Log #OT:EX: Whatever It Takes (Imagine Dragons)
The screen hovers over the cover of Kynigos' journal. It bears the Phoenix's Eye symbol - a bird's eye encircled with two feathers - in gold leaf, along with the word 'APOCRYPHA'.
As the opening music plays, the cover flips open and pages of the journal ripple, flicking across the screen, before it eventually opens to a blank page. An invisible pencil draws a line on the bottom to represent the ground.
Falling too fast to prepare for this
Animated pictures of Kynigós and a stylised, greatly reduced version of Equivaton fall out of a scribbled hole on the paper.
Tripping in the world could be dangerous
The two land, before picking themselves up as the hole disappears.
Everybody circling is vulturous
Looking up, the two notice several silhouetted, inked dragons circling above them.
Negative, Nepotist
One, identifiable as Nefartari, dive-bombs them, and the two run off the page.
Everybody waiting for the fall of man
Ghoulia appears as the two run onto another page, and Asuka emerges and joins them as it breaks into pieces.
Everybody praying for the end of times
A drawn version of the Urano Metrion speeds past, and Bellamy and Lucy wave from inside. Suddenly, the train explodes, dropping Lucy with the group.
Everybody hoping they could be the one
The Lacrima factory appears, before sinking into the ground; Ryos climbs out and joins them.
I was born to run, I was born for this
The group reaches the end of the page, and breaks through, emerging into reality.
Whip, whip
Equivaton howls at the sky.
Run me like a race horse
The Dragon charges across the countryside, Kynigós, Asuka and Zena clinging to his back.
Pull me like a rip cord
Boomer, Penny, Arcadios and the other two elders of Ghoulia all look up at Kynigós.
Break me down -
Bisca crouches in her room, staring feverishly at her picture of Alzack.
- and build me up
Lucy crouches over the Urano Metrion's machine gun, glaring at the camera.
I wanna be the slip, slip
Bellamy salutes from within the Urano Metrion's engine as it charges towards Miach.
Word upon your lip, lip
The train impacts and explodes.
Letter that you rip, rip
Ryos knocks away a draco-zombie and glares at the camera.
Break me down and build me up
Macbeth appears behind him with a wicked smile and a red glow in his eyes.
Whatever it takes
Kynigós tosses a Molotov cocktail, which smashes into Nefartari's eye and explodes. She roars in agony and crashes to the ground.
Cause I love the adrenaline in my veins
Coolly, he walks away, as the dragon collapses to the ground behind him.
I do whatever it takes
The camera zooms out to see Equivaton walking behind him, carrying Zena. The older dragon smiles down at the hunter, not that Kynigós pays any attention.
Cause I love how it feels when I break the chains
Asuka and Lucy join him, each with grim expressions.
Whatever it takes
Off to the side, Ryos walks in the same direction, eyeing the others with taut lips.
Ya take me to the top, I'm ready for
Kynigós and Zena arrive at the Eclipse Gate. Kynigós turns around; there is no one behind them.
Whatever it takes
He shakes his head as the Gate turns green and swings open.
Cause I love the adrenaline in my veins
Without hesitation, Kynigós and Zena jump into the Gate, and the camera follows them into the time vortex.
I do what it takes
As the song's final words echoed, a massive leather cover shuts on the screen, as Kynigós' journal closed; revealing, once more, the cover, stencilled with the Phoenix's Eye logo and one word; 'APOCRYPHA'.