03/30/23
13 Reviews, 11 Favs, 12 Follows
Ladybug and Cat Noir were at the Eiffel Tower keeping an eye out for any more Greek monsters terrorizing Paris. But of course, Cat Noir plays the Wonder Woman theme to brighten the mood and feel the hero's inspiration.
"This music sure makes anyone feel powerful," Ladybug said.
"Feeling the sense of heroic instincts?" Cat Noir doing his dance moves.
"Yes, I do" Ladybug did some too.
"Wonder Woman fan or Gal Gadot fan?" Cat Noir asked.
"Wonder Woman" Ladybug replied.
"Heh, if only the real Ares hasn't done too much war in history," Cat Noir said.
"Yeah, and he's Wonder Woman's brother in the new comics," Ladybug said.
"Half-brother, technically. Just like the real Ares is my cousin" Cat Noir said.
"Yep. Well, it seems too quiet today" Ladybug said, unaware two giant snakes were slithering near them.
"I don't like it when it's too quiet," Cat Noir said.
"What monster would be worse? The monsters from the Pandora box?" Ladybug asked.
"Yeah, that or these two!" He tackled Ladybug aside from the giant snakes, ending on top of her.
"Ummm…. thanks" Ladybug blushed at the position they were in.
"Move!" He rolled with her to avoid the bite.
"Okay, Kitty. You take the one to the right, I'll take the one to the left" Ladybug said.
"Got it! I hope Aunt Hera is not trying to kill us! We are not children of Zeus!" Cat Noir blocked the fans with his staff.
"No, but I'm his granddaughter!" Ladybug shields herself with her yo-yo.
"Fair enough!" Cat Noir said and whacked the snake he fought, "And he's my uncle!" He added.
"Whoever sent them has serious problems!" Ladybug jumps up.
"Uhhh…..are they getting bigger?" Cat Noir noticed them growing bigger.
"Way bigger, Kitty! We need a strategy!" Ladybug glides down the tower with him.
"Hercules killed them with his bare hands as a child!" Cat Noir said.
"Or as a baby in some versions!" Ladybug saw the snakes coming for them.
"We gotta break their necks!" Cat Noir moved faster.
"Okay, sounds good to me!" Ladybug then jumps up on one of the snakes.
"Don't get swallowed!" Cat Noir jumps on the other.
"Okay, Kitty!" Ladybug struggled.
Cat Noir raised his staff to try to hit the snake's neck, "Aunt Hera! If you can hear me, jealousy only makes you look bad!" Cat Noir rapidly whacks the giant serpent.
"They are so strong!" Ladybug got thrown off.
"Milady!" Cat Noir caught her in his arms, "We need something big like glass. Snakes can't slither on glass"
"Okay. Lucky charm!" Ladybug summoned her charm.
Out came a giant roof glass and the heroes stepped out of the way but Ladybug had to catch it before it shatters.
"A glass roof panel?" She looks at it confused and then at the snakes.
"Put it down! Put it down!" Cat Noir quickly said.
"Okay!" Ladybug placed it carefully, "Hey over here snakes!" Ladybug shouted.
"Meow! Meow! Meow!" Cat Noir taunted.
The snakes slithered towards them but ends up on the panel. They couldn't slither or move on glass, realizing they are stuck.
"This is our chance, Bugaboo!" Cat Noir leaps up and heads for their necks.
"HYAAAAH!" Ladybug delivered a hard kick at the snake's neck.
"My cousin has killed two snakes as a child but I can do much worse to you!" Cat Noir strangles the snake's neck. He then with a mighty pull, snaps its neck.
"Haaaah….. We did it" Ladybug panted.
"Yeah, like hell we did" Cat Noir sees the ghost snakes being pulled into the ground to the underworld.
"Miraculous Ladybug!" Ladybug tossed the panel up to repair the damage.
Cat Noir plays the Wonder Woman theme from his phone. Ladybug then teasingly held her wrists together, imitating Wonder Woman.
"Meow" Cat Noir smirked.
"Pound it" They fist-bumped.
"Until next time, my lovely lady. I got mice to hunt and eat. I'm always a wild cat" Cat Noir winked.
"See you later, Kitty Cat," Ladybug said.
"Meow" Cat Noir jumped off the Eiffel Tower.
Ladybug swings away to head home.
x
Adrien spoke with his father near the fireplace. Hades wasn't physically there but communicating with him with his fire head shape of the fireplace.
"If it's not Hera that sent these snakes, who did?" Adrien asked while petting his cat.
"I have a feeling the descendant of Medusa sent them to you and Ladybug," Hades said.
"Why can't Athena undo the curse?" Adrien asked.
"Because us gods can't be discovered by mortals. They all believe we are just myths" Hades said.
"But wasn't it too harsh to curse Medusa and her two sisters?" Adrien said.
"Yes. But gods cannot punish gods. It's forbidden. We can only punish mortals. My brother Zeus made that law" Hades said.
"Then that law has put most mortals in danger in Greek history," Adrien said.
"I know, it's unfair what my little brother has made," Hades said.
"You have to stand up to him, father. Just like I do to my stepfather. You said that Zeus didn't listen to you but you and Persephone made a choice to mate with mortals to have demigods be born on Earth to stop the descendant of Medusa because no mortal can defeat a gorgon" Adrien said.
"Yes. Though being in the underworld, I don't have the power against the king of gods. But I won't give up" Hades said.
"How many mortals were cursed by gods? Charybdis aided her father Poseidon in his feud with her paternal uncle Zeus and, as such, helped him engulf lands and islands in the water. Zeus became angry over the land she stole from him, captured, and chained her to the sea bed. And he cursed her into a monster at the seas" Adrien explained the myth.
"Yes, as well as Prometheus got punished for stealing fire from us," Hades said.
"And my cousin set him free," Adrien said.
"Yes. Someday my brother will have to listen to reason. Mortals have been killing each other for centuries" Hades said.
"Indeed. And I can't let this descendant get away with more victims" Adrien said.
"I know it's hard to find her in a haystack but she can't escape her fate. Just like her mother" Hades said.
"Yes, like her she's not immortal," Adrien said.
"Rumors say she's been raised by her aunts. Immortal or not, this is the modern world now" Hades said.
"Yeah. I hope Ladybug is with her mother discussing the same" Adrien said.
x
With Marinette, she was talking with Persephone in her room about Medusa.
"I have the bad feeling more monsters are to come, mother," Marinette said.
"You and your partner are doing great so far," Persephone said.
"Thank you. The snakes weren't from Hera?" Marinette asked.
"No, it wasn't her who sent them," Persephone said.
"Hera once did that to kill Hercules," Marinette said.
"Yeah, she did. She was jealous" Persephone said.
"Jealousy can make a person look bad," Marinette said.
"I hear ya. My mother feared losing me when I was lured into the underworld. Hera was scared of losing Zeus to every mortal woman he mated with" Persephone said.
"I see" Marinette replied, "I hope Medusa's daughter doesn't go for my friends"
x
At an unknown location in Paris, the gorgon has already turned a victim to stone on purpose, "So sad. Athena will pay for cursing my mother and aunts! That was her biggest mistake to create a monster to endanger humanity!" Then she smashed another statue in a fit of rage.
A pigeon flew but looked at her gaze and got turned to stone. And shattered to the ground due to it flying midair.
"Those gods are pathetic cowards always afraid of mortals! Zeus is the biggest coward of them all!" The gorgon roared in anger along with her snake hair hissing.
Then she began plotting her next scheme, "I'm running out of time! These demigods are too strong!" She said.
