Hello readers! I hope you're enjoying the story so far. I having a really good time writing this, being able to see things I would never see in the show. There will be hardly any more Murdery bits for the rest of the story. Just a bit of a warning for those who read this and are serious about ships. There will be a bit of one sided lukanette, even though I am a major Marichat follower. Alright I'll let you get on with the chapter. Enjoy!
-Miraculous Ladybug and Chat Noir-
Ladybug lept back into the ally she had left only a little bit ago. The darkness of it was very soothing for her tired and sore eyes. "Spots off." Marinette said with a weak whisper. The detransformation began, power flooding out of her body in an instant, the loss of strength bringing her down to her knees once again. The leaving of magic had brought back all of Marinette's exhaustion. Tikki flew up to Marinette's face, worry and sadness clearly evident in the kwami's eyes. Marinette's voice came out sad, scared and empty"Did... Did you see?"
Tikki looked straight into her eyes. Slowly the Kwami shook her head, wanting nothing more than to have endured what her chosen had endured, just so that she could give the support she had in the past. Tikki may not have seen what Marinette had seen, but she had seen the battle. She had seen Marinette go to her knees once she was ordered by Cloud-Control to feel pain. The sounds that had escaped Marinette still sent shivers through her whole body. "What did you see?" Tikki asked, wanting to know what could possibly make her like this.
Marinette, again, looked up from her knees to look at Tikki, tears streaming from her eyes. Marinette opened her mouth to talk but nothing came out. The words, caught in her throat, seemed to burn like poison to her insides. She couldn't say it. It hurt her too much." Tikki I- I- I..." She stuttered "I can't- I won't say it. It hurts Tikki". Tears and sobs increased in volume and intensity. Marinette's whole body shook with her cries. "My head, Tikki! My head! It hurts so bad. What I saw. It hurts so much. It's banging on my brain. Covering everything! I... I can't see anything Tikki! Darkness. I see darkness. No. No, I see red. Red. Blood red. Nooo!" Marinette got up, struggling to her knees and tried to run. Run blind. She moved one step stumbled and fell properly into the darkness and red.
-Miraculous-
"MARINETTE!" Tikki stared down at her, now unconscious, chosen. Worry was filling her brain. What had she seen that had done this to her. What could be so bad that it traumatised her in a way she could lose consciousness. Tiki had to get help but she couldn't leave Marinette. What if she needed her. What if she woke up and Tikki wasn't there to help. No, she couldn't leave.
Marinette was in trouble. Not only from her thoughts but of also being discovered. She was unconscious and had no way to defend herself Marinette needed a place to hide, but Tikki couldn't move Marinette. She would have to do something she hadn't done for thousands of years. She would have to use her powers of creation. Tiki moved to hover above Marinette. Tikki concentrated her power into her lungs and blew out the faintest breath and created a wall and roof in between them and the rest of Paris. The room was dark. It could freak Marinette out if she woke up. Tikki flowed her powers into her chest and with the smallest thought imaginable, thought "Light." A small bubble appeared in front of the kwami, releasing a bright light into the room. The job was done for now. Tikki looked back down at her chosen. Still no change. Tiki moved towards her chosen and rested on her side. She would wait here until Marinette awoke.
-Miraculous-
(Murdery bit, skipedy skip)
Red light. The Marinette's room was basked in red light. Marinette lay on her bed, crawled into hersel, crying. Sobs of mourning and desperation filled the room. Around the room her family sat, covered in scars and cuts and blood. They stared at Marinette's bed, chanting. "Why... why... why... why... ?" They stared at her with dead eyes, longing for her to join them.
"STAY AWAY!" Marinette screamed through her sobs. " LEAVE ME ALONE! I DIDN'T DO IT!" They continued." FINE! I'M SORRY!" Marinette cried "I DIDN'T MEAN TO! I'M SORRY, I'M SORRY!" And once again the darkness overcame her and she was gone.
-Miraculous-
Marinette's eyes opened, tears trickling slowly from her eyes. A bile rose in her throat and she rolled over and vomited. It took a while before Marinette took in the surroundings. She was in a box of somekind with a bubble of light moving slowly around the room. "Tikki?" Marinette whispered, looking around for her friend.
"I'm here, Marinette." Tikki replied quietly. "How you feeling?"
"Better." She answered. Her tears had slowed and she wiped them away. Marinette stood up and had another look around. "How do we get out of here?" Questioned Marinette. Tikki closed her eyes and concentrated. Then the walls Tikki had created faded away. "Cool" Marinette moved forward and stumbled again, only just staying standing up.
"Marinette!" Tikki yelled. "Be careful!"
"I'm ok, Tikki. How long was I out?" Asked Marinette.
"An hour." Tikki replied.
"AN HOUR!" Marinette yelped. " I need to get to school!"
"What!?" Tikki said, shocked. "Marinette your traumatised, you where just unconscious! You need to go home, now."
"No Tikki." The finallity That Marinette forced into those words was enough to snuff Tikki's spirit to fight back. Marinette wasn't going to go home. Marinette wasn't ready for that reminder at this moment.
"Fine" Tikki said, annoyed at her chosen as she flew into her purse.
Dizzy and still tired, Marinette sped into a jog, to the school.
-Miraculous-
Marinette stood in front of her class room door tired from the run there. She stood up high and straight. She couldn't let anybody see something was wrong. Nothing's wrong, Marinette. You're completely okay. She opened the door and walked into the class.
"Marinette, thank you for finally joining us." Retorted Miss Bustier. " please go to the principal's office and explain you're lateness for the eight-hundredth time."
