My eyes snapped open to see that I was in an alleyway. I blinked a few times in confusion because I had been on my bed just a few moments ago. I started to panic mildly as I looked around before slowly getting up from the hard ground. I tried to remember the last thing that happened to me, but I came up with nothing. Did I get blackout drunk or something, is that why I can't remember anything?
I noticed something shiny before I saw two pieces of jewelry. The first piece of jewelry was a silver lion head necklace, while the other was a silver snake ring. They looked expensive, but I took them since nobody else was there. I put the two pieces of jewelry on myself without noticing the black and purple highlights they changed into. I walked out of the alleyway to know exactly where I was.
My jaw almost hit the ground from the sight I saw.
It was the goddamn Eiffel Tower.
How in the world did I get to Paris from Stockholm, Sweden? Was I drugged and kidnapped and they just forgot me in the alleyway? I was kind of offended by that line of thought. I shook my head before I looked around to see a mirror and saw something even more shocking.
I had brown skin, thick curly hair, and dark brown eyes. I was now shorter not standing at 178 cm but now I was 165 cm. I was also younger looking at the age of thirteen years old and not nineteen.
"I give up." I sighed as everything was getting weirder and I was too tired to understand what was happening. I started to pick my pockets to see what I had in them. I came to find out that I had a phone, a piece of paper with an address, and nothing more.
I once again let out a sigh before walking in a random direction. As I was walking, I noticed that I could actually read french words on the buildings, which I thought was pretty awesome.
"Hey kid, why aren't you in school." It hasn't even been five minutes, and I was already in trouble. I turned around to see a policeman standing there. I just stared at him bored as I was pretty sure that I could outrun him. "I'm waiting for an answer." Lieutenant Roger said before I started to chuckle.
"What are you going to do, fatass." I said and I could see the twitch of his eyebrow. I moved closer to him before I smiled and then headbutted him hard enough to knock him down. I looked down at the man as he was clutching his bleeding nose. "Man, that felt good." I said and I didn't notice my new jewelry flashing happily. I turned around before I hightailed it out of there.
I could hear footsteps behind me before I turned around to see two other policemen running after me. How did the backup get here so fast? As we were running I could hear them getting closer and closer, and I started to get worried. You know, maybe headbutting a policeman wasn't one of my brightest ideas.
I turned a sharp right into the road and was almost hit by a car. I jumped over a car that was parked before I turned sharp left. I started to look around while running, for anything I could use. While looking around, I never noticed a sign in front of me before I hit it.
I fell into complete darkness.
"Can you at least give me a cigarette?" I asked my captor as I was currently in a police car. The orange-haired man said nothing before I sighed and looked down at my handcuffs. "Can you loosen my handcuff? They're hurting my wrist." I asked nicely but he still didn't say a word. I feel like I was being ignored and I was slightly offended by that. I looked out the window to see a building with a name. This was the fourth school we have been to, and I was looking forward them to saying that I wasn't in their class.
I decided to try and say the name. "College Francoise Dupont." I put on the most stereotypical Parisian accents. "Say, how was my accents." I asked the man mockingly before he turned around to glare at me. I started to laugh when I saw his face. He had a bandage over his obviously broken nose which looked ridiculous.
"You are a very cruel person." Fatass grumbled before getting out of the car. He opened the door for me before I jumped out with a smile before we walked into the school. It didn't take long before we were outside the classroom and I breathed heavily because the school had many stairs. We walked into the classroom, only to hear a shout.
"Dad are you okay." I looked at the person who shouted before seeing an orange-haired girl. The girl came running down to her father while I and everyone watched their interaction. The girl hugged him before backing away.
"I'm okay sweetheart." The policeman said to his daughter before he glared at me. "This hoodlum just got the cheap shot on me." I gave him a visibly offended look.
"Hey, I resent the hoodlum part, but everything else is right."
"Anyway." The fatass started before looking over to an older woman, who I assume was the teacher. " Miss Bustier could this person be a part of your class." I looked at the admittedly hot teacher as I waited for her to say no.
