Chapter 39

The next evening Yi sat in her bedroom in front of her desk doing homework. Beside her under the lamp sat Longg seeing her work, then watched the girl pause to yawn, then Longg got up to walk to the other side of the table to grab a green pear and brought it to the girl.

"Here take a break and eat this," Longg offered watching Yi nod and accept the fruit.

"Thanks," Yi responded taking a bite of the fruit, then took out the controller of her TV and turned it on showing an advertisment with Jagged Stone playing on his guitar on the top of an airliner. Yi got up and walked across the apartment passing by the mother which sat on the couch on her laptop, then observed the daughter head to the garden.

"You're done with your homework?" Questioned the mother.

"I'm just studying mom. Now I'm going to get some fresh air," Yi noted getting out of the house, then she leaned herself on the wall and looked up to see the dark skyline.

"You know with the time I really enjoy it to be here in Paris. It's not as big as Shanghai, but it's quite beautiful,"

"Mostly during the night," Longg added earning a nod from his holder.

"I haven't had much time to enjoy Paris' beauty at night the way I did back in Shanghai," Longg nodded at Yi's comment, then heard a laughter and looked up to see the superhero Onyx jump at the building, where Yi is from and noticed the girl on the outside and jumped down at the grass landing in front of the girl.

"Good evening," Onyx greeted approaching girl, which smiled seeing the cat miraculous holder visiting her.

"Wasn't expecting to have a visit right now," Yi mentioned watching Onyx put his baton back, then leaned on the wall next to her. "What are you doing here?"

"I was taking a stroll through the city to get some air and thought on checking out, if you were here," Answered the raven-haired hero. "You're alone?"

"My mom is in there," Yi answered. "So I wouldn't do anything, that would make her think you're Jin or anything worse,"

"Don't worry, I'll be careful," Onyx mentioned. "In case she gets here, I just say I'm visiting random citizens for…..professional reasons,"

"I wonder what kind of excuse that it,"

"Don't worry she won't do anything unless she catches me doing this," Onyx pointed out followed by pecking the girl on her cheek making her wide her eyes.

"Hey! I'm serious Jin, she could…...ugh see? I already said your civilian by mistake," Yi complained crossing her arms.

"Okay, probably I should pass by later or…..,"

"No, you can stay here with no problem, we just…...have to be careful," Yi mentioned making Onyx nod, then Yi looked into the living room to see her mother getting up heading into the bathroom closing the door behind her. "My mom just got into the bathroom. Do you want something to drink or to eat?" Offered Yi making Onyx shrug his shoulders.

"It's not necessary, I'm good. Just finished dinner about 20 minutes ago,"

"Okay, what do you want to do then?" Onyx asked watching Yi sit down on the grass, then Onyx sat beside her and looked at the girl observing the dark sky.

"I don't know. I just came here to get some fresh air," Explained Yi making Onyx nod. "I was studying before for History,"

"You've got an exam tomorrow?" Questioned the hero making Yi shake her head.

"No, but next Friday,"

"Good luck then, I have next week Algebra," Onyx mentioned. "I began with studying 15 to 20 minutes per day to make it through with it at the same time we're dealing with Hawk Moth's akumas. "Then we've got French and Philosophy,"

"How are you going to handle all these three exams?" Questioned Yi making Onyx shrug his shoulders.

"Well, I will mostly focus on Algebra and Philosophy. French, I'll do it a few days before. It's just about the conjugation in the past, the present, or the future. It's fine for now,"

"If this superhero thing will take a long while I better start to practice in holding the grades good until I get up to a newer grade. I really wonder how the other heroes deal with this,"

"I think so far, they're all younger than I am. Ladybug told me on the times I was new to the team, that she was 15 and she has to deal with all these pressure of being a superhero and dealing with private life issues almost all on her own,"

"Maybe she doesn't have anyone in her life, that she can talk about both sides of her life,"

"You know she got to feel better with the time, cause I offered her to talk with me and I tried to give her any helpful solution. 'Til now, she has been feeling better about it,"

"You did well then. It did the same to me as you or Marinette's friends talked to me because of my father. Also thanks to these akuma situations I got to see my father in the afterlife. I think better it couldn't have been for me," Yi explained. "It's amazing how a simple conversation can make you feel better in some moments,"

"Yes it really does," Onyx added, then he heard a female voice and got up to glance at the window to see his mother's friend get closer to the exit of the garden. "It's your mother looking for you," Onyx mentioned watching Yi get up to see, where she was going afterward the mother stepped out making Yi fake a smile.

"Hey mom," Yi greeted, then looked at Onyx, which copied Yi's facial expression and waved at the adult.

"Good evening," Onyx greeted the adult. "Don't worry, I'm just…...strolling around looking for potential danger. So far everything is good here,"

"Funny, I thought I had heard Jin's voice out here," Chynna mentioned making Onyx fake a laughter.

"No, actually it's just me and this young lady here," Onyx lied earning a nod from the adult. "If you excuse me, I will have to go. Have a nice evening you two, " Onyx wished saluting at the two Asian descendant women, then he jumped at the top of the fence and used his baton to jump up at the top of the building.

