Song Recommendation: Confident - Demi Lovato
~10 Years Previous~
{No POV}
"Mari! Come look at my new drawings!" Called excitedly a young Marinette.
A young teenage Marianne smiled happily and joined her sister admiring her drawings of clothing that were just wonderful.
"Look at this one! Do you like it?" Marinette asked excitedly her eyes gleaming with happiness.
Marianne loved it and hugged her sister.
"I love it little monkey. What kind of design is this?" Marianne asked.
"A wedding dress for you Mari!" Marinette answered causing Marianne to blush.
"Oh wow! What brought that on!"
"It's for when you and JayJay get married some day! And then you two will have 2 kids one boy and one girl and you will name them Hugo and Ellie! You'll also get a puppy named Louis and a kitten!" Marinette rambled going into her own la la land in her mind.
Marianne chuckled bringing her sister out of dream land.
"Listen little monkey, Jason and I care about at each other but we only see each other as best friends. Nothing more." Marianne said awkwardly with a blush on her face not even believing her own words.
Marinette laughed which made Marianne laugh and give in.
"Alright. Alright. You win Little Monkey." Marianne said reluctantly, blush intensifying slightly.
"Of course I win! Your room's walls betray you Big Monkey!" Marinette laughed hugging her sister closely as she pointed out the pictures on the wall by the older girl's desk that was lined with pictures of Jason Harrison who was their friend and a model.
Marianne laughed once more and soon a tickle fight ensued.
~Present Day~
{No POV}
When Adrien awoke he was shocked to find a man with raven hair and brown eyes was sitting in a chair strumming a guitar lazily while a girl with brown hair and bluebell eyes was reading a book and writing in a notebook.
"Hey Love?" Asked the man.
"Yeah?" The woman asked looking up at him from the book.
"What do you think of this for that new song you came up with recently?" The man asked as he prepared to play.
The man strummed the guitar as the woman listened with her eyes closed.
When he finished she smiled and nodded.
"That's good but bring it more mellow, it's supposed to resound the intense emotions of the lyrics more since it's for that children's princess movie by that up and coming franchise..." She said pausing as she spotted Adrien sitting up.
"Oh. You're awake at last!" The man said noticing the woman had stopped the conversation and gotten up to go to the kitchen.
"Thank goodness you kids are alright. I was starting to worry. Who sent you to us?" The woman spoke to him kindly and calmly sitting next to him, handing him a cup of hot chocolate, making Adrien notice the similarities between her and Marinette.
"Um... Master Fu sent us. It's nice to meet you Miss... My name is Adrien." Adrien greeted awkwardly but politely, accepting the drink happily.
The woman was then left shocked heavily much like the man.
"M-Master Fu..." The woman muttered looking for confirmation.
Adrien nodded confusedly causing the woman to look away from him.
"I'm sorry but I can't help you kids." The woman said standing up and grabbing her book to go back to the apartment next door.
"Wait he sent us with a message!" Said Adrien causing her to stop in her tracks as she neared the door.
"What was this message little dude?" Asked the man gently.
"The dark sun will rise again if the eclipsed moon is not stopped with the help of the Queen and her King." Adrien recited.
The man and woman froze in their tracks and had a staring contest with each other.
'Should we?'
'It's not questionable we have to...'
'I know but how much time would we have left if we do this?'
'Not much less than we have now...'
'What will we do to help them for when we're gone? There's a lot we need to teach them especially...'
'Yes but we'll need to make use of as much time of what we have left, not that I really want to do this.'
"Maria you know what we have to do now..." Said the man to 'Maria'.
The woman sighed. "I know."
"I imagine he gave each of you a miraculous to hand to the person you were supposed to find didn't he?" Questioned Maria kindly.
Adrien nodded.
"Can you go ahead and hand me mine? I'll need it if we are to travel back quickly enough?" Replied Maria kindly.
Adrien handed her the box and the woman opened it revealing the choker which glowed brightly as a kwami flew out and stopped in front of her.
"Fair Queen Marianne." Greeted the kwami with a bow.
"Longg..." Greeted the woman kindly.
"Marianne? I thought your name was Maria?" Asked Adrien.
"That's my new name. Marianne is the name I was born with. I resigned that name when I faked my death years ago for the safety of Paris."
Adrien was shocked.
