The Diary of Sunset Shimmer

by Unicop


Day's 1-3

--Day 1--


Dear Diary



So today I decided to take up Princess Twilight’s advice on writing my thought’s in a diary. She says it may help me collect my thoughts, as well as be a record of my progress on learning about Friendship. I’m not really sure if I should be calling this a Diary or a journal to be honest as the plan is to share this with Princess Twilight during her visit’s so she can see how I am coming along with my “Lessons On Friendship” and so she can better advise me on how I can improve. But I like the sound of Diary better then Journal.


Anyway, Rainbow Dash has been teaching me how to play the guitar for The Rainbooms, and Fluttershy has been helping me with my vocals. Being a part of the band is really fun, I really feel like I’m finally accepted as part of the group and as a friend. We recently played a gig at the school’s football game half-time show. I was a bit nervous at first, but after while I got over it and had a blast.


I've also been going down to the local horse racing arenas with Fluttershy to help volunteer and take care of the horses there. They also have a few ponies as well. The ponies and horses look nothing like we do in Equestria though, so strange, they also don’t talk. I got strange looks from the owner when I asked him about it. Despite that however I seem to be able to communicate with the horses and ponies pretty well, and I get along with all of them just as well as Fluttershy does. The owners love referring to us as the “Horse Whisperer’s”, whatever that means.


On a final note I’m still trying to find my proper place in this world. Back in Equestria I spent most of my life believing I was going to grow up to become a Princess alongside Princess Celestia, but now that is obviously just dust in the wind. So now I have to find some other aspiration to reach for when I grow older, but I have no idea what. I like music, but I don’t think I’ll ever be good enough to do so professionally. Rarity suggested I go into politics, but I’m not sure that’ such a good idea given my…past.


Anyway I better run, I promised I would help volunteer with Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie in baking some cupcakes for the school’s bake sale. Hopefully Pinkie won’t eat any of them before we can sell them this time…

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Day 2

Dear Diary,

Today Rarity came over to my place to help re-decorate my room…or apartment I should say as I live in a boarding house that also co-exist as an Orphanage of sorts. Before I turned a new leaf, I was living in the school in unlocked classrooms and such. But after having to officially register as a student and Principle Celestia found out that I don’t have an actual home, she sent me here.


The room I am staying in has been unused for quite some time, and therefore much of the interior such as the walls have been damaged and aged poorly so to speak. Luckily Rarity was more than willing to help me spruce up the place when I asked her for some wallpaper, and even offered to help me choose and set it up. Along with some furnishings, poster’s, table cloths, etc. The place looks much better and more inviting now than when I first arrived. Just wish it was not so lonely….


Also on a similar note, it feels weird that I have to apply to school and other official things as an orphan when I am really not. My parents are still very much alive and well, my mother is a vocalist for hire working in various studios and my father is a well-known business consultant who even works closely with Princess Celestia. The only reason I don’t live with them anymore is they still live in Equestria and well… I don’t. I talked to Principle Celestia about changing my status to Run-away or something. But she claim’s the fact that I am unable to return to Equestria and therefor can’t live with my parent’s at all makes me an Orphan, even if they are still living.


I do hope to eventually return to Equestria to visit my parent’s again, even if it’s only for a little while. I tried recently now that Princess Twilight has re-opened it and found a way to make it so she can re-turn here at any time, but when I tried to I could not break through the barrier. I wonder if Princess Celestia put a spell blocking me from returning to Equestria in any way. May have to talk to Princess Twilight about that sometime.
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-Day 3-

Dear Diary,


Today we had a special guest come into our school to speak with us, his name was Discord. In Equestria I remember Discord being some sort of evil creature that lived solely to cause chaos and havoc until Princess Celestia and Princess Luna turned him into stone. Heck I even remember the stone he was turned into in the Canterlot Garden’s, this guy has the same beard and eyebrows I remember seeing on the statue.


Anyway, he arrived to talk to us about “Choosing the right career path, and the importance of choosing something that we are good at and makes us happy”. It was kind of hard for me to listen to given my chosen career path I had followed since childhood has been swept away far from my grasp. Of course I failed miserably at it, so I guess being a leader was not something I was necessarily good at. My real talent was magic, but again that’s something I also can’t do anymore.


It really was a heartbreaking moment hearing him tell us that we should follow our talent when mine is something I can’t use anymore. I remember the day I got my cutie mark in magic, it was possibly the happiest day of my life. Though maybe I have some other hidden talent I have yet to tap into that I will find here in this world.


I still am however, hoping to find a way to tap into my magic from here. I know somehow the magic in this book I am using, and in Twilight’s crown when I brought that over was still able to pass through intact. So maybe there is still a way I can restore my magic and have my special talent back. Even though I am not sure how I would use it in this world, I’m sure I could find some way to use it for good here.


I slightly remember my mother once giving me an old amulet of some kind back when I was a small filly. She had found it on a trip to Saddle Arabia, and it was supposed to contain unicorn magic that even an Earth pony could tap into. I never bothered testing it back then of course because I already had unicorn magic. But now that I don’t, I’m wondering if there actually was something to that amulet, especially after seeing the necklaces the Siren’s where using.


I’m not sure where the necklace is though, or even if I brought it to this world with me when I left Equestria. I’m pretty sure I must of as I meant to bring back everything I had ever been given by my parent’s. But I have yet to have found it among everything else I brought, so who knows.


Anyway I’d better run, The Rainbooms have a practice session this afternoon and Rainbow Dash want’s to show us all the new guitar her parent’s bought her. She must really like it as she has not stopped talking about it all day. Well at least until Rarity told her to put a sock in it and Pinkie actually did put a sock in her mouth. Have to wonder where she got it though as she still had both her socks on her feet. Then again you never know with Pinkie Pie.
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