Miraculous: Bluebell World Chapter 1, a miraculous: tales of ladybug & cat noir fanfic

Miraculous: Bluebell World

Disclaimer: You know how it works by now right?

If you haven't read Bluebell Eyes, you may want to, however here is a brief "what happened previously" section:

After the Earthquake known as the Great Cataclysm, Adrien had dreams about a mysterious girl with Bluebell Eyes (hence the name) where he watches as she ultimately transforms into a superhero to fight a villain. During the same time, Chloe, Alya and Nino have dreams about being superheroes in which Chloe and Alya were both killed and Nino lost his hand.

Back in the waking world there are no superheroes or villains in Paris. Adrien, Chloe, Alya and Nino go about their daily lives. The highlights being, that Emilie Agreste is alive and Gabriel has been missing for a number of years. Chloe stays at the Agreste Mansion whenever Audrey is in Paris, and Emilie has been more of her mother then Audrey. Alya has an obsession with getting Sabine Cheng, who is partners with Alya's mother in running a café, together with Tom Dupain on a blind date. Meanwhile Nino helps his pops as a contractor turning the attic space above Tom's Bakery into a "gaming room."

Emilie Agreste dreams of her times with Gabriel before he became lost to her, including the time when they found a pair of Miraculouses. In a hidden lair under the Agreste Mansion, there is a glass coffin that holds a pair of bodies locked in battle, Hawk Moth and Ladybug with part of Cat Noir's costume included with her own.

Fu Chan also has a single dream during the Great Cataclysm, in which he overhears the voice of a young girl talking to the Gods of the Miraculouses, in which she offers to sacrifice herself twice to save the lives of her "friends" while they reset reality so that Hawk Moth is not in a position to have caused the deaths.

If you want more details, please read Bluebell Eyes.

Chapter 1: Investigation, or st Least an Attempt to Investigate

"Chloe, do you think it's possible to be in love with someone you've only seen in a dream?" Adrien asked as he heard Chloe shifting in the bed behind him. He was use to her coming into his room at night to sleep. Sometimes she would snuggle against his back, but most times she would just lie in bed facing away from him and occasionally steeling his covers.

"Are you talking about Marinette?" She asked as she shifted around. The way her voice sounded she must have rolled over to face his back.

"Yeah." He replied. He was honestly confused about his own feelings in the matter.

"I dreamt about her as well." Chloe admitted. Adrian couldn't roll around fast enough and the expression on his face was so serious. Chloe couldn't help herself. She pushed his nose with her finger and said. "boop".

"Funny, Chloe, Funny." He growled at her.

"I thought it was." She smiled a moment. "You just looked so serious I had to do something." He frowned at her debating about wither he should roll over again so his back was to her or just push her off the bed but before he could decide, she continued. "But I'm serious. I've been having these dreams about being a super hero for a while now, and I was murdered in it. That's why I came in her last night. I was freaked out about that, but that wasn't the end of the dream."

"I hope not, since that doesn't really. . ." He stopped talking when he thought about the end of his own dream. Chloe had dreamt of being a super hero and Marinette in his dream talked like she was one, and even transformed into a super hero like costume.

"No, afterwards I found myself drowning in some kind of goo, and I was pulled out of it by a girl wearing what looked like the remains of one of the costumes another girl at the beginning of my dream was wearing." Chloe explained her voice speeding up a little with every word. "As I woke up I said, Thank you Marinette." She finished.

"What did she look like?" He asked excitedly.

"As a superhero, she was in a skin tight red suit with black spots, pigtails, and an eye mask. When she rescued me, she looked like one of those girls what was half Asian half European, and she had these beautiful blue eyes."

"That's her, that's Marinette." He sounded so exited it was scary. "I mostly saw her in her street clothes and it looked like she was injured, but she did transform into the costume you described."

"Inured? In my dream I was also injured as well. And actually I heard someone yell out Nino. When I got to where the voice had come from, I witnessed another hero in what I think was a fox costume, falling over dead. Her costume seemed to dissolve away before my eyes. I think Ninom like the Nino we know was there, but I'm not sure, I was too focused on the body." Adrien closed his eyes as he started to think.

"Rena Rouge, Queen Bee, Carapace and Cat Noir." He stated.

"Huh?" She asked.

"Those were the names she said to me in my dream, I didn't understand what she was talking about when she said them, but with what you just mentioned, maybe they were superhero names?"

"If that's the case, then the fox girl was probably Rena Rouge." Chloe stated. "My costume was yellow and black, so I was probably Queen Bee, but I didn't see any others."

"Damn." He frowned. "I feel like our dreams are connected, even if only loosely."

"Well, duh, we dreamt about the same person that neither of us actually knows." She snarked at him. This time he did push her off the bed. "Hey, that's rude." She complained after she thumped on the ground. She yanked the covers causing him to roll off the other side.

"Chloe!" He yelled. He stood up and grabbed a pillow as if he was ready to attack her with it. Before he could, his phone rang. He turned and grabbed it. Nino was the one calling. "Hey Nino, what's up." He asked just before a pillow hit him on the opposite side of his head from the phone. "CHLOE!" He yelled. She smiled innocently.

"Dude, Bro, whatever you're doing, you need to stop screwing around, and meet with Alya and me. It's super important."

"Sure Nino." He replied sounding a little irritated. "We'll drop everything we're doing," Not that we're doing much. "And meet up with you guys."

"Dude, I'm serious this is really urgent. You wont believe what Alya found on her phone."

"I swear Nino, if you sent her a dick pic and want me to see it, I'm going to kill you." He grumbled.

"Alya, we'll meet you there as quickly as possible." He heard Chloe say behind him. He hadn't even heard her phone ring. "Stop Screwing around Adrien and get dressed, we need to go now." She ordered.

"What?"

"Alya and Nino had dreams similar to mine." She explained as she rushed from his room to get dressed.

"Wait, what?" He asked stunned.

"Yeah dude, you didn't let me get to that point." He heard Nino say from the phone. "I didn't know how much you knew already, but I guess a lot."

"Um, yeah, I'll be there as soon as possible." He said and clicked the call off. Adrien yanked off the clothes he wore to bed before grabbing fresh clothes. He slipped on a tee shirt and went to pull on his pants.

"Ready yet?" Chloe asked as she opened the door.

"CHLOE!" He yelled almost falling over with one pant leg halfway up.

"Oh please it's not like you go commando." She shook her head. "Although I didn't realize you wore briefs though." She started to laugh.

"I really hate you." He grumbled. She laughed harder.

Nino had run to Alya's place after she hung up on him. After his dream, he was totally freaked out. He rushed up the stair to hers apartment and through the hall, only to be knocked off his feet as she was running out of said apartment. He landed with a thud, twisting to avoid landing on his sprained wrist.

"Oh, I'm so sorry." She stated and stopped. "Nino what are you doing here?" She asked.

"I was worried about you, when you hung up on me and didn't answer any more calls."

"Oh yeah, do you know how annoying that was with what I was trying to do."

"What were you trying to do?" He asked.

"Come with me and you'll see." She started to run again. Nino frowned but chased after her.

"Where are we going?" He huffed. He'd already run a lot and was tired.

"There is a one hour photo place down the street." She explained.

"A what?"

"One hour photo place. They develop film photos. I'm hoping the can do this roll of film." She explained, which only served to confuse him more. He was losing ground on her as she pushed open the door to the street. He needed to hurry, not matter how exhausted he was. She was already rushing along the sidewalk. He didn't know where she was going, so if he lost her, that was it. He huffed and he puffed and he wheezed as he watched her turn a corner. He made it to the corner just in time to see her try to enter a door five buildings down. He watched her kick it as she sat down apparently waiting for the place to open. He shuffled himself down to her and just wheezed a few more times.

"What's going on?" He finally managed. "Why the rush?"

"I had this dream last night." She started. Nino perked up, well at least as much as he could considering he was still trying to catch his breath. "And the thing is, when I woke up, I looked at my phone and flipped back to some older photos and saw ones I don't remember taking."

"Dude, what?" He asked. Alya frowned.

"There are photos on my phone I didn't take, but when I looked at them they changed. Like I had this selfie that was a group of us, um, cosplaying." She didn't want to say anything about the superhero thing to Nino, even though she was certain he was part of it. It would make her sound weird, maybe even crazy. He actually looked like he wanted to say something, but she held her hand up. She wasn't done. "That happened to the first two photos I tried to look at. So after that, I took out my previous phone to try to use it's camera to capture the image before it changed. It took the photo, but both changed. Then I tried with my old digital camera. Again the stupid photos changed." She was sounding rather pissed. "So I remembered my dad had an old film camera, and I'm hoping that these ones won't change since they aren't digital." She finished.

