Chapter 24: Volpina

Okay, before we get started, you all know that I have never made a big mistake and caused some huge problem. But with this certain day, I actually made a huge mistake. We'll get to it soon, but first you need to see what Adrien had found. At the Agreste mansion, Adrien was about to leave for school when he heard his father talking on the phone in his office with the door open. From there, Adrien decide to spy on his old man.

"Yes, I'm busy. I was right in the middle of something very important. What do you want?" Gabriel said as Adrien peeked through the door. He then slammed his fist on a book on his desk in front of him. "What?! This is unacceptable! The sample garment doesn't match at all! All you had to do was follow a pattern. Imbeciles!" He then grabbed the book, closed it, and began walking toward a wall safe. As he spoke, he then placed the book in the safe, closed, and closed another door which was revealed to be a painting of Adrien's mom. "What am I supposed to do? The show is in three days! No, don't use him, he's completely useless. Call my assistant, Nathalie. She'll give you some other news."

When Gabriel started heading out of his office, Adrien then ran and hide behind a pillar, staying out of Gabriel's sight. After he was gone, Adrien then became curious of what his father was doing.

"He hides stuff behind the painting of Mom?" Adrien said as he looked back at the open door.

"Ooh! I love dirty secrets." Plagg said after he came out of hiding.

The two then walk over to the painting and Adrien opened it to reveal the wall safe.

"Oh, yes! Go on, go on!" Plagg said as Adrien was reaching out to open the safe.

"I can't do it." Adrien said, backing out on opening the safe. "My dad wouldn't like me going through his stuff. Besides, I don't even know the code and my fencing class is about to start."

"You're such a party pooper." Plagg said and he then went to open the safe.

"Plagg, no!" Adrien said, but was too late as Plagg already phased through the safe door and unlocked the safe.

"My, my, what have we go here?" Plagg said as he searched around the safe, Adrien opening it to get him out of there. "A book on Tibet, an old flyer from a hotel, a load of junk, come on, where's the good stuff?" Plagg then tossed the book that Gabriel had earlier to Adrien, who caught it in his arms and began looking into it and sees pictures of a woman in a fox-themed costume then flipped the page to find an image of a man in a cat-theme costume and a picture of the Cat Miraculous, then shocking him as he saw it was a book about superheroes. "I've seen this book somewhere before. But who cares? I'm famished! I need camembert!"

Okay, this might be a little early, but I'm going to explain what exactly Adrien is reading. That there is the ancient book on all of the secrets of the Miraculous. Those pictures he's seeing are the original Miraculous Warriors. The first page he saw was the original wielder of the Fox Miraculous. The one with the Cat Miraculous was the original wielder, the original Cat Noir. The next two pages he saw showed the first wielder of the Ladybug Miraculous and my ancestor, the first ever wielder of the Moth Miraculous. His costume was different than mine. When he wielded the Moth Miraculous, he was given white and violet shogun armor. This Fire Dragon was known as 蛾龙 (É Lóng) meaning "Moth Dragon." That's how people came up with the name "El Dragon."

"Why is my dad keeping this locked in a safe?" Adrien said as then flipped the page and stared at it as it revealed a picture of what looked like a villain with four red eyes wearing full-body, black, metal armor with four tendril legs and a big red spider insignia on the chest. "Who's this? Why is he in a book about superheroes?"

"Cheese! Didn't you hear me?" Plagg said, ignoring Adrien's questions.

Adrien then gasped after hearing footsteps coming from outside and Plagg went back into hiding. Adrien was about to put the book back, bu instead hid it in his school bag and closed the safe and the picture. Then he zipped it shut and began leaving just as Natalie and his bodyguard entered the room.

"Adrien? You're going to be late." Nathalie said as his bodyguard simply grunted.

"I was…looking for my homework. Silly me." Adrien said as he chuckled nervously, making sure the two didn't get suspicious.

Now onto what was going on. At Collège Françoise Dupont, me, Marinette, and Alya were walking up the stairs and me and Marinette overheard some commotion from our fellow classmates. Well, I managed to hear with my super-hearing while Marinette was stopping to hear them.

"Can you believe Lila knows Prince Ali? She even flew in his private jet with him!" Rose said to Juleka.

"Why did Jagged Stone write a song about Lila?" Chloé asked Sabrina with a ticked off look on her face as they walked by.

"I don't know." Frost answered. "I'm just amazed she even met him in person!"

"Lila knows all of the Hollywood directors, she promised she'd mention me to Steven Basielberg himself!" Nino said to Kim and Max.

