"Why are we here." I asked Chloe as she was looking around for something. She just gave me a look before going back to whatever she was doing. I didn't know how long it was since we fought Stormy Weather, and both of us have started to spend more time together.
I discovered that both I and Chloe had similar personalities. We both took immense pleasure in making others feel bad about themselves. But Marinette didn't like the fact I was hanging out with her archrival. She was always going on about how Chloe is a bad influence on me and that she is turning me into an awful guy because I like being mean to people. I found it to be very funny.
"Because I have something I wanted to look up real quick." Chloe said simply to me. I let out a sigh as this could take longer than I wanted to. "I heard from Skalidor that this museum has something from Ladybug's past holder. And I want to know what." Now I was interested in this place.
While Chloe was doing her thing, I started to look around at everything in the museum. This was actually my first time ever being in a museum. I have heard that they had pretty old stuff in them. But I never was interested in learning about it. So seeing all this old stuff around here was pretty interesting.
"Where could it be." Chloe growled the words out as she was getting frustrated over not finding the thing. I snickered at her for getting frustrated before she turned to me with a glare, and I pretended to look at a painting. "Don't try and play innocent." Chloe said as she pointed her finger at me.
"I swear on god, I didn't snicker at you."
"You don't even believe in god."
I opened my mouth before I close it when I didn't have a comeback to that retort, and Chloe gave me a smug smile. I decided it was time for the last resort against her, before I flickered her forehead, hard. Chloe let out a yelp of pain before I started to run away from her.
"Get back here." I could hear her shout as I was dodging and weaving away from knocking into people. I looked back to see Chloe chasing after me with a red forehead. I didn't know how long I ran before I came across a staircase in front of me, and I decided to make a jump when I was close enough. Once I was close, I jumped with everything I had. I looked down to see that the staircase was much longer than I predicted.
"This was an awful idea." I shouted out before I landed on my right leg hard and I felt a flash of pain. I stumbled a few steps before I fell onto my face. And just didn't move as my leg was hurting too much, and I knew if I moved, I would scream in pain.
"Oh gosh, Cruel are you okay." I heard a person shout before I turned my head to the side to see Marinette and Alya running toward me. As they were running toward me, I knew I need to get up. Once I was up, I felt a pain in my right leg but it wasn't that bad. Both the girls started to look me over frantically.
"I am perfectly fine." I answered their unasked question before I hear feet steps coming toward us and I turned to see Chloe. She had on the smuggest look known to mankind and I knew why.
"That's what you get for flickering my forehead." The snake Akuma hero said and I just sighed while Marinette and Alya had a different reaction.
"How can you be so nonchalant about this, can't you see he is hurt?" Alya said with an angry-sounding voice and Chloe just blinked a few times. She obviously didn't understand why Alya was so angry over something so little like a hurt foot.
"Whatever, he got what he deserved." Chloe said before she started to walk away and I followed after her before I was stopped. I looked down to see that Marinette was in my way.
"You are going nowhere with your hurt foot, you are coming with me." Marinette said firmly before she pulled me away.
Chloe let out a sigh before she followed them.
"Why was I forced to come to the Pharaoh part of the museum." I asked Marinette and Alya as they force me to come after they fixed my feet. The injury wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. It was just a sprained ankle.
"Because I don't trust Chloe to look after you with that injury." Marinette answered before she glared at Chloe, who just huffed in response. Out of nowhere, a guy push past us before he dropped all his things to the floor. He jumps forward to grab something.
"It's not broken." He grunts before he stood back up.
"Excuse me, you just bumped into us. What do you have to say for yourself?" Chloe said to the stranger before he turned to us. He took a few steps forward and I instinctively put my body in front of Chloe, if something was to go wrong I would be ready to attack.
"I'm sorry." The man apologize to us, but Chloe didn't look like she accepted it, and I was the same. "Hey, you're in the same grade as Alix, right." The man spoke and I looked over at Chloe. Because I had no idea who Alix is. "I'm her older brother, Jalil Kubdel." Jalil introduces himself, but something felt off about him. Especially his unmoving eyes, that just stared at you. "So, you're into Tustankkshamus, too?" What in the nugget is that? "Dad." Jalil suddenly called out before rushing past us and bumping into me.
