Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals


 * ''This article is about the anime OVA series. For the story found in Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales, see Legend of the Crystals.

Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals is a four-episode anime that was released in Japan from March to July in 1994, and the United States from 1998.

The setting of the series takes place 200 years after the events of Final Fantasy V, and follows Linaly, a descendant of Bartz Klauser, and her friend Prettz.

The series was split into four episodes, "Wind Chapter", "Fire Chapter", "Dragon Chapter", and "Star Chapter". Though the soundtrack was composed by Masahiko Sato, it contains numerous cues to Nobuo Uematsu's original soundtrack to Final Fantasy V including the opening and the Chocobo's Theme.

Plot Summary
Legend of the Crystals takes place in the same world as Final Fantasy V, Planet R. Two hundred years after Bartz, Lenna, Galuf, Krile, and Faris saved two worlds from the threat of Exdeath, a new evil comes from the Black Moon and seeks to take the Crystals for itself. Linaly, a descendant of Bartz, and her friend and protector, Pretz, journey to the Temple Of Wind to seek the source of this new danger, forming a new generation of Light Warriors.

Chapter of the Wind
The chapter opens with Linaly's grandfather, who is out in the nature observing the wind. Seeing how the wind grows ever more violent, he utters his concern about the world, sensing that danger is the come. The Blue Mage of Castle Tycoon shares this sentiment, as is shown right afterwards when he is introduced alongside the Queen of Tycoon and her general, Valkus. It is the mage who points out that "the darkness is coming".

The scene then cuts to a small village plagued by heavy rain. Linaly's grandfather insists that he has to go to the Wind Shrine, something which Linaly doesn't agree with, saying she could go on her own. Her grandfather refuses this and insists on accompanying her. Later, when the two are travelling by boat Pretz appears and opts to tag along as a bodyguard, but gets refused by Linaly's grandfather, saying that he just wants to be with Linaly. He still follows them nontheless with his motorcycle before falling into a hole. The travelling duo then arrives in the ruins of a dessert village, where they are attacked by a giant, mantis-like monster. Linaly uses her powers to summon a Chocobo in order to escape, however this proves unsuccesfull. Pretz then appears and slays the monster with his Kiku-ichimonji. However, due to some injuries and fatigue, Linaly's grandfather can no longer travel with her, thus leaving her to go on alone, while stating that Pretz should go back to the village.

The scene then briefly cuts to a pair of robots discussing some events happening at Walse before ordering to launch an all-out attack at once. An airship with kind of a strange face is then shown flying towards the black moon.

Back to our heroes, Pretz did naturally follow Linaly nonetheless, constantly telling her to travel with him on his motorcycle, as that would speed things up. While still denying this offer, an airship piloted by the pirate Rouge and her crew appears and attacks the pair, leading to Linaly quickly boarding the motorcycle. During their escape from the pirates, Pretz tells the pirates that they don't have any money to which they reply stating that the bike was well enough and that they should just leave everything and go. Pretz then leads the pirates into a canyon where he uses the terrain to jump over the airship, dropping a bomb in the process.

Afterwards, Linaly tells Pretz about her mission while being in a forest, and then goes to communicate with the spirits of the forest in order to guide her to the Wind Shrine. Using her ying-yang-earring as a pendulum, she is then able to determine the way, leading her and Pretz into the Valley of Dragons where a huge sandstorm rages. The pair appears to be lost in the sandsturm when Linaly gets telepathically contacted by her grandfather, instructing her to follow the flow of the breath of heaven, which she tells Pretz to do. However, Pretz doesn't understand what this should mean and ends up rushing through the sandstorm, being swept away in the end, while Linaly allows herself to be carried by the winds flow that places her safely on the road to the crystal.

After fetching Pretz who had been half-buried in the sand, the pair continues on their journey, arriving at the floating Wind Shrine. Feeling it to be impossible to enter the Shrine like that, Pretz takes off, telling Linaly to wait for him. Linaly then goes on to examine the area, successfully finding some stone plates covered beneath sand that are labeled with the four cardinal points. Skipping around on them, Linaly seemingly triggers a reaction before the scene cuts over to Pretz who has taken Rouge and her crew hostages and captured their airship with the use of his bombs. He forces them to fly to the Wind Shrine, being proud of his idea to reach the entrance that way, but is disappointed when he finds that Linaly has already reached the entrance with the rising stone plates. Rouge then swears revenge, while Pretz and Linaly set off to enter the Wind Shrine with their motorcycle. Rouge also comments that the Wind Shrine surely holds some nice treasure before she is interupted by her crew telling her that another airship is arriving, namely the Iron Wing, flagship of Tycoon's air force.

