Chapter 13
After school Jin lied at the Place de Vosges on the grass reading a book, while next to him he had his notepad where he had to sum up, what he read as homework. Jin picked up his pen and began to write down a sentence, then stopped and looked across the park to see people sitting around enjoying the warm sun. Two kids were present at the park playing with a ball against a great boy, while down next to them sat a young couple see the two play soccer against each other.
„Here comes the great Piquito, which steals the ball from Fernandez!" The big pre-teen said taking the ball away from the first brown-haired boy, which followed him.
„Venga hermanito, show Tony who's the boss," The woman at the picnic cheered for the second kid, which followed the older boy.
Jin chuckled at seeing the two boys encircle the tall boy, then he looked down at his sheet thinking about how to continue, then as he continued in front of him passed a short teenage girl, which called his attention as she recognized the shoes she was wearing and he looked up to recognize his childhood friend Yi making her way to the water fountain, then she sat down placing on the ground a case, which seemed to belong to a string instrument.
Jin sat up and looked at the girl opening the case taking out her violin, then she took out the bow and glanced down at her case with a neutral facial expression and positioned her violin on her cheek, then began to play a tune on it. Jin observed the girl play, making him smile to see her play for the first time after not being able to see her since he moved away from Shanghai, then a few people noticed the girl playing and watched her doing so, some getting in the way of Jin, which tried to see from the sides of the legs, then he got up and walked around them to watch her from another side of the park.
„That's the same girl, that played yesterday at the park in front of the Notre dame," A teenage boy said earning a nod from a friend, then Jin stopped next to the boys to observe her playing afterward a few people came closer to see her play and a raven-haired girl stopped behind Jin's back and tapped him on the shoulder, earning his attention, which widened his eyes confused at seeing the foreign girl.
„Uh hi" Jin greeted the girl a little surprised at encountering a girl he had once sent a message a while ago.
„What are you doing here all by yourself?" The girl asked, then Jin showed the girl his homework on the ground on the other side of the crowd. „I'm done with mines. I can help you out if you want?" The girl suggested making Jin shake his head.
„No it's alright, I'm almost done," Jin answered looking back at Yi, which was playing on the violin, afterward he noticed people beginning to throw coins into the case.
„Have you got something special to do?" The girl asked making Jin shake his head.
„No, but I got something planned this evening, which can't get postponed," Jin responded, then the girl pointed to the other side of the park, where at the entrance was the ice cream vendor André serving an ice combination to a dark-skinned couple.
„Would you like to get ice?" The girl asked making Jin shrug his shoulders.
„I actually had a croissant before, but okay one scoop won't hurt," Jin responded, then the girl pulled him on his arm making him wide his eyes in confusion, but followed the girl to the ice vendor.
„Oh good afternoon, Amanda. How are you doing?" André asked looking at the two, then noticed the girl embrace Jin on his arms making him grin a little embarrassed.
„This is the one, who sent me that lovely message a while ago and finally I found him," Amanda gushed earning a nod from Jin, which was still caught surprised by the girl pulling him behind her. „And he's got the same brown eyes as your ice cream told me, André,"
„Oh, I believe you misunderstood my message. I was talking about yourself not him," André stated. „I'm sorry about this. Yours was chocolate with hazelnut, not chocolate with cocoa" André corrected making chocolate ice with an additional hazelnut scoop on top of it and handed it out to the girl.
„But you kind of have hazel eyes, don't you?"
„They're actually brown," Jin corrected. „But I understand the confusion,"
„Oh Amanda, don't worry, you soon will figure it out, who the one meant for you," André comforted the girl, which accepted the ice a little disappointed.
„Wait, are you that ice cream matchmaker or match finder…..?"
„Ah you must be new here" André guessed making Jin shrug his shoulders.
„I've been longer here, but I've never seen you here, to be honest,"
„Well, you're lucky today, boy. Cause André here knows exactly, what you're looking for," André said.
„Okay, at least it's not as weird as using Coupleship and Dinder," Jin mentioned making the man laugh.
