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LB: Rena, I was talking to the kids the other day and Hugo asked if we knew what Shadowmoth does when he isn’t Shadowmoth.
RR: That’s a good question. While we currently don’t know, maybe we could back track. We could make a profile on Showdowmoth and record when he is free and when he isn’t.
LB: That similar to what I was thinking but how would we implant that? Everything I have has come up short.
RR: We could start with a document and make a list, although this would be a big task. It might help to have more people involved.
LB: While it would be easier we can’t have more than you, Carapace, Chat and me, any more people would begin to put quite a large group at risk. Not many understand the risk involved in doing Miraculous work.
RR: I understand, but maybe it’ll be something to look into, if not now then in the future. That girl of yours did mention a base for all the holders.
LB: Rena, we shouldn’t base our actions on what they say about there future. We don’t know anything about time travel.
RR: Ok, Ok, lets start with making up a profile for Shadowmoth? I’ll send out the details to you, Chat and Carapace.
LB: Thank you Rena, this means a lot to me.
RR: No problem LB!
As Mari put down the phone she checked the time and saw that it was 6pm.
Mari looked to the kids and saw Emma playing with Louis on the flour. Louis has started crawling and now needed extra care, thankfully he was yet to begin teething, Mari hoped that the kids would be back in their time before Louis teethed.
Hugo was finishing his food and watching TV on Mari’s Laptop that she brought for the kids to share.
Mari looked at the time for about the 50th time that hour and sighed. She needed to go transform so that she was Ladybug when Chat got there.
As Mari transformed in the bedroom she finally had some relief from her nervous energy during the transformation.
Every since waking up with Chats arms she couldn’t help but feel nervous to see him.
At first it was embarrassment, however after seeing Chat during the three Akuma attacks over the weekend, it was now an strange butterfly in the belly kind of nervousness.
Marinette was certain she was simply overthinking, Tikki even reassured her of such, although Tikki also suggested Marinette might have feelings for Chat, so Marinette thought Tikki’s judgement to be taken with a grain of salt on this matter.
As Ladybug walked into the main room she found herself immediately being caught in strong arms.
As she looked up from her position of being supported in said arms she realised she had fallen and Chat had caught her.
“Are you ok M’Lady?” Chat Noir questioned with a head tilt.
From Ladybug’s angle look up white her head tilted back, the look for whatever reason made her heart beat a little faster and her cheeks feel a little warmer.
Scrambling to get up Ladybug fell although this time Chat didn’t mange to catch her.
“I’m alright! J-Just a little clumsy is all!” Ladybug quickly pulled herself to her feet.
“As long as you’re alright.” Chat told her before going to say hi to the kids.
As Ladybug was trying to regain herself she realised Chat hadn’t made any cat puns. Just as she was about to ask.
“Hugo that picture is the cats meow!” Chat exclaimed at Mar laptop.
Hugo smiled brightly at Chat. “Thank Papa! I’ve been making it for a few hours now!”
Ladybug walked over to see that Hugo had made a rather impressive photoshopping skills.
“Is that what you’ve been doing on my laptop all evening?” Ladybug questioned with surprise at the image.
Hugo nodded while Emma joined the conversation from her spot in the living. “Hugo is actually super good with art! Papa says he gets his creativity from Maman.”
Both Ladybug and Chat Noir were surprised by the comment. They didn’t know much about what the children’s parents were like but they knew they were good parents since the kids missed them so much, and seemed to have such good perception of them.
Chat knew he was the kids father so to hear that their mother was a creative person felt like a huge deal. It made Chat wonder all the more about who the kids mother is.
Ladybug smiled at the knowledge the kids had a creative mother, maybe that’s how her future self met the kids and then chose to train Emma.
While looking at Hugo’s image Ladybug thought about the large temple like building, she noticed how tall and proud the building stood between a large field of bright green grass. As she inspected the building she realised that there where carvings and patterns on the walls of the temple.
