Hey all, here it is, and i have a new Years announcement to make; from now on all my stories will be updates on my Pat reon first, then this in the same month. sorry but if i'm going to survive going forward this is how it has to be. And enjoy this last free chapter one and all! And i figured out to do the page blanks right!
Hawkmoth moved around his lair, his mind going towards places that he didn't want to tread. I didn't want this, I just wanted her back as I promised her so long ago! And thus my relationship with my son might be destroyed until I can get her back! He thought before going still as he looked towards City Hall and smiled, he had finally found what he was looking for.
He smiled as he felt a spark of anger and rage, a perfect combination that always gave such wonderful results grinning as he activated his powers. "Fly my little Akuma, fly and Akumatization my new champion!"
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A woman in a black dress with her brown hair in a bun and a red diamond necklace on scowled as she left the town hall, a petition in her hands. How dare that idiot just send me out without even looking at what I wanted to do! I mean just because there was that carnival for next month I get shafted before I could even say anything! I mean really what is this world coming to! She thought as she walked through the streets, not noticing the Akuma Butterfly as it flew at her and then went into her necklace. She went still as the energy Hawhmoth mask formed over her face and her eyes widened.
"Inferno Empress, I am Hawkmoth! I felt your rage and I can see what they've done to you! How dare they show you the door without even letting you speak of what you wanted! Get me the Miraculous of Chat Noir and Ladybug and in return I will give you the power to burn those peons to the ground with the full power of flame!" Hawkmoth voice came into her brain and she grinned, something that few of them did when he took control of them.
"Let the corrupt burn, let new life be born from their ashes!" She said as black muck covered her and she started to laugh.
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"How the hell did you find us?" Alya asked and Chloe shrugged.
"Me and Chloe were walking around the city and saw you, Chloe wanted to follow you when she saw how Marinette was acting she wanted to follow to help keep Lila away from you all, then we saw Adrien detransform and Chloe followed and here we are." Sabrina said and the other teens looked at Chloe.
"But how did you get in here, I'm sure I locked the doors." Fu said and Chloe grinned.
"I picked the lock." Chloe said blandly and the others excluding Adrien looked at her in shock.
"You what?" Marinette said and Chloe shrugged and looked at them.
"I like puzzles, there's easy for me, and by the way Marinette? Make that box of yours a lot harder in the future, I figured out how to break it open a minute." Chloe said and Sabrina looked at her and laughed.
"But it was nice around my hand, not too heavy and very tight." Sabrina said and grinned. "That model is kind of nice and good for beginners."
"Wait, beginners? You could have gotten out her out anytime, couldn't you? All she had to do was hide and you could let Sabrina out." Marinette said and Adrien looked at Chloe in confusion before he winced.
"I never wanted to be the rep, ever!" Chloe said and looked down. "His honor has used me a lot in his campaigns and well I always hoped someone would take him down, at least take the mayor's office from him."
"You wanted everybody to see you with it, didn't you?" Alya said and looked at her as things slowly crystalized in her mind. "And that present Marinette made, you destroyed it because you think she, Miss Buister didn't deserve it!"
"Yeah I did." Chloe said and Marinette looked at her shocked. "Let's be frank, she took you out of the class room to 'victim blame you', didn't she?"
"Yes." Marinette said and then looked at her. "But she protected me from Akuma that tried to get me, that's how it got her!"
"What I did caused Hawkmoth to send an Akuma to you?" Chloe asked horrified and Marinette shook her head.
"It was more how Miss Buister reacted and the lector she gave me than anything, at least I think it was." Marinette said as Adrien looked at her in sorrow as Alya stared in shock as Nino covered his eyes with his hat as Tikki landed on her shoulder.
"Then she's not completely slime, but she still should have done something to me, and her reactions caused me to forget her as a teacher." Chloe said and Marinette looked at her and tried to say something but stopped and sighed.
"To begin with, I'll need to go over some old things that Marinette and Adrien knows. I was a child when I was found by the Order of the Guardians." Fu said as he sipped his tea, the teens and Kwami looking at him as
"How old were you?" Chloe asked and Fu looked at her and she continued talking. "How old were you when you joined this Order?"
