A/N: As the summary says, it will be a reading the show fanfic, but I wanted to do one I haven't seen before, so I decided to bring in fan favorites, like young Mama Agreste (Stella Tolbert in this fic) and Adrinette! Children and their associates. The first two chapters will be introducing the past and future characters, since there will be OCs. The third one will be how the got to such situation and the fourth and on will be episode watching.
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Catching a kitsune was always exhilarating
Paon was sure she to stop feeling like she was on the top of the world when she had a moon gem on her hands,standing beside Raposa and Reine Abeille. The gem glowed in the moonlight and illuminated their masked faces, so the peacock heroine was sure she looked pretty much the same. Three super heroes that caught the bad guys. That was so cool, she would never get over it.
"We have your moon gem."Reine Abeille said with a confidence Paon was sure she could muster."That means a wish."
The kitsune that owned the gem growled. Paon could empathize, the whole situation must suck for them. If you got their moon gem, you get anything you want from that fox. No objections. Sadly, this one had been terrorizing poor civilians and the trio could never let this be. Even if this distracted them from their real mission.
"Leave Paris and don't comeback." Raposa said smoothly, brown eyes glinting dangerously. She had barely joined Reine and Paon, but the amount of rebellious and malicious fox spirits have put her on edge.
"Fine" The kitsune spit, turning back from the form she had taken, a human girl, into a sleek reddish fox. Without another word, she disappeared into the night.
"Another night of searching wasted. Great." Reine Abeille sighed frustratedly, running a gloved hand through her blond hair. "I hate foxes."
"Hey, I might take offense on that." Raposa teased, smiling easily.
"I hope you do."
The answer made Raposa's teasing smile and Paon's satisfied smirk fade. Even though Raposa had joined the Peacock-Bee duo a month ago, Reine Abeille still didn't trust the fox heroine, nor treat her well. Paon could understand, it had taken her months to get through her partner's though shell, but she really liked Raposa's understanding smiles and encouraging words. She really wished they would all be friends, but that obviously wasn't going to happen anytime soon.
"Well, today's patrol is over then." Raposa said with a firm voice, refusing to acknowledge the obvious sting from Reine's words. "We should all go home."
"Probably." Paon agreed half-heartily. The last thing she wanted to do was to go back to her cold house, with absent parents and a sister that obviously disliked her.
Reine Abeille barely nodded in the fox girl's direction, but stopped to hug the peacock girl. No matter how many times they did that, it still warmed Paon's heart completely to know that her serious and indifferent friend wanted contact with her. She hugged back tightly and, after a few seconds, reluctantly let her go. With a brief smile, the bee miraculous holder flew off into the night.
"Wow, what a warm goodnight kiss, dear Reine, you shouldn't have." Raposa said flatly, glaring at the direction the small yellow dot disappeared. "Rude. Well, that means I'm off too, thanks for the great company!"
"Haha, it was nothing." Paon joked, putting her hands on her hips and pretending to not blush. It always got to her when her new partner started talking like this."It's always nice to fill the days of the peasants with joy by my presence."
"My princess, farewell." Raposa bowed, smiling. Then, she took off into the Parisian sky, leaving the only member of the trio that couldn't fly alone in a rooftop.
Getting home was never a chore. Running on the rooftops, her cape billowing behind her was the best experience she ever had in her life. Sadly, the same could never be said about being home. She slipped carefully through her bedroom window. Dodging the security system was always terrible, but she had been getting better. Once she was safely on the floor, the Miraculous Paon disappeared in a flash of blue light, leaving behind friendless and talentless Stella Tolbert.
"Ugh, such a horrible night! The fox managed to get a feather out of my wonderful fan! The nerve of that creature! We should have ordered it to drown itself on the Seine! Surely, no one would miss it." A small creature with feathered tail bigger than the body and the head together growled, flying into a small silk bed.
"It wasn't so bad, Mayuu." Stella chided, taking a plate with white chocolate and cherry éclairs to the kwami. The aqua creature huffed, jumping into the pastries.
Stella smiled softly. Mayuu was surely irritating, but she was the only friend the girl had besides Raposa and Reine Abeille. Being the sickly one out of the Tolbert girls, she never had gone to school until recently. Unfortunately, no one seemed interested to be friends with her, nor her sister seemed eager to offer any help. The only two people she had held a conversation with were Tom Dupain, the nice future baker whose éclairs were the only ones her kwami accepted, and Gabriel Agreste, the dreamiest boy she had ever met.
