"Come again." "Thanks!" "The silly fools!" "People can't fly!" "You're the fool." "Once upon a time they did." "No way!" "How could they do that?" "!" "These two flew." "They were friends whose souls flew farther than we ever will." "The girl went to the south seas where the dolphins are, and the boy there he is!" "Come again!" "I'II have these." "Not many out for Midwinter Festival." "No." "They're the only ones doing well these days." "The Gold Snake Brigade!" "Over here, Myryu!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Here, Myryu!" "Jump!" "It's over here!" "Here!" "Get it!" "Myryu?" "Myryu!" "Amon!" "Myryu!" "Dad!" "We can't leave Myryu!" "Did you..." "Yes." "I burned it all." "Those fiends won't have it." "We're almost at the border, Amon." "They've got bears and caribou there." "Myryu, too?" "No, but there's lots of other animals." "And a beautiful river, where salmon come in the fall." "And a hill where blueberries grow..." "Amon!" "Promise me you'II never show your 'light-play' to anyone." "Why?" "You OK?" "Yes!" "How's Dr Fritz?" "Sir!" "He died at 1802 hours, sir!" "He was a genius!" "Your orders were to take him alive!" "Was there a boy with them?" "He's over there." "He's safe?" "Yes." "He's not hurt at all." "Amon!" "Miss Lucia..." "Up we go!" "Dad..." "No hope." "If she gets better, can I keep her?" "How did you do that?" "!" "Stop it, Myryu!" "Hey!" "Wait, Myryu!" "We're ready, Doctor." "Amon, do your light-play." "Sure!" "Are you all right?" "Are you hurt?" "No, I'm OK." "Doctor!" "Doctor!" "It worked!" "The energy level exceeded the target value!" "Thank you, Amon!" "That was excellent!" "What's wrong, Amon?" "The kids at school say I'm strange because I can talk to animals." "You're not strange." "But I can't talk to animals, and neither can the kids at school." "So they think no one should be able to." "Congratulations, Doctor." "I'm told you've found a new form of energy." "Dr Fritz ignored my order to make a weapon using the new energy." "He destroyed his data, and attempted to flee into exile." "But he had a talented assistant there through all this research." "Loyal to my orders, she has secretly kept his data." "Lucia..." "Only you can continue Dr Fritz's research." "I appoint you our nation's Minister of Science." "Thank you very much." "Amon!" "Amon!" "Dad?" "Complete the particle bomb so I may restore the Empire of the Gold Dragon and rule the world!" "Dad!" "Dad!" "It's you, isn't it?" "I'm sorry." "Your mother and father are dead." "You sound so much like him..." "Now you must live alone." "But I'm going to stay with Miss Lucia!" "Amon... you must not let them use the power you have." "Power?" "One day you'll understand." "Look around you." "You can see the wind, can't you?" "The wind?" "Close your eyes, and listen carefully to its sound." "Can you hear?" "Yes...it's like it's singing!" "Set yourself free." "Look!" "The golden breeze of the ancient Wind Folk!" "Amon!" "Relax your body!" "See the wind!" "You can fly!" "Spread your arms." "Don't fight it!" "Ride the wind!" "You must be hungry." "You've slept for three days." "A naked bear from out of the sky!" "I am Urs, ruler of Heart Island." "Did you bring me here?" "Can you fly?" "I don't know." "But a gold eagle said I could." "Look." "The Wind Folk painted those." "They spoke with the animals and flew with the birds." "One of their flautists lost that." "I shouldn't have got my hopes up." "How many eons has it been since I saw one of the Wind Folk?" "The Wind Folk?" "Me?" "Only one of the Wind Folk could play that." "You keep it." "We celebrate the birth of the new Empire of the Gold Dragon!" "That they could fly was proof they were truly free." "The Wind Folk were content with enough food for the day." "They didn't own things, or save them." "But