Scenario:A Tale of Intersecting Fates - In Search of Lost Memories - Episode 4

A Tale of Intersecting Fates - In Search of Lost Memories - Episode 4

A few days later, the party returns to the uncharted island at Sophie's insistence. As they trek to the garden where they first met Sophie, they're assailed by sudden tremors.

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A few days later, the party sets out once again for the uncharted island at Sophie's insistent request.

Sophie: Io... Does your wound still hurt?

Io: Huh? I told you not to worry about that! That tiny scratch cleared up forever ago!

Sophie: I'm glad to hear that.

Finally, the party descends onto the uncharted island, and begins traveling to the garden where they first met Sophie.

Io: Meeting you here was how this all began...

Sophie: Yes. And I believe that if I go back there now, I'll remember something important.

Lyria: It would certainly be nice if we could find a solid lead.

Io: Well, if Sophie doesn't remember anything...

Io: Then she can just stay with us forever, right?

Sophie: Huh?

Io: I mean, only if you wanted to! I wouldn't want to put you out or anything!

Sophie: Hee hee! Thank you, Io.

Vyrn: Come on, guys! We gotta get moving!

Lyria: Vyrn! Wait for us!

Just then, a fierce tremor shakes the surrounding earth.

Lyria: Huh?!

Io: Bwah!

Sophie: Io, are you okay?

Io: I'm fine...

Lyria: That tremor... I could sense a great power behind it.

Lyria: Enough dawdling! Come on already!

A Tale of Intersecting Fates - In Search of Lost Memories - Episode 4: Scene 2

The source of the tremors turned out to be a mysterious primal beast, who attempts to absorb the party into itself. Sophie's memories return, and she prepares to fight the primal beast in order to protect her friends.

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Through a dense thicket lies the secret garden.

But the beautiful flowers that once bloomed there are gone, replaced with a swirling pool of darkness.

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Vyrn: Whoa. What the heck is this?!

Sophie: Huh?!

Io: What the— What is that black thing?!

Lyria: This sensation... That's a primal beast!

(Captain)'s party observes the creature from the shadows.

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The primal beast seems to be producing monsters from itself, and of a species that the party had only just encountered.

Vyrn: Those monsters... They're like that one we fought earlier!

Io: And is that black thing creating them?

Lyria: No... I don't think it's creating them, exactly...

Sophie addresses her perplexed companions.

Sophie: I remember now. Those monsters are from our world.

Io: Sophie! What is it?

Sophie: I remember everything now. I'm not of this world.

Io: What does that even mean?

Sophie: It means I came here from a different world.

Lyria: A different world...?

Sophie: Yes. To save the world, I had to stop my friend Richard, who'd plunged it into darkness.

Sophie: I was with the others, in Barona's underground temple. We were trying to go back in time to before the world had darkened...

Sophie: But in the process of traveling through time, I was separated from my companions, and ended up here.

Io: Huh!

Sophie: Do you believe my story, Io?

Io: Heh heh. Of course I do!

Another powerful tremor shakes the small island.

Lyria: L-Look! The primal beast, it—

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Suddenly, the black whirlpool begins sucking everything around it into the void at its center.

Vyrn: Uh-oh! If we don't do something, we could end up getting swallowed too!

Sophie: I will stop it.

Io: But Sophie! If we defeat that primal beast, you may never be able to—

Sophie: It doesn't matter. I won't stand by and watch someone get hurt. I won't let anyone get hurt again!

Io: Sophie, no! You can't fight it alone!

Sophie: This is my turn to protect you, Io.

Io: (Captain), please! You have to help her!

A Tale of Intersecting Fates - In Search of Lost Memories - Episode 4: Scene 3

The party defeats the primal beast that functions as a gate to Sophie's world. Lyria uses her own power to keep the gate open for a short time. Sophie bids farewell to Io and passes through it. In Sophie's wake, the glowing flower the party had been looking for bursts into full bloom.

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(Captain)'s team was able to stop the primal beast.

The black whirlpool disappears, and the beast's body slowly begins to fade away.

Vyrn: Whew... We did it... We beat that thing. But now, how will Sophie...

Lyria: Urk...

Lyria struggles to slow the beast's disappearance.

Lyria: Sophie... Now's your chance...

Thanks to Lyria's influence, a shining eddy appears at the heart of the primal beast.

Lyria: Hurry! I can't hold it for long!

Sophie: Lyria!

Io: Sophie, hurry! You haven't much time!

Sophie: But...

Io: Don't give me that puppy-dog look, Sophie! Your friends on the other side are worried about you!

Sophie: I know, but... I haven't had a chance to tell all of you—

Io: Never mind that! This world isn't for you, Sophie. You have to go save your own world!

Sophie: Yes...

Io: Then stop dawdling and run!

Sophie: You're right. Everyone...

Sophie: I'm going now. Goodbye.

Io: Don't say goodbye!

Io: I know we'll see each other again, once you set things right on your own world.

Sophie: I...

Sophie: Thank you, Io. Thank you, everyone...

Sophie clutches the pendant that had been dangling around her neck...

And without looking back, dives into the shimmering pool.

Sophie: (See you again...)

For a moment, Sophie's form seems wrapped in light, but the silhouette steadily dissipates.

As soon as it disappears, Lyria releases her control.

The giant whirlpool of light vanishes in an instant.

Lyria: I think... That was long enough...

Vyrn: You did it, Lyria!

Io: Thank you, Lyria.

Lyria: I'm just glad I was able to help Sophie.

The tranquil scenery of the garden spreads out before them, as if nothing unusual had happened at all.

Io: Huh...?

Io suddenly notices a flower at her feet.

Vyrn: I've never seen a flower like this around here before.

Io gingerly picks up the flower.

Lyria: Everyone, look! The petals are glowing!

Vyrn: Whoa, that means... This is the flower from the legend!

Just then, a gust of wind blows through the garden.

The shining petals disintegrate into a puff of tiny particles that are blown high into the blue sky above.

Lyria: The flower!

Vyrn: That was a once in a lifetime discovery!

Io can't help but smile at the distraught expressions upon Lyria and Vyrn's faces.

Io: (See you again, Sophie.)

"Sophie's Quest: In Search of Lost Memories" 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　—fin—