Hello everyone. I thought I'd throw out a Miraculous Ladybug and Chat Noir story. I kind of would like to see what you guys would think about this idea that came to my mind. It's rough but please tell me if you enjoy it or not. Here we go. Here's Chapter 1.
Tell me something, if you were part of a class together with someone for three years in a row and no matter how obvious your feelings for that person were to everyone he never noticed you? At the age of 14, we had met for the first time. I also became Ladybug at that time as well. We weren't on good terms at first either, I believed he was just like Chloe because of the whole chewing gum on my seat, but that changed when he came up to me and explained what happened and apologized to me. I had been bullied by Chloe everyday till Alya joined our class. Course, I still was bullied by Chloe just as bad sometimes even worse but it didn't bother me as much having Alya with me. Slowly, Nino and I became friends again. We were childhood friends but we became distant as the bullying got worse and I was just depressed. Then the Akumas began to appear and after realizing they appeared from strong negative emotions. So, I decided to hold it all in.
I'm now 17 years old and it is becoming too much. I spend most nights battling Akumas and the days at school, but I'm late nearly every morning because of the late night Akumas so I get detention often and I end up getting in trouble with my parents as well. Chloe uses these detention dates to her advantage since Alya is missing school a lot due to the many interviews she gets since I, as Ladybug, give all my interviews to her. This caused her Ladyblog to sky rocket in views and popularity and for many stations and crews to request her for a segment. I don't mind much because I know she is ecstatic about being able to be recognized. At first she wasn't going to go for them because she knew I'd miss her at school but I told her to do it. It's her chance at her dream why would I not support her.
I miss Alya. I regret becoming Ladybug at times. I'm grateful to be able to repair any damage caused by the Akumas. I wish I could tell my parents. I wish peopled understand. I wish Hawkmoth would just disappear.
"My Lady!" Chat Noir yelled gleefully once I had purified the Akuma butterfly. He pounced towards me to embrace me but last second I side stepped. He nearly fell but caught himself as we stood atop of one, of the many, newly repaired rooftops. His ring beeped a few moments before my earrings had.
"Not this time, Mon Chaton. Must be going I have school soon." I said taking note that the moon was nearing the horizon and the sun's light was peaking from the opposite direction. With a yawn I swung my yo-yo in the direction of my house. The yo-yo caught the tops of chimneys and allowed me to swing home. The last swing brought me to the balcony above my bedroom that laid on top of the family bakery. I climbed the ladder down into my room and de transformed. I was now wearing a pair of lavender colored cotton pajamas
"I'm sorry Marinette," Tikki said as she went to my desk where I had a small bowl sitting out with strawberry candies I had made specifically for Tikki and I when we had battles that took a lot of energy from us but we were unable to rest afterwards. Tikki unwrapped the wrapper of one and popped it into her mouth. I went ahead and got myself dressed for class today. It was a nice spring day, warm with a slight chill to the wind, so I settled quickly on a pair of denim blue jeans and a baby blue bell sleeved shirt I had made for myself a few months ago. The sleeves had hand embroidered crimson flowers that were scattered scarcely around the wrists and also lightly around the collar of the shirt. The collar came up just enough to cover the bruise that was developing on and around my shoulder. The bruise was still developing and was tender so I through my bag on my other shoulder so I didn't aggravate the injury even more. I let out a sigh as I thought back through my rotten luck. As Ladybug many believe I have amazing luck but outside of the transformation my luck is horrible. I thought of all the stress I've been under and couldn't help but slip up.
"Marinette!" Tikki shouted as she caught my attention and as Ii looked to her I saw it. A purple butterfly came flying through my window and the only way I could react was by muttering a curse.
"Shit." I said as it came in contact with my Miraculous. That's when I fell into a daze. Everything bad in my life came forward in my head and the good and obvious was hidden in the back amongst the crowd of negativity.
"I can take away your pains and sorrows. All you have to do is bring me both Chat Noir's and Ladybug's Miraculous." The familiar voice husky voice entered my mind. I knew it could be no one else but Hawkmoth for my room was empty besides me and Tikki, hearing the voice it immediately shocked me out of the trance though because I knew the voice, but I just could not place it. "What?! Not possible!" I heard a shout slowly fade out as I pushed all my negativity way, collecting myself enough to focus on the sound of Tikki's voice. The spotted fairy-like lady bug guardian has been calling my name and clutched onto the front of my shirt.
"Marinette!" Tikki shouted as she floated to be level with my face. "What happened? Are you ok?" Tikki asked as she cleared the tears from her eyes. I could only coo its okays to her and gentle pet her head before she grabbed onto my hand. "I was so worried you were going to get Akumatized Marinette."
"I'm fine" I said as I grabbed a handful of the candies and shoved them into my jean pocket then continued with, "I almost did but I pushed everything back and I guess I was able to stop it mid-way. I think you will have to find Plagg during Lunch and let hime know what happened cause I'm not sure why I didn't transform." Through the years I Tikki had told me the name of the Cat Miraculous Guardian and that she had seen him on campus on occasions so when Chat and Ladybug had to let each other know something they'd have the two give each other a message. They didn't do it quite often because they had to protect their Guardians, but this seemed to be important enough for a message to be sent.
"Yeah we need a brain storming session to know why this has happened. But if we don't hurry we will be late again." Tikki said as she flew into my messenger bag and successfully hid from sight. I was beginning to go down stairs to the main parent of the apartment when my father called up from in the bakery.
