03/12/23
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Argos and Ryuko were searching for survivors while the rest of Team Miraculous did the same too. They both started at the Grand Hotel since it looks less abandoned and a good place to hide from the flesh-eating monsters.
"Be on your guard, King Peacock" Ryuko said, giving him a nickname.
"Thank you, my lovely Queen Dragon" Argos flirted.
"Very funny" Ryuko chuckled, taking her sword out and opening the doors to the hotel.
"The brat that used to live here. Sheesh, she's very cruel to her father and half-sister. Her damn heart is dark and evil, there's no room for love" Argos said but spoke too soon when a swarm of zombies attacked.
"Watch out!" Ryuko drew her sword and sliced apart the zombies using fire mode on the sword.
Argos unfolds his fan and slices through the zombies, "Do they ever get tired of eating brains?!" Argos had enough of these walking corpses and simply sliced them with his fan and shot the other one in the head.
"Apparently they don't!" Ryuko stabs through another zombie and slices it in two. She then ran and kicked at one zombie before grabbing onto another one with a spin kick to knock two down. The next one she delivered a hard blow to the neck.
"Ouch" Argos cringed but wasn't paying attention when another zombie attacked him.
It snarled as it tried to bite his face but Ryuko sliced it's heads off clean, "Next time, never let your guard down or you'll be their first turkey dinner" She said.
"Thanks for preventing me from losing my feathers," Argos said.
"Don't mention it, fake Adrien" Ryuko said.
Argos just shrugs and runs up the stairs to search for survivors. Clearly, he remembers where Chloe's room is and she never likes anyone entering her room.
"Now let's hope there are survivors" He got inside her former room. Since the apocalypse, it was all dirty and covered in webbings.
Especially rats which he hates, "Agh! Rats!" He cringed at how nasty they are.
"Quit whining like a baby, bird. If you were a falcon you could eat them for lunch" Ryuko said.
"No thanks, Ryuko. I rather eat that nasty former bee who is self-proclaimed too much" Argos said, going to the closet but only found a dead adult body in there, "Besides, she brought it upon herself because she doesn't know the meaning of redeeming herself"
"All she cares about is herself," Ryuko said and got outside the balcony.
"Especially trying to impress her mother too much and she can't see how they are both alike," Argos said.
"Yeah, yet her mom doesn't remember her birthday or name," Ryuko said.
"I hated her so much. My uncle was friends with her and yet doesn't care if she was heartless. Audrey is no mother at all. Adrien would have a better friend with Zoe Lee than Chloe" Argos checks the bathroom but steps away from the decaying body that smelled nasty.
Ryuko looks over Paris from the balcony and then heard knocking.
"What was that?!" Argos held his fan.
"Get ready!" Ryuko held her sword up.
The door burst open and there stood a war-dressed Chloe with a headband and wielding a shotgun, "You picked the wrong hotel, fools!"
"Oh, it's just you. You've been surviving a lot" Ryuko said.
"I was hoping you changed better but you're still the same bratty girl I remember" Argos sighs in frustration.
"Ridiculous! Utterly ridiculous!" Chloe complained but got pinned by Argos.
"Just shut up and hold still" Argos getting in her personal space and scanning her with his device, "Be grateful you're alive but yet you still care about yourself, Chloe"
"I've cared about my health to not get infected but my parents weren't so lucky in the apocalypse" Chloe replied.
"Mmhmm" Argos scanned 3 times and the results say she's not infected, "You're clean. If you want to survive, stay close, and don't be so foolish again"
"Fine by me" Chloe replied.
"I haven't forgotten how much you annoy the hell out of my cousin," Argos said.
x
Ladybug and Cat Noir were at the Agreste mansion in Nathalie's room. They found a secret passage that leads to the chambers of magical artifacts.
"Still having problems taming Blanc?" Ladybug asked Cat Noir.
"He just needs to soak in everything. Su Han is making sure he's calm by using Aromatherapy to calm his insanity" Cat Noir said and sees the hand of Midas in a glass, "Nathalie and my parents really did do some exploring and became rich with having a mansion. No wonder my mother feared my father's obsession with miraculous"
"No kidding, it really cost his mind," Ladybug said.
