Chapter One

A/N: Hey guys, this first chapter is kind of OC-heavy and I apologize for that. Chapter two will be more Marinette & Adrien centric.

Co-planned by my bud Sabrina. (Love ya, My Lady XD)

Rain is pouring onto the streets of Paris. Black clouds boil in the sky, and although it's still mid-morning, it's so dark that Cat Noir needs his night vision to be able to see the akuma attacking violently with bursts of lightning from his bejewled cane. The hero leaps out of the way of a flash of electricity, kicks off the side of swaying billboard and launches with claws out toward the villain's akuma.

Hurricane smirks and twirls his cane, pointing the shining, jeweled end toward Cat Noir. There's a hair-raising thrum of energy in the air and with an angry shriek, a bolt of lightning crashes directly into Cat Noir, sending him soaring backwards and toppling onto his back, one clawed hand dangling over the edge of roof, his eyes fluttering shut.

The akuma grins and wordlessly lowers his weapon. His pace is slow and casual as he approaches his fallen enemy. Kneeling down beside him, he lifts the leather-clad arm and takes Cat Noir's ring between his fingers...but before he can pull it off, there's a flash of red and a sudden force against his back. Hurricane just barely manages to summon enough wind to stop himself from falling onto the street seven stories below, and when he turns back, he grimaces at the sight of Ladybug perched protectively over her injured partner.

"You've caused enough damage, Hurricane!" she shouts over the pouring rain, rising from her crouch. The hero's yoyo glows red as she spins it, even in this unnatural darkness.

"No! It will never be enough!" the akuma barks, "Lightning Strike!"

The ground at Ladybug's feet explodes with fire and flying debris just as she leaps away, landing in a roll on the opposite side of the roof. She whips her head up at the sound of the wind suddenly increasing...

The roiling clouds directly overhead are beginning to turn a sickly green and twist around in a dangerous funnel. The rain has become hard and ice cold - hail. Ladybug swallows and jumps to her feet. Hurricane hovers in the air between she and Cat Noir, wearing a horrible, twisted smile on his masked face as the storm festers in the sky, the building below them audibly creaking.

"You can't save him, Ladybug!" he yells gleefully. "His Miraculous is mine! And so is yours!" He whips the cane in her direction and Ladybug doesn't have enough time to dodge entirely out of the way. She lands with a painful thud on her stomach, her suit sizzling hotly against her skin. Wincing, she's just about to risk using her Lucky Charm...when a figure, emerald green against the sick-colored background, appears behind the akuma.

With a small smile, Ladybug pushes herself up. "Maybe I can't," she admits. "But I know who can..."

Hurricane twists around, coming face to face with the gleaming, golden Claw of none other than-

"Ada!" The sound of her mother's voice startles her and she drops the pen she'd been writing with. Ada sits bolt upright in her chair and turns around, finding her mother standing in the doorway to her room.

"You still aren't dressed? Come on, quit fantasizing, you've got to get to school!"

"Uh-yeah, sorry, Mom!" Ada shakes herself out of her daydream stupor and closes the notebook she's been using to write down her Miraculous: The Adventures of Ladybug, Cat Noir, and Wyvern stories in. Stuffing it into her bag, she stands and stretches her arms above her head, working the stiffness out of her muscles.

Her clothes are already laid out, a precautionary tactic on her part. This isn't the first time she's raced the clock after losing track of time between the tip of her pen and the pages of a notebook. And she's glad for her foresight.

Quickly slipping out of her PJ's, she wriggles into her dress, clasps the loose belt, and slides on her cardigan sweater and circlet. Down the steps to the first floor of her house, she laces up her boots and heads for the door, bag looped at her waist.

"See you, Mom!" she calls out, shutting the door behind her. But it swiftly opens again not seconds later.

"Wait, don't you want breakfast before you go?" her mother asks her, concern knitted into her brow.

But Ada shrugs with one shoulder and keeps walking. "I'll grab something at the Dupain-Cheng bakery on the way." She hums a tune under her breath as she rounds the corner toward school, the smell of the bakery already strong in her nose even though it's a full block away. Mmm, smells like Tom made fresh croissants this morning! Her stomach rumbles at the thought.

And then something else rumbles. Ada freezes in her tracks, as does everyone else on the street. The ground shakes underfoot again, this time much stronger. There are a few screams of surprise at the black blur zipping past them from the rooftops.

Cat Noir lands gracefully on the ground, sliding backwards with his staff in hand. Ada stares, starstruck. He's only inches from her. She could touch his arm if she were to reach out... But then he's gone, a blonde and leather blur as he vaults back into the path of his enemy. He manages a few strikes, throwing the akuma-who looks more like a giant, angry gorilla than a person-back a few steps. Ladybug swings past him, landing on top of the bakery. She twirls her yoyo for a few seconds before whipping it in the direction of the akuma.

It hits, landing hard against the monster ape's hairy bicep and getting effectively tangled around the massive limb. It roars furiously, showing surprisingly sharp fangs...and then Ladybug seems to notice the same thing as Ada, almost at the same time. The pendant strung tightly against the gorilla's throat, almost submerged in dark grey fur.

That's gotta be the akuma! Ada decides, shivering excitedly. Her hands are pressed into fists and she's grinning, despite being mere feet from a violent, angry monster of an ape.

And apparently that's the same conclusion that Ladybug has come to, because moments later, she's swinging down to the street and landing beside Cat Noir. They exchange words and he winks at her, his staff growing in size to almost match the height of the akuma and he soars up with it, holding to the top of the stick. Ladybug's partner doesn't go for the pendant, though. He lands on the rooftop beside the gorilla's head and yells something that becomes inaudible over the sudden, blood-thirsty roar of the akuma.

