Chapter 3
Pov: the seasons location: hidden meeting room outside of reality.
"I believe we should materialize and help them learn how to control their abilities." said summer as she continued pacing.
"And leave ourselves vulnerable? That doesn't seem like the best idea, Summer. We just need to try again." said Autumn from her seat at a four sided table.
"Hey, it could be fun to be in the human realm physically for a while" said spring as he tipped in his chair.
"This isn't about fun, Spring. We have four teens with no guidance, walking around with no ability to control the powers we gave to them." Said Summer as her temper began to flare again.
"Calm down people let's think about this logically" said Winter from his chair.
"We have done things 'logically' for far too long and it's gotten us nowhere. It's not working. We need to try something new." snapped Summer as she punched the table.
"That's what I mean. Logically, we need to try something new since this hasn't been working. Let's try materializing." Said Winter with a rare eureka smile.
"What if we're captured? What form would we even take?" asked Autumn.
"We could try becoming like the little kwami's. We could blend in among the other heroes so hawk moth and miracula don't know we have materialized and we can help keep the powers under control for them." responded Winter.
"What should our items be?" asked Spring as he let his chair fall onto all fours in one of his rare serious moments.
"Necklaces seem to be in fashion for both genders in this time." said Summer, getting nods of confirmation from her fellow seasons.
"Well, the sooner we start their training, the better. Let's go!" said Autumn as she transformed into a burnt-orange colored kwami with leaves randomly splattered on it, as well as having amber eyes, followed by summer turning into a yellow Kwami with a bright yellow sun on her stomach. Spring turned into a light green kwami with yellow, red and blue flowers while Winter changed into a kwami with large checkerboard squares of black and white covering him, two different color eyes and a large snowflake covering his stomach.
Soon enough they all parted and went to find their chosen people. Finding them wasn't hard for most of them. Spring hit a wall a few times and summer nearly incinerated a bird that tried to fly a bit to close to them, but they found there new wielders and began the process of linking their new forms to an item.
Summer choose a necklace alya already had in the shape of the sun that she recently got from her grandmother. Autumn decided on a gold chained necklace with a large teardrop shaped red-orange gem and a golden outline. Winter created a new one from a snowflake shaped pendant with small blue and white gems. Spring picked a simple flower design necklace with five small petals and a yellow stone in the center as his new miraculous.
Now that they had their miraculous, everything seemed to fall into place.
Meanwhile in paris
"Back at it again I see" said the black cat of Paris as he examined the new psychotic villains he needed to face. "Man, Hawkmoth just doesn't know when to quit does he?" taunted Chat noir as he sized up his opponent.
"I, the illuminator, will destroy you and this god forsaken city." He screamed before launching another beam of condensed light at Chat who dogged to the left.
"Missed!" shouted chat before looking at the spot that got hit. There was a gaping hole through the building. "Please hurry ladybug" he thought as he prepared for the next beam of light to be hurled towards him. However, as he was about to jump he noticed a yellow flash and then found himself under a new superhero. "Be a bit more careful next time" said the women clad in a yellow suite with a golden glittering mask.
POV:Alya 5 minutes prior to the attack
"... see you when you get here," I said to Alex as we ended our video call. Apparently they are already on the plane and in route. "alright… I finally have a saturday all to myself." I said to myself as I got a snack and settled into my favorite part of the couch, turning on the television. I began to binge watch another season of my favorite show, but as fate would have it an emergency broadcast was announcing that the city was under attack again, yet Ladybug was nowhere to be seen. Chat noir was struggling to fight back against a new villain who was wearing a suit of mirrors,shooting destructive beams of light in every direction.
With a quick pause I questioned what to do. Summer told her she would soon need to help Paris' guardians defend the city from the villains who began plaguing the city about a year ago. But, what if I get hurt or get chat hurt? What if I can't do? The flood of self doubt ran through my head as I watched the broadcast.
"No, you can't think like that," I whispered to myself as I rushed myself off the sofa, grabbing my grandmother's necklace for good luck.
When I put on the necklace it began to glow, becoming brighter and brighter until it started to burn the skin under the jewlery. Soon, a little floating yellow bug with a star flew out. "Well, you ready for this?" said the little bug as she flew around a few times. Noticing the look of shock on my face, the bugs face turned serious. "Alya, no time to explain. I'm summer but in a different form, a kwami. Now let's go save Paris," said the little floating being. "Oh and don't worry, I'm gonna teach you how to fight." said the little Kwami, winking back at me.
Before I could speak, the little kwami began pulling me towards the door. "Say my ancient name, Sol, when you want me to activate a 'superhero' form around you and head towards the fight. When you get there call for your weapon by reaching your hand into the air. It should appear then, good luck" said summer in her usual kind but aggressive manner of speaking.
"uh...Sol?" I said a bit skeptically. It's not everyday a magical floating bug tells you something like this while also claiming to be a magical voice in your head. However, I began to transform into a golden close fitting suite with a sun pendant in the middle over my chests and a golden glittering face mask.
