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“Many centuries ago, magic jewels bestowing extraordinary powers were created. These were the Miraculous. Throughout history, heroes have used these jewels for the good of the human race. Two of these Miraculous are more powerful than the others; the earrings of the Ladybug, which provide the power of creation; and the ring of the Black Cat, which grants the power of destruction. According to legend, whoever controls both these jewels at the same time, will achieve absolute power.” A small purple butterfly explains as he looks at the dark figure before him.
“I want that absolute power, Nooroo, I must have those Miraculous!” The man says. “But nobody knows where these Miraculous are!” The man just chuckles at the small Kwami. “I found you though, my little Nooroo. Your Miraculous...reminds me of it’s powers again.”
“The Moth Brooch allows you to give someone their own superpowers and to make them your devoted follower.” This cause the man to grin. “And when the time comes to luring superheroes, what could be better than creating supervillains?” Nooroo looks at his master in disbelief, “But master, the Miraculous are not meant to be used for evil purposes!”
“I must have this absolute power!” The man snaps, pointing at the small creature. “Your Miraculous is in my control! I am your master now, and you must obey me.”
Nooroo knew he had no choice in the matter. “Yes, master.” The man puts on a butterfly brooch and exclaims, “Nooroo, dark wings rise!” Nooroo is sucked into the brooch and a purple light covers the man, changing his clothes.
“From this day on, I shall be known as.... Hawk Moth!” He announces as he lets out an evil laughter throughout his lair.
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Inside a small massage parlor, a small turtle like fairy wakes up in frantic. “Master, Master!” An old Chinese man and his customer both look up from the distressed calls. The old man quickly covers up the calls, “Master, Master....chanting, it’s all part of the testament.” He starts to push the customer out of the door. “Master, Master...Thank you for coming see you again next week!” He closes the door and look toward the flying turtle.
“Master, the Moth Miraculous, I felt its aura.” The old man looks at his companion is disbelief. “I thought it had been lost forever!”
“But Master, it’s a negative aura.” The turtle explains. “I fear it may have gotten into hands of a dark power!” This causes the man to stand up abruptly in determination. “We must find Nooroo and his Miraculous. If it has gotten into the wrong hands, there’s no telling what evil will come upon the world. “He then holds up his wrist showing a jade bracelet. “Time to transform! Wayzz─” Before he can finish, the man doubles over in pain and Wayzz flies over to him. “Please, Master. Be reasonable. You are─” Wayzz was quickly cut off.
“Still young! I’m on 186. But you’re right, Wayzz. I can no longer do it alone. We’ll need some help.” The old man walks over to a gramophone and opens it, revealing a magical box.
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“Momma, can we please not take pictures now. I’m gonna be late for school.” The young brownskin girl whines as she glares at the woman who looks like an older version of herself. Her mom lowers her phone camera a bit. “Oh hush, Ashlynn, you still have an hour! This is your first day of school in Paris and I won’t be able to see you until tonight. Let me have this!” Ashlynn’s pout grows as she yells to her dad. “[Oyaji]! Can you please tell, Momma to stop!”
A Japanese man walks down the stairs as he straightens his tie. He takes witness of the commotion and chuckles. “Gabriella, can you please let our daughter go so she won’t late.” Gabriella turns to pout at her husband and sighs. “Fine, but do not change when you get home. I still need pictures.” Ashlynn looks down at her outfit. It was just a long sleeve black shirt, a red and black plaid skirt, black stockings and black ankle boots. Ashlynn looks at her mother nods. “Gotcha, Momma. But, I gotta go now! Love you!” She kisses both of her parents on their cheek, grabs her messenger bag and leave out of their new home.
On her way to school she saw an old man trip and dropped his cane. No one bothered to help him and just walked over the poor man, which made Ashlynn’s blood boil. Are people really that inconsiderate? She quickly goes over to the man and helps him up. “Are you okay sir?” The old man nods and gives a warm smile. “Yes, thank you, young lady.” Ashlynn then guides him to a nearby bench. “I’m sorry I couldn’t do more, I don’t want to be late to school.” She gives a small bow and continues her way to Françoise Dupont.
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Marinette barely manages to cross the street with the box of macarons in her hands as she sees an old man trying to cross the street. She hurriedly grabs his hand and brings him along with her; her box falling in the process. “Thank you, miss. Oh,” Both of them looked down to see most of the macrons were stepped on by other people, “What a disaster.”