"Mari..." Spoke up the one and only Marinette as she hesitantly walked into the living room from the bedroom a picture frame in her arm of the woman and man in wedding clothes kissing in front of rows upon rows of people.
Marianne took a deep breath.
"Hello... Marinette.." Greeted back Marianne as she gently stood face to face with the young girl.
"You're alive..." Marinette muttered tears flowing from her eyes suddenly hugging the woman tightly.
Marianne looked to be holding back tears as she held Marinette in her arms.
"That's right Little Monkey... I'm sorry i left you guys back then but I had to. We had to in order for Paris to be safe for you and everyone. Can you forgive me?" Asked Marianne silently crying into her little sister's hair once she finished speaking.
"She seems..." Adrien thought aloud unaware his thoughts were being said outloud.
"Very moved?" Jason said with a soft smile to the boy making him aware.
"Yeah how did you guess?" Adrien asked confused.
"I've known Marianne for more than a decade now. I've loved her for a whole decade too. I know it was incredibly difficult for her to leave her family, and paris... Especially Marinette. They were the closest sisters I have ever had the pleasure to meet nonetheless know." Jacob said fondly watching the woman and girl radiate love for each other and whisper to each other as they catch up a bit
"That sounds really nice." Adrien said with a smile.
"It was. But it also made it very painful for Marianne when we left Paris. She would cry herself to sleep every night that she slept and most nights she couldn't sleep at all from the guilt and sadness. I'm glad to see them together again, but I know it'll hurt some more while she and her family assimilate to her being alive and having to live far away and staying that way." Jacob said sadly looking lost in memories for a moment.
"I forgive you Big Monkey..." Marinette suddenly said between sobs happily.
"So, what miraculous did the little monkey get?" Marianne said pulling away having dried her tears.
"I'll show you." Marinette said drying her tears.
"Tikki, spots on!" Marinette said.
Soon she was Ladybug once more.
"Nice! My sister is the lucky Ladybug! I'm so proud." Marianne said fondly as she shared a glance to Jason.
"So what did you get Adrien?" Marianne and Jacob questioned with a smile at the boy.
"Plagg, Claws Out!" Adrien said with a cheshire grin.
"Not this agaaaaaaiiiiiinnn!" Plagg exclaimed before he was sucked into the ring.
Suddenly in the place of Adrien stood Chat Noir.
"Ooooh. The Black Cat. Nice! Perfect Opposites." Jacob said sharing a glance at Marianne.
'Looks like you could see the future in your dreams...'
'Looks like it.'
'Should we tell them?'
'No...We can't change the future right now, or it could doom the world.'
"So what are you guys' miraculous?" Questioned Adrien.
"May I little bug?" Questioned the male to Marinette.
"Sure thing Jason. Here you go." Marinette said handing a box to Jason.
Jason put on the Panjas Bracelet and the two adults shared matching smirks.
"Roarr, Let's Hunt!" Said Jason raising his Panjas Bracelet fist into the air.
Suddenly, moments later Jason stood in front of them in a Tiger Themed supersuit that suited him perfectly.
It was dark purple with black stripes that outlined his muscles and well defined figure and had a mask and tiger ears similar to the rest of the suit.
Then Marianne stepped forward.
"Oooh This is gonna be awesome!"
[Imagine the first half of Rena Rouge's Transformation with the second half of Queen Bee's transformation with red gold and black background colors as well as the dragon symbol!]
"Longg, let's roar!"
In the end Marianne stood in a supersuit similar to Chat Noir's but instead of being skin tight at the bottom it had a short skirt that ended just at mid thigh covering her lower area down to a bit over her thighs her legs covered in spandex tights and boots the rest of the way. Her eyes slitted down like a dragons and developed a yellow hint to them her blue bell eye color sticking out greatly in contrast from her yellow tint to the rest of her eyes. On her back rested a sword. Her suit was also red, gold, and black instead of just pure black.
"Woah."
"Told you guys this was gonna be awesome. Her transformation is the best." Jason said with a smirk high fiving Marianne.
Then Marinette's bug phone rang with a call from Rena Rouge reminding them of what is at hand.
"The fight! We have to go and fight Hawk Moth's akuma!" Marinette said shocked.
The adults looked at each other seriously and nodded at each other.
"Ladybug, get on my back. By the way my hero name is Tiger King."
"Mine is Dragoness." Marianne said stretching her arms out.