I knew who they were talking about. Lila Rossi, one of my old classmates back in Ronan. The one person in the world I get annoyed more than Jay and Adrien and that's saying something. When Marinette realized she was bit far from us, she rushed right back to our side.

"Lila?" Marinette said as she didn't know who Lila was.

"Yeah, she just started at our school!" Alya said as she pointed to Lila who was on the second floor of the school with Frost and Adrien and I gave a look of shock. That explained why Chloé looked like she was about to blow a fuse. "She even gave me an exclusive interview for the Ladyblog, 'cause El Dragon saved her life once! Watch!" Alya then showed Marinette a video of Lila on her blog.

"Well, I'm out of here." I said as I walked away with a look of forlorn.

"Where are you going?" Marinette asked me.

"Anywhere that's not near that liar." I said, not looking back.

"What's going on?" Marinette said after she came up and stopped me. "Why did you call her a lair?" She then whispered. "Didn't you save her life?"

"Yeah." I said. Before pushing forward, I decided to use my telepathy to speak to her so I didn't blow our cover. But that's the only thing that's true.

Why are you using your telepathy? She said to me in her mind.

Because it's the only way to talk to you without blowing our cover. Look, I only saved her once, but she managed to make it a big deal just to become popular. I said to her. When that got stale, she started telling lies to keep her popularity. She even put up a rumor that we were dating.

Why did she do that? She asked.

Well, it's only just a guess, but I think she might have a crush on me. I said.

What?! She said, shocked by this. But you're already dating Alix.

I know. I told her. Which is why I'm staying away from her. Besides, they found out that it wasn't true. If she keeps this lying up, it'll only get in her in trouble.

Our mental conversation was interrupted when Alya spoke.

"My Ladyblog has the highest number of hits ever after that Lila interview!" Alya said as she walked away.

"What's going on? I mean has Lila hypnotized everyone or something?" I said, knowing that Lila's history that she lied about flying in a private jet, having Jagged write a song about her, and knowing anybody from Hollywood. Those were the exact same lies she said back in Ronan. She was raised as part of an average family like me. "She's just an attention hog and this might spell trouble for me." I then looked to see Frost and Adrien walking into the library with Lila. "I better save Frost from this whirlpool of exaggeration." I then ran after them.

"Axel, hold on!" Marinette said as she ran after me.

At the library, me and Marinette watched from behind a nearby bookshelf. When we were getting over there, I managed to overhear Frost leaving, saying that he needed to meet u with Chloé, where I knew no doubt she sent him a threatening text from his girlfriend to stay away from Lila. When we got there, we saw Adrien sitting at a table alone.

"Where is she?" I said as I looked around for Lila, wanting to expose her right in front of her face.

I didn't notice it, but Tikki watched as Adrien took out the Miraculous book and Tikki gasped as she left Marinette's purse.

"Marinette, Adrien's book!" Tikki said to her. "We need to get a closer look at it."

"Why are you so concerned about his book?" Marinette asked.

"Come on." Tikki said as she and Marinette went over to Adrien with me watching them from the bookshelf.

With that, I looked at the book and recognized it at once.

"What ya reading, Adrien?" Marinette said and Adrien looked up and saw her.

"Oh, Marinette." He said to her. "Just something me and Plagg found in my dad's office." He then showed Marinette the page with the black armored warrior. "And look at this."

"Whoa!" Marinette said as she saw it. "Who is that?"

"Nevix's original wielder." Tikki said as she looked at the image.

"What?" Marinette and Adrien said at the same time, shocked by what she said.

She was actually right. That man there in the book was the first person to ever wield the power of the Spider Miraculous.

"That's what his wielder looked like back before he was sealed away." Tikki said, making the two Miraculous Warriors look at the page in shock.

Then we all heard footsteps coming and Tikki went into hiding.

"Now we can get going on our history homework. I would like the help." Lila said as she came around. She then noticed Adrien's book and grabbed it from under the other book he was using to hide it. "What's that?"

"Uh, nothing!" Adrien said, trying to get her to lose interest in it. "Just stories about superheroes."

"I love superheroes!" Lila said and she then flipped through the pages, stopped at one and showed it to Adrien and Marinette. "Ooh, I especially love this one."

I managed to look and saw she was showing a picture of my ancestor, making me gasp in shock. I was hoping I was wrong, but unfortunately, I wasn't. Lila did have a crush on me. But there was no way I could ever be in love with a liar like her. Ugh! I prefer girls who are true to being sweet, meaning ones that don't lie for a living.

"Oh, no!" I said with fear.

"Looks like she does have a crush on you." Nooroo said as he came out of hiding and laid on my head.

