Miraculous: The Wolf's Origins
Chapter 1: Karma's Rise and Fall, Okami's Beginning.
Note: This story takes place after the "Antibug" episode, but before "Volpina". Updates are once a week usually unless I'm busy.
(Ryuuto's POV)
Ugh, I hate my life.
I'm not being a pessimist or something, it's just my life isn't going so well...
My dad is dead, my mom is missing, and I'm stuck with my weird grandpa. It's not even a insult, it's the truth. He keeps muttering things about "magic" and other things that should get him placed in a mental hospital.
We used to live in Japan, but we're currently flying to Paris in a luxury jet. Yeah, my family is a rich one. I don't like it, really, but I'm thankful for what I have.
My grandfather, William Shock, looked at me smiling broadly. "Ready for a new start grandson? A new school, a new life, new friends!" He said optimistically.
"Uh-huh, whatever you say gramps." I mumbled. William frowned slightly, which didn't look good on him.
My grandfather didn't look a day over 40, but he is actually 86. He had my white and red hair, which I inheirited from him, and was wearing a blue business suit with a black tie. He also carried a red and black chest with him, at all times. Apparently I was to inherit it one day. "Now grandson," he started. 'Here it comes…' I thought, sighing. "You need to understand that this is what your father wanted. You do remember his dying words, right?" I winced.
My father's death was still a sensitive topic for me. He was only 30, but he still died from a unknown disease. My grandfather and mother tried to heal them as much as they could, but the disease kept coming back every day, torturing my father. In his final breaths, he wished for me to stay safe and told me that my future lies in the City of Love. It only took a day for me to realize he meant Paris. And so here we are…
"Sorry grandpa, it's just… mom's disappearance is bothering me still…" I sighed. William ruffled my hair, smiling again.
"We'll find her one day, brat." He said, making me laugh. "The jet should be landing in a hour or two, so take a nap, alright?" I nodded, closing my eyes and letting sleep overtake me.
When I reawoke, I looked out the window and saw the Eiffel Tower. "It's really here… In front of me…" I shook my grandfather, who also slept apparently, until he woke. "Grandpa, we're here!" William rubbed his eyes and shook his head.
"Well I'll be… We're really here in Paris…" William stood up grinning. "Come on Ryuuto, these old bones need some excersise after that long trip! And you mister, need to get to your school." He ran out the jet, which landed in our Paris home-away-from-home. My friend and personal assistant, Jack Smith, walked out of the flight deck.
Jack had black hair, golden eyes, and a suit like my grandfather's. Everyone in my family or allied with my family was super formal. I don't even know how I'm the only one able to get away with wearing casual clothes.
"So, James, ready for school?" He asked, causing me to look at him with fake anger.
"Jack, don't call me that. My name is Ryuuto, remember?" Jack roared in laughter at that.
"I know, I know. Just messing with ya. Now come on, school is a serious thing."He walked out of the jet and walked me to the new school I was supposed to be enrolled in. "Now, Ryuuto, you need to make friends for once, ok?" I nodded, arguing with Jack was futile anyways. "See you, little brother." He winked, walking away. I rolled my eyes and walked inside the school, headed straight for the principal's office.
I knocked on the door, waiting until a slightly gruff voice said, "Come in."
I walked in and saw a stout man with amber eyes. He has large, bushy black eyebrows, gray sideburns and beard, and a light gray mustache. He was also bald on the top of his head. He looked silly, but his eyes were serious yet kind. "Ah, so you must be the new student. My name is Mr. Damocles, the principal here." I nodded at that, shaking his outstreched hand. "You seem to have two names registered. Do you want to be called Ryutensei or James?"
I instantly replied, "Ryutensei please. It's a special name in my family." Mr. Damocles nodded. He handed me my schedule card, motioning me to leave. I bowed and left the office, putting the schedule in my backpack.
(Elsewhere...)
William walked into a room where a old man was sitting with a green turtle like creature. "Wang Fu? It's me, William." Wang looked up, seeing his old friend.
"William, how are you old friend?" Wang asked.
William sighed. "I'm fine, but my grandson Ryuuto… he isn't." Wang Fu raised a eyebrow.
