//------------------------------// // Weaponcraft // Story: Just Another Rogue: of Shadows // by Tattered Ribbon //------------------------------// "Now, what else shall we make?" Ribbon could smell the excitement coming off Chitsuki. But what she said made her frown. In favor of time and ease she just packed what she thought she needed. Bits. lots of ‘um. "I don't have any of my stuff, so I'm a little limited." "You know what you need? Claws..." Claws? She had heard that only the night guard, the thestrals used thats type of weapon. "Claws?" "Yeah, ya know spring loaded so they pop out and let you slash stuff." "Like the ones used by the Night guard?" "Yeah, except longer and sharper." "They have a twin claw attached to their shoes, I'm not so sure I can make it spring loaded though" Let alone how complicated it sounded just to make it spring loaded, Ribbon had a bigger issue. Two left hooves. And right hooves. "And I have a bigger problem I didn't have before. I have two different hoof sizes now." One set in pony form, one set in her natural form. "So why don't you make them out of something stretchy?" "They'd be a tight fit fit for sure." Segmented bottom shoe, Rubber base, metal supports. Sounds flimsy. "Better then nothing." "Alright, I'll ask for a pair from the barracks and have a look at them." "Now then, I've got an uber-cool blade, but from what I've heard from Pinkies tales, hydras are real here, and bladed weapons do not mix with hydras..." "No, no they do not. It'll work on everything else though." Well unless you get it to grow so many heads that it's heart gives out, and chances are it’d eat you before that happens. Ribbon wouldn’t say that out loud though. "True, true." Chitsuki slowly nods her head... "Still, the last few days have been insane, haven't they?" "Yea, I'd sure like to relax. Maybe I'll go shopping." "Meh, why the hell not?" "I'm only going to go buy some new tools." A new set of shiny hammers to replace her worn out junk. "You can do that, I'll go troll bluebutt..." Ribbon chuckles at that. "Have fun!" She couldn't seem to help herself as she began laughing to herself. "Oh, I will..." she put her forehooves together, and continued to laugh maniacally. Ribbon was slowly inching towards the door, as she didn’t want to get dragged into a prank war. Not after last time. "Sure, uh. I heard from Rarity he has a thing about being covered in cake." "Like maybe, Celestias cake?" Ribbon simply decided to go, before this got any weirder for her tastes. Finally Ribbon get to relax in this city, or she would have. If it wasn’t for some posh lady on every street turning her nose up at Ribbon, it was the smell of disgust. Ribbon bought her things and was on her way back to her temporary workplace to admire her new toys. On her way there, her mind drifted to the alicorn. She said she loved her, But Ribbon couldn’t let her get so close so quickly. If she was as insane as she thought, Chitsuki could get her killed. If not, she could be missing out on something. Before she had time to contemplate this further, she was interrupted by a flash of light and something heavy landing on top of her. "Well at least I wasn't upside down this time..." "Yes that's great and all but, uh. One question. Why are you mounting me?" *flump!* "oh, crap! Why must these things keep happening to me?!" Chitsuki got off her, Ribbon kept her back to her though. She wouldn’t be able to look her in the eyes after that embarrassment. "Happening to you? seems to be happening to me just as much." Keeping her back to Chitsuki, Ribbon picked up her tools and pieces that fell out of her bag. "True, true... But anyway, I know what I'm going to make next, a giant, electrified, hammer!" Ribbon sighs. "Which means more work for me. Do you want it made of the same stuff?" "Okay, but I want to help, I don't feel like being useless." Now Ribbon felt she could look her in the eyes. "But you're not trained, you are useless. Unless don't want it made quickly, you just want it made?" "Exactly. I want to learn your trade." "Well, it'll take more than one build you know." "I know. But I actually want to be a productive member of society." "And you can't do that now? You already generate alloy's from your body" "Supply and demand, make too much and it becomes worthless." "Then only make so much. you can start by asking for compensation for the stuff you've given to the Princess." "Now why didn't I think of that..." Ribbon gave one of her sarcastic smirks. "As I said, You're useless." Chitsuki’s eyes went big and sad, like a puppy that got kicked. "But then I get to spend more time with you..." She couldn't resist, and had to look away from the big sad eyes. "You said you wanted an electrified hammer?" "Yes..." "This means I have to break off more plates, huh?" Chituski smirked. "Why, do you need a hand with that?" "Unlike you, my chitin plates are limited so I can't just keep breaking them off. I need them." "I know, that doesn't mean we can't make the other parts though." "Wait, you meant 'hoof' right?" "Derp, that's what I ment to say." "Okay. We'll make the fill for the hammers core, it's soft, rectangular and doesn't need to be perfect, a good place to get used to a weighted hammer. Though I'd rather start you on something else." She Imagined Chituski wouldn’t be too gentle with her tools. As a second thought, she added. "and you're not using my new ones." "Well, what are we waiting for! Let do this!" And so we began. *two days, one montage and an interrupted song later...