On the Iron Wing, Valkus notices the destruction caused to the Wind Shrine by Pretz crashing the pirates airship in it, as well as the wind in the valley being unnaturally still. He deduces from that that criminals have entered the Shrine in order to steal the Wind Crystal, and prepares to apprehend them when they come out.

Pretz in the meanwhile has to notice that riding a motorcycle in a temple isn't the brightest of ideas after nearly falling of a ledge. Continuing on foot, the pair makes it's way to a pathway that consists of tilted pillars, where Pretz comments on how they'll never make it over this gap. Linaly on the other hand shows courage, and bravely jumps over the gap, reaching the first pillar only by a hair. Shocked by this, Pretz also promptly jumps over in an attempt to rescue Linaly, but ends up in a similarly helpless situation. Lucky for the two, this triggers a mechanism that moves the pillars to an upright position, enabling the two to reach the Wind Crystal.

Meanwhile, Valkus receives a message stating that Istory, Walse and Karnak have all three failed to protect their respective crystal and had had them stolen from them, leading to chaos and mayhem breaking out in their vicinity. Valkus then states that it has top priority that at least he and his men manage to protect the Wind Crystal. The scene then once more shifts to show us the interior of a dark and creepy place while a robotic voice comments that said three crystals are in their possession, and that it is only a matter of time before they obtain the last one. A man then comments upon this with a laugh before inquiring the status of another project and saying that his body aches with escitement.

Back to Linaly and Pretz, the two have troubles reaching the crystal. When Linaly finally manages to touch the crystal, it begins to flash violently and shows the two a vision of a man in dark holding a sword and approaching the grave of an old man, presumably Cid Previa. The vision then goes on to show the figure smashing the dead Cid's skull and afterwards holding his brain, while showing shots of a terrified Mid Previa as well as a blurry image of the four initial Warriors of Light, namely from left to right Galuf Halm Baldesion, Faris Scherwiz, Bartz Klauser and Lenna Charlotte Tycoon, before ending with a crying Mid. The Crystal then stops glowing, prompting Linaly to approach it once more.

The scene then briefly cuts to Castle Tycoon where the Blue Mage comments about how all the countries that have lost their Crystals are being ravished by natural disasters, to which they can not react. He also mentions that if the Crystals are not restored in time, the world would come to an end, bringing destruction to everything. The Queen then questions who would do such a thing before repeating that they have to protect the Wind Crystal at all costs.

Going back to the Wind Crystal, Linaly is just about to take it up as it starts to react to her and begins to enter her body. Terrified, both she and Pretz try to get it out again, but to no avail. Linaly then collapses feeling some intense stomach pain, before noticing that her butt has begun to glow embarrasingly. Worried by this, Pretz rushes to take her to the Blue Mage at Castle Tycoon whom he believes can help Linaly. The chapter then ends with the two of them jumping from the Wind Shrine on their motorcycle.

Chapter of the Fire
The chapter picks up directly after the Chapter of the Wind, with Pretz attempting to take Linaly to the Blue Mage of Tycoon Castle after leaving the Temple of the Wind. Upon leaving the valley of the temple, the two are however apprehended by Valkus and the Iron Wings, accusing them of having stolen the Wind Crystal. While Linaly and Pretz try to defend themselves, stating that they have the intent to protect the crystal, it is revealed the Rouge and her pirate crew are listening in on the conversation. Rouge and her crew then decide to steal the crystal, while Pretz and Linaly attempt to escape upon which Valkus opens fire on the pair. After getting scratched by a bullet, Pretz decides to fight back and lets Linaly drive him back to Valkus. The fierce attack with his Kiku-ichimonji is however stopped by Valkus with his bare hands. It is at this point that Rouge and her pirates attack with what seems to be sleeping gas, interupting the battle and kidnapping Linaly, Pretz and Valkus. Rouge, rejoicing over the fact that she not only got the kids (and the Wind Crystal, as she believes) but also the chief of the Iron Wings, orders her crew to take them all to Rouge Island.

On Rouge Island, located in the Mazalea Islands, Rouge and her crew intend to learn where the Wind Crystal is hidden and begin to torture Pretz, who stubbornly refuses to tell them. Angered by this, Rouge quickly employs two pole-like machines with human-shaped heads to tickle Pretz until he would spill the beans. This attempt however remains unsuccesfull as Pretz refuses to talk; Valkus however appears to fall in love with Rouge at this time. Rouge then goes on to threaten to hurt Linaly and strangles her with her whip, even going so far as to threaten to break Linaly's neck at which point Pretz gets enraged and kicks Rouge aside. He quickly gets knocked out afterwards, leaving Rouge surprised at the boy's bravery.

