Honestly, I would want to read it, so may I get a link/name?
Not a story, I'm afraid. At least, not one that can be picked up and read.
The line came from Final Fantasy Four. One of the first RPG's I ever played back in the nineties. I still remember the first time I beat it after weeks of effort.
Now I can speedrun the game in less than a day.
The line, in short, comes from the protagonist character working to discard the blood-soaked blade of the Dark Knight and fighting his inner evils, manifested in a reflection chamber as his former self.
During this, he is being told that the path of the Paladin is one of peace- He ought sheathe his blade and raise his shield instead.
Now, being the American version of the game, Squaresoft thought the American audience would need to have a lot of the mechanics dumbed down for us. In the original version, the protagonist had access to the special skill called 'Darkness' (A recurring ability, as you may have noticed) which would eat a chunk of the character's hit points in return for an AoE attack.
The reflected Dark Knight would use that move exclusively, implying that it was killing itself in a bid to snuff out the protag's nascent light.
Except we had no clue! The move was removed from the U.S. version so all we saw was a cool attack that we didn't have access to and no understanding of what it was doing!
Well, if you still managed to pull a win by stabbing your darkness to death, that would be the line you were given. It was meant to imply that you succeeded, but failed to learn the lesson that was intended.
