Man, I was seriously not thinking this story was going to be this long...just so you guys know I write these chapters in a single document...like all of them together as a single document...and the amount of pages it has...could just about make up a small novel! XD And the problem is...I don't know how much longer this story is going to be, but I assure you that I will warn you in time if the ending draws near. ;)

So, I've been receiving a little confusion with some parts of the story, mainly in particular the previous chapter. I'll try to answer them through the story so it makes more sense what was going on...see this is why I don't skip days in the story because I miss crucial facts, that's why most of my stories nowadays are incredibly long because I try to include as much detail as possible. I do apologise for the confusion with the last chapter ^^;

Enjoy Chapter 26 of Revelations! ^^

Miraculous Ladybug (C) Thomas Astruc/ Zagtoon

Chapter 26 – New Power

As far as Adrien and Ladybug could see, everything looked normal from the last time they were here, Ladybug stayed close to Adrien just to make sure he was well protected, she followed him to his room where he grabbed most of his things, and he was also able to get his fencing sword which he used for practice at home.

Ladybug looked around the room; she never got a real good chance to check out the whole of his room, even though she had been in it countless times before. It reminded her of the time when Adrien was in the shower and then Cat Noir showed up, then he disappeared again and Adrien reappeared. She smiled in amusement as she shook her head in how clueless she truly was.

"We were so clueless, I can't believe I didn't realise before. It was so obvious." Ladybug stated, while Adrien gathered the rest of his things.

Adrien looked up, raising an eyebrow in confusion, before seeing the smile of amusement on his lady's face. He chuckled as he zipped up his bag and agreed to Ladybug's comment. "I know." He replied, turning towards her. "And that time when you were on a secret mission...I should've known that my lady was always with me that entire time." He stated, smiling dreamily at Ladybug as he gazed into her eyes.

Ladybug felt her cheeks heat up, she was starting to like it every time he called her 'my lady', it sounded like they were truly meant for each other, and it showed just how much respect he had for her.

So far there had been no traps, but both Adrien and Ladybug kept their eyes peeled and their steps to a low quiet thud, the mansion was extremely quiet and it seemed unusually to Ladybug, she was starting to grow suspicious, but Adrien knew that the mansion was almost always like this, the only time it wasn't was when they had guests or an akuma attack in the mansion.

"Don't worry; the mansion's usually this quiet anyway." Adrien assured as Ladybug followed him to a room on the left.

Ladybug nodded in reply before Adrien slowly opened the door to the room, revealing the lovely golden painted portrait of Adrien's mother. She looked so different compared to how she looks now, they both thought. But they knew it was Hawkmoth's doing that changed her appearance. Adrien sighed with regret as he looked up at the painting, wishing he could see those lovely green eyes again.

"I bet he took her with him." Adrien assumed, his eyes tightly closed, his words turning bitter whenever he mentioned his father.

He looked back up at the painting, but then a loud thud was felt from afar. Adrien knew that thud felt all too familiar for it to be no one else other than his bodyguard the gorilla. Both he and Ladybug began to panic.

"Okay Adrien don't worry about it then, we've got what we need so let's go!" Ladybug cried, her face growing worried as she began to reach for her yoyo.

Another powerful thud was felt, but then this time the painting moved awkwardly, almost as if it was only half stuck to the wall. The teens turned to see it swinging back and forth like a hanging door, but with what seemed to be a safe in the wall behind it.

"Is that a safe?" Adrien asked, raising an eyebrow as he reached for it, only to have his arm tightly grabbed by Ladybug.

"There's no time!" She cried, her yoyo now spinning in order to protect the two of them. "We need to go now!"

The thuds were getting closer, it was no doubt that it was Adrien's old bodyguard still present in the mansion; even Ladybug could tell it was him, but he sounded more monstrous than before. They could only assume that he had been akumatised to better help protect the mansion.

"No...Wait." Adrien breathed, his hands reaching for the handle of the safe to reveal a password lock on it. It was then that he acted on instinct and thought of the first date he could remember that would fit into the number code.