"Do you like El Dragon?" Marinette asked as Lila looked at her.

"Who's this?" Lila asked Adrien, motioning to Marinette.

"Oh, this is my girlfriend, Marinette." Adrien answered, introducing Lila to Marinette.

"Hi." Marinette said as she waved at Lila.

"Nice to meet you." Lila said to her. "And to answer your question, I don't like him. I absolutely love him. He's just so…charming." She then sighed blissfully.

"Sounds like someone's got a crush on Mr. Smoke Breath." Adrien said with a smug.

"Don't you insult him!" She said to Adrien angrily, getting up in his face and scaring.

"Sorry." Adrien said and Lila then sat back down.

"You know I actually was saved by El Dragon." Lila said with a smile, making me groan in disgust.

"Really?" Adrien said, surprised.

"Oh, I would do anything just to meet him again." Lila said.

"You know I actually happen to be very close friends with El Dragon." Adrien said, making my eyes widen in shock.

"Really?"

"Yeah."

"So, you can get him to meet me?" Lila got up in his face, making him uncomfortable.

"We gotta go!" Adrien said after he got an alert from his phone. "We're gonna be late for class."

"Can you tell him to meet me in the park?" Lila said as she stood in front of Adrien, making him drop his bag.

"Uh, sure!" Adrien said as he then grabbed Marinette by the arm and the two ran out, him forgetting his bag.

I then had Nooroo go back into my pocket and ran right after them.

Unknown to us, Lila took the book from Adrien's back and opened it to the Fox Miraculous page.

"A vixen superheroine?" She said as she looked at the page. "Hmm, interesting."

She then left the library with the book. Back with me, I caught up with Adrien and Marinette. I wanted to take a closer look at that book to make sure nothing was tampered with.

"Adrien, mind if I see that book you had there?" I said as I ran up to him

"Sure." Adrien said, but he then saw he didn't have his bag. "Oh, I left my bag in the library."

After hearing that, I then rushed to the library, found Adrien's bag, and searched it only to find the book gone.

"No! The book is gone!" I said with worry.

"Lila must've taken it." Nooroo said, making me give a serious face.

"Then we have to get it back! Pronto!" I said to Nooroo as I got ready to leave.

"Wait, Axel." Adrien said after I got up and came over to me. "I was wondering if you could help me with something."

"No." I said to him bluntly. "I won't meet up with Lila at the park as El Dragon. Now, if you excuse me, I have a book to retrieve."

With that, I rushed out of the library to get the book back from Lila.

After school, I decided to follow her, finding her at a jewelry store in the streets. As me and Nooroo waited for her to come out, I checked out the clip of Lila from the Ladyblog to see what she said.

"El Dragon and me, we're like this!" Lila said in the video, crossing her fingers together.

"Liar." I said after watching the video.

"There! She's coming out!" Nooroo said as we saw her coming out of the store with a bag.

"What is that woman up to now?" I said as I followed her.

I tracked her down to the park and hid behind a tree and watched as Lila sat on a bench. I then used the zoom lens on my phone to get a closer look at Lila, who I saw put on a necklace with a fox tail charm on it.

"What is Lila wearing that fox charm for?" I said, confused by this.

I then watch Lila pull out the book, but then quickly hide it when Adrien and Marinette came around.

"Oh, hi!" She said as Adrien and Marinette came over to her.

"Hi, Lila!" Marinette said, waving to her.

"Hey!" Adrien said, doing the same.

They didn't notice it, but Lila threw the book in the trash behind her. I could believe she just threw away a priceless artifact.

"She dumped the book in the trash bin!" I said, angered by this. "Such disrespect!"

"There's our chance." Nooroo said as he started heading over. "Come on."

"I'm with ya." I said as I followed him.

We made it to the trash bin and Nooroo went in it to get the book out while I hid behind it.

"Hurry, Nooroo!" I quietly said to him as I knew those three could look over at any second, but Nooroo was struggling to get the book out of the trash.

"So you do know El Dragon, for real?" Adrien asked Lila as she began to explain how exactly we met.

"Got it!" Nooroo said, coming out of the trash and carrying the book.

I then grabbed him and the book and kept us hidden as I listened on what Lila was saying to my friends.

"Not only did El Dragon save my life, we've become very close friends because we have something very special in common: it's what I wanted to tell you about." Lila said with a smug look on her face. "I'm the descendant of a vixen superheroine myself, Volpina."

"Volpina?" Adrien said as he and Marinette were surprised by this.

"Volpina?" I said with a raised eyebrow.

In all my life, I've never heard of a superhero named Volpina. This was no doubt a lie she made and she got this idea from the book.

