When You Live Forever...
Forever isn't as long
"There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do."
—Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
Long, long, ago, before humans had discovered how to farm, when the sky let loose thunder, humans would pray to gods for it to go away. When a child died from disease, they would be buried among the rest. When humans still traveled, living in shabby huts and caves.
Long, long, ago, two teens lived.
The only teens of their village, the only children of their village, in fact. Disease never claimed them, they never even became sick. No one understood why.
Nevertheless, the village did their best to keep them alive. It was only when the teens reached 16 years of age did they finally realize something.
Marinetta, the girl with long black hair and brown orbs of eyes, was no longer Marinetta.
Neither was Adren, the boy with blue eyes and brown hair.
They didn't age. They looked the same they had when they were 15, at least, in features.
Marinetta, her hair was still long and straight, but with a blue tint no one even knew existed. It was like the ocean the elders would talk about in stories. Her eyes changed to a dark blue as well. Adren grew the strangest hair anyone at the village had ever seen, the strangest eyes as well. Green eyes, as bright as wet grass. And bright light hair, no one could describe because a name had not even been made up for it.
Suddenly, children born after the disease, only a year or so of age, grew. Over the night, after Marinetta had turned 17, all the children, a total of 18, grew into teenagers as well. None had normal brown eyes, but blues to dark to see, grays that looked like clouds, greens as dark as the trees, and even some violets, as pretty as flowers.
The villagers, knowing gods' hands were at worked, almost worshipped the children. The village grew to knew heights. It turned into the first city, the oldest city. Called Paris, after their lead animal God. With the children helping, it grew. They had immense powers.
The two teens had the most power, though.
Marinetta would walk through the village, gracefully helping bakers and merchants set up shops. She invented most jobs known today, such as bakers and tailors and warriors. No one could beat her in combat, her only equivalent being Adren. She designed shops, and could build them with the snap of her fingers. That was her power, creation.
Adren was the lead warrior, a tactician that no one could beat. He could build, but that wasn't his favorite thing, no, it wasn't.
He loved to destroy.
It was ironic, he loved to destroy, but he hated to kill.
With a snap, he could destroy a mountain if wanted. Walls crumbled when his army attacked, no one could defeat them.
Over the hundreds of years, they, and the eighteen others became god in mortal's eyes.
Then… one of them died.
It was a normal day. Adren and Marinetta were walking through the large city. Marinetta was explaining her newest invention, a shower. She was quite mad when the Romans stole her idea of a heated bath. Not only had they stole, they had made several assassination attempts on their group of twenty, and tried to attack a number of times. They were starting to annoy her.
"Mistress! Mister!" A girl of around ten ran up, heaving slightly, her brown hair clinging in clumps around her wet eyes. Both teens had a sense of dread. "Mistress Anay, she-she's-" She started to cry.
Marinetta wrapped her arms around the girl. "It's okay, little one. Show us the way."
The girl tore down the street, almost as fast as Cheche. The two ran after.
They met at a pavilion. A crowd of people parted for the girl and them as they made their way forward.
Both gasped as the horrid sight.
"Who did this?!" Adren yelled out, rage clear in his features. All mortals backed up a bit. Marinetta ran forward, falling to the ground next to her friend Anay.
Her blue eyes didn't hold the usual spark, her dark skin pale. A large, crooked, spear embedded in her stomach, letting rivulets of dark purple blood leak into the ground in puddles. The other immortals were there, eyes wide with horror, frozen like statues.
"The spear won't come out." Cheche said, gray eyes mad. Marinetta and Adren nodded, and both grasped the spear.
Before crying out in pain.
They let go, crumpling onto the floor as the immortals rushed to them. Marinetta's hands glowed red, while Adrens glowed green.
They stopped glowing, and, with a flash of light and screams and pain, things started to appear.
Two things, in fact. Smaller than a loaf of bread, things that resembled an animal. One was black with green eyes, cat ears adorned his head. One, with wide blue eyes and black spots over a red body. They looked at the two, before the little things collapsed.
