Chapter two.
After Marissa was allowed to come home, Gabriel took her with him to his office room. He stopped in front of the portrait of Emillie and looked at Marissa.
"Father, what do you think happened to mother?" Marissa asked him in a sweet tone noticing he wasn't wearing the broach of the butterfly.
"No one knows," Gabriel sadly said. "She just…. Disappeared one day. Many believe she's gone for good, but not me. I believe she will return. After all, you did."
"I see oh father I noticed you're not wearing your broach is there a reason?" Marissa asked in a gentle tone.
"I wasn't aware you noticed. Most people don't see it past my tie," said Gabriel.
"I notice everything. Did you lose it? Do you want me to find it?"
"Oh no. I didn't lose it. I put it away," said Gabriel. "I'm feeling a little….. Self-conscious about it lately."
"Oh I can clean it later maybe a little shine will make you feel better," Marissa smiled at him.
Gabriel raised his eyebrow at this. "That is a kind offer. You seem to really care about that broach."
"I care for you. That's why I care about it."
Gabriel smiled at his daughter and said, "And I care for you and Adrien. You two are more precious to me than jewels or gold."
"Oh, I was gonna ask if Nathalie could take me to this man. I heard he's supposed to be very spiritual." Marissa crossed her fingers over her left and Right hand.
Gabriel looked at the address she handed to him. He remembered hearing about a man who uses ancient Chinese practices to help people with problems through an employee. Perhaps this was the place that they meant. If this man could help Marissa, it would certainly be worth the trip.
"Alright," said Gabriel. "If it can make your condition any easier, I'm open to it. I'll let Nathalie know."
"I don't have a hole in my heart anymore after the surgery, father. But they did say it would take 3 weeks for it to heal and 2 months for me to be completely better. So yes I'm hoping he'll help." Marissa closed her eyes for a moment.
"That's my girl," Gabriel said with a smile.
"Thank you." She wheeled herself over.
"Nathalie," said Gabriel, getting the woman's attention. "Marissa has a request."
"Of course, Mr. Agreste," said Nathalie, before turning to the girl. "What is it, Marissa?"
"I wish to go here. A man I heard about might be able to help me a bit." Marissa explained in a sweet tone while giving her the address.
Nathalie looked at the address and then asked Gabriel, "And you approved?"
"Yes. I want my daughter's recovery to go smoothly," said Gabriel. "Just don't lose her."
"Of course I won't," said Nathalie. "Well, shall we go, Marissa?"
"Of course." Marissa sweetly said
-The drive to the miracle box guardian's house.-
"I think I've heard of him through gossip," said Nathalie as she drove. "They say he specializes in massage, aromatherapy, and spiritual healing. They say he's really good so you can almost guarantee it'll work."
"I'm sure it will," said Marissa.
When Nathalie stopped the car, they were in front of what looked like a massage place. Nathalie helped the young girl out of the car and brought her inside. Once in the building, they met with an old Chinese man.
"Hello, ladies. How may I help you?" The old man kindly asked.
"I need some spiritual healing." She said in a sweet tone. She smiled sweetly at him.
The old man smiled. "You are a sweet girl. Alright, but your guardian will need to stay outside."
Marissa looked at Natalie with a gentleness.
"Alright but I'll be right outside," said Nathalie as she turned around. Before leaving, she shot him a warning glance. "And she had better come out through the same entrance she came in from. And no funny business."
The old man laughed a little and said, "Of course. No harm shall come to her. In fact, she may be better afterward."
"Very well. Marissa, I'll be waiting," said Nathalie, and then she walked out.
Once they were alone, the old man turned his attention to the young girl. "Tell me what is troubling you."
"Well, I had surgery recently. And while my chest is a lot better, I'm still having slight amounts of pain and I'm still fairly weak can you help with that." She asked in a gentle sweet tone.
"I believe I can," said the old man with a smile. "Lay down on the mat and we shall begin."
She did her best to stand up and lay down on the mat. The man then waved his hands over her body and started humming. As he did so, Marissa could feel the positive energy flowing into her.
He could see a lot of energy with a mixture of positive energy with other hints of small negative energy.
"You have much positive energy, also hints of negative," said the old man. "Your condition seems to be affecting your emotions a little more than your physical strength."
She wondered if it was the secret she was keeping. Then she heard a bang and a black and red box fell down to the ground.
"What?" the old man asked as he picked up the box. He opened it and then quickly closed it. "This was not supposed to be out here."
The little box jiggled coming out of his hands again. "That's an odd box."
A tiny green creature flew out of the phonograph in the room and flew to the old man. "Master, I'm sorry. I tried to stop this one but failed," it whispered. And then he saw Marissa reach for it and gasped. "Stop her!"
"Young lady, no!" The old man shouted.
