*cries tears of blood* No! I don't want to write! I don't want to write! I don't want to write!
… Dang it. Taken from the dub version, here is Miraculous Ladybug: Princess Tutu Version. Note: You don't have to shoot me for the obviously painful stuff, I'm already ready to shoot myself for it. Thanks to any and all the tumblr people that helped me out in their own way.
THIS IS FOR YOU, SASSY WITCH MARIENETTE FANFICTION! D:
Also, Let the show begin~
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Once upon a time, there was a man who died.
The man's work was the writing and telling of stories but he could not defy death.
The last story he was working on was about a brave and handsome Prince who vanquishes a crafty Papillion but now it seems their battle will go on for eternity.
"I'm sick and tired of this!" Cried Papillion.
"I'm sick and tired of this!" Cried the Prince, as well.
The Papillion escaped from the pages of the story and the Prince pursued the fell creature.
In the end, the Prince took out his own heart and sealed the Papillion away by using a forbidden power.
Just then, a murmur came from somewhere.
"This is great!" Said the man who was supposed to have died.
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In the foggy streets of Paris, a young white cat relaxed near the Seine. The river lulled against the cobble-like structures that took care of it's form. It somewhat caught her attention, that is, until the soft footsteps of a stranger caught her eye. Sky eyes watched quietly, hypnotizingly, as a young man danced his way over a bridge. The moves were smooth and the timing to his steps were like he had been dancing everywhere yet nowhere at all. It was somehow graceful yet it made you feel something.
Something inspiring.
She felt the urge to follow, no, to...
'I...' Her thoughts hesitated. 'I want...I want to dance with him, too.'
'With the Prince.'
The young cat had then looked down at herself, her slightly filthy paws mirroring in her downcast eyes.
'But I'm a cat...' She thought, looking back at the boy of only 15. The thought bothered her a little.
'In voice and looks, just a cat.'
The cat continued to look longingly at the golden locks of hair as they swayed perfectly around with each step he took, each move he made.
'I can't dance with him, I can't even hold his hand...!' She thought, whining now as she saw him move in a way that would indicate a dance for two. Green eyes flittered away, only flying over her existence as she continued to look back. Cat. She'd only been around for two years and yet she could not help but feel like the only one to somehow see this. Only her...
The Prince always came to this particular bridge at dawn.
She would always be here to see.
'And the Prince's eyes always look so lonely...' Her blue eyes lit up slightly as a tiny hope started to burn in her small chest.
'Won't you laugh? A real laugh? Please show me your smile, my Prince' Cat thought, an inaudible sound escaping her mouth as she saw him dance away. Always leaving as soon as he had arrived. Cat placed her head on her paws, her heart feeling strangely heavy.
She stayed like that for a minute or two, silently contemplating.
"Well Well, you care for him, don't you?"
The cat's hair started to stand up as her head shot up to look around.
"A little cat like you."
Suddenly, only the Seine was there while the world looked pitch black. Cat's head snapped to the color of what once was the sky and to where the land would usually meet the sky at her height. It was like someone turned the light off. Consumed in an instant. Her hair stood entirely up on her neck and she snapped back to what appeared to be eyes. Huge eyes looking back at her!
She jumped out of reflex. The eyes looked menacing, almost angry at default and she couldn't help the strangled meow come out of her.
"A MONSTER!"
Bam!
"Ugh..." A girl's voice sounded in the silence. Her raven hair, a bit messy, was slowly massaged by creamy white hands. Stifling a yawn, she stood up and dusted off her pink pjs. She opened her window to see the morning sun hugged by fog. It gave off a relaxing, serene feeling.
She sighed happily, not even feeling the bump forming on her head as she stretched.
"Time to start the day~"
Being done with showering, dressing up and taking care of any loose ends in her room, the raven haired girl ran downstairs and into the kitchen.
"Hey guys!" She cheerfully greeted as the girl opened the back door connecting to the kitchen.
Cats of many sizes and colors meowed or mewled as soon as they saw her. Her blue eyes shown a sparkle of mirth as she tried to settle their cries by offering them food outside. The shrubbery nearby covered the cats from sight as she walked close to them.
She greeted some of the ones she knew for sure. The ones that had been around for a long time and the ones that were new.
"Hey Kali." She greeted a particular calico. Said cat greeted her by passing her side along the girl's bare legs. She giggled.
"Say, you wouldn't happen to have seen Adrien, right?" The raven haired girl joked. The cat below said nothing as she looked curiously at her and then went back to the morning meal around her. Raven locks bounced back and forth as the girl shook her head at the obvious reaction and kneeled down to pet one of the cats near her.
"You know, I had a good dream. It was weird 'cause I was a cat again but I at least saw Adrien there..." She smiled as she remembered her dream. A far off gaze stuck on her face.
