I know we're still in the early chapters of the story, but I honestly don't know how I'm feeling about the story. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. I don't know, we'll see how it goes. Lol XD.

Marinette walked over to the large box as her assistant followed. "Does anyone own this, because it looks ancient?"

The assistant scrolled through her tablet, but found nothing of any matching item in the storage log. "There's nothing, the oldest thing in the facility goes back to 2003 and that's it. But Constantinople is a country that's been renamed Istanbul." Jenny's expression fell as she looked to her boss. "Not to be rude, but didn't you learn that in school?"

Marinette snorted. Sometimes she wondered how she passed school between being a superhero and always being late to class. "I must've not been paying attention. I always fell asleep in class."

Jenny accepted that answer, but was definitely surprised. "Okay then."

Marinette felt her bag shift around on its own, and knew Tikki was trying to grab her attention. Thinking fast, she looked back to Jenny. "Could you do me a favor? I need you to go back into the city and talk to Audrey and let her know about this. I'm going to see if there is any fabric I can salvage in the meantime."

Her assistant gave a nod before scurrying back to the taxi.

After hearing the taxi take off, Marinette let out a sigh of relief. "No way she's going to make it past her receptionist." She gave a little tap to her bag. "Alright, Tikki, I think it's safe to come out now."

The little creature swirl around her, resting on Marinette's shoulder taking in the object in front of her. "Marinette, I feel something. Something….odd, but familiar like. I'm not sure what, but I know it."

She shifted her eyes to her kwami. "I take it it's in the box then?"

Tikki gave her head a little shake in acknowledgment.

"Well in for a penny." Marinette lifted her leg, bringing it down heavy on the box, and broke it to pieces as hay and dust spread everywhere.

Tikki cover her mouth but it did little to block the dust that was in the air. "Do you remember a time where you didn't just break things on impulse?"

Marinette shrugged her shoulders at the comment. "Blame my husband and his mini clone of a daughter." She paused as her thoughts went to her family miles away. "Gosh, I miss them."

Tikki sent her a deadpan stare. "It's been less than a day."

"And I still miss them."

Bringing things back on course, Marinette bent down and started to shift the pile of hay.

Before long, her hand brushed something that felt cold and metallic. Before she could even respond, the entire warehouse went dark as a blue light emitted from the pile in front of her.

Taking a step back the light shot up as a blue figure appeared from the pile, constantly growing in size. Before long the pile of hay was shot out to all sides revealing a brass oil lamp that looked far older than the box it was contained in.

Without warning, the room was filled with a booming voice. "For over ten thousand years I lay dormant-"

The being was cut short as its expansion brought the ceiling a bit closer to its head than it bargained for. "Ow! Son of a- Where the heck am I this time? First, it was the far east, then it was the middle east, now where-"

Marinette looked up in confusion, while Tikki did her best to control her laughter. Marinette decided to just go with it. This was their crazy life after all. "I'd say a bit more west. New York, to be specific." Her voice was still meak, not knowing what to make of the situation at hand.

The large being— whatever it was, she still had no clue— let out a hearty chuckle. "Ah, I always wanted to visit the colonies. Gotta check that one off the list."

Colonies, wait did he mean the states? Oh my gosh, he must have been out of the loop for a bit, either that, or just stubborn with learning new terms. "How old are you exactly?" Marinette asked.

He wrapped his fingers around his chin taking a solid look at the designer. "I'd say about eight hundred, younger than that bug on your shoulder."

With that, Tikki gave a little wave to the blue being.

Marinette's eyes nearly popped out of her head as she tried rubbing the stress out of her temples, and to keep the veins from swelling any further. "I wish I knew what's going on today."

The being snapped to attention with a huge smile on his face. "Is that official? Because I need it to be official."

She looked up to him with a look of pondering on her face. "What do you mean?"

"Your wish." He responded.

She scoffed at that."What, are you going to grant it?"

