The Journal of the Vernadsky Family

—Official warning

**Luna the Miracle Boy: The Journal of the Vernadsky Family** is one of the fictitious stories in the Luna the Miracle Boy series based on the diary of Luna and his family.

## Development

This fictitious story would include the journal entry written by Celestia which was not heard in the episode.

The story introducing Gregor was one that was pitched as an episode. On the Journal of Friendship extra credit, Celestia also writes about a holiday she invented called "Lollygabbing Day," for which she pitched an episode for the series but later scrapped.

## Summary

### Coronation of the Vernadsky Family

The journal entries of Celestia and Luna begin on the day of their parents' (Artemis and Finlandia) coronation as the Prince and Princess of Vernadia. According to Finlandia, they were approached one day by Sweyn Forkbeard and his three representatives (Secretary John of the Magical Elements tribe, Oda Nobunaga of the Earth Humans tribe and Commander Tevfik of the Spiritual Ponies tribe) to uphold the newly found harmony between the three tribes, believing that this can be best achieved by each other. The Vernadsky Couple are anxious over their new positions, noting they do not yet have their cutie marks despite their age, but their ceremony otherwise goes on perfectly.

### Building the Vernadsky Family House

While touring Vernadia in search of a place to build their own house, Artemis and Finlandia visit the town at Sweyn's suggestion and discover the Tree of Harmony at the town junction. Drawn to the tree's magic, the two decide to build their family house nearby. Artemis draws up designs for trapdoors, hidden rooms, and secret passageways to make their home more exciting, while Finlandia comes up with a library to keep her collection of books.

Weeks into the house's construction, a team of workers fails to return from a supply run into the town. Artemis finds the spiritual ponies trapped in a cave by a ferocious witch named Melvin, whom he, Finlandia, Luna, Celestia, and Sweyn manage to subdue. As the five bind Melvin with their magic, Luna is shocked to discover he can understand Melvin's groans and learns she was simply trying to defend her home where the humans had set up their supply site. After Melvin bursts into tears and Luna clears up the misunderstanding with his family, everyone apologizes and restores Melvin's home. Melvin repays both humans and spiritual ponies by helping them finish the house alongside the magical element of a miracle recruited by Luna.

### Pranking Prince Vladimir

Sweyn later arranges a presidential summit at the finished house with Prince Vladimir and his wife — Roman Butterfly. The respectful meeting is spoiled when Vladimir begins insulting the Vernadsky Family and calling them "blank flanks", proving himself to be resentful of their rule. Angered by his disrespect, Luna and his father Artemis pull a prank on Vladimir with the help of Melvin, the Canterlot Presidential Voice, and the palace's booby-trapped throne, sending the family goes outside. Artemis quickly realizes he has gone too far and apologizes to Prince Vladimir, who also regrets his behavior, and the family agrees to start over as friends. Vladimir later helps design the family house tapestries and Petrovburg national flag, showing the nationalism and the acceptance of the family.

Celestia (represents the element of laughter) continues her pranking spree on Nobunaga, Secretary John, and Commander Tevfik when they come to visit until she is finally outsmarted by Chancellor Zhukov, who uses his own traps to trap her. Meanwhile, Finlandia bonds with Sweyn over their shared love of reading and learns of two spells he has been striving to perfect: a cutie mark spell, and a time travel spell that will allow him to travel through space and time with no limitations.

### Districts Beyond Petrovburg

Luna learns of a forbidden area around Vernadia from Melvin the Witch and decides to investigate. He makes his way through the forest to find a grassland inhabited by zebras, who mistake Luna for a witch and wish to be left in peace. Luna is able to befriend the zebras, learning that they have developed magic barriers around their village to keep out predators. Celestia later finds Luna and scolds him for going off on his own, but she is impressed by his discovery of the zebras.

Later, the Vernadsky Family spend time racing with Commander Tevfik in the sky when they are attacked by a griffon. Commander Tevfik explains that the griffons once reached a truce with the magical elements over airspace territory, which the griffons now believe has been violated by the formation of Princess Aulia. After Finlandia fails to negotiate with the griffons' foul-tempered leader Gregor in an effort to avoid a fight, Artemis is able to appease him with an offering of éclairs given in rhyme (inspired by the zebras) with the Canterlot Presidential Voice, following advice from Melvin. Gregor explains that the departure of his last pastry chef had left him in a bad mood, and he agrees to sign a new treaty with the Republic of Petrovburg.