"Adrien, a Prince? It's so perfect~"
With a goofy smile now displayed on her face, the girl fantasized how well that simply fitted the boy of her dreams. She stood up then and smiled up, across from her, at the tallest turret with an enclosed balcony.
A sound of a large bell could be heard from a distance and the girl all but stood frozen for a second as the weight of what that sound meant.
"I'm late!" She yelled, spooking some cats as she said her goodbyes, closed the door and ran with whatever materials she needed for the school day.
'Why didn't anyone wake me up sooner!' She thought, running as quickly as possible.
In a room nearby, a girl with Auburn hair had stirred at the commotion from outside her door.
She immediately knew who it was as she turned on to her side.
"Girl...you're always like that" she murmured.
Running towards the school, the creeping fantasies of said Prince had slowed down the girl's momentum.
'Oh Adrien, if I could only dance Pas de deux with you even just once-' Thought the girl as she started to envision herself in the arms of the boy she fancied, dancing together.
'I would give my life for that...' She swooned, her eyes glassy blues. Consciousness falling back into reality, she blinked away at her thoughts and noticed she was still late for school. Heart pounding loudly in her ears, she scrambled towards the school, almost tripping in the process.
Coming up close and suddenly into view was the Françoise Dupont École de Danse, standing proud and in all it's prestigious glory, despite the morning fog surrounding it. It had doubled in size during the years of it's popularity and success of its student's accomplishments. To say it's huge could be considered an understatement.
Making her way into the locker room and changing into her ballet practice and rushing her things inside one of the many lockers there, the raven haired girl ran to her class' doors. She took a breath, trying to look presentable, before opening the doors and humbling her upper body down half way.
"I'm sorry that I'm late!"
Silence met her and she grew puzzled, raising her head up to see that her class wasn't there.
"Huh? No one's here...why?" she asked, at particularly no one as she went further into the dance room. She hadn't noticed the figure that was shadowed by the walls at the other side of the room, near the windows. As the door closed behind her, she heard the start of Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy.
Cerulean eyes widened as the boy of her dreams came out and into her line of sight, starting to dance expertly to the tune on the medium sized music box; it's features close to that of an old piano. Round and round, he spun on his foot, golden locks of hair fading and coming back into the light from the window. His whole physique, his mute facial features, all of him engulfed by the moment, the air that the music gave as it played to the side of the room.
She followed, oh she followed, kept dancing along with her eyes. Motionless, her face was starting to glow with a tint of pink, accentuating her freckles. She breathed a single word in the most hushed way possible without meaning to.
"Adrien..."
She was in awe. How could she not be?
As he leaped into the center of the room, so did her heart. Adrien, the Prince of the dreams, stood right before her.
It was like cold water was splashed onto her.
"Oh! I'm sorry, I ah- uh-" clumsy pink lips opened and closed as the girl tried to say
something, anything as to not break this chance of meeting. All the while, green dull eyes stared back at her.
"Well- uh- Am I-I disturbing you aren't I?!" Her voice grew a pitch higher. "O-of course I am, aren't I?!"
She couldn't shut herself up.
"Please excuse me, I'm leaving right away!" She panicked. Her raven hair swiveled with her as she quickly turned her body around and was going to sprint out of the class, her right foot landing directly on the tip of her left, pinning her ballet shoe down before she could let her other one move forward. She was about to hit the door face first in her attempt to escape her crush.
'Oh no…' the only thought going through her mind as she saw the door in her horror of realizing what situation she placed herself in. Her clumsy self that was right in front of Adrien.
Before she knew it, said boy had dove underneath her and raised the girl onto him from the waist before falling to the wooden floor. Wide orbs of sky blue now met forest green ones. A sound of a kettle could be heard from an unknown place. Her pale face grew ten times the shade of red as she realized where she was. A hand on her abdomen, gently placed there as the other cradled her head. A mantra of her crush's name came drumming away at her mind until she mentally sighed it out.
'Adrien~' She almost swooned. 'Wow...his eyes are so….so beautiful...They're drawing me in'
Then, like a single drop in a pool of water, something had occurred to her. Something familiar yet not what she was thinking it would feel as such.
'But' The girl concluded, 'They look so lonely…'
Her excitement died down by a degree or two. She didn't think that the way his eyes looked would have even reminded her of the Prince she dreamed of. Another thing occurred to her right then and there.
"I- ME- MY- I'M- EH- AH- EH- AH- IT'S- UM- SO- " The girl tried to say her apologies through a string of unintelligible words. Right away, she removed herself from the boy's arms and crawled a few feet away from him.
"I'msorry!I'msosorry!I'mbotheringyouhuh?I'mjustsobadateverything,Imean,evenAlyatellsmeI'masbadasacatonabadday.I'msoweird,aren'tIweird?I'mdefinitelyweirdingyououtnow. Shoot, even I think I'm weird..." She settled down, looking disheartened while hanging her head in defeat. *
She expected a laugh of mockery, a sign that he very well did think of her as weird and would have nothing to do with her from now on but instead of all that, she received something she didn't predict.
