Miraculous: Marinette's Promise (Book Three Of the "Marinette's Baby" Series) ✔

Chapter 31

   The sky had an eerie orange glow to it.
The sun was beginning to set, the light began to shine throughout the Parisian skyline.
   The wind was warm, and yet despite the elements, there was danger lurking in the shadows.

   Lila sat on a slanted roof, her eyes glancing upon the Eiffel tower ahead. She casually began to dangle her legs over the ledge
   The brunette lowered her eyes, her orbs examining her knuckles as they began to bleed.

  Lila had fallen impassive.
She was only moments before death when she had decided to save herself.

She had grown angry, Hawkmoth had decided to sacrifice her. Just for the jewels...

   And for what?

A wish that wouldn't have benefited her not in the least. Lila furrowed her brow, her eyes shifting back towards the Eiffel Tower as she expected her almighty master to express how frustrated he was.

   As if on cue, a purple butterfly appeared across her visiage.
  Lila rolled her eyes, expecting what was to come.

  She had undid the damage to her body, she was finally able to heal. Lila was just as strong as the day she began the manipulator.
    
      "I thought I told you not to use that power..." Hawkmoths voice emanated in her mind.
    The brunette furrowed her brow, the sharpness in his voice ceased to phase her in anyway.

     "You also told me to die. Didn't you?" Lila spat, her fists clenching as she carefully stood up on the ledge. Her green eyes glowered down at the people below and her heart hammered in her chest.

     "I gave you, your power..." Hawkmoth retaliated. "I can take it away just as fast..."

    Lila smirked, her hands slowly relaxing as she crossed her arms tightly against her chest.
    "That's right... You gave me my power to manipulate time, and thought. Just like your power is to manipulate and transform..." Lila recounted.
   "You're able to connect us through the mind quite easily, can't you hawkmoth?"

    "Your job is to get me those miraculouses... " Hawkmoth argued, his voice coarse with anger as Lila had started to disrespect him.

   Lila grinned, her eyes narrowing.
"No...." she chuckled, the direct link to her mind via hawkmoth immediately reversed.

   Hawkmoth paused, his eyes widened behind the purple aura of his butterfly the moment he began to hear the voices in his head.
    "No..." he breathed, his hands reaching up to clutch at his ears. "No!"

   Lila grinned, her pupils dilating the moment she could hear hawkmoth struggling under her power.

   "You are going to stay right there, butterfly..."she instructed, her facial expression growing more menacing.
    "And watch me capture their miraculous for myself. And if you move my dear pet...watch me manipulate time in the worst way for you. Every day you awake will be a fresh hell..."

  She smirked, her eyes flickering up to the sky.
   "But you're right...you did give me my power, and perhaps I'm probably the strongest monster you've ever created..."

     Lila's eyes glanced down at the city, her pupils following every civilian that walked and went about her business.
  She reached up, pulling glass from her earrings and began to wound them around her knuckles.

     "But let's see if we can lure out the cat and mouse first. When this is over, the entire world will belong to me..."

   Hawkmoth squeezed his eyes shut, unable to resist the voices Lila had implanted into his brain.
   He had made little to no mistakes before, but this one may have been his most grave one.