Adrien was now at the Pudong Xinqu to get a massage at the Tang Dynasty Massage Parlour since he needed to clear his mind and all. It was relaxing with aroma candles and Chinese women to give guests the massage they needed. He picked three women to make his day better.

"Thank you, ladies. My vacation here is becoming like heaven" Adrien thanked them in Mandarin.

"You're welcome, Adrien. You're our best customer" One of the women said.

"Agh....yeah.....I've been sore last night" Adrien groaned from feeling his vertebrae cracking more.

"Well, be grateful we fixed it," One of them said.

"Yeah. Must get boring for you ladies whenever a customer seems nasty with hygiene" Adrien chuckled and one of them massages his muscular arms.

"Yeah, but not you," The third one said.

"Hmm.....I suppose my body is far more interesting" Adrien chuckled at how they enjoyed his god-like body.

"You're built like a warrior" One of the women joked.

"I'm something of that," Adrien said.

Soon he had to lie down so the woman could walk on his back to get his stiffness out and be less sore too. He groaned a little as she walked on him.

"Meow.....I mean wow" Adrien groaned a little.

"You really need a break from whatever you do all the time" The woman holding the ceiling to support her balance while walking on his back.

"You have no idea" He closed his eyes.

The other did her technique in head massage for brains to feel relaxed. Adrien never felt more relaxed by this massage. It helped him cope with his father's death. If he only he was alive to have the chance to tell him how sorry he was for being distant from him. But now it was too late and maybe his father did forgive him in the afterlife. He realized too late that he never forgot his late mother. As soon as he got that body part massaged, it was time for chiropractor techniques. They pressed hard but gently to adjust his spine.

A loud crack popped and he groaned but it felt good to crack, "Agh! Damn"

"There, Mr. Agreste" The massager said.

"Thanks. Now for my neck joint. It's gonna be loud" Adrien sits up.

The massager then went for his neck and gently tried to crack it by moving it to the left.

"Agh! Yeah" Adrien groaned by that.

Then she moved it to the right in a loud crack making him groan again. His body sure was under a lot of stress from all that fighting against criminals for a week and he barely ever had a break from it until now.

"AAAGH!" He nearly yelps.

"Your body really has been through a lot of stress," The Chinese woman massager said.

"Yeah, it was hard working in hell. I'm used to it" Adrien made a white lie.

"Okay. Well, take it easy then" The woman replied.

A while later after checking for any discomfort, he was in a lot of relief and he thanked them for their help. He left a tip too before heading out.

For years he has changed his looks and fashion to an emo goth boy. His hair was a little longer and messier than his teen years. He had piercings on his ears and eyebrows and tattoos on his arms. One was of a cat opening its mouth to show its fangs and the other was a cat's paw print with claws. He also switched his attire to a black jacket with spikes on the shoulders. A black shirt with green claw marks, black skinny ripped jeans, and black leather motorcycle goth boots.

He almost yelped by the bite on his left pec by his kwami who no longer has a seal on his mouth.

"Ay!" Adrien quickly hides in the alley from the people, "How many times have I told you?! Stop biting my damn pecs!"

"Since you enjoyed your vacation day at the massage parlor, you forgot to feed me!" Plagg reminded him.

"Fine, here you go" Adrien hands him some cheddar.

"Thank you" Plagg swallowed it before belching, "After all these years, I hate to be mute for centuries and here you are, an almost reformed holder that doesn't abuse cats!"

"I'm not someone's servant anymore. The Supreme used me and Shadybug for his own selfish interests and if we died, he just used you for the next one" Adrien said.

"And yet you and she went in separate ways, never to see each other again," Plagg said.

"She didn't want to see me again," Adrien said.

"Growing up doesn't remain the same. As I remember, you were beyond sociopath but now a grown kitten you're less psycho" Plagg said.

"The only thing I can't forgive myself is that I never got the chance to apologize to my father," Adrien said.

"I thought you hated him so much as a kid," Plagg said.

"I don't. I was young and stupid to believe I was" Adrien held out the photo of himself as a young child and his parents. It was the only thing left of his memory before being forced to train with his master in his teenage life.

"My father loved my mother and me by heart, but he never told me to move on and cherish Mom's memory. I wasted my teen life for nothing!"

