Chapter 1: [Now]
Cat Noir was running across the rooftops of Paris. He was limping slightly and tears were blurring his vision with each blink. His miraculous beeped. Three pads left. Three minutes left until he turned back. His arm felt like it was possibly fractured. For the first time in ages, he actually felt terrified. Cat Noir felt so alone. It scared him. He hadn't felt this alone since his mother left. Cat Noir had lost his partner and one of his best friends. Now he was worried about losing his life. He was in a fight or flight situation, and he decided on flight.
An evil Akuma can turn the kindest, brightest, most caring friend into the most vicious, cruel, and darkest enemy.
Cat Noir shut his eyes to stop more tears for falling. He stopped paying attention to his surroundings and tripped. He fell hard onto a familiar balcony. He simply laid there unmoving for a few moments. Cat took a deep breath as he slowly sat up. A trail of blood ran down his face. His arm felt worse. He looked up into the dark sky and screamed out his anger, pain, and sadness. He felt like he had failed terribly. He flinched as he heard a familiar but different voice yell out from far behind him.
"Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty! Don't you wanna play with me?"
The childish but almost emotionless voice was heard almost thought out Paris. It was her voice. He painfully chuckled as he remembered what her voice used to be compared to now. Her warm kind voice was now cruel and cold. Cat Noir held his head in his hands and sobbed. Then he realized why the balcony felt familiar. He felt more tears form as his ring beeped again. Two pads left.
He slowly crawled to the trap door and opened it. He fell through it and landed on the floor of Marinette Dupain-Cheng's bedroom. He slumped up against the ladder and took in the sight. Her room was a mess. His breath hitched as he saw the many, many pictures of Adrien Agreste were in pieces, scattered around along with torn pages of fashion designs and drawings. Books had been obviously thrown against the wall. Fabric was torn to shreds and pins/needles were sticking out of the roof. Cat Noir winced from both the sight and the pain he was in. He grabbed out his staff for support. His ring beeped again. One pad left. He slowly made his way to her bed and collapsed onto it. He laid there for a few moments, breathing slowly, and more tears fell. He felt faint. The ring beeped again. Cat Noir could feel Plagg trying to stay in the ring to keep the transformation up. The suit helps to heal quicker but when the suit comes off the holder feels every bit of unhealed pain at once. But the ring turned silver as Plagg was pushed out of the ring while Cat turned back into his civilian form. Adrien Agreste immediately felt five times worse.
"ADRIEN!" Plagg yelled out frantically as Adrien quietly sobbed. Adrien's eyes shut as he was defiantly feeling faint now. He was going to pass out from the pain. Adrien did not want to. He was needed right now. He needed to fight. Paris needs him. Ladybug needs him. Marinette needs him.
Plagg looked pale and was having slight problems with hovering in the air. He made sure Adrien was still alive then quickly phased through the door and flew towards the kitchen in search of anything to charge up his powers. Plagg didn't care if there was no camembert. At this point, anything will do.
Plagg didn't even care that Marinette's parents saw him. He just needed to find something not too difficult to eat so he could recharge in order to help Adrien. Tom and Sabine stared at Plagg. They were confused, concerned, and startled.
"Tom, what is that?"