To Be With You Once Again Chapter 5: Verse 5: The True Intention, a tales of the abyss fanfic

Tales of the Abyss

Fifth chapter!

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Lexuk sighs and looks at him. "Yulia Jue."

To Be With You Once Again

By kiralacusforever

Asch's eyes widen. "Yulia Jue?" Lexuk just snorts. "But why would they try to revive her?"

"Because…" Lexuk steps closer to Asch and leans in as their eyes lock. "She is the one who told them to." He leans back and turns away. "She is the reason the few of us are created, in order to carry out the job to revive her. All of you think that she's dead, but no, she is just in a deep hibernation. In order to watch over the world, she left her body as her soul merges with Auldrant. So eventually, people think she's dead."

Asch remains silent as he tries to absorb all the information. "Why are you telling me all this?"

"You will still pester me for more even if I don't tell you myself right? After what happened at Eldrant five years ago, Yulia decided to come back but her body went along with Eldrant. Her soul drifted along side with the fonons of Auldrant, to find a body."

"A body?"

"How do you think a wandering ghost can create us, stupid?" Asch glares at the last word as Lexuk continues. "It is not hard for her to find though, since everyone on this world worship her and willing to do anything to please her. Yulia managed to find a worshipper as he was told to find ways to create me and the God-Generals. I didn't know who he is and how he did it though since I was in a deep slumber during the first week I was created. All I know is that I was the first to be created and that is when I met Luke…"

Asch looks at Lexuk, who is staring at the night sky. He catches glimpse of sadness in the replica's eyes, making Asch wonder. "Lexuk, you…"

Lexuk immediately stares at him and snorts. "Two days after I was created, the God-General are created too. They started to plan about the reviving."

"But you didn't, why?"

"I don't care about that woman. All I want is to save Luke, that's all I care about! Alright, I have said enough." Lexuk is about to walk off when Asch grabs his wrist. "What more do you want?!"

"Why don't you work with us?"

Lexuk smirks. "With you people? You all will just be in my way!" Lexuk pulls his hand back as his body starts to glow in a faint golden light. Asch feels his fonons within is reacting to the glow. "Just focus on finding back the 'key'! Leave Luke to me!"

With that, Lexuk disappears in the glow of his hyperresonance, leaving Asch standing at the field.

"Lexuk…You like Luke, don't you…?"

Verse 5:

The True Intention

The next morning arrives as Asch takes a stroll in the garden, when Tear and Natalia walk in. "Good morning, Asch." Asch nods. "Is Jade and Guy back in the manor?"

The two look at each other and back at him. "It seems so, what is it?"

"I have something important to say, tell them to meet me in the drawing room." The ladies nod and set out.

Asch folds his arms. 'Why did Yulia want to revive herself all of a sudden? Of all the time, why now?' He scowls and runs a hand through his hair.

"I won't be gone…I will always be around."

'Luke…where are you right now…?'

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On the other hand, Lexuk enters his inter mind as he paces in the dark dimension, towards Luke. "Lexuk…" His words are cut off when Lexuk points his blade at his neck.

"Who are you?" Luke remains silent. "Don't play dumb with me! I know that you are not Luke!"

The Luke-alike figure chuckles and slowly changes into laughter, as it changes it appearance into a lady with light brown hair, dressed in a black long dress with a yellow-golden scarf around her arms. Her deep abyss eyes stares into the emerald green as she smirks. "You won't even know that I'm not Luke until you met Asch."

Lexuk snorts, his blade still at the lady's neck. "You are Yulia, Yulia Jue. Right?"

Yulia gives a wave of her hand as Lexuk's blade is yank off from his hand and disappears. "Yes, I am Yulia Jue."

"Why are you inside my mind?!"

"You can say that I am temporarily lending your body, until I get one myself. And in order to do that, I need you to find the 'key', Lexus."

"Why the hell should I help you?! You are…!"

"You want to save Luke right?" Lexuk fells silent and glares at her. "If you wish to save Luke, you know that you need the key as well don't you?"

"I do not know that until you pretended as Luke and tell me to find the key! What a fool I was, to listen to your lies!" Lexuk turns around and is about to walk off when Yulia appears in front of him, blocking his way.

"But it's true. In order to free Luke, two things are needed. The 'Key of Lorelei' and the 'Grand Fonic Hymn'. I have the 'Grand Fonic Hymn', as for the 'key', you must find it. Oh, and one more thing you must do."

