CHAPTER 1
Disclaimer: Miraculous - Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir is owned by ZAGTOON and the song is owned by Backstreet Boys. I only owned the plot and the story.
Italic - lyrics
'words' - thoughts
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"Come on, girl! The concert will be starting soon." Alya Césaire jogged backwards, facing the ever so slowly walking Marinette Dupain-Cheng.
"I'm glad that my father manages to get us tickets for the concert. It's a good thing that his manager handles their program this time. Sarah kept a few tickets as a gift for the winner of the radio show and some extras for us." Mylène Haprèle said with a wide smile as she walked beside Alya in a correct way.
Marinette whined, "It's a waste if I go because I'm not a fan. You should give it to Alix or Rose or Juleka."
"They've already have theirs. Besides, this is the time for you to know other singer than Jagged Stone." Alya smirked.
"Hey! He's the legend of legend. As far as I hear any songs, he's the love of my ears." Marinette defended.
Her two friends chuckled, "The love of your ears, huh? Not you heart, yet, I see." Alya countered playfully making Marinette to blush.
"Anyway, we're here. Le Trabendo." Mylène spoke up to save Marinette.
Le Trabendo, a musical concert venue in a red building. Commonly use as a concert ground for various artists and as a club. It was located in the heart of Parc de la Villette and one of the most beautiful concert halls in Paris. It could pack up to 700 seats in it.
The outside of the building was lined with people to get inside. Alya and Mylène dragged Marinette by her arms to the line while she gave off a bored face, dragging her feet all the way.
When they got inside, it was jam packed. No floor visible, just shoes all around. They finally reached the middle of the crowd to get a better view of the concert. Marinette just felt squished like a grape there.
The lights were out a few minutes later, eliciting scream from everywhere. Not because they were scared, it was the excitement to see their favorite band on stage. Alya and Mylène were one of them.
"Bonjour, ladies and gentleman. The Chat will give you a secret concert, live." A male voice spoke causing the scream to escalate. The spotlight turn on to reveal a male with black sweater and a red cap on. He's wearing a pair of spectacles and had headphones hanging around his neck.
"Pleasure to see you all here today." Another spotlight shone a male with the same attire but he wore the hood on which somehow had a shape of cat ears. He had a black mask on and some of blonde bangs were visible.
"Hope you guys enjoy our show tonight. Thank you." A male with large body size wore the same attire with the hood on – the same cat ears present. He had a blonde bang in the middle of his forehead and was holding sticks in his right hand.
The three of them turn around to their respective instrument; guitar, bass and drum. The one with the cap started to strum his guitar, "Nino! Nino!" the crowd shouted.
[Nino:]
I've seen it all a thousand times
Falling down I'm still alive, Am I? Am I?
The bass follows, "Noir!" along with the beats of drum, "Ivan you're rock!" one of the fans could be heard throughout the halls.
[Nino:]
So hard to breathe when the water's high
No need to swim I'll learn to fly, so high, so high
[Ivan:]
You find the truth in a child's eyes
When the only limit is the sky (Woo, woo, woo)
Living proof I see myself in you, (Oh)
[Chorus (Nino):]
When walls starts to close in
Your heart is frozen over
Just show 'em what you're made of
When sun light is fading
The world will be waiting for you
Just show 'em what you're made of
Marinette didn't really focus but still listened, 'It's not that bad. I thought they just sing the same lame love songs to teenage girls.'
[Noir:]
Gloves are off, Ready to fight
Like a lion I will survive.
Will I? Will I?
You gotta stand for something
Even if you stand alone, don't be afraid
It's gonna be alright
She nodded to the beat and raised an eyebrow.
'Nice voice. Good to know that all of them can actually sing properly, not just bleed another girl's heart… and my ears.' she snorted to herself.
[Ivan:]
You find the truth in a child's eyes
When the only limit is the sky (Woo, woo, woo)
Living proof I see myself in you, (Oh)
[Chorus (The members sing):]
When walls starts to close in
Your heart is frozen over
Just show 'em what you're made of
When sun light is fading
The world will be waiting for you
Just show 'em what you're made of
(Just show 'em what you're made of)
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh, Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh, Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh,
(Just show 'em what you're made of) Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh, Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh, Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
(Just show 'em what you're made of)
[Ivan:] You find the truth in a child's eyes
[Nino:] When the only limit is the sky
[Noir:] Living proof I see myself in you...
"Sing along!" Nino shouted to the audience. The members stop playing and clapped their hands followed by the crowd.
[Chorus (All sing):]
When walls starts to close in
Your heart is frozen over
Just show 'em what you're made of
(You can show 'em what you're made of!)
When sun light is fading
The world will be waiting for you
(For you, for you! )
Just show 'em what you're made of
(You can show 'em what you're made of)
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh, Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh, Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh,
(Just show 'em what you're made of) Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh, Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh, Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Just show 'em what you're made of...
And the song ended. The hall was deafening with clapping and screaming making Marinette to winch.
The concert was over three hours later, one extra hour because the fan kept shouting "Encore!" for the band to keep performing. At the exit, each audience was given a black strap with a shape of a cat head with its tail curling to the front. It had green eyes and the tail looks like a leather belt.
