I'm not a fan of the system used on this site to answer comments, the problem is that sometimes I don't have the time to answer right away and I end up forgetting to do so ... ^^"
So I decided that now I would answer directly here.

MoonlightMiracle: Mar'i is special... She has her reasons for doing what she does. There is also a reason why parents don't do anything. But, you'll find that out throughout the chapters! Thank you for your support. :D

CNCGal : So, for the time being, no. Mar'i is not going to team up with Lila, although it would have been possible. However, it would have been an interesting idea to explore, unfortunately, it wouldn't really fit with the current scenario of this story. Thank you for taking the time to comment!

Wrighting'GIRL3000: So, Mar'i is not like Lila. You'll have more answers in the next Special chapter, but in this story Lila lies yes, but she has reasons to do so. Her behavior is distinct from Mar'i, who does things for other reasons. For now, the story is set in Gotham. For this Au, Marinette will be able to go to Paris, but only for professional reasons or possibly for vacation.

I have only been able to respond to the comments in Chapter 24 at this point. But please know that I read all of your comments and thank you all very much for your support.

This chapter marks the introduction of an important person: Danny Fenton.
He comes from the "Danny Phantom" series, of which I'm a great fan!

Chapter less joyful than usual... You are warned.

Un grand merci à ma beta-reader BabyClara! Tu es génial!

"Marinette that was my cake!"

"Not anymore. All you had to do was eat faster."

"Give it back!"

"NOPE!"

Damian sighed.

Marinette could sometimes be unbearable when she was on a whim. He had the impression that his daughter's whims had increased since Danny had come into their lives.

"Angel, give Danny back his piece of cake, if you want some more you can get it from the fridge."

Marinette returned the piece of cake, not without complaining, and went into the kitchen to get a new piece. Danny started to eat. Damian ran his hand through the boy's hair affectionately. Danny smiled shyly at him.

It was a special morning, marking their last day in Greece. In a few hours they were to go together to the airport that would take them to America.

Damian was getting ready to return to live in the United States with his daughter and "adopted son".

4 MONTHS AGO

Ever since Danny had received his ghost powers, he really thought he'd seen everything. The ghost world had made him see everything. He had faced countless enemies.

Now he was confident in his abilities.

But nothing on this earth had prepared him for this.

Danny was sure that he was one of his kind. There were only two other people like him. Vlad and Dani. He never thought he would meet another person with skills similar to his.

Especially someone as devoid of empathy and common sense as this kid.

He was the youngest of his siblings. Although Danny had had Dani in his life for a while, the girl quickly became independent and soon decided to stand on her own two feet.

Now, he might have been a big brother, but he wasn't really prepared for the role.

It all started one day, when he was with his father in the basement of their house. Suddenly the gate started to ring. Danny immediately felt his body become tense. His father got up immediately and grabbed his ghost gear and pointed towards the gate.

The gate opened.

A small ghost came out of the gate. It had a black cape with a hood, which was not put on. It had ears and a cat's tail. Its eyes were completely green with bright green cat pupils. He could not see its clothes because of the cape. However, there was a kind of black mist that was escaping from its body and fluttering around the small ghost, like some kind of tentacles.

His ghostly senses were alert. This little ghost was dangerous.

"You chose to enter the wrong house, ghost!"

His father pointed his ghost gun at the little ghost and fired. The little ghost just moved slightly to the side and the shot went right past it. The small ghost looked at the spot where the laser had hit, and then slowly turned its head towards his father.

The little ghost raised an eyebrow and rolled its eyes, clearly not impressed. Then it flew away from the place without his father being able to touch them once.

Danny quickly left the room and turned into a ghost to chase the little ghost. Alas, he couldn't find the small ghost anywhere. Danny thought it was best to go home for the time being, ghosts don't stay quiet for long.

Yet, to his surprise, the little ghost appeared in his parents' lab the next day. Of course, his parents tried to stop them. Then, after a while, the small ghost disappeared.

