That movie Hansel and Gretal Witch Hunters inspired me to have our heroes be the one to kill witches and face against one who is very strong and powerful with lies. I did a lot of Gabriel, this time it's Cerise. Adrien will be the partial Werecat where he was cursed as a kid and Marinette the orphan living on her own without knowing she's a white witch. Until one day these two meet and faced against one of the witches that tried to kill them until they discovered they are immune to dark magic. Ratings might change, depending on how the intensity becomes.
Characters belong to (c) Zag.
For centuries in Paris, witches, and sorcery magic were beyond madness to the people to believe witches are demons and monsters to frighten people and abduct young children for rituals and sacrifices. They all say that witches use children because they are young and have stable blood to help witches look beautiful because adults are far too much wiser than children with maturity and less youth as they get older. Which is why witches choose children.
One was an orphaned 9-year-old French-Chinese girl with dark blue hair and blue eyes. The forest keeps going on forever but she felt hopeless to find a home. The night was getting cold as she held her cloak close to keep herself warm. She heard something that sounded like sneaking around. She quietly hid behind the tree and saw a boy with blond hair with a bow and arrows to aim at the deer. He kept his grip steady on the bow and then fired the arrow.
"No!" The girl yelled.
The Boy got startled and missed his intended target, causing the deer to run off into the forest.
"You made me miss my dinner!" The boy was really cross with the girl.
"Sorry. I just couldn't bear to see a deer get killed. It feels wrong" The girl said.
"Does starving also feel wrong to you?" The boy said.
"That deer could have been a mother to a fawn," the girl said.
This reminded the boy that he lost his mother a year ago and his father could not raise him at all. So his father abandoned him and he was on his own.
He sighs in defeat and walks up to her, "What's your name?" He asked.
"Marinette Dupain-Cheng" Marinette said.
"Adrien Agreste" He said.
"That's a nice name," Marinette said.
"Thanks. Uh, what are you doing here in the woods alone?" Adrien asked.
"I have nowhere to go. My parents are dead and I'm all alone" Marinette said sadly.
"Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that. I lost my mother a year ago and my dad decided he did not want me. It was very hard on him and I just decided to live on my own, even if it's scary out there" Adrien said sadly.
Marinette then hugged Adrien to comfort him, "Sounds like we can both take care of each other"
"It's a start. I never had a friend" Adrien said.
"Neither have I. The orphanage couldn't take care of me" Marinette said.
"Is that why you ran into the woods?" Adrien asked.
"Yeah, trying to figure out what I can do on my own but so far it's a dead end," Marinette said.
"Well, we better stick together to survive," Adrien said.
"And get some food too. Not live ones I mean. And again, sorry for making you miss your target" Marinette said.
"No, I should know better. You were right. I wouldn't know if that deer would soon be a mom or not" Adrien apologized.
"I just had a feeling about it," Marinette said.
"But still. My desperation made me not think first" Adrien said before putting away his bow.
Despite being 9 years old, they still have a bit of learning experience at a young age but they still are children and not fully strong enough to fight a grown adult. Walking in the forest was endless until they came across a gingerbread house filled with real candy as if it attracts children to eat something like a miracle.
"Ohhhhhh" Marinette couldn't resist it.
"Uhhh…..is it safe?" Adrien was unsure but the smell of sweets was just too much to crave on.
"I hope" Marinette reached for one gingerbread. She took a bite out of it and liked it.
Both were unaware that it was a trap to lure children into their demise. A strange woman came out, seeing the two eating her house.
"Who are you two?!" She asked them.
"Uhhh" They both knew that talking to adult strangers like this woman was not a good idea. They fell into a cage trap hidden underneath the ground.
"HEY! Let us out!" Marinette screamed.
"It's a trap!" Adrien struggled.
"I have you two for dinner!" The woman reveals herself to be a witch.
"AAAHHHHH!" Both children held each other in fright.
A while later, kids were forced to eat to get fat but apparently, both of them had a high metabolism and neither got fat. It angered the crazy witch to cast dark magic on the innocent boy to become a Werecat but the girl spots a broomstick to use as a weapon to whack the witch before the spell is almost completed. The boy gained black cat ears, cat eyes, tail, claws, and fangs. It was as if he still gained his human conscience to not go feral like an animal.
"HYAH!" Marinette hits the witch hard.
"Huh?" Adrien looked at his tail.
"No time for that! Grab a weapon or something!" Marinette said before slowly backing up near him.
"I can't! My nails are claws!" Adrien said timidly but then in a reflex, he shielded her from an incoming dark magic hex that did not affect him because he'd gained bad luck with the black cat.