"Were you in a fox costume?" He asked. She blinked a little surprised by his question.

"Um, yes." She said hesitantly.

"Was there a bee girl with you?"

"Yes." A little less hesitantly.

"How about a girl looking like a ladybug?"

"Yes." He voice went from hesitant to slightly excited.

"A dude in a cat suit."

"Yes!" Excited for sure that time.

"Some guy in green?"

"A turtle, he was a turtle!" She exclaimed.

"I think I had the same dream." Alya caught the sadness in his voice.

"What's wrong Nino?" She asked.

"I watched you die in my dream." She could make out tears in his eyes. The memory upset him.

"I know, that part happened in my dream too, but I was rescued by some girl named Marinette." She smiled. "So you know, it's all, well mostly good." She finished.

"How does a girl rescue you from being dead?" He asked.

"I'm not going to think about the semantics about it, I'm just going to be happy about it happening." She went quiet a moment. "That's actually what the selfie I found on my phone was. It was the one I took in the dream."

"Dude, no way. How does that happen?" Alya just gave him a look. "Sorry." He said sheepishly. They sat on a bench nearby until the shop opened talking about their dreams, then Alya rushed inside to get her photos printed. The clerk took her film and fed it into the processing machine and let it run. Alya and Nino looked around the shop while they waited.

And waited.

Finally the clerk pulled the photos from the machine, not even bothering to check them since he could see how anxious she was. She was glad she'd grabbed some extra money since the development cost had been so much. She opened the envelope and pulled out the first photo. It was her dad taking a selfie in front of the panther enclosement at the zoo.

"Ugh." She complained and grabbed the last one in the pack. She pulled it out seeing a photo of her phone with an image of the girl in the ladybug costume swinging on some kind of line. Nino gasped seeing it and Alya held her breath. They watched waiting for it to fade into another image, but after five minutes it still hadn't changed.

"YES!" She yelled startling the clerk, causing him to jump and bump into a shelf knocking down a bunch of camera equipment..

"Oww." He complained.

"Sorry." She apologized. "I got a little excited."

"I hadn't noticed." The clerk groused.

"Um, so while we're here, I'd like to purchase some more film for my camera."

"Sure, how many rolls." He asked as he stood up. She checked her wallet.

"Nino, how much money do you have on you?" She asked. He frowned but got his wallet out. She grabbed his cash from him before he could even count it. "As much as I can get with this." She answered.

"Alya?"

"Sorry Nino, but it's important, and I'll pay you back, okay?" He sighed and nodded. As they flipped through the other three photos she'd taken he held up a photo of the Bee girl.

"I saw her killed in my dream too. She transformed into Chloe." He remarked.

"She did?" She asked excitedly. It was his turn to give her a look. "I'm not excited about her dying obviously, I'm excited about her being one of the heroes. We need to call her." She stated. "If she's part of this too, I want to know what she knows."

"Do you think Adrien is as well?" He asked. "I mean if you, Chloe and myself are, it would make sense that he was too. We're like totally a team as it is. Maybe he's the cat boy?"

"Makes as much sense as anything, plus he was the first to say the name Marinette." She agreed. You call him, I'll call her." He gave her a thumbs up as he pulled out his phone. She pulled her own out and dialed Chloe listening to what sounded like Nino having a hard time with Adrien. If it wasn't for the seriousness of the moment, she would have been laughing at him. She could hear Adrien yell "Chloe!" in annoyance as Chloe answered the phone.

"Hey Alya, what's up?"

"This is going to sound crazy but have you been having dreams about being a costumed superhero?" She asked.

"Um, yes." Chloe replied cautiously. "Why?" So much caution from everyone.

"Were you with a fox girl and a turtle guy, in a fight maybe with a guy in a silver mask and some barbarian woman." Alya was sounding way too excited about it, but it was really making Chloe's stomach turn a little.

"I think I'm the fox and Nino was the turtle. Him and I have been having the same dream."

"Oh god, I think I have been too."

"What about Adrien?"

"He told me a little of his dream, it doesn't sound like it's the same, except for a girl named Marinette was in both."

"Yeah, she was in mine too. Lets meet at the park, it's early enough it should still be pretty empty. Chloe, I've got stuff I need to show you guys."

"Alya, we'll meet you there as quickly as possible."

As expected the park was empty that early in the morning with it being the weekend and most people who didn't have to go out early, didn't go out early. Alya and Nino picked a spot near the fountain and waited for Adrien and Chloe. Once they were all together Alya started to talk.

"So, I've been having this dream on and off for a while about being a superhero. Over the last few days it was every night. In this dream I was with Nino in a turtle costume, Chloe in a bee costume, a girl I believe was named Marinette in a ladybug costume, and some boy in a cat costume. I was dressed as a fox.

"Carapace, Queen Bee, Ladybug, Cat Noir and Rena Rouge." Adrien said as Alya took a breath.

"Huh?" Her and Nino asked together.

"Those were the names that Marinette or Ladybug had said in my dream. Well not Ladybug, I kind of called her that before I yelled out her real name, but the others were all mentioned."

"So you weren't a cat boy in your dream?" Alya asked

"No, I didn't dream about being in a cat costume, I only dreamt about Marinette, er Ladybug? Ladyette? Maribug?" He added sounding a little confused as how to refer to her.

"Adrien, considering the circumstances, you've just come up with some creepy shipping names." Chloe remarked without thinking. A comment that under other circumstances would probably have garnered laughs but only brought a series of groans.

"So, lets go over our dreams." Alya decided to take charge of the investigation; at least that's how she looked at it. "Then I have something really important to show both of you." Chloe and Adrien nodded, Adrien looking more excited then Chloe.

"So as I mentioned before, we or most of us were in animal related super hero costumes, and we were fighting against a barbarian looking woman in armor. She used a weapon that had and axe on one side and a hammer on the other. There was also a guy in a silver mask that seemed to be the main villain. Our group got separated by her first attack. Nino and I were close enough together afterwards that we decided to go after the guy in the silver mask."

"I think his name was Hawk Moth." Nino added.

"So we went after Hawk Moth." Alya went on giving Nino and annoyed look for the interruption. "That was on top of the hotel, the one owned by Chloe's father." Nino and Chloe both nodded in agreement. "Nino was attacked by the barbarian woman and his hand was cut off. I um, ended up so distracted by that, that I was attacked and my head was cut off." She cringed a little. "Then I was in some kind of void or fog, heading towards a light, when I heard someone calling out to me. I wanted to get to that voice, and when I saw her, it was the girl in the ladybug costume. Although her costume was slightly altered, like she had part of the cat costume on her as well. She pulled me away from the light, and when I woke up, I spoke the name Marinette."

"That's pretty much the same as mine." Chloe remarked. "Except I made it up to the top just in time to see I guess, Alya's body fall. Then I was grabbed and felt something on my head, where I guess the top of it was cut off. I was then in some kind of slimy substance that was dragging me down. There was no light that I could see except for that girl's blue eyes. It seemed like they shined in the darkness. I first referred to her as Dupain-Cheng, then Marinette."

"Wait, Dupain-Cheng?" Alya asked. Chloe noticed that she also had Nino's attention.

"Um yes, isn't that how you're supposed to refer to Asian people, their surname?" She asked.

"I think that might only be Japanese people." Adrien remarked.

"No, it's not that." Alya stated. "Dupain, as in Tom Dupain and Cheng, as in Sabine Cheng?" She asked. Chloe shrugged.

"Oh wait, doesn't Tom Dupain run a bakery? I was there like yesterday. He's such a nice guy."

"Dude, Alya spent like the last few weeks trying to set up a blind date between them. It's totally too coincidental to be a coincidence don't you think?" Nino remarked.

"That is weird." Adrien agreed. "You think she's related to them?" Everyone noted the excitement in his voice.

"If they just met, how would she be related to them?" Chloe hated the idea of dashing Adrien's hopes, but it needed to be said.

"Oh, yeah." He frowned, all excitement gone.

"Um, so Nino why don't you add what you saw." Alya suggested.

"Oh dudes, so my dream lasted longer then Alya and Chloe's, and like that Hawk Moth guy totally gave me a message to give to Ladybug if she showed up. It was like to meet him at the Eiffel Tower. He left and she showed up. She used a yo-yo string to like totally stop the bleeding in my hand, which had been cut off like Ayla said. Then Nasty Woman, I believe that's what we were referring to her as, dropped a ring next to Ladybug distracting her long enough to hit her with the hammer side of her weapon. Ladybug totally went flying through the air. She then, er Nasty Woman, not Ladybug, undid the yo-yo string before kicking me. That's all I saw. I never saw her without a costume or named her.

