cutejr01: * They travel to the city of Tule. The pirates stay in the bar here. Lenna takes the party toa man named Zok, who has the key to the Torna Canal, which leads to Walse. Zok is at first reluctant to give Lenna the key, but reconsiders when he sees her determinationto succeed. He gives the key to Bartz in the middle of the night.
* Inside the Torna Canal, the ship is confronted by a giant sea monster. It createsa whirlpool which sucks Syldra inside. Without any way of steering the ship, it drifts until it reaches a place called the Ship Graveyard, where several wreckages lie. When they find a safe place to rest and dry off, Bartz, Galuf, and Lenna discover that Faris is actually a girl. Before they can leave the Ship Graveyard, they are presented with mirages (Bartz with his mother, Lenna and Faris with King Tycoon, and Galuf with his granddaughter Krile) which puts them in a trance. However, Galuf doesn't remember Krile, breaks off the trance, frees his friends, and defeats the Siren who caused the hypnosis.
* They come to the city of Carwen, where they decide that with their sea transportation gone, they need air transportation. They travel to the North Mountain, where a plant called Dragon Grass grows. It's a cure-all for Dragons, and they figure it's possible that Hiryu, King Tycoon's Wind Drake might have gone there.
* They find Hiryu at the North Mountain. Lenna risks her own life to get the Dragon Grass, walking through poisonous plants to reach it, and in thanks Hiryu heals Lenna andallows all four of them to ride him.
* Hiryu takes them to Walse Castle. Lenna implores the king to stop using the Water Crystal to power the city, but the king refuses.
* A member of Galuf's army from the Castle of Bal arrives via meteor to protect the WaterCrystal from a woolly mammoth named Garula, who has recently fallen under Exdeath's control. Another meteor arrives in Karnak bearing a werewolf from Kelger's army to do the same for the Fire Crystal.
* The king of Walse goes to Walse Tower to investigate the meteor and the Water Crystal,but is attacked and wounded by Garula. Galuf meets the warrior but does not recognize him. They defeat Garula, but are not in time to save the Water Crystal, which breaks, or the warrior, who dies.
* A soldier from Karnak wanders into the Karnak meteor and is warped to the Walse meteor. Bartz and party get the hint and takethe warp to Karnak.
* Bartz and party are seen coming out of theKarnak meteor and are believed to be in league with the werewolf, Tzuze, seen on the premises. They are thrown in jail, next toCid. Cid finally manages to break out of his cell, but ends up back in Bartz's cell! Fortunately, the Karnak Chancellor frees Cid because a crack has been noticed in the Crystal. Cid demands Bartz's party's release as well; the chancellor reluctantly agrees. Karnak Castle is on fire due to the Crystal's overheating.
* Bartz and party rush to the Fire-Powered Ship. Bartz manages to cleanse it of monsters, but finds Queen Karnak, controlledby Exdeath, in the ship as well. He defeats the demon possessing her, but it moves on to a Karnak soldier, who jams the switch on the Crystal, turning the power up to full and shattering it. Tzuze appears and saves Bartz and party from the imminent destruction, but cannot escape himself. Karnak Castle is destroyed by fire. Cid, overcome with depression, adamantly refuses to engineer anything ever again.
* Bartz and party enter the Library of the Ancients and look for Mid in the basement. They find him and he shows them the plans he found for restarting the Fire-Powered Ship. Mid travels to Karnak to whack Cid out of his depression (literally). Back on board the Fire-Powered Ship, which is quickly rehabilitated, the scene with Cid and Mid reminds Galuf of a similar scene between him and his granddaughter Krile, and he regains his memory. He explains the entire situation to Bartz, Lenna, and Faris.
* Resolving to protect the Earth Crystal, Bartz and party visit Crescent Town, only to have the Fire-Powered Ship sunk in a whirlpool! They find a flying Black Chocobo in a nearby forest, though. Returning to the Library of the Ancients, Cid and Mid tell them that King Tycoon has been sighted in Karnak, then went southwest through the Desert of Shifting Sands. Bartz and co. follow him.
* The shifting sands of the desert confound Bartz, but Cid calls a sandworm and Bartz walks over its body across the sand. They enter Gohn, the Town of Ruin, a Ronkan relic. They run after the spectre of King Tycoon, but are trapped in a pit and fall down into a strange mechanistic place, the Airship Base. They are carried to just west ofCrescent Island, where Cid and Mid have returned the Black Chocobo to its home.