This show went on for a whole week. Every day at the same time, the little ghost would come back, stay for a good hour and then leave again. Danny had the impression that the little ghost was playing with his parents (at least if the laughter was any indication).

The teenager began to seriously lose his patience when the little ghost began to appear in his middle school. The worst part? He was apparently the only one who could see it! His friends Tam and Tucker couldn't see the ghost. The small ghost followed him everywhere! (yes, even in the bathroom, the shower and the locker room) And the worst part? They disappeared as soon as Danny turned into a ghost!

After a while, Danny finally lost his temper and one day, when the hallway was deserted, he took the opportunity to confront this little stalker.

"What do you want from me and why are you following me?"

The little ghost looked at him silently for a moment, but finally answered.

"You are a fascinating creature. You have lost half your soul, and yet, instead of becoming a zombie, you have become part ghost, how did you do it?"

"What?"

"Why do you continue to live with humans when you are half immortal? Why do you hunt your ghost brothers?"

"I... Huh? My brothers?! Ghosts?!"

"This is the first time I've met someone with the same power as me. So, I want to know how you work. Hey, am I allowed to dissect you? It's just gonna sting a little at first..."

"WHAT?!"

Okay, it's official, the little ghost is completely crazy.

"I'm a girl. I'm not crazy, I just like to know how things work."

"….."

Oh my God, she can read minds!

"Affirmative."

"…."

Danny was stunned as he stared at the little ghost. He was pulled from his thoughts by Mr. Lancer.

"FENTON! What are you doing in the halls?! You-"

Even before Danny had time to move, the little ghost gave a violent blow to the man's stomach and he collapsed to the ground.

"What the hell is wrong with you?!"

"What? He was too noisy."

"You can't just hit someone like that!"

"…. Why? ..."

"Because it's wrong!"

"What does 'wrong' mean?"

"...*too shocked to say a single word*..."

After that day, Danny found himself playing babysitter with the little ghost girl. Apparently, her name was Marinette and she was looking for her biological parents. Just like him, she was half human, half ghost. However, she had certain powers that differed from his. She had a kind of destructive power, she could also teleport over short distances, read thoughts, manipulate memory, and command ghosts (just that...). Yet she couldn't throw a laser like Danny could. Nor could she create a barrier, nor absorb fanto-plasmic energy...

What struck him most was the child's lack of life skills. She had no sense of right and wrong. Nor did she understand how to live among humans.

Danny couldn't possibly explain why he let this child follow him around. The fact was, he didn't feel that this ghost was evil, just... a little out of it.

And completely unconscious.

Danny had had monumental fears because of this brat.

"Look Phantom, there's a body under the bridge."

"There's a WHAT?!"

There was indeed something that looked like a body under a bridge. Danny felt his heart miss a beat. He was genuinely shocked.

His discomfort turned to fear when he saw Marinette pull out some kind of stick and started taking a picture.

A picture... Of the...

Unbelievable... This kid really had no sense of respect!

"Marinette you-"

"It' s Lady Noir. No name on the field."

"Mushroom. Erase this picture right now!"

"Why would I do that? It's just a souvenir."

"Mushroom, that body was a person, and it should be treated with the utmost respect. Now, erase this picture."

Her cat tail wiggled from right to left quickly. Her little ears moved backwards. She was clearly upset. However, to Danny's relief, Marinette erased the photo she had just taken.

However, Danny was completely horrified by their discovery.

"Hey Phantom, can I keep this body? Hopefully we can turn it into a zombie."

"You want to- *clears throat* NO. No, you can't keep this person's body. We're going to call the police.

"The what?"

"… *doesn't know what to say*."

She began to help him in his hunt for bad ghosts.

For a year and a half, Marinette appeared every week. He and his friends were now used to seeing her. Sam introduced her to some of Jagged Stone's music, Tucker showed her how to use a computer, and he taught her how to better control her powers. And most importantly... he introduced her to video games!

However, to his dismay. The little girl did not come to see him at all now.

She disappeared.

For two years, Danny tried to find out what had happened to the little girl. Had she been captured by government agents? Had she been caught by a more powerful ghost?

