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The Dialogue Towards the End of the Movie
He takes off the Auryn and hands it to her.
She looks at it, and then him for an explanation.
" I have failed you Empress." She smiles.
" No, you haven't. You've brought him with you."
" Who ?"
" The Earthling child. The one who can save us all."
" You knew about the Earthling child ?!"
She smiles again.
" Of course. I knew everything."
Atreyu grows angry at her."
My horse died, I nearly drowned, I just barely got away from the nothing.
For what ?! To find out what you already knew ?!"
" It was the only way to get in touch with an Earthling."
" But I didn't get in touch with an Earthling !"
"Yes, you did." Bas sits up slowly as we hear what she's saying.
" He has suffered with you. He went through everything you went through.
And now, he has come here with you. He's very close. Listening to every
word that we say."
Atreyu looks around, as does she. Bastian doesn't believe it.
" What ?!"
Two fragments of Fantasia collide and explode.
" Where is he ? If he's so close, why doesn't he arrive ?!" Atreyu asks.
" He doesn't realize that he's already a part of the NeverEnding Story."
" The NeverEnding Story, what's that ?"
" Just as he is sharing all your adventures, other's are sharing his.
They were with him when he hid from the boys in the bookstore."
" But that's impossible! " Bas cries out.
" They were with him when he took the book with the Auryn symbol on the
cover, in which he's reading his own story right now."
Bas stands in a corner." I can't believe it, they can't be talking about
me."
The Ivory Tower cracks. Atreyu turns around to see where it cracked, then
he turns back to the Empress.
" What will happen if he doesn't appear?!"
" Then our world will disappear, and so will I."
" How can he let that happen ?!"
" He doesn't understand that he's the one who has the power to stop it.
He simply can't imagine that one little boy could be that important."
" Is it really me ?" Bas says out loud.
" Maybe he doesn't know what he has to do !" Atreyu yells at her.
" What do I have to do ?!" Bas cries out.
" He has to give me a new name. He's already chosen it, he just has to
call it out."
" It's only a story, it's not real. It's only a story." Bas says.
The Ivory Tower shakes and cracks some more.
Atreyu falls over backward and is knocked unconscious.
" Atreyu ! NO!" Bas cries.
" Atreyu !" The Empress cries.
Outside view, the courtyard is being taken away by the nothing. The Empress
starts crying.
" Bastian, why don't you do what you dream, Bastian ?"
" But I can't ! I have to keep my feet on the ground!" Bas is crying too.
" Call my name ! Bastian, please ! Save us ! "
" All right, I'll do it. I'll save you. I will do what I dream!" Bas says
He climbs up to the window and opens it.
He leans out into the storm and calls out the name he had chosen for her.
" Moonchild !" Darkness, pure and black as night. We hear Bastian speak.
" Why is it so dark? "
" In the beginning it is always dark." Moonchild says. A small light appears
and starts growing until the can see each other. It is coming from an
object in Moonchild's hand. Bastian looks at it.
" What is that ?"
" One grain of sand. It is all that remains of my vast empire."
" Fantasia has totally disappeared ?"
" Yes."
" Then everything has been in vain." She smiles.
" No, it hasn't. Fantasia can arise in you . In your dreams and wishes
Bastian."
" How ?"
" Open your hand." She puts the sand into his hand and he looks at it.
" What are you going to wish for ?"
" I don't know."
" Then there will be no Fantasia any more."
" How many wishes do I get?" She smiles.
" As many as you want. And the more wishes you make, the more magnificent
Fantasia will become."
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