Chat Noir walked silently on the streets of Paris gaining attention from every single person. I mean, he's Chat Noir, one of the most famous superheroes ever lived, including Ladybug. He was. But this is not his idea of fame. At least not Chat's.
Chat Noir immediately snapped out of his controlled mind and immediately scanned his surroundings. It was close to sundown and the color of the sky was orangey-pink. France has never been more beautiful than this. "What the... Where the heck am I?" He murmured to himself when he found himself in the middle of the city with many people walking by purposely to snap a quick picture of him. He knew why. He immediately extended his staff and swung himself somewhere far away. Away from the drawn crowds and away from everyone.
Away from the torture and away from his alter ego.
But he can't.
There was no way he could escape from his alter ego.
Has he killed someone innocent today? Has he threatened the mayor again? Or worse, has he raped another innocent girl?
He, confused and frustrated with himself, wanted badly to throw away his Miraculous, along with his suit, and destroy it once and for all. But he couldn't.
Because of one simple reason.
Ladybug.
Yes, a simple name as "Ladybug" could make Chat bow down to his knees.
A simple name a "Ladybug" could make him tune out the whole world and only focus on the girl he's ever laid his eyes on ever since that mask.
He couldn't just let her to all the work now, can he? It wouldn't be fair to her and after all, it was their alter egos and Miraculouses that bonded them. Chat knew he didn't want to throw that away.
Chat arrived in the small town and when he saw the Eiffel Tower, he knew he was there. His most unwanted place to be. His supposedly home and mansion.
His so called home.
Ever since his mother passed away, his whole family tumbled down. Including the famous Gabriel Agreste, one of the most famous fashion designers who also owns and created the brand, Gabriel. He's not the old Gabriel anymore. He's not the one who used to believe in family time and family vacations. He's not the one who believed in happiness anymore. Because to Adrien, he only cared about himself and only himself.
Chat opened the large window to his bedroom from the outside to sneak in and detransform. "Plagg, claws in." He whispered to himself. "No." Plagg declines as he stayed in Adrien's ring. "I mean it," Adrien sternly said to Plagg as he sat on his bed, "Aren't you hungry?" He asked purposely so he would get out of his ring. "Ugh...", Plagg groaned, "Fiiiiiiiine..." he gave up as he flew out of Adrien's ring. Plagg appeared on Adrien's bed to watch Chat Noir detransform into his old self, Adrien. Adrien walked to his mini-refrigerator to get one wheel of Camembert for Plagg, even though he tried to rethink his actions. He threw the stinky cheese to Plagg who jumped up in the air to bite into the side of the cheese and munch on it quietly.
Adrien just wanted to know why. How?
About three months after Adrien received his Miraculous, Plagg started to act up. He wasn't himself anymore. The normal not-caring-about-anything Plagg just disappeared! And he is replaced by a different Plagg. A much more alert Plagg. The Plagg that would get hungry two times faster than the old Plagg.
He grew more intense. More alert and quick. More vicious and cruel. More inhuman and barbaric.
He's the new Plagg.
The updated Plagg.
The Plagg that can control his Miraculous holder, Adrien.
When Plagg was in control, Chat Noir would kill anyone in his way. But when he wasn't, he was just this flirty kitty who helped Ladybug de-evilize akumas.
They feared Plagg's side of Chat Noir. They also feared the usual side of Chat Noir. But, who can blame them when there are exactly 663 missing reports on regular citizens all around Paris that lead straight into... wait, what do you know? Chat Noir of course.
And with this, Adrien knew one thing.
Plagg wasn't himself anymore.
"Breaking news. We found Chat Noir wandering around the city in France and a little while after that, 6 people have been reported missing. We're not sure who did it but the police here are sure it's Chat Noir. What do you have to say Roger Raincomprix? 'We found Chat Noir's last sighting on the streets at exactly 6:45:59 and the 6 missing reports have been filed in case by case about 6 minutes after his sighting. Coincidence? I think not! Please, AT ALL TIMES, stay away from Chat Noir. We can't assure you safety anymore now that our beloved superhero has left us. Ladybug, if you're out there please help us.' Alright, we now have it! If all those 663 reports, now 669 reports, have been related to Chat Noir, all we can say is stay put and we'll find a way to get rid of him... Oh, who am I kidding?! Ladybug! You're our only hope!-"
Marinette takes her remote control quickly to turn off the tv in her room and throws it to the nearest sofa cushion. Frustrated about everything Chat has been doing ever since she was extremely sick.
It's been a week ever since she's been deeply sick and this was what Chat's been up to?! Ever since the last akuma attack, Marinette has been having weird wooziness so Tikki had to bring her to Master Fu. It was time to meet him anyways for he was the Master Fu... the Great Guardian of the Miraculouses and the best healer out there.
This week has been crazy so far and nothing was going right. Adding onto Marinette's sickness and Chat Noir's crazy Miraculous problem is another honey blonde girl whose age is similar to Adrien and Marinette.
Yup, you guessed it.
Chloe.
I mean, it was about time that she has a problem, for she was the problem.
Butting in Adrien's life is one of Adrien's most hateful and miserable moments but, it was also one of Chloe's best and most precious moment.
Marinette hated her. There was no doubt in it and the feeling was mutual.
