Man, this is a tough chapter to write! Hope you like it!
Disclaimer: I do not own Miraculous Ladybug. I own only my OCs for the purpose of this FanFiction.
"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."
C.S. Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narina
Adrien listened to Ms. Bustier's lessons but his mind wondered to his backpack every few minutes, questions running through his minds. When break came, Adrien spent it hiding in the boys' locker room, staring down at his open backpack, filled to the brim with small chests.
"Wow..."
"Almost every Miraculous is here." Plagg said, floating over the bag, instantly recognising who of his kwami friends was present and dormant. "There's the master's Miraculous, Wayzz is here. And the Peacock Miraculous. No more Mayura! He gave you the whole she-bang!"
"But…why? Why me? I'm just the sidekick. Ladybug is the one who knows him. I need to talk to Ladybug about this...But she won't listen! She's too bullheaded! She'll wrestle them away from me!"
Plagg chortled. "She would."
Adrien continued to panic over the fact that Master Fu gave him those boxes containing the sacred charms. "But why me? Why didn't he give these to Ladybug?"
"Maybe he couldn't find her and you're the closest he can get. You saw how desperate he was. I never seen Master so stressed. He always looks so relaxed in a wide way. If it was me, I would give you my lifetime supply of Camembert cheese for safekeeping if I was in danger and you're the first friend around."
"You don't have a lifetime supply of Camembert cheese."
Plagg looked at him, hosing an uncharacteristically wise aura. "Look, Kid, I don't know why he did this. But the thing is that he picked you. Even if it's by accident. He has given you a responsibility. Now the question is…what does he want you to do with them?"
Adrien fell quiet, calming down thanks to his Kwami. He thought hard on the last question. What does Master Fu wanted him to do with the Miraculous?
"No time to explain! Go find your friends and return the Fox, Turtle and Bee Miraculous to them. Paris needs them again and more."
He said Paris needs Rena Rouge, Carapace and Queen Bee and more. Does that mean more heroes?
Given the dire situation with the endless Akumas, despite Ladybug's refusal to believe it, they need extra help.
Permanent help.
"Paris needs them again and more."
"Well, it seems that he agrees with me. Ladybug will kill me for this."
He sent a quick text to Chloé to meet up with at school at lunchtime, stating it was very important to talk, and then he stood up, scooping up his bag, Plagg nestled in his shirt pocket and walked off to find Alya and Nino.
Ms. Bustier's class was gloomier than ever. The atmosphere was much worse with the definite knowing that was no kind girl to help them in their time of need, gentle soul to guide them, no everyday Ladybug to make things better.
No one brave enough to save them.
It was fortunate that they were not akumatized yet. Hawkmoth was obliviously busy at the moment.
"Aw, man..." Juleka moaned as a big tear ripped on her leggings when she rose from her seat. "Those were my favourite pair."
She hung her head down, her bangs covering her whole face, sadly realising Marinette, who always had a sewing pack on her and seems up tears, wasn't here to repair her clothing.
"You're going down, Kubdel!"
"Yeah right, Lê Chiến!"
"The first one to stop racing around the school loses!"
"Deal!"
Alix and Kim shook hands as they declared their newest bet, staring each other in the eye. Then Alix pulled out something and all the excitement dwindled to zero.
"What in Donkey Kong is that?" Kim gawked out.
"It's the banner I made for our race today!"
Alix was a good artist with a spray can, but the victory banner was just horrible.
"That's the best you could do? It looks like a jellybean baby puked on it."
"You know I can't draw unless it's street art! And no one will make us one anyway!"
"Except for…" Kim drew off, casting a guilty look.
"…Marinette." Alix finished sadly as well.
They both hung their heads down, no helpful designer to create a better victory poster for them.
Then Kim cringed and hugged himself, his stomach growling loudly.
"Oh…I'm so starving."
"Forgot your lunch again?"
"Yeah."
"Can't go to the bakery?"
"Yeah. Oh man…"
Max stared down at the video game he held in his hands. He designed it himself but absolutely no one will try it out. The best gamer he knew was not there to test it out for him.
Nathaniel's pen repeatedly tapped the blank paper of his sketchbook, stuck in an artist's block, unable to draw for his next comic. Oddly enough, the perfect model for Ladybug was gone from his sight and fading from his memory.
Chloe was absent today but on any day she was present, she would rant that Marinette as the only one who would fight back and reminded everyone she was gone because they sided with Lila so willingly.
Sabrina sat alone and aimless without Chloe, feeling lonelier today without Marinette making her feel acknowledged with a sweet greeting.
Rose sniffed, silently crying, as she gazed at a photo on her phone, taken from one of the days Marinette was still here, Juleka was safe at her side and Lila hadn't arrived yet. The blonde girl felt so upset at herself for idiotically believing that bully, almost losing her best friend and definitely lost her dearest friend in the progress.
Mylene was crying too. Her large boyfriend wrapped his arms around her shaking form.
"I miss her so much." She whispered through her tears.
Ivan said nothing and held her close. Ladybug brought them together but for some reason, Marinette held the glue. Without her, things become to break apart.
In a part of the school yard, Alya argued heatedly with Alix who came her way.
"Alya, the new training schedule for the lacrosse team has to be done."
"It's your team! Why can't they do it?"
"We need the class rep to look over our times and make up a new schedule. We can play whenever we want but you have to plan it out!"
"I'm already organising three club meetings which I am not a part of, two bake sales when I can't even cook and a class trip to the Musée de la Vie Romantique! Don't you think I'm busy enough already? Look, it's not that hard! Talk with your teammates and pick the times together when it suits you!"
"I have no time!"
"You have plenty of time! I have none!"
"This needs to be done this week!"
"I have enough on my plate right now! Can't you do it yourself?"
"Alya, you're just being lazy. You're the class rep. You have to oversee everything. The teachers are too old to understand. Lila didn't even glance at our roster. Because of her, it was left to the last minute and me and my buddies have to run around like chickens in anxiety. Marinette always did the work and she had a workload bigger than us combined."
A snap happened in Alya, becoming sick and tired of having to listen to her classmates' demands and mentioning Marinette added fuel to the blazing fire within her.
"Well, I'm not Mari, she's not there, I'm fully aware of that so go and do it yourself!"
Alix huffed and walked away in anger.
"Babe, it is your job. You can't just blow her off like that." Nino told her gently. He was depressed of losing a friend, but he was hiding it to calm down his stressed-out girlfriend.
Alya heaved out a heavy outtake of air she wasn't aware of holding, sagging over to match. "I'm sorry, Nino, but man, I'm swamped! Everyone is just piling on me to do everything! And not just school. There's running my blog, clearing my name after Lulu smeared it, babysit my sisters, and do my homework in one day! I don't know how Mari put up with this." She glanced to her phone and growled. "Why is she not taking my texts and calls?"