one day one youth decided to keep all the berries for himself." "He loaded his pockets so full he could barely fly." "Then the others started doing the same thing and soon not one of the naked bears could fly any more." "Having abandoned flight, they came to a miserable end." "Pockets full of berries weren't enough." "They began to steal from one another." "Then came an armed race calling itself the People of the Gold Dragon." "To the south!" "The Great White Snake calls for blood!" "Neither the bears nor the Wind Folk had weapons." "We were helpless." "They made a kingdom of this land, and waged war throughout the world to make its riches their own." "But those who live by the sword die by it." "At the height of the kingdom, the Bow People came from the south." "The People of the Gold Dragon were killed, and their treasure looted." "That's terrible!" "It couldn't be helped." "You naked bears are like that." "But nothing would have happened if the Wind Folk had stayed as they were." "But the Wind Folk were gone." "What is it?" "What are you doing?" "I want to fly." "I can see the wind." "Don't be stupid!" "Stop!" "Come down!" "The Wind Folk can't fly once the sun is down!" "What?" "!" "'Over the wide blue sea... '...echoes the sound of the gong...'" "Peena!" "Where are you going?" "Go on ahead, Mother." "Peena!" "Um..." "I'm sorry!" "Where am I?" "Uh-oh..." "Mother!" "Don't try to move." "You were half-dead!" "You're not from around here." "You're too pale." "Have you come far?" "Where are your parents?" "Stop hanging around and get dinner started!" "There's three of us today." "You can stay here if you don't have anywhere to go." "But you'll have to earn your keep." "We don't have a man around here." "Men here work on the zabi boats." "'Zabi'?" "Buck up, me lad." "Buck up, me lad." "Well done, lads!" "Who hasn't got any yet?" "Why is ours so small?" "What?" "Look, Maria!" "They're just the same!" "Stop complaining!" "The same?" "Then trade me for yours!" "Good for you!" "Go get him!" "Wow!" "Aren't you hungry?" "Don't you like it?" "We don't have this very often." "Well..." "I wasn't much help on the boat and all..." "It was your first day!" "Don't worry about it!" "But the poor zabi..." "Ow!" "Mother!" "Don't be stupid!" "If we don't eat it, we starve!" "The zabi is a gift to us from the God of the Sea." "It's bad luck not to eat it all!" "Not to eat it is disrespect for the zabi!" "A zabi killed my father and brother with its tail." "If we don't eat it, they can't go to heaven." "But they say in heaven we swim with the zabis." "They're our friends." "Ow!" "' Morning!" "Good morning, Maria." "Wow!" "It's like magic!" "I'm still not very good." "I've got to get better." "Girls don't go out on the boats, so we weave instead." "Someday, when I get better at it and I can sell my weaving, there's something I want to buy." "A doll!" "What a waste!" "They're so expensive!" "But they're so pretty!" "Can I help?" "It's spring tide, so the boats won't be going out." "Really?" "Come to the Hill Folk's village with us tomorrow." "He can't, Maria!" "That's women's work!" "I've got an idea!" "'Over the wide blue sea... ' ...echoes the sound of the gong... ' ...as the sun brings tidings... ' ...of the ocean's blessings. '" "Maria!" "Wait up!" "You're carrying less than us, and we aren't halfway there yet!" "We've been walking since dawn!" "I shouldn't have said I'd help!" "Get it here!" "Dried fish!" "Salt!" "Dried fish!" "Salt!" "Give it up for today, Monica." "When we get home, we'II split our corn with you." "Thanks." "That'll be a help." "I'm sorry... it's my fault we were late." "Some days are like that." "These dried fish look good!" "They've spent a whole month in the sun." "Ten cobs for five?" "Yes, sir!" "I'll give you ten cobs for a