Miraculous Hunters Rewritten: Book 1

Chapter 32: Chevalier Noir Part 2

(Time Skip)

Hours after Marinette's speech at City Hall, the girl in question went home, and had dinner with her family before her nightly call to her brother. To which she told him and Toby about D'Argencourt's akumatization and regaled the details since it wasn't on the news... for obvious reasons. From there, the boys regaled their own tales of how their day went, especially about Jim's new training schedule with Blinky and an upcoming Spanish comprehension exam.

But she was now transformed into Ladybug, and waiting for Chat Noir at one of their designated patrol meet up spots. Standing at the second level of the Eiffel Tower after night had fallen, Ladybug could spy her partner making his way over to her with his staff, propelling him from the top of Trocadero so he could land right next to her.

"You're late." Ladybug playfully remarked as she turned to face him. Chat Noir was usually good about arriving to patrols on time, so for Ladybug to arrive before him, she took great pride in being the first to arrive... for the first time in her whole life.

"Sorry, My Lady. I couldn't get away from my civilian duties." Chat Noir explained as he put his baton away and stretched his back muscles, warming up for the large amount of parkour he'd be doing in a few minutes.

"It's okay. Lord knows how much I've been in your shoes." Ladybug groaned as she started to stretch as well, her own limbs having become stiff while waiting.

"Thanks. So which route are we going tonight?" Chat Noir asked after he finished stretching.

"North and south route tonight. Do you want north or south?" Ladybug asked as she finished her own stretching and pulled out her yo-yo.

"I'll go south tonight. You took south the last time we did this route, so it's only fair." Chat Noir said as she pulled out his baton.

"Sounds good to me. Meet back here when we're done?" Ladybug queried as she started to spin her yo-yo to gain momentum for when she would throw it.

"As usual. See you in two hours." Chat Noir farewelled before using his baton to propel himself towards the south side of the city. A second after he did, Ladybug followed his example and used her yo-yo to swing herself towards the north.

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It had been an hour and a half since Ladybug and Chat Noir had started their patrol, and things seemed to be quiet. No akumas, no muggings, no disturbances of any kind could be found as Ladybug perched herself on top of a chimney to try and spot anything out of the ordinary.

"Looks like the north is safe for tonight. Let's hope Hawkmoth doesn't release a late night akuma so it stays that way." Ladybug remarked before she climbed down from the chimney and landed onto the rooftop below it.

But as she grabbed her yo-yo and was about to throw it so it could catch onto another chimney and swing away, she heard a roof tile suddenly break behind her. Due to her time as a hero making her extra vigilant while transformed, Ladybug whipped out her yo-yo and sent it flying towards the source of the sound. Her warryness was rewarded when her yo-yo wrapped around a mysterious figure in the shadows.

"Ah!" the figure exclaimed as they were trapped in the yo-yo string while Ladybug held them tight in her grip. Due to where she was standing, the shadows from the chimney kept Ladybug from seeing what the figure looked like. But from what she could gather, the figure was definitely taller than her, which was concerning to Ladybug.

"Who are you? What do you want? Are you an akuma?" Ladybug interrogated before she pulled the yo-yo string tighter around the figure, causing them to yelp at the newly added pressure.