She had opened it far too late for the warning and inside was a black and light brown creature that had cute little black tassels on its ears and was super fluffy its tail even was fluffy. Once it was free she happily twirled around her. A cooker with a cat-like tag that was pure silver was also inside. "Hi hi hi I'm Tawnii. I'm a maincoon. Sooooooo nice to meet you, master."
"Tawnii, now is not the time!" the old man scolded. "Now return to the box this instant!"
"No way, Fu!" Tawnii said and then blew a raspberry. "This girl is perfect for me! Besides, I feel like we need each other. Oh, and it's far too late remember the last time once the box is open the one who opens it I bind myself to." She was smirking and sitting in the girl's hair.
"You little fool!" The old man, Fu, said angrily. "This girl is sick! She cannot fight yet!"
"Not to mention we've been compromised!" The little green creature said.
"I'm seriously confused right now." Marissa looked at the creature as the creature gestured to the choker in the box.
"Place it on your neck." Marissa placed the choker on her neck. "I am a kwami. I grant people powers. Yours is the power of mimicry."
"Power of mimicry?" Marissa asked in confusion. Wu sighed this was unavoidable even if the girl did give it back the kawmi would just exit the box and bring the miraculous back to her.
"Yes," said Fu. "Tawnii can transform you once you say her trigger phrase and give you the power to copy the powers of other miraculous holders."
"That's amazing." She cuddled her up to the cute cat.
"And here's the best part," said Tawnii. "I can't be taken away now that we're bonded."
Marissa cuddled Tawnii. "And don't worry I won't tell anyone about this. I promise."
"Thank you," said Fu. "Now, shall we continue the session?"
She nodded a gentle smile formed on her lips.
-At school-
Marinette and Adrien were talking while Lila was sitting in the back. So Marissa wheeled in and knocked them into each other causing them to kiss. "Oh wow, I see the date went well."
The two parted from the kiss and blushed. "Yeah. It did," said Adrien.
"And it looks like you're doing better today," said Marinette. And then she took a present out of her bag. "Oh speaking of yesterday. I made you a get-well gift."
She smiled then she looked at Lila. "Thanks. But I need a moment to talk with Lila. Adrien, can you take me to Lila? She and I have to talk."
"Sure," said Adrien. He helped her to the seat near Lila and sat her down. After that Adrien sat down next to Marinette.
"Lila, I didn't like you. You see Chloe told me you were trying to date Adrien so you could break up with him. And then say he dumped you in the worst way and because she is Adrien's closest friend I believed her." Marissa said trying to look ashamed of her actions.
Lila gasped convincingly and said, "Oh no. Marissa, you've got it all wrong. I would never do that. I admit I had a little crush on him because he's a handsome model. But there's no way he'd date me now, he has Marinette and everyone hates me."
"Well, I'm so sorry. Only if Chloe didn't lie to me then maybe I would have loved to have you date him too badly." She sweetly said Lila looked angrily at Chloe. If it was true then her life being ruined was because of Chloe and now not even her mom believed her now.
"That little brat," she growled. "She needs to be put in her place."
-with Hawkmoth-
The moth super villain could sense Lila's anger through his miraculous' power. He could even sense the source.
"My my. What delightful anger. Perfect for my Akuma," he said as he caught a white butterfly and turned it black. "Fly away, my little Akuma, and evilize her!"
Hawkmoth released the Akuma and sent it out the window. Afterwards, he prayed that the same mistake would not be repeated. He would never forgive himself if anything bad happened to Marissa again.
-An hour later-
Marissa went over to that bathroom. She had her cat kwami. "I need to akumatize her so I need you to copy Hawkmoth's ability can I copy his powers without him being here?"
"Sure," said Tawnii. "We just need something with his power. Like an Akuma. Just say the words "Tawnii, copy time" and you'll transform. Don't worry. It won't hurt your heart."
"Tawnii, copy time," said Marissa.
The kwami went into the choker, changing its silver tag into a blue paw. She gained a mask that was a grayish blue and cat-like. She spun as her outfit turned into bodysuit with dark purple on the legs, most of the arms, gloves, shoes, and neck. Lighter purple was on the fingertips, back of the arms, sides of the legs and shoes. Her wrists and ankles had white fur and her weapon was a whip.
"Crap I should have asked how to use the copying ability." Then she walked outside and saw the Akuma. It was flying towards Lila.
"Here, Akuma. Here, here. I need you." she said. The Akuma seemed to sense her and flew her way. Thinking quickly, Marissa grabbed a jar and trapped the Akuma inside. "That should hold you while I see if I have a manual in this suit."
She ran to the side to hide. her blonde hair leaned next to the pole as she looked at her mangle and found it. "Absorb the power then copy and do what the original would do this power is now yours."
