Author's note: Now you see why I marked it as a romance thanks to the last chapter.

"What is this exactly?"

"Errr...ummm...protection?"

"Protection?"

"Yes protection for when we either go out in public or head north later."

Bronze sat next to Celestia in bed. Days after their last 'meeting'. He had a small piece of parchment floating in mid-air with 2 pens. He took a sip of a water glass from the bed side table closest to him as the pens finished the sketch of the weapon. It was almost like a large metal sleeve with a built in dagger. The wearer could wear it and hide it under a long sleeved coat, or even a shirt. Or maybe just getting away with replacing the cover plate of just plain metal to something a little more classy. Blood would be hard to cover up though. As the sketch of the finished product floated to Celestia's view, she smiled.

"Very clever design. How big is it? It this sketch life size?"

"Yes that's its size, it just to fit where up to where one's leg bends. The actual device the guards wore by the soldiers I saw went up to where the leg meets the body. You had to hold the blade with a perfectly straightened leg. This limited your ability with it. Making it impractical, so I made it smaller. Simple"

"Very"

"Can you go out and get us some hooded coats, make sure they are some what thick. On the mountains to the north it can get below 0 degrees."

"I know I already have some nice coats"

"No don't wear those ones, we cant be recognized out there. You are a famous figure and that already makes you a target."

"Ah yes"

Hours later Bronze sat waiting in the carriage to the North mountains. Celestia was trying to sleep,she was using Bronze's side as a pillow.. She claimed to have a head ache. Bronze hummed to her as he constructed her blade.
"How is the weather
So happy together
We're happy together
So happy together

So happy together
So happy together
So happy together" He sang as he hummed.
"You have a beautiful voice Bronze"
"Your looks are better"
"Thank you"
"No thank you for honoring me with your affection" Bronze said
"Stop your making me blush"
Celestia was blushing.
Bronze began humming again
"How about a game to pass the time?" Bronze asked
"What game?" Celestia asked
"A singing game, one of us begins singing a song and the other try's to follow the lyrics. If you mess up or freeze we do something I want to do for the next 8 or so hours and well the same thing reversed if I mess up".
"Okay I have a song" Celestia said
"Alright shoot"
Celestia began the first verse
"Anything you could do, I could do better.I can do anything better than you!"
Bronze took the male part of the song
"No you can't!"
"Yes I can!"
"No you can't!"
"Yes I can! Yes I can!" Celestia sang sitting up now.

Bronze began to next verse

"Anything you can be, I can be greater. Sooner or later I'm greater than you!"
Celestia went next
"No you're not!"
"Yes I am!'
"No you're not!"
"Yes I am! yes I am!!"

Bronze began the next verse again....
"I can shoot a cartridge with a single partridge..no wait!..."
but failed obviously.
"Ah ha! You messed up!" Celestia mocked
"So what do you want to do together. This carriage is as I requested sound proof, unless the doors are open"
"Well I have a few ideas then"
Bronze brought back his singing voice "Can you bake a pie?"
Celestia smiled "No!!"
"Neither can I, but I like the one you have between your legs " Bronze joked
Celestia laughed "Clever as always Bronze, now get over here..."

Hours later after much moaning and wetness the two had fallen asleep, Celestia on top of Bronze. They had fallen asleep on the seats of the interior of the carriage. When Bronze awoke it was 8 hours later. Bronze's movements as he awoke, woke Celestia. Celestia's head had been on Bronze's chest. She had never really noticed all his scars. From the whipping,cutting, and poundings from his past. She brought her head up to his and whispered
"I wish I could go back into your past and stop who ever made all this marks"
"So do I"
Celestia gave him a deep compassionate kiss then got off of him.
The carriage came to a halt. Bronze looked out the rear window above the seats. They were on a mountain. In a town of some sort. Bronze slipped on his coat and pulled on his hood. He made sure his blade was secured tightly on his right fore-leg then covered it entirely with the sleeve of his jacket.

Celestia watched him as she got her own coat and blade on. She eyed his flank. She had never noticed his cutie mark was a pure white star with an all mos lolly-pop style bottom piece extended much more than the other parts.

"Bronze?"

"Yes Cels?"

"What does your cutie mark mean?"

