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FFBE Script part 156: If Only It Were
Previously...
LAND OF THE CRYSTALS -- IF ONLY IT WERE -- SUMMIT OF THE SETTING SUN 1
(The party runs up to Sol, who's standing on the road to the summit of the land of the crystals.)
Sol: Oh? Did you beat Behemoth?
Rain: Sol! You're next!
(Rain readies his sword.)
Sol: What a ridiculous statement. You will not get any closer to me than you are now.
Rain: What?
Sol: Filthy creatures like yourself have no right to even fight me.
(Sol casts a spell, and what looks like a barrier appears around him.)
Sol: Behold. I will show you a fantastic display: blood flying through the air in beautiful arcs. You will draw your last breaths as your lifeblood paints the world crimson. It will be the most exquisite carnage this world has ever seen.
(Sol turns and walks away. Rain sheathes his sword, but speaks angrily.)
Rain: Like we'll let that happen! What are you trying to do!?
(Rain steps forward, but is pushed back by the barrier.)
Raegen: We're done for.... This is Hess's seal... None but their own sages can undo such a barrier.
Lid: B-but that means... Does that mean we can't go any further!?
Sakura: No... There is one way through. Fina was one of Hess's great sages. She may be able to break this barrier.
(The entire party turns toward Fina.)
Fina: M-me...?
Sakura: Fina. Please. At least give it a try.
Rain: Sakura... Wait a second. Fina's already in bad shape and...
Fina: It's okay, Rain. I... I'll try.
(Fina moves towards the barrier. Rain steps aside to let her pass, but she collapses on her knees. Rain reacts with a ! and the party closes in around her.)
Rain: Fina!
(Fina flickers, and the whole party reacts with ! now.)
Rain: Fina... Your... your body...
Fina: Why... why now...
Lid: Fina is disappearing! What the...? What the heck is going on!?
Sakura: Is this some effect of Fina being split in two...? That is the only possibility I can think of...
Fina: At least... I want to... remove this barrier... I can't... This time I'm really... going to disappear....
Rain: Fina! Hold on!
(The ground shakes, and a voice cries out.)
???: Kyaaah!
(The camera pans to the heavens, showing the gate fully open.)
Jake: Hey! Look up at the sky! What's that!?
Nichol: Is that the gate...?
Lid: Ah...
(Lid takes a step back and falls to her knees.)
Lid: No way... It's over... Everything... We're not going to make it in time...
Jake: Damn it! We did so much, and still... is this really as far as we make it?
(Rain turns and rushes the barrier again, but once again is bounced back. Everyone except the flickering Fina react with a ! to this.)
Rain: No! We're not finished yet!
(He hits the barrier again, bouncing back once more.)
Rain: We don't stop fighting until this world has been torn to pieces!
(He strikes the barrier twice.)
Rain: I'm not giving up!
(He strikes it once more.)
Rain: No matter what!
(He tries one more time to breach the barrier, to no avail. Fina, still flickering, speaks.)
Fina: Rain...
(Rain strikes the barrier again.)
Dark Fina: (That's right. There's the Rain we all love.)
(Rain reacts with a ! and turns from the barrier.)
Rain: That voice... Fina!? Where are you, Fina? Help us! We need you!
Dark Fina; (Sorry, but I'm afraid I'm not going to make it. I'm in the Earth Shrine right now.)
(Rain turns back to face the barrier but otherwise doesn't move.)
Rain: The Earth Shrine? What are you doing there?
Dark Fina: (Rain.... I am going to become a crystal.)
Rain: Wha...?
Dark Fina: (That way there will be a seal on the land again.) (If there's just one more crystal, the gate's pull on this world should weaken.)(That will be your chance to close the gate. Rain. Everyone.)
Jake: Become... a crystal? But how?
Sakura: Using the sacred vessel, I'd guess. It's possible as long as she's got that. But... if she does...
Dark Fina: (I won't just be sealed in crystal this time. I will be the crystal.)(So this is my good-bye to you all. We won't be meeting again.)