"No! You were supposed to become my new black cat!" The witch shouted.
"Agh!" Adrien held his cat ears which also gained more enhanced hearing.
Marinette looks around when she spots the heated fire stove, then at Adrien and her weapon broom, "Adrien, attack her! I got an idea!" Marinette said.
"Okay," Adrien nods and hisses at the witch before lunging at her, "MEEEOOOOOWWWW!" He scratched her face to get her guard down while giving Marinette more time to use the broom to hit the witch, sending her to the fire stove.
The witch screamed as she burned to her demise, "IS THAT HOT ENOUGH?!" Marinette shouted.
"Close the stove!" Adrien struggled to push it.
Marinette helped him out to close it shut. It was scary for what they did but they wanted to be alive rather than let a witch kill them. It was a relief for them to survive from the old witch hag that tried to kill them alive. As the witch burned they ran out of the cookie house.
Throughout the years they discovered they had defeated a witch for the first time. And of course, experience their ways of rescuing children from witches as time goes by until Paris sees them as heroes. Even though Adrien accepts that he got cursed by a witch with his bad luck, he can help and protect Marinette with her brilliant ideas to solve problems. Their friendship remained strong since that day.
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15 years went by and they have survived and did their routine of rescuing children and burning witches. Adrien, however, was able to adapt to this curse of his partial Werecat features but Marinette told him that even if it's a curse, he still has his human heart.
Right now they were entering the city of Paris. Riding their horses through the crowd so they don't have to sign autographs again.
For whatever reason, Adrien wore a mask on his face. To not draw too much attention of his cat features mixed with his human self. Even if children see him as a cute catman.
"Well, we've finally arrived, Kitty" Marinette said.
"Yeah, and a bit hungry for fish again. Last night was a bit of hell with that swamp witch" Adrien said before getting off his horse.
"And I know the best place they serve fish and chips from Britain," Marinette said.
"Cat Noir! Cat Noir!" Little girls playing with his cat tail and admiring his cuteness.
"Agh! Alright, alright! Settle down, little ladies. This kitty man needs his cat nap" Adrien being gentle with them, despite how exhausting it is to rescue children.
"Come Adrien" Marinette pulls him inside a bar.
"Man, good time for drinks and lunch" He can smell fresh fish a mile away.
"Indeed" Marinette sat at a table.
"The same as usual, Miraculous Heroes," The waiter asked.
Everyone calls them Miraculous because they always save every child without bringing one dead. It was as if they were given a miracle by the god.
"Yes, with a glass of milk too," Adrien said.
"Yes, please. And make his fish more delicious for him" Marinette said.
"Got it," The waiter said, "And for you, young lady?"
"Just a grinder," Marinette said.
"Okay then" The waiter replied.
"For years of hunting witches, we never got a death wish" Adrien chuckled and swished his tail.
"After all we're the witches reckoning," Marinette said.
"It's strange how their dark magic doesn't work on us. Not even on my bad luck cat charm. How long have we been wearing our masks to not draw too much attention of who we are?" Adrien asked before the waiter handed them their meals.
"Ever since we started hunting. Perhaps since the witch transformed you, your bad luck prevents magic on you" Marinette guessed.
"When I was 9, Mari" He munched on his fish meat, "You saved my life before the curse could've consumed me into a real Werecat. Everyone thinks I'm gifted but I'm not. It's a curse I lived with"
"Adrien, you're still the same inside, how you look outside shouldn't change you for what you are, being yourself" Marinette comforted him.
"Puuuuurrrrrrrr" He purred in delight at how she was good at finding the right words to cheer him up.
"Your purrs are too cute" Marinette giggled and Adrien just blushed.
"Kids always think I'm too adorable with cat features" Adrien chuckled.
"And that is why you have the spirit of the black cat," Marinette said.
"Thanks, Marinette," Adrien said.
A while later, they were in the woods on foot to find any more witches again. Witch activity has been increasing lately when it comes to children disappearing.
"I have a feeling we're not alone as usual," Adrien said.
"Is your whiskers tingling for danger?" Marinette asked.
"Yeah," Adrien crawls on all four.
"Careful, kitty. My human senses are not sharper like yours" Marinette held her bow and arrows. She pulls one arrow and aims in every direction.
The Werecat man smells to pick up a scent but nothing, "Nothing. I don't smell danger. I don't like this"
"Me neither. For years they try to be alert whenever we arrive to cut off their heads" Marinette said.
"Wait!" Adrien's cat ear flicked at a faint sound in the direction of the east, "Sounds like a witch. A plant type witch to control and turn plants into monsters"
"Let's go, Kitty!" Marinette ran with him.