"Around seven, I was the youngest of three children and there was a famine going on at the time so my parents gave me to the order." Fu began and Chloe looked up and Adrien and Marinette both looked at him in shock. "I was ten when I was ordered to meditate in isolation, I spent 36 hours and then I was so hungry that I used the Peacock Miracouis to make a Sentimonster to get some food for me. Unfortunately I miscalculated and instead I created a monstrosity and was based on hunger, it was Feast the blue thing that Hawkmoth awoke a few months ago, and that is why I was identified by him."
"So you're an old cult baby that got away." Chloe said and Fu did a double take and looked at her in shock.
"The Order of the Guardians were not a cult! I mean sure they recruited young, the oldest new comer was around maybe nine…. And I did spend three years just listening to lessons that were basically just about the rules… and I was ordered to meditate because I disagreed with some of the lessons, the same meditation that was the root cause of me losing the Miraculous that Hawkmoth uses…" Fu said as he trailed off and then he looked around the room and paled in horror. "Oh my god."
The others looked at Chloe in shock and horror as they realized she might have been right.
"Okay, disturbing revelations aside, you wanted to talk to us?" Alya asked and Fu nodded dumbly.
"Yes I did, I had to. As I said most of my knowledge comes from the Kwami and the order, the wish is about balance, what will be will be, but it can be different, give people a stronger chance of survival or transfer the alliament to someone else." Fu said and Sabrina looked shocked.
"So this wish, it can't change what happens but it can change it, make it happen to other people instead?" Sabrina asked and Fu nodded as he looked at the Kwami.
"Yes, there might be other concerns but it looks at the person making the wish, they are the source of balance that affects it." Fu said and they looked at Tikki and Plagg who preened under the attention.
"We're the only ones who can decide when people are told about it." Tikki said and they turned to look at her as Plagg nodded.
"Yeah, that's the truth. There has been three times in the history of man that we judge that it was bad enough to risk it. One of them was the first time, we used the wish to cause a Tidal wave not to hit Atlantis and destroy it. Instead it was an earthquake that sank half of the island and killed maybe a quarter instead of 90 percent of the population. Unfortunately one of the survivors eventual started a rebel movement that caused the events that led to the birth of that plant thing that destroyed Atlantis!" Plagg said and then he looked at Tikki. "You know I never asked you what you did before we were reunited."
"I was in Egypt, like that Akuma said he I had. There was one that was the worst though, Tutankhamun only did what he did because of my first enemy in that land." Tikki said as she started to scowl and Plagg was scared at the look in her eyes.
"Sugar Cube?" Plagg asked weakly and then Tikki shook her head and looked around at the others looking at her with concern and rubbed the back of her head.
"Sorry, even now I still hate that thing for what he had done." Tikki said and sighed. "It was a dark time for me okay?"
"So that's why you never talked about your time away from us." Wayzz said softly and everyone felt for Tikki. However just then their phones started to buzz and looking down and they took you their phones, their eyes widening as the Akuma alert came on.
"Oh god, it's at Town Hall!" Chloe said as she looked up and Marinette could see the fear in her eyes.
"Dad's there, there's a meeting about a fundraiser for renovations!" Alya said she looked towards Trixx but before she could say anything, a the sound of Master Fu's cane banging against the ground caused them to stop.
"Ladybug, Chat Noir will go, and only them for now." Master Fu said and everyone looked at him. "Just because you know about it doesn't mean that you all need to go, and you Miss Chloe will stay here for now. If Hawkmoth thinks something has changed then all of Paris would be in danger, not to mention the world!"
"He's right, if he figures out who we are because we all go there and I let up how I treat you all then I don't know what he'll do!" Chloe said and Fu looked at Chloe and nodded, a small smile forming on his face as he watched them all look at Adrien and Marinette as they ran upwards, Plagg and Tikki following behind.
"They've done it before and they'll do it this time too, don't worry." Chloe reassured Alya and she looked at Chloe and smiled.
"So how much of your personality is a mask?" Alya asked and Chloe grinned.
"Finally figure that out about me? About eighty percent, I like to do my own homework but I have terrible writing so Sabrina usually copies it and we work together on it." Chloe admitted as she sat back and drank some of her tea.