"His name is Cruel Hart, and he is our new foreign exchange student." I did a double-take because that wasn't my name, and when did I become a foreign exchange student?
"That's not my name." I said to her before she pulled out a picture of me with my new name under it. Before I could say anything, the hot teacher spoke.
"Can you please take off the handcuffs, and Cruel please take a seat." The Lieutenant took the handcuffs off me before I rubbed my sore wrists. I didn't know what possessed me, but I did what I was told and sat farthest back.
It didn't take long before I fell asleep.
"I'm free." I let out a yawn as I was outside the front door as school was finally over. I looked around to see that my classmates were avoiding me. I guess entering with the police officer and handcuffed and knowing that I attacked him, that would make a wrong impression. Just when I was about to walk, somebody knocked me over and we both fell down to the ground.
"Fuck my back." I muttered as I heard something crack when I hit the ground. I looked at the person that was on me, to see that it was the Marinette girl or something.
"I'm so sorry." She jumped off me while I let out a groan of pain because she accidentally stepped on my leg. "Sorry." She was really not making a good first impression. I slowly got up and started to brush all the dust off me. I turned my head to the girl to give her the lashing of a lifetime, only to stop when I saw her giving me puppy eyes.
"Your apology is accepted." I told her I didn't have the strength to give her the lashing.
"Nice seeing the two of you getting along." I turned my head to see a brown-skinned person. "I'm Alya Cesaire." Alya pulled the black-haired girl to stand beside her. "This is my best friend, Marinette Dupain-Cheng." Marinette waved at me before I waved back at her.
"I'm Cruel Hart." I Introduce myself awkwardly because my name wasn't my original one. They seemed to have not noticed my awkward greeting, and I thank the gods for that. I notice the birthday gift before I asked about it. "Who's the gift for." Marinette got a dreamy look to her before she answered.
"Adrien Agreste." I gave her a blank look and she notice it. "You know the model." Still a blank. "The blonde guy." The girl said before I opened my mouth to an oh sound and finally realized who it was.
"I think that it's a bit too late because he just got into a limousine." I said before I pointed to the limousine that was driving away. Marinette let out a whine of this distress while her best friend sighed.
"How did I get roped into this." I asked anyone of the girls as we were currently outside of Adrien's house. It turned out that Adrien was pretty rich if the big ass house was saying anything. Neither one of the girls answered me as both of them were occupied. Marinette was struggling to open a mailbox and Alya was watching her friend struggle.
"This mailbox won't budge." Marinette complained to us.
"Ring the doorbell." Alya said as if it was pretty obvious.
"Are you kidding? What if Adrien answers?." I rang the doorbell as I wanted to see some drama. Marinette let out a shocked sound at my actions, while Alya started to chuckle. Just above the mailbox, a high-tech camera came out and went right into the black-haired girl's face.
"Yes." The person behind the camera said as I could hear that it was a female. I watch as Marinette started to clumsily talk to the camera.
"Hi… I'm in Adrien's class and I…" She started to mumble incoherently to the camera. "Did I already say that?" She asked herself while I was holding back my laughter at the scene. She looked up at the camera before smiling nervously.
"Put it in the box." The lady said before the mailbox opened. Marinette did what she was told before the mailbox close.
"Thank you." With that, the camera went away and back into the building. Once the camera was gone, she started to tap her feet on the ground excitedly. "I hope that he likes it." But of course, nothing went as planned.
"You did sign the note, right." Alya asked her best friend and by the shocked look on her face, she didn't. "Girl, girl, girl." I started o laugh my ass off while hitting the ground. Marinette went as red as a tomato from me laughing at her predicament. After the ten-second mark of laughing, I finally topped and whipped a tear away.
"As fun as it was watching Marinette fail in giving gifts. I need to get going." Both girls looks at me before the brown one asked a question.
"Where do you live."
"I have no idea, I just have this piece of paper with an address." I gave Alya the paper before she looked over it and her eyes widen before giving it to Marinette.
"This is my home address." Marinette exclaimed before she looked at me and looked back at the paper. "Where did you get this." Both of them were now looking at me before I came up with a lie.
