Paris had the soul of poets, which was distilled from the most exquisite parts. In the daylight, Paris was a gentle and classical man. At night, Paris changed into an elegant and magnificent lady.
Paris 5 years ago, remained that beauty. It still was the most peaceful and aesthetic city Master Fu had ever seen, no doubt.
"Eclipse, is the most beautiful moment to bring someone back."
Marinette didn't think too much when she heard Master talked about it. Being a superhero and also directly related to the Guardian of the Miraculous, she had to keep herself alert with everything.
Returning home after their talk, when Tikki was asleep, Marinette focused on the long fabric beside her. She promised to finish her design for Rose after all.
Her phone suddenly beeped, a message from Alya appeared in the screen.
"Do you think Chat can handle this alone?"
Curiously, she pressed on the link Alya sent. It was her partner that was fighting a new villain, all by himself.
Marinette immediately panicked, she was so concentrate on sewing that forget checking news. Hope Chat could stand still till she came.
"Tikki, Spots on."
"You make it much longer than I expect, m'lady." Hands still holding the baton to fight the villain, but Chat didn't forget to joke.
"Beside my superhero responsibility, I'm also quite busy with my work. So now let's make this quick as we always do, kitty"
Throwing the yoyo, Ladybug easily tied two hands of the villain, the situation was now partly controlled.
The villain called himself as Plantman, she guessed he was a farmer. His frustration when his farm was destroyed to make room for buildings made him the perfect prey for the akuma.
His seed box must be where the akuma is hiding, the bug hero guessed.
But, to stop the tree army from attacking Chat, and prevent Plantman from using his power, Ladybug needed Cataclysm to make the villain lose his balance.
Ladybug gestured, and Chat immediately knew what to do.
"Cataclysm."
Wait a second, was this power sometimes stuck or anything?
Nothing happened after Chat touched the ground with his power. Usually, the ground would be crashed right away, but who knew what was going on here?
Silently cursed, Chat was now stuck again with the trees, while Cataclysm, no use.
Feel like something went wrong, Ladybug started to worry.
"Can you try it again, kitty?"
I knew m'lady, you don't have to ask. But this damn power suddenly doesn't work, I can't control it.
The cat hero forced a smile, to make Ladybug less worried a bit.
"Cataclysm."
When Chat was trying to use Cataclysm one more time, he accidentally heard someone called the phrase too. As small as a whistle.
The ground crashed, a huge hole appeared out of the blue, Plantman falled right in it, and was captured.
Mission accomplished.
"Pound it."
"M'lady, cats' senses are so sharp that it can smell dangers very quickly, no need to pawnic, you know."
Smile, Ladybug pointed at his flashing ring.
"Goodbye, kitty."
Watching Chat rushing back home, Ladybug remembered tons of works waiting her at home. Swinging from roof to roof, she decided to stop at an alley.
When she had made sure nobody around, she detransformed.
"Tikki, spots off."
Tikki flew in her purse, and Marinette was ready to go home. Yet not even going out of the alley, somebody took off lightly behind her, a hand holding her shoulder firmly, a hand trying to pull her back.
"Greetings, Ladybug."
That sentence shocked her so hard that she couldn't move. While Marinette was still caught off guard, the stranger turned her back, faced the designer directly.
In front of Mari there stood a person covered from head to toe with a long dark coat, and at least half a head taller than her. That must be a girl, Marinette thought, judging by her figure and her moves.
When that girl pulled her hood down, Marinette was totally speechless.
"I'm you, but from the future"
Landing in the ground easily, Chat didn't want any noise to wake anybody up, cause his identity must be kept a secret from everyone in Paris.
Now, stood here was no longer a superhero of Paris, it was just Adrien - an ordinary boy with an usual life. Plagg tiredly flew to his beloved soft bed, while still complaining about his empty stomach.
"Plagg, has your power ever broken or something?"
Adrien really took the incident today seriously, Plagg could see it clearly through his face. Yet the black kwami wasn't fond of story-telling, so instead of answering, he just asked for another thing.
"Double my camemberts for dinner, kid."
To Plagg, there is just one rule: More food, more things. So every time Adrien needed to know something, he had to bring some more camembert for Plagg's never-satisfy mouth.
"You really want to know? K, kid, but don't faint right here, got it?"
Plagg folded his small arms, looked straight into the boy sitting in the couch silently.
"I can sense that, there is another Plagg, here and now."