short stories, sketches, and rants

The Other Side Of Me

   Silence fills the Agreste mansion as the clock hits midnight. Outside, the world celebrates in costumes and lights fill the streets, but only shadows fill this forsaken home. Doors shut and lights off, it looks abandoned, the only inhabitants sleeping soundly....or so it seems.

   The air shifts and a quiet song fills the empty rooms, echoing off the marble. The words just more than a whisper resonate in ghostly souls. "Hiding in the lies I see, dangers here no one for me, but this death that is made new, it's not me, it's just you. I was different yesterday, but you broke me in some way, you made something in me new, hope you know what to do. This is what you haven't seen, this is the other side of me." 

   Adrien wakes with a start, his eyes flying to Plagg who for once looks scared. "Plagg, do you know what that is?" The kwami shakes his head no and says "Maybe you should transform...for precautionary measures." Andrien nods and slides out of bed before whispering "Plagg, claws out!" and transforming. He pulls his baton from his back and holds it tightly, opening his door silently.

   Creeping through the halls, he scans everything with his night vision. Noticing a dark spot on the wall a way down towards Kennedy's room, he moves to inspect it. Written on the wall in dark ink is the words Save Me. A shiver runs down his spine and he moves to look in Kennedy's room. Pushing the already cracked door open more, he notices it's a mess and she's nowhere in her room.

   "Kennedy!" Chat whisper-shouts, concern written on his features. After getting no response, he searches the room, finding the only unusual thing being the mess. Leaving, he decides to go downstairs to check the kitchen. As he silently descends the staircase, A dark laugh resonates through the house. The superhero's blood runs cold.

   His gaze snaps to the ajar doors of his father's office. deciding to go there next, he moves quickly. As he slides through the door, he freezes. Standing at the end of the room is Hawkmoth with his hands at his neck as if someone was choking him, black mist swirling through his hands. "So glad you could join us cousin." A dark figure in the corner says, slowly moving to the light.

   "K-kennedy?" Chat drops his staff. A dark chuckle escapes her lips and she says "Not exactly. Did you know that our uncle has lied to us? To you?" She turns and faces Hawkmoth, a sinister grin on her black lips. "Isn't that right Gabriel?" She walks closer to him, her heels clicking on the floor.

   Her crimson eyes glow as she slowly strangles the life out of the man. "Do you know he tried to kill me when I found out? Well, I thought I would return the favor." A loud thump sounds as Hawkmoth's lifeless body drops to the ground, his transformation fading to reveal Gabriel Agreste. 

   Chat drops to his knees as hot tears slowly pour down his face. "W-why." "Oh Adrien, you know why. To end the suffering. But, to complete the circle, I have to leave." She then draws out a black dagger and puts the point above her heart. Chat jumps towards her and yells "No!" She sinks the weapon into her heart before he reaches her.

   "It's okay." Are the last whispered words to escape her lips before she drops to the ground, the dagger and black fading to reveal Kennedy in her normal clothes, a black hole where her heart used to sit. Adrien drops his transformation and screams in emotional pain, the only sound to be heard in the house of the dead.