#ammra

Context: Fu, due to some unspecified events, has the Canon Miracli, and the Octopus and Lion Miraculous as well. This is mostly true for the actual au as well.

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Multimouse, wearing all the Miraculous, turns to Fu. "This is all of them, right?"

Fu takes a sip of his tea before answering. "That isn't already in use? No, but..."

Marinette tilted her head. "But what? We need all the help we can get!"

Fu sighs. "It may be best for you to see for yourself."

Fu gets up and walks over to the dresser that the Miracle Box sat on, then opened one of the drawers. He reached in then pulled out a octagonal box.

When Fu brought it closer, Marinette was able to see that around the sides of the box was writing, in an uncountable number of languages, that based on the few she could read were different ways of saying "sun". On the lid showed a design of a lion facing forward biting into a flaming ball.

Marinette eyes widened. "Is this..?"

"This is the Lion Miraculous of the sun, Soleil Raion's Miraculous." Fu nodded.

Marinette picked up the box out of Fu's hand. "Why don't you keep it in the Miracle Box?"

"He refuses to be put in there."

Marinette tilted her head. "What? Why?"

Fluff started to flutter around. "Reminds him to much of his past to be!"

Longg went up to Marinette. "They mean that, technically Ammra, like Tentta, don't belong in this box. So as a matter of pride, he refuses to be put anywhere else."

Marinette squinted at Fu. "What does that mean?"

Fu held up a hand. "That is a story for another day."

Marinette nodded, then turned to the box in her hand, then opens it.

In an instant, just like all the other Miraculous', it glows brightly. But unlike the others, it's light is blinding and hurts to look at.

Marinette hold up a hand to block the light from her eyes, and between her fingers, she sees it dim a little. Still much brighter than the others before, but it doesn't hurt to look at it anymore.

Then suddenly, the light shoots out of the box up to Marinette, startling her back a step.

Then it flies to Fu who has his eyes closed.

Then it starts to fly rapidly through the air around the kwamis present before diving back into the box. Then it shoot across the room, away from everyone, but Marinette can tell that it's staring at her.

She then looks down into the box to find that it's empty. "Wait, where's-?"

"Ammra! We don't have time for your pride to get in the way!" Tikki shouted at the light.

Marinette turned to the light, and when she squints at it, she could see the edges of a headpiece coming out of the light.

Marinette walked up to the light, ignoring the nervous voices of the kwamis flying around. "Ammra, right? Could you please change into your Kwami form? And how are you staying like this?"

The light seemed to shake for a moment, before it lowered itself, dimming as it got closer to Marinette. By the time it got all the way down, it looked just like a regular Kwami.

Ammra had a mane of red hair on his head, and tuffs of the same red hair coming out of his joints and the end of his tail. The rest of his body looked like it was made of gold, shimmering in the light that came in through the windows. And his eyes were like Plagg's, only red with gold slit for pupils that regarded Marinette warily. His arms were wrapped protectively around his Miraculous.

Marinette smiled. "Great! Now you and I can introduce ourselves. My names-"

"Marinette Dupain-Cheng. Yes, I know. You wish to use my Miraculous for the akuma, correct?" Ammra pulled his Miraculous in closer to his chest.

Marinette flinched at Ammra's harsh tone, but before she could respond, Tikki spoke up.

"You don't get to talk to her like that!" Tikki flew up to Ammra, who rose up to speak to her. "Especially since-!"

"Since what?" Ammra bit back. "Since she's the next Guardian? You know very well that I'm only here because I don't have a choice in the matter. Not because this fool is my Guardian."

Marinette gave the Kwamis a confused look. "What does that mean?"

Ammra turned to Marinette. "Why don't you ask your 'mentor' that?"

Marinette shook her head. "No, that's not important right now! What is important right now is defeating the akuma, and I need-"

"If you want my help, then you'll only get it with Soleil's help." Ammra pulled the Miraculous closer and away from Tikki.

Tikki pointed at Ammra. "You don't get to make demands-"

All the red on Ammra's body began to glow. "You don't get to tell me what I can and can't do, Creation."

Tikki drop an inch lower as she clutched her head. When Marinette looked around, she noticed all the Kwamis having a similar reaction.

"Ammra! Stop right this instance!" Fu yelled.

Ammra huffed as he turned his head, but stopped glowing. "I stand by my rule. No Soleil, no Lion Miraculous."

Ammra then zoomed my Marinette to the box she had dropped a moment earlier, and placed his Miraculous in. He then turned back into a ball of light that went back into the Miraculous. Then box then slammed shut.

Fu went over to the box and picked it up. Fu then sighed. "I'm sorry for his temper, Ladybug. He, along with Tentta, have never been very fond of the Order of the Miraculous, and by extension, me. He lashed out at you and Tikki. For that, I apologise again."

Multimouse stared at the box in Fu's hand. "Is there a reason? For his dislike of the Order, I mean."

Fu shook his head. "That is a story for another day. For now, we need to recharge the all the Kwamis."

Marinette then turned to Tikki, to see she still seemed tired. "Tikki! Are you alright? What did Ammra do?"

Fu then went to get a bowl of fruit from the table. "He used a power of Soleil's to sap the power out of all the Kwamis."

Marinette turned to Fu with wide eyes. "He can do that!?!"

