Vivi's Lesson
Featuring: Vivi, Garnet, Zidane, Mr. 288, and Kuja.
Vivi was standing in the graveyard in the Black Mage Villiage with Mr. 288. "Mr. 288....?" Vivi said, looking down at his feet.
"Yes, Vivi, what is it?" Mr. 288 asked, looking at Mr. 198's grave.
"Um....are we... all going to shut d-down someday, too?" Vivi looked up at him, with his curious little eyes.
Mr. 288 looked up at the black midnight sky, "Have you ever noticed the beautiful night sky?"
"Mr. 288, I know you don't want to answer this, but I need to know the truth! I--"
"Those stars up there.... They're our friends'. Mr. 198 is up there, waiting for us...."
Vivi looked up. "W-why?"
"I don't know. All I know is... that up there, there's a better place, so even if we die, I'm not afraid. It's a better place up there, I can rejoin my friends. And there's no one there to push us around, like in Alexandria."
Vivi agreed, and said in a soft tone of voice, " B-but Mr. 288, we may not um....go..... We might be what Kuja said we were, but, I don't believe that! We are just like anybody else! We are not puppets!"
"Vivi, we can't deny who or what are, we may die, but we may die happily. Vivi, what Kuja said was wrong. We are not mindless puppets, we are different, but that isn't what we are. We are something else, something special. We have feelings and souls, too. I-I don't know how to say this.... I think... Kuja's right, we are puppets--"
"We are not!" Vivi screamed.
"Vivi, we are puppets, but we are not mindless. We have dreams, like they do, we have a life-span, and a life, we have everything they have, but they don't give us a chance to show, or tell them. So, Vivi, we don't have to be real, we can be puppets, but we are going to have memories, living on. Our children will tell their children, and theirs after that, and theirs after that, and theirs after that, and so on... we won't die if we are not forgotten, that's why we want to make people understand us, so our memories will live on, then, no matter what, we will not die. So, you see Vivi, no one dies that easily." Vivi nodded his head and went with the party.
Meanwhile~~
"Muah hahahaha... so they believe that they will live on forever, as long as their memories are living. That will not happen, hahaha!"
"Where've you been Vivi? You missed the hatching chocobo." Zidane let Garnet pass. She had the chocobo in her arms.
"Vivi, look! Your friends are going to raise him!" Vivi examined the chocobo and said, "Chocobo, when you die, don't worry, your memories will live on forever, you won't die that easily." Vivi got up and left.
"Muah hahaha, do you think it's that simple?! Not as long as I'm around, all of you will die, just like THAT!" Kuja flew away on his dragon.
"KUJA!! Dammit, he got away! Vivi, let's go. He's heading for the Iifa." Vivi nodded at Mr. 288 and said, "If I die, promise me, you'll tell everyone about us, so we won't die that easily, so everyone knows we exist?"
Mr. 288 smiled and said, "Yes, Vivi, I will."
How do you prove that you exist...? Maybe we don't exist...
