Authors notes

Hey guys! Thanks for all of your support so far on this story! Sorry but this chapter isn't as good as the other ones. I had a really hard time writing this and it ended up being a little angsty again. But it has a lot of important parts in it. I'm not the happiest with this chapter, but if I didn't post it, I don't know if I would have been able to continue with the story. There are a lot more amazing chapters to come I promise! Now on with the story.

Tikki's eyes widened when she saw the kwami fly through the floorboards. She knew she had felt some other kwami looking for her, she could sense their presence. She didn't recognize them as any of the others from her miracle box, so she connected them to the shark kwami. She quickly looked up at Mari from her open bag. Noting that the human didn't notice.

She quickly flew up a bit and poked the human's leg trying to get her attention. The moment she looked down Tikki tilted her head to the side and pointed to the door with worried eyes. Marienete's eyebrows scrunched before she shot her hand into the air.

Ms. Bustier, paused her teaching to look at the dark blue-haired girl. "Yes, Marinette?"

"I forgot my, uh, textbook behind in the locker room, may I please go get it?" She asked.

Ms. Bustier paused for a second before nodding. "Yes, but come back quickly please." She then turned back to the chalkboard and Mari grabbed her bag and ran out of the classroom door. The moment she was far enough away from the class she opened her bag and looked in at the red kwami.

"What's wrong? An Akuma?" She asked worriedly, whipping her head around.

Tikki shook her head. "No, I saw the shark kwami." She got closer to the opening of the bag. "Only for a second. But they were in the classroom and then flew down through the floor."

Her eyes widened. "You mean Riptide's kwami? But why would they be in the school?"

"They were probably looking for me and Plagg probably." Tikki responded, but that only made her holder more confused.

"What do you mean? And how would they know where to look?"

"Well, kwamis can tell where the others are. They can sense their energy. But they can only do that if they are opening up their own location to the kwami they are looking for. It is also much easier for hunting class kwamis to do like sharks."

"Then why haven't we done that with Hawkmoth's kwami yet? If we could find him we could find out his secret identity and end this madness." Marinette asked. It would have been really helpful if they could just tell where Hawkmoth's hideout was.

Tikki shook her head. "Nooroo has closed himself off from the other kwamis years ago, to protect us. He is too weak to use that much energy and if we tried to track him in that state hawkmoth would surely know and be able to turn it back on us and track us himself. Like he did when we tried to contact Nooroo before."

"I guess you are right, that is dangerous. But still, why is Riptide's kwami trying to find you?"

"I don't know. But we should look. We can only tell around how close they are, not exactly. He's downstairs." Tikki pointed towards the stairs and Mari Ran.

After a bit of searching, they ended up in the locker room. "He's close," Tikki whispered into her owner's ear as she floated next to her. Guess it was a good thing they came in here to actually get Mari's textbook that she really forgot.

"I don't see them." She whispered back, narrowing her eyes. Suddenly as they walked around the corner through some lockers the shark kwami was floating right in front of them. The kwami's yellow eyes immediately slit like a cat's eye in shock and backed away from the girl curling his shark tail in on himself.

They stared at each other for roughly five seconds before Marinette spoke up. "You're Riptide's kwami aren't you?" Marinette asked, holding her hand out.

The kwami paused for a second looking between Tikki floating beside her and Marinette herself. His pupils slowly went wider in realization. "You're ladybug?"

"Uh, well I mean… I." Mari sputtered, her eyes blew wide open. She really didn't think that confronting the kwami would end up like this but then again it was obvious that she was Ladybug with the kwami right next to her. "…yes, but you can't tell anyone!" She whispered as she held her hands up as she walked closer towards the kwami.

Finn cocked his head to the side as he floated back a bit. "Why not?"

"No one can know I'm Ladybug, no one but the guardian knows who I am. It is dangerous, we need our secret identities to keep us and our family safe from Hawkmoth." Marinette was starting to get more panicked as she continued.

Tikki floated up closer towards the shark. "Not even your holder. The kwami's mustn't ever reveal their holders identities or the identities of other miraculous holders."

Finn glanced around a bit. "I…I understand. I won't tell my holder who you are. And I am also not going to tell you who he is." Finn crossed his flippers across his chest.

Mari breathed out a sigh of relief at hearing that. "We understand you don't have to tell us." She sat up straight again and looked around. "But, why are you here? Did Riptide send you to look for Tikki?" The blue haired girl asked, her voice slightly panicked.

Finn shook his head quickly. "No! I'm here by myself. I was looking for other kwami's to talk to."

"Where is your owner?" Tikki tilted her head, one antenna flopping over to one side. "He just let you leave to go look?"

"He said I could go as long as I was safe and stayed out of sight…" He then looked down at the ground. "Messed that up already didn't I?... I hope he isn't mad at me." His voice was quieter at the end.