The two immortals from which the beings had just come from felt a strange sense of protectiveness.
And the same happened to the other immortals. Their hands glowed, they cried out, and new creatures came to be on the floor. A cheetah, a wolf, an eagle, bear, bee, peacock, turtle, many more.
The two head immortals held their breath. Something was wrong, wronger than a dead immortal. Wronger than these creatures.
They looked around, and figured out why.
Everyone, save for the little girl and the immortals, were dead. Vaporized.
"Finally!"
The voice was deep and familiar, but it still made Adren shiver, grabbing at the black cat creature, which was asleep, holding it close. He felt strangely, vulnerable. Violet eyes pierced the light, and a teen stepped out. One of the immortals that looked much older than they actually were.
Cheche growled, curling an arm around the little cheetah on the floor. All creatures asleep. "Gabe! What is this- urk!"
The immortal now showing himself, Gabe, threw a spear faster than sight could see, catching Cheche in the chest. Instantly, as he crumpled, the little cheetah on the floor dissolved into dust. A gray wisp circled into the air, weaving around Gabe before disappearing into his brooch in his chest.
"Sorry Cheche, but this must be. To many gods are running around." Gabe chuckled, violet eyes glistening. On his shoulder, a purple moth sat, looking scared, but evil at the same time. Marinetta heard a growl from behind her.
Adren yelled in rage, snapping his fingers, never more wanting to kill someone then at that moment. Gabe had broken an oath among the immortals.
The fear in everyone's heart went from 5 to 10 when nothing happened.
"What did you do?!" Marinetta yelled. Gabe chuckled.
"You're not the only one who can create, Netta. We all knew I was the potion maker of our village. I created a brew that took away everyone's power -most of it- and put it in the little Kwami."
Kwami? Marinetta looked at the two dead immortals. The little girl squeaked, hiding behind her. She held the little Ladybug closer. "Why do this! You lost your power as well!"
He chuckled. "I know how to access my power, though. And, as i've said, there's too many gods running around. With you and Adren's power gone. It makes all the rest of us, almost mortal."
Without wasting a thought, Adren whipped his head around. "GO! RUN!"
Several followed direction, five staying behind. They all held their kwami. Bear, Turtle, Ferret, Bat, and Whale. "We're not leaving you two! You gave us this life!"
Gabe chuckled. "Then you shall die, and then i'll kill those two." His kwami disappeared, and his hair was suddenly hidden by a cap. A suit formed around him. He brought out a long sword.
"Little one, sneak away." Marinetta whispered to the girl, still feeling weak. As the girl left, she cautiously stood up. Adren crawled over, and they got up together. Gabe looked over at them, eyes squinted, but the five immortals stepped in front. Everyone could see that their powers were weakened far more then everyone else.
"Go. We'll get him." The one with the bear, Jani, snarled, her green eyes mixing with tears as her brown hair covered it. Marinetta realized her boyfriend was in the crowd, so was her fifty year old son.
The immortals dated like they were humans, and had kids every now and then, it wasn't abnormal. All had dated, besides Marinetta and Adren. Some hadn't had children, like Anay, Mason, Gabe, and Flipan.
"No!" Marinetta said stubbornly. "We're not leaving."
"Gabriel!" Adren said. "We gave you this power, and now you betray us? For what? To rule? You know you can never rule, especially now that you can be killed."
"I don't want to rule." Gabriel said. "I'm already a rich man. But I must be the only."
Marinetta tilted her head, that wasn't right. "How do you know that killing us won't make you mortal?"
Gabe huffed. "I know. He-I figured it out."
The one with the turtle, Wu, glanced back, wise eyes tilted. "Leave now. We'll be fine."
"Go ahead! Leave! I love a good chase." Gabe cackled with laughter as he brought out another sword. Jani picked up a metal pole, roared, and moved forward.
"We have to help." Adren said, just as stubborn as Marinetta. He made a move to go forward, but with a yelp stumbled and hit the ground.
