(A/N: Hey guys it's that time again, when we last left off Mylene was in a very bad situation, in more ways than one. I hope you've all been paying close attention because every single one of Dallas's tarot predictions have come true so far, and one of them involved Ivan and Mylene incase you don't remember, also…and I admit this is dumb to do even for me but it would seem I've misspelled her name this entire time which makes me feel like a total idiot so now I have to do a whole but load of corrective editing, yay, also I know this chapter is a bit late, but what else is new. However I do have a good reason, two actually, the first being I had to watch my parent's dogs for the last week so I didn't really have time to focus on this chapter like I wanted to do, and as for the second I thought of a last minute idea to do for this chapter which I hope you're gonna like, now then without further a due let's hop to it.)

Chapter 23: The verge of collapse

"Duusu, spread my feathers." Natalie whispered and quickly transforming herself into Mayura, then she turned toward Simon and said. "Give me your photograph, I have an idea but it will require your assistance."

Simon just stood there amazed at what he'd just seen firsthand. "You have a miraculous too?" He asked dumbly.

"Just give me the damn picture while we still have time, and think of a creature to take the form of your strongest emotion." She growled through gritted teeth thoroughly annoyed by him at this point. Delaying no longer Simon quickly thought of a form for his emotions to take, he wasn't sure what she was going to do or why he needed to do this but he didn't question it. Then fished out the picture of himself and his brother and handed it to Mayura. After plucking a feather from her fan and charging it with dark energy she took the photo and applied the feather and began to summon a brand new sentimonster. Which took the form of a giant red skinned diamond back rattle snake with large metallic like antlers and a large bright glowing red stone in between its eyes.

"I don't believe what I'm seeing." Simon voiced as he stared at the massive monstrous snake which he'd only ever heard legends about from his grandfather.

"Sentimonster, I am Mayura…" She announced to her and Simon's creation which sat coiled in front of the two of them flickering it's forked tongue at them. "From here on out you are to obey Simon Clearlake and do whatever it is he asks of you." As she turned back to Simon to hand over the reins she saw that he had intentionally covered his eyes and averted his gaze from the giant snake. "What are you doing that for? It's not going to hurt you."

"You don't understand, I've modeled it after a demon from my tribes folk lore, the demon Unk-Cekula, who was most famous for…" Before Simon could finish explaining the door opened up and in stepped the police.

"Is anybody…WHAT THE HELL?!" One of the officers shouted as he and his partner we're being stared down by a massive snake. Just as they pulled their guns and took aim the sentimonster's eyes flashed a bright white for a brief second causing the officer's to go blind in an instant. "I…I can't see. I can't see a damn thing!" He cried as he and his partner started to fumble around.

Simon then shuttered as he saw what his imagination and the sentimonster had caused. "That…that's what she's famous for. She turns people blind if you look into her eyes. But the worse has yet to come." He said finally finishing his sentence from a moment ago.

"Then make sure she only does it if she has to." Mayura replied as she once again handed him the photo.

Just as he had finally took back the photo the snake then started to rear back it's head as it poised itself to strike the officers and devour them like a real snake letting out a single hiss as it darted toward them with it's jaws open wide. "NO STOP! Simon cried just as the snake was right on top of them, and to his surprise it did just as he'd said and stopped in its tracks. Then it simply closed it's mouth and returned back to it's sitting position facing Mayura and Simon sitting still as a stone. "It…it did what I told it to do."

"Of course she did, I've given you complete and total control over her." Mayura stated with a sinister smile. "We'd best get going while we still can." Just as they started to take their leave a single black butterfly flew into the room floating in front of Simon. "Hmm…it would seem that Hawkmoth sent us a little something to help us out."

"Wait, you mean he's been watching us this whole time?" Simon asked with shock.

"Most likely…" Mayura replied. "But then again perhaps he sees an opportunity. With the power's of Iya and…what did you call her again?" She asked as she gestured over to the large snake.

