Miraculous with a Side of Kai

Chapter 8

“Ladybug.” Annette whispered, finally having a name for her partner as the news spoke of their victory against Stoneheart, Plagg flying around her room as she had four dishes of food prepared for the Kwami to help him get his strength back. “Her name is Ladybug.”

She leaned forward, cupping her cheeks with a smile as the camera zoomed in on Ladybug who was talking to this ‘Ivan’ kid.

From what they could tell, Ivan had no memory of what was happening while being questioned by the police showing that there was a chance he was being controlled.

It was all speculation at this point, but given the random nature of how he was given powers and they were taken away they were looking at it from all angles.

Plagg even confirmed that someone else was pulling the strings which meant they not only saved Paris, but an innocent kid who was being controlled.

“Ew, what is this?” Plagg asked flying forward with some of the food, breaking Adrianna out of her thoughts.

“Seriously? My personal chef made that!” She couldn’t believe how picky Plagg was being.

“If you expect for me to get my strength back after a transformation, I expect something a bit more delicate.”

Rolling her eyes, Adrianna glared at him. “Okay, what do you want?” She asked, muting the TV in the process.

“Before that, how come you're not talking about the third member of your group?”

As Plagg said that, Adrianna could only stay silent with a look of...pure hostility.

"I don't wanna talk about that...guy" she simply said with Plagg shaking his head.

'she's in denial'

Unknown to the two heroes along with Kai however, the Akuma was still flying around, landing on top of the Eiffel Tower where it began to multiply at a rather alarming rate.

Marinette hummed as she was doing the dishes, hiding a yawn before she heard Sabine gasp. “Oh my.”

Feeling concern, Marinette quickly turned the water off and ran out with a towel, drying her hands.

“ Just as Paris is about to celebrate the appearance of our three new superheroes, Ladybug, Aki and Chatte Noire, a new wave of panic is sweeping across the capitol as dozens of people are being transformed into stone monsters, simply unbelievable. ”

Eyes widening, Marinette quickly took off towards her room in a panic.

“You’re kidding,” Adrianna said with a disgusted look on her face, watching Plagg eat. “Camembert Cheese, fantastic all he eats is Camembert which means I’ll smell like stinky old cheese.”

Looking from Plagg towards the news again, Adrianna looked shocked at seeing pictures of multiple Stonehearts and unmuted the TV.

“ These victims transformed into stone monsters are as still as statues, leaving the police perplexed in what will happen to them, ” The Newslady said, a look of worry on her face. “ Will they come back to life or will they be frozen forever? ”

“Plagg what’s going on?!” She looked at her Kwami who gazed at the TV curiously. “I thought we defeated Stoneheart!”

“Did you capture the Akuma?”

“What does that have to do with the other stone beings?” Marinette asked in response to Tikki’s question, concern showing in her tone as her Kwami was eating some cookies.

“An Akuma can multiply, that’s why it needs to be captured,” Tikki explained, flying around Marinette who was panicking. “If Ivan feels negative again then the Akuma will turn him back into Stoneheart and he’ll be able to control an army of Stonehearts.”

Taking that in, Marinette took a step back, sinking into her computer chair. “This is my fault.” She whispered, no longer feeling pride for successfully beating the first Stoneheart.

If she just did her job and captured the Akuma instead of watching it fly away this wouldn’t have happened.

“No it isn’t, it was your first time using your powers and you did great,” Tikki tried to explain to her. “Next time you go out there you’ll successfully capture the Akuma with no problems at all.”

“Next time? There won’t be a next time, I’m a screw up.” Marinette said looking from Tikki towards his unfinished projects that were thrown about in the room. “A clumsy screw up, that’s all I am, not even super powers will change that.”

In fact, her having powers just made a situation like this much worse.

Chatte Noire would be better off without a screw up like her, in fact she was definitely the better hero between the two of them....even Aki, it's better for those two to handle it than her.

“But only you can capture the Akuma!” Tikki tried to explain, much to her horror.

“Wait, I can’t capture it? It has to be Ladybug?” Adrianna asked making sure as Plagg gave a nod.

“Only Ladybug can capture the Akuma and repair the damages done, but she won’t be able to do it without your help.” Plagg took a bite of the Camembert, leaving for Adrianna to back up, pinching her nose shut. “Your Miraculous are intertwined, Creation and Destruction. Yin and Yang. One can’t be without the other.”

“Well then we won’t have a problem, the two of us can easily handle this.” Annette said, ready to go fix the mess with some determination showing. “I’ll bet anything that Ladybug is raring to go as well.”

"...so you're not thinking about your third member?"

"I said I don't want to talk about him ok!!!!"

“If that’s true, then it’s best you find another person to be Ladybug, I can’t do it.” Marinette said as she began to take the earrings off much to Tikki’s horror.

“Wait, Marinette don’t-.” Tikki tried but she disappeared the moment Marinette took the earrings off, unaware of how she just denounced Tikki as her Kwami.

“... Tikki?” Marinette looked around, not seeing her before sighing sadly. “I’m sorry, but this was a mistake.”

She’s not a Hero.

Meanwhile, Kai looked at the news with a widened look on his face as he got up frm his bed with a pained expression.

"It's either I figure out the situation or I go to school....just hope for the latter this pain doesn't bite me in the ass" he finished that sentence with strain of pain of surfaced once more.

Chapter End.