Reading Le Papillon Rising
By: siblingloveF2
Summary: Ever wonder what would happen that instead of Marinette and Adrien doing a Kwami swap, or even Papillion and Marinette, it was Adrien and Papillion? Well, the Canon characters certainly didn't. Just what was this Universe about? Canon-Reading-A-Fic-Story.
Chapter 1: Teleportation
Hey Guys Lolo here, so I was reading a fanfiction it is called Le Papillon Rising, amazing just amazing, and I commented saying that someone needs to make a reading the fic version of the story. Then, somehow, from there I got dragged into making the fic.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything except for the pic in the top corner. Of which I digitized.
~Mari POV [Canon]~
I run towards the school, knowing I'm already late. Tikki tried to wake me but I was being stubborn and didn't want to. I regret that now, as I run up the stairs to get into the school and... trip at the last step. Ouch! I get up and run towards the classroom again. I get to the door and catch my breath before walking in trying to be discreet. I get to my seat and silently sigh. I did it.
"Miss Marinette, care to tell me why you were late?" Ms. Bustier asks me. Nevermind, I am not in the clear.
"I am sorry Madame but I slept in again," I admit. The teacher shakes her head and sighs… as suddenly, a flash of light overtakes the room with no warning, and multiple girlish screams echo throughout the halls.
~Marinette's POV [Le Papillon Rising]~
I'm sitting in the classroom, as Adrien runs in late. Usually, I'm the one who's late, but I guess since he is a model, it's to be expected… As we're sitting there, a sudden flash of bright white light covers us... an Akuma? Well, that explains where Adrien is... I feel someone hug me tightly as the light engulfs us.
~Marinette's POV [Le Papillon Rising]~
After the light fades, they realize they look around their room… and see mirror images of themselves and each other on the other side. Marinette… well, a Marinette... looks up to her side to find Adrien, holding her protectively. Beaming, she kisses him. She hears a squeal and a thud, she looked over to the other side of the room. Alya jumps up and down and her double sits on the floor with wide eyes.
"What? Can't a girl kiss her boyfriend? Come on at least it isn't Papillon," multiple people on the other side drop their jaws and look disgusted.
"Papillon is like 50, what do you mean at least it isn't Papillon?" I was confused because Papillon was my age.
"What do you mean 50, Papillon is my age, he is in 10th grade," I told them. They then looked as confused as I felt.
"I am getting the feeling we are from different dimensions," my double said.
Mr. Agreste then walks up," I believe you are right, Miss. Marinette," he then smiles down at me, Adrien's double looks as if he was about to have a heart attack. Mr. Agreste looked at him in confusion.
"Sorry but I need your guy's attention," I whipped around to see two people that I was fairly certain wasn't there before. One of them had mid-back length brownish-red hair and was wearing a blue shirt with black polka dots and distressed black jeans. She was tall but was also wearing a pair of high-heeled sandals. Her eyes, which were covered slightly in a pair of rose gold colored glasses frames, looked like a weird combination of blue and gold, but they seemed to switch between green and blue. The boy had short blond curls tied back in a low ponytail, and dark yellow eyes, wearing a black dress shirt and grey slacks and was writing in a journal, smirking slightly.
"Who are you guys?" Adrien's double asks.
The girl looks at them and says," I go by three different names but call me Lolo Grace. I am one of the ones that brought you here."
"Oscar," the boy says, before going back to writing and ignoring everyone.
"Why are we here?" I ask.
"Well, you guys do realize that there might be other universes right? You guys here are from two completely different universes, one where Papillon and Chat Noir are different people," She, Lolo, points at our group," you guys are from a universe where Papillon is Chat Noir in their universe and vice versa."
"So you brought us here just to tell us that?" Adrien asks.
"No, you are here to see what happens in your universe," Lolo says smirking," both of them." I tried to keep from looking as alarmed as I felt but I have the feeling I failed. I looked over at the other group and Adrien, Mr. Agreste, and my doubles looked somewhat alarmed. Mr. Agreste double was better at hiding it than the other two.
"Wait you are telling me that, Papillon, Ladybug, and Chat Noir from both universes is here, in this room," Alya's double said. The girl nodded happily.
"May I video this?" Alya's double asks excitedly.
