Lost Souls

Part 1: Pain

Marinette had a great life being the hero of Paris and having fun with her friends. That is until Lila returned to her class and threatened to take all her friends away. She didn't believe her one bit, believing in her friends that they would have faith in her but boy was she wrong. Ever since Lila started to lie she called her out on it but Lila managed to turn it on her and make Marinette seem like the bad guy. After five months of being there, Lila had accomplished what she told Marinette. Marinette was abandoned by her friends and the only people who supported her were Kagami, Chole, Luka, Jagged, and her parents. But that didn't stop her from her duties as Ladybug.

One day Ladybug was on patrol and returning home when she saw Cat Noir enter her home. She was confused about why he was here so she went in as Ladybug and found her parents lying on the ground with a pool of blood around them and saw Cat Noir standing there and his claws dripping with blood. She couldn't handle it anymore she screamed.

"What did you do? You killed an innocent girl's parents!" Ladybug yelled.

"Marinette deserved it, she was loved by everyone, she had everything. The perfect life, loving parents and friends. She needs to know how it feels like to lose people." Cat Noir states

"But this is wrong Chat!"

"Why do you care?"

"You killed innocent people! What's wrong with you Chat?"

"Nothing is wrong with me. I just feel peace."

"You're sick in the head!"

Cat Noir started closing in on Ladybug.

"What are you doing? Chat?"

"We can finally be together!"

"What are you talking about?"

"Now that your parents are gone you need someone for support and that will be me!"

"What are you talking about Mr. and Ms. Dupain Cheng aren't my parents, they're Marinette's."

"Enough lying ladybug you belong to me now that no one can stop me."

"I am not some property you can claim, I am a person Chat!"

Cat Noir grabs her, digging his claws into her.

Ladybug struggled to get free. When she was close to freeing herself she felt cat Noir claws pierce her suit leaving a heavy gash.

"Stop this at once Cat Noir!"

"No, you won't escape, you deserve worse for breaking my heart over and over."

With that, he used his claws and attacked Ladybug leaving claw marks all over her skin. Marinette couldn't take this anymore and she punched cat noir in the gut and kept punching only seeing red. She didn't stop when he fell unconscious only when she saw her hands covered in blood she stopped. She took the ring off of Cat Noir who returned to Adrien.

"What is wrong with him?" Ladybug questions.

"Adrien had betrayed you causing him to drive to the peak of madness for abandoning you," Plagg explains.

"How can I heal him from the madness?"

"Focus on your energy of light and you can fix the madness within."

So she did exactly that and altered his memory making him forget about being Cat Noir and killing her parents. She returned him home.

Marinette knew she had to defeat Hawkmoth who was Gabriel. How she concluded that you ask, well for the past five months that she was isolated by her friends; she had a lot of free time. She was able to track down Hawkmoth who was revealed as Gabriel Agreste. Concluding that he was doing this to bring back his wife Ladybug went and confronted him. He revealed that he was doing this to bring Emily back so she asked if she could see her. Gabriel brought her to Emily and Ladybug used her powers to heal her, waking her up. When Gabriel realized what she did he thanked her and gave her the miraculous of the butterfly and peacock back to her and she never told a soul that Hawkmoth was Gabriel.

Marinette wished Adrien a better life and returned to her home where her parents lay dead. She couldn't undo that. She fell on her knees and started sobbing, remembering all the moments she had with her parents. She couldn't handle the pain anymore so she grabbed her bag and filled it with clothes and food, a cloak, credit cards, and the miraculous box and made a portal and headed into the unknown.

Marinette looked all around her and saw dark gray skies and Wayne Enterprises. She ended up in Gotham, the most crime-ridden city bleeding, just her luck. She made a new identification for her so now she is Maribelle Fu Cheng. She found an abandoned building and lied on the ground while the Kawmi's patched her up. Letting a tear drip down her face, Mari knew that this was a new beginning but then why did she feel nothing.