cutejr01: 1000 Years Ago:
* Enuo, an ancient evil, creates a "Void" which threatens destruction of the world. The people of the world succeed in defeating Enuo using twelve legendary weapons, but cannot destroy the Void. In desperation, they call upon the power of four Elemental Crystals, which they split in two. The split causes the world to split into two distinct worlds as well, and the Void is trapped in the Interdimensional Rift between the two worlds.
* The twelve legendary weapons are sealed in Castle Kuza in the Second World. Information on how to retrieve them (should the need arise) is hidden in a Sealed Tome, but the book itself is torn in two when the worlds are separated.
30 Years Ago:
* An evil tree awakes in the forest of Moore in the Second World and takes on the form of a dark knight named Exdeath, who beginswreaking havoc on the world. He travels to another world (the First World) and begins trying to destroy the four Crystals there. FourWarriors of the Dawn (Galuf Halm Baldesion, Xezat Matias Surgate, Kelger Vlondett, and Dorgann Klauser) defeat Exdeath and seal him in the First World using the power of the Crystals.
Dorgann, overcome with regret over throwing their problem to another world, stays with Exdeath in the new world. He settles down in the village of Rix, marries a woman named Stella, and has a son named Bartz. He and Stella both die of illness in the same year.
* On the First World, King Alexander Highwind Tycoon marries and has two daughters, Lenna and Sarisa. However, Sarisais taken by pirates and raised as one of them, taking the name Faris. She befriends a water dragon named Syldra, who helps tow her ship around when wind is low.
* Queen Tycoon becomes deathly ill. The onlycure for her is the tongue of a Dragon, an endangered species. Tycoon's daughter, Lenna, despite her love for the Dragons, resolves to kill it to save her mother, but her father stops her, and his wife passes away.
Present:
* Exdeath begins to stir. He begins to controlcreatures and people with his mind, with theintent of freeing himself. His first attack is onthe Wind Crystal, kept in the Wind Shrine near Tycoon Castle.
* King Tycoon, sensing the weakening of thewind, boards a Dragon to travel to the Wind Shrine. The Crystal shatters, knocking him out, and Exdeath takes control of him.
* Bartz begins a journey with his pet Chocobo, Boko, to see the world, based on his father's dying wish.
* Galuf, king of the Castle of Bal, discovers Exdeath's intentions and boards a meteor tothe First World. However, the impact causes him to lose all memory.
* Cid Previa, creator of the Fire-Powered Shipwhich runs on the Fire Crystal's power, observes the weakening of the Crystal. He begs the Queen of Karnak to stop using the ship and otherwise using the Crystal's power. She refuses, but Cid attempts to shut off the machine himself; she throws Cid in jail.
* Scholars from the Library of the Ancients west of Karnak (where Cid's grandson Mid studies) begin visiting the Queen urging her to stop using the Crystal. She builds a wall west of the town keeping them out.
* Mid descends to the depths of the basement of the Library of the Ancients to look for a method of having the Fire-Powered Ship work on its own. He losestrack of time, oblivious of the nearby monsters.
* Lenna begins to search for her father and ends up near Galuf's meteor. She is attacked by goblins, but saved by Bartz. They meet Galuf, who remembers nothing but his desire to go to the Wind Shrine. He and Lenna go there together. Bartz follows behind.
* Bartz rescues Lenna and Galuf from more goblins in a narrow pass; they decide to continue to the Wind Shrine together.
* The fall of the meteor has blocked the way back to Tycoon Castle, but it has also formed a new cave. The cave leads to the pirates' lair. They leave Boko at the entrance (he is later injured, and is cared for by one of the pirates' men). Bartz and co. decide to steal the pirate ship, but are caught by Faris before they can. Faris puts the three in the brig, but a pendant worn by Lenna leaves her to wonder about her own, identical pendant. She decides to join them and take them to the Wind Shrine.
* They find the Wind Crystal shattered. An image of King Tycoon appears to them and describes (vaguely) the situation involving Exdeath and the Crystals. They are shown to be the four "legendary warriors" and vow toprotect the other three Crystals. The Water Crystal in Walse is next on their list.