Unmasked

Chapter Ten

Word Count: 1132

Queen Bee's POV

Lunch passed quickly and before I knew it it was the last period of the day. Hawkmoth's necklace buzzed around my neck. I took a deep breath as I collected my books and calmly walked towards the same wall I had been lead to that morning.

On the way to said meeting spot I had changed into my Akuma outfit, (Hawkmoth had a sense of humor as he basically put me in my Queen Bee suit, the only difference was that it was darker colours and no hood, instead there was a butterfly-shaped yellow mask.) and huffed as I looked in the mirror. Now, this was just cruel.

The wall opened for me as if sensing the necklace, the symbol, I bore and I proceeded to walk into a huge meeting room. Other Akumas were all milling around, dozens of them, which was much more than The Guardian had suspected. Every single one of them had different outfits on, all just as wacky as the next.

Hawkmoth walked (more like evilly slinked) into the room and eyed each Akuma with a disinterested face. He stood in front of everyone and all the Akumas froze in their tracks. No-one had approached me yet, everyone just walking by me as if I didn't exist, maybe in their minds I didn't.

The evil mastermind cleared his throat and glanced around the room, taking in all of his pawns.

"The time draws near," he cleared his throat, "and I should remind everyone what loyalty to me means. If the bond is broken between us, you can kiss everything I've granted you or will grant you goodbye." With a nefarious smirk, he continued, "All the money? Gone. The fame? You'll never see the light. The houses? Consider yourselves to be living on the streets already." With each sentence, he bounced his gaze around the room till his eyes landed on me and stayed there. "And if I promised you freedom... well then get ready to live the rest of your life in chains."

I suppressed a shudder and met his gaze head-on. He could threaten me all he wanted, but I was working for him and he needed me. He needed me happy and compliant for the plan he had brewed, he wouldn't try anything. Well, he wouldn't try anything for a while at least.

All of the Akumas whispered nervously to each other, their voice scramblers causing the room to sound as if it was populated with hyper chipmunks instead of death-delivering teens.

Not like I could judge since I was a teen, who also, delivered death.

Hawkmoth nodded to us all and soon he was gone, leaving all of us, his loyal followers, to mingle.

How gracious of our leader.

My mind wandered to my co-workers in Miraculous Inc. I wondered what they would think when the found out I was working for him, and I also wondered about how they would be even more confined and constricted due to my actions.

Not like thinking about all that would do anything now, since I already signed the binding contract.

Who knew that evil masterminds used legal binding documents to control his young disciples?

I toyed with my ponytail and looked at all the Akumas. What had happened to them to drive them all the way here? What had to happen to cause them to sell their soul to the devil?

Rena Rouge's POV

School was weird. It was very dull compared to the training we received at Miraculous Inc, and was packed with more useless information than useful. But, at least there were people I could chat to.

Oh, and the internet.

God, I don't know how I'll ever go back to living off the grid again.

My inner Tumblr teenage girl was loving the phone I was gifted by The Guardian.

I sat on my terrace and looked out at the landscape of Paris, France. Of all the mission locations, this would have to be one of my favourites.

My fingers flew over the touchscreen of my phone, typing away a blog entry. Since I was given permission to surf the web, I had created a blogging site and blogged daily. I mostly talked about random things that happened during the day, while others I talked about more serious personal details.

However, I managed to always be cryptic about everything so if anybody read it they would never realise that I was actually a spy and was venting about all these terrible missions I've been on. I was good at hiding details like that.

Dear Internet,

Today I will mostly be talking about this one family vacation I went on and how it turned to shit.

She wrote 'family vacation' instead of 'spy missions' partly because she viewed the team as her family, but mostly because it seemed like the most widely neutral answer that the world would accept.

Once we had travelled somewhere cold, so cold that I had wished I had packed a coat much thicker than the one I had brought. It was a crazy vacation spot anyways, why in the world would we want to go somewhere where we could travel and see the sights without being given frostbite?

Our father had even failed to mention that it was going to be cold, so everyone else had basically nothing to keep themselves warm. I was lucky that I packed a think jacket "just in case." So I got the better end of the beginning of the trip since a thin coat is better than no coat, right?

Well, anyways, let's say that the entire trip was full of politics and shit. But what really got me, was that his guy that was travelling with us... let's call him Green... he and I were very close, and during that trip, we got much much closer. And it was great, gosh he's such a great guy.

The problem was that during this duration I had fallen for the idiot. God, I just wanted a nice vacation that went smoothly without a hitch or anything, but noooo.

He's just so sweet and caring, and he's just so clueless sometimes it's almost endearing (all men are stupid, ladies, am I right???), but mostly infuriating. Like, take a hint, buddy.

The reason this went to shit, wasn't because of that trip, no it's because of the present. I still like him, but there's this guy at school who's just so nice, and just lets me talk for what feels like hours and he nods along and just lets me be myself.

It's almost like vacation guy and school guy could be the same person, which could actually be very true. Since it was so cold and we were outside basically the entire trip, he always wore something to cover his face, like a scarf and giant hood, so I don't really know who he is and ahhhhh!!!

My love life is a mess.

Please send help.

-Red