A/N: This was inspired (and I more or less borrowed most parts) by Miss Kimmy Heart on Youtube's "Tikki and Plagg's Past" Video. I honestly love, love, love her and her videos so much. If she is on FFN, I hope she enjoys what I've done.
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There once was a beautiful lady. Hair as red as a rose. Her skin the colour of fresh snow. She hailed from the East and was the epitome of protection and luck.
Wherever she travelled, she brought about a good harvest and freed people from harmful diseases among other miracles. Some said she was an angel sent down from heaven to rescue them. Her power was beyond anyone's imagination. It was truly wonderful.
It was in Egypt where she met him. One day, she was walking down the Nile when she met a man. They became aquainted and soon became friends and lovers. He won his lady's favour with antics, jokes and ridiculous cat puns. He always loved seeing her smile and hearing her laugh. It always brightened his day.
He was happy but he knew it wasn't meant to be. For wherever he went, he brought malice and misfortune. He caused droughts, famines, plagues, deaths and a number of other problems. It didn't happen willingly, he didn't want to do all those things but he felt like he was cursed.
All that changed when he met her. He was the counterpart to her good. They were a balance between light and dark, good and light and soon, all his suffering changed. He was no longer unlucky to those around him.
When it came time for her to move on and journey to other places, he insisted he travel with her. He didn't want his misery to come back.
They travelled the world together, bringing love, hope, luck and a multitude of good feelings. They were happy. Their adventures were numerous. Their friends were precious. Their love was endless.
However . . .
Her lifespan was different to the man she met in Egypt. Shorter. It soon came to the day where her time ran out. He held her, pleaded with her, begged, sobbed but nothing he did could change the fact that soon she would pass. She would no longer be by his side.
On her death bed, she spoke to him in her sweet yet melancholy voice.
"As long as there is bad fortune, there is good fortune. It is a balance that can be never destroyed. Don't fade before you have time to explore and live."
With those parting words she succumbed to the beyond. Her last breath came out, barely a whisper. She was gone. His tears would never stop.
For as long as a ladybug has one life that is short, a cat has 9 long lives to live.
Life One:
He buried the one he loved most. The one who completed him and showed him compassion.
Life Two:
He watched over the world as day by day passed. As if it had not been changed for all of eternity because his lady's death. He sure had.
Life Three:
He watched as the world began to expand and grow. New technology. New countries. New beginnings but he would never forget her.
Life's Four, Five, Six and Seven:
He isolated himself in a cave of darkness much like his own heart. He let his light fade out too soon despite the words of his lady. He ignored the people outside as they fought. His misfortune had returned long ago and there was nothing he could do to stop it.
Life Eight:
He had finally come out of his cave to travel one last time. To treasure and honour the memory of his lady. His last stop.
At long last, he returned to her homeland where he gave something precious to an old friend. A ring with a symbol of a cat and earings with a symbol of a ladybug. They held the power of his lady and him so that whoever was worthy enough to use it, may fight for good.
Life Nine:
The last of his lives. He did not spend too much time contemplating this one. He soon succumbed to the silence of his ninth life much like his lady before him.
Her good fortune, was being able to leave him behind peacefully, awaiting the day where he soon followed.
His misfortune, was spending more than one lifetime without her, longing for the day where he could join her.
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But they could not be parted forever. They made their way back to each other and they would continue doing so for 1000 more lifetimes. Love is stronger than any kind of luck.
Miraculous!