Ladybug

Finding Lion Noir was not difficult. There was a trail of destruction halfway across the city. She found him walking up the center of the Champs-Élysées. She watched him from one of the rooftops overlooking the huge street. Lion Noir seemed to pause every few steps, smell the air and then carry on walking. He was oblivious to the cars which were crashing around him.

She realized that he was heading for the Arc-De-Triomphe. If Lion Noir walked into the traffic around there… She shuddered at the thought, it was horrendous driving around there at the best of times. There was no telling how many people would be hurt when the inevitable pile-up happened. She heard a soft whish of air and she knew her Cat Noir had arrived.

'Hey Bugaboo,' Cat Noir said cheerfully. 'I see you've met my Big Brother.'

'He's not your Brother,' she stated seriously as she turned to look at him.

She immediately regretted being so harsh as she saw Cat Noir's cheerful expression drop.

'How do you know that?' Cat Noir asked, obviously confused.

Ladybug had almost blurted out 'Because you're not related to my Uncle', but stopped herself just in time.

'Never mind that,' she tried to change the subject. 'Where were you this morning?'

'I'm sorry M'Lady.' Cat Noir sounded apologetic. 'You know that I would have been there if I could?'

She sighed.

'Anyway, I'll sort this out,' Cat Noir said, grinning. 'Y'know Cat to Cat.'

Before she could stop him, he'd extended his staff and used it to catapult himself over towards Lion Noir.

Cat Noir

As he left Ladybug behind, he allowed himself a moment to enjoy the thrill of his powers again. When Plagg had gone missing earlier in the day, he had never felt so lost. Maybe that's how Connor felt all the time now, which was why he'd been akumatized. He landed in front of the tall man, and looking up at him, realized that this might have been a mistake.

Although he was wearing the same uniform as him, Lion Noir seemed a lot wider than the incarnation of he'd seen on the television. However, it was his head that shocked him. It was as if Connor's head had been replaced by a Lions, complete with a blonde/brown mane which reached halfway down his back.

'Yo, Bro!' Cat Noir said at the huge figure in front of him. 'I thought you said you weren't going to do this again. Were you Lion?'

Lion Noir emitted a low growl. Cat Noir could feel the vibrations through his body.

'Out of my way Kitten!' Lion Noir snarled. 'This doesn't concern you!'

'I can't let you go any further.' Cat Noir said, with a conviction he didn't feel. 'People are being hurt because of you.'

Cat Noir braced himself, raising his staff to a defensive posture.

'You're going to stop me?'

'Even a Kitten has claws!'

'You call those fingernails claws?' Lion Noir laughed.

Before he could react, Lion Noir lunged at him, his claws a blur. There was a dull thump in his chest and next thing Cat Noir knew was being thrown into the chairs of an outside café. He'd been kicked about fifty meters. He looked down and saw that his staff had been slashed in half.

'These are what you call claws,' shouted Lion Noir, brandishing his much larger and sharper claws.

Lion Noir pounced again, smashing through the café, sending tables, chairs, and people flying. Cat Noir threw himself to the side. The larger man just missed the him. Ladybug landed just next to Cat Noir, spinning the yo-yo into a shield. However Lion Noir had stopped. He was stood in the center of the street side café and he appeared to be sniffing the air again.

Ladybug threw the Yo-yo, wrapping itself around Lion Noir. Cat Noir had seen this before, no one should be able to break the yo-yo's enchanted cable. Lion Noir's concentration appeared to be broken and he looked down at the yo-yo which had wrapped around him several times. The lion's head turned and appeared to grin, which Cat Noir found quite disturbing considering the teeth. Next thing he knew was Lion Noir had jumped, dragging Ladybug after him.

He was left behind as he saw both of them disappear over the buildings, he was just about to use his staff to pursue them when he remembered it was broken.

'Oh Man,' He muttered to himself as she started to run after them. 'This will slow me down.'

LadyBug

Ladybug was hanging on for dear life as she was pulled through the air by Lion Noir. She wasn't exactly enjoying the ride. Lion Noir landed just outside the Agreste mansion. He did some kind of roll and managed to untangle himself from the yo yo's cable. Ladybug twisted herself and landed, skidding backwards away from the huge man. She started to spin the yo-yo into its shield.

Lion Noir was ignoring her again, sniffing the air. She threw the yo-yo and Lion Noir swatted it away in irritation. She tried again, but he caught it and with one pull on the yo-yo, sent Ladybug over his head and into the wall of the Agreste Mansion. She felt embarrassed and hoped to heaven that Adrien wasn't in his room to see that. She quickly fell to the floor and stood up quickly, ready to fend off any blows, but Lion Noir wasn't attacking. He was just looking around with an expression of confusion on his face.

'Sorry Uncle Connor,' She muttered to herself and ran at him.

