Zidane: Could this be...Terra?
Zidane: What's this light? Could it be...
Flash.
(Zidane): !?
Old Man: So you finally came.
Old Man: The time has come at last... The one who folds time is here.
Zidane: Who the heck are you!?
Old Man: Ask my name, will you? Then let us ask...
Old Man: What is your name?
Zidane: Me!? My name is--
Old Man: What is your name?
Zidane: Hey, what's your problem!? I'm trying to tell you my name.
Old Man: So you believe a given name has meaning...
Old Man: Boy, you have been bewitched by the light of the blue moon.
Zidane: What do you know? You must be from Terra.
Old Man: You know nothing, and that is all.
Old Man: Come and see for yourself... See what Terra is, and what you are...
Zidane: H-Hey, hang on!
He vanishes.
Zidane: He's gone...
(Dagger): Zidane!
Zidane: Dagger! Are you alright?
Dagger: Yes. Everyone's fine.
Dagger: Come, let's hurry...
Next area
(Zidane): !?
(Zidane): Hey...!
Stepping Stones
- Coronet: Chest.
Path
- Dragon Wrist: Left chest.
- Elixir: Right chest.
* Approach person
(Zidane): !?
They leave.
(Zidane): Hey, wait up!
Bridge
* Approach person
(Zidane): ...?
They leave.
(Zidane): What's your problem...?
Other side
- Mythril Racket: Chest.
- Remedy: Right chest.
(Zidane): Where'd she go?
* Edge
* Jump/Go down/Cancel
Bottom
- Demon's Vest: Chest.
Zidane: Who are you?
Mysterious Girl: You don't remember anything, do you?
(Zidane): !?
Mysterious Girl: Follow me, and you will understand us.
Mysterious Girl: ...and maybe your own heritage as well.
She goes.
Zidane: Hey, wait! Hold on a sec!
Second bridge
Mysterious Girl: Once you go on, you'll see.
???
- Minerva's Plate: Chest.
Stairs
Zidane: What the heck...? What is this place?
Dagger: It looks really artificial. So different than before.
Zidane: Yeah... But it doesn't seem very lively.
(Mysterious Girl): Welcome home.
(Zidane): !?
(Mysterious Girl): This is where you belong.
(Mysterious Girl): The place to which you shall offer yourself...
(Mysterious Girl): ...is here.
She heads to the light.
Zidane: Hold on a second! What the heck are you talking about!?
Rumble.
Zidane: Wh-What the--
FMV: Dagger and Zidane watch in awe as an airship rises out of the surroundings. As Dagger sees the red glow on its base -- it's the Invincible -- she remembers Madain Sari, and faints.
Zidane: Dagger! Wake up!
(Zidane): Dagger!
Zidane: Dammit! What the heck is going on!?
Black
You are completely oblivious.
Just like a newborn child.
You don't know why you were given life, or for what purpose you exist...
You simply shout to emphasize your life...your own existence.
You are completely oblivious.
Light
Zidane: We gotta find a place for her to rest!
Steiner: Zidane! Leave the princess to me. You must go reconnoiter at once!
Zidane: Yeah, you're right. There's gotta be some place around here...
Zidane: Watch over her, Steiner! I'll be right back!
* Light
Zidane: Ungh... It wards me right off...
* (Person): Only the chosen may unlock the barrier.
* (Orange): Our activity is restricted to the area before this gate.
Left
- Angel Earrings: Top right corner.
(Zidane): !?
Zidane: Wh-What's going on?
Zidane: Everyone has a tail... and their hair is just like mine!
* Kid
Zidane: Hey, what are you guys up to? You look like a kid to me...
(Kid): We possess no age. We were built this way.
(Zidane): ...
* Other
Zidane: Hey, is there a place around here to get some rest?
(Other): Why do you rest?
Zidane: 'Why?' Don't you guys go to sleep at night? Not that I'm sleepy right now, but...
(Other): By night, do you mean the condition in which light recedes?
Zidane: Look, I don't have time for an interview! Where can I find an inn!?
(Other): There is the entrance.
Zidane: Right there, huh? Gotcha.
* (Other): When the blue light becomes red... That is when souls will enter our bodies.
Right
* (Top): We vessels must exercise sufficiently in order to maintain health.
* Orange
Zidane: Hey, what the heck are you guys doing?
(Orange): We develop into vessels...
(Zidane): Say what...?
Zidane: Okay, whatever... But hey, you have both men and women, right?
(Orange): Asexual beings would lack the genetic diversity to adapt to new environments...
(Zidane): ???
* (Orange): Heightened recognition of visual stimuli is a necessary condition for bodies to be used as vessels.
* (Bottom): In time, we will receive souls. Then our bodies will begin to grow.
Storage
- Wing Edge: Chest.
* (Left): Gaia's blue light causes pain to those of us who were created by the civilization of Terra.
