set in stone - miraculous au

Chapter 3: Crying Baby, Crying Kitten (Part 1)

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I realised that this story is actually pretty good. So, I'm going to continue it!

"Woah." Marin took in the wonder of Adrienne's room, which was nearly as big as his own house. Adrienne chuckled lightly. She must've been used to the shock that came with her room/large apartment. Marin had been here before as Fortune, but Adrienne couldn't know that, and the place was massive enough to warrant shock anyway. "Yeah, it's pretty good. So,what do you want to do?" Marin's brow creased ever so slightly. "I thought we would work on the project." he said, gesturing to the baby laid gently on the couch. "I mean, we obviously will. But it won't require 24/7 care. And, from what I've seen in movies, friends generally mess around when they're meant to do projects..." Adrienne still hadn't completely settled into school life after a year, and it was her first group project. Marin smiled. "Sure!"

Marin was not calm. The fact that he was keeping up the nice smile was a facade that he was  barely keep up. Getting partnered with Adrienne by Gabrielle Agreste herself would've lent him enough shock to last a week. But this... this was on a whole other level. The only reason he wasn't screaming like a maniac was Adrienne, who's presence was just enough to keep him from embarrassing himself. His vision flicked to Adrienne, who had set up Ultimate Mecha Strike III. Before she turned the volume on, she put the baby and a cradle that came with it into the bathroom. "It's soundproof." she explained. "Mom tightened security after the recent akumas. So, you wanna play?" Marin exhaled. Gaming always wiped away his worries. "You're on."

At College Francoise-DuPont...

"Now, Jacques. We know this wasn't your fault. You punched him out of fear, right?" Jacques didn't reply. He was too  scared to. Jacques was scared of nearly everything, from darkness to blood. He had gotten teased from everyone else again today and didn't take it well. He turned around and saw the boys who had teased him. They had masks on, which were badly designed but enough to scare him anyway. He hid under the desk, afraid.

The stained glass window in the Agreste mansion opened up. Papillon was there. "A scared child... I've akumatized one before. Hopefully this one will have more... style." She called a butterfly to her, turning it into an akuma. It flapped out of the window. Papillon smiled. "Fly away, my akuma, and evilize him!"

As Jacques shivered under the desk, the akuma flapped through a crack in the window and landed on his contacts. The purple mask appeared over his face. "Phobos, I am Papillon. The others didn't know the true meaning of fear. You will show them, and you'll be the only one who isn't scared." Jacques straightened up. The desk flew over his head. Damocles stood up, shocked, but Jacques stayed still, unhurt. "You just need to get a few things for me..." The image of the Miraculouses flashed in his mind. "Yes, Hawk Moth. Paris will know the true meaning of fear!" Purple akumaterial settled over him, but quickly turned black. Robes settled over him, and a mask, black as his robes settled over him. The only hint of colour was in his eyes, which had no pupils and glowed white. "Scared?" Phobos' voice was monotone. No emotion, no anger or satisfaction. That made it scarier. "That's not fear. This is." He pulled off his mask. Damocles screamed. Phobos floated out the door. As he exited, you could see Damocles. He was literally frozen in fear. He wasn't moving, his face set in a scream. His eyes were white.

"God, this feels weird." Alyn commented. After a while of Ultimate Mecha Strike and foosball, Nina had called Adrienne and asked if they wanted to go to the park. Adrienne jumped at the chance to go outside, so they went together. "What feels weird?" asked Adrienne. "

"This feels like, I don't know, a parenting group." Alyn said, gesturing to the sleeping baby dolls and winking at Marin, who turned bright red.

"Well, I guess it's good practice for you two." Marin shot back. Adrienne remained oblivious.

Nina was about to reply, but one of the babies started crying.

"Hush, little baby." Marin cradled the thing gently. Within a second, it stopped crying.

"How did he do that? It took 5 minutes straight to calm ours down!" Alyn said in disbelief.

"Good parenting instincts. He'd be a good father." Adrienne replied.

She'd meant it as a matter of fact statement, but suddenly Alyn and Nina were laughing and Marin was bright red.

Adrienne was about to say something, but she froze.

A masked figure stood behind the group.