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Italics: Benjamin's side of the story
Normal: Felicity's side of the story
Benjamin Russo (the son of a very wealthy lawyer) wasn't surprised when he found himself on a district line train that went to Wimbledon at the end of the morning rush hour. He was used to it. The 15-year-old boy was on his way to school. His father was at another meeting and his step mum didn't leave her desk for things like taking Ben school. He got off the train at Cannon Street and then he would have to walk a short distance to the school. Ben went to Maple Park School. When Ben walked out of the train station, he met his friend Joe.
Ben had big brown eyes, short brown hair with three spikes on the top and tanned skin. He's dressed in his school uniform which consisted of black school trousers, a white long sleeve shirt, navy blue jumper and a navy blue blazer with the school logo on it. He also had black ankle socks and a pair of black loafers.
"Hey, Ben" Joe greeted his friend.
"Hey, Joe. How was your summer?" Ben asked.
"It wasn't too bad. I went to Spain for two weeks" Joe said. "What about you?"
"That sounds nice," Ben told him. "The usual visit to Italy, nothing exciting."
"Well, I've heard something interesting that might brighten your morning. There's going to be a new girl in our class" Joe said. "Mia said that she just moved back from Paris"
"Sounds interesting," Ben said. Benjamin remembered that his parents went to Paris for the honeymoon. A year later his parents divorced and Benjamin's father re-married. The lady that his Dad choose was a well-known journalist and she had two children who became Benjamins' older step-siblings. They are called Flavio and Luke. Turns out Serena was Carlo's high school crush but they separated when Carlos Parents moved to England. Serena didn't really care about Benjamin and would often leave him out. She spoiled Flavio and Luke. The only time that Ben felt free was when he's with his school friends.
He wasn't really focusing. His mind wandered somewhere else.
Ben noticed a man who appeared to be struggling to get up, his walking aid had fallen on its side. Most of the people walked past ignoring him but Ben couldn't to that. He walked over and placed the walking aid into the man's hand.
"Here you go sir," Ben said.
"Thank you," The man said.
"Have a nice day" Ben replied as he hurried along the road and into the school gates as the warning bell rang.
The elderly man watched as Benjamin ran off to school. He then looked at a red box in his hand and smiled before walking away.
When Ben walked into the classroom, he looked around trying to find out who the new student is but he couldn't find anyone that he didn't recognize.
A few seconds later the door opened and a girl that Ben had never seen before walked in. She had shoulder length blonde hair and aqua blue eyes.
"Ok, 11G, we have a new student joining us today. Would you like to introduce yourself?" Mr Long asked.
"Hi, I'm Felicity. I moved back to London a few weeks ago after spending a year in Paris. I hope that I will make some friends here" Felicity said.
A couple of hands went up including Lucy, who sat next to Ben.
"Mia told me about you. Is it true that you've met real-life superheroes?" Lucy asked.
"Yeah, I have Ladybug, Chat Noir and Wolfette" Felicity replied.
"Ok, class I know this is exciting but we need to get started. I'm sure that Felicity will answer your questions during your free time" Mr Long said.
Turns out that Ben had English and Drama with Felicity. On the way to Drama class, Ben walked along the path until he felt something knock into him.
"I'm so sorry," The person said. Ben looked up and Felicity stood in front of him.
"That's ok. You must be Felicity" Ben said.
"Yeah, that's me" Felicity replied as she picked her papers up.
"I'm Benjamin but people call me Ben," Ben said. "What class do you have next?"
"Drama with Mrs Jenson" Felicity replied.
"I have that class as well," Ben said "Maybe we could walk there together "
"Sure," Felicity told him.
In the darkroom that's located in an unknown place in London, Firefly is busy planning his first move.
"Now that's a good starting point. Who said that girls can't be pirates when I can make it come true" Firefly said as he sent out one of the many fireflies that surrounded him. "I wonder how long it takes for the superheroes to come out and play"
The unknown girl was in the playground.
"I'm going to show those boys that girls can play pirates as well," The girl said as the firefly found it's way over to her a landed on the paper pirate hat she made. The girl felt a strange feeling of comfort and a voice talking to her
"Of course you can be a pirate if you want to be. Captain Peper, I'm Firefly and I can make your dream a reality," Firefly said.
