Chapter 1: How I was reincarnated as an Animal.

The final battle against Hawk Moth was raging. Several heroes had been defeated and deprived of their miraculous. The jewel box was already partially destroyed. Chat Noir lay unconscious beside her.

Paris was on fire.

Unmasked, Hawk Moth had transformed himself into Scarlet Moth. The akumatized were on the rampage, ordered to attack any civilian who had the misfortune to cross their path.

The man was on a tear.

And the young teenagers were at their wits' end.

Marinette was seriously wounded. She could barely move. The only thing clear in her mind was this: there was no way Gabriel Agreste could win this battle.

If only the Kwamis could be free... If only Nooru could rebel against his holder, this drama would not have happened.

So, in a movement of pure despair, Marinette grabbed Cat Noir's hand and took off his ring. She immediately closed her eyes so as not to know the identity of her companion. The Eurasian then put the ring on her finger.

The little guardian could clearly hear the god of destruction panicking.

"Okay Marinette, I know the situation seems a little... difficult, but I assure you that this is far better than the foolishness you are about to commit!"

He was right.

However, the bluenette sadly had no other options.

"P-Plagg...T-Tik-k-ki...u-u-unify."

"Noooooooo."

The Kwami was sucked into the ring.

Marinette felt all the power of the two Miraculous invade her whole body. It hurt so much. Her head was spinning, she felt her strength leaving her. The teenager then gathered her last strength to say one last sentence.

"I...I...w-wish y-all... K-K-Kwami-i-is to be... Free-from the yoke of the hu-hu-humans by dest-t-truct-tion... Of the mi-mi-miracu-cu-culous."

Marinette felt like a wave of heat invading her. Suddenly all the Kwamis appeared in front of her including Tikki and Plagg while she was supposed to be still transformed. The little goddess of creation was in tears. The other Kwamis looked at her sadly. Each one of them came forward to put a kiss on her forehead. The last one was Tikki. She whispered to her so that only her carrier could hear her.

"Your sacrifice will not be in vain, I promise you. May the stars reward you for your courage Marinette."

Marinette closed her eyes for the last time, wrapped in a soft warmth.

All at once, the akumas turned back into ordinary white butterflies. The akumatised returned to their human form. Hawk Moth found herself in civilian clothes again, and so did Mayura.

"What's going on? Nooru, I command an explanation!"

Nooru looked at him with a cold and detached expression, which did not look at all like the fearful and submissive Kwami that the stylist knew. He was quickly joined by Duusu who also shot him with his eyes.

"Duusu, spread my feathers!"

Nothing happened.

"Duusu?"

The blue bird turned his attention to Nathalie and squinted. The Agreste secretary felt a shiver run through her body.

The other seventeen Kwamis appeared before the two adults. All of them were looking at them with anger. A small red Kwami with a black dot on her forehead was particularly enraged. Plagg was the first to speak.

"You see dear little Gabriel... Today a soul has sacrificed herself to save the world from your whims. Someone who should never have left so soon."

Gabriel's eyes widened understanding what Plagg was getting at.

"That's impossible! It was supposed to be my wish! Give me those miraculous, I have to save Emily! Nooru, dark wings rise! I said, dark wings rise! Nooru obey!"

To Gabriel's horror, the Butterfly's brooch split in two and fell into dust, the same thing happened to the Peacock's brooch.

Nooru spoke for the first time.

"Emily is dead Gabriel, and she will remain so."

Tikki approached in turn and added in a chilling voice.

"She paid the price for playing with a defective Miraculous. What happened was all her fault."

"And you too will pay Gabriel Agreste... For forcing Master Fu to step down."

Wayzz thought it best to add. Then one by one the Kwamis listed the crimes committed by Gabriel.

"For causing the death of hundreds of people every day."

"For torturing Nooru for years."

"For taking advantage of the weakness of millions."

"For tormenting a whole city out of selfishness."

"For constantly manipulating those around you out of pure selfishness."

"For sequestering Duusu."

"For treating the Kwamis as slaves."

"For denigrating your fellow man out of arrogance."

"For allying yourself with that abject being Lila Rossi."

"For mistreating my Kitten."

"For murdering my Ladybug."

Then with the same voice, the Kwamis shouted in unison.

"YOU WILL PAY!"

Suddenly, a huge light burst out and enveloped the designer. The last thing he heard was Nathalie's screams. When he woke up, he was in a white room, where there was only a bed on which he was apparently sitting. He was dressed in a particularly hideous light blue gown. A woman then entered the room where he was sitting.

"Hello Mr. Agreste, how are you today? I hope you had a good night's sleep, your session starts in less than an hour, so get ready."

