~Marinette's POV~

The last thing I heard was her laugh. The laugh that I constantly hear, whether it's at school or even on the streets of Paris, it follows me as if its my shadow and I can't ever get it out of my head. I'm sick and tired of it but I can't do anything to get rid of it. Why does she even hate me so much? She never made the time to get to know me or become friends, she just always had a strong grudge that I never understood.

The last thing I felt was being placed on a cold surface with several voices that I couldn't place a name on, before everything went black.

Everything was suddenly a bright white, one of the purest and brightest I've ever seen, I'm surprised I wasn't blinded by it in the moment. Sitting up, everything around me was the same white, the place was vast but I seemed to be the only person there. My body for the first time in years felt normal, no pain no nothing. I won't lie, I haven't felt like this in forever and it felt weird.

Looking down, my eyes widened at my outfit, I wasn't in my jeans and shirt that I was wearing during the tour but I was wearing my ladybug outfit. Now this was weird. Then it hit me, Where were my earrings?! If I ever lost my earrings, let alone a miraculous, I would go complete mad. My first instinct was to touch my ears and to my relief, my earrings were still their and apparently so was my ring. My hand quickly moved to my face and my glasses too luckily still sat on my nose, a breath I didn't know I was holding was released.

I stood up and looked around the white space, there was nothing.

"Great Guardian."

The sudden voice made me jump, normally I was always aware of my surroundings so for me to be scared that easily is more than new. I turned around and was met with a woman in what looked like warrior attire covered in red and black spots, she looks oddly a lot like me. Her hair was black and her eyes were blue, her face was covered in a mask. Whoever this woman is, she sure is beautiful.

She sure was tall because I had to tilt my whole head upwards to look at her, or I'm just short.

"Yes? That's me."

I was a bit uncertain to talk to her, but her aura made me feel safe.

"Your not supposed to be here, You've got a lot left to live." My eyebrows furrowed at her sentence, what did she mean by a lot left to live?

"A lot left to life... What do you mean?" I was actually really curious, no one's ever said that to me and to wake up to this random woman and for her to tell me was more then weird.

"You are one of the most powerful of all of us, yet you're the youngest." the woman in front of me didn't reply but a voice from behind me. When I turned around, I was met with a woman in orange and white, her outfit oddly replicated how Trixx looked. She too was really tall and was probably the same height as the woman dressed in red and black.

I was about to answer but another voice interrupted.

"You have so much potential yet here you are." behind the woman dressed in orange was a man dressed in full black, the only colour being his green cat eyes, he looked like Chat Noir in one way or another.

"I don't understand." Looking at all three of them, another person arrived, she was dressed in a dark blue and looked like a way more nicer version of Mayura.

"Your in a state of deep sleep but your stuck between two realms, living and dead." This made no absolute sense. I opened my mouth but had no words to say, another spoke but he was dressed in green.

"At this current moment, you are dead child but the Gods seem to not accept you just yet." Woah, I wasn't expecting that as an answer.

"Wait, so let me get this straight. If I'm dead then who are you guys?" I looked all around and several more people had joined, all of them wearing the same colours from green, red, brown, purple, blue, orange and several more. Their outfits all different but also matching, looking back down to mine I noticed mine also oddly matched.

The one in purple laughed.

"We are the previous miraculous holders, we're all deceased."

Okay, that made sense to why all their outfits resembled the miraculous and they all wore similar colours. Then it hit me, "If I'm dead, then why aren't the Gods accepting me?" I was more than curious now, If I'm dead then I should just die but I'm not being accepted, that kinda hurt.

The woman who appeared to me first, I'm guessing she was the previous holder of the Ladybug miraculous talked once again.

"It wasn't your time to go and especially the way you went." I looked back at her and then the man who stood besides her who I'm guessing was the previous Cat holder.

"We've been watching you ever since you received your miraculous, every single moment of your life we've watched, including all the bad."

If they were watching me 24/7 then they've seen everything, and that means everything that I've been keeping a secret "We may be happy that you are no longer struggling and feeling the pain you did on earth but you've got a mission and in all seriousness, it isn't your time to pass on just yet" that voice, I recognised it. Turning around, I was met with the man who introduced me to the miraculous world. It felt weird to see him like this but I couldn't say I was upset.

