A/N: Hello Miraculuers. Here's another chapter. Gladly this one didn't take as long to get inspiration for, even though it is much longer. Enjoy!
As Tikki and Plagg finally reached Master Fu's house, they took a break on the perch of his window before gliding through. The two accidentally seemed to have walked into a healing session, so they snuck in and hid behind an oriental relic as they waited for the session to finish.
After the session concluded, the two kwamis revealed themselves, and Wayzz noticed first:
"Ah, Master?" the turtle spirit called to his holder while intently keeping his eyes on the his fellow kwami.
"Yes, Wayzz?" Master Fu inquired slowly turned his head. The man's eyes traced his kwami's sight over to the ladybug and the cat, and calmly smiled at them, noticing Plagg's color change. "Good evening Tikki and Plagg. What brings you here?"
"Um…" Plagg cringed worriedly.
"Well go ahead, he's your holder," Tikki nudged her nervous counterpart.
"So, my miraculousholderhasbeenakumatizedandhetransformed," the supposed-to-be black cat sputtered quickly holding off some coughs.
"Plagg! Come on!" Tikki raised her voice desperately.
"Don't worry, Tikki. I heard what he said," Master Fu sighed disappointedly. "Plagg, what caused your holder to be akumatized?"
"His father," the unlucky spirit sighed in shame. "His father scolded him harshly, giving Hawkmoth the opportunity to akumatize him," the spirit explained concisely.
"That's it?" Wayzz looked at Plagg suspiciously.
"And Hawkmoth know has become his 'new' father figure, and things actually seem to be going on well," Plagg tried to smile, but just ended up in a fit of coughing.
"That doesn't sound like 'well'," Master Fu stated. "But why did you continue to have your powers abused, might I ask Plagg?"
"Adrien's father…" the cat began hesitantly with a rasped.. "Adrien's father is Hawkmoth, and their relationship seems to be getting better."
"Plagg! Why have you let yourself and your holder get abused by Nooroo and your holder's own father! You know transforming while your holder is akumatized is very dangerous?!" Wayzz glared. "Within a second of you two seeking in, I could tell your power was nearly gone!"
"Like I said!" Plagg began to yell. "It is helping Adrien and his father's relationship with each other, and the comfort that his father has finally given to him is what my holder really needs!"
"Now you two, don't begin bickering!" Master Fu tried to run between the two spirits, but nearly fell. Gladly, Tikki and his cane caught him.
"Master Fu, could you simply heal me?" Plagg rasped with a sneeze at the end. "Adrien and I could stop Hawkmoth forever and get his Miraculous back if we do this right."
"Hmm," the old man began thinking. "I suppose, but I must ask if you can talk Nooroo, and make sure he is fine, since his powers are being quite abused as well."
Plagg saluted playful with a, "Yes sir," and Tikki helped Plagg over to the table where Master Fu placed his hands above him, and began healing the cat.
After a few minutes of waiting, Master Fu removed his hands from the air above the kwami, and stated solemnly, "You are better now, but do not let yourself be transformed."
"Thank you so much Master Fu!" Plagg cheered, zooming around the room, nearly knocking ancient artifacts over.
"Going to thank someone else?" the ladybug kwami raised her eyebrow quizzically at the cat.
"Thank you Tikki for helping me over, but I need to get back to Adrien!" the unlucky spirit said before zooming through the window towards the Agreste mansion. After reaching the Agreste mansion, Plagg dove through the door of Adrien's mini-fridge, and began stuffing his face with Camembert so he could make an excuse for why he is better without talking about Tikki or Master Fu, but to his surprise, Adrien didn't return for a while.
Tikki also rushed back to her house, so Marinette wouldn't notice her absence. As she carefully flew down through the vent and back under the bed, and dropped into a little box, faking sleep just in time before Marinette lifted the bed skirt to "wake her up."
"Tikki, time to wake up," the girl whispered.
The kwami seemingly woke up, and stretched with a yawn. "That was some good sleep," she smiled dazily at her holder.
"Well, it's time for patrol now, so Tikki, spots on!" The heroine transform, and climbed her way up the ladder onto her roof before swinging away to the Eiffel Tower.
Adrien, on the other hand, was already at the tourist sight, sitting on the ledge petting his tail as he waited for his lady to finally arrive. He perked up as he saw the bug swing across Paris towards him, and he smiled, wishing to tell her all about his day, but he was wise enough not to tell her his secret.
"Good evening my lady," he got up and bowed as she landed on the platform.
"Well, I see you're in a great mood today," she stated smugly.
"Well, I am in a great mood today. Good for you to notice, Bugaboo," he smirked, moving his face closer to hers.
Ladybug immediately pressed his face away, sternly saying, "No time to flirt tonight, Cat Noir. We have some problem solving to do."
