IX also has a nice cutscene. A storm at sea is shown and a lone boat with a girl and a woman is out at sea in the storm. After a minute or two of that, we see our love interest of IX, Garnet, seems to have fallen asleep on a chair as she suddenly wakes up and the storm at sea was a dream. Garnet opens up a window and is in a castle. Doves are seen flying around and the view is changed to the sky, where an airship is flying. We go inside the airship and Zidane is seen going down a pole and into a room. Here we gain control if him in a dark room. He lights a match and we have him light a candle (which for some reason lights the whole room). A chance to name Zidane and then three of his friends, Blank, Marcus and Cinna, enter the room. A little chat and then the first battle of the game. All four of them can steal and it's nice to have four characters to control instead of just one for the first battle. When the battle is over, we see it was their boss, Baku, with a mask on that they had attacked. We go into the room besides this one and a plan is explained to us. A plan to kidnap the princess, Garnet Til Alexandros XVII. The airship is a theater ship, it would seem, and they are about to do a play called 'I Want To Be Your Canary' to distract everyone from the kidnapping. After the plan is explained, we get another FMV cutscene showing the city of Alexandria and the title of this game. The cutscene finishes and we gain control of a black mage called ????. We later find out it's Vivi. Going to the ticket booth, Vivi shows his ticket, which is for the play 'I Want To Be Your Canary', but it seems to be a fake. We go into an alley and Vivi falls on his face, making a nearby signmaker mess up. He finishes putting up a sign and goes away. A rat faced kid comes and wants Vivi to help him. Vivi accepts and the rat kid steals the ladder the signmaker was using. After he goes away with the ladder, we go into a steeple. The rat kid asks us to go up a ladder to check for dangers. As we are about to go up the ladder, a moogle lands on Vivi's head. A little talk with it, the rat kid goes up the ladder and another moogle comes into the steeple, named Stiltzkin, who is about to travel the world. He leaves and the rat kid is impatient because he asked Vivi to hurry up. The moogle asks us if we want to save our game. The moogles act as Save Points in IX.