„Oh no, no. Compared to those sites my ice cream does bring all the people together, not to mention the famous ones. I even got pictures of all the couples" André explained taking out a picture album from a case he had next to his cart to show it Jin.
„Uh okay…..sounds interesting," Jin responded trying to be polite, then André placed it back and took his scooper to form the boy an ice cream. „But how long have those relationships lasted?"
„Ah, I smell fear in your words. You're worried about the time, but you don't have to. The most important part of your relationship is your trust and loyalty towards each other. Only when that is strong in your relationship, it keeps you two together for the rest of your lives," André explained earning a nod from Jin, afterward, he took out a cone with a large red scoop, followed by a middle-sized dark brown ice ball and on top a brown smaller scoop, afterward he spread over the ice light blue sprinkles and handed it out to Jin.
„Deep inside my heart, I can feel, that you two have already met. Something has pulled you two away from each other and now you're both are bothered by something important in your lives. Whether you know it or not, it's debatable," André said making Jin look bewildered at the man. „I know, that with the time you'll get over it and manage to overtake the situation."
„Okay…..that's reassuring," Jin answered making André smile knowing Jin wasn't really understanding, what he was talking about. „Thanks"
„Do you have any idea, who your love interest might be?" Amanda asked leaning next to Jin's shoulder.
„Well, one thing is for sure. We know each other" Jin mentioned looking at the fountain, noticing major of the people had left and Yi stood there in front of a policeman, which was writing down on a block something, while Yi just gazed down at the ground neutrally. „Uh is playing in parks music legal?" Jin asked Amanda, which shrugged her shoulders.
„Actually it is so far I know," Amanda responded looking along with Jin at Yi, seeing the police officer Roger walk away and Yi took up her case and emptied the coins she received into the water fountain.
„Oh she probably must have received a fine for earning money," Jin stated making Amanda shrug her shoulders, then both watched Yi disappear behind the fountain. Jin began to enjoy his ice along with Amanda and he looked at the end of the park to see a man in black jeans and a white shirt with an image of a cupcake and the name of a children nursery standing at the entrance looking at people, then Yi passed by the man and he waved his hand at the girl, then spoke at her, making her nod.
Jin licked his lips as he had got cream over his cupid's bow, then squinted his eyes to read the writing on the shirt of the man.
„Where is the nursery Caprice?" Jin asked making the girl shrug her shoulders.
„Why are you asking?" The girl asked watching Jin take out his smartphone to google it, then nothing appeared beside pictures of girl rooms and Jin changed the positions of the words, which brought him the same options including a search engine specifically made for nurseries and créches.
„There's nothing from this name" Jin mentioned, then he looked at Yi walking away leaving the man back, afterward the man looked around and ran behind Yi grabbing her while covering her mouth and crossed the road shocking Jin as he saw his childhood friend was getting kidnapped. „Yi!" Jin shouted shrieking Amanda at his reaction.
„What's going on?" Amanda asked, then Jin gave her his ice and ran to the other side and threw himself behind a bush and checked around if anyone was near, afterward Plagg left his shirt looking at his owner.
„Well, well, well is Romeo going to save his Juliett?" Plagg asked the owner teasingly making Jin frown his eyebrows annoyed at the comment.
„Someone has to act Plagg. Even if she wasn't my friend or was an enemy, it's our job," Jin taught the kwami.
„Sure, no one's saying otherwise,"
„Plagg, claws out!" Jin shouted transforming into Onyx, then he ran aside the sidewalk next to the park and recognized the man driving in a small van with the slogan of a chemical laundry, then he ran behind the van and used his staff to jump up at the roof of the vehicle, therefore he knocked on the windshield of the vehicle to scare the driver, which began to honk trying to get Onyx off the van.
„Release the girl, right now!" Onyx hissed knocking on the window hard, then the driver splashed Onyx with water, but Onyx continued to knock on the window holding his face away from the water. „Okay! You gave me no choice…..Cataclysm!" Onyx shouted breaking the window with his superpower, then he crawled into the car and pulled the handbrake causing the vehicle to stop, followed by another vehicle break and crash into the van's back. Onyx slipped off the hood of the car, afterward, he got up and opened the door, and held his staff against the man.
