Chapter 36: Fierce Diety Link, and the Eternal Sword
(At the Tower of Savation)
Lloyd: It's no good. It's blocked!
Link: … looks like im going to have to use it.
Raine: At this rate, our escape route will be blocked.
Sheena: Here come some more!
(Suddenly, Yuan appears.)
Yuan: Lloyd! This way!
Colette: Lloyd, let's go!
Lloyd: Why are you helping us?
Yuan: Now that the truth about me is known to Yggdrasill, the only way left to save Martel is to work with you. Don't think that I want to be your friend or anything.
Lloyd: You have a real negative attitude, you know that? Well, whatever. Thanks for helping us. Let's go everyone!
(The team makes their way to the room with the Eternal Sword)
Zelos: …Leave this to me.
Sheena: Leave it to you? What are you gonna do?
Zelos: I figured something like this might happen, so I prepared a little something the last time we were here.
Zelos: Colette, come here for a second.
Colette: Huh? Oh, okay.
(Suddenly Pronyma appears and surrounds Colette with angels)
Pronyma: Good work, Chosen. Now, bring her to me.
Zelos: Sure thing.
(Link Puts on the Fierce Diety Mask)
Fierce Diety Link: Get back Genis! Don't make me kill any of you.
Genis: Zelos! Link?
Sheena: What the hell are you two doing?
Zelos: Oh, shut up. I'm just putting myself on the winning side. What you're trying to do is hopeless and meaningless. What's the big deal? Colette wanted to be a sacrifice, remember?
Lloyd: You traitors!
Fierce Diety: Shut it! (To Zelos) Let's go, we don't want to keep Pronyma waiting
Sheena: Link … No!
Zelos: Aw, give it a rest, Lloyd. Did you forget what I said in Flanoir? I side
with the strongest.
Pronyma: Betray you? How amusing. Zelos was our spy from the very beginning. Isn't that right, Zelos?
Lloyd: Is that true?
Colette: It's not true, is it? Please say that she's lying…
Zelos: I side with the strongest. It was a simple matter of weighing the Renegades, Cruxis, and all of you.
Sheena: You were leaking information to the Renegades, too? I can't believe you! You were always a pervert, but I never doubted that you were a good person when it came down to it.
Zelos: Why, thank you, my sweet, voluptuous hunny. But in the end, I choose this side, because Mithos promised to release me from my fate as a Chosen of Mana.
Regal: You hate being the Chosen so much that you would betray your friends?
Zelos: Oh, yeah, I do. It's because of that title that my life has been a total joke. I can't stand it. I can't wait for Seles to become the Chosen instead.
Lloyd: …You're lying! I still trust you, you hear me? You're the one that told me I could trust you!
Fierce Diety Link: What are you, stupid? Give it up Lloyd...
Zelos: …Let's get going, Lady Pronyma!
Colette: Lloyd…Lloyd! Lloyd!
(Zelos and Link gather with Pronyma and take Colette. Leaving Link's Ocarina on the ground where they once stood.)
Angel: Disappear unto nothingness.
(Just as the angels began attacking, 3 ninja's appeared)
Sheena: Everyone! What are you doing here?
Orochi: We'll explain later. Here they come!
Lloyd: Damn…Regroup!
(After the angels were defeated)
Lloyd: Are you okay?
Orochi: Yes…
Sheena: …. Why are you all here?
Orochi: We received a message saying that you were about to head to the final battle. Right now, you must hurry and save Colette.
Lloyd: Right. Be careful.
Orochi: And you as well.
(Later, Sheena finds Links Ocarina on the ground a long with a small note with the words. " Sheena … I Love You!")
Sheena: Link … Why?
(Later, the team approaches the teleporter )
Presea: Is it…still active?
Lloyd: …Looks like it. Let's go!
(the team takes the teleporter to the next area, inside the team come across a bridge)
Genis: That was startling!
Raine: It appears that this floor is only supported in the center. It tilts because of our weight. If only we could find something to weigh it down with…
Lloyd: Then how about we split into two groups, and have one group become the weight…
Regal: And how do you plan to join up again? We should think of another way.
Genis: What is it, Presea?
Presea: That…
(the team looks up and see a big rock held by branches.)
Lloyd: I see! That does look like it would work.
(The team makes their way to the where the boulder is, and knock it onto the bridge.)