"That mother." Marinette put her hands over my mouth before I could finish the sentence. I glared down at the little girl before I reluctantly backed down. And she removes her hands from my mouth.
"That guy is weird." Chloe Bourgeois said and I full-heartedly agreed with her on this.
"So, again girl, why are we here." Alya asked her friend before I interjected.
"I was forced to be here."
"Same here." Chloe said and Marinette looked over at her.
"You can leave whenever you want." Damn, Marinette can be mean, I never knew. Chloe glared at her archrival for a few seconds before started walking over to a painting, and I followed her. We both looked over the Egyptian hieroglyphics before Marinette and Alya came over to us.
We all looked at the Egyptian hieroglyphics for a few minutes before Alya got impatient.
"Come on, tell me what this has to do with Ladybug." Alya asked her best friend, and Marinette started to come up with an excuse.
"No, no, 'cause it wouldn't be a surprise then." The baker girl tried to explain to the brown skin girl. Both I and Chloe watch the two before we went back to looking at the hieroglyphics. As the two of us, Akuma heroes looked at the hieroglyphics, we suddenly heard a voice.
"I'm telling you, father, It's right there in the hieroglyphics." I turned my head to the side to see Jalil and his dad. "Excuse me." He pushed Marinette to the side and I let out a low growl at him. I really started to not like this bastard. "There, as you know, the one with the scepter." We all looked over to the one he was talking about, as we got an unprompted lesson on the hieroglyph."Is Tutankhamun the first and to his opposite is Nefertiti, his Princess. There are exactly 100 mummies beside them. She died several years before him, and the sun god, Ra, took her as his goddess." Jalil explain everything to his father, but he already knew all of his.
"Yes, I know all that. I'm the director of this exhibition, remember?" His father said to his son before Jalil got in front of his father, and started to talk again.
"Then, you also know that Tutankhamun wanted to bring his Princess back to life by offering the son god a new wife. This scene illustrates a ritual he devised." He showed us, two men holding onto a woman under the sun. "Nobody has ever fully deciphered the hieroglyphics, but I have. It's a magic chant that needs to be recited in order to complete the ritual. I'm sure of it." I tried my hardest to not laugh at him, while Chloe was stifling a giggle.
"By god, is he a moron or just stupidly naive." I said as quietly as I could and got a slap on the arm for my troubles. Marinette gave me a look that could be deciphered as the disappointed parent look. Marinette was not liking how cruel, Cruel was getting toward other people.
"Jalil, these types of frescoes are almost always the illustration of a legend. They call it a legend for a reason." Jalil's dad said before he started to walk away, but his son tried to stop him.
"That's what everyone thinks, But I know it's real." Jalil tried to reason with his father and I started to believe there was something wrong in his head. "I can prove it." Jalil said in a final attempt to get his father to believe in him
"Really?" Alim Kubdel asked his son, but I could hear the doubt in his voice. "And exactly how are you going to prove it?"
"I wish I had some popcorn because I'm liking this family drama." I whispered to Chloe and she nodded. This was really getting intense.
"I just need to get my hands on Tutankhamun's scepter, and recite the spell." Jalil said as he walked over to the scepter before trying to touch it. But before he could lay a finger on the scepter, his father stopped him.
"Are you serious?" Jalil let out a surprised sound as his father grabbed him. "Don't even think of touching that scepter. I'd lose my job on the spot. It's a priceless historical object, not a toy." Alim scolded his son for being so reckless toward the artifact.
"Come on, dad, we have to try out the spell." Jalil called out to his father, as he was leaving. "What if Tutankhamun had found out how to bring people back to life?" I wanted to call out his stupidity, but I was living proof of there being a higher power as I was in a different world.
"Listen, Jalil, that's enough. Get your head out of those papyrus scrolls and focus on the real world. This one." His father finally snapped at the nonsense his son was spewing out, before leaving him behind. Jalil sighs before dropping his papers to the floor. We all watch as Jalil started to walk away and left behind him an awkward silence.