Yulia smirks as she leans in close at Lexuk's ear.

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Back at the manor, Asch tells the group, excluding Anise, about the reviving of Yulia. Tear folds her arms. "It's so hard to believe…that Yulia is still alive after so long, just to watch over Auldrant. But…why is she trying to come back now?"

"That's the same question I've been thinking. But there's nothing we can do for now due to the lack of information, we must find the key as soon as possible." Asch looks at them as they nod.

"But where do we start looking? We don't have a clue about the stolen 'key'…"

"Let's go to Akzeriuth, see whether we can find any clues. Tell Anise to meet us there as well."

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Anise arrives first at the remains of Akzeriuth with a squad of Oracle Knights. "Alright, all of you spread out and search for any clues about the 'key'! And be careful!"

All the soldiers salute and spread out, as Anise folds her arms and sighs. "Can't believe that this place is being destroyed twice…Luke…"

"Anise!"

The young Fon Master turns around to see Asch and company coming towards her. "How's the search going?"

"I've just arrived to start the search. But I think this will take quite a while…since the whole place is in a disaster…"

"Hmph, all of you are just wasting your bloody time!"

All of them turn around to see Lexuk glaring at them with his arms fold. All of them, except Asch get into fighting stance as the replica walks towards them. Asch looks pointedly at him. "What are you doing here?"

"Feh, it's not like I want to be here. I came to find you."

"Why?"

"I decided to join you for the search of the 'key'."

All of them gasp, as Asch frowns. "What's with the sudden change of mind?" Lexuk snorts at him. "Feh, don't even think that I'm trying to help you people! My objective is to save Luke and for that I need the key!"

Asch remains silent for a while. "Alright."

"Asch! Are you sure?! He may be helping the God-Generals!" Natalia protests, while gaining a glare from Lexuk. "I've told you, that I've nothing to do with them!"

Jade adjusts his spectacle. "Well, why not? We can really provide some help from the 'enemy' side now, since we are so clueless at this current situation."

"You are obnoxious…"

"My, my…I have the same compliment from the same look-alike." This sentence earns glares from Asch and Luke. "Even the reactions the same, how amusing."

Guy shakes his head, "You are really enjoying this, aren't you?" He turns to Lexuk. "So, what are we supposed to do now?"

"Where is that other four-eyed freak?" All of them look at Jade, who just shrugs his shoulder. "Don't play dumb with me! Where is Dist?"

"He has been locked up in the Nebilim's Crag, what about him?"

"I just found out that the person who created me and the God-Generals is none other than him, Dist!" Everyone gasp, even Jade's eyes widen at this news.

"How did you get this information?!"

"It's none of your business on how I get of this, Yulia sets him free by taking controlled of him. After that, he managed to get to Ortion Cavern to start the replicating plans. But it seems like he had disappeared after the first week I was created. So, I am guessing that he is the one who took the 'key'…"

"But, it can't be. The guards that were guarding the 'key' said that they saw you!"

"I did not. I don't even know where the key is kept in the first place! Man, we are wasting time now!"

"But where could Dist be?"

"He should hiding somewhere around Keterburg, let's start the search there." Jade suggests as they all move aboard the Albiore.

The moment Asch and company arrive at Keterburg, they ask for Nephry's help to send out a search group for Dist. But they found nothing, even the Nebilim's Crag is empty. At night, they decided to spend the night at the hotel. Everyone have retreated into their room, Asch is about to do so until he notices Lexuk walking towards the park at the north side from the window.

Lexuk rubs his hand as he snaps his fingers to create a small flame on his palm. Clenching the flame in between his palm to warm up his hands, Lexuk looks up from his position on the bench at the snow.

"So, unlike Luke, you know how to use fonic artes huh?"

Lexuk glares at the Fabre master as Asch comes forth and tosses him a white blanket, which Lexuk catches it. Asch sits on the other far end of the bench as he too, looks at the falling snow. "What's this?"

"It's a blanket. Can't you see it yourself? I saw you walking out here, so I brought you a blanket to keep your sorry ass from catching a cold."

Lexuk snorts and wraps the blanket around him reluctantly as the two fell silent. They watch as the children are playing snowball fights. Asch steals a glance at Lexuk, who is eyeing the snowballs that are tossing around in amusement.

'He's just like any other ordinary new-born replica…Like a child…Like what Luke used to be.'

