Re-statement of Disclaimer: This is a transcription of the game's dialogue and a summary of its events. As it was transcribed by me, a fan, it's not perfect (but admittedly, not too shabby, I'd give it 98% accuracy). The characters, events, and everything within this transcription belong to Square-Enix. I am making no profit off of this, and am making it available to fans who've already played the game, and who author fanfiction to use as a REFERENCE. If you have not yet played this game, please go buy yourself a copy and play it. It's wonderful. And, just for good measure, as this is a transcription of the game and its events there are obviously SPOILERS. If you haven't played the game, DO NOT READ THIS. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED.

Also to note...I've included the thought bubbles that were added to this version of the game because I thought they were a wonderful addition to the storyline and added new depth to the characters, enough so, to be considered part of the script itself. I did not, however, include dialogue from villagers.

I started this several weeks ago...and finally finished it. I figured I would post it for other FFIV fanfiction writers to use as a reference for their work.

Disclaimer: This is a transcription of the game's dialogue and a summary of its events. As it was transcribed by me, a fan, it's not perfect (but admittedly, not too shabby, I'd give it 98% accuracy, not including typos...). The characters, events, and everything within this transcription belong to Square-Enix. I am making no profit off of this, and am making it available to fans who've already played the game, and who author fanfiction to use as a REFERENCE. If you have not yet played this game, please go buy yourself a copy and play it. It's wonderful. And, just for good measure, as this is a transcription of the game and its events there are obviously SPOILERS. If you haven't played the game, DO NOT READ THIS. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED.

Also to note...I've included the thought bubbles that were added to this version of the game because I thought they were a wonderful addition to the storyline and added new depth to the characters, enough so, to be considered part of the script itself. I did not, however, include dialogue from villagers.

If any of you find things that could be changed, please let me know. For instance, I'm catching typos that I've missed...some of the text was difficult to transcribe because there was no opportunity to pause the dialogue, write it down, and continue. So if you see any typos, misspelled names, places, or missing punctuation...that's what happened, and please let me know so I can fix it!

This is the first of several parts. The original word document is 80 pages, so I'm splitting it up into more manageable parts for easier consumption.

It occurred to me that I'd been posting individual chapters for Escaping the Flames last summer and then suddenly stopped halfway through. The fanfiction is completed now and instead of posting the rest of the individual chapters, I'll just put up a link to the entire completed fic on fanfiction.net

I feel like I'm talking about this thing all the time, but for those of you interested, here's the link and a description.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2805280/1/Escaping_the_Flames

Title: Escaping the Flames
Rating: K+
Length: 18 chapters
Based on: Final Fantasy IV's character Rydia
Summary: (those of you that know the game and the character, this is a novelization of game events from Rydia's point of view as a little girl, starting from Mist. Goes into her character a little more and there's more dialogue and character interaction.)
For those of you who DON'T know the game or character, here's summary number two:
Rydia is a seven year old girl just wanting to learn to become a summoner like her mother. One day when two mysterious knights arrive in the valley of her village unknowingly bringing destruction with them, her peaceful life is shattered. With her village gone, and her mother dead, Rydia finds herself in the company of Cecil, a dark knight who was tricked into carrying out the errand to her village that ended in its annihilation. Afterwards swearing himself an enemy to his own kingdom, travels with Rydia, a fledgling mage, to put an end to his king's madness and spare the other kingdoms from any more bloodshed. But to stand up against the strongest kingdom in the world, they'll need allies. Rydia gets caught up in a quest to save the world and avenge her fallen people. She's just a little girl, but as she travels, she finds she's so much more. 

I suck at summaries, but yeah, that's the gist of it.