"Now this feels very awkward." I said after a few seconds of nobody talking. With that all done, both Alya and Marinette started to look over the hieroglyphics again. While they were looking, both I and Chloe started to just sit and watch something on our phones.
I didn't know how much time passed but I suddenly heard heavy footsteps before both I and Chloe looked up. When we looked up we saw a Pharaoh walking over here before we went for a hiding place.
"Hey, you." A civilian said before running toward the Akuma villain.
"Tut, give me time." The Pharaoh said before his face changed to represent the person he called out to. The Pharaoh suddenly blows out a bubble toward the civilian, making him stop in real-time. He started to do the same to everyone he could see while I, Chloe, Alya, and Marinette was able to not get frozen in time.
I and Chloe started to move away to a better hiding place where no one could see us.
"Nova sin of wrath."
"Skalidor sin of envy."
We both transformed into our represented sin, before we could see metal bars coming down, as we jump in. We were met with Alya filming everything, like a fangirl.
"Ladybug waved at me, no way." Alya said in excitement and I facepalmed at her stupidity.
"She meant to get down you moron." Chloe said to Alya as she turned to face us. Before she could say anything we went into the fight. The Pharaoh was spinning Ladybug around with her yoyo and was able to catch us on the string. As he threw us into a rock painting before we all slide down to the floor.
"Sekhmet, give me your strength." The Pharaoh's face change again before he walked over to the metal bars and bent them.
"How nice of you to hold the door open for me." Cat Noir said as he was standing just a few feet from the Pharaoh. Cat Noir jumped toward the Pharaoh, as he was ready to hit him with his staff. But the Pharaoh catches Cat Noir in the face before throwing him into a coffin.
"Enjoy your coffin." The Pharaoh said before he chuckles at the hero and walked away. Both Ladybug and Chloe were groaning in pain, as I was the only one to get up. I ran over to help Cat Noir get out as I was the strongest person there. As I tried to get it open, I found out it was really sealed tight.
"I can walk myself." I heard Alya before I looked over to see that the Pharaoh had taken her. I hated stupid people so much. I ripped the coffin right open as I could feel rage in my blood. Both we all started to run toward the Akuma, and he turned around to look at us.
"Hiding behind an innocent bystander? You're weak Pharaoh." Cat Noir said to the Pharaoh as he bent the metal bars back to normal.
"I'm way more powerful than you are." The Pharaoh said before walking away. Ladybug and Cat Noir ran toward the bars as they tried to get it open.
"And don't forget, all the latest behind-the-scenes are on my blog." Alya shouted at us as she was being carried away.
"That Alya is one brave chick." Cat Noir said and I disagree with him.
"More like stupid, she should have run away the moment danger came but she was too focused on getting footage on Ladybug." I said before I walked over to the metal bars. I took in a deep breath before I pulled the two metal bars I was holding out. We ran for a few steps before suddenly stopping.
"How do we even know where they are." I asked anyone that would answer before Chloe talked.
"Alya has a live stream on her blog, which she is addicted to." Chloe pulled out her phone before showing the live stream. "So we can just see here where they are." We all took different ways to get to Alya and the Akume.
It didn't take long before both I and Chloe ran up some stairs before we came across a scene with a bunch of mummies.
"How are we going to get to him." Chloe asked and I had the worst idea in human history.
"You are not going to like this."
"Oh, sacred Ra, god of the sun…" The Pharaoh began his ritual before he felt a sudden powerful blow to his face, which send him into a bus. He let out a pained sound before he looked at the offender who did it. He saw the male red lion hero but something was different about him. He was glowing red and his eyes were filled with nothing but rage.
"RRROOOAAARRR." The hero let out a rage-filled roar that any lion would be proud to have. The Roar was powerful enough to shatter the windows around every building before he came running at the Pharaoh.
"Sekhmet, give me your strength." The Pharaoh called out before his face changed into a lioness. "I will not have you thwarting my ritual." The two ran toward each other before they clashed fists against each other. Their attack was enough to create a powerful gust of wind. Each one of them tried to overpower the other before the Pharaoh lost.
