Head in the clouds [Dead]

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A grey mare, with a blonde mane, flew down onto the clouds of the city of Cloudsdale. Her name was Muffin and she used to live in Cloudsdale, before moving to ponyville. It had been a while since she had been back. She was smiling as she started to walk down the streets of the cloud city. Muffin had left a when she was a filly and has only come back a few times. Every once in a while, Muffin gets the urge to visit her old home. She did have a lot of memories here, sadly not all of them were good. She did remember getting teased a lot, mostly for the way her eyes looked. One of her eyes wasn't pointing where she was looking and took a bit of focus to correct but that didn't last long.

Muffin continued walking down the street. She looked around at all the other pegasus flying or walking. Muffin smiled a little, to herself. Cloudsdale was different from Ponyville, besides it being on a cloud. Muffin wondered if she should visit the flight camp or any of the other places she spent her time as a filly. Chances are they would be different. Places always seemed to change over time, but in an odd sense they didn't change at all. Muffin smiled to herself. Muffin was lost in thought as she strolled down the street. Sadly that is when Muffin's bad luck returned. As she walked she bumped into some pony. "I-I'm sorry." She said turning to look at the pony. Sadly nopony was there. Muffin had wound up tripping herself up and thought she hit someone. Of course as she was looking back she stepped into some kind of bucket. This wound up making her lose her balance even more. She wound up walking backwards trying to shake it off her hoof. Muffin got an idea. She placed it on the cloud and used two hooves to push the bucket. This got her hoof free, of course it also sent her flying backwards. This time how ever, she did wind up bumping into somepony. She bumped into them pretty hard.

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"Hey! Get back over here!" somepony yelled, right behind a purple mare. Apparently Clever Clues needed to work on her wing speed, because she wasn't that fast of a flier at all. The pony chasing her was right behind her tail, and she wasn't ready to get caught. She was afraid of losing her 'famous' touch, after all she was one of the most wanted ponies out there. But still, she really needed to work on her speed..

Finally get some sort of boost, the Pegasus mare finally got the urge to turn a corner, leaving a bit more room away from the pony flying after her. She then turned another corner, and another, then finally got back out in the open. She flew a lot more slowly now, looking behind herself and taking a breath. The now new golden necklace was in her pocket that she stole, but now it was hers and no one else's. 

Clever took a deep breath, then started to walk, proud of herself for getting away from the stallion who was a lot faster then her. She then sat on the cloud below her, sighing and taking out the necklace to look at it. "Woah," she mumbled under her breath. "This might be the most beautiful thing I've found."

After a few moments of silence, something seemed to alarm her. That exact same pony was right behind her again, more mad then ever. The sunglasses and beanie that she was wearing at that second almost fell off as she took off into the air again, this time seeing somepony else in her way. She was a grey mare with a blonde mane, and she was coming up to fast for Clever to react and move. Before hitting her, she realized that the other Pegasus had a bucket on her hoof. 'What the...?' she thought, as the grey mare practically flung herself at her, knocking Clues underneath the clouds and hidden from the stallion chasing her.

He ran right past, taking a turn away from the collision. Clever though caught herself from being caught by the ground, then slowly and dizzily, flew back up to the cloud surface. "What.. the.. ow," she mumbled, placing her hoof on her head. Her head was throbbing, giving her a large headache. "Oh my Celestia.. my head.." The bright yellow eyes behind her sunglasses spotted the grey mare from before. Clever glared at her, standing up with a wince. "What the pony feathers do you think you're doing?! You could've given me a concussion.. I might even have one now! You could've killed me! My wing could've gotten caught in a tree... or.. I could've had a broken bone somewhere!" she complained angrily, her head throbbing from every word she said.

