Daminette December

2022: 4-Dragon

It had been five moths since Chat Noir was retired. Marinette had to sprinkle a powder over him while he was sleeping to get the ring from Adrien. The powder made sure he wouldn't remember his time as a miraculous weilder.

Paris had been surprised by the change, but Ladybug had informed them there would be sever changed to how she operated.

Ladybug smiled, "There is nothing to worry about Paris. Although, Chat Noir is no longer with us, we don't have to worry about the cat miraculous. I have already chosen a new weilder. I also got help from outside of Paris. It seem the mayor put an international ban order on akumas and evidence of akumas. We might not have as many tourist, but that will also lower akuma number since we don't have to explain akumas every five seconds."

"What do you mean by 'ban order on akumas', Ladybug?" questioned Nadia Chamack.

"Parisian news that has evidence of akumas or fan sites, dedicated to myself and akumas, like Ladyblog, are not accessible anywhere other then Paris." she announced, "Anyone who decided to come to Paris was completely unprepared for what they would go through."

"You said you got help?" Nadia continued, "Is this because of Chat Noir?"

"No. Chat Noir and I tried to get outside help right away." Ladybug commented, "It was Mayor Bourgeois who stopped out our call to the Justice League. I left Paris and made contact. I insisted they try a VPN or come to Paris as a civilian, with certain rules. They saw first hand the destruction you were all subjected to. I know have the Justice League assisting me on searching for Hawkmoth and Mayura. The new cat miraculous weilder is more than qualified. I'm sorry, but this will be my last time to stop and answer questions. I will be giving them as much information as possible so we can stop this attack. Bug, out."

"Shadu!" Ladybug shouted, throwing him the dragon miraculous, "Merge!"

"Plagg, Longg, unify!" Jakwar Shadu commanded, "Ladybug, I can provide aerial assistance if you grant it."

"No outside heroes." she declared.

"Not a hero; one of my pets." he answered

Ladybug was confused but granted it. Jakwar pulled out a whistle and blew into it.

"His name is Goliath; he is a dragonbat." he stated, "Be careful when he gets here. He might not be as friendly with a stranger."

Ladybug was shocked to see such a giant red beast, but she smiled.

'He looks like Fang!'

Ladybug walked up and pet the creature. Goliath began to lick her. Soon, the giant was acting like a puppy and had rolled over onto his back. Jakwar stood in silence as he watched one of his most fearsome pets act like an overgrown puppy, as Ladybug gave him bell rubs.

"Such a good boy." Ladybug cooed, rubbing her nose to the beast's.

Back in Gotham, the Bat family watched in shock. Batman rarely let Goliath come out. Here was proof that it was tamed.

"I wanna say I'm in shock, but she tamed the Demon." Red Hood spoke, breaking the silence, "Why would his demon dog be any different?"

Ladybug smiled, as she continued to pet the dragonbat, "I need a favor from you. Can you fly us to the akuma? We really need to stop him."

Goliath rolled over and knelt down so Ladybug could get on. With another pet to the dragonbat's head, she hopped onto his back.

"How?" Jakwar asked, still in shock.

"This is nothing." Ladybug commented.

"How?" he pressed.

"Well, when you ride an akumatized dragon into battle and jump into a T-Rex's mouth, you're not really scared of anything." she stated, "Besides, he reminds me of my uncle's pet. It's.....exotic."

"You did what?" the cat weilder shouted.

Ladybug sighed and held out her hand, "You can look for footage later."

"There's footage?" he growled, as he took her hand and hopped onto Goliath.

Ladybug shrugged, "Possibly."

"We are talking about this after the akuma!" he demanded.

"Hey, Jakwar." Nightwing spoke, announcing himself into the conversation.

"What?" Shadu questioned, "Did the akuma change locations?" gaining Ladybug's attention.

"No." Nightwing answered.

Jakwar shook his head and Ladybug turned around.

"Is this important?" the cat weilder hissed.

"Hood claimed Bug is now his sister." Red Robin groaned, "Says he's keeping her if you pull a Bat."

"Explain." the destruction weilder growled.

Red Robin sighed, "Hood kicked me off the Batcomputer and found the footage of your ....miraculous' leader jumping into an actual dinosaur's mouth. Chat Noir actually screamed when she did that. She also wasn't lying about the dragon. Ladybug stood on it and rode it into battle."

"Ladybug is a literal badass!" shouted Red Hood, "Congrats, you got a girlfriend cooler than you!"

"Ladybug." Jakwar whispered.

"Yes?" she questioned turning around.

"We're talking about your near death experiences when we get home." he growled out.

Ladybug rolled her eyes, "It's not as many as Chat Noir's. He took the hits he thought I couldn't. I told him to stop, too. Some of those weren't even necessary. I know I'm a target; nothing is going to stop me from retrieving the Butterfly and Peacock miraculous. If you can't handle me in the field, go home and stay there."

Jakwar flinched. He could tell she was serious. He had woken her up from many nightmares. He watched Marinette limp around somedays; she wasn't injured. There was no bruise. He even had Jon scan her, but nothing was broken. He couldn't understand until she told him, she could sometimes feel phantom pain from being injured during the akuma attacks. He even noticed she couldn't look at white cats without flinching. He questioned it and all she answered was 'akumatized chat noir'.

Jakwar reached over and put his hand on hers.

"I just want to talk. I'm not trying to stop you from doing your job. I know how important this is." he spoke, "Just....I want us to be careful on how we analyze the situation. You have complained about the previous weilder and his recklessness towards his own life."

Ladybug smiled, "You just want to be in control of the dragon next time, don't you?"

"Father would never let me keep it." Shadu smiled.

She laughed, "Fine, but that...animal; they try not to let it get akumatized now. If it ever does happen again fine."

"No fair!" his brothers shouted into his earpiece.

Jakwar Shadu smiled the whole time as he took down the akuma. Hawkmoth had ever seen Chat Noir look feral, but this cat did.