The scene then shifts to the Iron Wings, where the second-in-command asks his crew if they have found any clues on the Wind Crystal's location, to which they reply that the magic board does not show any reactions. The second-in-command then states that they must retrieve the Wind Crystal at all costs, whether Valkus was still alive or not, as they could otherwise not return to Tycoon. They are unaware that they are being tailed by the Deathgyunos' airship during their search.

Back on Rouge Island, the group has been thrown into a prison cell out of which Pretz attempts to escape, albeit with little success. Meanwhile, Valkus ponders about Rouge's beauty and laments the disaster of whether he can be allowed to love and outlawed pirate, being the royal knight he is. Linaly then appears to be sick just before the Wind Crystal leaves her body through her chest and summons the ghost of Mid Previa before the eyes of the surprised trio. The reappearance of the Crystal meanwhile causes the Iron Wings to notice its presence and track it down to Rouge Island.

Mid then introduces himself, leading to much surprise on Linaly's part as she realises that he is part of the legendary courageous ones who helped the Light Warriors defeat ExDeath. Pretz however does not feel awe at this and just remarks that Mid is like a dirty old man for having hidden himself away in Linaly's body, after which Mid orders the Crystal to retake its place in the young girls body. Pretz tries to shield Linaly from the Crystal but is unsuccesfull as the Crystal passes cleanly through him, retaking his spot in Linaly. It is then shown that the Crystals disappearance also caused the reading on the magic board aboard the Iron Wing to vanish again. Meanwhile, the Deathgyunos are tailing them underwater, as the two robotic figures are shown once more, stating the distance to their target.

On Rouge Island, Pretz tries to pick a fight with Mid but ultimately only hurts himself due to the ghost's intangability. Mid then goes on to apologize to Linaly for making her hide the Crystal in her body but points out the necessarity of this, as they can not fool the enemy, Deathgyunos, otherwise. He also then explains that the Deathgyunos require the power of the four Crystals for their evil schemes, and that the world would end once they'd get their hands on the fourth one. However, when questioned who Deathgyunos actually is, Mid denies an answer, leading to him being picked on by Pretz, who gets quite angry at the ghost when he labels him the follower of Linaly, the honourable descendant of Bartz. His attempt to attack Mid is however cut short by Linaly who tells him to stop, through which she actually confirms Mid's words about Pretz. Mid then goes on to label Linaly, Pretz and Valkus the three new valiant and curageous ones chosen by the Crystal to protect it, and employs them to guard it, after which Pretz angrily states that he doesn't want to take orders from a ghost and would protect it anyway. Following Linaly's vow to protect the Crystal, Mid then begins to think that the girl has fallen in love with him, and falls for her himself. This obviously angers the jealous Pretz who then goes on to attack Mid, forgetting about his intangible nature as a ghost. When Mid shortly disappears and then reappears from Pretz stomach, lecturing him about how jealousy was an ugly thing, Pretz decides to attack him full force - which leads to him hitting himself full force in the crotch.

Valkus remarks about the boy never learning, when Rouge makes her return to visit her prisoners, isolating Linaly in the process. However, her attempts to talk Linaly into giving her the Crystal fail due to Linaly being unable to actually force the Crystal out. Rouge then states that it is a shame, as she is not fond of playing with a young girl's body, but she orders her crew to take Linaly with them nontheless. Pretz then attempts once more to escape the cell, but is unable to bend the iron bars. Valkus however, after having been snapped out of his daydreams about Rouge, manages to open big enough a hole for Pretz to slip through, leading to him going ahead and leave the cell, while the bigger Valkus tries hard to open a hole big enough for himself to fit through.

Pretz then makes his way to Rouge's room, knocking out two guards upon slamming open the door and apprehends Rouge who had been giving Linaly a laxative - After all, she did not want to do anything too drastic to her. Upon being himself apprehended by Rouge's guards, Pretz takes up a sword and goes on a little rampage before grabbing Linaly and escaping with her. Mid then leads the pair through the cavernous island to a warehouse filled with explosives. It is here that the group finds Pretz' motorcycle again as well as his Kiku-ichimonji. In the meantime, Valkus has managed to escape as well but gets stopped by a guard. Stating he does not wish to fight fat women, he angers the guard who then attacks him, before Pretz and Linaly arrive with the motorcycle and run the guard over while passing through.

