Ladybug, Cat Noir, and Lady Dragon quickly leap over to where Yan Luo Shi just threw Dragon Fyre, Hawk Moth joining them as well - straight through a tree, rolling to a stop only when the fire-haired girl traveled a good ten feet. The older man sneers, and says "And here I was thinking you three were capable of stopping an akuma."

Cat Noir glares at the man, pure hatred and disgust rolling off him in waves, and says "Don't even think about pinning this on us. You're the one that Akumatized an already-magical being, you're the one that unleashed what could well be the end of the world! How many times has Nooroo tried to give you advice? Asked you to stop this reign of terror of yours? How many times have you brushed him off like you do everything else you don't want or like to hear?"

Before Hawk Moth can ask what he means by that, Ladybug says "Kitty, not the time. C'mon, Scales, up you get..."

Dragon Fyre groans, free hand going to her head as Ladybug pulls her to her feet by the other, and groans "We need to finish this soon, guys..."

Cat Noir and Ladybug exchange looks, and Cat Noir asks "How close?"

"Too close." Too close by far. Last time she felt like this, she'd have started a forest fire if she wasn't in the quarry.

Hawk Moth's just about to demand some answers when he remembers how Dark Dragon lost control of her powers - Nooroo explained what he knew of magic like that afterwards, said it was easy to lose control and hard to regain it, and it seems Dragon Fyre has been pushed to her limit by this. The slew of cursing he's doing in his head makes him glad none of his current allies of circumstance can read minds, because he's certain they'd never take him seriously again if they heard him swearing like a sailor and begging Nooroo for some way out of this rock-and-hot place he's found himself in.

And then Yan Luo Shi's fist comes swinging towards them, shattering the barrier Dragon Fyre quickly throws up and sending them all flying and landing them in a heap of limbs and soreness.

Cat Noir picks his head up, and asks "Sis?!"

Ladybug asks "Dragon Fyre, you alright?"

Lady Dragon asks "What just happened?!"

Hawk Moth figures he would be much more irritated with their single-minded concern if the impossible hadn't just happened - he's been trying all this time to find a way past the obstacle that is Dragon Fyre and her magic. Even replicating it didn't work - and, apparently, the Butterly Miraculous cannot perfectly recreate another Miraculous' magic or Dragon Fyre's - yet Yan Luo Shi has successfully pushed the fiery red-head to her limit. What a waste that the one Akuma that could overwhelm Dragon Fyre is one that turned on him.

And then he's ripped out of his musings when the area around them lights up purple. Before he can even think that they're dead, though, a heatwave suddenly starts up even as an orange done encases all of them. Cat Noir's yelp, and muttering of 'hot, hot, hot…' barely registers with Hawk Moth, or Lady Dragon's 'OHMIGOSH!' - he's actively getting heatstroke as the seconds go by, that's how boiling hot it is under the orange shield that shows no signs of breaking under Yan Luo Shi's magical assault. When he looks over, he quickly sees just what changed - not why or how, but definitely what.

Dragon Fyre's undergone that transformation once more, usual outfit replaced by a skirt and shoulderless top, and her eyes aren't even orange, they're flames. Bright orange flames. Just like the flames surrounding her entire body, making her look like an inferno. And she looks pissed off, the lines in her suit glowing brightly and a thunderstorm rapidly forming over them.

What did he ever do to deserve this for an enemy?! Whatever it is, he's so very sorry and he won't do it ever again.

The shield drops after the beam ends, and Yan Luo Shi says "Impossible!"

Dragon Fyre rises, and snarls "No more holding back! I go down, I'm taking you with me!" She walks forward in front of them

Yan Luo Shi shoots another beam at them, but it gets…blocked with one from Dragon Fyre. Hawk Moth swallows, trying to push some moisture down his dry-as-sandpaper throat, even as Cat Noir mutters "Uh-oh…"

Ladybug hisses "Tikki, calm down! I don't understand!" What does she mean Bloom's at risk of leveling Shanghai?!

Lady Dragon says "The Renlings are all going nuts, what's going on?! She's a Fairy?! I thought those were myths!"

And then Dragon Fyre lowers one hand to her side, a fireball so hot it's white forming in it as she does, and asks "You want the power of the Dragon? Well, here it is!" She throws the ball of fire towards Yan Luo Shi, and it's so strong it knocks him a step back…making him falter, and Dragon Fyre's beam of energy slam into his face and knock him down altogether. And then there's several lightning strikes in a row, hitting Yan Luo Shi in various parts of his body.

Hawk Moth resolves, right then and there, to not set Dragon Fyre off like this if at all possible…ever again. He gets the uncomfortable idea she'll track him down and rip the Miraculous straight off his chest if he does. After a minute spent watching Dragon Fyre fly around purple beams and throw fireballs the size of her body at Yan Luo Shi as lightning continues to come down and freezing-cold rain pelts everyone while the wind makes it even worse, Hawk Moth asks "She's not going to stop, is she?"

Cat Noir deadpans "Spoken like someone who's never met my sister when she's on a mission. She doesn't stop until she gets what she wants." What she wants right now being…a little obvious. She wants to turn Yan Luo Shi to ashes for trying to kill her partners.