"RRROOOAAARRR." With a powerful rage-filled roar, the Pharaoh was sent flying, before the hero ran after him. The more the hero attacked, the more he started to glow red, as the Pharaoh was having a hard time keeping up.
"This is great for my blog." Alya said as he was filming the Akuma villain being thrown around like a ragdoll. Alya suddenly pulled away from the ground as mummies were being kicked to the ground. Alya looked to who picked her up to see the green female hero. She suddenly ducked down before jumping up to great highs and landing on top of a building.
"Now you stay here and out of the way." The female hero ordered Alya and just when she was about to jump down, Alya stopped her.
"Who are you, are you a hero, is the guy a hero too, where did the two of you come from, are you friends with Ladybug and Cat Noir." Alya sent out the rapid-fire question towards the female hero. Chloe looked at her classmate before a devilish plan came to her mind.
"The name is Viper and the guy is named Sin. We are heroes just like Ladybug and Cat Noir. And we are here to make Paris a safer place for the people living here." Chloe said as she felt like she was trying to butter Alya up too much. With great fame comes great sacrifice, even if she needed to be nice to Alya.
Alya looked at the hero Viper as her eyes were sparking with excitement over getting footage of the two new heroes in Paris. This was once in a lifetime opportunity, and she wasn't going to waste it.
"Are you willing to answer a few questions on my blog?" Alya asked the new upcoming heroine as this was something she couldn't pass up.
"No." Chloe quickly denied she may be nice as a hero, but she wasn't that nice toward Alya. She jumped down to help her stupid partner. How in the world could he think going berserk with rage was a good idea? But at least they got Alya the liability away from the fight. Once Chloe landed on the ground she looked up to see Ladybug and Cat Noir standing there and the mummies were nowhere to be found.
"We need to help Sin take care of the Pharaoh." Ladybug said as Chloe walked up to her.
"Not just Pharaoh but Sin also." Chloe said to Ladybug, and the two heroes looked confused. "Sin gets his superhuman strength from being angry and the angrier he gets the stronger he becomes. But it's a double edge sword, with him going into a berserk state the angrier he gets." Chloe explained to her idol and her sidekick.
"Finally I get to kick his sarcastic mug." Cat Noir said as he has been waiting for this moment. Before they knew it, Pharaoh was sent flying into Cat Noir and both of them fell to the ground. The Pharaoh pushed off the hero before Akua turned around. They all saw Sin walking toward them with red glowing around his body. But the thing Chloe noticed was the blood running down his face.
"I propose a truce as we deal with this person." The Pharaoh said as everybody nodded to that. "Horus, give me your wings." The villain called out before they ran toward Sin as the Pharaoh went into the air. Berserk Sin let out a roar as he waited for his prays to come to him.
"Bring it, I'll destroy you all." Berserk Sin roared as rage was the only thing he knew right now.
Ladybug threw her yoyo at him but he caught it before pulling her forward toward him and punching her in the face. The female hero let out a pained cry before he took a hold of her body, and threw it at Cat Noir. Both heroes were sent backward from the force alone. The Pharaoh came down from the sky, ready to punch Sin in the face, but he caught it, with ease. The ground under him broke into pieces from the force of the attack.
Sin slammed Pharaoh to the ground and he let out a pained sound before being thrown away like a broken toy. Sin took a hold of the Akuma pendant and was about to break it into pieces. The Pharaoh turned around and was able to kick berserk Sin in the chest and make him back away, as he dropped the pendant. The Pharaoh took a hold of the pendant before Sin took a hold of Pharaoh and threw him away.
"Don't forget about me." Chloe said as her hand was glowing green before she tried to touch Sin left arm. He was able to dodge the attack and she took notice of him not being in normal berserk mode. She spun to her side to dodge his attack before she backed away, with him following her. Chloe looked forward to seeing Sin in front of her before she dodge his attack and it hit the ground. The ground exploded into pieces of debris.