During their escape, Mid who has taken a place on Linaly's lap suggests they should steal the pirate's airship to escape from the island, however Pretz does only answer by threatening Mid and telling him to move away from Linaly before attempting to kick him. This instantely leads to him missing the road and causes the motorcycle to tumble down the cliff, before landing on the tubes for the transporting system of Rouge Island. Dodging the attacks of oncomming guards, the trio soon reaches the pirate's ship nontheless. However, they are awaited by Rouge and her crew who refuse to hand their ship over quielty. Pretz and Rouge both prepare themselves to face each other in battle before Valkus arrives and intervenes, trying to stop them.

While Valkus tries to reason with Rouge that fighting Pretz because he destroyed her treasures would not be a clever thing to do, Deathgyunos soldiers appear and begin to attack both Linaly and her friends as well as the pirates. Valkus and Pretz then both shield Rouge and Linaly respectively from the attacks with their weapons, before Pretz decides to play the bait. Stating that it is him who has the Crystal, he takes off into the caverns, leading the mechanical Deathgyunos soldiers to follow him down to the explosives storage. After being ordered to hand them out the Crystal, Pretz throws some of his own bombs into the explosives, causing the entire storehouse to go up in flames. Soon, the entire island burns, leaving Rouge and her crew with boarding their ship as the only option. Valkus also brings Linaly aboard despite her struggling against it, as she does not want to leave Pretz behind.

While escaping, Rouge laments the loss of her island, stating how her dream has died with it. Valkus then tries to cheer her up saying she should not give up on her dream. The Iron Wing makes its appearance shortly afterwards, where the second-in-command states that Valkus has apparently captured all the pirates on his own. Meanwhile, Linaly is staring sadly at the sea, believing to have lost Pretz. However, Mid appears and points to a crate floating in the water, stating that the follower Pretz is right there. Overjoyed, Linaly jumps into the water and tries to swim over to Pretz, before Kisana appears, and resurfaces right below her in order to carry her over to Pretz.

The scene then cuts over to the leader of the Deathgyunos who is angry at his soldiers for having failed him. However, their assurance to bring him the girl as soon as possible seems to calm him down. The chapter then ends with the Deathgyunos ship taking off in the direction of the black moon.

Chapter of the Dragon
The chapter picks up shortly after the Chapter of the Fire, with the Iron Wings having taken the pirates and their ship as prisoners. Rouge is obviously displeased about having been betrayed by Valkus and being taken prisoner, and laments her fate, while Mid tells her to be quiet and Pretz states that as a pirate, she had had it coming to her. Rouge then demands to hear from Valkus why she is the only one to be put in chains, where the second-in-command intervenes and tells her to be quiet. Rouge however does not stop asking, leading Valkus to have a little moral dilemma. Being the chief of the Iron Wings, he can not allow Rouge to be free as this would compromise his authority in front of his soldiers, but being in love with her, he can not bear to see her in chains.

A soldier then arrives, delivering a message with an order from Tycoon Palace. Soon after this, Rouge is set free and declared a royal guest of Queen Lenna, much to the confusion of the second-in-command, Deputy Chief Gush. Valkus then apologizes to Rouge, however she states that it would be too late. Shortly thereafter, Tycoon Palace comes into sight. Linaly then asks what the tower next to the Palace is, upon which Gush states that it is the Tower of the Dragon, a sacred shrine where Hiryuu, the guardian god of Tycooon, is worshipped. Rouge meanwhile, upon being asked by Valkus how she likes the view, merely remarks that there must surely be a lot of treasure in the palace.

After landing, Valkus leads the group through the palace's halls and reminds Pretz to behave in front of the queen, while Rouge admires all the luxuries in the palace. Mid then scares Pretz by telling him that if he would not behave, the castle guards would cut his head off. Frightened due to this, Pretz immeadiately falls to his knees when the overdimensioned shadow of the queen appears prior to her entrance. Interestingly, Rouge also falls to her knees, while everyone else remains standing, which amuses Queen Lenna.

Later, in the audience chambers, Queen Lenna talks about the peace and harmony that has been brought forth by the four Crystals and expresses her concern over the disturbances that the capture of three of the crystals has brought with it. She also mentions her belief that if the three other crystals are not reclaimed, the world may end despite the Crystal of the Wind having been kept safe. The queen then goes on to ask the group to help them, seeing how their special powers have been acknowledged by the crystal. While Linaly denies having special powers, Pretz just states that he was never acknowledged by any leecherous crystal, which leads to Valkus reminding him to watch his manners. Meanwhile, Rouge seems shocked at the very thought of trying to reclaim the three stolen crystals from the Deathgyunos, believing that they do not stand a chance. Queen Lenna however is surprised at the name mentioned by Rouge, and inquires if she indeed meant Deathgyunos, the god of darkness that presides over the universe. This leads to the group inquiring Mid about what he knows, after which he begins to tell his story.