"What's wrong with him?"
"His emotions… are dark. He was never the same since Kaguya's disappearance." Wang Fu didn't like that very much.
"That isn't a good thing here in Paris. There is a villain here in Paris named Hawk Moth. He transforms those with negative emotions into supervillains." William looked at the chest he held and at the box in the corner of the room.
"Should we give him a Miraculous when he feels better?" Fu nodded, as did the floating turtle kwami.
"Good idea, William. Besides, the superheroes here might need the extra help." The kwami, Wayzz, said. William nodded.
(Back at the School, Ryuuto's POV)
I managed to befriend a blue haired girl named Marinette and a blonde guy named Adrien. They seemed nice enough, really. I also learned of Paris's superheroes Ladybug and Cat Noir.
'Those superheroes might be good, but it would be better if they had another ally.' I mused. 'Like… mom and dad…' I teared up a bit at that.
"Oh look, the new kid's crying already." I heard, looking to the side and seeing a girl with yellow hair and blue eyes. I growled.
"I am not any kid, I am Ryutensei James Shock." I said, walking up to her face.
"Oh, so you're the son of those weirdos who miraculously were wiped off the face of the Earth. You poor soul." She laughed mockingly. "I'm Chloe Bourgeois, daughter of the mayor. Now please go back to where you came from."
I growled furiously and stormed out of the classroom.
(Hawk Moth's Lair)
Hawk Moth, the supervillain that has been terrorizing Paris hummed, looking out his giant window. He wore a dark purple dress shirt with a black butterfly-shaped lapel, a moth shaped brooch on the center of the collar, and black dress pants. Over most of his face and neck, he wore a silver mask. He also had a dark indigo cane he held in his hands.
"Hm… A sad teen, who lost his family, angered by the unfairness of life. What a perfect person to Akumatize." He grabbed one of the butterflies near him and corrupted it with magic, sending it out the window. "Go my evil Akuma, and corrupt his soul!"
(With Ryuuto, No One's POV)
Ryuuto growled, pulling out his mother's dagger. She gave it to him for self defense a long time ago, but he just used it as a way of remembering her. Out of the corner of Ryuuto's eye, Ryuuto saw a black butterfly. An Akuma, he believed they called it. He sliced at it, but it fused with the silver dagger, turning it purple.
"Karma, I am Hawk Moth. I will give you the powers you need to make people pay for their sins, and reward them for their good deeds. I just need a little payback. Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculous." Hawk Moth said.
"And why should I help you? You're supposed to be a villain!" Ryuuto grunted, closing his eyes in pain.
"The true villain is that woman who insulted your family. Would I insult the dead? Never." Ryuuto smiled darkly.
"Fine, Hawk Moth. Bring it on." Ryuuto let the dark magic wipe over his body, standing up. "Chloe will be my first victim to judge." He laughed, summoning green vines around his arms and shooting them at buildings, swinging away. Karma saw Chloe walking out of the school and landed in front of them, grinning evilly.
"I am Karma, the Judge of Humanity! You, Chloe Bourgeois, will be my first of many to be judged by my might." He motioned his hand towards her and pulled out a dark green soul from their chest, studying it before shoving it back into Chloe. "You are cruel, and your soul is sickeningly dark! I find you guilty!" Karma slammed his hands on the floor and ice shot out of the ground, encasing her. "You will be trapped until your soul is pure!" People screamed, running as they saw what I did.
"Foolish humans…" Karma raised his right hand up into the air. "No one can escape judgement!" He shot many green and purple blasts into the air, causing most, if not all, people to be encased in ice, surrounded by fire, or trapped in wooden domes. Those who were left were given rewards of their hearts choice. "I am a fair judge, and a better hero than Ladybug and Cat Noir!"
"I wouldn't be so sure of that, Karma." The new supervillain turned around to see the so called "Heroes" of Paris.
"Ah, Ladybug and Cat Noir have decided to grace me with their presence. I am honored." Karma bowed formally. "It is a honor of meeting such pure souls. You two are kind beyond measure. It is a shame I have to fight you two, but as any respectable judge, I have to be honest. I promised Hawk Moth your Miraculous, and I aim to please." He pulled out his knife, and sliced the air, shooting purple streaks of energy at Ladybug.