With the gigantic Akuma thoroughly distracted - by getting thoroughly thrashed by Dragon Fyre, amazingly enough - Lady Dragon seems to crumple in on herself as she says "This is all my fault…"

Cat Noir puts a hand on her shoulder at once, giving Hawk Moth a glare that says he'll Cataclysm him if he interrupts - his voice is warm, though, as he says "It's not your fault, Lady Dragon. You didn't do any of this."

"If I hadn't focused on revenge, if I'd kept on doing good…"

Ladybug says "Mei Shi would've still been Akumatized. Justice and Revenge, they can seem a lot alike, especially when someone you love is involved. That's why there's a test, that's why it's so easy to confuse them sometimes. But right now, you need to focus on the present. We need the Dragon."

Hawk Moth opens his mouth, fully intent on pointing out the detail that they already have one of those, but thinks better of it when that very woman makes a giant orange dragon appear and slam into Yan Luo Shi. He then decides to disappear as quietly as possible, after all this is done, and hope she can't track him by smell or something.

Ladybug mutters "Let's get this over with. Lucky Charm!" What appears is…a giant red and black vase, big enough for a person to hide in.

Lady Dragon asks "Uh…what is that? An ancient Chinese Vase?"

Ladybug glances around, and says "It's not a vase. It's the solution to our problems." Her grin turns borderline malicious, as she adds "To be taken with a lot of water, if you get my drift."

And that would be when Hawk Moth realizes she and Cat Noir are both staring at him with identical grins on their faces. "What?"

Hawk Moth can't believe he's doing this - he can see Dragon Fyre, currently resembling a fireball, flying around and dodging Yan Luo Shi's attacks while throwing gigantic fireballs of her own, when he looks out the top of the Lucky Charm - but Cat Noir and Ladybug would've shoved him in if he didn't climb in himself. And now they want to launch him squarely in the middle of that battle of epic proportions, relying on a newbie's aim with powers she's never used before and has only just activated. He's so dead.

Suddenly, he has a lot more respect for how Cat Noir willingly, unflinchingly sacrifices himself to let Ladybug keep going - not to mention willingly embracing that living fire hazard as a sister.

The Vase suddenly rocks, and he sees Yan Luo Shi's face come closer far too fast, a beam of orange energy miss his vase by what feels like a mere inch if the heatwave is anything to go by, an ear-splitting roar, and then…darkness. Then a lot of red light, quickly followed by a familiar dark purple.

Thinking fast, Hawk Moth throws his cane sharp-end-first and hits the orb - he can't take the Akuma back, he needs Ladybug to reverse all the damage that's been caused and most probably bring his son back to life. Emilie would most certainly have his head if something happened to Adrien because of him. He nearly gets a concussion when the vase hits the ground once more, Yan Luo Shi turning back into Mei Shi and vomiting up all the water Lady Dragon forced down his throat, and crawls out of it feeling like he might be sick - if he never has to do anything like that ever again, he will be very happy.

He hears Mei Shi congratulate Lady Dragon, and name her the new RenRen of the Prodigious…and then Cat Noir yells "SIS!"

When he looks around for the annoying source of fire, having assumed she'd have landed near them, he sees…nothing. No flames, no fire-haired girl, nothing. And then Cat Noir launches himself up over the water with his staff, even as Lady Dragon helps toss the Lucky Charm into the air and fix everything before turning into her dragon-form and flying out after the blonde.

Now seems like a really good time to disappear.

Cat Noir flies through the air, and crashes into his unconscious sister's body as she freefalls towards the water below - he saw her suddenly go out, the fire around her suddenly just dying like a blown-out candle, and Plagg didn't even have time to say to catch her before he was hurtling through the air. Before they can hit the water, though, the air around them seems to cocoon the two and takes them up to a rooftop. Ladybug and Lady Dragon land next to them, even as Cat Noir frantically puts his head to her chest to listen for her heartbeat - she's not moving, barely breathing, and she's ice cold. If he couldn't hear her heart beating with his super-hearing, he'd think his sister was dead.

Lady Dragon murmurs "The Renlings say she's exhausted. That she won't wake until her magic has recovered." Ladybug and Cat Noir are too preoccupied with their unconscious partner to do much more than nod, with Cat Noir distractedly saying it's happened before once or twice.

Long Long nods, and adds "I recognize this power, RenRen. The power that gave birth to us all. It's in a different body, yes, but unmistakable all the same."

Lady Dragon glances up at once, even as the other Renlings start chiming in, and asks "Wait, slow down, what do you mean?"

Long Long says "The power that created us, RenRen, that created all of us, is ancient. Inextinguishable. A flame that burned hot and bright, lit up the darkness around it. We were created one by one from it, and we traveled far in search of somewhere to stay. Our cousins, the Kwamis, were created by the same power source. And she just used it extensively. I wouldn't be surprised if she slept for a week after that display of power."

After a moment spent processing that, Lady Dragon swallows and says "The Renlings say she won't be up for a while. Her magic needs to recover." That's honestly the easiest thing to process, that this girl will wake up after enough time spent asleep. She needs a lot of time to sort through the rest of what they said.

AN: Surprise! Did anyone expect Hawk Moth would be the one to go in the vase? I watched the special, and just had to have him be the one to go. Call it a little well-deserved punishment for nearly destroying the world.

Enjoy! More updates coming soon!