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"owwie." Muffin said, but then noticed the pony she hit fall beneath the clouds. "oh no. Oh feathers." She wasn't sure what to do. Luckily a male Pegasus was passing by. "U-Um, excuse me?" She said, but he just ignored her. Muffin new he wouldn't be of any help. The only thing she could do was try and save that pony by herself, even if that did end up with her failing again. Luckily when Muffin turned, she saw that the pony was safe. Of course the other pony was upset. "I'm sorry." Muffin said looking at the clouds. "I didn't mean to." She said taking a deep breath. "I was walking along when I  bumped into somepony, but not really, I then stepped into a bucket, which made me stumble and when I tried to get it off I wound up pushing myself back and wound up hitting you." She said in one breath. She looked at the other pony, obviously sorry for what happened. Muffin's eyes were back in their wall eyed position. "I-I tried to get help, but the only pony around just hurried past." Muffin glanced in the direction that the male pegasus had gone. "He seemed to be in a hurry." She then looked back at the upset pony. "So...Sorry I'm such a klutz." She said closing her eyes. This was usually the moment that the filly's would make a joke about her. Muffin had gotten used to Pegasus making fun of her. It still hurt but she kind of gotten used to it. She waited for the upset pony to say something.

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The whole situation put Clever in an awkward spot. Her head was still throbbing and she was really dizzy, but she was afraid the stallion chasing her would find her again. But still a little woozy, she sat down, hoof on her forehead, then looked up at the grey mare in front of her. She started blurting out a story that was a little.. odd. She's never heard anything like that before, but it was a good enough story to believe. "Yeah, yeah, nice story, whatever," she mumbled, still a little angry. "You're just a lazy klutz I see."

The purple mare took her hoof away from her head, then fixed her shades and replaced her beanie. She then rubbed her head, starting to get better vision of the other mare. She could see how her eyes were now cross eyed, which was a sight she wasn't used to seeing. She also had bubbles for a cutie mark, which was also something Clever has never seen before. The purple Pegasus then took a deep breath, suddenly remembering how she got in this spot in the first place.

"Oh my Celestia!" she yelled looking around rapidly. "Where'd the store clerk go?!" Clever flew into the air, looking around in a fast pace. She then remembered what she stole and quickly started looking for that as well. "Where'd it go?! Where'd it go?!" she shouted, looking through the clouds. Once she spotted something shiny, she took a deep, calm breath.

"Ah, there it is," she said soothingly, taking the necklace she had then put it around her neck. "Perfect." She looked back at the grey mare with a smile. "Apology accepted," she said trying to keep back the annoyance in her voice. "Um.." she didn't know what to say now, or knock up a conversation from the lack of ponies talking to her. "Ummm... do you know where the stallion went? I kind of need to stay away from him..." 'What the feathers are you saying Clev? Trying to get caught?' 

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Muffin opened her eyes when the other pony started to talk. The other pony did wind up calling her lazy, which wasn't really true. Muffin's ears flopped down when the other pony continued talking. It was obvious that the other pony was still in some pain from the collision and Muffin felt bad about that. The other mare then started talking about a store clerk and that started to confuse Muffin. She wasn't sure just who the other mare was talking about. "U-Um, I saw-" She started but was cut off by the other mare realizing she had lost something. Muffin was worried that it had fallen out of the cloud, somehow, and started looking too. Luckily the other mare found what she had been looking for. She lifted up a beautiful necklace. "Wow." Muffin said looking at it. Suddenly the other pony just accepted her apology. This made Muffin smile. "I'm glad you found your necklace." The other pony then seemed to be worried about stallion. "Oh, um." Muffin looked down the street. "I don't know where he went, but he did go down that way. I don't know where he was headed." She looked back at him with her crossed eyes. "He was in too much of a rush to slow down any." Muffin then remembered just what the other pony had said. "Why do you need to stay away from him?" She asked a little worried. "Is he a bully?" She was curious. She knew a lot of pegasus that were a lot like bullies. "Was he mean to you?"

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The grey mare fumbled with her words a lot, like she wasn't sure what to say or do. She didn't even seem to know that right in front of her was most wanted criminal Clever Clues, which was good. She didn't need anymore drama, especially since she still has a throbbing head to take of. At least her vision was clearer and her ears didn't ring like a school bell. Still, she was still getting chased down, even if she didn't see the stallion after her. He was going to catch her again sometime.