"Watch out m'lady!" Cat Noir jumped towards Ladybug and knocked her down causing the attack to hit and destroy a building wall. Karma growled in fustration.
"This will be over soon and painlessly if you stop resisting!" He sighed, stomping his foot on the ground and causing wooden zombie-like warriors to rush at the Miraculous Duo. Cat Noir extended his pole and hit all the warriors, knocking them back and breaking them.
Karma frowned, he didn't want to actually hurt the duo, they were still human beings and had the purest hearts he had seen in a long time. "Fine. You want to do this the hard way? So be it." Karma killed his emotions, rushing at the duo with his knife, extending it's length using some corrupted dark blue magic. Ladybug blocked the knife with her yo-yo, seeing the knife's glow.
"Cat Noir! The knife!" She called out. Cat Noir nodded.
"I'm paws-itively thrilled. This was the easiest Akuma find ever!" Cat Noir stuck his hand in the air, black colored magic surrounding his hand. "Cataclysm!" He tried to strike the knife with the attack, but the knife turned dark green, enveloping Karma and his knife in a barrier. The Cataclysm struck the barrier and broke it, but Cat Noir's ability timed out.
Cat Noir jumped back. "He has more than one ability m'lady. How can we paws-ibly get ourselves out of this?"
Ladybug looked around. "Stop making puns and I'll think of an idea to beat him. Lucky Charm!" Ladybug threw her yo-yo into the air and from it, a red and black dagger sheath landed in her hands. "A sheath? What can I do with this?"
"It'd be real great if you hurried up bugaboo!" Cat Noir grunted, trying to hold back Karma's constant assault and prevent the villain from getting their hands on the Cat Ring. Ladybug looked around, quickly devising a plan.
The sheath, the knife, Cat Noir's pole, her yo-yo…
"That's it! Cat Noir, throw me your pole!" She called out, gaining a questioning look, but Cat Noir listened and threw the pole at Ladybug. The heroine tied the pole to her yo-yo and the wrapped it around Karma, tying him up.
Karma struggled, trying to get himself out of this situation. Ladybug took the knife and stepped on the hilt, breaking it and forcing the Akuma inside fly out. She untied Karma, who fell to the ground tiredly.
Ladybug looked at the Akuma and flipped open her yo-yo. "No more evil doing for you little Akuma. Time to de-evilise!" She flung the yo-yo at the Akuma, trapping it and releasing the purified butterfly.
Karma reverted back into Ryuuto, shaking his head. He then looked at Ladybug and Cat Noir. "Was I just… Akumatized?"
"Sadly, yeah. But my bugaboo and I took care of it." Cat Noir smiled.
"I'm sorry… I didn't expect Hawk Moth to be so… convincing." Ryuuto sighed, standing up. "I'm ashamed of myself…"
"Don't be. Negative emotions pop up once in a while, but it's our job to forgive and forget. To keep getting back up." Ladybug said. I heard beeping from their Miraculous. "Well, I have to leave. Bug out!" She swung away with her yo-yo and Cat Noir left as well. Ryuuto walked home ashamed.
William was sitting on one of the couches, when he saw his grandson. "Ryu, come here." He said, as Ryuuto sat next to him. "Your father would have wanted you to have this." He opened the large chest with a silver key, showing two smaller chests. He opened one of them, showing a silver necklace in the shape of a wolf's tooth. "This is the Wolf Miraculous."
Ryuuto stared at it disbelievingly. "How?"
"Our family isn't just wealthy, your father and mother were the heroes of Japan. The Rabbit Goddess and the Dark Fox, they were called. It's time you inheirted their will. This Miraculous will suit you the best." Ryuuto took the necklace gingerly, and put it around his neck. The wolf part glew and a light shot out of it, which turned out to be a little green eyed silver wolf.
It then spoke in a female voice. "Hiya! I'm Shimi, the Wolf Kwami of the Pure Wolf Miraculous! I'll be your friend and Kwami for the rest of your life!" Ryuuto just blinked at the little female Kwami.
"This'll take a while to get used to." Ryuuto said, causing both his grandfather and Shimi to laugh.