"Wings!" She said calling forth wings to come out from her supersuit.
"Chat Noir, hope on!" Marianne instructed.
"Wait! How are we going to get back to Paris quicker this way?!" Questioned Marinette confused.
"Please Little Monkey, Have some faith." Marianned said opening the doors to the balcony which ironically faced the ocean the star train used to get to London from Paris.
"Nifty." Complimented Adrien and Marinette in pleasantly shocked unison.
Suddenly Marianne smiled and took off while Jason suddenly took off running so fast that no one could see him running except Ladybug, Dragoness, and Chat Noir.
- 2 Minutes Later -
"Where are Ladybug and Chat Noir?! It's been close to an hour since they left!" Questioned Queen Bee as she helped the others fend off the akuma.
Suddenly the Akuma was pushed back and Ladybug and Chat Noir stood in front of the other teens with confident yet pleasantly shocked smirks on their faces.
"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU TWO?!" Screamed the akumatized villain.
"The name is Dragoness!" The dragon themed heroin said turning herself into fire just as the akuma's attack reached her making it faze through her to be blocked by Carapace's Shell-ter that protected the heroes.
"DRAGONESS?! I THOUGHT YOU AND TIGER KING DIED TEN YEARS AGO!" Questioned the akuma known as Sword Heart in absolute shock.
"I DIDN'T DIE, I RETIRED!" Dragoness shouted back with a well place sword strike that pushed back Sword Heart and distracted her long enough for Tiger King to send her flying towards the others.
When she crashed, Sword Heart was dazed from the impact giving them all an opening.
"Quick! Hold her down!" Queen Bee called to the others.
Queen Bee, Rena Rouge, Carapace, Dragoness and Tiger King held her down while Chat Noir and Ladybug grabbed the akumatized object, the heart shaped locket.
"Chat Noir, if you will..." Ladybug said flirtatiously.
"It would be my honour, My Lady." Chat Noir said raising his ring hand in the air to catch the object.
"Cataclysm!" He called forth as the object approached.
Then he caught the locket with his catclysm, destroying it releasing the akuma.
"No more evil doing for you little akuma! Time to de-evilize!" Spoke Ladybug as usual and cleansed the akuma after catching it.
"Bye Bye little butterfly." Said Ladybug in goodbye to the white butterfly that was flying away.
Then she took her yoyo and threw it into the air.
"MIRACULOUS LADYBUG!" She said cheerfully.
"So who are you?" Questioned Queen Bee to the older female hero.
Dragoness chuckled amused gently patting Queen Bee's shoulder.
"Relax Queen Bee. My name is Dragoness, and by the way, I won't be fighting with you kids anymore from here onwards until the time comes to defeat this Hawk Moth fellow." Dragoness said softly.
"That's too bad." Rena Rouge said slightly disappointed.
"Dragoness is right. We won't be fighting with you from here onwards until the final battle comes around. However we will be watching. We are very proud that you kids are our successors as superheroes. Especially you Chat Noir and Ladybug. It's been a pleasure. And you are free to come visit us whenever you please." Tiger King said placing a hand onto Dragoness' shoulder with a kind smile his ravenette locks flowing gently with the breeze as he spoke during his landing.
"We are definitely very proud of all of you. But harder times are coming. You all must remain stronger than ever now. For your safety and for the safety of all of Paris." Marianne said placing a hand on Ladybug's shoulder gently.
Ladybug then smiled and nodded.
"We will.. Thank you Dragoness, Tiger King. Thank you for all your help."
"No problem, Ladybug, Chat Noir. We'll see you kids around." Tiger King said waving goodbye along with Marianne as they suddenly vanished out of sight.
"Were they gohsts?!" Questioned Carapace freaked out a bit.
Chat Noir chuckled.
"No. They are very much living people. They are just very fast. Now let's get out of here before we all transform back." Chat Noir said with a cheshire grin.
After a while Chat Noir and Ladybug went into an Alley together and detransformed.
"We still have a lot to talk about." Adrien brought up awkwardly.
"I know... Tomorrow during lunch, just you and me as Ladybug and Chat Noir?" Marinette suggested just as awkwardly.
"Sounds pawnderful, Purrincess..." Adrien said punningly and flirtatiously.
Marinette smiled and groaned, rolling her eyes at the pun but a blush on her face betraying her.
TBC...