(Left): Pain resistance is also a part of adaptation to the environment.
* (Right): The waxing and waning of the moon, the respiration of the planets... Motion in stillness, stillness in motion...
* Pot
Zidane: What the heck is this?
He taps it. After a moment, a moogle pops out.
Moorock: Thanks, kupo! I was trapped inside, kupo!
* Moorock: In return for saving me, kupo, I opened a shop for you here!
* Moorock Mognet
Moorock: What's Mognet? I've never even heard of it, kupo.
Moorock: Do you want to try Mognet? I need you to deliver mail!
Meeting Hall
* (Loner): A planet's shimmer is its breath, a sign of life-activity caused by the cycling of souls.
* (1): When the souls of Terra and Gaia mix, Terra will be integrated into the larger Gaia...
* 2/3
(3): Souls flow...
(2): As the planets turn...
* (4): Fleeting knowledge is useless to vessels... But information is given to prevent mental atrophy.
* (5): A planet's color indicated its shape... Gaia is blue, Terra red.
* (6): The flow of souls means that a planet has life...
(6): The stoppage of souls means that a planet is dead...
Lab
- Elixir: Bottom of the screen.
* (Left): Activity measurement: 525. Surpasses basic value.
* Clone
(Zidane): ...
* (Right): We measure their suitability as vessels for our research in order to create and grow a higher breed of Genome.
* (Middle): Response value: 356
Inn
Zidane: This looks like a good place for Dagger to get some rest.
Zidane: But...what's up with everyone here? They're all so...stiff.
Zidane: I dunno why... but I have a bad feeling about this place.
Zidane: Well, first things first. I gotta bring Dagger back here!
Left
(Eiko): 'Scuse me...
(Eiko): Do you have any medicine...?
(Eiko): ...
She tries another.
Eiko: Hello... Is there a place I can buy some medicine around here?
(Purple): ...
Eiko: Hello!? I'm asking if you have any medicine!
Eiko: Ngaaa! How come this place is full of weirdos?
Eiko: Everyone has a tail like Zidane...
Eiko: Aww, if I could only find some Pimo-pimo herbs, I could make some wake-up powder for her...
Eiko: But is this my lucky day? No!
(Eiko): Huh!?
Eiko: Found ya! You're that girl, right? It's your fault Dagger collapsed, you know...
Eiko: Oh, never mind. Say! Don't you have any medicine at all?
Girl: She will soon awaken.
Eiko: How do you know?
Girl: Where is your man?
Eiko: M-My man? MY man!?
Eiko: Are you talking about Zidane!? Even I never called him that!
Eiko: But too bad for you! He and Dagger are super hot for each other!
Eiko: You don't have a chance with him.
Girl: Tell him I am waiting in the underground laboratory.
Eiko: Oh, the nerve! What makes you think I'd tell him that!?
Eiko: Hey, where do you think you're going!?
Eiko: What a bimbo!
Eiko: Uh-oh! I don't have time for this!
Inn
- Elixir: Chest.
(Zidane): Dagger...
Steiner: Princess... Why must you suffer more...?
(Zidane): Dammit!
Freya: What is the matter, Zidane? You haven't been yourself at all.
Zidane: What the heck do you mean, I haven't been myself...?
(Freya): ...
Zidane: I'm sorry... I don't even know what's wrong with me.
Zidane: I just...I just can't concentrate with this blue light...
(Dagger): Ah... Uhhh...
Steiner: Princess! You have awoken!
Freya: What made you lose consciousness so suddenly?
Dagger: I remembered.
Zidane: Remembered what?
Dagger: It wasn't a storm that destroyed Madain Sari.
Dagger: It was...It was the eye on that airship that destroyed Madain Sari.
Dagger: You remember, don't you? The eye was also there when Alexandria was leveled.
Freya: Yes, there was a large eye in the sky above from which light emanated.
Zidane: Now that you mention it... It was there when Bahamut went wild at the Iifa Tree.
Dagger: Yes... It was there in the sky. It must be the same airship.
Steiner: WHAT!? Then that must be the ship that slew Her Majesty...
Zidane: Rusty!
Steiner: Oh... I-I'm sorry, Princess!
Dagger: Don't worry about it. I've already come to terms with that.
Dagger: That ship took everything from me...
Dagger: It took away my parents, my homeland, Alexandria...everything.
Freya: How terrible...
Eiko: Dagger! Are you alright?
Dagger: Yes, I'm fine...
Eiko: No, you're not! You're still pale! You gotta rest!
Eiko: Hmm? How come everyone looks so pale? What's wrong?
Freya: No need to be concerned. A strange place such as this is cause enough for exhaustion.
Eiko: Oh...
Eiko: Hey! Where are you going, Zidane? Oh, that's right!
