Note: I think I made this one a bit more fast paced (?) Not sure if it's better than the pace of the last two chapters. I felt like I needed to get the story moving lol, I also divided this into two chapters because it started to feel longer. I haven't written in so long idk the normal word amount, and I'm pretty sure I wrote less in each chapter than I do now.
Also to answer one comment: Unfortunately this plot will not Involve any of the miraculous characters having Chara's!
Days have passed since Marinette became the guardian, and in that short time many things have happened. Marinette's life had turned upside down and she wasn't sure how to deal with it, at least for a few days, from Shadow Moth arising with now more powerful villains, to breaking up with Luka, to almost losing her group of friends and becoming a loner. Now after those troubling moments she was able to speak up and let her best friend Alya know about what's been going on, with that she was at least able to breathe more easily. She had someone on her side, who she could count on in her normal life. Of course that didn't stop the blue haired girl from overexerting herself trying to stop Hawkmoth, now Shadow Moth.
With his new powers he started akumatizing one civilian after another each day. Having to fight many of them again and again. Marinette has started to become a bit more desperate to find a solution, or at least hinder Hawk Moth for just a bit. Or if he could just give her a break from all the akumas that would be great.
"Miraculous Ladybug!" Ladybug shouted as she threw her lucky charm into the sky fixing what the Akumatized villain did.
"NO! We were so close this time!" Shadow Moth shouted, hitting his cane on the ground, frustrated.
"Shadow Moth," a voice called, turning around shadow moth saw his assistant there, fixing her glasses and holding a clipboard.
"Nathalie! You're not supposed to be here," He started, Nathalie let out a small cough.
"I know, but I came to inform you directly that your special guests have arrived, '' Nathalie mentioned. This made Shadow Moth smile.
"I see, thank you Nathalie I'll be right down"
"Yes Shadow Moth" Nathalie gave a small bow before leaving.
"Ladybug you may have been lucky this time but let's see if you're a match for my reinforcements" Shadow Moth laughs echoing through his lair.
"Pound it!" Ladybug said along with her hero companion Chat Noir.
"Another day another villain defeated, isn't that right m'lady?" Chat Noir asked gleefully. Ladybug could only shake her head at him, tapping her feet in anxiety, she was ready to leave, taking her yo-yo out, swinging it, preparing to throw it..
"Yeah, see yo..u...later...?" Ladybug, stopped her movement, her eyes widened, she stayed silent staring at what was before her, the yo-yo in her hand now on the ground, or rooftop, she wasn't sure at what she was looking at. Chat Noir took in her sudden pause at her retreat and slowly turned to see where she was staring. Not far from them was a floating black egg.
"Did you order any breakfast to.. Uh.. float?" Chat Noir asked, they both watched the floating egg turn revealing a giant white X mark on it. "Treasure?" Chat Noir asked, receiving a hit from Ladybug. The egg floated about getting closer to them. Chat stayed in front of Ladybug holding his staff, ready to attack. "Could it be another akumatized villain?" He asked, watching it get closer, carelessly in a sing song voice they could only hear "Muuurrriii" Coming from the egg.
"I'm not sure, and what is it saying? what's Muri?" Ladybug asked yo-yo now ready to strike. Suddenly the egg stopped moving towards them. It looked like something else had caught its attention and looked around before flying away. "Let's go!" Ladybug shouted following the egg. Chat noir right behind. The egg continued its way throughout Paris, with unpredictable moves and Ladybug was getting a bit frustrated not being able to catch it. The egg came to a halt on top of a building the X mark on it was facing the Eiffel tower. It stayed still as if thinking.
"We can catch it now" Ladybug whispered, she lunged herself to catch the egg, but black figures passed between them startling Ladybug. "Ah!" she almost fell off the roof had Chat noir reached out any second later. Not that it would hurt that much anyway but still. Pulling Ladybug back onto the roof. "What was that?" Ladybug asked, the egg was no longer there and Chat noir's attention was now at the Eiffel tower.