Ignoring her thoughts, she looked at the other mare. She started to ask questions then went on about bullies. She seemed so serious about it.. she most likely got bullied when she was a filly for her eyes. This was Cloudsdale after all, a lot of ponies got bullied here. "Um," she started, unsure to tell her what's been happening or not. "N-no.. he- he doesn't bully me.. I just," she paused, looking at the sky. 'Come on Clevs, you're the master of lying remember? Say something believable,' she thought, glancing around at different objects. "I was at his store, trying to find a necklace for my mother because.. she is really sick and she wanted one. So I was looking for one, and I found the one around my neck. I paid for it then left. Apparently there was a pony who looked like me, stole something, then I got caught for doing the awful act. I ran off, scared of what was happening, then ran into you," she bluffed, hoping her story was good enough to pass.

Sighing, Clever stood up bravely. She then looked at the mare. "So why are you here? You live here?"

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Muffin tilted her head a little as she waited for the other pony to reply. When she did reply Muffin smiled. "Oh." She said glad that this Pegasus wasn't being bullied. She lost her smile as the other pony went into more detail of what happened. Apparently she had been in the wrong place at the wrong time. "Oh. I'm sorry to here that." She said a little sad. "It's not right." Muffin shook her head. "I am sorry for crashing into you." She then added a little quieter. "I'm always messing up like that." Muffin then looked away. "Oh. I don't live here, not any more." She smiled when the other pony asked about herself. "I used to, but I moved to Ponyville. I come back to visit." She grinned a little and closed her eyes. "I like to visit some of my favorite places." Suddenly she got an idea.

Muffin held out a hoof and glanced down the road. "If you want..." She glanced at the other pony. "I can take you somewhere." She smiled a little. "I mean, I think it's still there. It's an old hiding spot I know of." She blushed a little. "I used to hide from ponies a lot." Muffin didn't want to go into too much detail about her past. "It was a pretty good hiding place, if I do say so myself." She grinned happily at the other pony. "Oh. My name is Muffin." She nodded her head, as if that was something everyone knew. "If we do hide together, it's best we introduce ourselves."

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All Clever did was nod at Muffin's answers. She seemed a little upset when she spoke, but she ignored the sadness and began to think of what to do to hide from the store clerk who was originally chasing her. She was happy though that Muffin didn't seem to notice her lies, which told her that one she was good at lying or two the grey mare was really gullible. Either way she was fine with it. Keeping her identity hidden was the number one thing she had to do in order to stay out of jail, so she needed to keep that freedom.

She was at least fine until Muffin said something about hiding. Clever nodded at the idea, already sold on it. She needed to stay away from the pony of course or else her lie would be found. If her lie was found wrong, then the grey mare wouldn't trust her, and she already seemed upset on the fact that she got bullied all the time. She was guessing it was her eyes, but still. "Yeah, hiding, perfect," she finally responded, looking around to see if the stallion found her yet. She sighed, noticing he wasn't around anywhere.

In relief, she looked back at Muffin, pushing up her sunglasses to cover her bright yellow eyes more. "Well nice to meet you Muffin," she said after Muffin introduced herself. Now Clever had to say her name, which was the most trickiest part. "Just call me..." She looked around again, knowing she needed a name. She then thought of the fake name she normally used, and said it aloud. "Call me Quick Cash."

Clever then turned to look for the stallion again. "So.. show me the hiding spot. Might as well go now."

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Muffin smiled as the other pony nodded. It seemed that she was going to go along with her plan. Muffin was happy that the other mare didn't seem mad any more. "Nice to meet you too, Quick Cash." She said with another smile. "Now." She said with a glance around. "We are in Pegasus country. Which means we need to stay low and hidden." She spoke in a very serious voice and looked back at Clever. "That is how I got to the hiding spot all the time. If we do fly, I don't think I would ever find it." She added a small laugh at the end, even though there wasn't really a joke. Muffin glanced around real quick. She needed to remember where the hiding spot was and how to get there from their location. "Okay, follow me." She said hoping forward and then crawling. She was acting like she was a thief in a bad movie. As they were sneaking, Muffin would giggle once in a while. When ever she looked back at Clever, as she moved in sneak mode, she had a huge grin on her face. Muffin was always moving and looking everywhere. She was remembering all the times she did this before, as a filly. Muffing remembered how different Cloudsdale was when she would sneak around. It was easy to sneak around, since every pegasus liked to fly. They were always focused on the others in the air or for danger, so a lone filly would escape their notice.