"Some people take longer to forgive, babe, even for someone like Mari. This betrayal cut her deep. Honestly, I'll be worried if she forgives you right away because it means that she's hiding her true feelings behind a smile. Don't push on her to forgive so fast. The best option is to wait, avoid adding salt to the wound."
"But I said I'm sorry a hundred times!"
"Just give her time and leave her alone."
"Alone with that stuck up hideaway of a learning institution with that British Chloé knock-off?"
"Hey, Vanessa is a genuine, brave soul who uses her influences for good!" Juleka shouted as she walked by.
"I like it better when she was shy and quiet." Alya grumbled.
"Before she met 'the British Chloé knock-off'?" Nino asked.
"...yeah."
"Love can give the mute the power to speak out, babe."
A faint shuffle alerted their ears. The couple turned around and immediately found Adrien crawling on the floor, his hands clutching small brown boxes about to settle in their backpacks. Adrien froze, caught in the act.
"Bro, what are you doing?"
"…nothing."
"What are those in your hands?"
"Nothing!"
But Alya snatched up the boxes in a blink of an eye, the knowing grin taking up her whole face.
"I know this box! This is the same box Ladybug gave me containing the fox-"
She stopped herself and turned to Nino, still grinning. He slowly pulled up a smile of astonishment. Alya giggled like her sisters as she gave one box to her boyfriend and laid her hand on the lid, just about to lift it...
"NO!"
Adrien jumped up, hands out, successfully stopping the couple from doing so.
He groaned in defeat. "Wait until lunch. I'll tell you everything."
"...ok."
"...sure, bro."
The bell rang and the kids had no choice but get to class.
Lunchtime came too slow for the three. When the time finally came, the three kids were left alone in the classroom and Alya quizzed Adrien.
"You know something, don't you? You have one too? Did Ladybug give you one as well?"
"I'm not telling you anything until Chloé shows up."
"What's taking her so long?" Nino asked.
"Probably doing her ten layers of makeup or yelling at some poor soul." Alya quipped.
"Will you calm down!?"
The door swung open and a purple little flash bounced in, squealing and giggling so familiar to the kids.
"Manon?" Alya questioned.
"Alya! Adrien!"
The girl named Manon hopped around Alya, Nino and Adrien with a bright smile. Just after her, Chloe finally arrived, her pout on but her appearance totally disheveled, her hair and clothes and makeup messed up.
"Chloé, you look terrible." Alya said bluntly.
Chloe glared at her and then yawned. "I would insult you back if I wasn't so tired."
"What happened to you?"
"SHE happened!" Chloé pointed at Manon who was hugging Adrien on his legs. "Her mom called my daddy and convinced him to appoint me as Manon's new babysitter since Marinette is no longer available after going to Olympe so I'm stuck with her for the whole day and for the rest of my life so this is all your fault!"
The kids felt the stinging mention of Marinette and Olympe, the reason she left in the first place as Chloe continued to rant on, doing air quotes with her fingers.
"At least I'm getting paid for this. Daddy said this will teach me to be responsible and understand the value of the dollar."
"LION KING! LION KING! LION KING! LION KING!" Manon hollered, jumping up and down.
"Why doesn't her mother just hire a nanny or put her in daycare?" Nino suggested.
"She said she doesn't trust nannies. She seems to prefer the teenage daughters of people she knew and trusted. More like she wants a cheaper sitter."
"Chloé!" Sabrina appeared at the door, happy to see her leader.
Chloe sighed out of relief and grabbed the energetic child by the arms. "Okay, Manon," She said as sweetly as she can without hinting her obvious irritation, gently leading the little girl to Sabrina. "My good friend Sabrina is gonna watch over you for a while, I-"
Manon shrugged out of Chloe's hands and pouted up at her. "Mommy and the mayor said you're not allowed to make your friend watch me! I'll tell 'em what you did, and you'll get in super-duper biggy-bigger trouble!"
Chloe grind her teeth, snarling low in her throat. But she took a deep breath, desperately trying to calm herself. "I have to talk to Adrien. It's just be only for a few minutes. A few minutes. I'll be back!"
"Come on, come with me." Sabrina led Manon out of the classroom with little to no trouble at all.
Chloe shut the door, collapsing against the frame with a gasp.
"I am so grateful I am an only child!"
Alya chuckled. "Now you know how I feel with my little sisters."
"Chris is nothing like that, he's cool as a cucumber." Nino noted, almost proud of the comparison.
Chloe stood up straight, her nose held high. "Just don't dump your little rugrats on me like you did with Marinette. I am not a pushover like her, I know my rights and I will say no."
Alya shook her fist at the blonde, snarling in anger. "Shut up about Marinette, or so help me, I'll-"
"ENOUGH!"
Adrien interrupted them. The sudden firm tone in his usually polite voice stopped the girls from brawling. "OK...so, I called you all in here to give you answers."
"Like, how do you know?" Alya demanded.
Chloe was genuinely puzzled. "Know what? What's going on, why do you need me here?"
"To give you this."
Adrien handed a box to Chloe, the blonde gingerly took it and stared at the red oriental design on the dark brown wooden surface.
"Wait a minute. I'd seen this before…"
Chloé lifted the lid and yellow sparkles burst out, followed by a bright yellow light, dancing around Chloé like Tinkerbell until it stopped, and its glow died down, revealing a small bee smiling at her.
A great expression of childlike happiness and joy overtook Chloe's tired face. "Pollen! I missed you!"
"I miss you too, my queen." Pollen said, floating over to red against Chloé's bade cheek.
Chloé put her hands around Pollen gently, overwhelmed with happiness and comfort after a difficult day and month.
Alya and Nino followed suit in opening the boxes and out manifested two Kwamis they saw before.
"Trixx!"
"Alya!"
The fox jumped into the girl's open hand and nuzzled her face in giddy delight.
"Master Nino..."
"Hey, little dude!"
Nino and Wayzz performed a special handshake. Well, the Kwami bounced rhythmically against the boy's larger hand.
"So, man, how do you know?" Nino questioned Adrien.
"Wait, he knows? You know about me?" Chloé asked her old friend.
"Chloé, all of Paris knows you're Queen Bee." Alya remarked.
"I meant he knows what Pollen is!"
"I wanted to give you them secretly but Nino and Alya found me out." Adrien said.
"You're not at all sneaky." Nino quipped.
"That's ironic because I am the notorious Chat Noir." Adrien said with a smirk, doing a swagger exactly as his other half would do.
Alya, Nino and Chloe stared at him, stunned.
Then Alya shouted. "Prove it!"
"...excuse me?"
"Prove it!"