"Wait a minute!" Adrien said as he looked to his bag. "I think I read about her in my book."

"Of course she's in your book, she's one of the most important superheroes." Lila said as she stopped Adrien from what she thought was checking his bag. "More powerful and more celebrated than Ladybug." Marinette was angered by the comment, but Adrien managed to calm her down. "Between you and me, she's a bit stronger than El Dragon." That statement made me growl at her in anger. "My grandma gave me this necklace." She then showed them the necklace she bought at the jewelers, making my blood boil as I bit down on the book.

"Wow, she's good. Really good." Nooroo said, impressed by this as he floated by the trashcan.

When he saw me running, Nooroo followed me as we then left the park.

"We've got the book. I can't let them be caught in her web of lies." I said as I thought now was a good time to reveal Lila as the lying snake that she is. I then put the book in my tail compartment and then got ready to transform. "Time to transform!"

"Nooroo, let's fly!" With that, I then transformed into El Dragon and then flew off to confront Lila.

"Are you telling me this is a Miraculous?!" Adrien said as he held Lila's necklace.

Him, Marinette, and Lila gasped as I landed in front of them, Lila smiling when she saw who I was.

"Well, hey, Lila! How's it going?" I said, sarcastically. "Long time no see."

"El Dragon!" Lila cheerfully said as she stood up. "You came!"

"Yeah and I saw your interview on the Ladyblog, awesome job." I said before I glared at her. "Oh, sure! I remember when I saved your life and we've been really good friends ever since! Practically BFFs! Uh, actually, when did we become friends? I don't recall. Oh, yes! Of course, now I remember." I then began talking in an angry tone. "Never! You just made that up!" I then spoke to Adrien and Marinette, pointing to Lila with my thumb. "Ms. Show-Off here was trying to impress you two and everyone around her."

"So I guess you aren't the descendant of a superhero either?" Adrien said to Lila, who was now crying.

"She's more like a super liar." I said to Adrien before speaking to Lila once again. "Nice try, but I know that Miraculous of yours is a fake you bought at some pawn shop. I also know that you will never be a Miraculous Warrior because all you've doing was lie to everyone you've seen just to get popularity. You aren't a celebrity and definitely no hero. All these lies you've told is only gonna get you in trouble. Worst of all, not only have you spread lies about me, you also made lies about everyone else in the world. Very much, you're no different than the Dark Gang!"

"I… I…" Lila said, her voice breakin before she ran away crying.

"Wait! Lila!" Adrien said, but Lila was already gone. He then turned to me with a glare of his own. "Hey, what was that all about?"

"Yeah." Marinette said, giving me the same look. "Weren't you kinda harsh with her?"

"I don't put up with lies, especially when they're about me." I said without changing my expression as I then flew off.

"What is with him?" Adrien asked as he and Marinette watched me fly away.

"I don't know, but I feel sorry for Lila." Marinette said as she and Adrien gave looks of pity in the direction Lila ran off to.

Back with me, I landed on one of the rooftops abruptly.

"I may have gone a bit overboard there, but at least I'm not dealing with her lies anymore." I said as I then flew off, going on patrol to blow off some steam.

In the streets, Lila stopped in front of an Element Gang poster of me and the gang.

"How could you say that?" She said as she looked at the image of me. "My one true soul mate?" She then began to sob with a look of rage. "I hate you, El Dragon!" She threw her bag at my facial part of the poster and broke down crying.

In Hawkmoth's lair, Hawkmoth's window began to open.

"Ah…heartbreak, deceit, and the desire to be a superhero. This young lady is my perfect prey." He said. He then turned a butterfly into an akuma. The akuma flew out into Paris. "Akuma Dargon."

Chronicles of Kaze: Chapter 15

In Goussainville, I woke up and said "Yes, master?"

"There is a fan who wants to be a hero and had her heart crushed by El Dragon. Take this akuma and evilize her!" He said as the akuma then flew towards me.

"Finally, someone who shares my hatred for that red rat." I said after I then absorbed the akuma. I then used my Shadow Path to head out into Paris.

When I got to the Streets, I found my target Lila on the ground crying into her hands. I then went in front of Lila and changed back into my normal self. I have to say, compared to the other villainesses I created, this one is by far the most extraordinary, a beauty so bright. With this, I decided to give her my own brand of comfort.

"Hey, you okay there?" I said as she then looked up at me.

"No." She sniffled. "I feel terrible."

"What's wrong?"

"El Dragon doesn't think I have what it takes to be a hero. I loved him and he rejected me just like that."