"In the exchange student program, I get to live with the family that signed up to have me for the time I'm here." I said with a tone of boredom just hoping that they would believe my words. They took my words at face value before we separated with me following Marinette.
"This is great food." I complimented Marinette's mother as she cooked up some really good food. "Can I get a sixth plate?" I ask the wonderful cook as she just smiles before filling my plate with more food. I never liked Chinese food, but Sabine knew how to make great-tasting food. Once the food was given to me, I immediately dug into the food.
Sabine looked at the boy eating her home-cooked meal with such gusto. This was the first time she had seen a person eat enough food for five people and still didn't look full. Sabine knew at that moment that she was going to need to change her recipe portion size if she were going to feed that boy.
I watch as Marinette's mother opened a window before I heard Marinette talking to herself.
"Adrien must have gotten his gift by now." I could hear her mutter before her mother spoke up.
"What did you say." Miss Cheng asked her daughter before Marinette turned around to say.
"I can't wait to get back to school." I could just feel the lie and both of them started to giggle. Out of nowhere, a giant green bubble came into the room and scooped up Sabine into it before it turned purple.
"Mom." Marinette screamed as she ran after her mother, who was floating away from her. I still sat there, shocked out of my mind. "Dad." She shouted after her father now and I still didn't know what was going on. "Cruel wait here." Marinette ordered me before she ran out of the kitchen.
"Finally we three get to be alone." I could hear a rather wrathful-sounding voice coming from the side before I screamed at what I saw. The two things were small, about 10 centimeters tall. They had heads large heads, big eyes, tails of different sizes, and tiny bodies. One of them had the resemblance of a lion, while the other one had the resemblance of a snake. The lion was red in color and the snake was green in its color.
"I think that you scared him." The snake said while sounding envious of the lion. The snake sounded like a male and I think that the lion was a female. The lioness turned to the snake, having a wrathful look at him. To be completely honest, it just looked completely mad. The same could be said about the snake but it had a completely envious look.
"Anyway, human listen up." The lioness turned to me. "I'm Nova the red lioness of wrath." She introduces herself before turning to the snake. "This is Skalidor the green snake of envy. We are what you would call a pure Akuma." I blinked a few times in confusion
"What is an Akuma." Now it was their turn to blink in confusion.
"You have never heard of an Akuma." I shook my head before both of them sighed and the snake started to talk.
"There are two types of Akuma, the pure ones and the butterfly made once, we are pure ones." Skalidor started out by saying. "The impure are made from the Butterfly Miraculous, an Akuma is an evilized butterfly. Its goal is to possess an important object of a person who feels strong emotions, forming a telepathic connection between the person and the Butterfly holder. They are supposed to be used for good purposes by transforming ordinary people into superheroes via positive emotions, but with Hawk Moth they are instead used to create villains by honing in on negative emotions."
"Who is Hawk Moth."
"Hawk Moth is the current holder of the Butterfly Miraculous." Skalidor put a hand under his chin. "Think of him as the final boss while everyone he turns into a villain is a minion." I nodded my head at that. "As Nova and I are pure Akuma, we were born in different periods where one sin was the most prevalent." Now the lioness took over.
"I was born of anger from different types of wars from different types of time periods. Because of that, I have born the Nova the red lioness of wrath."
"I was born in a time period where humanity felt the most envy, that's why I'm Skalidor the green snake of envy."
"Wait does that mean there are five more of you, like the sins of avarice, sloth, gluttony, lust, and pride." I asked the two Akuma and both of them nodded at me. I started to rub my head as this world was getting weirder and weirder. "Does it mean you represent each of the sins to perfection or do you have more personality to yourself?"
"More." Both answered.
"So what do you guys need from me."
"We need you to recover our brothers and sisters." Nova didn't hesitate to answer this question. "We have located four of them in France, while we have no idea where the other last two are."
"Why should I help you."
"We have powers to make you a superhero or a villain, choose which one, as long as you help us get our siblings back, we will help you." That was a rather tempting offer. Getting real-life superpowers would be amazing, but that would also mean that I need to train to get used to the powers. After a few minutes of thinking it over, I decided to take the deal.
