Honor of Thieves

The New Captain, The Former Thief

"Well, I will be taking leave." Crimson said, "It was nice meeting you two, you make a lovely couple and I look forward to seeing you again."

"Why are you leaving?" Twilight asked

"Let Rose explain, I'm getting something to eat." Crimson said walking away.

"Sorry about his attitude these things are a strain." Rose said putting a claw in the bag and showing them the inside of the other, it was covered in carvings and symbols.

"Is that enchantment spell?" Twilight asked

"Yep, I made it myself." Rose replied with a bit of pride in her voice, "I designed it so the user would be able to move each claw like any other limb."

"You two surprise me." Cadence said, "You don't seem to be the thieving type. More creator than stealer, the timed petrification spell, and this enchantment are pretty well made."

"I accept your compliment with the highest honor." Rose said bowing

"Crimson doesn't seem to like being a thief either." Cadence said, "He seems to be more of a warrior than he seems."

Shining Armor scoffed and said, "That's one way of putting it."

"He does actually, but he had been a jeweler at one point and a blacksmith at another." Rose said, "We all had many jobs in our lives, mostly toward helping our thieving gang. But he does live by certain rules that make him seem that way."

"I know this is off topic, but what were your friends like?" Fluttershy asked

"Well, Dragonfly's name was actually Gold Halo and Copper's was Silver Cross." Rose said walking towards the castle garden, "Halo was an apprentice to Crimson, so her codename wasn't the same as ours. We would call ourselves by our eye color that's why my name was Sapphire."

"Well what was Crimson like before the thieving started." Rarity asked following behind with the others.

"He was pretty normal, despite him getting into fights almost everyday." Rose said

"That doesn't sound like him." Twilight said, "Why'd he get into them anyway?"

"First it was bullies picking on us," Rose explained, "then when we were grown up it was jerks that were hitting on me."

"So every fight he was in was for you?" Applejack asked

Then Crimson appears and said, "Aye. As Rose has told you, she was bullied a lot when we were young, mostly because she didn't have a cutie mark at the time the other was because she was cold around others."

"Well you are chivalrous aren't you Crimson Star." Rarity said giggling

"You could call it that." He replied, "I call it being in love with a beautiful mare," This caused Rose to turn red and look at the ground, "I did have a crush on her back then, and that grew into love over time." After saying that Crimson got a bunch of 'Aww'-s from the girls. Then he whispered something into Rose's ear, then she got up and followed Crimson.

"Where are you going?" Shining asked

"Well we were going to get something to eat." Crimson said

"What?! We thought you just ate." Cadence said

"I did, but I'm still hungry." Crimson said, "I also wanted to see if Rose would like to get a bite to eat or buy a few books for our new home." Then the two started walking towards the exit.

"Why'd you embarrass me like that?!" Rose yelled as they left the training grounds

"It's not embarrassing if its true, dear." Crimson replied chuckling

"Well it was embarrassing to me." Rose said

"I'm sorry, let me make it up to you somehow." Crimson replied putting his wing around her

Rose giggled and said, "You buy dinner, and maybr I'll accept your apology if I like it."

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Twilight knocked on the door of room 206 of the Canterlot Inn, which had the 'Do Not Disturb' sign on the door handle.

"Are you sure this is the right room?" Rarity asked

"This is the room he said they were staying in." Twilight said knocking harder

Then Crimson opened the door and yelled, "Can't you read the bloody sign we're trying to sleep in here!" Then he calmed down when he realized that it was his friends, "Sorry about that, thought you were the housekeeping. Me and Rose had a long night."

"What was keeping you two up?" Twilight asked

"Do you really want to ask that question?" Crimson replied, "You may regret it. Think about it, two ponies madly in love in the same room sharing the same bed."

All six of them started to turn red from embarrassment and told Crimson to shut up.

"Hey, you asked." He said chuckling, "So why are you here?"

"We're heading home so you should get packed and get ready to leave." Rainbow Dash said.

"Crimson? Come back to bed." Rose called from the room.

"I'm sorry to say this but we're heading home so we gotta get up." Crimson replied

Rose groaned and appeared from the dark room with her hair in a mess and said, "Fine, hopefully we can continue in our own home."

"Sure, anything for you." Her answered then rubbed his nose against his, then he turned to the others and said, "Before we go I need to get some books for Rose, she's been asking for them since we here. Twilight you've lived here can you tell us where we can get some spell books."

"Yeah there are several a few blocks from here." Twilight replied

"Here that hun? Let's get head out." Crimson said as Rose brushed her hair.

"Oh, and before I forget, Celestia wanted you to go through these papers." Twilight said pulling a large stack of papers from her bag.

"What are these?" He asked when the papers were set down

"Requests for soldiers to work under you." Twilight answered, "Some of it is hate mail from soldiers who look up to my brother."

"Thank you for bringing this to me Twilight." Crimson said putting the papers in his bag, "I'll look through these when I get home. For now I would love to go get a few books for Rose and myself."

Crimson and Rose started walking away she Rose said, "Sweetheart I already have enough spell books."

Crimson laughed and replied, "I know I just wanted an excuse not to do the papers until we got home."

"But you promised we'd do something when we got home!" Rose whined

"I guess the papers will be done tomorrow then." Crimson said, "I'm still getting a few books as proof."