"Adrien?" Alya asked.

"I think mine might have taken place before all of yours did. It started with me in an alley, and I think I was heading for the danger. I wasn't wearing a costume, but I was injured, but I didn't know how. That's when this girl with the most beautiful bluebell colored eyes yelled my name. She spoke with me, mentioning those names." He paused suddenly sounding sad again, "Then she took off transforming into that Ladybug costume as she rushed off. I woke up yelling her name."

"There is something you're not telling us." Alya speaking what everyone else picked up from his talk. Adrien frowned, he didn't want to say it but he did.

"She told me she was being selfish, talking to me. That if the worst happened she didn't want to regret not telling me." He was quiet again. Alya and moved closer, the mystery driving her nuts.

"What did she tell you!" She yelled.

"She told me, she loved me, that she had for a long time." He gave a sad smile. "Although it wasn't love at first sight, because she couldn't stand me at first."

"Oh." Alya was the only one who spoke. Adrien had totally derailed the conversation with that. No wonder he sounded so heart broken before. She thought regretting making him say it. No one spoke for what seemed like forever, but doubled.

"So, um, where does that leave us?" Adrien asked. It was probably a good thing too, because no one wanted to say anything after what he'd already said. With him breaking the silence, which allowed Alya to start back on her original plans. She held out a notebook where she'd been making notes.

"Okay, so three of us were heroes. According to Nino's story, Nasty Woman stole Jewelry from us as she attacked. His bracelet, my necklace, and a hair pin from Chloe."

"I think it was a decorative comb actually." Chloe stated. "I remember thinking something about being worthy of the comb."

"Okay." Alya scratched something out before making another note. "He also mentioned a ring, probably belonging to that Cat Noir."

"Wait, a ring, that's right. My finger was broken in my dream. I felt like I was helpless to do anything because of it."

"So maybe your finger was broken with the removal of the ring?" Adrien just shrugged.

"That's about all I can guess."

"I mean it makes sense since we all had dreams that go together or seem to." Chloe added softly.

"I think the evil dude called them Miraculouses." Nino added. "and since we seemed to um, like depower, I wonder if they are how we got our powers?"

"That seems reasonable based on what we witnessed in the dreams." Alya remarked while making some notes.

"Okay, so what does this really add up too though?" Adrien asked. "Are we looking at some kind of alternate realty, another dimension, or did we all had the same bad burritos before bed?"

"Dude, what about an alternate timeline?" Nino asked. "I've seen those in some shows before. Like what if someone changed time? I mean they would almost have had to in order to bring Alya and Chloe back to life."

"But that doesn't mean it happened to us." Chloe spoke up.

"Although the damage from the earthquake, a lot of it resembles battle damage, not earthquake damage." Alya mentioned. "I noticed that a long time ago. I was going to write about it on my blog."

"Um, dudes, like there is something I haven't mentioned to anyone yet." Nino spoke up, Adrien felt a chill slip down his spine on the way Nino's voice sounded. "When I sprained my wrist, the doc took an X-ray of my arm. He noticed there was a near perfectly healed break in my arm, like where I saw it cut off in my dream." The others gasped in unison.

"And you hadn't broken it before?" Adrien once more broke the silence that had followed. Nino shook his head.

"The doctor had even made a quote, joke about it looking like my arm had been cut off and reattached."

"Do you think there would be signs of the cuts that happened to me and Alya if we got X-rayed?" Nino shrugged.

"You didn't tell me about it earlier." Alya grumbled.

"Sorry, It's been on my mind, but I thought it was totally crazy, until you showed me the photos."

"What photos?" Chloe asked.

"I was going to bring those up." Alya remarked as she pulled out four photos. "So after I woke up this morning, I had this urge to look at my camera roll. I looked at the last one before the earthquake, and the last photo before that moment was the selfie I took in my dream of all of us in costume."

"No way." Chloe stated and gulped.

"That's freaky, but cool." Adrien spoke excited again, thinking about the feelings he had for the girl in his dream.

"You weren't killed in your dream." Chloe growled with unexpected anger. Alya finally turned the photos to show them what they were. The first one was a photo of Ladybug swinging on some kind of line. The second one was a selfie of her with the girl Adrien recognized as Marinette from his dream. The third one was a photo of Ladybug and Cat Noir. It appeared as if Ladybug was annoyed about something and Cat Noir was grinning and holding a rose. The fourth was a picture of Queen Bee.

"That is Marinette." Adrien pointed to the photo.

"That's what I thought." Alya nodded.

"So what does this mean?" Chloe asked. She felt her stomach fluttering like crazy.

"I don't know." Alya stated. "Other then these photos were on my phone and it looks like I took them. All I know is that when I tried to view them on my camera they faded into other photos. When I tried to take a picture with another phone or digital camera, they also faded. My dad's film camera on the other hand, the photos stayed. So I bought a bunch of rolls of film." Nino cleared his throat.

"Oh, Nino bought a bunch of film, and I thought we could go over each of our phones and take pictured of the earlier photos, to see if the same thing happens on your phones."

"Okay, lets do that." Again Adrien was the one who seemed the most excited about it. Considering the question he'd asked her earlier, Chloe couldn't blame him. The literal girl of his dreams was real, or at least appeared to have been real.

"I'll unlock my phone and you can go through the photos slowly while I take the pictures." She placed her camera on the side of the fountain after opening to her camera roll.

"Got it." Adrien replied and sat in front of it waiting for her to get ready. Nino almost laughed at the ridiculous site of Alya standing behind and over Adrien, aiming the camera at her phone while he started to go through the photos. He and Chloe stood off to either side and watched. They could see the photos as Adrien swiped through and even saw the way they would fade away into something else. They stopped only to switch to a second roll of film. By the time they were done, Chloe was visibly upset and frowning.

"Lets do my phone now." Adrien stated switching his phone with Alya's. Once more they started to take photos.

"You don't use your camera often do you?" Alya asked. Adrien shrugged. They did notice that he had a lot of photos of Ladybug on his phone though, but not too many of other people, but there were some. Once more Chloe was frowning by the time they finished. They only one roll on his.

"Who's next?" Adrien asked.

"Nino." Chloe stated. Alya glanced at her hearing the disheartened tones in her voice.

"What's wrong?" She asked.

"You haven't noticed?" Chloe replied.

"Noticed what?"

"Just wait until you get the film developed." Chloe suggested. Alya did notice that there tears had started forming in Chloe's eyes. She hadn't been paying to much attention to the photos, but obviously Chloe had seen something that had upset her, and upset her a lot. They started going through Nino's camera then. His photos had perhaps the least amount of variation to them. Alya noticed that one selfie of him and her stayed them same except for the background was different. It amused her a little but also made her realize she was paying more attention to the photos now. Finally Chloe handed over her phone. Adrien started to go through the photos, and Alya took photos of those photos again.

"Wait, hold on." Alya ordered. "All the photos so far are selfies of just Chloe." She hadn't known Chloe for years like Adrien and Nino, but in the time she'd known her, she almost never saw Chloe take a lone selfie. She once said that she had enough photos of just herself from her modeling, she wanted to be with people in her own.

"I was actually expecting that." Chloe sighed sounding unhappy.

"Why?" Alya and Adrien both asked. "I was paying more attention to your photos then you were I'm guessing." The comment was aimed at Alya. It was true, she'd been more excited about having help with this project that she'd been more focused on taking the photos, not paying attention to the details of them.

"Okay, well let's at least finish off this roll with Chloe's phone. Just go past ones that are just of just Chloe, We'll just take photos of the ones where there are other people in them." Adrien agreed and both started to pay more attention to the photos. They even waited to watch them fade/change into other images. Almost every lone Chloe selfie turned into a picture of her friends, either that she'd taken of them, or with them.

"There, it's the Queen Bee outfit and Cat Noir is in the background." Alya mentioned. Adrien took a photo. Then there was a selfie with Queen Bee and Ladybug. Ladybug didn't look particularly happy. They found a couple photos that had Chloe posing for selfies with an annoyed looking Ladybug. Then a few with Sabrina in the background, and a few with Chloe in a Ladybug costume, and some of those had Sabrina in a Cat Noir outfit. They even saw Chloe's butler wearing a ridiculous mustache in a few with Chloe Ladybug and Sabrina Cat Noir fighting him. Then came a few photos of kissy-faced Chloe practically molesting Adrien. They finished the roll of film.

