When You Live Forever...
The new is scarier
'Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.'
-Seneca
Adrian
My eyes flew open, a scream tearing through my throat as I rushed to sit up. A pair of hands with strange strength pushed me back down, put it just made me panic more.
"Stop! Stop stop stop stop please! Please no please stop!"
My breathing with static for the second time in the last day, adrenaline pumping through me, when arms wrapping around my neck and a head was against mine.
"Adren! Calm down." The voice was a whisper, but it was loud in my ear. I blinked, my eyes shifting as sunlight hit my face.
There was light.
It was always dark in there.
I shuttered, slowing my breathing. I was out, thank Paris and all the others. My hand swiped my forehead, which was just as hot as it had been when I went to sleep.
Mari was the one hugging me, before letting go and holding my head in her hands. She smiled in relief, huffing out a sigh before pressing our heads together, something cool on my forehead. "Thank god. You were out of it for longer than usual and I didn't want to go to school and leave you here and you woke up in such a frenzy that I was worried… I mean, it's Friday you've been asleep for 4 days..."
She spoke fast. To fast. It made my ears buzz. I held my hands to them for a moment, touching Mari's by accident. "I'm fine."
Mari's face went from relief to suspicion immediately. "Are you? Usually you don't wake in such a huff."
I pulled my knees up to my chest, wrapping my arms around them. "The immortals in the brooch are hurting. It's turning them crazy." I looked up. "What will happen when I break the brooch?"
She sighed, shifting slightly. "I wish I knew."
My mind drifted for a moment, and baby Lyon appeared in my thoughts agian. "Remember Fred's first child? Lyon?"
Mari smiled. "I remember all of the immortals' children. At least, the first and second borns. Lyon was so cute, and so well taught for the time."
"I had a dream about him." I started. "The twins were in it too, and they mentioned Mason. It's was right before I was sucked into the brooch. And I didn't see the three of them in there. Maybe they're…" I couldn't even finish the sentence, because I couldn't make myself believe. I didn't want false hope.
Mari frowned slightly, bringing her hand up to glide across my hair. "I don't think Mason is dead… I never felt it after we saw her. I think she's still alive, somewhere out there. And i don't ever remember something happening to the twins." Her hand twirled a lock of my hair. "Don't tell me you're giving up on finding out."
I leaned into her touch. "I don't want to give myself false hope. I've lived for to long to know that it would destroy me to do it."
She smiled sadly. "We're so close to having peace, Adrian." She pulled me to her, wrapping her arms around me again. "We can relax after the work is done."
If there was one thing I knew… is that we would have peace, I just didn't know how it was happening yet.
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"Why is she so strong?!"
I grunted as Alya kicked me backwards with exceptional force. My back hit the back of an open freezer, and I had to scramble out before she could close it.
"It's the akuma." Mari said, sidestepping a pause moving her way. "It's got to be!"
"Ladybug!" Alya cackled, before pulling an innocent face. "I promise I'll be good… if you show me your face."
I felt cheated. What about me?
"Alya! Snap out of it!" I yelled, before having to move out of the way from another one of her attacks.
A mask appeared around her face, and she cackled in a deep voice. "Just show her your face, it's not like I don't already know it."
That just made me even more prone not to show it. There had to be a reason he would want us to show our face. Mari wrapped her yo-yo around her arm. "Or, you can just let her go!"
"I know you've noticed." He spoke again. "This is a descendant. Fred or George, if I'm not mistaken."
I stuttered to a stop, falling back only when she disappeared into another phone. "What does it matter to you, Gabriel? You cut ties long ago."
She appeared behind me, making to grab my wrist before I tumbled forward and away. "It doesn't, Adren. I was just surprised to see so many reincarnates in the same city, going to the same school. I've seen you at that school as well, haven't I? Seems like it's almost a beacon for our type."
Mari kicked at her phone, barely missing. "What are you playing at?"
This time, Alya shrugged. "I moved to Paris because I felt drawn here. I thought it was just because this was where I was born, but now, seeing all these descendants, and you two… hell, maybe even the other three immortals will show up. I have to thank the twins for cutting off two of my fingers."
Fingers? Fred and George managed to do lasting damage? And Mason's okay?
I went to ask, but the moth had disappeared from Lady WiFi's face. Suddenly, she laughed, before throwing a barge of pauses. I couldn't get close to her.
"Chat!" I heard from Mari as she moved over to me. "I need you to go upstairs and cut off the wifi router. I'll distract her." She whispered.
As I nodded, she threw up her lucky charm. I didn't see what it was before I ran off. It took me only a second to find a staircase, and I used my baton to go up the levels as fast as possible. I was surprised to see Chloe and Sabrina on the rooftop, hiding.
"Ugh, there you are!" Chloe stalked up, crossing her arms. "For superheroes, you sure are slow."
I gave a sheepish smile. "Sorry, Chloe."
Sabrina gasped. "Chat Noir knows your name!"
Chloe gave a smug grin. "Of course he does! Who doesn't know about me?"
I was about to answer with several different people, when Sabrina's phone fell out of her bag, and Alya was climbing out. "Oh, no-" I turned around, activating my power as I ran towards the router.
A foot away, and my body froze, starting at my back and ending at my hand. I was so close! As I lost feeling in my fingers, my claw poked the pole.
It disintegrated.
And instantly, I was let go, I fell to the ground in a grunt. Before I could get up, Lady WiFi was on me. "You ruined my plan!"
She socked me straight in the face. It felt like a horse's kick. I held my jaw, blocking a second punch before rolling backwards. As I got to my feet, Mari bursts from the stairway. In almost an instant, she had grabbed the akuma, flicking it into the air. I reached out, grabbing it and breaking it with ease.
The little butterfly stumbled out, which I quickly crushed, bringing the dust to Mari. She cleansed it easily, watching the butterfly fly out. She fixed everything, before excusing herself.
Alya was in the ground, almost in a sleep like state. Her eyes fluttered open, but she didn't move.
I rolled my jaw around. Mari fixing everything helped the pain, so it shouldn't bruise, thankfully. But it still hurt. She was definitely stronger then Stormy Weather, and maybe even Nino as the bubbler. That made no sense, though, since Nino was a descendant as well. It made me think, why was Alya a stronger descendant then Nino?
The only reasons I could think are the times they were born. If Alya's ancestor was born a thousand years ago, and Nino two thousand, then his powers would be a lot more watered down by normal people. Diluted.
"Ugh, What happened?" Alya grumbled from the ground. She held her head, blinking. Several times, her eyes flashed purple.
That's not good.
"Alya!" Marinette showed up from seemingly nowhere, knees kissing the floor as she slid forward. She embraced her, before helping her up. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah…" she looked over. "Thanks… where did Ladybug go?"
"Err." I rubbed my neck. "She had to go… and so do I. It was a pleasure."
I walked to the side of the building and jumped off.
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