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Marinette opened her eyes, fully expecting to see three figures sitting above her talking and laughing. What she saw instead was a beautiful sandy beach with thousands of colorful and oddly shaped seashells surrounding her. Out of curiosity, she picked one up.
Laughter filled the air as Alya absolutely dominated the new kid, Kim, in the race he had challenged her to.
The vision faded and Marinette laughed happily as she picked up one shell after another, eager to see what else they had to share. Memory after memory filling her head.
Marinette was six and welcoming her first sister into her family. Seven when Nino became family. Eight saw Alya, Ella, and Etta entering. Nine years old, with Kim and Alix being discovered and joining them.
Learning to swordfight, baking with her mom, watching as her mother's crew terrified ships of every size and shape. Laughing whenever her dad told a particularly bad pun.
When they were ten and eleven they all chose pirate names for themselves. Being twelve and committing her first pirate worthy crime with her five siblings. Fourteen and Marinette officially became Ladybug and captain of Tikki.
Aged fifteen and gathering a faithful and loyal crew she could trust and call family. Sixteen and setting off on her first search, as Ladybug, for the ships her siblings were all but destined to captain themselves and coming back empty-handed and disappointed. Marinette at seventeen years old and watching from the sidelines as the youngest three pirates cause mischief everywhere they went. Seventeen still, getting ready to turn eighteen when a storm hits and blows her overboard
By the time Marinette had stopped picking up shells, she was standing in front of a very familiar boat.
Placing her small hand on the side of her ship, she spoke, "It's good to see you again, Tikki." Tikki hummed lightly, happy to see her captain once again. Then the oddest thing yet happened. The pirate ship began to glow and shrink. It morphed and shifted until standing before Marinette was not a boat but a girl.
The girl was shorter than the captain but gave off the essence of power nonetheless. With a smile, the mysterious girl spoke, "It's a pleasure to see you alive and well as well, Captain Ladybug! The former boat hugged her and began pushing Marinette towards the sea, where an extremely nostalgic feeling was emanating from. The girl that used to be Tikki continued to speak as she pushed the confused girl further into the ocean, "We'll have time to talk later, but for now, it is time for you to wake up!"
Marinette's body was steadily being swallowed by the water until finally her entire body was submerged.
Deep ocean blue eyes flashed open, much to the surprise of the eight people watching her. Etta, Manon, and Ella were the first to recover as they shrieked and tackled her even further into her bed.
Before long Marinette was sitting up and her family was laughing and smiling, and lightly cursing her for being so dang difficult to find. After a few days good rest, she was up and out on deck celebrating with her crew.
But even as they sang and danced. The story of a young bride cruelly snatched from her loving fiance and a new rumor that the pirate captain Ladybug could now fly were being spread from traveler to traveler, ship to ship, town to town, growing larger and wilder with every retelling.
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That's it! That is the end of The Flying Ladybug!
I just want to say thank you, everyone, for sticking with this extremely long story within a story!
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