„Get out of there!" Onyx shouted watching the man hold his hands up in the air.
From behind the van the car, that had crashed into the van Marinette got out of the car from the backseat, then she opened the front door to help out his father, which hugged her afterward.
„Everything is fine, dear," Tom said, then looked at Onyx, which held his staff towards the man. „What is going on?"
„Please drive the car back and open the door of this van here," Onyx ordered earning a nod from the adult, which entered into the car to pull backward and Marinette opened the door of the van and shrieked as she recognized Yi, which sat in there with her mouth covered with duct tape and she got in to help her out.
„Shall I call the police?" Tom asked earning a nod from the superhero, which continued to hold the man still in the car.
„Onyx, there was a girl on the back of the van," Marinette mentioned helping Yi out of the car, then she walked her to the superhero, which sighed in relief at seeing his childhood friend was safe.
„Thank you, Marinette….uh I mean random citizen," Onyx responded.
„No problem Onyx…..I mean new superhero," Marinette corrected making Yi furrow her eyebrows in confusion.
„I saw this guy taking you. Did he cause anything to you, that I should know?" Onyx asked.
„For now on he only threw me into his van", Yi responded. „Before he suggested me he had a job for me at his nursery, but I rejected his offer. Afterward, he grabbed me and took me into the van and covered my mouth. That's all he did for now,"
„So you knew from the beginning it could be something bad?" Onyx asked making Yi shrug her shoulder.
„I assumed, but I wasn't expecting he would want to take me just like that," Yi answered earning a nod from the raven-haired superhero.
„Okay. Are you okay so far? Don't you feel dizzy or anything?" Onyx asked watching the girl shake her head.
„I'm okay. I could have taken him down without a problem if he wasn't taller and stronger than me,"
„I know, don't worry you just had bad luck," Onyx mentioned making Yi nod. „But hey this guy is definitely landing behind the grades," Onyx said watching the man slide to the other side of the car, then he extended his staff pushing him against the window holding him tight to it. „And I make sure the cops take him," The superhero stated watching Yi chuckle a little, then Marinette showed to the two the violin case, that belonged to Yi.
„Is this yours?" Marinette asked showing Yi the violin case, then she nodded and took it from Marinette's hands.
„Thanks" Yi answered.
„How long have you been playing violin?" Marinette asked watching Yi look away from her, making Marinette sank her head down noticing Yi doesn't seem to want to answer to it.
„Is something wrong, little lady?" Onyx asked bowing down a little to have eye contact with the girl. „Is that very special to you?" Onyx questioned the girl, which nodded.
„Has it to do with your father?" Marinette asked watching Yi ignoring her question making her sad.
„Good there comes a police car," Onyx mentioned as he saw at the next curve a vehicle of the police show up, then he raised his hand up to notify the men of the law enforcement.
„Okay, I have to go. I used my cataclysm and my time is running out," Onyx stated. „See you someday," Onyx signed off running away from the people, then approached the Dupain-Cheng bakery and hid under the roof and looked around for anyone, that could spot him and smiled as he was safe. „Plagg, Claws in," Onyx transformed back into Jin then smiled at his kwami, which stretched his arms up in the air.
„Now I'm hungry," Plagg mentioned earning a nod from the raven-haired boy.
„Okay, time to get home. You ate the last cheese before at the park," Jin stated, then he heard the cry of a male voice and he looked around to see above the sky a paper plane-themed supervillain fly above the sky with Carapace hanging on its back with his hands making Jin look bewildered at the strange creature.
„Is that Reverser?" Plagg asked with a grunt. „Can't we take a break,"
„Do you eat anything else besides cheese?" Jin asked looking at the bakery behind him.
„A macaron will do fine," Plagg stated. „Also it will give me time for you to tell a few info about him,"
„Okay, get back into the pocket and I'll get us some macarons," Jin stated running into the bakery to encounter three people at the cash register getting served by Sabine Cheng. „Well first we need to go through this," Jin mentioned annoyed at glancing at the standing guests.