His smile only grew at her doubt. "Only if it's official?"

She let out a sigh of frustration at that. "What are you even?"

He responded by letting out a mocking sigh of anguish. "No, I am not doing this again. Come on, kid. I just offered you wishes, I popped out of a lamp. I swear, do I have to put on a song and dance, too?"

Marinette waved her hands in decline as Tikki was now rolling on the warehouse floor in bouts of laughter. "You know what, if you're offering wishes, here's my first one. I officially want to know the history of whatever you are, because I already found one miraculous today and quite frankly, I highly doubt that-"

Marinette was blinded for a split second but as the world came back into focus, she found herself seeing ancient structures, the ones she would see in old family portraits her mother kept. Eyes blown opened and sent into a daze, she mumbled out, "Okay, maybe I'm starting to believe you."

The being morphed to a more, human, size as he walked up to Marinette's side."For over a hundred years, the clan before us was at war. It cost more lives than anyone could count until finally, they decided to do something about it. I don't know if I was made or simply found, but this right here. This is as far back as I can remember. These people had lost so much and they needed help. So, I gave it to them."

He flinched as he remembered, from what Marinette could only guess, were painful memories from the past. "Three chances to right their wrongs. The chances would not last forever and would fade in time, as all things must. So I gave them a head start toward peace between these people. Their first wish was simple. Set up a talk between the leaders. It was exactly how I wanted it."

"So, you fix their problems basically?"

He shook his head. "Not a fix, but a push. A push in the right direction. However, as things most often do, the meeting took a turn. The leaders got together and when they did, both sides of the feud revolted, taking out the leaders and with them gone, it created a power vacuum. Soon, I was the big prize. Whoever had my lamp took control. And they were, for a time. But as I told them, my wishes don't last. The bigger, and more power hungry the wishes, the sooner it fades."

He turned away from the now smoldering village. "I was supposed to push them in the right direction. Teach a man to fish sorta thing. But in the end, I wound up teaching people another lesson. The more you want, the faster you lose it."

Within the blink of an eye, they were back in the warehouse as the blue being extended his hand. "Name's Lan, that was my depressing backstory and you my master now have two remaining wishes."

As soon as Lan loosed his grip on her she sat down on the closest box she could find trying her best to make sense of this day. "Lan, please take me home, officially."

Tikki finally snapped to attention at that, but before she could object, there was a snap that came from Lan's fingers. "As you wish."

The air around them once again filled with dust, completely clouding the world around them before the dust dispersed revealing that they were now sitting in her livingroom back in Paris.

The second she was in Tikki's view again, the little kwami scolded her. "Marinette, what about your assistant?! How are you gonna explain that to her?"

Marinette took a moment to collect her thoughts, rolling her shoulders at the stress that the day had brought on. "I'll just have to tell her I'm staying with Alix for a couple days and send her back on the jet tonight."

Tikki sighed, but nodded. "What about-"

Before they could continue, Lan pressed himself between the two making his presence ever known. "Woah there, just realized that earlier you said you found a miraculous on the same day you found me?"

Marinette nodded in affirmation.

Lan looked around the room for a good moment before he spoke again. "Listen, I'm gonna make a very long story short here. You have Tikki here, that is proof beyond proof that you're on the good side of things. Now, me, I can't always be. Whoever finds me, more often than not, uses me for their own selfish needs, so, trust me when I say this to you, and for goodness sake please listen to me on this. Miraculous don't just pop up like crabgrass. If you're finding one just out of the blue, outside the care of the Guardians, it is not a coincidence. I've been out of the loop for a long time now, but anytime this happens it does not end well."

"Ah great, another mystery bad guy searching for ultimate power. There goes my Sunday brunch."

Marinette turned her head to see Adrien walking down the stairs. "Kitty!" She hopped up off the couch and jumped into his arms.

After he could breathe once more he looked to the large blue elephant in the room. "So, by the looks of Mr. Blue floating above our coach, that trip to New York didn't go as planned."

