08/26/24
3 Reviews, 6 Favs, 6 Follows
Later around 5pm as night approached, Claw Noir arrived at the Liberty boat to check up on Luka and Juleka since they are musicians but also love scary things like the supernatural they try to catch on film but it was too dangerous to get up close. For years when YouTube was made, everyone worldwide would capture footage of strange things that are either real or a hoax and upload it to YouTube. 90% would say it's a hoax while 10% would say it's real. No one can believe anything when videos can be manipulated as fake. That was until a year when Claw Noir came around, he would be strong and brave to capture it up close without freaking out or running away.
"Hello you two" He greeted them.
"Claw Noir" Juleka swooned at being the biggest fan.
"What brings you here?" Luka asked.
"The usual. Anything supernatural for me to go after. I love dangerous haunted places to visit" Claw Noir said.
"Well, after your trip around the world, some haunted places have been pretty active. But when you came back, they went into hiding. It's as if they are hiding from you" Luka said before gently playing his guitar.
"Well, I'm the prince of darkness in Paris" Claw Noir joked.
"Yes, you are. Everyone knows the superstition myth of a black cat crossing one's path is a bad omen" Juleka said.
"Like how many times has it happened?" Luka asked.
"A lot but my ass always remained un-whooped. I never run away when I see black figures like ghosts or demons. My claws are itching for one" Claw Noir said.
"Very well. There is one but it's hard to tell if it's a rumor or just a made-up scary story to scare people off. During after the 2015 terrorist attack, rumor has it that the haunting has been scaring people off when they hear a strange scream somewhere in Saint Denis but no person has been found" Juleka explained.
"A strange scream you say?" Claw Noir got interested.
"They say this scream sends chill up their spines. Almost as if the scream is a warning to tell intruders to leave or get haunted" Luka said.
"And check this out. This was 5 days ago by YouTubers who posted this online and it looked real than an act" Juleka shows the video from YouTube to him.
3 girls were knocking on the door hard until a guttural ghostly scream scared them off and the video shakes a little that the person recording this was running away.
"Told ya," Juleka said.
"This should be something to investigate," Claw Noir said.
"You know the deal, Claw. It's not like you can suck ghost energy than sucking blood" Juleka said.
"Heh, no such thing as a vampire sucking ghost energy" Luka snickered at knowing what this kitty is.
"I know." Claw Noir replied.
"And you know what traps souls and ghosts? Mirrors" Juleka said.
"Yes, that" Claw Noir nodded.
"So don't let another bad luck break this mirror" Juleka hands him the handheld mirror.
"Got it or it's seven years of bad luck," Claw Noir said.
"That's just a myth. Unless you count as a black cat" Luka teased.
"Where I go, every day is Halloween to bad guys I hunt" Claw Noir smirked.
"It's always Halloween to you. You talk to bats than just cats" Juleka said.
"Pity I didn't rename myself Count Noir" Claw Noir said.
"Always gotta stick to being a wild stray," Juleka said.
"Yes, rather than being a house cat," Claw Noir said.
"Yup. Now get out of here before you miss out on ghost hunting. If you capture a ghost, be sure you get good footage too" Juleka said.
"And go bite asses" Luka made an expression that the kitty bites more than kicking.
"If I can on ghosts," Claw Noir said.
"Or scare them to show who is the best scary monster in all of the ghost stories" Luka snickered.
"Which I why I'm the lord of all vampires" Claw Noir chuckled before morphing into a bat to head to Saint-Denis.
x
Once he arrived, he got inside the building. Like other times with ghost hunting, he was not scared at all. No human can survive it but he can without a soul to drain him.
"Okay ghosts, show yourselves" He looks around.
He can tell they are smart to not show themselves since it's too easy to frighten intruders to run away. Then he heard the screams.
"Agh!" He covered his ears from that banshee scream, "Good lord!" He didn't expect that a scream would be much louder than that. He puts on the headset camera for footage.
"Okay, you sound very angry. I get angry a lot too. If you can come out, maybe we both can cool down by talking" Claw Noir said before taking out the mirror to trap ghosts in it.