The girl didn't say anything, she just nodded as red mist clouded over her body.
At School, Benjamin had just finished eating lunch with his friends James and Joe. He saw Felicity sitting with Mia Smith and wondered what it would be like getting to know Felicity.
"Why do you keep looking at the new girl?" James asked. "Don't tell me that you have a crush on a girl you've just met"
"Girl, what girl. Who said I had a crush?" Ben said getting embarrassed.
"It's ok. You don't have to get like that with us. Just be glad that it's your friends and not your parents that found out" Joe told him.
Ben sighed knowing that Joe's right.
"I guess your right" Ben replied as a loud banging sound caused the inside of the school to shake.
"What's going on?" Ben asked.
"I'm not sure but I'm not staying to find out," James said.
Ben found himself following him. The streets outside are filled with people and amongst them was a young girl dressed in what appeared to be a pirate costume. Ben found this strange and wondered what she was doing until the girl pulled out a wooden sword that reminded him of Captin Hook from Peter Pan. The girl had a pair of black ripped edged sorts, a red and white striped shirt and a black hat with a skull and cross bone symbol in the middle.
Ben didn't hang around for much longer, he walked the other way and went home.
Once he was inside the house, Ben turned the TV on and turned to the local news channel.
"Breaking News: The City of London is under attack by a supervillain. People are being asked to stay off the streets. We will keep you updated as the story unfolds"
"Supervillain?" Ben wondered to himself as his door opened. It was his step-brother Luke.
"Someone left this on the doorstep. I think it's for you" Luke told him as he placed a brown paper bag on the table and then walked out. "Oh, Dad said to stay in your room until tea time. The schools have been shut"
"Ok," Ben said as the door closed.
Inside the paper bag was a box with some strange symbols on it. Ben decided to open the box and when he did, he jumped back and dropped it. A warm brown colour light shot out almost blinding Ben. When the light disappeared Ben looked up.
"A genie. Do I get three wishes?" Ben asked as he looked at the strange being hovering above the box and a gold owl shaped pin. The creature was mostly brown with a large head, small body, golden eyes and V-shaped markings on the top of its forehead. It also had feathered wings and looked like an owl.
"I'm afraid not. My name is Oona I'm your Kwami" Oona said.
"Kwami?" Ben asked.
"Kwami are magical creatures that give superpowers to their owners via a Miraculous. The pin in the box is my Miraculous, you've been chosen to use it" Oona told Ben.
"Superpowers? Luke must be playing a prank on me" Ben said.
"This Luke person can never find out about me. No one can" Oona said.
"Ok. What do I do?" Ben said. Ben felt scared but something told him that he could trust the Kwami that now sat on the table in front of him. Oona explained everything that he needed to know.
"I think I understand. How do I transform?" Ben asked.
"All you have to say is Oona, let's fly..." Oona was about to say something else but Ben said the magic words and the Owl Kwami got sucked into her Miraculous.
Ben didn't know what was happening. It felt strange and magical. He looked in the mirror and noticed that he was no longer in his Maple Park School uniform. In its place was a brown skin tight bodysuit, a pair of owl-like wings, dark brown boots. He also had a light brown domino-style mask with an owl-like nose in the middle. Ben also noticed that he had a bow and a set of arrows.
"How do I get out of this?" Ben wondered as he looked around his room, trying to find Oona but realizes that she must be the one responsible for the outfit. The new channel played in the background.
"We now go live to the scene where my assistant Jenny is, Jenny can you tell us what's going on?"
"I've never seen anything like this in my life," Jenny said "The person is calling her self Captian Pepper, so far she doesn't seem to be causing any harm but the police and our trained forces are unable to reason with her or find a way to stop her" On the screen, Ben could see Mia with a phone in her hand filling the whole thing.
"Thank you, Jenny"
"Oh, Mia. Your going to get yourself hurt" Ben thought to himself. It was then that he was filled with a feeling of courage. He had the ability to save her and the innocent people of London. He walked to his fire escape window and opened it.
