Chloe's standing on the glass dome over the entrance to the hotel, looking like a reversed Dragon Fyre - purple instead of orange, and the black and red reversed, and her black sword with purple flames dancing along it.
Ladybug says "Guys, we've got an emergency…" She's about to transform! Case in point, her earrings let out the one-minute warning beep right then.
Dragon Fyre says "Go, she wants me." She got them into this mess, she'll get them out of it. At least it's Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculous' Hawk Moth wants and not hers.
"I'll be back soon, promise!"
Cat Noir swallows, trying to push some moisture down a sandpaper-like throat, and nervously says "Sis, you might'a been a little too harsh with her…" Or with her description on live tv.
Dragon Fyre swallows, then murmurs "Get out of here, Brother. I'll handle her."
Cat Noir keeps his gaze on Chloe - or Dark Dragon, as she's currently going by - and asks "Aren't you tired, though?"
Yes, she was on the lookout for Sabrina all day today. "I'm fine."
The two heroes dodge fiery blasts of energy that get tossed down, even as the reporters scatter, and Cat Noir incredulously asks "Why are they purple?!"
Dragon Fyre yells back "Maybe because Hawk Moth gave them to her? She sure wasn't born with them!" Heck if she knows why the replica of her magic is a different color! Maybe it's because it was generated y the Akuma?
They keep dodging, and Dragon Fyre yells "You want a fight, Chloe, why don't you come down here and face me?"
Dark Dragon sneers, then says "Alright, then, have it your way!" She suddenly leaps down, making a crater on impact and swinging her sword at the red-head. Dragon Fyre quickly leaps over the resulting wave of fire, throwing Dark Dragon back with her hand outstretched. The battle quickly turns rather terrifying, with Dark Dragon spewing fire left, right, center, and literally everywhere else in between while Dragon Fyre blocks it, snuffs it out with her own flames, or absorbs it. And the yelling, Dark Dragon's attacks only get more and more destructive the angrier she gets - and the angrier she gets, the more she yells.
She's gone from blowing potholes in the street to making craters,
Ladybug makes her way up towards the roof of the hotel, where there's purple and orange flames being shot off the sides, only to find Cat Noir a few roofs away looking worried. "Cat Noir? What…what's going on?" She's got the general idea, but it'd be great to know why her Kitty's sitting this fight out when he so clearly wants to help. Especially since it's been maybe five minutes since she went to go recharge.
Cat Noir says "Dragon Fyre sent me over here, since Dark Dragon will use literally anything as a weapon. She's torn down three buildings and used the rubble as ammo, she pulled a helicopter out of the sky and Dragon Fyre barely caught it, and the only reason the city isn't currently up in flames is because Dragon Fyre can control fire better. Check the Ladyblog if you want some examples."
Ladybug flips her Bugphone open, and sees Alya's latest livestream on her Blog - it's…bad. Really bad - Dark Dragon is worse than Mr. Mime by far. Tearing chunks of the ground up, even tearing up a busy main street filled with cars only for all of it to get caught and the cars and people set back down, Dragon Fyre and Dark Dragon fighting hand-to-hand with small bursts of flames erupting from their hands and feet…looks like the comments they've seen on the Blog about Dragon Fyre going too far won't be an issue anymore.
She's overpowered Akumas before, gone off and beat them into the ground just shy of beating them into a blood spatter, but she's never caused such wanton destruction before, never blatantly disregarded the safety of the people around her. She's also never tried to burn the city down either. The comments are already pouring in, ranging from 'I'll never badmouth her again, if she could do this with every Akuma!' to 'Isn't that the girl she went off about on the news?' to 'good vs bad Dragon Fyre, looks like we know just how much she actually actively destroys the city.'
And then there's an explosion on the roof of the hotel, blowing it to smithereens and leaving just an orange dome on the roof and a gigantic scorch mark replacing Chloe's private suite.