"Well that was, um, unexpected." Adrien commented softly.

"Go back to mine Adrien." Alya stated cautiously. This time they went slower through it and paid attention. Alya and Adrien started to notice what Chloe must have seen, but didn't say anything, not until they watched a photo of Alya and Marinette together turn into the same photo, but with Chloe in Marinette's place.

"Dudes, it's like Chloe took that Marinette chick's place in a bunch of these photos." Nino spoke, his voice low like he was sharing a secret, or perhaps trying to say it so Chloe wouldn't hear.

"That's not the worst of it." Chloe added. "Do some more, but watch the backgrounds." Alya really didn't want to go on anymore. She was starting to not like the picture of their lives these photos were showing. She took a moment to glance at Chloe and could see glossy streaks along her cheeks where tears had silently run from her eyes. Alya shook her head a little but Chloe just nodded, letting Alya know that she could go on. Adrien had also been looking at Chloe and with the nod he started again. Alya took more photos while watching the background closely. Chloe was actually in a lot of them, but she always looked angry, like she had a permanent scowl on her face.

"Well, I mean we don't really know what's going on there." Alya suggested weakly.

"Oh I know exactly what's going on there." Chloe stated. "We're not friends. In fact, I look like a total bitch."

"That's not really fair Chloe." Adrien tried to argue. "You don't really know what she's like."

"I know exactly what she's like, exactly who she is." Chloe stated. She was crying through her anger. "She is Audrey's daughter, not Emilie's daughter."

"You don't really know." Chloe cut Adrien off with her glare of death.

"If you want more proof, you only need to look at her sunglasses." Chloe swiped on her own phone to a photo where they could see a close up of Chloe's face with a pair of white sunglasses. "Audrey tried to give me those sunglasses years ago, calling me a poor urchin or something at the time. I took them and destroyed them. That bitch in the photo, she didn't, she kept them. I don't know why she choose Audrey over Emilie, but she obviously did, and has no friends to show for it. She is a miserable human being who always looks angry."

"I mean, she might not be. . ." Alya tried to help, but it just angered Chloe some more.

"Your dream, you were going towards a light, my dream, I was being dragged away by slime that was choking me. What does that tell you?!" She screamed. "It tells you what she was like, she was terrible enough that she was being dragged to Hell! TO HELL, ALYA!" Chloe was breathing hard and sobbing. "I don't know what happened, if those are really us, but I don't want to be her, I don't want to have anything to do with her." Chloe collapsed to her knees. Her friends all surrounded her, getting on their knees and wrapped their arms around her, holding her while she cried.

Chloe's outburst had pretty much derailed the discussion, and made everyone feel a little uncomfortable, because in the end, they couldn't really counter her argument. Nino had suggested that he could get some breakfast for them all at the Dupain bakery, and Chloe volunteered to go with him. She wanted to get away from Adrien and Alya for a while. After they left, Adrien pulled out his wallet.

"How much money do you need to get those photos developed?" He asked. She told him and he gave her the money. "I know Chloe is upset about this, but I think we need to keep looking into it."

"I know, I feel bad, but I need to finish this mystery." She added.

"Not to mention, we don't know what happened to change this, if this was changed, but it means someone did it. What if it was a villain who'd done it? That Hawk Moth guy or someone else? We might not be safe."

"I agree. I think we should look into, but maybe we should keep Chloe and Nino out of it. I know he's not to happy about this either, but he's hiding it better then Chloe."

"Hiding it, huh." He sighed. "This doesn't feel right, but I need to know about her."

"Her, as in Marinette?" Alya asked. Adrien nodded. "I'll take the film in and after it gets printed we can look it over. We should have plenty of time, I'm spending the weekend at your place with Chloe." She smiled softly.

"Oh yeah, plus mom wants to do that photo shoot with all of us too. It may be difficult to find some time."

"Oh we'll find the time, I'm sure."

"You know they aren't going to give it up." Chloe said as her and Nino walked towards the bakery. She'd stopped crying and used a public restroom to wash her face. She'd never been so happy to have not worn make-up in her life. She could imagine the mess it would have been.

"Dudette, I totally know that. Alya is almost as obsessed with it as she was with getting Mr. D together with Ms. C."

"Do you think that Marinette could be related to them?" She asked. He shrugged. "I mean, it seems like it fits, right, that she could have been their kid maybe. I've met Tom Dupain. He's the right age I'd say to have a kid our age. But if he was her father, and Sabine Cheng was her mother, what happened that they didn't have her?"

"Man, I'm not really sure. If we're talking about an alternate timeline thing, then I guess they must not have gotten together somehow. I'm only going by what I've seen in like TV and movies though. I think Max would be the best person to ask. That dude has probably tried to do some time travel experiments." Nino laughed and Chloe smiled for the first time in what felt like hours

"I would love to ask him, but if we were heroes, then wouldn't that compromise our secret identities or something?" She asked. Nino shrugged.

"If we're not heroes now, does it matter?"

"Not really." She paused and frowned. "Unless whoever changed time, assuming time changed, could still be after us." Nino stopped in his tracks.

"Man, I hadn't even thought of that." He joined her in frowning. "I wonder if the reason why Marinette doesn't exist then, is because the villain used time travel to beat her."

"Wait, so like some villain maybe found out who Ladybug was, and then went back in time to stop her from being born?" Chlose asked aloud a she was thinking about it.

"I mean that seems possible based on what we know. Alya mentioned getting her Miraculouses," He finger quoted the word, "from Ladybug, so I think maybe she was the leader of our team and would pass out those Miraculous thingies to us when we needed them."

"Right, if that was the case, then maybe that's the reason none of us are currently heroes or have our Miraculouses. Then does that mean the villain won? Does this villain currently have our Miraculouses?" She asked realizing she suddenly felt very possessive over an item she didn't remember ever having outside of a dream. "It's got to be the guy in the silver mask right, you called him Hawk Moth?"

"Seems like it, although we haven't seen anything about him have we?" He asked. Chloe thought about it. She couldn't think of any mentions of a Parisian Super Villain, ever.

"So did he get what he wanted then? Maybe whatever it is allowed him to lay low now. I mean, based on what you mentioned with him after our jewelry and us not having it, maybe he did win. Maybe that's what allowed him to wipe Ladybug out of existence? Maybe that means we aren't in any danger, because he already won."

"Maybe, but something doesn't seem right, but I can't put my finger on it." She'd been thinking the same thing, then it hit him. "Dude, I got it, you and Alya died right, so if Ladybug was wiped out of existence as you said, we never became super heroes and so you guys didn't get killed."

"Right, that's reasonable."

"But then why did you guys see Ladybug, or Marinette rescue you from your trips to the afterlife?" Chloe stopped walking and not just because they were in front of the bakery.

"You're right, that part doesn't fit what we've been discussing. I don't know how it fits, unless, she won, but she's not here, or maybe both Ladybug and Hawk Moth lost?"

"And like her last act was to save your souls?"

"I think I've got a headache." She opened the door for Nino. "After you." Nino went in.

"Ah Nino, you're here on a Saturday, I don't think I've ever seen that and you're with, it was Chloe right?"

"Last I checked." She smiled.

"Mr D. how's it hanging?"

"Low Nino, low." He smirked and Nino laughed. Chloe had no idea what they were talking about and decided it was probably for the best. They ordered some crescents, macaroons and coffee's to go.

"So when will the photos be processed." Chloe asked when they caught back up with Adrien and Alya.

"Hold on, I figured you wouldn't want to be a part of this anymore." Adrien commented a little confused.

"I didn't, but Nino and I were talking about it, and well, we're a little worried about what could happen if that Hawk Moth guy won, since he may have our Miraculouses." She frowned. "That is such a stupid name."

"But dudes, we also thought about the idea that maybe neither of them won. Maybe that's why neither that Marinette chick nor Hawk Moth dude are around."

"I hadn't thought about that." Alya admitted. "I don't know why, but I find that less comforting then if one of them had won."

"Me too." Adrien agreed as his phone beeped. He looked at the text. "Crap, I didn't realize how late it was. We forgot about mom and the photo shoot. The make-up artists are going to be there in like an hour."

"Wait, make-up artists?" Alya asked.

"Um, yeah, mom and Nathalie can do a lot, but since there are four of us, she called for back-up."

"Do you guys just want to clean up at the house to save time?" Chloe asked. Alya and Nino both agreed with Alya a little more leery of what was going to happen.

"This is what I want you to wear first." Emilie spoke as she showed Alya a colorful gown.