"What the-" the Eiffel tower was slowly having a ring of black eggs float around it. The one they were following floated to join in the circle of eggs. This confused Ladybug even more, and the more it did the more her anxiety did too. Was this a new plan from Shadow moth? Is it a new type of Akuma? They just defeated one, and a new one is already out? She barely, no, she hasn't gotten any grasp on becoming a good guardian, she barely learned anything from the book.
"My lady" Chat Noir brought her out of her thoughts placing a hand on her shoulder, looking at her worried. Right, there's no need to be caught up in unnecessary thoughts. She had to focus on what was going on in person. "We have to go" Chat added confusing Ladybug, he pointed to her earring and showed his ring seeing both were on their last minute.
"Let's meet up at the Eiffel!" As fast as she could she stood up running, Chat watched her disappear, going the other way when he heard the final warning from his ring.
Ladybug sighed as she landed in an alleyway detransforming. Marinette sat down, catching her red kwami companion in her hands giving her a macaroon to eat.
"Hurry Tikki, who knows what Hawk Moth has up his sleeves." Marinette said as Tikki tiredly took a bite out of the macaroon.
"I don't think they're Shadow moth's doing Marinette" Tikki said, earning a confused and worried look from Marinette. Tikki gave her a gentle smile. "Don't worry Marinette, we can deal with it together!" Tikki said, trying to cheer her up by patting the hand she was sitting on. Marinette gave a small nod now wondering what to do. Standing up to peek out of the alleyway she saw the Eiffel tower was still being surrounded by the eggs.
"Mom! Mom, look over there!" A young boy shouted pulling onto his mom's arm pointing towards the Eiffel tower. His mom could only look at the tower in confusion.
"What are you talking about sweetie?" She asked.
"There! On top! The black cloud!" The kid persisted. "What is that?" He asked. His mother only continued to have a confused look. In her eyes there wasn't anything surrounding the tower. Not even a single cloud covered the sky either.
"Sweetie there's nothing there.. Now let's go or else we'll be late" She responded now tugging him along to continue their own walk. Marinette watched as they continued walking. The kid only continued to look back up at the tower.
"That's weird." Marinette noted, placing Tikki into her bag to let her finish her Macaroon, as she walked out of the alley way and started walking to the Tower. There she began to take notice of everyone's actions. She saw younger kids point to the tower, while the adult ones looked confused at the children's concerns. Others continued on their own walk, many still going to visit the tower itself. "It seems only kids can see it. Is it an Akuma that can only be seen by kids?" Marinette mumbled. Going once again into a spiral of thoughts.
"Marinette" Tikki whispered to get Marinette's attention, looking down Marinette saw Tikki nod, determined, she was ready. Looking around Marinette ran to hide herself and transform once again into Ladybug. 'Alright let's figure it out' Ladybug thought as she swung back to the Eiffel Tower getting up half way when Chat Noir joined.
"My lady" Chat spoke with a grin. Ladybug only rolled her eyes, continuing to make her way up the tower alongside Chat. Reaching the top they were now seeing a group of black eggs singing and circling the tower. They didn't seem to pay much mind to Ladybug and Chat Noir.
"Well there's enough to feed us," Chat said, earning another nudge from Ladybug. Looking around she wasn't sure what could've attracted the eggs to circle around the tower much less their purpose.
"Tikki said they may not be Shadow Moth's doing" Ladybug said, she could feel some sort of power emitting from them but that's all it was, a feeling. Ladybug kept thinking and she only felt frustrated, it was clear they weren't Shadow moth's especially with the fact that if they were the moment they landed onto the tower they would've attacked instead they're still moving on their own singing about, not caring about Ladybug or Chat Noir being there. Since they're not akuma's, how was she supposed to handle it? Are they even worth handling? All they're doing is circling the tower and at the moment the only people that could see them are the kids, Chat Noir and herself. They haven't done anything either. Thinking and coming up with more blanks ladybug started to feel...