200 years prior to the current time, his grandfather Cid Previa had been the most knowledgeable scientist to ever have lived and had brought prosperity to the world with his inventions and discoveries. However, after having assisted Bartz and the other Light Warriors in their battle against ExDeath, Cid fell sick and eventually died. Believing that his research on the Crystals should never be touched by anyone again in order to avoid another series of calamities, he burned all his research papers and took his knowledge with himself to his grave. However, soon after his death, a mysterious airship appeared and used its weapons to destroy the grave and unearth the coffin of Cid. A hooded figure with glowing red eyes and a blood red sword then appeared and stole Cid's brain from his corpse. Upon apprehending the figure and ordering them to stop and return his grandfathers brain, Mid then got pierced by an energy beam fired from the figures eye, wounding him mortally. The airship then left with Cid's brain, leaving the dying Mid behind.

After this flashback, Pretz remarks that this must be the reason why Mid became a ghost, as he couldn't accept his death without getting back his grandfathers brain. Mid then mentions that he can hear Cid's voice calling to him for help, and that it is coming from the Black Moon. Soon, it is deducted that the Deathgyunos headquarters must thus be on the Black Moon. After this, the Deathgyunos airship is shown preparing his next attack, with the robotic figure announcing Tycoon as the target.

Meanwhile, Valkus is eager to go to the Black Moon, but ultimately has to be reminded by the Blue Mage that it is out of the Iron Wings reach, leaving it unreachable for them. Queen Lenna then suggests to go and awake the legendary Hiryuu sleeping below the Palace, as he should be able to reach the Black Moon and carry them there. The Blue Mage quickly dispatches this idea as being too dangerous, seeing how there is no guarantee that the Hiryuu would be willing to help them, but the queen insists on it, seeing how it is the only way to reach the Black Moon. Linaly is then telepathically contacted by her grandfather who states that she should be fine, seeing how the Hiryuu will help those chosen by the Crystals. As such, Linaly then opts to go and wake the dragon, despite the dangers it might pose. Pretz and Mid are quick to join her, but Rouge denies helping them out, wishing to be left out of this, saying that she has no obligation to be involved in such a dangerous task. However, when Queen Lenna offers to give her a huge stash of treasure for her help, Rouge instantely changes her mind and stated, how she had always wanted to work towards achieving world peace. Valkus rejoys over this, however his joy is cut short when the enemy raid on Tycoon Castle begins.

After the first few attacks, Valkus with the Iron Wing and Rouge with her pirate crew begin to fight back, while Queen Lenna unseals a gate deep down below the castle with her powers. A strong wind welcomes the party after the gateway opens, and Linaly's butt suddenly restarts glowing once more, much to her embarassment. The queen then reminds Linaly and Pretz to be careful, before they leave for the gateway. After they are gone, the queen collapses, leaving the Blue Mage to inquire whether she is alright, after which she just states being tired, before expressing her belief in the children to manage and find the Hiryuu. The scene then once more shifts to the robotic figure stating that it has captured a crystal reaction and that the crystal is moving, with its height declining. A red glowing eye is then shown, as an old and deep voice states that the Crystal is hiding underground.

Back on the battlefield, the Iron Wings assisted by the pirates try their best to fight back against the Deathgyunos forces, but are severly outnumbered. Meanwhile, Linaly, Pretz and Mid have reached the end of the gateway and find themselves on a giant red bridge. Wondering, where they could now find the Hiryuu, the trio looks around and spots daylight coming from way up high, before Pretz hears something coming from behind them. Mid however appears to hear nothing and states that it may be just in Pretz imagination, but Pretz does not believe this and thus sends Linaly and Mid off to look for the Hiryuu, saying they should leave this to him. Linaly summons a chocobo and takes off with Mid only moments before the first Deathgyunos soldier arrives and is taken down by Pretz. However, the two soldiers following afterwards manage to slip by Pretz, leaving him to chase after them while they chase Linaly and Pretz.

Soon, the Deathgyunos soldiers manage to catch up with Linaly and capture her. Pretz then chases after them and in an attempt to save her, jumps over from the bridge to one of the soldiers, defeating it in the process. He then proceeds to the one holding Linaly, and barely manages to grab one of its handles with his hand. Following this, Mid congratulates Pretz by saying that he does things unthinkable for a human being to which Pretz simply replies by stating that Mid only does things that surprise human beings. He then goes on to defeat the Deathgyunos soldier, however this leaves him and Linaly to tumble downwards and pass through the clouds as they are stuck on the falling soldier. While Pretz appears worried, Linaly merely remarks that she had never been in the clouds before, which irritated Pretz due to the easygoing tone Linaly has.

