La Red

Pt. 7

La Red

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D/C: I own nothing.

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Navrée, The Heartbroken Queen, did her best to spread the feeling of heartbreak all around. Alya's new akumatization form made her look like the Queen of Hearts, but instead of red it's purple. Everything about this Akuma screamed heartbreak, pain and sorrow. All she wanted to do is to spread the pain that she is feeling at that very moment to everyone around her. "WHY! TELL ME WHY!"

Navrée held out a long metallic purple scepter, dangling from it is a necklace Nino recognized as one he had given Alya in the beginning of their relationship. That is probably where the Akuma is in and the object they needed to defeat Navrée.

Nino dodged an attack by rolling behind a bookshelf to avoid it. Avoiding another attack and Navrée kept on screaming for him to come out for them to talk it out. Looking around, Nino could no longer see Adrien and wondered what happened to the blonde. Did he manage to escape?

"Talk to me, Nino! Why? Why did you walk away!"

'Why did I walk away..."

Flashback~

Nino knew that confronting his girlfriend about what he just found out, that this could very well make or break their relationship. After talking to Ladybug and her whole experience with helping with Marinette and dealing with Lila. He finally opened his eyes and realized just how much everyone changed when Lila came into the scene. How Lila's lies has caused everyone to turn around against one another, to be more precise, against Marinette.

The only person that has ever called out Lila. Marinette quickly became isolated due to Lila's lies. How those lies caused everyone to believe Marinette to be the bad person in every situation. Every. Situation. Not matter what it was, Marinette was always the bad buy and Lila the good one. Lila could do no wrong, but Nino finally opened his eyes and saw exactly what was going on.

The seating arrangement.

Jagged.

The sprained wrist.

The paper napkin.

Knowing so many famous people.

Knowing the prince.

The paper napkin.

The constant need to be in the center of attention to every situation.

Then all the lies that included Ladybug.

THE PAPER NAPKIN!

Then... there were the videos Alya had put in the Ladyblog. Ladybug debunk every single statement and so on. At this point, if Alya attempts to ignore all this, then there is nothing else he could do for her.

What he did not expect is for Alya accusing Marinette for brainwashing him. That everything that Ladybug had said is nothing but lies. Lies. That it was just Marinette manipulating Ladybug to make her hate Lila, nothing else.

"Stop, just stop." Nino gripped his head, in a failed attempt to calm his mind. "This isn't about me getting manipulated, this is about you and everyone else being manipulated by Lila. Ever since she came, it's all about her. Everything about her. Before her, you would defend Marinette but now, you are more than happy to throw her under the bus just to please Lila."

"That's not true!" Alya defended herself.

"How many times have you avoided inviting Marinette to places, because it made Lila uncomfortable? Or how whenever Lila wanted something to be done, and you manipulate Marinette's emotions to make her feel bad to get it down. WHEN you know it's impossible and it goes against her?" Nino ignored the tears that ran down Alya's cheeks. He could tell nothing he is going to say that will convince Alya that Lila is the monster he and Marinette tried or trying to make her see her as. "You make Marinette feel like her feelings are not valid."