"I don't."
The reply resounded within the walls of the dance room. The girl couldn't help but voice out her question in near disbelief, "You don't?!"
"I don't." The firm yet simple words repeated in the quiet of the room. Her face grew red again as she continued to look straight at him.
'I...I can't believe it.' She thought, feeling like she couldn't sit up straight any longer and slouched in her position on the floor. 'No one has ever said that to me…'
The door to the dance room opened a few inches, abruptly interrupting the two from their little accident on the floor. Another set of green eyes peered around the room until they landed on Adrien. Right away, another blondie came to Adrien's aid.
"Hey! You ok? I've been looking for you!" The boy said, almost yelling as he saw Adrien on the floor. The girl instantly sat up straight, 'Chat Noir!'
Chat Noir, as he was now known, sported a cloth over his similarly green eyes, Everything else was just the male's uniform he wore for when they weren't dancing.
"Sorry." Was all Adrien said, his voice keeping at the almost-monotone level. The other smiled.
"Come on, let's go eat breakfast" Chat Noir said, already starting to turn his upper body around when he realized how Adrien was positioned.
"What's wrong?" He asked Adrien.
"My foot."
"Your foot?"
"Hm."
"Did you twist it?"
"Mhm."
Chat Noir combed his hair once, feeling a little out of place as his excitement fell away from his body.
"I'll help you get up, ok? Let's go back so that you can rest your foot." Chat Noir offered as he made way so that he'd get Adrien up from under his arms. He lifted the boy up before noticing that the girl with pigtails was staring back at the two. He felt his palms sweat a little at not realizing she was there all this time.
"Hey, you doing alright there?" Chat Noir asked. Adrien idly looked at her, too.
Feeling both stares on her now, the girl stood up and dusted herself off as she regarded them with her reply.
"I'm alright! Mr. Ad- I mean, Mr. Agreste tried to save me when I-I tripped so…" Her voice died on her as she slowly looked at Adrien's injured foot, which was already showing signs of slight swelling.
Chat Noir smiled. "Oh? Well, at least you're not hurt."
He started to go for the door now as he somewhat dragged Adrien away.
"I'll see you some other time, then, Ms.-" Chat Noir started, being cut off by the girl as she voiced out her name.
"It's Marienette!"
He struggled a little with the door but managed to open it. Looking over his shoulder, he chuckled. "Ms. Marienette, I'll see you later."
With that, the doors closed behind him, leaving Marienette in silence.
"Hm!," She muffled a giggle, a small smile reaching her face as she tilted her head to the side, "to think Adrien had such a good friend looking out for him…"
School bells rang and Marienette was so confused as to why the bells would be ringing at this time, yet again.
Once class actually started and everyone was doing their stretches, Alya and Marienette talked among the many young ladies that were gossiping all sorts of things.
"You know you have a clock right?" Asked Alya as she moved forward and reaching for her right leg.
"I panicked, okay?" Marienette defended herself, also stretching her right leg. She succeeded in going up against it while reaching for her toes on the banister.
"But hey girl," Alya said, before adjusting her messy falling locks of hair and placing it into a proper ponytail again, "You talked to Adrien and that's what counts, right?"
"Right…" Marienette agreed, only to have her thoughts lured away by the memory of her Prince. Alya saw that as her cue to lean her whole back on the raven haired girl, making her snap out of her fantasizing.
"And you even talked to his pal."
"Ch-Chat Noir, ack! OW! Okay! I get it! Don't leave you hanging!" Marienette yelled, relieved once she felt her friend back off. As soon as Alya stood on her feet, her blue eyes filled back to determination at ending her stretching her other leg. Footsteps could be heard from the entrance of the double doors.
"Oh, the teacher's here." Alya casually announced.
"Right!" Marienette spun around, immediately standing on both feet and ready to address…
"A goose?!" She yelled out, receiving gasps and stares all around.
Her friend, bless her, elbowed Marienette and whispered, "Mr. Goose."
"Mr. Goose?" She accentuated the words, not believing what was really going on.
"But a Goose for a teacher- "
"Alright, quiet down," The goose cut in, making it look like he was clapping his wings together.
"If you don't, rest assured I will have you marry me!" The goose threatened, it's shiny black eyes pointing it's intense sudden stare onto all the girls in the class. The sound of wedding bells distorting could be heard somewhere in the distance at this.
The class was quiet, some had blank or empty stares. The goose promptly picked at his white feathers from under his wing.
"Start in first position." Mr. Goose said, starting his lesson of the day with the five basic steps of ballet.
"Releve`...Move your arms into second position." He instructed, going up to each girl as he did so.
"Remember! Straight leg" He quickly saw one student straighten their leg.