"And that explains why my mom had dizzy spells which apparently came from a broken miraculous. Just like it happened to Nathalie" Cat Noir said and stepped on a moving carpet.
"Huh? What the?!" Ladybug looks down.
"Magic carpet" Cat Noir saw it was nailed on the floor.
"We must release it. Lucky charm!" Ladybug said and summons a hammer. She carefully plucked the nails away from the carpet to free it.
"I can't believe my father would be so obsessed with magic artifacts. And yet it was never enough for him" Cat Noir said and the carpet flies away, never to be seen again.
"Well the carpet's free now," Ladybug said.
"Nathalie was an explorer. Which explains her Safari akuma" Cat Noir said, touching the artifact of Anubis.
"I see. Well, is there anything specific we're looking for?" Ladybug asked.
"Sea salt. A clean and pure sea salt. The ocean is polluted and we cannot have a contaminated one" Cat Noir said.
"Yes, it must be here," said Ladybug as she roots around. She then is about open a chest to search through it.
Cat Noir can see that this is a pandora's box and he knows what happens if it's opened, "Hell no. Nuh-uh"
"Mermaid's tear? Maybe this has sea salt in it" Ladybug picked the vial.
"It must be," Cat Noir said.
"One way to find out for sure. In the meantime, try to make sure Cat Blanc doesn't kill anyone. There have never been two akumas fighting each other" Ladybug said.
"Of course. We can't let history repeat itself" Cat Noir said.
"History always repeats itself, handsome. I always have ways for history to be remembered" Volpina cackled in the chamber.
"The past can never remain the same, Lila! You don't know what you have until it's gone!" Ladybug yelled.
"Is that so? Well, I'm gonna ensure you two don't survive!" Volpina sneered.
But was tackled by Blanc and he was very strong, "Hello, Lila. Akuma against akuma" He said evilly.
"What kind of trick is this?!" Volpina exclaims.
"No trickery. I am vengeance, I am your reckoning, I am Cat Blanc!" Cat Blanc said menacingly.
"Get off you animal!" Volpina kicked him off and shot darts at him with her flute.
A minute later, nothing happened and he simply removes the darts, "I'm indestructible, Volpina. I have no soul" He said and throws his white cataclysm at her.
Volpina dodged in time but it destroyed the wall, "Impossible!"
"You are exactly like my father who also destroyed my life! Both of you are evil and heartless!" Blanc tries again.
Volpina had to get away from the feral white feline with very sharp claws, "You're a monstrosity!" Volpina ran away.
"COME HERE!" Cat Blanc charged another cataclysm, "MEEEEEOOOOOWWWWW!" He roared and tried to catch up but was gone. He got tackled by a zombie biting his shoulder but Blanc can't feel pain, he just breaks the zombie's neck, "Bite on that in hell!" Then he punches through its chest and threw it aside.
"Blanc, calm down. As much as we all hate that liar, you can see that she has done much worse than your world" Ladybug said.
"She and my father are both cowards. Her poison darts don't work on me" Blanc growled.
"We saw and that is why you're our only hope in stopping her. Milady can't fix the mess without capturing that liar" Cat Noir said.
"Yeah, I know. Have you found anything in that mansion?" Blanc asked.
"Mermaid tears" Cat Noir held the vial up.
"Purrfect. Let's go" Cat Blanc said.
x
In the room of Su Han, the potion needed one last ingredient, the blood of the descendant.
"Grand Master, we found the seawater," Cat Blanc said.
"Good. Now from you, Adrien, your blood" Su Han took the vial.
"And Félix too" Adrien looks at Felix.
"Of course" Felix held his finger out along with Adrien.
"Don't cry like a baby bird or puppy" Adrien mocked him.
"And don't be a scaredy cat" Felix replied.
Su Han then stings the two's fingers and collects their blood drops.
"I just flinched, bird," Adrien said.
"Now, let's hope it works" Su Han drips the blood in the mix.
"The brooch, Felix. My mom's soul is trapped in there" Adrien said.
"Let's hope it works" Felix placed the brooch on his aunt's chest and Su Han created the elixir from the potion.
"Here goes" He scoops some up in a vial and pours it into Emilie's mouth.