And then I ran towards the giant beam of light pulsing in the sky.
Back to the fight
"Well ,Look what the chat dragged in, seems we have a new hero in town, I don't believe we've met, I'm chat noir" he said cheekily before taking my hand and yanking me out of the way of another blast and into a dip. "Though I haven't gotten your name yet"
"Summer" alya said before pulling chat out of the way of another blast and onto the ground with her in a slightly suggestive position "maybe we should deal with him before we socialize" I shot back as he tried to comment again. A yo-yo soon wrapped its way around them before yanking us up onto a ledge as yet another shot by the illuminator flew just below our feet.
"Don't you two seem chummy" said a clearly annoyed Ladybug as she stood above us. she almost seemed to be glaring at me.
"Are you sure this isn't a new 'Vulpina' situation chat" she asked while still glaring suspiciously at me.
"Well, i don't think hawkmoth can control multiple villains at once, and judging by that wall over there he definitely is not an illusion, besides, if we are super powered heroes then who is to say there aren't more " he said without a pun surprisingly "besides, another hero in town is purrfect to help us deal with all of hawkmoths villains." He continued.
"can we deal with this after we stop him from destroying paris" I cut in. Whatever problem she has with me can wait till after we save paris.
"fine" said ladybug indignantly as she jumped down to assault the villain who seemed to be debating something in his head with himself before falling to the ground and clutching his head. He seemed to writhe with pain before the flashlight he held shattered and the akuma inside crumpled into dust.
"What just happened" I asked jumping down to investigate, everything looks fine, the guy even seemed to remember where he was, but from all the fights i've seen on tv against Akuma's, never has this happened, no Villain has just stopped fighting and no butterfly has just wilted like that.
Meanwhile with hawkmoth
"why do you resist this tantalizing power, Chloe wronged you (As she does with nearly everyone in paris), this is your chance at revenge" hawkmoth said to his minion through their link..
"Because, you can't offer him the power that I can " said a more sinister voice from across the link to the akuma. "ah, you must be the one the prophecy spoke about, miracula" said hawk moth with a smile, "big words for a supposed god who couldn't defeat two seasons."
"I was tricked by two of the most powerful beings in the world, you can't defeat two guardians wielding a fraction of their power." retorted the voice with a hint of rage as well as bitterness.
"Miracula, great season of the rains and the harvest, bringer of storms and wielder of lightning, how low you must have fallen to try and deter my inevitable victory over ladybug and chat noir, the book of Miraculous describes you as weak and pitiful now, defeating your hold over this pawn will be easier than these meddling children." said hawkmoth as he tried to wrestle control of his minion back.
"Oh how delightful, you think you can win against me" said the voice before the akuma inside the Illuminator broke free of the flashlight and proceeded to crumble into dust while the villain reverted to his normal self. Hawkmoth's staff then began to glow a bright purple before the orb began to open revealing a black pendant on a simple gold chain that seemed to be centuries old and resinated of dark energy.
Miracula's pendant featured a circle with four points jutting out like a star. Unlike the center which was a Purple-Black obsidian color, the tips of the four sided star seemed to be missing four small stones. "If you want to defeat ladybug and chat noir, wear my pendant and retrieve for me a little power from each of the four seasons. I offer you my power as well so you may complete my task."
"And what do you get from having me do this" said hawkmoth with the fluidity and intuitiveness of a businessman.
"the satisfaction of seeing all they have helped forge crumble" said miracula while the pendant glowed a soft purple with every word. "do we have a deal"
"I accept" said hawkmoth.
"good… good… your first task is to retrieve The Spirit that holds dominion over Spring…"
In paris: POV:Marionette
"well, I guess that problem solved itself" half joked summer. Personally I don't trust her. This situation is way to similar to volpina. Then there is also the fact that an akuma just sorta died in front of us, which has never happened before. Everything just seems so weird. I thought.
"Are you okay" asked a chat noir who suddenly was way too close to my face causing me to jump and accidently hit him in the nose eliciting a loud "Ow".
"Why would you get that close to my face" I said now blushing furiously. Summer just started laughing and walking towards a now sulking chat.
"You just started staring off into space, i was just wondering if you were ok" he said while rubbing his nose.
"you guys are just like my friends Ma… I mean two friends of mine." she said with a large cough in the middle of her sentence.
"well, I need to get back to my Home" I said as I quickly yoyoed away. I need to find out what she is up to before I can trust her. How will I be able to prove if she is who she says she is. I could just tail hee for a while, but if she is a hero I shouldn't know her identity, I guess I could ask to see her miraculous and ask Fu about it to see if he knows anything.
End chapter
~so you know that moment when you realize there are AP tests coming up and you need to study and do hw so you have literally no time… well i had that happen and then forgot to keep working on this after that until my editor reminded me :$ i will try to update twice this month to make up for a little bit of lost time. Sorry to all of my readers… ;-;