"She's really good at Literature and Foreign language!" Sabrina chirped and Fu looked at them both and nodded, looking at the Miraculous box and grinning.
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In City Hall people ran about screaming in fear as Alya's father Otis tried to find a way out, looking at the metal shutters as the Mayor cowed behind the main desk. And to think I voted for him! I expected him to be a little more brave! Otis thought as he risked a look out a nearby window and winced as a flash bomb went off outside and he lost his sight.
"Could you see anything about it?" An office lady asked and Otis looked towards her voice and shook his head. "Are you okay?"
"I tried to see anything and lost some of my sight. I can only hope that the heroes can get bye that thing out there." Otis said as he started to blink and he started to see shapes.
"Is it getting hotter in here?" A man asked and then Otis saw that the door was starting to generate heat and glowing.
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As they ran over the Paris rooftops, Ladybug wondered just what they were getting into. As they rounded the corner she paled when she saw flames leaping towards the sky from where City Hall was and she cursed. "Of course it's an elemental one this time."
"Don't worry My Lady, the two of us can handle it and most of our allies are a call away!" Chat Noir reassured her as they ran. As they made it to the plaza they were able to see that City Hall was under attack by arrows of fire that were being shot from five fireballs that moved around the building, the door starting to glow red as they watched. As they looked around they felt heat coming from behind them and they dived to the side and turned and saw the Akuma.
She was a tall woman with ruby hair in two buns on the side of her hair with crimsons horns sticking out them point up. Her face had red eye shadow and lipstick and her mouth revealed fangs from her bottom and top teeth. She was wearing a red dress and red knee high boots and as they watched she formed a whip of flames as fireballs formed by her horns
"So you are the fools that have troubled master Hawkmoth, I am Flame Striker and I will burn you to ashes and take the Miraculous from your remains!" Flame Empress roared and pointed the whip at them as the fireballs spat arrows of fire at them. Ladybug dodged but Chat Noir stayed still began to spin his baton but after a while he started to dodge as well.
"Don't block, if they hit it causes your weapon to grow hot!" He called out and Ladybug kept dodging and they tried to find anything that might be the item, but nothing seemed to be obvious. A dart hit her left arm and she felt it grow hot and after a few moments she realized it wasn't going down.
"Whatever they hit grows hot!" She screamed and dodged a bolt that hit a lamp post; Flame Striker grinned and suddenly all the fireballs shot their arrows at the post, and within moments it melt into slag.
"Oh." Ladybug said as she looked at City Hall and noticed that the paint was starting to drip away.
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At the hotel Nathalie had slipped up the staircase before the attack and had made it to the right floor and looked around, seeing that most of the doors were in the process of being repainted and after a few moments found the one that wasn't and walked to it. Perfect, this plan might not even fail after all. I just need to talk to Adrien and then I can hopefully end this. She thought as she knocked on the door. After a few moments she frowned as she heard the sound of someone walking around. "Adrien, it's Nathalie. I know your father is a hard ass, but he really has what he thinks is your best interests in mind."
All she could hear was silence and she frowned. Oh come on Adrien, I might have found out where you were hiding but this is not what I expected from you! She thought as she looked at the door and started to pound on it. "Adrien please I know that you can't help but feel betrayed, but please just talk with me for a few moments!"
Nathalie heard the sounds of something moving and tried again. "I know you have to feel betrayed about what Lila said but please it's not what you think it was, she was lying through her teeth! Please Adrien just talk to me!"
She couldn't hear anything from within and started to bang on it. he'd usually at least call back to me, and I thought I heard something moving in there before, but was I wrong about it? No if it was somebody else they would have called out, and who else would Chloe call a special guest?! Nathalie thought as she tried to figure out what to do.
Nathalie looked at the door and frowned. Okay, okay. This is worse, maybe he feels that I helped Lila, maybe he doesn't. Maybe he feels that I'm always on Gabriel's side, maybe he doesn't. I need to talk to him face to face. Nathalie thought and looked at the door before pounding on it.
"Adrien please talk to me at least! Please understand that I want what I think is best for you truly!" Nathalie pleaded and then heard nothing from the other side. What is this, I don't understand he has to be here, I can't let it end like this! She thought as she started to bang on the door and then nodded. "I'm coming in Adrien!"
