I seriously didn't think that this story would get so much popularity in such little time! You know, I wasn't actually going to start uploading this story until I finished writing the whole thing. But then I grew too excited and posted it...then woke up the next day to 26 emails XD Wow, I seriously didn't see that coming. And I see with every new Chapter I upload the numbers get bigger and bigger, I am really glad so many people love my story. :)
I'm just thanking you guys for cheering me on as I spend an hour or so trying to write out these Chapters, believe me I love this story just as much as you guys do, but I bet you love it more because you don't know what's going to happen next ;)
Well, better get on with the chapter. Also another reminder that most of this story is based on my theories and may or may not be canon once everything's been revealed and all if you know what I mean. So no pointing fingers at me if I was wrong about something that hasn't happened yet, I didn't know.
Enjoy Chapter 12 of Revelations! ^^
Miraculous Ladybug (C) Thomas Astruc/ Zagtoon
Chapter 12 – A Big Fight
A shocking and almost unbelievable scene was placed before Ladybug and Cat Noir. They were never expecting to see Hawkmoth alongside his latest akumatised victim, and Chat especially was shocked by this because of the location. Both heroes took a fighting stance as they shot glares at the villains. Hawkmoth chuckled, looking down as he rested his hands firmly on his staff.
"You two are pathetic. I know you won't win this time." He implied with a smirk, looking up slightly at the duo.
The pair growled in insult, but yet neither of them was expecting this to happen at all, they knew of him but could never find him, or know who he really was underneath the mask. But now they knew that today was either going to end in great victory or in deep shame and loss.
"I don't think so Hawkmoth, you're done for!" Ladybug shouted, clenching her fist.
Chat saw his akumatised mother looking up at Hawkmoth; he started to worry deeply that she would tell him that he was really Adrien underneath the mask, and it worried him further if Hawkmoth was someone he knew. The only person that came close to even looking a little similar to Hawkmoth was his father, but he didn't want to think that way about him. He knew his father meant well and he had strict rules, but would never seek out to control others, unless they were his assistant or son of course.
"You really think you two can outsmart me? You are greatly mistaken." He said in a lower tone, smirking before turning his head to Nathalie. "Fight them." He ordered.
With a high leap into the air, Nathalie lashed out her whip directly at the duo. Chat and Ladybug gasped then dodged in opposite directions, with Chat near a corner of the room while Ladybug jumped forward, closer to Hawkmoth.
Ever since the two of them became superheroes of Paris, their primary goal was to protect Paris from harm, but their second most was stopping Hawkmoth once and for all, taking back the miraculous he stole so things would be normal for them again. Neither of them knew how long Hawkmoth had been akumatising people but they knew it to be for a long time as they both had lost track of how many akumas they've stopped ever since they started to protect Paris.
Ladybug headed straight towards Hawkmoth, she could see the confidence in his expression as he stood there still and calm, before Ladybug was in arm's reach and he threw ladybug across the room with one arm, making her crash against the wall. Chat cried in response, deeply worried and angered by what Hawkmoth just did. Unfortunately Chat couldn't go over to Ladybug as he was too busy fighting off his own mother.
He could see Ladybug getting up with some ease, relieved that she was alright as the pair continued to fight. Chat wanted to speak freely to his mother to help her be free from Hawkmoth's control, but he knew that with his archenemy and crush in the room it was definitely not the best idea to have.
Chat's main goal right now was to get through to his mother, but he wasn't sure how. He tried to use his staff to get the whip off of her so he could grab the brooch and give it to Ladybug, but right now none of that seemed possible in the slightest. Ladybug was busy trying to fight to get Hawkmoth's miraculous while Hawkmoth was trying to do the same to her, and his own mother was fighting him with a mind controlling whip. He wished there was only one simple way to fix everything, but he knew that since Ladybug was the good luck and he was the bad luck, things never really go well for him.
Seeing that the fight was only getting more repetitive and going almost nowhere, he decided to speak honestly with her but in whisper tones, sincerely hoping that she wouldn't reveal anything. Yet he knew the risk he was taking was very large, but he was willing to do it for one of the two people he loved more than anyone else.