"You were there too, you know."

He smiled rubbing his sore rear end. "For about 5 seconds and at least three of those seconds were used to hop between portals."

She gave him a touch of his chin making sure nothing was hurt too bad. "Long story short. Alix found a hollow miraculous and I found him near my torn up materials."

Lan floated over to Adrien giving him a quick scan before he started to jump up and down like a kid in a candy store. "Plagg, is that you?"

Out from Adrien's shirt flew the little being of darkness letting out a little sigh. "Hey, there, Lan." The enthusiasm draining from his voice with every word he forced out.

Adrien looked to Marinette in confusion. "So, do they know each other?"

She looked at the two as they became deep into conversation. "I'm guessing so."

Lan began to shake Plagg's tiny paw ecstatically. "You have no idea how grateful I am that you started that fire."

A lopsided grin crawled onto his face. "We talkin' Alexandria, Rome, London, Chicago?"

"Jeeze, Plagg do you have any self-control?!" Adrien shouted between the two.

Lan grabbed the little creature of destructions attention back to him. "No, I'm talking about when you set fire to my master's home. He was able to escape along with his servants but in their haste, they left me behind. If it were not for your actions, I could have brought great destruction to the world under his command."

Plagg stuttered at the overall sincerity of his words. "Well, you're welcome for that, I guess. I mean, destruction is my forte, so I can't have anyone stealing my reputation, you know."

Adrien leaned over to whisper into Plagg's ear. "You have no idea what fire he's talking about."

The little creature shook his head. "No idea, whatsoever. But I'm gonna own whatever I can."

Adrien gave a long look to Lan before finally asking what was on everybody's mind. "Okay so, without being rude. What in the world are you?!"

Lan stiffened his back as the light in the room slowly faded so that only he remained lit."I have traveled this globe for ages, my powers only known to but a few, as well as those kids who grew up watching Disney movies. I am the might Genie, known as Lan!"

The room fell silent for a time before Adrienspoke up again. "So," he drawled, "Are you a kwami?"

He blinked a few times, as if he was trying to decode the man in front of him before he came back to his senses. "What, no?! Listen I understand the confusion. Here I am attached to a small worldly item and I grant people magical powers and son of a- I am not really proving my point here." He tried again, "I'm a bit different. You see there is more magic in the world besides Kwami's and there are more kwami's in the world besides the ones kept by the Easter Guardians."

Adrien interrupted him. "Wait, Eastern Guardians? Does that mean there are-"

Lan cut him off in return. "Hey, show some respect while I do my exposition dump. Now, where was I." He snapped his fingers as he realized. "Oh, yeah. There is way more crazy magic in the world than you two could possibly imagine. And if you are telling me that a miraculous just popped out of nowhere, then all that crazy stuff is stirring up again or worse. Somebody is trying to stir it up themselves."

The two sat there in silence as their kwami's did their best to comfort them. The past years of peace and the silence was crashing down all around the in one big dump, and no one was sure as to what to do at that moment.

Adrien sighed, burying his head in his hands. "I can't belive this. After everything with my father, I thought all this Magic stuff was behind us. I mean sure we still help out here and there, but that's every day criminals and the occasional mad scientist."

Marinette interrupted. "How is Lila anyway?"

"Better, her support group is really doing wonders. But this, all this is just-"

Marinette put a hand on her husbands knee. "I know, but we can't let worry defeat us before anything even happens. If we're able to find some of these magical creatures before they fall into the wrong hands than maybe we can prevent them from being used for evil."

Adrien looked to her, not with doubt, but with a look that showed he was overwhelmed by the mear thought of all this. "How are we going to find them? We didn't even know Lan here existed before this morning. How are we supposed to hunt down anything else?"

Marinette smiled as an idea came to mind. "Simple. We ask Lan here to point the way and make it official."

Until next time! Lots of love! Please let me know your thoughts!