"I beg your pardon? Who are you? Where am I? I demand that you take me home right now."

"Yeah, sure, Mr. Agreste. Get dressed quickly."

He was taken by force to a room where a man with glasses was waiting for him.

"Hello Gabriel, how are you today? Your caregiver informed me that you had a small relapse... How about we talk about it?"

"Who are you? Who gave you permission to call me by my first name? Where is Natalie?"

"I am Dr. Rochetamin, we have been working together for almost 10 years now Gabriel. You gave me permission to call you by your first name, don't you remember? As for Nathalie, I presume you are talking about your former collaborator? Well... You murdered her 10 years ago trying to resurrect your dead wife."

"W-What? Are you completely crazy? Where is Adrian? What have you done to my son?"

"You are quite agitated this morning Gabriel. But to answer your question, Adrien is fine. He was adopted by a very loving family, the Dupain-Cheng. He is a very bright boy, he obtained his literary Baccalaureate with honors."

"A literary baccalaureate? My son? With the Dupain-Cheng? Is this a joke?!"

He slammed his fist on the table violently and stood up angrily. The stylist did not understand what was going on. An alarm sounded in the room, noises of fast steps could be heard in the corridor.

Gabriel then saw the silhouette of a small purple butterfly just above the head of the charlatan who called himself a doctor.

"Nooru?"

"Hello Master... Is your new life to your liking?"

"What have you done Nooru? What is this place? What have you done?!"

"My poor Gabriel... Haven't you been listening to anything? The nice doctor explained the situation well."

He felt hands grabbing him, he started to struggle.

"Gabriel? Gabriel, we've already talked about this. The jewels you mention...These miraculous things, they don't exist, they're just inventions of your mind. We are completely alone in this room."

A familiar chuckle echoed through the room. It was Duusu.

" So Mr. Agreste, by now, you should have understood that you are the only one who can see us... hihihihi!"

An expression of horror appears on Gabriel's face.

" Yeah Master, you who wanted the Miraculous so badly, you got what you wanted: you are the only one now who knows about them."

"This is not what I wanted... this is not what I wanted!"

Desperation seized the heart of the former designer. He screamed, begging for mercy from the two Kwamis, but they did not react and watched him being taken away by the caretakers.

The god of transmission then let some tears flow.

"What a waste..."

The blue bird at his side patted him sadly on the shoulder.

Not far from there, in a small bakery located in the center of Paris, a blond boy with green eyes was happily celebrating his graduation with his friends.

Perched on top of a tree, the Kwami of Creation was silently observing the scene, a melancholic expression clearly visible on her little face. She was joined by two of her Kwami brothers.

"I'm glad to see he's finally at peace... He was a really special kitten."

Tikki nodded without even turning back to her interlocutors.

"Marinette no longer exists in this world, we are so sorry Tikki..."

"I know Sass... I miss her so much. That little girl was brave, she was one of the best Ladybugs I had ever known."

"You know sugar cube... those who use both of our miraculous at the same time are erased from this world. We rewrote history as best we could given the circumstances."

"I know Plagg. At least now that the miraculous no longer exist, no one will have to suffer this fate."

There was a silence. Unable to bear seeing his sugar cube so sad, the god of destruction had an idea.

" Look, sugar cube, we haven't punished that brat Lila Rossi yet..."

Understanding Plagg's idea, Sass smiled.

"Plagg is right. And then, there are still the Bourgeois too. They persecuted Marinette a lot, right? We'll need you to hand out punishments..."

Tikki wiped away the tears that had begun to roll down her little cheeks and smiled back at her brothers.

"I'm saving Lila and Audrey Bourgeois for myself."

On her words, the little Kwami flew away, machiavellian ideas full of head. Her two Kwami brothers followed her very closely.

Now that they had obtained their freedom, they had all the time in the world to take revenge.

-XxxX-

Far from all this excitement, a certain Marinette Dupain-Cheng woke up disoriented. She felt as if she had been run over by a truck, as every muscle in her body ached.

Her vision was a bit blurry, but she soon realized that she was on the ground. The former Ladybug tried to get up but... quickly lost her balance.

Why on earth couldn't she stand on her feet?

She then looked around and realized that everything was unusually large. It was as if Marinette had landed in a giant's world.

The young girl then tried to call for help.

"Is there anyone there? Please help me!"

But the only sound that came out of her mouth was like little squeaks.

"Nyuu, Nyuu, Kyuuuuuu!"

She felt that there was a source of water not far away, so she moved as best she could towards the liquid. The former guardian understood very quickly that the landscape around her was that of a port.