“Don’t worry, I’m no stranger to disasters, besides, there’s still a few left.” The man grabs one treat and eats it. “Mmmh. Delicious!” The school bell starts to ring and Marinette jolts. “Oh no. I’m gonna be late! Ah, have a nice day sir!”
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“But Chloé, this has always been my seat.” Marinette explains to her childhood tormentor aka the mayor’s daughter. Chloé just scoffs as her lackey Sabrina speaks up, “Not anymore! New school, new year, new seats!”
“So why don’t you just go and sit beside that new girl over there?” Chloé then points to Alya who was currently glaring at her. “Listen Adrien’s arriving today, and since that’s gonna be his seat this is gonna be my seat. Get it?” Ignoring everything else, Marinette asks, “Who’s Adrien?” This causes Sabrina and Chloé to laugh. “Can you believe she doesn’t know who Adrien is? What rock have you been under?”
“He’s only a famous model.”
“And I am his best friend. He adores me. Go on, move!” Having enough, Alya snaps. “Hey! Who elected you Queen of Seats?” The blonde looks at the other girl with a smirk. “Oh. Look Sabrina! We’ve got a little do-gooder in our class this year. What are you gonna do, super newbie? Shoot beams at me with your glasses.”
“Wouldn’t you like to know.” Alya then grabs Marinette’s hand and walks them over to their new seats. Ashlynn, who was sitting alone in the back row watched the whole thing unfold and tucked herself farther in the corner. “Oh gosh, there’s bullies here too?!” Ashlynn just shakes her head and takes a deep breath. “It’s gonna be okay, Ash. Just stay in the shadows and focus on school.” She brings her focus back on Miss Bustier and class starts.
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“Adrien, please reconsider! You know what your father wants!” Nathalie pleads the young model. Adrien huffs in annoyance. “This is what I want to do!” The blond sees an old man trying to get up from the ground. Adrien runs over and helps the man up. “Thank you, young man.” And the man walks away. Adrien turns back to his father’s assistant. “I just wanna go to school like everybody else. What’s so wrong with that? Please don’t tell my father about this.”
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“KIM!!!” Ashlynn flinches as she sees Ivan giving Kim a deadly glare. Miss Bustier looked at the two boys. “Ivan, what is going on?”
Ivan clenches his fist. “It’s Kim! I’m so gonna get─” The redhaired teacher stops the boy before he could finish. “Ivan, go to the principal’s office.” Angrily, Ivan complies.
“Poor guy...” Ashlynn says to herself, “Is everybody just jerks to each other here?” Ashlynn shakes her head and starts making her way to the stadium.
Ashlynn finally gets to her destination and took a seat, waiting for everyone else to arrive. Once all of the students were there, Mr. D’Argencourt opens his mouth to speak but a booming sound caught everyone’s attention.
“KIM!!!!”
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“As incredible as it seems, it’s been confirmed that Paris is indeed being attacked by a supervillain. The police have been struggling to keep the situation under control.” The tv then flips to Officer Rogers and the other police force. “Be confident, the strong arm of the law will come crashing down on the... I mean the other arm.”
Ashlynn looks away from the tv and sighs. “Talk about a first impression.” Ashlynn flops on her bed and sees a small box. “Huh?”
“Ugh, I hate first days back at school...” Marinette says behind her chair and she sees a small box in her room. “Huh?”
Adrien turns his gaze away from the tv as he saw a small box on his table. “Huh?”
“What’s this?” All three teens questioned as they picked up their respected boxes. They opened up the boxes and the said objects start to glow startling the teens.
In Marinette’s room a ladybug like fairy appears. “Ahh! Help! It’s a giant bug! A....a mouse! A....a bug-mouse!” Tikki the kwami tries to console her. “Everything’s okay! Don’t be scared.” That freaks Marinette out even more. “Ahh! Bug mouse talks!” Then a barrage of objects comes Tikki’s way.
In Adrien’s room, a black cat fairy appears. In amazement, Adrien tries to touch him. “No way...Like the genie in the lamp!” Plagg the kwami swats his hand. “I met him once. So, he grants wishes. Big deal! I’m way more personable! Plagg. Nice to meet you.” Plagg looks around the room. “Oooh, swanky...” He flies off to touch random things. “No! Don’t touch that! Come back here!”