"And now into third position, arms on over- that's it!" Said Mr. Goose, accenting his words.
He quickly interjected with "Don't stick your bottoms out! " before he was completely muted by Marienette's thoughts.
Off it went, her brain traveled back to the Seine and Adrien dancing over it.
'Adrien...I wonder why his eyes looked so lonely…?' Marienette thought, her eyes growing a bit glassy. Thinking on that thought alone, she hadn't noticed that her 'teacher' had been behind her and that the rest of the class were already in a downward position.
A quick feel of her surroundings made her realize she had gone to la la land and yelped as the teacher spoke "Bottoooooom"
"Your mind was somewhere else, wasn't it?" Mr. Goose asked, not bothering with a response as he continued.
"If you do not focus, then I will have you MARRY ME!" Mr. Goose exclaimed, almost letting out a honking sound from his throat.
"YES SIR!" Marienette yelled, feeling goosebumps on the back of her neck as she was startled.
"I'm sorry!" She apologized before raising her right leg up and dipping her head low to the floor. She tried her best at keeping the position for as long as possible while her teacher vigorously picked at the underside of his wings elsewhere.
"Alright, we will now turn our attention to a performance of the special class." Mr. Goose announced to his class, directing his attention to the double brown doors.
"Members of the special class, après vous!" Mr. Goose called out.**
A line of five girls stood before the class that were now sitting under the golden banisters.
Among those five girls, was one that looked so fair to Marienette. With a long, silvery blond ponytail and a black ballet outfit with diamonds accentuating her hip, the fair maiden stood proud and tall. With a practiced, polite smile, she went to the center of the dance room along with her classmates. Marienette looked at her appreciatively, never having seen the so called Goddess of Ballet so up close!
The special class started their performance and cerulean eyes gazed at the fluid movements of all the girls, especially the blond one. Lapis lazuli were the other girl's eyes, gazing back at the class as she did her pirouettes, her spins and her leaps into the air. All of it perfected by practice.
"Pretty…" Marienette voiced out, not realizing that Alya had heard her.
"Yeah, I guess she's pretty good," Alya says, getting into a joking mood, "unlike a certain someone~"
Eyebrows frowning, Marienette looked back at Alya from the corner of her eye, frowning. Alya snickered.
"You're absolutely fine!" Alya whispered, not wanting to get the attention of Mr. Goose.
Marienette just nodded, feeling the mood herself, and went back to watching the special class in their performance. Her thoughts idly going to the back of her mind and revisiting one of her fantasies.
'For Adrien, a Prince, it would take a very good dancer in order to dance the Pas de deux with him….' Marinette thought, involuntarily getting an image of the girl in front of her dancing with Adrien instead of herself. Marienette bolted up, standing as she hadn't meant for her thoughts to go spiraling down like that. Adrien with her? And if….if there was a possibility of that actually happening? What could she do about it? WHAT would she do about it?
"What do I do….?" whispered the raven haired girl, looking down as her heart showed at her sleeves. Alya looked up as she saw her friend had not noticed the ever increasing anger from their teacher.
"I will not have to tell you anymore, this time I WILL HAVE YOU MARRY MEEEEEE!" Mr. Goose yelled out, white wings extended from his sides as beads of sweat came out and all around him. Alya was quick to bring Marienette down and cover for her.
"Ah! Please don't! She was just so moved by the performance that she couldn't help herself." Said Alya, patting away at the top of the other's head.
"Please, forgive her outburst, Mr. Goose!"
The Goose looked back at Alya and then at Marienette. He relented his antics and went to a corner of the room to pluck some feathers out. After a minute or two of this, Marienette went back to her thoughts.
'I haven't apologized for the accident that happened today with Adrien….I must go and apologize to him.' She thought. Her eyes looking more determined than ever.
After the performance, the ladies from the special class went back to their locker room while the rest of the other class had gone to their own locker rooms.
"I was this close to marrying a goose." Alya said, showing an indicator of how close she was to getting married with her index and thumb fingers. Marienette apologized halfheartedly. Alya noticed the tone of voice her friend had and sat down beside the girl.
"Hey, what's wrong? You're not sounding like your regular self." Alya asked, placing a soothing hand on Marienette's back.
"Well, would it be too much if I just go over to him and apologize?" Marienette asked, still deep in thought as she finished tying her shoelace. Sure, she thought she could do it right away but then the little voice at the back of her head told her otherwise.
"Huh?"
"I don't think it would necessarily count as 'out of the blue', right?" Marienette asked, mostly to herself.
"Wait, what?"
"He DID say I wasn't weird to him but would it not be weird?"
"Hold up, are you talking about Adrien?"
"No, even if it is weird, I gotta apologize!" Marienette finally said, springing back into determination as she stood up, her necklace bumping up and back down her chest.
"Wait- !"