"That is terrible. He shouldn't do that to a beautiful girl like yourself." With this, I then decided to place on my influence upon her. "Why don't you show him what it feels like to have your pain and what a true hero is?"

"Yes." She said as she gave a look of anger. "He will pay for ever calling me a liar."

I then looked and saw the fox tail necklace and then put out a claw.

"Then…" I said as I put a claw on her necklace, akumatizing it. "Here." She then looked at me with rage. "Volpina, I am Akuma Dargon. I'm giving you the power of illusion, from now on your lies will come to life. Gain the Element Gang's trust and convince them you're a real super-hero, then betray them and bring me their Miraculous."

"It would be my pleasure, Akuma Dargon." Lila said as the akuma energy turned her into a look-alike of the Fox Miraculous Warrior.

She then played her flute, filling it with energy, and then used it to change the poster of the Element Gang into one of herself standing victorious in front of Paris saying "The only hero for everyone."

Back with Adrien and Marinette, he was just getting her home after what happened at the back when they saw a meteor appear out of nowhere and heading straight for Paris. They then ran to an alley to transform.

"Tikki, spots on! Ha!"

"Plagg, claws out!"

The two then transformed into Ladybug and Cat Noir and headed out to stop the meteor.

Back with me, I just got home when I saw the meteor. And then used my communicator to call my team.

"Everybody, Code Red!" I said. "There's a meteor coming down on Paris!"

"We're on our way!" Basar said from the communicator.

I then flew off toward the meteor, but was surprised by an orange blur that flew past me. It flew under the meteor and revealed itself as a girl wearing a fox-themed costume. Whoever it was definitely did a good job with their disguise. Even I couldn't figure out who it was. I watched as she caught it before it hit the Louvre and threw it into the sky, the sun making it impossible to see it. We didn't know it, but a pigeon was flying by and freaked out when it saw it. It soon became confused that it disappeared as it hit the pigeon, the bird unharmed. I didn't managed to see it, but the girl flew down on to a building to where she met another girl who looked exactly like her smiling at her. When she vanishes after the second girl swatted her away, the lateral girl vanished, revealed to be an illusion. I then watched as the girl stood at the edge of the building and spoke out.

"I am Volpina, the only superhero Paris needs!" the girl addressed to the Parisians below, causing the citizens to chant her name.

"Volpina?" I said as I stood on a nearby rooftop, confused by this as this was the name of the made up hero Lila made.

"Looks like we have a new teammate." Cat Noir said as he and Ladybug appeared and stood beside me.

"Don't you think it's weird, this superhero just appearing out of nowhere?" I asked them.

"Well at least she got the job done." Ladybug said, impressed by Volpina. "If she hadn't been here…"

"Okay, enough of the praising!" I yelled out of annoyance.

"Hey! Relax!" Cat said, trying to calm me down. "We're just saying she seems seriously awesome."

"Whoa!" Apolloid said as he and the others joined us. "Who stopped the meteor?"

"Volpina apparently." I said as I pointed at Volpina. I then looked to see she was gone. "Wait, where'd she go?"

I didn't have to look for long as Volpina then appeared and landed in front of us, surprising me.

"Hey, guys!" Volpina said to us. "Glad you dropped in, I need a hand. Come on!"

Me and the gang followed her as she flew off. On another rooftop, we looked to see the one person we never thought we'd see standing on another rooftop across from us: Hawkmoth.

"I can't believe it! It's Hawkmoth in the flesh!" Cat said, surprised to see one of greatest enemies out here.

"He never shows up!" I said and it was true. We haven't seen his face in months. "Something big is going on. Really big!"

"We can take him down, but it's gonna take all of us." Volpina said. "We better make the most of our individual talents."

"You can count on us." Ladybug said to Volpina.

"Yeah." Cat said to the vixen girl.

"Very nice to meet you by the way, Ladybug and Cat Noir!" Volpina said to my fellow Miraculous Warriors. "Cool outfits."

"Why, thanks!" Cat said taking the compliment.

"Yeah. You got a cool one too, Volpina." Ladybug said, returning the compliment.

"Ugh!" I groaned in frustration before saying "First the meteorite, now Hawkmoth appearing both on the same day? Don't you think that's a little bit unusual?"

"Why would you say that?" Volpina said to me.

"I was asking my team that aren't rookies." I said, getting annoyed by her.

"I'm finding you unusual today." Ladybug said to me. "Everything okay?"

"I'm fine, just fine." I said to her before speaking to Volpina. "Say, Volpina, what's your Miraculous?"

"My necklace." She said as she showed me her necklace. She got that right.

"What power does it give you?" I asked her.