She backup and started to ram into the door, feeling it move a little and smiling as she heard some movement from inside. As she moved backwards she heard the elevator ding down the corridor and cursed. It must be security, but I have to talk to him face to face! She thought as she ran at the door and put all she had into it and broke through. She smiled as she ran in but she stepped on something and started to slip before falling to the floor.
She felt something lick her and towards it to see a crocodile pant and smile at her. She moved backwards and felt something soft in her hands and then she smelled it. Looking down she saw biologic waste everywhere and throw up on the floor and she saw she was sitting in some of it and her cloths were all stained.
"Hey, aren't you Gabe's secretary or something? What are you doing in me Fangster's sick room?"
Looking towards the voice Nathalie saw Jagged Stone and Penny Rolling looking at her with complete confusing on their faces
"What is this?!" Nathalie demanded and Jagged shrugged.
"Fang ate something that didn't agree with em bad fish or something. After the third gas attack I asked if he could stay here since this floor was being redone….wait a tick, what are you even doing here?!" Jagged demanded as he glared at her, Nathalie could only wince as she tried to figure out what to say as she looked away but before she could say anything Penny spoke up.
"She can tell us later, for now let's get her in the shower, we can talk after she's not in danger of getting what Fang has." Penny said as reached down and offered her a hand.
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Ladybug dodged another arrow and Chat Noir landed by her and grinned. "How about the fast ball special with the whip?"
She grinned and nodded. Chat Noir charged at Flame Striker and started to swing his baton-staff at her and she dodged the blows, moving to the left before a trash can flew through her, Flame Striker coming apart as the heroes looked at her in shock.
"What the?" Chat Noir breathed as they stared in confusion before a regal sounding laugh came from all around them.
"So you were able to handle my Flame Striker were you, let's see how you handle the Inferno Empress!" The voice called out before fireballs started to fall around them, forming a ring of fire that slowly shrank towards them as they tried looked around, trying to find a way to get away.
"How is she doing this, she's not an illusion powered Akuma, no… it's fire based, all fire! " Chat Noir said as he looked around and
"You mean mirages…. Of course but how can she control what we see?" Ladybug asked as they looked around and tried to find a way to get away. "Do you have a recharge for him?"
"Three more of them." Chat Noir whispered.
"Give me a second, than make a hole into the sewers, if I can't find a way to get around this." Ladybug said called out her power. "Lucky Charm!"
Above them a red and black spotted projector and a magnifying glass dropped into her hands.
"Is that?" Chat Noir asked and Ladybug nodded. "Then let me help with a Cataclysm!"
As his power activated Chat Noir slammed his hand against the ground and a hole formed that they dropped into it as the circle rushed to them, the fire missing them by inches.
"Follow me!" Chat Noir cried as they heard her scream from above them as light started to pour down from the hole, they both dashed away from the Akuma and within moments they had slipped away into the darkness, the screams of the Akuma echoeing off the walls. The two stayed silent as they ran,the beeps of their miraculous the only sound until they reached a place to hide.
"That meant what I thought it did, right?" Chat Noir asked as their transformations dropped and they turned back into their civilian forms.
"Yeah it does, and this time we can tell him what we need." Marinette said and then frowned. "That Akuma, it was using heat to hide so we need someone with the ability to find it so a new Miracolous needs to go into play, right?"
"Yeah but we need to keep her eyes on us, so then they need someone to take her down, that means we need Chloe again. And we'll need someone to protect her while she tries to geta a clear shot." Adrien said and Marinette nodded.
"Then we need Chloe and a way to find the Akuma …is there a kwami who can give a hero that power?" Marinette asked and Tikki nodded.
"Yes, Barkk the Kwami of Searching." Tikki said and she looked at them all from where she was floating. "And Sabrina is also the best choice to join with him, like him she protects her pack at the expense of all others."
"And that doesn't bother you Marinette?" Adrien asked. "That Sabrina and Chloe need to use a Miraculous?"
"If Chloe did that to attack our teacher then a lot of what I had against her I can work on my problems with her." Marinette said and then sighed. "And I gave as good as I got when we bit at each other if I'm honest. She's more…complicated then I thought she was."