"My gem's form of magic"

"Ah okay"

As the two exited the carriage the cold enveloped them like an ocean. The town they were in was the ancient town the Earth ponies left when they went on to find Equestria. An endless blizzard was and has always been over the mountain plateau. The town has advanced though, some stayed behind to see if the blizzard would pass. It didn't, so they adapted. Ice fishing, underground hydroponics for farming, and the same with larger caverns for trees. The town itself was mostly stone houses, varying from single story to multi-floor homes and offices. In the center stood a grand stone hotel staying higher than every other building at a magnificent 10 floors! The Hotel Hustinge. Hustinge is an ancient word coming from a language made up 10s of thousands of years ago. It means 'Magnificent beauty'.
Bronze blinked as the stinging -20 degrees Fahrenheit winds stung his face and eyes. Celestia did the same. Bronze almost felt as if he had been shrunken. Almost every pony there was Celestia's size and bigger. If he and Celestia were to stand next to each other, their heads would be separated by about 2 1/2 inches in height. He payed the carriage pullers and sent them on their way. Then he and Celestia walked through the town, they took a minor detour through local market. Bronze kept eying a weird sea food restaurant, Celestia was more interested in a (probably fake) fortune teller and an art gallery. After visiting the art gallery and the sea food restaurant the two skipped the fortune teller agreeing it was a fake and proceeded to their hotel room. Hotel room 595 was in the direct middle of the hotel's south side. Overlooking the part of the town south of it. The room itself was nice, 1 queen sized bed, a sofa and chair, a kitchen counter area, and a bathroom with shower. Also a fire place. This was standard for all luxury suites. Many fire places poked out of the hotel's roof. Celestia as soon as they arrived went into the bathroom after saying she didn't feel very well. Once she was in there she had her head in the toilet. "I think I should hate fish food now" She said to the toilet as she coughed and hurled her stomach contents to it. Bronze knocked the bathroom door.
"You okay in their Celestia?"
Celestia brought her head out of the toilet "Yes Bronze, I think there was something in that fish though."
"I will admit it was mediocre but I wouldn't say sickening other wise I be in there too, oh hey that reminds me..."
Celestia laughed "Not now Bronze I don't want you catching what I have"
"Well we could avoid kissing"
"No means No Bronze"
Bronze sighed "Alright. I'll go downstairs and check out the underground area of the city."
"After I get out of this bathroom I'll take a nap" Celestia said

When Bronze got down to the ground floor of the hotel, he found a nice tavern in the main square of the city just outside the hotel.. He had a drink or so then went the underground cavern stairwells. When he got to the underground caverns the ceiling was about 60 feet above him. There was basically another town beneath the main town. The first thing Bronze went to was another slightly more classier tavern. Hours later he exited, minus about 40% of his money he entered with, and plus a considerable amount of alcohol. He slowly stumbled back to his hotel room.

Meanwhile Celestia had finished vomiting. She had retreated to the bed and left a note on Bronze's side for him. She was fast asleep minutes after writing the note. Dreaming of a land of candy her own personal childhood paradise. A land were things were candy. How Yummy.

Bronze stumbled into the hotel room. Went to the bed and found the note on his pillow. He whispered it aloud as he read it. "Dear Bronze I am not feeling well. If you really have to keep your 'seed' out my hair. I need to look respectable. Also, I ordered up a dinner from room service. It should be up the dumbwaiter by the time you get back. Take the plates and send it back down please. Thank you.
Love Cels."

Bronze looked over to the dumbwaiter. There were 2 steaming plates. They were both the same meal. Steak, mashed potatoes, corn, and a glass of milk. Bronze levitated one plate to the table. He ate it quickly. He took about 15 minutes to eat it. He hadn't sobered up much since entering the room. He quickly looked out the window into the dusk sky and thought "Sleep...Celestia...with...er ummm...Celestia....dusk....tired....sleep..." he continued thinking to himself "Sleep...in....bed...with...Celestia...That's it". He stumbled from the table to the bed. Moved the note to the bedside table and slowly and carefully climbed in. Just as he was getting ready to pass out next to her, there was a loud, quick knock on the door. Bronze sighed then got out of bed and wen to the door. When he opened it, what he saw shocked him, almost back into sobriety.

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