Hey! Hope you liked my last chapter, it was kind of a long shot… Just like this one. Sorry I took so long to update. If you hadn't noticed, me and "LilyTheNinjaGirl" are kind of taking turns updating. I posted chapter 4 because she posted her chapter 14. Now I post this one because she posted chapter 15….You can see the pattern.
Cat Noir just stared at Sting, wondering what she just said. All the words were blending together so he had heard, "Uuu, Cat Nor. Do yow haff amoththeer?" He thought he heard her say the word "Mother" And tried to ignore it. The word 'Mother' was a soft spot ever since she disappeared. "What?" He asked, not clearly hearing what she said in the first place. "Do you have a Mom?" Sting asked again. This time, Cat heard her, he just didn't want to answer. Answering might give away too much.
Sting stood up, not hearing an answer from the cat boy. All she heard was labored breathing from both of them. She never thought about how much pain being shocked could bring. She looked down at her hands, hearing a dark voice. Hawk Moth was back. "You must get me their Miraculouses." He said. "Um, I would rather not." Sting replied back. "What!? You have to or I will take away your powers!" Hawk Moth threatened. "Good, I don't want them anymore!" Sting yelled. Hawk Moth was in awe. No one has ever defeated the akuma without Ladybug.
All of the sudden, black magic surrounded the girl, freeing her of the akuma. The girl knew she couldn't let the butterfly get away, so she took the knife she still had and threw it at the butterfly. She really didn't want to, but it was the only way she could stop it from getting away. She had to kill it. She quickly raced over to the two super heroes and took in the sight she was seeing. Ladybug was shaking, bleeding in the head and a pained look was glued onto her face. Cat Noir was no better. His face was covered in his arms and his breathing was jagged and in short gasps. His bandages were coming loose and blood was seeping through.
She quickly grabbed the arms of both of the superheroes, waiting for a pull to get away, but it never came. She looked down at them again, closer. The Ladybug girl was out cold and the cat boy was barely awake.
She thought she might be able to bring one of them down to the abandoned hut she'd heard about, go back up and get the other. She grabbed Ladybug first, knowing she might owe her once they woke up. She carefully got out the side ladder on the building, and slowly carried Ladybug down until her left foot hit the hard concrete. She walked for all of 3 minutes until she found an alley that had a beat up mattress in it. The girl thought it would be better than walking any further.
She set Ladybug down on the mattress and ran off in the opposite direction. She climbed the ladder again and ran towards the cat. Only when she got there he was gone! She looked around frantically, her brain coming up with the worst possible problems. 'Someone took him, no, Hawk Moth took him! No, he fell off the building!' She checked the ground below, expecting to see a kitty pancake. Thankfully, there wasn't one.
She looked around one more time, finding nothing. Until she heard a faint noise. It was almost like a bumping sound. She walked towards the place where the sound came from and to her surprise, there was Cat Noir! He was on his knees, kneeling against the post he was hiding behind. He must have fell and that is what made the bumping noise. She quickly extended her hand towards the boy, watching him flinch away.
"It's okay, your safe with me." She reassured. Cat Noir wasn't sure about this, it might be a trick, but if it was, having her take him to where Ladybug was would be good. He held out his hand, wincing in pain as she took his hand. She helped him walk across the rooftop, down the ladder and into the alley way she had found. When Cat Noir saw Ladybug on the mattress, he insisted that he lay down on the ground, so he wouldn't take up space from Ladybug.
The girl really tried to talk him out of the idea, but Cat Noir ended up winning the argument. She set him down gingerly and walked towards Ladybug. This freaked Cat Noir out, not completely trusting this girl who apparently defeated the akuma by herself. He moaned very loudly to get her attention, so she wouldn't go near his partner. It started out as a fake moan, but slowly turned into a real one.
This did get her attention, but instead of turning away from Ladybug, she walked faster towards her, wanting to hurry with Ladybug so she could get to Cat Noir. This is not what Cat Noir was planning. The girl leaned down to touch Ladybug and Cat Noir bolted up. "Don't…Don't tt-touch her!" He yelled. "It's okay, I'm on your side now." The girl said. "I don't trust you." Cat Noir said plain out. "I know; you have no reason to." The girl started. "But I can help your partner." She said. Cat Noir was not expecting this.
He looked at Ladybug, then at the girl's face. She looked like she was telling the truth. "…..Alright, but I'm watching you!" Cat Noir warned. The girl only nodded in agreement and looked back at Ladybug. She leaned down and took a piece of her shirt off and used it to pad the wound on Ladybug's head. Cat Noir was trying to be cautious, but drowsiness started to take over. He tried to keep his eyes open, but just couldn't. The last thing he remembered seeing was the girl walking towards him. Then, his world went dark.