At the park Marinette sat on the sidewalk watching her father talk with a police officer, then she heard Carapace yelling, then she looked up to see him in danger and shrieked.
„Oh oh," Marinette replied getting up as she noticed Nino's alter ego in danger. „I'll be right back," Marinette stated running away while Yi noticed her disappear and shrugged her shoulders.
Marinette hid behind a car, then made sure if anyone was around them and Tikki left her purse while eating a macaron.
„That's Reverser" Tikki pointed out earning a nod from Marinette.
„This time I won't let myself get reversed by him….or at least try" Marinette added earning a smile from her kwami. „Tikki, spots on!"
As Ladybug she took up in the air swinging up at the houses to follow the supervillain, which headed towards the island, where the cathedral of Notre dame was. Above the roofs she spotted Super Snake jumping over the houses following Reverser from there afterward Ladybug changed directions making her way towards him to encounter him.
„Super Snake, good to see you!" Ladybug greeted the hero which smiled.
„Hey Ladybug. How are you?" Super Snake asked.
„Good thanks for asking...have you witnessed his akumatiazion or just come along it?"
„Some guy named Steven ripped off his book he was writing, then I saw him getting akumatized and make Steven unable to do things he usually could do like walking. Now he falls every time on the floor when he wanted to walk,"
„Alright, that sounds like a good punishment for him," Ladybug stated, then saw Carapace fly off the paper plane of the supervillain, then Ladybug stopped and threw her yo-yo towards the superhero to catch him and slowly rolled her yo-yo out so Carapaca could land on his shell over the Seine, then Ladybug jumped down at the street pulling him back to the wall, afterward she observed Carapace try to climb the wall up by pulling himself up on the yo-yo.
„Super Snake, keep following Reverser," Ladybug ordered watching Super Snake run over the bridge towards the cathedral, where the supervillain had stopped to look down at citizens, that were entering the building.
„Reverser! Let the people go!" Super Snake shouted as Reverser was about to throw at the crowd a paper plane, then he looked down at the Snake-themed superhero.
„Why should I do that?"
„Because…..you're a good person. You shouldn't make these persons pay for something they didn't do," Super Snake responded watching Reverser frown his face unimpressed.
„Well, I don't know you very well Super…...uhm Snake. Your optimism in everyone is really lovely, but you have to face it, that the bad nowadays takes over the good people, which get scolded for not always being able to deal with the bad people,"
„Yeah I know, but….you're a good person. You can't let the bad guys take over you. You're better than that" Super Snake said watching Reverser approach him, watching Super Snake swallow hard and place his hand near his miraculous making Reverser growl.
„If I were according to you a good person, you shouldn't be afraid of me?" Reverser stated questioningly noticing Super Snake get a little bewildered, then Reverser began to look more threatening the slower Super Snake moved his hand over his miraculous afterward Super Snake moved it making Reverser angry and push the hero against the ground with his paper plane vehicle. „Do you think I would trust you if you can't even trust me?" Reverser asked making Super Snake stare in shock at his akumatized friend's betrayal, afterward Reverser took out one of his paper planes to throw it t Super Nathan and he heard Ladybug and Carapace cry getting the supervillain's attention.
„Stop it right there, Reverser!" Ladybug shouted afterward making Reverser growl and before he threw his paper plane at Super Snake the hero moved the snake-head of his miraculous back to activate his superpower.
„Second chance! Super Snake cried going back a few seconds on the moment he set up a checkpoint the first time.
„Do you think I would trust you if you can't even trust me?" Reverser asked making Super Snake stare in shock at his akumatized friend's betrayal, afterward Reverser took out one of his paper planes to throw it t Super Nathan and he heard Ladybug and Carapace cry getting the supervillain's attention.
„Stop it right there, Reverser!" Ladybug shouted afterward making Reverser growl and before he threw his paper plane at Super Snake the hero moved the snake-head of his miraculous back to activate his superpower.
„Second chance! Super Snake cried going back a few seconds on the moment he set up a checkpoint the first time.