"Fine, I'll help you." Both looked happy at my words.
"Great choice human."
"My name is Cruel Hart."
"Don't test me human."
I sighed as I felt like I need to get used to her calling me human.
"My transformation phrase is, Nova the sin of wrath and I can make you stronger the angrier you feel."
"My phrase is, Skalidor the sin of envy and I can give you the power to paralyze someone within ten seconds, making them not able to move for a minute."
This is starting to sound like more of a tv show for children than anything else.
"Fine, let's do this." Both Akuma nodded before they went back into their respective jewelry. "Skalidor the sin of envy." I called out before I started to transform into my outfit. Once the transformation was done, I looked at myself. I was currently wearing a silver-black snake-themed superhero bodysuit. My suit has snake-like patterns, complete with fangs and a black mask.
"Why did you pick him, he's such a crybaby."
"Quit you whining."
I jumped out of the open window.
"This is fucking amazing." I screamed out as I was jumping from one building to the next while running at superhuman speed. I jumped up to great heights before I landed on another building and started to run even faster. I looked up into the air to see every adult was in a bubble in the air, and I started to look around for Marinette's parents. But as long as I looked, I couldn't find them.
"Damn, where are they." I muttered to myself as I kept running until I notice something. I stopped running as I saw a female wearing a ladybug-themed superhero bodysuit. I watched her as she was running toward Adrien's house. "Oh, drama or a fight." I need to see that.
It didn't take long before I was at the rich blonde boy's house but I had lost sight of the ladybug-themed hero. I looked down at all my classmates dancing around, or what I believed are my classmates. I decided to take a close to.
I jumped down from the building I was on before I turned back to my usual civilian self. I walked into the party while looking for anyone that I knew before I notice Marinette next to where the food is. I looked down to see her filling her purse with a bunch of cookies.
"Can you leave some cookies for me?" I asked her before she jumped into the air in surprise. Her eyes widen when she looked at me.
"When did you get here."
"I saw some fireworks, so I wanna see who set them off." I lied to her and she just nodded. "Can I get a cookie?" She handed me one.
"Where have the two of you been." We both turned around to see Alya Cesaire. "I was scared that something happened to you two." Both the girls hugged each other, while I was trying to figure out why she was scared for me. I mean, we didn't even know each other.
"I'm sure that Ladybug and Cat Noir will save us." Who. "They never failed us. Meanwhile, come with me, I have something for you."
"There is something I have to do." Marinette said to her best friend.
"It's about Adrien," Alya said in a rather taunting tone of voice.
"Okay." Wow, not even a second later.
I tried to pick up another cookie but someone took a hold of me and dragged me away.
"Why did you drag me here."
"For moral support."
I looked at Alya skeptically before I looked that the birthday gift before us.
"Anyway looks, now you can sign your gift."
"Yes." Marinette let out excitedly before she looked for paper and pen to write on. While she was writing, I decided to go back to the yard. Once I was in the yard, I looked to see a Ladybug-themed hero before I put two and two together. I watched as everyone started to hide while the hero and villain started to fight each other.
"What are you doing standing there, hide." I was pulled behind a pillar by a familiar voice. I watch as the impure Akuma villain started to summon a bubble with made Ladybug's yoyo recall back to her. Before her own weapon could hit her, someone hit the yoyo into the sky.
"Looks like I made it just in time." I saw another hero before I knew that it was cat Noir.
"I had it under control…" Ladybug's yoyo landed on top of Cat Noir's head. "But thanks." Why do I get the feeling that something bad is about to happen? The bubbler let out a roar before he send out a storm of bubbles at the two heroes, who did their best to destroy or dodge the bubbles.
The bad feeling just got worst, when the villain snapped his fingers, and all the bubbles turned green and started to spin around the two heroes. It didn't take long before all the green bubbles turned into one big one and trapped the heroes.
"Give me your Mircaculouses before you run out of air." The bubbler said before I noticed a chair close by. I stepped toward the chair while the two heroes and the one villain talked to each other. I took a hold of the chair before I slowly started to move forward at the villain.