bowl of this salt." "Thank you!" "I'II take some dried fish." "I'll trade you seed nuts for zabi meat." "I will, too!" "Amon!" "Amon!" "He's tired." "Let him sleep." "O God of the Sea, we thank you for the blessings you give." "We ask your protection for Amon, and for us." "Open your heart, and let Amon stay with us forever." "Don't work too hard!" "Here goes!" "Come on in, Amon!" "I'm fine here, thanks!" "Wait a minute!" "I can't swim!" "That's Heart Island, where the Kingdom of the Gold Dragon began." "There's a vast treasure hidden there." "Sir!" "The wind's blowing too strong for us to land!" "Why?" "!" "Heart Island!" "Why do you not welcome me?" "Sir!" "With the new flying battleship, the wind will not be a problem." "What's the shortest route to Heart Island?" "Follow the Nebuta River upstream from Dolphin Point, sir!" "Inform the commanders." "The plan is changed." "We'll invade Nabaan overland, and Heart Island will be mine!" "Are we going to war with Nabaan, sir?" "!" "The time is right." "We'II kill everyone in Nabaan!" "Hurry!" "Into the hills!" "We sealed these guns a century ago, but we must defend ourselves!" "Get moving!" "Protect us from those with guns!" "Give me a gun, too!" "It's no place for a woman!" "No!" "I'll fight!" "I have things to defend, too!" "Maria!" "We can't resist them!" "Fall back!" "Mother!" "Monica!" "Mother!" "No!" "Mother!" "No!" "Go back!" "Mother!" "Don't die!" "Hurry!" "Get away!" "No!" "Mother!" "Stop!" "What was that force?" "Amon?" "Order the Land Brigade to halt!" "They don't answer!" "New orders to all commanders!" "Cease attack and get me that boy... alive!" "Maria!" "We have to get out of here, Maria!" "Mother!" "' Look into the eastern sky..." "' Look!" "Old Mr Sun has shown his face..." "' "Hey, where are you going?"" "' "Damned if I know! " '" "Renik, could you at least stop singing while you stand guard?" "Who's there?" "!" "A couple of kids..." "Have you seen any Sea Folk?" "We got separated from them." "No." "We haven't met anyone." "The Gold Snake Brigade will be through here tomorrow." "You'd both better get out of here." "Will you take us with you?" "We don't have anywhere else to go." "We're going to Hambel." "You're welcome to come." "It's safer than being out here." "Thank you." "They're burning more villages." "Damn those Snakes!" "You eat too much, Renik!" "I can't sing when I'm hungry." "You eat enough for two!" "I want to go back to Dolphin Point!" "Maria..." "Maria!" "Let's play in the sky with Peena..." "just like we did with the dolphins." "Hey!" "Come on!" "Hold on tight." "Peena!" "The wind feels so nice!" "You say we need the boy's power?" "Yes, sir." "He has a strange ability called 'light-play' ." "The many tiny energy holes it produces are the nucleus of the particle bomb." "Why haven't you told me this?" "I thought Amon was dead." "I hoped I could create a new weapon myself." "Don't try my patience, Lucia." "Get that boy, no matter what it takes." "You're going to make me a particle bomb." "Yo!" "Hello!" "It's been ages!" "We're finally here!" "Maria... that's where I was born." "Is it ever huge!" "He went flying through the air!" "He jumped off the cliff and..." "Whoops!" "Idiot!" "Well done, Renik!" "It's true, Doctor!" "Believe me!" "Isn't it, Tabal!" "Well, the legend has come down of an ancient people who could fly..." "When you need useless knowledge, always ask a third-rate poet!" "I'm also the town's best doctor, but my patients are all in your camp." "If you don't topple Branik soon, I'II go broke!" "Don't any of you have kids?" "No girls?" "The Gold Snakes took them all away." "Branik puts everyone opposed to him in prison." "Our families are all in jail." "Branik!" "My poor wife!" "So you see, Amon and Maria we're fighting so our wives and children can