"I need an army."
"You need a Rat." Plagg glances at him, assessing Adrien first and then the street where Eldritch is. A car alarm goes off, a bang follows shortly after and Plagg gives a decisive nod. "And with Ladybug M.I.A you're gonna need a Sn...
So I just might have been slightly bitter over Viperion making an appearance before he was, well you know, actually introduced!
Don't get me wrong, I love my boy, I'm more than happy for him to get screen time. I just wish that it had been in chronological order.
After Luka and Adrien's brief interactions in Party Crasher I just couldn't stop thinking about Chat being the one to give Viperion his Miraculous, and well....this may have gotten a little out of control.
But in my defense, I have none. I just wanted to write a self-indulgent introduction.
Gosh I can't believe I forgot to upload this here!!!!
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His Miraculous is screaming as he ducks around the nearest corner and leans heavily against the side of a building. He's out of breath, out of time, and finally finally out of sight. He allows himself to slide down the wall, plopping onto the ground as his ring gives its final warning and Plagg comes tumbling out.
There's blood matting his hair, dripping into his eyes, Adrien just can't seem to muster up the energy to do much about it. It's fine. Hardly an issue compared to his arm that's bent out at an awkward angle and the hole punched into his hip, slowly leaking blood from a cut that's at least an inch deep. Hardly something that seems worth the effort when his muscles ache and exhaustion is crashing over him in waves.
It was easier before when he was running on adrenaline and had the aid of his Miraculous. The magic helps, Plagg helps, and now that it's just him; he can hardly wrap his mind around moving let alone going back out there into the fight.
What he wants to do is find a dark corner and nestle down. Adrien's in pain, he's hurt and he's scared and there is just enough cat in him to want to hide and stay there till the threat has passed and he's safe. He wants to den, build a big nest with something comfy and stay out of sight until he's no longer vulnerable. He wants to but....he can't.
Eldritch is by far the strongest Akuma he's ever encountered. Adrien is not exactly sure what created this one, Eldritch doesn't seem to have a clear purpose. He's sinister, all hate and cold cruelty, interspersed with short curt demands for the Miraculous. He doesn't seem to care much about who exactly he targets, he's the first Akuma that simply wants to hurt.
Even now huddled down in the corner of an alley, Adrien catches glimpses of shadows. Bent and warped monsters, hulking forms of twisting darkness and too many teeth.
They're everywhere, devouring and destroying all that they come across as Eldritch brings more and more forth from the folds of his cloak. The abominations are corporal in the vaguest sense, they shred and rip and batter without effort, cracking pavement just by being; yet they come apart with little effort. A bit of force, a clever blow and they're little more than thick black ooze. It would be so much easier without their numbers. If they weren't being brought forward and brought back, spawning and covering the area in their corruption.