He was now sixteen, almost seventeen years old.

Marinette would probably be 8 years old. Almost 9 years old...

-XxxX-

"Mommy... You tell me not to get in touch with you, to pretend I don't know you, but you come to see me regularly. I have already said that I will no longer intervene against the natural order. The Alien will be the only exception."

Death looked at her daughter, amused.

"You have become attached to this world, Little Death. It's... adorable. But I didn't come here to bring good news."

"…"

"Your "big brother" is in danger. I thought you might be interested in the information."

Seeing Little Death's state of shock, a sadistic smile appeared on Death's face.

"So... Do you still think you will respect the natural order?"

"…."

Death knew that this choice was cruel. But it was a necessary evil. Little Death was just like Death, a Kwami. And Kwamis were all a conceptualization of the universe. Little Death represented Obsession.

Little Death would be obsessed with things all her life. That was her nature. It was her essence.

The problem with her offspring was that she had inherited the power from both her parents. She possessed the powers of Death and the powers of Plagg, the god of destruction. This meant that she did not actually have her "own power" like most Kwamis. This meant that her daughter would probably not be accepted by the other Kwamis.

This made Little Death the ideal tool to get rid of both humans and gods.

Luckily, Zeus was too busy staring at women or dealing with the dramas of Olympus to be interested in what was really happening on earth. The Kwamis were now living in their own dimension of space and time. Death was one of the few gods who really had to take care of humans, while the other Kwamis lived in their magical world.

Death's dream?

To be free.

Death didn't want to take care of humans anymore; she didn't want to stay locked up in the Underworld for all eternity.

The Little Death's apparition had simply been a trigger for her.

Death had seen Little Death's birth as a sign of Fate. It was time for Death to put an end to the story that Life had begun several millennia ago.

In order for Death to be free, then the very concept of Life had to cease to exist. She would be the only thing that would exist in this world.

She is Chaos.

She is the End.

She is Death.

As she was immersed in her thoughts, one of her servants called out to her.

"Lady Death, Little Death went to save the hybrid."

Death began to laugh.

"Let her do it."

"My Lady, this is not in-"

"The natural order, yes I know. But don't you think the world is a lot more fun this way?"

Death laughed again. She was the end. Chaos was in her nature.

And if her daughter had stubbornly decided to fight against the established order, who was she to stop her?

Little Death was only her precious tool after all.

-XxxX-

Damian had just woken up. It was about five o'clock in the morning. He stretched and got out of bed quickly. When he was younger, he wasn't an early riser, even though he had to get up early. Now that he was an adult, he still hated getting up early, but his job didn't leave him much choice.

As he was about to take his shower and then quickly prepare breakfast, he heard a huge "BOOM" coming from the living room.

This woke him up immediately. Titus, who was sleeping near the foot of his bed, also woke up and immediately started barking.

Damian ran into his living room. There was a smoke like fog in the middle of his house. When the mist cleared, he recognized the ghostly shape of Marinette. She wasn't alone, there was someone with her.

"Father! Hurry! We must help him! He's dying!"

Damian came closer quickly. It was a young man. He was maybe 17 or 18 years old... His hair was black. The young man was covered with wounds and was bleeding heavily from his arm.

Damian quickly went to get the first aid kit.

"Is it going to become a habit to treat people on the floor of my house?"

Fortunately, the young man's injuries were not very serious. He put the young man on the couch in their living room, and finally turned to Marinette, waiting for an explanation.

"Angel, who is he?"

"A friend of mine."

"A friend of yours?"

"He's half ghost, like me. I met him when I was living with my host family."

"The family who vanished?"

"Yes, that's it."

"Hmm... what happened to him? How could you possibly have known something was happening to him? Why did you bring him here?"

"He was attacked. His family was killed. I knew this because... Because I left servants to look after him before I left... I was too late... I didn't think about it. I just... I didn't want him to die..."

Damian heard a sob.

To his greatest confusion, Marinette began to cry.

He had never seen her cry before.

