Miraculous Ladybug Fanfiction
Introducing….
Wings Of Melancholy Remix
Disclaimer: This show will never be mine. For entertainment purposes only.
Chapter 1: Memories
"This is the end, Ladybird! You and your hampering fortune!" Papillon snarled as he raised his cane, crackling purple energy gathering at the tip. The corrupted Butterfly has no intention of giving the polka dotted heroine mercy.
Bridgette closed her eyes shut. There's no way she can survive the next attack, not after receiving near fatal wounds from the long harrowing fight with her partner against the one that has been responsible for spreading his butterflies of discord in the city of lights.
When Ladybird and Black Cat confronted Papillon in his lair, which just happens to be a giant zeppelin in the sky that made arriving into said lair so awfully difficult, the duo avatars of Blessing and Misfortune were taken surprise by the ferocity of the villain's attacks.
Her partner was briefly incapacitated after a strong swing of that accursed cane to the face and sent flying across the room, leaving Ladybird to deal with the rest of the Papillon's barrage of attacks. It was so frustrating trying to land a hit on Papillon, only for him to dodge her yoyo attacks with a such nimble grace befitting of a butterfly and striking her sides with his own cane.
Who would have thought that someone who had been hiding in the shadows and manipulating people from afar for so long, is actually capable of close combat through agility and evasion? Papillon could practically give Ladybird and Black Cat a run for their money in terms of their body speed.
Bridgette wondered if the cliché 'life flashing in your eyes before death' is actually a thing because all of a sudden, memories of her whole life swarmed through her mind. Every precious moment that she once took for granted branded themselves deeply into her psyche, the emotions that filled every one of them rushes through like a running river of water.
As Papillon swung his energy-infused cane at her, Bridgette's perception of time starts to go in slow-motion.
She remembered the rush of excitement that fuelled her for the first day of school…
How ecstatic she become when she made friends with her new best bud Tasha…
How her heart thumps with admiration when she met the stern but caring Felix Agreste…
How she spent her time with her beloved parents, rather it would be playing video games with her daddy or having a bake off with her maman…
How she encountered the embodiment of Creation and said kwami granting her the ability to become the heroine of Blessing; Ladybird…
How she would spend her evening patrols jumping on rooftops with Black Cat as her reliable friend and partner even when he's constantly flirting with her and throwing those horrible cat puns…
How she would chase after Felix with hearts in her eyes and how Felix tried to turn her down as gently as he could without being too uninterested nor conceited and not infecting her with his bad luck (that part she found out later)…
How she fought alongside the ever protective and serious Black Cat to stop the deranged akuma from destroying Paris and purify the corrupted butterflies…
How she and Tasha managed to drag the protesting blonde to her parent's bakery for a 'friendly' dinner when they found out about Felix's neglect from his own parents after months of getting to know him…
How his polite smile turned genuine when nothing went wrong (her Blessing having negated his Misfortune) and how his reserved self slowly peeled away, revealing another side of him that reminded her uncomfortably too much like a certain 'feline'…
How they both found out about each other identities and how unamused she was when she realises that him kissing her could grant him freedom from the Misfortune. Fortunately, Felix assured her that he would never plan to seduce her even from the beginning and his flirting with her was him being actually interested…
How their budding romance actually improved their team dynamic and how close they become into stopping Papillon's reign of terror in Paris…
Bridgette's mind become consumed with despair as she soon realises that she's going to die.
She knew her death would bring anguish and devastation to so many of her loved ones, like her parents and Tasha; who could never understand how she died.
However, no one would feel more broken than Felix Agreste himself.
Her beloved already has an emotionally stunted background with his parents' absence that empty manor he called his home for weeks, his Misfortune causing more than enough distress in his life and him being alienated by many of their peers because of his aloofness that acts as a psychological defense mechanism caused by his lonely upbringing.
The last thing Bridgette wanted was for her death to become Felix's breaking point.
Papillon's psychotic smirk grew wider, his corrupted energy-infused cane grew closer and closer in her line of vision.
'Maman… Daddy… Tasha…'
A lone, single tear ran down her cheek.
'Felix… I-I...'
The very tip of the cane was about to strike the chest area where her heart was.
'...I love you all.'
"NOOOOOOO!"
"NOOOOOOOO!"
Bridgette slipped over a puddle of water and crashed onto said water body, submerging her butt in dirty rain water and soaking the rest of her jeans.
The poor girl wondered with a whimper if bad luck is out with a vengeance to make her suffer during her first day of collège in her third year.
"Hey, are you okay?"
Bridgette glanced up and her blue belle eyes widened at the hand that was being offered to her with the owner being none other than Felix Agreste, model extraordinaire and hard-working student to boot.
Bridgette never really liked Felix to begin with. Despite his devilishly handsome looks, his freezing opposition to anything that remotely resembled a social activities caused most of her classmates stirred clear of him.The boy always seemed to be quite a snappy mood and rather preferred to be on his own. It doesn't help that the rumour mill was literally churning out the latest gossip about him, worsening his already lone-wolf reputation.
Heck, when she introduced herself to him the year before when he first transferred to her class; Felix shot her an alarmed glance that quickly and not so subtly turns into heavy disinterest.
In the end, he merely greeted his name before excusing himself to go somewhere else in utmost hurry. Almost as if he was fleeing from her like she was a plague.
Bridgette has never felt so insulted.
So please excuse her for narrowing her eyes at the blonde model with suspicion.
Nevertheless, months of observing him from whenever the timing was convenient (she does not have a crush on him, thank you very much) has led her to conclude that Felix doesn't seem to be the type of person to play a practical prank on anyone. He just seemed to be the short of person who was too stiff and serious.