The ghost tried to escape the mirror but to no avail. Claw Noir bared his fangs with a hiss to spook the ghostly figure until it got sucked in, "Too easy"
But suddenly he felt an eerie feeling someone was watching him. He turned around and saw a silhouette figure that looked just like him but he couldn't make out who it was. He thought it was a ghost shadow figure everyone sees on YouTube as fake or real.
"Reveal yourself! Or are you too shy to smile at the camera?" Claw Noir taunted at whoever it was.
The figure was too fast in the blink of an eye until it shoved Claw Noir to the wall.
"Oh, are you too afraid to face yourself?!" A transparent white version of him appeared.
"Agh….The hell?" Claw Noir saw his look a little but in white.
His hair was dark blue and his gold cat eyes with evil in them. He tried to claw him but the good kitty dodged it.
"Is that all you got?" His ghost copy taunted him.
"Who the hell are you? Copying my look? That look is my look in black, not white" Claw Noir backs away that he can sense something was not right.
"I'm your dark side! I'm Claw Blanc!" Claw Blanc said.
"Uhhh….no offense but white is nothing like evil" Claw Noir backs up against the wall.
"You can't hide from me, it's like hiding from yourself," Blanc said.
"Where did you come from?" Claw Noir asked, trying to reach his knife in his boot leg.
"None of your business! CATACLYSM!" Blanc then charges one cataclysm.
The dark feline moved and grabbed a debris wood to get rid of the cataclysm, "What the hell?!" Claw Noir saw Blanc come towards him, a sinister grin appearing on his face.
"Mind if I bite?" Claw Blanc cackled.
"Not a chance in hell!" Claw Noir dodged him.
Both their feet clashed together as they struggled to get it off. Then they flew across the room.
"Stop trying to look like me!" Noir flew to the ceiling and fought upside down with him in the ceiling.
"Once you're dead I'll hang your heart on my wall!" Claw Blanc sneered.
"Not gonna happen!" Noir hissed and grabbed him but both grabbed each other's throats at the same time.
"I'm taking you with me!" Claw Blanc squeezed his throat.
Noir gasping and choking but managed to push him off, coughing too hard which was weird of him that he doesn't need to breathe. Jumping down from the ceiling, he needs to get out of there since fighting another him would be like equally batched.
"What the hell is going on?!" He asked himself.
"Where I come from is from you. Ever since Lila knew you would kill her, I became her backup to finish what she started" Claw Blanc said evilly.
"For a year of waiting? Sounds like you've been busy!" Claw Noir jumped out of the way.
"Even in death, her hatred is strong!" Claw Blanc said.
"Like she can't move on in life or in death! White is for angels, not for evil demons!" Claw Noir jumped through the window.
"I beg to differ!" Claw Blanc leaped after.
"Easy kitty! I'm trying to keep my cool!" Claw Noir warned him but got tackled roughly.
"Time to be the one true cat of Paris!" Claw Blanc charged another cataclysm but Noir morphed into a snake to slither out of his grasp.
"Oh no you don't!" Claw Blanc became a white mungo.
Suddenly Ladybug came swinging in, seeing what the hell was going on with her kitty until she saw two of them, one in black and the other in white like a Yin and Yang. Noir morphs back and tries to fight his white doppelgänger. Hissing in defense he still can't beat him.
"Give up, Noir!" Claw Blanc growled.
"Never" Claw Noir hissed.
"Hands off my partner!" Ladybug strikes Blanc.
"Agh! Well, what a surprise to see a lovely cockroach!" Blanc smirked and tried to strike her.
"Keep your filthy paws away from her!" Noir pushed him by telekinesis.
"Thanks, Kitty," Ladybug said.
"Milady, I think this is another one of Lila's tricks again! He's too strong!" Claw Noir said, seeing his doppelgänger getting up with a twisted evil grin.
"But she's dead!" Ladybug spins her yoyo.
"I have no idea what bullshit this is but we gotta get out of here now!" Claw Noir suggested
"Okay! Lucky charm!" Ladybug summons a ducati, "A ducati? That works" She hops on.
"You dare be cowards from me?!" Blanc cackled.
