In Alexandria a festival is starting, a group of actors will be performing "I want to be your canary" for several people including the royal family. They arrive in a ship called Prima Vista but these "actors" are in fact a group of thieves called the Tantalus and they pretend to kidnap Princess Garnet. Baku leads the operation. Meanwhile, Zidane and Blank are in charge of the kidnap.As Prima Vista flies over Alexandria a very strange kid arrives to see the play, Vivi. But he's been tricked, his ticket is a fake. Fortunately he meets another kid named Puck that helps him get inside the castle. As the play starts Zidane and Blank manage to sneak inside the castle to proceed with the plan. On their way to the royal quarters they encounter a stranger who seems to be in a hurry. The stranger is in fact Princess Garnet, running away from the castle. After a frenetic chase by Steiner, the Captain of the Knights of Pluto and bodyguard of the princess they accidentally end up in stage. Zidane and Garnet quickly start improvising and manage to continue with the play.Meanwhile Vivi and Puck are being chased by the guards for entering without a ticket. Vivi also ends up in the middle of the stage and while trying to stop the guards with his fire magic he accidentally burns Garnet's clothes that kept her disguised. Queen Brahne gets very mad and starts launching giant harpoons to trap the ship and cannons to destroy it at all cost while Steiner is fighting with Zidane, Vivi, Garnet and everyone else. The Prima Vista manages to escape but suffers too much damage and eventually crashes in Evil Forest from where no one was ever able to get out.Zidane gets thrown out of the ship and Vivi, Steiner and Garnet are missing.But once he sees them Garnet is kidnapped by a plant monster and Vivi is trapped by another. After freeing Vivi they return to the ship and set up a plan to save the princess. Baku refuses to put his crew in jeopardy so Zidane goes on alone with Vivi and Steiner. When they reach Garnet she's being kept by a huge plant monster and they engage in battle with it. Blank appears to help and after defeating the plant they start being chased by minions of the plant monsters. With the death of the Plant Monster, the whole forest starts to turn into stone. The party manages to escape but Blank sacrificed himself and turned into stone. The group now needs to go through the Ice Cave so they can reach the top of the Mist. The Mist is very dangerous, it invades the spirit and the mind. It's also breeding ground for various monsters and evil creatures. While going through the Ice Cave they are struck by a powerful blizzard that knocks the party out. Zidane manages to wake up and checks what is causing the blizzard. He encounters a creature that calls himself Black Waltz Nr. 1. After defeating him the party proceeds to the village of Dali.Before reaching the village, Garnet adopts an alias, everyone will be calling her Dagger from now on so people don't find out that she's actually the heir to the throne of Alexandria.When they arrive to Dali, people start acting strange and after a while Viviis kidnapped. Zidane and Dagger quickly try to save him and find a secret factory underneath the village. Meanwhile Steiner goes to the Observatory Mountain trying to find out when the next ship arrives. Zidane and the rest of the gang keep exploring the factory and see various machines processing Mist,making strange eggs that turn out to be, Black Mages just like Vivi! These Black Mages seem dolls and they were being shipped to Alexandria Castle.Finally a ship arrives but the party is suddenly stunned by the arrival of a Black Mage, Black Waltz Nr.2. After defeating him everyone boards the ship.They quickly realize that the cargo ship is controlled by Black Mages! They act like zombies and can't seem to speak. Zidane immediately manages to get a hold of the ship and changes course to Lindblum. The Black Waltz Nr. 3 appears and tries to kill Vivi but suddenly all the Black Mages protect him and because of that the Black Waltz kills them all. Devastated by such atrocious act, Vivi defeats the Black Waltz. One thing is clear, Queen Brahne ordered the 3 mages to search for Garnet. They reach Lindblum and quickly ask to see Regent Cid. Shockingly, Regent Cid is an Oglop! He was turned into an Oglop by his wife for his womanizing before leaving with his Hilda Garde 1 airship that was able to fly without Mist. Eventually Cid reveals that he was the one who ordered Tantalus to kidnap the princess. Seems that he was worried about the Queen's recent behavior and keeping a promise to Garne's father he decided to try to save her while maintaining a low-profile. After