"You can't see." Chat looked back at The Queen, realizing his mistake, "Rache couldn't see and even Hawkmoth can't give you that."
"I don't need you to tell me!" The Queen flew up and charged at Chat again, the tears now falling down her face.
Chat backed up on the roof, trying to get away from her. His foot hit the edge of the roof and he fell backwards. Falling over the side of the building.
"Chat!" The Queen ran forward, trying to grab his hand. She missed his hand by an inch. He hit the hard sidewalk with a thump. The queen screamed looking down at Chat as he lay still on the sidewalk; tears kept coming down her face.
RACHE! Rache! I'm Here! I'm Alive!
"Kali?"
"Kali! Where are you!" Rache screamed, hoping to hear a response or feel the kwami brush against her cheek. But there was nothing.
I d- know- can't see anyth-
Kali's voice cut out, as if they'd lost signal to a TV.
"NOO!" The Queen screeched, thinking she'd lost Kali once again.
What are you doing? Get me Chat Noir's Miraculous! Now!
"No!"
What!? You can't say no to me! I control you, I gave you your powers, I made you a Queen!
"I can say no to you! A queen isn't controlled by her advisor, so I am telling you to Get OUT OF MY HEAD!"
YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME!
"I CAN AND I DID!" The Queen smashed the medallion that was on her dress, breaking the akuma free. It tried to escape but fell to the ground and died; its corpse dissolving into the concrete. Still, she stayed transformed by its magic.
"I knew you could do it, Winter." She turned around to Chat standing behind her. He clutched his side and stood with most of his weight on one foot, but he was there, alive, breathing and probably smiling. She started to run to him; halfway she screamed and crumpled to the ground, gripping her stomach where the medallion was. Chat limped to her side.
Her medallion began to glow and darkness emerged from it. It traced her veins, climbing up her neck like vines and making her very essence look cracked and broken.
"No! Stop! I don't want this anymore!"
Are you sure? I can help you, I can get Kali back.
A smooth and vaguely familiar voice spoke inside her head.
"What?" She asked in a stunned voice.
"Winter Frost, come on snap out of it! You already got rid of him once!" Chat yelled, thinking that Hawkmoth was striking back; but his calls were barely heard by her, as if they were said from a distance.
"Do it. Save her, do anything you have to."
Anything? Well then, a deal is made.
"Aaaaah!" She screamed as she felt something take her over; it felt as though a thousand bolts of lighting shot through her body, ripping her spirit away.
"What's going on? Winter Frost?!" Chat yelled.
"Not quite." A sinister voice spoke from the Queen, "When that imposter broke Hawkmoth's control, she set me free. The REAL QUEEN, one that you will bow to!"
Chat stepped back, he put on a serious look, though anyone could've noticed he was exhausted.
"Never. I won't bow down to a villain."
"Hmm, villain, I like that. But if you won't bow then you have no place in my kingdom!"
"Paris will never be yours!" Chat yelled, moving into a fighting stance.
"Oh but it already is. CRYSTAL VOID!" She shot a bolt of magic from her scepter, into the clouds, its power surged like electricity. A dark shade spread over Paris, covering everything else and freezing it in time.
"I have work to do, I'll save Kali and there's nothing you can do to stop me." The Queen seemed to effortlessly run away at rapid speeds. Far to fast for an injured Chat to catch up.
Instead he stood stunned on the rooftop. He shook his head, trying to clear the growing haze.
"My lady." He murmured, the first thought that came to him was of Ladybug. He hopped over the side of the building and into the alleyway, landing roughly and groaning.
"Claws In, Plagg." He let go of the transformation and the black cat kwami popped out, exhausted.
"What were you doing, challenging her like that!? You almost died Adrien!" Plagg screamed from his place cupped in Adrien's hands.
"Shhh, don't say my name, I don't know if Ladybug can hear us." Adrien said motioning towards the Princess standing blank behind the clutter.
