MARINETTE'S POV:

Walking home from school I stretched my hands up and let out a large yawn. I began to sleepily blink looking forward to my soft comfy pink quilted bed.
"Girl you know you really need to stop staying up all night thinking about Adrien" my best friend Alya grinned at me.
"I am not! I mean was not! I mean ugh, that's not why I'm tired" I said face palming myself.
"Why are you so tired then? And I know it's not because you stayed up to do your homework, Ms Bustier nearly gave you a detention for not finishing it for the third time in a ROW!" Alya exclaimed.
"I know I know, it's just ahhhh family stuff. My ahhhh cousins are staying over and oh yeah! Then there's playing with Manon. You know what a handful she can be" I said sheepishly, giving her a smile that looked like my mouth was being pulled from every corner.

Alya narrowed her eyes, clearing not believing my excuses. Even so she didn't press the matter any further.
"Anyway you have to try to fini-" before Alya could continue to scold me, a large rumbling could be heard not too far way. The earth shook for a moment and instantly my ladybug instincts took over.

"What the heck was that?!" Alya demanded.
"Uh oh this doesn't look good." I said looking to the origin of the sound, seeing smoke and dust arise from behind several buildings.
I began to run, looking for a place to summon Tikki and change into Ladybug.
"Marinette! Where are you going?" Alya yelled at me.
"I have to go- um.. check on my cousins!, One of them is super scared of earthquakes. Just going to make sure she's alright. I'll be right back!" I promised before racing off behind a building into an alleyway.

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ADRIEN'S POV:

"I AM THE STORY TELLER! FOR FAR TOO LONG MY NOVELS HAVE BEEN IGNORED BY FOOLISH PUBLISHING COMPANIES! LET'S SEE HOW YOU ALL LIKE IT LIVING INSIDE OF THE STORIES YOU LOVE SO MUCH!" A loud female's voice boomed across the city.
I looked around to see books flying all over the place. I narrowly dodged one that flew right at my head.
"Hey!" I shouted jumping back.
Just a few seconds ago I had been walking by as Adrien Agreste, minding my own business trying to hide from from Natalie and the Gorilla before I heard a giant crash. I was actually glad for an excuse to go into Chat Noir form. Finally something exciting after a long boring busy day of school and fencing and everything else that my father had set out for me. Man did I hate it, but a part of me just can't bear the idea of letting him down.

The 'Story Teller' as she had labelled herself looked like a stereotypical librarian. Pointed glasses, her brown hair in a bun, a tight pencil skirt…well she would have looked like a stereotypical librarian if it wasn't for the way her skin seemed to be made out of ink printed paper, her eyes radiating a bright violet and the fact she was floating fifteen feet off the ground. There were books hovering all around her flying in every direction.

"Hey come on now this isn't playing by the rule-books" I grinned, she spun around to glare at me. Apparently my hilarious pun had caught her attention. Her eyes flared with anger as she aimed a giant glowing book straight for me.

Just as it was inches away from me, I felt a small wire wrap around my waist. With a sharp yank, I was pulled off to the other side of the street, landing on my butt.
"Oh come on Kitty, that pun was bad even for your standards" I heard her heavenly voice tease.
Following the wire wrapped around my waist I saw it connected to a yo—yo. Standing tall in her black polka dotted red suit, her indigo hair tied in two perfect pigtails, was my Lady.
Ladybug my partner who I had been in love with the very moment I had caught a look into those stunning sky blue eyes. My little cat heart purred with joy and I fell for her hard.
She reached her hand down, offering to help me up. I grabbed it enthusiastically.

Once I was up she turned her attention to the Story Teller. Her eyes rapidly searching for something. She was looking for the special object in which an akuma was hidden. The little bug that could cause a persons deepest angers to take complete control.

