The Guardian

Memories

Another sunny day in Paris. Nathalie was taking Adrien to school and was now on her way back. Duusu nodded her head to the music playing on the car radio and the assistant smiled at this sweet gesture. Though she consistently refused to reveal the heroes' identities, she was still her dearest friend. Nathalie can't even remember how long they've known each other, but she knows that the kwami took her right to the heart, which was mutual and was also the reason why she is now the bearer of this Miraculous...

"Come on, you'll never catch me" Duusu called to a little girl with short blue hair "That's totally unfair, after all, unlike me, you can fly!" "No, you just have to be faster" the girl jumped off again with all her strength and tried to grab the little creature, unfortunately she missed and landed on her stomach. "How do you little and weak thing want to be the new guardian?" teased the peacock-like creature "Ha, I'll show you, I'll grow big and strong, everyone will respect me and then nobody will dare to harm the innocent anymore" the little girl bursts out proudly and her sky-blue eyes shine determinedly "So far you are just a little clumsy" she heard a voice behind her "FATHER" little Nathalie almost knocked the poor man over with her hug. "Be careful or you'll break an old man's bones" the girl looks up at him grimly and murmurs "You're not old!"...

"Nathalie, there's an akuma!" says the kwami, pulling the woman out of her memories. A few houses further, an enemy actually jumped over the houses and shot people at random. "Let's hurry," says the woman, and pulls the car into a nearby parking lot before transforming while, making sure no one sees her.

Mayura jumped over the roofs and immediately spots the heroes. "Maura!" exclaimed the heroine happily, the woman returning her greeting with a friendly nod. "Hello Miss Grandma, nice to see you alive another day" "Ah, the rug has arrived" "May you wring a peacock's neck like a goose?" "Mon Dieu the little kitten must have had a bad hunt again. Have you gotten fat?" Cat was about to throw in another counter when Mayura pushed his head down and looked intently at her opponent. "Hawk Moth is here in person to see his work in action?" asks Ladybug "I don't know, but I don't think he knows that we saw him." Now Cat Noir also looks at the enemy, who was standing a little further away on a high-rise building and is watching the spectacle "What do we do now?" "Take care of Akuma and I'll take care of the old guy in his pajamas up there," the woman suggested, whereupon Cat puts his hand over his mouth so as not to start laughing out loud. "Good luck old lady" Mayura slaps him on the back of the head, still grins amusedly, then she jumps off the roof to get behind her opponent unnoticed. She really took a liking to the boy and she really enjoys these silly teasing while they try to save Paris. But she probably wouldn't admit it just like that. Mayura jumps onto the roof behind Hawk Moth "Hi, would you mind giving me your Miraculous?" she says and taps the man on the shoulder, he immediately flinches and spins around. "MAYURA?" he exclaims "Oh, pity I thought you were dying of a heart attack at your age" "I'm not much older than you!" "Bet? Well, it doesn't matter, I'll still take the Miraculous from you!" Said and done, before Hawk Moth could react, he was thrown hard against a wall. The woman angrily bites her lower lip. "I've waited long enough to make you pay," she hisses and runs towards him again to pin him to the ground, but the man dodges her this time. With more punches she pushes him to the edge of the skyscraper without giving a chance to counter. "Give up" she hisses, he grins "No thanks, I'm just winning" she is startled when suddenly something approaches her from the corner of her eye, too fast to avoid it. Silence, stillness and emptiness fills her head.

"Where am I?" she murmurs confused and looks up at a completely unknown man in violet clothes. "Who are you? And why do you look so ridiculous?" the woman asks. The man just smiles triumphantly and, without warning, slams her into a wall. She looks up weakly, a strange piece of jewelry lying on the floor in front of her and she reaches for it. "Nathalie?" the man suddenly asks confused before being hit by something and falling to the ground. "Nathalie? That's my name?"