She nodded opening it. "Absorb!" She felt the back butterfly disappearing. "Copy." She made a little white butterfly appear in her hands before putting energy into it. "Fly off little Akuma and evlize her for me."
The Akuma flew into Lila's fox pendant, which she bought the day before. Lila seemed to freeze in her tracks when the Akuma touched her.
A cat-like mask appeared on her eyes. "Hello, darling, I'm Copycat and I'm willing to give you the power to get revenge but in exchange, I want Ladybug and Cat Noir's miraculous."
Lila smirked evilly. "As long as I can get payback for my life being ruined, I'm in."
"Good then rise Volpina and get your payback." said the voice.
Lila was instantly transformed into a fox themed being who looked like a hero. However, it is clear she isn't one.
"I'm going to use my illusions to mess up your life, Chloe," said Volpina, and then she walked away.
It seemed her plan worked now all she needed was to make sure Ladybug and Cat Noir.
Volpina saw a crowd of people and thought it would be a perfect opportunity. She played some notes on her flute and made an image of Chloe eating a big piece of chocolate with chocolate on her face.
The fake Chloe walked right past the crowd, who saw her. They stared as they watched the girl casually walk by eating such a big piece of cake and her face and hands covered in chocolate. Some started laughing and others took pictures. Adrien saw her and looked like he wanted to throw up.
"Since when does Chloe not use a napkin?" Adrien asked.
"For that matter, since when does she eat chocolate cake?" Plagg asked.
Then he heard laughing as a girl in a cat-like costume sat on a building. She looked to be enjoying the scene.
"Who's that?" Adrien asked. "Some new villain?"
The girl jumped down looking at him. Her hands are behind her back. "Give me your ring."
"What? No," said Adrien, taking a few steps back. "Who are you and what did you do to Chloe?"
"Me? Nothing. My Akuma, I'm sure she's just getting revenge." She grabbed his hand and pulled off his ring. "Thank you, Cat Noir."
"Give that back!" Adrien demanded.
"Oh don't get your whiskers in a twist. I just need it to combine them and make a wish and once I do I'll give them right back." Marissa put her hand on it. "Absorb." And energy was pulled from the miraculous after she did she tossed it to Adrien.
"Oh no. Plagg!" Adrien cried.
"Don't worry I didn't absorb your kwami I merely absorbed his energy. It's quite simple instead of combining yours and Ladybug's miraculous I'm gonna combine your powers then see if that makes me able to make the wish." She ran off after that.
"Who's responsible for this?!" Chloe shouted, storming and holding her phone and displaying the picture of her covered in chocolate.
"Look, Adrien, Chloe with no chocolate!" Plagg pointed out. "That girl was a phony!"
"Oh good your ok," Adrain said with a gentle smile.
Plagg looked exhausted. "Yeah but I'm very weak it's gonna take a ton of camembert to recover."
"I'll get you help," said Adrien. "But I have to warn Ladybug too. And I don't know where she is right now."
-With Marinette-
Copy cat came over to where Marinette was and pinned her. "Sorry but I need your power." She pressed her hands on the earrings pulling the energy from it. After she got it she jumped back. "Thank you."
"No! Come back!" Marinette shouted. She opened her bag and found Tikki exhausted. "Oh Tikki."
"I feel really weak, Marinette," said Tikki.
"Don't worry, Tikki. I'll get you some food," said Marinette. "Oh, but how are we gonna stop her? For that matter, how do we find Cat Noir?"
-With Marissa-
She held the powers in her hand sitting in her wheelchair. She was back in her normal form. " I need to fuse these powers together, right?" She pushed them together. She wondered how Lila was doing. She could only Akumatize one person at a time….so all she needed was a way to amplify her powers. Maybe then she could fuse these powers together.
She then saw her brother and Marinette. "Hey, you two…. Oh, I have your next date ready and I'll be going because of the Chloe situation."
"Marissa, thank god!" Adrien said, hugging her. "I was really worried when I couldn't find you."
"Me too," said Marinette.
"Worried why would you be worried I was just in the bathroom but this strange girl in a costume did come by asking for what I wished most I told her I wanted our mother back and she said she'd grant my wish once she fused Ladybug and Cat Noir's powers together," Marissa said in a gentle tone.
"Someone can do that?" Adrien asked in surprise.
"Is that safe?" Marinette asked.
"I don't really know but she said she'll need to amplify her powers to do so." Marissa looked hopeful.
"If we don't find her she'll make a huge mistake bringing someone back will mean someone else will disappear," Marinette said in a serious tone.
"How do you know that?" Adrien asked.
"Because things like that always come with a price," Marinette sadly said. "Nothing like that ever comes free."
"This isn't a show or movie. Sometimes the rules are different," Adrien pointed out.
"In this case, they probably aren't," said Marinette.
"This game is sad Ladybug and Cat Noir," Marissa said in a simple tone.
