To the reader(s):

Warning! SPOILER ALERT: For those who have not played Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Caravan or have not beaten the game this story contains massive amounts of spoilers!

My name is Louis, I belong to the Bandanna race of the Selkie tribe, and my friend Shivisal, belongs to the Owl Head race of the Selkie tribe. We are both 18 years old and have traveled in our village's Crystal Caravan for eight years now. Shivisal and I had climbed to the summit of Mt. Vellenge in search of our last drop of Myrrh for the year. This year had been a long journey, filled with many mysteries and discoveries, but we did not realize that our biggest adventure was just about to start…

At the summit of Mt. Vellenge, we found a strange meteorite and discovered that it was creating MIASMA! As we approached the meteorite, a monster suddenly emerged from the center and attacked us! We fought the monster for over an hour but just as the monster was nearly defeated, we heard someone scream NOOOOOO! Then a blinding light burst forth and once we regained our sight, we were in a strange place. There was no nature or life except for Shivisal and me. We were standing on … what was it water? Crystal? Glass? Even more confusing, was the darkness that surrounded the circle on which we stood. Then a gentle voice warned us to leave, that Raem's minions where coming and would soon appear.

Out of nowhere, two dark monsters appeared and attacked us. When we defeated them, the voice spoke to us again and when we turned around, we saw a pure white light in the shape of a ghost. Shivisal gasped and pointed to the surface beneath the ghost. The ghost had a reflection on the surface and the reflection looked like that of a little girl. The figure then explained to us that she was the princess of light. She then told us that we might have the strength to defeat Raem and then she summoned a door in front of us. The princess explained that it was the "Door of Memories" and told us that we had to remember specific memories from our travels and that she would ask us questions about them. If we remembered and answered, correctly the door would be unlocked but if we did not remember correctly then our memories would turn into demons and try to devour us. We answered her first question correctly, then she said, "Behold, the Key of Remembrance", and a bright light engulfed us as the door opened. We then reappeared… at the same place? It was confusing but we answered her second question and again a bright light engulfed us as the door opened. A third door appeared and the princess said to us; "Your memories are bright… they might be too bright for Raem to devour." We answered her third question but when we appeared in front of the fourth door the princess warned us that after this door, we would be face to face with Raem and with that, we answered the fourth and last question and when we reappeared… we were somewhere odd.

It is hard to describe it but there were lines made up of large amounts of dust and small rocks slowly moving around in random circles. Above us was what looked like large windows, like the ones decorating a king's bedroom in a castle? A brilliant light in the middle of them gave them a golden glow. Below us was again, the glass or watery surface… Then the princess spoke again "Here he comes" and that is when we saw him, Raem. Then suddenly, a thick giant bubble of evil energy surrounded us! Raem and the princess began having a small argument and the princess warned Raem that Shivisal's memories and mine burned too brightly for him to devour. The princess then freed us from the bubble but then she screamed as Raem used some mysterious power to slam her to surface.

Raem, the Master of all monsters and miasma, the cause of all the grief in our world… and we had to defeat him. Most of Raem's body was solid brown except for his head, claws, and chest. He had two large outer claws that were three times as long as a scorpion's tail but covered in armored scales like those found on dragon's neck or tail. The tips of these claws looked similar to the tip of spear except that these where large and thick. Raem's head was long and slender like a bird's beak with a long snake like neck. His chest was large and light brown with nine six large rectangular turquoise gems, three on the right side of his chest and three on the left side. In the center of his chest was one enormous round gem with two smaller ones just below it.

More of his minions appeared, they were such odd creatures. Both where solid black, with a soft blue glow around them. One was tall and big; this one had a red mark for its face. The other was shorter and smaller, and had a blue mark for its face. The marks were circular with maze like patterns but their faces did not have anything that resembled an eye or nose. Once again, the minions were easy to defeat but new ones would reappear shortly after we defeated them. Raem was using magic and trying to strike us with his claws. It was a difficult fight but Shivisal noticed that we could freeze both the minions with a Blizzaga spell and move around freely for a few minutes. However, I accidentally defeated one of the minions but to our surprise, we could leave one minion and another one would not reappear until we defeated the second minion. It was odd that only two minions would appear at a time but the fact that we could leave one minion and defeat the other made it easier to focus our attention on Raem himself. Finally, after a long fight, we defeated Raem… or so we thought! He suddenly cried out and again we reappeared in another strange place.

