Barkeep
"Rehearshal's shtarting."
Rikku
"Hey, Yunie, hurry up and
change!"
Yuna
"It's almost time. Do you
think people will show up?"
"You betcha! The Thunder
Plains'll be packed!"
"But what're you gonna sing?"
"Umm..."
"Wow, did you write that?"
"It's more like I felt it."
"I
can hear it echoing inside me."
"Lenne?"
"I think so."
"I don't know much
about her, but I'm learning more and more."
"Bits and pieces of her
memories keep pouring in."
"It's like...t's like I can feel
what she was feeling!"
"Thus shall Lenne's scattered
thoughts be woven into bittersweet song... Something like that?"
"Hey, that was poetic."
Paine
"We'll be arriving soon."
"After
Buddy drops us off, he and the others will go pick up the
spectators."
"So we won't be able to board
for a while."
"You got it."
Buddy
"We're over the Thunder Plains. You ready to land?"
Hypello
"Hello, Gullwings. Good to shee yoo."
"Are yoo ready to shing your
shong?"
"Yeah, more or less. You
ready?"
Hypello
"We've got a shticky shituation. Shum fiends have shown up to shnack
on the shpectatators."
"Pre-concert hurtfest time."
Buddy
"We're landing! If we cram any more people on board, this thing is
gonna fall out of the sky."
Brother
"Hey, we brought in people from New Yevon and the Youth League."
"They're all outside, on the concert grounds."
"Hey, uh, the crowd is acting
kinda funny."
Shinra
"Let me pull the video up."
"Uh-oh. This could get messy."
Buddy
"No kidding. The two groups have been bumping heads since they got
on the airship."
"Yeah... Looks like they're itchin' to start somethin'."
Shinra
"I'll pick up the audio."
Youth League Member 1
"The Yevonites are here, too? How am I supposed to enjoy the concert
with them stinking up the air?"
New Yevon Member 1
"Hey! You Youth League dogs will never be worthy of hearin' the high
summoner sing!"
New Yevon Member 2
"If the praetor were here, he'd never let these maggots walk around,
spouting their nonsense."
Youth League Member 2
"What I wanna know is, where'd Nooj go?"
"It's his fault
that Spira's falling apart!"
Youth League Member 3
"What kind of leader abandons his people
when they need him most?"
"Don't they ever stop?"
"Seriously."
"Well, Yuna?"
"You're the one
who wanted to do something."
"Yeah, but... Right."
"Hm. So let's do something."
"Right, let's do it!"
Tobli
"Oh, catastrophic catastrophe!"
"Dear me, dear me! What oh whatever
should I do?"
"The spectators are making a spectacle!"
"I don't even
want to speculate..."
"Please! Do something, Yuna!"
"Leave it to us!"
Tobli
"Yuna, we're counting on you!"
"Y!"
"R!"
"P!"
"Ready?"
YRP
"Let's do it!"
"One thousand years ago,
before the time of Sin..." "Spira was torn in two, divided by a
terrible war."
"This was Spira's great mistake. Out of the rift left
by this terrible conflict, Sin was born."
"In only two short years, Spira has shaken off its unhappy past. We have moved on."
"Now, Spira grows brighter with each passing day." "That light is
our strength."
"I don't want to see it fade. Do you?"
"There are so many of us, each with different ideas and different
beliefs. Of course we sometimes disagree, and arguments will
happen."
"But our hearts can and should always be one." "Believe with me:"
"Even if we're torn apart, our feelings will unite us." "That's what
this song is about."
"Yuna..."
"I'm all right... I'm fine,
really. It's passed now."
"What did Shinra say?"
"Umm, he said it might be some
kind of, uh, interference with the sphere waves."
"Yunie's dressphere
and the sphere screen reacted with each other and, uh..."
"The
consciousness burned into the dressphere was projected onto the
screen! Or something like that."
"Okay, but that doesn't
explain why it happened."
"When I asked, he said, "I'm
only a kid.""
"It's Lenne."
"I was singing her
feelings. During the song, I could feel them welling up inside until
they just...burst."
"So the people we saw were
Lenne...and Shuyin?"
"Everyone's waiting. Let's go."
Maechen
"'Twas a magnificent melody, Lady Yuna."