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Clever looked back and around once again before watching Muffin go into 'sneak mode'. The grey Pegasus was crawling on the fluffy cloud below her, looking like a thief in a movie.. which was spinning in Clever's mind. She shook her head though, then started crawling behind her, tucking her wings in tight so she wouldn't topple on one side. Of course she was so mastered at the 'crawling like a thief in a movie' thing, but she didn't want to be so perfect it was questionable. So every once in a while she would pretend she was falling over, but caught herself anyway with one of her wings.

After a little while of this, she began to look around again while crawling like her normal self, forgetting to fall over. Her crawling was completely silent, no sound was made around her. Clever's mind was too caught up with the fact that the pony could see her any minute on the ground, trying to hide from the stallion. Clever then looked ahead, seeing the grey mare in front of her still crawling along. She was surprised she hasn't fallen over yet by how wobbly she walked. She was also surprised how no pony flying or walking by noticed them, but maybe this was the remote side of the cloudy city.

Thinking for a while about being caught (or freaking herself out over nothing), she finally sighed a large sigh. She was crawling fast now, trying to stay close to the grey mare in front of her. "Are we there yet?" she finally gave in, jerking her head around in panic.

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Muffin was still crawling around. She had lost the smile and the giggling. Muffin then heard the other ponies question, which made Muffin start to panic. What could she say? She was lost, plain and simple. It had been too long since she had even been in Cloudsdale, let alone sneaking through the city. Muffin had realized a good while ago that she was lost. Normally she would have admitted that she was lost, but this other pony had already been mad at her once before. She didn't want to upset her even more. Muffin had been hoping that she might find something that jogged her memory, but all she wound up doing was digging a deeper hole for herself.

Muffin's ears fold back as she looked at the other pony. "W-Well you see..." She started. Muffin wasn't sure what to say next. She knew it was pretty obvious from the way she said it, that the other pony could guess something was wrong. "I-I'm sorry." She said looking at the clouds beneath her. She sat, still looking down. "I-I'm...You see..." She sighed and looked up at Clever. "I am lost." She said closing her eyes. "I have been lost for a while." She turned her head away from Clever. "I thought I could find it easily, but I got distracted and wound up losing my way. I had hoped I could see some kind of place I remembered but...I didn't." Muffin waited for the other ponies reaction. It was probably going to be a negative reaction. Most of them were negative, at least the ones in Cloudsdale. Muffin was ready to leave, she was starting to miss Ponyville. Maybe she could find a party or something, to try and cheer herself up.

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She was lost. The grey mare was lost. She has been lost for the whole while. All that time Clever wasted trying to get away from the stallion was all gone. He might be closer then ever now. What if they turned the corner and he was there? What if they bumped into him while mindlessly crawling on the fluffy clouds below them? They probably seemed ridiculously weird just crawling on the floor, now out in the open. Clever knew she wasn't going to get anywhere with this.. crossed eyed pony. She just pushed back all her thoughts to try and get away from the stallion chasing her, but now she didn't know what to do. Firstly she had to speak. Muffin seemed upset.

"Of course," she started, shaking her head in a frustrated manner. "Of course you're lost. I knew it from the beginning I shouldn't be trusting a...." She looked straight at the mare in front of her with a glare. "A mess up!" The purple Pegasus stood up, hoping no pony was looking at her. She then fixed her shades and beanie, clearly frustrated at the position she was in. She had no clue what to do now. Muffin was obviously upset, and she didn't know how to speak to a pony when they're sad. Her words she said to her must've made her even more sad. She shrugged it off though, flying into the air.

She looked around once again, but instead of finding nothing, she found the stallion only a hundred feet away, coming right at her. "Awe pony feathers! Why does this always happen?!" she shouted, then took off away from Muffin and the stallion. She then stopped to rethink, then rushed over to Muffin, grabbed her hoof, then flew off with her. "I don't want us to get caught," she said, flying into a faster speed. She mainly didn't want Muffin to get caught because the stallion could ruin all the lies she's been saying, so she didn't want to risk that. The stallion was right behind them though.