The pair gasped. How did she know? They looked at each other and wondered if it was true.
"Ladybug?" Adrien asked Marinette
"Cat Noir?" Marinette asked.
"You two were meant for each other that's why I brought you together for a date." Marissa gestured to her choker. As if to call her kwami.
"But how did you know?" Adrien asked.
"Honestly, it was a little obvious," said Tawnii. "I mean, come on. How does no one notice?"
"Seriously?" Plagg asked as he poked out. "Drat."
"Please don't tell," Tikki pleaded, poking out from Marinette's bag.
"Twanii, how do I combine their powers if I don't have enough power? How do I get it?" Marissa said to her kwami sweetly.
Marinette and Adrien stared, shocked by this.
"Yes, I lied sorry but being the sick girl I always had no power no strength and now I have something that I can finally do I don't even care if I have to sacrifice my own life to achieve that." Marissa held her hand to her chest.
Adrien took her hand. "Marissa, you're my sister, I won't judge you. But maybe there's a better way. You can help us find away. More than that, I don't wanna lose after just getting you in my life."
She looked to be considering it. "Miss, Marissa, there is a way to combine it but to do so could hurt you just force them together. Once you make the wish you'll be unable to make another and their abilities will run out meaning you'll need to get more once it's gone."
"Sorry brother this is the only way." She pulled her hand away and made their powers appear forcing them together and making a glowing ball of yellow causing her extreme pain. "I wish for our mother to return!"
The ball glowed white sending Marissa out of her wheelchair from the backlash.
-With Gabriel and Nathalie-
Nathalie was walking back only to collapse as she entered Gabriel's room.
"Nathalie? What's wrong?" Gabriel asked, picking her up. "Nathalie?"
-with Marissa-
Marissa was in darkness. However, she could hear voices around her. She slowly opened her eyes and saw paramedics walking and one speaking to her.
"Marissa? Marissa, right? Is that your name?" The paramedic asked.
"Yeah, that's my name. My head hurts." Marissa held her buzzing head.
"Okay, Marissa, you're gonna be fine. We're taking you to the hospital," the paramedic told her. "Give her a pain killer for her head."
The ambulance moved, getting her to the hospital.
Ladybug and Cat Noir were watching from the roof. "So she knew and wanted to get us together she's not a bad person."
"I know she's not," said Ladybug, taking Cat Noir's hand. "I promise you, I will do anything I can to help her."
"I know you will, bugaboo," said Cat Noir, smiling.
-With Gabriel-
Gabriel went into the elevator with Natalie then noticed the glass coffin was open and inside was his wife awake.
"Gabriel?" She asked tiredly. "What happened? How long was I in that coma?"
"You were unconscious for a year, Emillie," said Gabriel. "Adrien's going to school now. And our long lost daughter was brought back to us."
"Daughter?" Emillie asked. And then she seemed to be thinking back. "That's right. I never told you. Where are they?"
"They're both at school." Then he realized something. His butterfly disappeared. Meaning someone destroyed it. He looked at Nathalie and laid her down in the support coffin.
"What happened to Nathalie?" Emillie asked.
"I don't know," said Gabriel. "But I intend to find out. In the meantime, Adrien's missed you."
Then he got a phone call. "Sir, your daughter is in the hospital she fell out of her wheelchair and an Akuma is attacking so we assume that is why she fell."
"I'm on my way," said Gabriel, visibly worried. "Emillie, our children need us."
-Hours later hospital-
Marissa was awake hours later her brother had arrived and he held out his hand. She sighed taking his hand. "Sorry."
"It's okay. I'm just glad you're alright," said Adrien.
The nurse came in and said, "Your parents are here. Both of them."
"Both parents?" Adrien asked.
"Yes, Adrien," said Emillie, smiling as she entered with Gabriel.
"Mom?" Adrien asked in shock.
She hugged him. "Hey, honey it's been too long." She said lovingly. And then she gently hugged Marissa. "My beautiful girl. I thought I'd lost you forever."
"It's nice to see you, mama." She hugged her tightly. She succeeded. Her wish came true. It was overwhelming. "Where's Natalie?"
Gabriel frowned. "She went missing."
"Oh no. Nathalie?" Adrien asked.
"Sadly yes," said Emillie, frowning. "I'm so sorry."
Adrien took Marissa's hand and held it. "I hope she's okay."
"I'm sure she is," said Marissa in assurance. "Please don't be sad. I think she'd want us to be happy. We're finally together."
"Yes. We are," said Adrien while gently hugging his sister. "And you're going to get better."
"More good news, the stitches weren't disrupted so she should be fine to go home."
"Oh good," said Emillie, sighing in relief. And then she gently hugged her daughter and son. "I can't wait to bond with my children."
Marissa smiled sweetly despite what they lost they still gained something wonderful.