abyss, Persona, or any other copyrighted thing that could be included in this fic. This is for entertainment, not for profit.
Please don't sue me.
So enjoy.
Painless
Luke let out a heavy breath as his arms dropped to his sides, his sword and evoker still clasped in his fingers.
It was a tough fight, but they managed to beat the sub boss that was blocking the way further.
Luke let out one last breath as he sheathed his sword and holstered his evoker. He wondered why he was in this hellish place instead of studying.
Oh right, he didn't get a choice in the matter.
"Man, that was tough." Miko said as she put away her long staff, rubbing her forehead with her hand as she did.
"But we still won." Eric replied as he put away his axe.
"Good job." They heard Annabelle elegant tone speak in their minds. "You should return to the dorm for tonight."
"Sounds good, I am beat." Eric replied as they made their way to the transporter. Once they had all made it to the ground floor, they stood in front of their support.
"We are doing as good as we can hope." Annabelle told them as she started to check for wounds. "I recommend we take the next few days off from exploring."
"Sounds good." Eric and Miko spoke at the same time, with Luke just nodding.
"Tomorrow is Gnomeday, we should go out and have some fun." Eric said after they walked out of the shadow labyrinth.
"Yeah, a day off from school and exploring to just relax is just what the doctor ordered." Miko replied as they walked through town.
"It would be good for all of us." Annabelle added in. "We can have some time to recuperate and lessen some stress."
"Alright, tomorrow we do nothing but have fun." Eric announced.
"Just leave me out of it." Luke said as they made it to the dorm, causing the others to stare at him.
"C'mon man." Eric said as he placed an arm around the redhead's shoulder. "We just made a major breakthrough in the labyrinth, you can spend a day not studying. We deserve it."
"We'll deserve it when we get to the top." Luke replied as he shrugged off the older male. "Besides, I'm not losing my school rank to anyone."
"Not studying for a day won't make you lose your second in the year rank Luke." Miko replied as they walked through the door.
"And everyday I don't study, I lose a chance of getting to number one." Luke replied evenly.
"If all you do is hole yourself in your room and study, you'll do more harm than good to yourself." Annabell put in her two gald. Causing Luke to raise an eyebrow at her.
"This coming from the one who encourages us to study whenever we have free time?"
"That's when we aren't so stressed or deserving of a day off." Annabelle replied. Luke shrugged back at her.
"Well I don't think we deserve a day off, nor are we stressed." Luke said as he gave them a bored look. "So I think I'll study."
"C'mon." Eric groand "All you ever do is stay in your room and study, even outside your room you are nose first in a book."
"It's almost like you don't like us." Miko remarked, a cold feeling starting to comeover her.
"One of you is smart enough to pick up on that at least." Luke commented. As the others looks of slight shock.
"Just to make sure we are on the same level." Luke affirmed. "I don't like any of you, I will never like any of you. The only reason I'm here is because I can use a persona, that's it.
"Now." Luke started again. "I will go up to my room to study. Starting today if it has nothing to do with school, the dorm or shadows. I don't want to be disturbed." Without waiting for a reaction, he headed up stairs to his room.
The others just stood at the foot of the stairs staring at the spot the redhead had occupied before.
"Wow I…" Miko started, her eyes starting to water.
"That bastard!" Eric exclaimed. "Who the hell does he think he is?"
"There's nothing we can do about it." Annabell spoke up, her voice demanding both of the dorm's other occupants attention. "He's willing to help us against the shadows. If he chooses not to socialize with us, it is his decision."
"But, still." Eric emphasized.
"If he doesn't want to hang out with us it's his loss." Miko added in, her eyes no longer filled with tears. "We'll just have fun without him."
"You're right." Eric said after a breath. "In the end we're not the ones who have to put up with his constant pessimism."
"Oh ho." Annabelle chuckled. "I'm surprised you understand such a big word, Eric." This caused Miko to start laughing.
"Hey." Eric replied with fake indignation, but soon he was laughing along with them. "I have a good head on my shoulders."
"Too bad the brain needs work." Miko joked, causing another bout of laughter.
Up stairs Luke listened to the conversation.
"Morons." He sighed as he shook his head sadly. He quickly made his way up the next flight of stairs and walked into his room.
"When will they realize that they don't care about each other?" Luke questioned no one as he pulled off his jacket and threw it onto a hook.
"One little screw up and they'll all walk away from the person who messed up." Luke told himself. "They won't care why the person did it, they'll just walk away."
"Guess I'm lucky I know this truth of life." Luke sighed as he pulled off the rest of his clothing and swapped into his pajamas and sat at his desk.
"Better get to work." He told himself as he opened his science book and turned on his desk light.
It was an hour before Luke felt he couldn't read anymore. He closed the book after putting a bookmark between the pages and walked to his bed.
"I'll study more tomorrow." He told himself as he closed his eyes.
