A plan starts to form...


Ladybug dashed across rooftops and over the Paris skyline. It was no use trying to be sneaky about it now, Mayura immediately noticed that Ladybug was trying to catch her. Ladybug was slowly catching up to her, but she was running out of time. Ladybug's miraculous chirped for the fourth time, only sixty seconds until she would detransform.

Was she that close to catching Mayura? Thousands of thoughts ran through her head; would she be able to beat Mayura alone, without her lucky charm? Would there be enough time before her miraculous broke her transformation? Was this all worth her possibly detransforming on a random Parisian rooftop, likely in front of Mayura, whoever she was?

Ladybug clicked her tongue and took a sharp turn down between buildings to hide. As soon as she hit the ground her miraculous chirped for the final time and broke her transformation.

"Marinette! what was that?" Tikki asked with no regard to how tired she was, having been transformed the full five minutes after Ladybug used her lucky charm.

"I— I don't know. I want to catch her to stop Hawk Moth…" Marinette stopped to take a deep breath. Their chase had left her exhausted. "Suddenly I just got this overwhelming feeling to stop her. It's like my heart knew she was one of the things keeping me from telling Adrien my identity; that I'm Ladybug."

Marinette reached into her purse to pull out a small pink macaron to give to Tikki. Marinette looked at Tikki apologetically, she was completely drained of energy and clearly struggling to keep floating around. She held Tikki in her hands to give her a break and eat the macaron to regain her energy.

Marinette knew they had a long mission ahead of them. She knew that her heart was right, and she had to listen to it. They'd been fighting Hawk Moth for nearly a year with little to no progress to find out who he was or how to stop him.

She wanted to be able to tell Adrien that she was Ladybug, but she couldn't do that until the threat of Hawk Moth was gone. This meant that she was going to have to do a lot of digging, and she felt like this was something she had to do herself.

"Are you ready to go Tikki?"

The kwami took the last bite of the macaron then nodded.

"We're pretty far from home," Marinette continued, "So I need Ladybug's help, sorry. I'll give you more treats once we get home."

Marinette waited until Tikki was completely finished eating, then looked around to make sure no one was nearby to see her transform. "Tikki! Spots on!"

Ladybug swung her yo-yo and propelled herself onto the rooftop and across the city. She landed on her rooftop balcony and quickly slid through the trapdoor and into her bedroom where she could safely detransform.

"Okay Tikki, spots off."

Without another word, Marinette sat down at her desk and pulled a piece of blank paper from her school bad and a pen from the cup on her desk.

Tikki floated over too see what she was doing. "Are you planning something?" She asked as Marinette turned on her computer.

"Oh sorry Tikki, I already forgot your cookie." Marinette opened her desk drawer and pulled a container out. Inside was a variety of cookies and snacks Marinette had stashed away specifically for Tikki.

Tikki made her selection, then sat down on the desk to eat it next to where Marinette was working.

Marinette opened to the Ladyblog. "After I was chasing Mayura I decided that I would work harder toward figuring out who Hawk Moth is and capture both him and Mayura." She scrolled to the section of the Ladyblog that was for Hawk Moth and wrote down all the relevant points as well as any additional details and did the same for Mayura.

Marinette tapped her pen on the paper. "Tikki, do you think I should visit Master Fu to see if he has anything else that might help?"

Tikki nodded. "Master knows lots about the miraculous, there must be something else. You should talk to Chat Noir too!"

"No." Marinette cut her off. "I want to do this without Chat. It's already hard knowing the person I love is putting himself in danger, I want to do this myself. I need to keep him safe."


I'll put another part out tomorrow as usual.

How do you guys think Mari will try to end things with Hawk Moth?