A/N: Hello everyone. Thanks for your patience on this new chapter. Sorry it took so long to get out, but when I was in the middle of writing it the first time around my laptop actually kicked the bucket and I lost all my progress. So I was in grieving for a little bit as there were a few stories there that I was working on and had lost. Oh well, I thought it was about time I started working on it again and have now gotten access to my friends computer. So I finally we have the new chapter! Anyways hope you can forgive me for the tech difficulties on my end, and as always that you enjoy!

"Ladybug, look out!" Alya yelled from the street below as ladybug just barely managed to dodge a barrage of spikes. In the middle of school the man in the black coat and odd guns had attacked out of the blue. Taking out Sora with an ambush on lunch and unleashing waves upon waves of heartless on the school. She stared down helpless from the rooftop as she watched her friends, teachers, and other students be slowly picked off by the heartless. There was nothing she could do. Chat Noir was no where to be found, and if she focused on the heartless then this man, Xigbar if she remembered properly would begin taking potshots at her and anyone else without a care in the world.

"Where are you Chat!" Ladybug called out desperately as another pink projectile skimmed her cheek, causing a small stream of blood to begin trickling out.

"You know I didn't have to miss." Xigbar stated coldly. He was toying with her, and she was on her own. Completely helpless, and he knew it.

"Why! Why are you doing this?" Ladybug yelled towards her assailant.

"Because it's what I do. And unlike that pathetic villain you always fight, I get what I want, and do my own dirty work." He spat as he took aim at her once again.

Ladybug began spinning her yoyo around her in an attempt to deflect the arrows. But as she began hitting them one by one at they came she felt a sharp raking sensation travel down her back. As she was focused on the enemy in front of her, she failed to notice the shadows that had snuck up behind her and attacked her blind spot. The pain was excruciating as she felt the tiny razor like claws penetrate her suit and glide down her back as if it was a tender steak. The pain only lasted a brief moment before it was overtaken by an even deeper and sharper pain in her gut. She looked down in horror to find she had been hit, and the pink arrow had impaled her through the stomach. She coughed, spattering blood all over the roof in the area in front of her.

"Is that really all you had? Pathetic." Xigbar said as he stared at her blankly. "You really thought you could save the day, didn't you? Well I got some news for you. Your luck just ran out, and now we'll take your miraculous and destroy this world!" He let out a chuckle that drained the last remnants of hope and strength Ladybug had. Tears began streaming from her eyes. She couldn't tell if it was from fear, pain, or failure. Not that it wouldn't matter for long. The organization member kneeled down beside and brushed his lips on her ear, "Now before I take your miraculous, I want you to watch as I destroy everything you love...Marinette." He had whispered before standing back upright and looking down at her. Before she could even react, Xigbar kicked her off the roof of the school where she landed hard on the cement courtyard below.

"Ladybug no!" Alya yelled as she tried to run towards her hero. Just before she could reach her, she was tackled by a group of heartless. All Ladybug could do was lay there, bloody and broken, while her best friend cried out in pain, as these creatures of darkness defiled and mangled her body, crying for her heroes to save her.

Alya had gone quite. All that she could see from the black pile that was still swinging down on her was a large pile of blood begin pooling out from the mob. Ladybug watched as her friends one by one were struck down. Nino had tried reaching Alya desperately before having his throat sliced by a bigger version of the smaller shadows that had appeared just in front of him. Ladybug watched motionless and in tears as the heartless took each and everyone of her friends. Nathaniel, Rose, Juleka, Alix, Kim, Chloe, Sabrina, Max, Mylene and Ivan. They were gone. All of them.

Ladybug shut her eyes. Hoping that she would be the next victim the heartless finally took. "Ladybug, HELP!" Her eyes shot open as she saw Adrien running through the carnage trying to find his hero and escape.

"Adrien! Get out of here!" Ladybug yelled with the last of her energy, but he couldn't hear her. The ground had begun trembling, Ladybug turned to see a Darkside had appeared and had its gaze resting on Adrien. "Adrien! No! Run, get out of here!" She cried desperately, but the boy was frozen in his place as the Darkside reached down and grabbed him, raising him into the air. Ladybug crawled forward, her body screaming at her to give up as that heartless raised Adrien into the air.

"No...please..." She heard him cry softly, before the heartless began to slowly crush him to death. He cried out in agony as his bones snapped and shattered under the titanic heartless's grasp. It felt like his screaming would go on forever as the sound joined itself into the collective choir of pain and suffering that had been playing on loop through Ladybugs head.

