Hello Everybody! This is my first try at writing a Miraculous story! As much as I love Chat Noir, I do not possess his amazing gift with puns so bare with me and my lame attempts. This story is in Chat Noirs POV and is aged up so that the main characters are all about 17 or 18. This story will involve the other Miraculous holders, including the ones we haven't met yet. I'm also not interested in torturing everyone with a long awaited reveal so I can assure you that the main focus is not on that. Happy Reading!
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Chat gazed out over the city of Paris, his back turned to his Lady. Things had been quiet recently. Either Hawkmoth had taken an unexpected vacation or the villain had finally given up. After three years with no success, it wouldn't surprise him. If Ladybug and Chat Noir were both disheartened from never finding the identity of the masked villain, there was no telling how frustrated Hawkmoth must be.
Chat's cat hears perked up as his Lady sighed sadly from behind him.
"Everything alright, M'Lady?" Chat turned his body to lean back on the rails of the Eiffel Tower.
He smiled as he heard the tinkling laugh from the heroine. "Everything's purrfect, kitty."
A blush spread across Chat's cheeks, contrasting strongly with the black of his mask. It wasn't often that his Lady would pun for his benefit.
He was about to respond when Ladybug took a deep breath. She was fidgeting, her hands twisting around each other. From years of experience, Chat knew he wasn't going to like whatever Ladybug said next. "It's just….I don't know if we should be doing this anymore, Chat."
Chat tilted his head, confused. "M'Lady?"
"It's been over a month since the last akuma sighting. I'm pretty sure that you're the same age as me so you've got a round of exams coming too and college after that. Maybe all of this," Ladybug swiveled her hand around to encompass the two of them, "is finally over." Chat's heart dropped at her implication. She was done; tired. He'd known his Lady hadn't been as thrilled about their powers as he had been but over the years he thought that her attitude had changed. He thought they were having fun.
As the silence stretched on between them, Ladybug turned to fully face him for the first time that evening. The idea of never seeing his Lady again sent a pang through Chat's chest. It had been years since his early days of pining over her. He still flirted occasionally, but he'd long since given up hope of ever gaining her affection. Still, the idea of losing her friendship was almost unbearable. Plus he had to contend with the fact that he'd have to finally abandon even the slightest hope of ever being with her.
"Please…" Chat moved his gaze from Ladybug's feet slowly up to her face; his eyes squeezed shut. He opened them, his Lady's name a breath away from escaping his lips, when he saw the tumult just over her shoulder.
"Ladybug!" He cried out her name. Her eyes widened in shock before she quickly caught sight of his gaze and spun on her heel.
Never before had they ever seen so many akumas at one time. There had to be a dozen, and they weren't all the same like their first akuma, Stoneheart. These were individual akumas, each decked out with their own wacky appearance and all of their attention directed towards Ladybug.
Chat flipped backwards at the same time as his Lady shot out her yo-yo. The two danced away from the oncoming hoard of akuma victims. How had Hawkmoth managed to akumatize so many people without anyone noticing? How had he even managed to make more than one at a time?
Surely this many disappearances in such a short span of time should have made their radar. But this wasn't the time to question where the akumas had come from.
"M'Lady! Any ideas?" Chat struck out at the first of the akumas, a young boy dressed as a racecar driver. The kid dodged Chat's staff and sent a pulse of speed racing his way. Chat jumped out of the way, landing back to back with Ladybug.
"This is certainly new." He turned to see that she was nibbling on her lower lip, a look of sheer concentration on her face as she gazed around at each akuma in turn. "There's just too many of them. We need to find some way to narrow it down to one or two at a time. It may also be time to go see Master Fu again."
"Something tells me we are going to need more than just Rena Rouge." Chat pulled his lady into a side embrace, jolting away from the Eiffel Tower with his staff.
"There's a whole box of them. Master Fu showed me it once. We just need to decide who else we can trust with the safety of a Miraculous." Ladybug yelled over the sound of the wind swishing past their faces. She had moved her head to tuck into his collar and Chat found himself struggling to pay attention to what she was saying when her lips kept brushing against his neck.
"Okay, so we lose these guys in a game of Chat and mouse," Chat winked at his Lady out of habit even though she couldn't see his face, "and go visit Master Fu. On it!" Chat put an extra dose of power into his leaps. He felt Ladybug shift in his arm, her lips finally leaving his skin.
"They're gone…"
"What!? They stopped chasing us? Already!?" Chat came to a stop, balancing the two of them on his staff, three stories off the ground. He spun his head around to check for himself, but sure enough, there were no akumas in sight. "Well that's a first. They must be intimidated by my Chat like reflexes." Ladybug rolled her eyes, a routine reply that she'd had a lot of practice with over the last three years. "Kind of reminds me of that time…"
"CHAT!" Ladybug's scream came too late though. He felt the burst of air hit his chest, not seeing where it came from. He lost balance with his staff, and he could feel his grip on Ladybug loosen as she shifted around in his grasp, most likely looking for her yo-yo.
The staff jerked out from under them, sending the two heroes careening into the nearest building. Chat hit first, his head slamming into the rough stone. The breath was knocked out of him and in that instant his muscles stopped working. He recovered quickly as he felt the staff fall away from the building, leaving Ladybug and him with no support. The arm not holding her desperately grasped onto the window ledge above him.
Chat sighed in relief as he glanced down to find Ladybug still hanging onto him. She smiled up at him. "Good kitty!" Ladybug released her hold on him to pull out her yo-yo. She tossed her arm up. "Lucky Ch…"
Chat felt it before he heard it. The same rush of air, only this time is slid past him, hitting Ladybug full on. The air pulled her out of his grasp and sent her flying backwards before gravity finally caught up with her. Chat squeezed his eyes shut as he heard the sickening thud of her body hitting the pavement below.
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So that's the setting up portion of my story (Let me know if this is too short for a chapter – I can make the chapters longer if I need to.)! Next chapter will probably be posted within a day or two since I've already written it. Please leave any constructive criticism for me! I'd love to improve my writing. Thanks for taking the time to read this! Have a Miraculous Day!
