Kwami Struggle a miraculous ladybug fanfiction by @storiesunite

Chapter 10: Trick or Truth

Jean made it back to the kitchen and his heart froze in dread. The akumatized cabinets were shuddering and the chemicals that were presented were turning back into pots, pans, and other kitchen ware-

Hawkmoth's powers were being altered somehow- 

Jean dove to start pouring some of the surviving bottles into a pitcher. He muttered under his breath as the bottle he was pouring turned back into a fork. "No, no, no!!!!"

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Hawkmoth groggily sat up, his voice considerably higher and lighter. "Everything...got bigger?"

Mayura looked down at herself and screamed in a high pitched tinkling voice. "Noooo! I shrunk! Wait-" She doubled over in a coughing fit and soon Hawkmoth was right next to her.

His wings and antennae were gone.

Her feather wings and peacock tail were gone as well.

Ladybug and Chat noir helped each other back to their feet. They were restored to their teenage selves once again. Ladybug flexed her new insect wings that shone brilliantly in the sun. 

Chat absentmindedly licked the back of his hand, much like a real cat. "Well, that was unexpected-"

Ladybug's face went pale when she glanced at their old foes. "You're both teenagers-"

If there weren't a bunch of magic wrapped up in the situation- Chat would have laughed and offered a witty remark. 

Hawkmoth and Mayura's masks had changed to fit just around their eyes. Hawkmoth's facial features in particular looked almost identical to Chat Noir, except that Hawkey had bluish eyes. Chat Noir whispered out of the corner of his mouth. "This is creepy LB, why does he look like me?"

Ladybug opened her mouth to respond when Mayura's miraculous sparked again. 

Mayura was breathing shallowly, as her face went deathly pale. She shuddered as she fell into Hawkmoth's chest. Mayura wheezed. "I'm so sorry-" Mayura's breath hitched and her eyes  closed-

The now teenage villain glared at Ladybug and Chat with tears in his eyes. Mayura was still breathing bu there wasn't much time. "I'll make you a deal. The Butterfly and Peacock Miraculous- in exchange for the Black Cat and Ladybug- I have one wish to make."

LB and Chat both helped Hawkmoth ease the unconscious teenage Mayura to the grass-

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Jean had just barely transformed into Pegasus again to make a portal to see what went wrong- Then he noticed the pots and pans returning once again to their magical state as chemical solutions. He took his chance and swiped as many chemicals within arms reach to add to the mixture he had.

Opposites are what he needed- or was it double the compliment ingredients?

Jean poured a final chemical inside then sealed the plastic pitcher tightly with a lid. He pushed his red hair out of his face and readjusted his magical glasses. "Ok, Voy-"

The cabinets went crazy- pumping their doors chaotically and spewing items from it's gaping pocket of storage space. 

Lights flashed, glass broke, and soap bubbles popped and whizzed. 

Jean covered his face with his arms as he screamed. There was a bright flash of light, and the budding scientist was knocked to the tile floor. He looked up to see the batch of antidote that he had made, topple-

He quickly pushed off a cabinet with his feet to push himself under the path of the pitcher. He caught it, while hitting his head very hard in the process. Jean Ballet's eyes closed as his brain shut down after the severe concussion. He started to shrink in size and slowly start reverting back to his original age. Jean's arm became lax and the plastic pitcher rolled and sloshed boisterously as it rolled into a voyage portal to vanish out of sight.

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 The contact had transformed the four of them back into adults, and all of them had characteristics of their kwamis at this point. 

LB was hesitant. "What if you never give our miraculouses back?"

Hawkmoth was crying freely now as he snapped. "This woman's life hangs in the balance!!! DO YOU HONESTLY BELIEVE I WOULD RISK HER LIFE ON A LIE?!!!"

That was a fair point, and it did seem that Hawkmoth was rather attached to her.

A voyage portal appeared in mid air, and the pitcher of chemicals descended. The lid somehow had become loose and came off. The chemicals rained on top of all of them. 

The curse was broken.

Hawkmoth pulled off the Butterfly and Peacock Miraculous and tossed them to Chat Noir. It was much too dark to see very much as the sun had finished setting. Then the giant tarp over their heads... fell. The soft evening light fell upon none other than-

The heroes gawked in unison. "GABRIEL AGRESTE?!!"

Then the evening light fell upon- 

Chat shrieked. "Natalie!!!"

Ladybug locked eyes with the famous fashoin designer, and without a word took off her earrings. She gave the miraculous to Gabriel as the light started to fade. Chat pulled off his ring and gave the magical relic to Gabriel as well.

Gabriel closed his eyes before the glows completely faded and whispered. "Plagg- Tikki- unify." There  was burst of blinding light as Gabriel murmured his wish. Adrien and Marinette hugged each other to keep from flying away. 

They closed their eyes, waiting for the wish to take one of their lives to bring Natalie back- But there was no pain...and there was no thud.

Gabriel had wished for something different.