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Muffin waited till the pony who called herself Quick Cash flew off before she sighed. She continued staring at the cloud, not moving. Muffin knew she was right. She had messed up and Clever was upset with her. Clever had all the right to be sad. At that moment Muffin didn't notice what was going on above her. She didn't know that Clever had been found by her pursuer, or hear Clever shout, or even see her fly back down to Muffin. Muffing felt somepony grab her hoof and pull her up into the air. Muffin followed confused. She faulted a little as the two took off. She was surprised to see Clever. "W-What? W-Why did you come back?" She said trying to get into flying rhythm. Luckily it didn't take long, and she was keeping up with Clever. "Get caught?" She asked glancing back. That is when Muffin finally noticed the male pegasus chasing them. "W-What?" She said, as if she just noticed him for the first time. Muffin was really confused now. "This is why you stay close to the ground. Being airborne is too easy to spot." Clever had left quite upset at Muffin, why would she come back for her? Muffin looked back at the stallion following them, then back at Clever. Muffin realized something as they were flying. The longer they ran, the more likely she would mess up somehow. Normally Muffin would try her hardest to help in any way, but the last few minutes had left a sour thought in her mind. Muffin glanced around. The two of them were flying as fast as they could, but unless they found some cover they would get caught. Sadly, even with cover, they would get caught, unless there was something to distract their pursuer. "Find cover. I'll distract him." She finally said. "I'll let go and crash into him." She smiled. "I'm a mess up, so it won't seem like an act. That should give you time to hide." Muffin was ready to let go. "Besides...I don't want to mess up, for real, again and get you into trouble."

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As Muffin was confused, asking her a whole bunch of questions, Clever began to try and think of what to do while being chased by the stupid male Pegasus behind her and Muffin. Her sunglasses and hat proceeded to try and fly off as they flew, but she pulled them back into their spot, which slowed herself down even more. Clever turned to Muffin, then looked forward again, flapping her wings as fast as she could. She was much quicker on the ground. "I couldn't risk having you caught along me," she said, looking at the grey mare again. "I didn't want you to.. get in trouble." And the lies kept coming. "Of course I'm still upset, but we need a solution to get out of here! Now," she huffed, starting to lose her breath.

She looked behind herself once again to find the stallion clawing at her hooves. She dodged every time he made a move, which made him grow frustrated at her, so he tried harder.

After a moment of flying, Muffin finally blurted out an idea. She was going to run into the stallion for a chance to hide from him. Clever quickly nodded, trying not to waste anytime. She rapidly turned her head around, trying to find something large to hide behind. She then spotted a pile of boxes against a clouded brick wall. She practically leaped over to the boxes, flew behind it, then curled up into a ball to hide herself. She then waited till Muffin would be back, which was hopefully soon because she didn't want to be found behind a pile of boxes by herself. That would've been a little bit odd.

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Muffin noticed the nod that Clever gave her. She glanced back towards the pony following. She waited for him to get closer before she let go of Clever's hoof and used her wings as an air break. She saw Clever fly off as she practically stopped. It was only for a moment as the male Pegasus that was following behind them crashed into her. The two of them got tangled up and fell down towards the clouds below. The two of them hit pretty hard and bounced off. The bounced for a bit before the two of them came to a stop. Muffin's head was still spinning as she sat up. Muffin had lost sight of where Clever had ran off to, which was good. That meant the male Pegasus didn't know either. She grinned as she sat there wobbling. Suddenly Muffin felt a bit of pain. Her wing hurt, she must of hurt it in the distraction.

That is when the shadow fell over her. Muffin looked up at the stallion she had crashed into. She stared at him, with her crossed eyes. It was clear that he was upset at her. "Sorry about that." She said with a bit of a smile. "I can be such a klutz." She added a small laugh to the end of that.

"Where is she?" The other pony asked. It was clear that he was upset. Muffin clanged around and shrugged. "Where is that thief hiding?" He was asking in a pretty forceful voice.
"Thief?" Muffin asked, a little mad. "She isn't a thief. You just think she is." Muffin defended. She wouldn't let somepony be called a thief when they weren't one. "It was a simple case of mistaken identity."