AN: I created this story for two reasons; 1) I felt like it because I've been working real hard on school and trying to find a college, along with the new chapters for Scales and Commonwealth's Genesis so I feel like I deserve this one chance to just make something for the hell of it, and 2) I'd like to mess around with the lore. Now my OC will wield the tiger miraculous. I know there's no canon one, but there'll be a reason for its existence. Trust me.
And I'll be changing the Cat Noir and Ladybug suits a bit. I've never really liked them; Ladybug's is just a glorified pajama, while Cat Noir's is a tad too plain.
PROLOGUE
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Marinette knocked on the door to the room where Master Fu resided. "It's open," Master Fu called. She peered in nervously, her face distressed. "Why'd you call me here?" she asked, looking around as if she would be ambushed then and there. Tikki zipped right up besides Marinette's head, her head tilted curiously as she watched the old man.
Master Fu was on his knees at the side of the folded mat in the center of his room, staring down at the book containing all the powers the Miraculous would grant and pictures of prior Miraculous wielders. He was currently at the back. There was only one page, and it looked significantly more weathered then the rest. On the other side, there was the remains of a page, rust-colored energy seeming to glow at the edges of the torn edges.
"This is urgent," he responded, uncharacteristically nervous. He beckoned her to sit down, his face contorted in worry. Marinette did so, Tikki remaining silent and sitting down on her shoulder. "What is it, Master Fu?" she asked. She was concerned for him; he had dark circles underneath his eyes, as if he hadn't slept in days, and his normally slicked back hair was disheveled, giving him the look of a man twice his age. "I found a secret page on the back of the book," he mumbled, staring down at the odd shapes from Marinette's view. "But it's in plain sight, though," replied Marinette. It was all confusing, and she didn't even know what he had found! He gave her a look, and then returned his gaze to the page. "It needed a kwami to be seen, and even then, a page has been torn out," he explained in a rushed manner.
"I thought I felt something strange around the book," Marinette heard Tikki mumble curiously. Wayzz then came out of the gramophone, seemingly hiding something inside the part that played the music beforehand. The turtle-like kwami also looked distressed. Wayzz was usually very wise yet affable; he didn't show the former now. He seemed distant, far off, and haunted. He glanced at Tikki, and then the red spotted kwami's eyes widened, adopting the same haunted look that Wayzz wore. This was even more frightening to Marinette. "Tikki? Tikki, what's wrong?" she asked her.
The two kwamis, now crestfallen, stared at the book with the same distant gaze that Wayzz had beforehand. "Okay, enough! What's going on?" she asked, starting to panic. Fu took a deep breath, as in bracing himself. "There are other Miraculous," he told Marinette, sounding pained. "Yes, I know that. You have the others in your gramo-thingy," she replied in a confused manner, gesturing towards the old gramophone that hid the other Miraculous. "I mean other as in Miraculous that I do not have," every word seemed strained coming out of Fu's mouth. There was no bitterness or malice; just pain and desperation. Marinette knew that Master Fu had made a mistake when he was younger causing the Guardian temple to be destroyed. The Miraculous he had were the ones that he could scavenge from the flames.
Marinette was so surprised that she lost her balance and faceplanted onto the mat, even thought she had been sitting. "What!?" she exclaimed, forgetting that the walls were thin enough that somebody in the rooms next to them would be able to hear. Fu put a finger to his lips, the universal gesture for silence. They stayed silent for a second, making sure that no one had heard the exchange. "There are other Miraculous somewhere out there," Master Fu repeated, as if making sure that Marinette knew she didn't hear wrong.
"How'd you find it out?" Marinette asked, now getting over her surprise. A horrid question entered her mind, though. One that was so foul, so vile, so… so contemptable that it seemed impossible, "Does Hawkmoth have them?"
Master Fu screwed his face up in thought. "I doubt it; only one was made, and it doesn't have the power that Hawk Moth wishes to use. He's a coward, using others to fight. This Miraculous is more similar to Cat Noir's; just not as powerful," he said, a tiny bit of anger flaring up in his eyes, yet he remained composed. Another question popped into Marinette's head. "Why is it similar to Cat Noir's?" she asked. From what she had learned from Master Fu, all the Miraculous are unique and have separate powers that could go hand-in-hand. Cat Noir's and her Miraculous were especially important, as they were the Miraculous of creation and destruction, yin and yang. So it was even more odd to hear that there was a similar Miraculous somewhere out there.
"Perhaps it is better that you simply see what I have found," Master Fu breathed shakily, Wayzz and Tikki snapping out of their daze to look downwards as he handed her the book. Marinette was hesitant to look down, fearful of what she would see. Would it be an evil tool of destruction? A sort of knock-off Miraculous created by a villain who wanted total power? Slowly but surely, she forced her gaze to look at the page. On it, there was the sketch of someone in oriental robes. No surprise there, as all the prior Miraculous wielders in the book were from ancient China.
This hero was different, though. His arms, torso, and legs all had stripe designs on the sides. The majority of the robes were a sort of dark orange, a pale grey on the chest and stomach creating a sort of belly. The mask was different. It wasn't the face mask that she, Cat Noir, or Rena Rouge wore… it was more like a surgeon's or dentist's. It covered his mouth and his noise, paw print on it. It was similar to Cat Noir's, but was different. The center was much bigger and shaped like an actual main pad from a cat, and the little toe prints were a bit smaller. But the most noticeable difference she noticed were the large claws that adorned each of the four toes. The Miraculous seemed to be the armlet on the wielder's upper left arm. It had a claw-like design on it. A black sash was wrapped around his waist, creating stripes that went down the sides of the legs. A drawing of the Miraculous was next to his head. She had been right; the arm band.
Other than the fact that the page was a bit weathered than the rest and that there was a tiger-themed hero on it, she didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. "What's so bad about this if Hawk Moth doesn't have it?" she asked, understandably baffled at the way the two kwamis were acting. Not as much with Master Fu, as she knew that he was incredibly protective with Miraculous. She handed the book back to him.
"This was a special Miraculous… created if the Cat Noir or Ladybug Miraculous wielder were corrupt, this was to be used to nullify them, then take back their Miraculous. A contingency plan if they went rogue. More Miraculous were planned to be made for this purpose, but for some reason they were never made, according to the page. It says that there were pages after this one describing how to make the rest of the Miraculous, including the Tiger Miraculous," he explained, his words strained as if he were pulling them from his throat, "But Wayzz says that the pages had been removed, and not by a human. A kwami had taken the pages."
Tikki suddenly talked, startling Marinette. She had almost forgotten the little kwami was on her shoulder she had been so quiet. "Rybbo, that's what his name was I think," her voice was a little shaky as she spoke. "But why are you acting like this? Was he evil?" Marinette started asking, worried for her kwami's health. "No, no," this time it was Wayzz that spoke, "He was actually very shy and quiet. What we feared was that he had been created to equal the Cat or Peacock Miraculous, and that the powers he granted were extremely volatile. If anybody with even a tiny bit of a bad intention got their hands on the arm band, it could result in disaster."
"Even worse than the original Miraculous?" asked Marinette, shaken by the whole ordeal.
"Worse," answered Wayzz darkly, "He was the reason the Guardians' temple was destroyed."
AN: And there you have it! I'll be introducing my OC in the next chapter, along with Rybbo the tiger kwami!