Hello everyone, and today, Dragnarok will be facing off against the next original akuma, Fugu!
Before we start, I want to address a few things.
Dragon of Mystery: Yes, the breakfast thing actually happened.
fan-like-irving: Thank you for telling me that the Rabbit Miraculous is the Miraculous of Evolution. Honestly, it behaves more like a Miraculous of Time, given its special power, Burrow. Perhaps the Echidna and Rabbit could represent different kinds of evolution. This is something I need to think about... I am open to suggestions.
Anyway, let's begin!
Entry #87
Well, I've gotten to see the Snake Miraculous in action, and I got to tell Cat Noir I know who he really is. Now I just need to talk to Ladybug.
Season 3 Opening Intro(Halo by Starset)(I don't own the song)
In his room, Drake paced around, his mind recalling the last few hours.
Flying to the bakery, Dragnarok hovered near the window to Marinette's room. Opening it slowly, the draconic her saw that the bluenette was working on a new clothing design.
"A-hem." Dragnarok said, causing Marinette to jump.
"D-Dragnarok!" Marinette shouted in a startled tone. "What are you doing here?"
"We need to talk Marinette." Dragnarok said. "Or should I say, Ladybug?"
"How did you...?" The bluenette asked in a shocked tone.
"Oblivio." The draconic hero said, getting an understanding nod from the girl. "Anyway, we need to talk."
"T-talk about what?" Marinette asked with a stammer.
"Did you give Adrien the Snake Miraculous because of your crush?" Dragnarok asked, causing a atomic blush to appear on the bluenette's face.
"M-maybe. But Adrien is a good guy!" Marinette quickly said.
"You're right. But I don't think the Snake was the right one for him." The draconic hero said. "Plus, you can't just gave someone a Miraculous just because you like them."
"I know, but..." Marinette said before being interrupted.
"But nothing." Dragnarok said before heading towards the window. "Listen. You're a smart girl and a great leader Marinette, and you did make a good call about Adrien. He does deserve a Miraculous, but not this one. It just that, your crush has caused a lot of problems, like Volpina for example." Seeing Marinette's down casted look, Dragnarok places a hand of her shoulder. "Don't look so down. All great leaders have some sort of flaw to them. I know I have my own flaws." That cheers Marinette up a bit. "What I'm trying to say is that don't let your crush influence your actions."
"I'll try my best." Marinette said.
"That's all I near to hear." Dragnarok said.
Snapping out of his thoughts, Drake notices the time.
"It's getting late." He muttered before yawning. "Hope tomorrow isn't too hectic."
Oh, how fate loves to be tempted...
The next day, at Francoise Dupont, Drake was in Miss Bustier's class, when said teacher went to the front of the room.
"Class, today we have a new student joining us." She said before gesturing to the door. "Meet Steve Peggy."
Walking in was a boy around the class's age. He has peach skin and brown hair, although, he seems to have started suffering premature balding. He has puffy lips, a slightly crooked nose, and was wearing glasses that made it look like he had fisheyes. His chest was a bit on the... round side. He was wearing a plain yellow t-shirt and blue jeans, which seemed to be on a little too tight. Around his wrists were lime green wristbands. Finally, he had white shoes on his feet.
"Greetings peons, I am Steve Peggy." The boy said in a obnoxious voice before facing Miss Bustier. "Now then, where would I sit?"
"Right there, next to Ivan." Miss Bustier said, pointing to the spot.
As Steve walked to his spot, Drake felt a bad feeling forming in the pit of his stomach.
Later that day, when lunch rolled around, Drake was in the courtyard, fighting back the urge to slam his head onto a wall.
All day, Steve made himself a nuisance, looking down at everyone around him as if they were idiots.
"Is something the matter?" Kagami said as she sits down next to Drake.
Since they started dating, Kagami would sometime visit the school to eat lunch with Drake.
"It's nothing, my Dreamsicle." Drake said. "It just that, we got a new kid in my class, and he's a total prick! He thinks he's the smartest guy in the world, but is a know-nothing-know it-all, and he treats everyone as if they were idiots." Drake then notices Steve walking towards them. "Speak of the devil..."