"I am going to have to say no if only to help them keep their dignity," Alya, both of them, pout. I sigh in gratitude towards the girl, she discreetly gives me a thumbs up.
"So is this a show or a book?" I ask Lolo.
"Originally it was a book so you guys are gonna be reading it, the other one is a show," Lolo replied.
"Oh okay, so where is the book?" Lolo takes the book that Oscar was writing in. He looks at her with alarm then his face clears up.
"Make sure to give me that back when you are done, the ending won't write itself," we all look at him with faces that basically said 'huh'.
She hands the book to the other Mr. Agreste and goes to sit down, she pulls out what looks like a sketchbook and a pen.
"Well, what are you waiting for? I have already read it," Lolo points at the book with her pen.
"OK since she handed me the book I will read first," Mr. Agreste, the other one, said," the title is called Le Papillon Rising, hang on there is a summary here. It says Gabriel Agreste I am in the story makes sense as to why I am here then never wanted the ring." He looks at the book in confusion," Ring? What ring? He tried to escape being Chat Noir after the death of his wife…" Here he pauses and everyone, including myself, looks at our group's Mr. Agreste with wide eyes. I look over at Adrien who looked at me with panic. But you can't run from fate./ Adrien Agreste never thought he'd end up a villain,"WHAT?!" but after the death of his mother, thanks to the Miraculous, he'll do whatever it takes to get her back... even if it means hunting down the Heroes of Paris. "I-I-I'm a villain in that universe?" the other Adrien, the not Papillon one, asks looking faint. Then my eyes widen as I remember something Lolo had said. I whip around to look at her, she just smirked at me, as if she knew what I was thinking.
"Guys remember what Lolo said? She said that the Papillon in our Universe is the Chat Noir in theirs, and vice versa," Max, a classmate said. Everyone eyes widen and look towards Gabriel and Adrien Agreste. Marinette, the other universe, looked faint. I faintly wondered why, but if knowing me I am gonna find out in three, two, one…
"You, Adrien Agreste are Chat Noir?" he nods looking at Marinette in slight fear as if he was worried about her reaction," but-but I kissed you." and there it was, the reason she looked faint.
"You kissed me? As Chat? When did that happen?" Chat Adrien, blushing bright red, asked.
Marinette freezes," ummmmmmmmm, you know I don't really remember all that well so yeah."
"I don't remember getting kissed by you," Adrien says thoughtfully, Marinette's eyes widen and she winced. I was confused for a second till I realized that he probably didn't know about her being Ladybug.
"Marinette and I are dating and have been for a while," my lovely, sane, note the sarcasm, boyfriend said pulling me closer. Marinette looks at us for a long while and eventually Alya, the other one, walks over and snaps in her face. She looks over at us," Great you broke her."
Adrien looks down and smirked at me, I had a bad feeling about this, he then leans down and kisses me. We hear a thud and Marinette was on the ground passed out. Alya gives us a dirty look," now she is really broken. You broke my best friend."
"Um, Father?" Adrien, my Adrien, asks the man who was staring at him with an unreadable expression. I realized then that he hadn't talked at all since we realized that he was my Cat Dad, well not that he knows that.
"Son, you are Papillon, the guy that we have been chasing," Adrien nods. Mr. Agreste looks at him and says very clearly," you're grounded."
"Father!" Gabriel shakes his head and folds his arms over his chest.
"Ugh, don't do that again please," I snicker when I realize that the one that said that was my double from the other universe.
"Shouldn't you be reading?" I look over at Lolo, whom I forgot was there, she was still doodling but now had a laptop in front of her.
"She is right, I am assuming we will be able to leave when we finish the book and the show," Alix, another classmate, said.
"OK then I will continue reading," Mr. Agreste said before starting to read again.
Chapter 1: The small violet creature rests in the palm of his hand, shaking out its wings and looking up at him with huge eyes.
"Who… what are you?" The thing smiles up at him. "Hi, Adrien! My name is Nooroo, and I'm a kwami! I'm here because, apparently, you've been chosen to be the next wielder of the butterfly miraculous!"
"What is a Kwami?" Alya, the other one, asks excitedly.
"A Kwami is a small magical being that resembles an animal and is what allows your heroes and villain to transform," Lolo absent mindlessly answers. She noticed that the heroes and villain didn't know how to explain Kwamis.