Lloyd: Wh…what's going on? Angels!
Regal: Here they come!
Lloyd: Dammit, there's no end in sight.
Regal: Make a break for that passage!
Lloyd: All right!
(Lloyd and Regal runs to the passage. Regal then kicks the pillars, blocking the
path to the passage.)
Lloyd: Regal!
Regal: I'll hold them off here. Hurry!
Lloyd: You know I can't leave you behind!
Regal: There's no time. You know that. You're the only one who can save Colette.
Lloyd: I know that! But I can't just leave my friend!
Regal: That's not what you're doing, I…I once wasn't able to protect someone very important to me. So this time, I'm going to succeed. I'm going to protect my friends.
Lloyd: Regal…
Regal: Lloyd, save Colette.
Lloyd: …All right. Regal, don't die. Don't make me go through the same pain you did, you
hear me?
(The team moves on to the next area)
Regal: …Heh. You sure don't make things easy, Lloyd. I'm sorry, Alicia. It looks like it's still going to be a while before I join you… (to the oncoming Angels) You shall not pass!
( In the next area the team come across a spiral staircase blocked by part of a large withered tree)
Lloyd: Whoa!
(The tree's branches whip at the team)
Lloyd: This thing won't let us through!
Sheena: Hang on! This thing looks like leftovers from earlier.
Lloyd: You mean…one of the Giant Tree's…
Sheena: Yep, no doubt about it. Just stand back and leave this to me!
Lloyd: Huh?
Sheena: Disciple of everlasting ice! Hammer of godly thunder! Servant of Mother Earth! Envoy from the dark abyss! I command thee! Gatherest before me and unleash thine power!
Lloyd: Whoa, what are you doing?
Sheena: My impression of the Mana Cannon. Well, it won't be nearly as powerful, but it should be enough to take care of this thing. Lloyd, when I give the signal, run underneath it. Got it?
Lloyd: All right. But what about you?
Sheena: Don't worry, I'll be fine. Get ready, here we go!
(Sheena attacks the tree)
Sheena: Now! Haaa!
( As soon as the team gets to the other sidethe tree collapses on the bridge and it falls into the pit.)
Lloyd: Sheena! Are you okay?
Sheena: …Yeah, I'm all right.
Lloyd: That was amazing!
Sheena: Phew. Just don't ask me to do it again, okay? Phew. That drained all my mana, I'm going to rest for just a—
(Suddenly, the tree branch grabs Sheena's leg.)
Sheena: Ahh!
Lloyd: Sheena! Hang on, I'll…
Sheena: Hah…ahahahahahah!
Lloyd: Wh…what's wrong with you? Why are you laughing?
Sheena: No, I was just remembering the time when we first met. It looks like I have a strong affinity for falling into holes.
Lloyd: Just hang on. I'll be right there!
Sheena: Don't worry about me. Just hurry up and go rescue Colette.
Lloyd: This is not the time to act all tough!
Sheena: I'm not acting. It's just like the last time when I climbed up from the bottom of that pit and I took you on. And this time…I won't miss the main event.
Lloyd: …You better be telling the truth.
Sheena: Of course! You better leave me a piece of the action!
Lloyd: …Okay, I'll be waiting for you, you got that?
(The team moves on to the next area)
Sheena: …I'm so stupid. Stubborn to the very end… I really need to start acting more feminine at times like this and let him rescue me. …Heh, that wouldn't be my style, now, would it? … Good Luck, Lloyd.
(Sheena lets go of the ledge and falls into the pit.)
Sheena: Link … I'm sorry..
(The team comes up to a closed door and a computer console)
Lloyd: Dammit, open!
Raine: It looks like you can control it from here. Leave this to me.
Lloyd: Professor Sage, hurry.
Raine: Don't rush me…This is it.
(Raine uses the console and unlocked the first door.)
Lloyd: You did it!
(Suddenly, the area starts shaking.)
Lloyd: Whoa!
Raine: Ahh! Ow… !
(The floor begins collapsing, but Raine keeps her footing)
Lloyd: Professor Sage! Are you okay?
Raine: …I'm fine. I just made a minor input error.
Lloyd: Be careful, okay?
Raine: It's okay now. I'm opening the next door.
(Raine uses the console to open the second door. Suddenly, a monster appears)
Lloyd: …Another input error?
Raine: No! Now hurry up and defeat it!