"What is this? Their band logo?" Marinette asked.
"It is. It's the official logo of theirs. The one that you've been seeing on my bag was their logo when they perform under the company's name." Mylène nodded, agreeing to Alya's explanation.
"It's cute, right?" Mylène turned to Marinette.
"Nope."
They both smiled, 'Guess she would say that.'
"But, it's kinda cool." They looked to Marinette at once, seeing small smile from her. Alya smiled and hummed while Mylène just look front and gave small chuckles.
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"Let's hang out at the café before we retreat for the night. It's not like we have school for the weeks anyway with the repair they're doing." The other agreed quickly to Alya's proposition.
As they walk to the crossroad,
"I hear this one café serve good coffee. They have delicious chocolate walnut muffin too." Mylène told.
"Ahem, my parents can make you a better muffin." Marinette smile while quirking one eyebrow.
"Of course they can but everyone has their own muffin preference. I like to try theirs." She said.
"Yup, me too. The way you said before makes me hungry." Marinette agreed.
"You just have one big stomach for a girl." Alya teased. They both laughed at the blush on Marinette's face.
"Hyaa~ It's them." Multiple voices screamed, attracting the three friends away from the crossroad just in front of them.
"What in the-" Alya gaped before finishing. She looked to her left and saw a crowd of girls surrounding the door to a bookstore.
"Isn't that-" Marinette gave off weird face.
"What? What?" Mylène asked as she couldn't really figure what's in the middle of the crowd with a short, chubby body of her.
"Chat!" another wave of screaming.
"This is a scoop. Let's go." Alya bolted to the crowd, leaving Mylène and Marinette.
The both of them hurried after her - Marinette was worried that her friend got squished, Mylène wanted to take a closer look. While Marinette look around for Alya, Mylène walked around the crowd to see the center of the attention.
Mylène jumped a few times, "I can't see. Oh, I see Ivan." She tried a few times as the crowd slowly moving. "Akk…" someone accidently pushed her backwards while she was jumping. She landed unstably but managed to find her footing.
"MYLÈNE!"
"Huh?"
She looked up to see Marinette was reaching for her with a worried face. She realized just then that she was in the middle of the crossroad – the lights for pedestrian was still red. A few cars were honking at her from meters away.
"Marinette! Mylène!" Alya shouted on the side of the road near them.
Marinette caught her right arm and pulled as might as she can. She was able to swing Mylène to the side of the road to Alya's embraces.
'Thank god.' Marinette thought. 'Ah… no…' She tripped, falling down what she felt like hours but it was just seconds. She saw the dreadful face of her friends when they saw her predicament. They couldn't make it in time.
"Dude!" A blur of black shot pass through her friends and all Marinette saw was pitch black instead of Alya and Mylène.
'I'm dead, am I.' she thought solemnly. 'I feel like I'm flying. Maybe it wasn't so bad either. But why do I feel so warm. Smells good too.' Weirdly she thinks of all of that.
BRANGG!
"Arghh!" Two voices of pain could be heard. One from her, the other she wasn't sure.
Footsteps surrounded her. She could hear someone asked if they both okay and to call ambulance faintly. Her arm felt like it burns but not her entire body. Maybe that's a good sign because now she knows that she was alive. The entire body suddenly fell limp as soon as she realized it. But the warmth never left.
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TINT. TINT.
The first sound she heard when she regained consciousness. She could guess she was in a hospital room. Someone's talking too. Her friends' voice and male voice, she thought.
"Is it now? You're such a sweet guy. Right?" She recognized Alya's voice.
"Y-yeah." It's Mylène now.
She twitched and groaned. Movement could be heard around her. Marinette opened her eyes to the face of her friends smiling at her with relieved face on both side of her.
"Morning, girl. I was hoping you would wake earlier with that empty stomach of yours." Leave it to Alya with her teasing, Marinette smile.
"Do you feel any pain?" Mylène asked.
"Not pain but my arm feels sore. Glad you're okay though, Mylène." Marinette smile the widest she could.
Mylène started to tear up then hugged Marinette carefully. She apologized many times while sobbing. Marinette could only soothe her with her voice since she couldn't move her sore left arm and her right arm was currently under Mylène's hug. Alya patted Mylène's shoulder comfortingly.
"Good to know that you seem okay. That was one accident you got there, Marinette." A male voice spoke. Surprisingly it was familiar.
Her friends move away to let Marinette see the person. It was Nino and beside him was Ivan. Marinette gaped. She just saw their concert moments ago. They were at the streets too but here, in the hospital, in her hospital room. It was some impossible people to be in front of her now.
"I'm Nino. Nino Lahiffe and this is Ivan Bruel. You might know us from-"
"The Chat. I know. Just surprise to see you guys here." Marinette cut him off with bored face.
"Wow. Never have I seen a fan react like that." Nino chuckled a bit while Ivan hid behind Nino, if that is possible.
"It's because I'm not. I was just tagging along my friends here to the concert."
