CHAPTER II: BATTLE INSIDE LIONEL CASTLE
[Ramza's company stands before Cardinal Draclau in a chapel room lit with candelabras.]
DRACLAU: Gafgarion is not as good as he says... Or was it bad luck? Anyhow, you're good. You have Beoulve blood in your veins. Even if you are a bastard.
[Draclau walks down the stairs towards the party.]
DRACLAU: But, I don't need your interference any more. Leave the stone here. If you resist, I'll show no mercy...
RAMZA: Where is Princess Ovelia?
DRACLAU: Why must you save her? You deserted the Beoulves. What can you change by yourself? Don't waste energy. Withoutpower, nothing can be achieved... You're powerless.
RAMZA: Where's the Princess!!
DRACLAU: She's not here. She left for Zeltennia. She chose our help over yours.
RAMZA: That's a lie!!
DRACLAU: She has begun to think for herself. She felt unsure of you and chose us for obvious reasons to take the throne. Why don't you join us? You want to get the best of your brothers sails, right? We care about the world, too. How about it?
RAMZA: I don't want to change the world! I just can't allow people to suffer and die because of some elitist's ideas. Change the world? You think anyone really can? I'm not that reckless!!
DRACLAU: Ha, ha, ha...You're the one holding the stone. You can change not only the world, but the truth of everything with its power. Since you don't seem to understand, let me show you.
[Draclau pulls out the Scorpio stone and holds it aloft. Lights radiate and flash out of it, and he is thereafter transformed into a grotesque and monstrous creature.]
TAINTED KING, QUEKLAIN: Hya, ha, ha! How about that? Surprised? Now, let me have my fun. Let me hear your screams and suffering death cries!
[BATTLE BEGINS]
[IF RAMZA IS INJURED]
RAMZA: It's absurd! Is this the power of the stone? Isn't the stone for destroying evil power? But, if that's true...then the Cardinal's 'evil' itself.
QUEKLAIN: This's the power of Lucavi who once ruled the world!
RAMZA: Lucavi!? Who are you? Where's the real Draclau? Where!?
QUEKLAIN: Hya, ha! What do you mean? I'm Draclau! No, or I should say I was. I surpassed fragile humans by using the stone's power.... I became 'God'!! Those who interfere... must die!
[BATTLE ENDS]
[The room begins to shake.]
QUEKLAIN: I'm immortal...how can I be losing....? It's impossible. I can't...die...until he resurrects...
[Queklain vanishes in a burst of energy. The Scorpio stone falls to the ground.]
DRACLAU: Gafgarion is not as good as he says... Or was it bad luck? Anyhow, you're good. You have Beoulve blood in your veins. Even if you are a bastard.
[Draclau walks down the stairs towards the party.]
DRACLAU: But, I don't need your interference any more. Leave the stone here. If you resist, I'll show no mercy...
RAMZA: Where is Princess Ovelia?
DRACLAU: Why must you save her? You deserted the Beoulves. What can you change by yourself? Don't waste energy. Withoutpower, nothing can be achieved... You're powerless.
RAMZA: Where's the Princess!!
DRACLAU: She's not here. She left for Zeltennia. She chose our help over yours.
RAMZA: That's a lie!!
DRACLAU: She has begun to think for herself. She felt unsure of you and chose us for obvious reasons to take the throne. Why don't you join us? You want to get the best of your brothers sails, right? We care about the world, too. How about it?
RAMZA: I don't want to change the world! I just can't allow people to suffer and die because of some elitist's ideas. Change the world? You think anyone really can? I'm not that reckless!!
DRACLAU: Ha, ha, ha...You're the one holding the stone. You can change not only the world, but the truth of everything with its power. Since you don't seem to understand, let me show you.
[Draclau pulls out the Scorpio stone and holds it aloft. Lights radiate and flash out of it, and he is thereafter transformed into a grotesque and monstrous creature.]
TAINTED KING, QUEKLAIN: Hya, ha, ha! How about that? Surprised? Now, let me have my fun. Let me hear your screams and suffering death cries!
[BATTLE BEGINS]
[IF RAMZA IS INJURED]
RAMZA: It's absurd! Is this the power of the stone? Isn't the stone for destroying evil power? But, if that's true...then the Cardinal's 'evil' itself.
QUEKLAIN: This's the power of Lucavi who once ruled the world!
RAMZA: Lucavi!? Who are you? Where's the real Draclau? Where!?
QUEKLAIN: Hya, ha! What do you mean? I'm Draclau! No, or I should say I was. I surpassed fragile humans by using the stone's power.... I became 'God'!! Those who interfere... must die!
[BATTLE ENDS]
[The room begins to shake.]
QUEKLAIN: I'm immortal...how can I be losing....? It's impossible. I can't...die...until he resurrects...
[Queklain vanishes in a burst of energy. The Scorpio stone falls to the ground.]
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