"Please mother, don't be like this!" He cried in a harsh whisper, as he and Nathalie were face to face, her whip wrapped around his baton tightly.
Nathalie growled, pulling the whip off Chat's baton successfully, and with the force so strong she managed to loosen Chat's grip on his baton. It went flying across the room over near Ladybug and Hawkmoth. Ladybug turned for a moment to see the baton bounce against the wall before landing on the ground, it caught her off guard for a moment, making Chat cry out to her in attention. She turned and saw Hawkmoth's staff less than an inch away from her face; she quickly dodged it towards the direction of Chat's staff. She grabbed it and looked up, seeing that Chat was trying all his could to defend himself, she knew he wasn't going to fight her.
So before Chat could be taken under Nathalie's control, Ladybug threw his baton at him and he quickly extended it for the whip to be wrapped around it once again. This time, showing determination, Chat pulled quickly with all the strength he had, knowing the consequences as his cat ears lowered suddenly in reluctance to hear the thud of a person hitting the wall behind him.
He turned quickly, grabbing the whip off her and thinking of nothing else but talking directly to her, he knew that he had to get the brooch, but he was extremely eager to talk some things out with his mother. He turned to see Ladybug trying to wrap her yoyo around Hawkmoth but he was using the same technique that Chat had just used on Nathalie, he found slightly uncanny before he turned back to his mother.
"Mother, I care about you a lot and I don't want to lose you..." He cried, as his lips trembled with tears developing in his cat eyes, and a hand caressing his mother's cheek.
For a moment there was heartfelt silence, Chat could see the love in her eyes for a split second before suddenly they both heard the sound of a window being smashed. Zipping their heads around they saw Hawkmoth next to a smashed window bringing his staff forward as Ladybug zipped across the room with her yoyo constantly spinning in hand.
Then Nathalie pulled the rug from underneath Chat, she kicked him in the chest, making him fall back as Nathalie quickly grabbed her whip and proceeded to attack Cat Noir with it, but then her hand was stopped by Ladybug's yoyo wrapping itself tightly around her wrist. Ladybug was doing all she could to protect Chat and defeat Hawkmoth, the sound of evil laughter from the man only made Ladybug more frustrated and angered.
"If only there was a way to akumatised you little bug." He suggested, grinning evilly as he quickly approached Ladybug with his arm extended outwards.
Ladybug growled in hearing of a nickname from her archenemy before quickly jumping in the air and pulling Nathalie along with her, she flung Nathalie across the room next to Chat who was almost fully recovered from the kick to the chest. Ladybug returned to fending off Hawkmoth as Chat knelt by his mother's side while she groaned in pain.
Chat caressed Nathalie's face again as she slowly opened her eyes, seeing Adrien for a split second before her eye vision focused and the figure before her turned into Cat Noir. Her expression was nothing but shock of discovery.
"Adrien..?" She whispered in realisation.
The black cat smiled and nodded in response as he clasped his hand with hers. "It's me mother, I missed you so much."
Nathalie looked down in thought, her lips parted slightly before looking up at her adoring son. She smiled slightly before she could feel someone controlling her from the inside of her mind. Behind the pair Hawkmoth had Ladybug distracted long enough for Hawkmoth to tell Nathalie what to do.
"Don't listen to anything he says Slave Driver, fight!" he demanded, before dodging another one of Ladybug's attacks.
With Hawkmoth's power more powerful than Chat's loving words, her face returned to hate as she used both her legs this time to make Chat fly across the room and hit the wall, making Ladybug gasp in response before continuing to fight Hawkmoth.
But now she had two people attacking her at once, it was difficult to prevent herself from being under Nathalie's control while also trying to protect both hers and Cat Noir's miraculous from Hawkmoth. She knew that now would be her best bet to use a lucky charm, but she didn't know how it would come to great use because this was more than just an akumatised victim, she was also fighting the cause of all the victims who were akumatised. Ladybug felt like her lucky charm wouldn't be enough to defeat Hawkmoth; it felt too weak to her.
