This was one of the most entertaining things he had ever read, he wouldn't have believed any of it if it weren't for the fact that it was in HIS journal and the fact that most of the stuff in it most probably could have happened.
Almost the entire journal was full of…. adventures would be the appropriate word for it, the journal was full of adventures that he and Starswirl had been on, though Celestia was never informed of these because apparently she would have worried too much or not allowed Star to go on them.
Some of the things in the journal were amazing, and apparently Star had helped save Equestria on more than one occasion with Starswirl. His not so world ending adventures were just as adventurous, such as fighting against and with pirates, stopping three wars, The Dragon and Griffon wars, or also known as The War of the Burning Wings, The Griffon and Minotaur Wars, known as the Predator Wars, and the Dragon Wars, this was more of a rebellion of dragon vs. dragon, but it ended up as a war in the end, finding and preserving rare and valuable artifacts, and even once or twice he had ended up having stories told about his adventures, of course his name wasn't actually in them, Star decided to try and find one of these books later and read more about his "Adventures".
This did raise two questions in his mind though, firstly, why couldn't he remember any of this, and secondly, how could they possibly keep some of these things a secret from Celestia?
Star contemplated this for a while before an idea formed in his mind "Hey, Solar, you can see through all of my memories right?" he asked.
"Yes I can, why do you ask?" Solar responded quickly.
"I was just reading through my journal and apparently a lot of stuff happened to me that I still can't remember, do you know anything about any dragon wars or rare and valuable objects or pirates?" Star asked.
"Nope, sorry I don't know anything about any of those." Solar apologized.
"That's okay, I will just have to research them, thanks anyway." Star said with a shrug.
With that in mind Star made his way to the library where he intended to study up more on the subject of his adventures. When he arrived at the library he saw Twilight speaking to Rainbow, who seemed very upset "What do you mean that there aren't any more of them!" Rainbow exclaimed.
"That's just it, you just finished the last book in the series, as in, there aren't any more." Twilight explained.
"That can't be the end! There has to be something else!" Rainbow yelled in disbelief.
Twilight flinched back "I'm sorry Rainbow, but that is it, there aren't any more of them, but I could suggest another book series for you if you really want to read more, though they won't be the exact same as the Daring Do books." She offered.
"Fine, but these books better be awesome." Rainbow said reluctantly.
They walked over to a shelf on the other side of the room and began speaking, but Star couldn't hear them so he lost interest. He approached one of the bookshelves that held most of the myth, fiction, and fantasy books and began searching for anything related to dragon wars, griffon wars, pirates, or some type of book with Starswirl in it.
He was so engrossed in searching that he didn't notice the lavender unicorn approach him "Need help finding something?" she asked right by his ear.
This made Star jump in surprise "Don't do that!" he exclaimed.
That made Twilight giggle in amusement "So, as I asked, do you need help finding something?" she asked again.
Star thought for a moment before nodding his head "Yes actually, do you have any books on dragon wars, griffon wars, pirates or Starswirl?"
Twilight tilted her head "I only have a few fictional books on Starswirl, and I think I might have a book or two on griffon wars, but not dragon wars, and I think I might have a book on pirates, why?"
"I'm just doing some studying." Star answered honestly, it was the truth.
"Alright, one moment please." Twilight said with a smile before making her horn glow in concentration.
After a few moments a few books flew over to her "Here is a book on pirates, two books on Starswirl, both fictional, and a book on griffon wars." She said triumphantly.
Star took the books, thanked her, then made his way back to his home to read the books and find out how much of his journal was actually telling the truth.
It had taken him a few hours but he read through the book on pirates and the book on griffon wars, for the War of the Burning Feathers, it simply said that two unidentified ponies helped resolve the conflict, thus ending the war, and in the pirate book it mentioned him twice, once when it said that Starswirl and some unidentified pony stopped a crew of pirates from stealing from a cargo ship filled with gems and gold, and another when it mentioned two fleets of pirates locked in conflict, only for Starswirl to intervene and help one of them defeat the other, it only passingly mentioned that there was another pony with him.
In the books on Starswirl that was another story though, it told of Starswirl going on many of the adventures that he read of in his own journal, though it said that Starswirl was accompanied by somepony who wasn't given a name, he was simply referred to as "The apprentice".
These books seemed to be written for more entertainment value than for learning value, but from what he had been learning lately a lot of it was true, except for some parts in them that claimed that they were both notorious womanizers, he knew as a matter of fact that he knew nothing about mares and Starswirl only had eyes for Celestia, but he assumed that it was only put in to make the stories more interesting.
Although a lot of it was obviously made up, like how it stated that Starswirls apprentice was secretly a demon or something of the like, or how it said that he and Starswirl were actually a part of a secret group under the rule of Celestia.
