Walking, walking, walking, down the streets. Through alleys, over bridges, and round landmarks far too remarkable to mistake. From dripping darkness of midnight, till the golden brightness of the morning skies i roamed.
"Could I be dreaming? Definitely not. But how is this possible? The world is bland and grey where I come form, there couldn't possibly be any magic or wishes or anything happening there. Or is this just a manic episode, a lucid dream, perhaps. There's no other explanation. I remember being asleep, dreaming, hoping in the moment the world were less real and far less cruel but this— it's insane.
How can I be in Paris, when I live on the other side of the world? And this place feels a little unreal if I'm being honest." Thoughts fired off in my head, loud as a thousand houseflies and somehow far more annoying since they came with no answers.
As I walked, my head too clouded to focus on where I was going, I bumped into someone, tripped as I backpedalled and fell on my behind. I groaned a bit before looking up but before I could make out the person, she ran into the road to pull an old man who had fallen in the middle of the road to safety. As both of them came crashing down onto the floor right next to me, I finally realised where I was. My eyes bulged and in that moment my head felt like old television, nothing but static.
"MARINETTE??" I screamed in my head, "and that's Master Fu!" They look so different, so real. "I'm in the miraculous universe but how? I mean it's really cool but how am I here and where do I go back." I cry in my head and fail to realise marinette and master Fu staring at me.
"Are you okay, young man? You seem dazed. Perhaps you should should come get some tea with me to help you calm down."
I immediately jump to my feet, brushing away any dust from my clothes.
"Thank you for your concern mister. I really appreciate it but I'm perfectly fine. And I'm really sorry miss, I was too distracted and didn't focus on where I was going. I'm really sorry for bumping into you." I say, my head still buzzing.
I assure them that I'm fine, likewise marinette assures Master fu that her cookies lying all over the floor was no big deal.
"Here, take one of the remaining cookies," Marinette offers and i could not possibly refuse. I was absolutely hungry and really tired from walking all over the place since I woke up in the middle of the park, on one of the few available benches. I was glad my white shirt, grey vest and black trousers were decent or I'd have been taken for a homeless person. I'm pretty sure I'm not far off. "Now thats what they don't tell you about magical girl show world hopping." I thought as I took thr cookies handed to me and started eating them.
In that very moment an idea struck me.
"It was nice meeting you all but I've got to go. And thanks again for the cookies miss!" I yelled as I ran onward.
I looked back to see marinette gone and master Fu smiling in front of the Du pain Cheng bakery.
I quickened my pace and use the last bits of energy I had to run.
After a while I finally found his place. I thought it would take a while to get his door open but it was surprisingly unlocked. "Well, I guess I'm not going to have to use my lock picking skills. Hey I'm ashamed of how I acquired those but that doesn't matter right now. Get to it—why am I even talking to myself right now?"
I quickly look around and locate the music box containing the miraculouses, pick it up and place it on the floor.
"Yes, yes, yes. I didn't know getting a miraculous would be this easy." I that very moment I came face to face with a problem. It has been so long since I've seen master fu open the miracle box that I actually forgot how to open it.
I start pacing around in the room. " c'mon man, think, think, think. You know this c'mon." I pace for a minute and then it clicks.
"God, I hope he doesn't come to find me here, digging through his stuff.
Okay. So it was push both dragon's eyes, then from the right it was the top button, the one uder it and skip one to the left and push the one on top"
The music box opens up and the Chinese miracle box rotates to the top and opens, showing all the miraculouses including ladybug and black cat ones.
"What miraculous do I take? If I do take one he'll know someone knows about his whereabouts and he might take back the miraculouses and leave Paris for good like he dies in when feast shows up.
Damn it! What do i do, what do I do, what do I do? Damn it! If I take one of these miraculouses permanently then the future of this universe might change since the destined heroes will not get a miraculous and bunnix will definitely come to straighten stuff out and I am 90% sure that I cannot beat adult bunnix at all. And here I thought things were finally getting right for me."
Suddenly I hear footsteps coming.
"Holy Shakespeare, he's back." I quickly close the box and put it back as close to where I found it as possible and hide in another room I don't think I've ever seen him in.
As he enters the room wayzze pops out and both immediately notice that someone had been there. They look around carefully and then check the miracle box to see if any miraculouses were taken and good for me I didn't fake one.
I stood behind the door of the room praying that they dont see or sense my presence and coming up with the most plausible excuse that I can. It seems my prayers fell on deaf ears because master fu opens the door to the room I'm hiding in and starts looking around. I'm really glad I magically appeared in this world with dark coloured clothes otherwise I'd have been caught immediately. I shimmy close to the door so it's shade would camouflage me and kept praying that he wouldn't check behind the door. Hallelujah! I screamed internally as he retreated back to his living room to take te two most miraculouses and give them to two teenagers.