The heartless dropped a limp, and lifeless Adrien to the ground, and the defeated heroine watched as the body of the boy she loved landed, directly on top of an all too familiar black leather outfit. Ladybug, despite her pain crawled over to the bodies in disbelief. Now knowing why Chat had never come to her aide, and how the boy she would give everything for, now lay on top of him.

"I'm sorry..." She cried quietly to the corpses of the two people she had cared about the most. "I wasn't strong enough to save you. I'm...so sorry." She let out all her tears as she reached out with both hands and took hold of their hands in an attempt to will them back to life with whatever power she had left.

Xigbar walked through the carnage without a care in the world. The heartless had finished their job here and began moving into the city to complete their attack. But he strode without a care or remorse as he approached Ladybug, still holding on to her friends hands, as if some miracle may happen and they would spring back to life.

"Did you really think you could stop this Marinette? Did you believe that you truly were the hero everyone made you out to be?" He began, not caring if she was really listening anymore or not. He had broken her completely. "It's a pity. I thought this would be a lot harder. But you're just a stupid girl who's in over her head. A lesson to you. The hero will always fall in the end." Xigbar reached down and grabbed the girls head and violent jerking it backward, taking a sick pleasure in the terror and unending sadness that had engulfed her. With a smile he ripped the ladybug earrings right from her ears and released her head. Finally he summoned one of his arrowguns and took aim at the back of her head. With the last of her strength, Marinette turned around and looked at the weapon pointed in her face. She watched as Xigbar smirked down at her, completely pleased in himself over her defeat.

That smile was the last thing she saw before she heard the trigger click, and her world went dark.

Marinette shot up in her bed in a cold sweat, gasping for air as she looked around her dark and quiet room. "Tikki! Tiikkiii!" She cried out of fear for her kwami. Sure enough in a moments notice the little red being had flown in front of her face, and panic had spread across her face.

"Marinette! What's wrong!?" She asked frantically. Looking Marinette over and realizing she was very pale.

"I...I think I had a nightmare." Marinette began to explain as she gained more control over her breathing and colour began returning to her face. "I...I wasn't strong enough. I failed everyone, and that man...he took the miraculous from me, and he...and he..." She was on the brink of tears now as her kwami quickly flew over to her cheek and did her best to give her a hug.

"Shh, it's ok Marinette, it wasn't real. It was only a bad dream." Tikki reassured her nuzzling up to her as close as possible. Marinette couldn't help but smile as she rubbed the top of the kwami's head, eliciting a small giggle.

"I'm scared Tikki. If they've beaten Sora and made him fall to darkness, then how are we supposed to beat them." Marinette couldn't help but ask. Even if the kwami didn't have the answer, she just needed to get the question off her chest.

"You'll think of something." Tikki began as she floated back in front of Marinette's face. "You are a smart and courageous girl Marinette, and you are facing a threat that no Ladybug has before. But remember. You aren't alone, you have Chat Noir and Sora to help you. I just know that no matter what, you will overcome this danger."

As nice as it was for Tikki to say, it wasn't enough to put aside her fears, or stop the sounds of her friends screaming from her dream. "I hope you're right Tikki." With that Marinette laid back down in bed as Tikki gave her a warm smile and cuddled up beside her to try and comfort her. As the kwami fell back to sleep Marinette debated doing the same as the soft morning light had begun to creep into her window. She just hoped that when she eventually closed her eyes, it wouldn't be replaced by the sight of her friends being taken down by the heartless.

The school day dragged on and on for Marinette. She was tired and noticeable dark circle had surrounded her sleepy eyes. It felt like an eternity before the lunch bell rang signaling the classes half hour to eat and socialize. Alya had already gotten up and run off with Nino, saying for Marinette to meet them in the library as Adrien had followed after them, almost sprinting out of the classroom to get away from Chloe. She looked down and lazily packed her things in her bag and started moving down the steps to the front of the class as she felt a big yawn begin creeping its way through her body.

Wham!

Marinette instantly focused on the direction of the noise to see Sora had slammed the door shut. Although based off how he had also jumped from his own action, he didn't mean for it to be as loud as it was.

"Hey Sora, what's up? She asked as she let out her yawn.

"Not much, a bit tired today I see." Sora responded with a cheerful smile, putting his hands behind his head in what may be his signature pose. Marinette simply let out another yawn in response to his observation. "Anyways I just wanted to talk to you about a good meet up spot for training tonight." Sora stated bluntly. Marinette was fully awake now, and paralyzed by what she heard.

