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Alya liked her life. She wanted to keep it. But, if she had to die she wouldn't have wanted to have died like this. Not dying because of this stupid akuma. Thank the heavens though she wasn't dead….yet.

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Nino liked his life. He wanted to keep it. But, if he had to die he wouldn't have wanted to have gone like this. Not because of this akuma. All he wanted to do right then was thank the heavens that he wasn't dead…...yet.

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"Come out, little children. No need to hide from me." Silence spoke softly and innocently.

Alya and Nino were shaking behind the pillars they were hiding behind.

Silence took a step closer to the pillars they were by. Alya put shaking hands over her mouth, trying to keep her scared cries quiet. And then she was there. Silence stood right in front of them.

"There you are."

Alya screamed.

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Adrien walked with his hand in his pockets and his head hung low. He thought about Marinette. What he had done was-was…..unforgivable. It was his fault. It was all his fault.

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Alya and Nino made a break for it. They ran towards the street but were pulled back by a crowd of people with no sound.

They were almost immediately tackled to the ground.

"Ugh," Alya managed to make a half hearted groan.

Bad move. Silence turned to her and then flicked her hand.

Alya opened her mouth to scream.

Nothing happened.

Her sound was gone.

She thought she heard Nino call her name.

Then everything was black.

As black as the spots on the suit of a certain lady….

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Bright….. Light… Too Bright…...Silence….Quiet….Too Quiet….Marinette…...Akuma….Heroes…...Ladybug…...Chat Noir…..Sound…..Nothing

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Alya awoke to see the streets of Paris. But she didn't really awake. She was already standing up…...She just regained her grip on reality.

Stomping. Alya heard walking. And then..

Everything was back.

She was walking through the streets of Paris surrounded by millions of other civilians. SHe moved her head to the side to see Nino walking beside her. She tried to move her mouth but she couldn't make a sound. It was impossible. Nino looked over at her, his eyes darted around the street. Then he grabbed her arm and pulled her into an alley.

"Alya," he whispered. "Can you speak or…"

Alya tried to make some kind of sound. Her lips moved but no sound emerged.

Nino kicked the ground with his shoe and mumbled something before looking back at her.

"Alright man, you have to pretend I can't speak ok? If she finds out that I still have my sound then she'll….. Ya know." He trailed off at the thoughts of what Silence might do.

Alya nodded.

"It was really lucky of me to get my sound actually, it was like crazy. You screamed and then Silence took your sound but then she stopped, looked at me and then disappeared."

Alya wondered why she hadn't had his good luck.

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