He was throwing attacks toward Chloe and each one that hit something, was destroyed with ease. Sin suddenly backed off as Pharaoh tried to punch him in the face, but he missed. Berserk Sin took a hold of the Pharaoh's arm before building him into a building. Once he was away, Sin turned to face Chloe, and Chloe could feel a cold sweat come upon her.
"Let's see if you can handle this." Berserk Sin was suddenly wrapped with Ladybug's yoyo string before being hit in the face by Cat Noir's staff. Cat Noir had a smirk on his face before it vanished because Sin didn't move an inch from the attack. Sin was suddenly taken into the air by Pharaoh as the string fell off him. The Pharaoh moved closer to a building before throwing Sin into it.
They all waited for Sin to come back and start fighting them again, but he didn't. And that's when Chloe knew there was something wrong and she ran toward the building. She needed to make sure her stupid partner didn't die.
"You two take care of the Pharaoh." Chloe shouted before jumping into the building Sin was in. Out of nowhere, she went out of power as she turned back to her civilian clothing. Skalidor started to fly around as he was looking for his sister.
"Where could the two of them be." Skalidor asked his holder as they started to look around for the two. As they were walking, they could hear the sound of pained groaning getting louder. Chloe started to run toward the sound as they were getting louder. Both of them came across a door before they opened it to see Cruel in his civilian clothes.
"Don't worry, you will be okay." Nova said in distress as her holder was grunting in pain. Chloe didn't understand why Nova was so worried before she looked at Cruel to see a wood plank piercing his leg. The wood was all the way through his leg and it was blocking the blood from getting out.
"This is what you get for being stupid with your plan." Chloe admonished her partner for being reckless. "Let me help you." Chloe was not the most empathetic person, but she still was worried about what happened to him. Chloe walked over to her stupid partner before helping him up from the floor.
"Aw, you do care." Cruel said while wincing in pain while Nova was flying around him like a worried mother. Chloe let out a sigh as she already knew she needed to deal with his stupidity for as long as she knew him.
"Let's just get you to a hospital."
"It looks like nothing is broken and it was a pretty clean cut through the fletch. We can expect you to walk again in just a few days." The male doctor said before he walked out of the room I was in, and left me alone. Once I was the only one in the room, Nova came out of her neckless and flew onto my shoulder.
"Are you feeling alright?" Nova ask in a worried tone of voice, and I was a bit taken aback by how gentle she sounded.
"I am totally fine, Nova." I said back to her as I rub the side of her cheek gently. Nova let out a purr from the rubbing of her cheek. I felt like I was handling a very tiny cat, but if the cat could give people powers of super strength from rage. As the two of us were having a moment, the door suddenly slammed open. I jumped slightly and looked to who slammed the door open, to see Chloe.
"I found it." Chloe said with a victorious tone of voice before showing me the Egyptian hieroglyphics. I have no idea what is going on before I looked at Chloe with a confused look. "Here, moron." Chloe said before I looked to where she was pointing to see a woman, who had a yoyo that looks like Ladybug's yoyo. "From what Skalidor told me, this is Khepri or La Deesse Coccinelle which translates into The Ladybug Goddess. She was the past Ladybug who lived 5,000 years ago, and she was the one who stopped Pharaoh Tutankhamun the first, the first time he tried the ritual." Chloe explained to me before I gasped.
"Ladybug is 5,000 years old, why does she look so young." I asked Chloe before Skalidor spoke first.
"It's not like that, but the Ladybug you know is the newest holder of the Ladybug Miraculous." The snake of envy explained to me, before looking at Nova." Hey sister, do you remember when Jeanne d'Arc. She was a real badass when she was the Scarlet Fate. You remember how much trouble she cause our holders when they fought." Wait a minute.
"You mean Jeanne d'Arc, the Arc was a past holder of the Ladybug Miraculous." I shouted in shock. But my shock didn't last long as Nova started to explain more about themself and the Kwami's
"Yeah, the kwamis are born when an abstract idea or emotion comes to the world. Like Tikki was born when the universe was created because she is the Kwami of creation. Plagg was born when the universe first destroyed something, and he is the Kwami of destruction. That goes for each Kwami but we Akuma are different. We are only as old as humanity, which is about 200,000 years because we are born from humanity's emotions." Nova explained while I and Chloe digested everything we heard. I would have never believed that they were so old, do they not age or something?