"The power of flight and super strength." She answered, which was actually wrong.

Before I can say anything else though, Hawkmoth then transformed into a purple blur and flew off.

"He's getting away!" Volpina said as she flew after Hawkmoth with us following behind.

We followed him until he stopped on top of a bell tower.

"Ladybug, go to his left, Cat Noir, you take the right, and I'll come from behind." Volpina said leaving the rest of us out and angering me for bossing my team around.

"Hey, I devise the plans here!" I said as I then placed out my strategy. "Apolloid, Icedra, and I will take the right, Ladybug, Cat Noir, Posidacus, take him from behind, and you, ShockStaff, and Torna take the left.

Volpina laughed before she said "Fine. Makes no difference to me."

"Good." I said as Volpina, ShockStaff, and Torna fly off then flew off to get into position.

"Can you chill out a little? She's one of us." Apolloid said to me as Cat Noir and Ladybug jumped off to get into position.

I scoffed it off before him, me, and Icedra started heading toward Hawkmoth.

Back with me and Volpina, we watched from the rooftops as Volpina's illusion lead ShockStaff and Torna over to us and we managed to knock them out and capture them, the two of them transforming back into their human forms. I transformed into Akuma Dargon so we can both deal with the Element Gang while she uses her Hawkmoth illusion to distract them.

"Nice job tricking these two back here." I said to her.

"Thank you, A.D." Volpina said as she swatted her illusion away and we watched as Cat Noir and Ladybug were running on rooftops. "They're running right into my trap."

I then laughed and said "This is turning out to be really fun!"

We then watched as Ladybug and Cat Noir thought they had Hawkmoth, or should I say her Hawkmoth illusion, but he then disappeared again. I was able to listen in on what they were saying.

"Where did he go?" Cat said, wonder where Hawkmoth went.

Then they looked and Hawkmoth appear on a different roof and then to another one far away like he was teleporting.

"Let's get him!" Ladybug said as she and Cat Noir continued to chase after the vanishing Hawkmoth.

"They fell for it!" I told Volpina and she smiled.

"Good! Now for the others." Volpina said as we then went after El Dragon, Apolloid, and Icedra.

Back with me, Apolloid, and Icedra, we were running after Hawkmoth and, just when we thought we had him cornered, he found the roof empty of him.

"Where did he go?" Apolloid asked as we searched around.

Suddenly we all managed to catch our feet on some kinds of traps and, when any of us tried to move, bombs and missiles were aimed at us.

"I wouldn't move an inch if I were you." Volpina said as she appeared, making me gasp. "Don't worry, I don't wanna be your friend. At least now you won't be able to say we don't know each other."

As she laughed, I realized who Volpina truly was.

"Lila?!" I said to her, shocking my two teammates.

"You will call her Volpina!" Akuma Dargon said as he flew to her side. "And she did a good job of luring you here."

"You're not a superhero." I said. "You're another one of Akuma Dargon's evilized victims!"

"Everyone thinks I'm a superhero, including most of your team." Volpina said. "So you won't be able to call me a liar anymore 'cause everyone will think you're the liar."

"Before we get rid of you, you are going to give us your Miraculous, El Dragon." Akuma Dargon said.

"Never!" I said as held my brooch.

"Do you really think you've got a choice?" Volpina said. "You'll give us your Miraculous or the building goes down!"

Volpina pointed to a nearby building, an indication that she was gonna tear down a building and endanger the people below it.

"You wouldn't do that!" I said, thinking she wouldn't ruin her superhero image by doing that.

I was proven wrong when Volpina blew into her flute, sending a blast that sent the whole building crumbling down. Seeing all those people in danger without any of us to do to change it, I saw I had no choice.

"No! Stop! Okay. You win." I said as I then began to remove my Miraculous, the two villains giving evil smugs.

But, just when I was about to take it off, I looked back at the crumbling building as it hit a pigeon and then vanish. It wasn't never falling at all.

"What the…?" Apolloid said, confused by this.

"What happened to the building?" Icedra said, just as confused.

"It's an illusion! Just like the meteorite! Just like Hawkmoth!" I said as I then turned to Volpina. "That's your power, isn't it, Volpina? Illusion, lies. Of course!"

I then used his staff and swung at all the bombs and explosives, making them all disappear and revealing them as illusions. I then went over and tried to take out Volpina and Akuma Dargon, but they were just illusions too and they just disappeared like everything else.

"Of course." I said.

"Cowards! They weren't even here!" Apolloid said as I then phoned Cat.

"Is Volpina with you guys, Cat Noir?" I said after he picked up.