Adrien's heard that word before. It's not a pleasant memory.
"What happened?" Nino asked his friend. Adrien shook his head and buried it in my shoulder.
Run, get out of here!
No, Mom, please-
I have to fight, sweetie, please. I've got the Miraculous. It's my duty.
"Oh no, you already knew about the Miraculous. Because your mom was Ladybug, wasn't she," Marinette asks my boyfriend then turns towards cat Adrien. They both nod.
"What does that mean?" The kwami begins explaining. The more he- it, talks, the angrier Adrien gets. Give people magic? What, so they can get themselves killed?
"Oh son, I didn't realize that it affected you so much. If I did I would have helped you sooner," Cat dad said hugging Adrien. He hugs his dad back.
"The most powerful Miraculous, though, are the Ladybug's earrings and Chat Noir's ring, which are only given in an emergency," the kwami continues. "Together, they can do anything, with the power of a god."
This interests Adrien. "Anything?"
"That is the same reason I became Papillon in our universe, to bring back my wife," Mr. Agreste said.
"Well, yeah!"
"Could… could they bring the dead back?"
"Adrien, Plagg, my kwami, said that Bridgette is still alive, that is why I left on that 'business trip'," Cat dad says to Adrien who tenses and his eyes widen.
It looks uncomfortable. "Well, yes, but-"
"How do I get them?" If this thing is telling the truth…
"You can't! You can only be given one Miraculous, that's how the scales remain balanced-"
Adrien looks down at the pin. "And this one… what can it do, again?"
"It can grant the wish of an outsider, and make them your champion!" He looks down at the pin. The idea that's running through his head is sick, wrong, against all his morals…
"Than why would you do it? If it goes against everything you believe in why would you still do it?" Cat Adrien says to his alternate.
"You said the Ladybug and Chat Noir Miraculous would only be given in times of emergency. Like, say… if super-villains began attacking Paris?"
"Well, yeah, exactly!"
"And with this…" he gestures to the pin. "That could happen."
Nooroo suddenly gets the feeling that something is extremely wrong. "Adrien, you can't! The Miraculous are used for good!"
"This is good. I'm saving a life," he smiles sadly. "You can't stop me."
It bows its head. "Adrien…"
"Nooroo… dark wings, rise!"
…
"Master! Master!" Fu glances up at his kwami, before looking down at the customer.
"Who is that guy?" Alya, the alternate, asks.
"The Great Guardian, he watches over the Mirs. he is the one who chooses the owner of the jewels," Cat dad explained to the girl.
"Ah… master! Master!" Fu chants, grinning. "Just some chanting rituals, very… helpful." He then proceeds to shove the man out the door. "What is it?"
"I… I'm not sure. I felt Nooroo, but it felt… wrong. Not evil, exactly, but definitely very wrong."
Fu shakes his head. "Do I need to take care of it?"
"No, master, you're too-"
"I'm still young, Wayzz! I'm only 184!"
"Nevertheless, I don't think you alone can stop this."
Fu sighs, and glances to the box. "I… I could always pull him out of retirement."
"… Master, you can't be serious. Anyway, Chat Noir without Ladybug?"
"I can find a Ladybug," Fu asserts. "We all knew he couldn't run from his past forever."
Wayzz is uncertain.
"He hated being Noir, and he hates us for what happened to her."
Fu walks over to the box, opening it carefully. "I know. But we don't have a better option."
…
"Adrien!" Gabriel looks around the house. "Where is that boy…?"
"Right here." He turns around to see his son staring him in the eye, a backpack over one shoulder.
"Adrien…"
"I'm going, Father. I need this."
"You don't. You're safe here. As long as you're here…"
Adrien clenches his fists. "I'm not made of glass, and you can't keep me safe forever."
"I can, and I will," Gabriel looks at his son coldly. He may have lost Bridgette, but hell if he's going to lose her child… even if Adrien hates him for it. After all, it was when Gabriel was fifteen that Fu decided to take him as a soldier of the Miraculous. Who's to say he won't try the same with Adrien? Well, Gabriel Agreste for one. He hits a number on his cell phone. "Nathalie?"
