Look Inside Your Heart Part One.

Chapter 2: Pride Is A Sin, Praise Is A Virtue.

I awoke with the cat on my chest, and Steele nested in my mane. Steele hopped out of my mane and the cat stretched yawning. "You need a name don't you?" I slowly sat up wrapping my mind around what to name my new friend.

"How about Leone?" I heard a small female voice ask. I look toward the source and find a young female pony with a horn about four inches long her furtone was a light lavender, her mane was a darker purple with a pink stripe through it and fell over her reading glasses. "I'm Twilight Sparkle." Her warm smile made my heart rise.

"I know, it's a pleasure to meet you face to face. Leone, she seems to like that." Leone slowly walked over to Twilight and squeezed through the bars. Twilight knelt down to pet Leone. "And she seems to like you as well." I chuckled. "Where is Armour I was looking forward to seeing him again."

"He's getting your breakfast right now. Where did you get this cat, I'm not familiar with this breed." She picked up Leone and cradled her.

"I made her last night." I replied while standing up.

"Made her, how?" I could tell she was just thinking out loud, but I felt compelled to answer anyway.

"Changeling magic is based on creation, and royalty can even create life itself. We can change matter into other matter with the Flame Of Hephaestus that lays dorment within our hearts."

"Wow out of all the scrolls in the Canterlot Archives there is so little information on your kind." Twilight set down Leone and opened the door to my cell. She walked in and sat down on the floor next to me.

"That door was unlocked the whole time?" I feigned confusion because I knew Armour unlocked it last night before he left.

"Who's ready for breakfast?" Armour shouted as he walked through the door with two trays in his hands and one floating behind him.

"Good morning Armour, how'd you sleep?" I asked jokingly.

"Pretty good, I guess." Armour said as he placed a tray in front of each of us and sat down. "One question, how did you know her name, I didn't tell you?" He asked handing me a fork.

"A little birdie told me." I laugh holding out a finger as Steele perched on it.

"What's he made of?" Twilight asked all giddy.

"Handcuffs." A familiar voice sounded from across the room.

"Detective Skies how nice of you to join us." I say as I cut the strange breakfast. "What is this it doesn't taste like anything I've had before."

"It's a cinnamon roll, it's made by sprinkling cinnamon into bread dough, rolling it, and baking it. It tastes better with this on top." Twilight tossed me a pouch of white liquid, that read frosting. I opened the pouch and poured it on. She was right it did taste better.

"Why is this food so different fffrom the stuff I was fed last night?"

"You can't have an audience with the princess when the only thing in your stomach is bread and water." Skies leaned against the doorway scribbling in a notebook.

"I meant to ask there was something that seemed strange with the moon."

"You mean the Mare In The Moon?"Armour asked his mouth full of Cinnamon roll. "It's an old pony legend it states that there is an evil spirit that was trapped there a thousand years ago and is still there to this day."

"Wait, that reminds me I gotta go see you later." Twilight scrambled to her hooves and ran out the door and up the stairs.

"Well why are you here Skies, and Where's Thunderstorm?" I took Twilight's half eaten roll and ate it.

"Thunderstorm is on assignment, Cloudsdale PD is very interested in your talents, Cress." Skies said without looking from his notebook. "We would like to ask you some more questions after your audience with Princess Celestia, if you don't mind." He closed his notebook and reached into his pocket. He pulled out an amulet similiar to mine. "This isn't yours is it?" He tossed it to me.

"Where did you get this Skies?" It wasn't mine but I knew who it belonged to.

"Thunderstorm found it at the crime scene last night."

"There was another murder?" My jaw dropped and so did Armour's

"Yes, the one witness described a creature that looked like you, but you were here all night weren't you?" Skies was concerned. "This proves your innocent under normal circumstances."

"But we're dealing with a shapeshifter and the public wouldn't buy into that, I know I wouldn't if I hadn't known what we were dealing with already." Armour interrupted.

"When is my audience with the princess?"

"Tomorrow is the celebration so sometime tomorrow afternoon, so we need to get you to Ponyville today, everypony deserves to see it once." Skies turned and walked up the stairs.

"Thank you for your hospitality Armour I hope we meet again under better circumstances." I held out my hand and he shook it.

"Under better circumstances, I'll hold you to that." Armour smiled and walked toward the door. "And you better change, a prison jumpsuit won't look good on you."

"Thanks for the tip." I concentrated on some new clothing a trenchcoat and black denim pants. The chains fell off onto the floor. I grabbed Leone and she curled into a ball, and I put her in my pocket, Steele perched on my shoulder, and I walked out the door and up the stairs.

"Hello Cress you ready?" Skies was laying on a cloud looking down at me.

"Yeah, let's get going. I don't want to make any more friends."

"What's so bad 'bout friends?" Skies jumped down and landed next to me. "That Twilight Sparkle is leaving for Ponyville now something about nightmares and the moon." He led me to a chariot tied other pegasi. "Get this stallion to Ponyville."

"Yes sir." They saluted and we flew off. I looked around, but I couldn't see Skies.

"Feels great don't it, the wind in your mane, the bugs in your teeth." Skies was flying circles around us. "Gotta love havin' wings."

"Yeah I do." Without thinking I spread my two pairs of wings and they began to vibrate. I flew backward and stopped mid-air. I shot forward at breakneck speed. "Ha ha ha It's been forever since I went this fast!" The pure adrenaline rush took over and I passed Skies and the others. "Gotta be faster than that to keep up with me!" I stopped again and waited for a minute. "I feel great I've never been able to stretch my wings like this." I found a small cloud and tried sitting on it. It felt soft but thick enough to hold my weight. I laid down on the little cloud it was so comfortable I fell asleep only moments later.