Okay I will admit to myself that I have seen some info and images/gifs regarding the origin episode (2nd one's not yet apparently) so I know a few things about what happens but I'm not gonna say for the sake of you guys in case any of you have chosen not to see it yet. Also, with the release of the French ones in just four days, I'm going to try my hardest to spread them out...so basically watch a new one once a week, or twice if I can't handle it. It's just so to me the 1st season seems longer and worth waiting for ;)

I do suggest you guys do the same, but I bet some of you didn't even know until I just said so...so some of you might be leaving this chapter to go watch the new French episodes...But I'm just saying if you don't want the season to be over for you just yet, try to wait out the episodes and pick a certain day to watch one and then maybe 5 days or a week later or something.

Enough talk about episodes, I can really feel the build up I've been putting on this story, I'm super psyched to write this Chapter, Enjoy Chapter 18 of Revelations! ^^

Miraculous Ladybug (C) Thomas Astruc/Zagtoon

Chapter 18 – It Begins

All that Chat wanted to do in that moment was constantly deny out loud that he was living under his archenemy this entire time he had been fighting off the akumas. But with the scene around him and Ladybug right to him he couldn't say anything, only the expression on his face could tell exactly how he felt about this. He couldn't tell Ladybug or anyone that it was his own home that the akumas had been hiding with Hawkmoth, Chat felt extremely eager to tell Ladybug exactly who he really was, but felt like it was definitely not the right time.

When would be a right time? He thought. Since the kiss happened from yesterday he hadn't been thinking of a right time to tell her everything. He really wished he could, but with the extremely important situation at hand, it was more than recommended that he doesn't say anything about this until sometime afterwards.

But then he remembered Ladybug's words...'No one must know, not even us.' She never gave him a good time for her to be open and ready to know about it, he thought of the possibility of knowing her without the masks several times, but he couldn't see any other girl he knew that had the exact same personality as Ladybug. The only one that came remotely close was Marinette, but there could be many girls that look similar to Marinette and have those personality traits of Ladybug. He had to be open minded about this; he didn't want to make the wrong assumption.

Then, Ladybug interrupted Chat's thinking with words he didn't want to hear.

"We need to get up there, there's no doubt that this is where Hawkmoth's been hiding all this time." Ladybug informed, before remembering the owners of the mansion.

This was the Agreste mansion, Adrien lived here. All this time the akumas had been under the same roof as her crush. It was a lot to take in; she couldn't believe that her archenemy Hawkmoth had his lair in the Agreste Mansion all this time. But then again, it did make sense the more she thought about it, linking it to their last encounter.

Hawkmoth was right there in Gabriel's office, with a woman who was presumably Adrien's long lost mother. It made sense now that his lair was here; there was no way unless he had teleportation or superhuman speed to get from his lair all the way to the mansion.

Hiding the hesitation and strong feeling of wanting to say something that could lead to the reveal of his secret identity, Chat obliged, giving a nod in determination as he clenched his fists with his baton in one hand. Ladybug continued to spin her yoyo on her side with caution as the pair darted for the double doors, before suddenly, they were pulled back and blocked off.

They both saw the blue rectangular transparent wall around the size of the double doors blocking their path, and then a sudden yank of a string caused the two of them to collapse and land face fist into the concrete, hurting their faces.

Before either of them was able to get back up to their feet in time, they were blasted with a shocking riff from guitar villain, which made it increasingly difficult for them to get back up to their feet faster. They both grew tired of this and decided to forget about standing up and fight in the position they were in. Chat waved his baton wide enough to protect the both of them while Ladybug attacked an akumatised Chloe who was on the roof above them.

"We can't fight like this forever!" Ladybug exclaimed after many minutes of defending themselves.

Chat pressed his lips firmly as he narrowed his eyebrows beneath his mask, he decided to make a lunge for it, but when he did, he could feel his allergies kick in once again as flocks of birds began to swarm all over the place. Ladybug ran towards her partner with her yoyo spinning around to protect her. She didn't want to use her lucky charm, she didn't know if it worked on more than just one akumatised person. This was a situation she had never been in before.

"What are we going to do?" Chat asked, before sneezing again as he tried to fight back.

Ladybug looked around while fending off the several akumatised victims in front of them, she didn't want to go into the Agreste Mansion and risk these guys following in afterwards. She didn't want to be the cause of destruction to Adrien's own home, but yet if it was to stop Hawkmoth she had to take that risk.

"Follow me." Ladybug requested, starting to step backwards towards the door entrance.

She whipped out her yoyo at the akumatised Nathanael which made him fall to the floor and angrily draw another object which made the barricade of the door disappear, Ladybug smirked as her idea worked, before she felt a yoyo wrapped around her hand, she used it to her advantage, the akumatised Chloe was spun around along with several pigeons and the pigeon man until they were flung out of site.

The two of them rushed to the door and quickly closed it as soon as they were inside. Before either of them got a good look of the ginormous room, there was an eerie calm, and then the slash of a whip was heard in front of them. Nathalie was standing in plain sight in her akumatised form ready to attack.