"Unk-Cekula." Simon replied plainly.

"Right, with your powers to manipulate the weather and people and her power to blind anyone who dares to look into her eyes the two of you could be an unstoppable duo." Mayura summed up.

Simon could see that she was right. Between the powers that he had as an akumaa and this sentimonster they would be unstoppable by normal standards. But he didn't seem all that interested as he just said. "What's the point? I came all the way here to see my brother and try to reunite our bond as brothers and he just turned me away like I was nothing. I know I promised Hawkmoth that I'd help him but…"

Just as he was about to finish Mayura then added. "Did we fail to mention that the miraculous holders are friends of his? What better way to get his attention than to go after the people he cares about?"

Simon's eyes just shot open wide with this reveal, not only because he was surprised that his brother was friends with an entire team of superheroes but because he was shocked that she'd even suggested this to him. "Now hold on, I may have agreed to help get Ladybug and Cat Noir's miraculous but I draw the line at killing folks."

"Who ever said anything about killing? All you need to do is either enthrall them or blind them." Mayura stated plainly.

"You still don't understand, the power of Unk-Cekula doesn't just blind people. It also turns them insane then over time it slowly kills them, in that order mind you." Simon replied still feeling nervous about this plan.

Until Mayura reassured him. "You don't have to worry, once the sentimonster disappears everything it's done to anyone else will be undone and these men will go back to normal."

Simon then narrowed his eyes onto her and said with an aggressive tone. "You'd better be telling the truth, I'm not a murderer." Then he turned back to the akumaa floating near him and applied it to his picture. "Alright boss, lets get this over with."

It was almost eleven o'clock in the morning when Ivan finally woke up, his head was throbbing from the night before and he had no idea why especially sense he didn't have anything relatively alcoholic to drink. The last thing he remembered was seeing something absolutely terrifying, and what that was were everyone's eyes bursting open and thousands of worms crawling out of their eye sockets. Then the next thing that happened was a dream, a dream that took him on a spiritual journey with a tiny mouse as his guide to teach him of where he belonged in the universe, or at least that's what he thought it was. But in the end he just chalked it up to a weird dream. After having a cup of coffee and extra strength migraine medication he felt right as rain. That is until he watched the morning news and saw his girlfriend Mylene in the hospital.

Without even thinking he called for an uber and went straight to the hospital, as soon as he got there he made a mad dash to the front desk to try and find out which room she was in. "Where…can I find…Mylene…Haprele." He panted trying to catch his breath.

The nurse behind the desk looked up from her monitor and asked. "How do you know this patient?"

"She's my girlfriend." He said with fear that she might be in a horrible situation. "I need to see that she's alright."

The nurse started to type away on her keyboard then handed him a clip board and said. "Fill this out first then I'll let you head up to her room."

After filling out the visitor's form she gave him he handed it over to her and she sent him up to the fifth floor. He was so afraid of the state she might be in, all he could think was please be okay. As he rounded the corner he saw Adrien, Marinette and Dallas all standing with cups of coffee. He felt touched that they all came to pay her a visit as well. That is until he heard what Dallas had said to the two other teens. "Ivan got Mylene pregnant." Is what Ivan heard Dallas say clear as day, that's when his whole world just stopped. His thoughts just started to run wild, and the more he thought about it the more it made sense, he had noticed that she'd been acting sick for almost no reason at all mainly because she never got sick unless there was some kind of virus going around.

The first thing he asked himself was. "Why didn't she tell me?" He felt several emotions at this moment. Scared, confused, hurt. But what Dallas would say next would override all of those in a split second.

"But she didn't tell him about it, evidently her plan was just to nip this in the butt before anyone else found out, Ivan included. But as we all can see that kinda backfired on her so now she's in some pretty deep shit, or at least she will be when Ivan finds out. But it can't be because of us got it? This is something that she needs to do herself." With that said Ivan's previous emotions went right out the window, he clenched his fists, gritted his teeth and the next thing he knew he was just filled with so much anger that he just wanted to explode.