It swipes at him but he dodges, and Ada snickers to see him do a backflip just for show. Cat Noir stabs, almost playfully, at the creature and it snarls again, clawing angrily at him. And again, he evades it, taking a bow and then vaulting slightly higher onto a raised section of the roof.

People on the streets are recording with phone cameras and snapping pictures, but their attention is quickly diverted when Ladybug's plan seems to come to fruition. Nobody saw her doing it, but somehow she has just appeard at the throat of the enemy, one hand clinging to her yoyo, the other reaching for the akuma...

Ada smiles, a little thrill of excitement rushing through her at the thought of having seen her very first battle in real life!

But then...things go wrong.

Ladybug cries out as an enourmouse hand grabs her around the waist and tears her away from the pendant. Cat Noir visibly stiffens and then rushes forward to save his partner. There are gasps from the viewers and Ada's hand almost instinctively moves to her bag. From under the soft, brown flap, she feels the presence of The Claw. Or at least, the closest she could manage to make out of wood and nails...

Ladybug is squirming in the akuma's enourmous hand, pushing with all her strength against its fingers, each as thick as her entire leg. Cat Noir has landed atop its fist, his legs on either side of Ladybug's shoulders and jams his staff between the beast's fingers, pulling with all his might pry them open. But to no avail.

Slowly, the akuma reaches up with its other, lumbering arm and snatches Cat Noir by his tail. Ladybug kicks as hard as she can and Cat Noir holds, white knuckled, onto his staff, still lodged in the space beside Ladybug, as the gorilla tries to throw him away from the fight.

The cameras have drooped and the onlookers are watching with horror as it seems the battle is about to take a dark turn... But then Ada notices the solid surface gripped in her hand. Looking down, she finds The Claw. Her story-persona The Wyvern's weapon of choice... Somehow, she's gotten it out of her bag without noticing. And it's held falt against her forearm like the real Wyvern, ready to strike.

And then she has a crazy idea. With a gulp, she grips the faux weapon and races across the street, stumbling over the violent trembles of the street underfoot. The high schooler stops just short of akuma, whose focus is entirely on the two heroes trapped in its grasp, and reels back her arm.

Directly above her is the pendant, dangling against the akuma's hairy chest. If she can just break it...

Come on, please work...

The Claw flies through the air, attached to her arm by its rope cord. It sails directly toward the pendant, clawed talons extended and ready to clamp down on the akuma...but the gorilla must have sensed it coming. It drops Cat Noir like a sack of bricks and he lands heavily, stumbling a bit, his staff clanging to the roof beside him.

The akuma snatchs The Claw out of thin air, and Ada along with it. She yelps as she's lifted into the air by one arm and swung around like a ball and chain on the end of the rope cord. Cat Noir shouts for her to hang on and he launches himself in her direction...but the gorilla, armed with Ada's Claw, turns the weapon on the hero, swinging The Claw like a baseball bat.

Cat Noir is knocked backwards by the force of the blow to the center of his chest and this time, he loses his footing and slips off the roof, falling a full story to the ground and landing with a thud. The bystanders scream and some run away, others keep the cameras rolling as Cat Noir lays motionless on the street, Ladybug fearfully shouting his name. And in that moment, it seems all is lost.

Cat Noir is unonscious and possibly injured, Ladybug is trapped in the grasp of a giant akuma, and Ada is still dangling by her forearm...

"Cat Noir! Cat Noir!" Ladybug is struggling again, spurred on by adrenaline at the sight of her partner sprawled out on the ground. And as the gorilla gives a throaty, rumbling laugh of victory, and a glowing violet mask appears over his face, Hawkmoth's words surely filling his head, he loosens his grip just a fraction of an inch...

But it's enough. Ladybug frees one hand, her yoyo a blur of red against the akuma's grey fur as it twirls around an antennae above his head. With one, swift yank of her arm, she's pulled free of its grasp and Ladybug flips around in mid air, her yoyo threading back into her hand as she shouts "Lucky Charm!"

Ada can't make out what she recieves from her vantage point dangling below the hero, but whatever it is, it works. Because seconds later, the gorilla has fallen onto his back and Ada manages to get free of him. While Ladybug focuses on breaking the pendant, Ada sprints to the side of the other fallen hero. But Cat Noir is already rousing.

"Oh god, Cat Noir, I'm so sorry! Are you okay?!" she asks, dropping to her knees beside him.

He grimaces and rubs the spot on his chest where The Claw struck him but he nods. "Just, please, stay back and leave this to the professionals, okay?" He picks up The Claw and drops it into her lap before springing to his feet and hurrying over to Ladybug, who has just smashed the pendant under her foot.

As the white butterly flaps away into the sky, and the crowd errupts in cheers for their victorious heroes, all Ada can see is the way Ladybug squeezes her partner's shoulder and how he offers a smile, but rubs his chest anyway.

A pang goes through Ada's heart as she slowly rises to her feet. It worked out, a part of her says. He's fine. But it could have gone much worse. God. She could have gotten Cat Noir killed! She could have gotten them both captured!

She almost ruined everything...

With the hum of mechanical bearings, the shield guarding the massive window is retracted and a silvery light washes over the room. Within the grasp of dark hands, the glowing, white butterfly turns black and flutters into the city.

"Ahh, little hero, how it must hurt to try your best and still fail..." Hawkmoth coos, "But I can help you. Wyvern...bring me Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculouses...and in exchange, I'll make you the most powerful hero in the entire world."

"Yes, Hawkmoth." Ada's body is swallowed by darkness and she laughs as she feels herself changing...