Nino tried to reason with her. "Alya! You don't lie about that! He knows our little god dudes!"
"Lila tricked me once, I'm not gonna let anyone else take advantage of me again! So, show me solid proof!"
Almost instantly, Plagg flew out of Adrien's shirt. "What's up?"
"Plagg!" Trixx, Wayzz and Pollen squealed, flying around with their old friend.
Adrien smirked. "Believe me now?"
"Wow! My best friend is Chat Noir!" Nino exclaimed, then he closed his lips tightly.
"Oh my God!" Chloe squealed.
Alya, however, was silent. For the past year since Ladybug and Chat Noir appeared, she desperately wanted to know their secret identities. But now, with one of those desired secrets revealed, she was speechless.
Wayzz float away from his fellow kwamis to hover in front of Adrien's face.
"Master agreed with you, Adrien." Wayzz said calmly.
"Master?" Nino asked.
"He was the one who gave Ladybug and Chat Noir their Miraculouses. And now he has given Adrien the remaining Miraculous to others. He too understood the problems of the endless akumas overwhelming you and Ladybug. I assume he would give them to Ladybug, but given the dire seriosity of the situation, he found you."
"Like I said, kid, this is your responsibility." Plagg added in.
Adrien clenched his jaw, his face placing in a serious look. "Guys, the Akumas are getting worse. Ladybug and I spent almost every second of every day fighting them."
"That's why you're always gone most of the time and coming back tired." Nino realised. "I thought your dad was overworking you again."
"No, he's still in his office. Anyways, the akumas are getting worse. We can't handle them any longer. We need backup."
Now Alya got excited. "Now I'm getting fired up!"
"Queen Bee is back!" Chloé squealed, unable to control her excitement.
Nino made a salute. "We're here for you, man."
Despite the help his friends were generously offering, Adrien frowned. "Three is not enough. We need to use the rest of the Miraculous."
"Like make an army?" Chloé asked.
"How many are there?" Alya questioned.
Adrien searched through his bag, counting the boxes. "One, two, three, four...
Ten, eleven, twelve...thirteen!"
"Should we wait until we can talk to Lad-" Chloé was suggesting before Adrien cut her off.
"We cannot wait for Ladybug anymore, we have to act fast now!"
Alya dropped her excitement like a rock once she vividly remembers how furious the Parisian heroine was with her for believing Lila and basically fired her from being Rena Rouge.
"How many times do I have to tell you? I will not tell you my secret identity and I never will. Too many times you ask me this, I don't want to hear another word of it."
"I am Ladybug, defender of Paris! That's all you and everyone else needs to know. I care about the city of Paris, not my next FaceBook post! Ask yourself, why does a superhero keep their citizen identity secret? Read a comic or watch a movie, look around your room!"
"Superheroes keep their secret identities secret because they don't want to be hounded by bloodthirsty reporters or their loved ones held hostages by their greatest enemy. They'll be condemned to live a life in endless scrutiny. How can a hero work under that?"
"And most heroes don't. Your thick brain doesn't get from right and wrong if it was your hands. You know nothing of being a superhero."
"Clearly that wasn't enough! Would you endanger your family for 5 minutes of fame?"
"Hawkmoth is more dangerous than you think. I only protect Paris. I don't fraternize with civilians for good reason. For their safety."
"Why would I tell her my identity? She's not even my friend."
"No, she's not. That video you posted a while back, was nothing but a loudmouth blabbing 10 minutes live of being 'my best friend'. You posted that nonsense without checking with me just for the sake of posting something."
"Obviously you do. You're more than happy to post fake news so I don't bother correcting you since you don't listen!"
"On who's authority?"
"That's it? The word of a teenage girl? Here's the truth: I first met Lila when she was akumatized into Volpina after you posted that video. She doesn't know who I am, she only wanted to be on live camera to flaunt."
"Why, 'cause it doesn't sound good? It doesn't have excitement? Danger? No consequences? This is real life, real people get hurt! Not only was you and she did is dangerous, it was stupid! Do you really think I'll let my 'best friend' to tell other people, give interviews to hundreds of people, and become potential hostages with the promise of my identity! WRONG! She's lying! She has no proof what so ever! Even Hawkmoth knows she's fake! The truth is hard but simple. A lie is always fabricated. You only need to look at a lie in the eye and watch it fall apart. So, tell me. Has Lila ever looked you in the eye?"
"Don't come crying to me when Lila said she's Rena Rouge."
"I hate liars. I only lie to protect others from my duties as a superhero. It's a burden I carry to protect you. I thought you're trustworthy, honest, actually care about justice and your family in danger. Guess I was wrong. I should've handled Sapotis on my own."
"From now on, no more exclusive interviews with you. I'll only talk to professional reporters from now on who wants to know how to help and where to find Hawkmoth. I can't trust you as an ally anymore. You're not a reporter, you're a jackal. Hardly a fox. Now that's my final world. Goodbye."
"Does Ladybug know about this?" Alya asked.
And like paint meeting water, the colours of Adrien's cool face washed away to a pale frightened shade. "Uh..."
Alya saw the truth right through him. "She doesn't know? She's your goddamn partner!"
"I thought Wayzz implied that! I only got the miraculouses this morning!"
"She's gonna murder me when she sees me as Rena Rouge!"
"Tough luck, it's Chat Noir's call now." Chloé said, defending her oldest friend. Right now, her idol was the least of her worries.
"So, dude, how do we find new heroes?" Nino inquired.
"We need to work fast." Adrien stressed.
"We understand, dude!"
"Do we make a list?" Chloé suggested.
"We don't have time to go through the whole city for candidates! An Akuma can appear at any second!" Alya shouted. She knew how bad the new akumas were from her blog and now, with Adrien/Chat Noir, she realised how serious the situation was.
"We need heroes we can trust." Adrien said. "People we knew, people we trusted, people we can access to, people we can give and take the miraculouses..."
In less than 5 seconds, the four kids (and their four kwamis) were standing build a railing overlooking the courtyard, all of their friends in their view.
"First, we need pick a Miraculous and find the person best suited for it before the end of lunch." Adrien commanded.
Chloé whipped her head around to see Lila stacking boxes under the watchful eye of Ms. Mendeleiev.
"Not Lila! No way! Anyone but her!"
"I wouldn't give her a Miraculous if she was the last girl left on Earth and Hawkmoth took over." Adrien stated.
"Yeah, right! She would be working with him."
Adrien held up one of the boxes, a smile beaming. "The Mouse Miraculous will be perfect for Marinette!"
His mind drifted into a pink mist, visualising himself as Chat Noir, down on one knee, offering the box to Marinette, almost as if he's proposing to her.