Nathalie looks around, puts the little thing in her jacket pocket and runs to a door, which is the entrance to the building from the roof. "Wait! Who are you? Who am I?" the man asks and stands up. The woman doesn't hear and runs down a stairwell, behind her she hears the menacing footsteps of the stranger. "Wait! I won't hurt you!" "YOU THROW ME AGAINST A WALL!" she yells back angrily and keeps running, but the stranger was faster than her and before she had a chance to fight back, he grabbed her and pushed her against the wall. "Please wait! Tell me did I really do that?" the man asks and looks at her completely confused. Nathalie tries in vain to free herself from his tight grip "Yes, they did!" she hisses and looks at him angrily. "I'm sorry... I don't know why I should have done that," he replies, looking at her guiltily. The woman looks at him, apparently he doesn't know what happened anymore, just like she does, and he's just confused. Her counterpart seems to notice that she has now relaxed and loosens the grip on her arms, but does not let go of her completely. "Would you mind telling me who you are?" he asks in a slightly quieter tone. "Nathalie.. I think so anyway" she replies and looks into his eyes. These wonderful dark greyish shade of blue, it looked like the moon on a cloudy night, trying to find its way through the dark clouds and only faintly shining through to them. "I'm... I don't know who am I, Mon Dieu, I must have fallen on my head..." he replies and Nathalie giggles "You're an idiot" he smiles and looks at her too, under his boring gaze, she quickly breaks eye contact and blushes. Her counterpart under his mask did the same. He lifts her head so she looks back to him and he can see her beautiful sky blue eyes. Almost imperceptibly, both came closer and closer until they could feel the breath of the other on their skin and the blood thundered loudly through their bodies. Suddenly they feel a strange sensation and a red swarm of ladybugs flies across the room. "What?" Nathalie asks confused and looks frightened at the man who is still holding her. "HAWK MOTH!?" she then screams in shock and kicks him between his legs so that he lets go of her, which then happened. "Merde, Merde, Merde, what am I doing here?" she curses and walk quick away from him as he whimpers softly in pain and squats on the floor. The woman no longer pays any attention to him and hastily types on her cell phone to call someone and runs down the stairs. She was already out of sight when he heard the woman curse "WHY DOESN'T THAT IDIOT NEVER ANSWER WHEN YOU NEED IT? Damn Agreste" shortly thereafter he heard a pop, which probably meant that she had left the stairwell. "HOW DARE THE COW DARE TO KICK HAWK MOTH FIRST AND THEN IGNORE ME?" he yells furiously and still in pain "Wait.. DID SHE JUST CALL ME AN IDIOT?"

Meanwhile, Nathalie had fled the building and was leaning against the wall in an alley. Her heart was beating very fast from fear and her hands were shaking. She had donned the Miraculous again, Duusu appeared true and seemed confused. The adult didn't know why the kwami and the Miraculous were deactivated, but it may have deactivated when she put it down, which she couldn't remember "Miss Nathalie..." "Merde, I was in the middle of a fight, I can I don't remember anything anymore and then I stand in front of him as Nathalie in a completely different place! What happened? What if he knows who I am, Duusu?" she whispers "Calm down please!" her friend snaps "You're right... he probably had no idea what happened and the way he looked at me, he doesn't know my identity..." "Exactly, the best thing to do is transform yourself and ask the heroes! " "True, thanks. Duusu transform me!" Mayura quickly jumped over the roofs and was able to catch the two heroes "Oh, the old grandma is alive" grins Cat Noir, but then looks confused when she doesn't reply "What kind of Akuma was that?" the woman asks "Oh he erased people's memories... he met you didn't he?" the heroine looks down guiltily "It's ok, that explains I can't remember anything" Mayura sighs in relief and puts a hand on the girl's shoulder. They all hear the beeping of the Miraculouse telling them that time is almost up. "Goodbye you bird and please don't get permanent dementia at your age" "Haha, don't forget your baby milk!" The heroes jump away, this time she follows Ladybug but unobtrusively. If your friend so vehemently refuses to say who they are, she'll have to find out for herself. The girl turned back just before school. 'Oh, Marinette, she's the baker's girl' she states 'I think she's a good person and a friend of Adrien's too' she smiles, she likes that choice.