"Kwamis are capable of doing anything their wielders can. And Soleil Raion unlocked that power during her time as a hero."

Multimouse then heard a beeping, so she looked down at the Mouse Miraculous. She then saw it go down a segment.

Fu nodded. "That's how she was able to combat Cockatrice, and keep the destruction to a minimum." He then held out a berry for Tikki. "But as I said before. We can talk about this after you take care of the akuma. Now, change back so you can recharge Mullo."

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Marinette was up on her balcony, looking at the lights of Paris.

She sighed as she replayed the events of today, that all accumulated into her now being the Guardian of the Miraculous.

She hated that she can't get help with this, no matter how much Mollusk, Mitsubachi, and Chat Noir wanted to.

Before she could give her situation much more thought, a voice spoke up behind her.

"The lights here are pretty, but I've always preferred the natural light of the moon and stars."

Marinette whipped her head around to see Ammra floating next to her, looking at the view of the city.

When Marinette didn't say anything, Ammra slightly turned his head to look at Marinette from the corner of his eye.

After a few seconds of eye contact between the two, Marinette spoke up.

"Why are you out here?"

Ammra hummed, then looked back at the lights. "Honestly? At first I was going to start getting on YOUR case about letting me see Soleil again, but something tells me now isn't the time, yes?"

Marinette looked down with pursed lips. "I wouldn't be able to help you anyway. I don't know who she is, and magic keeps you from telling me who."

Ammra turned to Marinette. "I'm sure you would have found a way. You Ladybugs have always been the thinking types." Ammra started to grin, then turned back to look up at the Eiffel Tower. "The exact opposite of my cubs." Ammra's grin turned sad, then he turned to Marinette. "Luula would have liked you a lot."

Marinette tilted her head. "Luula?"

Ammra looked up, and when Marinette looked up as well, she noticed that Ammra was looking at the moon.

"My other half."

"Oh... I'm sorry you haven't seen them for a long time."

Ammra snorted. "Trust me Sportstack, I'm used to it. Luula and I usually wouldn't see each other for decades at a time."

Marinette frowned. "But you two are a pair, aren't you? Wouldn't you be in the same box?"

Ammra shook his head. "Or boxes were different. The sun and moon hold too much magic together, so Luula and I had our own boxes." Ammra looked at Marinette. "Tentta is actually one of the Kwamis that always traveled with her, you know."

Marinette eyes widened at that. "I thought you and Tentta traveled together. Isn't that why you both were with Master Fu."

Ammra glared up at the sky as he turned from Marinette. "No. We were in his possession for... Other, reasons."

Marinette frowned at Ammra. "... Why do you dislike Master Fu so much?"

Ammra tisked. "You mean besides he's part of the order that resulted in Luula and all of my other friends to be captured? He never listened to my advice."

Marinette sighed. "Your 'advise' of bringing back Soleil?"

"No, on how to be a traveling Guardian."

"What?"

Ammra sat down on the railing, and Marinette leaned on it to be closer to him. Ammra looked back up at the moon before he started to speak again.

"The Miracle boxes of Daybreak and Nightfall were in constant motion. It was so that it would be next to impossible to locate either me or Luula, or our protector Kwamis. Most Guardians just stayed in their temples until they were needed. Fu was taught by the Order, so everything he was taught was under the assumption that he would always be in the safest place."

Ammra closed his eyes and shook his head. "He was always taught to put little trust in others, because why would you need to trust strangers for help when you're surrounded by other Guardians?"

Marinette felt herself nodding, as that did line up with how Fu treated any amount of information getting out to anyone. Even if it was Mollusk or Chat. Two people who he should know are trustworthy.

Ammra looked back up and continued. "When Tentta and I noticed Fu struggling at first, we tried to help him. Tried to give him pointers since we've had Guardians who were on the run all the time. We tried to tell him that it requires having more faith in people." Ammra growled. "But he wouldn't listen! He would go out of his way to avoid all people until explicitly necessary, and look what damage that has cost!?!"

Marinette jumped back as Ammra flew up and started to "pace" in the air.

"I mean, his inability seek out help is what caused Soleil to nearly die! If she was even a little less stubborn and hard headed, she would have died to Cockatrice!" Ammra whipped his head to look at Marinette. "And now look at what his teachings have done to you!"

"M-me?"

"Yes you! I bet you don't ever plan on letting your teammates help you with this, right?"

Marinette nodded, stunned still by this shift in Ammra.

"Urgh! I knew it!"

Ammra flew up to Marinette and got right in her face. She wasn't sure why, but she couldn't move away.

"Listen to me, Marinette. Don't do what that old coot did and lock people out. Let those teammates of yours help you! That's what they're there for!"

"But... The rules-"

Ammra growled, then flicked his head to the side as he spat out fire. "I've said my piece. If I keep going, I'm going to end up burning the place. Which out of respect for Soleil's efforts to keep this place standing, I don't want to do."

Ammra flew to the trap door. When he was above it, he turned back to Marinette. "I meant what I said. You need help. Even if you're a star, you'll only be a sun if you let others into your orbit."

With that, Ammra flew into Marinette's room, leaving her alone with her thoughts.

Said thoughts were everything he had just said about how Marinette should act moving forward, and a single nagging thought.