His blood just ran cold as he finally spoke up from behind his friends. "Too late…" He voiced with a low growl. As the three teens quickly turned to him to see the look of anger on his face. Without even saying another word he just shoved past them and went straight into Mylene's room with nothing but rage. Dallas and Adrien quickly followed him in just in case he thought about doing something really stupid, but all he did was stand there and glare at Mylene as he shouted at her. "How could you do this to me?!"

As Adrien and Dallas just stood behind him the young Lakota immediately started thinking fearfully and with so much regret for even opening his mouth, this is not going to end well. Dallas tried to step in front of Ivan in some kind of attempt to calm him down. "Ivan I get that your mad at her and you have every right to be but I don't think…"

"SHUT UP DALLAS!" Ivan shouted as he grabbed Dallas by the collar of his jacket. "SHUT UP OR I SWEAR TO GOD I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU!" He then shoved Dallas off to the side where he just fell to the floor.

Dallas slowly got up fully prepared to retaliate when Adrien quickly stood in between him and Ivan and said. "Let it Go Dallas, the last thing we need to do is make this situation worse by you guys getting into a fight." Dallas just gritted his teeth as he reluctantly backed off at Adrien's request.

Mylene just looked on at her lover while he was enraged at her for reasons that she already knew. "You were pregnant…and with my child…and you just killed them and didn't even ask me if I was okay with it!" He shouted at her with fury.

"Ivan please…" Mylene tried to ease him so she could explain. "I know I should've told you the truth, but I didn't want you to worry about us."

"Bullshit! You only did it so you wouldn't have to take responsibility for what we'd done!" He roared back at her. "I mean I get that having a baby is scary but you didn't have to kill our child!"

Mylene quickly tried to rationalize with him. "Ivan there wasn't any child, not yet at least…but I..."

"DON'T YOU FEED ME THAT LINE OF SHIT!" He shouted again. "When a woman get's pregnant the result is always the same, she has a child growing inside of her, and you killed them!"

"HEY!" Dallas shouted as he finally got in between them. "Both of you just shut up…for five seconds! The way I see it your both at fault for this. But it's true that this whole thing concerns you both."

"Butt out of this Dallas, this has nothing to do with you!" Ivan said as he tried to shove Dallas out of the room, only for Dallas to grab his wrist and twist it around with little effort. Ivan winced in pain from the pressure that Dallas was applying to his wrist.

Dallas then looked Ivan in the eye and said with an icy tone. "As you can see I'm holding back, by a lot. Now let me be perfectly clear, shut the hell up…or I will snap your wrist like a toothpick, do I make myself clear Ivan?" After finally letting him go Ivan just turned around and started walking away.

"Whatever…" He said coldly as he just turned his back on everyone in the room. "I'm out of here."

"What?" Mylene began to shed tears as she watched Ivan walk out. "Ivan, Ivan don't go! Please don't leave, just let me explain."

He stopped for a brief second and said without even looking back at her. "There's nothing left for you to say, it's very clear to me that you'd rather kill your own child and hide your sin from me rather than even let me have a say in whether or not if we should raise him or her." Then without another word he just walked off, he didn't even give one final glare at her. Marinette tried to stop him from leaving but he just pushed past her.

In that moment Mylene just began to cry as her heart began to break, she began to feel nothing but regret for what she'd done, to Ivan…and their unborn child. But there was one person in that room who was not just going to let Ivan walk out on her without a fight. Finally following his instincts Dallas just marched after him not giving a damn what he had to do at this point because he was going to do what ever it took to make Ivan listen. Adrien quickly sensed this as he tried to stop Dallas from whatever it was he planned to do. "Dallas hold on now don't do anything stupid!"

