He was a cat.

Adrien didn't know how, or why, but he was a cat. A black-furred cat with a patch of blonde fur on his head and green eyes.

'Oh, yeah, this happens every once in a while.' Plagg told him. 'Don't worry, there won't be any akumas today because it happens to all of the Miraculous holders at the same time, but you might want to get out of here.'

"Wait- did this happen to my Lady too?!" Adrien exclaimed, but to human ears it was translated as a single, distressed meow. "I have to find her!"

'Why do you think that I told you to get out of here?' Plagg asked. 'Just get going!'

It was hard, sneaking out of his mansion as a cat, but once he made it onto the city streets, he realized that he faced another problem.

He had no idea where his lady could be!

Her first instinct would probably be going to the Eiffel Tower, where they started patrol, but there was no way that he could get all the way up there! So his next bet was to go to the park, manage to get onto the statue, and hope beyond hope that Ladybug would be there too.

After his fifteenth attempt at getting on top of the statue, he had decided to settle for sitting beside it instead.

People who were bigger than he was used to seeing walked around, completely oblivious to him. Occasionally a kid would notice him and try to do something, but he managed to get away from them.

'Ugh, where could she be?' He though impatiently. Maybe if he called for her?

"My lady!" He meowed.

"Chat?"

Instantly his head turned to look at the single Ladybug that was on the statue next to him. She was up a bit higher though, so he stood up on his back two legs and placed his paws on the side of the statue.

"Ladybug?" He asked again.

"I'm so glad I found you!" The Ladybug said, landing on his nose. "You have no idea just how terrifying it is out there! Kids try to catch me out of thin air and almost smash me in the process!"

It wasn't a funny concept, but he purred when he really chuckled.

"Does milady need a protector then?" He asked, slowly getting back down on all four paws.

"Only this once." She consented. "So… what should we do until this passes?"

"Explore the city?" He offered. "Try not to get lost?"

"Sounds like fun."

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They ended up on a rooftop- Marinette's balcony, to be specific. He felt as though it was the safest place for them, especially since he knew that Marinette wouldn't kick a stray cat off of her roof.

Ladybug seemed a bit annoyed at the fact, but she didn't say anything.

"Today's been fun." Chat Noir said, laying on Marinette's chair. He stared at the Ladybug resting on his nose, completely content with the sun setting in the distance.

"Yeah."

"I wish that we could do it more often." He confessed.

"Chat…"

"I know, I know." He sighed, pouting. "We'd have to reveal our identities, and the revealing of our identities is a big-"

A flash of green and red, and suddenly there was a Princess in his lap, and everything was much bigger.

"No… no…" He trailed off, eyes wide. They stared at each other for several seconds. Then they opened their mouths…

And screamed.

Plagg and her kwami (he thought Plagg had called her sugar-something) pushed their heads together, and their screams were muffled.

With each other's lips.

He would have been proud to say that they had taken it fairly well, but that wasn't true. Marinette had fainted, leaving Adrien to take her to her bed, transform, go home, and proceed to panic.

Yup, so much for today even retaining a resemblance of being normal.