So she decided not to use it as a last resort, she wasn't sure how her lucky charm would help since she had no time to think while she was doing many other things at the same time, she needed Chat's help but could see that he was still groaning in pain as he tried to get himself up. The navy haired superhero bit her lip as she waved her yoyo in a circular motion, and then she made a quick manoeuvre so she could get to Chat and protect the moth of them.
Unfortunately Chat landed in a corner so now the pair was trapped with nowhere else to go. Nathalie was constantly whipping out her whip while Hawkmoth slowly approached the two with an evil smirk printed across his face.
"Nowhere to go now Ladybug, give up while you still can and hand me your miraculous!" Hawkmoth demanded, quickly extending an arm out in reach for the miraculous.
"Never!" She yelled, before lashing her yoyo at him, making the string loop around his arm before she sent him flying across the room, leaving Nathalie there in worry of her controller. She turned her head back to Ladybug and Chat who was now standing next to Ladybug with a hand clenched against his lower chest in pain.
"I'm glad you're here to protect me." He said gratefully.
Ladybug smiled in reply, before seeing Chat grab his baton and preparing to fight. Ladybug continued to battle Hawkmoth while Chat continuously tried and tried to snap his mother out of the akuma attack without revealing his secret identity to neither Ladybug nor Hawkmoth.
"Mother...please, I don't want to fight you." He pleaded, still swinging his baton around him as a protective barrier.
Nathalie lashed out her whip in anger before growling at the black cat. "Don't be such a scaredy cat and fight!" She demanded, preparing to lash the whip out on him again.
He always wondered where he got the sense of humour from, now he knew. Chat quickly ducked and successfully avoided Nathalie's whip. He wanted to get near her so he could grab that brooch off of her, but he knew he could only get close to her with his words. Every time he spoke to her like this made Nathalie snap out of for a moment, so he knew that was the perfect opportunity to grab the brooch and throw it over to Ladybug while fending off Hawkmoth for her while she cleansed the akuma.
So as Chat tried to grab a hold of Nathalie's whip again, Ladybug tried to wrap her yoyo around Hawkmoth's staff so that she could get close enough to grab the miraculous off his chest and defeat Hawkmoth forever. She successfully managed to grab his staff and break it in half, causing Hawkmoth to growl angrily as he used his body to attack her. Approaching at a fast speed, he let out a punch, only for Ladybug to dodge it and swing away from Hawkmoth for a moment so she could rethink her position.
She landed behind Hawkmoth, only for him to quickly turn around and smack his hand against her face to make her move with the direction of the hand slightly. She planted her hand against her now sore cheek as it reddened in pain. In the other hand she spun around her yoyo and growled at Hawkmoth before she flew up again but this time she was able to swing around Hawkmoth and wrap the string from her yoyo around him several times.
It felt like it was a closing victory, Ladybug could taste it, yet it still felt all so easy to her. She decided to take advantage of it anyway as she could see Chat making progress with Nathalie and Hawkmoth was wrapped up in the black strings of her strong unbreakable yoyo.
"You can't defeat me!" Hawkmoth cried with an angered glare at the heroine.
Ladybug tightened the string around Hawkmoth, making his arms and legs press hard against his body, she smirked in her easy success with the doubts of this being too easy still hanging around in the back of her head as she approached Hawkmoth, prepared to grab the butterfly miraculous off of him once and for all.
That was right before Ladybug heard a name she definitely wasn't expecting to hear.
"Adrien!' Nathalie cried, being snapped out of Hawkmoth's control once again.
Both Hawkmoth and Ladybug quickly turned, not seeing Adrien at all but instead a shocked Nathalie against the wall with a very frightened and anxious Cat Noir. Hawkmoth was the first to react, taking Nathalie's assumption into deep thought.
"Adrien!? That can't be you!" He cried in denial.
