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FFBE Script part 122: Way Too Long
Jan. 20th, 2020 02:19 pmPreviously...
DARK CONTINENT GRONOA -- WAY TOO LONG -- MIASMA PASS 1
Jake: Sakura? Can I ask something?
Sakura: Certainly. I don't mind. There's little point in hiding anything after all we've been through. However! But I'm warning you, if you ask any asinine questions, I'll blast you back to Zoldaad in an instant.
Jake: Why are you looking at me? Why do you all assume that I'll do something inappropriate?
Lid: We don't assume. We know.
Jake: Urk... M-my lovely Lid... I understand. You are so harsh because you love me and want to see me be the best I can be. Mm-hmm.
Lid: What!?
(Lid makes a shrugging motion, while Sakura grumbles.)
Sakura: So, Jake. What was it that you wanted to ask me?
Jake: Sakura... Why did you and the other Veritas go your separate ways? I can't imagine that it was a simple falling out that did it. You all seemed to get along just fine in Fina's memories.
Sakura(...): Yes. We were very close. Things were different back then.
(The scene flashes white, and a flashback begins. Lightlord and Boltlord approach Darklord, who's standing at the cliff overlooking Aldore Tower.)
Veritas of the Light: Finally comes the final showdown against Hess's Eight Sages.
Veritas of the Bolt: Yes. We must seal them in crystal so the peace negotiations can begin.
Veritas of the Dark(...): Lightlord, Boltlord... What do you want to do when this war is over?
Veritas of the Bolt: What? Where did that question come from all of a sudden?
Veritas of the Dark: I just wanted to ask while I still had the chance. Who knows if we'll all be working together after this?
(Lightlord gets a ! and steps closer to Darklord.)
Veritas of the Light: Wh-why not? Why wouldn't we be working together? The Sworn Eight will always have more work to do! We could meet every single day, if you want to!
Veritas of the Dark: When this war ends, I plan to set aside my armor and travel the world.
Veritas of the Light: What..?
Veritas of the Dark: Once Hess has its independence, this entire world could change. And I want to see how it does.
(He turns around to look out over the cliff again.)
Veritas of the Dark: This war has taught me... that there is still much I don't know. What is right, and what is wrong... I want to find the truth to that for myself. And until I do, I have no plans to return to this place.
Veritas of the Light(...): I understand... I know you, and I know that you won't change your mind once you've made it up. Fine. Take your little journey then.
(Darklord turns around again to look at her.)
Veritas of the Light: However! You won't take it alone. You're only going if I go with you.
Veritas of the Dark: You...
Veritas of the Bolt: Heh.... You know me, as well, Darklord. And you know that I also don't change my mind once I've made it up.
(Darklord moves to stand in front of Lightlord, and Boltlord turns too look at them both.)
Veritas of the Dark: Yes. I do. There is no point fighting you over this. Come with me then, Lightlord.
Veritas of the Light: What!? R-Really?
(She turns from him.)
Veritas of the Light: I-I hope you appreciate this! You'll have the journey of your life with me along, after all.
(The flashback ends.)
Lid: So that's what happened...
Sakura: As you all must know, there was no way we were ever going to be able to complete that journey anyway. We will walk and I will tell of what split the Veritas apart.
DARK CONTINENT GRONOA -- WAY TOO LONG -- MIASMA PASS 2
Sakura: After we were sent to Lapis, we had nothing to live for but our dreams of revenge on Aldore. But... 700 years is just too long. Eventually our hearts started longing for different things... So when we learned about the gates at the Magic Library...
(The scene flashes white to another flashback, this time in the Magic Library. Lightlord walks in, alone.)
Veritas of the Light: Darklord! Boltlord! Where are you!? I told them about the gate! Flamelord and Heavenlord and Waterlord! They all agree that we should destroy the crystals! We can finally go back to Paladia! We'll finally be able to get our revenge on Aldore!
(She gets a ! and walks forward. Sakura and Raegen are standing there without their armor.)
Veritas of the Light: Hey... You... Why aren't you two wearing your armor? This is no time to be relaxing! The battle is about to begin! The battle to take back what we deserve!
Sakura(...): Sister.. Hasn't it been enough?