She jumped and tried a flying kick, he ducked. She landed behind him, so she tried a reverse kick. Lion Noir easily blocked it. He grabbed her foot and then flung her over his shoulder, right into the same indentation she'd made just a few seconds earlier.

'Ow!' Ladybug groaned as she slid off the wall.

Again, Lion Noir did not attack. He just stood there, sniffing the air again. Ladybug stood up, gathered herself and made another run at Lion Noir. She threw out a flurry of punches and kicks, each one was either blocked or dodged. It seemed to her that it was effortless for Lion Noir, she wasn't wearing him down at all. She backed off, breathing hard. She had run out of ideas and still had no clue to where the Akuma could be hiding. That left her with only one option.

'Lucky Charm!' she yelled, throwing her yo-yo up into the air.

Out of the air, a bow and a single arrow appeared and dropped into her arms. She quickly glanced around but nothing presented itself to her and whatever she was supposed to do, she only had one arrow so, therefore, one shot. She realized that she was already out of time as Lion Noir turned to face her and roared!

Cat Noir

Cat Noir was running his fastest he could over the rooftops. He had tried to put his staff back together but the damage Lion Noir had done to it made it inoperable. He could still wield it like two billy clubs but it didn't extend, he couldn't spin it to hover and the phone wasn't working. If Ladybug called for help, then he wouldn't be able to answer.

The thought of Ladybug facing off against Lion Noir terrified him. Having been on the end of one of his kicks, he now realized why Plagg was so worried about going up against him. He finally caught up with Ladybug and Lion Noir outside his home. Cat Noir stopped for a second, why had Lion Noir led them here? Was Lion Noir trying to attack something close to him because he had the miraculous? It didn't make sense, why come to the place where Lion Noir knew where he lived. Could he be trying to get Plagg back?

Looking down from a rooftop above, he saw Ladybug call her lucky charm and then be thrown back into a car by the force of a roar from Lion Noir. Without hesitation, he jumped, trying to aim his leap. He smashed into Lion Noir, feet first, sending the larger cat-man tumbling into the mansion gates. They shuddered but held. Lion Noir was down.

'Aw, Did I kick you in your pride?' Cat Noir gloated. 'Or should I leave you just Lion there!'

As soon as the words were out of his mouth, he regretted them. Lion Noir was hardly phased. He slowly stood up, facing Cat Noir head on.

'You wanted lessons on how to be Cat Noir, kitten?' Lion Noir growled. 'I'll teach you a lesson you won't forget.'

Cat Noir came in swinging one half of his staff in each hand. Lion Noir caught them easily and held them with little effort.

'Your technique is sloppy, slow and now you've overextended,' Lion Noir gloated back. 'which means you're unbalanced.'

Before Cat Noir could react, Lion Noir kicked the legs from under him and threw him across the street into another car. Lion Noir was already on him, slashing with his claws. One hit to his left arm, slashed straight through his suit. Pain shot up from his arm, almost making him black out. Cat Noir knew that if it wasn't for the suit, that blow would have taken his arm.

'It's just a game to you,' growled Lion Noir.

Cat Noir desperately tried to kick, but all that got him was slashes across both his legs. He screamed as he had never felt such pain.

'It's starts out as fun,' continued Lion Noir. 'But in the end it causes nothing but agony.'

He tried to fend Lion Noir off with his last good arm, catching the larger man across the face. He saw a line of red seep from down the cheek of Lion Noir, who roared in irritation. Cat Noir felt the searing hot on his right arm. He couldn't move, it was too much and he was on the verge of passing out. Then he heard the phrase that he was dreading the most.

'Cataclysm!'

Ladybug.

Having extracted herself from the car, she started to run towards where Cat Noir and Lion Noir were scrapping. She wasn't fast enough and she saw Lion Noir call for the 'Cataclysm' Power. He was going to kill Cat Noir.

'Connor! No!' She shouted without thinking. 'Please stop, this isn't you!'

Lion Noir

There was part of Lion Noir that was still Connor but the rest was pure rage. It was difficult to manage or think in this whirlwind of anger. That insolent kitten; here he was, trying to find this Hawk Moth and they kept distracting him. Hawk Moth was so close but the anger was now so intense, it wouldn't let him focus, it wouldn't let him pinpoint his prey. Once this pretender was out of the way, it should be easier to find Hawk Moth and deal with this threat to Marinette, Tom, and Sabrine. He called for the cataclysm and then a voice drifted through the anger.

'Connor, No!'

He turned and looked back. There was ladybug running towards him shouting but he didn't see her as Marinette. This Ladybug had brilliant green eyes and copper red hair. This was his Ladybug, his Lady.

'Please Stop, this isn't you!' she cried.

A memory burst forth; they were fighting on the battlements of Edinburgh Castle. He'd got the peacock exactly where he wanted him and was about to throw him from the battlements, down the sheer cliff, to his death below. His Lady had shouted the exact same words with the same look of fear and disbelief in her eyes.