In Ashlynn’s room, a grey wolf fairy appears. And they just stare at each other. Ashlynn tilts her head and it copies her. She raised her right hand; it did the same more excitedly. “Is this a game? This seems a lot of fun!” The kwami Lunna says with her tail wagging. “Gah! You can talk?!” Lunna huffs. “Of course, I can! Oh, this is cool!” Lunna goes to touch one of Ashlynn’s figurines! “Wait! That was expensive!”
“Listen, Marinette. I know everything seems a bit strange to you...” Tikki was cut off when Marinette places a cup over her. “Okay, if that makes you feel safer.”
“What are you and how do you know my name?” “I am a kwami, and my name is Tikki. Now just let me explain.”
Adrien climbs up to the highest point of his rock wall and jumps on Plagg, catching him. “I still don’t know what you’re doing here.” Plagg gives him a bored look. “Look, I’m a kwami. I grant powers. Yours is the power of destruction, got it?” “Uh-uh” “Good. Now you got anything to eat I’m starving.”
Adrien stands up while holding the small cat. “My dad’s pranking me, right? Wait, he couldn’t be. He has no sense of humor!” Plagg quickly gets out of the boy’s grip. “Your father must never know that I exist! Or anyone for that matter.”
Ashlynn slams an old figurine box on top of Lunna. “Okay, okay! I won’t touch anything.” Ashlynn quirks her mouth to the side as she stares at the kwami. “Just what the heck are you? Are you some weird gift my nana? I gotta call my dad.” Just as she was about the grab her phone, Lunna phases out of the box and give Ashlynn a stern look. “No one and I mean no one should find out about me! Listen, my name is Lunna and I’m a kwami. I grant you the powers of unification.”
“Mom! Dad!” Tikki quickly phases out of the cup and stops Marinette from opening the trapdoor. “I’m you’re friend Marinette! You must trust me. You’re the only one who can stop Stoneheart!”
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“Do you think they’ll be up to it, Master?” Wayzz asked Master Fu curiously. “Especially since this is the first time in forever since the Wolf Miraculous has its own personal wielder.”
“I only got it wrong once. It will never happen again. At least I hope not.”
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“Me? A superhero? I can’t take on that responsibility! This is my second week here! And I’m too much a spaz and coward to even stand up for myself, let alone a supervillain. This is a mistake.” Ashlynn starts pacing around the room, rubbing her arms franticly.
“But, Ashlynn, you were chosen for a reason! The person who gave me to you saw something in you, so you should too!” Lunna says as she sits by the box she came from. Inside the box it was silver beaded bracelet and there were five ‘fang’ beads around the bracelet. Ashlynn bites her lip. Was she really meant for this type of responsibility?”
Marinette starts to put on the Miraculous after Tikki’s explanation. “So, all I have to do is break the object where the whatchama-call-it is hiding.”
“It’s called an akuma. Which you must encapture.”
“Got it! Capture it! And what’s that charm thing again?” “The Lucky Charm! It’s your secret superpower!” Marinette deflates. “Aw...this is all going too fast, Tikki...I... won’t be able to pull this off!” Tikki shakes head. “Trust yourself, Marinette. Just say ‘Spots on’.”
“Spots on?” The earrings activate and a pink light comes around Marinette. “Woah! What’s happening?!”
Adrien on the other hand had a determined look on his face. “Claws out! That’s how you transform.” Plagg explains. “Got it! Plagg, claws out!” Plagg’s eyes grow wide as he gets sucked into the ring. “No wait! I haven’t finished explaining─” Plagg disappears into the ring and a green glow comes around Adrien.
Ashlynn slides the bracelet on her right wrist and looks at the kwami. “So, Pack is my ability?” Lunna nods. “You’ll be able to join two or more objects or people together in one bound. And you’ll be able to reset when you say Spread.” Ashlynn slowly nods at the explanation. “Like those magical girl shows where each heroine has a special power of their own right?” Lunna didn’t know what she was talking about but agrees anyways. “Yeah, like those! To activate your transformation just say ‘Sharpen fangs’’
“O...okay. Sharpen fangs? Woah!” A silver light forms around Ashlynn. She feels her clothes change and the light fades away. “What the heck?” Ashlynn looks at herself and jolts when she sees the outfit. She was wearing a silver one piece with a white front from her neck to her thighs, sliver gloves with claws on the end, silver ankle boots. Her head was covered by a hood with makeshift wolf ears and she had a bushy silver tail. A silver and white mask was placed around Ashlynn’s eyes. On her right hip was a gray three section staff.
