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“IT’S OVER MONARCH/FATHER!” Ladybug and Chat Noir shouted as they landed onto the catwalk of Gabriel’s impossibly large atrium.
“Ahh, Adrien and Marinette just who I wanted to see.” Monarch said with a haunting grin, that sent a possessive shiver down Adrien’s spine. “You’re just in time for me to make my wish to bring my darling Emilie back. Don’t you want that, Adrien?”
“You don’t understand Father! The natural order will always correct itself, someone else will die in return.”
“I don’t care about THEM Adrien. Plus, they won’t even have to die! They’ll only fall under a deep sleep.” He said pressing a button on the casket to reveal the preserved body of Emilie. The sight of his mother being grotesquely kept alive made Adrien to collapse to the ground in shock, with Marinette rushing over to comfort him. “Join me, Adrien. Help me bring my wife back. I won’t take no for an answer!” Punctuating this statement by sending an akuma into Adrien’s miraculous.
“Don’t listen to him Adrien! You can fight this! Is this really what your mother would’ve wanted!”
“Silence girl! You speak nothing of my wife! You know nothing of what she would have wanted! Listen to me son! DO NOT TAKE HER AWAY FROM AGAIN!”
“please, everyone stop,” Adrien said weakly. White creeping from his ring, already enveloping his arm and part of his chest, circling around his heart.
Marinette pushing down her own fear and adrenaline crouched down next to her partner, placing a gentle hand on his shoulder. “Remember Adrien” She said with an impossible stillness. “Breathe with me 1… 2… 3… 4… 5…”
“I have had enough of her; Chat Blanc get rid of her”. As he said this, entropic energy, now white, sprung from his hand and took a swipe at Ladybug. Adrien’s crying started to morph into maniac laughing and back into sobs. Just as the white had taken over every part of his costume, Chat Blanc’s eyes met with Marinette’s and saw fear. His princess was scared of him. With one last act of free will, he gave a primal scream and slammed his hand into the catwalk. This caused a small explosion, which pushed both him and Ladybug back, and instantly disintegrated the platform and the ground underneath the casket and his father’s feet and as they fell it was still creeping through the rest of the mansion.
The magical blowback of Adrien breaking free was too much for Gabriel. Causing him to loose focus on the constant battle against his cataclysmed right arm, making it surge forward through the rest of his body, reaching his heart, killing him instantly. He was already dead when his body slammed into the ground, his detransformed body crumpling against the force, allowing for Ajax, who was intently watching the battle from the rafters, to drop down and walk up to the corpse. He reached down and picked up the butterfly miraculous and Graham de Vanily Rings, making sure to wipe them off with his handkerchief, before placing them into his pocket. Scampering off before Ladybug and Chat Noir could wake up and drag themselves out of the rubble.