With a resigned sign, Bridgette decides to give Felix a chance and grabbed his hand; ignoring the tingling sensation of his hand holding hers as the blonde boy pulled her up.
While Bridgette attempted to brush off the excess water from her clothes, Felix had never once remarked a jerkish comment about her situation and even gave her his black handkerchief as help. No jeers nor even disapproving glares.
If anything... Did she saw a hint of bemusement in his silvery blue eyes?
"Thank you." she spoke somewhat with gratitude. Maybe Bridgette judged him a little too harshly at the time since while he may needed a lesson in social courtesy, he's not that mean-spirited.
To her surprise, Felix's face blushed before rubbing the back of his head.
"Your welcome. I am deeply sorry for my rude behaviour but…I was not exactly in the best mood. Personal problems."
Bridgette smiled back softly, with a blush of her own as guilt churned in her stomach
That... made a whole lot of sense. If she was in a bad mood too, she wasn't the most pleasant person to talk to at the moment. She should've have given him a second chance if she had realised that was the case.
Maybe... Just maybe... Most of the rumours about him being an anti-social jerk were a tad bit exaggerated.
Plus, he looks so cute when he's bashful.
"Well, I guess I caught you on a really bad time. How unlucky of me, eh?" Bridgette remarked playfully.
Felix stared blankly at her with wide eyes before he started to laugh boisterously much to her bewilderment, as though he understood a private joke from her statement alone.
However, the one detail that Bridgette was overwhelmed by was the fact that Felix Agreste is laughing.
Laughing.
The same stiff and brooding lone wolf who always had a chilling snark at hand whenever someone was attempted a conversation with him, was laughing .
And Bridgette Dupein-Cheng was the one who made him laugh.
Just as soon as he laughed, he stopped suddenly; as though Felix just realised he did something grievously wrong.
"I'm sorry… I have to go."
No, she won't let him.
Before he could move whatsoever, Bridgette made a swift grab of his arm and prompted her classmate to stare back at her in shock.
"Wait! Don't go, I... Can we be friends?" She asked him quickly, the words rolling off from her tongue like a waterfall.
She thought Felix's steel blue eyes could not get any bigger but lo and behold, they actually did.
Bridgette was definitely and absolutely sure that Felix has a secret heart of pure gold laying underneath that glacial countenance of his. He could just as easily left her sprawling on the sodden floor like an idiot and be on his merry way.
Yet, he chose not to. He helped her instead. To Bridgette, this made Felix an enigma in her mind because of the way he shows himself to others.
Now? She's curious about him, perhaps even wanting to be friends with him.
Tasha was probably going to think that she's crazy for doing something no other student in their collège was brave enough to do but she wants to befriend Felix just because. How does one explain friendship? It just happen.
For several minutes, Felix stared at her with deep contemplation.
Finally, he sighed in resignation.
"Fine, but if our friendship falls apart because of me…''
Is that why he was so scared? Because he thought he might ruin their potential friendship? No, Bridgette's intuition told her that it goes much deeper than that. Nevertheless, she grabbed his hand and did a gentle handshake; squeezing just to hope it might comfort him.
"Don't be so down, you pessimist. You'll never know until you try. By the way, I'm Bridgette. Bridgette Dupein-Cheng" She greeted him with a sincere smile.
For a brief moment, Felix was silent. Then, a soft curving of lips formed a shy smile.
A smile that was filled with nervousness but also genuine happiness. Bridgette has never felt her face feel like a volcano.
It didn't take long for that shy smile to turn into a confident smirk as he snarked back, "Heh, don't be so cocky you optimist. Okay fine, I'll try. My name Felix Agreste and it's a pleasure to meet you."
It could have been sarcastic statement, but both of them knew that Felix was truly taking a chance in friendship.
But Bridgette found something else that may or may not be good for the state of her heart.
She ends up falling in love with him.
Drops of blood splattered on Ladybird's polka-dotted mask, the hot sensation of the crimson liquid jolting her back into the present.
Bridgette opened her blue belle eyes just to see the Papillon's bloody cane protruding from Black Cat's back.
"What!?" Papillon exclaimed in shock.
A gasp escaped her lips.
'No… Please, no….'
Followed by a sputtering of denial.
"My... Lady..." Felix sputtered as he gave Papillon an uppercut to the jaw, sending the dreadful villain away.
With the last of his strength, Felix turned to her with a pained grimace on his face before collapsing onto her lap.
'It can't be... It can't...'
His steel blue eyes slowly close as he muttered his dying words to his beloved bug.
"I-I... Always... L-loved you..."
Muttering his last words, Felix's body went limp in her arms.
Bridgette wailed.
"FELIX!"
Well, hi guys. In case, you guys don't know; the first chapter and possibly the next takes place in my own interpretation of the PV universe before moving on to the canon world, the Quantic universe where Marinette and Adrien lived in. Since this fic is written before season 2, there's a high chance I will end up putting this fic as an AU.
As added trivia, I changed the names of the PV miraculous wielders to highlight the differences between both universes.
PV: Quantic
Ladybird: Ladybug
Black Cat: Chat Noir
Tasha: Alya
Papillon: Hawkmoth
A/N: Hey, guys! I'm back! I am so sorry that it took so long to update this. Iat has been, what? Two, three years now? Wow, time flies and now, I feel like a darned jerkish meanie for leaving this story and all of you readers behind; laying in the dust and not even a hint of proper hiatus. I am sincerely sorry for that.
I admit, I literally cringed when I reread the original chapters. So many mistakes... Ugh, I had to fix this mess and turn it back into a proper story. So yeah, in case if it wasn't obvious, the unofficial hiatus is over!
Be ready to read the next and improved chapters next time on WOM! See yah!