"You were just a kid, Adrien. All kittens like you, it's all about growing up to understand" Plagg said.

"I was merely a villain's pawn!" Adrien snapped.

"And now today you are an adult. It's been 10 years of being a kitten to a panther" Plagg said.

"I just want to get a new life without killing, to make up to my parents, and to earn the girl behind Shadybug's trust," Adrien said.

"But you are still a killer. No matter how many times other bad guys try to kill you, you always end up killing them" Plagg said.

"To survive, Plagg. Talking in a combat situation is highly impossible" Adrien pushed his kwami back in his jacket before going to his Ducati, "Well pity I missed the Paris flight" He drove away.

-

Back in Moscow, Shadybug tried her bug phone to find Claw Noir's location but he was not transformed, "Agh! Dumb cat! Where are you?!" She puts it away, hoping he will transform back, "He really took my words to stay out of my way"

As much as they really did go in separate ways 5 years ago, their past still finds them and she needed her cat since he is the only cat with the power of destruction. The memories of his aggression and egomaniac personality were what made her hate him so much.

"It's stupid, why should I feel like I miss him?" Shadybug asks herself.

Jumping down in the alley, "Blots off" She detransformed and fed her kwami, not saying a word.

After years of being antisocial, she has changed her attire and gained tattoos by growing up. She had some tattoos of the Eiffel Tower to remind her of her former home. The black rose to remind her of how her life was not always good, and the ladybug symbol to remind herself to find luck around her. And her Chinese writing of her name.

She changed her attire to a hardcore goth style as well as her dark makeup. She wore a black tank top of red roses, black leather skirt with chains, black fishnet nylons and gloves, and high heel goth boots.

She hates men getting disgusting with their perverted nature and never again will she love a guy like she foolishly thought she loved Kim who pulled a cruel prank on her with spiders. Even though it was Chloe's idea.

She saw another assassin with the symbol again and he was carrying a device to locate the holders if transformed.

"No! I'm in Moscow, goddamn it! It's the ladybug whore I'm looking for and the cat is in Shanghai. No, I haven't found her yet. I bring her alive and you pay me. That's the deal you son of a bitch!" The assassin talking on the phone.

Marinette scoffed at being insulted and decided to interrogate this assassin for more information on finding the cat. So she ran to find a hiding spot to transform at without being noticed.

"Blots on" She transformed and called out on her lucky charm bolas hunting weapon. She comes out and throws it at the assassin's ankles to immobilize him without escaping.

"Agh! Fuck!" He fell and could not move his legs.

"Element of surprise, asshole" Shadybug said and comes out to interrogate him.

"Bitch! What the hell?!" He tried to reach his gun but Shadybug stepped on his hand.

"Don't even think about it, coward. I dealt with your brothers and sisters for years and yet I never let them cut out my heart" Shadybug moved the gun aside.

"AAAAGH!!! YOU'RE CRUSHING MY HAND!" The assassin screamed in pain.

"When will the Supreme know that sending his thugs at me won't help?!" Shadybug leans down.

"No matter where you go, every day is a living hell for you. Just like in his world you lived in is the same thing, bitch!" The assassin yelled in agony.

"The Supreme made my life worse than hell! He's using you too!" Shadybug takes his phone away.

Crushing it hard until it's destroyed, "I'll make sure he doesn't send out his new holders after me and Claw Noir" She changed her current lucky charm to a dagger to kill him to never let him live to tell the tale.

But she hesitated in doing so, "ARGH! Damn it!" She couldn't do it.

For so long, she has killed a few criminals but it doesn't make her pain go away whenever she tries so hard to have a better life, the past still comes back to her.

"Fuck!" She knocks him out cold and takes the device tracker to find Claw Noir.

She saw on the tracker he was in China, "There you are, Kitty"

It was moving slightly like he was going somewhere outside the city. It was as if he was now traveling to Kazakhstan.

"He's heading home," Shadybug said.

-

Claw Noir was driving on the road alone, no one following him. As much as he hates to face his past, it still makes him not reach his own future but get dragged down. He knew Supreme needed to be stopped forever. The only problem is that he can't fight alone without Shadybug and has no idea where she is now. With or without her, he can't keep running forever. Running is not survival but leads to disasters. He soon stopped for a meal on the road. It was gonna be a long journey since China is a big country. Of course, the diner will be filled with bikers with aggression.

