Chapter two: New Fox holder.

Disclaimer: I don't own Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir I only own the idea's I use. This chapter will have a mentioning of an akumatized person I will not go in detail of the attack, but I will try to be detailed in the fights with Marinette when she is in them. Thanks to Silverbell2002 for their help.

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Thought

Marinette pov
Waking up, I got up and stretch as a yawn escaped. I rub the sleep from my eyes; catching glimpses of last night's dream as it fades away. It was a minute or so before I noticed a strange black box on my desk. I was slightly confused and trying to remember putting it there or even having it yesterday. Curious, I got out of bed and went to the desk, picking up the box and opening it to reveal a fox-tail shaped pendant. A tiny fox came out of the necklace in a swirl of light, surprising me as I jumped back.

The tiny fox yawned and with a groggy voice asked, "Morning Kit, how did you sleep?"

"Who- no -what are you?"

"I'm Trixx and I'm a kwami; more specifically, your Kwami."

"What's a kwami?" I asked, watching as Trixx settled down on my shoulder.

"Kwami are sprite-like, abstract creatures that help grant their holder power," I nodded my head and asked; "Kind of like in Chinese culture?"

Trixx nodded her head, "My last holder chose you to use the Fox Miraculous to protect Paris with Ladybug and Chat Noir."

"You been in Pairs for a while now if you know them."

Trixx nodded again and floated near my face, "Will you be my Miraculous holder?"

"I need to think about it. Is that okay?" I answered: the idea of being chosen to protect Paris overwhelming.

As I got ready for the day a thought suddenly popped up, "Was the person I saw on the roofs yesterday - when I was on the boat - your holder? Before she gave the neckless to me?"

"Yeah, she thought it would be best if I have a younger host to help Ladybug and Chat Noir." Trixx's gaze went to the Miraculous and stayed there for a while. I looked at her, worried, and said, "Sorry if I made you upset." Trixx looked up at me and smiled, "No worries, I'm fine; it's just rare for me to find a holder with good attention on their mind. The fox powers are mostly illusions that help with crime if the holder decides to, but sometimes it doesn't work out that way."

My eyes dropped a little, "Sorry to hear that." Trixx landed on my head and gave me a small pat, "It's okay, it's not your fault."

I nodded my head and looked at my clock. It was getting late and I finished getting ready for school. I put on the Miraculous and Trixx went inside my purse. I went downstairs, grabbed some baked goods and quickly ate. I left the house and started running to school.

When we were close to the school, I slowed down and asked Trixx in a low voice, "What do you eat by the way?" Trixx whispered back, "I like to eat croissants, it's lucky that your parents run a bakery."

I smiled at Trixx but looked up as I got to the school entrance. I ran into Alya who immediately bombarded me with questions, "Are you ok girl, did he hurt you? Did he do anything shady?" I shook my head as I said, "No he didn't Alya, the Akumatized person was very nice to me."

Alya gave me a curt nod but said in a scolding voice, "Don't ever do that again, you don't know how worried I was."

I rubbed the back of my head, and then it came to me, "How did you know about what I was doing?" Alya told me what happened after I and Sabrina left the library and went home. I was happy Sabrina cares for me.

"Hey Marinette, where did you get that necklace from?" Not sure if I could tell Alya the truth, I thought up something quick and said, "My aunt sent it - to me as a - late birthday present." Alya shrugged and we went inside.

We went to class and after attendance, the teacher started calling for any volunteers to present their projects. I decided to volunteer my group to go first. After roughly 5 minutes we finished and I have to admit that even though she is mean and selfish, Chloe was very good at presenting. I even complimented her on it. So - Chloe being Chloe - had to disturb the silence. After a few presentations had gone by Chloe just had to make a mean comment to Max about the pin he was wearing for his presentation. As he ran out of the room, I had a bad feeling and a few minutes later, an Akuma was terrorizing the school.

Everyone began evacuating out of the school as quickly as possible without trampling one another. I was running alongside to Alya who was upset because she had forgotten her phone at home and couldn't film anything for the Ladyblog. As we passed the gates, Chat Noir and Ladybug came from above, jumping into the chaos to defeat the Akumatized Max. I felt Trixx shifting in my purse and looked down to see her peeking through a small slit at the top. When her purple eye met my blue ones, I looked away.

