AU: Just forgot to mention, this fanfic is inspired by the fanfic Nine Lives, by P_Artsypants, on Ao3
Also, feel free to leave a comment, they make my day :)
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Nothing wrong would happen.
Nothing wrong except an Akuma attack.
Even Tikki's luck could not stop that from happening.
Great. It had to be on their first day... what the did Hawk Moth have against first days of school?
Taking advantage of the confusion, Brigette and Felix hide in a closet to transform.
"Tikki, spots on!"
"Plagg, claws out!"
Pink and green light wash over their bodies, replacing their normal clothes with their skintight suits. Chat Noir uses his enhanced hearing to make sure there is nobody on the other side of the closet door and they storm out into the corridor, heading towards the akuma.
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Swinging across the city, Ladybug is still in grief. Her suit is a proof of it. After her parents died, her suit became mostly black, with only her torso being her signature red with black polka-dots.
Chat Noir didn't really change, tough. His black dyed hair go back to blond when he transforms and his piercings disappear. Which is good because it would be hard to explain why he suddenly had black hair to the public.
Ladybug was enjoying the feeling of being able to travel around and fight akumas without fearing for her life. Last night, the man that murdered her parents and wanted to kill her was finally found and arrested.
They ares heading towards the Eiffel Tower (why is it always the Eiffel Tower?) where the akuma was creating her army. Today's akuma is a extremely tall and slim woman draped in a black glittery opera dress. She is surrounded by long pieces of black fabric floating around her and moving like snakes. She seems to be able to wrap the fabric around her victims and suck all the happiness and light out of them until they became solid shadow humanoids. Every time she created a new shadow, her pure white skin would become more and more luminous.
"I am Blackout! If I can't be happy, then no one can!"
The two heroes settle on a nearby roof and observe as the shadow soldiers got into formation.
"Well this woman must have a dark past no one knows about."
"Maybe we can use that to our advantage." She says, ignoring the pun.
"Have you noticed how she spared that guy?" He points towards a man who is crying on a bench.
"Yeah. It looks like she doesn't attack the people who are already upset."
"We should keep that in mind."
"Agreed."
She observes the akuma attentively.
"Okay. Let's go for round one. We approach the akuma, learn everything we can about him and come back here when it becomes to much to handle."
"Right after you, M'Lady!"
They jump down and walk towards the akuma.
"Hey Shadow Thingy! What's with all the terrorizing? Whatever it is, no need to throw any shade."
"Look who the cat dragged in." Blackout smirks and Chat pouts.
"Hey! No fair! That's supposed to be my line!" He jumps on the side just in time to dodge a stripe of fabric. "Missed me!"
Ladybug uses he yo-yo as a shield, cutting the fabric coming her way.
Blackout raises her arms. "Shadows, attack!"
"Looks like we're in for some shady business!"
The army of shadows runs towards them. Ladybug panics when she realizes that while the shadows can hurt them, her hits just go through their bodies.
"We've got to retreat!" She screams at her partner.
They turn around to run but distracted by the shadows, they don't see the strips of fabric sneaking behind them that quickly wrap around their torso, pinning their arms to their sides and lifting them off the ground.
Ladybug feels the thrill that comes with the transformation quickly fade away.
"I have to do something!" Unable to throw her yo-yo, she makes it drop on the ground. "Lucky Charm!"
She blinks in surprise when the ladybugs that came out of her yo-yo form a picture of her family. She frowns and looks around, feeling the familiar tingle on her neck that comes with her lucky charm when she look over the glowing akuma, the strips of fabric holding them captive, Chat Noir and the picture.
"Of course! She can't bare sadness and darkness! Chat Noir! Think about things that make angry and sad! Think negative!"
She does it too, thinking about her parents' death, the pain that came with it, the constant fear because her life was threatened, every single hurtful comment or lie Chloe and Lila said, and every other thing that made her upset during her life as far as she can remember. She does it even if it feels like getting stabbed dozens of times in the heart. Soon, tears start to stream down her cheeks as she whimpers in pain.
Ladybug looks over to her partner to see he's in the same state as she is.
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"Chat Noir! Think about things that make you angry and sad! Think negative!"
Trusting his lady he brings back every sad or hurtful event that happened in his life.
His mother's disappearance. How his father stopped being a father after she was gone. All the forgotten family suppers and birthdays. Every time his father forbidden him to hang out with his friends. The lies. All the lies he was told all his life. The night he discovered his father was a criminal. And, every time Ladybug rejected him.
It hurts. A lot. The worse mental torture ever.
But then he feels the fabric loosening up. Looking at it, he notices it's now engulfed in small black bubbles, similar to his Cataclysm. Blackout starts to scream as the glow of her skin fades away and her white skin turns to inky black. She falls on her knees, unable to fight or control the fabric floating around her. Ladybug runs towards her and snatches her necklace before dropping it on the floor and crushing it with her heel.
A black butterfly comes out of it.
"Time to de-evilise!" She captures the akuma with her yo-yo. "I free you from evil!" She opens her yo-yo to release a pure white butterfly.
"Bye bye little butterfly!"
Ladybug sinks to the ground on her knees, buries her face in her hands and starts crying again. Chat Noir, who's not in much better shape, picks her up in his arms.
"Chat... both of us could be targets for an akuma. We have to go home to Master Fu."
He nods and uses his staff to get to the roof top and heads in the direction of the massage parlour.