She could go on for years about her sweet blue eyes hidden behind thick glasses, how courteous he was with everyone around him. How polite he was, always offering to help! And how talented! She had never seen clothes as beautiful as the ones he draws. Stella sighed happily, barely noticing the small silk pillow being throw on her face.
"I want more." Mayuu demanded, shoving the empty plate in the lovesick girl's face.
"But we would have to go downstairs for more" Stella whined. The kitchen was hallways, stairs and doors away from her bedroom and there was always the danger to run into someone from her family.
Unfortunately, the peacock kwami was extremely persuasive and the teen found herself sitting on the kitchen counter pretending to eating an éclair, Mayuu munching on at least ten behind her. She prayed no one from her family would appear, but luck was never on her side. Stella wasn't surprised when her sister showed up, not even glancing at her and making a bee line to the bread.
Annelise Tolbert was the complete opposite of Stella. Not only she wasn't a masked vigilante, but she was also popular, sympathetic and had more friends than she could count. Two years younger and Anne was already everything her sister wanted to be. Sadly, it seemed that Stella's dullness affected even her younger sister, so the two of them didn't get along very well.
"Anne!" Stella faked a smile, reassuring herself that Mayuu couldn't be seen. "Eating a midnight toast again?"
"Yes." Annelise replied awkwardly, putting some freshly made toast into a cute flowery plate and drowning it in butter.
"You have to be careful, wouldn't want to get fat." The older one tried to use the same teasing tone she had earlier, with Raposa, but it fell extremely flat.
"Of course." Anne eyed Stella's barely eaten éclair strangely, walking out of the kitchen. "Wouldn't want to."
Stella briefly wondered if she would ever get something out of Anne other than empty smiles and distrustful eyes.
Isabel Neves was sure she would never get used to France's time zone.
She already knew it was different than Brazil's when she signed up for the exchange student program, even preparing herself psychologically for it. Sadly, she was till unprepared. Everyday she woke up grumpy, cold and still exhausted. Everyday she ended up in the same spot she was at the moment: sitting in the classroom, half-asleep. Isabel also couldn't slack off because of her full scholarship, which would be cut off if her grades dropped. The girl sighed tiredly, accepting the cup of hot coffee from her host sister.
'Remember, it's for Kissun.' The Brazilian reminded herself, thinking about the small creature in her bag. She nearly choked as a whole croissant was plunged into her mouth, coming from the same delicate hand that handed her caffeine.
"Someone is sleepy today." Ariana, her host sister, said jokingly, nursing her own cup of coffee and carrying a paper bag of pastries.
"Always am." Isabel tried to answer, but it sounded muffled before she swallowed the goodie. "Tom brought some today?"
Ariana always got there earlier than Isabel, to organize thing for the Drama Club meeting after school and to meet her best friend, Tom Dupain. Although he was big and looked scary at first, Isabel learned that he was just a big teddy bear that loved baking. He was always bringing homemade pastries and distributing them among the class.
"Yes, he did." Ariana glowed when she ate Tom's food, a far cry from the limp toast and cold cereal they usually ate. "He had to make some éclairs to Stella Tolbert earlier today, so he took the chance to make more."
As if speaking of the devil, the aforementioned girl entered the classroom. Stella always managed to look like an angel: blond curls held by a neat side ponytail, pressed white lace dress and expensive ballet flats. But everyone's reaction seemed to negate such a thing, because the few people in the classroom that saw her inched away slightly. The older Tolbert didn't seem to noticed, carefully sitting down and putting her ordered box of éclairs by her table. A small blue blur flew into it, unnoticed by almost everyone.
"I see Tom brought the new éclairs, Stella." Ariana chirped, trying to break the awkward silence." May I see them?"
"No." Stella's answer was so dry even Isabel flinched. She knew the Tolbert didn't really notice what was wrong with the way she talked to people, but she didn't get how she could be so different as Paon.
"Wow, what a nice fella." A sly voice whispered from her bag, snickering.
"Be subtle, Kissun." Isabel barely moved a muscle while replying to her kwami, she had years to practice after all.
The exchange student watched as Stella looked around, dejected that no one was going to talk to her. Isabel wanted to, she really did, but she also didn't want to mix their superhero and civilian lives. Having to Miraculous Holders in the same class was already too much of a coincidence. She feared that, if they became friends as their civilian selfs, surely Stella would figure out who she was. Fortunately, the Peacock Miraculous Holder cheered up when Gabriel Agreste entered the room, followed by Sabine Cheng.