live in peace again." "We're getting reinforcements from abroad after Midwinter Festival." "We've been getting things ready." "After the festival, we'II rise and topple Branik!" "Tabal!" "I'II fight with you!" "Me, too!" "You're very welcome." "Let's drink to that!" "Cheers!" "'Shining, shining, open up the door..." "'Shining, shining, the door to all your hopes." "' Look into the eastern sky..." "' Look!" "Old Mr Sun has a smile on his face..." "'Sometimes he looks angry, sometimes frightening..." "'But if you ask him why, he never says. '" "Hey!" "Why so down in the dumps?" "Mind your own business." "And don't stroll around in the open or the Snakes'll get you." "Who's afraid of the Gold Snakes?" "This is our town!" "What's wrong with me walking around?" "You three!" "Oh, hello, officers!" "Out keeping the peace, I see..." "Take that!" "Ow!" "Get out of here!" "Ow!" "Let go!" "Let go of me!" "The boy went that way!" "Get after him!" "Don't let him escape!" "Tabal says you have a power they want." "We can't let them take you!" "Let me go!" "No!" "Stay here!" "Amon!" "Watch where you're going!" "Lend me your car!" "Maria!" "Amon!" "No!" "Move!" "You beast!" "Maria!" "Amon!" "Your make-up stinks..." "Welcome, Amon." "I hear you have a mysterious power." "I'd like to use it for our nation." "Where did you get this?" "I know." "You got it from Heart Island." "You'll take me there, won't you?" "If you promise to free Maria, Renik, the families and never to attack Dolphin Point or Nabaan again." "You're a shrewd bargainer." "All right, it's a deal." "But only if you keep your end of the bargain." "Take off the cuffs." "No!" "I promised my father I wouldn't do the light-play." "Listen, Amon your father only said that because he'd gone mad." "That's not true!" "Why would he make you promise when his dream was to find a new type of energy?" "That's not normal." "'Those fiends won't have it, ' he said." "Doesn't that mean Branik?" "Of course not!" "The President has never heard of light-play." "Trust me, Amon." "Don't you want to help your friends?" "Prisoners are kept underground in a dark, damp, dirty dungeon." "After a month they go crazy and die!" "No!" "Don't worry." "Keep your promise, and they'II all go free." "Please... help me." "Just a little more!" "Why did you stop?" "!" "' Sing and dance, O Folk of the Sea... ' ...for all the Gods' blessings to thee. '" "Hey!" "Quiet in here!" "Maria!" "Maria!" "Maria!" "Run!" "The zabi's coming to eat you!" "Set course for Heart Island!" "Heart Island... the holy land of our forefathers..." "Finally the day has come!" "This place gives me the creeps!" "Yeah!" "Some holy place this is!" "There is treasure here somewhere!" "Search every inch!" "I wonder if that's the treasure they say was left here..." "I didn't come here to see old pictures!" "Burn that old garbage!" "Fire!" "Urs!" "Set course for the south." "We attack Dolphin Point!" "They'll see what this ship can do!" "You promised!" "You didn't keep yours!" "Lucia's research has gone nowhere, and there was no treasure!" "Watch what happens when you don't keep your promises!" "Dolphin Point!" "Ready main cannon!" "Stop!" "No, Amon!" "Ready!" "Fire!" "Fire!" "The charge is dispersing in the cloud cover!" "What?" "!" "Those clouds will cover Nabaan until just before Winter Solstice." "Lucia!" "Sir!" "I order you to finish the particle bomb by Winter Solstice!" "But sir..." "I'll destroy Nabaan with one blast!" "Don't tell me there's no time!" "This is your last chance!" "Return to Hambel!" "Yes, sir!" "What the...?" "!" "Next time there'II be real trouble!" "They looked so funny!" "Renik!" "I've brought you a friend, Amon." "You haven't seen him for a while." "You're horrible!" "What's he done?" "!" "This is all because you won't do the light-play!" "It's