12/18/23
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Adrien can't seem to get any good dreams due to his father haunting his subconscious again like he can't rest or leave Adrien's life alone.
"Get the hell away from me, Gabriel! I'm not letting you brainwash me the same way you brainwashed Nathalie to look bad!" Adrien yelled at him to back off or face another cataclysm again, with or without the costume.
"You can't get away from me Adrien, whenever I'm alive or dead!" Gabriel said.
"To me you're dead. Just like how you almost killed my happy life when you were alive! You deserve to be dead!" Adrien is still stuck in a mansion dreaming of his father's office.
"You should know better than this! You and your mother are much more important than Paris!" Gabriel trying hard to make his son come to his senses.
"No, you don't know anything better than this. Unlike you, I don't do what you do! I never manipulate people's decisions on what's best for them! I still remember what you did when you forced me to leave Marinette with you! You almost ruined her dreams in fashion! She knows more about fashion designing than you ever will!" Adrien saw his father's fashion designs on the tablet that had no inspiration from anyone but his father's own ways.
"She's not worthy of your love!" Gabriel shouted.
"And what do you know about love?! Tell me!" Adrien demanded from him.
Gabriel tried to come up with an excuse but couldn't since he was no match for Adrien's own existence or his willpower since he now has the freedom to never have anyone control his amok again.
"The love I know comes from anyone who is supportive of me and knows more about treating my well-being than you ever will. That's what I love about Marinette. And from what she told me when you granted that wish, you never tried to be a good father. You never once tried to change at all" Adrien explained what real love is all about.
Gabriel was in shock at his words. His way of love was for his wife to be perfect the same way he tried to make Adrien perfect. Feeling like they were trapped in his own pace and his own way rather than being themselves in their own ways of living.
"Face it, Gabriel! You have no love in your heart!" Adrien said angrily.
"I loved your mother!" Gabriel accused.
"In the past you did but you probably still blame me for her supposed death because of me being born from her that gave her illness. In reality, you don't show compassion to anyone in the world but to her" Adrien said.
"You don't understand Adrien!" Gabriel tried to get to him.
"No! Because Colt nearly killed Felix since he suffered from the same illness that killed him! The world did not abandon you, you abandoned the world, you abandoned me! You did nothing for Aunt Amelie. She's a lot like my mother and yet you despised her!" Adrien replied.
"She was a weak coward to Colt!" Gabriel told Adrien.
That only made him angry as he punched him in the face for disrespecting his mother's twin sister like that, "Don't disrespect your sister-in-law! My mother cares more about her and you don't!"
"Urgh! You wretched kid!" Gabriel groaned.
"We're not family, Gabriel! You will never return! You abused me long enough to have me open my eyes to see your madness corrupt you! If I had a future child, I would never treat them like how you treated me! As you have heard me before when you were Nightmentor, you should've taken parenting lessons!" Adrien glared at him intensely.
"I don't need lessons to be taught when I am self-taught!" Gabriel said.
"You were just a criminal on the run!" Adrien clenched his fists, "Living a lie still makes you a fraud, a con, a joke! Just like Cerise is doing! Especially the stupid alliance rings were lies too so you can convince the world Kagami and I are a couple! You made a bunch of lies at everything!"
"It was my dream to have you and her as eternal icons!" Gabriel said.
"Well, you were wrong! Your dream is just madness! You lost everything before you died. You are still a lower social class level fraud!" Adrien yelled.
"You haven't seen the last of me!" Gabriel said before he faded.
"Cataclysm!" Adrien was able to use cataclysm in a dream without his costume and he touched Gabriel's arm before nearly fading.
He woke up with a jolt, waking Marinette up.
"Adrien, are you alright?" Marinette asked.
"No, I think I'm being haunted by my father" Adrien groaned.
"Like a ghost?" Marinette guessed.
"Haunting my subconscious every time I try to have good dreams but he ruins it the same way he tried to ruin everyone's lives. Including your taste in fashion design when he made me leave you" Adrien said.
"He won't return to life, Kitty. His soul has been damned" Marinette hugs him.