„Do you think I would trust you if you can't even trust me?" Reverser asked making Super Snake stare in shock at his akumatized friend's betrayal, afterward Reverser took out one of his paper planes to throw it t Super Nathan and he heard Ladybug and Carapace cry getting the supervillain's attention.
„Stop it right there, Reverser!" Ladybug shouted afterward making Reverser growl and he saw Super Snake move up to the miraculous, then he stepped on the miraculous to avoid him to use it.
„You know what would be nice? Two against two and I believe we two would make a good pair," Reverser announced watching Super Snake gulp as Reverser prepared an airplane to use it, then Ladybug threw her yo-yo towards Reverser shrieking him, which let the paper plane fall on Super Snake causing him to get reversed. „Too late," Reverser announced triumphantly and Super Snake got up and looked back at the superheroes and took out his lyre, getting ready to attack the superheroes.
„I'm taking our boy" Carapace announced taking his shield to throw it against Super Snake, which blocked it with his lyre giving Reverser a way to get out of there and fly up above the cathedral heading back to where he came from first and Ladybug swung her yo-yo like a lasso to catch the villain by its vehicle, then he smirked and drove faster with Ladybug in tow rope.
„Woahhhhh!" The red-dressed superheroine yelled flying above the houses, then tried to climb up on it and noticed Reverser beginning to dance side to side with the plane trying to shake her off. „Stop that!" Ladybug complained making the supervillain laugh.
„How do you like the view? Enjoyable, right?" Reverser questioned watching Ladybug look at the Françoise Dupont, where she spotted Onyx talking to a couple of students, which were coming from the building, then she yelled again to call his attention.
„Up here!" Ladybug yelled seeing Onyx ran at the streets to follow her from down under, then he used his staff to jump at the houses next to the road to pursue them while observing the following steps.
„Jump down, he will drop you at some point anyway," The cat-themed superhero stated loud watching Reverser descend down to guide Ladybug towards the buildings trying to lose her as the same time Ladybug tried to swing away from the danger until Reverser decided to pull up high guiding her against a billboard shrieking her as she ended up crashing against the billboard losing the supervillain.
Onyx jumped up against the billboard and held himself on the top of the advertisement and held his staff down at Ladybug, but instead, she grabbed his tail and looked up at the older superhero.
„You're okay?" Onyx asked earning a nod from Ladybug, which looked at the billboard and shrieked pulling Onyx on his tail almost dragging him off the billboard, but luckily he could hold himself tight on it and looked down at the heroine. „You're safe," Onyx commented and looked at the billboard to see he was looking at the eyebrows of Adrien Agreste's perfume ad. „I'm starting to realize why you and lots of other girls have a thing for him with all those billboards all over the place,"
„Please let's focus on the mission," Ladybug stated embarrassed at Onyx's statement.
„Sure," Onyx replied extending his baton down at the ground, then Ladybug grabbed the pole and slid it down, afterward Onyx followed her and retracted the staff back, then continued to ran along the road and moved up at the top of the buildings to spot Reverser levitating over the large building under him, when soon the two heroes recognized it as the museum, known as the Louvre.
„I go down," Onyx mentioned getting down at the road to follow the side of the building, then Ladybug got to the top of the museum to encounter Reverser aim a police officer with his paper plane causing the man to ran towards the entrance of the museum, followed by several visitors to run back into the building to escape the reversed man.
„Reverser! Stop reversing people for your own benefits" Ladybug ordered making the villain shake his head.
„No. I'm here to teach many of these people to appreciate other kinds of art too. Not only paintings or videos," The duo-colored villain responded. „There are many writers, that have writing as their art and passion, but they get always out-shadowed by other things, cause writing isn't as popular as it was years ago,"
„Those people can appreciate writing too. They just need to try it and need to figure out, what type of genre they prefer or whatnot," Ladybug pointed out." What about those, who write online fanfictions as you do?"
„How do you know, I write fanfiction?" Reverser asked seriously making Ladybug grin a little embarrassed.
