"Here they are," said Celes, gesturing at the bound men.  "He has the
Orb," she motioned towards Cecil.

"Very good."  Edgar seemed different since last they met.  Very different.
"Now I will kill you."

"What!"  Celes dove, drew her sword, and cut her friends free.

"It ends now, Edgar," intoned FuSoYa.

"This world will not be destroyed.  Nature will survive," challenged Edge.

"Your evil reign will not last," threatened Cecil.

"I'm sorry, Edgar, but you've gone too far," Celes told the King.

"For everyone, everywhere, we must destroy you!" shouted Rydia.

"I, the man of Darkness, shall bring you from your own, even if I have to
kill you," Golbez spoke.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.  Maybe once you could have beaten me."  Edgar drew the
Orb from his cape.  "STOP!"  Everyone froze.  "Ultima!"  Blue light
struck them all down.  "Haste!"  Edgar suddenly sped up.  "Quick!"  He
began to move even faster.  "Slow!"  His foes, now moving, slowed to an
absurd speed.  "You see.  And now, let us do battle!"

"B..a..h..a..m..u..t!" called Rydia.  The King of Monsters appeared
outside of the castle.

"Shadow Dragon."  Edgar returned.  The evil beast appeared and struck
Bahumat from behind.  And the Dragons made war.

"M..e..t..." began FuSoYa, holding the orb shard.

"Silence, old man!" shouted Edgar, and FuSoYa's voice disappeared.

"M..e..t..e.." Golbez tried.  Edgar spun and shouted, "Break!"  Golbez
turned into a stone statue.

"An as for you, Caller.  HAHAHA!  Imp!"  Edge watched in horror as his
beloved turned into an imp.

"BLITZ!" he shouted, watching lightning slam into Edgar.  Nothing
happened.

"I'm too strong for you, Ninja.  You'd best be frozen," he laughed, as
Edge turned into an ice carving.  Only Cecil and Celes and Rosa remained
to fight him.

"WHI.." screamed Rosa.

"Oh no you don't," laughed Edgar, turning her into a statue like Golbez.
"And as for you, King of Baron, Shadow Bind!"  Pure cords of shadow grew
from the floor and bound him.  Edgar laughed maniacally.

"You're no match for me!  None of you are!  Good-bye, Celes.  X-Zone!"
Celes was engulfed in a cosmic fold, and disappeared.

"Oh yeah!" shouted a voice from above.  It was Flemme, who had apparently
been watching.  He was in the Big Whale.  He grabbed the party with a
beam of light, and went speeding off.

Of Bahumat and the Shadow Dragon, nothing was seen.  However, a piece of
pitch black scale was found on the ground, where the Shadow Dragon was
last seen.