As she examined the patterns she was reminded of the patterns in the art of the Grimoire. Before she could think more about it she remembered she wanted Chat to learn some of the information in the Grimoire.
“Hey Chat, would you mind looking through the, um… special book with me?” Ladybug asked trying to cryptically convey her message.
Chat after a moment realised she was talking about the Grimoire. “Sure!”
Chat followed Ladybug to the bedroom where she shut the door. Chat felt a little awkward being in a closed room with Ladybug especially when it was outside of battle. He felt his cheeks heat up a little.
Ladybug sat on the bed after moving around a little and opened the Grimoire. “Chat Noir. This is the Grimoire of the Miracle box. As Guardian of the Miracle box I am giving you permission to see this and learn some of its secrets. Can I trust you with it’s knowledge?”
Chat looked a little confused at the way Ladybug was talking, of course she could trust him, although after he thought this he felt compelled to speak a rather specific response in return.
“I Ad-“Chat covered his mouth once he realised he was saying his name. “Holder of the Black Car Miraculous, swear to the Guardian that I can be trusted with this information.”
Once he finished speaking Ladybug smiled at him. “That was very eloquent Chat.”
Chat shook his head and sat down on the bed. “Meow M’lady, you know I’m excellent with words.”
His expression turned serious. “That being said, it’s more like I felt compelled to speak in that specific way, rather than chose to.”
Ladybug nodded in thought. “That’s interesting because I also felt like my wording was being chosen for me.”
Chat thought for a moment before commenting. “While since it’s Miraculous related what does the Grimoire say?”
Ladybug was curious so she started flicking through the Grimoire to see if she could find anything. Towards the beginning of the book there was a section about the Guardian of the Miracle box.
“I think I found something. It says, like all Guardians the Miracle box Guarding has its own powers specific to that of a Guardian.” Ladybug was shocked as she read.
“So you have abilities separate from your Miraculous? That only relate to you being a Guardian?” Chat Noir asked curiously.
Ladybug nodded, “Yeah, I think so. Although I’m not sure what the abilities are it’s written in riddles. Most of the important information in the Grimoire is written in riddles.”
Chat thought for a moment before asking his question. “What are the riddles?”
Ladybug looks at Chat before looking back at the Grimoire. “It says; though many speak one is heard, when the sound is the 2, 5 and 12 obey.”
Chat and Ladybug were very confused. “While that is a confusing riddle. More importantly you can read this language fluently, how?”
“Master Fu was training me to be the next Guardian long before he made me Guardian.” Ladybug explained.
“Ah. Let’s go back to that riddle later. What does it say about holders?” Chat Noir asked curiously.
Ladybug flicked through the book to the back with all the blank pages. “There is a fair bit of information on each Kwami and its powers but there is also a lot of blank pages at the back of the book.”
Chat hummed as he looked at the pages. He noticed that there was a blank page between each of the Kwami pages and some weren’t fully blank, some had a bit of writing on them.
“Why are the blank pages in between the Kwami pages?” Chat Noir thought out loud.
Ladybug looked up to Chat then back to the book before answering. “I’m not sure. Master Fu wasn’t entirely sure either. He suspected it was so the Guardian could add knew findings to the book. However nothing has happed to any of the holders that isn't in the Grimoire.”
Chat Noir nodded in thought and as her watched Ladybug and the book he had an idea. “What if, rather than trying to remember times we used new abilities, what if we try and make our own abilities?”
Ladybug thought for a moment and responded. “Yeah! That’s true, if we can create new abilities we can guess that the Grimoire has blank pages to that we could write those new abilities!”
“I would say let’s try now, but I suppose we don’t know what it’ll do to our timers.” Chat jested.
Ladybug nodded with a smile. “Yes, that’s very true.”
“Let’s go enjoy a little while with the kids before you leave.” Chat suggested as he went to the door and held it open.
“Sure, it would be nice.” Ladybug smiled brightly as she walked through the door.