“I would mention how cool this if I wasn’t terrified.” Ashlynn walks out towards her balcony and looks out into the city where Stoneheart was terrorizing. “Okay Ash, you got this. This is like gymnastics! Or Nana’s training!” Ashlynn climbs on top of her house and cautiously jumps on top of the roofs towards the villain.
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“Well, hey there. Nice of you to drop in.” The boy in the cat outfit says to the girl in the ladybug outfit as she tries to untangle her yo-yo. “Oh, I’m sorry, I didn’t do it on purpose.”
“I bet you’re one of the partners my kwami told me about. I’m...Chat Noir. Yeah, Chat Noir. And you?” “I’m Ma...err...Mar....uhh...” The ladybug girl finally manages to get the yoyo out but it hits Chat Noir on the head. “Madly Clumsy. I’m so clumsy.” Ashlynn was standing behind the building right next to them watching everything go down. She can’t do this! They were all new to this! And, besides, wasn’t the ladybug and black cat the strongest out of all of them. She would just be in the way....
“Hey, wasn’t there suppose to be one more?” Ashlynn squeaks as she heard the girl speak up. Well, there was no way out now. Ashlynn walks from behind the building and slightly waves at the duo. “Um...hi?” Chat Noir grins and waves back. “Sweet! The whole gang is here!” The ground below them starts to tremble and a far building was falling down. Chat Noir makes his way toward the commotion. “Hey! Where are you going?” Clumsybug asked. “To save Paris, right?” The boy continues his way. Ashlynn quirks her mouth to the side. “I guess he has a point.” Ashlynn follows Chat Noir with Clumsybug following behind her.
The heroines finally caught up to their feline partner to see him fighting Stoneheart. “Hey, it’s not very nice to pick on people who are smaller than you.” Chat Noir taunts. “I guess you’re talking about yourself.” Stoneheart snaps back. Chat hits the villain with his bo staff and but Stoneheart grows bigger and flings Chat Noir away. Before he hit the ground, Ashlynn quickly grabs him and the both landed safely on the ground. “Are you okay?” Ashlynn asked and the boy nods. “Yeah, thanks....” “Uh...Lycan. Yeah, Lycan.” “Thanks, Lycan. Now, let’s kick some rock butt!” “Chat Noir, wait─” Lycan couldn’t explain because the boy was already gone.
Stoneheart a net where Alya was and Chat Noir saves her just in time. “What are you waiting for, super red bug?” She says to Clumsybug. “The world is watching you.” That makes the red heroine grow some courage and enters the stadium. “Animal Cruelty?” She taunts gaining everyone’s attention. “How shameful!” She lands near her partners. “Sorry it took so long, Chat Noir, Lycan.” Both heroes shook their head. “It’s cool, Wonderbug. Now, let’s kicks his rocky behind!” Lycan immediately grabs the boy’s shoulder. “Wait, Chat! We should just rush in.”
“Why not?” He asked and Wonderbug answers, “Haven’t you noticed? He gets bigger and stronger with every attack. We have to do something different.” “Different how?” “Uhhh....I don’t know how”
“Okay then. Let’s use our powers. Cataclysm! Apparently, I destroy whatever I touch.” Lycan tilts her head in amazement as she stared at his glowing had. “I don’t need a superpower to destroy everything.” Wonderbug says. Chat Noir goes over to the net. “No wait! Don’t do that!” Both girls yelled but it was too late. Chat already destroyed the net. “Cool. It’s just you and me now! Time to rumble, soon-to-be rubble.” Chat Noir leaps towards Stoneheart and tries to use the power again. Keyword is tries. Stoneheart kicks him away.
“Now you only have five minutes before you change back. Didn’t your kwami tell you anything?” Wonderbug scolds at the sheepish cat. “I guess I was a little excited about my new life.” Wonderbug then looks at Lycan. “Well, I guess it’s up to us. Lucky Charm!” She throws her yoyo in the air and a wet suit falls in her hand. “Super Power?”
“My kwami told me I have to break the where whatchama-call-it....er the akuma is hiding.” The red clad heroine explains. “Well, he’s made entirely out of stone.” Lycan looks closely at Stoneheart and gasp. “Look at his right hand. It’s still closed. It hasn’t been open this whole time.”
“You’re right! The object isn’t on him. It’s hidden in his fist!” Wonderbug then turns to the wolf heroine. “And your superpower is...?”