"Not a chance, Evil kitty!" Ladybug replied.
"Heh, run while you can" Blanc smirked as he took the handheld mirror and vanished.
As the two drove away, Ladybug wanted answers, "Where did he come from?"
"I don't know but it seems Lila created him before she was alive. I don't know how but I got video footage of him" Claw Noir drove to the alley for privacy, "Claws in" He detransformed to let Plagg rest.
"Let's view the footage," Ladybug said.
It showed how he managed to capture the ghost he was hunting and it sure was a very scary one than any other mortal to get a close-up.
"He sure looks like a demonic ghost," Ladybug said.
"I captured it with the mirror. Ghosts don't like mirrors. But I lost it thanks to this white…non-angelic ghost thing of me" Adrien saw the footage of the camera shaking a bit due to fighting and struggling with Claw Blanc.
"I have a feeling that there's more to come," Ladybug said.
"He does look a bit like me but more demonic and sinister than my anti-hero looks," Adrien said.
"Yeah, he does," Ladybug said.
"I don't know if he has the same weakness as me but he creeps me out. Almost as if I am looking in the mirror" Adrien said, noticing the evil eyes.
"Maybe he has," Ladybug said.
"Lila is too smart about this. As I remember, you said she's talented at lying to convince everyone into believing her twisted lies" Adrien said.
"I know. Even in death, she's not through" Ladybug said.
"She's making a bargain with the devil in Hell. I just know it" Adrien said.
"A devil's bargain to be revived I presume," Ladybug said.
"I've seen all the movies when a villain offers their soul to Satan or make a bargain with him, they end up damned for eternity in the end," Adrien said.
"But this is no movie life, Adrien. It's like she's becoming more restless when you're not dead. This is bad and you're right about the nightmare. I just didn't think it would turn a bad dream into a real-life bad dream reality" Ladybug said.
His stomach growled so loud at how long he drank blood hours again, "Agh! Not now! Not the time!" He held his stomach.
"Thank god I saved this for you" Ladybug held a bag of blood with an IV like a straw.
"Thanks, Bugaboo" He grabbed it and drank it.
"Slowly! If you drink too fast, you won't be able to taste the blood in your head than your mouth" Ladybug said, knowing last time he drank so fast, he begged for more.
Adrien drank slowly, realizing she was right that he needed to remember the amazing taste of blood to satisfy his hunger. Soon enough he was done.
"And let's hope he wasn't following us. My vampire tingles haven't spiked up since we ran off" Adrien said before belching.
"We better be careful," Ladybug said.
"I just hope he has a weakness for sunlight. Let's get the hell out of here. Plagg, claws out" Adrien transformed back.
"Agreed" Ladybug drove to the mansion.
x
Later at the mansion, Felix can see Adrien looks deathly by pale than normal pale. Not as if he's literally seen a ghost since they don't scare him at all.
"What's going on, Adrien?" He asked.
"We got one big hell of a problem and it's definitely far worse than a bad dream to reality," Adrien said.
"Worse than the depths of hell?" Felix guessed.
"Yes, a demonic copy of me appeared," Adrien said.
"What?" Felix exclaimed.
"Yeah. He was white and looked a lot like me but more evil and sinister than I have ever seen. Lila probably created him before she died. It's like she made him a request to kill me if she failed to kill me" Adrien said.
"That witch is becoming more restless in Hell than wanting you to be dead" Plagg swallowed his cheese.
"She just won't quit," Felix said.
"Not until I'm dead. The priest must have sensed the darkness from this at Notre Dame. I was not prepared to meet an evil me. At least I can cross the Notre Dame but evil demons can't" Adrien said.
"Because you're not a monster," Felix said.
"If you see Claw Blanc, use the crucifix. I need to speak with the priest of Notre Dame. He has answers from God all the time. And God knows I'm not an evil being" Adrien said.
"Why can't God just put a restraining order on Lila himself?" Felix asked sarcastically.
"Maybe Hell has no restraining orders. This footage of Blanc really scares me like looking in a mirror but not in that way. Tomorrow morning I'm heading to Notre Dame. I need a shower" Adrien said.
"Alright," Felix replied.