Disclaimer: I do not own Miraculous:Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir.
Adrien Agreste looked up at the sky and sighed, it looked like rain. He continued walking with his hood up so no one would, hopefully, recognize him. What had his life come to? Just last month he was trying to enjoy his life as a student and model but now here he was alone on the street.
"Hey look at this," Adrien heard a girl say to her friend, "Gabriel Agreste has escaped prison."
"I wonder if it has something to do with those people he's accused of brainwashing," her friend added as Adrien secretly moved closer, "could he have magic that's so powerful that he can control them from anywhere."
"Congratulations Dad," Adrien said sarcastically to himself, walking away from the two girls who didn't seem to notice him, "any gleam of hope I had in your innocence is now shattered. But Dad, why did you keep your magic from me?" Adrien stopped as he heard his stomach growl, great now he was hungry.
Adrien continued walking till he found himself in front of a small café. He reached into his jean and coat pockets but found only a few coins of pocket change. He searched his massager bag, the one thing he had with him when his father was arrested, but found little money in it as well. Something wet hit his hood and he looked and the rain he had predicted had started falling. He made a quick dash holding his black hood up till he reached a nearby ally way. A sigh of relief hit him when he saw the refrigerator box he had been calling home for the past week was still there. He quickly ran inside hoping he wasn't noticed. Little did he know that in two hidden sections of Paris, he was by two men both hoping to use him for different a purpose.
"Are you sure he's the one?" an unusual figure asked a man hidden behind a curtain.
"Yes I am sure I have been eying him for quite some time now and I know he is worthy."
"But he's Hawkmoth's son!"
"Now, now you know we don't judge people based on the actions of others, no matter how bad they may be."
"But he could be working for him!"
"From what I've seen that is not the case but I fear it soon might be. Now go before it is too late."
Meanwhile Adrien was sitting in his box trying to remain dry as best he could. This was the worst rainstorm he had seen in a while. The last time rain this heavy fell was last year, right after his mother disappeared. He wondered now if his mom had discovered his dad's secret and was forced to leave out of fear. Maybe she was worrying about him as much as he was worrying about her. His eyes started to close as began to drift into some much needed but was quickly woken up by falling face first into a puddle.
"Wow kid what a life you have," a voice spoke in the darkness of the night, Adrien looked up and a saw a figure leaning against the wall of the building next to one where his box was, "one day you're Adrien Agreste, one of most desirable boys in Paris, now you're sleeping in a box with a puddle as a pillow."
"Who are you?" Adrien asked the figure angrily.
"The name's Plagg, kid."
"Plagg?"
"Mmm, this is some good cheese."
"Cheese?"
"What you never had camembert cheese before? I can smell it my sleep you know it's one of many talents."
"Listen I don't know how you know who I am," Adrien began, standing up and brushing himself off, "or even how you knew I was here but I think it's best if you avoid any interaction with me. I don't want to cause you any problems."
"Sorry kid," Plagg replied to him, "but my master asked me to retrieve you."
"You master?" Adrien thought for moment. "No I refuse to help Hawkmoth, even if he could be my father."
"Woah kid I have zero association with Hawkmoth or your father. I'm not some brainwashing butterfly, I'm a kwami spirit."
"A kwami?" Adrien paused and looked and figure before him, it was he noticed the there was something unusual about this stranger. "Could you maybe come out in the light for a moment?"
"Whatever you say kid,"Plagg said and obliged to Adrien's request. Adrien eyes widen at Plagg's appearance. Plagg had dark skin and black, very messy hair and hid eyes were bright green. Plagg was also about a head taller than Adrien. His clothes, a short sleeve top and shorts, were the same black color as hair. Adrien could see an about half eaten wheel of camembert in his gloved hand. But the most striking him about him was the ear and tail, the cat ear and tail. The ears sitting on top of his hair and the tail moving seemed real very real.
"You're half cat," Adrien finally manage to say after a long and awkward moment of silence.
"While sort of, all kwamis have a few animal like features but you probably get the jist of it."
"But how do I know you don't work for Hawkmoth?" Adrien asked still cautious of the spirit.
"Well I guess there's only one way for you to find out," Plagg stretched out his arm, "come with me to meet the master."
"But won't people see you?" Adrien asked still not wanting to go.
"Another thing you should know about kwamis, we can blend in with normal crowd pretty easily," Plagg laughed as a black aura surrounded him, when it lifted Plagg had shrunk in size to a little taller than Adrien. The whites of his eyes which were previously green had become a normal white. Plagg's ears and tail had also disappeared. "Well what do think?"
"You look like a normal human," Adrien said reluctantly.
