Happy early Halloween! More action scenes! Feel free to comment and review!
animefan29... Never watched or read Kamen Rider before although it sounds interesting so I will have to go check it out. Plaggs role will be shown very soon. In the chapter after this one as a matter of fact. Its taken a while to get to him because this is a ridiculously long story and there wasn't a good spot to include him without it feeling forced. Also you can comment all you would like! I love to see how other people think my stories will go! That way I can see if I am predictable and if I am I can change things around to mess with everyone! I am a mischievous writer like that. If you have any questions just ask or PM me since that will get you a reply far quicker.
Marinette is a detective who can't keep a partner while hunting down the notorious Hawkmoth gang. Chat is the new cat burglar on the streets who never gets caught. After Marinette gets handed his case it's it won't be long before their fates collide especially when monsters start roaming the streets
(Second Encounter)
Nino led her expertly through the streets and over the rooftops as they second guessed Chat Noirs movements. Usually they had a suspect's patterns and movements from previous data to bounce off of but this time they were running blind. Short police reports over the radio of a person on the rooftops kept them going on a fairly straight path and Marinette used both street level as well as the rooftops in an effort to catch sight of her quarry. They were heading towards an area nicknamed the projects on the outskirts of Paris and Marinette was starting to get tired. Pausing on a rooftop Marinette looked out across the expanse of darkness that lay before her. The street lights were on in some areas but she was definitely on the shadier side of town now. Sirens echoed in the distance and Marinette sighed
"Guys we might have to call this off tonight. I still have to make it home you know and at this point I'm several miles off the beaten path out here."
"Do you want one of us to come get you?" Nino asked and Marinette sighed again as she glanced at her watch.
It was creeping up on 10pm and she had been running for over an hour. "Yeah I think…" she paused suddenly as a flash of black merged with the unfinished building less than a block away. "Scratch that I saw some movement up here. I'm going dark guys."
"Good luck, stay safe." Nino answered as Alya called "I get first scoop!"
"I don't need luck remember?" Marinette answered pulling the headset from her ears and shoved them in a zippered pocket in her jacket. She didn't bother turning them off, Nino and Alya would wait on standby for her until she gave the all clear. Plus Nino had offered her a ride which she was going to accept if the movement she had seen wasn't Chat. Swiftly Marinette moved to the building since the police sirens were slowly coming closer and she really didn't want to explain why she was on this side of town. Granted they probably wouldn't ever catch her unless she got injured since few cops would step foot on the rooftops. With a sigh Marinette decided to check the building out real quick and get away. Since technically she was on desk duty Marinette could get into real trouble being out running around in full gear like she was. As she got closer to the where she had seen the movement she spied a human figure dressed all in black dart into a five story building through a fifth floor window. The space they cleared was so far beyond what a normal human could handle Marinette just knew that it had to be Chat. That decided it for her and with a rush of excitement she began her decent from the rooftops. Dropping to the ground outside the building she tried and realized the doors were all locked on the ground floor. Making a quick sweep of the outside she used a firmly braced gutter to climb up to a third story window then took the stairs to the fifth floor. Marinette tried to be silent but the moment her feet hit the top step she knew he heard her coming. He was waiting near an open square in the wall that would eventually become a window, his ears laid back and his stance reminiscent of a hunting cat. Green eyes pierced the gloom and a rumble trembled on the air.
Pausing at the doorway Marinette decided to catch her breath since she didn't want to chase him just yet. "Do you know how hard it is to run across the rooftops in the freaken dark?" she demanded surprising even herself with how companionable her tone was.
Chats ears went up his stance instantly relaxing as the rumble vanished. "I should have known it was you My Lady. You seem to be the only competent person on the Parisian force."
"Oh good we're agreed. Shall I measure your wrists for your shiny new bracelets then?" Marinette asked moving away from the doorway and into the open space. One long wall separated the rest of the floor from the space they were and it was obvious by all the supplies scattered about that they were still building walls up in this space. A large hole in the floor was still unfinished and some rebar stuck out in several places making it look like a cavernous mouth.