"The onlookers were all quite
enchanted."
"If it brings Spira
together-even a little-then I'm glad."
Maechen
"Indeed, I believe it shall."
"As you sang, not a soul could help but
realize the folly of their tiresome squabbling."
"Fist once raised in
anger became welcoming hands offering solace to a tearful neighbor."
"I must admit that I, too, shed my share of tears the moment Lenne
appeared." |
"You know Lenne?"
Maechen
"Of course. Would you like to hear-"
"Yes! Tell us!"
Maechen
"Where to begin?"
"About a thousand years ago, Lenne was a popular
songstress in Zanarkand."
"The talk of the town, you might say."
"In a
more peaceful age, she might have lived out her years as a
performer."
"But the times-and her talents-did not allow such a thing
to be."
"You see, Lenne's gift for singing was matched by her genius
in the summoner's arts."
"When then Machina War began, all summoners
were sent to the front lines."
"Zanarkand was hopelessly outnumbered,
and Lenne knew she would not return home alive." "Nonetheless, she was
prepared to lay down her life to protect her people."
"Yet there was
one person who refused to let Lenne die. Yes, he would do anything
to save her."
"He was...a young man, Lenne's lover."
"Shuyin?"
Maechen
"I...don't know. His name has been lost to history." "Whatever his
name, the youth endeavored to steal the enemy's machina weapon and
save Lenne." "However..."
"It didn't go well."
Maechen
"The lovers met a truly tragic end."
"Those images we all witnessed
are most certainly a record of their last moments."
"So Shuyin was Lenne's lover."
"And so that means the weapon
that he tried to steal to save her must have been, umm..."
"Vegnagun, right?"
"I think I can kinda
understand how he felt...trying so hard to save someone."
"Two years
ago, I was the same."
"Trying to find some way...some way to save
you."
"That was enough."
"Knowing that you were on my side..."
"I'll always be grateful to you."
"Maybe Lenne felt the same
way."
"The man she loved, he struggled to save her."
"He fought till his
very last breath for her."
"I think that Lenne's final words might
have been happy ones:"
""I love you.""
"Yes, there is a connection."
"But wait..."
"Everything is all wrong."
"He never heard. The one person she wanted to tell... He never heard
her words."
Buddy
"Whaddaya know, it's Leblanc's gang."
"They wanna see Yuna. I'll have
them wait in the engine room."
Shinra
"What have we here?"
"Looks like a transmission, but it's pretty
weak."
"What is?"
Shinra
"Hm, I'm getting signals from the CommSphere we dropped in
that hole, but I can't seem to connect."
Leblanc
"Enough, little boy. Move aside!"
"See? It connected."
Shinra
"Inconceivable!"
Gippal
"Impressive machina!"
"An invention like this could change the world." "Whoever came up with this is a genius."
Shinra
"He's got good taste."
Gippal
"Guess I'm a genius, too, for fixing it!"
"Anybody home?"
"Gippal!"
Shinra
"I don't think he can hear us."
Gippal
"No response. Hm."
Nooj
"Some genius."
Leblanc
"Noojie!"
Nooj
"If you're done playing, let's go."
Gippal
"Chill out."
Nooj
"Lost your nerve?"
Gippal
"Hey, we're talking about Vegnagun."
"How the heck do you fight that
thing?"
"We can't even walk up to it without freakin' it out."
Nooj
"Or making it mad. But I've got a plan."
Gippal
"If it doesn't work?"
Nooj
"Death will be my apology."
Gippal
"Whatever, man."
"When a Deathseeker dies, that's no apology."
"What
about Leblanc?"
Nooj
"Well, she-"
Leblanc
"Why did it cut off like that!"
"Just when he was getting to the juicy
bits!"
Shinra
"It's not my fault."
Leblanc
"What a piece of junk! Forget it."
"I'll go ask him myself."
Brother
"What about the Gullwings?"
"I think that we should help
you Nooj."
"But first..."
"I want to try talking to Shuyin."
"I have to
tell him how Lenne felt."
"I'm sure he'll understand."
"How? We can't
exactly make an appointment."
"We'll just have to jump into
one of those holes."
"Together, this time!"
Brother
"Roger. Gullwings! We move out!"
"Celsius, full speed ahead!"
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