MIRACULOUS, PROLOGUE
NOTHING BREAKS LIKE A HEART
THE WOMAN MOVED through her home in an air of darkness, the scowl on her face ever present with every step. She can't remember the last time she had smiled. The pictures of her and her mentor seem to haunt her as she roams through the halls, her younger, smiling face nothing but a distant memory, a fragment of a person who no longer existed. She was meant to be someone great. She had such a bright future ahead of her.That didn't matter anymore. That girl was dead.
She passed by the window without a glance at the city below. It was as bright as the sun, and she was as dark as a rain cloud. It was not for her. She didn't belong there.
She disappeared into her bedroom, releasing her dark hair from its intricate braids and letting the tension of the day fade away. Sliding the elastic onto her wrist, she took a seat on the edge of her bed, turning to her nightstand where there was only a photo of a teenaged boy and a hospital bracelet. Gently, she picked up the photo, a lone tear dropping onto the glass. "I'll bring you back, my son", she whispered. "I'll bring you back if I have to burn the world to do it."
She touched the butterfly pendant on her chest softly, overwhelmed with the emotions of all of Paris. If she had to create destruction to get the Miraculous she needed then destruction she would bring. "Nooroo", she said quietly, "dark wings, rise!"
In that moment, Xiang Dubois felt something very dark shift in the world, something she hadn't felt in a very long time. One of the Miraculous, the one thing she was sworn to protect and never let get away again, was being used for evil rather than to protect. Her head throbbed with a migraine that nearly knocked her off of her feet, causing her to sway where she stood. Xiang grabbed the chair next to her in an attempt to keep herself steadied.
"Nooroo", she said sadly, her voice shaken. "I'm so sorry. I have failed you." Once she was steady on her feet, she moved to the black and red box that she kept hidden. "The world needs you, my little ones", she whispered as she opened the box. "Go forth. Choose your holders", she said to the little balls of light that floated out of the box.
The world was in their hands now.
AUGUST 20, 2023
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special guest star:
jamie chung as xiang dubois
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Teen Fiction" he's got me spinning round. my feet are off the ground. and when the sun goes down that's when i become miraculous. " in which a group of kids are granted with miraculous in order to protect all of paris from evil. [ started: august 9, 2023 ]