"I'll have just one bowl with noodles," Adrien said.

"Anything else?" The waitress asked.

"Just a glass of water," Adrien said.

"Very well" The waitress goes and does the order.

Bikers do not like young adults like him and they all surrounded him, "The hell kind of shit you're wearing? You look like a vampire coming out of the coffin" The biker laughed at his attire.

Adrien sighs and turns around, "Got a problem with that?"

"It doesn't suit a guy like you," Said a biker with a dragon tattoo.

"Not even my tattoos?" Adrien removes his jacket to reveal one on his arms.

"What's that? A black cat?" One biker asked.

"Yeah, to bring bad luck" Adrien replied coldly.

"Cats are evil like that pathetic Claw Noir guy. You, you're a nobody" The biker taunted.

Adrien felt insulted now and he didn't care to reveal, "Plagg, daggers out" He transformed in a green flash, "You better watch your fucking mouth before my claws rip your tongue out" He hissed angrily like a cat, readies his claws.

"Okay okay! We'll leave you alone!" The bikers backed off in fear.

"Wild cats do not like to be petted, insulted, harassed, or threatened" Claw Noir walks up close to the cowards, "What else do you think I am besides pathetic?" He growled.

"Just a pussy cat," One biker said.

"I would slaughter you but not here with witnesses" Claw Noir said.

"Awww....look boys. This fleabag has grown soft paws" They all laughed.

"Heh, keep laughing and my claws will show you the meaning of death and mercy," Claw Noir said with his old psychopathic grin, "Go on. Insult me again"

"No sir!" They backed off again as Claw Noir saw his meal ready.

"And I don't like to be petted or tamed like a house cat" Claw Noir hissed at them to back off while he ate.

The staff was in shock seeing Claw Noir as their customer.

"What?" Claw Noir asked.

"Nothing" They replied.

After eating and getting plenty of water to drink for his long journey, he leaves a tip and heads outside, glancing at the rest of the bikes parked. He smirked evilly and cataclysm them one by one to get back at them for messing with the cat of destruction. He gets on his own Ducati and starts the ignition.

"HEY! THAT'S OUR RIDES!!!" The Bikers screamed for their vehicles to be destroyed.

"You mess with the cat, you pay the destruction. See ya, dumbass!" Claw Noir laughed before driving away.

"DAMN YOU CLAW NOIR!!!" They yelled while he headed for the border.

"Daggers in" He detransformed and continued driving over the speed limit.

-

With Marinette, she was packing up to head to where her rival was going. If that cat is heading to Kazakhstan, then it's her chance to reunite with him. She doesn't know how much he has grown up to an adult but she hopes he's not that egomaniac. Especially how many times he would torment her for not saving her life all the time.

"Well, it's worth a shot to see if he has changed" She closed her suitcase.

Even now as adults, she doesn't have to worry about the afflictions spreading on her body. It was the hard way she had to learn from before it almost killed her.

"Well Claw Noir, here I come" She left her apartment to go to the airport.

Memories still flooded her of the times she and her cat thought the world was evil when all along, it was themselves that became monsters just like the Supreme was a monster and he raised them as his monsters. Marinette felt horrible for her crimes and swore to never kill anyone. But the assassins out there, she can't bear to kill with blood on her hands. It's a fight-or-die survival way if they take the chance to kill her.

She pulled up her hoodie to not be recognized, "You better not have forgotten about me, useless cat" Marinette said before heading to the airport for Kazakhstan.

She printed her ticket out and went to the check-up. Unaware that a portal from the rooster miraculous holder using the power of any power was using psychic vision saw that the two were heading to Kazakhstan.

"Master! These two are heading to Kazakhstan" Rooster Talon (opposite of Rooster Bold) told the Supreme who was much the opposite of Master Fu and less elderly.

"Excellent. Make sure the two of them are brought to me" The Supreme said.

"I can! Bring me to Kazakhstan!" The goat holder known as Carprihorn (opposite of Caprikid) volunteered to go.

"Very well. Nightstalker, entrance now!" Supreme said.

"Voyage!" The horse holder makes a teleportation portal for the goat to go through.

"Your doom is inevitable," The Supreme said.