Sabine and Gabriel weren't really friends, per say. Just two reserved students who sat together and partnered up by default. Sabine was another exchange student, though and responsible, but kind enough to make Tom Dupain's heart beat faster. Gabriel was polite, but much more reserve red than Sabine. She didn't get what Stella saw on him.
(Then again, such reserved and stoic people reminded her too much of a certain unfriendly bee whose identity she hadn't figured out yet, so that may be a reason for her dislike.)
"Excuse me, can I speak with you for a moment, sister?"
Now, that was someone she could get along with all day long.
Popular, kind and sympathetic Annelise Tolbert was the most beautiful girl Isabel Neves had ever seen. She couldn't fathom how someone could be rich, sweet and good with politics (they may be school politics, but still). She had to admit she was crushing hard on her partner's younger sister, but at least she was realist. Isabel sighed wistfully, looking at the golden haired angel that takes with her older sister. It was never going to happen.
"Thank you for doing this for me, Maelys." Annelise smiled, handing her Vice President a stack of papers. "This means so much to me."
"I don't mind, Anne." Maelys beamed, gathering the papers happily and placing them on the table in front of her. "I hope you have fun in your 'previous engagement.'"
"Will do." The Tolbert faked a smile. Usually, the "previous engagement" was an excuse to get ride of the paperwork that came with being the class president (Maelys was more than happy to do them anyway). Unfortunately, today she really had something to do. And she wasn't excited.
Annelise barely remembered the excuse she gave to the driver so he could take her downtown, stopping in front of a small chinese shop. She stood in front of the shop for a few minutes, trying to prepare herself for a long report and probably (also long) scolding. Only a soft nudge on her cheek brought her out of her mind.
"We should get inside already, Lis." Her kwami, Meel, said, quiet voice full of the authority of a queen. The girl didn't even think twice before entering the shop.
It was exactly the same as the last week: calming Chinese decoration, an earthy smell on the air and an old man waiting for her on the middle of the main room.
"Master Fu." Annelise acknowledged reluctantly , sitting down on seiza position in front of the senior Miraculous Holder.
"Anne." He said back, eyes twinkling with mirth.
"You know I hate that nickname."
"Then stop asking people to use it." She bristled, not having to explain herself to anyone, not even Master Fu. Annelise was such a fancy and long name, people got bored by it in the middle.
But Anne was a sympathetic and nice girl, who just wanted to make her school a better place. Misfortune came to her in form of her antisocial older sister, but she still managed to be kind to the poor girl. Sweet, perfect Anne, the best class president that had ever been elected. A personality she sold to the masses.
(Lis was Meel's Miraculous Holder, an easily bored girl who lied and manipulate too much, but still had a spark of good seen by an old man and a curate bee kwami.)
"I came here to talk about the fox problem." She said tightly, wanting to get this over with.
"Raposa is not going back to 'whatever hellhole she came form'." Master Fu anticipated, remembering a previous conversation.
That wasn't really the subject, but Annelise still felt her cheeks burn. That cursed confident smile and sparkling brown eyes, dark skin under an reddish mask. Every time she thought about Raposa, her ears burned and she chocked on her own spit. It wasn't fair for someone so suspicious to be so attractive and charismatic. She cleared her throat, there was enough time to think about her silly tiny crush later.
"I meant the kitsunes, they are up to something." The fox spirits have been even more mysterious lately, even the confirmed good ones, and the queen bee was sure something was up with them
"You're so silly, Anne, these old foxes are just getting ready for their centennial prank." Master Fu waved her off, as if an organized kitsune operation wasn't happening at the moment. "These are physically harmless, but truly elaborate."
"Are you trying to tell me we should just let them be?" She didn't want to admit, but Master Fu's advice was treasured and, if he thought it was the best, Annelise wouldn't pursue the subject any further.
"Yes, yes. Don't worry, young grasshopper." The old man smiled at the girl's scowl. "You should go, your family must be wondering where you are."
They both knew it wasn't true, but she got up anyway, hasitating before opening the door and leaving. Master Fu watched her go, glad that he could calm her down. The Centennial Prank wasn't a simple matter, but it was inevitable. Telling her that the last time one of those happened, a goddess was called to earth to clean up the mess wasn't going to help anyone. Neither would telling them Father Time himself seemed to have joined the prank.
They would find out themselves, anyway.