Marinette gasped, a delightful smile stretched on her face. But when she opened her mouth, Nino's voice came out.
"Uh, dude, she lives in a strict boarding school halfway across the city in close quarters with other girls and she doesn't trust nor forgive any of us so you can't get close to her anyway."
"Oh." Adrien slumped, rushing back to reality.
"Juleka will make a better Mouse." Alya suggested as she pointed to Juleka kneeling to look sadly at her torn leggings.
"No, Mylene will!" Chloé protested, the two girls getting into a heated discussion.
"Juleka is shy like a mouse. She can literally creep up behind you and take you by surprise!"
"But she became more vocal since she fell for Vanessa."
Alya growled as Chloé argued her idea, frantically waving. Down below, Mylene was curled up against her boyfriend, dwarfing herself.
"Mylene is quiet, yes, and kinda of a coward. But with confidence, she would be tougher than her personal bodyguard."
"...I guess you're right." Alya said in defeat and Chloé grinned in triumph.
"The Tiger Miraculous will go to Juleka since she can be loud and fierce." Adrien said. He noticed Rose looking at her phone while sitting on a bench. "What about Rose? She's sweet but very naive."
"So naive to idolise Lila that she didn't even ask Prince Ali if he knew her or not." Chloe reminded.
"She just needs a serious reality check like being a superhero will give her." Nino advised.
"A girl named after a flower who loves pink will go great with Daizzi!" Pollen suggested.
"Yes!" Plagg, Trixx and Wayzz chorused in agreement.
"Rose and the Pig Miraculous it is." Adrien determined.
"Yay!" Chloe and Pollen cheered, the Kwami bumping her head against the girl's open palm as a high-five.
Then Nino spotted Alix who was fuming from Alya blowing her off. "What about Alix? Snake, dragon, wolf?"
"If you're talking about speed, then I might suggest..." Plagg dug into the bag and took out a box. "Fluff!"
"Fluff?" Alya questioned. "That sounds like my little sisters would name the bunnies at the zoo."
"Exactly!" Trixx piped up. "The Rabbit Miraculous!"
"Alix? A bunny rabbit?"
"Bunny rabbits are not just cute. Rabbits are portrayed as tricksters, being fast and cunning. Have you heard of Watership Down?" Adrien said.
"Is that a band?" Nino asked.
"No, it's a British-"
"Don't mention the word 'British' to me or any related to our next-door neighbour!" Alya shouted.
"...it's a book about a warren of rabbits who go through dangers from all around in a violent world to find a new home after their old home was destroyed by man."
Alya nodded. "That sounds like right up Alix's alley."
"Great!" Adrien grinned and spotted Ivan still hugging Mylene. "What about Ivan?"
"He's strong, silent, intimating..." Alya listed.
"Protective." Nino added.
"Scary." Chloé said.
"Definitely strong." Adrien conformed.
Wayzz floated up. "May I suggest granting this young man the Ox Miraculous?"
"Ivan for the Ox!" Nino conformed for Adrien.
Adrien shrugged. "Fine by me."
"Next is..." Trixx dug into the bag and took out another box. "Barkk!"
"The Dog Miraculous." Pollen stated.
"If we're talking dogs, then Sabrina is perfect for the job." Chloe decided there and then, her manicured finger pointing directly at Sabrina running down the stairs after Manon who was sliding down the barrister. "Sabrina is the most loyal person I know. You give her one task and she'll do it."
"Funny, she does't look like she'll help anyone." Alya snubbed. "She's not Marinette."
"Well, she listens only to me! Give her a Miraculous and she'll learn to help others on her own account."
"Im not gonna argue with you, Chloe, you made a valid point." Adrien complimented. "Sabrina gets the Dog."
Chloe squealed. "Yay! Thats two for me!"
Then all eyes cast on Kim doing jumping jacks. They pondered over his qualities and what animal suited him.
Plagg and Trixx held two boxes up.
"Rooster or Monkey?" Plagg asked.
"He's more of a monkey."
"Told ya!" Trixx said proudly.
"While he's strong, he's such a showoff and goofy when he's trying to come off as serious."
"Then who's getting the Rooster?" Plagg asked again.
Everyone automatically drew their eyes to Nathaniel, repeatedly drawing a single circle on his sketchbook.
"Nathaniel." Adrien answered for everyone.
"Because he has red hair?" Alya asked.
"Partly. And because he shy, but needs the chance to shine."
"Plus, he has red hair brighter than Orikko's head feathers." Trixx added.
Just then, Nathaniel lifted his head back when Marc strolled past him. The black-haired genderfluid teen held his hand up as he walked by.
"What about Marc?" Nino asked.
Adrien squinted his eyes. Marc was always shy with other people, but lately it had gotten worse to the point he doesn't even come to art club and hardly acknowledged his crush's existence anymore. There was no Marinette to guide him.
"Marc is sweet and quiet but extremely stubborn and he's way tougher than he looks." Adrien trailed off in a lulling daydream of someone else who was sweet yet stubborn. "Just like Marinette..."
Chloé slapped him on his arm, snapping him out of it. "Stay on track, lover boy!"
"Ow!" Adrien whined.
"He sounds like the perfect Goat." Plagg said.
"Next!" Trixx blurted.
In a corner, Max was looking at his video game.
"What about Kaalki for four-eyes?" Plagg questioned.
"The Horse Miraculous." Pollen added.
"Well, he's smart." Nino mused. "Really smart."
"He's always calculated the odds and looks before he leaps." Adrien said, sounding impressed.
"Alrighty, Max is in." Alya said for Adrien.
"Next is the Dragon Miraculous." Wayzz said, holding up a box.
At once, Adrien darted his gaze to Kagami practicing her fencing skills by swiping her
"Kagami is absolutely perfect for The Dragon Miraculous, no question about it." He stated firmly.
"Oh, because she's a born and raised Japanese native with a fierce spirit that cannot be tamed!" Nino exclaimed dramatically.
"...She said she likes dragons." Adrien merely explained.
"Oh. Right, dude."
"And last but not least...the Snake Miraculous." Plagg raised up the last tiny box.
"Who's the lucky one left?" Trixx asked.
"Oh! Luka!" Alya pointed to Luka playing his guitar, sitting crossed legged on the ground. "He's so cool! Cool, I mean, as in collected, smooth, even slick. He's perfect!"
Adrien pouted. He wasn't so sure about adding Luka in the group and giving him the Snake Miraculous. Dancing Lukas and Marinette circled around his head, inflicting his mind, driving him mad!
"Dude, your face is matching your eyes." Nino remarked.
Adrien gulped. And then he sighed. "Fine. Luka gets the Snake."
"Well, that's everyone with every Miraculous we have." Nino said.
