Marinette felt herself being dragged by Chat Noir as soon as Spite took a step closer towards them, brandishing his cloaked weaponry. Chat didn't hold back, nor was he gentle. He didn't have time to be, unless he wasted something sharp, cold, and metallic to end up lodged into his spine.
Throwing Marinette to the side so she was out of the way, Chat turned to face Spite, still running at him with an eerie blood-lust. Miraculous holders felt less pain when they were transformed, but they didn't prevent death, meaning if he got stabbed in a vital organ it was lights out for Chat, something he would prefer to avoid. Spite aimed for the neck, cutting with a wide strike. Chat backed away from the strike, quickly launching a roundhouse kick into Spite's stomach. The strike made contact, but it didn't seem to do much. Spite took it with stride, enveloping his knife in a dark blade, and raising it high, to stab Chat's leg.
Chat quickly fell, dropping to the floor. Landing on the solid ground, he then swept his legs, aiming for the weak points on Spite's legs. Attacking the back of the knee, he hoped to throw the villain off balance, and then sweep him of his feet. This did not have the desired effect however, as it didn't seem to damage Spite all that much. Instead, Spite simply slammed his own boot onto Chat Noir's leg, pinning him in place.
"Nowhere to run now, Kitty Chat!" Spite grinned mockingly, raising up his murk-covered blade. There was a certain joy in his eyes - He was enjoying this. These were the eyes of a pure sociopaths.
"Get away from him!"
Spite glanced up, only to receive a solid punch to the eye from Marinette, launching herself at the walking knife-rack. Her punch was solid, knocking him back, causing him a great deal of pain. Despite the slim figure Marinette and Ladybug both had, they were deceptively strong. Their punches were as strong as anyone else's. Perhaps stronger. Especially given the danger Chat had been in.
Knocked to the side for a few moments, Spite's darkness-covered butcher's knife fell to his side, clattering against the floor. Marinette aided up her partner to his feet. "Chat, are you okay?"
"When did you even... You know what, it doesn't matter. " Chat muttered. "Thanks for the save, My lady."
"Anything broken?"
"Nothing I can't walk off." He grinned, despite there being an unpleasant pain in his right leg, he would be able to survive it. He looked at his armed opponent, taking stock of just how many sharp and serrated blades and weapons he had attached to his body. In addition to those powers he spoke of, even without them, if he was skilled with those many blades, he could prove to be a dangerous opponent.
Speaking of his powers, Chat Noir glanced at the blade, covered in a dark mystifying energy. Wherever it touched, the material seemed to rot away, which was very concerning to Chat. But when he thought about it...
"Chat." Marinette said, looking at the knife herself, and the villain, whom was staggering upright again. "Do you get it?"
"I think so." Chat nodded.
The blade by itself was a dangerous, deadly weapon. A knife on its own could be a dangerous weapon, used against anyone. But Spite seemed to possess the ability to channel this dark, corrupting energy into the weapons. Given that he was talking about corrupting the links between people...
"That weapon of yours." Chat called out to Spite, as he grabbed his darkened weapon. "That ruins links between people, right?"
"Depends on what you consider 'ruining'." Spite said, his eye trailing on his weapon, looking at it fondly. "But I do edit the links between people. I started with some venomous scumbags I know... And then I started on other people who deserved it."
"Alya and Nino didn't deserve it!" Marinette yelled at the maniacal villain, in her own anger.
"Perhaps not..." Spite glared at Marinette, and a grin of his teeth, running red with his blood. "But it certainly was fun." He shuffled towards the two of them more, showing off the reflective blade, still reflecting images despite its coating of darkness. "And I'm gonna have just as much fun ripping yours apart!"
Chat gritted his teeth. If he could see Links... Then he could see their Soul Link. If he could see their Soul Link, it wouldn't matter how far they ran, where Marinette hid, where she went, and how long Chat fought. He would find the other one.
The link corruption had to work by making contact with one half of the Link holder. That was the only way Chat could make sense of the knife being involved in Spite's powers. He had to stab one half of a link with those dark negation powers, in order to choose what links to tamper with and destroy.
This meant that if both Chat and Ladybug fought... The chances of their Link being severed doubled. The possibility of his link, his connection, his love for Marinette being forcibly taken from him... That was what made him hesitant to fight Spite at all. He had to fight, he knew, but that didn't mean he had to like it. And Marinette getting involved... He liked even less.
But he knew there wasn't a choice in the matter.