Rain: Wh-what are you talking about? What do you mean, we won't meet again...
Dark Fina: (You won't be lonely. Once I'm gone, the other Fina should be saved.)
Fina: What?
Dark Fina: (Fina. My other self. I'm counting on you to take care of that barrier. You're the one who will take them all the rest of the way.)
Fina: W-wait... I'm the one... who was supposed to disappear... If someone has to become a crystal, then... then I should be the one to...
Dark Fina: (I'm afraid we just don't have time for that. You don't even know how to use the teleportation spell to get here.)
Fina: But...
(The scene shifts to the Earth Shrine. Dark Fina stands alone.)
Dark Fina: But nothing. Just stay quiet and be a good girl. You're just a babe, compared to me. I've lived centuries already. You said that you'd learned a lot. But you were wrong. You still don't know anything. That's why... That's why you're not the one who should disappear. I am. I've lived plenty long enough.
(The sacred vessel of Paladia glows red in Dark Fina's hand.)
Dark Fina: Though... I am a little sad to leave Rain behind.
(The scene flashes white, and a flashback appears: Fina in her crystal.)
Dark Fina: I was first interested in Rain because he was the Darklord's son... It was boring in that crystal, so I'd at least send my spirit out wandering. And I visited Rain a lot.
(The scene shifts to Rain in Grandshelt, in front of the statue.)
Dark Fina: He was a bit of a clown, and had a weakness for girls. Prone to slacking off, too... But... he was nice to absolutely everybody. He never played favorites.
(The scene shifts again to Rain and Lasswell fighting a pack of wolves.)
Dark Fina: If he really had to choose between one side or another, he always tried to find a way to choose both. He doesn't even understand the meaning of the word "compromise", and he never gives up. Not ever. Maybe it was because of then times that I lived in, and the war between Hess and Aldore, but... I got to the point where I could only see the world as black or white. So... the way Rain thought and the way he acted... I really loved that about him.
(The scene shifts back to Fina in her crystal.)
Dark Fina: And before I even knew it.... I had already fallen. "I want to meet him." "I want to talk to Rain once." I thought that for so long, there inside the crystal.
(The scene returns to present day. Dark Fina is still in the Earth Shrine, vessel glowing in her hand.)
Dark Fina: And my dream came true. Now it's time for you to have your dreams come true. After all, you are me, too.
(The vessel glows brighter.)
Dark Fina; But... I will tell you just one last thing... If we were fighting over Rain, then I'm the winner. If I go and disappear like this, there's no way Rain will ever forget me.
(The vessel glows even brighter.)
Dark Fina: Heh heh... It's a pretty good plan, don't you think? If only th9ings worked that simply...
(The glow of the vessel obliterates the scene in white. editor's note: Dark Fina says something here before her next line but it passed too quickly for me to capture it.)
Dark Fina: Maybe Rian... will never, ever forget me. Till the day he dies, I'll be in his heart... That would be... really, really great....
(The scene reappears, showing an Earth crystal where Dark Fina stood. She's not visible inside it.)
(The scene returns to the party. Jake looks around.)
Jake: The shaking stopped...
Sakura: So Fina became a crystal...
Rain: Yeah....
(The light Fina is no longer flickering. She stands now and approaches the barrier. She casts a spell and the barrier disappears. She begins to walk on, but stops as Rain calls out.)
Rain: Fina!
Fina: Rain. I... I'm going to put everything I have into this battle.
(She turns to face the party.)
Fina: I'm going to do as much as she would have...
Rain: Yeah... Let's go. Let's do it for her.
(The party walks on.)
LAND OF THE CRYSTALS -- IF ONLY IT WERE -- SUMMIT OF THE SETTING SUN 2
(The scene opens at the pinnacle of the crystal tower. Sol stands before the gate, his back to the camera. He's glowing. The party slowly approaches.)
Rain: Sol... What are you doing?
Sol: How hateful must you be? I can't bear watching your foolish, meaningless struggles. Why can you not simply accept things in silence? The quiet, gentle nothingness. The beauty of death.