all your fault!" "I'm fine, Amon." "Don't worry." "Renik!" "Turn up the power!" "I can't do it!" "Stop it!" "When we create a new energy with the light-play, you'll all go free!" "This is for world peace!" "What's wrong with that?" "Why won't you help?" "Do you want to kill me?" "!" "Kill you?" "!" "I'm very sorry." "Give me a little more time, please." "You have failed, Lucia." "We want a new bomb to make us masters of all humanity!" "You swore you could make one!" "I know that, but..." "Lucia... we can't wait any longer." "You are dismissed as Science Minister." "The court-martial will decide your fate." "Looks like Death to me..." "If she's ignored her orders..." "Lucia... meet the new Minister of Science." "Unlike you, a man who will complete the particle bomb." "Hello, Lucia." "Playing with light..." "playing with light..." "Light-play..." "Good morning." "Prepare for an immediate operation." "Yes." "Anesthetize Amon." "It's all right, Amon." "I'm just going to take a peek at your secret." "I'll just remove your heart and brain, and sew you right back up." "It's the guerrillas!" "We're under attack!" "Run!" "Branik's going to kill me!" "You guerrillas listen to me!" "Let Amon go!" "Why are you rescuing him?" "It was his father who built the flying battleship!" "And the Dragon's Fire cannons!" "All Branik's weapons were developed by Dr Fritz!" "The boy is following after his father!" "He's building a particle bomb!" "A weapon to destroy the world!" "He's no comrade of yours!" "He's a fiend with a child's face!" "A fiend!" "Miss Lucia!" "The guerrillas have killed the Minister of Science!" "Lucia?" "!" "So the particle bomb is unfinished..." "Couldn't anyone else make it?" "We'll have to cancel the attack!" "No!" "We proceed as planned." "We'll drop the flying battleship's main engine and blow Nabaan sky-high." "It's not the particle bomb, but it will obliterate Nabaan." "But..." "We'II return on auxiliary power." "The Nabaan attack goes as planned on Winter Solstice!" "Where's Maria?" "Didn't you get her out?" "She's still in the dungeon." "I only got out because I was in the lab." "I'm going to save her!" "We were only able to get you out because the lab isn't fortified." "The High Command is." "We'd just take more casualties." "Wait for reinforcements." "But..." "You're not the only one who's lost someone important." "Don't worry." "We'II get her later." "We'II be too late!" "Branik's planning an all-out attack on Nabaan at Winter Solstice." "What?" "!" "No!" "But that's a festival day in every country!" "If that's true, we'll be too late with our coup!" "It's a bunch of lies!" "It's like she said!" "Amon's working for Branik!" "Do you believe that madwoman's raving?" "Do you believe what a kid tells you?" "His father's weapons killed my mother!" "I don't want him fighting beside me." "Your mother?" "She found another man and ran off with him!" "Oh, yeah..." "We still shouldn't trust him." "We don't know what he's been up to." "Cut that out, you!" "Don't worry, Amon." "We don't doubt you at all." "That's right!" "You're one of us!" "These guys just drink too much." "Hey!" "Who drinks too much?" "!" "Stop it, all of you!" "Amon!" "Everyone suffers because of my power.!" "Mom..." "Dad..." "Why am I different?" "If not for me, Monlca would still be alive and Marla would be living happily In her village by the sea..." "Myryu!" "You're all grown up!" "Yuck!" "You stink!" "I do, too?" "You're a mother now?" "Wow!" "Thanks." "I won't let them beat me down." "Honey!" "The Midwinter Festival?" "Yeah." "Tomorrow's the biggest festival in this country." "There'll be stalls, circuses, menageries..." "I want to go to the festival..." "with my mom and dad!" "Don't worry." "We'll go." "Yeah?" "Yes." "We'II go." "Somehow I have that