a while the party encounters Baku and his crew. They managed to escape the Evil Forest unharmed.After that Zidane goes into town and meets an old friend, Freya who is in Lindblum for the Hunting Contest. After the festival is over, during the awarding ceremony a message comes from Burmecia, they were being attacked by a powerful army of Black Mages. Maintaining an ancient alliance Cid quickly sends the airships protecting the border with Alexandria but Freya still wants to go by herself. Zidane also wants to go and Vivi as well but they have to wait before the gates are opened. They have a lunch in the mean time but the food has a sleeping weed in it and everyone faints. Dagger was the one to blame. She wants to return to Alexandria and challenge her mother. Steiner gladly escorts the princess back home.When the rest of the gang wakes up they move on to Burmecia and on the way they meet a new pal. Quina joins the party at Qu's Marsh, ordered by her master to see the world and meet new people. In Burmecia the kingdom is practically destroyed. Brahne, Beatrix, the greatest knight of Alexandria and a mysterious man named Kuja are in a meeting. The party hears the discussion.They are planning to attack Creyra next, a village built in a giant tree and protected by a powerful sandstorm. Zidane and his friends try to stop them but Beatrix quickly defeats them. Meanwhile Dagger and Steiner reach the Summit Station where they find two of the Tantalus members, Cinna and Marcus. Cinna was returning to Lindblum while Marcus was trying to find the Supersoft that could bring their friend Blank back to life. Dagger quickly offers to help ingratitude for Blank's sacrifice and so they head for Treno on board of a train. In the middle of the trip the Black Waltz Nr. 3 appears once again only to be finally defeated. Dagger, Marcus and Steiner finally reach Treno and in the middle of the night they enter a store to steal the Supersoft only to be found by Doctor Tot, Dagger's childhood tutor. Tot says he will give them the item later and after a while they meet him again in his tower where they finally get a hands on the Supersoft. Marcus needs to get to Evil Forest.Meanwhile, Dagger and Steiner still need to get to Alexandria. For that Tot tells them about a tunnel that connects Treno and Alexandria. They travel through the tunnel riding a Gargant. When they arrive at Alexandria's Castle through Gargant Roo, Zorn and Torn trap them. Steiner says he returned with the princess but the two jesters reply he was considered a traitor by Queen Brahne.Meanwhile Zidane and the rest of the party reach Creyra right on time to save Puck from being killed by an Antlion. Afterwards a ritual starts to make the sandstorm stronger. The strings of the sacred harp that was being used for the ritual break and the villagers consider this a terrible omen. The sandstorm eventually stops and the King of Burmecia, that fled to Creyra begins to consider the possibility of an invasion by Brahne's forces. In Alexandria,Dagger talks to her mother but Kuja puts her into a deep sleep so that they can extract from her the Eidolons, powerful summons. Zorn and Torn manage to extract them from Dagger and Brahne intends to use this new power. Meanwhile Brahne's forces begin their attack on Creyra and the villagers take shelter in the chapel. Beatrix manages to steal the stone that powered the harp of the sandstorm ritual and escapes through a teleporting system. The party uses this same system to reach Brahne's Red Rose, the flagship. Using the extracted Eidolons Brahne summons Odin. Odin throws his sword and completely destroys Creyra, just like Kuja said it would. Brahne is delighted by the Eidolon' sterrific powers but Beatrix is frustrated since she believed her forces would be more that enough to attack Creyra and Burmecia. She meets the Queen and delivers her the jewel she stole, only one jewel remains. Brahne shows no appreciation for her work and Beatrix gets sad as the queen just keeps giving more and more orders. Brahne orders the execution of Garnet for escaping withthe royal pendant leaving Beatrix in shock. Knowing this, the party teleports to Alexandria to save Garnet. They meet up with Steiner and Marcus. Marcus goes to the Evil Forest to save Blank and the rest of the party will go to the secret dungeon to try and save Dagger. After finding the princess they quickly dispose of Zorn and Thorn but soon Beatrix shows up to stop them and she easily defeats the party. Once she sees the princess in a deep sleep Beatrix uses her powers to awake Dagger. Brahne arrives at last and orders the execution of everyone. Freya and Beatrix stay behind as the rest of the party