"No! And we can't find Hawkmoth either." Cat said through the communicator in my staff.

"Forget it." I said to him. "He was never there in the first place."

"What do you mean?" Cat said. "But we saw him."

"That's Volpina's power." I said. "She creates illusions. The Hawkmoth we saw wasn't real."

"What are you trying to say?" Posidacus asked as he joined in on the chat with his communicator.

"She's not a real superhero." I answered. "She was evilized by Akuma Dargon!"

"I don't get it. Why did she do it?" Posidacus asked.

"Maybe because of a certain someone." Ladybug said, joining the chat on her yo-yo and her and Cat glaring at me.

"Axel, what is she talking about?" Icedra asked me.

I paused for a moment but then sigh in defeat and said "It's my fault. I made her cry."

"You made Lila cry?" Apolloid said as he, Icedra, and Posidacus were shocked by this.

"I told you, you were harsh." Ladybug said.

"I know." I said with a look of shame. "And I'm ashamed. I'll need to apologize to her."

"Wait, didn't Tricha and Meri go with her?" Apolloid said, making all our eyes widen with shock.

"Oh, no." I said with fear. "Come on!"

We then started running to find our teammates.

We managed to find Torna and ShockStaff at Eiffel Tower as Volpina dangled them over the edge by a rope, Volpina laughing as we climb up the tower.

"Give me your Miraculous now or I will drop them!" Volpina said as she swung Torna and ShockStaff around.

"You're bluffing." Cat said as we stopped about a quarter way to the top. "It's another illusion."

"You wanna bet on that?" Volpina said as she release one finger at a time on her grip the rope, slowly getting ready to drop Torna and ShockStaff.

"No!" Ladybug said as she reached for her earrings, not taking any chances.

"I can support Cat on that!" I said as I threw my staff at Volpina, making her, Torna, and ShockStaff vanish and revealing them as illusions. "You can't hide from me. I can see right through your illusions."

"There she is!" Ladybug said as we all looked to see the real Volpina across from us.

When she climbed to the top, we followed her and saw Torna and ShockStaff fighting Akuma Dargon.

"You two handle Volpina, we'll help Torna and ShockStaff." I said to Ladybug and Cat as me and the guys went to help the girls.

After Akuma Dargon pushed them back, he then went on to attack them with his staff, but we came in just in time and knocked him away from them and went to their side as he got back up.

"You ladies missed us?" Apolloid said to Torna.

"We had this handled." Torna said to him with a smug. "But thanks."

"How exactly did this happened?" I asked the girls.

"Oh, that Volpina!" Torna growled as she explained. "When we followed her, we ended find out she was an illusion and were ambushed by the real deal and Akuma Dargon."

"Yeah, that meanie fox and that jerk face then knocked us out and dragged us up here." ShockStaff said. "Luckily, I woke up and got Torna up too." She then looked to Torna with a shameful smile. "Sorry about messing up your hair, Torn."

"Oh, it's quite all right, dearie." Torna said. "I can still brush it down."

"Okay. Let's do this, guys!" I said as the six of us then went against Akuma Dargon.

Back with Ladybug and Cat Noir, they were having trouble with Volpina as she played her flute to create illusion duplicates of herself. There, Ladybug decided it was time to use her powers.

"Lucky Charm!" Ladybug said as she then used her powers, which gave her a chocolate popsicle. "Huh? She then unwrapped it and she got the idea of how to use it when the wrapper reflected the sunlight behind her and made her squint. "I've got an idea to take down Volpina!"

"With a chocolate popsicle?" Cat said, confused by this.

"Trust me. Get ready." Ladybug said and Cat got ready.

"Cataclysm!" Cat said as he activate his Cataclysm.

The plan soon became clear to him when Ladybug used the wrapper to blind the real Volpina, revealing her and Cat used Cataclysm on the tower to make a cage around her with its metal.

At the same time, me and the gang managed to overpower Akuma Dargon and I used my staff to knock him out, just in time for my cue as Ladybug and Cat went over to the trapped Volpina.

"Trapped! Like a fox!" Ladybug said as she grabbed Volpina's necklace. "Your days are over, akuma!" Ladybug then tossed the necklace on the ground, breaking it and releasing the akuma.

"No more illusions from you, akuma." I said as I put my staff in capture mode. "Time to de-evilize!" I then caught the akuma. "Gotcha!" I then released it as a purified butterfly. "Goodbye, little guy."

"Miraculous Ladybug!" Ladybug said as she tossed the popsicle into the air.

It exploded into a blast of energy, its energy turning everything back to normal. It even the necklace and freeing Volpina. Then the akuma energy turned her back into Lila.