Emilie opens her eyes and sat up panting hard after her soul returned to her body. She remembers everything being trapped in that brooch and what Shadow Moth has done to go insane.
"Oh, my head. Where am I?" Emilie looks around, then saw her grown son and nephew, "Adrien? Felix?"
"Mom?" Adrien said.
"It is you" Emilie recognized him.
"Aunt Emilie," Felix said.
Processing everything that has happened while being trapped in that peacock brooch, "Thank god you're okay but I saw everything from being trapped in that brooch" She said while having a major headache.
"You did?" Adrien asked.
"Yes. Everything your father did for his own selfish interests" Emilie said and then glared at her nephew since he made a deal with trading the miraculous to the madman, "Felix, I expected more from you"
"Aunt Emilie, forgive me. I made a horrible mistake by making him more of a monster. I was blinded by my selfishness" Felix bowed his head.
"We'll discuss this later" Emilie replied.
"Please. I needed the peacock miraculous. I could have found a different way but I was corrupted with hatred" Felix said.
"I hope you learned your big lesson, young man!" Emilie said more sternly, "Your uncle nearly tried to kill you by almost akumatizing you. I was scared to believe you would become like him, driven by madness. My son was all I could ever think about" Emilie's voice broke a little, "Adrien, I was so afraid that your father would be so insane for power that he's forgotten what it means to be a better father to you. I am so sorry that I had to leave you with him"
"I don't blame you, Mom. He did something unthinkable on himself as well" Adrien said, "Everything he did nearly made me miserable. Nathalie was the only one there for me longer than him. But she's dead because the sickness killed her" He then showed her the book of the miraculous, "This book I saw, he grounded me for losing it and he almost tried to kill me as The Collector"
"This has gone too far for him. Where is he?" Emilie stood up.
"In a prison. Worst of all, he forced me to cataclysm him and now it's spreading slowly on him. It haunted me too much" Adrien brings her downstairs.
Emilie then saw her dying ex in front of her, the cataclysm having spread to his head.
"Emilie?! You're alive?!" Gabriel was so insane to see her alive.
"Yes, without a wish. And you broke my heart that you became a monster to Paris and to my son. You haven't changed at all when I was in an enchanted sleep" Emilie looks away in disappointment, "Not to mention trying to ruin people's lives! That's low even for you!" She adds.
"I was doing this to be a family again!" Gabriel said.
"No, you clearly were doing this for yourself. I witnessed everything when you were Shadow Moth through the brooch of the peacock" Emilie glared.
"You did?!" Gabriel gasped.
"Yes! Our son told me what you did to yourself, by cataclysm yourself to escape! I made video records for you and Nathalie to take care of Adrien. I was hoping you treat Adrien like a human, not some puppet! You almost tried to kill him!" Emilie's voice broke, "You may have loved me from the start but you never let anyone else into your heart. Adrien is building his own life and happiness and you tried to take that away! He will be forever miserable from your ways!"
"And to me, you're no longer my father" Adrien coldly disowned his father.
"Emilie, forgive me! I was doing this to bring you back!" Gabriel said.
"By stealing the ladybug and black cat miraculous to make a wish? Wishes should not be granted because it has a terrible price to pay in exchange. No one deserves to take my place! No one's life should be taken away!" Emilie sobs in anger, "No, Gabriel! As a parent, you have a responsibility to raise Adrien but you failed to do so. You kept him in the dark for too long! From what I see now, you're nothing but a coward who can't see yourself as a true man" Emilie held Adrien close to her, "Everything you do is not how you make Adrien happy. You barely even pay attention to him"
"And you could never support me nor approve of my relationship with my love. You tried to force me to bond with Kagami when she and I are just friends. Marinette reminds me a lot of my mother and she always makes me happy and understands how I feel. Something you can never understand me!" Adrien threw the spoon at the bulletproof glass in anger.
"Yeah, I love Adrien for who he is," Marinette said.
"Love can't be forced on or be prevented!" Adrien held her hand.
"I can't believe you don't approve of him growing up" Emilie glared at her ex.
"I was doing what was best for him!" Gabriel admitted.
"And yet you failed, Gabriel. Whatever spark existed between us, it's gone" Emilie said.
