A/N: Added a drawling I did to the cover image area, what do you think? Can't draw but I enjoy it hah! I have 2 others hanging on my wall next to that one. Wooo! More follows and favs! Thanks guys! Leave a comment below! ;P

Chapter 7

"AHH!" Marinette falls out of bed with drool still hanging out at the corner of her mouth. She looks at Tikki with half lidded eyes. "Tikki, why…why in all things that are…" She starts to fall asleep and Tikki pokes her cheek… "you…why…wake up…me…" She slightly opens an eye and stares at the annoyance.

"Marinette, we need to move it! There's a new akuma!" She jumps out of bed, as if she's had a shot of espresso.

"Tikki, spots on!" She transforms and jumps to her balcony while thinking of Adrien. "Alright, I can do this! Adrien may not be able to come tonight due to some weird last minute thing his father roped him into…hope he does though…" She follows the commotion to the base of the Eiffel Tower. Why there's an attack at 3am is beyond her, normally they don't happen too much at night. She takes in the scene and frowns. There's a young man, probably around her age, floating a little above the ground, and what she assumes to be his parents sprawled out on the ground. She doesn't see anything that could have hurt them physically and assumes that he probably has some power to control the air around him.

He sees Ladybug and grins. "Ladybug…so nice to meet you in person. I don't want to hurt anyone…I just want to be free…free to get away from my so-called parents! They don't treat me right, they have a tight hold on me and I can't ever get away. Until now! Hawkmoth's insisting that I take your earrings with all means necessary…so please…just hand them over so I don't have to hurt you…" She can tell by the look in his eyes, that he really doesn't want to hurt her…she sees that he is scared, unsure, hurt, and untrusting, but there's no way she can just hand over her Miraculous.

"No way! I can tell you don't want to do this! Just let me get the akuma…" Hawkmoth's purple outline shows up on his face and threatens him to fight. He refuses and falls to the ground trying to fight off Hawkmoth.

"Ladybug…I…so much pain…I can't hold out for much longer…it feels like he's trying to pull me apart from the inside!"

"It's ok, I will save you no matter what. Just relax and do what you have to do…" He gives up his control to Hawkmoth's rage and is filled with hate. He chuckles and stands up.

"Ladybug! Glad you're here! You see my so-called parents here? Well, I'm going to finally stick up for myself…and end them!" He raises a hand above his head and faces his parents.

Ladybug jumps between them. "I don't think so! You'll have to get through me first!" He grins wickedly and drops his arm to his side, sending a blast of air towards her. 'Crap, there's no time! If I move his parents will be toast! There's only one thing I can do…' She takes a wide stance for balance, and crosses her arms in front of her face, to block the attack the best she can. It hits her full force and gets flown into the side of a nearby cement structure. She falls to the ground and coughs, briefly unable to breath due to her air literally getting knocked out of her. He laughs and walks closer to his parents. She gets up, slightly dizzy from the hit before and runs for the parents. She uses her Ladybug strength, and hauls them to a safe location.

He laughs. "Ladybug…really? You don't think I'll find them? I literally saw what direction you went. If you want to protect those evil people so bad, then I guess you'll just have to take their punishments for them!" She quickly pulls out her yoyo and he scoffs. "If you think that's going to help you, you've got another thing coming!" She flings her yoyo at him and it wraps around his body, he quickly releases a blast of air and she flies backwards, with the yoyo string flying out of her hand and staying wrapped around his body. He laughs.

"I warned you…" He sends her yoyo flying, and it lands on top of the Eiffel tower, hanging off the side.

She groans and faces him again. 'What am I going to do…I can't get close to him…and my yoyo is nowhere near me…I guess I need to get my yoyo and lucky charm…' She dashes to the yoyo, dodging and trying to be unpredictable to her movement so he can't take her down. She continues her way up the Eiffel Tower dodging and weaving his attacks. Finally, she reaches out to grab her yoyo but gets knocked out of the air. She can't reach anything, she isn't close enough to anything to grab on for safety. She braces herself and calculates a way to land with minimum damage. Unsure at this height, she just takes an educated guess, gets into position, and slams into the ground.

A/N: YAAAAAAAAS…I bask in the evilness of leaving this a cliffhanger. Bring on the comments! ^.^ 3 I'll make up for my evilness in the future bwahaha, comment in ways you would like me to make up for my evilness. ^.^