Rain: Fine then. It really doesn't matter what you're trying to do. We're going to close that gate and save this world from destruction. And if you're going to try to stop that, then we'll just defeat you, right here and right now.
(Sol turns to them. He's stopped glowing.)
Sol: I can feel your powerful emotions. You are indeed human. Why can't you even see how ugly that is? Anger. Hatred. Joy. Emotions all governed by base desires. This is the source of all evil. This is the ugliness of humanity.
(Fina steps forward.)
Fina: What are you talking about> I know what humans are like.
(Rain has turned to Fina.)
Fina: The way that they care for each other and try to help one another... That is the true beauty of humanity.
Rain: Fina...
Sol: Fine... You will understand the truth of my words soon enough.
(The party readies for battle. Sol throws off his cloak that's been covering his whole body up to now.)
Sol: Now, come at me. I will take you on in battle.
(A boss battle against Sol commences!)
Sakura: But still, I wonder... What is it that Sol is up to here?
Rain: Sakura, let's think about it later, okay!?
Lasswell: If we can't beat Sol here, it's all over!
Fina: We have to focus and give Sol every ounce of what we've got!
Sakura: S-sorry. Right... You've all grown up so much... I feel like I'm now the one being dragged around.
(Battle begins in earnest now. You defeat Sol! There is no dialogue immediately after the fight ends.)
LAND OF THE CRYSTALS -- IF ONLY IT WERE -- SUMMIT OF THE SETTING SUN 3
(The party stands before Sol. Sol backs up a step and falls to his knees.)
Fina: We did it!
Sol: Fina... You said... that humanity's emotions were beautiful...
Fina: Yes. I think they are...
Sol: Heh heh heh... Then do not turn your eyes away. Tel me if the thing you are about to see before you is truly beautiful or not...
Jake: The thing we're about to....? What's he planning to do?
Fina: Never mind that! Focus on the gate!
Rain: Dad! How do we close the gate!?
Raegen: To close the gate....
(There is a booming sound, and the ground shakes. The music stops as the party looks around.)
Lasswell: Wh-what is this!?
Lid: Didn't the other Fina manage to stop the gate from pulling on the land!?
(There is a shock wave!)
Nichol: That voice...
(Fina gets an ! over her head.)
Fina: Wh-what is happening?
Rain: What's the matter, Fina!?
Fina: I-I can feel it... It's big... It's so big... But it can't...
(There is another shock wave. The camera pans up towards the gate. A black skull with glowing red eyes appears before it. The music, which had been silent, starts again, driving.)
Jake: Wha... what the heck is that!?
Lasswell: Is that.... a monster?
Lid: No way... I've never seen a monster that big...
Fina: No. It's not a monster. That... is a vision.
Lasswell: A vision!?
(Sakura steps forward, and the others turn to look at her.)
Sakura: N-no.... You mean he has drawn forth a vision from the land itself? This crystal-laden land...
Lid: But... But who could've put that huge mosnter in a crystal in the first place!?
Sol: Don't you understand? It was the humans of this land. Together they birthed this monster and together they nurtured it. That is the evil that lurks within humanity. Little by little, it crystalized and took form. I took this accumulation of evil and drew it forth from the crystals as a vision.
Rain: The evil of humanity..
Sol: What is history but a sordid list of human's evil deeds. How many wars have there been in this land? How many people have soaked the soil with their blood? Hatred, fear, despair... this land of crystals absorbed it all. Visions... They are memories and feelings captured in crystal and given form. And if that is so, then that monster you see in the sky there is what lies at the heart of humanity.
(Sol stands. Lasswell and Rain back up a few steps.)
Sol: Fina. Look well and hard at what is before you. Is that beautiful to you?
Fina: I... I don't...
Sol: Accept the truth. This is how ill-natured humanity truly is.
(Another shock wave!)
Sol: Come, Chaotic Darkness! It matters not if you strike Lapis or Paladia! Bring an end to all life!
