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Lila Rossi sat on her bed watching the new video that Alya had put up on the Ladyblog.
"Due to some revelations about the true nature of Lila Rossi," the blogger said apologetically, "all interviews and information given to the Ladyblog by Lila Rossi has been removed. After extensive research, I have found that nearly everything Lila told me, except for her name, was a lie."
Lila felt the rage boil inside her. This was all Marinette's fault. Lila had the entire school in the palm of her hands, and, on the last day of school, Marinette had snatched it from her.
"From now on I will extensively research all claims given to the Ladyblog before I-" Lila opened the window and tossed the laptop out.
Lila had the perfect life! She had been worshiped like a goddess by every brainless idiot in that school and she had even been modeling for Gabriel Agreste! But Marinette Dupain-Cheng stole all of it from her!
She somehow convinced Adrien to go out with her and had replaced Lila as Adrien's model partner.
The worst part?
Lila still had to go to Françoise Dupont High School next school year. Mother refused to pull her from the school, saying some bullshit about dealing with consequences.
Complete and utter bullshit!
Lila looked out the window to see Ladybug swung by, Chat Noir close behind.
Lila's anger skyrocketed at the sight of the superheroes. Forget Hawkmoth, those two are the real villains. Ladybug was the reason that Adrien never believed Lila.
Stupid bitch went out of her way to embarrass Lila in front of Adrien last year. Everything was her fault.
Lila would destroy Ladybug, even if it was the last thing she did.
Suddenly, something felt very wrong to Lila, and she couldn't figure out what it was.
Almost like something was missing.
Lila looked around her room, everything was there, except the laptop Lila had just tossed out the window.
Then Lila realised.
Where was the akuma?
Normally when Lila got this angry one of the magical butterflies would come and turn Lila into a villain. Lila had been akumatised many times, she loved being akumatised, it gave her the chance to destroy Ladybug.
That was when Lila's phone buzzed with an akuma alert.
Hawkmoth must be busy then, a shame.
Picking up her phone, Lila turned on the news broadcast about the newest akuma.
"Hawkmoth has been defeated!" Nadja Chamack reported, "He has been unmasked by Ladybug and Chat Noir to be the fashion designer Gabriel Agreste! Mayura is still at large but she is believed to be Gabriel's secretary, Nathalie Sancoeur." A photo of the woman appeared on the screen, "If you see this woman, hide and call the police. She is an armed and dangerous person."
Lila tossed her phone against the wall in order to silence the newswoman.
Of cause Hawkmoth would be defeated today of all days. All of Lila's happiness, gone in the space of 24 hours.
It felt like the universe was giving Lila a giant middle finger up her ass.
Well, it felt like that emotionally, not physically. Lila corrected herself.
Lila went over to grab her phone from off the floor, the screen was shattered and it was bent pretty badly, she would need a new one.
Will mom even get me a new one? A part of Lila's mind whispered.
Lila growled and turned to throw the broken phone out of the window.
And saw a blue woman standing in her room.
Mayura.
"What do you want?" Lila snapped at the supervillain.
"Lila Rossi, I am here to give you this." Mayura handed Lila a small, grey, square shapes box, "Gabriel told me to give this to you if he ever was unmasked."
Lila took the box from the blue woman and attempted to open it, but couldn't for some strange reason.
"Why the hell would Hawkmoth want me to have a sealed box?" Lila said, tossing the box over her shoulder.
"I have no idea. He said that the box would open when it is the right time." Mayura sighed, "I don't know why I'm still helping him. All I wanted was for Emilie to wake up."
Lila sneered at the supervillain, "I don't care about your stupid problems! Now what's in the box?"
"I can't tell you." Mayura stepped out of the window, "Goodbye, Lila Rossi."
Lila stared after the blue woman.
"The fuck was that about?" Lila said aloud.
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Félix Graham de Vanily stood in the former office of Gabriel Agreste. It had been months since Hawkmoth and Mayura had been defeated. His cousin Adrien had been victimised by the press and Mother decided that, instead of moving Adrien to London, away from his friends, they would move to Paris, away from Felix's friends.
Because Mother was entirely too worried about what the public thinks.
Felix now lives in the Agreste Mansion, now owned by Adrien. Felix had taken Gabriel's old office as his room and had found the evil layer down below the first day.
Along with Aunt Emilie.
Adrien had called over Ladybug and soon Aunt Emilie was no longer in a coma.
Therefore making all of what Hawkmoth did pointless.
Uncle Gabriel was an idiot.
School was starting again in a few days and Felix would be going to the same school as Adrien. Felix couldn't remember what the school was called, Frans Dumps or something like that.
Honestly, Felix didn't care.
Felix walked over to his desk and pulled out two silver rings from one of the drawers.
