Free! Eternal Swim Chronicle - Complete Diary Collections

フリー！エターナルスイムクロニクル – 完全なダイアリーコレクション

闇の悪夢 – Nightmares of Darkness

Featuring: Gaardus/Pandora Le Fay

Note: These journals contain storyline from the previous finale of Voyage of the Magic Six (Book 5: Heroes of the Gods) written in a different perspective. Again, reading Gen. 1.0 is not required but it would help you if you wanted more information about these entries and the expanding universes between Gen 1.0 and 2.0.

~I~

My dear swimming boys…

If you must read my diary to find the truth about your past and what happened before that…you must ask yourselves this one question: what kind of people do you truly want to be after reading this?

Yes, I made a terrible choice many eons ago…and it costed my happy ending to the point of no return.

It all began when I was born in what was known to be the First Universe of Space Time. In that particular universe, the stars were brightest that you can imagine with the early physics being formed and expanded. Yet, there was a point in space where life was possible.

This planet was known to be "Camelot". We, the Mahotsukai were born from light energy of Cosmos that was packed in this reality and we used our powers to create new worlds and write stories. Those of us that had that responsibility were called "Authors".

When one of us discovered the "Human" beings in a world called Earth, we took on these forms in order to adjust ourselves and hide our true identities in case the Dark One called "Chaos" tried to find us.

I longed to be an Author myself because I didn't want to stay in this place…I wanted to be in a world where things were abundance, and a home that would ensure my family's happiness and anyone who destined to go there.

But it all changed when terrible things began to happen…

~II~

I was growing up in a small village called Erax Nui where the endless plains were vast and wide. The village itself was up on the mountains where many of us were farmers. All Mahotsukai develop magic of some kinds but only very few of them were strong enough to do big things (let alone being an author).

I had a mother and a father: Igraine (nee: Arnive) Le Fay (mom) and Goloris Le Fay (dad). I had three wonderful sisters: Morgan, Elaine, and Morgause. We were always happy, the five of us…

Always…

I remember I developed a strange taste for some escargots and slugs and my sisters were a bit grossed out by it. We also shared our dreams about what we would do with our magic:

Morgan wanted to become a healer.

Elaine wanted to become an Archaeologist Witchcraft.

Morgause had dreams of working with Politics with persuasion and debating and media.

And as of myself, I wanted to become an "Author". However, my sisters were a bit worried about that job. Even my mother sort of objected to my plans. They say that becoming an Author is endless work and that for every story that is written, it requires constant monitoring or else the story (and that universe) would cease to be. Funding for making these realities was beyond a fortune.

Despite some of the silly arguments my sisters and I share, they really didn't want me to leave them. But that wasn't the complete truth…my mother has an ability to see the future in some rare occasions. I think she knew what was coming but yet she did not interfere.

I wanted to achieve my dream…so we could live without having to worry about the darkness at all. I know we were always happy here but…why isn't it enough for me?

~III~

When the winter season came in, the people began to suffer a terrible illness. Many of our inhabitants, including my family were affected. They transformed into disgusting monsters of all shapes and sizes. Thankfully, Morgan and I were immune but our mother, father, and the rest of the sisters suffered. We ran to the next village of Costra and we shed our tears.

A couple of years went by as I continued to practice my magic along with Morgan. I finally learned to use my magic for the good as I helped the people repair buildings, statues, bridges, and other broken objects of sorts. I continued to study the books from Camelot and even began to learn how they write stories.

We were living in a group home of this Safe House when two people from the city arrived. Their names were Iwatobi and Sametsuka (which that name is an ancestral form of Samezuka) and as it turned out, they had a job opening for me at the Library of Universes. Morgan was excited to hear of this but I was worried for her after losing almost the entire family. She continued to have faith in me to this very day.

I finally made my way to Camelot at long last as I have never seen such a city before; massive, magical, varying designs in architecture, and a lot of busy Mahotsukai indeed. I promised to write letters to Morgan as soon as I had the slightest time of break from work.

Classes began and so did examinations to obtain this title. It was very intensive indeed but then it got stressful when I learned Morgan caught the plague too and began to die down. My sister…my last of the family…

~IV~

I failed the final examination in the end and I went to wept silently in deep sorrow. Iwatobi came to check up on me and I said I was going to be okay since I will be guaranteed to assist them on a lesser title. For a moment I almost found love in him but it was too brief and he had to return to the story tower to write out the story of you heroes…

But that's when I saw it…the rolling cloud of shadow heading my way. I staged back form it but I was locked in trance at its disturbing beauty. I never thought I'd live to see it. What I don't get it how it managed to get to this land as it has been such a protected place.

The Darkness noticed my pain and handed me a fruit. I consumed it in hopes of just getting the title of the Author and do what was necessary. Instead, I was reborn into the darkness with a thousand of voices telling me and even at times controlling my consciousness.

There's a story behind this that I am even too terrified to write but if you guys remembered Deidi, she had the wand of my true father and tried to use it to undo the darkness. It seemed to have worked initially but I was being consumed quickly by revenge and power.

It was from there I hacked into the stories and tried to manipulate the solar system but I ended up creating a celestial body that would one day be a keeper of time (the moon). I was then confronted by the sorcerer himself after fighting my former friends and being banished into a world where time kept recycling itself over and over.