"No promises Adrien." Dallas growled as he just marched onward towards the angry teen. "Ivan, get back here you little pansy ass bitch!" He ordered as he grabbed his shoulder and forced him to turn around. "What the hell do you think your doing huh? You can't just walk away from your girlfriend while she's like this."

"Ex-girlfriend, I'm done with her. She had no right to do this to me or to our baby!" Ivan shouted back at him.

"Okay let me stop you right there pal because she literally had every right due to the one key fact, her body her rules. Meaning that she would have the final say in this whole situation no matter what you would've wanted which clearly was the alternative." Dallas stated the facts in the attempt to get Ivan to see reason. "But it was your child too so yes you should've had a say, I completely agree with you. But you need to understand that she wasn't ready and I think it's safe to say that neither were you. I mean do you even have a way to support her or a child? Do you have a job or money? Do you have your own place? Do you even know the first thing about raising a baby?"

Ivan clearly didn't have any of those things at his disposal, but he still felt betrayed by Mylene for her actions. "It doesn't matter, she still should've talked to me about it first. Even if we couldn't take care of it together our baby deserved to live. Even if we didn't keep it they still would've made someone else happy."

That's when Dallas got confused. "Wait, you mean…you didn't want to raise the baby?" He asked puzzledly.

"Don't be an idiot of course I did!" Ivan declared, then his look slowly melted into one of sorrow. "But like you said, I don't have any way of supporting Mylene or a baby, but that doesn't mean I would've been okay with robbing my child of the right to live."

Dallas slowly started to understand what Ivan was saying then asked. "So you mean you would've given it up for adoption after they were born?"

Ivan just nodded his head, then he wiped his eye of a tear that threatened to fall. "I would've rather watched as my child grew up in someone else's home instead of never being able to live at all. Unlike…someone else I know."

In that moment Dallas went back from sympathetic to angry. "Oh for the love of god will you please just stop? Mylene only did it because she was worried about your future!"

"I'm not talking about Mylene…" Ivan replied as his voice began to crack. "I'm talking about my…my parents."

Dallas was almost silent for an entire minute as he just allowed what Dallas had just said register in his mind. I did not see that coming, he thought to himself. "Your…parents?" He voiced with confusion.

Ivan slowly began to spin a tale of pain and woe. "Not a whole lot of people know about this but, I have to live with my grandma because…my mom and dad…abandoned me right after I was born." He said with a sniffle. "They got pregnant in high school, but they didn't want anything to do with me, they thought it would be easier to just…terminate the pregnancy while they still could. That's when my grandma…my mom's mom…found out, and she intervened saying that they had no right to get rid of me in such a way. She just kept on guilt tripping them until they finally caved, but only to a certain point because after I was born they wanted to give me up for adoption and that would be the end of it. But my grandma wouldn't allow it either, she said that I had the right to be apart of the family and that they had to take responsibility for me, but instead of doing that…they just dumped me onto my grandma and she hasn't seen them sense."

In that moment Dallas finally understood the root of Ivan's anger, unresolved parental issues mixed with his own morals on the subject of abortion clearly made a poor combination, especially sense he came so close to having his own life stripped away from him. If it weren't for his grandmother it would be certain that he wouldn't be standing there talking about it with him. "Wow, now I understand why you're so angry." Dallas voiced with a calm tone. "But still, I don't think you should really compare Mylene to your folks Ivan, because like I said she was only looking out for your future so I think it's safe to say that she didn't make this choice lightly."

Ivan just looked away from Dallas as he asked. "But how can I forgive her after what she's done? How can I ever trust her again after all of this? And after what I said there's no way she'll ever forgive me."

That's when Dallas started to think of his options, then he got an idea which he was sure would work. "I might know someone who can help." He said as he pulled out his phone and googled the name of his old therapist. "I hope it's not too late at night back home."

After finding her business number on her own personal web sight Dallas punched in her number and gave her a call. The phone rang a few times until she finally answered with a yawn. "Hello?"