"She's like that, isn't she? And I always thought she had a better reason than hated to attack you, and to go after that gift for Buister." Adrien said as the Kwami floated above them and Plagg started to laugh.
"That's Pollen's nymph's alright! They always go after what they see as damaging their allies!" Plagg said and Marinette looked at him and opened and closed her mouth, her mind going strange places as she looked back before she shook her head to clear her mind. "You okay Pigtails?"
"We'll worry about that later, we need to call them." Marinette said as she got out her phone, a promise to talk with Chloe alone after the Akuma was dealt with being made in her head.
"At least this way will be a lot easier in the future, right?" Adrien asked as Plagg grinned and Tikki frowned as Marinette giggled and nodded.
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As Fu drank his tea as he listened to the teens talk with their Kwamis, he tried to get over the revelation that Chloe had given him. I don't understand, I helped deprogram survivors of the Nazi's, why didn't I notice my own problem? I suppose that the worst fool is one who can't see the trees for the forest after all. He thought before a phone rang and they all looked to Alya as she answered it.
"It's Marinette! Marinette what is it….wait I'm putting it on speaker." Alya said as she pressed a button on her phone and put it down on the table. "Okay, you're on girl, how was it?"
"Bad, the Akuma is able to control fire, it's able to generate mirages, hide and use fireballs to fire arrows that heat up whatever they hit." Marinette said and they all looked at each other in horror. "So far she has the town hall under siege, but the arrows hit a lamppost and melted it!"
"You need help then, the lucky charm?" Fu asked and they heard a giggle from Plagg on the other end and he winced.
"We need a tracker and someone to immobilize her once they find her, so we need Queen Bee." Marintte said and Chloe's eyes widened.
"NO!" Chloe said and looked around the room at their surprised looks. "Think, if I show up with a new hero Sabrina will be in danger!"
"Wait…. If you don't show up with Ladybug then you had to have gotten the Bee Miraculous from someone or somewhere else, then Hawkmoth could!" Alya said as her eyes widened and Fu grinned.
"So you don't want the chance that Hawkmoth could hurt one of your friends?" Fu asked and looked at Chloe who nodded. "And that's what's going through your mind right now, giving how you showed the world you were Queen Bee."
"Sorry if it finally hit me that my parents would never love me and I had a mental break down." Chloe said bitterly. "And while I appreciate the thought behind how you turned down my mothers offer, I might have been happier if she left Paris and my life."
"Chloe…" Alya said as she looked at who she thought was just a bully and privileged queen bitch and saw how valuable she was and what she dealt with.
"You've always got me sis." Adrien's voice came from the phone and Chloe smiled.
"Pollen, you were right about her. Are you prepared?" Fu asked and they all looked at him and Pollen who grinned.
"Yes I am, I knew she was the right person to wield my power and I hope you will think that about the new comers." Pollen said and Trixx giggled.
"She's got a few more people then I'm used to, but I really want to help with the snow job at least." Trixx said and Wayzz shook his head.
"Not yet Master Fu, I will stay with you primarily until I am ready to leave." Wayzz said and the teens looked around the room as Kaalki cleared her throat.
"Young Max is a soul with much potential, and I always wanted to try and best a golem at chess, it might be fun." Kaalki said and Max's mouth dropped open.
"What are you talking about?" Marinette asked and Fu grinned.
"What I'm talking about is finding permanent homes for all the Miraculous." Fu said and the teens all looked at him in shock.
"WHAT?!" Marinette screeched and Fu chuckled.
"It was always a long term plan of mine, a way to help and protect the Miraculous and Kwami. I was actually planning this for a while since before Hawkmoth's first appearance." Fu said and looked around and grinned. "There were times when the Miraculous were originally in family lines, maybe it has become the time for that again."
"Newsflash, Queen Bee can't engage with a new here!" Chloe said and Fu grinned back at her.
"Then let Queen Bee die, become someone else." Fu said bluntly with a smile and Chloe looked at him as he got up and moved towards the box, removing the Bee . "Did you all think that these were the permanent forms of the Miraculous? They have changed many times over the years, but to change the Kwami must use up their abilities before they need to recharge and wait a few minutes between the transformation and first time use. Ready Pollen?"
