Fatal-fame here with a new chapter of Treasure Hunter.

I do not own Tales of the abyss or any other copyrighted ideas. This is a parody, not for profit.

Just so everybody knows, Elie does have morals, example: never hurt a child, never attack a defenceless person.

He just doesn't care about the rest of the world.

Treasure Hunter

A Path to the Future.

Elie stumbled his way into the sunlight, covering his eyes from the sun from lack of exposure, after spending the night in the cave. After a few minutes he pulled his hand down, letting the warm light bath his face.

He stood like that for a few minutes, just letting the sun hit him. He blinked a few times and finally gained his bearings.

His next move was to pull out his new toys from their holsters and out from under his cloak. He kept them in their gun form as they were easier to carry around. He pressed the button on top of the right one and watched as it turned into a blade.

'I'm used to using a sword in my left hand.' Elie thought. 'Therefore I should try to use the gun in my left and blade in my right to get used to these. If things get rough I'll just use the buttons to switch them.'

He took his eyes off his blades and looked forward. His green eyes spotting a group of Cawcaws, Elie smirked as he turned his right blade into its gun form. He took aim and fired a volley of shots.

Out of the eight shots fired, only two hit.

Elie frowned at the total amount of hits, but then took a breath.

'I've just started to use these, I can't expect myself to be good with them.' He told himself. He noticed the remaining Cawcaws charging him and turned his right gun back into a blade.

'Alright.' His green eyes hardening. 'Time to test these out.' With that he rushed at them.

They met halfway and the Cawcaws surrounded him. Elie started to pull the lever of of the gun and slashing with the sword. He took two of them down with the shots, but he couldn't catch any with his blade. One of the birds dove down at him from behind, causing him to stumble slightly.

He regained his balance and quickly slashed at the one behind him. He caught it as it was flying up off the ground, causing it to let out a crow as it died. Elie then turned and fired at the remaining bird monsters. Another had fallen to the barrage as the final two flew at him. Elie jumped back and prepared to counter when he felt a surge of energy flow through him.

"Punishing shot." Elie yelled out as he hit one of the Cawcaws into the air and shot it twice. It let out a cry as it's fonons dissipated. the redhead then turned to the last monster. It started to fly backwards, as if it was afraid, but that didn't stop Elie for slicing it in half.

Elie stood hunched over, trying to catch his breath from the fight he had just gotten out of. After half a minute of heavy breathing he stood up to his full height and smiled.

'Not bad.' He congratulated himself. 'Not bad at all.'

He heard the sound of something coming towards him from behind. He turned quickly as he pointed his gun forward while his right arm stayed by his side. When he saw an Armaboar run past him, he lowered his left arm as he turned to watch it run.

'That's weird.' The green eyed teen thought. 'Wonder what that's abo..?!'

He was pulled from his thoughts a loud roar was let out behind him. He turned around to see a giant monster heading towards him. Elie jumped out of the way as it sped past him. The redhead sat up as it started to turn to him, ready to make another run at him.

'...I think I understand why nobody comes to this place.'

The giant monster let out a roar as it ran at him, causing Elie to snap out of his stupor and jump to his feet. He turned his right blade into a gun and started to pull the triggers as many times as he could. It didn't seem to effect the giant monster as it continued its charge. The treasure hunter quickly started to back up, still firing away at it.

When the monster got too close for comfort Elie quickly jumped out of the way again. It took less time for it to slow down, as it seemed to realize he do that again. It turned to Elie again and let out an earsplitting roar. Elie then took this time to measure his opponent.

It was a giant beast around twice his size, coloured red with black streaks every few inches of scales, two large tusks, he was pretty sure that's what they were called, small taloned arms, and a large tail that seemed to be a flexible sword of sorts, with blade like scales on the top and bottom while the sides were covered in spikes.

But what really caught his attention was the numerous swords stabbed into the monster's back. Something that didn't fill him with confidence.

'If that many people tried to take this thing down, how the hell am I supposed to kill it?' Elie wondered as he tried to come up with a plan. He saw that it was about to take another charge at him, so he did what most would do.

He started to run away from it.

His feet were a blur as they hit the earth below him. He didn't dare look back as he ran, but he could tell it was getting closer to him. When he felt it was right behind him he dove to the side, again causing the monster to run past him. Elie quickly pulled himself to his feet, huffing as he stood. He looked up to see a break in the cliff walls.

'The exit.' Elie realized as hope started to fill him. It was then he noticed the problem.

The monster was now in the way of the exit.