"Hey doc…" Dallas greeted back to her. "Bet you never thought you'd get a call from me again. Really sorry that I woke you up but I kinda need your help."

"Who is this?" Dr. Grimshaw asked as she was unclear who it was she was speaking to.

"An old client of yours…" Dallas began to explain. "We first met back in Montana, my mom insisted that a psychiatrist come in and see me after I was abducted by a…" Dallas swallowed hard as he forced the memory of the night he was nearly raped and killed out of his mind. "That trucker who…wanted to rape me."

Upon hearing this Ivan's jaw just dropped, he never would've imagined that Dallas had ever came close to being made the victim of a sexual predator. Around that same moment Dr. Grimshaw instantly began to recognize this story. "Dallas?" She said with shock. "Is that really you?"

"The one and only last time I checked." He replied half-jokingly. "And like I said I'm kind of in need of your help, that is if you don't mind."

Dr. Grimshaw then asked somewhat puzzledly. "You mean over a call?"

"Yes over a call, this is a little too important to wait and if you knew the situation then you'd understand." Dallas replied plainly.

The doctor thought about it for a moment and said. "I hope you realize that therapy over the phone costs extra, as does calling me in the dead of night during my off hours."

Dallas simply smiled and said back. "Don't worry doc, I'm good for it."

"Fine by me, so what's your problem this time?" She asked as she got out a pen and pad from her end table in her bed room.

"Well in all fairness I'm not the one in need of therapy this time thank god, but someone else I know is." Dallas stated as he began to explain the situation. "I have a couple of friends who happen to be a couple, their names are Ivan and Mylene one of them is in the hospital right now due to a bad reaction to some meds she's been on…"

"Dallas, I hope you realize I'm not that kind of a doctor." She said in response as she didn't fully understand the situation. Until he explained further.

"I know that doc, but it's all connected. You see…the meds she was on were meant to terminate a pregnancy and Ivan just found out about it and frankly…he's not too thrilled about it. But that's not the issue, the issue is his own parents tried to get an abortion after conceiving him but his grandmother, god bless her, kept that from happening. But it only got worse after his folks ditched him with his grandmother all together and nobody's seen them sense. So I think you can understand now why he's so super pissed about this."

After righting everything down on her pad she then asked Dallas. "Is Ivan there by chance?"

Dallas then handed Ivan the phone and said to him. "She want's to talk to you. Take all the time you need." After leaving Ivan alone with the doctor on his cell he went back up to Mylene's room where she was absolutely distraught with both Marinette and her father doing everything they could to try and help her calm down. "I've talked to Ivan everybody, and I think what I have to tell you may help put a few things into perspective." After explaining everything to everyone in the room what Ivan had told him they all slowly began to understand as well why Ivan was so angry, after learning this Mylene felt even more guilty about what she'd done as she could see that it had unearthed a very sore subject.

But thankfully her father was able to reassure her that there was no way she could've known about it. About ten minutes after Ivan came back up to see Mylene only this time it was to apologize. He took a deep breath and let it out slowly as he began to speak. "I…I'm sorry…sorry for…not understanding you, I shouldn't have said what I said."

"No Ivan I'm the one who should be sorry…" Mylene replied. "If I'd known about your parents abandoning you and trying to just take away your existence I would've considered other options. I wouldn't be surprised if you hated me for the rest of my life after what I've done."

Ivan then walked over to the bed and sat next to her unable to look at her for his actions, he let out a sigh and said. "Listen, I think the real reason I got so mad at you was because…I was never able to resolve my issues with my parents…and after I learned what you did…I just…took it out on you. Which wasn't fair, so for that…I'm sorry." He closed his eyes and shed a small tear as he just began to hate himself for what he'd done prior to this moment. But what happened next not even he was expecting, he felt Mylene's arms wrap tightly around him reassuring him that she still loved him. They were still far from where they once were but for the moment they had what they needed, forgiveness.