Damian looked at the scene with a certain fascination, which was quickly replaced by a great panic.

He was not good at consoling people! He knew how to make them cry, not calm them down!

Where is Richard when you need him?!

He approached Marinette and started tapping her head awkwardly.

Was it good like that?

Marinette moved closer to him, and he found himself hugging his daughter. He patted her back gently. That's what Richard used to do to him when he was little and sad.

It seemed to work. Marinette calmed down.

He held back a sigh of relief. If she had continued to cry, he was already thinking about calling Jon, or Richard, or whoever was good with human empathy.

The days that followed were strange. The young man, whose name was Danny, was actually a 16-year-old teenager. He was completely devastated, which was absolutely normal. Overnight, he had lost his entire family. What worried Damian even more was Danny's description of his attackers.

Damian was certain that it was Deathstroke and Lady Shiva. They had teamed up with a group called H.I.V.E. (at least that's how they had introduced themselves to Danny).

Damian decided to inform his father. It was probably one of the strangest calls he had to make in his life. It was not in his nature to admit that he needed help.

However, over the past two years he had done many things that were originally against his "normal" character. If Marinette hadn't appeared in his life, he would never have gone back to the Waynes...

His father immediately asked him to come to Gotham. He would be safer within the walls of the Manor than anywhere else.

Damian hesitated for a long time. He finally agreed, on the condition that his stay at the Manor would be only temporary, to give him time to find a place he liked.

Back to the Present.

Danny couldn't sleep. He had no desire to have nightmares, so he turned into a ghost and went to take refuge on the roof of the house.

He was surprised to find Marinette on the roof, looking at the stars.

Danny joined her without saying a word. She noticed him but chose not to say anything either.

A pleasant silence settled in.

Finally, Danny's curiosity spoke louder. There was a question he had been dying to ask since he lived with Marinette and Damian.

"Marinette, can I ask you a question?"

"You can always try."

"Damian... Are you really the "daughter" of your "father"?"

Marinette continued to contemplate the sky in silence. When Danny thought that she wasn't going to answer him, he heard her voice.

"No, I'm not."

Danny's anxiety grew. He suspected it. He had this strange feeling that something was wrong. The young man had known Marinette when he was younger. She didn't behave the same way at all. Even her human appearance was a little different.

"Marinette... What did you do?"

"I'm just following my mommy's orders."

"Your mommy? You mean Raven?"

He remembered hearing Damian talking on the phone with that woman.

"No."

Danny's confusion only got worse. He chose not to push it, though.

"But I wish he was."

She looked at him sadly.

"I wish so much that Damian were my real daddy. I wish I were my father's daughter."

Danny didn't know what to say, so he chose to remain silent.

A/N :

Now you have all the cards in your hands to find out which story mirrors which story. Good luck

-You may have noticed, it always takes me more time to bring out Damian's story... The reason is simple: of the four stories, this one has the most complex scenario, with an extremely rich world.

It will be the only AU where there will be more than one crossover.

Danny will have a central role in the chapters to come. I originally wanted to introduce him at the beginning of the story. Danny should have appeared in Chapter 1, but I changed my mind at the last moment. First I needed Marinette and Damian to build a relationship, and then I had to introduce Danny.

You now know a little bit more about Marinette and what she stands for :D

I was really looking forward to writing this chapter, because now that you know who Marinette is, reread the previous chapters, you'll get a whole different picture of what's going on... I'll leave you to your theories! xD

- A little explanation is in order:

Each Little Story revolves around the Miraculous but in a different form.

For the story with Dick, you'll see, it's a surprise ;)

For the story with Jason, the Miraculous works like in the canon. There are jewels called Miraculous and each jewel is associated with a Kwami.

For the story with Tim, although there are Miraculous in the form of Jewelry, there is an important variation. You will discover all this in the next chapters ;)

For Damian's story, "Miraculous" refers to the space in which the Kwamis, who are gods in humanoid form, live. Jewels do not exist. You will also discover what this implies and how the world of the Kwamis works through the chapters ;)