„Well…...a friend of mine told me….."Ladybug answered holding her hand behind her back crossing her pinky and ring finger. „But hey that's not so bad. That's actually pretty cool. In my opinion ten times more creative than drawing,"
„I'm glad to hear that, but why should I believe you? You're just trying to wind me up, aren't you?" Reverser asked looking at the surroundings to look for any potential harm to himself but only noticed several people ran into a bus, which had opened its doors for the people to get into.
„Ah it would be so bad, if the bus driver wouldn't make it to help those people out," Reverser said getting a paper plane to appear in his hands. „I wonder if the gas pedal will work well," Reverser said throwing the plane towards the bus hitting it causing it to rev up and drive forth shrieking Ladybug, which jumped down to follow it, then the Reverser smirked taking out one paper plane to aim it at the superheroine.
„Oh Ladybug, if your cat hero just were here to help you out," Reverser said with a smirk, then he gets hit by a trophy causing him to lose the paper plane afterward he looked down to spot at the window of the museum Alix pushing near an exposition on a red barrier tape, while next to her stood Luka Couffaine and Jalil Kubdel assisting the girl by charging her with objects from a lost and found box.
Ladybug kept running then saw Onyx appear and waved at him, then pointed at the bus making the superhero nod.
„The brakes got manipulated, try to stop it!" Ladybug said loud watching Onyx turn around and ran at the road, where the bus soon would pass by.
„Okay, looks like it's just us two," Ladybug murmured to herself and threw her yo-yo up in the air to activate her special power. „Lucky charm!" The insect-themed superheroine shouted seeing a tricycle appear making the girl wide her eyes and catch it. „Okay, this is so far the most ridiculous object I have ever received," Ladybug complained, then saw the coffee shop of the museum with a staff ordering a few guests to enter into the shop, then Ladybug looked at the entrance of the Louvre where a few people were looking around and Ladybug recognized Bruce, the boy that had gotten turned into Velocity a week ago. „Bruce! I need your help! Ladybug cried catching the attention of the dark-skinned boy.
„Uh Yes Ladybug?" Bruce asked a little unsure about what her idea was.
„Head to the coffee shop and bring me a knife as fast as you can….and the biggest one you can find," Ladybug ordered earning a nod from the boy, which ran off quick at the coffee bar, then she looked up at Reverser to see him dodging the objects and he tried to use his paper planes to hit the kids behind the window, but they hid behind the wall to prevent from getting hit.
Ladybug looked down at the bus approaching the bridge, that leads to another part of Paris with a branch, that leads to two directions, and in front of it was a row of houses. Ladybug noticed, that Onyx was on the roof of the bus, which made Ladybug swallow hard wondering if he would make it out of there.
„Come on Onyx, you can do it," Ladybug cheered watching the bus disappear from her sight.
In the meanwhile Onyx stood on the top of the bus watching the bus get to the bridge, then he looked aside to see the bus driver had the window open, then he moved his head closer to the window to speak to the driver.
„Move the vehicle against the wall of the bridge to grind it. I'm here, don't worry," Onyx suggested earning a nod from the driver, which moved the bus against the wall sanding it on the wall, then Onyx ran to the back of the vehicle and lied on the back of the bus and used his staff to break the window on the back, then held himself on there and looked into the bus to see the people in panic, then he looked down at the hood of the engine and widened his eyes as the hood only opened from under making him frown, afterward he had and idea and fell down on the ground pressing the button on his staff to extend it under the bus causing it to slow down a little more while the staff grinded on the road too, but holding the back of the bus in the air a little. Onyx went on his arms down like a feline to follow the bus, then jumped up on his feet to use his hands to open the hood, afterward he had it open and lifted his right arm up to activate his special power. „Cataclysm!" Onyx yelled and placed his flat hand on the working engine causing it to get damage turning the engine off the bus and Onyx ran beside the bus trying to surpass it, then smiled noticing the bus was going slower as before and Onyx jumped at the side mirror of the bus and pointed at the steering wheel earning a nod from the driver, which turned the warning lights of the bus off, switching it to the left blinker so he could warn other vehicles nearby about him doing a half of a 90° degree curve stopping the vehicle.