"Thanks Alya," Marienette started as she sprinted out of the girl's locker room.
"Girl wait!" Alya called out to her but gave up as soon as she saw the raven hair out of sight. She sighed as she let her hair down and putting the scrunchy into her skirt pocket.
"Good luck…"
She could shoot herself for not thinking thoroughly about what she wanted to do. Now she was in front of the boys dormitory and still determined to apologize.
'I know I'm not supposed to be here but I'm just going to apologize to Adrien and then go back to my room…' thought Marienette. She kept looking at the handle as it spoke of possibilities of many consequences. She shivered at the prospect of it all.
'And I can't apologize unless I go inside…'
"Hey there."
She almost jumped out of her own skin as the greeting halted her thoughts, making her turn around. A friendly smile had reached her eyes first, followed by those familiar green eyes. Marienette relaxed a little, being polite and facing the boy before her.
"Hey. Is Adrien in there?"
She could have sworn she saw a smidget of a twitch on the other's brow as she asked that.
"He's not in right now but I could send him a message to him for you, if you like?" Chat Noir offered, walking towards her as he did so. Standing right in front of her.
"Oh, uh, I was hoping to apologize to him in person but- "
"But he's not really able to come and see you and you're technically not allowed to enter the boys dormitory." Chat Noir concluded for her. Marienette looked up at him, not knowing what to expect. She felt like she really needed to be on the defense around him but wasn't sure as to why.
"Don't worry, your knight in shining armor will take care of everything." Said Chat Noir, walking passed her now and to the double doors of the boys dormitory. The girl cocked an eyebrow at that. A knight? He started to sound a little too full of himself. Not her cup of tea, really. It's not necessarily the first time she knew of him but it was the first that they talked alone.
"You'll just have to wait for now." Finished Chat Noir as he began to close the doors. Marienette rushed in to place a foot in the doorway.
"Wait!"
A little puzzled, Chat Noir looked back at her through the peak of the door.
"How is his injury?" Marienette asked, willing herself not to wince as she felt a sharp pain on her foot. Chat Noir opened the door an inch more, allowing the raven haired girl to remove her foot.
"It isn't serious but he won't be able to do much with it for awhile."
A heavy feeling suddenly plummeted down her stomach as Marienette heard this.
"Oh…" She felt terrible now.
"But he'll be walking, jumping and dancing about soon so cheer up." Chat Noir said, winking with his friendly smile.
Marienette caught on to it and couldn't help but ask "Are you like this with everyone?"
'Flirty...' She left the last one as a thought. No need to get the only person helping Adrien out angry.
"Only to little ladies like yourself." Chat Noir responded as he closed the door. A muffled "Au revoir" could be heard from the inside.
If she didn't know any better, she'd say he was trying to get rid of her! Then again, he did, somewhat, gave his word that her message will be received. Marienette then huffed her cheeks out. She didn't like the flirting. As she walked away from the doors, Adrien watched her from the enclosed balcony above.
Now in the regular uniform the boys use, he looked idly at the small girl's retreating form. The sound of a door opening and shutting close sounded off in the bedroom and Chat Noir's voice could be heard from the entrance.
"Adrien!" Chat Noir said, surprised that he saw the boy right by the windows.
"Chat."
"We went over this. You need to stay in bed in order to get better."
"Sorry..."
Chat Noir ran his hand through his hair, making it slightly more messy than it already was.
"I guess you don't have to worry about it if you're able to move to the balcony like this."
He looked down at the makeshift bandage on Adrien's foot. "Is...your foot hurting?"
"I don't know." Came in the quick response.
Chat Noir sighed heavily. He knew, ever since he found Adrien, that asking him such things didn't really help. He felt nothing, that much Chat knew. Now, anyway. Since then, he tried to be supportive of Adrien. For how long was Adrien supposed to not feel anything was beyond him.
"Just try not to ever do that again, alright? In your condition now, you won't be able to do much. For anyone, really…" Said Chat, looking solemnly at Adrien.
The boy simply looked back and agreed.
Night fall came. The moon had risen high into the black sky and blanched all the dark shadows away. It was a relaxing scene but it still made Marienette sigh. After all, she did try to build her courage up and went to the boys dormitory just so that she could apologize. She could not do that, however. Now her blue eyes gazed down on the shimmering fountain in the middle of the two dormitories.
"I suck...couldn't apologize in person even when I wanted to." She said quietly, idly talking to herself.
"I wonder how his foot is…"
Another moment of silence. Creaks and grunts of the wooden floors made itself known, adding to the silence and becoming background noise. The noise helped her go further into her thoughts.
"Those lonely eyes of his, always there...there's gotta be a good reason for them, right?" Marienette asked, to no one, really. She thought about it. Really gave it some deep thinking. Even if there was a reason, what could she do?