"You bet!" Pollen said as she hovered above the comb and started to glow, sending a light onto the Miraculous that started to glow and after a few moments it started to shift and release a flash of light that blinded them. When it died down there was a golden hair stick where the comb had been. Pollen started to grin when she suddenly fell towards the floor.
"Pollen!" Chloe creid and grabbed the Kwami before she could fall, Chloe's heart started to beat and then Pollen laughed. "Wait, you did that on purpose! Why?"
"A final test my dear, just to reassure my heart. And now for you miss Raincomprix." Fu said and smiled at her as she looked back at him in shock.
"Me?" Sabrina asked and Fu nodded.
"Yes, they were right that you might have been in danger with Queen Bee, but will you step forward anyway?" Fu asked and Sabrina gasped in shock and Marinette laughed a little. "I guess from your laughter that she was your pick my dear?"
"Yes she was." Marinette said and Sabrina looked at the phone in complete shock.
"What! Why me?!" Sabrina asked and Chloe grinned as her friend was about to receive recognition for all that she was.
"You have one of the keenest eyes in class, and I can trust you to do what's right. And recent events have made me rethink a lot of things and I will talk to you and Chloe about them when this is over. But for now, Sabrina will you accept the Miraculous, will you stand up and help protect Paris?" Marinette asked through the phone and Sabrina looked around, Chloe had a blank face and Sabrina knew she had to decide this on her own,
"If it will help people, yes I will." Sabrina said and Fu laughed and looked at her with a smile and handed her a small box.
"Sabrina Raincomprix, this is the Miraculous of the Dog, with the power of Tracking. You will use this for the greater good and return this to me when the danger has passed." Marinette said as Sabrina accepted the box and looked around at the others.
"Yes!" Sabrina said as she opened the box. A ball of light formed into a dog shapped kwami with light brown with a white mark around her mouth, between her eyes, and on her chest. She has gray eyes, drop ears, a whisker on her forehead and a tail that curved upwards.
"Hi Sabrina, I'm Barkk! My transformation command is Let's Hunt!" Barkk said with a grin before Sabrina hugged him.
"AWWW, you're so cute!" Sabrina said and Barkk laughed as he snuggled with her.
"Thanks! Now my power will let you see any magic being used within a mile, you just have to focus on what you're hunting and I'll do the rest, just say 'Tracker's Eye!' to activate it!" Barkk said with a grin and Sabrina nodded.
"Ready Sabrina?" Chloe asked as she removed her hairpin and put the Miracoulous in its place as Sabrina removed the Dog Miraculous, a collar around her neck, undoing the bow around her neck to do so.
"Go, remember Chloe, think about how you want your costume to change, it is not Queen Bee but a new persona that you and Pollen must construct together." Fu said and Chloe nodded.
"Pollen, Buzz on!" Chloe called out and Pollen shoot into the comb. As the lights went up her body it formed a yellow bodysuit with a solid black corset with a yellow collar and a white fuzzy chocker around her neck and black gloves that went to her elbows and she had on black knee high boots and her mask was pure black hiding her eyes with pitch black spots over them and her hair became two ponytails with a black line down the top of both and a golden comb formed before them as a yellow spinning top materialized in her hands that she started to spun around her head.
"Barkk, let's hunt!" Sabrina called out and Bakk flew straight at the collar and a flash of light covered Sabrina and then when it died down she was covered in a brown bodysuit with a dog tail from a belt around her waist and she had a face mask across her eyes that went to her ears and two dog ears on her head, two Escrima Sticks formed and she put them on her back and glared out a fierce look in her eyes.
"Welcome to the team! Say, what are your names?" Alya asked and the two looked at each other and grinned back.
"Apisera." Chloe, the former Queen Bee renamed herself and grinned, her voice sounding different.
"And I'm Canixia!" Sabrina said and grinned as she took out one of the Escrima Sticks from her back and looked at it.
"Good, the two of us have recharged, what's the plan?" Plagg's voice came over the phone and they all looked at it.
"We can't find her without you two, so we'll attack and try and take out the fireballs. Once you get in range, Canixia can use her power and track the Akuma, then fall back and transform back, Apisera you attack her and then try break her concentration." Marinette said and the heroes nodded.
"Good luck the both of you." Fu said as the two heroes nodded and ran upwards.
