Paris, France
Agreste Manor
Spring 1944
"This is utterly ridiculous," Felix muttered as he stomped out of his room quickly trying to avoid the flying black cat creature that hovered around his head as he escaped to his bathroom. "I must have drank something bad last night. Last time I drink Earl Grey after 9 p.m."
"Trust me, kid." Plagg crossed his arms before letting out a sigh. "This isn't your tea that's the doing. The protector of the Miraculouses, the old Master Fu has decided you have proved yourself worthy of the Black Cat Miraculous holder, the power of destruction and bad luck. Yadadada."
Plagg trailed off leaving Felix to take action, quickly Felix took his drinking glass from the counter and captured Plagg underneath the glass. Felix rapidly put a silver tray underneath the glass keeping the struggling kwami in the glass.
"Your sense of humor is terrible."
"You left me no choice," Felix placed a heavy novel on top of the glass to keep it from being tipped over by Plagg whom was now relaxing at the bottom of the tray. "This cannot be real."
"Does this look like a dream kid?"
"How do I get this off?" Felix pulled at the silver ring on his finger before lifting it up for Plagg to see whom shrugged with a yawn.
"I already told you that doesn't come off," Plagg leaned against the glass floating in front of Felix who fell backwards away from him startled. "Not without a kiss from Ladybug."
"Who is Ladybug?!" Felix snapped aggressively as he threw his hands in the air, he sat himself back up tensely.
"There is currently a girl in the city if I remember correctly whom Tikki, the ladybug kwami is going to bestow this gift on her." Plagg responded in a bored tone as he did small flips in the air until the glass was pulled close by a glowering Felix.
"So I just need to find this girl, kiss her, and I'll get this damn thing off?" Felix growled pulling Plagg close to his face.
"That's right, Malchance." Plagg grinned "I'm guessing you are taking the responsibility then?"
"Do I have a choice?"
"Unless you want to be cursed with bad luck forever."
"How bad could this be?" Felix muttered as he walked away from the cat kwami to prepare for his unfortunate day. "I can live with bad luck."
"I was hoping you would say that!" Plagg called out to the teenager watching him close the door behind him, giving Plagg the opportunity he pushed the glass up to knock it over freeing himself from his glass prison. "Well, Fu was right. This one is a handful, but I unfortunately have mayhem to cause."
Felix continued with his usual routine which consisted of slicking his hair down with some gel to tame its wild mess and brushing his teeth quickly in fear of the black cat going to cause destruction. He rushed out upon hearing a loud crash coming from the other side of the door. Hesitantly, Felix opened the door to see the disaster Plagg had caused in his bedroom.
"I can handle this." Felix let out a staggered breath as he watched the smug kwami sit upon the wardrobe that had been toppled over, surrounding the wardrobe was several of his uniforms and slacks that had once inhabited the heavy, wooden wardrobe.
"Ready, yet?" Plagg asked with a menacing smirk as he lightly tilted his large head to the side in a taunting manner.
"No." Felix growled as he prepared for the plague that would continue to haunt him for the next two weeks.
Bridgette hummed softly to herself as she walked down the streets of Paris, her satchel at her waist gently bouncing her hips. Currently, she was on her way to the antique shop Ayla had told her about that sold mechanical parts. She offered to fix her roommate's jewelry box where the petite ballerina had stopped moving and the music sounded like something from a terrifying screech.
"Whew," Bridgette sighed sitting on a park bench in the park she was crossing through to cut time. "I think I'll take a break. "
"Where did I put my handkerchief-?" Bridgette paused as she dug around in bag, her hand touched the smooth box she had thrown in here two weeks earlier. "Oh, right! I forgot about this!"
Bridgette pulled out the small box to examine it in better light. The case was black with a light polish on the cover, the box was accented with gold writings in a language Bridgette could not read. The park full of people moments before became silent with the absence of people, only the tweeting of birds remained. Gently, Bridgette opened the box lid up to reveal the hidden treasure inside. A pair of shiny red earrings with black spots were placed in the middle of the red velvet.
"Wow," Bridgette whispered in awe picking one of the earrings, holding it in the light it sparkled a red glow. "What the-?"
A red glow formed above the earrings in a small orb. The orb transformed into a red creature that looked identical to a insect. Bridgette gasped dropping the jewelry box before climbing up on the bench, her knees tucked to her chest.
"Surprisingly, not the first time," A small squeaky voice spoke from the grass in front of Bridgette. Carefully, Bridgette peeked over her knees to see a faintly glowing red creature floating in front of her with a small smile.
"Hello, Bridgette!" The voice spoke kindly to the flabbergasted teen who shyly moved her knees away from her chest to stare in wonder at the kwami. "It's finally nice to meet you."
"What are you?" Bridgette places her hands out to let the small creature rest upon her hands, her face lighting up in awe as the kwami sat on her hand.
"My name is Tikki," Tikki introduced herself happily, glowing with a light glow. "I'm the Ladybug Miraculous Holder's kwami."
"You came… out of the… earrings?"
"I stay inside of them until a new hero has been chosen," Tikki exclaimed enthusiastically. "And that hero is you, Bridgette!"
"Me?!" Bridgette gushed in surprise and gratification. "Why, me? I'm not anyone special. I barely know this city, but there doesn't seem like much need for a superhero."
"A new villain is rising soon," Tikki explained, "Paris will need a Ladybug and Chat Noir soon."
"Who is Chat Noir?" Bridgette asked curiously, she blows a lock of hair from her eyes.
"He is your partner in defending Paris, but speaking of Chat Noir." Tikki sternly flew in the air. "He is your complete opposite, and can be completely unpredictable. Your power is creation while he is destruction."
"What is so bad about that? Being able to destroy what is evil?"
"Because," Tikki spoke softly, "The Black Cat Miraculous is the easiest to corrupt and lure into the darkness."
A/N: Here's the next chapter! I feel like Felix would get along great with Marinette for some reason XD Thank you for the reviews, I really appreciate them! I will be uploading Someone I Used To Know sometime this weekend so, look out for that!
~scarletsleuth