The Miraculous Three: Vol. 3 (ON HIATUS)

3.19 - The Puppeteer 2

Trigger Warning: Harassment

Hawkmoth is a whole menace for using a child to do his dirty work 👉🏾🚪 x7

3rd Person POV:

"—The Pyre Bird eagerly awaits your downfall. Don't let it." Chat reads the final sentence of the scroll.

Phoenix had asked him to meet her for a midnight rendezvous, having an update on her situation about her powers, and was eager to lend a listening ear.

"So now we know that Temperature Control isn't a good power that I unlocked, it's a bad one that was given by my curse." Phoenix watches as Chat rereads the scroll to himself silently.

"Out of control emotions..... panic attacks?! Phoenix, why didn't you tell me this was happening to you?" Chat worries, demanding an answer.

"Well... it's not happening to me... per-say, but the other... me." Phoenix fiddles with her fingers nervously.

"So Phoenix is only affected by the good part of the powers. Whoever you are beneath it... gets the bad." Chat concludes from Phoenix's words.

Phoenix sadly nods.

"This makes no sense!" Chat snaps, frantically picking up other scrolls and texts, skimming over them trying to find a solution. "Why do you have this stupid curse?! Why you?!"

"Okay, let's take a deep breath." Phoenix puts an end to his frantic behavior, gently taking the scrolls away from before holding his hands. "We have to think with a clear head or we're never going to get anywhere."

"How are you so calm about this?!" Chat's growing more and more upset.

"I've had my time to be upset about it, but I've come to terms with it." Phoenix seems indifferent. "I'm willing to accept the consequences if my powers get out of control."

"But I'm not!" Chat snaps, "I can't accept that! That's not fair to you! To me! To everyone who knows you beneath the mask! It's not fair that you have to die because of someone else's choices!"

"It isn't fair, Chat. But that's why we're working so hard to make sure it doesn't happen. I'm just saying that I'll be content with whatever happens. Good or bad." Phoenix lightly squeezes his hands, trying to ground him.

Chat's quiet for a long while, "How did this happen to you?"

"I've had too many emotions about one too many things on far too many occasions." Phoenix cryptically responds.

"Is that a riddle or something?" Chat frowns even more than he already was.

"No." Phoenix chuckles at his pouty face, before changing the subject, "Any ideas?"

Chat drags his eyes off her in order to look at all the historical texts laid out in front of them. "Hmm... in this book it says that Apollo was horrible in the love department. All the women he loved either betrayed him or was taken from him. Could that be the motive behind the curse?"

"It believe it is. We — my kwami and I — were thinking that Daphne might've been his last straw, and it caused him to curse this miraculous, set himself on fire, and be reborn into the Pyre Bird." Phoenix nods in agreement.

"But why curse the innocent who would later pick up the miraculous? They had nothing to with it?" Chat questions. "Especially if the miraculous is meant to be for only the pure in heart."