"That's really beautiful." Alya gasped. "I'm not sure it's right for me though."

"Well, it's a good thing it's not up to you then." Emilie smiled. "Chloe why don't you help her with it, there are a lot of ties in the back. I'll get the accessories."

"Got it mom." Chloe smiled. Alya striped to her panties after Emilie left so Chloe could help her into the gown. It was a strapless gown with built in support. Alya held up the front while Chloe did up the different ties in the back. As it tightened around her frame, she was impressed that it fit her body so well. It must have been because of all the straps in the back. Emilie knocked on the door.

"Are you decent?" She called to them.

"Yea mom." Chloe replied. Emilie rolled in a cart filled with stuff.

"I'll start on her make-up you help her with the stockings, heels and accessories." She ordered.

"You guys have done this before haven't you?" Alya asked. "The team up thing."

"Yeah, well you know it's easier to decorate Adrien when there is two of us, especially if he's tied up." Chloe commented. Alya laughed and then looked at the two.

"You guys are serious?" They both nodded.

"It only happened that way twice." Chloe said laughing.

"Maybe three or four times." Emilie corrected. Chloe finished her part before Emilie was done with the make-up, but once Emilie was done, she brought Alya into another room, that had been set up for the photo shoot. Lighting rigs were set in different places, furniture and other props where in position. Emile directed Alya on how to pose with Chloe helping to physically position her as needed. Alya was finding it hard to smile, but Chloe had a fix for that. She started to do little things behind Emilie, everything from mouthing the same words Emilie was saying, sometimes with her hands, to giving Emilie moose antlers and rabbit ears also with her hands. Alya could help but smile and laugh. After what felt like hours but was in reality only about forty-five minutes, more then six different scenes and hundreds of poses, Emilie called it over for that gown.

"You can change out of that, and just put on a robe. After seeing you here, I want to show you better what I was talking about, so Chloe please bring her to my office." She sounded a little sterner then Alya expected based on what she knew of Emilie. She felt suddenly very depressed.

"I didn't do so well did I?" She asked as Chloe helped her out of the dress and cleaned off the make-up.

"You're new at this, it's all right. She's not going to kick you to the curb just yet."

"Not helpful." Alya growled. Once done Chloe lead her to Emilie's office. Emilie sat at her desk. She directed Alya and Chloe to sit in front of a large flat screen TV.

"I know you were nervous, that's why I had Chloe help this time like I did. So I want to show you a series of photos I've taken, to give you an idea of what I was expecting." She started a slide show. Alya saw lots of beautiful women, including both Emilie and Chloe slide across the screen, pausing for a few moments to allow for a better look. Some were in color, others in black and white. All the women were absolutely gorgeous. It caused Alya's breath to hitch. She wanted to cry.

"I knew I wasn't good enough for this." She spoke trying to stop tears from leaking.

"What do you mean?" Emilie asked.

"I can't compare to any of those women. You never should have hired me for this. You made a huge mistake." She was starting to cry now. She couldn't believe how awful she felt. Emile started the slide show again.

"Look again Alya." Emilie ordered in her "mom Voice". Alya didn't want to, but it was so close to how her mown mother would talk, she couldn't stop. Emilie paused on a black and white photo.

"What do you think of her?"

"She's absolutely stunning, obviously a great model. Her smile looks so genuine."

"Very good, what else do you notice, describe her face."

"Chloe always said you were nice, why are you putting me through this?" Alya was getting more upset. She looked at Chloe for support but Chloe just sat there observing.

"I'm trying to make a point. Describe her face." She was using the same tone of voice Alya's mother again. It was definitely a mom voice.

"She's got darker skin."

"What else, glasses?"

"No."

"Other distinguishing features?"

"No, wait she. . . "Alya sniffled a little. "She has a birthmark on her, no, no way." Her voice went from upset to awe. As she moved closer to the screen for a better look, Alya noticed Chloe had started grinning. The picture flipped again, same model, different scene, still just as stunning.

"But that's not the dress." Alya complained. Suddenly the image changed to color. It was the same dress. "How?" In color she recognized herself almost immediately.

"I had that dressed specially designed for girls like you. The colors and fabrics were picked out because they would look good together but more importantly they would almost perfectly blend into each other when the color's removed." Emilie explained. Alya couldn't help but stare at her own picture. She noticed for all the time Emilie had spent doing her make-up, it barely showed. She looked very natural.

"I don't believe it."

"I told you I would show you how beautiful you are." Emilie's voice flipped from that stern motherly one, to that of an excited teenager.

"Thank you." Alya whispered and cried a happy cry.

"I can't believe you made us wait this long." Adrien complained as his mother entered the room with Nathalie and Chloe, who was dressed in a fantasy ball gown. Nino and he were dressed in fantasy inspired formalwear.

"Sorry, but I had something I needed to do first for Alya." Emilie explained. Adrien, who'd been left out of the whole conversation about Alya's beauty issues, was just confused. Nino on the other hand was left totally speechless when he saw Alya come in wearing a beautiful ball gown of a different style then Chloe's. "Wow, Alya, you clean up good." Adrien remarked. Nino was having trouble moving his jaw.

"So what are we doing?" Adrien asked.

"Well, I was going to have Nino and Alya pose in some dancing shots, well hopefully have them really dance, but I think we broke Nino." Emilie remarked looking at the now drooling Nino. Alya couldn't help herself, she started laughing as she looked at him.

"Oh, if I knew it was this easy to keep him quiet, I would have dressed like this a long time ago."

"Hey!" Nino finally managed. Once he recovered, Emilie started instruction the four teens on what she wanted them to do. She also had Chloe and Adrien show them how to "properly" dance in the styles that would go along with the fantasy theme. Towards the end, however, Nino plugged a speaker into his phone and started playing some of his own musical mixes to which the teens danced in a more modern fashion, still in their more fantasy fashions. Emilie started snapping photos like crazy watching them. She felt it was a fun contrast.

Alya and Nino ended up spending the night at the Ageste mansion. That had actually been Alya's plan with Chloe to start with. Nino was just an added bonus for Adrien especially since Adrien didn't want to be so "outnumbered" by the women in his life. Plus with Nino spending the night, they were able to get together and discuss the photos Alya had gotten developed.

"Dude, you're totally fencing in these photos." Nino commented holding one up. Adrien took it from him and looked it over. He hadn't really thought about it before, but fencing could be fun to try. He looked over a few more and noticed there were a lot of them. He even saw one where he was in complete garb, while Marinette was wearing just the lame.

"This almost looks like I was trying to teach her how to fence." Adrien said softly.

"Definitely." Alya remarked and held up a photo with Adrien off to the side of Marinette, his arm along hers as he seemed to be showing her how to position her foil.

"You know, I think this Adrien was captain oblivious." Chloe laughed. "Look at all of these photos where Marinette is practically fawning over him, but he doesn't seem to notice it at all."

"Oh come on, "He complained. "It's easy to see that in these photos because she said it in my dream."

"No dude, it's pretty obvious even without knowing that." Nino added. Adrien shot him death glare.

"Here's the funny part." Alya started setting out a series of other photos. "Cat Noir seems to be fawning over Ladybug, and in this one he's even giving her a rose, but if you look at her body language, she's having none of that."

"You're right." Chloe studied the photo. "So, Marinette was in love with Adrien, and Cat Noir was in love with Ladybug, but Adrien and Marinette weren't a couple."

"Then that must mean they really had not idea who each other were." Alya stated. "Unless they were playing it up for the camera."

"Lets not start down that road." Adrien frowned. "For the sake of the investigation at this point, lets just go with a straightforward approach to what we see in the pictures."

"Cool, I know this room!" Nino exclaimed. He held out a series of photos. "It's the room my pops and I remodeled for Mr. D, but it looks like a girl's room here."

"I think that's Marinette's room." Alya said as she examined a photo with a magnifying glass. "There are photos of Adrien all over the wall, even a poster?"

"What the what?" Adrien asked and grabbed the photo. He pulled out another magnifying glass. He'd purchased one of each of them when he and Alya picked up the photos.

"I think you were a model." Chloe commented surprised. "I mean, look here, this is a poster sized print. It even has a company logo." Adrien took a closer look at the photo Chloe had found.

"Hey, that's weird. I'm pretty sure that's the logo from my father's brand." He stated.

"Does that mean your dad was around then?" Nino asked.

"I don't know. It's weird though; I don't see any pics of him or my mom in these photos. I don't see Nathalie either."

"You don't think they're both gone in that um, timeline?" Chloe asked.