"Was he really patrolling around?" Yi's mother asked making Yi shrug her shoulders.

"He wasn't really long here, mom," Yi said making the mother nod. "I'm going back into my room,"

"Okay, but hey don't you want to watch TV with me?" Suggested the mother entering into the living room with the daughter, then Yi looked at the turned-off screen and nodded.

"Sure, I'm sorry if I have been so absent lately," Yi responded sitting down on the couch along with the mother, which turned on the TV showing a parody of a musketeer jump around trying to escape bullets. "If you want you can change the channel,"

"It's okay for me, I just want to be spending time with my little girl," Chynna mentioned watching Yi lean her head on her mother's shoulder, afterward the woman placed her arm around the girl to pet her.


At the hospital, Nathaniel lied in his bed while Nino sat on a chair in front of the boy texting on his phone while chatting with the redhead.

"You know yesterday was a little an unlucky day for many of us. Luka just did that because Ladybug needed someone to help her and Onyx out until Hydra came. In anyways your mother and Alya would have found it strange if we would just take your miraculous off or anything right in a situation like this,"

"I still don't feel like telling my mom all of this with the akumas. I believe Ladybug also wants to be present during the talk to help me out. How else can I alone explain why I got the snake miraculous. For some reason Ladybug picked me. It either was fate, fear, or just a lucky shot. I never expected to have the chance of becoming a superhero and I did take the chance,"

"If I may ask dude, why exactly did you accept the miraculous?" Questioned Nino. "Did you just do that, because you always wanted to be a hero?"

"Yeah…..and sort of I had a crush on Ladybug since the day she saved me on my birthday and I hoped to be able to impress her. In the end, it didn't work out in any way as she was hitting on Onyx instead, afterward, she stopped and prefers to be single for the moment or just focus on her task,"

"And you still stood after that?"

"Yeah what else should I have done?" Questioned Nathaniel. "I don't know why I am looking for a relationship,"

"There are other girls worth your attention, don't worry," Nino assured. "That person could even be closer to you than you think. Did I ever think about Alya being the future girlfriend of mine? Nope,"

"I guess not,"

"Why did Ladybug pick you to help her? Uh I mean why did you accept it?"

"On that day Alya got kidnapped by her older sister, which was akumatized into a spider-like supervillain. I was trying to get her back to prove her older sister I could take care of us and I think Ladybug valued my bravery and gave me the miraculous to help her out. Fighting Anansi was hard, but it wouldn't take the same cake as fighting Jake Scene. It got annoying with the times he showed up outta nowhere and his soundtrack began to play. It made no sense, there were no radios, no stereos or anything to play the music, dude!"

"I know, it was a weird day,"

"You weren't present dude?"

"No, you could hear the soundtrack everywhere. I could hear it in the panic room too,"

"Okay, that was weird," Confessed Nino which looked at his phone vibrating to see posting a message in the superhero chat.

"Next morning a meet up on the top of the Trocadero. Topic: Absence of Super Snake. Super Snake, I will pass by you tomorrow at some point in the day. Be ready to expect me,

"It's for your Super Snake side," Nino warned earning a nod from the redhead.

"I check it out later, my phone is charging right now," Nathaniel advised. "I'm curious to know what the future plans of her are at the moment without my absence,"

"Same or what Hawk Moth will do next. If it gets worse it will be hard for them to deal with the akumas like yesterday with Lila and Marc,"

"Yes….by the way, didn't they say, they would come with you?"

"Lila's mom had the idea to arrange a bodyguard for her thinking that would solve the situation and Marc didn't want to come alone,"

"Okay, that's odd. We weren't alone here. He would have us or at least me,"

"You know Marc sort of has…..trust issues,"

"Oh…...I thought we were good friends and that we could trust each other,"

"It's not that, it's more…..you know he has a crush on a certain somebody and he's afraid this specific person doesn't reciprocate the feelings,"

"He does?" Nathaniel asked curious earning a nod from Nino.

"Yeah,"

"That explains a lot," Nathaniel said. "His stammering, his behavior around us in the break... He has fallen in love with Lila!"

"Yes dude, finally!" Nino shouted jumping up in the air, then he widened his eyes, then looked down at Nathaniel. "Wait…..Lila?"
"Of course! This is also maybe why he was interested in the first place to have her befriend us. He was curious to know her and now that we got closer he has fallen in love with her,"

"Oh boy," Nino said doing a facepalm at Nathaniel's comment. "I'm losing my patience,"

"Give them some time. Now that I'm here, they have a bigger chance in getting to know each other more than with me around. Please help him out, when it is necessary,"

"You're killing me, dude. Look I have to go, I was supposed to get my mother lemons before the stores close,"

"Okay, then see you tomorrow or….?"

"We'll see about that. Rest well, brother," Nino wished patting him on his shoulder, then made his way out of the hospital leaving Nathaniel back, which looked out of the windows to see in the far the superhero Onyx pass over the buildings heading to the champs de mars, then the boy pulled the covers up to take some rest.