After giving back his phone Ivan thanked Dallas for his help, he also told Dallas that he owed Dr. Grimshaw six-thousand dollars for the session. Dallas nearly fainted at the amount he now owed his former therapist and had hoped he'd misheard her. But his answer was clear as day when the doctor sent him a text with his bill attached, luckily for him Adrien was kind enough to pay for most of it with an American account in the Agreste name. He considered it as a way of saying thanks for helping him fix his relationship with his father, so in the end Dallas only had to pay two thousand dollars, which in his mind was way easier to replace than three times that. On the way out of the hospital Adrien then asked his foster brother. "How do you always manage to do that?"

Dallas just looked back at him and asked. "Do what?"

"Fix everything, even when it doesn't seem like it can be fixed." Adrien laminated.

Dallas just shrugged and said. "Who knows, maybe it's because of how fucked up my life is that I know how to fix something that's major league fucked up. Like my relationship with…my…brother." That's when Dallas realized he still had some work to do. "God…damn you Adrien."

"What'd I do?" He asked with confusion.

"You just made me realize that I've fucked up things with my brother, more so than they already were." He replied as he just grumbled to himself. "Stupid…mother…freaken…Simon…Adrien…grr…damn…MORALS."

While he was in the midst of his rant Dallas was stopped by the sight of two ambulances pulling up with their sirens flashing. As the pair-o-medics piled out of the large vehicles and pulled out two officers on stretchers, as they wheeled them both into the hospital Dallas could see that they both had to be restrained as they were thrashing about and screaming bloody murder. And along with that Dallas saw something else, as the officers passed them by he saw something had happened to their eyes. They were glazed over white. This seemed eerily familiar to Dallas, almost as if he'd heard of this sort of thing before. But before he could even ask the medics what had happened to them Dallas then heard the sound of thunder overhead. He looked up into the sky and saw dark storm clouds forming. "Do either of you remember their being a thunderstorm warning for today?"

"No, but a storm doesn't just come out of nowhere…unless…" Marinette voiced as she came to realize what was going on, especially when she saw a man flying through the air waring clothing that looked like something a native American brave might ware. "Guys, I think we've got an akumaa."

"Not just an Akumaa I'm afraid, look." Adrien added as he pointed out to the Eiffel tower which had a giant snake coiling around its massive structure.

Dallas just gasped, as he instantly recognized the giant snake he saw from far off. "It can't be…" He said with fear clear in his voice. "I don't believe it; how can she be here in Europe?" He asked aloud.

"Uh…she? You know what that thing is?" Adrien asked his foster brother who for once in his life looked scared of something. Which turned out to be a giant snake with antlers.

"I'm afraid I do…" Dallas said as he looked on in horror. "It's the end of all men who dare to look at her, she is the greatest bane of my people. The demon…Unk-Cekula."

(A/N: And that's all for now people, sorry that this one was a little short, also hope you guys weren't too divided with the whole topic I went with for this chapter, I really didn't know if I should've gone this route but I honestly couldn't think of anything better so I just went with this. Also what did you guys think of this crazy snake demon? When I first read about her on line I actually felt a chill run down my spine, because of how freaking scary she is, but the worst part is she has a boyfriend according to the legend and he's just as bad as she is. No it's not Iya so if that's what you're thinking guess again. Also in case you're wondering yes she was supposed to be an akumaa in this story too but that was a little hard for me to spin out so I just went with the sentimonster bit instead. Alright now it's time for the spoiler. In the next chapter of WOS, Iya wreaks havoc upon the city along with Unk-Cekula, Iktomi confronts his brother on the field of battle while Ladybug and Cat Noir fight off the sentimonster along with the rest of the team but are finding it difficult as they are unable to do a thing to it without running the risk of going blind. Who will win this daring duel? Find out in the next chapter. Bye for now everyone.)