"Master Fu."

My voice was barely above a whisper, I had actually missed his guidance and safe aura.

"You shouldn't be calling me that, you are the great Guardian and are more powerful than any of us ever were." letting his sentence sink in, I looked back around what seemed to be hundreds of women and men around me who all nodded in agreement.

"So if I'm dead and the Gods aren't accepting me into this world permanently, then how do I go back?"

In reality, if I thought about it deeply I wouldn't mind going back to earth but dying was my main goal that I wanted to achieve.

I looked back up to be met with the soft faces of all the previous miraculous holders, they way they stood and presented themselves, it made it hard to believe I was the most powerful out of all of them and that I was the youngest, That's a lot to take in.

"You have to be willing to go back" one of the dragon holders spoke up, it kinda didn't make sense, they caught onto my confusion because they explained further. The rabbit holder spoke

"We've all watched you grow and have seen what the Lila girl has done, she's the reason you tried to take your life once. She's also what's preventing you from going back."

That made sense, I hate Lila with every living fibre in my body but for her to prevent me from waking up and returning to the living world is another level of hatred; from both my side and hers.

"Then how?..."

I would never forgive or get rid of my hate for Lila, she's done irreversible things and I know she never regretted them, her laughing before I passed out is proof of that.

"This has never happened to any of us, so frankly we're just as confused as you are but trust us that you should never forgive Lila for what she's done"

Everyone agreed as they all nodded in response. Now all I had to do was wake up, doesn't sound hard but when your eyes are already open and you've been told your dead and need to return back to earth because your too powerful and the Gods have all agreed its not your time to die yet, waking up isn't exactly easy.

"This is going to be a piece of cake then." I tried to whisper under my breath but it seemed like everyone heard because some of them laughed at that.

"Wait a sec, How did I die?"

The last thing I remembered was that I was having lunch with Nino, how did I go from drinking water to dying? Looking around the place we were all standing, only then did I realise how many miraculous holders there have been since the beginning of time. They all looked different yet all looked alike, it amazed me that even I resembled them.

Who I'm guessing was the previous bee holder spoke.

"That Lila girl decided to give you food that had cherries in it and because of your serious allergy, you haven't eaten in a day or two meaning low blood pressure and then it all became too much." she stopped talking and the goat holder spoke up. "The ambulance made it a second too late, you kinda passed away." her smile was grim, even I could tell and I only just saw her face for the first time.

My eyes then widened in shock clocking onto something.

"Wait wait wait, if Lila was the one to give me that cookie with cherries in it then." If I said the rest aloud I would probably break down, one of the many ladybug holders spoke.

"She murdered you Marinette."

Wherever I was, the place seemed to stop. I knew Lila hated me and yes she would abuse me but she was never the one to cause physical harm, the class did that as an act of revenge for her because of 'what I did to her', she only caused mental pain. She had the full on intention to actually kill me, there was no Chloe to stop her, No Sabine or Tom to stop her, No school teachers or the other students. She had her opportunity and took it, she even succeeded because I'm currently not on earth and am dead.

"I knew she hated me but to go that far." my voice was light and breathless just at the thought of being murdered by someone, let alone Lila, not even Hawkmoth.

Hawkmoth

The miraculous

Paris

Tikki

My eyes widened.

"Hawkmoth..." my voice was more than breathless.

"Who- Whose..."

I could feel my breath shorten at the thought of the miracle box being left alone and for anyone to steal, and in Gotham! Chloe has no idea of what's happened! There's no one to take down Hawkmoth! If there's an Akuma being released at this moment, Paris is going to go down in flames!

"The miracle box! It's all by itself in my hotel room, there's no one to look after it! And then Paris, Hawkmoth could go on a rampage and no one can stop him!"

I would've gone into my normal rambling state but was stopped.

"Marinette, if your intentions are strong enough, you'll be able to wake up because from what I know, you can't stay here." one of the older turtle holders spoke, I nodded in agreement.

"Okay, makes sense. Are you all absolutely sure my situation has never happened to a miraculous holder ever?!" I wasn't in particular shouting at them but my tone held something along the lines of shock, they all shook their heads in reply.

I stood up straight with a determined face,

"Alright, Lets try and wake up"