IM BACK AND NOT DEAD :D Did y'all miss me?
No? Well that's cool too. XD I've been busy trying to adjust to live at a new school. It's been hard and very uncomfortable to me but I managed to get this written.
I'm also struggling with getting through a few depression moments so it was hard getting motivation to write for the past 2 weeks.
But I made it! Thank you everyone for being patient! I apologize in advance if it takes me longer to update. 😅
Enjoy! :D
Previously:
Alright. I had my mind set on two more miraculous holders" Adrienne and Marin looked at each other and shrugged. "Who are they?" Adrienne asked. "I was thinking of Alim and Nina, your best friends? I just want to test to see if they're up for the job"
Marin and Adrienne looked at Master Fu in shock. They couldn't believe what they just heard coming form the old man's mouth. Was he really going to give Alim and Nina chance at being Miraculous holders so soon? Marin frowned slightly, but he decided to not let it show. He definitely felt happy that his two best friends getting a chance at becoming superheros, but was now the right time for it? He was sure they were capable at handling it, but Marin felt like it was all to sudden, getting two new, untrained superheros.
"I can tell what you're thinking Marin" Marin flinched and rubbed the back of his neck. "Don't worry, I'll handle the training for your friends. All you need to do is find Hawkmoth and devise a plan." Adrienne ran her fingers through her blonde hair and yawned. "That sounds good, we can do that right Marin?" The boy nodded slowly although his worry for his friends grew. Marin decided to just hold it off, it was already late at night so he rather not argue or question anything.
"Yeah, right" Master Fu smiled and nodded before heading back towards the door. "Ill be back tomorrow. Tikki? Plagg? I'm trusting you to take care of these kids" Fu chuckled as did the two small Kwami's. Once he left, Marin and Adrienne trudged up the stairs, both feeling their energy levels lowering. "Looks like your really tired huh?" Marin asked her, taking a hold of her hand again. She closed her eyes and arched her back slowly, trying to stretch. Of course, she was still in some pain so she wouldn't want to hurt herself again.
"Honestly, I am. A lot has happened, might as well get a good nights rest after everything. There's so much information we need to take in and figure out for tomorrow" Marin nodded, yawing. Tikki and plagg floated above their masters head and gently lowered themselves on their heads and drifted off to sleep.
"Yeah I guess you're right, I'm thinking too much about it" and that wasn't a lie. A lot of things were popping up and it was a bit too much to deal with. Marin was but worried that he wasn't able to handle it all, but then again he wasn't going to everything himself so he shouldn't worry. "I'm here to help you, it's not like you'll be alone in this. We're a team" Adrienne smiled at the boy sweetly. Marin chuckled. "Yeah, now our friends are gonna join us"
They both went to enjoy the rest of the movie with Marin's parents. Marin and his father began to talk a little bit more, as did Adrienne and Sabrine. Adrienne seemed to be enjoying her time with Marin's mother as if she were her own. Marin admired that about the girl he loved, she was always willing to make a new friend and treat others with respect and kindness and act like a true, good natured human being.
Once it was getting a bit to late (more staying up until 3 in the morning) they finally decided to get a nights rest. Although Marin stayed behind to chat a bit with his princess. He stood at the door, placing a quick kiss on her forehead. Adrienne's heart pounded in her chest as well as feeling slightly nervous and giddy inside. She loved the feeling and she doesn't think she could ever get used to it.
"Goodnight, I'll see you in the morning before I leave for school" he murmured softly. Adrienne nodded, giving a small kiss on his nose. She giggled hear him laugh nervously.
"Goodnight to you too, Tikki's with Plagg by the way. They're sleeping in between my pillows" Marin's eyebrows raised confused, but he decided not to disturb or question it.
"That's fine, I'll come by and get Tikki, sweet dreams" he said before exiting the room and into his temporary room, grinning like an idiot.
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It was about 4:30 in the morning and Gabriel began to roam the halls of his own home. He was still in his suit and tie, still haven't changed into proper attire for sleeping due to having too much on his mind.
Gabriel stepped foot into his office, staring at the portrait of his wife that was painted and placed on the wall, just behind his safe. Gabriel frowned, as he continued to stare, his eyes watering slightly yet he refused to let himself cry a single tear.