feeling." "Tonight we'll attack Branik's High Command and overthrow him." "We can't wait for the others." "By morning they'll know how few we are." "It's got to be over by dawn." "Fight to the death!" "You can't go back to your bakery yet!" "This is how I focus myself!" "Chief, wait..." "If this is a trap, we're all dead!" "The information comes from a comrade I trust." "Anyone who doesn't can stay here." "And if this 'comrade' is a traitor?" "If we don't fight now, we'll have neither family nor freedom!" "Let's go!" "Evening, men." "How's it going?" "Everybody!" "It's a rebellion!" "Yeah?" "They're attacking the High Command!" "Now's our chance!" "Let's rise up!" "Yes!" "And drive out the Gold Snakes!" "And where are you going?" "!" "A riot?" "Yes, sir!" "The citizens have joined with the resistance!" "Let them." "This city will vanish anyway." "Scatter!" "Wait!" "Don't panic!" "Stop!" "Is that Amon?" "!" "Everyone!" "Everyone!" "This is your only chance." "Even the soldiers fear the will and strength of many joined together." "We will not be defeated." "With our own hands let us overthrow Branik!" "What's happening to the Gold Snakes?" "Now's our chance to bring them down!" "Everyone!" "Follow Amon!" "Lionis!" "Amon..." "You're hurt!" "Serves me right for not going with Tabal." "Don't move..." "You'II be all right now." "See you." "Amon!" "Amon!" "They're at the gate!" "What about them?" "Leave them!" "Can you see anything?" "A soldier's down." "And the keys!" "Can you reach them?" "No." "They're too far away." "I'II get them!" "Could you get under the door?" "!" "Sure!" "Then why didn't you... oh, forget it." "Let's go!" "Tabal!" "Are you OK?" "Yeah." "What happened?" "!" "Tabal!" "Amon!" "What's going on?" "!" "The citizens rose behind you!" "Amon brought them out!" "Amon?" "You did this?" "You're not short of troops now!" "All we've got left is Branik!" "Let's go!" "It's so big!" "What is it?" "A flying battleship..." "Ready the Dragon's Fire cannon!" "Target: the High Command!" "Sir!" "Our men are still in there!" "If you have gangrene in your arm, you cut it off and cauterize it." "That's the best medicine." "We'II get new soldiers." "It's gigantic!" "It's humongus!" "What is it?" "Forget it!" "Let's go!" "Ow!" "Are you OK, Nico?" "Oh, no!" "Fire!" "Help me, Amon!" "Maria!" "Amon!" "Where are you going?" "Maria!" "Amon!" "Maria!" "You're choking me!" "Sorry!" "I'm glad I was in time!" "See?" "What did I tell you?" "Amazing!" "One of the legendary Wind Folk!" "Long live Branik!" "Amon!" "Amon?" "Amon!" "Amon!" "Amon!" "Don't cry, Maria." "I'II always be with you." "Amon!" "Main cannon released!" "Hard aport!" "Target: the High Command!" "Full power to main engine!" "300 seconds to power limit!" "Release lower fuselage!" "Release lower fuselage!" "150 seconds to release of main engine!" "Releasing main gun power unit!" "Amon..." "look at the wind..." "Listen to its song..." "become one with it." "Do that and you can fly into Branik's body." "You!" "Who are you?" "Get out!" "Is it you who's inside me?" "Get out!" "Now!" "Cease the operation!" "Set course due east." "Abandon ship!" "Stop..." "Stop it..." "I don't want to die yet!" "In those days I was all alone." "A strange thing happened." "I heard the voice of the God of War..." "Take me into you and you will never be alone again." "People may hate and detest them, but still they flock to the strong." "That was far, far better than being alone." "I was afraid to be alone." "It's nothing to be afraid of." "Well done Amon." "You are truly one of the Wind Folk." "But does this mean the Wind Folk are extinct again?" "No, they'll never die." "They live in the hearts of all who treasure them and will forever." "We did it!" "You're safe!" "Go on!" "Fly!" "Peena!" "Amon..." "I won't forget you."