Chat didn't want to do this again, he hated that he had to fight his own mother, even when she knew who he was underneath the mask. It pained him to hurt someone he genuinely cares about. But, he carried on like he did before, dodging her attacks and not fighting back.

Meanwhile all that Ladybug wanted to do was find a way all the way to the top of the mansion to where all the akumas were hiding as well as Hawkmoth. She remembered that upstairs on the right led to Gabriel's office and a few other rooms, so her only bet was to try out every single room until she found something.

She looked at her partner; she could see the regretful pain in his eyes as he defended the woman. Ladybug knew that now wasn't the time for this, so she spun out her yoyo and wrapped it around Nathalie, then spinning her into the nearest open door, the door slamming shut the moment she was inside and Ladybug's string retracted.

"Thanks Ladybug, but try and be more careful with how much force you put on people." He implied, worried that Ladybug may have hurt his mother slightly.

Ladybug smirked in confidence. "It's fine Chat, besides we have more important things to do." She said, gesturing towards the stairs.

Chat ran up the stairs first, knowing the place very well he knew where some of these rooms led to, but wanting to keep his knowledge of the mansion to a minimum for his identity sake, he decided to check all the rooms with Ladybug, in spite of him knowing some of the rooms already.

"There's got to be a way up there, a secret passageway or some sort of hidden elevator..." Ladybug explained, checking in the first room for any hidden panels or switches while Chat leaned against the door of the frame.

He had to admit he never came across any secret passageways or hidden buttons before, and aside from the fact that he didn't go in this room often he knew this room had no way of reaching to the top. He shook his head in disbelief while Ladybug had her head turned, but then, he face palmed in sudden remembrance of a possible way.

"Wait Ladybug, maybe we should check over there." Chat implied, catching Ladybug's attention and pointing down towards the hall. "I feel like there's a way over there." He added.

Ladybug furrowed her eyebrow, looking out towards the hall and down the hallway, seeing that it continues beyond her eyesight. She decided to follow Chat's presumed instincts and follow him down the hall until they saw another set of stairs that trailed upwards.

How big is this place? Ladybug thought to herself as she pressed her hands against her waist. Chat turned to her and gestured for her to go first. She was surprised that even after all that happened with the kiss with Adrien and the possible revelation as well as Chat's love confession, the two of them still acted the same way in front of each other. This was further confirmed when Chat bowed slightly with a small grin.

"Ladies first."

She giggled silently in response, her fingertips slightly brushing against her lips while doing so before she quickly ran up the stairs with Chat following closely behind.

What was revealed upstairs was a whole new part of the mansion that she hadn't seen the last time she was here, but she had to admit she had only been inside the mansion that weekend, she had never seen the inside before so she was still getting used to it.

Her eyes widened in surprise before she watched Chat walk on ahead with his baton still in hand as he looked around, she was starting to get curious as to why Chat knew so much about this place, but then she remembered that Chat was a friend of Adrien's and probably has been around here before. She face palmed in embarrassment and the sudden realisation that she could've asked him from the beginning to get a lead on where the way to Hawkmoth's lair was.

Chat opened the far door on the left that revealed a small office room, possibly for a workmate of Gabriel or a place to store some office equipment as the room looked a little cluttered, but there was a path to the computer on the desk at least.

As they walked further into the room, a large explosion of a wall crashing down disturbed the two, making them dart towards the railing and look down. There were heaps of akumatised civilians that had broken a wall down just to get in, before Chat and Ladybug could fully react, a cackle of laughter echoed throughout the room, sounding a lot like Hawkmoth.

Ladybug and Cat Noir readied their stances in case of a sudden face off, but nothing else happened aside from the continuous echo of Hawkmoth's laugh around the room as the akumatised civilians looked around the room also in confusion.

It wasn't long later that Hawkmoth started to speak, and then a bright flash of purple/pink light began to appear in front of all the akumatised victims. Hawkmoth revealed himself as he kept his hands hidden behind him with an evil grin.

"How will you stop me now Ladybug? I have an army and all you have is a feral cat." He teased, laughing a little more towards the end.

Chat gripped his staff tightly; his lips curled into an intense frown from insult, his eyes twitched in anger, wanting to slash at the man, but knew that it was not going to help in any way possible. So, he turned to Ladybug, who shared a similar angered expression to his.

"You won't get away with this Hawkmoth!" Ladybug declared, mentally shaking a fist at him.

Hawkmoth lowered his head, giving a cunning and evil expression as he kept his eyes focused upwards towards the two heroes. Then he turned his head slightly to his pawns behind them, smiling in the process.

"Bring me their miraculous. All of you now!" He demanded, pointing his staff towards the pair.

Ladybug and Cat Noir gasped in the sudden rush of panic and quick thinking needing to be applied as soon as possible, they both jumped opposite directions when they heard the swipe of a phone and a big purple/pink pause button appeared stuck to the wall that was behind the two of them.