The Graham de Vanily Twin Rings. He had been so obsessed with them 6 months ago, but now he realized that they were just rings. Aunt Emilie had given the rings to him after Gabriel was put in prison for life.
Felix threw the rings back into the drawer and left his room. He walked into the dining room to see Marinette and Aunt Emilie setting out food on the dining table.
After Aunt Emilie woke up, she fired most of the staff that worked at the mansion. Now the food was either cooked by Aunt Emilie or Marinette, Adrien's girlfriend.
Felix kind of missed his personal chef from London, but in all honesty, Marinette made some delicious food.
Marinette and Adrien were basically inseparable. It was probably fair to say that he had 2 homes at this point. One at the Agreste Mansion and one at the Dupain-Cheng Bakery.
It was ridiculous.
"Oh, Felix!" Aunt Emilie exclaimed as he noticed him, "What perfect timing! Can you go call Adrien for dinner? He should be up in his room."
"Yes, Aunt Emilie." Felix responded, turning around and going up the main stairway.
Opening Adrien's door, Felix was greeted by the sound of Adrien playing piano. Adrien still often played piano, even if Uncle Gabriel wasn't forcing him to nowadays.
Felix sat there for a moment, listening to the music. It was a fast-paced fun-sounding piece that had a lot of notes going at the same time. It almost sounded as if Adrien was playing with somebody else.
"Adrien," Felix called out to him, causing the music to stop, "It's time to eat."
Felix heard Adrien close the piano and send it back to the floor. Felix didn't look into the room since half the time Adrien didn't wear pants and Felix didn't enjoy seeing his cousin in his underwear.
Adrien walked into Felix's kind of sight fully clothed, thankfully, and his hair up in a small ponytail. Adrien had grown out his hair during the past months he had insisted on doing it after he had quit modeling.
Felix thought it looked terrible but Adrien wouldn't listen. Also apparently Marinette liked the hair, so he could not be persuaded to cut it.
"Hey Felix." Adrien said, turning off the lights in his room, "Haven't seen you all day, how have you been?"
"Fine." Felix responded as the two boys exited the room.
"So, what have you been doing all day?" Adrien continued, obviously not picking up on the fact that Felix did not want to talk.
Felix sighed, "Nothing in particular." Felix responded.
The two boys arrived at the dining hall to find Marinette and Aunt Emilie already sitting at the table.
Adrien moved to the opposite side of the table to sit with Marinette and Felix sat next to Aunt Emilie. The four sat in the middle of the long side of the table with nobody sitting at either of the shorter ends.
The food sat in between all of them, which was then passed around so everyone could get some onto their plates.
Dinner had become horrible casual ever since Marinette had started dating Adrien. Once Marinette had told Aunt Emilie how her family ate dinner, Aunt Emilie insisted on doing it that way since it promoted family bonding or whatever.
Felix thought it was ridiculous.
Felix quickly ate his food and left the dining hall. If he didn't exit quickly, Aunt Emilie would insist he stay for whatever conversation they started. And Felix hated those conversations.
Felix went back to his room, locking the door behind him. Felix walked over to his computer and sat down. He opened up the research he had been doing for the past few months.
The history of the Graham de Vanily Twin Rings.
While Felix now had the rings in his possession, he knew next to nothing about them. They had been in the Graham de Vanily family for as far back as he could find. But, he couldn't find when the rings had first come into the family's possession.
Felix had gone back 27 generations without finding a single seed of evidence about how the rings entered the family.
At one point Felix had been convinced they were miraculous, but a quick talk with Aunt Emilie demolished that theory.
An examination of the rings themselves also gave no clues. The rings were simple silver bands with no indentations or markings. The rings could also slide together to make it look like they were one thicker ring without having any groves or indentations that would allow them to slide together like that.
His initial guess for the joining together of the rings were magnets, but after doing a few experiments it became obvious there were no magnets inside the rings.
Basically, despite researching these rings for the past 4 months, Felix knew next to nothing about them.
Which was frustrating, to say the least.
Felix started to research the next generation of his family from his list. Luckily, his ancestors were wealthy aristocrats so their lives had been fairly well documented.
After looking at a few paintings of his ancestors, he found out the rings were in fact present here as well.
After a few hours of reading through various documents about the business ventures and daily lives of his fat and rich ancestors, Felix felt his eyes droop from exhaustion. His eyes were also tired from looking at the computer screen all day.
Felix sat back in his chair and stretched his arms above his head, a yawn escaping from his mouth. His eyes drifted to the clock.
11:37 pm
Everyone else in the mansion was most likely asleep.
Felix turned off his computer and walked over to his bed. He crawled into his bed and turned out the lights using the remote.
As soon as his head hit the pillow, he felt his exhaustion hit him in full force. Felix fell asleep within moments.