FFIX - Script - 4.2 - Memoria
[Screen changes to where they teleported; a massive castle looms in front of them]Zidane
"...What is this place?"
"!?"
Vivi
"What's wrong, Zidane?"
Zidane
"Did someone just call my name?"
Dagger
"No."
Zidane
"That's weird..."
Freya
"Maybe you're just hearing things."
Zidane
"I don't think so."
"!!!? You hear that!?"
Steiner
"...I hear nothing."
"...Zidane, can you hear me?"
Zidane
"Garland!?"
"...I am speaking only to you."
Zidane
"Garland, what is this place?"
"Memoria... A place of memories."
Zidane
"Memories...?"
"Yes, your memories brought forth this place..."
"Here, you shall witness the entire truth."
"You have no choice. Now, go..."
Zidane
"What are you talking about!?"
"Damn...!"
Eiko
"...Zidane, what's going on?"
Zidane
"You all heard me talking, right?"
[Everyone nods]
"...Looks like I was the only one who heard him."
"I was just talking to Garland."
"He told me that our memories created this place."
"I don't know what the hell he's talking about..."
"I guess we'll just have to move forward."
[Zidane chooses the team of 4, and heads into the castle]
[After running through several odd screens in Memoria, a boss fight occurs: the Fire Guardian, Maliris vs. Your team. "We meet again..."; "I am one of the Chaos guardians."; "Kneel before my power!". Naturally, Maliris is defeated and destroyed. "It's over..."; "Take this!"; Maliris does the "raining swords" attack, then collapses and dies]
[Next screen, in the background, seems to be a statue of Alexandria Castle, complete with crystal; Quina, Dagger, Eiko and Zidane are standing there]
Eiko
"Isn't this...Alexandria?"
Dagger
"What is Alexandria Castle doing here?"
Dagger, Eiko, and Zidane
"!!!"
[Behind the castle, an FMV occurs; we see the Battle In Alexandria, with Bahamut, Alexander, and the Invincible. A huge wave of fire is seen; the screen flashes white for a moment, and when it resumes, the characters are still there and the image of Alexandria Castle is destroyed]
Dagger, Eiko, and Zidane
"!!!"
Quina
"What!? What you talk about!? I not see anything!"
Zidane
"Of course you can't see anything."
"You weren't with us at the time, so it's not in your memory."
"In his bid to defy me, Kuja tried to acquire Alexander... An incident, 10 years ago, started everything..."
[Screen fades to black, and resumes; Zidane leaves the room and comes to a new screen; It's raining]
Zidane
"A storm..."
[He runs across a bridge, then stops]
"!?"
[He looks over the railing. Two people are in a boat]
"Hey! What are you doing!?"
"You shouldn't go anywhere. There's a storm."
"Watch out! You're gonna get washed away!"
[Dagger walks up to Zidane]
Zidane
"Dagger! I just saw a little girl on a ship, and-"
"Huh!?"
[He looks down again; they're not there]
"...I guess it was my imagination."
"Yeah, it had to be. What I just saw definitely isn't one of my memories."
Dagger
(What's going on? That was my memory.)
(Why was Zidane able to see it?)
"Zidane."
Zidane
"Yeah, what's up?"
Dagger
"...You didn't imagine anything."
Zidane
"Wait, you saw it, too...!? That means that little girl was you."
[Dagger nods]
"But...why was I able to see something from your memory?"
Dagger
"I don't know..."
Zidane
"Hey, Garland! What's going on!?"
"Garland, can you hear me!?"
"I feared Gaia's eidolons more than anything... However, I decided to deal with them before they became a major problem."
[Zidane exits to the next screen. He gets to the base of a set of stairs; in the air is a large eyeball, while clouds swirl around it]
Zidane
"What is that thing...?"
Dagger
"That eye... It's the same eye I saw on the night of the storm at sea."
"...Zidane, can you hear me?"
"...Zidane. What you just saw was from your memory, and not Garnet's."
Zidane
"What!? I don't remember ever being in a storm at sea."
"You still don't understand... You will find out soon enough..."
Zidane
"What do you mean? Can other people's memories become a part of my own?"
"Garland!!!"