Chat chuckled "I'm not one for jewelry but the fact that you think so highly has me claw-sitively overjoyed."
The word claws made her mind jump to the file on her floor that described the dead cops with claw marks on them. "You killed someone tonight." Marinette whispered and Chat cocked his head sideways
"Are you talking about that chubby guard? I assure you My Lady I did not kill him. I simply gagged him and shoved him in a closet. He didn't even realize I was there until he was in the dark." Chat answered so smugly that she believed him.
"Then who called the cops?" Marinette asked as she eyed him curiously moving closer to him. She had no real plan on how to apprehend him and there was something about him that made her want to trust him as strange as that seemed.
Chat shrugged watching her as she moved to stand almost in front of him admiring her bravery or perhaps stupidity. "I probably set off the silent alarms when I busted the safe open."
"You have killed others though." Marinette said and Chat realized it was a statement not a question. He felt no need to lie to her after all she knew he had killed before and yet here she was standing before him alone and without anything he would call a real weapon. He wondered briefly if she would act the same way if she knew who he really was.
To her surprise Chat nodded "Seven others, all unavoidable although that one cop was working for Hawkmoth. He was a nasty piece of work and I had no issues taking his life. Especially when he was targeting some innocent people to try and draw me out."
Marinette froze in the darkness and Chat went still as he sensed the change in her mood. "Which one was working for Hawkmoth?" she asked her voice icy
Chats ears twitched and his eyes narrowed. "What do you know about Hawkmoth?" he retorted his voice coming out as a growl.
"He had my partner killed! Answer my question!" she snarled her hands clenching into fists.
Chat flinched away his eyes softening in a way that made her heart twist. He gave her a name one that she didn't recognize and she filed it away in her mind to reference later. Silence settled in the air between then and Marinette felt the first trickles of exhaustion drift through her. It came as a shock to her but she realized she didn't want to arrest this foolish cat. It was a rapid 180 of feelings considering she had met him for the first time only a few nights ago but there was something about him that made her hesitate when she could be handcuffing him. She still felt obligated to of course, it was her job after all, but the usual drive of adrenaline, the sense she was doing something right simply wasn't there this time around. The fact that he had practically said he was against Hawkmoth was another tick in his favor although she wondered what he had stolen tonight. As her gaze drifted over him she noticed something in his hand, something that appeared to be glowing then she saw the tiny red dot drift across his chest.
"Down!" Marinette yelled moving before she thought it through, body slamming him to the floor. There was a sharp crack as a bullet slammed into the floor several feet away since it missed its target and the glowing object in Chats hand skittered off towards the gaping hole in the floor. They had been on the floor less than a second before Chat scooped Marinette sideways rolling them out of sight of the window faster than she could draw a breath. Two more cracks later and he had her pinned between him and the wall his body covering hers and blending them both into the darkness. Silence fell again and Marinette could hear his heart racing in his chest as her bruised side protested the cramped position. Biting her lip she refused to make a sound and instead focused on her breathing.
"That was not the police force. Who is trying to kill you?" Marinette asked her voice strangely calm as she forced her embarrassment to the side at being so very close to him she could feel his heart beating.
"Several people My Lady but none you need to worry yourself about." He rumbled with a grin then cursed as another bullet slammed into the buildings floor. The shooter was searching for them hoping that with random shots they could draw them out into the open. It was a waiting game although Chat knew the shooter would have to give up far sooner than he. They stayed frozen for several minutes waiting for another attack and when it didn't come Chat gave a sigh of relief. Gently he peeled himself away from Marinette pushing her to stay still only to flinch back as she yelped when his hand pressed a little too hard into her bruised side.
Guilt surged through him "Sorry, I injured you the other night didn't I?" he asked
Marinette snorted shifting into a sitting position as he pulled away. "You have a hell of a kick. Aren't you sore at all?"
Chat smirked refusing to let her know about the bruises she gave him. "Only my pride My Lady."