"This world is weird." I muttered as I'm so tired of trying to understand anything that is going on here. Let just be a blank piece of paper. Chloe on the other hand, got a thought in her head about how old they were.
"Wait so you know everything that happened in those 200,000 years." Chloe asked the Akuma and they nodded. "That is perfect. Now you can write all my history homework. That way I can get the top score on the history lesson." Chloe was spinning around as if this was a perfect plan to impress Adrian.
"Sure, as long as I get some good food." Skalidor agreed with Chloe, and the blondie just nodded.
"They are really getting along with each other." I commented toward Nova and she nodded.
"Yeah, they are like us, being great partners together." Nova suddenly turned to me with a glare. "So don't you dare choose someone else to be your number one" I just smiled at her.
"I see you four are having a great time." We suddenly heard a voice before looking toward the door to see an old man. Nova began to growl like a rage-filled lioness and Skalidor started hissing in rage. Both I and Chloe were confused over why they got so defensive all of a sudden.
"What do you want, Guardian." Nova growls each word out as if it was poison to speak it. The old man pulled his hands up in a surrendering manner.
"I'm not here to fight you." The old man said but Skalidor suddenly got madder.
"We won't believe your lies. All of your kind are the same, wanting to destroy us just because of what we are." The snake shouted out as the old man looked slightly hurt at the accusation.
"Hey, why are you guys so mad." I asked as Nova was not acting like herself.
"Let the bastard old man explain what his predecessors did." Nova growled as the old man sighed.
"I'm Wang Fu, I'm the last member of the order of the guardians, a group of highly trained people who keep the Miraculouses safe. And it's our job as finding people worthy of wielding the Miraculouses and delivering it to them." Wang fu said before steeling himself for what comes next. "We are also responsible for trying to kill every one of the Akuma siblings." A heavy silence came to the room. That was something I didn't expect to hear.
"Why." Chloe asked as that was the only thing she could manage, as she couldn't believe her partner was almost killed.
"You said it yourself, you are part of the group who protects the Miraculouses, aren't the Akuma the same as the Miraculouses." I asked as this was not adding up.
"Do you know what Akuma means in Japanese?" The old man asked and we shook out heads. "It means devil or demon."
"We are deemed as demons because we were born from humanity's sins, and we were penalized for it. Hunted it down like a bunch of animals. isn't that right." Nova roared at the old man as he winced. I notice a tear running down her face before I turned to the old man.
"I think you need to leave." He just nodded before leaving us alone. I turned toward the Akuma before asking the important question. "Tell us everything." Both Akuma looked at each other before Nova was the one to talk.
"The Order of the Guardians existed for many years. Throughout history, many guardians have trusted the miraculouses of many wielders, like the ones that lived in Ancient China, the Ancient Egyptian Ladybug, Hippolyta, Tomoe Gozen, Tentomushi, and countless others always watching their chosen from afar. Aside from protecting the Miraculouses, one of the guardians' main duties was to distribute the Miraculous jewels to worthy people so they could benefit all of mankind and protect the world from danger." Nova said before Skalidor took over.
"They saw the miraculouses as great things because they were thought to be born from good. But I and Nova were born from the sins of man, so they believed that we were demons. That's why we are named Akuma." Chloe interjected with her own important question.
"But why did they try and kill you guys, if you help a French soldier to fight against the Dark Grimalkin, who was sent to subjugate the France people." Skalidor sighed.
"We don't know why we were deemed as evil beings, all we know is that all our lives, they hunted each one of us. I'm just glad none of my siblings were killed." Damn, this world is pretty dark. Both I and Chloe looked at each other.
Perhaps it was something darker behind the facade of the heroes, both Ladybug and Cat Noir wore.
I came to realize I have been watching miraculous ladybugs out of chronological order. I'll try and write this series in chronological now that I know.
