13th installment of the VGNU.
Dragons and Broadswords,
Mystery and Adventure,
Final Fantasy has them all!
The beginning of Phase 2 for the Video Game Novel Universe.
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When darkness veils the world, four Warriors of Light shall come.
The four Warriors of Light awaken in a field not knowing who they are, where they're from and what they're doing there. Each bears a crystal shard, and they know they can rely on each other. All they know are their names and purpose; Setro, the Warrior; Zauver, the Thief; Flora, the White Mage; and Teol, the Black Mage. The group decides to head for the nearest human habitation, which turns out to be the city of Cornelia, where they are identified as the Warriors of Light and take on the task to defeat the rogue knight Garland and save Princess Sarah.
After doing so the four are advised to head where the earth is dying. They eventually take control of a ship and reach Melmond. They defeat the Vampire, but discover that more must be done to heal the land. They find the Lich poisoning the Earth Shrine, and upon defeating it the Earth Crystal regains its light. It tells the Warriors that they must bring back the light of the three other crystals as well.
The next destination is Crescent Lake, where the Warriors of Light receive advice from the Circle of Sages. They head to Mount Gulg, take down Marilith, and return the light of the Fire Crystal. Discouraged by the task ahead, they nevertheless unearth an ancient Airship with a Levistone found by the Fire Crystal, and on their way north encounter a huge dragon in the skies.
The dragon presents them a task: to bring proof of their courage from the Citadel of Trials in exchange for more strength to complete their journey. The Warriors succeed, bringing him a Rat's Tail and each receives a Class Change. Setro becomes a Knight, Zauver becomes a Ninja, Flora becomes a White Wizard, and Teol becomes a Black Wizard. Emboldened by their success, they head to Onrac. The city at first offers them nothing, but a strange girl asks if they are going to save the Mermaids. After some hesitation, the Warriors agree to follow her, and the girl guides them to a huge barrel they can use to travel to the temple where the Water Crystal lies, the Oxyale needed to breathe underwater, and instructions to save the crystal so that the mermaids may live.
Despite their doubts the Warriors soon discover that mermaids do in fact live in the temple, and that in its deepest parts lives Kraken, guarding the crystal. The Warriors head on, chop Kraken to pieces and return the light of the Water Crystal.
Later on their journey, the Warriors end up in the town of Lufenia whose people used to rule the skies where the Wind Crystal lies. The Lufenians guide them to the Mirage Tower that was used in ancient times to reach the Flying Fortress they used to live in. The Warriors climb the tower and encounter its guardian robots who have been waiting for a challenger for Tiamat ever since the Lufenians left the fortress.
The robots show the Warriors recorded events of the day the fortress was evacuated by Cid, and activate the teleporter so they can head for the fortress themselves. The Warriors use it, and soon encounter Tiamat. The many-headed dragon is not an easy opponent but it eventually goes down, and the Wind Crystal regains its light. Instead of telling them that their job is done, the crystal urges the Warriors of Light to vanquish darkness from the world.
Stumped, the Warriors exit the fortress and end up at Crescent Lake whose sages guide them back to the Chaos Shrine where they find a portal that takes them through time to the shrine 2,000 years in the past. The past world is bright and almost hurts their eyes. At the entrance, the Warriors find the Four Fiends they defeated.
Garland enters and reveals himself to be the mastermind behind everything, becoming monster-shaped himself. His powers are unimaginable, and the Warriors are soon brought to their knees. Setro, the warrior, refuses to lose, but knows they are out of options. He rises up with the crystal shards in hand and he and his friends pass their power on. As they fade and Chaos claims victory yet again, the Light Warriors feel with them the strength gathered across a hundred cycles. And, for a brief moment, they could almost feel Chaos' power waver.
But it was still not enough.
Once again, for the hundredth time, the Warriors of Light had lost to the God Chaos.
Except for the ending, which was tweeked a bit so the heroes fail, this entire thing was copypasted from the Fandom Final Fantasy Wiki for the Final Fantasy 25th Anniversary book, Memory of Heroes. I don't know who wrote the article, or how much of that breakdown was ripped from the book, but the book itself was written by Takashi Umemura.