He slunk to feet and sticking to the darkness began peering around outside while avoiding the windows edge so he couldn't become a target again. Marinette let him avoiding the single window herself as she got to her feet and moved over to where she could see a glowing object on the floor next to the hole. It was a small round stone about the size of a quarter and it glowed faintly with a rosy glow that was reminiscent of a tiny ladybug nightlight Tiki had given her once upon a time.
"What is this thing?" Marinette asked as she picked the stone up off the floor. A bolt of energy akin to an electric shock surged through her making her gasp and Chats head whipped around to look. Soreness instantly vanished, her senses heightened to an extreme that she could hear the police pulling up outside the building, and she felt not stronger but better her tiredness fading to nothing. The glow in the stone was gone but of all things she could almost sense something within the stone. It felt as if it were almost alive. The feeling slowly faded as did her suddenly heightened senses leaving her body tingling and she glanced up at Chat in a kind of surprised wonder.
Bright green eyes gone feral glared at her from across the room. "Hand it over."
Instinctively closing her hand around the stone Marinette returned Chats glare as her previous wonder instantly evaporated "What is this?" Marinette demanded and when Chats answer was a simple growl an idea popped into her head. "This is what you stole tonight isn't it?"
Chats tail lashed the air behind him as he took a step towards her. "I stole the Miraculous from Hawkmoth now hand it over." His words came out as a snarl this time and Marinette paused.
To most people his words would have been meaningless but to her they explained her everything. She had read about stones called Miraculous before and this particular stone had belonged to Hawkmoth. From the depths of her mind a memory revealed itself one that she desperately didn't want to remember at the moment. It was one from the night Tiki died, a memory of a single bloody key handed to her from her dying partner, a secret file that had information on stones that could give people monstrous abilities. Marinette had read that file believing every word for it was the only thing that could explain the thing that had attacked them. Later Marinette was left wondering if it had been because of that information that they had been targeted and her partner had been killed. The file had been about the Miraculous and now, if her thoughts were going in the right direction she held such a stone in her hand. The bad thing was that Chat, a person who already wielded incredible strange abilities wanted it. Strange abilities that if the miraculous were truly real would explain everything about the half cat man before her. The file had warned against one person having multiple stones and even if it hadn't Marinettes instincts told her to refuse. Chat was already powerful. Too much power for any one person was a bad idea and he didn't seem so good at controlling his own power as it was after all.
"Marinette." Chat snapped breaking her free from the terrible memories and thoughts. Pulse in her throat she shook her head.
"No Chat." she said and he stalked closer the annoyance visible in his features.
"You don't have a choice." He hissed clearly ready to take the stone back by force.
Marinette took a nervous step back, realizing she was at the edge of the hole when her foot sent a stray piece of rebar over the edge. This was a fight Marinette knew she couldn't win so in a split second she decided to take the crazy way out. Dropping the weight in her sleeve Marinette slung it out at Chat making him dodge sideways. Chat snarled as the weight cracked into the ground at just the right angle to sail back towards her hand and Marinette caught it with ease. It left a loop of chain trailing behind and properly set Marinette glanced up at Chat meeting his eyes. Wariness was clear in the way he moved as he backed up to a distance that he clearly hoped was out of range.
"Not the Ninja thing again!" Chat complained staying back as his muscles reminded him just how bad that weight hurt. He was expecting a second attack so he was only able to watch stunned as she simply leapt backwards into the hole.
Marinette hadn't been sure her crazy idea would work as she leapt backwards into the hole but to her relief it did. The loop of chain caught on a rebar pole and swung her in towards the floor clearing the hole that continued down another two floors. Her feet hit the ground and knowing she had mere seconds she slid the Miraculous stone in her hand into her sports bra figuring it was the best hiding spot since pockets were out of the question. Feet hit the ground behind her and Marinette spun retracting the chain and pulling her baton from its spot as a metal bar swung down at her head. Blocking the blow and reveling in Chats shocked face, she threw a punch into his ribcage making Chat disengage his baton. Sliding sideways Marinette kicked out at his knee but Chat managed to evade and struck back with unnatural speed slamming a flat palm into her stomach sending her off her feet and back first into a pole. The air was doubly knocked out of her as she landed on her butt back still to the pole.