After crashing on the ground below the clouds, Mid points out a kind of building in the middle of a lake to Pretz and Linaly. Meanwhile, out on the battlefield, the pirates have a hard time fending off the Deathgyunos attacks. The Blue Mage then mentions that Queen Lenna should evacuate the palace due to it being too dangerous at this place, but the queen refuses, stating that she can not just leave when everyone is fighting. Underground, Linaly has meanwhile talked to the spirits of the nature and veryfied that the Hiryuu is indeed in that building in the middle of the lake. Pretz, eager to find the Hiryuu, immeadiately takes off his clothes and starts swimming over to the building, while Linaly reminds him to be careful just before her butt starts glowing once more. Believing that this is due to the Crystal reacting to something, Mid soon finds an ancient crest in the floor depicting the Hiryuu. He then asks Linaly to stand on it, while Pretz arrives at the building and starts climbing it. As Linaly steps on the crest, the light from above breaks through and surrounds her. A beam of light is then shot from Linaly's glowing butt directly at the building. Following this, the building rises out of the water, revealing it to be a sculpture of a giant head along with a path leading to its mouth which serves as its entrance. A glowing red orb can then be seen emerging from the remains of the crashed Deathgyunos soldier.

Back on the battlefield, the Iron Wing fights bravely against the Deathgyunos but have to notice that for every soldier they shoot down, another one appears to take his place. Linaly and Pretz are meanwhile exploring the building and can only find pictures of the Hiryuu, leading to Pretz being disappointed. However, Linaly then discovers the real Hiryuu and greets him: A miniscule, lizardous creature not even half the size of Mid. Disappointed by this, Pretz and Mid wonder if the creature than really take them to the Black Moon, after which Linaly states that it is cute at the very least. Mocking this cuteness and the seeming inability to fly however leads Pretz to getting a fireball blown into his face.

It is then that the red orb along with some debris is shown floating towards the building, and upon entering it using the debris to form a humanoid torso around the glowing orb that serves as its eye. It is then that the Deathgyunos leader first directs his words at the party, introducing himself as Ra Devil. Scared by the voice he recognizes as his murderers, Mid hides away while Ra Devil explains to the party that he intends to become Deathgyunos, the god of the universe. Pretz then faces Ra Devil in order to give Linaly an opening to escape, after which Ra Devil only says that he holds no interest in him, and that he only wants the girl. Pretz then states that he has business with Ra Devil and throws a bomb at the golem formed out of debris, blasting it apart. However, as the group escapes the building, the red orb starts floating once more and follows after them. Upon reaching the area where they crashed again, Linaly gets hit by a red lightbeam and captured by Ra Devil, who constructs his armor of debris around the poor girl. Pretz can not react to this as he would risk hurting Linaly, and as such, Ra Devil manages to escape with Linaly. Immeadiately after this, the Deathgyunos forces retreat, leaving only Queen Lenna to speculate, if perhaps Linaly had been captured.

Pretz then finds Linaly's earring next to the Hiryuu and curses his inability to protect her. When Mid reappears, Pretz at first scolds him for having left Linaly alone but is then interrupted by the Hiryuu crying out and starting to transform, growing into a much bigger form. Upon having reached his true form of a mighty dragon, the Hiryuu picks up Pretz and Mid and lets out a mighty roar, which is then recognized by the Blue Mage of Tycoon. The Hiryuu's tower then disappears, and the Hiryuu himself appears at its place, much to the joy of Queen Lenna, the Blue Mage and Valkus, while Rouge remains impressed at Pretz for managing to awake it. The chapter then ends with Pretz standing atop the Hiryuu, calling for Linaly to just wait for him.

Chapter of the Star
The chapter opens with Ra Devil stating how it has been so long since he took the brain of the great scientist Cid two hundred years ago, while said brain is shown. The picture then shifts to show Ra Devil himself who is in bad shape and only held up by a multitude of machines. He states that he has wandered the universe in search of the truth before finding it ultimately in Deathgyunos. He then closes his speach by saying that the time has finally come for him to become Deathgyunos himself, ruler of the universe.

He then shows us the four crystals that have been placed in a machine, where Linaly takes the place of the Wind Crystal due to carrying it inside her. Ra Devil and his Deathgyunos soldiers then start operating the "interplanetary power element synchronize system". After setting the system up, the four spheres containing the crystals start glowing before the airship of the Deathgyunos descends. The two robotic figures are shown once more stating that the operation is to start, before the airship reforms itself and opens something similar to a solar sail.