escapes but Steiner feels he has to return and goes in help of the two knights. Meanwhile Zidane and the rest of the gang get caught once again by Zorn and Torn only to be freed by Marcus and Blank, finally restored of his petrification.Once again they ride the Gargant to Treno but a Ralvuimahgo chases them and they end up in Pinnacle Rocks near Lindblum. In here Garnet finds Ramuh, god of the thunder who accepts being her Eidolon. Meanwhile Zorn and Torn aren't allowed to get near the Queen as punishment for letting Dagger escape with the jewel. Brahne brings out 2 hunters Lani and a mysterious red-haired man and offers them a reward for the pendant that Dagger has with her, giving them full permission to do whatever it takes to retrieve it and she also requests them to murder Vivi. Not only that but Brahne is also interested in Zidane and offers an extra reward to whoever kills him. The red-haired man seems particularly glad about it. As they leave a soldier informs Brahne they are ready to leave. While leaving Pinnacle Rocks the party sees Brahne invading Lindblum with the Black Mages and summoning Atomos, leaving the town in ruin sand destroying the whole Industrial District. They rush to the city to talk to Cid. The regent puts the party up to date on how Kuja's the responsible for Brahne's weapons and that he's probably from the Outer Continent. Brahne demanded the control of Lindblum's new airship and of the Falcon Claw as terms for Lindblum's surrender. Confident that they really need to stop Kuja and end Brahne's weapons supply they rush to Fossil Roo that apparently is a connection to the outer continent. They reach the underground passage only to be stopped by Lani who wants the pendant back. She is eventually defeated and the party is allowed to proceed to the Outer Continent. As they reach the newcontinent they notice there's no Mist there. The party proceeds to Conde Petie, a small village where they find a Black Mage, a talking Black Mage.They end up chasing him and discover his hidden village.As the party enters the Black Mage Village Vivi goes hysterical and tries to find anyone to talk with. The villagers seem very frightened and by talking to some of them Zidane and the rest of the party discover they were tools of war that gained a conscience on the battlefield. Terrified, they ran and ended up hiding in this village. Vivi is sad about how the Black Mages were treated and about the secret he found out. Black Mages have a short lifespan, and eventually come to a stop. At the inn, later on Zidane starts telling a story to Dagger about a man who didn't know where he came from. One day he left the home of his adoptive father in search for his birthplace but never found it.He returned to his adoptive father and he smacked him up for running away but the son was happy and he knew that was his real home (the only reason for referring the story is that it's pretty obvious that the man is actually Zidane and the adoptive father is Baku). Zidane meets up with Vivi. He's talking to a Black Mage about stopping and death. In the morning they decide to return to Conde Petie and reach a place called the Sanctuary, to where some Black Mages saw Kuja heading.They try to reach the Sanctuary but only those who pass the marriage ceremony are allowed to travel to the Sanctuary. And so, Zidane "marries" Dagger and Vivi "marries" Quina. On their way they bump into a thief, a little girl named Eiko. In battle the party finds out that the girl also has the power to summon eidolons. Zidane and his friends follow her to her home, Madain Sari. They arrive and see a village in shambles. Eiko decided to prepare a great dinner while Zidane and Dagger visit the Eidolon Wall. During the meal Eiko revealsmore about the Iifa Tree (the Sanctuary) and how it is protected by a seal.Apparently the ancient summoners that lived in Madain Sari tried to summon a Eidolon near the Iifa Tree but failed, as a result they sealed the location fearing another tragedy, like the one that haunted their past. After a lot of discussion the party reaches the Tree and notice all the Mist and how the Iifa Tree seems to be the source of all the Mist. Eiko removes the seal and they manage to reach the core of the Tree where the creature responsible for creating the Mist rests. After defeating it the Mist stops and the party returns to Madain Sari. As they enter a Moogle warns that something precious was stolen.The sacred jewel of Madain Sari was stolen. In the Eidolon Wall Eiko is held hostage by Lani. She stole the jewel and wants Dagger's jewel as well, herpendant, in exchange for Eiko's life. Meanwhile the red-haired man arrives and tells Lani to take a