Chapter 3

Alya looked confused on what her friend had said "What do you mean 'not what we think he is'? Well, I think he's a little weird and you're saying he's not a tiny bit weird? What?" The other girl laughed at her friend's confusion, beginning to clarify what she had said.
"What I'm trying to say is that maybe he's not just some kind of regular and kinda shy kid. He can be something more than that"
The two look at each other in suspicion and nodded, choosing to talk about this at a later date once they had clues or any leads about Lucien.

Meanwhile, at the clinic, Lucien was rushing to find the pills he leaves every day there. The nurse didn't seem to be attending her shift, must be on lunch break. Thus, he frantically went through the medicine cabinet finding his own pills.
"C'mon, C'mon, where is it..."
He pushes aside a bottle of aspirin, some other colored pills that weren't his until he finally fins his own. Lucien suddenly looks at the nearby mirror and saw that his eyes stopped flickering from his original eye color to yellow. "O-Oh...?"

Lucien shakes it off, taking his pills after getting a cup of water. He sets the empty cup on the nearby table and exits the clinic quickly before he could be seen. He notices that he doesn't have control of himself sometimes, something as simple as suddenly twitching or his fingers were tapping on the desk even if he wasn't entirely controlling it. Looks like he had to go through the rest of the day like this.

He suddenly bumped into Marinette after running out of the clinic, quickly getting flustered and apologizing afterwards. The girl didn't mind, she's had her fair share of being really clumsy around other people. Though, the way he apologized was a bit... odd.
"M-Marinette! I-I'm sorry that I'm n-not Adrien th-that you bumped into-"
"What?"
"UH"
Lucien turned red and started to laugh awkwardly. No one had an idea of how much this young man loved seeing Marinette and Adrien together, since was alone most of the time, he'd often see cute couples pass by him to cope with the loneliness.
Marinette started getting flustered at how Lucien mentioned Adrien, having the biggest crush on him and all that jazz to go along with it. Her foot started tapping and she looked rather stiff while standing up.

"Uhm, h-haha, what're y-you talking a-about?" The girl started to stutter out of nervousness, you can even see her eye twitch a little. Lucien responded with a small chuckle, awkwardly standing there with a small grin. "Um, well, it isn't, uh... nevermind! I'll see you in class!" Lucien dashed away, as if he was late for something.

Marinette sighed in relief, glad that she was out of that situation quickly enough for not many people to take notice of her. Not even Alya was at her side like she always would.
Suddenly, the bag Tikki was in started to shake, trying to get Marinette's attention.
"M-Marinette! Something is wrong!" Tikki's squeaky voice said in a panic.

"Tikki, let's go somewhere more private, you can't warn me out in the open like this!"
"No, no, you need to transform into Ladybug now!"
The girl looked confused, not seeing anything wrong around her. Everything was just like usual. She questioned her little friend on her way to a more secure place "Ladybug? Now? What if I skip classes or-"

Marinette was cut off by her Kwami, still in a very big panic. Though, as the superhero she is, she decides to patrol the city for a while. Maybe something is wrong yet she doesn't know about it. She heads off to a secluded room and transforms into the hero that almost all of Paris loves.

"Tikki, Spots on!"

It was towards the end of the day already, the sun was setting and Ladybug was still out patrolling the city. Stopping a few burglars here and there but nothing was too much of a problem. "Tikki, what're you talking about..."
She mumbled that to herself, spinning her yoyo around boredly while seated on the platform on the Eiffel Tower.
"Something up, M'lady?"

A familiar voice called out, Cat Noir sat beside Ladybug and stared at the sunset. The girl sighed, "My Kwami told me that something is wrong but I've patrolled the entire city and nothing is really out of the ordinary. I even asked citizens if something was wrong but I see no akuma activity..."
The other tapped his chin while thinking of something to say or perhaps, suggest. "Hmm... Well, Ladybug, my kwami said the same thing about something being wrong..."

"What do you think it is?" She asked, curious.
"Maybe another akuma villian but out of our sight in the day"

Ladybug's eyes widened in surprise after hearing that. "Hmm, maybe you're right. Let's rest up first. You wouldn't want to waste the time of our abilities." She continued explaining, somewhat aimlessly "I suppose we just wait on something"
Cat Noir agreed to this, but smiling a little afterwards after what he thought. "Maybe we could know each other's identity while resting up?"

"Ah, Cat Noir, as much as I would love to know your identity and becomes friends with you in real life... We just can't. Our identities must remain a secret even to both of us."

The male looked discouraged to hear that reasoning again "No one's going to know, I promise! A-And, I wouldn't judge you for what person you really are because, uh..."
He cut himself off, deciding not to persist on the idea of knowing who she really was. "Oh, sorry... I might've gone a little too far there."
Ladybug just smiled "Its alright, I want to know your identity as well. Maybe one day..."

The two bid their goodbyes and split paths to transform back into their normal identities as Adrien and Marinette.

Lucien was at home, alone after being scolded by his mother for coming home late again and his grades not imroving. He's handling his issues at home very poorly because of the lack of his father being at home. His parents divorced recently, and his sister was taken away from him.
"E-Everything's fine, everything's fine, everything's fine..."

The sun had completely set by that time, which seem to awakened his akuma that was on his foot bracelet. The darkness consumed him and he heard a faint voice.
"Dusk Feather."
He was under control of Hawkmoth at this point, barely seeming to see that this was reality for him. "Ah, about time I've gotten in touch with you"
"W-What..?"
"Dusk Feather, I, Hawkmoth, shall grant you powers but at the exchange of the miraculous of Ladybug and Cat Noir. I have high hopes for you.
May Paris be terrorized as you will."

Lucien chuckled, a dark aura suddenly surrounded him. He found himself in a violet shaded outfit, with wings attached to his arms and one of his legs turning into an owl leg. His eyes turned yellow, as he'd seen before in a mirror. His mask was made of feathers, the boy's costume was something of like an owl.
"Well, Hawkmoth, whatever that stupid excuse of a name is...
I'm not going to listen to you, old geezer"

Hawkmoth was taken aback, getting easily frustrated at this. He tries controlling the other boy to do his will but it had no effect at all. This made Lucien- No, Dusk Feather cackle.
"I'm tired of having to listen to you and everyone else. I'm not going to let someone control me so easily." He said, crossing his arms and standing by his open window.
"How about... instead of trying to kill myself, why don't I bring the City of Lights to the dark? Or, bring this City of "Love" to hate?
Thanks for giving me the idea of getting Cat Noir and Ladybug's miraculous, I can use those to my benefit"

Hawkmoth became incredibly cross, gritting his teeth and beginning to yell at the other "I will take your powers by force if you do not wish to listen to me!"
Dusk chuckled once more "The butterfly I crushed was in tatters, your powers won't have much effect on me, Ahaha...
Devious, devious..."

Dusk flew out of his bedroom window and soared into the night sky, losing the faint voice in his head in the process. He was now talking to himself insanely "Hmm, I wondering what else I can do with these powers"

He starts spinning in the air and his feathers drop in every direction. As they land on the ground, they explode. Citizens start panicking, running away in fear of the anonymous villian of the night.

"Lights out, losers."
Dusk landed harshly on the ground, making it quake and turn off any light source. He chuckles and flies up to the top of the Eiffel Tower. Waiting for the heroes to approach. Perhaps, planning to terrorize the town more.
Perhaps... planning to hurt or murder. Other abilities or powers are yet to be known but he was feared by all in just a matter of minutes.

Will Ladybug and Cat Noir be able to stop Dusk Feather and become lights of hope once more to all of Paris?

Author's Note:
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