A Kitsune's Tale
Summary
When Master Fu gives Marinette a second chance by giving her the miraculous of the fox, will Marenette succeed and make a good fox with the help of her new friend, Trixx? Or will she crack under the pressure and give her up just like she did with Tikki?
The First Call To Action
"So, what are the words to transform? I know the words to transform into Ladybug are Spits On and Spots Off to call of the transformation. But what about for the fox?" I ask, and Tixx giggled and wagged her tail in excitement.
"Silly kit, that's easy. All you have to say is ears up to transform, and ears down to call of the transformation." The kwami explained, giggling softly as she watched me work on a poster.
"You work fast!" Trixx praised, bringing out a croissant from my purse, looking over the banner.
"I like it!" Trixx said, smiling brightly as she landed to rest on my shoulder to get a better look at the poster.
It was fun seeing different fabric patterns being used to style it.
I nodded, setting it down, accepting the croissant, biting into the buttery, crunchy treat. It did look good. But it'd be best to let it set down for a while, look at it later when I'm fresh. Rising, I went to my mirror, tugging out the miraculous and eyeing it.
She floated next to me, looking to my reflection curiously. "You going to transform?" She asked.
I continued to peer at it, frowning slightly. I uttered to the kwami, "I should know… right?" I asked, and Trixx grinned up at me with a toothy grin.
Trixx's tail gave a lazy wag. "A good precaution." The kwami remarked, as she nodded in agreement as she continued to stare at me.
I stared down at the tail. "And I should probably do so soon, j-join Coccinelle and Chat Noir..." I muttered quietly to myself, as I looked back up at Trixx, who smiled warmly at me.
"If you want too." Trixx bid. And I gripped the necklace tightly in my hands as I took a deep breath to calm myself down.
I turned to her, brow raised. "I don't have too?" I asked, and Trixx shook her head and stared at me with a patient and calm gaze. I smiled at the little kwami, she wasn't pressuring me to transform and leap into action like Tikki had, and that made me relax and my tight grip on the miraculous also relaxed.
My hands curled into fists, a rage sparking through me, I took a deep breath and stared up the fading form of Chat Noir.
I withdrew from him, looking out for Timebreaker, trying to find her.
I found almost all my classmates frozen and fading, even Alya.
I shook where I stood, the anger burning inside me like a inferno that just got hotter and hotter with each passing second.
Trixx floated out, ears perked, violet eyes locked on me.
"You ready?" she asked, her ears twitching and tail wagging as she stared straight into my eyes.
I met the kwami's stare, everything inside her screaming to act. Trixx smiled at the resolution in her eyes.
Near them, Tikki wobbled out into the open air, her form starting to become transparent, echoing her miraculous as it started to fade alongside Alya.
Near them, Tikki wobbled out into the open air, her form starting to become transparent, echoing her miraculous as it started to fade alongside Alya.
Marinette was still here, Tikki knew this, there was still time, she just had to grab the earrings. There was still a chance, but Marinette had to.
"M-Ma, Mari," Tikki struggled out, trying to resist her fading from existence, trying to stay mobile. She had to reach Marinette this was their only chance.
Tikki was surprised when she heard Marinette, heard her summon a transformation.
One that was not a Coccinelle's. "Ears up!" Marinette called out, and an orange light invalided her.
Tikki squinted out, the last thing she saw was a flash of orange covering Marinette before she went still, her form starting to fade, her expression frozen with hurt and confusion.
The flash of the transformation Timebreaker didn't notice, drunk of adrenaline and purpose, giddy now that she had all the power she needed.
She could head back! She could save her watch!
With an eager cackle, Timebreaker sped up, ready to tear off, energy flaring from her rollerblades. Just as she was about to make that jump, she looked up in surprise when she heard a loud snarl.
"Timebreaker!" A voice snarled from somewhere close by, and Timebreaker spun around in serprise.
She met furious blue eyes, bright against a red and white mask, and felt a dark brown glove, practically black, grab her wrist. There was a flash of blinding light, and they were gone, leaving frozen, fading children and kwami alone.
In a flash of light, the two tumbled out, grunting and hissing as they rolled across the hard ground. Timebreaker rose up, snarling, "Who the hel—"
She ducked down just in time, barely avoiding the wild swing of a thin, orange staff this new figure came at her at with. Timebreaker rolled away as that staff turned, biting down where she used to be.
Timebreaker looked up, the butterfly mask flaring over her face, curious to see who this was as well.
A fox snarled back at her, wearing a suit red enough to match a red fox, with long, black-tipped ears with white on the inside, and near black small triangles in the center.
Two black spots were set over fierce blue eyes and white framing below the eyes of the red mask.
The fox had two pigtails that looked like fox tails, with the edge a bright white against dark hair, same for the streaks of hair that framed a freckled face, the hanging edges white. And twin fox tail ribbons that kept those two pigtails bound, the tips black.
She had four black socks, a white belly, and a long, scarf-like tail with a white tip with a black line going along the middle of it.
Hanging on her neck, brushing against the curving top of the white belly, was an orange foxtail necklace, hung up by a golden chain.
"Touch her Timebreaker! Erase her! Now!" Timebreaker jumped in surprise when Hawkmoth snarled her ear, his voice tense.
With an echoing growl, Timebreaker charged this new face, hands reaching for the fox.
Baring fangs and growling back, the fox charged, long ears flat on her head.
For a moment, Timebreaker thought she was going to succeed, that she was going to touch the fox. Only for her to drop down, making Timebreaker squawk as a leg tripped her, sending her flying across the way. She rolled away just in time to avoid the staff that came after her, slamming down where she was.
Just as the fox turned to pursue her, staff ready to hit her, she paused, one ear turning back when she heard a familiar cheer.
"What the..." The fox turned, looking down to see the classmates all there, untouched and solid.
They were ok, they were ok.
Timebreaker answered her, "We traveled back in time, though it was only supposed to be me." The fox just hissed and rolled her eyes, making a grab for Timebreaker, but she simply ducked and scatted out of the fox's reach.
She charged, watching those fox ears swerve back towards her.
The fox sharply turned, turning furious eyes to Timebreaker and surprising the akuma when black gloves grabbed the akuma's wrist. Before Timebreaker can even try and break free, the fox turned and threw her out to open air.
Only to later release an alarmed squeak, realizing that in her rush, she threw the akuma towards the crowd.
Slamming her hands on the rim, she shouted. "WATCH OUT!" But it was already to late, just as they had all turned to look up, Timebreaker jumped down from the roof.
The crowd jumped, turning around in confusion to see who shouted, only all eyes locked onto the akuma that fell to the ground a good ways behind them.
And startled enough that one body surged back into Marinette, sending the watch flying from her hand and into the race's pathway, where it was raced by Alix once again, who released a strangled sound of horror at her watch's destruction.
"Oh no." The fox murmured, watching Timebreaker start to rise, and Alix falling to her knees. Marinette screamed out again. "RUN!" And everybody scattered, running off in different directions.
A majority of the bodies broke away, trying to escape the akuma that drew near, Adrien and Alya among them.