Two Years Before The Return (The Day Everything Changed)

Marinette had always been told by Tikki that the reason she had been chosen as Ladybug was because she was special. Marinette had never took that word too seriously. Special. It could mean alot of things. Marinette had always took it as she had certain qualities of past heros, determination, or some cheesy explanation like that. She never even thought of herself as a literal special being, a better word would be different. Not fully human, now that was something she wasn't expecting at all.

What the heck was a demigod anyway?

It was a Saturday. A very hot, humid, and busy Saturday afternoon. It was at least ninety degrees farenheit out of the streets of Paris, and the humid air had made it feel like your clothes were sticking to you. As hot as it already was, Marinette had worked in the busy bakery since the sun rose with her parents. She had been put on bread duty and was stuck opening ovens all day, and having the burning air waft up into her face.

Marinette hadn't protested in helping her parents out when they asked, since she didn't have the time to help often. But in the past few weeks of Summer, Paris had been eerily silent. There hadn't been any akuma attacks in about a month. As much as Marinette was thankful for the break, she still felt uneasy. She had talked to Chat Noir the night before while they were on patrol and he had agreed. The air felt weird, off even. Marinette would be keeping her guard up for now.

It was around one o'clock on that hot Saturday afternoon when Marinette's mother, Sabine, had left with her husband, Tom, on a quick trip to pick up new orders. Thus leaaving Marinette as the cashier. Marinette was thankful to get away from the heat of the ovens, but was still busy at the front counter, taking orders. Marinette was to busy to greet the new customer as she usually did when she heard the bell above the front door ring. But when she heard the pounding footsteps running towards the counter, she looked up.

In front of her stood a boy and a girl, around her age, out of breath. Marinette simply smiled at the two. But before she could ask them what they wanted, the blonde girl with a baseball cap was pulling her by the arm from behind the counter. Marinette, frightened, yanked her arm back from the girl's grasp. "What are you doing?" Marinette asked when the girl turned around to face her. "There's no time to explain! We need to get you out of here now Marinette!" Marinette's eyes widened at the sound of her name. "How do you know-" Marinette was cut off by screaming outside the store. The blonde girl winced, as did the brunette boy beside her. "Too late now." he said quietly.

Marinette watched as customers crowded around the windows, gasping at whatever they saw outside. "What kind of akuma is that?", Marinette heard a older woman say, as she approached the window. As Marinette and the two strangers approached the window, a roar like sound was heard from outside. The creature Marinette saw reminded her of a mightmare. It almost looked like a giant bat, but with some human like features. "A fury." muttered the girl beside Marinette, sharing a look with the boy beside her. Before she could protest, Marinette was dragged away from the window by the girl, and back behind the counter. "Listen Marinette, I don't have alot of time to explain, but I need you to trust and believe what I say. Our lives depend on it. Can you do that for me?"

Marinette looked at the girl in the eye. This entire situation was weird. But then again, Marinette's life was weird already. Marinette hesitated. She looked the girl in the eye. The girl looked desperate, she was pleading. When Marinette closed her eyes, it was like a voice, her conscious, was speaking to her.

"Trust her, you need to hurry."

With that, Marinette nodded. The couple in front of her smiled. "No time for introductions, but I'm Annabeth, and this is Percy." Marinette smiled at them both, a new type of determination filling her. "First thing's first, we know you're Ladybug, Marinette." Annabeth whispered. Marinette's eyes widened, but kept quiet. "And I think you know what's outside isn't an akuma. It's a monster, and we need to get out of here before it finds us." Percy finished, nodding at Marinette.

But before any of them could move to the back door, Marinette heard the glass at the front of the store shatter. "Oh Hades!" Annabeth yelled, grabbing Marinette's arm as the trio ran for the door. "You can run but you can't hide little demigods!" a screeching voice said behind them, sending a chill down Marinette's spine. Bursting through the back door, Marinette, Annabeth and Percy sprinted down the sidewalk. "We can't just keep running!" yelled Annabeth to Percy when the fury started to gain on them. Marinette almost panicked when Annabeth and Percy stopped running. "Are you insane?" Marinette yelled, as the two faced the monster. Percy pulled out a pen, and in the blink of an eye, it was a sword. Annabeth had a weapon too, a knife that had been hidden in her back pocket. Annabeth just smirked. "Get ready for a fight Marinette!" Annabeth placed a larger dagger in Marinette's hands before her and Percy ran straight for the monster.