hike. After that, he challenges Zidane to a fight and looses, leaving in shame. That afternoon Dagger has a vision on how she wasactually from Madain Sari and she saw its destruction by a giant eye in the sky. The next day they decide to return to the Iifa tree and wait there for Kuja. After his defeat, the red-haired man decides to join the party, his real name is Amarant. They reach the top of the tree just as Kuja arrives, but Brahne is also there, together with her naval fleet and she wants to take Kuja down as he's the only one powerful enough to mach her forces. The only thing Brahne wants is total domination and she starts firing at Kuja while he summons monsters to attack Brahne's forces. Meanwhile Dagger tries to help her mother and runs to the place where the summoners failed to retrieve an Eidolonin hope she can gain its power. In fact she does manage to retrieve it but this Eidolon attacks with a powerful tsunami which would kill her mother instead of helping her.Tired of the fight Brahne summons Bahamut, the Dragon King. Kuja seems to have been expecting that moment and brings forth the giant eye in the sky, killing the Black Mages, corrupting Bahamut and turning the Eidolon against its summoner, Brahne. After the battle is over, the party finds the queen a shore near her escape pod with several injuries. She eventually dies but in her last moments she comforts Garnet and shows her regrets. Using the queen's escape pod the party returns to Alexandria with the four jewels. Garnet is now Queen of Alexandria and the party decides to attend the Card Tournament in Treno since the kingdom is now at peace. Garnet and Eiko trade jewels and each one will keep two of them. After the tournament they talk with Cid who was in town to participate in the tournament but also to test the new Hilda Garde 2, but Eiko is very afraid, something is happening in Alexandria. Bahamut, the Dragon King, controlled by Kuja, is attacking Alexandria. Garnet watches powerless to stop him. She eventually reaches a part of the castle she had never seen before. In the sky appears the Hilda Garde 2 and Eiko's two Jewels begin to sparkle, she jumps only to be saved by the power of the Jewels. Together with Garnet they both pray for the Holy Judgment. The castle transforms and Alexander appears, the most powerful Eidolon. The holy summon quickly disables Bahamut. Kuja is amazed and tries to control it just like he did with Bahamut.But someone seems to be there to ruin his plans, an old man named Garland and he uses the power of the Invincible, the great eye in the sky, to destroy Alexander. The party awakes in Lindblum after being rescued. Garnet is sad because of her mother and the kingdom, she doesn't seem to be able to talk.Cid tells Zidane and the rest of the gang about his discovery on how Kuja has a hold of the Hilda Garde 1 and he's using it to travel. Meanwhile, a new attempt to turn Cid into human once again ends in failure.Now traveling by boat the party decides to visit the Black Mage Village again to know more about Kuja and the location of his headquarters. Thanks to theinformation given by the Black Mages they manage to enter Kuja's palace only to walk in a trap. Kuja makes a proposition to Zidane, he chooses a party togo on a quest or he kills all of them. Zidane accepts and the four selected members are dropped in Oeilvert, an ancient place surrounded by an anti-magic field. In here Zidane and the rest of the gang find out a lot from that eye in the sky, the Invincible. The Invincible is in fact a ship. They also know more about a strange planet called Terra and on how it declined to a certain doom with no chance of stopping it. The party retrieves the Gulug Stone and returns to the palace. Meanwhile the others left behind find a way to escape and they meet up with Zidane and try to put a stop to Kuja but Eiko is captured by Zorn and Torn and they all manage to escape in the Hilda Garde 1, only to be followed by the rest of the party aboard the Blue Narciss. They follow Kuja to Esto Gaza in the Lost Continent and proceed to Mount Gulug where Kuja is hiding. They can see Eiko and Zorn and Torn are trying to retrieve her Eidolons as they did to Dagger. They fail because Eiko isn't 16 years old, the minimum age needed for the Eidolons to be extracted, but Kuja insists he needs a more powerful Eidolon so he can beat Garland. The extraction continues but Mog protects Eiko and goes into Trance revealing his true form, an Eidolon named Madeen. Kuja is amazed by the power a subject gains as he enters in Trance. After Kuja escapes, the party finds Hilda, Cid's wife who was being held by Kuja.Back in Lindblum Hilda transforms Cid back into human