"And what is that?" the cat raised an eyebrow.
"We need to figure out the cause of an akuma returning, and why some of the akuma's moth outlines are green instead of purple.
"Hawkmoth Jr.," Volpina stated.
"Ah! Not right now!" the anti-hero turned around and paced away from Ladybug who gladly couldn't see his outline from behind his hair.
"What?! Cat Noir?" the girl exclaimed, trudging over to him authoritatively.
"Ah! Sorry Ladybug!" the boy cringed playfully. "My kwami is complaining about wanting more cheese," he lied.
"What? Your kwami can talk to while you're transformed," she inquired doubtfully.
"Yeah, it's a special ability which only my kwami has!" he explained.
"Fine," the polka-dotted teen sighed. "But let's get down to business."
The two sat down, and Ladybug pulled out her yo-yo, and slid it open so she could pull up the images of the two different outlines on the Bubbler.
"Wow. I didn't notice that," the villain in disguise gasped seriously.
"Do you have any ideas how this happened?" she asked.
The cat paused for a moment, and thought of ways to distract her from the truth. "Maybe it was a trick of the light?" he offered.
"That's what I thought at first, but I have never seen this in the past, as well as a returning akuma, and such a strangely colored butterfly.
"I don't know," the model shrugged.
"Well, try to come up with something by tomorrow, so we can solve this before anything dangerous possibly happens.
"Of course, little lady," he smirked stepping right in front of her, and flaunting his height over her.
She rolled her eyes and sighed, relaxing her mind after hours of making lists. "So kitty, what made your day so good?" she smiled amusedly, walking over and leaning against a beam, Cat Noir following suit.
"Well, after school and the akuma attack, my dad as I went out for dinner, which is a rarity," Adrien grinned to himself, muddling all of the story.
"Really, well that sounded like it was fun," his partner smiled back.
"But, do you know what would make my day even better," the blonde grinned cheekily. "Revealing our identities to each other!"
"Cat, you know we can't do that, or our Miraculous may be compromised, and who knows what Hawkmoth will do when he gets our Miraculous!" Ladybug reminded him.
"But what's the chance he'll get our Miraculous?! He fails every time we battle him!" he argued.
"Cat, I must end this conversation. Only when we get in real danger will I let us reveal to each other," she shook her head disappointedly. She swung away, exhausted from the day, leaving Cat Noir to sighed sadly, his throat choking up, and tears nearly falling from his eyes.
"Hawkmoth Jr., I'm so sorry for the lady troubles. Why not you come over to my lair, and we can talk about it," Hawkmoth offered comfortingly.
"Okay," the young villain pouted. He disappeared, and reappeared in Hawkmoth's lair full of butterflies. There were two chairs in the middle of them: one which was empty, and the other with the formally dress supervillain.
"Welcome back, my son," Hawkmoth greeted warmly.
"Thank you," the boy sniffled.
"Come over here," the man suggested, waving his arm to the other chair. Adrien nodded, and made his way over to the seat.
"So, what's wrong?" the adult asked sympathetically.
"Well, I thought it was obvious," the teen sniffled again, falling into the wooden chair. "My ladybug always refuses to share her identity with me, but I just want to be able to be there for her more."
"Well, I understand," the father frowned in remembrance.
"Really?" the child question curiously.
"Yes. My wife and I had the same issue. She and I were on a superhero team together, with a few others of course, but for me, she was the most important one of all. She and I lead the team in the fight against the old Ladybug and Cat Noir, and she was so confident, beautiful, everything, and I fell hard for her. Of course, at one point in one of the battles against the pair, her Miraculous accidentally ran out in front of me, and she turned out to be a girl I knew all through school, and so after I revealed myself to her, and I just happened to be the person she was crushing on as well, so I married her, but I lost her in the final battle against the two villains, since she ended up getting Ladybug's miraculous, so Cat Noir sought revenge on her, and used his Cataclysm on her. Gladly, I was able to get his ring, which Master Fu could used alongside Ladybug's earrings to fix everything, and wipe the world's memory of the suffering, but of course, the one thing that didn't return was my wife."
Hawkmoth was in tears after the story, and Adrien's tears were dried.
"That's so sad," the boy gasped. "I'm so sorry."
"Thank you," the villain smiled faintly.
"No problem," the son smiled back. "Well, I hope we'll be able to bring her back as well as my mother."
"That's what I hope too," Gabriel continued smiling, before getting up, giving his son a hug, and saying goodnight.
The two teleported back to the Agreste mansion, and went to bed, preparing for a good day tomorrow.
A/N: I hoped you enjoyed the chapter! I don't know Hawkmoth's monologue was too much, but it seemed fitting. If you have any thoughts or comments, but them in the reviews!