Hi everyone,
I want to thank once again everyone that reviews and I would like to hear your opinions on this chapter, it's a little different than those before.
Disclaimer: I don't own miraculous Ladybug
How to use their power to help Adrien? Volpina could create illusions and multiply. Queen Bee could heal physical wounds and make things swallow. Paona had telepathy and the ability to turn anything in a more elegant version of itself and thus usually weaker. Tortue created force fields and slowed people's motions. Ladybug and Chat Noir were out of range. He would manage without them.
The most logical curse of action was to get the bee miraculous, combine it with the peacock and heal Adrien's last wounds and talk to him threw the mist on his mind. But his father had hidden one of them so well he hadn't been able to find it in over a month. His next plan was to use the fox's piece of jewelry to create the illusion of what he wanted to see the most and bring it to life before him. This was a most realistic plan. He just had to face an old man.
Leaving Adrien alone in the hospital was hard for him even if he kept repeating himself that this was for his own good. It was desperate measure for desperate situation. So, he stopped going and used the information at hand. A couple of calls later, he had gathered that the guardian responded to the last name Foo and that he was everywhere and anywhere. It was better than nothing. He still wanted more and called her. The normal causalities were exchanged and then he went straight to the topic. "How do I find the guardian?". The other end went silent for a moment. She already knew what he wanted it for.
"As much as I hate saying this, create an absolute havoc in Paris. Once you have look out for an old man with Hawaiian shirt who will seem to need help. He only goes to certain areas to Paris so look for him near the center of the city. That is Master Fu." She answered.
"Can't you tell me where he lives? after the times you went there…." He countered. There was no time to waste.
"He moves constantly so we can't track him down. Remember he is naturally drown to our family so he might try to recruit you. If he does take the chance. Keep your enemies closer."
Felix couldn't believe the nerve of her. Think about the mission when his brother was at the hospital. He always convinced himself she cared more. Maybe he'd been wrong all along. Maybe she was just like her husband. The line went dead. Sometimes this was just too much for the young adult. Constantly clinging to shreds of hope was harder that it seemed. Yet he couldn't stop. He wouldn't stop. The timing wasn't right. Or so he pondered as he traveled the streets of Paris, wondering how to hurt this city even more. They were used to daily chaos.
Destroy the iconic parts of the city? Too hard for someone without powers. It happened too often too. A wave of disappearances? It would be difficult to hide so many people. Plus, he would have to choose his victims carefully and make sure they couldn't track it all back to him. He couldn't cause natural catastrophes either. Panic? His best option, but how to achieve it? Suddenly it came to him: the whole country was panicked with the terrorist attacks. If he combined it with hostages and kidnapping the problem was settled.
Problem was Ladybug ad her insufferable partner.
He figured he just had to be sneaky enough. After all they hadn't found Hauk Moth in over a year. The duo didn't look for the source, they were content with attacking the symptoms. Perhaps this wouldn't be so hard. He just had to start. With who? Where? It had to draw public. Jagged Stone was giving a concert tomorrow…
The training he had received in the past few years payed off as he snuck backstage as invisible as a shadow. He had carefully covered his face with the mask he had been keeping for his official mission. Oh well, it was supposed to help him, wasn't it? The weapon had been carefully assembled in the privacy of his room hours ago. A time bomb disguised as an amplifier. Perfect.
The rest was a piece of cake. He waited until it was the middle of the show and pressed the bottom. BOOM. Next thing the people knew was there was another explosion near every door, effectively blocking any way out. He had disactivated all the signals that could be used to ask for help. Everyone was screaming. Good. Make a man feel like a hundred. The chaos went on a little longer before he showed up. Everything went dead silent. The fear was refreshing. At least now he was doing something.
The first gun shot was directed to the roof, meant to cause more panic. Then the killing started. Of course, it was controlled; only a dozen of persons. It had never been his passion but he would do anything to help Adrien. Anything. He had time to spare before the superheroes even appeared so he inflicted minor wounds on others and gaged and tied them up. The police wouldn't find them in a while.
From afar he heard the sound of something cutting the air. Ladybug. This was finally starting. The stain of red and black entered through the rooftop but couldn't even land when a net feel over her. She screamed and Felix laughed. She was so pathetic. He would enjoy this. By the time she untangled herself, a couple of knifes flew her way piercing her shoulder and knee. The fight was won before it even begun. She throwed her yoyo and he made sure it would tangle with a column so if she tried to use it she would bring half of the place down. She was cornered. He got closer as if to take her miraculous and she had no other option than to flee. Stage one completed. If he hadn't been thinking of his brother he would be disappointed the mission hadn't end there and then.
He took the innocent teenagers with him and forced then into a black car. It was an hour drive to the outskirts of Paris where a ruined building with an ample basement awaited. No one had followed. He shoved his hostages in cages and left, calm as ever. Next morning, he would do a video in which he would show the faith of the hostages, maybe even embellish a little.
He didn't give time for the fear to subside for only a week later he struck again. He threw an asphyxiating gas at Notre Dame, killing over fifty persons. Of course, the little heroine showed herself with a gas mask, trying to save the civilians. She had even tried to bargain her earrings for him to stop. Cute, but he wasn't interested in her miraculous at the moment. The time for that would come. He didn't need good luck.
The attacks didn't relent and soon the wolf-like mask was everyone nightmare. Ladybug had failed and Chat Noir had abandoned them. The army had failed. They had no hope. It wasn't enough thought. Plus, Felix had to admit he was kind of liking the sensation of power. Maybe he really was like his parents. So, he planned his tenth attack. If he hit the mare in his weakest point and every other parent for that matter, every resource would be use and everyone would be weaker. On top of that, the polka doted heroine was about the same age as his victim. He would completely neutralize her. Kidnaping all the students in Paris was a little difficult but he stroked too fast for anyone to react fast enough. He didn't know which one of them was his enemy. He just felt bad for Chloe. He had known her his whole life and even thought she was a brat, he kind of liked her. Because Adrien liked her.
Paris was a pandemonium. Every parent was doing his best to get the kids back. It was even funny that they hadn't found his layout yet. But that wouldn't matter much longer. He had identified Foo. It wasn't hard: his kwami was really discreet. Now he just had to get his hands on the miraculous and it would all be over. And the youngest Agreste would be fine. It was all worth the trouble. Good thing was he had proved that the newest powers could be abolished with a good plan.
Following the master was harder than expected. He had a way of losing himself in the crowds that was starting to get on Felix's nerves. But eventually he managed. The apartment was empty most of the time, which allowed the perpetrator to investigate threw fully. He had to give it to the old man, he was god at hiding stuff. It took him a week to discover the inner mechanism in the record player. Bingo. He took the miraculous without an ounce of gilt. After all what good where they if Hauk Moth was unutilized.
He let go of the hostages and blend in with those who were partying in the street the return of their loved ones. Soon enough he would be part of them, he realized as he put on the magical jewels.