Elie gripped his guns as he stared at the monster. Once again trying to come up with a plan.

'I just need to get past it.' The replica thought. 'If I could distract it I may have a chance.'

'But how?' Elie tried to plan as it roared at him again. 'My shots don't seem to affect it and I'm not getting close to those claws.' It roared again, as if it sensed his distress. Elie looked straight at its face as it did so and started to have an idea.

'Wait a minute…' He thought as a memory came back to him.

"Luke." Master Van had said after a day's training. "How do you defeat a something that is armoured?" He asked his student. Luke started to think of ways he could win.

"By not giving it a chance to attack?" Luke answered, yet wasn't completely sure.

"No Luke." Van replied patiently. "You just have to find the weakness."

"Weakness?" Luke repeated.

"Yes." Van had nodded. "There is no such thing as absolute defence, There will always be some hole or less armoured spot on a something or someone."

"So I just have to find that spot then?" Luke asked. Van closed his eyes in thought.

"Yes and no." Van replied, causing look to tilt his head confused. "You have noticed how the lower knights have holes in their masks." Van had asked rhetorically. When the noble nodded he continued. "That is their weakness, however they know that is a weakness, so they learn how to defend against attacks to that area."

"So I have to find the weakness and I have to get around the defences they have their?" Luke went over the information. Van nodded with a smile.

"Yes, that's correct."

'If I can't hurt it from the outside…' Elie realized. 'I'll just have attack the inside!'

With his plan set he pointed both his guns at the monster, waiting for his chance to damage it.

The monster charged forward, slower than the times before to not be tricked again. Elie kept backing up and waiting for his chance. As he backed up he failed to notice the cliff face behind him, until his back was flat against it. The monster slowed down to a walk towards him, showing it noticed how it's prey was cornered.

Elie kept his guns pointed at the monster's head, just waiting for an a chance to strike.

When the monster was fifty feet away it opened it's mouth in preparation for it's meal.

Elie took that moment to unload as many shots as he could into the monster's mouth.

Although some had missed, most had hit the back of the monster's throat.

It stopped for a second, stunned about what had just happened, then unleashed a roar louder than any of the previous ones.

'This may not have been a good idea.' Elie realized as the monster started to thrash around. It went on for a few seconds, then it suddenly stopped thrashing and looked straight at him.

'I think I may have just angered it more.' Elie realized as the thing seemed to glare at him.

Next thing Elie saw was that it was charging towards him at full speed, easily covering the space between them.

'Oh crap!' Elie thought in alarm. It was just about to ram him when his body threw itself to the side. The monster, blind with rage, didn't notice the its prey's movement and smashed its skull onto the rock face.

The monster backed up with a wobble as it let out a wounded cry. After a few seconds it fell to it's side, with the sword littered back facing towards Elie.

Elie sat up as the adrenaline started to leave him. He stared at the monster as he pulled himself to his feet again.

'Is it dead?' He wondered, before shaking his head. 'No, if it was it's fonons would have dissipated.'

'I could grab some of those swords.' He realized. 'I could get some good gald for them.'

'But if it wakes up as I'm grabbing them, I might get myself killed.' Another side spoke up.

After a few moments debate, he came to a decision.

'I've taken enough risks for today.' He thought as he turned to the exit. 'Even if I grab those swords, it could be night before I get to town.'

'I'll return again one day, when I'm more prepared.' He promised himself as he walked out of the Highlands.

'Still, I managed to beat that thing.' Elie realized. 'I fought that thing and managed to get away.'

'What was that thing anyway?" The green eyes boy wondered as he walked, grabbing his hat so it wouldn't get blown away. 'I know some monsters can get huge, but that was on a whole different level.'

'Maybe someone in Sheridan will know.' He realized as he saw the town in the distance. 'Only one way to find out.'

Sheridan, a few hours later.

It took him some time but he had finally made it back to the city of craftsmen. He looked towards the setting sun and stopped for a minute.

'I have sometime before dark.' He thought in consideration. 'Might as well get dinner.'

With that thought in mind he headed towards the inn/pub.

'If I'm going to travel alone then I should pick up some cooking tools and a few camping supplies.' He knew he should have gotten the stuff earlier, but he was tight on cash and he just wanted to get his career started.

'Then again I've never been a long term planner.' He chuckled to himself. 'This might be the first time I've really planned anything.' After all, every time a plan was made he was barely consulted other than "we're going this way" and "this is what you are going to do."

Yeah, not a lot of chances to plan things.