Marinette turned right around towards the door. She spun around to quickly and swayed on her feet. She caught herself on the door frame and stood herself back up. "Marinette!" Miss Bustier called. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine!" Marinette snapped. "I mean, thank you but I'm okay." With a smile Marinette left the class room.
-Miraculous-
A large, circular, window opened to let in the bright light of Paris fill the darkness of the room. A lone figure stood in the once lightless room. "I feel a strong negative emotion. Stronger than I have ever had before." Spoke the figure, that was undoubtedly Hawkmoth. "I feel loss, pain, inner conflict, worry, restlessness and more, all enhanced by immense exhaustion. The emotions, I still feel them growing. Who could possibly have this much potential." Hawkmoth felt for a name. He concentrated on the source of the negative emotion. "Strange. I cannot see the reason for such negativity, but at least I know who. Marinette Dupain-Cheng. This girl has proved troublesome in the past, helping with the defeat of a small number of my akumas, but that is unimportant. I have tried to akumatize this girl a number of times, but she has always has been able to get her emotions under control before I could akumatize her. But this time the emotions won't dissipate. They are still growing! Her emotions are so powerful. If I can akumatize her she will be my strongest akuma ever!" Hawkmoth raised his hand and a white butterfly fluttered over to his dark palm. Lifting his other arm, Hawkmoth caged the pure creature. Concentrating all the emotion he felt from Marinette, he flowed it through his arms and into the butterfly. The power of negativity corrupted the butterfly, changing its colour to a cracked purple. "Fly quickly my akuma, we cannot let this opportunity pass." And with that the akuma flew out of the window, insearch of the troubled girl.
-Miraculous-
(Bit of Murdery stuff, I've put it in bold)
"Yes Mr Damocles, I understand." Marinette stood, at the door, leaving the principal's office. "I understand. I'll try not to be late from now on." Marinette closed the door behind her. She let out an exasperated sigh. "That took way to long. Their's no point staying at school now, it's not like I could get any work done now.", Marinette thought. "I need to calm down. I'm far too stressed out. I think I'll just go and sit at the park for a bit." Marinette left the school and slowly walked to the park. She passed through the gate and looked at the rather empty park. The fountain sat in the middle of the park, along with the statue of Ladybug and Chat Noir. Marinette stood still and stared at the part of the statue that was Chat. Suddenly a wave of dizziness overcame her. She looked back up at the statue and was greeted with a different sight. The sky had been replaced with red and, where the inatimate object that was the statue had been, existed two figures on top a pedestal. One of the figures stood over the other. Laying down on the pedistool, arms spread and lifeless, rested the gutted body of Chat Noir. Blood streamed from his empty eyes, and the stab wounds that had been scratched across his body. His suit was torn and his snapped baton lay below him, on the floor. Marinette's eyes shook with fear and once again dread. She didn't want to focus on the figure above him. She already knew what she would see. She didn't want to see it but her mind thought of nothing else. Begrudgingly she lifted her head to view the figure above the lifeless husk of her partner. She focused on the figure and let out a wail, before it got stuck in her throat. Over chat stood the figure of the civilian, Marinette Dupain-Cheng. Covered from head to toe in Chat Noir's blood and with an extreme, insane smile that chilled the real Marinette to the bone. The bloody Marinette lifted a red knife and began to lower it slowly. Marinette closed her eyes, certain she was going to vomit again. A quwelch sounded and Marinette grimanced, her brain imagining the scene to the sound. Marinette, slowly peered through a gap in her eyelids to see what had happened. Relieved she only saw the statues. The sky had returned to its normal, bright blue, colour. Chat Noir once again crouched with ladybug as she extended her yo-yo. "What was that?!" Marinette asked herself. She was sweating all over and a sick twisting was felt in her stomach. Marinette had never been overly strong stomached, but these... scenes. They were enough to make anybody feel queezy.
She needed to calm down. All the emotions flowing through her could attract an akuma. She had been lucky in the past but you could never be too careful. If she was akumatized Paris would be doomed, or at least had a good chance of loosing Ladybug forever. Marinette wiped her forehead to cleanse it of the sweat and strolled over to a park bench. Upon sitting on the bench a feeling of pleasure tingled up, through, her body. Marinette closed her eyes and tried to empty her thoughts. She moved all of her emotion to the back of her mind and focused on her breathing. In though the nose and out through the mouth. She continued it for a number of minutes, concentrating only on her breathing, ignoring all outside things. The only thing there was, was her breathing. In and out. Suddenly tears slowly escaped her eyes. Hot and wet they rolled down her cheaks. She was confused as to why she was crying. She didn't feel sad at this moment. She was perfectly contempt with sitting and breathing. Marinette let go of her stress, anger, regret and despair and, for the first time all day, didn't feel tired. Suddenly a voice penitrated her concentration.
"Hey, Marinette. How's it going?"
To anybody else that would have been a kind greeting. A friend saying hi to a friend. Too bad Marinette knew the true nature of this person, and she ment nothing nice. If she was here it could mean a number of things, but all of them bad. Marinette opened her eyes, and spoke, a touch of dislike and annoyance.
"Hello, Lila."
-End Chapter 5-
Another one up, another one down. Another one bites the dust. Alright! Another chapter down and I can't wait to write the next one. If you haven't guessed, akumas will have a big part to play in this story. Also I didn't intend to have morbid bits in this story, it just sorta happened. I was just gonna make Marinettte feel lonely, but it didn't feel like enough. Oh well. I hope you enjoyed and have a nice day!