Asch gets up from the bench as he walks up to where the children are playing. Lexuk eye him as the redhead grabs some snow from the ground and make it into the ball. Before he can react, Asch tosses the snowball at him, smacking his head. "HEY!!"

Asch smirks as he makes another snowball. "What's wrong? You don't know what a snowball fight is?"

"Damn you!" Lexuk tosses the blanket away as he rushes towards Asch, grabbing some of the snow on the ground along the way and toss it at Asch, who easily dodges the attack.

"Hah! Pathetic!"

Lexuk growls as he makes more snowballs and throws them towards Asch, who dodges everyone of it. The children watch the two fights when they decided to join in. The two look-alike sweatdrop when the children use the snowball throwing machine at them, causing them to be buried under the deep snow. Lexuk grabs this chance as he throws a snowball towards Asch, and it strikes him on the head. Asch glares at him while Lexuk sticks out his tongue, as they break into a fierce snow fight again. Snow are toss everywhere around the park as the two redheads play with the children with laughter and joy.

Time flews as the children bid farewell to Asch and Lexuk, who are sitting on the ground of snow. They wave at them as Lexuk leans back on the snow. Asch smirks at this. "Don't stay out for too long with your belly button exposed like that, or you will really catch a cold."

Lexuk blushes as he jerks up into sitting position, while Asch stands up to brush off the snow and runs a hand through his fallen bangs. He moves towards the bench and grabs the blanket, and handles it to Lexuk as he walks back. Lexuk looks at the blanket in hands then to Asch, who smirks at him, causing the young replica to blush harder while trying to wrap the blanket around him.

Asch sits down beside him, also remembering to keep the distance in between. Silence overtakes again.

"He always talks about you…"

Asch turns to Lexuk, who is hugging his legs to his chest while resting his chin on the knees. "During the week that we met, Luke always talks about you…Though he never really mentioned your name, but I can tell that it's you…There's not a day that he will not talk about you, about how you two meet, about what you all have done…" Asch blushes at the last sentence as Lexuk smirks. "Don't worry, he acts like you now whenever he talks about that, and ended up not finishing the story. He looks so happy whenever he talks about you, but he will always end up having a sad smile when he remembers the day the two of you separated from each other."

Asch looks down and back to Lexuk. "What about you?"

"Me? Hmph…Luke is the first person who I met and talk to when I was created. He…He is like everything to me…but…" Lexuk pauses as he looks at Asch. "He loves you. He really does."

Asch remains silent as he stands up. "Let's go back to the hotel, it's late."

"Do you love him?"

Asch turns towards him. "More than anything. Even if it means to give my life to bring him back, I will do it." With that, Asch walks back to the hotel, leaving Lexuk sitting on the snow.

"Even if it means giving your life…huh…"

Flashback

Yulia smirks as she leans in close at Lexuk's ear.

"When you get hold of the 'key', you must kill Asch Fon Fabre with it. He is a sacrifice that is to be made for Luke's revival."

Flashback ends

Lexuk tightens his hold on the blanket. "Luke…what will you do if it is you? Would you…sacrifice the life of the one you love to save yours? Luke…"

Asch enters his room and closes the door slowly behind him. He leans onto the door and slides down to the floor. He clenches onto his bangs.

"He loves you. He really does."

A memory flashes past his mind as he tries to recall it.

Flashback

"Luke, what are you doing?" Asch looks at his counterpart as Luke is squatting at a garden, while playing with the flowers.

"Ah, hi Asch!" Luke stands up and gives a light kiss on his origin's cheek. "I was just looking at the flowers. I like that flower." Luke points to the flower with bell-shaped flower."

"That is a Honeysuckle. Do you know what does the Honeysuckle symbolises?"

"Symbolises? No, I don't."

Asch circles his arm around Luke's waist and brings him close to him. He nibbles on his earlobes, causing the younger fabre to gasp. "It means 'devoted affection'."

Luke blushes madly. "I..er...I..."

Asch brushes his lips over Luke's as he leans their forehead together. "I love you, Luke."

"I love you too, Asch."

Flashback ends

Tears fell from his eyes as Asch finish recalling the memory. "Luke…"

The End

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End of this chappy!

The honeysuckle idea I get it from .hack//G.U lolx! I found out one thing about honeysuckle as well. It is said that during Victorian times, teenage girls were forbidden to bring honeysuckle home because it was thought to induce erotic dreams! Oh my…lolx

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