The password denied access, so it wasn't the day of his mother's disappearance; he had to get in there. He knew that whatever was hiding back there could be something that could help them. However, he could be going to all this trouble for nothing, his father could have emptied the safe and brought whatever was in there along on his trip to North America. But this was the furthest he had gotten and he wasn't willing to give up now.

Ladybug desperately wanted the two of them to get out of there, all that concerned her now was Adrien's safety, she knew that if Hawkmoth got a hold of Adrien he would use his own son as bait to force her to hand over her miraculous, she could see it being the main reason why he wanted his son back.

"Adrien, your safety comes first. I don't want to lose you!"

As meaningful and heart wrenching Ladybug's words were, he had to ignore her and continue guessing the password. But then, the gorilla was at the door, double his size and he looked monstrous, he growled at the pair and darted straight towards them.

Ladybug felt strong conflicted feelings about the sudden situation presented before her, was she to grab Adrien and leave, or let him get into the safe and she fight the gorilla in the meantime? She didn't want to hurt Adrien's feelings by not letting his suspicions go unchecked, so she decided to go full force at the akumatised gorilla. His strength was ten times worse than before, as he managed to punch ladybug against the wall near the portrait. It cracked a window, and caused Adrien to gasp as he looked up at the gorilla in a panic as he started to dart straight towards him.

But then, the words clicked in his head. He knew what the password was, as soon as he pressed enter the gorilla's shadow engulfed his but then a grunt from Ladybug was heard as she smacked her yoyo at him, causing him to move back slightly and be distracted by her.

The password was correct; it was the date of when it all started, the day when he announced his presence as Hawkmoth to the world. He opened it and saw a photo of his mother and some books, but then he saw something slightly leaning against the old photograph of his mother, he quickly grabbed it right before he heard the gorilla torpedoing right towards him.

Adrien shoved the peacock-like jewel in his bag and jumped for safety, and then the gorilla bashed right through the wall, landing out the back on the mansion on the ground, causing a large and loud against the ground. Ladybug dashed for Adrien's arm and the two were out of there.

"Wait, aren't you going to de-evilise him?" He asked, knowing with every battle Ladybug would cleanse the akuma.

Ladybug panted as she ran through the front doors and began to swing her yoyo around to yank them to another building. "No use, he works for Hawkmoth. We defeat the source; we don't have to do anything else to save him. Unless he destroys all of Paris to find you, I'm not taking that risk." Ladybug explained, not turning her head as she held on tight as the yoyo yanked them metres into the air.

They made it out, but they both knew that the gorilla could be out to look for them, and even though Ladybug didn't want the gorilla to be destroying the whole city just to find her and Adrien, she couldn't help but be sceptical about her own words. There was no doubt that she would have to de-evilise him anyway. The important thing right now was to make sure Adrien was safe.

The two landed in an alleyway, several miles away from the mansion, Ladybug de-transformed while Adrien took a good look in his bag at all the things he brought.

"Okay I'm not sure what this is but it looks like a hair clip of some sort..." Adrien claimed, pulling out the peacock looking jewel before examining it. "I know this may sound weird but...it feels like I needed to get this...I don't know why though." He explained, gently placing it back in his bag.

Marinette furrowed her eyebrow in confusion, she could understand that it could have been his mother's and it was something that reminded him of her, but why did Adrien feel like he needed to grab it? That was what confused her the most, but she decided not to think about it too much so they walked back to Marinette's place, completely forgetting that Adrien was secretly living in Marinette's room until everything had been sorted out with his family, mainly Hawkmoth.

The pair walked on in and the two were greeted by two gasps and smiles of joy.

"Adrien, it's so nice to see you again." Sabine greeted, smiling pleasantly while working at the cashier.

Adrien rubbed the back of his neck, smiling in reply, Marinette felt her face go red when she realised she couldn't make up an excuse this time as to why he was with her. It was going to be either the truth or a terrible lie, and Marinette simply hated lies, the only lies she didn't mind saying was that she wasn't Ladybug and that Adrien wasn't sleeping in her room.

