Destiny

... And She's Back in the Game [Hamster]

"What are you?"

"I'm a kwami."

"You keep saying that, but what are you? Are you a bug or a rat? Or like a flying bugrat?" Marinette watched the little red creature zoom around her apartment in amazement. Alya, luckily, was out with Nino for the evening, so at least she didn't have to explain this to her 'interrogator' of a friend..

"Neither," a sweet giggle left the kwami, and Marinette couldn't help but smile. She thought she should be scared by whatever this unusual thing was, but she wasn't. It was an oddly nice feeling to have her around, almost like catching up with an old friend.

"Neither. I'm just a kwami. The kwami of the ladybug."

"So more a bug than a rat? Interesting. What do you do then?"

When Marinette had returned home from work that evening,, she was so far past cloud nine she was pretty much walking on the Sun.

Adrien Agreste had asked her out.

The guy she was majorly crushing on wanted to take her out on a date!

Luck must have been on her side today because this was incredible news.

As she stumbled into her apartment doing a rather unflattering celebration dance, she spotted the little brown box placed on the coffee table, right on top of her sketchbook.

A box which contained a rather wonderful pair of earrings ... the Miraculous of Creation.

Opening the box let out a flash of red light, illuminating the room and releasing the flying red creature in a spiral of glitter. She greeted Marinette like they already knew each other, like they were made to be together.

"I'm the kwami that will give you your powers."

"The power of creation right?" Marinette messed with the earrings in the box, stroking her thumb over the smooth stone, looking at the way they were currently reflecting the light.

"Yes, and you will work alongside the power of destruction to fight for the greater good."

"Me? A superhero," she scoffed, "you do realise I sometimes have to fight with my duvet to get out of bed. Are you sure I'm the right person for this job? I'm clumsy, accident prone ... sometimes outspoken."

"You're the only one, Marinette. The holders of the Ladybug and Cat Miraculous are rare to find, I think the statistics are once in a millennium, or something similar."

"No pressure there then. What did you say your name was again? And was it cookies you like to eat?"

"My name is Tikki, and my favourite food is your father's strawberry macarons."

"How do you know about them?" Marinette asked quizzically.

"Oh - um - somebody in the box ... the Miracle box, that is, they've had them before ... yeah that's it, and they really liked them. Yum!"

Tikki's red face seemed to glow as she spoke, Marinette not believing a single word that had escaped the kwami's lips.

"If you say so." She took the earrings out of the box and placed them in her palm. These tiny items held enough power to take down super villains - that was insane. "And this partner?" Marinette questioned, placing the earrings into her ears one at a time.

"He holds the power of destruction in his ring. The holder for the cat miraculous is a much rarer find than the ladybug."

"Why's that?"

"The power of destruction is dangerous in the wrong hands. Your power is strong, but his ... well ... he could blow up the planet."

"Point taken," Marinette said with a chuckle, "don't piss off my partner."