Eiko: That weird girl! The girl that led us here said something strange again!
Eiko: She said she was waiting for you in some underground laboratory! What a pervert!
He goes.
(Eiko): Zidane?
* Steiner: Princess... Why must you suffer more...?
* Eiko: It's okay! I'm watching over Dagger!
* Freya: Do you wish to rest, too, Zidane?
* Yes/No
Lab
* Girl
(Zidane): ...
Zidane: Oh, so that's what's going on... Geez, I should've guessed...
Zidane: So, this is what you wanted to show me?
Girl: Yes. I am glad you understand.
Zidane: I don't wanna understand! Sorry, but I'm not like that.
Zidane: I mean all these guys with tails, who look just like me... They're a bunch of zombies.
Girl: They are my peers. We are Genomes. We live in this village.
Zidane: Genomes? Is that what they're called?
Girl: Not just them, but you and me, too.
Girl: It is the name of the seed given to all of us. Its name is Genome.
Zidane: Talk about a let-down. Who would've guessed that the home I've yearned for would be a dump like this.
Zidane: No wonder I never found it. It's not even on Gaia!
Girl: Why are you not happy? You have returned to the place of your birth.
Zidane: Happy? You guys can process that emotion?
Zidane: Look at 'em! Look at all their blank faces!
Girl: What can we do? After all, we are made that way.
Girl: And we are built to watch over each other and work together as soulless Genomes.
Zidane: What's it all for!? Get to the point already!
Zidane: How come I grew up on Gaia if I was born here!?
Zidane: I'm alive! I have a soul! Why is everyone here so...
Girl: Because you are...special.
(Zidane): What!?
Girl: We are mere vessels. You have been given a greater purpose.
Girl: The will of Garland is absolute...
She goes.
Zidane: Garland? Who's that?
Meeting Hall
Girl: Garland watches over this planet. His mission is to restore the people of Terra.
Zidane: R-Restore the people of Terra? You mean people besides these guys here?
Girl: They are merely vessels. So am I, and so are you.
Girl: But the true people of Terra have been asleep for ages, waiting for their time to come.
Girl: When the time is right, the light of this planet will change from blue to red, and Gaia will become Terra.
Zidane: Wait a sec! So the people of Terra are out to take over Gaia!?
Girl: What else can there be? Terra has always absorbed new planets to survive.
Girl: And when the time comes, the souls of people of Terra will occupy the Genomes. Such is the restoration of the people of Terra.
Zidane: Why do they have to be so tedious!?
Zidane: Why don't they just wipe us out with magic like they did Alexandria!?
Girl: Once, Garland tried to use a more forceful method, but failed.
Zidane: Then he should just quit and leave Gaia alone!
Girl: Because of his failure, he was forced to wait a long time.
Girl: ...To wait until Gaia's civilizations gained tremendous power: The power to use eidolons.
Zidane: So that's why you attacked the summoner's village and destroyed Alexandria.
Girl: Planets have a cycle of souls. Souls are born from the planet, and then return to it.
Girl: Garland planned to gain control of that very cycle...
Girl: ...and you were supposed to help him achieve that.
(Zidane): What!?
Girl: Garland is waiting for you. Come...
Zidane: What do you think you're doing!? I don't care about all this Terra and Gaia stuff!
Inn
Eiko: Zidane isn't back yet.
Eiko: And with Dagger not feeling well... I wonder where he is.
Dagger: Eiko...
Eiko: No, Dagger! You can't get up yet!
Dagger: I'm alright. Listen, I want to ask you a favor.
Eiko: Oh? Just tell me, and I'll get right on it!
Dagger: I want you to go find Zidane.
Eiko: Huh? Oh, sure. Okay.
Eiko: Oh, I get it! You're getting jealous!
Dagger: No, I'm not... I just have a feeling something terrible is going to happen.
Eiko: Alright! I'll go get him. So you just stay here and rest!
* Dagger: I'm sorry, I know I'm slowing everyone down.
Eiko: Don't you worry about it, Dagger! You just get some rest!
ATE: Place to Call Home
Meeting HallMeeting Hall
Quina: Aiya! What big stone!
Quina: Why you all watch stone?
Quina: Is stone edible? Or is for barbeque?
Quina: No answer...
Quina: I think I lick it.
Quina: You no answer, so you no mind, right?
Quina: Hmmm... Is very salty.
Quina: Oh? Who that?
Quina: What you doing here, Zidane?
Zidane: Huh? Oh... Hi, Quina.
Quina: You stand here say nothing, then you just like other dummy-dummies. No can tell difference!
Quina: They say someone always has double somewhere. There so many of you here!
Quina: The world strange place, no?
(Zidane): Yeah, I guess...
Quina: Zidane, what matter? You no seem yourself.
Zidane: Hmm? Oh, it's nothing. I'm always myself.