Leaping back away from her Chat hissed realizing he may have gone too far once more. He couldn't keep control over his strength and fight her at full capacity and it was starting to piss him off. "Dam pain in the ass, overly quick idiot, I don't want to hurt you."
Shakily Marinette managed to gasp "Could have fooled me." and gathered her strength to force herself up into a standing position, she was out of breath but otherwise she was uninjured.
To her surprise her ribs were not killing her after a blow like that and briefly she wondered why. Chat clearly hadn't held back on that blow especially since she could clearly see the annoyed panic in his eyes until she climbed to her feet. It would have been sweet that he was worried but as soon as Chat realized she was indeed ok, he growled and stalked sideways edging in closer to her. Not having the luxury of time to wonder about why she wasn't in agony, Marinette kept a tight grip on her baton as well as the weight in her other hand. Marinette knew she wasn't fast enough in these conditions to make a proper attack. It was too dark and he was too fast at blending with the shadows, tricking her eyes. There was also his unnatural speed and strength that he frequently pulled out of nowhere making her wonder exactly how much he was holding back. No matter what, she was at a great disadvantage. As soon as she attacked Marinette knew that she would leave herself open so knowing it was her only choice, she waited for Chat to make a move. Finally he did with an irratated growl, darting in from the side on all fours his eyes narrowed as he lunged up from the ground. His baton seemed to magically appear as he swung at her ribs and Marinette moved to counter. Blocking the blow she realized too late that it wasn't the real attack and his baton was simply a decoy that bounced lightly against hers before hitting the floor. In the next moment he used his true speed on her and within a shockingly fast movement he had her arms pinned above her head by the wrists to the pole behind her. Her tip toes barely touched the ground due to the extra height he had on her and he seemed to be able to hold her there almost effortlessly.
"Let me go!" Marinette snarled in shock trying to twist out of his grip. It didn't work, in fact he didn't even budge and she realized just how strong Chat really was.
Chat eyed her curiously impressed by the amount of strength her petite body had. "Give me the stone and I will." He said his face inches from hers though he was careful to keep out of her legs range as they flailed. Marinette was pissed he could see that much in her stunningly gorgeous blue eyes, and if he had learned anything so far it was that a pissed Marinette, was a creative Marinette.
"Here is your stone." Marinette snapped and flicking her wrist she released the weight in her hand to smack into the top of his head.
The impact distracted as well as startled him and Marinette twisted in his grip again bringing all the strength she had to bear. He grunted in surprise as one hand managed to break free and she threw a punch to get him to back off. It collided with his face and Chat tasted blood as his grip slacked. Knowing she was gearing up to strike again he decided to end this test of wills before his annoyance spiraled out of control.
Marinette registered a brief "Sorry." From him then the air exploded from her lungs and her legs crumpled under her. A clink of metal and something cold pressed against one of her wrists as her vision faded for a half a second. Desperately Marinette tried to drag air into her half paralyzed lungs and found as her vision cleared that Chat was once again pinning both her arms above her head as he swiftly searched through her pockets.
"Jerk." She gasped as she heaved in a breath, her body becoming less stunned as oxygen revitalized her. His vibrant green eyes briefly flicked to hers an almost guilty look in them before he looked away refocusing on his task.
"I asked nicely." He hissed no longer in the mood to talk
"And I said no." Marinette replied in the same tone her own fury rapidly building as she tried to shift her pinned arms. Metal clinked and she discovered with great annoyance, her handcuffs locked to her one wrist the other side hooked to a metal fixture anchored to the pole. The cat had locked her in her own handcuffs and she hadn't even felt it. Granted she had lost consciousness for several seconds at least, but that wasn't the point.
"Just tell me where you hid it." Chat grumbled feeling in her back pockets after pulling out her badge.