Veritas of the Light: ...Enough? What are you talking about?
Raegen: We will not battle. We have no desire to take part in such meaningless bloodshed.
Veritas of the Light: Meaningless!? Darklord... What happened to you!? You cannot have forgotten! You can't have forgotten what those bastards in Aldore did to us!
Raegen: No. Of course not. I could never forget that. But... if we destroy the crystals, the blood of innocents will flow once more.
Veritas of the Light: Who cares!? Who cares if it lets us get our revenge at last!?
Sakura(...): Sister. People change. They have to change. Either for the better or the worse...
Veritas of the Light: Sakura. Stop talking such nonsense. You sound like one of these Lapis idiots. You're fooling yourself if you think you can ever be one of them! People do not change! The strong-willed do not change. They uphold their sworn oaths through to the bitter end!
Raegen(...): You're right, Lightlord. I agree completely. Which is why I am doing what I swore to do. I told you once. Long ago. I told you I would remove my armor and embark on a journey. That wish has never changed.
(He turns around so his back is to her.)
Raegen: That's why, Light... This is good-bye.
(He and Sakura begin to walk off, but stop as Lightlord calls out.)
Veritas of the Light: Wait! Raegen, wait! You're betraying us? Even though you must know I... I... If you still insist on going, then...
(Raegen speaks, his back still to her.)
Raegen: If you want to attack me, then attack me. You can strike me from behind as I walk away.
Veritas of the Light: Ngh!
(Raegen and Sakura leave.)
Veritas of the Light(...): Like I could... Like I could ever attack you...
(She kneels.)
Veritas of the Light: I... Waaaaaaaaaah!
(The scene returns to present day.)
Fina(...): Veritas of the Light always loved Darklord, didn't she?
Lid: Yes... I believe she did. She must have.
Sakura(...): My sister is pure at heart. Much purer than I ever was... And that's why I....
(Sakura gets a ! over her head.)
Sakura: Wait! This feeling...
(Rain steps closer to Sakura, who has turned away from the party.)
Rain: Sakura, what is it?
Sakura: My sister!
(The scene pans right. Veritas of the Light rushes up.)
Veritas of the Light: Sakura! So we finally caught up to you!
(She walks up to Sakura, pointing her weapon at her sister.)
Veritas of the Light: visions! Lend me strength! The strength to punish this traitor!
(A boss battle starts with Veritas of the Light and two Aldore Soldiers, but doesn't commence yet.)
Lid: I can't do it... I can't go on to fight with the Lightlord...
Fina: Yes... I feel the same.
Dark Fina: Don't be so weak. You have to do it, so you will.
Sakura: regardless of what I've told you all of the past.. Even if you know everything... I still foresee us fighting with the various Veritas.
Rain: Yeah, we got it. I've already made peace with it.
Veritas of the Light: What are you all murmuring about!?
(Battle finally commences! There is no dialogue after winning.)
DARK CONTINENT GRONOA -- WAY TOO LOING -- MIASMA PASS 3
(The party stands before the defeated Lightlord, who takes a few steps back, near a cliff edge.)
Veritas of the Light: Why... My blood is pure Aldore... How could I be defeated by the visions of these mongrels?
(She backs up some more.)
Veritas of the Light: You.. Rain. You're the reason. So this is the power of Raegen's son. (...) Raegen... Won't you ever stop making me suffer...?
(She's at the very edge of the cliff now, and falls. Sakura takes a step forward towards the cliff edge, and gets a (...).)
Sakura: I told you before that we are immortal. My sister will not die from wounds like these. I expect... she will go on hating me until the end.
(Sakurqa begins to walk away.)
Sakura: My sister won't be able to move until she recovers. We should use this chance to hurry to the shrine.
Fina: I can't help feeling sorry for them. Both Sakura and her sister...
Dark Fina: It would be nice if she would just accept the superiority of our power and give up already. I doubt it, though.
Lasswell: As do I.
(The scene shifts. Bodies lay on the ground, fires around. One person stands in the midst, their back to the camera.)
???: I'm free... I'm free! So this... is freedom!
(The person paces.)
???: It's not enough... I'm still not free enough. More... I must be more free... I must be completely free to do as I want...