"Let's backup a bit. You want to give us the Miraculous we used?" Max asked and Fu nodded.
"I am mealy the keeper and protector of these beings, not their jailer. They have talked about you all, and that might be the best thing in the end." Fu said and smiled at them. "But I will have to ask that you go to battle when called only. And we will need to change the way the Fox looks like."
"Why? Wait….. the Bee was changed because everyone knows about it, so who knows about the Fox?" Alya asked and then she started to glare. "Oh don't tell me, Lila again!?"
"Yes, tell me did they talk to you about what book Lila took from Adrien?" Fu asked and at their shakes his eyes hardened.
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As they dashed over the Paris rooftops Apisera led the way and looked back and saw Canixia lagging. Sabrina doesn't like to fight but we might be the MVP here, I need to give her a pep talk I guess. Apisera thought as she looked at Canixia and stopped at a building and looked at Caxina and smiled.
"Que…. Why are you stopping? We need to move!" Caxina said as she landed and looked at Apisera who looked back and sighed. "What?"
"Your scared aren't you?" Apisera asked and Caxina looked down and nodded.
"I mean yeah." Caxina said and looked at Apisera. "I'm not that brave, but I know that this can help save lives and I will help out!"
"Then don't forget about it. Embrace it and use it to save others." Apisera said and Caxina nodded and took a deep breath. "Ready girl?"
"Yeah, let's do it!" Caxina said and Apisera grinned at her friend and they took off, running over the rooftops. After a few moments they were over looking towards the town hall and winced as they saw the Chat Noir and Ladybug try and destroy the fireballs . "There it is, this might be the best place."
"Yeah, let's do it! Tracker's Eye!" Caxina said and her eyes went pure white and she stepped back. She suddenly saw a red line going from the fire towards the east. "That way, she's that way!"
"Let's go!" Apisera said and they moved forward, Caxina leading the way. They moved until they found a clearing with a woman in a red dress with a ruby crown on her head with a ruby staff with a black gemstone sphere on top. Before they could do anything Caxina saw a purple energy line shot from above and then a mask of a butterfly appeared over her face. Caxina grabbed Apisera's hand and gestured backwards with her head. Apisera nodded and they moved away from the clearing and
"I saw Hawkmoth talking to her!" Caxina said and looked at Apisera. "I mean I saw the magic go talk to her before it formed that mask!"
"What?" Apisera asked in shock before a beep was heard and a spot on her collar went away. "Your timing out, get to safety and talk to the others, if we can use this then we could win!"
"Good luck." Caxina said as she ran in the direction of the theater. As Caxina psyched herself up she looked towards the Akuma and grinned.
"Time for my debut." Apisera said with a grin. "And with luck Hawkmoth will only know that I'm here."
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Chat Noir and Ladybug rushed towards the mirage of Flame Striker they hoped that they would have all of her attention. Ladybug threw her yoyo out and grabbed a trashcan and threw it at one of the fireballs and destroyed it as Chat Noir threw a garbage can lid at another destroying it. As they dodged the arrows from the other fireballs, Ladybug hoped Chloe and Sabrina would soon find the Akuma, and moments after she had this thought then the fireballs died, however a moment later an explosion of fire herald Apisera flying through the air and she rolled and landed next to Ladybug and Chat Noir as she winced, her top was around her arm.
"What happened?!" Ladybug asked as the true Akuma walked out, fire balls forming around her staff.
"I don't know! I was about to attack her when….Hawkmoth has eyes on us!" Apisera said with a snarl. "He contacted her before I sent my partner away and got the jump on me before I could do anything, sorry LB."
"Don't worry, you got the real one out…. Wait what?!" Ladybug asked as she and Chat Noir swung their heads and looked at Apisera who nodded. If she means what I think she does, then that's…That's a game changer… we can talk about it later but for now we need to stay alive. She thought as she looked at the Akuma as she walked out.
"So you need help to deal with me, the Flame Empress?" Flame Empress purred as two fireballs formed and started to fire arrows at them, the three heroes dodging as two more fireballs formed behind her.
"What's the plan my Lady?" Chat Noir asked and Aspirea chuckled as she readied herself.
