"Glad you came before this became a real cat-astrophe," Chat Noir said as Ladybug swung onto the roof next to him.
"No time for puns kitty," Ladybug said, "what's going on?"
"Sorry, didn't mean to Bug ya," Ladybug glared at him and he turned his attention back to the villain spewing flames before them. "From what I gather his character that he was attached to in D&D was killed, or he said as much before he and his senti-monster went haywire. It's weird, normally the victims purr-dicament is worse than a game character dying."
They jumped back as flames spewed at them, the senti-moster spinning in circles.
"So what, he just turned into a dragon tamer or something? He's not even aiming at us, he's just going on a random rampage." Ladybug said.
Chat Noir narrowed his eyes. "To be honest it doesn't really look like the tamer has much control over his dragon." He nodded at the fire breathing senti-monster the villain was riding. "That's the villains name by the way, Trainer."
"MIRACULOUS!" The villain screamed suddenly, driving his dragon into a building, "GIVE THE MIRACULOUS!"
Ladybug leaped to the roof directly in front of the villains. "I'm over here!" She called, "Come get my miraculous!"
"NO! NO!" Trainer yelled, ignoring Ladybug, "I NEED- NEED MIRACULOUS!"
"I don't think that's going to work Lady," Chat said, "a couple minuets before you got here he just stopped paying attention to anything around him all together. He keeps on holding his head like he's in pain or something."
"AHHHHHHHHHHH! MIRACULOUS!"
"I don't know what's going on," Ladybug said, "but I think we're going to need a little luck." She threw her yoyo into the air shouting, "LUCKY CHARM!"
Nothing happened.
"What's going on?" Ladybug asked. She tried again, "LUCKY CHARM!"
Chat Noir tackled her into the ground as a stream of fire came their way.
"What's going on?" Ladybug asked, starting to panic a little.
"Maybe we already have what we need?" Chat suggested, helping her back up.
Ladybug shook her head. "I don't think so. I mean, look at that thing."
The dragon crashed into another building, nearly throwing the Tamer off of it's back.
"Anyways," she continued, "for now we need to put some of these fires out. Everyone has already been evacuated, correct?"
Chat nodded. "I believe so, but it really is hard to tell through all this smoke."
Ladybug set her mouth grimly. "Let's hope you're right Chat, the smoke's thick enough to kill in some of these buildings."
"NO!" The trainer screamed again. The dragon beneath him started shuddering, freezing in it's tracks, "NO! IT CAN'T BE!" For a second it sounded as if more than one voice was coming from his mouth. Everything went silent. The dragon stopped moving altogether, the Trainer looking up dumbly at the sky.
"I don't know what's going on Chat, but now's our chance!" Ladybug cried.
They leapt forward but before they reached the dragon it melted away in a purple-black smoke, leaving behind a small plastic dragon. Ladybug quickly caught the revealed purple feather in her yoyo's container. A second later the Trainer de-akumatized as well, the purple butterfly not even bothering to try and fly away as Ladybug caught it. She quickly released the purified the feather and butterfly.
She and Chat Noir ran over to the victim. He was holding his head, rocking back and forth.
"What was that?" He murmured, "What was that nightmare?" He looked up at the hero's. shaking, "Where am I? What happened?" He desperately grabbed Chat Noir's shoulders, "Tell me. Am I alive?"
Ladybug and Chat Noir looked at each other, brows drawn.
"You're alive," Ladybug said, putting a hand on his shoulder. "are you okay?"
He looked at her, eyes wide. "H-his voice kept on ringing in my head," he mumbled, letting go of Chat and backing off, "Not dead. Not dead. Over and over and over." He started coughing, the smoke around them thickening as fire poured out of every building around them. "I had only killed my character, this, this was something else. Like someone else's thoughts were controlling mine." A couple tears fell from his eyes.
Ladybug put her arm over her mouth and turned to Chat Noir, "We have to get him out of here, the smoke's too thick to breath."
Chat grabbed the panicking man and used his baton to vault them away. Ladybug threw he yoyo up into the air, yelling, "Miraculous Ladybug!"
The fires went out and the smoke dispersed. Around her the rubble cleared from the streets as the buildings put themselves back together. Satisfied that her miraculous ladybug power was working even though her luck charm hadn't, Ladybug swung after Chat Noir. She found him and the victim a couple streets down.
Chat Noir was rubbing the akuma victims back as he rocked back and forth, shaking.
"It wasn't me," he mumbled, Chat's comfort seemingly not helping much, "it wasn't me."
"How's he doing?" Ladybug asked walking up.
Chat shook his head, turning back to the trembling man before them. "It's okay," he told him, "no one is responsible when they're akumatized. We now it wasn't you."
"That's not what I mean!" The man shouted, "Don't you see? Well don't you? It wasn't my emotion!"
"What?" Ladybug asked, drawing her brows together.
The mans words started to string together without pause, barley allowing himself to breath. "Don't you see? It wasn't my emotion! Ladybug! Chat Noir! It wasn't me. I was sad about losing my character, sure, upset, yes, but I didn't have that consuming, overwhelming grief that took hold of me." He covered his head, shuddering. "No. No. That wasn't my grief. I've never felt something so sickeningly intense before! That wasn't something I am capable of producing. It couldn't have been me."
Chat Noir and Ladybug looked at each other and nodded.
"Sir," Chat said, "I'm going to take you to the officers over there, they'll help you calm down. Let you talk, maybe get you a warm drink. It'll be okay."