"Once you accept everything, the answer will appear before you."
"A tremendous force was summoned to Gaia during the age of war... However, the Gaians were not ready to harness so great a power..."
"They were terrified and broke the jewel into 4 pieces... and they prayed never to see it again."
[Zidane heads up the set of stairs, and a Boss Battle occurs: Your team vs. Tiamat, the Chaos Guardian for the Wind Shrine: "So you have defeated Maliris..."; "For Tiamat, there is only victory!" Naturally, Tiamat gets defeated]
[Zidane makes his way to a new screen; in the background, it appears as though two planets are colliding]
Zidane
"What is this...?"
"Two moons colliding...? No. They look more like planets."
"Why does this look so familiar...?"
"This is a picture of Gaia being assimilated by Terra."
"Five thousand years ago, Terra, already an old planet, sought to assimilate Gaia. Terra needed to merge with a younger planet to survive."
"However, there was already life on Gaia."
"And so, the story began..."
Zidane
"Oh yeah. I saw this in Oeilvert."
"Life on Terra was coming to an end... We had no choice but to proceed with the fusion, which tragically destroyed Terra's native civilizations."
"Terra was too old to assimilate everything."
"Thus, I created the Iifa Tree to regulate the flow of souls back to Terra."
[Zidane makes his way to a new screen, past a waterful, and ends up underwater. Quina is swimming around]
Quina
"Wow! We in ocean now! Fish everywhere! Yum, yum!"
[Zidane walks in]
Zidane
"...What are you doing?"
Quina
"Swimming after fish. Zidane, you help catch fish, too."
"Ugh... What this? Hard to breathe now."
"UGHHH! CAN'T BREATHE!!!"
Zidane
"That's because you think we're inside an ocean."
"I can breathe fine."
Quina
"...We not in ocean?"
[Quina stops swimming/floating and lands with a THUMP on the floor]
Quina
"You right! I breathe okay now!"
"Fish all gone. I sad..."
[Zidane proceeds to the next screen; it's a large, destroyed house, with water all around. Zidane, Freya, Eiko and Vivi are gathered]
Zidane
"So, Gaia used to be just one big ocean..."
Eiko
"How do you know?"
Zidane
"...I don't know."
"For some reason, it's in my memory."
"I wasn't even born at the time. It doesn't make any sense..."
"And I was born on Terra, not Gaia, so how can it be in my memory...?"
Vivi
"...It's in my memory, too. Gaia used to be covered with water."
Freya
"I'm getting a similar feeling as well."
Zidane
(...Maybe that means all existence can be traced back to a single source.)
(I don't understand...)
[Zidane runs up a set of stairs, and another Boss Battle occurs vs. Kraken. "I am the 'Water Chaos' Kraken."; "Your presence is forbidden!", and, of course, he dies. Zidane moves on a new screen; in front of them is a ladder leading up, and a large planet of fire looms in the background. Zidane walks on screen; Steiner follows behind him]
Zidane
"Geez... That's one big fireball."
Steiner
"Could it be a moon...?"
"This is the birth of Gaia."
Zidane
"That's Gaia...?"
"Over 5,000 years ago..."
Zidane
"What's above that ladder?"
"See for yourself."
"Terra reached the peak of its prosperity at this time. The people believed that their future was secure. Ultimately, that very hubris led to Terra's demise. Thus, I was created to deal with our plights..."
[Zidane heads up the ladder. He arrives in a well-decorated, fancy room; the room vanishes, and he looks around. A boss battle occurs: your team vs. Lich: "I, the 'Earth Chaos' Lich, commend your feat."; "But your life ends now!". And, he gets destroyed. Annihilated. Obliterated. You get the picture.]
[Screen resumes in the room. Zidane walks up to the doorway; in front of him, there's nothingness. Absolute blackness, that the room is floating it]
Zidane
"WHOOOA!"
"There's nothing..."
"Is this it? Is there nothing else?"
"This is space."
Zidane
"Space...?"
"Your journey is not over."
"Do not fear. Step forward, and you will be closer to the truth."
"Go, Zidane..."
Zidane
"That's easy for you to say."
[Zidane flails his arms, shakes his head, and walks foward, into space, not falling down]