Mari held her hands out in front of her with her palms up. "Hey, shark… Kwami? What is your name?"

Finn looked between her hands and then her. "Finn." Tikki floated and landed in her holder's hands, Finn followed shortly after, he looked up into the girl's pale blue eyes, noting that they were maybe a tad lighter than Danny's.

"Well Finn, my name is Marinette." She smiled slightly, she scanned over the kwami's noticing the slight size difference between Finn and Tikki, Finn being slightly bigger than both Tikki and Plagg. She also noticed a few small scratches on the kwami's tail fin, like scars. She didn't think kwami's could get scars, and by glancing over at Tikki, she knew that she noticed them too.

Mari sighed. "Finn you're okay, right? Riptide's… not making you do anything you don't want to?"

Finn's eyes widened slightly and he followed her eyes to the cuts on his tail. "Ancients no! Those have been for years. And Riptide has been way better than any of my previous holders! All he wants to do is help, really." Finn sighed. "He's great and he doesn't want to hurt anyone." He tried to reassure the girl.

"Where did you get those then?" The human asked. Tikki looked at her human hesitantly.

Finn looked down, his tail curling around himself slightly. "I would rather not talk about it. But it wasn't Riptide I promise." Finn kept his gaze still. He knew that Danny had noticed some of his scars on his tail and fins, he looked briefly concerned with them but didn't say anything which Finn was grateful for. Finn had also noticed Some of the scars on Danny's neck and arms whenever he had them showing from that hoodie he always had on. They both had scars and weren't planning on talking about them yet.

Tikki had noticed how much of Finn's demeanor changed with the question so she brought up something else. "You said you were looking for me and Plagg, why?"

"I was looking for other kwamis…" Finn started. "I didn't know all of them were destroyed until recently. I wanted to talk to the only other kwami's left around, maybe we could hang out or something?" Finn kept his gaze down. Suddenly he felt two small arms around him in a hug. He looked up to see Tikki as she was hugging him tightly.

"Of course we can hang out! I'm sorry you had to just find out. It was hard on us too." Finn nuzzled his head a bit and sighed in relief. "I'll talk to Plagg soon. We can totally hang out sometime if it's okay with our holders."

Finn smiled and floated back a bit. "That would be nice."

x

After Finn had left Mari quickly grabbed her book and started to walk towards the door, only to stop and look over at Tikki. "Are you sure he was telling the truth? That Riptide wasn't using him? He now knows my identity and could just go and tell Riptide, then what would happen?"

Tikki paused. "I don't think he will, he knows how important the identities of the holders are. Don't think Finn is a bad kwami, he just seems lost… Me and Plagg will help him a bit. Mabie, he could even meet Master Fu."

"But what if Riptide really is not who he says he is, what if he sent Finn to look for us for Hawkmoth. And Finn's scars."

"Marinette Kwami's can get scars, just like humans can. But they have to get them under special circumstances." Tikki explained.

Mari narrowed her eyes. "Like what?"

"Kwami's can take over their holders temporarily, and when they do that any injuries that the holder sustains move onto the kwami. Also if a holder fatally injured themselves while transformed it could pass over onto the kwami."

Mari's eyes widened. "How come I have never heard of this before? And how come you haven't been hurt? Even Plagg, Chat Noir has thrown himself in the way of blasts and injuries on multiple occasions."

"They have been healed. Your magical ladybugs have healed any injury that was sustained in the battle and even bring people back to life. And Plagg does have a scar… behind his left ear." Tikki looked down. "A holder of the shark miraculous has never come across any of my previous holders. There are healing kwamis. But being on their own would make a huge difference."

Marinette looked down at her feet. "I had no idea, I didn't realize how much my ladybugs protect us from our injuries." She paused. She was about to open her mouth to say something else when the bell rang above her. "Oh no!" Tikki quickly flew into her bag and she ran out of the room upstairs.

Authors notes.

I'm just gonna do a little clarification here. Lots of the kwami stuff here is headcanon. And I hope that future seasons of miraculous don't change everything around too much. But even if it does just think of it as its own thing. But yes kwami's can take over their holders like an overshadowing if need be, but only if the holder was transformed. It would be like a kwami using a human's body as a host. But it is very hard to do, and forbidden. That also means that their power does not have a time limit in that state. There are a few other things too but I will be clarifying them in future chapters so not to worry.

Riptide suit design! One of my amazing friends drew a Riptide fanart design for me for my birthday tomorrow! They did an amazing job and I love it so much! It will help give you an idea of Riptide's design. It will be posted on my Tumblr 'playedcrowd5610'. If you need to look for any of my Fenton Tides designs you can find them under the 'Fenton Tides' section on my master list. I hope you check it out!

Thanks for reading! Please tell me what you thought of this chapter! I love to read the comments. :D