"I'll find you again Lyra, and I'll bring you back. That's a promise" he whispered, gently rubbing his fingers on the portrait. A single tear traced down his cheek. Gabriel opened his safe, taking a hold of the peacock miraculous in his hand. He clutched it in his hand tightly as more tears came flooding in. "This thing made you disappear and keep you hidden from me for years without a trace, but soon I'll have the power to bring you back" Gabriel dropped to the floor, sobbing, making his voice crack a little as he mumbled "All I want is for you to be here with me..." His lip trembled as he tried to speak again. "...to be here with us"
Gabriel managed to keep all his thoughts and worries and feelings, all to himself. Until today, tonight, was the one day he finally broke and let it all flow out at once.
I miss you
There were some things Gabriel thought he could keep hidden forever, but this time he wasn't carful enough. Nathan stood at the door way, knowing his boss was up and came to check if everything was alright. After hearing everything, the young assistant backed away slowly and covered his moth while pressing his body against the wall.
He knew that this was something he wasn't supposed to hear, but at the same time he felt like he should have. Everything about Adrienne's mother remained a mystery and here he was hearing that what his boss called 'Miraculous' did something to his wife, shouldn't Nathan say something about it to Adrienne?
"Soon I'll get my hands on that boys miraculous...I just need the right time to do it" Nathan heard Gabriel say. Nathan felt himself sweat, feeling a bit of fear. He doesn't know what to do. Flea or stay put to hear more. Tell someone, preferably Adrienne, about her father or keep quiet. Either way, he saw disadvantages.
Nathan heard the light tapping of his boss shoes as he walked out of the room. Nathan panicked and quickly fled down the hallway. Once the footsteps diminished, which was when he assumed was a safe time to escape. Nathan walked away into the room was was previously about to enter. He found Gabriel sitting on his office chair, head down on his desk. Nathan simply retreated away, not wanting to disturb him.
He wasn't sure on how to handle the situation anymore. He headed off to his own room which Mr. Agreste has also provided with. Nathan changed into clothes and slipped inside his bed, covering himself with the soft blankets. He became fatigue and his eyes wanted to shut and have his body rest for what remained of the night. but no matter how much he tried falling asleep he just couldn't, he remained awake the entire night.
When morning came, Marin had woken up early. Surprised to see that he had about half an hour left until it was time for school. He got dressed, slipped out of the room quietly, not wanting to wake his parents. Smiling, he made his way towards Adrienne's room and knocked gently on the door before entering.
To his surprise, she was still asleep. Her long hair was basically all over the place. Messily thrown around her pillows and on her face. Tikki and Plagg remained, cuddling on the white pillow. Marin gently patted Adrienne's shoulder, as an attempt to wake her up.
Moaning, Adrienne opened her eyes. She smiled weakly once her eyes made contact with Marin.
"Hey...Good Morning. Came by to say that I'm going to leave soon" he spoke in a hushed tone. She sat up slowly and yawned, closing her eyes. She was still half asleep. "Morning, have a good day" she mumbled. She placed her hand on his cheek and brought their faces together. She gave him a light peck on the lips before laying herself back on the bed and covering herself up with the blankets.
Marin blushes although rolled his eyes. He never knew she could be so lazy. "Kitty, you should get up too" covering her face with the blanket she groaned again. "No" she answered. Marin laughed but decided not press further. Turning towards his Kwami, he poked her gently. Tikki stirred but still remained asleep. Marin sighed. The one time I wake up early and everyone doesn't want to wake up.
Once more, he poked her gently this time receiving a loud hiss and bite from Plagg. Marin recoiled his hand and felt the pain surge through him. Plagg pulled Tikki closer and purred, but that woke her up.
"Ah! Plagg what the heck!" Marin glared at the sleeping cat. Adrienne sat up, hearing Marin screech. "W-what! What did he do?" Marin rubbed his hand. "He bit me!" Adrienne glared at the cat whole Tikki laughed it off. "I'm sorry, he does that from time to time"
The two teens looked at each other shocked, Adrienne looked at the red kwami, she was surprised to hear the Plagg would attempt to hurt just because he was being protective. He was never protective of anything beside his cheese. Well, she should have expected that. She noticed that humans do the exact same thing when something that's theirs is being taken away from them. That still didn't mean that it was alright for him to hurt Marin.
Maybe he wasn't fully aware? He is asleep. She thought.
Forgetting about it, Adrienne was now fully awake. To think, all she wanted was to stay in bed for once. Now she couldn't even do that. "Aww" Adrienne cooed. "Come here, let me kiss it" Adrienne teased. Marin rolled his eyes and stuck his tongue out towards her. Pouting he mumbled "It's too late now" Tikki pulled away from Plagg and floated up to her master. Saying their goodbyes, Marin left the Agreste home peacefully. Laying back down, She sighed. No noise, everything felt so at ease. For the time being anyway.