The main parts of the stories were usually accurate, as far as he could tell at least, though he still couldn't confirm any of it until he regained his memories of these, but there was a problem with that plan, he had no idea how to go about doing that.
With a sigh he put away the books and refined himself to going over the facts so far "Okay, I think I have just about everything from my past figured out, except these "adventures" with Starswirl and why my magic is being blocked off."
He stayed in his bed contemplating all of this for what felt like hours before there was a knock on the door, he silently got up from his bed and went to find out who his visitor was.
When he arrived at the door he opened it and found Rainbow Dash standing at the other end of it "Hi." Star greeted cheerfully.
"Hey." She said returning the greeting.
"So, is there anything I can do for you or are you just here to visit?" Star asked getting right to the point.
"Actually yes, I want to race you, not running, but flying." Rainbow said competitively.
"I would love to! But there's a problem with that, I haven't even attempted to fly with these things yet, so that isn't going to work out very well." he explained.
"Fine then, I will give you flying lessons and you have to race me when it is finished!" she exclaimed impatiently.
"What is with your fixation on racing me?" he asked.
"I have raced and beaten every pegasus in Ponyville, except you, so I have to find out how good you are." She explained.
"How about this, give me a week to practice then we will race, sound good?" he offered.
"Fine, you can have a week, but only because you are gonna need it." She agreed competitively before flying off in a streak of rainbow.
Star simply shook his head and walked back into his humble abode. He was once again lying in his bed thinking of everything that had happened recently when he remembered something "Oh yeah!" he exclaimed.
He grabbed his saddlebag and made his way through the forest to the hut of one of his very good friends.
Soon enough he found his destination, Zecora's hut. He knocked on the door and waited for a few moments but nopony answered the door, so he opened it "Hello? Zecora are you home?" he called out.
He entered the hut and looked around expecting to find the zebra doing something or other but apparently she was not home at the moment. He left, deciding to come back the next morning and speak to the zebra.
By the time he got back to his home it was already dark out, so he decided to get some rest. This decision was short lived as there was a knock on the door, he sighed and walked over to the door to find out who disturbed his rest.
He opened the door to find Twilight wearing a sheepish grin "Hey Star, how's it going?" she greeted.
"Fine, how about you? Anything you want to talk about?" he asked.
"Well, it isn't that big of a deal, but I was kind of wondering what you wanted those books for." She asked.
"You came here, hours after I got them, to ask why I wanted the books?" he asked.
She gave him another sheepish grin and a nod "I told you I was doing research." He explained.
She nodded "Yes, I remember you saying you were doing research, but for what?" she asked.
"I read my journal and found some interesting things." He said with a shrug.
"Like what?" She asked eagerly
"You sound a little to excited over this, why?" he asked raising an eyebrow.
A blush grew on her face "Well, usually when somepony grabs books about pirates and Starswirl, I would dismiss it, but when it is YOU doing that, I have to find out what you are trying to find out."
"Am I really that interesting?" Star asked.
"Yes." Twilight said flatly.
"Well apparently Starswirl and I went on a whole bunch of adventures, fought pirates, stopped a few wars, found rare and valuable artifacts, and saved Equestria a few times, now can I go back to bed?" Star summed up.
"Wait, WHAT?" Twilight exclaimed.
Star sighed and rolled his eyes "Apparently Starswirl and I snuck around behind Celestia's back and went on adventures like that, I read about them in my journal, does this answer satisfy you?" he asked impatiently.
Twilight had a look of pure shock on her face, her eyes were wide as dinner plates and her jaw was almost touching the ground. Star waited a few more moments before shaking her out of her shock "Twilight, are we done here? Because I get grumpy when I am tired."
Twilight shook her head and looked back at him "Fine, but can I borrow that journal? I want to read this for myself." She asked.
"Sure, though at some points it is a little embarrassing, so please don't make fun of me too much for it." He said giving her the journal.
She thanked him and left with a happy look, Star sighed in relief and went back to bed.
He slept for what felt like ten minutes before there was another frantic knock at the door, he groggily and grumpily walked over to the door to find out who it was NOW.
Standing on the other side of the door was Twilight, again, wearing another sheepish grin "Hey Star, sorry to bother you again but… could I see those books you borrowed?" she asked
He quickly gave her the books and closed the door, then proceeded back to his bed to sleep. This was also short lived when he heard ANOTHER knock on the door "What does a pony have to do to get a decent night's SLEEP around here." He complained to himself.
He answered the door again to find Twilight giving her all too often shown sheepish grin "Hello again Star, I was just wondering how much of this stuff is true…?"
Star let out an annoyed groan "Look, Twilight, can we just talk about this tomorrow?" he asked grouchily.