The Black Moon is then shown along with several streams of energy that converge on it. These streams are then gathered by the airship and bundled before they are propagated to the machine below it. Ra Devil then announces happily that he can feel the power of the entire universe flowing through him, before some imp like creatures start the bio-reactor that is powered by the Crystals. It is now that power is drawn from the Crystals which leads Linaly to awaken. Cid's brain starts to glow at it's middle, before an exicted Ra Devil how he almost can't stand the wonnderful excitement that comes with the wave of energy running through his body.

The scene then cuts to outer space, where we see the pirate's airship. The pirates including Rouge are heavily impressed by the sight of Planet R below them, but appear to be quite puzzled with how they could have lived on a round sphere, with Rouge even stating that they must have been living on the top, as they'd have fallen off if they were down there at the bottom. It is them shown that the airship is being pulled by the Hiryuu along with the Iron Wing, aboard which Valkus shows concern over how Ra Devil is absorbing energy out of the universe. Mid agrees on this topic, while Pretz states that this must be what they needed the Crystals for. Upon looking at the Linaly's earring, Pretz grows even more impatient and eager to save Linaly and asks Valkus if he can not speed the Hiryuu up, something which Valkus naturally can't.

At the same time, Ra Devil's body has started to react to the machine and begun rebuilding himself, a feat upon which the imp like beings on the moon's surface rechoice, stating that their God is finally about to be born. The Hiryuu along with the two airships then finally enter the atmosphere of the Black Moon, albeit at an high speed which causes Pretz to worry; Valkus however says to have faith in the guardian god of Tycoon. However, the Hiryuu is then hit by a lightning bolt soon after that, and starts tumbling to the surface, pulling the airships with himself. Pretz orders Valkus to do something, but the Iron Wings chief can not prevent the fall and as such, the two airships crash on the Black Moons surface.

After the crash landing, the Pirates ship is heavily damaged, leaving Rouge to order her crew to repair it while she goes to the Iron Wing along with two of her Pirates. On the way there, she catches the unconscious and now once more miniscule Hiryuu as he falls from the sky. She tosses him over to her remaining crew, stating that while fixing the ship, they should fix him too.

Ra Devils new and still incomplete body can then be seen rising into the air, while the imp like creatures rejoice as Deathgyunos, god of the universe, has successfully been reborn into their master. Meanwhile, Pretz, Rouge and Valkus are at a loss as to where they can find the enemy, after which Pretz remembers the powers of Linaly's earring. Using it, he tries to mimic her and converse with the spirits by concentrating. He however gets no chance to concentrate sufficently on it, as soon Mid gets literally shocked due to Cid talking with him in his mind, telling him to head North. The Iron Wing then takes off, flying northwards. This however gets noticed by the robotic figures as their sensors find an unidentified flying object heading towards them.

Due to this, the Iron Wing soon enough get welcomed by the enemy engaging them in battle. The Iron Wings send out their elite troops, however despite their abilities, the Iron Wing gets in the line of fire. This leads to Rouge being hit by an attack, leaving a small scratch on her shoulder from which she bleeds. Enraged by this, Valkus takes up two guns and literally turns into a berserker, shooting at every enemy moving without hesitation. Pretz and Mid can only watch in astonishment as Valkus eliminated the enemies on his own, to which Mid only can say that "Love makes one insane."

Gush then points out the position of Deathgyunos, who is still not fully constructed but nontheless to open fire at the Iron Wing. Valkus then orders Gush to charge forward with the Iron Wing, something which the second-in-command tries to deny as being far too reckless. However, after Pretz repeats the same order, Gush merely states that he does not take orders from one like him, and pushes the engines to full power. Upon coming nearer, Valkus orders everyone to retreat to the rear before the ship collides with Deathgyunos.

After the ensuing detonations and explosions, Pretz and Valkus decide to split up. While Pretz goes to look for Linaly, Valkus starts searching for the Crystals in the debris. Pretz soon encounters a robot carrying Linaly which promptly open fire on him before attempting to escape. Pretz however quickly catches up and destroys the robot with his Kiku-ichimonji, rescuing Linaly. Linaly however then starts attacking Pretz with a series of kicks, knocking him out before Mid appears. Using a sort of steam coming out from his mouth, Mid lifts the mind control of Linaly, leaving her to notice the unconscious Pretz and wonder who it was that did this to him, effectively having forgotten what she did while being controlled. Another imp like creature more than twice the size of Linaly then appears and tries to apprehend her, but is quickly taken down by Valkus. Pretz then, after regaining consciousness and learning from Mid that Linaly indeed was under mind control, returns her earring to her.

