Chapter 17: Anything for You

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The feather landed on a piece of rubble that had fallen on the ground and the Sentimonster took shape, growing taller and taller until its craggy head brushed the high, vaulted ceiling overhead. (Well, what was left of it.)

"Yes! Destroy Chat Noir and his accomplice!" Jacques laughed. "Crush them under your foot!"

"Chat! Look out!" Marinette cried, struggling to get free.

The Sentimonster turned toward her voice, shambling toward where she was lying, helpless. Chat leapt after it, whacking it on the head with his staff. It didn't even register the hit.

"Hey! Ugly!" Chat yelled, jumping in front of the rocky beast, waving his arms. "Come after me!" Chat dashed from Marinette, and the monster followed, stomping his feet.

"Yeow!" Chat yelped, as he was almost squashed, "now I know how a bug feels underfoot!'

"Finis, you fool!" Hawkmoth was furious. "I told you to leave Adrian alone!"

 "I told you to leave Adrian alone!"

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"Sorry, old man, plans change." Finis sneered. "Once the cat is out of the picture I can claim that ultimate wish for myself and become the music God of the century!"

Chat and Natalie were in trouble, they'd been backed into a corner; Chat's staff wasn't making a dent and he couldn't use his cataclysm to make an exit.

"Leave my son alone!" Hawkmoth lunged toward Finis, pulling the sword from his cane as he did so. Finis laughed, dodging easily out of the way, using the edge of his fan to deflect the blade away.

"Father! Help!" Chat screamed, as he and Natalie were crushed under the Sentimonster's foot.

"No!!" Hawkmoth howled, the sword dropping from his grip.

The combined exertion and grief was too much for him, and he collapsed on the ground, clutching his heart

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The combined exertion and grief was too much for him, and he collapsed on the ground, clutching his heart.

"Hahaha! I've won!" Finis celebrated, his feathered coat swirling as he danced around. "And now, with the ring, I'll be able to have the ultimate wish!"

The peacock villain strode past the Sentimonster.

"Lift up your foot, you idiot, so I can see his mangled corpse."

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