All this time while Hawkmoth and Nathalie were in shock, Ladybug stood there silently, awestruck and speechless. She was extremely worried that the woman was talking about Chat being Adrien. She shook her head in deep disbelief before whispering his name to herself; she did see the similarities but still chose to deny it.
Before anything else could help confirm their suspicions, Chat saw this opportunity as a chance to grab the brooch and throw it to Ladybug. The navy haired heroine managed to grab the brooch and smash it against the ground, releasing the akuma inside and causing Hawkmoth to scream in defeat.
"No more evil doing for you little akuma, time to de-evilise!" She said before reaching out for the akuma with her yoyo, cleansing it of Hawkmoth's evil powers before releasing it. "Bye bye little butterfly."
Realising she hadn't even used her lucky charm; she wiped her forehead in relief, before she turned to Chat to see him embracing the woman that was just akumatised. But before she could say anything about it, a firm hand pressed hard against her shoulder. She looked up and saw Hawkmoth's angered expression.
"You may have won this round, but this is only just the beginning!" He declared, before a brilliant flash of light appeared from his miraculous before engulfing the room, blinding the three that were in the room.
When their eyes opened, they saw that Hawkmoth was gone. Cat Noir and Ladybug sighed in deep relief before Ladybug rushed over to Chat who still looked deeply anxious about the events of the name 'Adrien' being called out. He did not dare look at her, expecting to see the face of shock and realisation, but he only saw at the corner of his eye Ladybug looking at him for a moment before she knelt down closer to the now normal Nathalie.
"Are you alright miss?" Ladybug asked caringly.
Nathalie nodded with a hum as she rubbed her temple on one side, groaning shortly afterwards in pain from the battle. She stood up slowly; Chat and Ladybug assisted her in the process, before Chat highly requested that Ladybug should leave now.
"Please Ladybug, for the sake of my identity." He pleaded; resting a hand on Ladybug's making her blush slightly.
She nodded in reply, quickly leaving the room and hearing nothing else but the muffled sound of Chat's voice. She ran out the door and swung herself all the way back home. She landed on the top of her steps, releasing Tikki from her transformation before Marinette collapsed on the bed in both tiredness and deep thought of Adrien quite possibly being Cat Noir all this time.
She turned around, face towards the ceiling with her hands clasped gently against her chest. Tikki rested by her head with a worried look for her owner.
"Are you okay Marinette?" She asked worryingly.
Marinette sighed before she turned again, and then seeing the only poster of Adrien she had stuck to the wall. She began to compare Adrien's kind hearted personality against Chat's over confident personality. It didn't match up to her, she didn't seem to think it made any sense.
"If Adrien was Cat Noir...I-I can't imagine him being like that..." She explained, stuttering in fear of Adrien being Cat Noir.
Tikki landed on her should and gave a slight pat to Marinette on her shoulder. "Don't worry about it too much now Marinette, you could have heard wrong or perhaps Adrien was outside the room at that very same time and he just ran away straight before you turned around?" Tikki suggested, shrugging.
The navy haired teen grabbed her pillow and stuffed her face into it with frustration. She didn't want to think of Adrien this way. She did admit to herself that Adrien and Chat had the same eye and hair colour, but almost nothing else was the same about them. It was easy to see the differences between the two, but yet trying to see them standing next to each other way almost impossible to imagine as Marinette had never seen Chat and Adrien in the same room at once.
She had suspicions about it, but deeply doubted that it would be true. Marinette shook her head and carried on with her day, trying to avoid thinking about that possibility of her crush being her crime fighting partner whom she sees every single day. She didn't want to think about it but her mind wouldn't go to anything else but that.
Oh man am I tired...? *yawns* This graphic design course is really getting to me. My eyes were getting drowsy halfway through writing this chapter but luckily I was able to pull through in the end ^^ So, I bet some of you were expecting something bigger to happen, but why not this semi reveal? Remember, Marinette hasn't pieced it together yet but she has high doubts about it ;)
So it kinda sucks that there won't be any new episodes this upcoming Sunday, but I'd say expect the next Chapter around that time, so I'll see you then! :D