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MARINETTE'S POV:

I searched for the akumatized object. It had to be one of these books, that's what she was yelling about before. The only problem was, that there were hundreds of books being tossed around. It made more sense that she would be holding onto it, but I couldn't see it in her hands. I heard people start to yelp in startled cries. The books began to glow and giant swirling lights were pulling people into the pages. Citizens were being sucked into the stories! Once it had claimed a victim the books would snap shut.
"Chat! Stop the books from grabbing anyone else! I'll deal with the Story Teller" I instructed.
Swinging my yo—yo around I latched the end of it onto a nearby street lamp. It pulled me forward and I swung up to perch on the beam.

"Hey Story Teller leave these people alone!" I called to her, I flung my yo—yo at her, whacking her in the arm.
"YOUR'E JUST LIKE THE REST! THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND MY GENIUS. I AM A GODDESS WITH A PEN! AND YOU'RE IN MY STORY NOW!" she bellowed in my direction, eyes now fixated on my form.
Books began to rain down on me. I deflected them by spinning my yo—yo around.
"Chat how's it going down there?" I yelled, hoping that he was doing better than I was.
"Ah, not good. These books just keeping sucking people up!" I heard him struggling to pull something, probably trying to stop someone from being dragged into a book. After a few seconds the yelling of people ceased.

"Bad news my Lady, everyones been locked inside the books"
Great. This was just great.

The books suddenly stopped raining down and I saw that Chat Noir had thrown his staff at the Story Teller, causing her to stumble forward in the air.
She roared again and the ground shook for a moment. My eyes caught a glimpse of a book that looked different to the others, it had an odd purple sheen and was linked on a chain around her waist. That must be it! It had to be.

"Chat! I think I found it! The book around her waist" I called out to him.
"Excellent my Lady, seems like you should judge a book by it's cover" he cheekily responded. That idiot.
I aimed my yo—yo, trying to find an opportunity to throw it and grab the book while Chat distracted her with taunts like 'You look too skinny, did you have your... 'appendix' removed?'
But just as I'd flung it, she seemed to notice the object in the corner of her eye and turned around. Instead of grabbing the book, the yo—yo just bounced off of it and then flicked up and hit her in the face.

A big red imprint was left on her cheek. Her face lit up in fury. Widened eyes glared at me, completely enraged. She raised her hands up and the entire ground began to shake. All of the books that had fallen on the floor and swallowed up the towns people were flying into one giant pile. Pulled together by an invisible force, the books began to join together.

Before I knew it, the pile had moulded into a single giant book, its pages rapidly skimming back and forth, the way it moved. That doesn't look good.

With my eyes fixated on the enormous book below me, I didn't notice the Story Teller moving until it was too late.
"Ladybug look out!" Chat cried.
She sent a wave of pages flying at me, knocking me down off of the lamp post. I began to fall. A large purple vortex was swirling underneath me pulling me in. With a second to react I flung my yo—yo at the closest object to grab onto. It latched itself onto a small tree's branch.
The branch shook, bending with the force of my body pulling it down.
I dangled like a fly caught in a spiders web.
"My Lady hang on!" Chat raced towards me.

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ADRIEN'S POV:

Ladybug was hanging desperately above the vortex. That small branch wasn't going to hold on for much longer, I had to help her. I ran as close as I could without being pulled into the vacuum. I heard a small crack, and just like that the branch snapped off. Without thinking I leaped forward.
"LADYBUG!"

She fell down and just before she was sucked straight into the vortex I crashed into her body. We were both pulled inside the book with a blinding light. Reflexively I wrapped my arms around Ladybug trying to keep us steady as we were dragged down.

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MARINETTE'S POV:

"Ughhhh" I groaned. My head was spinning. I opened my eyes and I saw sand… and water… a beach? Where the heck was I?
Chat.
Where was he?! I recalled that he had flown at me and we'd both been pulled inside of the book. Now I was at a beach sitting on top of a rock. My arms felt weak and my legs felt…odd?
I looked down and screamed.
"MY LEGS!? WHAT HAPPENED TO MY LEGS?!" I looked down and saw, where my two legs should have been, one large red tail. Why the heck did I have a mermaid tail?! Where was Chat?!