"Here she is, Paris' beloved hero, Ladybug." Steve said, pointing to Kagami, shocking the couple and everyone who heard.
"What gave you that idea?!" Drake shouted, as he very well knows who Ladybug really is.
"Simple. She's around the same height and has blueish hair." Steve said as he states his "facts" to everyone.
"There are a few problem with your theory." Drake said. "First, Ladybug was active long before Kagami came here. Second, Ladybug has blue eyes, Kagami has brown. And finally, Kagami fought against Ladybug twice when she was akumatized as Riposte and Oni-Chan."
"Those are easy to explain. First, she could've hid her civil identity for a bit to avoid suspicion. Second, she could be using colored contacts. And third, she could be using body doubles." Steve said in a matter-of-fact tone.
While this was happening, no one noticed Marinette sneaking off.
"Body doubles?! Are you serious?!" Drake shouted.
"Look, I'm never wrong. So unless I see them side-by-side, which would never happen, then I am right." Steve said with a "This is final" tone.
"Are you sure about that?" A voice spoke up.
That's when Ladybug lands next to Kagami.
"Ladybug!" Everyone shouted.
"So, you think she's me?" Ladybug asked as she gestures between her and Kagami. "Well, as you can see, she isn't me."
"B-but I'm never wrong!" Steve stammered in a tone of disbelief.
"Well, you're wrong this time." Ladybug said. "Next time, look up the facts before assuming."
Steve had a look of humiliation on his face before running off.
"Well, I love to say and chat, but I have to go." Ladybug said before taking off.
The bad feeling in Drake's stomach grew.
Stomping through the school's halls, Steve was muttering angerly to himself.
"Ladybug... Making me look like a fool... I'm never wrong..."
A window opens, letting in little a light into a dark room. The light reveals Hawk Moth standing in the center of a mass of white butterflies. Standing off to the side was Damselfly.
"Not all of us likes to be criticized, nor being proven wrong." The villain said as he held out his hand, letting a butterfly land on it. Hawk Moth then puts his other hand over the bug, corrupting it and turning it into an Akuma. It then flies out of his hand.
"Go forth, my akuma, and evilize him." Hawk Moth said while twirling his cane, as he watched the Akuma fly out the window and into Paris to find it's victim.
Flying in the school, the akuma lands on Steve's right wristband.
"Fugu, I am Hawk Moth." Hawk Moth greeted. "Your intelligences was challenged; well, I can help you fix that."
"Where do I sign up?" Steve asked with a smirk as a smog of darkness pours out his wristband, covering him.
Once it lifts, standing in Steve's place was a humanoid pufferfish. He was five feet tall, had a round, light-brown belly which was covered in barbs with dark brown tips. His arms and legs were white, with his hands and feet being three-digit webbed claws. On his head were puffy lips, which was full of needle shaped teeth. Two small fins were his ears. The upper half of his head was dark brown while the bottom was white. He had fish-like eyes. And finally, coming out of the top of his head were more barbs and a fin acting like a mohawk.
Meet Fugu, the villain with the inflatable ego!
"Everyone around me are nothing more than stupid apes, and I'm going to prove that." The villain said with a cackle.
Back with the students, lunch period has just ended.
"Back to the grindstone..." Drake muttered to himself.
Just as everyone was about to leave the courtyard...
"Hold it, you brainless peons!" Fugu shouted as he stomps out. He then fires some of the barbs from his chest, hitting Kim, Max, Rose, Juleka, Ombra, Brandish, Ingrid, and Maven, causing them to gain derpy expressions.
Everyone else scattered, with Drake heading to the restrooms. Once inside and, seeing that no one is around, he let's Spyro and Cynder out.
"Should have known Steve would gotten akumatized." Drake said in a annoyed tone.
"It was kind of his fault." Cynder said.
"He shouldn't have assumed Kagami was Ladybug on the flimsiest of reasons." Spyro said.