"Great then let's go," Plagg grabbed Ardien's and started running, "I wasted enough time as it is. Besides I finished my camembert and need some more."
"Plagg where exactly are you taking me?" Adrien asked a little cautious.
"To the master's house of course," Plagg answered as if it was obvious.
"But where is that exactly?"
"You'll see."
"Well here we are," Plagg announced halting the two to a stop.
"Woah," Adrien stared the building in front of him. He honestly didn't know what expect. In front of him was a small building on corner of a street he was unfamiliar with. It had an ancient Chinese feel to it and seemed very welcoming. Standing outside was a girl a little shorter than Plagg. She had black hair tied in pigtails that were dyed red at the ends. When she turned her and saw the two she immediately ran to them.
"There you are Plagg," she said to him worringly, "you were supposed to be back here twenty minutes ago."
"Come on Tikki," Plagg responded to her, "you really expected me to not stop at a cheese store for camembert."
"Plagg this is serious," Tikki had a nervous tone in her voice, "what if Hawkmoth found him before you did?"
"Geez Tikki have some faith in me," he moved over so see could see Adrien entirely, "See he's right here."
"Thank goodness." Tikki jumped and squeezed Adrien into a hug. "I'm so happy you're okay."
"Uh Plagg how do you know her?" Adrien asked.
"She's my sister," Plagg whispered.
"Plagg I can hear you," Tikki said as her arms were still around Adrien.
"Whatever, could we just go inside know? I need more cheese."
Tikki sighed and let go of Adrien. The three of them then entered the building, the inside had the same ancient Japan look as the outside. It also seemed much larger than the outside. A flash shone and the two kwamis had changed. Plagg had taken his normal or regular look, while Tikki did, what Adrien assumed, was her normal look as well. Her had color had inverted becoming mostly red with the tips of her bangs and pigtails. Her pigtails had grown to a longer length. She was wearing a black and red dress and she was flying.
"You ready Adrien?" Plagg asked breaking Adrien out of trance he was in.
"For what?" Adrien nervously asked.
"To meet the master."
"Where is he?" Adrien looked around but only saw himself and the two kwamis in the room.
"Back here," Plagg pulled back a Chinese style door that had sign that read Employees Only, on it. Behind the door was a simple storage room with a bucket filled with cleaning supplies in the middle of the floor. Plagg walked over to the bucket and lifted it revealing a hole underneath it.
"Well jump in," Plagg told Adrien after he stood there for a minute, while Tikki closed the door.
Adrien looked down and gulped it seemed like a long fall. He then closed his eyes and jumped down. Something soft so hit his bottom, Adrien looked down to see a pillow beneath him. Standing up he got a good look at room around him. It seemed to be a superhero lair of some sort, like something out the countless animes he's watched. Walking around, he saw video games, magazines, and pretty much anything else that people his age would want in their rooms, but there were three things that really stood out to him, a DJ turn-table, a very complex computer system and the thing that thing that stood out the most was a sewing machines surrounded by beautiful pieces of clothing. He went to get a closer look but was stopped by Plagg calling him over.
"Adrien, I would like you to meet the master and his kwami Wayzz." Standing before him was green haired flying boy with a turtle shell and a man sitting down behind the curtin.
"It is a pleasure to meet you," the man greeted Adrien.
"Indeed," the kwami agreed.
"Are you the master?" Adrien asked.
"I am," the man answered.
"Then, could you tell why I'm here?"
"We believe your father Gabriel Agreste is the one who took the long lost Moth Miraculous and the kwami with it Nooroo," Wayzz began to explain.
"Yes he is using Nooroo's main power creating Akuma for dark purposes," the master continued, "while normally his power is used to give those worthy using magic their special abilities by having the pure akuma go into an object, but recently someone by the name of Hawkmoth was been turning them dark sending to people at their lowest points."
"But I don't get how does involve me? I was in the dark of my father possibly being Hawkmoth till last month."
"That may but there's one thing special about you. You are worthy of a miraculous."
"A miraculous, you mean I get be a superhero?"
"Indeed, Plagg will give you the ability to become the wielder of a miraculous."
"But where am I to go? My home was sieged by the government."
"You are welcomed stay here Adrien. Wayzz can show you to your bed."
"Thank you so much," Adrien smile and Wayzz led him to the beds.
"I'm going to work on the power transfer," Plagg announced and left.
"Tikki," the master beckoned.
"Yes master?"
"I need you to get Ladybug."
AN: And I'm just going to leave this here. I recently got in into Miraculous Ladybug and when the idea came to my mind I knew I just had to write it. I'm going to feature some fan theories most notably the Gabriel is Hawkmoth theory. I hope you enjoy this story and see you next chapter.