"I'm going back to bed" she then proceeded to pull up the cover herself back up with the covers.
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"Marin! Yo dude how did you get your powers?"
"Can you transform in front of us?"
"I love you Marin~ You're amazing"
Marin tried his best to shut out all the people who surrounded him. The moment they learn that their classmate is the hero and defender of Paris, they would be all over him. All of it was a bit overwhelming, and he definitely wasn't going to get used to it either. Surrounded by the press and news reporters and now his own classmates? It was too much to handle. He was going to lie though, he did like that he was hearing more positive thoughts than negative.
Successfully arriving to class without to many people giving him attention, he sat in his usual place next to Alim. He sighed in relief the moment he saw his best friend. "Alim! Thank god you're here" Alim was sitting in his seat, although slightly towards Marin as Nina was sitting next to Alim. Removing right arm around Nina, he high-fived him. Nina smiled at Marin but frowned, seeing all the people lined outside the window.
"Wow, Marin you've got a lot of fangirls out there" Marin squeaked slightly and hid behind his backpack. "This is too much, don't they have anything better to do?" He groaned. Alim snickered,
"now you know how Adrienne feels" Marin blinked, taking a few minutes to process the information. Thats right, she's as model, duh, this sort of thing must happen to her a lot. "Yeah, I can't believe she deals with that all the time"
Not to mention she also gets praised as Chat Noir. Nodding, Alim handed him a folder.
"That's all the assignments and Notes we took. Good luck man" Marin raised an eyebrow but took the folder. "We?" "May girlfriend and I of course" he smirked, pulling in Nina closer. Although they were dating, it seemed Alim couldn't get over the fact that they were. He was too happy and she was embarrassed by all the attention.
"Alright, homework aside. There's some important things I need to tell you both and I think you'll like it" Marin stated happily. The couple shot each other confused looks but still, they smiled.
"Hey Idiot!" Clovis spat, in a rude tone. Marin frowned and turned around to face him. Ugh, not him again. "What Clovis" Marin spat in almost the same tone. Clovis looked away, biting the inside of his cheek. "I can't believe I'm saying this...but I apologize. For everything" everyone gasped simultaneously at Clovis's confession. Even Marin got caught off guard.
"W-what?"
Clovis sighed in annoyance and walked closer to him, obviously trying to be heard. "You're a superhero. I have a lot of respect for Ladybeetle and now that I know it's you, I realized that I've been giving a hard time to someone I admire. So I apologize"
The world has gone insane. Adrienne is not going to believe this.
Marin smiled and held out his hand. "Apology accepted"
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The day started and the first thing the teacher asked Marin was for their project. It took a long conversation outside the classroom to explain the situation to Mrs. Bustier. Although, she knew the situation he was in she couldn't just leave him off the hook. She decided to give them some sort of extra credit assignment to make up their work all they have to do is write a paper about it by the end of the week. Easy enough right?
...
Right?
Marin began to stress about it already and it wasn't even lunch yet. Not to mention he isn't paying attention in class when the whole point of returning to school was to do so. The bell rang, snapping him out of his trance and rushing out of the room and down the straits outside. He didn't want to get caught up with all the people of course. Once Alim and Nina caught up to the boy, they were out of breath.
"Okay man, first, I've never seen you run. Period. Second, what's that important thing you need to tell us?" Alim gasped, trying to get his breathing pattern normal again. "Did something happen while we were gone?" Niña questioned, patting Alim's back.
"I believe he means to tell you, you both are going to be Miraculous holders" Master Fu interrupted. Stepped into view, startling the high schoolers. He chuckled, seeing the their shocked faces.
"What?!"
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Nathan walked towards Adrienne's room, alerting her that breakfast was being served. Upon standing in front of the young girls room, he became nervous and began trembling. His hand shook as he knocked on her door gently. "A-Adrienne? Breakfast I-is being served, are you going to come?" Almost instantly the blonde opened the door and smiled at the young and male assistant. "Yup! I'm ready" she giggled.
As she began to walk, Nathan shut his eyes tightly, fist balling and felt the anxiety get to him. He need to warn her, tell her he needed to get it out but was she going to believe him? She's going to get hurt either way, but it'd be more painful on hearing it from her own father.