A few moments after the fighting started, we saw Ladybug's black and red blur of restoring ladybugs zoom over the school. Some shouted 'thank you' to the heroes as they left and headed back inside the now Akuma free school. Alya and I went back to the classroom to find everyone in our class giving Chloe the cold shoulder. Even Sabrina was ignoring Chloe's pitiful demands.

On the way home after school, I saw Nathaniel sitting on a bench drawing in his sketchbook. I walked up to him and tried to start a conversation, "Hey Nathaniel, your presentation was amazing."

He seemed a bit startled and looked up, "Thanks Marinette, yours too." I smiled when he asked, "Why are you talking to me, anyway?"

"Why wouldn't I talk to you?"

"I basically forced you to go to my birthday party yesterday." He let out an uneasy laugh, making a few lines over the blank paper in front of him.

I sat down and hugged him as I said, "Don't worry about it, you didn't harm me. Why don't you come to my family's bakery during the weekend and I can give you the present that I didn't give you yet."

He pulled back and looked at me a bit shocked but had a big grin as he nodded his head. I got up, said goodbye to Nathaniel and continued the walk home. Coming from the side door of the bakery, I went to my room but not before getting a croissant for Trixx.

I opened my purse and Trixx flew out, snatching the croissant out of my hand. "You wanted to help, didn't you?" I asked as Trixx bit into the fluffy pastry.

"Well - it's your choice if you want to do this - but I will be lying if I said no." I nodded my head, understanding the Kwami's honesty. "So, besides illusions, what powers would I have if I decided to use the miraculous?"

Trixx answered after a few bites in her croissant, "Let's start off with the basics; you have a flute for a weapon to help you conjure your illusions and retractable claws for you to be able to climb and fight. Your eyesight also becomes animal sharp - that will help you see in the dark - as well as spirts..."

"Hold up, spirits?" Everything the Kwami said so far made some sort of sense, but this was completely out of nowhere.

Trixx simply gave a sharp nod and continued, "Your most powerful skill is called 'Requiem'. It calls in 7 sprites to help distract your opponent better than your illusions: but after you use it you have 5 minutes before you de-transform."

"And... this is where seeing spirits come to play; you may have to help guide lost souls to the afterlife or those that have become too "rowdy" to stay here. Sometimes they have unfinished business. No matter which side they were on - good or bad - all my previous hosts have kept the balance between life and the afterlife. To transform you say, 'Claws Barred'."

I nodded and curiously asked, "Can I transform at least once? Without, you know, committing?" Trixx nodded her head and finished off her croissant as I said, "Trixx, Claws Barred."

Trixx flew into the neckless and a light shone as I transformed. After the light died down, I looked at my reflection in the full-length mirror to see myself in what looked like an orange jumpsuit with white coming down the middle with my neckless hovering over it. I looked at my hands but only saw smooth gloves, 'What about the claws?'

As the thought crossed my mind the claws appeared, followed by a tail on my back with the same orange as the rest of the suit and had 5 white stripes on it. Short heels replaced my reliable flats and an orange mask covered my face with foxy ears on my head. My hair was now in one ponytail instead of my pigtails. Holding out my hand, a flute formed from blue flames cool to the touch.

Struggling for a moment, I finally de-transformed and Trixx flew out of the neckless. Questions began nagging my brain before I asked Trixx, "Why do I have retractable claws?"

"Hmm? Oh, there's two answers to that question. First of all, foxes have retractable claws. Also, so that if you are spotted and the enemy attacks, and you can't get away, you can fight back until an ally comes to help or to buy time to use Requiem."

"Okay, but why do I need to move spirits to the afterlife? What happens if the spirits don't move on?"

"Let's just say, you don't want to know - and hope you don't have to find out why."

I nodded and for the rest of the evening, I kept to my usual routine and went to bed at around 9, laying under the covers for a while before falling asleep with Trixx next to me on my pillow.

Outside POV
At an old, China-themed, home medicine office, a turtle Kwami sat up as he felt Marinette transform and turned to the old man with him, "Trixx's miraculous was just activated."

TBC.