"Let's try a Luck Charm!" Ladybug called out as she threw her Yoyo upwards and a red and black spotted fog machine dropped down. She looked at it and then around, seeing the alley that Flame Empress had come out of and then Aspirea flashed as well as Ladybug understood.
"Take this and get back to where you left your partner and recharge, look for an opening and activate it once you see one." Ladybug said as she handed the machine to Aspira who looked at Flame Empress and nodded. "We'll hold it off, go!"
"Got it Ladybug!" Aspira said with a grin as she realized what Ladybug meant and dashed away, Chat Noir looked at the Akuma as it moved sent fireballs at them and started to dodge the arrows. Ladybug used her yoyo to grab a bench and throw it at Flame Empress who burned it to ashes with her staff as Chat Noir landed near the town hall. He looked at the door as he felt the heat from it and frowned as he felt the heat from it and looked at the walls, seeing the paint start to drip down he hoped Chloe would be able to finish this before the two of them timed out.
"I'll just be able to get Ladybug's Miraculous before I try and get the cat! You can't stop what you can't see!" Flame Empress roared as she raised her staff and fired a bolt of flame at Ladybug who dodged it and
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Aspira moved upwards and away, a scowl on her face. He saw us, that's the only explanation for who it happened! I guess the ideas that we've brainstormed about Hawkbut is dead, at least that one had made it to the rooftop and looked down at the alley, her eyes not finding anything but feeling the breeze she activated the fog machine. As the fog started to drift down she saw an area that wasn't being covered by the fog, an area in the shape of a person. Aspira grinned and looked down at the space and jumped towards it, a grin on her face. "Venom!"
As she fell down she hit something and saw Flame Empress fade into reality as Aspira grinned and looked at the Akuma.
"Not bad, the only thing that's bad is that you won't remember much so we won't be able to ask you how you found out we were there." Aspira said as she reached down and picked up the paralyzed Akuma. She walked out of the alley as Ladybug and Chat Noir moved towards her.
She grinned at them and smirked before she heard a beep before another beep sounded and she put the Akuma down. "Well I'm off, hopefully I'll get back to my partner and we'll hand them over to you once we de-transform!"
As Aspira jumped to the rooftops Ladybug looked over the Akuma until she found the necklace and tore it from her neck. "Catch Chat!"
"Cataclysm!" He called out and with a touch the necklace was destroyed, black energy flowing over the Akuma as she was turned back to normal as Chat jumped upwards and ret. As the black butterfly flew free Ladybug started to spin her yoyo.
"No more evildoing for you little Akuma!" She called out as she threw her necklace at the butterfly and caught it. She pulled the yoyo back to her and smiled, releasing a white butterfly from it as Chat Noir came down with the fog machine. "Together?"
"Together!" Chat Noir answered with a smirk and they both put their hands under the Lucky Charm and threw it into the air.
"Miraculous Ladybug!" They called out as it came apart into ladybugs that swarmed around, repairing the light post and then swarming over the town hall, the glow being gone when they swarm passed.
"I'll go, you handle the victim." Ladybug said as she ran towards one of the buildings and jumped away, Chat Noir looking at her and smiling before turning back towards the victim as people, including Otis came out of the town hall.
"Are you okay?" Chat Noir asked the woman who shook her head.
"Wha….Chat Noir? Why are you… oh god! He got me didn't he?" The woman said and Chat Noir nodded.
"Can I ask what was the cause mam?" Chat Noir asked
"I wanted to update the fire safety rules for public gatherings, I spent a month working on it but I was told that I would have to come back because a new festival was just planned for next month and to bring in new laws or rules would affect it so I was told to come back when there wasn't one planned, and with the way the city is that would be sometime next year!" The woman said loudly as people came closer and Otis scowled in anger.
"I don't believe this, did you talk to the mayor about that?" Otis demanded and the woman shook her head.
"I didn't even get that far, it was this secretary outside his office." The woman said and then they all looked towards Chat Noir as his ring beeped.
"You all look like you got this, good luck!" Chat Noir said as he jumped to the rooftops and dashed away and Otis looked at the woman and offered her his hand.
"I'm Otis, I work at the zoo and I've been chosen to plan a fundraising party, how about you and I look over your proposed new rules and we see what we can do?" Otis said and the woman smiled at him.