"Ughhh..." Marinette groaned as she flipped herself to the bed with her face on one of her pillows. "Marinette..." Tikki trailed off as she flew herself to rub Marinette's back. She can't help but feel bad that Marinette has to deal all those problems even though she wasn't even fully healed yet. Silence greeted her so she continued to speak.
"This isn't good, Marinette." Tikki sternly said when she flew to the side of the bed to give her some space. Marinette immediately straightened her back and faced Tikki when she said that.
"Of course it isn't good. Ugh... I shouldn't have even gone that close to her! Everything's my fault, Tikki!" Marinette cried as she grabbed a pillow to hug and hold. Something would comfort her and something that wouldn't say anything when she squeezed it or punched it. It's the pillow. To be honest, Marinette couldn't help but feel guilty that she stepped closer to the akumatized citizen. She shouldn't have gone that close but everyone makes mistakes, right?
"I shouldn't have done that! Ever since I was sick, Chat's been acting much more strange than usual! Now he's out and doing God knows what!" Marinette started to freak out as she screamed in her pillow so no one could hear her except herself.
"Plagg's gone crazy, again." Tikki whispered to nobody in general but herself. Marinette stopped screaming and tilted her head left while staring at her kwami with curiosity.
"What do you mean 'again'?" Marinette asked and she sit up straight on her exact spot and put on her listening ears.
"It's time I tell you, Marinette, about your partner Chat Noir... or better yet, his kwami, Plagg." Tikki started and she flew right in front of Marinette's face, at a respectable distance, and stared into her bluebell eyes. Marinette tilted her head right and stared into her kwami's eyes.
"Master Fu is our holder. He's the Great Guardian of Miraculouses and he assigns us to different people over thousands and thousands of years." Tikki paused and then continued after a deep breath. "When he came to Plagg and I, I remember that he even thought about his decision with Plagg. But, even though it was a bad idea, he said it was fate that wanted Plagg to become someone's miraculous..."
"Plagg, I know you might not have a change of mind but please consider this fate... and not my choice. I chose this young lad for you to take care of and for him to also take care of you." Fu said as he bent his head down to meet Plagg's gaze.
Plagg scoffed in return.
"You expect me to take care of him? Who do you think I am?" Plagg continued to say as he turned his back on Fu.
"I think you're a kwami and now it's your turn to play your role." Master fu stated.
"Oh, I'll take care of him. I'll take good care of him." Plagg stated blankly as he stared into space. Fu and Tikki can't help but feel scarcasm in his words.
As Plagg and the ring was placed into the small box, Tikki remembers Plagg showing a sneaky and evil smirk to her.
Master Fu gives the box to a mysterious man who delivers the Miraculouses to their assigned person. He turns to Tikki and uses his pointer finger to gestures her to follow him. Tikki follows without reasoning and sees Fu turn around to face her.
"I didn't want this to happen..." Fu regretfully stated as he faced the floor and held onto his cane for balance. The silence made him continue. "When he arrives to his new holder, he would become normal to show his owner that he could trust him. After a little time, that mask would fade away slowly and Plagg would finally show the lad his true colors. It would take the time for the poor child to get used to the number of people he would eventually kill and Plagg would control him more. With more power, the more he would kill. Someone can stop him if only he got what he ever wanted..." he trailed off looking into thin air. To Tikki, it seemed that he was talking to his words and every single word that came out of his mouth seemed wise and strong.
"And what did he want, Master Fu?" Tikki asked in curiosity. She would do anything, just about anything, to stop Plagg's nonsense.
"His love to love him back." He stated as he stared into Tikki's eyes. Tikki's eyes widen in astonishment but also in an understanding way.
"Okay, I'm sorry to interrupt but, who did he love?" Marinette asked to cut off what Tikki was about to say to her.
"As much as I hate telling you this, I have to tell you..." Tikki stared down on the wooden planked floor that covered Marinette's bedroom. "Okaaay..." Marinette trailed off to encourage her to go on.
"It was me." Tikki stated as she blushed and averted Marinette's eyes once more.
I don't know which was more awkward. The fact that Tikki was blushing like crazy, so crazy that the red on her skin was turning even more red, or the fact that Marinette's jaw was dropped so low that she would have to go to the hospital if she kept on doing that and her eyes widened larger than the size of Tikki herself...
"Would you stop doing that? You can end up at the hospital! Or worse... you can end up in a cast for your jaw." Tikki scolded Marinette when she turned around to see her facial expression.
Marinette immediately closed her mouth, without any explanation, but she was still speechless. "If y-you are Plagg's love, then... he's acting like this because of you." She stuttered and squinted her eyes to examine Tikki. Her statement came out more like a question she wanted to answers to.
"He chose to act this way. But now that Plagg has a holder, he can do whatever he wants when the holder transforms into Chat Noir." Tikki says. When Marinette was silent, she took that as cue to continue the story on Plagg.
"But what if his love can't love him back?" Tikki asked Master Fu, desperately because there was no way that Plagg's love could ever love him back.
Desperately because Tikki knew that Master Fu knew about their little relationship of awkwardness and denied love.
Desperately because there was no way, no way, that Tikki would ever try and give him a chance.
His chance was long gone, and it's never coming back.
At least not yet...
"Well, then we'll have to see ourselves..." Master Fu replied as he began to slowly walk away, with the cane on his right hand, leaving an utterly confused Tikki in the middle of a room.
A/N: Chapter 1 of Controlled!
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