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// Journal One 
// Story: Kingdom Hearts: Star Swirl´s Legacy 
// by NightmareShredder 
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Star Swirl's Journal 1



First entry

Date: Season 3 of the pony calender; Year 38 (1st Day)

My name is Star Swirl, and I am a unicorn. That is what the pegasus patrol that found me in the wastelands told me. They knew I was a unicorn from the horn on my head, and named me after the spiral and silver stars of my cutie mark. I would have told them my name, but I do not remember it.

I do not remember anything from my past. Everything is hidden by a fog of nightmares.

They brought me to a city. The unicorns there told me I could live with them until I get better. They also gave me this journal and a healthy stock of quills and ink.

To prevent myself from forgetting anything I learn in this place, I will record everything I deem important in this journal. Maybe doing so will also help me recover what I have lost.






Second entry

Date: Season 3 of the pony calender; Year 38 (7th Day)

It has been seven days since I awoke in this place. The ponies call it a "hospital." They try to help with my amnesia. One of the doctors, a pony named Lucky, taught me basic unicorn magic. It felt strange channeling energy through my horn at first, but soon I was levitating objects with great dexterity. No longer will I need to hold a quill in my mouth!

I still have nightmares. I can never remember them. One of the nurses, Daisy Chain, says I mumble something about a war, then I wake up screaming names she doesn't know. She told me the ones she could remember: Vesta, Futsunushi, Erebus and Diana. I don't know them either.

This is my first day out of the hospital. I wanted to explore, so Daisy Chain  showed me around town. She called it Solena. A tall, domed building towered above the rest of the city. When I asked about it Daisy told me that was where the Magic Council met, and that no one ever went there without being invited. We did climb the walls though, and she showed me what lay beyond.

Earth ponies had divided the land into lush fields, orchards, and vinyards. The wastelands were just barely visible on the horizon. I could also spy thecloud city of the pegasi floating its circuit from east to west. Daisy told me it left rainclouds in its wake, so the pegasi could water the fields that needed it. I tried to get a better look, but Daisy wouldn't let me. She said the other tribes would come to town for market day, and I could talk to them then if I was curious.

Even if I cannot see everything yet, what I have seen is simply amazing; a trinity of tribes, helping each other survive and prosper.

I need to learn more.






Third entry

Date: Season 3 of the pony calender; Year 38 (8th Day)

Lucky told me I was well enough to leave the hospital for good. Daisy said she would let me stay with her until I found my own place. I shall have to repay them somehow.

Maybe I can help by learning more about magic. Lucky says ponies with cutie marks of celestial bodies have exceptional magical potential. I asked him if I could keep coming to him for lessons, but he said he had nothing more to teach me.






Fourth entry

Date: Season 3 of the pony calender; Year 38 (14th Day)

I will meet the Magic Council today. I asked to join their researchers, and they granted me an audience to prove myself. I spent the last few days finding out everything about magic that I could. There wasn't too much really. Only one tome written by a unicorn called Solaris.

I was easily able to pick up on how the spells worked. It was all a matter of channeling the magic through my horn the right way. With only a few days' practice, I was able to use almost every spell in that book without any problems.

I just hope that will enough to leave an impression.


Evening of the same day


And so it did. Apparently my magical potential rivals with that of the Council's best. They told me to perform some basic spells. Levitation of even multiple objects was a breeze. I was able to infuse magic into and extract it from objects as well, despite having only a week to practice. I was unable to teleport accurately, but I am told even getting entangled in the rafters is a major achievement.

After such a showing, they gave me a job as one of Solaris's assistants. She leads the Magical Research Devison, and had helped create the spell to move the sun and moon. A really amazing unicorn.

She told me I had great potential.  I will follow the path of magic further. I believe it will lead me to my place in this world and to answers about who I once was.