"Haha… Nice comeback. You're crushed, Nino." Another male laughed just behind Mylène.
Marinette sat up and turned to the sound. She saw a boy with messy but well-kept blonde hair sitting on a bed next to her. He wore patient attire just like her. There were patches at the back of his neck, right hand was bandaged thickly and a small bandaged could be seen on his right cheek.
He extended his left hand, "Hi, I'm Adrien. Sorry that I can't shake your hand in a correct manner." He smiled with his green eyes staring at her.
Marinette stared back at his face and his hand. She extended her right hand to shake weirdly with him, eliciting a small laugh from her.
"I'm Marinette but I guess my friends have already told you all about me, judging from how Nino called me earlier." Marinette stared at her friends who in turn gave sheepish smile.
"Well- the doctor needs your information so…." Alya tried to defend them.
"Sure. Any 'exciting' story about me then." She was quirking an eyebrow at them.
"Just the one where you're crazy about Jagged Stone, the love of your ears. We all love him but not to that extend." Nino answered smoothly.
Marinette blushed. The others were trying so hard not to laugh. Marinette stared at them with annoyed and blushing face.
"It's that so. I think I just found someone to talk about Jagged Stone non-stop." Marinette turned to Adrien who still chuckled a bit.
"You're crazy about him too?" Marinette asked, disbelief that someone had the same 'die-hard fan interest' like her towards the rock star.
"He has playlist dedicated just for him and an entire collection of his album." Ivan spoke.
"Yup. You can see them and hear the songs but you can't lend them." Adrien said cheekily.
Marinette laughed to that. "Ah, hey. That's the first time I heard you talk, Ivan." She turned to Ivan who in turn blushed while hiding behind Nino, again.
"He's a shy one, I tell you. But he's a sweetheart." Alya said.
Marinette extended her hand, "Nice to meet you, Ivan." She smiled brightly. Ivan stared at her a bit and gently shook her hand. He smiled as their hands parted.
"Wow. You have some charm, Marinette. Ivan rarely touches people so instantly unless he feels comfortable enough to them." Nino pointed out.
"Except for Mylène though. He doesn't hesitate to hold her when she cried the moment you laid unconscious on the street." Alya smirked.
They laughed to the blushing of both Ivan and Mylène. The doctor came a moment later to check up on Marinette and second inspection for Adrien. Apparently, Adrien woke up half an hour before Marinette and was given a medication to let him rest some more.
After the check up, Marinette's result shows that she was fine. The scratch on her left arm needed to be tended carefully and she was allowed to go home in the afternoon. She noticed that Adrien had bandages around his right ankle too. He needs to stay at the hospital for another day after Marinette's discharged before he could be released.
"Hey, Adrien. Thank you for saving me. Although I didn't know the whole story but I could guess that it was you." Marinette smile gratefully to Adrien.
Adrien's eyes were wide to hear that. A small smile adorned, "You're welcome." He got up to walk to the doors.
Nino accompanied him since he said he wanted to get some fresh air and to practice walking with crutch. Mylène and Ivan offered to get the other some refreshment while Alya stayed with Marinette.
"I'll get plain water for you for now and some crackers to fill your stomach. The doctor would be mad at me if I give you something to make you sick again." Mylène giggled to Marinette's pouting face. She was off with Ivan, happily chatting.
"She seems happy." Marinette smiled.
"Who would have known that our little Mylène will be having a boyfriend soon." Alya sat on the chair besides Marinette's bed.
"I'll be using toilet if they ask."
"Need help?"
"It's okay. I think I got it." Marinette reassured Alya.
She slowly got up and gave thumbs up to Alya when she managed to walk normally. Alya just sighed then gave a small smile with thumbs up back to her.
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She got out of the toilet feeling sudden chest pain, 'What the- I was feeling fine before.' The pain escalated causing her to fall to her knees while panting, hand clutching her chest. Alya hurriedly went to her side to support her in walking back to the bed. As soon as she sat she felt fine. It was like she never had the pain before. She gave off a weird face.
"Huh, that's weird." Two voices spoke.
Marinette turned to the door as she heard someone said the same thing as her. She saw Adrien, instantly locking her eyes with his luminescent green eyes. She noticed that Nino was supporting Adrien a bit. His crutch was hold by Nino.
"What?" Alya said, not realizing the other two. Marinette looked at Alya.
"Are you okay, dude?" Nino slowly walked Adrien back to bed, his attention solely on him.
Marinette showed amusing face, "I feel fine now." They both spoke at the same time again.
The four of them were shocked and turned to each other at the same time. Nino and Alya gazed from one person to another while Marinette and Adrien stared at each other.
"What just happen?" Nino broke the silence.
"You tell me." Alya responded.
"What happen when I was saved?" Marinette asked Alya.
"Full story, please." Adrien added while looking towards Nino.
"Err… We're not sure." Alya and Nino replied hesitantly.
The two were saved. Ambulance arrived and brought them both here. Alya and Nino board the ambulance while Mylène and Ivan followed with a cab. There was nothing happen along the way. They undergo the usual hospital procedures and to the present. What else could go wrong?
To be continue…