Alya jumped in, bustling with excitement, "We have 10 minutes last, we should tell them before lunch-"
"Hold on!"
The kids turned to their kwamis. Plagg was holding another box in his tiny little hands.
"What do we do with the Peacock?" Trixx asked.
"The Peacock was Hawkmoth's right-hand man." Alya said.
"Well…" Adrien was saying right before he was rudely interrupted.
"YAY!"
The kwamis quickly hid in Adrien's backpack when Manon came running, Plagg letting go of the Peacock Miraculous in mid-air.
Unfortunately, Manon snatched the last box before it fell into the bag.
"Gimme!"
"Hey, give that back!" Chloe shouted. "I'm so sorry Chloe, she's too fast!" Sabrina exclaimed, arriving at the last minute.
Manon flipped the lid open and cooed at the bird-styled brooch nestled on black velvet.
"Oh, a pretty blue badge!" She cooed.
"It's a brooch!" Chloe snapped.
A bright blue glow emerged from box, near blinding Manon and Sabrina present. The glow died down, revealing Duusu floating in the midair, eyes closed and head down.
"Oh my gosh…" Sabrina breathed, astounded at what she had witnessed.
Duusu slowly raised his head and his eyes blinked, finding himself not in Master Fu's home, but in an unfamiliar place with brick walls and children looking at him amazed. A little girl stared at him, her eyes the colour of crisp golden leaves in autumn widening to saucers. She gasped and then squealed.
"You're pretty! Pretty bird!"
Duusu stared back at her. And then a smile grew big on his little face.
"And you're so cute!"
He darted to her, nuzzling against her cheek and Manon giggled. The scene was too cute.
Adrien chuckled. "Looks like Manon is the new Peacock Miraculous holder."
"Oh no!" Chloé whined. "Now I have to babysit her as a superhero!"
"I have a pet peacock, like the ones in the Lion King!" Manon cried.
"There are no peacocks in the Lion King! Its set in Africa! Peacocks live in India!" Chloé argued.
"There are! In the first song! Pink ones!"
"Those are flamingos!"
"Enough!" Adrien exclaimed, catching everyone's full attention. "We better go now while there's still time. Alya, you get everyone to the art room. Sabrina, come with us."
He grasped Sabrina's hand, the girl too shocked to protest.
"OK…"
Sabrina let herself to be led away with her classmates, her best friend, her best friend's energetic ward and the ward's magical bird while Alya headed down the stairs, jogging over to Max. As quick as a blink of the eye, Alya got to everyone and made them go to the art room for a class meeting.
Everyone but Lila.
"And where do you think you're going?"
Lila halted her creeping. She looked over her shoulder to Ms. Mendeleiev. "I'm part of that class. I need to join them."
"Alya said she will brief you afterwards. Now, come along. The cafeteria needs cleaning."
Lila grumbled.
Apart from Lila, every kid in Ms. Bustier's class was in the art room with the expectation of Marc, Luka and Kagami.
"So, why are we gonna talk about? Why are we here?" Alix asked out of the blue.
"How should I know? Alya told me to come here for a meeting." Kim retorted.
"Alya will tell us." Rose assured her friends quietly.
Sabrina stayed quiet as was Adrien, Nino, and Alya. Chloe was trying to contain such a hyperactive child, keeping a hand on her mouth to keep her from talking.
"Don't you dare tell everyone! Wait until Adrien does!"
"So, are you finally gonna write up the new training schedule?" Alix asked Alya in a feisty tone.
Alya narrowed her eyes. "This is much more important than an afterschool sports team schedule."
Just then, Adrien rose, his presence silencing everyone.
"Thanks for coming. I brought you because-"
Chloé screamed, wrenching her hand from Manon's giggling mouth.
"She licked me and bit me!" Chloe screeched.
Manon jumped off her lap and dashed over to the opposite side to show off her Miraculous.
"I have a pretty brooch and a pretty birdie!"
"Manon!"
Luckily, Duusu was hiding in her pocket, refusing to come out just yet.
"That's nice." Mylene complimented.
Chloe grabbed Manon and hoisted her back to her seat. "Manon, shut up and let Adrien tell everyone first!"
"Now as I was saying, I brought you all in here because…because uh…" Adrien was beginning to lose his confidence and got tongue-tied.
"Come on, dude." Nino whispered gently. "Out with it."
"Just say what you told us." Alya added.
Chloe and Sabrina leaned in to listen, despite Manon's squirming. The others waited for his words, waiting for him to say what he wanted.
Running short on patience, Plagg floated out.
"You have been chosen to obtain several Miraculous and become superheroes of Paris along Ladybug and my kitten."
"Plagg!"
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"AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"Oh, mon dieu!"
"What the Hell is that thing?"
Apart from the current Miraculous holders, Sabrina and Manon, the kids either screamed or gasped at the sight of the small black cat-like kwami hovering in the middle of the art club.
"ALIENS!" Kim shrieked.
"We are not aliens!" Trixx retorted, flying out of Alya's shirt.
"MORE ALIENS!" Max shrieked.
"Nekomata!" Kagami cried.
"This is not going well." Wayzz deemed, shaking his little head.
"Certainly looks like it." Pollen commented.
"Plagg," Adrien said sternly, frowning at his kwami. "Let me do the talking."
"Wait a minute. Hawkmoth is always demanding for Ladybug's and Chat Noir's Miraculous." Nathaniel spoke softly but loudly for his fellow peers to hear. He pointed his pen to Plagg. "And that thing looks kinda like…". He squinted his eyes at Plagg and then peered at Plagg's holder, imagining the blonde in a black catsuit... "Wait, you're Chat Noir?"
The kids broke into gasps of astonishment.
"You're right!"
"I can see him now!"
"Mon dieu."
Adrien kept a stoic appearance to the second reveal of his secret identity. Inside, he was screaming I'm panic. "Yes. I am. Alya is Rena Rouge, Nino is Carapace, and Chloe is-"
"We all know Chloe is Queen Bee. She told everyone in Paris on live video."
Chloé pouted, but Manon's constant squirming held her full attention.
"As Plagg said, we have chosen you to be the new holders of the other Miraculous and be Paris's new superheroes."
"Are you serious?" Marc gawked.
"Dead serious."
"You want us to replace you?" Mylene asked timidly.
"You are not replacing us, you're helping us. You guys saw how akumas are coming by the day and how much stronger they are. Ladybug and I can barely keep it up. We handled them before but now we need more. We need your help."
His words stunned the kids.
"God, Adrien..." Ivan gasped.
"You don't spring that on a person!" Kim exclaimed.
"I don't know…" Juleka said quietly.
"Are you sure we are the right people to be heroes?" Rose inquires.
"I'm failing gym! I can barely do a press-up, how can I scale walls and lift cars?" Max questioned.