"Dude, I think this is Nathalie, but I'm not sure." Nino lay down a photo like he was playing a card game. There was an image of a really stern, unemotional looking Nathalie, holding what looked like a photo frame or tablet. Adrien took a better look at the image with his magnifying glass.

"I'm pretty sure that's Nathalie, but she doesn't look very happy. I think that's my dad on the whatever she's holding."

"Do you think it's some kind of memorial service?" Alya asked. "She could be holding the photo for some kind of service."

"You think he was around in the time line and maybe died?" Adrien wondered. "But where is mom, shouldn't she be holding the photo?"

"Maybe she just isn't in the photo. Perhaps she was at a podium or something." Alya suggested. She didn't buy it herself. She was certain she would have gotten a photo of that. In fact when she thought about, the idea of it being a memorial seemed off. She couldn't image she'd have taken a photo at one.

"Wait, this looks like the same background here, but isn't that you on a catwalk?" Alya tossed down a photo.

"Wow, you look pretty handsome there." Chloe commented. "A suit looks good on you, plus that hat's pretty awesome."

"Yeah, but I'm allergic to feathers, and there's a feather there. Do I not have that allergy?"

"Dude, it's probably a fake feather." Nino stated rolling his eyed. "Easiest explanation.

"Oh yeah." The group continued to go over photos until they finished.

"So basically we can gather, Adrien was a model, Chloe wasn't friends with us, Marinette was friends with us, and we were all superheroes. Adrien was in love with Ladybug, Marinette was in love with Adrien and neither knew who the other one was, making it the most ridiculous love triangle ever." Alya pointed out some of the basics.

"Hey!" Adrien complained. Chloe sand Nino snickered.

"Marinette's room, or what we're assuming is her room, is laid out like the room that Nino's dad was hired to remodel. Thanks to a poster on her wall, we can assume the Agreste Clothing Brand went on longer in that timeline, then in our current one." They'd all decided that for the moment, they were looking at it as an alternate timeline since Nino had the healed wound, and they had the alternate photos.

"What we don't know, is what happened to Emilie and Gabriel Agreste, since they aren't in any photos, or Marinette. Are we going with Dupain-cheng as her surname?" She asked.

"It seems to fit with my dream and the room at the bakery." Chloe supplied.

"Don't forget Adrien's unhealthy obsession with Ladybug based on the number of photos he had of her." Nino joked. Chloe laughed, Adrien growled and Alya ignored it.

"We also don't know what happened to Hawk Moth, Nasty Woman or the jewelry that we think helped us become heroes." She paused and sighed. "And unfortunately we don't know where to go from there." She finished and frowned.

The lack of not knowing how to proceed was a problem for the group. They did a second day of photos with Emilie. Because of the idea that something may have happened to both his parents, Adrien and Chloe acting a little more concerned about Emilie then normal, but otherwise it had been uneventful. The galley opening would be the week before Emilie had planned to leave the country to do some scouting for the next film she would be directing. The rushed itinerary had been poorly planned as it would put it just a week before the kid's Great Vacation started. Emilie actually slapped herself for not realizing it, since she could have brought Adrien with her if She'd set things up differently, but with her schedule already set and because of the connections she used, she couldn't change them. She would have loved to bring Chloe as well, but she was already scheduled to do some filming for the next movie she had a roll in. On the other hand, she also wouldn't have been able to go out on her own either, so maybe she'd subconsciously set it up that way.

"Mom, do you mind if Nino and Alya spend some nights over while you're gone?" Adrien asked with Chloe next to him.

"At the same time?" She asked.

"There could be some overlap in that regard." Chloe replied diplomatically. Emilie shook her head but smiled.

"I don't mind as long as Nathalie doesn't mind since she's in charge while I'm gone." The two teens knew well enough not to argue with her about being mature and responsible enough to be left alone, besides Nathalie pretty much let them do whatever they wanted without too much of a hassle. "My only rule is that I do not want anyone having quote, relations, while under my roof. Got it?"

"Relations huh?" Adrien started laughing. "Damn Chloe looks like we'll have to cancel the plans for the major orgy we were planning now."

"Oh no, and I was really looking forward to it as well." She replied.

"No need to be smart asses about it." Emilie remarked trying to sound annoyed while hiding her own amusement.

During the weeks between the photo shoot and the Grand Vacation, the friends all made somewhat separate plans for the time deciding they would try to come up with more ideas separately before getting together during vacation to further their investigations. Adrien decided he wanted to use at least some of his time, to try out fencing, since he'd done it in the alternate timeline.

Adrien went to speak with Armand D'argencourt about fencing after school and see about the possibility of joining the team or at least learning with the team.

"We have already done tryouts for the next term." Armand said to him. "You can try back towards the end of next term if you wish."

"Oh." Adrien replied dejected.

"Wait." Came a feminine voice from behind a fencing mask. The girl was wearing a red uniform. Adrien noted she was the only one in red. "Instructor D'argencourt I would be happy to give Adrien Agreste a quick lesson." She said.

"Ah Kagami, if you so wish, you may." Armand replied, " Though I do not understand why you would wish to." They spoke quietly so Adrien wouldn't hear them.

"Sir, it is because I have seen him around the school and he most certainly seems like shall I say, a slacker. It would be best to put such a notion out of his head quickly." He could hear the smile in her voice. He turned back to Adrien.

"Well, Mr. Agreste, it appears you have someone who wishes to show you how. Allow me to help you pick out some of our spare equipment." Once he'd been properly fitted, Kagami took him aside and showed him some basic moves. She smirked under her mask imaging the trouncing she'd give him.

"Now, lets do a little light sparing." She suggested.

"As you wish." He remarked and held his foil up. They did a little back and forth, with Kagami hitting him harder and harder each time. Adrien started to get annoyed with the pain he feeling, especially since she kept hitting the same spot. He was certain she was doing it on purpose.

When she went to do another thrust, he did a quick beat parry and finished with a thrust hitting her chest with the foil. She stepped back surprised that he'd actually touched her. That should not have happened. I am allowing my ego to get in the way of my fencing. She thought, annoyed at herself. She decided it was time to stop playing with him and put Adrien out of her misery. She went on the full attack. . .

And attacked. . .

What is going on? How is he parrying me? She started to get really angry. She noticed that the others had all stopped and were watching her match with Adrien. That did not help her mood.

"Is that Adrien Agreste guy keeping up with Kagami?" One of the other fencers mentioned.

"I don't think anyone has ever lasted this long against her." Another said.

Finally She managed to touch him again and end the extended match.

"Have you had fencing training before?" Armand asked as Kagami stormed off. They heard the sound of metal snapping from her direction.

"Not that I remember." He stated truthfully.

"Then you, my boy, may be the most natural fencer I have ever seen. You move as if you have been fencing for years. I know that try outs are over, but I believe it would be a disservice to the sport to not allow you on the team."

"What?" Kagami exclaimed turning toward them. They could see that her sabre was in two pieces.

"In fact, I believe you should regularly practice with Kagami, as she is currently the best in France, and fighting against you will only improve her as well, since I'm afraid to say, no one else here, except myself of course, can even compare. Kagami had been practically stomping over towards them, but she could still hear the conversation and she paused. Instructor D'argencourt is correct. There is no one, not even him who really challenges me. It might actually be a good thing to have Adrien Agreste to train against.

"I welcome you to the team, Adrien Agreste." Kagami stated as she took off her mask and offered him her hand.

"Thank you, um Kagami." He replied with his most charming smile. She couldn't help but stare at him for a moment, feeling her face go flush.

"Ya-you are welcome." She said slightly stammered. The rest of practice went a little more kindly, with Kagami no longer trying to destroy Adrien, but instead actually teaching him. She found herself more then a little impressed by how quickly he was picking it up. Afterwards Adrien went home where Emilie greeted him.

"I hear you're taking up fencing."

"Um yeah, actually I need you to sign off on it as well. You don't mind do you?" He asked having been so excited he'd forgotten to ask her.

"Oh course I am. It's nice to see you take an interest in something other then video games." She laughed. "Plus, you may not know this, but your father wanted to enroll you in classes when you were younger." She sighed a moment. "He'd planned on doing it after we returned, but. . . " She trailed off.

"I understand." He smiled. "So I'll be sure to do my best in his memory then." Emilie hugged him tightly.

"Mom, mom, Can't breath, I can't breath." He crocked.

While Adrien busied himself with fencing, Alya worked together with Nino to do more photos of the alternate pics, since her phone had the most useful ones for their investigations. She really felt like she was looking at a slightly off timeline in reverse as they went through her pre cataclysm pics. She and Nino had decided to take it more slowly so they could really look at the photos as they went and even as they faded into the current timeline's versions. Doing it that way also gave them a chance to discuss what they were seeing and speculate on the relationships that previous existed.