Between these entries, Celestia and Luna write about their time spent with Sweyn, who teaches their family how to move stars when Artemis and Finlandia become mesmerized by the night sky, particularly the moon. He also perfects his time travel spell and begins using it to travel to different points in Petrovburg's history. He is careful not to reveal anything about the future to the Vernadsky Family, but Artemis and Finlandia are able to determine from his reactions that the sun, moon, and star markings on the Vernadsky Harmony Monument are important.

### The Case of the Missing Crystal Heart and the Spirit of France

Sometime later, Luna and his family received word that the Crystal Heart has been stolen from Seborga by a dragon, leaving all districts of the republic vulnerable. The Vernadsky Family arrive at the district to find the Spirit of France in a state of despair and their ruler — Antoine Piccinino, depleted of his magic after trying to protect Seborga with the presidential power. They learn that the dragon has taken the heart to its lair in the Crystalline Mountains where the heart was first found, considering everything from the mountain to be its hoard.

Accompanied by Melvin, Commander Tevfik's pony army, and the griffons, the Vernadsky Family travel to the dragon's lair to recover the state asset. After their attempts to reason with the dragon fail, the dragon states that it actually thinks very little of the heart, but it still refuses to return it simply because it belongs to it, uncaring of Seborgians' plight. In a display of anger, Artemis and Finlandia burst into flames and rebukes the dragon with the Canterlot Presidential Voice. Terrified, the dragon drops the state asset and flees back inside its cave. With the Crystal Heart restored, everyone celebrates in the district's first Scutage d'Orléans fest, confident the dragon will never menace the republic again.

### Vernadsky First Sunrise

One night, Celestia and Princess Finlandia awake to find Sweyn exhausted and looking older than he should. He reveals that he has run out of Petrovs' assistance to help lower the moon and raise the sun. He tried to do it alone but used up his own unicorn magic in the process. Realizing that Petrovburg's magic is more powerful than unicorn magic. According to the agreement by the Vernadsky parents, Sweyn asks Celestia and Luna to assume the duties of being guardians of the sun and moon, believing their magic will become stronger as the sun and moon would rejuvenate them, according to legend.

As the Vernadsky Family believe nothing else could go wrong in Petrovburg, they awaken one morning to find Vernadia shrouded in the night and Sweyn's usually black beard completely gray. The family is horrified to learn that all of the Petrovs who normally raise and lower the sun and moon wind up permanently depleting their magic to do so. Furthermore, Sweyn (the only one on the team able to withstand this process) tried to lower the moon by himself and lost his own magic as a result.

Celestia, Luna, and their family take flight and perform the setting of the moon and the rising of the sun flawlessly. When the Vernadsky Family asks what they can do to help, Sweyn tells them that, as the fellow Petrovs, they would not only be unharmed by raising and lowering the sun and moon but their magic would also be rejuvenated. Acting on instinct, Luna successfully manages to lower the moon while Celestia raises the sun. Upon their completion, the Vernadsky children are overjoyed to discover they have earned their cutie marks: Celestia has earned her sun cutie mark, and Luna earns his crescent moon cutie mark, in which Finlandia notices are identical to the markings on the Vernadsky Harmony Monument.

Remembering that the cutie mark looks just like the carving on the Vernadsky Harmony Monument, they ask about the third carving, but Sweyn says nothing, leaving her to find out for herself. With their magic strengthened by the sun and moon, the Vernadsky Family is able to restore Sweyn and other national heroes. Celestia and Luna end their journal by writing about their excitement for their upcoming adventures with their parents in the mission of the battle for Petrovburg.

## Extra Credits #1: The Journal of Friendship

*Main article: The Journal of Friendship.*
The remainder of the book features an expansion of the journal entries written by the Petrovburg Heroes and other characters. The entries where each of Luna's friends receives their keys. The segment is also interspersed with a collection of entries written by Celestia, called "Celestia's Random Thoughts" which transcribe Celestia's lengthy, nonsensical ramblings. It also has an additional entry written by Luna where he muses over his family's journal while speculating how to open the chest.

## Extra Credits #2: Diary of the University Principals

*Main article: Diary of the University Principals.*
Another journal linked to this fictional story that recounts the events of Finlandia's senior year and Tony's freshman year at Canterlot Presidential University.

## References

1. **Main course**
	* https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/The\_Journal\_of\_the\_Two\_Sisters