"Adults are bossy." Before the villain could say anything more, I tapped on his shoulder before he turned around.
"Hello." I hit him as hard as I could. My chair weapon broke into pieces while the villain was knocked to the ground by the sudden attack. "Let's break your toy." I took hold of his weapon before I broke it into pieces. I black butterfly with a purple highlight came out of the weapon before Ladybug's yoyo took hold of it.
I went over to get another cookie but I felt like people were staring at me before I turned around slowly. I was faced with everyone at the party staring at me before I waved at them. I picked up a cookie before I asked the most important question.
"You guys want a cookie."
When no one answered the question, I took a few before leaving.
"Why didn't you just kill him, he will probably get Akumatized again." Nova asked me as we were on top of the Eiffel Tower. I looked over at the two pure Akuma floating around me.
"I don't kill people." I said to her simply and Nova looked like she didn't like the answer. I looked at the night sky as I forgot the way to Marinette's home, and I didn't have her number. looked down from the tower before I started to wonder how fast I would die if I jumped and hit the ground.
"I still can't believe that you win against the bubbler by hitting him with a chair." Skalidor said and I agreed with him, it was way too easy. "Anyway, we need to discuss our plan to get our siblings back."
"Do you even know where they are?"
"Yes, we know." Nova huffed at me while I just rolled my eyes. "One of them is in Toulouse, a six-day walk, or five-hour ride from Paris. The second one is in the city of Nice, I know, don't ask why it's named that way." I lowered my hand. "That is a five days walk or eight hours ride from Toulouse. The third one is in Brest, an eleven-day walk or a day's ride from Nice. The last one is in Bayonne, that's a six days walk and there is no ride there from Brest." I have no idea where neither one of those places is. When I was about to ask where those places are, Nova spoke first.
"We already knew that you didn't know where those places were." Nova said before she put her paw under her chin. "We need money, so I was thinking about we start robbing banks."
"We are not robbing banks." Nova let out a whine. "If we started robbing, the two heroes will come after us, and we don't need that type of attention." I explained to her while she glared at me.
"Cruel is correct about our predicament." The snake said as he was siding with me. "Even if we wanted to rob the banks, we have no way of knowing if we can overpower the two heroes." I smiled at that.
"We are stronger than the Kwamis." Nova roared like a lioness. "All they are is a bunch of goodie-two-shoes, the only ones that can match our powers are our siblings, Tikki, Fluff, Sass, and Plagg. That is only because Tikki can create a lucky charm the size of a planet and Plagg caused the last massive extinction. Both Fluff and Sass can time travel."
"The two heroes have Tikki and Plagg, that's why the female hero looks like a Ladybug while the male looks like a cat."
The two Akuma glared at each other while Nova was growling at Skalidor and Skalidor hissing at Nova. I took in Nova's words about the four Kwamis she mentioned and their powers. So Tikki had the power of creation, Plagg the power of destruction, and Fluff and Sass were time travelers. This world was giving me a headache.
"We can talk about this later, first we need to get back to Marinette's home." I told them and both reluctantly agreed to stop the argument. I walked into the elevator before it went down. It didn't take long before I was on the ground level and walked out. As I was walking, I pulled out my phone to look at the time to see that it was about 20:10.
"It's already over eight." I muttered to myself before I put the phone away.
Let's find Marinette's house.
"I still can't believe that you got lost last night, and came back at midnight." Marinette scolded me like I was a child while her friend was giggling to herself. "Do you have any idea how worried both I and my parents were when you didn't come back at a reasonable hour?" Marinette said while waving her pointer finger at me while I tried not to yawn at her boring scolding.
We three were currently on our way to school and Marinette had taken it upon herself to scold me for late night.
"I mean, I didn't intend to come back that late in the night, but things happened like I was lost." I tried to defend myself but Marinette didn't seem to believe my words. I started to move faster, and Marinette took note of that.
"Don't you run away?" I ran with everything that I had.
I wonder what will happen in the future.