"You have a point." Drake said before taking a stance. "Henshin!" Once Spyro and Cynder were absorbed into his wristbands, Drake let's out a roar as he turns into Dragnarok. "Unleash the Dragon!"
Marinette quickly hid in the girl's restroom.
"Looks like I've gotten Steve akumatized..." Marinette said in a guilty tone.
"We'll worry about that later, we need to stop him!" Tikki said.
"Right! Tikki, Spots On!" Marinette shouted, transforming into Ladybug.
Meanwhile, Adrien ducks into a supply closet.
"Looks like Steve didn't take his theory being disproved well." The blonde model said.
"So, are you going to deal with this overgrow piece of sushi or what?" Plagg asked.
"Plagg, Claws Out!" Adrien shouted, transforming into Cat Noir.
Back with Fugu, he was now on the Paris streets, shooting his barbs at random civilians.
"Look at these stupid apes." Fugu said with cackle.
"They're like that because you made them that way!" Ladybug shouted as she, Cat Noir, and Dragnarok.
"Well, well, well. Ladybug and her cronies..." Fugu hissed before looking at Dragnarok. "What's a big hero like you doing with a lowlife like her?"
"I have my reasons." Dragnarok said.
"Wow, she's blackmailing you. How low can she sink?" The villain sneered.
"You're jumping to conclusions with little proof." Ladybug said with her arms crossed. "Again."
"Are you saying I'm wrong?!" Fugu shouted before he started to breath heavily, causing himself to slowly inflate, increasing his size. "I'll crush you!"
The villain then jumps at the heroes, trying to crush them under his body weight, only for Dragnarok to pull them out of the way using Dragon Time.
"Okay, we need to handle this from a distance." Dragnarok said. "Those barbs aren't going to allow us to get close."
"Well then, how about this?" Cat Noir asked before extending his staff and jabbing Fugu with it, only for to be absorbed by the villain's rubbery skin.
"You've got to do better than that!" Fugu taunted before rolling at the heroes like a ball, forcing them to run as they were chased down the Paris streets.
"All we're missing is a brown hat and a whip..." Dragnarok muttered as they ran from the boulder sized villain. "Any ideas?"
"Well, he still has his wristbands, so the akuma most be in one of them." Ladybug said.
"Okay, but which one?" Cat Noir asked.
"If we can stop him, I can get a proper look at them to see which one." Dragnarok said.
"And I think I know how." Ladybug said as she spots two light posts ahead. She slings her yo-yo at them, creating a tripwire between the two. "Jump!"
After the heroes jump over, Fugu ramming into the yo-yo, which launches him back like a slingshot. The villain hits the wall of a build, crashing through it and making him deflate back to his regular size.
"Ugh..." He groaned as he got back up onto his feet. "You'll pay for that."
That's when an Odonata flies in and lands on Fugu's right wristband.
"Hello Fugu, I am Damselfly, and I bestow upon you a greater size." Damselfly said.
"Thank you, Damselfly." Fugu said as he began to grow until he was double in size. Not only that, but his barbs had grown as well, now the size of lances. "Now hold still, you pincushions!"
The villain then started firing the lance-size barbs at the heroes in a attempt to skewer them, forcing them to be on the defensive.
"Well, at least we now know where the akuma is, as the odonata always flies to it." Cat Noir said as he ducks under a barb.
"The problem is how are we gonna get close enough to get it?" Dragnarok asked as he side-steps a barb.
"I've got this, Lucky Charm!" Ladybug shouted before throwing her yo-yo into the air, summoning... A sewing needle. "A sewing needle?"
Dragnarok was about to complain about the randomness of the Lucky Charm, but looking between it and Fugu gave the draconic hero an idea.
"Keep this guy busy, that needle gave me an idea." Dragnarok said.
Getting nods from the two, he takes off.
Arriving at Fu's massage shop, Dragnarok walks in.
"Dragnarok! What brings you here?" Fu asked as he, Ashley, and Falx walk up to the draconic hero.
"I'm going to need my katana." The draconic hero said, getting nods from the three.