"Marinette... He already knows who you are..."
"I know..." Marinette nodded. If Spite knew about the links, the chances were, he knew about the connection Ladybug and Chat Noir's had. Meaning it was likely Spite know the blue haired girl in front of him was Ladybug. She called upon her Kwami, who didn't waste any time. "Tikki, Spots On!"
Chat Noir bared his claws and dashed at Spite, throwing a flurry of scratches and attacks. "I'll keep him busy while you transform!"
"How noble!" Spite laughed, lunging with his blades, all closely dodged by Chat Noir. Spite and Chat would step forward and backwards as they gained the advantage over one another quickly and rapidly, neither staying on top for particularly long. Chat was able to disarm the blades from Spite a few times, but it didn't matter, as the maniacal villain would simply draw out another blade from a holster somewhere on his body.
Feeling a cut appear on the back of his hand, Chat backed up. Thankfully, it had been a regular slash, and not one that was affected by the dark energy. It was just his blood that dripped from his hand. He sighed in relief. He never thought he'd be sighing in relief at the fact a knife cut open the back of his hand, but here it was.
Spite lunged once more at Chat, with his darkness covering the blade, a sadistic grin came on his face as he aimed to lodge the blade right into the cat-themed heroes abdomen.
In that moment, Chat's vision was replaced by a flash of red-and-black, spinning and then a solid strike, knocking back Spite, at least to arms length.
Saved by another punch by Marinette, now fully transformed into Ladybug.
"Thanks." Chat nodded at his lady. This marked the first time they had gotten into a combat situation after having discovered each other's identities, something that Chat wasn't too comfortable with. It was one thing to fight alongside Ladybug when he didn't know who she was. Now he was fighting along Marinette, whom he knew, whom he loved, who he was dating now... He had total confidence in her fighting abilities, of course. He knew her. He knew how she fought...
But that didn't stop him from worrying.
Spite meanwhile, recovering from his punch to the ace, simply chuckled to himself. "Ladybug.. And Chat Noir... This.. Is gonna be fun!"
"Don't let yourself get hit." Ladybug told Chat, preparing her yo-yo, and spinning it in her left hand. "We've gone through way too much to lose each other now."
"Oh really? Cause I was just gonna let him stab me in the neck, see how that worked out." Chat joked, pulling out his baton and extending it, with a sarcastic tone to his voice and a joking grin.
"I know you're being sarcastic, but please don't say that." Ladybug shuddered at the mere thought.
Chat began the attack, by swinging his baton around like he was swinging a baseball bat, aimed straight for Spite's throat. The malicious villain ducked down, dodging the strike with easy, and tossed several knives at Chat with precise aim, only for them to be deflected by Ladybug's spinning yo-yo, causing them to fall, clattering to the floor.
Still using the momentum of her swing, Ladybug tossed her yo-yo straight at Spite, hoping to tie him up to avoid the fight altogether. This didn't work out however. Spite was able to use his knives as a defense, skimming them along the rope of the yo-yo, sending it right back towards Ladybug.
"This... Is where the real fun starts!" Spite announced, his grin plastered on with sickeningly disturbing detail.
Chat Noir and Ladybug braced themselves, preparing for the worst.
At that moment, a purple butterfly mask seemed to appear upon Spite's face. Hawkmoth's signature. It just confirmed that the masked villain who pulled all the strings behind the Akuma, behind the scenes, was behind everything.
"What?!" Spite seemed to yell into the mask in fury and anger. "But I'm just getting started!"
"Is he speaking to us or Hawkmoth?" Chat Noir asked, confused, but itching to strike, to end this.
"Not sure... I think so..."
"Grrrrr..." Spite grunted loudly, before he seethed his blades. "You're lucky. My time here is up." He sounded angry, bitter. It was clear he wasn't happy about this.
"You don't seriously think that we're just going to let you walk away after all of that, do you?" Ladybug asked.
"Probably not... So how about this?" Spite asked, tilting his head. "I'll return everyone whose links I altered, except the vermin from my school, back to their normal statuses. Sound fair?"
Chat didn't buy this, not even for a second. They would achieve the same result if they just got rid of Spite right here and now. The fact Spite wanted to run proved Hawkmoth had a far more deadly, far more dangerous plan prepared for him.
Letting him go was dangerous. And stupid.
"Why would - "
"Alternatively, if you defeat me, the links that have changed will remain that way. For good."
A cliffhangery type deal! Woo woooooooooo~ *Mystery music*
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