Next entry...
DARK CONTINENT GRONOA -- WAY TOO LONG -- MIASMA PASS 1
Jake: Sakura? Can I ask something?
Sakura: Certainly. I don't mind. There's little point in hiding anything after all we've been through. However! But I'm warning you, if you ask any asinine questions, I'll blast you back to Zoldaad in an instant.
Jake: Why are you looking at me? Why do you all assume that I'll do something inappropriate?
Lid: We don't assume. We know.
Jake: Urk... M-my lovely Lid... I understand. You are so harsh because you love me and want to see me be the best I can be. Mm-hmm.
Lid: What!?
(Lid makes a shrugging motion, while Sakura grumbles.)
Sakura: So, Jake. What was it that you wanted to ask me?
Jake: Sakura... Why did you and the other Veritas go your separate ways? I can't imagine that it was a simple falling out that did it. You all seemed to get along just fine in Fina's memories.
Sakura(...): Yes. We were very close. Things were different back then.
(The scene flashes white, and a flashback begins. Lightlord and Boltlord approach Darklord, who's standing at the cliff overlooking Aldore Tower.)
Veritas of the Light: Finally comes the final showdown against Hess's Eight Sages.
Veritas of the Bolt: Yes. We must seal them in crystal so the peace negotiations can begin.
Veritas of the Dark(...): Lightlord, Boltlord... What do you want to do when this war is over?
Veritas of the Bolt: What? Where did that question come from all of a sudden?
Veritas of the Dark: I just wanted to ask while I still had the chance. Who knows if we'll all be working together after this?
(Lightlord gets a ! and steps closer to Darklord.)
Veritas of the Light: Wh-why not? Why wouldn't we be working together? The Sworn Eight will always have more work to do! We could meet every single day, if you want to!
Veritas of the Dark: When this war ends, I plan to set aside my armor and travel the world.
Veritas of the Light: What..?
Veritas of the Dark: Once Hess has its independence, this entire world could change. And I want to see how it does.
(He turns around to look out over the cliff again.)
Veritas of the Dark: This war has taught me... that there is still much I don't know. What is right, and what is wrong... I want to find the truth to that for myself. And until I do, I have no plans to return to this place.
Veritas of the Light(...): I understand... I know you, and I know that you won't change your mind once you've made it up. Fine. Take your little journey then.
(Darklord turns around again to look at her.)
Veritas of the Light: However! You won't take it alone. You're only going if I go with you.
Veritas of the Dark: You...
Veritas of the Bolt: Heh.... You know me, as well, Darklord. And you know that I also don't change my mind once I've made it up.
(Darklord moves to stand in front of Lightlord, and Boltlord turns too look at them both.)
Veritas of the Dark: Yes. I do. There is no point fighting you over this. Come with me then, Lightlord.
Veritas of the Light: What!? R-Really?
(She turns from him.)
Veritas of the Light: I-I hope you appreciate this! You'll have the journey of your life with me along, after all.
(The flashback ends.)
Lid: So that's what happened...
Sakura: As you all must know, there was no way we were ever going to be able to complete that journey anyway. We will walk and I will tell of what split the Veritas apart.
DARK CONTINENT GRONOA -- WAY TOO LONG -- MIASMA PASS 2
Sakura: After we were sent to Lapis, we had nothing to live for but our dreams of revenge on Aldore. But... 700 years is just too long. Eventually our hearts started longing for different things... So when we learned about the gates at the Magic Library...
(The scene flashes white to another flashback, this time in the Magic Library. Lightlord walks in, alone.)
Veritas of the Light: Darklord! Boltlord! Where are you!? I told them about the gate! Flamelord and Heavenlord and Waterlord! They all agree that we should destroy the crystals! We can finally go back to Paladia! We'll finally be able to get our revenge on Aldore!
(She gets a ! and walks forward. Sakura and Raegen are standing there without their armor.)
Veritas of the Light: Hey... You... Why aren't you two wearing your armor? This is no time to be relaxing! The battle is about to begin! The battle to take back what we deserve!
Sakura(...): Sister.. Hasn't it been enough?
Veritas of the Light: ...Enough? What are you talking about?