Next entry....
LAND OF THE CRYSTALS -- IF ONLY IT WERE -- SUMMIT OF THE SETTING SUN 1
(The party runs up to Sol, who's standing on the road to the summit of the land of the crystals.)
Sol: Oh? Did you beat Behemoth?
Rain: Sol! You're next!
(Rain readies his sword.)
Sol: What a ridiculous statement. You will not get any closer to me than you are now.
Rain: What?
Sol: Filthy creatures like yourself have no right to even fight me.
(Sol casts a spell, and what looks like a barrier appears around him.)
Sol: Behold. I will show you a fantastic display: blood flying through the air in beautiful arcs. You will draw your last breaths as your lifeblood paints the world crimson. It will be the most exquisite carnage this world has ever seen.
(Sol turns and walks away. Rain sheathes his sword, but speaks angrily.)
Rain: Like we'll let that happen! What are you trying to do!?
(Rain steps forward, but is pushed back by the barrier.)
Raegen: We're done for.... This is Hess's seal... None but their own sages can undo such a barrier.
Lid: B-but that means... Does that mean we can't go any further!?
Sakura: No... There is one way through. Fina was one of Hess's great sages. She may be able to break this barrier.
(The entire party turns toward Fina.)
Fina: M-me...?
Sakura: Fina. Please. At least give it a try.
Rain: Sakura... Wait a second. Fina's already in bad shape and...
Fina: It's okay, Rain. I... I'll try.
(Fina moves towards the barrier. Rain steps aside to let her pass, but she collapses on her knees. Rain reacts with a ! and the party closes in around her.)
Rain: Fina!
(Fina flickers, and the whole party reacts with ! now.)
Rain: Fina... Your... your body...
Fina: Why... why now...
Lid: Fina is disappearing! What the...? What the heck is going on!?
Sakura: Is this some effect of Fina being split in two...? That is the only possibility I can think of...
Fina: At least... I want to... remove this barrier... I can't... This time I'm really... going to disappear....
Rain: Fina! Hold on!
(The ground shakes, and a voice cries out.)
???: Kyaaah!
(The camera pans to the heavens, showing the gate fully open.)
Jake: Hey! Look up at the sky! What's that!?
Nichol: Is that the gate...?
Lid: Ah...
(Lid takes a step back and falls to her knees.)
Lid: No way... It's over... Everything... We're not going to make it in time...
Jake: Damn it! We did so much, and still... is this really as far as we make it?
(Rain turns and rushes the barrier again, but once again is bounced back. Everyone except the flickering Fina react with a ! to this.)
Rain: No! We're not finished yet!
(He hits the barrier again, bouncing back once more.)
Rain: We don't stop fighting until this world has been torn to pieces!
(He strikes the barrier twice.)
Rain: I'm not giving up!
(He strikes it once more.)
Rain: No matter what!
(He tries one more time to breach the barrier, to no avail. Fina, still flickering, speaks.)
Fina: Rain...
(Rain strikes the barrier again.)
Dark Fina: (That's right. There's the Rain we all love.)
(Rain reacts with a ! and turns from the barrier.)
Rain: That voice... Fina!? Where are you, Fina? Help us! We need you!
Dark Fina; (Sorry, but I'm afraid I'm not going to make it. I'm in the Earth Shrine right now.)
(Rain turns back to face the barrier but otherwise doesn't move.)
Rain: The Earth Shrine? What are you doing there?
Dark Fina: (Rain.... I am going to become a crystal.)
Rain: Wha...?
Dark Fina: (That way there will be a seal on the land again.) (If there's just one more crystal, the gate's pull on this world should weaken.)(That will be your chance to close the gate. Rain. Everyone.)
Jake: Become... a crystal? But how?
Sakura: Using the sacred vessel, I'd guess. It's possible as long as she's got that. But... if she does...
Dark Fina: (I won't just be sealed in crystal this time. I will be the crystal.)(So this is my good-bye to you all. We won't be meeting again.)
