First Battle of the Iifa Tree

The First Battle of the Iifa Tree (February 1, 1800) is the final battle in Queen Brahne's campaign for world domination. Having successfully conquered the Mist Continent with Kuja's help, she sets out to kill her former ally. In a battle between the Alexandrian Navy and Kuja's monsters, Brahne's reign came to a bloody end.

Prior to the battle
Following the Battle of Lindblum, Alexandria controlled the entire Mist Continent. No longer needing Kuja, who has left the Mist Continent for the Iifa Tree, Queen Brahne sets to destroy him and achieve undisputed world domination. As airships require mist for fuel, Alexandria is forced to rely on its navy to reach the Outer Continent. They set sail from occupied Lindblum, where they also forced Lindblum's soldiers to help prepare the ships.

Regent Cid of Lindblum has his own plan to beat Kuja. Hoping his defeat would cut off Queen Brahne's magic supply and change the balance of power, he sends Zidane Tribal's party to deal with Kuja. Once Kuja is killed, he plans to expell the Alexandrian occupiers from Lindblum.

Battle
Queen Brahne personally commands the Alexandrian Navy, and strikes with both cannon fire and a single spell made from the energy of all of her black mages. An attrition battle ensues, in which the Alexandrians eventually run out of ammunition while fighting Kuja's monsters, suffering casualties and damages to their ships in the process.

Watching from the Iifa Tree, most of Zidane's party is excited to see either Kuja or Brahne be destroyed. Remembering Brahne for the good mother she was before she came under Kuja's bad influence, Princess Garnet wants to save the queen and attempts to summon an eidolon to come to her aid. However, she only manages to summon Leviathan, whose Tsunami attack is quickly deemed ineffective against airborne monsters, and the summoning is cancelled.

Brahne is not ready to give up, and summons Bahamut, who manages to lightly wound Kuja. For a moment, Garnet is relieved, believing Bahamut will make short process of Kuja. However, Kuja uses the ancient airship the Invincible to possess Bahamut and turn it against its summoner. Bahamut destroys the Alexandrian Navy with its Mega Flare, killing the queen and all of her soldiers.

Aftermath
Brahne washes ashore on a nearby beach, where she is comforted by Garnet. Now free from the greed that possessed her, Brahne returns to her former self and asks Garnet for forgiveness for all the death and suffering she had caused. With her dying breath, she tells Garnet she will be a better queen than she ever was.

Although Queen Brahne was ruthless at the end of her reign, her legacy among the populace in Alexandria is built on her reign as a whole. Overall, she is remembered as a good queen, and all of Alexandria mourns for her passing.

Now in control of Bahamut, Kuja is more powerful than ever. No more than five days after the battle, Bahamut attacks Alexandria.