A/N: I just want to say thank you to everyone who not only reviewed but also hit the fav/follow button for this story. Also once again thank you to QuantumChickpea for beta reading this.

Chapter 1

It was pouring with heavy rain, so loud that Marinette could hear it lashing down onto the pavement even before she opened the back door.

Not wanting to waste any time she quickly threw the three garbage bags into the dumpster with little effort, she was tired and just wanted to go to bed, hoping the sound of the rain would ease her mind.

It had been 3 days since the school had closed due to the murder of Miss Bustier, and many of the students including Marinette were still coming to terms with it.

Miss Bustier had been a favourite teacher of the pupils, she had been a kind and understanding towards her students and never judged them based on gossip unlike a certain scientist teacher.

If Marinette hadn't been so engrossed in her thoughts she might had noticed a certain blonde was peering over the roof just opposite her.

''Why are we here?'' The voice of Plagg asked Adrien as it echoed in his mind. ''I just wanted to check she's ok …'' Adrien whispered as quietly as he could.

Adrien bit his lip as he continued to glance down at the sight of Marinette below, his clothes getting wet as he laid there peering over the ledge.

His mind flashing back to a few weeks ago, when Marinette approached him whilst he was eating lunch with Nino about asking if he wanted to go see a movie with her.

He remembered nearly choking on his food in shock and some how being able to say yes as Nino laughed at the sight. He later pointed out to Adrien even Marinette seemed nervous to ask him.

Girls asking Adrien out on dates wasn't a common thing for the 16-year-old, not due to his shy, quiet nature and bizarre habit of talking to himself (or so they thought) but also due to his strict home life, being his father's lab rat.

But Adrien didn't have time to think about that, he had a job to do for his father, ''We've had a security breach'' he told Adrien only an hour ago.

''My lif-I mean OUR life's work is in jeopardy Adrien. I'm sorry my son, I know you hate this but he must be silenced.'' His father Gabriel had told him as he passed the tablet over, showing the name, age and address of the target.

Reluctantly, Adrien agreed, largely due to Plagg screaming, ''FRESH MEAT'' at the back of his mind, whilst his father promised he was still working on ways to help control Plagg's more 'aggressive' tendencies.

It was something his father had been promising since he was 13 years old, when this nightmare first began. Nearly every night lately Adrien wished he hadn't gone to visit his father at work, then he wouldn't have ran into what his father called 'Volpina'.

''I'm bored, let's go and get dinner already, you got to see your little whore already, let's go!'' Plagg's voice snapping him back into reality.

''Yeah ... sure…'' Adrien mumbled uneasily as he slowly got up, transforming into Plagg as he was reminded that he had no choice but to do his father's dirty work if he ever wanted to be normal again.

As soon as Marinette closed the back door, she placed a hand to the side of her head and massaged it.

She then quickly covered her mouth in shock as she then heard again, a small voice whispers her name again, a small little girl's voice saying ''Marinette'' at the back of her mind.

''Marinette, sweetie?'' She heard her mother's voice call out to her from upstairs, ''Bridgette is on skype asking if you're ok? Did you want to talk to her?''

Marinette smiled weakly, trying to convince herself that it was her mother calling her that she heard, ''Yeah that was it.'' She thought as she hurried upstairs.

Xavier Ramier hurried as he scrambled to gather the last of his things, his contact at Agreste Inc, the biggest pharmaceutical company in France, had completely disappeared, so he knew he was on borrowed time.

He was just thankful he had managed to hide his backup hard drive, no one would find it except his 'protégé' a very talented young lady who went by the username Lady Wi-Fi.

Using their real names was dangerous, that's why he insisted to her to stick to aliases, much like his of 'Mr Pigeon'.

He knew if something happened to him then she'd carry on the fight to expose the connection between Gabriel Agreste and the so-called cannibal killings.

To him it all came together when Lady Wi-Fi explained via proof she knew Adrien Agreste and that it was evident the boy had clear mental health problems.

Gabriel using his powerful contacts must be abducting people for his son to commit these violent crimes and then had the bodies dumped in various locations alongside the words 'Plagg!' written in blood.

It was a ploy to throw the police off the scent much like with the theory involving, the royal family and jack the ripper but despite his protests the police refused to listen to him, calling him 'crazy' and a 'conspiracy nut'.

Or at was his theory until he saw the footage, read the documents about the UFO crash, saw the X-rays pictures, the autopsy reports and the various documents on Adrien's medical health and that's when it hit Xavier that Plagg was very much real and dangerous.

It didn't matter for now, soon he'd be on the flight to Bermuda to present his evidence to his friend Chaos Storm, a man who had been running a popular conspiracy theory radio series for nearly 20 something years now.

And if he didn't make it, well he was sure the USB drive he mailed to him this morning would reach him eventually and Storm had promised to upload everything much like Wi-fi had.

If he didn't make it then he knew the truth would come out some day.

Xavier then ran a magnet over his PC, making sure it touched every inch of it, once he was done he then bolted up, grabbed his coat and hat and headed towards the front door.

As he walked into the small living area of his apartment that's when he noticed it, his front door was open and standing there was a very scared young man.

''Please … just hand over the hard drive and everything else your contact gave you.'' Adrien said slowly and softly as he closed the door behind him, trying his best to not make a sound.

''You think I'm stupid kid?'' Xavier snapped at him as he reached for his umbrella, the closest thing he had to a weapon.

''You're crazy if you think I'll do anything you tell me! Besides you're some kind of monster that eats people, why should I believe you?'' He asked as Adrien looked on disappointedly.

''You think I want to? I tried to convince him otherwise, that's why there had been so many animal killings at the zoo.'' Adrien began as he tried to keep calm.

''But then they bumped up security so he went back to people … I've tried to stop him, begged him but he won't listen.'' Adrien continued as he held his sides to calm himself.

''Humans and larger animals are the only thing that gives him enough sustenance, and let's be honest, do you see any farm lands in Paris? Any cows or horses? No, so he just eats what he wants and I can barely stop him half the time!'' He shouted at Xavier who stood his ground, unmoving.

''Hell, he only agreed to my request of only killing 'bad people' just the other day …'' Adrien commented using quotation fingers. ''If I offered him one more innocent.'' Adrien said as tears formed in his eyes, he tried his best to hold them back.

''The school teacher …'' Xavier mumbled as Adrien sighed loudly wipping away the tears.

''She overheard us talking ….'' Adrien whispered. ''I had no choice, well to be more precise he wouldn't give me a choice.''

''You should have killed yourself a long time ago kid! That poor woman and all those other people would still be alive!'' Xavier shouted at him again, hoping some of his neighbours might have heard.

Adrien closed his eyes and took a deep breath. ''You think I haven't tried? I've tried pills, gas and even a gun several times.'' He snarled back at him in anger as Plagg started to take over.

Xavier stared back in horror as the monstrous features of Plagg began to form right in front of him. The creature grinned at him, showing its fangs in a sinister, cruel looking smile.

''We always just spit the bullets out.'' Plagg said calmly, opening his jaw wide as his long slimy tongue began to slowly slide out as he then began to slowly approach Xavier.

Outside, several pigeons were perched outside the windows, all that could be heard were screams of horror and then a loud SPLAT sound against the window, covering it completely in red blood, the sound of thunder so loud it drained out Xavier's screams to anyone nearby.

An hour passed, Adrien sat kneeling on the floor, every inch of him covered in blood, what was left of Xavier Ramier splattered in pieces around the room as he cried.

''Please God …. Let me die ….''