"You don't realize you're too weak to move!" Gabe said as the attention was turned back to them. "The brew took almost all of your powers away. You're immortality is weakened, you could barely hold a cup right now! So much easier to kill."
"Get them out of here!" Jani yelled at the one with the whale, Esward. He nodded, running to help Adren up. He was the burly one of the immortals, gray eyes and gray hair. On his other side, he easily picked Marinetta up. His strength was still there.
Against their will, they were moved away from the fight. Hearing a noise, Esward rumbled down an alley, and into a building. Inside, another immortal, crouching down, a bow and arrow in hand, a quiver on her back.
"I thought you left!" Marinetta mumbled as she slumped down next to Adren. Their kwami were still asleep, it seemed. The immortal girl huffed, blowing a strand of her brown hair away, sky blue eyes roared in anger.
"And leave you guys? We're family, Mari." She said, seemingly blending into the shadows. "I got an idea to get them out of danger. Esward, keep them in here, and keep them quiet. After fifteen minutes, leave them here. Their safer by themselves."
"No…" Adren rasped weakly, but was ignored.
"Tell everyone to split up and hide. Pairs of two or three, go to different kingdoms, go away and don't look back." The girl said. Marinetta couldn't see her kwami over her styled tight clothes. She was covered in dull grey hunting clothes. "After we're gone, wait a day in here to get your strength back. Go to Rome."
Marinetta, half blind by pain and weakness, only managed a groan.
"What about you?" Esward said. The girl sighed.
"If I make it out of this, then i'll spend the next few years hiding their scent till there strong again. It's obvious they're our only hope. Gabe is insane."
The girl made her way to a window when Esward spoke again. "Mason… don't die."
The girl grinned, almost hidden by shadows. She went into her pocket, and pulled out a silver kwami wolf. "I'm third in immortal command. I have future visions every now and then, and can blend in with the shadows. Wolves are hunters." Her grin turned deadly. "I won't let myself die until this bastard goes as well."
From Adren's perch, he could see the fight going on, a bit far away and below. Two more immortals were dead. Monety and Ashi, Farret and Bat. Mason jumped out the window, pulling the bow from her back where she had left it in mid air. She hit a roof and rolled, almost disappearing before showing up behind Gabe, a while away. She notched two arrows, and fired.
Gabe spun, hitting one away while the other caught his cheek.
"Everyone, go! It's a command!" Mason yelled, causing Wu and Jani to run. Gabe cursed and looked up at the girl. Suddenly, a sword was flying for her, but she flipped, hand hitting the pavement before pushing herself farther away from another sword.
"I thought you went chicken and left." Gabe taunted. Mason laughed, casually nocking another arrow.
"A hunter always waits for the perfect time to pounce." She growled, letting the arrow lose. It snagged his leg, and Mason wasted no time, firing again. Gabe, with another sword that seem to appear from nowhere, hit it away and threw the sword. "I'm not that easy to kill Gabey!"
Gabe growled, "I expect no less from you."
Mason narrowed her eyes, then smiled, taking a step back. "I'll be watching you Gabey, keeping tabs. You'll never know where I'll be. Sleep with an eye open." Her face morphed. "I'll slit your throat it you don't."
Gabe yelled and threw another sword, but Mason just laughed jumping towards him, close to shadows. Without Gabe knowing it, she just gave the two immortals time to get away.
Adren didn't see her hit the ground.
He didn't see anything.
The pain and sleep finally took him.
I hope you enjoyed! This was a new writing style for me, so I hope it's good. I had this idea at just a point, like, what if Tikki and Plagg didn't give the powers, but Mari and Adrian did? How would they? Well, lets have them be godlike, immortal. And then my brain went tumbling.
In this story, Marinette and Adrian are on par with each other in almost everything. Marinette is not stronger, like it shows in the show. I believe Chat is just as strong, but is more goofy so he doesn't show it. That, and he gets hurt so Ladybug doesn't. At least, that's what I think.
Review Please! Any questions i'll answer.