Dragon Fyre blocks another swing of Chloe's sword, yelling "You wanna know why I don't like you, Chloe? You're a spoiled brat who's had every single thing handed to you on a silver platter, and that's assuming your oh-so-important daddy didn't just go all the way and get you the gold one! You've never had to work for anything a day in your life, you just put down everyone around you! You might have a cheap knockoff of my magic, but you don't know how to use it!"
Dark Dragon snarls, throwing a violently explosive blast in Dragon Fyre's general direction - her aim is terrible, and her blasts are getting more and more uncontrolled. It's part of why she egged the blonde girl into fighting on top of the hotel, the highest building in the general area - less to destroy, and less chance of her hitting another building and potentially killing people. The Miraculous Cure had better work for this, to, since Chloe's currently an Akuma. She's probably killed two dozen people already.
Wait a minute...Chloe DOESN'T know how to use my magic. The uncontrolled burning of random things proves it. There's an idea...
All she has to do...is set Chloe off altogether. Easy, yet dangerous - Chloe could destroy the city if she pushes too hard, after all.
Dark Dragon yells "Don't think I don't know how to use these powers; I will destroy you!"
Dragon Fyre scoffs, side-stepping another blast and asking "How do you plan on doing that? You're a terrible aim, can't focus enough to actually do something dangerous or strong, and you've no idea how to do anything besides spit fire and explosions from your hands and hope it gets anywhere near me!" Dark Dragon snarls once more, sounding furious and looking half-feral as she throws both hands out for a massive blast of purple energy that blows up halfway between the two girls. Dragon Fyre drops the shield she made, having skidded to a halt a few feet back, and says "See? You've got no control, no discipline or focus…all you are is a spoiled brat with no concept of hard work! I spent four years learning to control my magic, and I did it on my own! What have you done? Accepted a vile little parasite, been handed powers you know nothing about, and somehow you think that's all there is to it!"
Dark Dragon screams in pure rage, throwing her hands out towards her…only for the explosion to send her flying backwards as it blows the top of the Hotel away. Dragon Fyre, meanwhile, makes a shield and pours as much energy into it as she can - it holds, barely, but she makes a note to not lose her temper like that and use magic at the same time. It's just a good thing they're at the highest point in the general area, else a lot of property damage would've just occured.
Dark Dragon groans and sits up, even as Dragon Fyre waves Ladybug and Cat Noir over, and tries to use her magic again…only to get the same result, but on a lesser scale. Instead of blowing up another floor, she just sends herself flying backwards as the small amount of magic blows up as soon as it hits open air. Cat Noir winces as Chloe crashes through a table and chair, asking "What's up with that, Super-Sis?"
Dragon Fyre rolls her arm, shoulder clicking in a semi-worrying way - it's probably fine, just popped a little, no big deal - and says "That's what happens if I don't keep a semi-level head and focus on something specific when I use my magic. Can't tell you the number of concussions I gave myself doing exactly that." Mainly because she was trying to get good enough to fight back against those four weirdos, she'd get overwhelmed by her anger towards them…and then, boom. Literally.
She was quick to learn some emotional control once she figured out her emotions were fuelling her magical episodes.
Ladybug hums in sympathy, and asks "Any ideas for where her Akuma is?"
Dragon Fyre shrugs her good shoulder, and says "Two. Either the Earrings she's got in or the sword. I'm leaning towards the earrings, she didn't have a sword before." Though, it could've been the yo-yo - Akumatized Objects don't always stay the same, after all.
Ladybug steps on the earrings while Cat Noir Cataclysms the sword, just to be on the safe side, and within seconds the Akuma is purified. Thankfully, the destructive rampage Dark Dragon went on gets reversed, the streets she tore up, cars she totaled, and buildings she leveled getting restored to their previous state - along with all the people she undoubtedly injured or even killed on her rampage. Chloe's just lucky people can't be arrested for things they do when they're Akumatized, else she'd probably be facing a life sentence right now - lucky her, and every other Akuma victim, it was immediately decided that people who were mind-controlled by a guy with magical powers that turns people into raging supervillains aren't at fault for the things they do under said man's control.
