rarsneezes | totrays - dist event

the party regroups and confronts nebilim

NOTE: **QUEST 9 DOESN'T HAVE A SCENE ATTACHED TO IT!!**

after this there are two scenes for the raid battle (one before, one after); in total that makes ten scenes, for anyone who cares. mostly i'm just letting you know bc the next posts i make will be labled something re: the raid

[scene opens with anise and dist on the "phone" with dist]
[TLN: again they can contact each other through their mirrors but i do not remember what the eng localization calls this, even if it got as far as being able to name this, so it's easier to just say phone]
ix: we made it back to Daath. once we've gotten libera to the doctor, we'll head back your way.
anise: do you think libera's gonna be okay?
mileena: yeah. the wound was deep, but it missed his vitals, and thanks to tear and natalia's healing artes it didn't get any worse
dist: when libera wakes up, tell him that the great dist the rose is not so weak he needs to be protected from a replica!
ix: you mean tell him thanks and to get well, right? we'll let him know for you
[ix hangs up]
dist: what are those two mirrists talking about...?
anise: ix and mileena are good people, so they probably recognized you were saying that just to hide the fact you were embarrassed, duh
asch: looks like they really understand the backwards way you speak, dist
jade: anyways, let's finish up what we were doing here.
[and then they argue over whether or not dist exoflected the nebilim replica on purpose (???) and i think dist wiggles out of the accusation (???) and then it's just a bunch of nebilim backstory that anyone who's familiar with abyss already knows: blah blah she was a powerful fonist blah blah her replica has as much power as she does but no restraint so they locked her up in mt roneal blah blah, what looks like info on the planetary arte blah
natalia asks what the planetary arte is and jade says something that is roughly "it uses the sephiroth trees to access power of the planets", immediately followed by "but there aren't any sephiroth trees here, so i don't know if it works the same way"]
jade: even so, it could prove useful
asch: what about lorelei? we'll need to call him, right?
natalia: but last time you and ion called for lorelei, the both of you lost consciousness. if we're going to do that again, we'll need the manpower to protect you
anise: since nebilim's replica is so strong, this is gonna be really tough, huh
jade: let's leave that to ix and mileena
guy: man, this is gonna be rough
dist: Since Jade and I are cooperating on this research, we should be proud of the results
jade: bold words from someone with the social standing of dust
dist: excuse me!? how dare you, even though you agreed to help with this noble research--
jade: saphir. you're the only one who takes pride in it. now, can you please show me the data you have on the planetary arte?
dist: ?!
dist: ah, but of course. since you asked so politely, i guess i don't have a choice. let me explain...
[camera pans to luke and ion, luke looks concerned]
luke: jade...
ion: luke, i understand that you're worried about jade. but jade's the only one who can decide why he's cooperating with dist's experiment. please believe in him
luke: yeah... you're right. okay, i'll believe in jade.
luke: also... sorry. if you have to summon lorelei again.
ion: you aren't the one who has to apologize, luke. besides, i'm... a little angry. at nebilim, for hurting libera. for making anise sad.
ion: as someone who's in a position to help so many people, holding this personal anger is a little immature and shameful, but...
ion: if i can help in any way, i'm going to

[scene change to the cave where they left nebilim]
dist: at long last... We can surpass the wall blocking us from the golden era, and with our memories of that time resurrect our teacher
jade: first, we'll need to weaken the replica. then we can summon lorelei and rewind time for her
jade: however, lorelei is the spirit of sound. he's aligned with the concept of time, but.... given his nature of dealing with prophecies, it follows that his true power is with the future.
jade: in the case he can't smoothly rewind time--
anise: we attack nebilim, right? leave it to me. i'll make her pay for hurting libera...!
ion: anise... please don't be so rash, okay
mileena: alright, if we're ready, i'll dispel the mist holding her in place
ix: right. i'm counting on you mileena
[~mileena dispels the mist~]

nebilim: i can sense it... the taste of first fonons... you've come back, haven't you saphir?
nebilim: and is that... jade, next to you? haha... it's a shame to see you look so grim, now, jade. but even still... there's a little bit of your old self still left...
jade: we aren't here to talk to you. unless you intend to listen to reason and feel like surrendering quietly?
nebilim: my, that's a funny thing to say. i'm only here because i intend to retrieve those first fonons you're all holding. once i have, i'll become perfect
ix: first fonons? what do you mean--
ion: the element that shadow resides over. but, fonons weren't really encoded into this world, so...
mileena: shadow's element... you mean something like the anima element? the anima all over aldurant is the one shadow watches over, though. which means almost all of the people we exoflected into aldurant have shadow's anima!
[TLN: SHE SAYS, EVEN THOUGH ABYSS CHARACTERS HAVE YELLOW ANIMA SYNC AND NOT PURPLE????????? yellow is light i think i'm]
nebilim: what do you mean...?
nebilim: ah, it doesn't matter. i can feel sixth fonons coming from this little girl and her friend... i'll be taking those, too.
nebilim: come! help me become complete!