„Well done, the beast has stopped," Onyx complimented looking at the driver, which looked back at the citizens, which were hugging each other from having survived.
Back at Ladybug Bruce appeared with a cheese knife, making Ladybug furrow her eyebrows at the strange form of the knife, then smiled at the boy and patted his head.
„Good job," Ladybug commented, then looked at the three-wheeled vehicle making her sigh, then she sat down on it and before she used it, she head Carapace's voice and she looked back to see him coming.
„I tied up Super Snake in the cathedral along with some other citizens. Do you need help?" Carapace offered, then Ladybug had an idea and gave him the tricycle making Carapace wide his eyes in confusion. „What?"
„I have no idea if this works, but I want to try it out," Ladybug announced taking the shell of Carapace's back.
„Okay and I have to ride this, right?" Carapace asked earning a nod from Ladybug.
„Yeah, but the idea is the following..." Ladybug said, then whispered to Carapace's hoodie, where his ear was then he nodded.
„Okay I try," Carapace said running at the pyramid, then he climbed it up with the tricycle on his back and Ladybug looked up at the supervillain and whistled to call his attention.
„Hey Reverser!" Ladybug shouted placing the shell behind her feet, so no one would see it. „How high is the chance that you can't hit those three kids behind the window? Pretty low it seems," Ladybug teased the villain, which growled.
„You're just trying to fool me," Reverser hissed, then had a snow globe flew beside his vehicle, making him grin at the failure of the trio in the museum. „Nice try kiddos, did you really think you would all take me down like that?"
„No, but maybe he!" Ladybug said pointing up at the pyramid waiting for Carapace to appear, then he didn't appear making Ladybug grin embarrassed. „I said maybe he!" Ladybug shouted louder, waiting for a half minute for Carapace to appear with the kid bicycle on his back.
„Oh yeah! Get ready to mess with Carapace, paper-dude!" Carapace placed the tricycle on the pyramid, then it rolled away from him making him look down in shock at the toy roll away from him, making him place his hands on his cheek.
„Oh no, what a tragedy," Carapace said making Ladybug facepalm, followed by Reverser, seconds later Ladybug took her hand off her face smirking as she caught Reverser off-guard and she threw the shield of Carapace towards Reverser, which was hit by the shield and fell off the paper vehicle.
„Bo-ya!" Carapace chanted jumping down on his butt to slide down the pyramid as Ladybug observed the vehicle in mid-air, then she threw her yo-yo up at it to catch the vehicle at the same moment as Reverser got up to attack the superheroine, but Carapace managed to get his shield and create a shell-ter to lock Reverser in it to avoid him to harm the superheroine.
„Enough evil-doing for today, little akuma," Ladybug said using the knife to cut the airplane in half, to release the akuma. „Time to de-evilize!"
Seconds later Ladybug had restored everything back, then saw Reverser turn back into Marc Anciel, which looked around and shrieked as he saw Ladybug together with Carapace.
„Oh no, was I akumatized again?" Marc asked sad, then Ladybug got down at the boy to help him up.
„Everything is okay, no one got hurt," Ladybug comforted the boy. „What happened?"
„Steven, a guy from another class made fun of me for writing stories and ripped of my book," Marc explained. „I didn't want to take him serious, but I ended up taking it,"
„At least your book is fixed for now…..well this is the one, right?" Ladybug asked picking up a black book from the ground, then he looked into it and nodded.
„Yeah, thank you Ladybug,"
„Carapace, can you accompany him home, I will see how Onyx is doing," Ladybug mentioned using her yo-yo to jump up at the museum, then down at the bridge to encounter the fixed bus with the people leaving the bus while Onyx stood on the outside observing it.
Ladybug dropped on the floor to see the people gather around on the streets, then she smiled seeing all were okay and she looked at Onyx.
„Could you handle that all on your own?" Ladybug asked earning a nod from Onyx.
„I think the bus could have also stopped without me having to cataclysm the engine. The braking distance on the wall was large enough," Onyx answered. „It went well, so far no one got hurt,"
„I think if it would, my miraculous healing light would have fixed it in one way or another," Ladybug said, then the two recognized one of the passengers, which was Yi and both exchanged looks and Onyx approached the girl to greet her.