(The team fights and deafts the monster)
Raine: This is quite an intricate trap.
Lloyd: Professor Sage, are you really making that many mistakes? Wait, are you…
Raine: There's no time to worry about that! I'm opening the next one!
(Raine uses the console to open the third door and another monster appeared)
Lloyd: Not again!
Lloyd: (turning around) What? Professor Sage! I knew it!…
Raine: Lloyd, you need to focus on saving Colette right now. Don't get distracted!
Lloyd: …Grr!
(The team fights the rest of the monsters. Afterwards... )
Lloyd: Professor Sage, it's okay now! Hurry up and come—
(as Lloyd turns around, he sees the floor collapsing trapping Raine)
Lloyd: Professor Sage!
Raine: Lloyd, this room will soon collapse. Hurry up and go.
Lloyd: No! I'm not leaving you behind! I don't want to sacrifice anyone anymore!
Raine: Sacrifice? When did anyone become a sacrifice? I believe in your ideals. A world that would accept those of us caught in the middle. I believe in your vision of the world. It has become my hope. I came all the way here in order to realize that dream. I've no regrets.
Lloyd: Saving the world won't mean anything if we lose you!
Raine: My soul will live on in the world you create. But if your ideals die, then my hope dies as well. Living on without hope is worse than death, don't you think?
Lloyd: I…I don't understand that at all!
Raine: If you don't understand, then make use of your remaining life to think about what it means for a person to live. That's my final lesson to you as your teacher. Now, go. Do as your teacher says.
Lloyd: Professor Sage…I'll never forget you!
Raine: The rest is in your hands, my precious student…
(The area collapses, and the rest of the team head into the next area.)
Lloyd: It's locked from the inside… It's no good, it won't budge.
Presea: (saw a duct) Lloyd, look up there.
Lloyd: That?
Presea: I may be able to enter the room from there. I'll give it a try.
Lloyd: But it's too dangerous to go alone.
Presea: I'll be all right. Besides, I'm the only one that can fit through there.
Lloyd: …Okay, but be careful.
Presea: I will.
(Presea enters the duct and uses the computer console to open the locked door.
However, the shutter to the teleporter is starting to close.)
Presea: No!
(Suddenly a vine grabs Presea, knocking her to the ground, making her drop her ax)
Presea: Augh…I've almost got it! Ahh!
Lloyd: Presea!
Presea: Stay back! Don't come over here. Please, hurry! Go!
Lloyd: No! I…I…
Presea: Lloyd, you are a kind person. But if you allow your kindness to interfere with your judgment, you're merely weak. You have something you must do. Please do not forget that. …Please go. If you don't, I'll lose my respect for you. I'll be fine. So please, hurry…
Lloyd: I'm sorry, Presea!
(the team quickly slides under the shutter. As soon as they get through the shutter shuts snapping Presea's ax)
Presea: Lloyd…whatever happens, you mustn't give up. Stand and fight. I know
you can do it.
Lloyd: Presea, I promise. I'll rescue Colette, no matter what. And I'll make a world where everyone can live freely…
(Lloyd and Genis make their way into the next area via the teleporter)
Lloyd: Another trap?
Genis: It's coming towards us!
Lloyd: Whoa, run!
(Suddenly they are surrounded by forcefield walls closing in on them)
Genis: It's no good. There's one over here, too…
Lloyd: We'll just have to attack it at the same time and smash our way through!
Genis: Is that gonna work?
Lloyd: Dwarven Vow #16: You can do anything if you try! We're dead anyway if we fail. Give it all you've got!
Genis: Heh, that's just like you, Lloyd. Okay! Let's do it!
Lloyd: On the count of three…
Genis: …Lloyd.
Lloyd: Wh…what?
Genis: …Ah, nothing. I'm ready.
Lloyd: Okay! One, two…
Lloyd and Genis: Three!
(The duo attacks the forcefield creating an opening)
Lloyd: Now!
(Genis doesn't move allowing Lloyd to make it through)
Lloyd: See, look, it worked!
Genis: It was pretty good for one of your plans, Lloyd. The only flaw was that you didn't take into account my lack of physical reflexes.
Lloyd: Genis!
Genis: Heh, I messed up.
Lloyd: You…did that to get me out?…
Genis: N…no!
Lloyd: Liar! You knew it would end up like this. Why did you do it?
