Destined To Love You- An Adrienette Fanfic

Part Twenty-Four: Memories

Adrien arrived at the park, tiredly after all that running. He paused when he saw a clone/puppet of René stabbed through the back by Feidge's hand. There were no blood or anything since he was just a doll. Feidge ruthlessly watched René fall over the ground in a cold-blooded way. "You've got the worst luck of today." He murmured before spotting Adrien. "Oh, you're here. Where's Renz?"

"Wh-Why did you..do that to René?"

"Huh? This isn't René. It's a doll made by Jarell Divell." Feidge explained before seeing the puppet perish into blue sparkles. Adrien didn't get the whole detail but just nodded.

"Where's Marinette?" Adrien worriedly asked.

And Feidge blunted, "Oh, I told her to escape."

"What?!"

"She was too weak to join the fight. Rousseau is someone as powerful as Moreau or Zariffe even." He pulled out a hanky to wipe it over his hands. "Let's go back to the council. I'm sure she's there."

Overlapping, Marinette was facing a puppet of Dante. This Dante was very different. He was smirking and evil. "Answer me. Is this Jarell I'm talking to right now or is it the puppet itself?" Marinette obviously asked.

Dante smirked. "The puppet itself." He stretched his hands in an exercise motion, saying, "Shall we do this then?"

"Sorry but I'd rather not!" Marinette snagged out two of the exact copies of her Ladybug yoyos and made them dart around in every direction possible in impressive speed. Puppet Dante kept his eyes closed the whole time and didn't bother to stray his eyes onto the yoyos' movements.

But instead slithered a sly smirk before disappearing. Marinette expanded her yoyos' motion around her, forming a pink-colored barrier to shield herself from any attack possible given to Dante and also to attack him. It took a matter of seconds for her to feel a firm tug on the strings which caused her to gasp when somebody pulled her left yoyo's string.

Not long after the other one was pulled as well. Dante came in, holding the yoyos in his hands and swiftly reeled around Marinette, tying her up in the strings. "You still have a lot to learn." Dante said, landing his feet on the ground and stared down at Marinette with his eyeless empty eyes. Marinette squirmed herself, the strings were unbreakable and they even tied her limbs. "Please be thorough next time. I didn't even got a chance to use my powers."

"You're not Dante. Dante is not mischievous or cocky. You're just a doll." Marinette squirmed. "What are you going to do with me anyway?"

"Simple." Dante bent down to her eye level. "I'm taking you to Jarell."

"Okay. When I said that she'd be in the council, I was probably wrong." Feidge told Adrien, standing across the meeting room. Adrien freaked out about his wife's disappearance.

"Come on, she's gotta be somewhere." Aracelie stated, sitting in her throne and beside Zariffe.

"Probably she got lost?" Zariffe scratched his cheek hesitantly.

Ara shooked her head. "Idiot, why would she get lost in a place she knows well?" Zariffe laughed sheepishly at his mistake. Ara smirked. "Sheol, you're in there, right? Slap him for me."

"As you wish." Zariffe's heterochromatic eyes turned into Sheol's and Sheol slapped himself as a punishment for Zariffe.

When Zariffe reverted, he scraped the burn on his cheek. "Owwie. Are you this cruel?"

"That thing is still there?" Feidge scrunched his brows in anger. "Don't you realize how dangerous it is? That thing killed hundreds."

"And you killed thousands." Zariffe snapped. "You have more sins than Sheol. He IS a demon and a threat but he's my friend. When I was a kid, what did you ever do to make me feel happy? Didn't you lock me in a dungeon?"