Skybound- Miraculous Au

Chapter 19: Part 1

M.P.V

Dinner was waiting for me when I got home, and I found myself suddenly starving as soon as I saw the meal laid out on the table. I quickly dug in, sneaking a few bites to Tikki every now and then. My parents watched in awe as my plate was quickly emptied, and then deposited in the sink.

Before they could even comment on my appetite, I made my way upstairs to my room, then my balcony. When I was sure they hadn’t followed me, I opened my purse and let out Tikki, before I settled down across from where she floated.

“Are you ready to talk now?” I inquired, as I crossed my legs. “You don’t have to if you don’t want to, but after this afternoon I feel there are still some things you’re not telling me.”

Tikki nodded slowly but didn’t look confident as she landed gently on the table next to me.

“There are still a lot of blanks in my memory,” She began. “But after going to the ampheather I believe there is a bit more I’ll be able to tell you with certainty.”

Tikki cleared her throat as I turned to completely face her before she continued.

“That diary you have? I remember now that it belonged to my last holder.” Tikki said. “She was a girl about your age, maybe a couple of years older, I can’t recall anything exact about her beyond the fact she was one of the kindest, most caring persons I had ever met.”

“What was her name?” I asked, as Tikki gave a fond smile.

“I don’t remember.” Tikki frowned and rubbed her head. “Those are her initials though, on the goggles.”

“B.D?” I questioned, and Tikki nodded in response.

“There was also a boy, who was the holder of my counterpart, Plagg.” She went on to say as she frowned a bit. “He was usually a very serious person, but sometimes he’d let Plagg’s playful personality get the best of him and he’d crack a pun every now and then.”

“You remember that he cracks puns, but not his name?” I bit my lip as Tikki let out a sigh of frustration.

“That’s the most aggravating part of this whole thing!” She exclaimed. “I can remember feelings, the general energy of a moment, but not specific details like names, places, dates. I can’t even remember what happened to her! And why she would ever leave me where she did!”

Tikki paused then, and smiled ever so softly as she pulled her tiny legs up into her chest.

“I know that she loved me.” She spoke softly, her antena drooping. “And that I loved her too. It just hurts that I can’t remember who it is that I loved.”

“Hey, we’ll get your memories back.” I told her, as I reached out and scooped her into the palm of my hand. “And even if you can’t remember her face, I think the fact that you remember her at all is amazing considering the many years without her that you can’t remember.”

Tikki looked up at me with her big blue eyes, and wiped away her silent tears.

“You're right.” She said, taking a deep breath. “Will figure everything out, one way or another.”

I smiled at Tikki, as she gently hugged my thumb before standing and rising to be level with my face. 

“What should we do now?” I asked, sitting up and dangling my legs over the edge of the chair. 

“I think it’s time we paid a visit to the world below.” She smiled confidently.

My jaw dropped as I stared at her, and thoughts raced frantically through my head like a sudden storm. The world below?! Did she mean the city, or the hypothetical ground? Either option seemed just as insane as the other, for who knows how high above them Aris floated.

“Marinette? What’s wrong?” Tikki frowned. “You suddenly went pale.”

“Are you sure we should visit the world below?” I asked, swallowing air as I glanced towards the edge of my balcony. “Is it even still possible now that you said the room between them was destroyed?”

“The room may be destroyed, but there are otherways to travel between them," She said. "All you need is the power of the miraculous."

"You'd mention that the miraculous harnessed your power before, but I still don't know what that means." 

"Would a demonstration help? I'm not sure how well I could instruct you on using it, as I'm a bit rusty when it comes to teaching." Tikki paused, before a soft smile dawned on her face. "However, I believe there are easy to follow instructions written somewhere within the margins of the diary."

"Why would there be instructions written within the diary? Isn't that dangerous in case someone got their hands on it and the miraculous?" 

"Yes, and no." Tikki let out a short laugh. "My last owner actually had to write them in case of memory loss, or at least that's at least the part of the reason I can remember."

"So memory loss was always a risk?" 

"Being a holder, for a very long time, was a high risk job. Even after the world was split up, and Aris and Pari were separated there was always the chance of corruption and the miraculous getting stolen. Holders had to be prepared for anything."

Tikki frowned to herself and for moment, I could see sadness reflected in her eyes. In vanished quickly though, as she pulled on a smile and straightened so that her head was held high.

"Let's get started then." She grinned before floating down toward my room.

"What do we need to test this?" I inquired, as I pushed myself off the chair and followed behind.

"Well, we already have the diary… You wouldn't happen to have a realitively safe weapon of some kind on hand, would you?"

I bit my lip, running through a list of items in my head, as I pulled open the trapdoor. As I climbed down into my room, a lightbulb lit up in my head.

"Does a yo-yo work?"

Author note:
Surprise! I actually updated for once! Sorry for the very long wait, but here's the next part of the story. Hopefully. I'll publish Adrien's point of view for this chapter soon, maybe in the next week or so.

Sincerely,

Joonbug