Most of our lives are a series of images, they pass us by like towns on a highway. But sometimes a moment stuns us as it happens and we know that this instant is more than a fleeting image. We know that this moment, every part of it, will live on forever.
—Lucas Scott

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Chat sat on the edge of the Eiffel Tower, looking at the ring in his hand. It had taken two months but finally the mission was complete. As he played around with Kagami's ring a sense of relief passed through him. He could finally get back to Marinette. He can finally have his life back. The clock in the Eiffel Tower told him there were still ten minutes until his true love appeared on the Tower beside him.

He hadn't seen Marinette all week. She hadn't been feeling well so he'd given her time off work to recover, leaving him stuck with Kagami and Felix to handle alone. Adrien and Kagami had been having 'secret' rendezvous; in clubs, museums or even coffee shops. The press had gone crazy. 'Adrienette' seemed to be no more. They didn't attend anything together and the questions had been broached about their relationship. They stuck with saying nothing and neither confirming or denying what was happening.

Chat slipped the ring onto his little finger and then pulled it back off. The ring was silver with the 'Tsurgui' black family crest on it. He'd told Kagami he would like to get it engraved onto his silver ring as he thought it was a beautiful design. Without hesitation she gave it to him. It had been far to easy. He didn't have to kiss her or anything, much to his joy.

He looked down at his ring, his beautiful black Miraculous which had changed his life, and placed Kagami's next to it. When they first met she said the rings were a sign they were made for each other, and he'd believed her. Plagg was always annoyed with his choice to date the girl, but the day he'd literally bumped into Marinette without the mask his life had ... well, changed! His ring was partnered to her earrings.

He laughed quietly to himself, thinking about their first encounter.

"Jackass."

"That you are." A red spotted heroine had sat next to him. He looked straight into her glittering eyes.

"M'lady, I think we need to talk. I don't know quite how to say this but you see, spending time with Kagami recently has shown me parts of her that I never knew and well, I think we should see other people." Ladybug looked at Chat her mouth hanging wide open. She didn't know what to say. He looked down at the ground thousands of feet below his steal capped boots and started to laugh. "Oh wow! You should have seen your face."

"You're an ass! You know that!" She stood up and slapped him round the back of the head.

"Me-ouch!"

"You deserved that man!" Another voice spoke up as Chat followed his Lady towards the centre of the tower.

"I've asked a friend along." Ladybug said as Chat and Carapace gave each other their signature handshake. "You do realise you're both adults now, don't you?"

"Of course dudette, but no need to take away the fun."

"It's good to see you, Nino." Ladybug took him into a hug.

"Woah! Mari, where have you gone? You must be half the size of when I last hugged you." Marinette had been sick a lot recently but didn't think much about it at all. Life was stressful at the moment and she wasn't sleeping well; it was her own fault.

"I've just been a bit sick. Nothing to worry about."

"Yeah, I'm not buying that!"

"Thank you! Finally someone else agrees." Adrien walked behind Marinette and wrapped his arms around her.

"You're both just being overprotective. I may be the only woman on this team but I could take you both down in a fight."

"No ones denying that bugaboo." Chat gave her a kiss on her cheek, "but you're really not looking well sweetheart."

"Well to make you both happy, I've got a doctors appointment tomorrow morning. Can you come with me, please Adrien?" Adrien looked down at his superhero girlfriend and nodded.

"Of course." He suddenly remembered what was in his hand opening it out to her. "It's Kagami's ring. I've got it to 'copy' the crest."

He handed it over to Marinette. Once it was placed on her palm the golden flecks on her suit began to glisten. She closed her eyes absorbing the feeling which had began to circulate through her body.

"Wow!" She exclaimed, closing her hand. The metal began to melt in her palm and move around her suit.

"Is that meant to happen, dude?"

"I'm not sure. Mari! Are you ok? LB?" Chat was getting increasingly worried. He thought they had to destroy the rings but she was clearly absorbing it. All of a sudden her eyes fired open and looked directly at Chat. He didn't have chance to think before she had jumped on him locking her lips to his.

"Woah! What the hell?" Nino felt awkward  with the display going on next to him. Of course they'd made out in front of him before but this was different. There was something unexplainably intimate there. Ladybug took her lips from Chats and smiled.

"I feel amazing. It's like my senses have overloaded. I can feel how much you love me," she looked over to Nino her eyebrows creasing to a frown, "and I can feel how much you're hurting over Alya." She held out her hands to take Nino's.

Stepping towards her, he placed his gloved hands in hers and closed his eyes. A single tear ran down his face before a smile appeared.

"Thank you." He whispered to Ladybug, his voice was horse.

"What did you do?" Chat was perplexed. Had Marinette just unravelled more new powers.

"She ... she ..." Nino took a deep breath, "she made me feel what Alya needs."

Marinette smiled at Nino, knowing this male here could help to fix her best friend. He was the only one that could, and she knew he wanted too. Looking between two of her best friends she smiled, perhaps everything was going to work out. Perhaps they'd all be ok. She placed her hands on her stomach then giggled. Both the male heroes turned to look at her.

"Adrien I think I know what's wrong with me ... actually it's not wrong it's so so right." She was smiling so widely at him, her eyes glowing under the lights of the tower. "I think I might be ..."

Before Marinette could finish delivering the news to her boyfriend an explosion went off at the very top of the Tower. Carapace leapt into action covering them all with his shield.

"What the hell?" He announced as debris of the Eiffel Tower began to fall down on top of them. Chat grabbed hold of Ladybug and pulled her in close calling for his cataclysm. Touching the ground under where they were all standing it crumbled, dropping them through to the lower level. As they hit the metal they ran and jumped out the tower. 