Rain: Wh-what are you talking about? What do you mean, we won't meet again...
Dark Fina: (You won't be lonely. Once I'm gone, the other Fina should be saved.)
Fina: What?
Dark Fina: (Fina. My other self. I'm counting on you to take care of that barrier. You're the one who will take them all the rest of the way.)
Fina: W-wait... I'm the one... who was supposed to disappear... If someone has to become a crystal, then... then I should be the one to...
Dark Fina: (I'm afraid we just don't have time for that. You don't even know how to use the teleportation spell to get here.)
Fina: But...
(The scene shifts to the Earth Shrine. Dark Fina stands alone.)
Dark Fina: But nothing. Just stay quiet and be a good girl. You're just a babe, compared to me. I've lived centuries already. You said that you'd learned a lot. But you were wrong. You still don't know anything. That's why... That's why you're not the one who should disappear. I am. I've lived plenty long enough.
(The sacred vessel of Paladia glows red in Dark Fina's hand.)
Dark Fina: Though... I am a little sad to leave Rain behind.
(The scene flashes white, and a flashback appears: Fina in her crystal.)
Dark Fina: I was first interested in Rain because he was the Darklord's son... It was boring in that crystal, so I'd at least send my spirit out wandering. And I visited Rain a lot.
(The scene shifts to Rain in Grandshelt, in front of the statue.)
Dark Fina: He was a bit of a clown, and had a weakness for girls. Prone to slacking off, too... But... he was nice to absolutely everybody. He never played favorites.
(The scene shifts again to Rain and Lasswell fighting a pack of wolves.)
Dark Fina: If he really had to choose between one side or another, he always tried to find a way to choose both. He doesn't even understand the meaning of the word "compromise", and he never gives up. Not ever. Maybe it was because of then times that I lived in, and the war between Hess and Aldore, but... I got to the point where I could only see the world as black or white. So... the way Rain thought and the way he acted... I really loved that about him.
(The scene shifts back to Fina in her crystal.)
Dark Fina: And before I even knew it.... I had already fallen. "I want to meet him." "I want to talk to Rain once." I thought that for so long, there inside the crystal.
(The scene returns to present day. Dark Fina is still in the Earth Shrine, vessel glowing in her hand.)
Dark Fina: And my dream came true. Now it's time for you to have your dreams come true. After all, you are me, too.
(The vessel glows brighter.)
Dark Fina; But... I will tell you just one last thing... If we were fighting over Rain, then I'm the winner. If I go and disappear like this, there's no way Rain will ever forget me.
(The vessel glows even brighter.)
Dark Fina: Heh heh... It's a pretty good plan, don't you think? If only th9ings worked that simply...
(The glow of the vessel obliterates the scene in white. editor's note: Dark Fina says something here before her next line but it passed too quickly for me to capture it.)
Dark Fina: Maybe Rian... will never, ever forget me. Till the day he dies, I'll be in his heart... That would be... really, really great....
(The scene reappears, showing an Earth crystal where Dark Fina stood. She's not visible inside it.)
(The scene returns to the party. Jake looks around.)
Jake: The shaking stopped...
Sakura: So Fina became a crystal...
Rain: Yeah....
(The light Fina is no longer flickering. She stands now and approaches the barrier. She casts a spell and the barrier disappears. She begins to walk on, but stops as Rain calls out.)
Rain: Fina!
Fina: Rain. I... I'm going to put everything I have into this battle.
(She turns to face the party.)
Fina: I'm going to do as much as she would have...
Rain: Yeah... Let's go. Let's do it for her.
(The party walks on.)
LAND OF THE CRYSTALS -- IF ONLY IT WERE -- SUMMIT OF THE SETTING SUN 2
(The scene opens at the pinnacle of the crystal tower. Sol stands before the gate, his back to the camera. He's glowing. The party slowly approaches.)
Rain: Sol... What are you doing?
Sol: How hateful must you be? I can't bear watching your foolish, meaningless struggles. Why can you not simply accept things in silence? The quiet, gentle nothingness. The beauty of death.