„Oh you were here too" Onyx began earning a nod from the girl.
„I had to hide here from the akuma villain" Yi mentioned. „That's not the bus I'm supposed to take home,"
„You probably live far from here, right?" Onyx asked making Yi shrug her shoulders.
„A little, but it's okay. I take the next bus," Yi answered, then she walked at the sidewalk, then Onyx noticed Yi's violin case in the bus and he got through the open door to pick it up, then ran behind her.
„Hey! Isn't that yours?" Onyx asked watching Yi look back and wait for the hero to give it back to her. „Well it looks like yours, to be honest,"
„Yeah I think it is mine," Yi said opening the case to look at the cover, where the bow of her violin lied along with an image of herself and a man in a suit and black glasses, which Onyx recognized as Yi's father.
„Who's that man?" Onyx asked pretending to not know who he was. „Is that your father?"
„My father" Yi answered closing the violin making her way away, then Onyx walked beside her.
„He looks cool, what is his job?" Onyx asked watching Yi stop and give him a little sad answer.
„He was cool," Yi answered making Onyx drop his ears at the way she answered the question to him.
„Uh…..may I ask what happened?" Onyx asked seeing Yi look away from him. „Hey erm…..I know I'm not obligated to know everything about you or anyone else for that matter, but if something happened to your dad like I don't know an accident or something, it's okay to talk about it when you need to. You don't have to lock up the pain in your heart forever," Onyx explained watching Yi lift her head up, still facing the road instead. „This is just how I think. If you prefer to keep it to yourself or maybe tell it someone, who's closer to you I respect that. I just wanted to help,"
„The violin here…...used to belong to my father….It's the only thing I have from him, that makes me remember him,"
„Did he use to play it?" Onyx asked watching Yi nod. „He must have been a pretty good player, right?"
„Yes," Yi responded. „The day I learned to play the violin was like the best day for him, " Yi told making Onyx smile at seeing her slowly talk about him. „He was really happy to know about my interest in it,"
„Yeah…..a father or a mother will be really happy if they see their kid practicing something they loved before or still do,"
„With the time I improved and my father helped me with it….The time we spent together was fascinating for us…..the past 6 years we've spent together more time than a daughter and a father would usually do. That at least according to my grandmother,"
„Well…..I know this won't bring him back, but at least you had the chance to spend them with him before….."
„Yeah" Yi nodded. „Oh…..gosh…..I'm sorry, I didn't mean to talk about this. It felt just weird right now as…...you were listening to me and, and….,"
„Sometimes a simple conversation can help. I admit I'm not the best person when it comes to those topics, but I can always listen," Onyx explained. „And hey if you think it made you feel better, why don't you speak to someone else about it like a friend? "
„Well, my friend Kagami somehow tried to make me talk about it. I mean she has lost her father about 5 years ago or more. She's just trying to help me and I'm…..being an idiot,"
„Something is just blocking your heart from open it. You have to let it open up. I know this is hard, but with the time it will get better,"
„I guess so," Yi answered, then heard Onyx's miraculous beep.
„Oh boy I gotta go, in five minutes my transformation drops off and you'll see my face and if you knew me….."
„Yes okay. Thanks for the talk. It was good to have someone who listened to me," Yi said making Onyx smile, which held his hand out at the girl to shake, then she grabbed his hand and looked at the superhero, then placed her arms around him making him wide his eyes in surprise. „Thank you again,"
„You're welcome?" Onyx responded placing his left hand behind his back to pet her, then he closed his eyes and began to purr, making Yi wide her eyes and back off looking surprised at Onyx, which was also caught off-guard by his deed. „Okay, I have no idea how this happened and that I could do that," Onyx stated abashed by it, earning a nod from Yi.
„Okay, maybe it was because I hugged you. You know cats purr when you caress them and all,"
„Yes, might have been that. Look, I've gotta go. See you another day," Onyx said running away from the bridge leaving Yi back which smiled at seeing him disappearing behind the arc over the road next to the Louvre.