*picture isn't mine* Enjoy!

"ADRIEN!" Ladybug called out over and over again, her voice shattering mirrors and hearts, a scream so powerful and deep it would put to cry an army of men. She sobbed, her throat burning as another sob rose up, making out of her mouth, as she whispered his name. Her muscles didn't hurt as much, her body not ready to leave one fragment of pain to be handed another. 

He was gone.

No matter how close she wanted to look at the darkness, she couldn't make his silhouette out, it was like he turned into a ghost before she could react. It happened too fast she couldn't do anything, her body was petrified and useless. She was Ladybug, this wasn't supposed to happen. Hawkmoth above was probably laughing at seeing his son kill himself by saving her. He gave his life for her. 

She sniffled and sobbed, cried and wept it seemed tears would never stop sliding down her face. Adrien was everything to her and now he was gone. How do parents wake up with one of their children gone? How do friends learn to have another one when their last one died? How would she replace the needle and thread she used to stitch Adrien's heart, if she had none left? 

Her grip on her yo-yo tightened. She would kill Hawkmoth for killing Chat Noir. She managed to climb with some pains around the way and landed on top. Hawkmoth looked at her, then down at her side where Chat Noir was supposed to be. His eyes widened. "You let him fall."

She jerked back, surprised. Her palms turned into fists. "I let him fall? He did that for me. He did that because he loved me, something you will never receive and if it wasn't for Natalie opening the ground, making us fall Chat Noir might still be alive!"

"He was my son!" Hawkmoth yelled, stepping towards her like she wasn't the super hero anymore and he wasn't the villain anymore. It was just the girlfriend and the father. 

"He was my boyfriend!" Ladybug yelled back, stepping towards him with a grater distance than him, making him step back. "What? You think I don't think you were grieving? Because of you he is dead! He might have stayed alive if you stayed hidden and made his life easier! We were perfectly fine, school, family, having each other until you came and destroyed everything."

Hawkmoth took out his firm blade out of his cane and aimed it at her heart, grabbing her throat and pulling her close. He grip he hand on her throat suffocated her, threatening to swipe her life away quicker than anything she'd seen. She gripped his hands on her throat, his eyes hard and filled with depths of despair. For a moment, she pitied him. Gabriel had lost everything, Adrien was  just another reminder of it. 

"I destroyed nothing." Hawkmoth whispered harshly, a hot breath stinking her face. "You destroyed everything. You opened my son's heart and he didn't need to."

Ladybug raised her knee and kneeled Hawkmoth. He let out a yell and backed away. She grabbed her yo-yo and knocked Natalie in the face, collapsing to the ground, a trickle of blood falling down her mouth as she closed her eyes, unconscious. She advanced to Hawkmoth, yelling, "LUCKY CHARM!"  

From the magical power, to reveal thousands of objects clattering down to the floor. She yelped as she avoided such things like a spoon, a rubber ball, glitter, marbles, a shoe box, a cloth, a candy apple, a coin, etc. She looked down at the objects, doubting if Tikki was just messing with her, already giving up when Ladybug realized Tikki had given her all of lucky charms she'd use. What was she going to do with all of them?

"That's your last hope?" Hawkmoth asked, gasping for air as he looked down at his injury, akumatized Natalie walking next to him and steadying him. "I don't care if my son loved her. Kill her."  

Natalie nodded and attacked Ladybug, hands stretched down. The two girls barreled down to the floor, grunting and groaning, punching and kicking. Ladybug avoided most of Natalie's blows, but it was the powers she couldn't avoid. Whenever Ladybug turned direction in running, a rock was there to stop her path and when she stood too much time in one space, a crack would appear under the floor, positioning in the same fate as Chat Noir.

Her heart sank.

She grabbed a few metallic lucky charms like the one she used in Animan and Bubbler and threw them at Natalie's direction. She was now hovering and had a couple of rocks flying at her background, a faint,  beige light emerging from her palms, her eyes glowing with the same color. Ladybug gasped as a rock hit her, throwing her hard against a wall. 

She crawled away from Natalie, for the first time, scared in battle. It seemed like she was again that Marinette that was afraid she might never reach to what it needed to be Ladybug. She was crawling away from a villain that had her wrapped around a finger, one moment, and Ladybug would die because of fear, not because of action.

As much as her brain wanted to process the reason Tikki gave her all those lucky charms, her brain wouldn't think of a possible explanation to use all of them correctly. She was underground, what seemed hell below, and had no idea of what to do to stay alive. 

At least I'll be with Adrien. She thought to herself as she stood up.

The end of her foot balanced nimbly over the edge. Hawkmoth and Natalie raised their weapons to her chest, at least, a few meters away. 

"I told you, you were going to pick my miraculous from my dead body." Ladybug said through gritted teeth, tears staining her eyes. What would her parents think? Would she leave Alya alone? Volpina and Queen Bee? Green Shell and Master Fu? Would Tikki manage to fly away with the earrings before Hawkmoth grabbed her? Hawkmoth wasn't as crazy as her, she knew that of course. "I mean it."

Without another word, Ladybug took off her earrings, revealing her true form and jumped backwards into the pitch darkness.

Marinette had never before fallen from such height. As a child, whenever her parents went to take her to Eiffel Tower, she had the idea she would fall and die. As Ladybug, she stood at the tip of it, observing the people below as ants, and still want to go higher. She wasn't afraid with such power, but now as Marinette, she was sobbing uncontrollably, holding Tikki tight against her chest who was cursing at Marinette as everything around them flew quickly.

She left like she was Alice falling to Wonderland, in this case, there was no wonder land below her, only death and meeting her soulmate. She let Tikki go, her hair flying in all sorts of directions blinding her by a fraction of a second. Her hands wee shaking, perhaps of the tremendous temperature, it was freezing and every inch of her body felt icy cold. 

The wind howled close to her ears, the air moving around her like it was some kind of sinister force, pulling her towards death. From above, the light from the maze was dim, barley anything at all. Even if there was something below, Marinette would never survive the fall and Tikki was low with energy, the fate was already written, she would die. Marinette hugged her stomach and continued to cry. There was nothing else she could do before time ran out and she fell to her death. It wasn't suicide, there wasn't anything she could've done. 

Expect jump.

"You shouldn't have done that!" Tikki said, her little calming voice soothing Marinette, making her heartbeat calm down. She thought of Chat Noir, his puns, his smiles, his warmth, his odor, his lips, his eyes, his smile, the silk of his hair, the glint of his eyes, the paradise of his smile, and she suddenly didn't feel bad. Love was more than just kissing, hugging and holding hands-it was looking at that person in the eyes, and all the pain disappears.  

Tikki was crying now. Marinette had never seen her kwami cry, for a short moment, Marinette thought kwamis couldn't cry. "I can't help you, Marinette, you'll die! Change back! I don't care if it'll hurt."

Marinette's heart softened at seeing her kwami wishing to help her. She tried to speak, but the force of the wind took her breath away, almost suffocating her before the impact of the ground, if she would reach it. She shook her head and with enough force, pushed Tikki away, shaking her head again as the ground started to increase.

She would never see her mother again.

She would never see her father again.

Or Alya.

Or Nino.

Or Tikki.

Or Master Fu.

She would never see the beauty of Paris again. 

She would never design thousand of her ideas that came randomly into her head when she was bored in Chemistry class.

I love you. She had to think. It was the only reason she wasn't freaking out, trying to find another way to save her life. Without Adrien, what was the point of life? Without Chat Noir, what was the point of living? 

Marinette choked back a sob as the ground below her increased so much, it was right in front of her. She fell an agonizing pain spread throughout her body and then everything went black.