Genis: If you'd been in my place, you'd have done the same thing. You always jump in without thinking to save someone in trouble. But it was that Lloyd that I looked up to. I wanted to be like you.
Lloyd: Genis…
Genis: Now, hurry up! Before it's too late.
Lloyd: No way! I can't leave you behind!
Genis:(shaking in fear) I said, go! I'm…not like you. I'm a coward. When it comes down to it, my body starts shaking… I don't want you to see me looking pathetic in the end…
Lloyd: Genis…
Genis: Go! I said, go!
Lloyd: You…you fool!
(Lloyd moves on alone)
Genis: You were my best friend, Lloyd.
(Lloyd moves on to an area with a narrow bridge, he attempst to step on it but some of it collapses)
Lloyd: From here on out, looks like it's a one way road…
(Upon reaching the next area, Lloyd gets struck with an arrow)
Lloyd: Ugh! Augh…I'm alive…But how?…
(Lloyd takes a look a Colette's Snow Hare.)
Lloyd: The snow bunny that Colette gave me… She protected me… Colette! I'm coming for you! Just hang on!
(Lloyd approaches a sword in a wall and examines it to reveal a secret entrance.)
Lloyd: …What's this? Is it some king of trap? And…what is this thing? …Damn. There's no time to be worrying. I've got to rescue Colette, for everyone's sake!
(Inside...)
Mithos: It is finally time, dearest sister. This body has the closet match to your mana signature. I've failed many times in the past, but this time I swear I'll make it work..
Pronyma: The mana charge is complete, my lord.
Mithos: Good. Do it.
(ust as Mithos and Pronyma were going to start the machine Lloyd comes running in)
Lloyd: Let her go!
Mithos: Lloyd? How did you get in here? The lock to this room can only be opened by a member of the Cruxis high order!
Lloyd: None of your business! What matters is that your selfish dream ends here!
Mithos: A futile effort…
(Just as Mithos was about to attack Lloyd, a fireball was launched towards Mithos and he takes the hit.)
Genis: We won't let you lay a finger on him!
Lloyd: Guys! How?… You're okay?
Sheena: I told you I wouldn't miss the main event!
Regal: You did not want to share the same pain I do, correct?
Raine: I can't possibly miss seeing the new world that's about to be made.
Presea: I can still fight. As long as I can fight, I will stay by your side.
Genis: Heheheh, pretty good, huh?
Lloyd: Everyone!…All right! Let's take him on together!
Mithos: (Sigh) What a sorry lot. Pronyma, it is your fault they're still alive. Kill them!
Pronyma: Y…yes, sir!
(The team reunites and defeats Pronyma)
Pronyma: (dying) Lord Yggdrasill…it hurts…Please…help me…
Mithos: I've succeeded! …Martel is awake!
Pronyma: Lord Yggdrasill…Mithos…please…
Mithos: Only my former companions can call me by that name! Get out of my sight!
(Mithos kills Pronyma)
Presea: That's so cruel…
(After that, the encased bed opens and Colette awakens.)
Mithos: Dear sister…you've finally come back to me!
Lloyd: No…Colette…It can't be true!
Colette: (with the voice of Martel) Mithos…what have you done?…
Mithos: Martel? Oh, you mean my body. I hastened my growth to have an appearance befitting the leader of Cruxis. Wait just a moment. I'll switch back to my old form.
Colette: No, Mithos, not that. I've been watching all this time. Unable to move, unable to do anything, I watched all those foolish things you've done. Have you forgotten everything? We stopped the Ancient War because we dreamt of a world where humans, elves, and those in between could live in harmony.
Mithos: What are you saying? This after all the trouble I went to prepare a new body for you? But I see…you don't like that one, do you?
Colette: Mithos, please. Listen to me. What you have done…is wrong. It is not what we strived for.
Mithos: …Wrong? Are you rejecting me?
Colette: No, I want you to remember. Please stop this and become your old self again…
Mithos: Martel, even you reject me? No…Martel would never say something like that… Haha…hahaha…ahahahahahaha! I won't allow that, do you hear me?
(Suddenly Mithos begins to release mana and the area begins to shake)
(Link and Zelos appear)
Fierce Diety Link: Looks like we barely made it!
Zelos: You okay, Lloyd?
Zelos approaches Colette and puts the Key Crest on Colette's Cruxis Crystal.