It is then shown that Valkus and his men successfully found the three Crystals, and as such, Rouge suggests that they all should leave the Black Moon now. However, as Gush has to say, the Iron Wing is unusable now. Meanwhile, Mid can hear Cid's voice calling out to him weakly and goes to look for it, finding the enlarged brain of his grandfather in the process. Happy over being reunited with his grandfather, Mid goes to visit his brain and talks with him, promising him to take him home. However, before he can do so, Deathgyunos starts moving once more. Valkus says that he believed the thing to be death to which the monster replies that as it is the truth of the universe, and as such does not know death. Mid then goes off to engage Deathgyunos after asking Pretz to look after Linaly who tells Mid not to go, as he would be killed. Stating that he already is dead, Mid proceeds and actually manages to stall Deathgyunos, buying his friends time to make their escape. However, before they can reach the Pirates airship, an agonized cry of Mid can be heard as Deathgyunos emerges once more.

After clearing the way with another barrage from his guns, Valkus orders Gush to take everyone to safety while he and Pretz will face the approaching Deathgyunos. The two then taunt him while attacking so that they can lure him away from the airship. Linaly and Rouge quickly rejoin them, stating how they could not let the two men alone to face this crisis. Linaly then suddenly starts emiting light from her body just before the Wind Crystal leaves her body, only to make his new home in Pretz just prior to Deathgyunos arriving at their hiding spot. Valkus and Pretz then valiantly attack the self-nominated god, leading to Pretz being easily captured by him. Mocking their inability to harm him and stating that mortals could never hope to defeat a god like him, Deathgyunos then uses electricity to torture his prisoner.

Linaly, worried about her friend, tries to hurry to his side but is too late, as Deathgyunos drops him just before she can arrive. However, Pretz manages to hold on to a steel bar, and while he pulls himself up, Rouge and Valkus open fire on Deathgyunos hand, destroying it. Angered by this, Deathgyunos attacks the fleeing Rouge with an energy beam, leaving her to fall to the ground before Valkus catches her. Pretz and Valkus, both angered by this, then decide to fight instead of running, and charge at Deathgyunos but are quickly taking down by the same energy beams as Rouge.

With the two man covered in debris and unable to fight, Linaly decides to engage Deathgyunos. Demonstrating once more her unusual powers, she forms a plattform out of the ground and levitates it to get closer to Deathgyunos face, before preparing an attack. However, before she can perform the attack, Pretz body begins to glow before sending a beam of energy into Linaly, strenghtening her powers. Linaly then goes on to summon a whole wave of her chocobos that she throws at Deathgyunos. This fierce onslaught of featherless birds manages to take Deathgyunos down, leaving him to fall to the ground. Already rejoicing over their victory, the party gets surprised by the upper part of Deathgyunos rising yet once more in order to attack them. However, this last stand of Deathgyunos is short lived, as Pretz instantly charges at it and cuts it cleanly into two halves, which both detonate as a result of this final blow.

Following this victory, Mid reappears, apparently being well thanks to being a spirit. He then thanks the party for having helped him free his grandfather, before the old Light Warriors are shown with Cid holding his brain in the middle. Mid then departs alongside his grandfather, but not without telling Pretz that they should meet again once he is dead, to which Pretz replies that they should just take care that Cid's brain doesn't get stolen again. Using Chocobos summoned by Linaly, the party then returns to the Pirates' airship where everyone awaits them already, ready to go back home to Planet R.

Linaly's grandfather can then be heard complimenting his granddaughter as she had proven herself a true descendant of the courageous Bartz. While Linaly and Bartz then explains how she and her friends returned to Planet R, the exact same events are shown with the Hiryuu pulling the Pirates' airship back to the planet, before it shows the party along with Queen Lenna in the Wind Shrine, returning the Wind Crystal to it's rightfull place. The tale ends with Pretz then asking the grandfather if he now has a better opinion of him to which he declines, before showing the three of them traveling on the same ship as in the Chapter of the Wind. Linaly's grandfather then asks what happened to the lady pirate, just before Rouge's airship appears to greet them and wish them a safe trip. Pretz then asks how it comes that Rouge went back to being a pirate after receiving so much treasure from Queen Lenna, to which she answers that she has another dependent to be fed on her ship now after all, revealing Valkus who has joined her crew before taking off. The chapter then ends with Linaly, her grandfather and Pretz continuing their journey home and a view ahead to their village, concluding the series.

Characters


Final Fantasy: The Legend of the Crystals features characters shown to be descendants of Final Fantasy V's cast, such as Linaly, who is of Bartz Klauser's heritage.

Main characters

 * Linaly
 * Pretz
 * Rouge
 * Valkus
 * Mid Previa