'Better wait until tomorrow to get the supplies.' Elie figured. 'Then I can figure out what I need to get.'

With that he opened the door to the pub.

He walked up to the counter and sat down, taking his hat off as he did so.

"Hey." The man behind the counter said. "You're the kid from yesterday."

"I guess I am." Elie replied as he checked the menu, not entirely sure if that meant anything.

"I thought you left after you got breakfast yesterday?" The man questioned as he wiped down the counters.

"I spent the night in the Highlands." Elie replied as he handed the menu back. "I'll have the chicken, please."

"The Meggiora Highlands?" The man asked as he started to cook the meal.

"That's the one." Elie replied as he waited.

"You see the Blade Rex?" the man asked a few minutes later.

"You mean the giant monsters covered in swords?" Elie asked. "Then yes."

"Caught a glance and got out of there?" The man asked as he started to fill a plate with the food.

"More like almost become monster chow." Elie replied as he took the plate.

"Wait." The man turned to him. "It attacked you?" Elie nodded as he put a fork full of carrots into his mouth. "How'd you escape?" Elie chewed and swallowed before answering.

"I kept dodging it when it charged, then placed some shots into it's mouth." He replied as he cut off a piece of chicken.

"And that killed it?"

"Nah, just pissed it off." Elie replied after swallowing. "It charged at me and ran into the cliff behind me, it fell unconscious and I ran for it."

"Wow, there's not many people who can claim they managed to survive an encounter with the Blade Rex." The man whistled as he continued cleaning.

"So what is that thing anyway?" Elie asked the man in return as he scooped up some rice. The man brought a hand up to his face and gripped his chin in thought.

"Nobody really knows for certain." The man replied after a second. "Some think it's some type of new monster evolution. Yet others speculate that it's some type of fonon mutation."

"Fonon mutation?" Elie asked as he started to finish up his meal.

"I'm not entirely sure on the details, but I think it's when something that can't control the seventh fonon absorbs a large quantity of it." The man replied as he took Elie's plate. "You could ask some of the people in the Meeting Hall. They may not be scientists, but they understand fonons a lot better than most."

"Thanks." Elie replied as he stood up. "How much do I owe you?"

"About three hundred fifty." The man replied. Elie handed the gald to the man as he grabbed his hat and turned to leave.

"Hey, kid." The man called out after him. "You have a name?"

"Elie." The redhead replied as he walked out of the bar. The man chuckled as he wiped down the counter.

"Not a bad name, kid."

Fatal-fame here with a new chapter of Treasure Hunter.

Sorry it took so long. But I recently had to head back to work and had a lot of late nights.

So review and tell me what you think.

To guest reviewer number 18, I have one thing to say to you.

You are correct.

In my state, I was aiming my anger at someone who did not deserve it.

For that I thank you for pointing that out.

However, I am not going to apologize, as I feel there is some truth to what I have said.

1. If you think the story sucks, tell me why. I read through the entire review? Analysis? whatever. And the only real thing I got was a lot of nit picking. If you don't like something about this then tell me what you don't like about it, don't just nit pick about little things.

I'll try my best to make it better, but you have to understand that I need real honest opinions, not "They can explain it better."

And some things are just non-negotiable, so try not to get your hopes to high.

Such as Luke's hair cut. That's not part of this.

2. As I said before, I shot the messenger. However it still hurt me to see that my work was on a troll sight.

As a kid, my brother was a genius, so I felt I had a lot of pressure on myself. This kind of manifested into a lack of self confidence.

To see my work just destroyed like that just killed me, in a metaphorical sense.

So here I'm trying to say there's giving constructive criticism, then there's being a straight up dick.

Try to stay on the first one, please.

3. If you think this is terrible, Then I want to see you give it a shot. I was always been taught that you can't knock something until you try it.

Now I know that some people don't think this way, and that's fine, but it still hurts.

Now, it doesn't have to be this exact plot. But I want to see something of yours before you can diss mine.

Equal exchange and all that.

The last thing that I didn't mention was that my work was put on a different website without my permission.

Isn't that technically stealing?

Not completely sure about the laws on this topic.

So yeah, that's what I wanted to say.

If you guys want, check out my profile for my other ideas. Send me a pm and I might make a sample.

Or if you feel like it give one of them a go yourself.

Just make sure to ask permission and to credit me.

Also, quick question. Do you guy's think Akzeriuth was Luke's fault? Tell me your opinion in a review.

Nothing to in depth, please. Just what you think and some reasons why.

And don't argue with others about this. I've seen threads like that, they get crazy.

Later.