"I understand why you tried to keep me at home, but I still think it is better now that I go to school, after all, I met Mari there," my wonderful boyfriend smiles down at me, I peck him on the cheek.
"Wait a minute, you were dating Marinette but kissed Ladybug?" Adrien and I pause. Cat dad narrows his eyes at us, while we heard sputtering from the other side of the room. That's right Papillon is Mr. Agreste in that universe.
"Um, can we see you as Papillon? We have seen our Papillon but not your version?" Marinette says shyly, guess I never broke out of that in the alternate dimension. Adrien looks at me, I shrug, he then sighs and nods towards her. He transforms and even though I have seen it multiple times I lose my breath at how beautiful he is as Papillon.
His golden hair lies in soft curls, framing the butterfly wing mask that covers his face. His eyes, mixing violet and green, seem to shift and glitter in the light, and his wings, translucent and wide, flutter gently. His costume is silk, light violet with gold accents, a princely jacket and pants covered by tall boots, and silk gloved over his hands. The staff, a tall, thin gold rod with a butterfly at the end, glows lightly, as the Prince of the Butterflies takes a bow.
"Wow, Father you seem to have gotten the short side of the stick didn't you," Cat Adrien says amused. Mr. Agreste just ignores him.
"Yes, Mr. Agreste?"
"Keep Adrien inside. Do not let him out of the house. Do I make myself clear?"
"Yes, Mr. Agreste." Turning away from his fuming son, Gabriel heads to his study. He has work to do
…
Work that is not supposed to include that small silver box.
"No, no, I refuse. I'm not getting dragged back into this mess," he pushes the box off the desk, letting it fall open.
"Gabe, please! We need you!" the small black kwami appears in a burst of green light.
"After what happened to Bridgette? No thank you. I finally got rid of you, I'm not taking that ring back," Gabriel turns around, and begins walking. "Leave me be."
"Then Fu'll make sure it gets to Adrien."
The man stops in his tracks. "You wouldn't dare."
"I would."
"… When do we begin?"
"Wait what? You became Chat Noir so I wouldn't?" Adrien asked his father.
"Yes, I did it so that you could have a normal life, guess I failed there as you have become Papillon," Cat dad said with no mirth in his voice even as he chuckled dryly.
…
A girl with dark hair and blue eyes came home that day from school, and found a small silver box, with kwami and earrings in tow, and took on the role of Ladybug. At least, that's what Gabriel figures since a small girl dressed like Bridgette falls from the sky that afternoon. "Okay, this is too much," he mutters.
"What?"
"How old are you? Twelve? Fu's robbing cradles for his soldiers nowadays?"
"What are you talking about? I'm fifteen! Are you the partner Tikki mentioned?"
"Yes," he looks her over. The girl certainly looks younger than Adrien. She's in pigtails, for god's sake! He didn't even think about what working with a kid would be like…
"Well… sorry for crashing into you…" she looks embarrassed. "I'm- Um…" she pulls at her yo-yo, sending it right in between Gabriel's eyes. "So sorry!" she finishes.
Rubbing his forehead, Gabriel looks down at the kid, eyes wide, completely unprepared, and feels a surge of paternal affection. "Don't worry about it. I'll show you the ropes, okay? I was a mess at this at your age, too."
"Wait, you've been doing this since you were my age?"
This is going to take some explaining, isn't it?
"Well that is the end of chapter 1, and I believe that we need to have a few talks," Mr. Agreste said looking at his own Adrien. Everyone nods and I walk over to Lolo who was doodling. She looks up.
"That took you longer than I thought it would take you guys. Then again I am a fast reader so I shouldn't judge," she says chuckling.
"Hey, Lolo how did you know about both of us? You have to live in one of our dimensions, right?" she outright laughs at Nino's question.
"No I am from a dimension where you guys don't exist, there you guys are just a show and a book, nothing more," she explains after she stops laughing.
"Well you guys should go to bed, I will be here again in the morning, there will be clothes that look like what you are wearing in a wardrobe. The bedrooms are down that hall and there are baths and showers down there as well. Don't worry about anyone from home missing you time has stopped there," she tells us smiling.
Hey guys, so I had quite a bit of fun writing this, wasn't sure if I would or not but I did. The next chapter will be out whenever I finish writing it. Well, see ya'll next time, bye.