and prepares a conference to brief everyone about Kuja's plans. Kuja told Hilda that he was not from this world. Kuja is from a planet known as Terra and he called the planet they're in, Gaia and he's using it to achieve an even greater power. He also referred a passage to this new world located in the Shimmering Islands but a seal seems to prevent anyone from entering. They prepare to leave to Ipsen's castle to break the seal until they find Dagger is missing. They search everywhere and Zidane finally locates her in Alexandria, Dagger can talk again and uses a knife to cut her hair. Finally the party goes on to Ipsen's Castle and successfully retrieve the Four Keys to break the seal. The party realizes all the keys must be inserted at once and so they split up,Steiner and Vivi, Amarant and Freya, Eiko and Dagger and Zidane and Quina.They manage to break the seal and through the Shimmering Islands they reach Terra. Once they arrive Garland is already waiting for them but he disappears.Zidane and everyone else reach Bran Bal and they see the Invincible. Dagger faints, but an astonishing revelation is made. That planet is filled with clones of Zidane. They call themselves the Genomes. Apparently these Genomes are empty, with no emotions but Zidane had a special purpose when he was created and that's why he is different.Wanting to know more Zidane meets Garland at Pandemonium. Garland reveals hisplan to turn Gaia into Terra and how Zidane is a very special Genome as isKuja. Kuja was mean to be nothing more than a temporary soldier to fill in theplace that should be occupied by Zidane when he grew up. Kuja didn't accepthis fate and dumped Zidane on Gaia hoping he would die before claming hisrightful place. Zidane doesn't accept Garland's ideals and swears to take himdown at all cost, but the old man puts Zidane in a deep sleep. When Zidane awakes he starts thinking about all the things he discovered. The rest of the party help him see the right path and they head to fight Garland. After defeating the old man, Kuja appears controlling the Invincible. Using the ship's powers to manage souls Kuja uses the souls that the ship has to make him reach a Trance. Insane and more powerful than ever Kuja unleashes Ultima,sending the planet to a spiral of destruction that will eventually consume the whole planet. Using the Invincible the party escapes with all the Genomes on board. When returning to Gaia they notice that the whole planet is covered in Mist. After leaving the Genomes in the Black Mage Village the party rushes to the Iifa Tree where they enter Memoria.Memoria is a place where the memories of everyone since the beginning built a parallel world. Through Memoria they revive moments since the dawn of time and finally reach the end of their adventure, they have to save the powerful Crystal that sustains the balance of the world from being destroyed by Kuja.In a frenetic battle the fallen angel of Garland's plan is defeated but his Ultima Attack puts the party on the limit of their strength. The crystal has been broken. A strange voice talks to Zidane and his companions. The voice threatens to use the Crystal to remove the things that exist and create a new world from scratch. Zidane and the party oppose and gain enough strength to win the ultimate battle. As Necron dies, the world of nothing from which hecame starts to collapse around him. Before the explosion killed the eight daring adventurers, Kuja uses his last shred of power to teleport the party to safety. Outside Memoria, Cid, aboard the Hilda Garde 3 and Beatrix aboard the Red Rose patiently waited for their friends. They all board the Hilda Garde but Zidane goes back to save Kuja. He locates him but is suddenly struck by the Iifa Tree and dies. Some time later, life returns to the normal courseand The Tantalus return to Alexandria to perform "I want to be your canary".Dagger still misses Zidane but she believes she has to go on with her life,like Zidane would want her to. Quina is now a consecrated chef, Amarant continues with Lani, Steiner finally shows his love for Beatrix, Freya is now with her long-lost love Sir Fratley and they plan to reconstruct Lindblum,Vivi supposedly married and has many sons who came to watch the play and Eiko is with Cid and Hilda and she treats Cid as Father, both Cid and Hilda seem to like the idea. And the grand finale, in the middle of the play Zidane reveals himself and runs to Dagger. After the Iifa Tree struck him, he was injured but alive. The final moments are a reunion between two souls of the same kind.Zidane and Garnet. They lived happily ever after.

Remembering what life is.....
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