"If only...if only there was some way I could help him...If I were able to do something…" Marienette grasped at straws, feeling lost and powerless. The shadows of the night darkened then, more and more as that one thought formed in the girl's mind and then into words.
"I'd give my life for that…" said Marienette. She propped her elbows up close to the windowsill, letting the weight of her head relax into her hands whilst looking across to the boys dorm, where Adrien would have been.
A grandfather clock rang somewhere and the ominous lullaby of a music box sounded off. A ticking could be heard as a butterfly here and a butterfly there came into Marienette's point of view.
"Wh-what?" Marienette asked, questioning what was going on just now. Glancing down, close to the fountain but still in the shadows, was a man. A man she felt she instantly knew.
"That man!" Marienette gasped and sprinted out of her room, down the steps and out into the front of her dorm. He only took a step back and blended in the shadows before the girl could spot him.
"He disappeared…" Blue eyes looked about as Marienette concluded that she had lost sight of the man.
With a feeling of self satisfaction and a laugh rumbling in his throat, a voice from the unknown spoke.
"I am right here"
"I wonder…" Her eyes lost the recognition that they had before coming down the steps, "who he was…?"
"You haven't forgotten about me already...have you?" The man's voice spoke out again, sounding more haunting than the first time as it surrounded Marienette. The pigtailed girl did not react to the voice, however, as if she was completely unaware of it's existence. The moonlight was incredibly bright, giving the objects and shrubbery odd and suggestive imagery of something not well welcomed.
"It feels...weird out here" Marienette concluded. She took a step back, feeling goosebumps on her white flesh.
A chuckle sounded off within the continuous ticking sounds.
"Do you want to know...?" the man asked. Again, he was not heard. He didn't allow it just yet. To be heard. The girl turned around, deciding she was good to go to bed for the night. She only took a few steps when she heard it.
"Do you want to know…" He lingered at the last of his question, making sure she knew fully well of his existence, "Cat"
There is was. The sound of a name. A name she could have sworn was familiar.
Instantly, the light of the full moon was not as bright as it had seemed a second ago and the sound of rushing water made it's way into Marienette's ears. Startled, she looked back at the fountain, bewildered at what was going on.
It was like someone turned the lights off. As if she was at the center of a stage but no longer is.
"The water has begun to flow, the time has come to pass. Now….tell me a story" said the man as he walked further into a world filled with butterflies of black and darkness.
The ticking never ceased.
"I'm going now!" Chat announced, looking down at Adrien as he slung his briefcase over his shoulder. His blonde friend was still on the bed, looking up at him. He felt a little bad, leaving him there like that.
"On the way back, I'll borrow some books from the library." Chat said, turning as he begun to walk away when, "Oh! And try not to read any other books except the ones I bring, ok?"
"Okay. Thank you." Said Adrien.
"Don't go off on your own while I'm gone!" Chat said as he exited the room. Green eyes, only lit by the light of the window, looked back at the balcony. The rays of mid morning shone between the open, heavy burgundy curtains, catching his attention. He walked towards it, regardless of what he was told not to do before and looked down at the world below. The students of Françoise Dupont were all walking towards the school building in a casual manner.
Chatting away and laughing at jokes within their own clicks, while others kept to themselves and to their thoughts. Gazing at the students from above, Adrien didn't seem to notice or simply did not care for the sight of dark blue hair that was close to the boy's dorm.
"Okay!" Marienette whispered, eyeing Chat Noir as he went further and further away from the building he just came out of.
"Looks like you've made up your mind about something." Said Alya, coming right behind her from the bushes. Now Marienette knew she wasn't going to live this one down.
"Oh?~ You gonna try to put the moves on him there?" Alya asked. Blue eyes looked anywhere but at the hazel ones that stared at her with mirth. The red cheeks gave it away, though, making Alya smirk.
"I-I wouldn't say 'putting the moves', uh, just apologizing is good enough!" She recovered some composure, now looking back at her friend.
"Yes! Apologizing is good enough!"
"Come on, you and I both know you should try to at least make the effort of being his friend." Alya reassured. Marienette let out a sigh of relief she didn't know she held in and smiled.
"You're right, I should try." Said Marienette, feeling a little resolved at what she intended to do.
"Good. Now you go in there and I'll make an excuse for why you are late." Said Alya as she stood up and started walking to the gates. They both waved at each other, Marienette nodding as she knew what she needed to do now.
"Alright, Marienette, you can do this." Said the girl as she looked back up the enclosed balcony.
"Nothing is stopping you now!" Her eyes were set onto the goal, of course, when a sort of fluttering caught her eye. She looked to the side of the balcony, up where the roof went slanting downward to meet a gutter. There, she saw a few kittens playing on the roof.
Blue eyes widened. It wasn't the first time she saw cats on the roofs of homes. It was definitely a first seeing the kittens up on the boys dormitory, though.
'The kittens!' Marienette grew alarmed. She was eyeing one that was picking on the pipe. It looked rickety and was about to fall off.