“Oh! Uhm, I can bound two or more objects or people together.” Wonderbug nods and begins to look around, most likely trying to figure out a plan. Once she knew what to do, she grabs a water hose, ties the wet suit to it and ties Chat Noir’s feet with her yoyo. “Don’t resist. Trust me.” Then she flings Chat Noir towards Stoneheart. “This girl is crazy!”
Wonderbug grabs Lycan’s hand and yelled at Stoneheart. “Catch us if you can!” Both girls ran away as the villain drops his akumatized object and chases them. “Now!” Lycan finally understood the plan and grabbed her staff. “Pack!” Her weapon grows longer as a force pull both heroines into Stoneheart’s hand.
“And now...Alya, the tap!” The said girl goes to the water tap and opens it. The suit becomes inflated with water, causing Stoneheart to drop Lycan and Wonderbug. The bug theme heroine then grabs the object and breaks it. A purple butterfly then flies out and away from the scene. The giant stone villain then changes back to his original form as Ivan. “What’s going on? What am I doing here?”
“You were incredible, miss...uh.... Bug lady. You did it!” Chat Noir praised and Lycan nods in agreement. “Yeah, great thinking!” Wonderbug shakes her head. “All three of us did it, partners.”
“Pound it!” The trio say in unison as they did a three-way fist bump and Chat Noir’s ring begins to beep. “You should get going. Our identities must remain a secret.” Wonderbug explains and Chat nods. “Farewell, m’lady. Let’s do this again.”
“Not too soon.” Lycan mutters under breath unaware that the other two heard it and the began to laugh. Lycan feels her face grow hot and tries to leave but remembers that’s she still attached to her female partner. “O..oh. Spread...” Once they were separated from each other, Lycan gives them both a small bow and makes a quick dash back home.
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“Wow, that was so.... adrenaline rushing!” Ashlynn says as walks around her room, still having some energy left from what just happen. She then turns on the tv to see a film of her and her partners battling Stoneheart. “We actually look better than expected.”
“Uh.... Ladybug! Call me Ladybug!”
“So, thanks to this amateur footage, the Parisians now know the identities of their heroes!” The news reporter says. And the tv then switches to a film of the mayor talking. “I am pleased to announce that we will organize a huge celebration in honor of our city’s new protectors. Ladybug, Chat Noir and Lycan.”
“Ladybug. Chat Noir. Heroes... We actually did it!” Ashlynn says to herself as she stares at the tv in awe. Lunna looks at her owner while eating a bowl of cherries. “See, I told you that can do it. No mistake here!” Ashlynn looks at the wolf kwami and smiles. A knock on her bedroom door comes to her attention and Lunna quickly went into hiding. Ashlynn opens the door to see her dad standing there. “[Oyaji]? I thought you were at work?”
Taro shakes his head. “Due to that monster attack, we were sent home for the day, so I’m finishing work here. Are you okay, [Hana]? It seems that the monster attacked your school first.” Ashlynn nods. “I went home as soon as I could. “Good now, come down. Your mom is almost done with dinner.” On cue, the teen’s stomach rumbles. Her face heats up “I’ll go set up the table...” And she sprints to the dinner table just to see her mom untying her apron. Gabriella sees her daughter, runs over to her and cradles her face. “I heard about the attack at your school. Are you okay? Did you get hurt?”
Ashlynn rolls her eyes and giggles at her mom. “I’m fine, Momma. I came home as soon I could.” She pulls away from her mom and sets up the table, so they could eat.
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“Just as Paris is about to celebrate the appearance of our new superhero trio, Ladybug, Chat Noir and Lycan, a new wave of panic is sweeping across the capital as dozens of people are mysteriously transformed into stone monsters. It’s simply unbelievable.”
Ashlynn looks up from her writing journal as she heard the news on her tv go off. She then released a sharp gasp when she saw multiple versions of Stoneheart. “These victims transformed into stone beings are still like statues. The police are perplexed to what will happen to them. Will they come back to life or be frozen in time forever.”
“Lunna what’s happening? Didn’t we defeat him?” “Did you capture the akuma?” Ashlynn shakes her head. “The object just had to be destroyed right?” This time Lunna shakes her head. “Once you destroy the object, the akuma has to be capture by Ladybug and purified. If not then it can multiply!”
“So, Ladybug has to make the final blow?” Lunna nods. Ashlynn looks at the tv and bites her lip. She was worried about how her other teammates are feeling right now. Probably the same as her right now.