Rain: Fine then. It really doesn't matter what you're trying to do. We're going to close that gate and save this world from destruction. And if you're going to try to stop that, then we'll just defeat you, right here and right now.
(Sol turns to them. He's stopped glowing.)
Sol: I can feel your powerful emotions. You are indeed human. Why can't you even see how ugly that is? Anger. Hatred. Joy. Emotions all governed by base desires. This is the source of all evil. This is the ugliness of humanity.
(Fina steps forward.)
Fina: What are you talking about> I know what humans are like.
(Rain has turned to Fina.)
Fina: The way that they care for each other and try to help one another... That is the true beauty of humanity.
Rain: Fina...
Sol: Fine... You will understand the truth of my words soon enough.
(The party readies for battle. Sol throws off his cloak that's been covering his whole body up to now.)
Sol: Now, come at me. I will take you on in battle.
(A boss battle against Sol commences!)
Sakura: But still, I wonder... What is it that Sol is up to here?
Rain: Sakura, let's think about it later, okay!?
Lasswell: If we can't beat Sol here, it's all over!
Fina: We have to focus and give Sol every ounce of what we've got!
Sakura: S-sorry. Right... You've all grown up so much... I feel like I'm now the one being dragged around.
(Battle begins in earnest now. You defeat Sol! There is no dialogue immediately after the fight ends.)
LAND OF THE CRYSTALS -- IF ONLY IT WERE -- SUMMIT OF THE SETTING SUN 3
(The party stands before Sol. Sol backs up a step and falls to his knees.)
Fina: We did it!
Sol: Fina... You said... that humanity's emotions were beautiful...
Fina: Yes. I think they are...
Sol: Heh heh heh... Then do not turn your eyes away. Tel me if the thing you are about to see before you is truly beautiful or not...
Jake: The thing we're about to....? What's he planning to do?
Fina: Never mind that! Focus on the gate!
Rain: Dad! How do we close the gate!?
Raegen: To close the gate....
(There is a booming sound, and the ground shakes. The music stops as the party looks around.)
Lasswell: Wh-what is this!?
Lid: Didn't the other Fina manage to stop the gate from pulling on the land!?
(There is a shock wave!)
Nichol: That voice...
(Fina gets an ! over her head.)
Fina: Wh-what is happening?
Rain: What's the matter, Fina!?
Fina: I-I can feel it... It's big... It's so big... But it can't...
(There is another shock wave. The camera pans up towards the gate. A black skull with glowing red eyes appears before it. The music, which had been silent, starts again, driving.)
Jake: Wha... what the heck is that!?
Lasswell: Is that.... a monster?
Lid: No way... I've never seen a monster that big...
Fina: No. It's not a monster. That... is a vision.
Lasswell: A vision!?
(Sakura steps forward, and the others turn to look at her.)
Sakura: N-no.... You mean he has drawn forth a vision from the land itself? This crystal-laden land...
Lid: But... But who could've put that huge mosnter in a crystal in the first place!?
Sol: Don't you understand? It was the humans of this land. Together they birthed this monster and together they nurtured it. That is the evil that lurks within humanity. Little by little, it crystalized and took form. I took this accumulation of evil and drew it forth from the crystals as a vision.
Rain: The evil of humanity..
Sol: What is history but a sordid list of human's evil deeds. How many wars have there been in this land? How many people have soaked the soil with their blood? Hatred, fear, despair... this land of crystals absorbed it all. Visions... They are memories and feelings captured in crystal and given form. And if that is so, then that monster you see in the sky there is what lies at the heart of humanity.
(Sol stands. Lasswell and Rain back up a few steps.)
Sol: Fina. Look well and hard at what is before you. Is that beautiful to you?
Fina: I... I don't...
Sol: Accept the truth. This is how ill-natured humanity truly is.
(Another shock wave!)
Sol: Come, Chaotic Darkness! It matters not if you strike Lapis or Paladia! Bring an end to all life!
Next entry....