Final Fantasy III – Novelization
(Long) Author's note: This story will be, like the title says, a novelization of Final Fantasy III. But it will be more than just a retelling of what happens in the game. Meaning, characters will not always say the exact same dialogue as they do in the game or stuff like that. I also won't limit myself only to the events in the game.
I like Final Fantasy III a lot. The DS version of the game was in some ways a gift from heaven, so to say. I mean, Square Enix gave us main characters! With names and individual personalities! I was slightly disappointed however that they didn't flesh out the story, despite the new main characters, which held amazing potential.
I have always loved Final Fantasy III's story, in my eyes it's one of the best in the series. It doesn't get enough credit and SE never works out the potential the story has. The villain had a motive! A real motive, for the first time in the series! There's backgroundstory for the story itself! There's so much one could do with the story of this Final Fantasy.
So that's what I'm going to try. Work out the story of Final Fantasy III a bit more. Flesh out the characters, add new events to do that, give other characters more appearances. I will follow the general plotline of the game, of course. I have never tried a novelization before, so this will be a challenge for me. I hope I will at least in some way succeed.
If you're a fan of the game, a fan of the NES version or the DS version (or both) or even if you never played it, please enjoy this story. I'll do my best, for I love the game and its story. And don't worry, this story will get finished. Promise.
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Prologue
"Mortality…" A voice whispered. The voice was rough, filled with anger, despair and sorrow. A grey-skinned hand folded itself around nothing, as if trying to grasp something that could not be grasped. "Such a terrible curse…"
Two hands, having a poisonously green colour, slithered through the darkness and laid themselves seductively on the shoulders of the white-haired figure that had just spoken. Feminine lips hovered next to the figure's ear.
"We can grant you… immortality… forever!" A second voice, clearly female, said. The first figure almost drank those words. They sounded so comforting, so understanding.
"How?" The first figure asked slowly, his voice betraying his eagerness to hear the answer.
"If the last two are darkened… Immortality shall be forever yours, my lord!" The second voice replied, on the same seductive tone. The first person smirked. Only two more shining baubles that stood between him and his goal. He made his decision.
"The earth…" The first figure whispered slowly. "Pull them into the earth! Create an earthquake! One that will shake the bowels of the earth into complete darkness!"
The female creature that was with the white-haired man could only smirk. It was immortality her lord desired, it was immortality she would give him. And so she called upon her powers of darkness to do as he demanded.
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That day, a massif earthquake struck and shook the bowels of the earth. Four magic Crystals, that had held the world in balance, were lost. And from the depths of the earth monsters spawned. Darkness spread itself over the world, scarring the land. And as light began to fade, one of the sightless Gulgans made a prophecy.
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Well, it begins a little bit cheesy, but don't write this of just yet, the next chapter will give a better view of just how I'll handle novelizing Final Fantasy III.
Also, as you may have noticed, the very prologue is already an entirely new event I thought up. Expect more scenes like these in which the villain of Final Fantasy III gets some time in the spotlight, for I felt that was what he lacked in the game. Shame, really.
Please look forward to the next chapter. If you still don't like how the story is going then, my apologies. Maybe you could tell me then just what you don't like about it, so that perhaps I could keep it in mind.