Raegen: We will not battle. We have no desire to take part in such meaningless bloodshed.
Veritas of the Light: Meaningless!? Darklord... What happened to you!? You cannot have forgotten! You can't have forgotten what those bastards in Aldore did to us!
Raegen: No. Of course not. I could never forget that. But... if we destroy the crystals, the blood of innocents will flow once more.
Veritas of the Light: Who cares!? Who cares if it lets us get our revenge at last!?
Sakura(...): Sister. People change. They have to change. Either for the better or the worse...
Veritas of the Light: Sakura. Stop talking such nonsense. You sound like one of these Lapis idiots. You're fooling yourself if you think you can ever be one of them! People do not change! The strong-willed do not change. They uphold their sworn oaths through to the bitter end!
Raegen(...): You're right, Lightlord. I agree completely. Which is why I am doing what I swore to do. I told you once. Long ago. I told you I would remove my armor and embark on a journey. That wish has never changed.
(He turns around so his back is to her.)
Raegen: That's why, Light... This is good-bye.
(He and Sakura begin to walk off, but stop as Lightlord calls out.)
Veritas of the Light: Wait! Raegen, wait! You're betraying us? Even though you must know I... I... If you still insist on going, then...
(Raegen speaks, his back still to her.)
Raegen: If you want to attack me, then attack me. You can strike me from behind as I walk away.
Veritas of the Light: Ngh!
(Raegen and Sakura leave.)
Veritas of the Light(...): Like I could... Like I could ever attack you...
(She kneels.)
Veritas of the Light: I... Waaaaaaaaaah!
(The scene returns to present day.)
Fina(...): Veritas of the Light always loved Darklord, didn't she?
Lid: Yes... I believe she did. She must have.
Sakura(...): My sister is pure at heart. Much purer than I ever was... And that's why I....
(Sakura gets a ! over her head.)
Sakura: Wait! This feeling...
(Rain steps closer to Sakura, who has turned away from the party.)
Rain: Sakura, what is it?
Sakura: My sister!
(The scene pans right. Veritas of the Light rushes up.)
Veritas of the Light: Sakura! So we finally caught up to you!
(She walks up to Sakura, pointing her weapon at her sister.)
Veritas of the Light: visions! Lend me strength! The strength to punish this traitor!
(A boss battle starts with Veritas of the Light and two Aldore Soldiers, but doesn't commence yet.)
Lid: I can't do it... I can't go on to fight with the Lightlord...
Fina: Yes... I feel the same.
Dark Fina: Don't be so weak. You have to do it, so you will.
Sakura: regardless of what I've told you all of the past.. Even if you know everything... I still foresee us fighting with the various Veritas.
Rain: Yeah, we got it. I've already made peace with it.
Veritas of the Light: What are you all murmuring about!?
(Battle finally commences! There is no dialogue after winning.)
DARK CONTINENT GRONOA -- WAY TOO LOING -- MIASMA PASS 3
(The party stands before the defeated Lightlord, who takes a few steps back, near a cliff edge.)
Veritas of the Light: Why... My blood is pure Aldore... How could I be defeated by the visions of these mongrels?
(She backs up some more.)
Veritas of the Light: You.. Rain. You're the reason. So this is the power of Raegen's son. (...) Raegen... Won't you ever stop making me suffer...?
(She's at the very edge of the cliff now, and falls. Sakura takes a step forward towards the cliff edge, and gets a (...).)
Sakura: I told you before that we are immortal. My sister will not die from wounds like these. I expect... she will go on hating me until the end.
(Sakurqa begins to walk away.)
Sakura: My sister won't be able to move until she recovers. We should use this chance to hurry to the shrine.
Fina: I can't help feeling sorry for them. Both Sakura and her sister...
Dark Fina: It would be nice if she would just accept the superiority of our power and give up already. I doubt it, though.
Lasswell: As do I.
(The scene shifts. Bodies lay on the ground, fires around. One person stands in the midst, their back to the camera.)
???: I'm free... I'm free! So this... is freedom!
(The person paces.)
???: It's not enough... I'm still not free enough. More... I must be more free... I must be completely free to do as I want...
Next entry...