Lucy stood while leaning on her right hip with her arms crossed as she watched her peers in line for Jagged stone. Unfamiliar with the star, Lucy couldn't help but feel unimpressed by the whole thing. Seeing someone stand beside her out of her peripheral vision, Lucy looked to her left to find Marinette watching equally annoyed. When Alya walked towards them with her CD in hand, Marinette tapped her foot.

"Huh, got an autograph."

Alya smiled at her sheepishly and apologized claiming she couldn't help herself but that she snagged Marinette one too. Temptation coursed through her but Marinette remained strong willed and refused. Looking past the her two friends, Lucy raised an eyebrow and excused herself and began walking towards a pillar behind them. Peeking around and leaning against the marble surface, Lucy crossed her arms once more.

"Whatcha doooin?" She asked startling Chloe and Sabrina. The red head quickly hid her hand behind her back with a worried expression while Chloe glared at Lucy with her hands on her hips.

"None of your business!"

Lucy smiled at the blue eyes blonde lightly. "Something tells me it isn't any of yours either. Just for the record, the weather today is partly suspicious with chances of betrayal. It is the Ides of March after all."

"Never knew you were a believer in stupid superstition." Chloe sneered.

"I'm believer in Karma. You might know a little bit about that, wouldn't you Sabrina?" Lucy retorted while lifting her hand and twisting her writs back and fourth. Sabrina frowned and shrunk away from Lucy slightly, embarrassment creeping up her spine. Lucy's sea foam eyes went back to meet Chloe's icy ones and a lesser person might have cowered at the intensity but Chloe stood her ground.

"You should be more mindful of peoples secrets Chloe," Lucy warned. "One day, yours might be at risk for exposure and people will remember how you handled theirs."

"I don't have any secrets." Chloe countered confidently but Lucy knew better.

"Hm..." She hummed out, her small smile still visible on her lips. Chloe squinted at Lucy as she walked away without another word. Her eyes shifted and a smirked moved to her lips as she over heard Marinette talking to some of the other students about her ideas.

Alya gave Lucy a curious look as she walked back in her direction. "Where you just talking to Chloe?" She asked and Lucy gave a small nod.

"That I was."

"About what?" Alya asked with her arms crossed.

"Chloe seems to have a knack for getting her hands on things that do not belong to her." Lucy answered as she watched Chloe approach Marinette and lead her away from some of the students she was talking to.

"You are being very cryptic right now, you know that right?" A suspicious and mildly annoyed tone laced Alya's words.

"Chloe has Marinette's diary."

"What?! That little-" Alya's rant was interrupted by the sound of trumpets outside the building. The mayor, along with Lucy, Alya, Marinette, Rose and Kim peeked out the door to find an army of knights standing outside.

"O-ye, o-ye! Darkblade shalt speak now! Listen or be imprisoned!" One knight spoke as, who they could only assume was Darkblade, stepped forward.
"Henceforth, my flag shalt fly over thy kingdom! Bourgeois, pathetic knave, come hither and do battle!"

The mayor looked out uncertain. "What did he say?"

"Basically, he's gonna bust you up." Alya answered. The mayor quickly stuttered and told them to make an appointment with his secretary before slamming the doors shut.

Outside Chat and Tigress hop down and begin fighting off the knights.

"Guys, do you only know heavy metal?" Chat Noir asked, tossing his staff around. Tigress rolled her eyes as she kicked a few over. This fucking guy.

Lucy smiled as she looked out the window to see Chat and Tigress. Seems to be doing good for her first day. Lucy thought to herself as she watched Tigress wack a number of knights with her nun-chucks. She raised an eyebrow as she noticed the rock star walk out the door from the corner of her eye. What on earth was that guy doing? Jagged Stone went out and with only a few moments was turned into a knight himself. Lucy quickly made her way over to the doors and grabbed Marinette's shoulder.

"We need to try and keep them out."

Marinette nodded with a determined look on her face.

"The doors quickly!"

"The doors quickly!" Chloe's voice echoed.

"Quit, Chloe!"

"Quit Chloe-oh."

The students shut the door but the knights outside began trying to bust their way in. Lucy watched Marinette quickly run upstairs making the blonde confused. Where was she going?

"Do you think the doors will hold?" Alya asked as she moved to Lucy's side.

"No," Lucy answered while shaking her head. "We need to barricade it, lock the windows. Even that wont be a permanent solution but it will buy us some time. Is their a back door to this place?"