Once their feet collided with the concrete floor, the top of the Tower collapsed. It began to lean towards the river Seine and the crowds that were standing there. Carapace jumped into action with his shield blocking the Tower from falling onto the scared civilians below.

"I don't know how long I can hold this."

Ladybug and Chat began to move the crowd to a safe location.

"If only I could have a second cataclysm." Chat growled. Within a millisecond his hand had lit up again with the black spots. "That's new." He shrugged to himself and made his way to the Tower which was leaning its full weight on Carapace's shield. With one quick touch it had dissolved to ash.

"So ... the kitty has new powers. Isn't that so ... Adrien?" A blue figure landed in front of Chat and Carapace.

"How do you know who I am?"

"I know how much you wanted Kagami out your life, hence my link in all of this." Félix motioned his hand to the missing Eiffel Tower and the ash covering the floor. "But then to see you hanging around with her so much. Tut tut tut, Adrien. Stealing your cousins fiancée? I never knew you had it in you."

Félix spoke calm and collected, just like that of a James Bond villain. He stood tall and walked slowly over to where the heroes were standing. "I know you were after the rings, and I have a feeling you may have succeeded with one. But you still have two more to find cousin."

"Felix? Dude! Is that your cousin?"

"Yes, Nino, correct you actually got it right this time. I remember you from that stupid video you sent Adrien, I can't believe not one of you could tell the difference. Means it'll be easier to take his place."

"Not everyone would believe you're Adrien." A female voice spoke up behind Felix drawing everyone's attention. Chat's stomach turned, he had a bad feeling, and as the God of bad luck he was pretty damn certain he was correct.

"Oh, and here comes the little girlfriend. You're a feisty one. I can't wait to have my way with you." Félix closed his eyes and lifted into the air at the same time as Chat launched on his baton and kicked him square in the jaw.

"Now that wasn't very friendly, was it cousin?"

"You leave her alone."

"Afraid of loosing another woman are we Agreste? How is your mother these days?" Chat strode up towards Felix only to be sent backwards by a lightning of rays leaving the dark-humans fingers.

"What are you?" Carapace squealed, "a Sith Lord?"

Felix began to move his arms around revealing a growing electric sphere in between his hands Carapace jumped forward to try and block the impact to the area Felix was intending it to strike at, also known as Chat Noir.

Carapace set out his shield as the sphere left Felix's hands. It broke through the shield sending both males flying miles backwards. As Felix began to prepare a second attack Ladybug threw her yo-yo and attached it to his arm. Yanking it hard the sphere flew up into the sky and began to make its way towards Cathédrale Notre-Dame.

Running and swinging as fast as she could towards the monument she called out for her lucky charm. Instead of landing in her hands it appeared above the Cathedral itself. A large roll of aluminum foil unravelled to make a canopy. As the sphere proceeded on its way down, the foil absorbed most of the electro waves and deflating the attack.

Ladybug met with Felix in front of Notre-Dame. Carapace was pulling himself out of the Cathedral rubble as Felix jumped at him. Deflecting his advance with a kick, Felix went flying backwards.

"Chat, where are you?" Ladybug was shouting. If Carapace was here, Chat must be close too. She grabbed hold of her yo-yo smashing through the foil
Canopy and calling her Miraculous Ladybugs. Suddenly the Eiffel Tower was back lighting up in the distance.

Felix continued his attack on Carapace. Each hitting back aggressively from strikes taken by their opponent. As Felix was thrown backwards once more he spotted Ladybug facing away. It was time to take out the leader.

Felix stood up and wiped his mouth removing the blood streaming down his chin and started to make his way over to Ladybug, charging his powers in his hands.

Ladybug could sense the movement and turned instinctively stretching her hands out in front of her. Felix's blue lightning was met with a stream of red ladybugs appearing out of Ladybug's hands. Using one of her hands she lifted up the lightning ball defusing it's electromagnetic powers. With her second hand she fired squarely at Felix, knocking him backwards and ultimately unconscious.

Marinette dropped down from exhaustion and looked at her hands. The power had drained her but it had worked. Carapace stood exhausted and looked between Ladybug and Felix, Ladybug nodded for him to capture Felix as she realised her transformation knowing that Tikki would be too tired to continue.

As Carapace started walking toward an unconscious Felix, a car screeched through the roads and pulled up before them. A familiar women got out the car with her hood up and wearing all black clothing. She grabbed hold of Felix and placed him in the back of the car. Marinette noticed something. The familiar hair, the familiar glasses.

"Nathalie?" Marinette questioned.

With a sneer on her face Nathalie picked up her phone and pressed a button. Before Marinette knew what was happening Notre-Dame came crashing down.

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Chat shook his head up and looked around him. He was in Montmartre, miles away from the battle and his lady. He quickly took to the skies and searched for any signs of conflict.

As Chat finally reached the scene it was too late. Carapace was hovering over the bleeding body with tears running down his face.

It can't be, Chat thought. He ran over to where his best friend was knelt and looked at the broken sight before him. Carapace had managed to move most of the rocks from around her freeing most of her body.

"This wasn't the plan. She was meant to stay safe, I was meant to protect her." Chat was turning wild, suddenly black spots were appearing around both his hands. It seemed he'd been able to call his cataclysm to both hands without saying the word, an extremely powerful one too.

"You need to calm down, dude. Let me take her to hospital and we'll meet you there as Adrien, ok?" Chat sat down on both knees and nodded. He reached forward touching two rocks and releasing his cataclysm.

Carefully he took the earrings out of Marinette's ears. It was one thing to see Ladybug down and injured, but a whole different thing seeing Marinette. Ladybug belonged to Paris; Marinette belonged to him.

The imagine of the girl he loved lying lifeless on the floor was one he knew he'd never forget.