After arriving at the mansion Adrien went straight to sleep... Or so he wished, as around one or two o clock in the morning he was awoken by his aura. Adrien turned on his aura vision to see what was going on, he sensed a dangerous aura and looked for his father to see where he was... The he realised the strange presence and Gabriel were the same! And he was walking somewhere. Adrien was very suspicious and followed Gabriel in an old yet secured room. He stealthfully stalked Gabriel like a cat upstairs to a hidden room he never even knew existed. The room was dark and had an evil feel to it suddenly Gabriel's voice rang out throughout the room,
"Nooroo, Transform Me!" Gabriel announced as his designer glasses fell to the floor in a heap and Gabriel became the man that Adrien openly despised, Hawkmoth. "Don't bother hiding Adrien, you are powerless without your miraculous and you were a fool to come in here my traitorous son." The man cloaked in darkness chuckled then he pointed his staff at Adrien, "any last words?" Hawkmoth asked,
Adrien was baffled he knew his past identity and that Hawkmoth was his father of all people. He's going be in for a big surprise, because I'm not going down easy, Adrien thought. "Well you see I'm not exactly powerless, even without the ring I have a power of a different sort Hawkmoth," Adrien said as he clipped his necklace together "battle stance Raven!" Adrien called.
The familiar coolness of the metallic grey suit fell upon his skin and his face was covered in a faceplate with a storming cloak behind him. Adrien took advantage of Hawkmoth's stunned silence and attacked him with his sword, Hawkmoth stumbled as he deflected it and Adrien struck again and again,
"So your father is the illusive Hawkmoth heh? Can't say I'm all that surprised," Raven communicated telepathically,
"what do you mean by that? Did you know this whole time?" Adrian answered as he kept fighting,
"Not exactly, it could've been just a coincidence that they both have the same voice and face and Gabriel is an absent father while Hawkmoth pledges multiple attacks a week, coincidence now though? I think not." Raven explained,
Adrien took advantage in the super villain's shoulder that he wasn't protecting and struck it,
"ARRRGH! God damn it that hurt!" He screamed in pain, he looked at Adrien with murderous intent in his eyes "Just who the hell are you?!" Hawkmoth's demanded limping,
"Shadow Knight" Adrien answered, "now time for answers Hawkmoth" he spat the name as if it were poison on his tongue "I have a feeling that you are somehow behind all of this madness, from Sharpshot to the ring being stolen whether it be directly or indirectly, I may not of exactly loved you before but now I downright hate you, from the fact you constantly try to kill Ladybug and I, to your stupid and petty attacks ruining our lives! So if you don't answer... Well let's just say your body will be relieved off its head so start talking scum"
"Okay okay! I'll talk... I was working on my best project, the ultimate akuma. I picked one of my emotionally weaker employees and made their life miserable, I constantly put stress and worry on him so that I could prepare him. I finally decided to try out my plan but when I akumatised him... Something took over, a human or demon I don't know, it told me I was weak and pathetic bringing dirt to evil's name and he said that Paris is his and he's not going to hesitate to banish Ladybug and Chat Noir to the deepest and darkest point in hell but when he left he said 'no stupid hero will beat me this time, I will have dominance' and he left here" Hawkmoth said, "I thought by killing the boy that was Chat Noir I could prove that I was the better villian so I tried to lure you to my lair to kill you but as you saw that backfired greatly, is that pendant a miraculous?" Hawkmoth's asked,
"I am not obligated to tell you" he said, "but thanks to your information I will spare your life though if you tell anyone about this encounter, I will announce to the world that you are Hawkmoth and unlike you..." He said as he fired something out of his eyes that showed Gabriel transforming, "I have evidence." He said as he walked back to his room.
"Smooth" Raven said,
"I know" Adrien said smug,
Adrien went back to sleep knowing that he was protected by the pendant.
Marinette was fidgeting in her bed, everything was just happening so fast, she was confused and demanded answers. Tikki had told the guardian about the boy she saw and he came up with nothing, though everyone was talking about 'the mysterious hero that saved Ladybug.' somehow Alya had recorded the entire Sharpshot v Ladybug fight. She also was worrying about Chat Noir, what if he was dead? What if he has been kidnapped and is being tortured? She eventually fell asleep on those thoughts.
Adrien and Marinette both went to school the next day and learnt some interesting things...