"Its a historical government building. Pretty sure the only way in is through those doors." Said Alya making Lucy sigh.

"Of course it is."

Kim, Ivan, lock the doors! Make sure all the windows are closed too, quickly!" Marinette shouted from the stairs, drawing everyone's attention. " Nino, Juleka, Rose, Mylene, Lucy and Alya, you come with me!"

"So nice of you to join us after running off to who knows where Marinette." Lucy muttered to herself. Marinette went ton to get everyone to help barricade the entrance in hopes to delay the knights on the outside. Continuous thumping at the door indicated that the knights had no plan of stopping their efforts any time soon.

"We can't stay here." Lucy said and Marinette turned to the mayor, telling him they all need to retreat. The mayor agreed and told everyone to follow him. Lucy stopped half way up the stairs to see Marinette not following and called out to her.

"Marinette! What are you doing? Let's go!"

"Go on without me." She claimed. "Keep everyone calm and safe, I'm going to make sure the windows are secure and keep adding to the barricade. Try and hold them off as long as possible."

"I can help you."

"I got this! Lucy our friends need you, go!"

Lucy frowned and sighed before turning and continuing after the rest of her classmates.

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"No more evil doing for you little Akuma!" Ladybug said releasing the now harmless butterfly before throwing her lucky charm into the air to fix everything. Chat Noir quickly dismissed himself and Ladybug looked to her new companion.

"I'm sorry we didn't have time to be properly introduced."

"Tigress." The girl answered with her hand out. "Nice to meet you."

"Is it safe to assume you'll be joining us from now on?" Ladybug asked, getting a nod from the new hero.

"You bet, gotta say, I wasn't so sure about this whole super hero thing, thought maybe it was some kind of a fluke." Tigress admitted. "But now I can see it wasn't. I may not know why I was chosen to fight along side you and Chat, but I look forward helping you guys kick akuma ass."

Ladybug smiled and gave a small laugh, happy to know she isn't the only one to doubt herself in the beginning, but also happy Tigress now saw her true potential. "I'm positive we are going to make a great team." Ladybug confirmed before hearing her earnings beep.

"See ya on the flip side Ladybug." Tigress said with a solute before hopping over to the next building.

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Lucy still felt a little dazed as she and the others removed the things blocking the door.

"And where were you? Hiding under a rock?!" Chloe shouted as Marinette came down the stairs. Marinette glared at Chloe before explaining that she was turned into a knight. Lucy gave an amused look as Adrien quickly came down as well claiming he had been as well. He walked over to Lucy and leaned his forearm onto her shoulder.

"What a knight-mare!"

Lucy squinted at him before raising an eyebrow. "And where the hell did you come from?"

"I was knight, must have stormed the place with all the others." Adrien responded causally with a shrug. Lucy looked him over. Everyone who was a knight that turned elsewhere, returned to the place they had been knighted. Curious that he wasn't. A pain shot through Lucy's head causing her to wince.

"Are you alright?!" Adrien asked with concern taking hold of Lucy by the shoulders.

"Yeah.." She answered with a sight groan. "I just...what was I saying?"

Adrien knitted his eyebrows together as he looked Lucy over. This wasn't the first time she had seemed confused. He just didn't know what was making her that way.

"Now that all this is over, I want my personal items back!" Marinette demanded, drawing the two teens attention. Chloe tried to claim she had no idea what Marinette was talking about but Sabrina pushed her to the side, eager to have the box removed from her hand. The class frowned at Chloe as it was revealed she had tried to use Marinette's diary against her. She tried to claim it was Sabrina's idea but the accusation did not help her cause. When Alya claimed Marinette would be the new class rep because there was no way anyone was going to vote for Chloe now, Marinette hesitated and Chloe tried to turn the negativity away from her by claiming Marinette was dropping out of being class rep.

"No, I'm not!" Marinette explained. "I just wanna be voted in fairly, not because you don't wanna vote for Chloe, but because you believe in me! I'm not gonna make promises that I can't keep, and I'm not gonna be able to get you everything that you want. But I am resourceful and I know how to prioritize. I'm a good listener and a great multi-tasker. Representing you all is something I truly believe in. And most importantly, I believe in myself. So... Vote for Marinette, for class representative!"

Lucy and and Adrien smiled at one another and clapped with the rest of the class.

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Back at home Adrien laid on his bed in thought, Plagg happily munching on cheese beside him.