"I don't think he can resist the super baker's super baking skills!" Tom bragged, striking a heroic pose.

Their navy haired daughter giggled and blushed in slight embarrassment at her father praising himself. "Dad..." She said in a slightly embarrassed but amused tone.

So instead of covering her lie that Adrien wasn't staying with them to make the hole be dug even deeper, Marinette only hoped that her parents didn't ask why until she was out of their site. She sighed in relief when both she and Adrien left the front room of the bakery and no questions were asked.

Shortly after going upstairs and to her room, Marinette sat on her chair in a pit of worry and anxiety, she worried so much that the villain she didn't de-evilise was going to be after Adrien and now he definitely couldn't leave the house. She sincerely hoped that the gorilla didn't follow them to her house otherwise Adrien would have no place to hide.

Meanwhile Adrien was on another chair with his bag on his lap, some of his belongings already settled on Marinette's desk, he decided to leave the hair clip until after he got most of everything else out because there was something about the hair clip that just made him want to grab it, and it felt like more than just a reminder of his mother, who was now quite possibly by his father's side, being his slave.

"Maybe I should go back out there and defeat that villain before he does anymore damage, but I don't want to leave your side." Marinette implied, letting her head drop slightly as Tikki wisped out of her purse with words of encouragement.

"Don't feel bad about yourself Marinette; I'm sure that guy didn't follow us. But I think it is best that we stop that akumatised man before he does any other sort of damage. Adrien will be fine." She assured, shining a smile at her miraculous holder.

Marinette smiled at Tikki's kind and thoughtful words. Ever since Tikki came into her life, she had given Marinette so much assurance and confidence to make her stand out more proudly as Ladybug, which made it all the more difficult for people to connect the dots between her and her civilian form.

"You're right, but where could he be now?" She asked, before Tikki immediately showed her the answer.

The red and black kwami wisped over to the keyboard and pressed a few keys before a window popped open to show the latest news broadcast on screen, both Adrien and Marinette looked up to see a news reporter reporting of large destruction going on over the other side of the city.

"The Notre Dame has just been destroyed, authorities are doing all they can to fend off the monstrous man until the two heroes Ladybug and Cat Noir can save the day."

Marinette sighed when she realised she needed Cat Noir for the battle, she always needed him. But now that Adrien didn't have his miraculous Cat Noir didn't exist anymore. She lifted her knees onto the chair and buried her head in between them, making Adrien look at her with concern.

"Marinette, I can go with you on this, I just won't be there as Cat Noir." He assured, resting a hand against Marinette's shoulder.

She looked up at her reassuring boyfriend, it seemed like he and Tikki were always the ones to give her assurance. She loved that about them, and knew that she could definitely do this, she was only worried that without Adrien's miraculous he couldn't do much, but the confidence he gave her to assure he would be fine made her feel more relaxed.

Tikki looked down at the hair clip in Adrien's hand, she gasped as she suddenly realised what that really was. "Adrien, how did you get that!?" She cried, reminding Adrien that she wasn't there as a kwami to see what was going on.

Adrien parted his lips as her furrowed his eyebrows in confusion, Marinette felt confused too by the sudden shock from her kwami. "Tikki, what are you talking about?" She asked, seeming clueless.

Adrien widened his eyes as his mind paused for a moment to realise what Tikki meant by how he managed to get the peacock hairclip, he couldn't believe it, even before he said it. "Is this a miraculous?" He asked in a breathy, shocked tone, causing Marinette to widen her eyes and gasp.

"A miraculous!?" Marinette cried.

Tikki grinned with joy as she hugged Adrien's cheek. "You found the peacock miraculous! The great guardian has been searching for it ever since it went inactive." Tikki explained, referring to Master Fu.

Adrien grew worried and confused once the kwami said 'inactive'. "What do you mean inactive?" He questioned the kwami, still confused but at the same time shocked by the sudden realisation hitting him.