"Excuse me?" She asked, waiting for him to repeat himself.

"Well I'm not from here and I don't want to get in people's way while you, me, and Chat train tonight. You know, if you're up for it." Sora responded as he looked the girl over. She seemed like she was ready to drop for some reason.

"I'm sorry Sora, but I don't know what you're talking about." The girl grinned all too innocently. Hoping that Sora would believe her.

"Marinette, I know you're Ladybug. And I know who Chat really is as well. Even if I didn't figure it out myself or have you tell me, Fu would've let me know your identities anyways." Marinette just stared blankly at him in disbelief. A quick flash of panic began rising from her stomach, but before she could say anything Sora had held his hand out in front of her to stop before she even started.

"Look, Chat told me that it was important to you that you two's identities remain a secret from each other. By all rights, you actually shouldn't know that I exist since keyblade wielders aren't to meddle in the affairs of other worlds, but it happens. Regardless, your secret is safe with me. But I need to know who you are to discuss training and relevant information." Sora explained. Marinette took a breath of relief, now fully awake.

"Alright, we can train her after hours. The doors will be locked but we can get access through the roof." Marinette responded as calmly as she could. "Besides the courtyard would be a perfect sparring ring as I'm sure you're aware, and the walls and doors will keep us concealed from the public, aside from that moogle thing of course."

"Alright sounds good to me. I'll let Chat know as soon as I see him and can talk to him privately." Sora smiled before opening up the classroom door again and walking out to join their friends for lunch. "By the way!" he called back to her, as he peeked back into the room. "I won't say anything but you and Chat should tell each other who you are. It might go better than you think, and you may even be surprised." Sora winked at her and sped off. Marinette just stood their with her mouth open.

"Tikki! Why would he say that, what is he implying?" Marinette began asking as the little kwami flew out of her purse.

"I don't know Marinette, he's probably just teasing you, or wants you two to know each other so you guys can meet up in public as friends and not superheros." Tikki responded in an effort to calm down her chosen.

"Maybe, but now knowing that he knows me and Chat...it kinda makes me feel uneasy."

"I wouldn't worry about it. Sora seems like a nice and trustworthy boy to me. Just relax, meet up with him tonight and just be normal with him and Chat ok?"

"Alright, if you say so." Marinette sighed, just giving in to the situation. Sora knew, and there wasn't anything that could be done about it now. "Come on let's go, I'm sure Alya and Nino are grossing Adrien and Sora out by now." She giggled. Tikki let out a small laugh herself and flew into Marinette's as she ran out the door in order to meet back up with her friends. She couldn't help herself but to think that the next few weeks would be even more interesting now.

Adrien sat at the table in the library and watched as Alya and Nino were feeding each other pieces of their lunches, and Sora himself was content on just eating one of his sea salt ice creams that he had purchased from the moogle. Adrien looked down in disgust at the tasteless salad in front of him. As much as he enjoyed doing modeling work for his father sometimes, he wasn't very happy with the strict diet he was forced to follow.

"Hey." Sora said nudging him, Adrien looked and noticed Sora had a second ice cream in his outstretched hand. Although the sea salt ice cream wasn't his favourite, he couldn't deny it tasted good, and a lot better than a boring salad. "Take my extra, it tastes better when you're sharing it with a friend." Sora explained as Adrien happily took the ice cream, although for the briefest of moments, Sora looked sad. As if a painful memory had come and gone.

"Thanks, I appreciate it. You have no idea how bland these diet meals get." He laughed as he took a bite from the treat, delighted by the salty, yet sweet taste.

"No problem!" Sora replied happily. "By the way Adrien, I had a question for you." Sora began, Adrien looked at him with genuine curiosity as the other two weren't paying that much attention to them. "I was wondering what your feelings were for Marinette?" Sora asked with a cheeky grin.

Adrien stared at him, not able to contain his face from blushing. This question even got Alya and Nino to stop what they were doing and take notice of his reaction. "Why?" He thought. "Why am I blushing?"

"Weeeellllll?" Alya asked as she leaned in a bit closer to make sure that she could hear his answer.

"I- I don't know what your talking about." Adrien answered shyly as he rubbed the back of his head. "She's a great girl. Smart, beautiful, strong, and an amazing designer and an even better friend." He finished, letting himself smile at the thought of Marinette. In a lot of ways, she was a lot like his ladybug to him. She certainly had all the same qualities, even if she was a bit clumsy sometimes. "Why do you ask anyways?"

