AFTER Watching Miraculous

Chapter 14: Mother?

Outside the mansion, Alya, Nino, and Chloe sat by the police car waiting for the ones that went inside to come out.

"This is tedious. Utterly tedious. How much longer until they get back out here? We've been waiting forever," Chloe complained.

"It's only been ten minutes," Alya informed her.

"Well it's been the longest ten minutes of my life!" Chloe got back in the back seat of the police car and shut the door behind her.

"She's right they have been in there for a while. Should we go in there and check on them?" Nino asked Alya.

"Are you actually agreeing with her?"

"Not really. I mean, what if something has happened and we need to help them? I'm worried, not complaining like Chloe."

Chloe banged on the window. "I can hear you!"

Just then, Adrien came running out the front door of the Agreste mansion out of breath. Chloe got out of the car to see what was going on.

"What's wrong? Where's Marinette?" Alya asked.

Adrien spoke in between breaths. "She's missing."

Alya and Nino gasped while Chloe asked the question they were all thinking. "How is she missing? All you two were doing was showing Sabrina's dad the lair."

Adrien finally caught his breath. "I don't know. Lieutenant Roger and I went back up to the main floor while Marinette was still down there. When I went back down to get her, she was gone."

"Well she couldn't have gone far," Nino reassured them. "She was in the lair last time you saw her. Let's check there."

"That's why I came out here. I need your help in case there's something down there that's dangerous," Adrien said.

The other three knew what he was implying.

"Yeah. You know you can count on us," Alya said as she winked.

"As much as I dislike Marinette, I'll do anything for you Adrien," Chloe said.

"We'll find her. Don't worry," Nino said.

"Ready?" Adrien asked.

Alya pulled out her necklace that was hidden under her shirt. Chloe took off her glasses so she could get a better look at her miraculous in the car's side mirror. Nino moved his bracelet more up his wrist and away from the crowd of bracelets he always wore.

"Ready!" They all confirmed.

"Plagg, Claws Out!"

"Trixx, Let's Pounce!"

"Wayzz, Shell On!"

"Pollen, Buzz On!"

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"Hello?" Marinette spoke into the dark room she was now in. She was afraid to move. She didn't know where she was.

"Anyone?" Marinette asked the dark room again. She slowly reached for her purse. "Tikki?"

Inside the purse was Tikki snuggling up to the side. She was asleep. The car ride must have rocked her enough to do so.

"I guess I'll leave you alone for now." Marinette closed her purse back up and cautiously stepped forward. Lights all of a sudden started coming on across the room first started nearest to her and then down to the end.

"What is this place?"

There was a metal walkway that led to what looked like a small patch of land that had a garden behind a container of sorts. Marinette walked up to the walkway but stopped before she stepped on.

"Anyone here?" Marinette looked down at the walkway and carefully moved to stand on it. Nothing happened, so she kept on moving slowly. "I don't know where I am." Marinette looked at the walls. There were lights in the middle of them. She then looked straight ahead and noticed something.

"A butterfly?" There was a butterfly symbol behind the container on the wall. "Is Hawkmoth keeping something down here? Was he planning something?"

Marinette had made it to the other patch of land. She stared at the container for a little while. She couldn't see what was in it and was scared to do so.

"Okay. Maybe there's nothing in it and it's something he's already used. Just, why would he surround it with plants?" Marinette went up to a plant and held one of its leaves. "They look well taken care of. He must come down here often. Why?"

Marinette looked at the side of the container. It looked more like a coffin up close.

Marinette started to slowly walk closer to it to look inside. She closed her eyes until she could feel the side of the coffin with her hands.

"Please don't be scary. Please don't be scary. Please. Don't. Be. Scary."

Marinette opened her eyes slowly. Once she realized what she was seeing, she let go of the coffin.

"A woman?" Marinette then remembered back when Simon Says was akumatized.

Marinette was Ladybug and she was waiting for Adrien to get out of the shower. She then noticed Adrien's computer wallpaper. It was a woman with blonde hair and green eyes.

"My mom on her seventeenth birthday. She was pretty huh?" Adrien said, coming out of the bathroom.

"She's got your eyes." Both of them had said the same thing simultaneously. They then blushed at the fact that it happened.

"Adrien's mom? This is who Hawkmoth could've want the wish for?" Marinette asked herself a little louder than intended. So loud, Tikki woke up.

"Marinette?" She flew out of the purse and next to Marinette's face. "Why are you being so loud?"

"Tikki, look!" Marinette pointed to Mrs. Agreste in the coffin.

Tikki's eyes widened. "Who is that?"

"Adrien's mother!"

"What's she doing down here? What are we doing down here?"

"I don't know and I ended up here on accident."

"What are we going to do?"

"I don't know, but Adrien's heart is going to break if he finds out."

"Well, not to be rude, but is she dead?"

"I don't know."