"So it looks like you received your powers last." She commented. Carapace only showed up at the end. Then she saw images of Rena Rouge and Queen Bee together and also apart. They didn't look particularly thrilled with each other, if she were being honest. Then further back in time, just Rena Rouge. At least as far as her, Nino and Chloe went that is. She had lots of photos of Ladybug and Cat Noir. It appeared as if those two came out at the same time. Aside from the super hero photos, she was really getting bothered by the amount of times she saw the image of Marinette fade into an image of Chloe. It almost seemed that Chloe had taken Marinette's place in her life. The observations that Chloe had made previously stuck in her mind while she looked at them.

"I just can't relate the Chloe in these photos with the Chloe I know." She said at last.

"I know. Dude it's so weird." Nino remarked. "I can't believe how angry she always looks in those photos. It's kinda scary."

"It is. I can't help but feel bad for her though, you know." Nino nodded in agreement. "Also for Marinette too."

"Really, I mean outside of her not being here?"

"The dudette totally fits in the place of Chloe in those pics right." Alya nodded in agreement. "And we know what Chloe and my dude's relationship is like, all siblingly right." Another nod from Alya and her expression changed as she realized where Nino was going with it.

"She was in love with Adrien and yet she had a similar relationship to him as Chloe does now. Ouch." Nino nodded that time.

"It's good to see you again Chloe." Tom stated when he opened the door to his bakery. She'd left for school extra early just so she could make it to the bakery an hour and a half before it opened.

"I was wondering if you wanted any help getting things ready this morning."

"You want to help out?" He asked.

"I had some fun helping you last time, and I'd like to learn more. Plus you did seem a little lonely working on your own before." She replied. He smiled at her.

"You're a sweet girl, Chloe. I'd be honored to have your help. Would you like to try some of the baking?"

"Yes!" She exclaimed. Tom took her to the back and found an apron for her and started to show her how to prepare the dough for crescents. To say that Chloe was a natural would be just about the greatest exaggeration ever in histoy. She was absolutely terrible at it, but Tom let her keep at it. By the time she had to leave for school, she'd managed to make the dough properly and almost shape the crescents.

"Here, take these." He handed her a bag with her failures. "They aren't perfect, but they taste pretty good. You can share then with your friends.

"Thanks Tom." She replied and gave him a kiss on the cheek. He blushed a little. Chloe left the bakery just as Nino was turning the corner.

"Hey Nino." She called to him.

"Dude, what's up?"

"Just made some crescents. Wanna try one?"

"Wait, you made them?" He sounded more then a little concerned. She held one up. "That's a crescent?" He asked wide-eyed.

Tom heard a slight ruckus outside the bakery and took a look out the window. She watched as Nino was laying on the ground with Chloe straddling him trying to force feed him one of her crescents. Tom had a hardy laugh.

The Cesaire family had received an invitation to the "Photo's by Celebrities" show at one of Paris's most famous galleries, and surprisingly they went, well, Marlena, Otis, Nora and Alya went. The twins were left with their favorite babysitter, Rose Lavillant. Rose had of course invited her special friend, Juleka Couffaine, over to help.

"There are a lot of wonderful photos here." Otis really enjoyed seeing the various photos of wild animals.

"Very Cool." Nora was staring at photos from a boxing match from years ago. She hoped there would be even more photos of fights.

"Ah, these are the ones from your friends' mother, aren't they?" Marlena asked when she noticed the display with Emilie Agreste's name on it. "She certainly does have an eye for fashion, I'll give her that." Some of the images left her breathless at their beauty and she pointed out a rather elegant looking image of a woman in an evening gown reclining on a velvet couch with one hand holding her chin up. "This is why I thought it was best for you not to do this honey. You're pretty, but you just wouldn't be a good fit with a woman like this." Alya kept her mouth shut, feeling a little hurt by the comment, but she heard her sister giggle, GIGGLE. Nora never giggled. Marlena pivoted to look at her giggling daughter in surprise.

"Ah, mom, that is Alya." She giggled harder.

"What are you talking about?" She turned back to the photo and took a closer look at it, her eyes widened with surprise.

"She's not even wearing that much make-up. I can't believe you didn't notice it. I mean she's in like half of these photos." Nora added. Marlena started looking more closely at all of the photos, and she started to pick out her daughter. So many different styles of fashions, some childish looking ones, many elegant ones, and just a few that seemed like everyday fashions. By the time she'd finished her jaw was hanging practically to her feet.

"Oh my God." She whispered. "How did I not notice that?" She paused as a thought occurred to her. "I thought you needed permission to do this?"

"I gave her my permission after you rejected it. Our daughter is a beautiful young woman." Otis spoke up. "And I'm glad to let the world see it." He couldn't stop smiling and hugged his daughter, partially to keep her from her mother's wrath if it came to that. Marlena became quiet and contemplative for a few minutes before speaking again.

"I'm sorry Alya I should have had more faith in you. I feel so bad about how I talked to you."

"It's okay mom." She smiled and hugged her.

"Do you think she'd be willing to take some photos of me?" Marlena asked in a whisper.

"Maybe." Alya grinned.

Alya met with Emilie off to the side of the gallery.

"Looks like it went pretty well." Emilie observed.

"It did. I'm glad my mother was able to accept them, she even wants you to take her picture. I think she'd like to use it in the café." Emilie smiled and laughed.

"It'll cost her." She joked. "I'm just glad it worked out for you. My mother wasn't as understanding as yours."

"Really, what happened?" Alya asked. Emilie had mentioned how her mother wasn't willing to accept her as a model.

"I invited my mother to my first show, but she RSVP'd with a message that Quote, I raised my child to be a strong woman, not some cheap whore for men to ogle."

"Oh my God, you've got to be kidding." She couldn't believe a woman would ay that to her own daughter.

"Honestly, it was the last time that I ever had contact with her."

"I'm sorry." Alya gave Emilie a comforting hug.

"It's okay, I made my peace with it long ago." She remarked and smiled a little. She didn't feel the need to mention that her mother had been murdered years ago, also stopping her from having any contact with her. Emilie didn't care about it but knew it would likely bring Alay down. "Now, why don't you introduce me to your mother and maybe I can do some photos of her before my scouting trip next week."

"Sounds like a plan." Alya grabbed Emilie's hand and dragged her over to her mother.

"You look very handsome Adrien." Lila Rossi commented when she found Adrien at the gallery. "Both in person and in your mother's photos." Her mother had received an invitation due to her work at the Embassy. Lila went as her plus one.

"Oh, thank you Lila. I appreciate the compliment." He replied. Lila initiated a cheek kissing greeting, only to "accidently" move the wrong way to end up kissing Adrien on the lips for the second kiss.

"Oh, I'm so sorry." Adrien apologized in a flustered manner.

"It's okay Adrien, as far as accidents going, you kissing me on the lips is a rather nice one." She remarked, blushing just slightly. "I mean, if you wanted to do it more purposefully, I would certainly being willing to. . . " She stopped talking when she noticed that Adrien had turned away to greet Nino. "Ugh." She complained and went to stampe her foot, slowing it to a light stamp; after all, she didn't want to draw undue attention to herself.

"Hi Nathalie!" Adrien called as he entered the mansion with Chloe, Alya and Nino in tow after the last day of school. Alya and Nino had bags with them filled with clothes, and in Alya's case, a large plastic bin filled with photos, most of which Adrien had paid to develop.

"Welcome home Adrien, Chloe, Alya and Nino." She replied with a smile. "It's good to see all of you again."

"Hi Nathalie." Chloe said.

"Hey Nathalie." Alya replied.

"Duuuude." Nino gave her a thumbs up. Nathalie laughed.

"As long as you all stay out of trouble, you can pretty much do what you want. If you have any problems let me know. I was thinking of pizza for dinner, on Emilie of course." She smirked.

"Pizza sounds great." Adrien said as they headed up the stairs to the upper level with his and Chloe's rooms. Alya and Chloe went to her room to drop of their stuff, while Nino and Adrien went to his. Nino tossed his stuff next to the couch while Adrien pulled out a folding table to set up with a set of folding chairs, as if they were getting ready to play cards. A few minutes later Chloe and Alya entered the room with Alya carrying her bin. She placed the bin on the table and opened it. She pulled out the photos and started to arrange them. The others sat down and they started looking over them with Alya explaining some of her thoughts on when the different heroes showed up.