"Just wondering is all." Sora answered cryptically. If Marinette hadn't walked in at that moment he would've pushed the topic further but decided to drop it for both their sake's.

"Sorry I'm late, what'd I miss?" Marinette asked as she took her seat and opened up her lunch. The various scents from the freshly baked goods her father had made he wafted in waves through the air, taunting Sora, and from the look of it, Adrien as well.

"Nothing much, although now that you're here we can begin discussing the project." Alya began. "Now Nino and I have pretty much got all the fact finding done, but we still need to put it on a display."

"I can work on the actual display, and my mother could help us with getting some outfits for us all to present in. So it could be a little bit more fun than just a regular board with all of our information glued to it." Marinette suggested, everyone seemed to like the idea.

"If you want I can come over and help, maybe be a model for you while you make the outfits." Adrien suggested, "Sure I can speak Mandarin but I feel like I haven't really helped out to much with the project."

"O-okay then. Sure, it sounds like a plan." Marinette accepted the offer. It took all her strength to keep from getting giddy and squealing. She looked at Alya out of the corner of her eye and could see her giving her a thumbs up very subtly so as not to blow her crush out of the water.

"Alright then dudes, that just leaves us with Sora. " Nino began, "Anything you think you could contribute to the project Sora? We know you're busy helping Ladybug and Chat Noir, so don't worry about it if you can't."

"Hmm." Sora began thinking to himself. What could he possibly contribute to the project. They've got the data. They've got a plan to get special outfits for the presentation, and Adrien could even speak the language. But what could he bring to the table to put their project on top. Then it hit him. "I can probably bring a dragon." Sora stated matter of factly.

"Alright, Sora will be making a dragon to cover mythology then." Alya finished. As she opened up a notebook and wrote down who was doing what. "With that I think we should be all good then, think you guys can work on those outfits this weekend?" Alya asked looking at Adrien and Marinette.

"I don't have any modeling jobs so this weekend should be perfect."

"Same here, it'll be a lot of fun to put them together, and I'm sure my parents will supply us with plenty of treats to keep us awake."

"I hope they do." Adrien thought to himself.

After they finished discussing their project plans, the teens finished off their lunches with 15 minutes to spare until the next class. Alya wiped out her phone at the first chance she got to show off a new video she had gotten of Ladybug and Chat Noir leaping over the city streets the other night to their meeting with Sora.

"Speaking of..." Alya began as she turned to look at the keybearer who had been lazily chewing on his ice cream stick throughout the fan-girling. "What did you talk to Ladybug and Chat Noir about? You have to tell me? I need details for the Ladyblog!" Alya began demanding as she began to record Sora in case he actually divulged the information from the meet up.

"Well you see-" Before Sora could tell Alya anything a phone started going off. Instinctively all four of them pulled out their devices to check to see if it was theirs before all of them looked at Sora. "You gonna get that?" Alya asked raising an eyebrow at him. It took a moment for Sora to clue in before he pulled out the smartphone he had purchased from the Moogle. It was ringing and buzzing.

"Swipe right to accept video call?" Sora looked at the device bewildered, before he tried swiping it through the air as if it was his keyblade. This prompted a large amount of Laughter from his friends before Alya took the phone from Sora and used her finger to swipe right, and then quickly pass the phone back to Sora.

"Hey, is this thing on? Is it working?" A very grovely voice asked with a large blue eye showing up on the screen.

"Gawrsh I dunno, let me see Donald." A familiar goofy voice spoke out from the device as the image on the screen danced around wildly. The Parisian teens couldn't help it anymore, they were curious as to who was now on the other line with Sora with all this commotion.

"No Goofy, you're gonna break it!" The first voice squealed again in anger.

"Donald? Goofy?" Sora asked while watching the shaky image confused.

"Hey, Sora! Hyuck" Goofy yelled as white feathers covered the camera, presumably Donald trying to steal the phone. Just then the phone dropped onto the floor and image finally cleared now that neither Goofy or Donald was handling the device, and he could see them clearly.

"How've you been Sora? We've all been missing you here!" Donald added as his two friends seemed delighted they could talk with him. Alya, Nino, Marinette, and Adrien all stared in disbelief as the talking duck and dog that was currently occupying the screen.

"I've been good, hopefully I can get back to you guys! It seems like it's been forever since I last saw you all."

"Well things sure have been quiet without you here. But the king is keeping us just as busy as ever!" Goofy reported proudly, while Donald tried to push him away so he could show up on more of the screen.