"Think of it as your second chance to redeem ourselves from the Lila mess for Marinette!" Alya suggested.
"Not everything is about Dupain-Cheng, Cesaire!" Chloe chided. "Ladybug and Marinette are not the same!"
"The damage is done." Kagami spoke out. "There are no second chances."
"There is always a second chance." Luka retorted, sitting right beside her.
"There is no such thing as a second chance."
"You said at the dance you would look for a new crush. And you told Adrien he needs to do something if he wants to make amends with Mari."
"My mother convinced me otherwise."
"Your mother forced you to change your mind?"
"Adrien needs to accept what has happened and move on."
"While forgetting Marinette completely?"
"Marinette is gone. We must move on."
"You're not telling us to move on. You're telling us to forget."
"If we stay stuck in one way, we never move. How can you be so good at fencing if you never learn?"
"I never fail."
"Then you never learn."
"Do you two need to talk alone?"
The two looked to Adrien and looked at each other, finding that they were mere inches apart. Red burned on their cheeks. They quickly leaned back and looked away in the opposite direction.
"Look, Adrien, we just cannot do this." Alix said.
"If Marinette was here, she would accept without any hesitation." Alya pushed.
"Alya!" Nino scolded.
"What? She would!"
"Exactly!" Adrien shouted, getting everyone's attention. "Marinette would! You wouldn't do anything without her! Admit it! How many of us relied on Marinette? Make us pastries, finish our projects, design our work, give up chances with me? It's time we do things by ourselves. Our hesitation already cost us a friend. Don't let it cost us our city as well. We didn't speak up sooner about Lila because we were weak. Admit it. Kagami is right. We hesitated. We were too late to help her. But being superheroes can teach us true strength. Pure confidence and courage. Our decision to choose you is rushed, yes I admit, but we believed, we know each and every one of you is a hero waiting to come out."
The class fell into a still silence. Adrien had never delivered a speech so passionately as he did now. His friends glanced to each other, silently looking for answers Adrien couldn't see.
And then, they stood up.
"Ok. I'll do it."
"Me too."
"And me.
"Count me in..."
One by one, everyone was in agreement.
Adrien grinned.
Nino and Alya stood from their seats, carrying Adrien's backpack and placing a box in each student's hands. Chloé was too busy with Manon to stand up but she did handed Sabrina a box.
No one opened their boxes. They all stared at the containers instead.
But Juleka made the first move, lifting the lid in one flick of her hand. As soon she did it, a pinkish-purple light emerged from the box, floating around Juleka twice and stopped in front of her, sparkles disintegrating. Floating in the air was a small tiger with a magenta coat of fur, light orange eyes, pointed white teeth, round black ears, three black stripes placed vertically on the top of its big head, whiskers on its chubby cheeks, and a long tail with a round black tip and two black stripes below the tip.
The air was knocked out of Juleka.
"Uh, hello…" Her whisper much quieter than a normal whisper.
"HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!"
For such a tiny creature, the Kwami erupted a loud roar that blew Juleka's hair back.
Juleka was stunned but then she smiled. "Cool."
"I am ROARRRRRRRRRRRRRRR-"
Plagg shut the tiger's mouth, cutting her loud introduction off.
"She gets it, Roarr."
Plagg quickly to pull away when Roarr attempted to bite his little arm off. Then Roarr flew over to Juleka, her orange eyes wide, Puss-in-Boots style, the sight that melted Juleka.
"Aw…"
Roarr floated closer to nuzzle under her new holder's chin, purring, while Juleka gently cupped her hands around the kwami.
Inspired by the scene, Rose parroted Juleka's move. In a pink flash came a tiny light-pink pig with a large black spot on the left of its pink eyes, an antenna sticking out from the top of its head, floppy pig-like ears, a pig snout, and a curly tail.
"Wow, I have my own fairy!" Rose cooed.
"He's a god, Rose."
"Even better!"
"My name is Daizzi!" The little pig introduced himself. "Your name is Rose?" Rose nodded and Daizzi squealed with oinks. "I love pink and flowers!"
"Told you!" Pollen exclaimed as Daizzi immediately darted over to Rose, nuzzling her face much to her giggling delight.
"I can't do this!" Alix cried in fear, hands shaking. "Bad things happen when you get curious! The curse of King Tut, Pandora's Box!"
"Bet I can open my box before you!" Kim dared her.
That prompted Alix to swipe the lid off swiftly, a light-blue trail of sparkles danced around her before settling in front of her. A white palm-sized rabbit with big blue eyes, long floppy ears with light-blue insides, long feet, whiskers, and a fluffy cottontail tail.
"Hiya! I'm Fluff!" The white kwami said cheerfully, flashing its teeth with a gap at the front.
Alix screamed. "This is still creepy!" She backed away when Fluff floated towards her. "Get away from me!"
She grabbed her lacrosse stick and tried to hit Fluff with it.
"Alix, no!" Adrien cried.
But Fluff agilely dodged each swing, laughing. "I like you! You've got spunk!"
"Alix, ALIX!"
"Just leave them." Plagg told him. "Fluff likes anything that's fast and crazy."
"Because she is fast and crazy." Trixx added.
Kim wasted no time in opening his box, quickly getting a brown light which ended in the reveal of a small brown monkey with a yellow face, brown eyes with black irises, big yellow round ears and a long brown tail.
"Aww, this little guy is kinda cute." Kim admitted.
"I may be little, but I am not cute, you fool!" The monkey kwami sassed, and then it stuck it's tongue out.
"My name is Kim, not fool, ya cute little monkey!" Kim retorted before sticking his tongue out in response.
"My name is Xuppu, you fool!"
"Cute!"
"Fool!"
"Cute!"
"Fool!"
"Cute!"
"Fool!"
"Cute!"
The pair argued as they'd made faces, acting like a real pair of monkeys.
"I can't tell which is which." Max remarked, seeing his best friend verbally spar with a monkey. He glanced to his box, calculating the probability of what the kind of animal he might receive and also bombarding himself with curiosity of what he could get.
Still, the box was a mystery. So, he lifted the lid and a grey light bounced out and then settling down. Max stared at the kwami, a horse in a cool brownish-gray coat with a white mane and underbelly, pointed horse ears with white insides on the sides of its huge head and a curly white tail that curves outwards. The kwami's green eyes fluttered sultrily at him with long eyelashes.
"So, you are my new holder?" The little horse asked in a kind of haughty tone. "Name's Kaalki."
Max shrugged off his awe. "Well, yes, nice to meet-"
"Are you famous?"
"...huh?"
"I repeat, are you famous?"
"Uh, I'm smart, I'm brilliant!"
"But are you famous?"
"...No. I'm just a kid."