"Honestly, Fu kinda sucks cause he did not do those two any favours at all." I thought to myself hoping that i didn't say it out loud like i sometimes do when talking to myself.
It took painstakingly long for him to leave—or maybe I was just paranoid but finally he left. I quickly but quietly snuck a peek and immediately opened the box again, this time not bothering to move it.
"If I take any miraculous for myself the intended holder will not get it and that will definitely cause massive ripples in time and alert adult bunnix to my location and my plans. So what, I just give up. I've made it this far I can't leave empty handed." I fall to my knees and think till I finally shoot back up with a brilliant idea.
"Is it that I'm smart or is it this universe is helping me out? Well, it did make me homeless so that's a fine compensation." I say to myself before quickly taking the rooster miraculous.
"How do you even put this stupid finger thing on?" I force it till I finally put it on. A bright orange ball of light flashes as Orriko appears.
"Who are you and what are you doing in the guardian's home?" Orikko yells.
"I don't have time for this. I command you to stay silent." With that orikko's mouth disappears. It hurts me to my core to do this since these quami's are even cuter than in what i remember seeing but alas I have to do what must be done. And so I say," orikko, sunrise!"
It seems silly to say but I've actually dreamt about transforming with a miraculous before but this was way better than anything I could have ever imagined.
I really wanted to see how I looked but I didn't have time or a mirror nor did I have time to waste.
I took the horse miraculous next and put it on releasing khalki from it. This time I didn't give the quami any chance to say or do anything before I quickly unified it with the rooster miraculous.
I then placed everything to the best place I could remember it being and jumped out the window of the house.
This was the most incredible feeling in the world, much more incredible than anything I'd experienced until that point in my life. Feeling the air on your skin as you jump across buildings, that awesome strength in your bones. The feeling of absolute invincibility when you wear a miraculous is absolutely incredible.
I snapped out of my euphoria as I neared the Montparnasse tower. I quickly made my way up there and made sure no one was there before I put my plan into motion and the powers of the rooster and the horse were exactly what I needed.
"Sublimation! Give me the power to detect all lost or inactive miraculouses." I say, activating the power of the rooster miraculous.
The fountain pen on my wrist and shoots off into the distance at incredible speeds. I quickly follow it hopping and running as fast as I can but it starts getting too fast for me to keep up so, with a huge leap I grab onto the fountain pen and let it zoom me around.
A suddenly heard a clicking sound and so my shock it came from my miraculous.
But how, I was a grown up—unless...
"C'mon, pen. Go faster."
As if responding to my fear it flew faster but i still couldnt make it to where ever the pen was leading me and detransformed mid flight. I was quite lucky it was over water or else i might have gone splat right on the ground. Not my proudest moment; having to steal food but a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.
After a couple of hours and a few more side stops, the fountain pen came to a halt over a dense jungle, but it stopped so suddenly that I didn't react in time and fell onto the floor of the jungle. After laying on my back for a couple of minutes and hoping that Master fu doesn't check the miracle box often or at all, I got up. The pen moves again, though the dense trees but at a slower pace this time. I follow behind hopping from tree to tree. The weapon stops in front of a destroyed temple in the middle of the woods. It was hard to tell if it was by the hands of war or age the temple met this fate but all I could do was move on.
After a quick detransformation and retransfroming, the fountain pen lead the way inside. I expected traps but it seems that the temple was to beat up to cough up anything dangerous except for an unstable platform here or there.
The pen finally came to rest on what I'd assume was the throne.
I hastily made my way to the the throne and thats when I saw it. The golden glint of—is that a belt?
I grabbed it and cleaned it the best I can to reveal a belt. It was pitch black, almost obsidian outlined with gold and an ant motif as the buckle, designed with gold, ruby red and black.
I took it, then used the power of the horse miraculous to open a portal to an alleyway behind master Fu's house. I did think about opening it inside but I had no way of knowing where he was in his house at that time, late in the afternoon.
I snuck quietly back into his apartment amd detransformed. Before the quami's could alert anyone i ordered them as their holder to forget about what happened and about me entirely. I didn't know if I'd would work but it was at least worth a try. Just to be cautious I removed their respective miraculouses quickly and put them back into the miracle box and into the music box.
Now came the most dangerous part since I had to sneak back out without a miraculous. As I was sneaking back out I heard him talking to wayzz. I couldnt use the door and I had to be quick so I hastily jumped out the window, but my hand slipped from the window sill and I fell into a trashcan. It hurt like hell but it did sort of break my fall.
I had no time to feel the pain and so I quickly ran out of the alleyway with my new miraculous. And lucky for me master Fu came to check what the noise was about as soon as I made it far enough to not be made out.