"Adrienne wait" he nearly yelled which caught her attention. "Yeah? Let me guess, father wants me to do doe thing today I suppose?" Nathan frowned and shook his head slowly. "There's something you need to hear...and you're not going to like it"
And he was right, she didn't like it.
Nathan could only stare at the blonde, her tears flowing down her cheeks. Not only was she upset but she was furious. Nathan didn't know what to do. What surprised him was she believed him without question, not once did she stop to question it. He stood at the door and sighed. He watched her pick up her phone and call Marin. Trying her best to wipe away her tears and keep herself from crying.
"I can't believe it, this whole time HE was Hawkmoth and worse he knows about mom and never told me!" Plagg sat on her shoulder, looking at his holder sadly. Adrienne began to sob, holding the phone next to her ear. Plagg could hear Marin's worried voice trying to calm her down, but he could tell that he was just as mad as she was.
"Its been years. He knew something has been wrong yet he let himself become this evil person who we've been trying to find. Marin my own father almost killed me! He was controlling them and they almost killed me!" She ranted. Marin was doing the best he could to calm her down, but it was no use. He wanted to be there in person but he couldn't just leave school.
He felt so useless.
"Adrienne, please listen to me okay? We are going to end this. We are doing it together, I know you're in a really bad situation right now but just please Hang tight, I'll be there as soon as I can okay?" Truthfully, Marin didn't know what he was doing. He's never heard her be this upset and finding a way to ease her pain in the slightest way was all she wanted.
Adrienne paused, and looked at her own Kwami who's big eyes looked at her with worry. Smiling sadly, she took a deep and shaky breath. "Okay, I'll see you soon" Marin smiled sadly on the other end as he hung up. The others definitely heard that entire conversation and the only thing that worried them is the outcome of Adrien and her fathers relationship.
Adrienne frowned and threw herself on her bed.
"Adrienne?" Plagg spoke softly. She zones him out, letting her thoughts consume her. About how much has he known? Why didn't he ever tell me? Why did she get her Miraculous in the first place? Does Master Fu know about this? Was exposing Marin's identity the plan after all? Just to get his Miraculous?
Adrienne's body shook. She still couldn't believe it but she could see how it would make sense. Accepting Marin to tag along after knowing who he really was. He hurt his family and gained their trust all for what? A piece of jewelry?! Don't get her wrong, of course she's been wanting her mother to return again. But is this really the way of doing it?
"Adrienne! Hey kid! Stop being sad, we need you to cheer up Hawkmoth-" Plagg panicked.
Adrienne glared at the Kwami. "Hawkmoth is my father Plagg! This isn't something I should just toss away to the side like it isn't a big deal!"
There goes her temper Nathan thought. Although still, he knew her being upset could cause an akuma. Hawkmoth wasn't going to stop now, even if it means using her own daughter. He was sure capable of using others and happily hurt other families he sure wasn't going to not take advantage of a situation.
"Kid, I know this is hard but being upset about it isn't going to help anything. You heard your boyfriend, he'll come home soon and then we could all figure this out together"
Adrienne sighed, holding her hands up to her head, feeling a sting headache forming. "I can't wait anymore. I need to do something!" Plagg eyes widened seeing a small, purple butterfly flapping its wings and coming in through the window.
"Adrienne! Stop being stubborn, listen to me! You need to run or else-"
"Or else what?!"
"ADRIENNE COME ON!" Nathan shouted running towards the blonde. Adrienne got off her bed, now backing away towards her desk which was closer to the window. Plagg panicked, he isn't able to get though her head. Much less keep her from getting Akumatized. It just wasn't possible.
Quickly, he slipped the ring off her finger and zipped towards the assistant. Adrienne stood there puzzled, and the last thing she saw was Plagg floating away for her, ring in hand and Nathan tuning towards her before she slipped into darkness and a voice boomed inside her head.
"ADRIENNE NO!"
It was the only thing she heard that was left echoing in her head.
IM DONE. OH MY GAWD IT TOOK ME SO LONG IM SORRY. I also want to point out that this book is also comin to the end pretty soon...ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ Feeling proud because I've never once in my live finished a story that I've written except for this one.
I have plenty more of ideas though, I just need to choose which ones to post next. Thanks to those who stuck by this story. Your reviews help me know if you still like this, if it wasn't for that I would have thought people didn't like this story and I would have discontinued.
Anyways! Hope you enjoyed this. Expect Part 2 next Saturday or maybe even earlier. I feel bad that you all waited 3 weeks just for this lame excuse of a chapter.
Review! ^-^