"It's been inactive for a few years now, the great guardian has been looking for it ever since, he feared that the miraculous holder went missing or something."

Then, the room went silent as Adrien and Marinette stared at each other, both slowly processing the same information before Marinette breathed the words to Adrien, making it all so clearer to him.

"Your mother had this miraculous..."

He felt his heart stop for a moment, all this nonsense about his father being Hawkmoth made all the more sense now, aside from the reveal a few days earlier this was more conformation that there was a reason as to why Gabriel decided to become Hawkmoth. But they both knew they wouldn't get their facts one hundred percent straight.

Tikki gently touched the miraculous as well as Adrien's half closed hand over it, she looked up at him with a serious expression. "You need to activate it again."

Adrien suddenly jumped from the sudden task put before him. "What, me? But it doesn't belong to me! It belongs to-" He was cut off, a smiling Marinette finished his sentence.

"Your mother. Aside from your mother, you're the closest person to her that could wear this miraculous." Marinette implied with a smile, her hands pressing firmly against her knees.

Tikki nodded in agreement, they both turned their heads to focus on the unsure Adrien. He looked down at the hair pin; he knew it must have been for his mother because it was an accessory that not many guys would wear, if not at all. He looked up at a smiling Marinette and her smiling Tikki, eagerly waiting for him to put on the miraculous and see what happens, he sighed before he unpinned the back of it and then placed it on the side of his fringe.

Then, with a flash of blue light, a new kwami appeared. It was blue in colour, and had a peacock-like tail with shining aqua eyes that resembled a lot like Tikki's but were greener in colour. Tikki's smile widened while Marinette and Adrien gasped, Marinette was initially excited to see what would happen, but now she was amazed that it really was another miraculous.

The blue kwami slowly opened its eyes, taking in its surroundings before coming face to face with Adrien. It gasped with fright before it fell against Marinette's hands, it looked up and shrieked, but then it saw Tikki and flew up to her.

"Tikki, what is this? What is going on?" The kwami cried, panicking because she couldn't see her original miraculous holder.

"Relax Neera; this is just Adrien and Marinette." The ladybug kwami introduced with pride as she gestured over to Marinette and Adrien. "Adrien and Marinette, this is Neera."

The two teens waved and welcomed the kwami. Neera turned her head to Adrien, the resemblance was uncanny, he looked a lot like her miraculous holder, but he was wearing the hair pin and not she. Her original miraculous holder was nowhere in sight, this caused her to panic but to raise curious questions to the blonde teen.

"You seem familiar...would you happen to know who my original miraculous holder is?" She asked with worry.

Adrien nodded with a smile, it was a pleasant experience to happen to meet a new kwami just like how he met Plagg, but this one wasn't eating everything in sight. "I do, because I'm her son."

"I thought there was something familiar about you, you're Nathalie's son! Where is your mother? Why do you possess her miraculous and not her?" The blue kwami questioned the blonde teen, extremely worried where Nathalie was.

Both Adrien and Marinette looked down as they remembered where Nathalie was more likely to be. Tikki flew next to Neera with a saddened expression. "Hawkmoth took her." She stated, keeping the overall explanation simple and to the point.

"What!?"

Eh...it's a cliffhanger but to be honest not really a big one to me for some reason. Okay, I know you guys need lots of explanation and clarification with this new kwami I've introduced and so on. So basically, I'm going with the theory that Adrien's mother was the peacock miraculous holder, and I made it a hair pin because that isn't a type of miraculous jewel we haven't seen yet. Just to clarify the bee one is a hair clip not a pin. ;)

Also, opinions on the new kwami? Also if you actually look up Neera, it's actually an Indian name but when translated to English it means peacock; see I did my research. ^^ I don't think I'll introduce all too much about the peacock kwami and its powers and so on, but I think with the ideas I have for later chapters, I might have to *spoilers*

And looks like I didn't clarify much about the gorilla scene with Ladybug and Adrien at school in the previous chapter, but don't worry I'll get to it. See you soon for the next Chapter! :D