This time, we were standing on some clouds but the clouds where as solid as if we were standing on firm ground. Below us, we could see grassy plains and dirt roads moving quickly. Then suddenly, a new monster rose up out of the clouds in front of us. It was Raem but he had merged himself with the princess. He was so big, bigger than the giant Marlboro from the Mushroom Forest. The lower part of his body was now long and slender like the blade of a sword. His head looked like a giant ant and his torso was like that of a dragon. We were fighting with all we had but it just was not enough. It seemed like we would lose, the monster was just too strong but suddenly a strange bubble began to float around us…

One of the bubbles looked familiar as if I had seen it before, and then I realized that it was one of my memories from a year ago. Confused about why one of my memories was floating around, I quickly used my ring of cure to heal Shivisal but, when the spell casted, the bubble popped and transformed into a piece of magicite! This magicite was smaller than the stones we found during our travels but when Shivisal picked it up and used it, to our surprise the magicite granted us temporary Invincibility! We soon discovered that our memories would grant us random spells like the scorching Firaga, the ultimate healing power of Curaga, or it would grant us temporary invincibility! That was all we needed, our memories granted us the strength and power we needed to defeat the new monster. Finally, the monster dissolved into nothing and disappeared… after a few seconds we sat down to rest from our intense battle and after a while, the princess reappeared and was slowly falling to the ground. We rushed over to her and kneeled at her side. She thanked us for defeating Raem and told us that both she and Raem would rest for a time but Shivisal and I still had one more task to complete.

Again, in a bright flash of light, we were back at the summit of Mt. Vellenge and in front of us was the meteorite monster. Shivisal quickly delivered the last blow before the meteorite monster could respond to our presence. That last blow destroyed both the meteorite and the monster. Suddenly a blinding light shot towards the sky and quickly washed away all traces of miasma. We did it; Shivisal and I saved the world and forever removed all traces of miasma.

With Raem defeated and the miasma gone, we descended from Mt. Vellenge and at the base of the mountain; we met with the caravan from Shella. Amaditty immediately began asking us questions about what happened at the summit. "Louis and Shivisal, please tell me what just happened? What was that light? How did you cause it to happen? Did you know that it would rid the miasma? Ah, do forgive me young ones; I did not realize you were both so exhausted. Please sit down and rest while we share some of our food."

Louis was sitting next to me on my right and was telling our story to Amaditty, while I was eating a Stripped Apple. When I finished eating the apple, I leaned up against the back of our caravan and began to doze off…

"Shivisal, are you alright young one? You have been rather quiet this whole time."

I was startled awake and quickly sat up due to Amidatty's sudden question. "Yes I'm fine; I was just resting my head it's not like I was about to fall asleep or anything." I laughed uneasily, when suddenly I felt something hit my shoulder. It startled me so much that I flinched, but then I realized that Louis seemed to have passed out since no one was talking to him. Out of habit, I gently lifted his head off my shoulder, and placed it in my lap. We had grown real close during our travels these past couple of years and we started the habit of falling asleep with our head in the other's lap. Suddenly, I realized that Amaditty was still standing in front of me. I tried to apologize to him but Amidatty shook his head and said, "I see that both of you are extremely tired. We shall leave you two and allow you both to rest. For now, my companions and I shall return to our home. You should return to your families and rest at home, until you have recovered your strength. Once you have fully rested, please come and visit me in Shella and finish your story."

I thanked Amaditty and watched as he and his caravan left. Physically and emotionally tired I leaned back against the back of the caravan wagon and I gazed up at the night sky. Tears began to flow from my eyes as I beheld the night sky for the first time without miasma blocking the stars. Such a beautiful sight, gazing at the stars, I felt that this heavy weight had finally been lifted off my shoulders and soon I too drifted off to sleep.