[distant explosions]
♪ For whom
♪ weeps the storm
♪ Her tears
♪ on our skin
♪ The days
♪ of our years gone
♪ Our souls
♪ soaked in sin
♪ These memories ache with
- [sword slicing] ♪ These memories ache with
- [man] How many years have come and gone since that day? ♪ the weight of tomorrow
-[body splashing] ♪ the weight of tomorrow
♪ Who fights?
-How many years have I waited for this moment? ♪ Who fights?
♪ Who flies?
For the one that stood alone against the storm? ♪ Who flies?
♪ Who falls?
[flag splashes]
[swords whoosh]
[loud sonic boom]
For the one they called
[hard rock guitar]
The Warrior
of Light?
♪ One brings shadow
♪ One brings light
♪ Two-toned echoes
♪ tumbling through time
♪ Threescore wasted,
♪ ten cast aside
♪ Four-fold knowing,
♪ no end in sight
-[loud chaotic whooshing] ♪ One brings shadow,
-[Warrior of Light grunting] ♪ One brings shadow,
-[Warrior of Light grunting] ♪ one brings light
-[chaotic whooshing] ♪ one brings light
♪ One dark future
♪ no one survives
♪ On their shadows,
♪ away we fly...
[gremlin speaking native tongue]
♪ The road that we walk
♪ is lost in the flood
- [gremlin cackling]
♪ is lost in the flood
♪ Here proud angels bathe in
-[gremlin cackles nervously]
♪ their wages of blood
♪ At this, the world's end,
♪ do we cast off tomorrow
-[sword whooshes]
-[explosion] -[hard guitar rock]
[job-change flash]
[warrior grunts, axe hits ground]
[gremlin cackling in native tongue]
[warrior yelling in rage]
♪ One brings shadow,
♪ one brings light
- [flames whooshing] ♪ one brings light
♪ To this riddle
-[flames whooshing and whistling] ♪ To this riddle
-[flames whooshing and whistling] ♪ all souls are tied
-[loud explosions] ♪ all souls are tied
♪ Brief our moments,
♪ brazen and bright
♪ Forged in fury,
♪ tempered in ice
♪ Hindmost devils,
♪ early to rise
-[Urianger] What sayst thou, Master Matoya? ♪ early to rise
-[Urianger] What sayst thou, Master Matoya? ♪ Sing come twilight,
♪ sleep when they die
-We may accept this fate, ♪ Heaven's banquet
-or defy it. ♪ leavened with lies
-But we cannot deny it. ♪ leavened with lies
-But we cannot deny it. ♪ Sating honor,
♪ envy, and pride
- Deny?
♪ One brings shadow,
-I am not wont to run from my troubles ♪ One brings shadow,
♪ Run from the light
-[flames whooshing] ♪ Run from the light
-[axe shattering] ♪ Authors of our fates
♪ Orchestrate our fall from grace
-[rocks crumbling] ♪ Orchestrate our fall from grace
-[job change flash] ♪ Poorest players on the stage
♪ Our defiance drives us straight to the edge
- [blades clanging] ♪ A reflection in the glass
♪ Recollections of our past
- [job-change flash] ♪ Swift as darkness, cold as ash
♪ Far beyond this dream of paradise lost
♪ Home
♪ Riding home
-[Y'shtola] Until our friend returns, ♪ Riding home
-[Y'shtola] Until our friend returns, ♪ Dying hope
I will hold the line. ♪ Dying hope
♪ Hold onto hope...
♪ Ohhh...
♪ Home
♪ Riding home
♪ Hope, finding hope...
[rocks crumbling] ♪ Hope, finding hope...
[creature roaring]
- This town certainly has changed. ♪ One brings shadow,
- This town certainly has changed. ♪ one brings light
And not at all for the better. ♪ one brings light
And not at all for the better. ♪ One more chapter
-[creature roaring] ♪ One more chapter
-[creature roaring] ♪ we've yet to write
[blade slicing]
-[energy beam firing] ♪ Want for nothing,
-[Thancred grunting] ♪ nothing denied
[blade slicing]
♪ Wand'ring ended,
-[explosion] ♪ Wand'ring ended,
-[Thancred grunting] ♪ futures aligned
-[gunblade clicks] ♪ futures aligned
♪ One brings shadow,
-[explosion] ♪ One brings shadow,
♪ one brings light,
-[creature growls] ♪ one brings light,
♪ One brings shadow,
I'm not going anywhere! ♪ One brings shadow,
I'm not going anywhere! ♪ one brings light
I promise you, Minfilia! ♪ one brings light
♪ You are the light!
[violin playing Eternal Wind from Final Fantasy III]
[chocobos chirping]
[blades whipping in wind]
- [man] This tragedy,
greater even than the seventh Umbral Calamity
must be undone.
[job-change flash]
[sword whooshing]
[rocks crumbling]
If history must be unwritten,
let it be unwritten.
[blade surging]
[loud clang]
♪ We fall
-[man] Become what you must. ♪ We fall
[loud whooshing]
♪ We fall
[loud rumbling]
♪ We fall
♪ unto the end
♪ the end
Become
the Warrior
of Darkness.
♪ Our world
♪ won't end!
♪ I am shadow
♪ I am the light...