) Now the scene switches to Daggers thoughts at the end of the game. Major Spoilers.
Aftermath
A Final Fantasy IX Fanfiction
Part Two: Garnet and Zidane
Garnet’s POV
It’s been two years. Two very long years since I last saw this play. The play I’m referring too of course, is ‘I Want to be Your Canary’ by Lord Avon. I have fond childhood memories of watching this play with my mother and father, and after my father passed away... it was just me and mother. That particular year, two years ago from now, I was not enjoying the play as I usually did, I was devising a plan of escape... an escape from my confines of Alexandria Castle, and my mother. Yes, I loved my mother dearly, but shortly after fathers’ death, she changed... she was no longer the kind, sweet and caring mother I once knew, something was horribly wrong with her... something very sinister was going down... I could sense it... I had planned to escape Alexandria on board the Theatre Ship, the Prima Vista, and hitch a ride to Lindblum to see Uncle Cid. One thing I didn’t expect, though, was that the whole play was just a rouse for the gang on board the ship, Tantulas, to kidnap me! Talk about ironic!
As we later found out, Tantulas had been under direct orders from Regent Cid of Lindblum to bring me to him. Wise Uncle Cid had sensed the disturbances in Alexandria as well, and was honoring the promise he made to my father to protect me should anything ever happen. But something very important happened to me that day when I left Alexandria.... I met him.... Zidane Tribal, the member of Tantulas in charge of carrying out my kidnapping. Of course, I made sure to give him a good run around the castle, (I’m very athletic and had been training for my escape from the castle) before finally giving myself up. Getting out of the castle was the easy part, getting out of Alexandria was the hard part. When mother figured out what was going on, she ordered her soldiers to fire at the theatre ship. We barely escaped at all, and even then, the ship went down and crashed into the Evil Forest. Of course, that was only the start of our perilous journey to Lindblum.
We faced many dangers along the way, eventually uncovering the horrible conspiracy that mother was planning to conquer the world using an army of man-made Black Mages. But of course, the true evil behind it all turned out to be a mysterious man known as Kuja, who was controlling my mother, and who also had his own personal agenda. He was poisoning my mother’s mind, and using her like a puppet! The perilous quest to defeat Kuja was tough, we faced many dangers along the way, including the loss of my mother, the near destruction of three great nations, and the almost destruction of our planet. But we prevailed in the end. It should have been over after that. After all, in fairy tails, the heroes defeat the evil and live happily ever after, right? But it was not to be.
I don’t remember exactly when I first really fell in love with Zidane... it was like, one day I just woke up, and the realization was there. Of course I wouldn’t admit it. I tried to convince myself that I didn’t really have those feelings, that it would never work out. (He was a thief; I was a princess). But when I finally realized my true feelings, it was too late... I’ll never forget him as he ran off back into the Iifa Tree, to his ultimate doom, his good-hearted stubborn nature refusing to let Kuja simply perish alone in the Iifa Tree, no matter how many evil deeds he had done in the past. He promised me he would return.
I deeply regret letting him go. I waited a long time for him... days turned into weeks, and weeks turned into months... and months turned into years... I guess it was after the first month that I realized that he was not coming back. The past two years have been very difficult. Sure, I can keep my composure while performing my daily tasks or when I’m around others, but the pain is still there.... And it is not getting any better with each passing day, it’s actually getting worse. Curse him! How could he not keep his promise! It sill makes me angry to this day. How dare he leave me all alone like this; without knowing exactly what happened to him?
But here I am again, back at the beginning where it all began. Tantulas has returned to Alexandria, not to kidnap me again, mind you, but to perform the famous play, ‘I Want to be Your Canary’. I really don’t want to be here. In fact, I almost wasn’t. It reminds me too much of him...
Beatrix had insisted that I come, for the people. Besides, Tantulas is performing the play in my honor, so I’m pretty much obligated to come anyways. Right now, they’re about halfway through the play.... Marcus is anguishing over the thought that his beloved Cornelia may have betrayed him... For some odd reason, Marcus is wearing a black cloak, I don’t remember that from any of the previous plays.
“Could she have betrayed me?â€