"Yeah! Everyone's working hard, Yen Sid is even teaching me some new magic!"

"That's awesome! I can't wait to see it on our next adventure!" Sora responded, now realizing that his friends were also visible on the screen Sora thought it might be a good idea to clarify what was happening. "Sorry, Donald, Goofy, these are the friends I've made on this world. Marinette, Adrien Alya. And Nino. And Guys, this is Donald and Goofy, they're from a different world."

"Well it's nice to meet you guys!" Marinette spoke up as she waved to the duck and dog.

"Yeah, any friend of Sora's is a friend of ours!" Adrien added.

"Hey, what are you guys up to?" A male voice asked from the background. Before the camera began shifting and moving from Donald and Goofy's side. Just then an adult with flaming red spikey hair, and looked to be a few years older than Sora appeared on the screen.

"Hey Lea, how's the training?" Sora asked out of curiosity. It was only just before he left that Lea had manifested his keyblade.

"It's been pretty good. Riku and the old man have been putting me and Kairi through the paces, but otherwise I'm catching up no problem." Lea grinned excitedly. Sora could tell he was working hard as it looked like he was on a small break from a training session. "So Sora, those your new friends?" Lea asked as he eyed the four Parisians behind Sora.

"You got it!"

"Then allow me to introduce myself..." Sora rolled his eyes as he knew what was coming. "My name is Lea, got it memorized?" Lea asked as he tapped his temple with his index finger.

"No worries dude, we'll keep it memorized." Nino answered back, pleasing Lea. Finally the camera started getting shaking once more. "Hey! I wasn't done!" Lea complained as a boy with long silver hair and a girl with shoulder length red hair occupied the screen.

"What are you- oh, I see it's working now." Riku started. "How's everything going Sora?" Riku asked, delighted to see his best friend.

"You having fun, being safe?" Kairi asked warmly. Sora's heart couldn't help but pound seeing her. It had been so long since he left to train and Kairi had been brought to the Mysterious Tower to train as a keyblade wielder.

"Yeah, I've been really good, started going to school again which is really fun. And yes Kairi I'm being safe and having fun. By the way, these are my new friends!" Sora then turned around and introduced them all. "Guys this is Riku and Kairi."

"Wow! Sora, Riku is hot!" Alya blurted out, earning a look from Nino. "You're still my number one, but I'm still gonna call it like it is." She teased him with a wink.

"Aw man, you're apologizing to me for that later." Nino grumbled.

"and you are beautiful yourself Kairi, I love your outfit." Marinette spoke up, admiring the pink jacket that Kairi was wearing.

"Aw thank you." Kairi blushed at the compliment. Even around Sora and Riku, she didn't get complimented like that often. "Anyways Sora, we're all working really hard, so do your best out there ok!" Kairi yelled before Riku took full control of the phone.

"If you need any help or have any information in regards to the Organization, let us know ok." Riku advised sternly.

"Actually, about that-" Sora began when the lunch bell rang, signaling the end of the period. "Oh shoot, I got to go. But I'll try and call you guys later ok!"

"Alright, be safe and take care." Riku bid his farewell and turned the phone around so that Kairi, Lea, Donald, and goofy were all visibly waving him off and wishing him well before the screen went dark.

Sora smiled to himself. Happy he got to see and talk to his friends. He got up from the Library table and began walking back to class with a bright and beaming smile. As much fun as he was having here, he couldn't wait to see everyone else again and share with them about his adventures with Ladybug and Chat Noir.

"That was nice, getting to meet your friends." Marinette said as she walked beside Sora as they ascended the stairway to the next level. "They must all really miss you, especially since you're a keyblade wielder."

"Yeah, I miss them. But they understand, after all, Lea, Kairi, and Riku are all keyblade wielders. Riku is even a master!" Sora stated with pride in his friends. "But leaving them to go on a mission is never easy." Sora stated looking down a little bit sad. "But at least it pays off because I get to make new friends to, like you." Sora smiled at the secret heroine.

"Well we're glad to meet you too." Adrien added as the two reached the top of the stairs were he'd been waiting for them to catch up. "Come on you don't want to be late and get detention from "

"Right." Sora said, lost in memories with all the friends that he's made over the years. Hopefully, one day. They could all live on the same world and meet each other. "Hopefully they can join us to." Sora said under his breath as he thought about a few more of his friends that still needed his help.

"Sora?" Both Adrien and Marinette stopped and were looking at him concerned.

"It's nothing. Let's get to class." The keybearer smiled before moving back up with them, and into the remainder of the school day.