"Lila?" I said as I walked over to her with a look of shame.

"El Dragon?" Lila said as she got up and looked at me.

"I…totally overreacted and…never should've spoken to you like that. I'm sorry." I said.

"Forget it, El Dragon, you were right. We'll never be friends." Lila said to me with a look of rage. "I hate you! I never want to see you again!"

She then got up and ran away.

"Ouch…" Cat said, knowing that was a blow to me as Ladybug tried to comfort me.

"I can sense your anger and I think I can help you with your troubles." I heard Kaze said and we all looked to see he had stopped Lila by appearing in front of her.

I saw he had his hand out and Lila was slowly going to take it, where I knew what it meant.

"Wait, don't!" I said to Lila as I ran and tried to stop her.

But I was too late as she took Kaze's hand and he transformed into a shadow and left, taking Lila with him.

"Hey, they're getting away!" Cat said as he and Ladybug got ready to go after them.

"No." I said, stopping them. "We'll never catch up to them, they're way too fast. Come on, let's go before you two change back."

We all then left to transform back.

When we got to Goussainville, Lila began found out where we were and looked to me.

"Why are we here?" she asked.

"This is where I can help you." I said to her. "But, before we get into that, you'll need to learn how to fight. This way, the next time you meet the Element Gang, you can show them what you're made of."

Lila thought for a while, but then gave a smile and said "Where do I start?"

There, I actually purred in excitement of her response. Her unique charm is just as great as her beauty. You have defeated her, Element Gang. But her hatred of you still burns like a great flame. Rest assure, you haven't seen the last of Volpina yet!

When we got to Marinette's house I showed everyone I had the book and placed it on the desk, showing everyone the pages.

"That's the book I found." Adrien said to me as he looked at. "Where'd you find it?"

"In Lila's possession." I said to him. "She tried to copy the information."

"Why did you get it for?" Marinette asked me.

"Because its information is invaluable." I answered her.

"Information?" She said as she saw all the coded writing. "But it's all written in code."

"I know someone who's been looking for this for a long time." I said. "He knows how to decipher the codes."

"So what exactly is so special about this book?" She asked.

"It contains all the secrets of the Miraculous powers." Tikki answered her, where I nodded in agreement. "It's sacred and extremely dangerous in the wrong hands. He needs it back."

"I don't get it." Marinette said. "If it's sacred, then why did Mr. Agreste have it?"

"I don't know how he got it, but I do know if he managed to decode it, we would all be in big trouble." I said. "Now, I will return it to the one person who needs it."

"Who is he?" Adrien asked.

"The great guardian of the Miraculous." I answered, surprising my fellow Miraculous Warriors.

"Can we go with you?" Marinette asked.

"You'll meet him in time, but I need to do this alone." I said as I took the book and closed it. "Only we Fire Dragons are entrusted with the guardian's true identity, so only I know where he is and I'm the only one who can return the book to him."

With this, they all agreed and then let me leave with the book.

Later that day, I went to visit Master Fu's Massage Shop to return the book to him. I knocked on a door to let Master Fu know I was there and then entered the room.

"Hello, Axel." Master Fu said as I closed the door behind me and took a seat in front of him.

"Hello, Master Fu." I said as I bowed to him. "I have something for you." I then showed him the book and he looked at it with surprise.

"Where did you find it?" he asked.

"I didn't." I answered. "It was Adrien and Plagg. They found it with Gabriel Agreste." When I spoke again, I then held the book in front of him. "I got it from Adrien and I am now giving it back to you."

"Thank you, Axel." Master Fu said as he took the book and then looked at me with a gentle smile. "You are certainly a great leader. Just like your father knew you would be."

"Thank you, Master Fu." I said as I bowed to him. After so, I stood up and left the room.

I didn't know it, but Master Fu looked at the book with worry after I left. Wayzz say it and flew over to him.

"What's wrong, Master?" Wayzz asked.

"Axel told me Adrien found it in his father's possession. That is what worries me." Master Fu said. "I think he might have learned about Nevix from it."

"You think Gabriel is Nevix's new wielder?" Wayzz asked.

"I believe so." Master Fu said. "If he is, then it means that Nevix has been under the Element Gang's nose this entire time."

Well, that's actually pretty shocking. First, we defeated a villain and gained a new enemy and there's a possibility that one of our greatest foes has been hiding amongst us this entire time. Could Gabriel Agreste be Hawkmoth, the new wielder of the Spider Miraculous? And how much of a problem will Lila become for us now that she's aligned with the Akuma Gang? Questions more and answers soon to come as our journey continues.