"Come on Ben, you can do this" Ben said to himself as he jumped off the roof, his wings allowing him to fly. Ben was starting to get the hang of things until he felt himself brush into something. It was a girl, dressed in a grey outfit. Ben wrapped his arms around her and stopped her from falling.
"Thank you," The girl said. "I'm guessing you're the partner my Kwami mentioned"
"That's me," Ben said.
"I'm Wolfette" The girl introduced herself. Ben suddenly realized that he hadn't thought of a name for himself.
"I guess you can call me Tawny Owl, yeah that sounds ok," Ben said as they headed towards the location of the villain.
They found the girl on the north bank of the river themes near the famous Parliment building.
Felicity wasn't sure what she was going to do about the girl. At first, the girl appeared to be harmless but as Felicity and her new partner in crime fighting Tawny Owl watched from the rooftops, they noticed that she was gaining more control over her powers and she had two cannons next to her.
"We need to figure out where the evil firefly is hiding. My Kwami said that I had to free it from the object and something about cleansing it" Felicity said.
"The hat," Tawny Owl said.
"Good eye," Felicity said as the climbed down from the rooftop and landed in the middle of a group of people, including two police officers.
"Put your hands in the air," The police officer said as the girl fired something from a cannon. Felicity jumped into action, blocking the police officer from harm by spinning her whip to create a shield.
"Ok, little pirate. You've had enough fun. It's time to stop this" Felicity said.
"My name is Captian Pepper and I'm going to prove that girls can be Pirates as well"
"How are we going to get the hat?" Tawny Owl asked.
"We need a distraction," Felicity said.
"Master Firefly wants your Miraculous. If you hand them over now then he will leave the city alone" Captian Pepper said.
"Not an option," Felicity said.
It was then that she felt something strange. Voices whispered to her, giving her hints on how to free the dark firefly. She didn't remember this happening in Paris when she battled Hawkmoth's Akuma's.
"Tawny Owl, use your power. Trust me on this one" Felicity said.
Benjamin wished that he had stopped himself from saying the magic words out loud before Oona had a chance to tell him the rest but here he was in the middle of a battle with a supervillain. His partner Wolfette seemed to have more experience than he did, Ben wanted to ask how she knew so much but he figured that it wasn't the right time to ask. Ben knew that he needed to trust and use his own initiative. He said the two words that came to him while realising an arrow. The arrow spilt and then disappeared leaving several identical clones in front of him.
"What? Where did they come from" Captian Pepper asked as she looked around? While the girl looked around her Felicity took the opportunity to take her hat. Instead of the Akuma coming out of the hat when she ripped it, she found a glowing gem. She smashed it with her foot, freeing the firefly.
"Time to free you from evil," Felicity said. As she said this her whip glowed and she touched the firefly turning it to dust. Then as if by magic everything around them changed back to the way it was before.
"Wow, that was unexpected," Tawny Owl said.
"What happened? Where am I?" The girl asked.
"Are you ok?" Tawny Owl asked.
"I think so?" The girl said. "I'm Leah by the way"
Felicity noticed that reporters from the local news channel were on the way over. She figured that they should at least introduce themselves. It would have to be quick tho as Felicity knew that she had to get back to her homework.
"Can we ask some questions?" One of the reporters said.
"Sure," Felicity said.
"Are you going to be protecting the city? What shall we call you and whos Firefly?" The news reporter asked.
"I'm Wolfette and this is my superhero partner Tawny Owl," Felicity said. "Firefly is like us but he chose to use his powers for evil but as long as the two of us are here we will do whatever it takes to protect the people of this city," Felicity said.
"Thank you, Wolfette and Tawny Owl," The reporter said. "Back to the studio"
"Tawny, you should go. I will take care of the girl. You only have a few minutes left after using your power till your change back. Our identities must remain a secret from the press and each other" Felicity said.
"Wait, cand we talk about this?" Tawny Owl asked.
"Sure but not right now. Let's meet at 9 pm tonight near the Whitechapel Gallery" Felicity said.
"See you later, Wolfette" Tawny said as he left the scene.
"Don't' worry about the young lady here. We will take care of her until her parents come" The police offer said.
Felicity took one last look at the group of people before she extended her whip and pulled herself up onto a nearby rooftop.