Marinette then looked at herself a little more closely in the reflection of the water. Her eyes almost popped out of their place when she realized her situation. She no longer had legs, but paws with little pads of a light blue color. Her fur was black, she had not one but two black tails with blue tips. Her pupils were a very light blue, comparable to those of a cat. The bottom of her body, all along her belly was also a very light blue color...

What kind of monster had she become?

The teenager let out a shrill cry.

"KYUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!"

In the panic, she fell in the water. For her greatest misfortune, being absolutely not used to swim with four legs, she started to drown. She screamed again and again, but no understandable sound seemed to come out of her mouth. The only thing that was audible was "Kyuu! "Nyuuu!", "Nyaaaa!".

So this is it? I'm going to die in the skin of a little creature without even knowing what happened to me?

Suddenly, she felt her body being lifted. Completely distraught, she took out her little claws and clung to her savior with all her strength. Marinette spat out water.

"I don't know who you are, but, thank you! A thousand times thank you! I thought I was going to die!"

Without realizing it, Marinette had actually started to lick the face of her savior. While squeaking small noises very acute. When she became aware of what she had just done... She was petrified of horror. Nevertheless, it allowed her to realize that she was now in the arms of a little boy. A child who seemed to be wearing a strange outfit, like a disguise.

"Uh... hello?"

-XxxX-

Damian Wayne a.k.a. Robin was on a final patrol tour of the Blüdhaven harbor. His older brother Richard had insisted that they spend some time together. The dark-haired boy had flatly refused at first.

Just because all his precious pets had been killed didn't mean he needed to be comforted! He was Damian Wayne, grandson of Ra's Al Gul and son of Batman, it wasn't a little loss that was going to make him flinch!

So why did everyone spend their time trying to console him? He wasn't a baby... And they were just animals.

He wasn't attached to them any more than that.

Why was his father making a big deal about the fact that he had more or less practically killed the scumbag who had murdered his animals?

Yes, he was angry, but so what? That was HIS problem!

He had a right to be angry...

No, he wasn't going to cry.

Robin bit his lip and gritted his teeth. He was Damian Wayne, grandson of Ra's Al Gul and son of Batman. He wasn't a proletarian to stoop to crying just for animals...

"KYUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!"

The boy stopped dead in his tracks. He squinted his eyes and started to look around to try to identify what could have caused that shrill noise.

"Kyuuu! Kyuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! Kyuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!"

*Splash, Splash, Splash, Splash.*

Robin's gaze went to the water, he noticed that something seemed to be struggling. From where he was he could only see a small black and blue spot.

"Nyuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!"

The little dark-haired boy jumped from his perch and quickly approached the water.

"Nyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"

He managed to grab the cat by the neck and pull it out of the water. Immediately, the cat clung to him shaking its two tails wagging nervously behind him.

Wait, what? Two tails?!

Robin looked more closely at the animal he had just saved from drowning.

This... creature... was not a cat.

However, it was as small and soft as a kitten. And the critter made very high-pitched noises like a guinea pig squeaking. The inside of its ears was light blue. Its fur was mostly black, but the bottom of its body was blue while there were like two lines on its back also very light blue. His paw pads were blue, but the tips of his tails -cats definitely did not have two tails- were blue. The strangest thing was the animal's eyes, very light blue, almost like the sky.

The strange creature began to lick his face frantically, wagging his tails from right to left like a dog.

Robin smiled slightly at this gesture.

"Nyuu... Nya?"

He was definitely not melting at the cuteness of this creature.

Absolutely not.

"Robin? What are you doing? We got to go. Wait a second, where did you find that animal?"

"It was drowning, all I did was pull it out of the water."

"Wow, this is the first time I see a cat with these colors... Wait, is it normal for a cat to have two tails?"

"I'm not really sure that this animal is a cat, Nightwing."

As if to confirm his words, the strange animal started to squeak again. Then it started to sneeze and shake.

"Nyuuu...nyuuuuuuuuuuuuu."

The animal huddled more against Robin. The latter then tightened his grip on the body of the small animal. Nightwing on his side looked at the animal with a fascinated expression.

"I've never heard a cat make a noise like that before either."

"Let's get it inside and get it warm as soon as possible."

"Uh... Robin... I thought you didn't want to adopt any more animals after... uh... You know... What happened to Titus and the others?"

"I don't remember saying such words. I don't have time to listen to your nonsense, we have to get that... Hmm... That animal warm before it gets hypothermic."

Without waiting for his elder's answer, he ran in the direction of the "Wingmobile" or "Nightmobile" or the " whatever mobile".

As long as he was alive, he would never again let another animal die in front of him without doing anything.