"I don't care! This is getting too dangerous. And I need camembert! Do you even know how long you were transformed!? Yeah I thought not!" Plagg yelled callously, holding his arms out expectantly.
Adrien reached into his jacket and pulled out a wheel of the disgusting cheese.
"Here, just eat quickly so we can save ladybug. And then," he paused and sighed, "all of Paris." Adrien hung his head in exhaustion.
"Ugh, listen kid, sometimes bad things happen. We just gotta work through them one at a time, eat the cheese wone bwite wat a twime." Plagg said as he finished off the wheel of camembert.
"How do I get her out of this trance, Plagg? I can't do this without my Lady." Adrien said placing a hand on Ladybug's cheek.
"But you can. You're not a sidekick, I can already tell that this will end with you. Ladybug is not the only one with powers." The kwami said seriously, then paused, "But if you really think you need her, try being cliche, maybe true love's kiss will fix everything." He said on a joking note.
"Me!? Kiss LADYBUG!? I didn't even ask!"
"Then find some other way to fix it." Plagg answered sarcastically.
Adrien leaned forward hesitantly, he'd never even really kissed anyone before. Much less his one true love.
He lowered his eyes and leaned closer, his lips almost touching. He moved and landed a kiss on her cheek, he just didn't feel right kissing her whilst she was unconscious.
Color began to return to her face, her eyes started to fade back to their beautiful blue bell color. The dress dissolving just as fast as it appeared. Ladybug moved, her body stiff.
"Dude, I was totally kidding, I didn't even think it'd actually work." Plagg stated, slightly surprised.
"What hap-" Ladybug started blinking a couple times, before she stopped dead in her tracks, staring at:
Adrien.
"Aaah! Plagg claws out!" The transformation was rushed through.
"I'm guessing you already saw me didn't you?"
"But-but-bu-bu- Adrien!? OH NO!" Ladybug yelled, a look of panic washing over her face.
"Are you really that disappointed?" Chat said, lowering his head.
"No no no, but you sit in front of me, you're my friend, you go to my school!?" Ladybug paced back and forth.
"Wait, Marinette?" Chat said questioningly after piecing it together.
"AAAh I have a crush on you!?" Ladybug said accidentally pointing at him, then clasped her hands over her mouth.
"I always knew you loved me bugaboo." He said with a signature Chat smile on his face.
"Ew, still not your bugaboo." Ladybug answered in fained disgust.
"We can discuss that later, milady."
She scoffed, "Yeah, later." Ladybug paused, looking around for a second, "Um Chat?"
"Yeah?"
"Why are we in an alleyway and why is everything so dark?"
Chat flinched, he had forgotten to tell her.
"Well, after you got transformed I tried to get the akuma from The Queen and we were fighting on the roof, I fell off and I think it-"
"YOU WHAT!?" Ladybug screamed.
"I fell off the roof and something happened to the Queen."
"Are you okay? Did you break anything?" Ladybug moved closer to Chat Noir and looked for anything wrong.
"I'm fine. Just a headache, but the Queen, she uh, well she rejected Hawkmoth's akuma and it died without a host."
"But if the akuma is dead, then why is Paris still dark like this." She questioned, motioning to the dark city.
"Something took over her body, not an akuma or anything but it hurt Winter and then it just- well I don't even know what happened. All they said was that they had to save Kali, Winter Frost's kwami I think, and that they would rule all of Paris."
"But if it's not an akuma, how can I purify her? How can we stop The Queen from destroying Paris as we know it?" Ladybug started pacing again, her head deep in thought.
"I think if we somehow destroyed the miraculous medallion, it might set her free." Chat Noir suggested.
"That must be the source of all this! After Hawkmoth corrupted it, it passed on to her and it just kept getting worse. Destroy that, destroy her powers." Ladybug began forming a plan in her head.
Then the newly reunited superhero duo set off to find The Queen of Hearts.
-You guys are going to love the next chapter which might be done in a couple days. And I hope that you also enjoyed this chapter.