Around her, Paris was in chaos. There were people running in the streets, cars speeding around her. Marinette closed her eyes, her hands tightening around the dagger. She felt something pushing through the surface. Instinct.

"Marinette!"

Marinette turned her head towards the voice, meeting the gaze of Alya, holding up her camera, filming the fight. The look on Alya's face was full of fear. Fear for Marinette. Alya started frantically calling for Marinette to get out of the way, but all Marinette could do was shake her head. Looking at her best friend, Marinette mouthed two words.

'I'm sorry.'

And with that, Marinette was running at the fury full speed dagger in hand, trying to ignore Alya's desperate scream behind her.

Percy was struggling, trying to distract the monster long enough for Annabeth to attack it from behind. At the moment, the fury was focused on Annabeth and Percy. It would be the perfect moment. When Marinette saw her chance, she charged full speed at the fury from it's side, when she was close enough, she stopped running, but came to a slide under it's arms. At the right moment, Marinette thrust her dagger into the fury's chest, where she presumed it's heart was. The monster tried to jump away, but it was too late, the silver dagger hitting the fury's heart. With a horrific screech, the fury tried to leap at Marinette. But right before her eyes, the monster halted, turning into dust.

Marinette almost collapsed to the ground in relief and shock. She had just killed a monster. An actual monster. People were still running everywhere, screaming, trying to get to their cars. When Marinette looked around, her eyes locked with her best friend's. Alya was rushing toward Marinette, but much to Marinette's surprise, she wasn't alone. At her side was Nino and Adrien. Marinette went to run for her friends, but someone caught her arm before she could.

Marinette turned to see Percy, grabbing her arm.

"We have to leave Marinette. I'm sorry, but you can't speak to them, they can't know that wasn't an akuma." Marinette turned to Annabeth, who motioned to a taxi down the street. "They won't wait, I'm sorry Marinette, I should've told you we have to leave Paris." Marinette felt tears fill her eyes as she took one last look at her friends who were almost to her. It was weird, Marinette felt dread to leave Paris alone, unprotected, and to take Tikki with her. To leave her parents and friends without answers. But deep down something inside of her knew she had to leave. Marinette opened her purse, looking at Tikki questioningly. Tikki nodded. "You must go Marinette, I knew this day would come, I was made to join you."

With that, Marinette was gone, running toward the taxi with Annabeth and Percy at her side. When they reached the taxi and jumped in, Marinette barely sparing a glance at the three women in the front seat, she turned around to look at her friends. Marinette felt tears fall from her eyes as she watched Alya struggle against Nino, who was holding her back from running after Marinette. When Marinette looked at Adrien, their eyes locked.

"I'm sorry." Marinette whispered, hoping they all could read lips. Marinette held in her tears as they continued to drive away. With one last glance, Marinette turned around, facing the front of the taxi.

Annabeth started to speak. "I'm sorry we didn't get to explain anything back there, but it's alot to take in. Do you know anything about Greek mythology Marinette?"

Marinette shook her head. "All I know is that it was the beliefs Greeks made up...right?" Annabeth shook her head. "It's not make believe Marinette. It's real. Gods and Goddess', Monsters, it's all real." Percy said, looking out the window.

"You're the child of a god Marinette. As are we." At the moment, it was like a ton of bricks falling on top of her.

"Who am I the child of?" Marinette asked in disbelief. Annabeth and Percy shared a look.

"We don't know for sure yet, but I'm the daughter of Athena, goddess of wisdom. Percy is the son of Posideon, god of the sea." Marinette nodded. Amazingly it wasn't hard to believe. "You'll most likely find out when we make it back to camp."

Marinette nodded once again. Not questioning this camp. She knew her life was about to change, for the better or for the worse she didn't know.

But she had to be ready for anything.

Two years ago, Marinette Dupain-Cheng's life changed forever, the day she found out she was a demigod. She ran from Paris, France to go live in the safety of Camp Half Blood. But when Marinette and Annabeth are sent on a quest to retrieve another undetected demigod from Marinette's old home, her past comes back to haunt her.

Wow! This took a long time to write! There aren't enough crossovers of this kind out there, so I decided to write my own! Sorry this chapter is absolute crap, but it will get better! (I hope) Camp Half Blood may not be an actual place we go in this story, and refrence to only Annabeth, Percy, and maybe Luke.

Predict who you think Marinette will be the daughter of in a review!

-Azcona