Mithos: (snappy) What are you doing?
(Mithos tries attacking Colette but Link casts Nayru's love on Colette nullifing Mithos' attack.)
Mithos: (angry) I thought you wanted me to set you free of your fate as a Chosen!
Zelos: Oh, you know what? I changed my mind.
Fierce Diety Link: (To Mithos) That won't matter after we beat the snot out of you anyway.
Lloyd: Link! Zelos! I knew you'd come back to us!
Zelos: Sorry about all that. It was the only waywe could get our hands on this. Here.
(Zelos tosses an Aionis to Lloyd and he catches it.)
Zelos: Refine that with dwarven arts, and it'll let even a human use the
Eternal Sword!
Lloyd: You…are you saying you did all that just to get this?
Sheena: That's right. These two idiots released us from those traps back there.
Zelos: But it is true that I deceived you. I've held you guys back for a long time. I figured I'd at least have to do something like that to make up for it.
Lloyd: If you want to make it up to us, hurry up and fight!
Zelos: You got it!
Fierce Diety Link: My pleasure.
Mithos: Damn you! Give me back my sister!
Colette: Goodbye, Mithos. This is my final wish. Please, return this twisted world back to its original form.
Mithos: No! Martel! Don't go!
Colette: If things were going to end up like this, perhaps the elves should never have left Derris-Kharlan. If they hadn't, people like us would never have been born…
(Martel's spirit leaves Colette and returns to the Great Seed, and Colette collapses.)
Mithos: So…so that was it…aha…ahahahaha… Martel, you just wanted to leave this filthy world and return to Derris-Kharlan… Yes, of course. That world is the homeland of all elven blood.
Genis: Mithos?…
Mithos: Yes, dearest sister…let's forget these filthy creatures and return home together. To Derris-Kharlan…
(While Mithos attempts to move away the Great Seed, Colette gets up.)
Colette: Everyone, we have to stop Mithos! Martel is calling to me! Martel wants us to stop him!
Mithos: Shut up! Martel would never say something like that. You…miserable failure!
Colette: She did say it! She was crying! She said, "Please don't make everyone suffer any longer!"
(Mithos ignores Colette and continues to move the Great Seed away.)
Fierce Diety Link: GRAAAH! Mithos! YOU COWARD!
Zelos: Lloyd, you understand, right? If we lose the Great Seed, we'll betray the Renegades' hope.
Sheena: And we of Mizuho won't stand it, either.
Raine: Without it, the Giant Tree will not germinate.
Presea: Without mana, the land will die.
Regal: If your goal is the reunification of the world, then…
Lloyd: I know! We're gonna stop Mithos with everything we've got! …Let's go!
Mithos: I won't let you interfere.
Mithos transforms back to Yggdrasill.
Mithos: (Yggdrasill's voice) I will kill you all!
Fierce Diety Link: I wont let you hurt my friends! DIN'S INFERNO!
(Before the team had a chance to attack Fierce Diety Link quickly consumes Mithos' in a fire attack)
Mithos: …How?…I cannot lose…I'm going home…I'm going home with my sister…
(Mithos leaves, and Link collapes, allowing the Fierce Diety Mask to fall to the floor and shatter)
Link: Did … we get him..?
Sheena: Link!
Link: Sorry for the scare ...
Lloyd: …It's over.
Kratos: Is it? The worlds are still split. The Giant Tree has not yet germinated. What exactly is it that's over?
Lloyd: Good timing. I wanted to ask you something. What was it that you saw in Mithos? Why did you help him seal Origin?
Kratos: Mithos was…my apprentice and a valuable friend. Isn't that enough?
Lloyd: Do you forgive anything someone does, no matter how horrible, just because he's your friend?
Kratos: …I don't see a need to explain myself further. If you want to release Origin's seal, you must defeat me.
Lloyd: Kratos! Wait!
Kratos: (Turns to leave) …I'll be waiting for you before the seal.
Colette: Lloyd, let's head back first. Okay?
(Later, outside of the Tower of Salvation…)
Raine: By the way Zelos, where did you learn a method for humans to equip the Eternal Sword?
Zelos: …I really think it'd be better if I didn't say.
Lloyd: What are you talking about?
Genis: Yeah, that's a strange thing to say.
Zelos: Go to Heimdall. Everything should become clear there.
Lloyd: …All right.