"Useless..." Ladybug mumbled as she began to feel frustrated, Chat once again placed a hand on her shoulder, not noticing the fact that one of the eggs stopped singing, turning to face ladybug with a question sounding 'muri'. Ladybug moved her shoulder away from his touch. She didn't need comfort, she needed answers. More eggs slowly started stopping noticing her behavior. Ladybug kept getting into her own thoughts. Chat noticed the chanting stop, the egg, all their X shape marks were facing Ladybug. Slowly they started inching closer
"Ladybug" Chat Noir spoke, taking out his staff ready to attack, Ladybug was brought back to reality now taking notice of the behavior change in the eggs. "I think we may have to prepare some scramble eggs" Ladybug shook her head, getting rid of her negative thoughts. She had to focus, she wasn't sure what to do but she would figure out something at least. The eggs in return started inching away scared of Chat's staff, once they realized Ladybug no longer had the negative thought she was having they looked at each other. Giving a final bounce before Ladybug or Chat Noir could react the eggs spread out all going into different directions.
"Maybe we can find the Easter bunny in charge of these eggs" Chat Noir noted as he slowly lost track of the eggs. Ready to follow at least one of them. Ladybug stopped him. "Shouldn't we stop them?" Chat Noir asked, now confused.
"For now let's return," Ladybug didn't want to admit this but something told her to hold back for now. No longer seeing a trace of the eggs she gave out a sigh "For now they don't pose a threat. They haven't done anything and they didn't attack us when we first arrived. Even when you pulled out your weapon they didn't become hostile, instead they fled. We don't know what they are or what they can do, the only thing I can tell is that you, kids and I are the only ones that can see them" Ladybug paused looking over Paris and down at pedestrians walking, minding their own business. "But not adults, otherwise they also would've panicked after seeing a strange black cloud circling the tower but they didn't... I'll see if the book has any information on them. Just be on alert if they cause trouble" Ladybug said
"Right, don't worry my lady, I'll always be here" Ladybug gave him a small smile, they did one small 'pound it' move and then they retreated.
Ladybug returned back to him, entering through her balcony into her room where her best friend Alya was waiting.
"What took you so long to return?" Alya asked. In her hand was her phone with a video displaying the battle that just occurred with the Akuma. Ladybug instead went straight to the guardian book.
"Something came up."
"With Chat Noir?" Alya asked almost in a teasing tone. Ladybug didn't react to it, focusing on the book in front of her flipping through it. "Ok, seriously. What happened?" Alya asked. Ladybug could only sigh again.
"It seems like there's something new, I don't know what it is or how to handle it. All I know is that they're floating black eggs" She admitted, feeling like she sounded crazy.
"Floating black eggs?" Alya questioned, that made Ladybug feel more crazy but she could only nod as she continued flipping through the book before her.
"And there's nothing here! Not even a drawing!" She was getting frustrated.
"Woah, Chill girl, we need to give you a break" Alya added slowly, reaching and taking out the book from Ladybug's hand. Ladybug shook her head.
"We can't, We have to figure out what's going on"
"And we will but for now we need to calm you down. Thinking about all of this will get you nowhere if you don't catch a break. Let's go get some cookies from downstairs and relax a bit" Alya said, placing the book down, and taking out her phone. "And maybe catch up on other things, I heard new students are joining the school after spring break" Alya shook her phone, almost enticing Ladybug to take the bait and she was fighting hard not to fall for it. Until a little orange fox kwami floated next to Alya.
"Tikki may also need a break" it said, and with that Ladybug was now back into Marinette, and the red kwami was once again in the palm of her hands.
"Ok a little break, but then we have to go back to figuring out what to do," Marinette admitted and Alya hugged her.
"We will" she said before pulling away, Marinette placed tikki on her desk and gave her another macaroon to eat in the meantime they get more. Both girls started heading down the stairs. "By the way I heard one of the students is a famous singer! Oh and then there's this other one who has a cool reputation, I heard she got accepted into any school she wanted and that no principal dared to defy her." Alya said, earning a laugh from Marinette.
"Are you sure it isn't just Chloe?" She asked at the mention of the last student.
"Oh I hope not! We already have one and we don't need any more of her in the world!" They laughed and it was something Marinette definitely needed. She would get back to her Ladybug business in a bit. For now She'll enjoy catching up on regular life with Alya.