Falx walks out of the room for a bit before coming back, carrying the katana in it's sheath.
"Here it is." He said before handing the blade to his grandson. "I've been meaning to ask... How come you don't use the katana more often?"
"Out of fear of losing or damaging the last remaining thing of Sensei." Dragnarok said with a slightly sad tone as he wraps the katana's sheath around his waist.
Once that was done, he took off.
Returning to the fight, Dragnarok saw that Ladybug and Cat Noir were running out of breath.
"Look at you two, just give me the Miraculous!" Fugu demanded.
"How about they don't, and you face me?" Dragnarok asked as he lands behind Fugu, getting the villain's attention.
"Aw, the savoir of the world himself." Fugu said before noticing the katana. "That must be a spoil of war from the Eldritch Event."
"Wrong. This a departing gift from a Sensei." Dragnarok said.
"Wrong?! Did you say I was wrong?! I'm never wrong!" Fugu shouted in a furious tone before launching barbs at the draconic hero, who simply uses the katana to slices the barbs into pieces. "What the-?!"
"You'll have to do better than that." Dragnarok said before flying at Fugu, ready to slice his right wristband, only for the villain to turn, causing the draconic hero slice the left wristband instead.
Fugu then started firing a barrage of barbs in a panic, only for Dragnarok to once again to slice them up, all while stepping closer and closer the villain.
Once he was in front of Fugu, Dragnarok jumps up and whacks the villain in the head with the handle of his katana, knocking him out.
"Ladybug." Dragnarok said as he cuts the right wristband, releasing the akuma. "You know what to do."
"No more evildoing for you, little akuma. Time to de-evilize!" Ladybug said before throwing her yo-yo, capturing the akuma. "Gotcha!" She then releases the now purify butterfly. "Bye bye, little butterfly. Miraculous Ladybug!" Ladybug throws her yo-yo into the air, returning everything back to normal. Fugu turns back into Steve.
"Pound It!" Ladybug, Cat Noir, and Dragnarok fist bumped.
"Hey, Steve, right? I'm sorry for earlier, but you need understand-." Ladybug said, only to be interrupted.
"No, understand this! You humiliated me and challenged my intelligence, and now I have no choice but to take you out." Steve angrily said before stomping off.
"Don't let him get to you, Ladybug." Dragnarok said. "He just crying over his bruised ego."
"He's right, M'Lady." Cat Noir added.
"Thanks guys." Ladybug said with a smile.
"Steve is still upset with Ladybug, just like Lila and Dainn." Hawk Moth said while scratching his chin.
"Don't tell me you're going to try to recruit him too?" Damselfly asked in annoyed tone. "We have to deal with that little lair, and you're going to recruit Richard's son soon, but now you want add that blowhard as well?"
"We both have a mutual goal, the end of Ladybug." Hawk Moth said.
"Ugh. Go ahead. I know there is no way of talking you out of this." Damselfly groaned as the window closes.
Later that day, Drake was at Fu's massage shop, polishing his katana.
"You seem to care greatly for that katana." Fu said as walks up to the secret draconic hero.
"Sensei trusted me with it." Drake said in low tone.
"Kraken Hydrown sounds like a great man, different from his siblings." Fu said in an amused tone. "I wished I could've met him." That's when his eyes wided. "Speaking of meeting." Fu then takes out the Miraculous Box, opens it, and takes out a beaded chocker. "It's time for you to meet Longg... Kwami of the Dragon Miraculous!"
Drake just stared in shock.
And that's that!
Man, I wanted to get this out sooner, but I had a bit of a writer's block.
So yeah, a new character was introduced, and he hates Ladybug like Lila and Dainn. Don't worry, there be no more after this.
So, the Rabbit Miraculous is consider the Miraculous of Evolution in canon. To me, it makes more sense as the Miraculous of Time, given how its power, Burrow, works. I get that evolution happens over time, but they should've related its power more to the concept. I am willing to hear suggestions to get around this.
Anyway, I hoped you enjoyed, and I'll see you next time!