The windows to the balcony opened and out came Adrien. Adrien, in nothing but a long white button down shirt.
Marienette honestly didn't know what to do as she watched her crush look up at the kitten. The kitten, black with a white muzzle and crystal blue eyes, looked down at Adrien for a moment before it found a black butterfly getting its attention. As it swiped away at the butterfly, it saw a clear path and landed on the gutter.
Marienette gasped, she knew what was to come next. As soon as the kitten looked down and saw the butterfly there, it reached to swipe at it and missed, pushing the gutter out of it's old hinges and leaving the poor thing to drop down from gravity.
Adrien lept from the window sill, catching the kitten into his hands and bringing it to his arms.
"NOOOO!" Marienette screamed, racing towards Adrien's falling form.
A chuckle came from out of nowhere as things started to feel like they were moving slowly.
"Oh my, the Prince is going to die"
"The Prince?!" Marienette asked, now hearing the voice loud and clear.
"The Hero meets his death"
"DEATH?!"
"What's going to happen in this story?"
"Please, deary, you must tell me what happens next." The voice grew more and more excited, promptly asking questions like "Is the Prince going to make it?" and "Who in the world is going to save him?"
"But- who?" Marienette frantically searched for an answer as she still ran towards Adrien.
"Yes, I do wonder, who?"
A sudden feeling came to her, in her chest. A feeling that was slowly starting to overwhelm her and things finally clicked in the head, in this situation, in this moment.
"I'll-!" was all she could say before the omnipotent voice cut her off with yet another question.
"Do you care for him, little cat?"
"Meow?" Without too much notice, Marienette responded in her true tongue.
"Do you want to be of help to the poor, young Prince?"
"Meow." Said Marienette, accepting to save the Prince.
"Are you saying you're going to tell me this story?" The man exclaimed.
"Meow!"
"Very well" The man said, making it so that the pendant on Marienette's chest activated on touch, allowing the girl to do as she pleased with it and drew himself away in order to watch what happens next.
"That's right! I WILL save the Prince! I will save HIM!" Said Marienette, now feeling a burst of energy going through her body.
"Now do you remember who you are?" Asked the man one last time, enjoying what he knew well of what would come.
"Yes, I do! I am Ladybug!"
At sound of the name, and the determination welling up inside her, the red, ladybug shaped pendant glowed. Locks of dark blue hair swirled within a watery cocoon as Marienette was enveloped by a whirlpool of ladybugs. Their flight tighten in size and then they dispersed as the watery cocoon broke apart, freeing Marienette.
She was clad in red with black dots on her skirt and bodice, upper part of her body, all in a tasteful patterned way. Messy yet not organized. Red lacings tied and left to decorate her pigtails as a red mask covered the area around her eyes, black dots also patterned on and off the mask, growing faintly onto her cheek bones. Beaded bracelets cuffed her wrists, all in black, red and gold.
Her pendant had changed along with her outfit, too. It was now in a decorative shape of a ladybug attached and hung around her neck in black and gold.
Marienette, now Ladybug, posed. Preparing herself to give huge strides to get to where she needed to be, with all the confidence to save two lives.
Ladybug started, racing almost in leaps. She readied a string, suddenly materializing one from one of the beads of her bracelet as if it was made out of string. Swirling rapidly from the unmoving bead, the string then went surrounding below her in a whirlwind of red.
"Lucky Charm!" She called and the string quickly changed to red poppies. Thousands of red poppies circled and swerved all around them both as Ladybug kept pirouetting from the ground, assisting Adrien on his descent by fanning out the poppies. He landed safely onto the flowers, a few petals scattering into the air as he did so. Ladybug stopped and
Green eyes looked up at cerulean blue and saw the open hand that was waiting for him. He took it and slowly rose up, being pulled into the air from the poppies. He opened up his right arm, showing that the kitten was still alive and unharmed.
The two continued to hold hands, both just having the other's palm touch theirs, not breaking eye contact while smiling pleasantly at each other. The kitten then jumped down into the poppies and scampered along to the darkened parts of the place.
"And to think I saved you, Adrien…" said Ladybug, she felt herself dazed as she looked back at the boy of her dreams. "It's like a dream."
Adrien's smile left him then. "How do...you know my name?"
He didn't let a second pass as another thing occurred to him. "And you- who are you?"
"I am- "
"Who indeed?" The unknown man asked, chuckling at the display he was seeing. Only she could hear him and only he choose when.
"I am…"Marienette found it hard to confess.
"Uhh…"
"You remember now, petit chat?" the man asked, delighted her struggle.
"Um…"
He wasted no time. "Yeeees, you are a cat."
"Just a feline called. A. Cat!"
"Myeh!" A loud, startled cat sound came out of Ladybug as she let go of Adrien's hand. He looked as her hand went to her mouth, covering it as she slowly backed away from him. She couldn't believe it.