Unlucky Hawk Moth, all those waived charges will eventually fall on his head when everything's said and done.
And, lucky them, the Mayor's passed a few laws to help them out - news reporters aren't allowed to follow them looking for an identity reveal, harass them, or otherwise make their lives more difficult than they already are. They also aren't allowed to run a bunch of reports on Akumatized victims or the circumstances leading up to the incident and potentially get the victim reakumatized - not after Darkblade got Akumatized because Nadja Chamack wouldn't stop pushing for a story. It doesn't stop them from swarming the victim if at-all possible at first, but at least they can't be followed around for weeks afterwards.
Chloe looks around in confusion, asking "What happened?"
Dragon Fyre deadpans "You got Akumatized, that's what." Chloe gets to her feet as Ladybug yo-yo's away, and Dragon Fyre groans before pinching the bridge of her nose and muttering "Me and my damn conscience…" Cat Noir feels his ears twitch at his sister's voice, and stays behind for what's undoubtedly going to be a truly miraculous feat. His sister tries to keep her conscience semi-clear usually, and he's pretty sure she's feeling guilty about how and why Dark Dragon happened."Look, Bourgeois, just stay out of the way during an Akuma fight, alright? You put yourself in danger, you put us in danger, and, frankly, my patience tends to wear thin during times like that."
Chloe narrows her blue eyes at Dragon Fyre, and says "You said I'm a spoiled brat who has no concept of hard work or the consequences of my actions." And a lot more, but that bit really got to her.
Dragon Fyre snorts derisively, and says "You are, make no mistake. That's how you've been raised, as daddy's little princess. You've never wanted for anything, nothing physical anyway. And your father can threaten or bribe anybody who's not an Akuma into dropping whatever trouble you're in."
Alright, that's true enough... Chloe asks "So…why are you still here? Still talking to me?"
Dragon Fyre snaps "Because I got you Akumatized, and I'm trying to apologize for it, dammit!"
Chloe blinks at Dragon Fyre, staring at her in shock - she's not the type to apologize, she doesn't hold back from saying exactly what she thinks of people, and she certainly never struck the blonde girl as ever feeling guilty for anything.
Letting out a long breath through her nose - one that Chloe imagines should have smoke and embers accompanying it for how angry the red-head truly seems - she says "Just don't jump into an Akuma battle in a cosplay suit, Chloe. It puts everyone in danger, yourself most of all. Our suits are magical, they make us stronger, faster, able to take more hits than we normally would. Yours…is cloth, regular old cloth. It would be as effective as cling-wrap in protecting you. So do everyone a favor and stay out of a fight."
Chloe stubbornly says "It concerned me to, you know."
Dragon Fyre deadpans "You could've been killed. And if we lost, there wouldn't have been a Miraculous Cure to bring you back."
Chloe sputters "B-But…but you guys always win!"
Dragon Fyre incredulously asks "You think it's that easy?! You think its as easy as showing up, going through the motions, and everything's back to normal?! No, it's not. We risk our lives, Chloe, you think Mr. Mime was a joke? He was miming guns, RPG's, hand grenades, you think that was just something to laugh off? You got a copy of my powers, went on a rampage, and would've burned Paris to the ground if we hadn't stopped you, is that a joke?"
Seeing the angry flames burning in the red-head's eyes, Chloe shakes her head and says "No." It wasn't a joke to her either, she wanted to help!
But, given the detail of the destruction that's been wreaked by a few Akumas…she's willing to sit the fights out. If only to keep Dragon Fyre from going off on her again.
AN: Hey! Hope you guys like it, because I had to rewrite it three times before I was satisfied. Turns out writing an epic beatdown between one overpowered dragon-girl and a copycat of her is hard - so many things they can do, it's incredibly hard to choose. Hence why Cat Noir was waiting unhappily on the sidelines - Dark Dragon would've absolutely ripped him apart without a second's hesitation had Dragon Fyre not kept her attention.
Anyway, enjoy! more updates coming soon!