"For how long until he becomes restless? He knew I needed my mother but he is obsessed with a family being complete" Adrien said.
"He doesn't have a true family. You have a new true family" Marinette calms him down.
"And I wish to have kittens of our own someday when we are married. Two marriages actually" Adrien nibbled her neck to calm himself down.
"Haaaah….. Yeah, when we're the right age. We're only 15" Marinette moaned.
"I can still imagine that," Adrien said.
"You'd be a better dad than he was. After all, you're a natural with kids" Marinette reminded him.
"Heh, you always dreamed of having kids with me. Our cute little kittens that would be like us" Adrien chuckled.
"Yeah, they would be" Marinette kissed him.
x
On the surface, Felix remembers his only stuffed animal rabbit he used to enjoy as a kid until his father ripped it to take away his happiness. Here at the park as Argos, the puppies were too much for him despite his adorable they are to him. Even if he remembers himself as Flairmidable.
"Okay! Okay! You're cute! All of you!" Argos tries to sit up to breathe.
Ryuko giggled at his soft side for cute animals, amazed that the puppies weren't scared of him despite having spooky peacock eyes and blue skin.
"Hehehehe… they all love you" She chuckled.
"Dogs hunt birds, my queen. Okay, one at a time!" Argos laughed at getting licked on his face.
"I know but not dragons" Ryuko replied.
"Dragons are not actually animals" Argos gets up but holds one puppy in his arms, "Okay, buddy. Time to go back to mama" He hands to puppy back to its mama. They nuzzled against each other playfully.
"You never told me that you see cuteness in baby animals," Ryuko said.
"Animals are cute when they are born like us" Argos replied, watching the dogs.
"Heh, especially birds?" Ryuko chuckled.
"Well mostly penguins and chickens" Argos knew many birds are born without feathers.
"Heh, and I can see you're still annoyed by the Resistance giving you a food codename. Comrade Olives" Ryuko snickered.
"Stupid but annoying. Especially like the time they trusted the liar with the name Comrade Sweet and Sour" Argos leaps to the rooftop with her.
"Until we saw her true self," Ryuko said.
"But you fell for it, my queen. You didn't notice her irrational obsession with ruining Marinette's life by manipulating you to get rid of her for her like a pawn" Argos reminded her.
"I know" Ryuko sighed.
"My queen, you thought you were doing something right but obedience is not what true friends do. It's the compassion that is most counted for" Argos said.
"Hai" Ryuko nodded and they saw the Eiffel Tower from a distance.
"Come to think of it. I just don't wanna get overprotective of you again. Your mother is now taking my uncle's legacy brand fashion. She better not get strict again" Argos said.
"She won't. Since he died, she has no contract" Kagami said.
"Don't take it personally but I don't like how she treated you before, despite her blindsight" Argos said.
"I'm keeping her in check as Ryuko" Ryuko said.
"And I'm keeping my eyes on her if she does something that no mother would do to a daughter," Argos said sternly.
"Are you always grumpy with adults?" Ryuko asked.
"Not every of them" Argos said.
"I see" Ryuko sat down with him.
"So you think my cousin, Ladybug, the Elephant, and The Jaguar are alright?" Argos wondered.
"They should be. It's a long way down the center of the earth" Ryuko said.
"Or in this case at the bottom of the sea," Argos said.
"For a bird, you're definitely not related to Mr. Ramier's pigeons," Ryuko said.
"Ah yeah, the former Mr. Pigeon" Argos nodded.
Suddenly, an akuma Sandboy has returned to bring everyone's nightmares to life again. Chrysalis probably senses the boy's distress and thought of bringing nightmares to life on the heroes.
"Oh no! Not him!" Argos knew that he's gonna bring his nightmare of his late father at him.
Ryuko's worst nightmare is her mother forcing her to be the greatest samurai in the family or get punished by doing everything wrong.
Sandboy's sand dust touched them to bring their nightmares out in the real world.
"Felix! You monster! You doomed me!" Nightmare Colt appeared as his nightmare.
"Shit!" Argos yelped.