"What's eatin you kid?" Plagg asked lazily as he side eyed his blonde owner.

"Lucy...she-"

"Is great, yeah yeah, forget I asked."

"No! I mean, yes, but that's not what I'm talking about. Something was just going on with her today. She was talking about some weird dream she had, and how she was going through some deja vu situation. Then later when I told her I was turned into a knight she kinda just looked at me for a moment, like she knew I was lying, but then something happened and all of a sudden she was in pain. Its just odd."

Plagg paused his cheese eating a moment in thought. "Like she knew you were lying huh...?"

"Yeah...Plagg do you know something?" Adrien asked, sitting up and looking at his Kwami.

"Actually, yes."

Adrien blinked at him. "Well are you gonna tell me?!"

"Oh, its your miraculous." Plagg said casually, throwing the last hunk of his cheese into his mouth.

Groaning, Adrien threw his head back. "That doesn't tell me anything Plagg."

The little black cat rolled his eyes before floating in front of the teens face.

"Do you think people are stupid Adrien?"

"What?! No! Of course not!" Adrien defended wide eyed.

"Really?" Continued Plagg. "Then why do you think nobody has figured out your Chat yet? I'm not talking about random people on the street of course, but all your friends, the people who see you everyday and accept your lame excuses for where you are going and where you have been. Why do you think they have not put two and two together?"

Adrien shrugged. "They don't recognize me, I wear-"

"A mask that covers a quarter of your face." Plagg said with a deadpan look. "Listen kid, your friends don't recognize you, because your miraculous keeps them from doing so. All miraculous do. Its a small amount of magic that they give off when your identity is in jeopardy. Makes them lose their train of thought, so they drop it."

"Is that why I can't seem to figure out Ladybugs identity?" Adrien asked as he thought about Plagg's words.

"Pretty much. It does affect other holders. You guys are not supposed to know one another identity so its only natural it protects you from each other as well. Obviously it can't stop you from revealing yourself or flat out telling people who you are. Nor is it impossible for a person to figure it out on their own. The miraculous just makes it more difficult."

"Does that mean Lucy thinks I am Chat Noir?" Adrien asked trying to make sense of it all. Plagg shrugged.

"It means the thought has crossed her mind. She might not straight up think it, but Lucy is perceptive. The more lame excuses you have to give her, the more often you'll probably witness her get confused." Plagg went on. "My advise is to avoid having to explain yourself to her as much as possible, or at least become a better liar."

"I don't want to lie to her at all. I wish I could just tell her everything."

"Well don't." Plagg warned.

"Would it really be so bad?"

"WoUlD iT rEaLly Be So- YES IT WOULD BE BAD." Plagg argued. "I've been around a long time Adrien, had a lot of owners. You think your the first to want to reveal yourself to someone? Well hate to disappoint ya but your not."

Adrien watched as Plagg grew a solemn expression. Something the boy was not used to when it came to his otherwise careless Kwami. Plagg floated down and sat beside Adrien on the bed with a sigh.

"You think revealing yourself to the people you care about might make things easier for you. No more lying, or sneaking around. But the truth is that it makes everything much more difficult. If you trust in anything I have to say trust this: I've seen it before. Its just better this way..."

The Kwami went quiet then. And Adrien couldn't find anything to say to him. Silence is a protective coating over pain. Plagg let his mind wonder to times of the past. It's a small world. It keeps recrossing itself. You would think a being capable of living billions of years could easily hold all the happenings in one humble lifetime without much overlap, after all it's not just Paris he has lived in—but no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters. It can be so draining.

Alright, second half of Darkblade done! Bit of a shorter chapter but once again, really just wanted to update as well as have a bit of a discussion. I wanted to add a miraculous holder other than Lucy, and although I don't think I will still be writing a whole lot of action scenes, it will at least give a little wiggle room in my chapters. Also the idea for the way the miraculous works came from a book I read on wattpad. Its a Chat Noir fic called "The Muse" by khywae. The book focuses on the characters several years later while they are all in collage and it much more on the mature side, however in it she writes about how the miraculous has the power to wipe memories to protect the holders identities, something I found very interesting and after watching the 'Miracle Queen' episode I found that it was an idea that was not to far fetched and wanted to incorporate it. Because otherwise, honestly come on, someone should have put the pieces together by now. Anyway, I would love to hear your thoughts on everything so far! I'm glad most of you are enjoying the story and feel free to comment. I always try to answer back! See you later!