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Ladybug was the first to wake up, she rubbed her head and looked around her. She was in some kind of alley on a beat down, old mattress. She looked down to see a cat sleeping next to her on the ground. He was covered in some kind of weird cloth, and so was she. She guessed it was supposed to act as a blanket. But what really startled her was the girl sleeping a little farther away from Cat Noir.
It looked like Sting, too much like Sting. Was it Sting? Ladybug quietly tapped on Cat Noir's shoulder as he slowly woke up. "Wha?" Cat Noir asked. "Who... Who is thaa girlll?" Ladybug slurred, pointing to the sleeping girl. "Oh...That's, uh..." Cat Noir started. "Uh, I don't really know who that is." Cat Noir finished. They both looked at each other, then at the girl.
Ladybug started to get up, but Cat Noir stopped her. "Don't, your in a bad condition." He started. "So are you." Ladybug said back. "Yeah, but I'm closer." Cat Noir argued. Ladybug rolled her eyes as Cat Noir started to slowly make his way towards the sleeping shook her lightly, half of him wanted to know who she was and half of him didn't want her to wake up. She slowly stirred awake, blinking and looking around. She must have remembered where she was, because just then her head zipped towards Ladybug's direction. She sighed when she saw that Ladybug was awake and hadn't moved.
She couldn't say the same for Cat Noir. He had move at least 15 feet trying to wake her up, and that upset her. She put on a pouty-face and looked at Cat Noir. "You moved!" She said. "Who are you?" Cat Noir asked. "Right…" She started, looking down at the ground. "I'm Mackenzie." The girl answered. The two super heroes didn't know how to respond. "I'm the one that saved you-" Mackenzie started, pointing to Ladybug, "-And I'm the one that took care of your wounds." She finished.
"Wait—How did you fight off the akuma?" Ladybug asked. "Only my yo-yo can purify the akumas." She pointed out. "I didn't purify it, but I did trap it." Mackenzie said. "It is still there, I checked this morning." She said, making her way towards Ladybug. "How did you fight it off?" Cat Noir repeated, starting to get jumpy seeing Mackenzie get closer to his love.
"I…I just remembered the loving family I had before Hawk Moth came along. That turned my negatives emotion into positive emotions." Mackenzie said, looking up at Ladybug. Ladybug thought about this for a while, she never really thought about the akumatized person freeing themselves… Then Mackenzie got up on her knees and reached for Ladybug's head. Ladybug flinched back in surprise, but Mackenzie kind of expected that. She patted Ladybug's head with a wet cloth she had gotten from a store a couple of streets away from the alley way they were in.
After Mackenzie was done with Ladybug, she started towards Cat Noir. He wanted to move away, but his muscles were too weak to do what he wanted so all he could do was lay down on his back. She slowly and gingerly took Cat Noir's bandages off, to be honest, she was more concerned for him than Ladybug. Her head was bleeding but it was only a bit, sort of. His side was bleeding a lot more than Ladybug's head. As she heard a hiss, she slowed down.
Just then a question came to Ladybugs mind. "Hey, what about our Miraculouses!? Didn't we have to de-transform?" She asked. "Yeah….I went to a store a couple of streets down from here and got some food. I left it out for your kwamis and they told me that they could transform back, but the girl kwami needed chocolate chip cookies and the boy kwami needed Camembert?..." Mackenzie said, almost confused. Ladybug and Cat Noir chuckled. "Yeah, that's them" They both said at the same time. "But I swear I didn't look." She finished. For some reason, they trusted her.
It wasn't hard to overcome the awkward silence that came afterwards, Mackenzie accidentally touched too close to the wound on Cat Noir's back and he screamed in pain. "SORRY! Sorry! I'm so sorry!" Mackenzie yelled. Cat Noir hissed, but tried to ignore it. "It's- Its fine." He lied. Ladybug tried to get up on her own, but only managed to freak Mackenzie out.
"Don't do that!" She yelled. Ladybug only looked at her like a confused, young child. "I'm moving." Ladybug said, flat out. Mackenzie looked at the ground, forgetting her place. She was only a common citizen and they where superheros. She watched as Ladybug slowly made her way off the mattress and towards her hurt partner. And Mackenzie was in awe.
Even when she was hurt herself, she still looked out for her partner. Ladybug set Cat Noir's head on her legs, trying to ignore the pounding in her head. There was a long pause of silence, but quickly broken by Cat Noir's moan. Ladybug knew they where both in a bad condition, but they would soon have to battle Hawk Moth, and they would win.