Kaalki narrowed her eyes at Max to study him, making him feel judged. Then she shrugged.
"You'll have to do. With me, you'll rise to fame."
Max pulled a face that explained his astonishment of getting a pony version of Chloé.
Luka chuckled watching them. His thumb flicked the lid off and a green trail of sparkles flew around him in loops before stopping in front of his face. It was a small cobra in a vibrant sea-green colour, a black diamond pattern down its back to the tip of its long tail, sharp fangs outside its mouth and yellow eyes with narrow black pupils.
"Greetingssssssssssss. I'm Sassssssssssssssssss." The kwami named Sass greeted, his small lips curled in a cool smirk-smile. When he opened his mouth, a sea-green forked tongue hung out.
Luka returned the laidback smile. "Cool. I'm Luka."
Kagami admired how cool Luka handled the situation until she realised that she hadn't open her box yet.
She hesitated.
Embarrassed, she flung her box open and her kwami was unleashed in a red light.
Her kwami was a dragon the size of a peach, bright red with black horns on various spots on its back, four horns on its forehead, two horn on each side of its face, and red horns from the upper back of its head with black spirals, and two small black spikes on its lower back. Whisker on each cheek and a long tail with three black tips at the end. Its gold eyes stared back at Kagami, studying her.
Kagami may have hesitated in opening her Miraculous box but she will not hesitate in making the first impression. She dug into her bag, took out her lunchbox, opened it and handed her kwami a piece of sushi.
"Please accept this offering of food as a token of my gratitude and loyalty."
The dragon kwami nodded, smiling as she took the food offering. "You are most welcome to be my charge."
But then Plagg noticed the green topping on the sushi.
"Hey, was that wasabi?" He asked.
"Of course." Kagami answered.
At once, every Kwamis screamed.
"OH MY TINY FELLOW GODS!"
"DON'T FEED HER ANYTHING SPICY!"
Too late. Longg the dragon kwami ate the wasabi-topped sushi. She chewed with a satisfied smile, pleased with the sushi.
And then she burped fire.
Kagami and the other kids ducked while their kwamis flew up to avoid the hot flames.
After the fire died down, Longg smacked her lips. "Delicious."
Everyone gingerly stood up and the kwami floated down, eyes wide.
"Whoa." Kim said.
"Awesome!" Fluff cheered.
"Do it again!" Manon cried.
"Spices activates her fire!" Xuppu exclaimed.
"Longg knows that yet she cannot say no when someone gives her a spicy snack!" Pollen buzzed. "She's too nice!"
A darker shade of red bloomed on Longg's little face. "To my shame, I admit I have a slight fondness of spices."
"Slight fondness?" Trixx gawked. "You're borderline crazy with spices."
"There's nothing to be ashamed of, despite the consequences." Wayzz soothed. "Every kwami has an obsession. Plagg is obsessed with cheese-"
"Camembert!"
"-Pollen loves honey, Mullo only eats tuna, Stompp eats flowers, Barkk prefers to eat dog biscuits above anything else."
"Excuse me," Pollen piped. "When I eat honey, I do not burp fire."
"Give her green tea from now on, missssssss." Sass told Kagami.
The Japanese girl blushed while Luka chuckled. Longg floated next to her and Kagami smiled. She didn't the the best impression but a good one.
Mylene swiped her box's lid open, sparkles travelling along a silver trail of light and then settled down. It was a small grey mouse with a big head, pink eyes, round ears with pink insides, long whiskers and a thin tail.
Mylene squeaked at seeing Mullo who smirked at her, keeping his mouth shut. Girl and kwami stared at each other.
Mylene broke the silence first. "You're…very cute."
Mullo twitched his smirk into a friendly smile. "So are you."
Mylene blushed, smiling.
Encouraged by his girlfriend, Ivan timidly opened his box and out popped a bright blue light and out of sparkles popped a small ox covered in bold blue fur, grey horns on his head, a long and skinny tail with a thick grey tip, and black eyes.
"Hello!" He greeted.
Ivan jumped back in fright, much more scared of what he saw than Mylene.
"Sweet fancy Moses!" He cried.
The ox laughed. "Nice to meet ya, Moses! I'm Stompp."
"No, my name is Ivan!"
"Nice to meet ya, Ivan Moses!"
"Just Ivan, please."
"Stompp's nice but he has horns for brains." Plagg remarked.
As soon he finished, a blue flash rammed into the cat, sending him flying to the wall. Stompp floated over to Ivan's side, tiny little arms folded, eyes shut and a proud smile.
Ivan warmed of growing admiration for his little ox buddy. The little guy was small but very strong for his size.
Sabrina stared in fear of her box, her hands shaking. Even her bottom lip quivered.
"Just open it!" Chloe snapped while wrestling with Manon.
Her outburst promoted Sabrina into sweeping the lid off, where a tan-coloured light literally jumped out of the box, followed by a howl. Shaking off the gold sparkles was a little dog coated in light brown with a diamond-shaped white mark on her mouth, grey eyes and chest, big droppy ears, a curly tail, and a long light-brown antenna on top of her head.
"Hi!" The little doggy cried like the overexcited puppy she was. "I'm Barkk! I'm very so happy to be out and to be meeting you at last! I just met you and I love you!"
Barkk lunged and licked Sabrina's cheek with her tiny pink tongue, making the girl laugh. Chloe, in her struggles, smiled proudly to herself at how happy her choice made her friend, akin to giving her a puppy for Christmas.
Next was Marc. He wasted no time in opening up his box and receiving his kwami in a midst of white light and black sparkles. His kwami was a goat the size of his palm, possessing a grey body, short black arms and legs, matching black horns on its head, dark-grey eyes with long fluttering eyelashes and a black spot on the right eye, floppy grey ears of a goat, and a black tail.
"Hello!" The goat kwami greeted Marc. "I am Ziggy!"
Marc swallowed his shyness and pulled on his best polite behaviour. "Hello, I'm Marc Anciel. Pleasure to meet you, Ziggy."
"Aw...I like you!" Ziggy said. Then she hovered towards him, gently heatbutting his forehead and then laying in Marc's offering hands.
Last but not least, Nathaniel gingerly opened his box. He received a more flamboyant display, consisting of orange, yellow and red lights literally bursting out of the tiny wooden box.
"FRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDDDDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!"
A voice rang loud as the lights circling Nathaniel, ringing of overjoyed excitement.
"I'M FREEEEEEEEEEEEE! FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST!"
The explosive displayed eventually died down, revealing a tiny rooster with bright orange feathers, the colour getting lighter the further down is body, orange eyes and yellow sclerae, a yellow beak, and a short feathery tail.
"Hi, there! I'm Orikko! I love your hair!" Orikko greeted happily, crowing his heart out.