"What if they both lost?" Adrien asked looking at a photo of ladybug. "I mean, we've been looking at this as if Team Ladybug fought Team Hawk Moth, and one of them lost. What if there was a third party that beat both of them?"

"That's possible." Alya said and frowned. She'd done a few searching for Ladybug and Hawk Moth, but nothing about heroes or villains had shown up. She didn't think anything would, but tried anyway. "Hey, do you have someplace I can plug in my phone?" She asked.

"Oh, I've got something better." Adrien exclaimed and went over to his desk, pulling something out and placed it on top of it, waving the others over. "Check this out." When they surrounded him they saw he'd put out some kind of large circular pad. Once he plugged it in a four lights slowly moved around lighting it up.

"Dude, is that the symbol from whenever Sakura goes to activate her Clow Cards?" Nino asked.

"Oh yeah. It can charge up to four devices depending on the size." He placed his phone on a quarter of it. The color of that section changed from red to green. The others did the same until the entire pad light up in green.

"Okay, that's pretty cute." Chloe commented.

"Not something I would have expected you to have." Alya laughed. "Maybe we should let your mom know about your interest in that anime. I bet she'd get you one of those Sakura costumes to wear."

"Don't you dare." He growled.

"You'd look cute in her kitten outfit." Chloe added. "You already looked pretty good in that black cat suit. The pink waitress looking outfit would just be an adorable upgrade."

"Dude, I'd totally pay to see that." Nino being ever so helpful.

"I hate you all." Adrien pouted. They had a nice laugh before going back to the photos. They still didn't have photos of Emilie and every time they saw a photo of Gabriel, it looked like he was on a tablet or picture frame. "I think my father is older in those photos then anything I've seen him in here, but I can't tell because of the size."

"Sorry Adrien." Alya mentioned. "There just isn't a good way to increase the size of them like this." A little while later, Nathalie brought up a couple of pizzas and soda before returning heading to the kitchen. They ate the pizza and drank the soda and then just did nothing. They were stuck.

"There is nothing in these photos that help us figure out what actually happened." Alya complained as she walked around. She went up the spiral staircase thinking the view from up there would give her a new perspective. "Obviously there was a battle. Either Ladybug or Hawk Moth won, or maybe both lost, and neither of them seems to exist anymore anyway. Probably because they both lost. But then somehow Chloe and I were brought back to life by Ladybug, meaning that she probably won, but where is she!" She exclaimed and slammed her fist against a self on one of the bookcases. She heard the sound of something crack and then the bookcase move slightly. "Oh my God!" She cried.

"What?" Adrien asked as he looked up at her. He noticed she was moving a bookshelf. It seemed to get stuck a moment, then she forced it the rest of the way. He rushed up the spiral staircase.

"Holy Crap." He was stunned. It looked like there was a secret passage behind the bookcase. Before he could stop her, Alya went through the opening.

Adrien followed Alya, while Chloe and Nino rushed up the staircase to follow both of them.

"I never knew there was anything like this here." Adrien spoke in awe. The passages were fairly narrow, but for the most part, they did not have any trouble getting through. Well all except for Alya. She was the only one who had any sort of issue, and it was pretty much because of her larger chest. She couldn't help but mention it a few times as Chloe moved easily through, irritating Chloe.

"There is so much dust here." Chloe commented ignoring Alya's most recent "struggle" through a narrowed gap.

"Yeah, it looks like no one has been back her for years." Adrien agreed. He noticed a small notch in a wall and looked through. He could see into Chloe's room. "So we're right next to your room." He stated. "But I don't see a door or access spot."

"Maybe not every room has one." Alya suggested. They found a narrow and short staircase and continued down. Nino found a notch and looked through.

"Dude, the kitchen is right here and man can Nathalie totally put away the pizza." Chloe pushed him aside to see Nathalie folding a slice in half and practically swallowing it whole. She could just make the pizza box had only one slice left.

"I will never be able to watch her eat the same way again." She whispered.

"Okay, we've seen like six rooms now and no doors. There has to be doors somewhere." Adrien complained. They went down another set of stairs.

"Maybe they're hidden on both sides, so only the person who designed them can find them." Alya said.

"At least it'll make it easier for us to find out way back to your room, bro." Nino added.

"We were just at the first floor and we're going down. The mansion doesn't have a basement, so where are we going?" Chloe asked. Alya paused, causing Adrien to bump into her, Chloe to bump into him and Nino into her.

"Um I don't have my phone, can someone hand me theirs? I need some light."

"I don't have mine either."

"Dudes, we totally left them all on that charging pad."

"Maybe we should go back." Chloe suggested. "This place is giving me the creeps."

"Yeah dudes, I'm with her."

"Yeah maybe." Adiren was undecided. Alya on the other hand just kept going. "Oh man, Alya." He called to her. "Lets go back and get some lights."

"I found the end." She called back. "It seems like it's a dead end too." She sounded a little disheartened. They could hear the sound of her tapping, hitting and sliding her hands against presumably the end. "Ah ha!" She cried and a light appeared as a doorway opened. "Holy shit." She said as she walked out. The others rushed to follow her.

They found themselves on a fenced platform above what appeared to be a small forest in a, for lack of a better term, cavern. There was a small bridge leading to a center point above the forest that held some kind of glass box with a rounded lid. There also appeared to be another bridge going the rest of the way across the gap. Adrien noticed something red inside the glass box and rushed down the bridge.

"It's her, er, it's them. It's Ladybug and Hawk Moth!" He exclaimed when he got a good look inside. The others rushed to his side. She didn't look exactly like she did in his dream, but she did match what Alya and Chloe had described, minus the dissolving costume. In fact her costume looked intact. The base was the red and black skin tight ladybug spotted suit, but she had long black gloves and boots on, a black belt that lead into a tail, that actually looked like a belt, but she also had black cat ears. He saw the spotted earing in one ear and noticed Hawk Moth had his hand on the other. He also saw she wore a ring on her the hand that looked as if it was about to strike Hawk Moth's face. He was betting it was Cat Noir's ring.

"Look, he had my foxtail necklace on." Alya growled. She'd decided it was hers right then and there.

"I think that's the bracelet from my dream." Nino noted pointing towards Hawk Moth's wrist..

"How is my comb staying on his head, he has no hair." Chloe wondered aloud. Adrien was barely listening to them, he was focused on Ladybug / Marinette.

"Does this mean there was a third party who beat them both?"

"Dude, it looks like they're fighting, like in the middle of a hit."

"Why is this under the mansion?"

"Is this a super villain lair?"

"Do you think mom know about it?"

"With so much dust in the passage, I doubt that anyone from the mansion has been down here."

Adrien undid the latches he saw on the glass box and lifted the lid off. He touched Ladybug, she felt cold, but he could feel some kind of energy there too. He couldn't move her body at all. His hand touched the ring on her finger and he felt power there. Words came into his mind. As he looked up, he noticed the others were also touching the other items. Alya hand her hand on the foxtail necklace, Nino held the turtle shell bracelet between his fingers, and Chloe had a death grip on the bee comb. They all opened their mouths to speak at the same time.

To Be Continued.

Notes:

Welcome back dear readers! I hope you enjoyed the first part of Bluebell World. I know it covered a bunch of stuff from Bluebell Eyes, but I thought it was important for them to go over everything together. I also really hate in stories where the characters somehow pick out exactly what's happened with a limited amount of information, so I tried to have these guys come up with a bunch of different ideas and not be correct about everything. I really like them seeming to go along with the idea that there was a third party involved in whatever changed the world.

I also originally thought I'd gloss over the gallery opening, but then I realized it was a perfect chance to get to use Lila, so I went with it.

I thought about addressing the fire at Notre Dame as well, but I realized that the timing of my story, would put it well afterwards so I didn't.

Just so you know, I actually did fence for about a year, until I got injured (outside of Fencing) and the episode Riposte, I felt the need to say that both Adrien and Kagami would have been disqualified for leaving the match space. Sorry had to get that off my chest. It's weird though, in the show they are fighting with Sabre, but a lot of their moves look like foil fencing moves. I was doing mostly foil and a little epee.

As always, I love reviews, and they inspire me to write faster. I have mostly an outline as to where I expect this to go, but that can always become derailed and go way off the tracks. :D

I want to give a special shout out to firestorm100 and Mythril Moth for the conversations we had about the story since it really got me excited to continue it. Plus I think they both would have hunted me down if I left it with the double cliffhanger. ;)

I am waiting to see how long it takes someone to ask "What about Meili?"

As always, Peace and Love!