'We are better than them,' she pleaded with him. 'We have to be.'

He'd thrown the peacock down onto the floor instead, knocking the villain out.

The anger subsided. His Ladybug began to fade. He reached out his hand to her pleading for her not to go. However, he saw the blue eyes and black hair of the present Ladybug in front of him. She ran into him and wrapped her arms around Lion Noir, tears flooding out from her eyes.

'Please, Connor don't' Ladybug whispered into his ear, sobbing. 'I know you're in pain, I know what you've lost. Please don't take it out on him, not on my Cat Noir.'

It was if someone had splashed cold water across his face. He looked down at the scared teenager he had in his grasp who was barely holding on to consciousness. He had to let it go, the forgotten past, his lost love otherwise he wouldn't be able to live again. Gently, he pushed ladybug back and brought Cat Noir close to him.

'You'll protect her, right?' He growled so softly only Cat Noir could hear.

'Always,' Cat Noir groaned through his pain. 'Isn't that what Cat Noir is supposed to be for? A shield for his Lady.'

Lion Noir nodded. 'Right answer!'

He set Cat Noir down gently and hit a lamppost close by with the cataclysm. It bubbled away in black cloud. He turned to face Ladybug.

'It's in the ring.' He said, holding up his hand to show it.

Ladybug nodded, raised the bow and fired the arrow straight at it. There was a blinding light.

Epilogue

Marinette

It was a grey Monday morning when Marinette sat down at her desk at school. She'd made a special effort to get in on time today, even remembering to bring in the last package that her Uncle had left for her. Alya was sat next to her, updating her Lady blog website on her phone, while Nino sat in the bank of seats in front of them listening to some new track on his headphones.

The empty seat next to Nino's was Adrien's. She didn't know if he'd be in after taking that knock at the match on Saturday. The match had been replayed the next day but her heart wasn't in it. The game itself had ended up in a draw, which meant that France hadn't won the Six Nations but they had Wales to play next and if they won that….

She sighed, when Connor had been de-akumatized and the Miraculous had put everything back to the way it was. She had tried to talk to him. However, her uncle had given her a subtle shake of his head and she knew she couldn't risk it, not with Cat Noir being there. Connor had said a few things to the fully recovered young man and then, with a meaningful look and a bit of a sad smile, he'd turned and left. He had not returned for the second rugby match.

She also knew that her father had been on the phone to him to apologize and sort out the misunderstanding. However, it turned out that Saturday was the only day Connor could take off from work and he was now back in Edinburgh, running his coffee shop. She just wished he could have stayed a bit longer, it was nice to be able to talk to someone who knew what it was like to have a miraculous. Her thoughts were interrupted when Adrien walked in.

He sat down next to Nino, who had given him a nod, and without looking back at her, started to unpack his bag. Marinette took her Uncle's package and unwrapped it, revealing a large tartan wrapped box. She opened it to reveal lots of tablet.

'Is that from your uncle?' asked a voice.

She looked up to see that Adrien had turned around and was looking at her. She nodded glumly.

'He came around to thank my bodyguard for saving him during the Akuma attack,' Adrien explained. 'Even told my father off for being unpleasant to the Gorilla.'

Marinette allowed herself a small smile.

'That sounds like Connor,' she said.

'I like him,' Adrien said. 'I'm sorry about what happened.'

'I think things have been sorted out,' explained Marinette. 'Family can be complicated.'

Adrien nodded and then looked at the open box.

'What's that?' He asked.

'I do believe Mr Agreste,' interrupted Miss Bustier. 'That is tablet.'

Her teacher had walked in without Marinette noticing.

'My uncle makes it,' Marinette explained to both Adrien and her teacher. 'In his coffee shop in Edinburgh.'

'I hope there's enough to share with the class?' asked her teacher.

'There should be,' Marinette smiled back.

'Good! A word of warning class, it is incredibly sweet,' Miss Bustier said to the class. 'and If you don't mind…'

She reached forward and took a largish piece of the confectionery for herself.

'I love this stuff,' she said confidentially to Marinette. 'I got a real taste for it when I was an exchange student in Scotland.'

The teacher smiled and walked to the front of the classroom. As the rest of her classmates took pieces of tablet from the box, Marinette found she couldn't move. She had suddenly realized that Miss Bustier had brilliant green eyes and copper red hair.

The End (Maybe)

Author's Note: - Well, that's it. Hope you enjoyed it. If you did like it, please share (but don't spoil) it and let me know in the comments below. If you want more, again please let me know in the comments below. I've got a couple of ideas what could happen next, perhaps there is a school trip to Edinburgh for a fashion show where a certain coffee shop owner and teacher could meet up but it will be a little while before I can work on it.

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