* "Now all that's left is waiting for you to shed..." "Could be awhile, it's not like I need to do it every week, month, or year. Only when I'm hurt and need a new one or if I grow." Chitsuki, who has been full of energy these last few days, was now a little sad. "Poo, and you're probably going to have to return to Ponyville soon..." "And the princess wouldn't just let you out either, the public would freak." Chitsuki smacked herself in the face with hoof. "Forgot I could shapeshift as well..." "Do you really think the Princess would just let somepony as powerful as you go unchecked?... then again the elements live in Ponyville so you wouldn't be completely unchecked. Talk to her." "Shouldn't we come up with a disguise for me first?" "Shouldn't we know you can leave before we commit?" "Hey, even if I can't, it would be useful so I didn't have to sneak around the castle." "Alright Well, we know you can only turn into a dark or twisted version of whatever it is sooo, don't change anything." Chitsuki showed her confusion with a tilt of the head. "I mean stay as you are and just shrink down and loss the wings, or the horn." Chitsuki closed her eyes as the miasma came down from her mane. it swirled around her as it shrunk, before dissipating. When she emerged, she was slightly smaller than Ribbon as a pegasus, and Ribbon was already short. Chitsuki looked a lot like Pinkie, but with wings. Her coat was dark purple, topped off with a bouncy fluffy blue mane and tail. Chitsuki hits Ribbon with lidded eyes. "Gentlemares." Said with a thick, clearly faked, Prance accent. Ribbon chuckles before trying her best to copying the accent. "You look good madam, just like a thestral." "Now then, to Sunbutts lair!... which way is that again?" "I dunno, I think it's the tower." All those stories about a princess in a tower have to come from somewhere. "To the tower!" "You go to the tower. I'm not going near her." Princess Celestia may not kill her, but she was sure going to avoid her anyway. "Please, if you get to nervous, we can always make out in front of her again..." Said Chitsuki, with an added eyebrow wiggle. Ribbons cheeks felt warm at the thought of making out with an audience. Why was she letting this alicorn get to her. "... I think I'll stay here..." Her ears picked up the sound of hoofsteps. Ribbon promptly transforms into her pegasus disguise, just before Celestia and Luna walk into the room. She audibly gulped. "Hello princess Celestia, Luna..." Luna looks at alicorn in disguise with curiosity. "And who, pray tell, is this?" "This is, uh. she's..." ’Think think think.’ "Its me, Chitsuki how do you not recognize me? Or do me and Ribbon have to embarrass you again Celestia?" ’Forget it’ She whispered, "please don't." at Chitsuki Celestia goes wide eyed at her remark. "So it is you, well that simplifies things greatly." Luna continues. "We were planning on relocating you to Ponyville, where the Elements could keep an eye on you, but we couldn't figure out how to get you there unseen." "yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes! I get to stay with Ribby!" Chitsuki had started bouncing about the room. "What!?" Ribbon gaped at the princesses. They were really letting such a powerful being roam about their land? Celestia giggled. "Well it was either her, Derpy Whooves, or Pinkie Pie." "What about Twilight?" "Do you WANT me to be turned into a science experiment!?!" Come to think of it, she wouldn't put it past her to do just that. "It's better than Ponyville being turned into a battle field if you move in with Pinkie." "As opposed to me getting Twilight drunk, and causing her to somehow make the magical equivalent of a thermonuclear warhead and completely level it?" "I don't think I know what that is so, no?" Chi gives very determined look. It was very clear that Chitsuki would be staying with her. "Fine, you can stay with me." "Yaaaay!" And without warning, Chi tackle hugged her. Ribbon yelps in surprise, before blushing intensely. *Pomph* "Sister, I didn't know you were into that kind of thing?!" Ribbon couldn’t see with a face full of mane, but she could almost hear how smug she was at finding something potentially embarrassing about her sister. And Celestia apparently would have none of it. She levitated a pair of tickets and drops them at their hooves, before speaking quickly in an incredibly flustered voice. "Tickets. Train. Ponyville. Five o'clock. Goodbye." And in a flash of light was gone, presumably to her chambers. Luna gave us a grin. “You should probably get going, it's already four o'clock." Before she too teleports away. "Uhh..." The fake thestral finally let go so Ribbon could stand back up. "Well, let's go, we don't want to miss the train now do we?" "I'll pack up my new tools.”