Zidane: Besides, it's not just me. You look just like your master, too.
Quina: Of course! Master Quale is Qu Clan! We same!
Zidane: Yeah? I guess everybody looks the same to someone from another race.
Quina: Hmm... Maybe you right.
Quina: What he say? Same...race?
ATE: Where the Heart Is
Right* Quina: Oh, Eiko. What happen to Zidane? He seem much worry...
Vivi: Excuse me...
(Purple): ...
Vivi: So, umm... What do you guys do here?
(Purple): ...
Vivi: Hmm... Oh, yeah... This blue light sure is pretty, isn't it?
(Purple): ...
Vivi: You like it, too, right? You're all looking at the blue light.
(Purple): The light is unpleasant to us...
Vivi: Oh...really...
Vivi: (Huh? It's that girl...)
(Vivi): Hmm?
Vivi: Hey, Zidane... What are you up to?
Zidane: What do you mean? What are you doing, Vivi?
Vivi: I'm trying to talk with the natives. This boy here seems to be my age and everything...
Zidane: You're wasting your time. They won't give you a decent answer.
Vivi: Oh... But I think I can get through to them.
Zidane: Huh. I'm surprised you feel that way.
Vivi: I don't know why, but... I...I feel like we're similar.
Zidane: Similar? What do you mean? I know they're similar to me, but...
Vivi: No, no... Not like that. They're a lot like the black mages we saw on the cargo ship, and in Cleyra...
Vivi: Of course, we don't look alike at all. But I can see one thing. Their minds aren't hollow.
Vivi: I think that their minds are just out to lunch for a little while...
Zidane: Hmm... Not hollow, huh?
Vivi: Hey... Where are you going, Zidane?
Vivi: Zidane?
Eiko: I dunno... He just left without saying a word.
Quina: We go look for Zidane together!
Right
ATE: Came into this World
Light* Vivi: Hey, Eiko. Zidane just went--
(Girl): This way...
She walks through the light.
(Amarant): Hey, Zidane!
Zidane: What do you want?
Amarant: What? That's no way to say hello.
Amarant: What the hell is this place?
Amarant: I thought we'd find some mean mothers down here, but they're all a bunch of wimps.
Zidane: No challenge, huh?
Amarant: Yeah, I guess not.
Zidane: Hey, Amarant... Can I ask you something?
Amarant: No.
Zidane: Do you... have any parents or family?
Amarant: What a stupid question.
Zidane: Sorry. I was just curious.
Amarant: I don't remember any loving parents. My forst memory is of the face of a guy I had to fight.
Amarant: I only found meaning in life through combat.
Zidane: Funny how you put that in past tense. All due to my wonderful influence.
Amarant: Pshhh. What do you want me to do? Thank you?
Zidane: Please! You're gonna make me sick!
Amarant: How about you?
Zidane: What? You mean my parents?
Zidane: ...I don't have parents.
Eiko: You saw Zidane!?
Vivi: Uh, yeah...
Eiko: Hello!? Why didn't you stop him!?
Vivi: Huh? How come... He was acting kinda strange.
Vivi: If you're looking for him, I'll go with you!
Light
ATE: The Truth
Path* Amarant
Zidane: Hey! Where're you taking me?
Girl: I told you. You are going to see Garland.
Zidane: Yeah, of course. But this way is a dead end.
Girl: There is a way.
Girl: See? You may find him through the portal.
Girl: He awaits where the souls sleep. The floating castle, where souls bide their time until their restoration... Pandemonium.
Girl: Will you not say farewell to your friends?
Zidane: I don't care what I am... I was born here, wasn't I?
Zidane: If so, then I am an enemy of the people of Gaia.
Girl: You learn quickly.
Zidane: Make no mistake. I won't join your side.
Zidane: I just... If we are actually relatives, then...
Zidane: Then I want to take care of this little family matter myself.
He teleports.
Eiko: Say, Amarant... Did Zidane go this way?
Amarant: Yeah, seems so. He had a real serious look on his face.
Eiko: I knew something was wrong...
Amarant: Gonna go look for him, right?
(Eiko): Huh?
Amarant: I'm tryin' to say I'll go with you. Catch my drift?
Bridge
Eiko: Did they go back even further?
Path
* Girl
Eiko: Now, you listen to me! Where did you take Zidane?
Girl: He went on his own to see Garland.
Eiko: Garland!? Oooo, THAT's a sinister name!
Eiko: But Zidane wouldn't just leave us hanging!
Girl: He went... Yes, he went to find out the reason for his existence.
Eiko: Liar! That's a terrible lie!
Girl: 'I am an enemy of the people of Gaia,' he said as he walked through the gate to Pandemonium.
(Eiko): !
Eiko: We-We gotta tell the others!
She runs off.
Girl: Heaven grant the wandering souls eternal repose...