Chat landed himself on the railings of the stairs that lead towards downstairs, waving his baton in a circular motion before he couldn't defend himself any longer. Meanwhile Ladybug had landed on a large piece of the infrastructural design, whacking her yoyo towards Lady Wi-Fi's phone to try and crack it. In all the meanwhile all the akumatised villains who were within the mansion began to fight and make their way towards Ladybug and Cat Noir's locations.

The black cat landed on the stairs on all fours, before quickly having to draw his baton like it was a sword as he fought the dark knight and the mime at the same time, splitting his baton in half so he could fight the two easier. Ladybug was in a similar position, swinging her yoyo around constantly to fend off the attacks from several akumatised villains.

It was impossible, there was no way both she and Chat could defeat so many akumatised victims all at once, especially now that Hawkmoth was in the same room as well, and although neither teen hero knew the full extent of Hawkmoth's powers, they still knew that purifying this many akumas in one room just seemed more and more impossible.

Ladybug almost didn't take notice of the cool breath against her ears, before she felt a small tug of her earring and quickly kicked the invisible girl to the side, making Sabrina grunt in pain and frustration of how close she was. She wanted to help Chat but since now the akumatised version of Theo was here also she didn't know which one was which.

The fights were getting too out of hand, and both teens could see Hawkmoth standing in the middle of all it smiling proudly as he rested his hands on his supporting staff. Ladybug felt like she had no choice, she couldn't keep fighting these guys off forever. It was easy beating just one at a time, but trying to defeat them all in one hit seemed to be extremely impossible after the more blows Ladybug took.

"Lucky Charm!"

Chat quickly turned his head to realise that already Ladybug was using her lucky charm when she was only knee deep into fighting. Chat had a hard time himself trying to fend off so many akumatised victims while at the same time avoiding to become a part of their power, he felt it was really unfair that an akumatised Juleka and Kim were fighting him. It made it more difficult for him to stay on his feet to think for just a second of how to defeat them all in one blow.

Ladybug's lucky charm had turned into one of the last things she was expecting, with the sparkling and forming of the lucky charm, it appeared and dropped carefully into her hands, with her raising an eyebrow before groaning.

"How is this going to help me?!" She cried, waving a red and black spotted baton that looked identical to Chat's.

The black cat turned in response of hearing how annoyed Ladybug sounded, her quickly saw what was in her hand, he laughed internally at how stupid of a lucky charm that was, but did think it would come to good use. He continued to fend off the akumatised victim's attacks, dodging Kim's arrows and Juleka's reflection power.

Ladybug used a powerful spin attack to make all the akumatised victims fall back a few feet. She took this opportunity to look for a way to use this. She looked around, and looked directly at Hawkmoth's cane before looking back at the baton in her hand. She knew exactly what to do and hoped that it would work. So while Hawkmoth looked over at Chat struggling to fend off the villains for a moment, Ladybug ran up to him, defending herself with both the yoyo and the black and red baton before she whacked Hawkmoth's supportive staff and snapped it in two, causing it to drop to the ground and anger Hawkmoth deeply as he growled at Ladybug.

"You'll pay for this! Grab her!" He demanded in a loud tone, prompting all the infected civilians to run towards Ladybug and grab her.

She tried all that she could to fend off them all, but could hear already that her earrings were wearing off, she had to leave to let Tikki recover and then get straight back into battle, but now she was surrounded by several akumatised versions of people she knew and people she didn't know.

"Ladybug!" Chat cried, glaring at Hawkmoth before he decided to use his ultimate weapon. "Cataclysm!" He shouted, prompting the magic inside his ring to form the blackness around his right hand.

Chat ran towards everyone else with his hand raised high, he could see a few akumatised victims heading straight for him, but he ducked and then used the cataclysm on the ground, making it shake and rumble before the floor cracked beneath them, Ladybug used her yoyo to leap herself to a higher ground while most of the akumatised villains didn't know what to do until they fell through and weren't able to fight anymore.

Hawkmoth growled, relieved that he wasn't caught underneath that. But then he heard the familiar sound of a ring beeping. He knew exactly how this was going to go down, and he knew now that this was the battle he would win. He could feel it.

"You're running out of time and you have nowhere to go." Hawkmoth implied, grinning evilly towards the pair.

Even though they both wanted Hawkmoth to be wrong, he was nowhere close to being wrong about his statement. Ladybug's earrings beeped again, giving her another warning. She covered her ear and cringer in worry, Chat doing a similar expression too.

This was bad; they were both trapped in the Agreste mansion with their true identity's about to become a reality, and right in front of their archenemy. They didn't know what to do, but standing around sure wasn't one of them.

Okay sorry I gotta end it there because I left this Chapter too late at night and now I am dead tired...my eyes were literally trying to stay open while I was writing this, you're lucky I was able to upload this now instead of you guys waiting an extra 10 hours for the Chapter.

So I plan for this to be the big fight but for now I'm not really sure, also I apologise for the subtle fluff, there will be more coming soon. See you Sunday/Monday for Chapter 19! :D