"But I have to know right now! This is going to bug me until I find out!" she complained.
Star glared at her for a moment before saying "Just talk to me tomorrow, end of discussion." and closing the door on her.
He heard more knocking on the door but he ignored this and lay back down in his bed to sleep. He couldn't do this however, because Twilight kept knocking on the door without any signs of stopping, so with a sigh Star climbed out of a window on the opposite side of his home and walked into the Everfree, where he found a comfortable looking bush and immediately fell asleep.
Eventually, after knocking on his door for a few hours Twilight gave up and decided to climb in through one of his windows, they were all locked except for one that was left open, when she entered his home he wasn't there "He must have left through the window" she assumed.
Leaving back out through the window she noticed some hoofprints leading into the forest, assuming that these were Star's she decided to follow them.
When she reached the end of the hoofprints she found a strange sight, there were two owls, a cockatrice, a manticore, and Star, well, that wasn't very accurate to say the least, there were two owls an ursa minor, and a cockatrice who were all unconscious, and Star who was RIDING the manticore, he then loudly proclaimed "I AM THE KING OF THE EVERFREE!"
"What?" She said incredulously.
He turned to her and gave her a triumphant grin "Hey Twilight, how's it goin?" he asked nonchalantly.
"How's it goin? YOU'RE RIDING A MANTICORE AND THERE ARE UNCONSCIOUS ANIMALS ALL AROUND!" she exclaimed.
Star inspected the clearing as if he was getting a good look of it for the first time "Oh yeah, that happened." He said absentmindedly.
"What happened?" Twilight asked with a tilt of her head.
"Well…. I accidentally slept on this manticore," he said gesturing to the manticore below him "and that cockatrice" he gestured to the unconscious bird/snake "was attacking those owls" he gestured to the birds "when that ursa" he gestured to the large moon bear "tried to save them, causing this manticore to wake up, get grumpy, I was thrown at the ursa, this annoyed it, so it tried to hit me, but I dodged, then while the manticore distracted it, I dropped a rock on its head knocking it unconscious, then the manticore hit the cockatrice against the tree, knocking IT unconscious, then the owls fainted, leaving only me and the manticore, so I made him run into a few trees, I jumped on his back then you showed up." He summed up.
"So… you slept on a manticore without knowing it?" she asked with a giggle.
"I was very tired!" he said in his defense.
"Why didn't you just say that? I would have let you sleep." She explained.
Star shrugged "Too late for that."
Twilight sighed "Why don't we head back to your house and we can talk about your journal."
"Fine, but you have to promise not to laugh, not matter how humiliating some parts are, you have to at least promise not to make fun of me for it." He warned.
Twilight looked offended "I'm hurt that you would think that I would make fun of you for anything."
"Sorry, just had to be sure, let's go." He said dismounting the manticore and patting it on the head.
Soon enough they arrived at their destination and entered where Twilight immediately began questioning him about his adventures with Starswirl "Did you two really stop three wars? And fight pirates? And find rare and valuable artifacts? And save Equestria a few times? Were you and Starswirl secretly womanizers? How didn't Celestia find out about these? What-"
She was interrupted by Star covering her mouth with his hoof "Yes, yes, yes, it might have been a few, no we weren't secretly womanizers, and I have no idea how she didn't find out about them. Now, if you would please, one question at a time." he asked politely.
She nodded and Star moved his hoof away from her mouth "What kind of artifacts?" she asked.
Star shrugged "I have no idea; I still don't have any memory of these events."
"Then how do you know that all of that happened?" she asked.
"Firstly, I wrote it in my journal, so that should be enough evidence, but even I was skeptical, so I checked Starswirl's journal as well, and it had similar stories in it, though from his own perspective." Star explained.
"So, you and Starswirl were secretly adventurers?" she asked.
"Actually no, we just traveled a lot, Starswirl believed that experience was the best teacher, so we explored a lot, we just so happened to be in the middle of all of those conflicts, we didn't go looking for any of it on purpose, that is, if my old journal is to be believed."
"Does that mean that you really are an honorary dragon and griffon?" she asked.
"I think so." He guessed.
"And that you dueled a dragon and secretly fear coconuts?" she pressed.
"…yes." He answered hesitantly.
"Just how much stuff did you do in your past? Seriously, I used to think that your past was interesting, but this is ridiculous!" she exclaimed.
Star shrugged and with a grin replied "I'm a pretty interesting colt."
Twilight gave him a playful nudge and walked to the door "Well then Mr. "king of the Everfree" I'm going to go and get some breakfast at Sugarcube corner, wanna come along?" she offered.
Star gave her an appreciative look "Sounds great." He said happily.
The two of them left Star's home and went to Sugarcube corner thinking that that day was going to be great, however they didn't know how wrong they were.