Chapter 2

Chat Noir had broken down when word spread of Ladybug's death. Adrien Agreste was inconsolable when the body was recovered. She'd been so close to him. She'd been the daughter of the bakers whose shop he loved to visit. They'd had conversations in that shop. The atmosphere reminded him of his home before his mother died. She reminded him of those times.

Ladybug had always been the one that kept Chat Noir grounded while Marinette Dupain-Cheng had been the one that made Adrien happy. Now there was nobody to keep Chat Noir from being wild and nobody to help Adrien smile.

The prince had been forbidden to leave the palace. There was still a war going on and sending the prince out further than the palace was a risk, especially after loosing one of the two most powerful knights in the kingdom. Adrien remained in his room until he heard that Chat Noir would be attending the funeral to honor his fallen comrade.

It was almost time. "Plagg," the small spirit appeared in front of him with a sympathetic look. Adrien didn't bother to look at him as he spoke the words to change into his alter ego. The black armor that was Cat Noir's appeared on his body. His hair began to become wilder, one of the other reasons Chat Noir was well known. No other knight had messy hair like him. Ladybug once told him that her first thoughts on him had been slightly negative because of that. She had thought that he wouldn't pull his weight or that he was some kind of rouge. Some days when there was nothing to do but they had to stand guard, they'd spend time trying to smooth Chat's hair down.

At least try to make it look neat. Ladybug would jokingly scold him whoever they met up.

It looked like today it was going to listen. His hair began to flatten and didn't return to its original look. Once he was sure it would stay that way, he headed out. Master Fu would create a believable reason as to why Prince Adrien was hard to find.

Her earrings were gone.

The earrings that held Ladybug's power were gone. Chat felt rage. Red was bleeding into his vision, but he held back. It wouldn't do any good for this kingdom to lose two knights and a prince. He wanted to scream. He wanted to go and find whoever had done this to his lady and make them pay. But he stood there. He stood there and watched the blue haired girl laying in her coffin.

She'd been cleaned up. Her usual clothing was replaced with a dress that reminded everyone who she was. A red and black spotted off the shoulder dress with a loose sash that fanned out underneath her. Only Chat knew, but small bits of armor had been incorporated into the funeral dress. It gave her a beautiful appearance while subtly hinting at her power. Considering how Marinette always designed her clothes, Chat had a theory that she was the one who came up with this outfit. He wouldn't know if that was true or not. Marinette couldn't tell him.

Someone began to speak about the honorable Ladybug and her noble sacrifice. Chat tuned them out and thought about his own time with his lady.

Master Fu convinced his father to let Chat Noir go out onto the battlefield and fight. He had said something about Miraculous defeating Miraculous, but Adrien had been to focused on finally being allowed to fight. He could avenge his lady now.

He had set out with Carapace at his side. Rena Rouge and Queen Bee would be joining later. Cat defeated enemy after enemy searching for something.

He'd been told that he had to stay behind so the kingdom still had a powerful miraculous. When Ladybug had told him that, he was too worried about her. Now that he could think clearly, he understood. Cataclysm had been used multiple times. He actually forgot how much he had used it. He destroyed hiding spots, supplies, villages, the list went on.

Rena used her illusionary powers to make enemy soldiers in front of the group stop and look around confused. Then Chat and Queen Bee struck. The yellow knight's trompo knocked their enemies feet out from underneath them as Chat hit them with his staff. The group of knights went down and didn't get back up.

Slowly Chat approached a knight whose red armor looked very similar to another red knight's armor.

"Don't do anything dangerous, Chat." Carapace said. The green knight didn't move to stop him, but readied his shield in case.

Chat rolled his eyes. "Relax, Carapace." He bent down and looked at the knight's ears. There were red earrings. Chat took them off and stood up. "I got what we came for. We can go back now."

A/N: Sorry for the terrible ending, but yes, this was a two-shot. This ones about Chat after Ladybug goes off and dies in that battle. I didn't trust myself to write a good fight scene where Ladybug dies, so I hope Chat getting her earrings back is good enough for you.

Anyway, thank you for reading! Please leave a review on your way out, I love to read them!

~Mirai