"You will become better, Kagami-San!" Nightmare Tomao scaring the dragon.
"Not on your terms!" Ryuko drew her sword.
Argos backs away from his nightmare, too vulnerable to face his father who put him through so much abuse. Not this again when he finally has the happiness from his teammates and the girl he loves.
"You aren't real!" He backed off.
"I'm real enough to destroy a monster like you for putting me on my deathbed!" Nightmare Colt yelled.
"You hated sorcery, you brought that upon yourself to marry my mother and get her pregnant out of jealousy!" Argos ends up against the wall, scared.
"Now I should undo what I should have done a long time ago!" Nightmare Colt was going for his ring.
"Hey! Get away from the bird now!" SentiNoir bared his claws.
"Or what? Let you eat the bird while I miss my chance?!" Nightmare Colt said.
"No! But you're gonna get one scratching!" SentiNoir bares his claws.
Argos was in no condition to fight his father like this but someone else could.
"Get going! I'll handle him!" Senti Noir holds Nightmare Colt.
"You're his monster!" The nightmare can see the feline has his amok object.
"At least he treats me more than what you treated him as. He knows more about being human than you ever will! SentiNoir hissed.
"Then you will die with him!" Nightmare Colt attacks him.
"You're afraid of your son! You were blinded by hatred to think he's responsible for you to pay the price!" SentiNoir blocked his attacks and clawed his face, "You're the real true monster, not him! You abused your own son!" SentiNoir shoved his claws in his chest, "You took away his childhood and I won't let you do the same for his teenage life!" He then shoved him against the wall, not caring if he did but he was not the real Colt. The real Colt died a few years ago.
"Thank you, Cat Noir," Argos said in relief.
"Now let's save your queen before her fear gets the best of her," SentiNoir said.
"Of course" Argos ran with him.
Ryuko was facing her nightmare version of her mother at the museum.
"I expect you to be obedient! I expect that your emotions don't make you weak!" Nightmare Tomao constantly tries to hit her with the bokkun.
"Emotions don't make me weak! The weak one is you!" Ryuko blocks with her sword.
Argos and SentiNoir arrived at the scene. The peacock boy grew angry at the last time when his queen's mother would talk to her like that.
"Alright, that's it!" He unfolds his fan.
"This is not the real her you hate so much!" SentiNoir said.
"No, but I will fight what I should do on this not-real Tomao!" Argos charges in.
"Keep her busy while I'll deal with the Sandboy!" SentiNoir said.
"And fast before Paris is crawling with nightmares of hell!" Argos said before trying to attack the fake Tomao.
SentiNoir then runs on the rooftops to find Sandboy. Argos got the nightmare's attention but she knocked his hand fan aside.
"You stay away from my daughter, you mistake of nature!" Nightmare Tomao warned.
Argos grabbed the Egyptian staff and engaged, "Don't ever call me that! My queen is not your trophy!"
"She does not deserve to be with someone like you!" Nightmare Tomao yelled.
"You cling to too many traditions. My queen never clings to that!" Argos pushed her aside.
"Felix! She's a nightmare and she can hurt you for real!" Ryuko exclaimed.
"I got this!" Argos gets ready and blocks Nightmare Tomao's attacks with the staff.
"You are nothing to my daughter! You're still the same monster that traded all the miraculous to Gabriel like a coward to save your existence instead of saving her!" The nightmare getting into his despair.
"SHUT UP!" Argos strikes at the nightmare hard, "I know what you're trying to do and it's not gonna work this time! You're not real and you will never hurt my Kagami ever again!" He stabbed her in the gut.
Nightmare Tomao gags in shock and falls limp to the ground.
The miraculous ladybug's magic cure removed every single nightmare, including the nightmare he just killed.
"Kagami!" Argos hugged her, "I was so scared for you"
"Thank you, Felix!" Ryuko hugs him back.
"Are you okay? I know she was not the real one but it felt so real" Argos said.
"I'm fine, Felix" Ryuko replied.
"Please don't scare me again. I almost lost you" Argos sighs in relief.