As Alya and Trixx had mentioned, Nathaniel's bright red hair were bolder than Orikko's feathers.
Nathaniel touched his hair, blushing. "Thanks..."
"I am so relieved to be free after so long!" Orikko looked around his surroundings. "Where are we? Where's Master?"
His last question brought confusion on his fellow kwamis.
"I ever been in a classroom before."
"This isn't Chicago."
"Or Rome."
"What happened to the Master?"
Wayzz and Duusu shared a look, Duusu hiding in Manon's embrace.
"He...has retired." Wayzz said carefully.
"How can he retire? He's 180 years years old!" Ziggy cried.
"I'm older than that and I don't get to retire!" Stompp huffed.
"It's different for humans. Maybe his age finally got to him." Mullo suggested.
"Can you believe we have our own personal gods?" Mylene said, getting excited.
"Not even Lila can make this up." Kim added.
"Who's Lala?" Xuppu asked.
"Lila." Max corrected.
"Gaga!" Fluff shouted.
'Who is she?" Longg questioned.
"Just some girl who ruined our lives by lying." Alya explained with a scowl. "Hawkmoth in a skirt."
"She wears a playsuit." Juleka corrected.
"You know what I mean!"
"What did this Lily-liveried girl say exactly?" Trixx asked.
Alya told her kwami everything Lila lied about. After she was finished, Trixx burst out laughing.
"That is the funniest thing I ever heard! You're hilarious! You have to an idiot to fall for that hunk! Even I know they're lies and I'm the god of illusions and trickery! No, really, what did she say?" Alya gave the fox a somber expression. Trixx dropped her grin as she realised that Alya was telling the truth. "Oh, you're serious? You believed her bull?"
"Hey!" Stompp snapped.
"Alya, you're the Fox Miraculous Holder." Trixx berated Alya. "As a hero, you cannot confuse fantasy with reality. A hero lies to protect others. A liar lies to protect oneself."
"Emperor Caligula had more common sense than her and he was crazy!" Kaalki exclaimed.
"How crazy was he?" Max asked.
"He declared war on Poseidon."
Alix chortled. "The Greek god of the sea? How did he do that?"
"By attacking the ocean!"
Kaalki's line caused the room to burst into laughter.
"Oh my God!"
"Man, kings and emperors were crazy!"
"He even made his horse a general!" Roarr added, tears in her eyes.
"Correction, he made me a general." Kaalki said smugly. "He didn't understand the concept of secrecy and following someone else's order. He was nuttier than a nut factory."
"Maybe Lila is direct descendant of him." Juleka commented.
"Frankly, I'll believe it if she said so after seeing her true colours." Alya agreed.
"Being a hero full-time will teach you to be responsible, smart and not gullible." Trixx told her firmly.
"We're gonna be heroes!" Rose cried.
"Superheroes!" Kim shouted, flexing his muscles.
"Super-duper heroes!" Manon cheered, jumping out of Sabrina's tight arms. When she did so, Duusu revealed himself to everyone.
"Duusu!"
At once, every other kwami tackled Duusu in a bone-crushing hug. Duusu cried glitter, happy to see his good friends after so long of forced separation.
Then Pollen noticed something missing. "Wait a minute, where's Tikki?"
"With Ladybug." Plagg answered.
"Who is Ladybug?" Barkk questioned.
"That is Paris's greatest mystery." Alya said.
"No way, little lady!" Adrien towered over Manon, frowning down on her sternly. "We'll take you out just to train but we will absolutely not put you in any Akuma attacks."
"Aw! Why not?" Manon whined.
"Because you're too young."
"You'll get squished!" Nino mentioned in support of his best friend.
"And I'm responsible for you!" Chloé put her comment in as she wiped Manon up in her arms again. "If you die, then I'm dead!"
"Hold on," Xuppu looked at Adrien and to Plagg. "You in charge? With Plagg as your Kwami? We're doomed."
"Hey!" Plagg shrieked. "Leave my kid out of this! He's giving this cause with all he's got! He's the best leader to lead your holders!"
"With you as a kwami, I genuinely doubt it." Kaalki remarked.
"Plagg is the god of destruction and misfortune." Longg
"He sssssssssstarted War World I and II." Hiss
"That Archduke didn't take anything seriously. He thought of my ring only as a pretty piece jewellery."
"He's the reason why Hitler was scared of cats." Daizzi retorted.
"It wasn't my fault that I ended up with him. He stole me from Jaazaniah, my holder who was Jewish. Hilter had him killed so I 'made fun' of him."
"You drove him to suicide!" Roarr shouted.
"Justice is served!"
"Maybe Lila is a descendant of Hitler or Mussolini as well." Alix stated.
Fluff snickered. "I second that, kit."
"Don't call me that!"
"Ok, kit."
"Stop calling me kit! My name is Alix! I'm not even a cat! With you, I'm a rabbit!"
"Basically, she's calling you a baby bunny." Nathaniel spoke out.
"That's even worse! I'm 15, not a baby!"
"I'm like 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 years older than you. To me, you are a baby. Kit."
"How can something so cute and little be so old?" Marc questioned in awe at Ziggy.
RANG!
CRASH!
The bell combined with the sound of an akuma attack jolted the kids, causing them to run out of the art room. While most of them ran to their classrooms, Adrien and Chloe dashed out to the gate.
"We'll tell Ms. Bustier you have a photo shoot!"
"And I'll forge a note from your father!"
"Thanks!"
Musée de la Vie Romantique is a museum in Paris, located in the home of Ary Scheffer, a painter. Dedicated to the romantic period, this museum has items owned by devoted to George Sand, a novelist and memoirist, Ary Scheffer's paintings and the tearoom Rose Bakery.
Also, George Sand is a pen name for Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin. A woman who was one of the most popular writers of the Romantic era of the 19th century, Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac.
Nekomata is a cat-like demon in Japanese folklore.
The curse of King Tut's tomb is an actual event. The death of the archaeologists were caused by deadly gases released from his tomb when it was found.
Pandora's Box is a Greek myth. In vengeance against Prometheus who stole fire, Zeus gave a box to presenting Pandora, Prometheus' sister-in-law, and told her never to open it. Her curiosity got the best of her and she opened the box, only to release sickness, death and other evils into the world.
Ivan's cry, "Sweet fancy Moses!", is from Chicago Fire, the TV show.
Barkk's line, I just met you and I love you, is from Pixar's film Up.
Kaalki's past holder, Emperor Caligula, was a crazy guy. He murdered without cause, had sexual relations with women of his family and rivals, drove his empire into bankruptcy with his spending spree, and even demanded to be worshipped as a god. The only creature he cared for was his horse, Incitatus. Or Kaalki in this case.