"today class, Ancient Chinese History!" Miss Bustier said cheerfully as most of the students groaned,
"let me start with a story, long ago in ancient times there were many great evils but most were stopped by the legendary guardians who's names have been forgotten over the ages. However there was one particular evil that was filled with so much hatred and deceit that not even the guardians could stop and they were slaughtred, he ruled for many years enslaving the local townsfolk and often starving them, but then a mysterious wanderer appeared and challenged the dark overlord, the dark lord laughed and claimed his defeat was impossible but the wanderer pushed on the challenge. So they fought and after a long and hard battle when the mysterious hero was about to win, the overlord surrounded him with his minions saying that he was to powerful to live and should die, but the wanderer wasn't fazed and pulled out the ultimate weapon, The Aura Crystal and used it to transform into something so mighty that his enemies would fall to his feet at an instant, he was called... The Guardian of the Halo, he used his majestic power to bring absolute devastion to the dark empire and saved China and possibly the world. But when the people went to thank him he was gone. The end!" The teacher said once again, "now questions," she smiled,
"where is the crystal today?" Max asked,
"legends say it was shattred to pieces when the guardian used it, the pieces were never recovered" Miss Bustier said, "now if there are no more questions here's some work to do from that story!" she said cheerfully, this time everyone groaned...
When Marinette transformed that night she saw a message, is Chat Noir back in business?! She thought hopefully, but alas it was not her knight in shining leather, rather an unknown number, it read,
Ladybug, meet me at the Eiffel Tower tonight. I know who's behind Sharpshot and your friend Chat Noir's disappearence.
-Shadow Knight.
Ladybug was thinking, she could learn more about this Shadow Knight character and learn who she's facing? It was a win win situation! She looked at the clock, 9:34pm it read. She had plenty of time.
Shadow Knight peered at Ladybug from the shadows (Chat Noir stalks Ladybug, Marinette stalks Adrien... Am I the only one who thinks their relationship is really complicated!?) and was thankful that she decided to come but was more taken by her beauty then ever, he was dieing to go out there and crack a pun with her... He missed the good old days, back when there was just dumb Hawkmoth vs lovestruck Chat Noir and inexperienced Ladybug.
Shadow Knight devised a plan in his head,
"hmm daring to say the least Adrien" Raven spoke throughout his mind,
"well I have to get Plagg back, he was my best friend... Not saying that you're horrible though! In fact you're great! You're an aweso-" Adrien was ranting but Raven interrupted him,
"Just stop Adrien, I know for a fact that you and Plagg were closer then brothers so you have every right to say he's your best friend,"
"Thanks, now let's start putting this plan in motion!" Adrien cheered,
Adrien jumped away with Ladybug none the wiser.
A few hours later Ladybug and Shadow Knight met on the Eiffel Tower on midnight and Adrin started talking first,
"for starters I might as well say it was your enemy Hawkmoth that started this whole mess. He tried to create the ultimate akuma and it failed when something possessed the akuma, the akuma victim has since vanished into thin air though I have reason to believe that the akuma victim is the same person that took your friend Chat Noir's ring of destruction. Now any questions?"
"Two. Number one is where did you get this information from? And two just who are you and what are your motives here in Paris?" Ladybug asked,
"well answer one came from, the finding and interrogation of Hawkmoth, I eventually blackmailed him in the end when he found out that I knew his identity, now two is harder. Really I'm just the wanderer that's willing to help and plus your friend Chat Noir was a close friend of mine as well in civilian form" Shadow Knight answered half-lieing,
Ladybug was pretty shocked at what she just heard, she was about to say something else when Shadow Knight spoke,
"I should be going now it was nice meeting you Ladybug" Shadow Knight said with a smile, and with that he was gone.
Well he sure is mysterious, especially about that Chat Noir part of the conversation, Ladybug thought, but he's still hot. Ladbug finished with a lovesick smile, but then she realised what she thought and facepalmed and decided to leap back home. Little did she know Adrien was still around the corner and he saw that pink aura again...
Adrien was woken by explosions and decided to check it out and saw Sharpshot was attacking. Again.
Adrien was about to leap into action but then he saw a figure throw himself at Sharpshot and they started fighting and Adrien realised just who was figting Sharpshot, an akuma!? Adrien thought, then he noticed Ladybug coming, "so is Hawkmoth good now? Because I'm confused." Adrien said,
"agreed" Ladybug said, "though I'm helping him out for the time being" she said again and leaped off,
Adrien jumped into the fight as well unaware on what it would bring...
Author's Note: That's another chapter done! I still have no idea on how long exactly this story is going to be with the all the unplanned details, now I have planned a sequel but I'm focusing on this story for now, Also if you like my stories please leave a review or favourite, that would be AWESOME!
Also thanks to BellaBeau91 for the suggestion, I plan to make the reveal a bit later in the story as Ladybug's crush for Shadow Knight has to develop lol.
Now of course I have to do the usual sign off! MiraculousDuels out!