Marienette...no...Cat had let out a semblance of a meow in front of Adrien. She was a Cat! She wasn't even human! With all this lifting up a storm in her mind, she ran away from him and went as far as she could with the embarrassment and the utter horror of the truth she was so oblivious to until now.
All Adrien could do was let his eyes linger on as she fled. Never knowing why she had gone.
The Darkness, which had seemed to look as though it was night, changed back to daylight. The heavy shadows turned lighter as the sun's rays set itself out to noon. There, among the trees' shade, was Ladybug. She walked, numb to everything around her.
"I am…" Marienette barely whispered. She didn't feel much energy in her to keep on moving, keep on thinking that she was what she was. A cat. The girl was in disbelief.
Swaying from side to side until the shadow of her body shrunk to that of the size of a cat.
Coming in full view now, a white, small cat stumbled and fell onto the dirt below her, giving a tiny, audible sound as the impact made the air in her lungs come out. The red pendant had gone back to being a simple red jewel with the outline of a Ladybug. It hadn't stayed on her neck as she had shrunk, making it up to her head and acted as a crown until she landed on the ground. It rolled a little away from her limp, frail body.
Before submitting to her subconscious, a last thought ran through her head. A statement that was felt with reluctance.
'So I was a Cat after all…'
"Well well, the miraculous Ladybug has gone back to being a cat." said the man, watching the cat that had now grew unconscious. "The story has just begun."
He let his attention go towards a tall building in the distance.
"What to do now, hm?" The man laughed as he knew what else would happen in this tale. He certainly wasn't going anywhere now.
Bonus:
The door to the dance room opened a few inches, abruptly interrupting the two from their little accident on the floor. Another set of green eyes peered around the room until they landed on Adrien, looking at him coldly as he entered the room and walked on over. Blond hair off to the side, he glowered as his eyes pointed at the boy in front of him.
"Hey."
"Felix." Adrien
'Felix!' Bridgette thought immediately, sitting up straight as she witness what was going on. Her cheeks turned to a shade of pink. She was only being her clumsy self and thought she had been disturbing Adrien when she tripped over her own two feet. To think that she would meet her crush a lot sooner today.
"Did I not tell you to inform me when you go out?" Felix asked, placing a hand on his hip.
"Yes"
"We're going. Stand up."
"Hm."
"What's wrong?"
"My foot."
"Foot? Did you twist it?"
"Hm."
"Idiot."
"WHAT?!" Bridgette yelled, she couldn't help it. Hesitantly, she spoke again, now under the glare of a set of green eyes.
"Um- Um! I-It was my fault. He saved me when I tripped and-" Bridgette tried to say but was cut half way when Felix looked down a Adrien.
"What were you thinking doing such a pointless thing?" Asked Felix. Bridgette rushed in with her words, trying to save Adrien.
"So like I said, he was protecting me-"
"That's why I said 'pointless'." Felix cut her off again.
Reaching down and grabbing Adrien's wrist, he announced with finality, "Stand up. We're going back."
The two were already heading to the exit when Bridgette exclaimed in a whisper of a voice, "I don't think you should be so rough with him..."
Felix heard it loud and clear as he made Adrien go out first before him, "Quiet!"
With the sound of the door slamming shut, Bridgette looked back at it's brown color in semi guilt and disappointment.
"Pointless? Well, sure, maybe, but you didn't have to sound so harsh about it…"
School bells rang and Bridgette was so confused as to why the bells would be ringing at this time, yet again.
Notes:
Definitely going to chop the rest of the chapters up in pieces. This is so long that no one seems to want to give me their professional criticism.
Well, It's been months, in all honesty, since I actually last written 'a' fanfiction. This is the first time I follow, word by word, an anime. I ain't saying what I've done before but I have been putting this one off for a while. Simply because I did not want to dedicate myself to another fanfic. My apologies for not doing this sooner if you do like it. I will be doing more. All 38 episodes- I mean, chapters. It may be more, who knows.
Oh right, I do free style writing so besides the anime and some other visuals that helped me go this far, nothing much was planned and nothing much is planned for the future stuff.
I have too many things to say but I better not swamp the first chapter.
As for the plot, let's just say the good ol' author who was supposed to be dead (his identity will be as secret as…. I'll let you guess) did some tweaking with the story and you'll just have to keep reading in order to find out.
Also, Idk what category this should be in, in terms of the love square. That would just be spoilers~ (Yeah right 9.9)
*(I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! I'm bothering you huh? I'm just so bad at everything, I mean, even Alya tells me I'm as bad as a cat on a bad day. I'm so weird, aren't I weird? I'm definitely weirding you out now.)
**Après vous means "after you" in french.
P.s. I'm sorry for your Nino-lost-his-friend-zone with Adrien right now.
- crmini