"Marinette, you need to come down stairs now and head to school." Father said. "One more tardy and you will be grounded for a month." He shouted and emphasized the word grounded. I was down into the bakery before he had finished his sentence and said I was already on my way out. I grabbed a fresh cherry turnover which he had finished baking and headed out the door telling them I'd see them later and that I was going to go to the library to study after school. I was just going to patrol for an hour after school then go to the library.
I arrived at school just before the bell rang and sat down in my seat just before the bell had rang. The teacher had reassigned seats so that rows 1 and 2 switched and 3 and 4 switched. Alya, when she was able to come to school, and I now sat in front of Adrien and Nino. I didn't mind this though because on most days after a Akuma battle I have either sore muscles or some sort of injury in my legs so it made it easier for me after having to go up the stairs to the classroom. Each row of seats had a waste basket at the end of each table, so it made it easy for me to dispose of the wrappers to the candies. I unwrapped two just as Adrien came in late and plopped one candy in my mouth, one in my bag that sat on the bench next to me, and the wrappers into the trash.
"Marinette did you just put a candy in your bag? Are you really that tired?" Nino whispered into my ear not waiting for an answered as he pulled my bag up and fished into the bag trying to find the candy as Adrien went and sat down next to him. He was tired it was obvious he must have had a long night because his eyes looked hollow. "What's this he" he asked pulling Tikki, who was dead still, half out of the bag. Adrien's eyes opened wide at the sight of Tikki.
'Great now he probably thinks I'm a child who brings toys to school.' I thought to myself feeling a darkness begin to surround me as I almost let my sadness and embarrassment take me over. It left me as I shook my head.
"It's a commission I'm working on." I quickly covered my ass as I grabbed for my bag and Tikki. "And for your information I was thinking of grabbing another candy." I said pulling a wrapped on I kept in a stash in my bag for emergencies. Grabbing four so that both Adrien and Nino could have two. I offered them towards them "Would you guys like some? They are strawberry flavored with a kick of orange and ginger for energy."
"Sure thanks Marinette," Adrien said with a tired smile that made my heart speed u a little and a blush to creep over my cheeks. He put one in his mouth and the other into his bag. I couldn't but watch as he slipped the candy past his lips and gave a gentle hum and his eyes shot up a little .
"Thanks Mari. I'll give them try." Nino replied. As he popped them both in his mouth and tossed the wrappers into the trash.
The teacher then cleared her throat which grabbed our attention. " Nice of you to join us today. Mr. Agreste you were late… again. Detention today after school. Ms. Dupain-Cheng detention as well for disrupting my class. Now as I was saying…" The teacher then continued with her introduction of the lesson. With a sigh I took out my note book and began to write my notes as she wrote them on the board.
The day continued like that. And when it came to lunch time I hid Tikki in my sleeve in a little pouch I made that'd keep her hidden but comfortable. It was windy out I noticed as I walked to the corner of the quad with my bag to let Tikki go do her thing.
"Be careful Tikki I'll be here and wait for you to go and speak with Plagg. I said as I pulled her from my sleeve. I placed a gentle kiss on her forehead and she then flew up towards the room of the school. I sat where I was and watched the people around me. Lunch was coming to an end when I saw that Chloe was on her way over to me with Sabrina in tow.
"Well look who it is, Sabrina. It's Marinette." Chloe said in her annoying tone once again as she feigned surprise. "I saw you talking to Adrien in class this morning." She said as she took a step closer to me as she took a confident pose with her arms crossed and her hip cocked to the side. I just looked away to see if I could see Tikki anywhere nearby. It was no use at the moment though. "You know that's a no-no right. You think you'd learn right, but that's okay after detention I will refresh that lesson for you." Chloe said as she grabbed one pig tail of my hair, which has grown to mid-back, and gave it a tug so she had access to my ear. "Remember this baker girl. My dad is still the Mayor of Paris so you better mind your actions or-"
"Chloe what are you doing?!" A male voice dragged me and Chloe's attention towards him. It was Adrien. He came up to us and removed Chloe's hand from my hair it had been tangled up in. He gently ran his hand through it to untangle the knots in my hair her rings caused then set my hair on my shoulder over the bruise on my shoulder that was now revealed. "Go back to class Chloe. You are being mean and I do not appreciate how you are treating Marinette." He said. He was being nice but he doesn't realize what he just did. I just know that whatever Chloe had planned for me just got ten times worse.
"T-Thanks A-A-Adrien." I stuttered uncontrollably. Whenever it came to him I got so nervous and stuttered. That's when I noticed Tikki come out from a bush to my side and flew into my bag stealthily. I don't even think Chat Noir would have noticed her movement if he were to have been in Adrien's place. I let out a sigh as I saw Chloe staring at me from across the school yard. Adrien gave me his signature smile and I couldn't help but question why he came to my defense.
'I wonder if he knows that he only made it worse for me.' Then I saw Kim as he walked up to us and I gave him a smile and a small wave of my hand. He greeted up both.
"Hey you two free tomorrow night for a party?" Kim asked as he put a hand through his short cut hair.
"As far as I know I am. If my plans stay that way I don't see why I can't drop by. When would it start and end?" I answered. I knew what happened at his parties but I didn't really care much. His parties were known for drinking and dancing with pranks and fun in the pool. No one did any hardcore drugs for the most part. Those who did weren't given any from him and he had not been aware of it. My words made his face light up as I had never agreed to go before. I just saw Adrien shrug his shoulders from the corner of my eyes.
"Kool." Kim said as he turned to Adrien. "Dude if you are able to could you stop by it'd be great for you to be able to unwind some you know? Stress isn't good for you Adrien." He placed a hand on Adrien's shoulder. I turned towards Adrien to see his reaction. He looked at me then back to Kim.
"Why not." Adrien ended up saying making Kim woot and run off to tell Alix.