He shifted closer to her the annoyed look on his face never fading as he reached around her side. Marinette hissed as his hand trailed across her hip, patting her sides as he searched for the stone. Fury burst deep in her gut at being man handled and in the next moment without a second thought she sank her teeth into his arm. Claws scored her side near her hip as he yowled and leapt back away from her, freeing her completely. Arms free she jerked forward forgetting however briefly about the handcuff around her wrist. It jerked her to a halt before she could land a blow on Chat and Marinette let a growl of annoyance slip past her lips.
Chat was looking at his arm incredulously, suddenly very grateful for the leather. Then after shaking it out he glared at her as he swiftly moved out of her reach. "You bit me!"
"Touch me again when I don't wish and I'll do a hell of a lot worse!" Marinette snarled in answer her eyes never leaving his as she pulled at her handcuffed wrist.
Chats ears went back lips curling to reveal sharp canines as his tail lashed the air behind him. "You are very good at pissing me off. I. WANT. THE. STONE!" He roared causing Marinette to flinch away though not for very long.
"Your own powers are going to your head, how much more can you take before it drives you nuts?" Marinette demanded in answer trying to throw him off his intended target. She couldn't win against him. Not in a fair fight at least and especially not locked in her own handcuffs. Plus it didn't make Marinette feel any better to know that they were far from any kind of help.
Chat went still blinking rapidly as he realized that she had knowledge of the miraculous. It was the only reason she would be refusing to hand the stone over. Before he could demand how she knew anything however a large crash echoed up from below making him spin around. Voices drifted up and Marinette knew she had moments to act while he was distracted. Whipping out her spare key she unlocked the cuff and took two steps forward before planting her foot solidly into Chats butt. Her kick sent him stumbling forward with a yelp where he had the bad luck to slide on his discarded baton and tumble head first right into the open hole of the floor. He shrieked a loud curse and voices answered his shout as flashlight beams began scouring the sides of the hole. Worry briefly flitted through her mind and Marinette rushed to the edge leaning over to see Chat clinging to a rebar pole trying to pull himself up onto the third floor, while police ran around two more floors down.
The cops were here to arrest him or shoot him and for a brief moment she could imagine him tearing through their ranks with his claws since other than his baton he didn't seem to have any other weapons. Marinette knew he would do it too because no matter the odds he seemed like a person that would do everything they could to stay alive. Not wanting him to have to use his claws for such a thing she scooped up his baton. Leaning over the hole as far as she dared while avoiding the flashlight beams she tossed the weapon down to the floor below listening to it clang sharply on the hard floor. Bright green eyes met her blue ones and Marinette couldn't help but wave cheekily at him before disappearing back over the edge. Briefly she wondered how the baton managed to change lengths as he fought before unlocking her handcuffs from the pole, collected her own fallen baton, and running deeper into the building searching for a window. Finding one on the opposite side of where the sniper had shot from and surrounded by darkness she used her chain to rappel most of the way down. The cops were woefully easy to avoid since they seemed to be distracted chasing Chat around on the inside. Making it to a side alley she sprinted away from the scene waiting until she was a few blocks away before pulling her head set out once more.
Alya picked her up and demanded to know all the details of her chase as she drove her home. Marinette told her as much as she could and although it took a while with a touch of fibbing Alya was eventually satisfied. By the time Marinette made it into her apartment it was past 11pm and she undressed then went to take a hot shower. The small gray stone fell out of her sports bra hitting the floor with a musical ring that caught her off guard since she had forgotten about the thing. Curious she picked up the stone and brought it into the bathroom with her to look at it in a better light. It fit in her palm nicely and two faint lines marred its otherwise spotless surface. They made a very a very faint T like shape and although the overall coloring of the stone was gray the one half was slightly darker than the part broken by the downward part of the T. Marinette couldn't help but chuckle since for some odd reason it reminded her of a ladybug. Placing the stone with her nightclothes she took a shower and soon after fell into bed fast asleep.