When he opened his eyes again he noticed that he was in a blue classroom.
"Welcome back." Bethany said as she noticed him. Luke just nodded as he looked at Igor.
"It seems I wasn't clear the last time we meet." Igor started. "When you create bonds with others your persona's strength can dramatically increase."
"I heard you the last time." Luke replied as he rolled his eyes. "I just know that that particular idea is bullshit."
"The other holders of the wild card choose to create bonds between them and others." Igor countered calmly. "They were able to create personas of true power."
"Only because they decided to rely on others." Luke shrugged. "If they chose to stand alone, they wouldn't need to create personas, as they wouldn't have weakened themselves in the first place."
"Thier bonds allowed them to create personas that matched gods." Igor refuted.
"Then I'll train mine until they can do so themselves." Luke shrugged again. "Can I go now?"
"You may." Igor sighed. "The fools arcana is one of infinite possibility. Possibilities that can only be reached through bonds with others."
"It's one of nothing, as the number on it represents." Luke contended. "Zero means nothing. Just as I was, am and always will be."
"May you return sometime." Bethany bowed her head as Luke's vision went black.
Luke's eyes opened as sunlight poured through the window. He sat up and rubbed and rubbed his face with his wrist.
"Well, that was a waste." Luke said to himself as he got out of bed. He pulled his chair back from his desk and prepared to study, but he was stopped as he heard a voice.
"C'mon slowpokes." Eric laughed as he ran out of the building, quickly followed by the two female members of the dorm.
"Slow down." Miko said as she caught up to him. "We're not sports freaks like you."
"I'm not a freak, I'm an enthusiast." Eric defended himself.
"Spoken like a true obsessor." Annabelle remarked as she walked past them.
"Hey, it's not fair to gang up on me." Eric mock whined as he and Miko caught up with the third year, laughing as they walked.
Luke just shook his head sadly as he watched them.
"They are just deluding themselves." He said quietly as he watched them walk away. He walked back to his desk and sat down.
An hour later Luke couldn't take it anymore.
"No matter what I read I can't concentrate!" Luke yelled as he gripped his head. With a sigh he stood up and walked to the closet.
"Maybe a walk and some food will clear my head." He told himself as he changed into his school uniform. He quickly made his way down the stairs and walked out the door.
After a twenty minute walk he was nearly at the shopping district. But before he made it into the busy crowd. He noticed a little girl sitting on a bench alone.
'What the hell?' He thought to himself. Without his own consent he made his way to her.
"Excuse me." He said, getting the girl's attention. "Where are your parents?" He asked her as he sat down next to her. The girl just looked at him and then looked down again.
"My mommy and daddy are fighting." She replied. Luke felt saddened by her words but remembered what he was doing in the first place.
"Then how about you go to a friends house?" He tried, only for the girl to droop more.
"I don't have any friends." She replied as she started to swing her legs back and forth. Luke felt his heart break a little at the girl's words and without thinking responded.
"then how about we become friends?" Luke asked before he could stop himself. The girl perked up and looked at him.
"You want to be my friend?" She asked in return. Luke nodded his consent. "No foolies?" Luke nodded again." She held up her hand.
"Pinky swear?" She said as she extended her pinky to him. Luke smiled as he wrapped his pinky around hers.
"Cross my heart." He said as he used his other hand to draw an X over his heart.
"Thanks mister." The girl smiled at him as their hands broke apart. Then the girl's stomach rumbled.
"Sorry." She said in a quiet voice as she looked down again.
"It's alright." Luke replied as he stood up. "I was just looking for something to eat, so let's go together." They both stood up from the bench and started to walk to wards the shopping district, both smiling away.
'I suppose I can let her have this.' Luke thought as they walked through the busy street. 'With her parents fighting, she deserves a distraction, even if it's a delusion.'
Luke looked down at her, who in turn smiled up at him.
'And maybe I can delude myself for a little bit.'
Thou art I… And I am thou
Thou has established a new bond…
Thou shalt be blessed when creating personas of the Hanged Man Arcana.
And finished.
So the way Luke is in this one is that he feels bonds are a lie.
This stems from being betrayed by Van and having the others leave him.
He throws himself into his studies as a way to make sure the past never repeats itself and so that he has an excuse for not hanging out with his dorm mates.
So for this one I want you guy's to give me OC ideas.
Since this is a sample, I'm not completely sure I want to keep everything the way it is so ideas would be appreciated.
So characters, weapons, arcanas and persona's will be appreciated.
This also goes to non main characters. Such as social link characters and enemy persona users.
I'll have my persona 4 sample up… I don't know.
So yeah. wait for that one and i'll do the one that's more popular.
Bonus points for anybody who figures out where I got the title.
Hint: It's part of the name of a movie theme song that was made in 1970 and later turned into a tv show. The name of the movie/series starts with an M.
Later.