Ladybug and Chatnoir were on top of the Eiffel Tower looking over the moonlit city of Paris. The two looked out in comfortable silence, neither wanted to break this moment. Suddenly a howl resounded through the city and before either of them could think the pair had leapt towards the source of the howl.
When the two had arrived at the scene the creature was gone but a trail of destruction had been left in his wake.
"I have a howling suspicion this isn't a normal akuma ladybug." Chat said with a grin.
Ladybug rolled her eyes "Chat I don't think this is the time to be joking." She replied as they heard police sirens not to far away. "Let's go."
The scene before the two was nothing they expected, a food truck had been toppled on its way to deliver its cargo, a massive hole was ripped in the back and something was making a racket inside.
"This is the police, come out with your hands up." Officer Roger said into a megaphone. They all waited in silence with only the disgusting sounds of something gobbling food, ripping and tearing meat muffled by the truck causing an eerie echo. Minutes passed, then silence, followed by heavy footsteps against the metal of the truck. The hand reached out and grabbed the side of the truck to steady himself, the hand was covered in fur and blood with sharp clawed fingers easily bending the metal where he grabbed. Next came the rest of him, his body was covered in fur and was taller than the truck, which was toppled on its side, he had to duck to be able to walk inside of it. His face was elongated into a snout with many sharp teeth, his face was covered in blood from his recent meal. His eyes looked from the police officers, then to the rooftop where Ladybug and Chatnoir were. Before anyone could make a move the beast leapt to a different rooftop and started galloping on all fours. Everyone stood there in stunned silence from what they just saw. Ladybug and Chatnoir were the first to react and followed the creature all across Paris however they lost the creatures trail after an hour they decided to call off the search and get some sleep.
"I can't believe it Tikki, what was that?" Marinette asked her kwami once she detransformed inside her room.
"I believe it was a werewolf." Tikki said as calm as ever.
"But how can that exist?" Marinette was frustrated with how calm Tikki was about this.
"Marinette, I am a being that gives you the ability to be a superhero. You and I aren't so different from it at a certain level and I've met a few of them in my few thousand years, we'll be fine now that he's eaten something. Now get some sleep, it's the first day of school tomorrow."
"Alright Tikki, good night."
The next day Marinette woke up with plenty of time to get ready for her first day, she wore her normal outfit and made her way to school to meet up with Alya and Nino and Adrien, she had gotten close to Adrien once the two of them started to hang out more she let her ladybug confidence take over to help her stutter around him and the two were good friends. The four of them met outside the doors and walked in to the new year.
Their first class was biology with Mr. Pierce a new teacher from London.
Marinette and Alya sat at a table with Adrien and Nino across from them, there were five other tables set up this way. Marinette looked around the room, Rose and Juleka along with Max and Kim were at at table but other than those four she didn't know the other students.
"Where's the teacher?" Adrien asked looking around the room.
"No idea, maybe he needed to use the bathroom?" Nino offered "besides he's got like five minutes."
The door opened and a tall, handsome man walked through, he carried himself with great confidence. His hair was wild and nearly untamed, his rugged chin was covered in a five o'clock shadow. His shirt was left untucked and flowed around his body hiding the muscles underneath. He wore khakis and sneakers. His grey eyes observed the class as he walked to his desk, he placed the old leather book on his desk when the bell rang.
"Alright class, I am Jaiden Pierce and I will be your biology teacher for the year. I am originally from London but chose to move out here for personal reasons. Does anyone have any questions?" Silence was his only response. "Ok then let's take roll."
The rest of the day passed uneventful however all of the girls were swooning over how hot the new teacher was and the fact that he was still single caused a small riot in the girls locker room. As the last bell rang Marinette went to see Jaiden is his classroom, if she was going to have any chance at surviving a science class she needed all the help she could get.
"Mr. Pierce?" Marinette said shyly as she entered the room.
"Yes." Jaiden looked up from the book he was reading, Marinette couldn't see a title on the old leather cover,
"Um, I was wondering if there was anything you could do to help me with this class, I'm terrible at anything science related and I really don't want to get another d in a class."
"Marinette was it, you are more than welcome to come here whenever you have questions on the homework, but the only way you'll do well in this class is if you do the work and study." He said in an oh so low voice that made her shudder. "However, I do have a question about the local antics of the superhero's and super villains of Paris."
"Oh, what's that?" Marinette was curious as to what his question was.
"You see," Jaiden has put his book down and had walked over to a book shelf to grab a new one and started flipping through the pages, "whenever a villain is defeated a black and purple butterfly would appear and Ladybug would catch it and release it white. Do you know what type of butterfly it is?"
"No, I don't think anyone has really thought about before." Marinette answered realizing she didn't think to find out as Ladybug.
"Oh well, just a thought." Jaiden closed the book he was looking through and walked back to his desk and sat down. "Well if you don't have any other questions you probably want to go spend the rest of the day with your friends, wouldn't you agree?"
"Yeah, Although I have one last question. What's that book you're reading?"
"Oh this, it's a silly book that I found in a used bookstore, is on werewolf's and vampires and other supernatural creatures, I dabble in little bits of the supernatural and enjoy reading about such things in my free time."
"Ok," Marinette says as she starts to walk out of the room, "good night Mr. Pierce,"
"Good night Marinette, however if you wish to call me Jaiden I wouldn't mind." Jaiden said with a wolffish grin.
Marinette felt her face grow flush at the idea that the hot teacher was flirting with her and she hurried off.
Marinette made it home and rushed up to her room after saying hello to her parents and plopped down on her bed, "Tikki, what was that?"
"What was what?" The little red Kwami asked fully knowing what her chosen was talking about.
"Was Mr. Pierce flirting with me?" Marinette's face grew flushed at the thought of him.
"Marinette I'm sure he was just being nice, besides if you make it clear that you don't want that kind of relationship, flirting or otherwise I'm sure he'd be just fine with it. He might not even have thought that he was flirting with you."
"I suppose you're right, I'll talk to him about it after class tomorrow, luckily I don't have homework so I can actually relax. Although I'll want to get a look at that book he has, maybe he can help me figure out what that was last night."
"It wouldn't hurt. Although you're bouncing around your room like a maniac so you might want to go for a walk before dinner."
"What are you talking," Marinette cut herself off as she finally noticed that she went from her bed, to her chaise and then to her desk chair and mindlessly spinning. "Oh, yeah I think a walk will be good."
As Marinette walked out of the bakery she noticed that Jaiden was just leaving the school she jogged over to him and called out to him.
"Mr. Pierce."
"Oh Marinette, what are you still doing here?"
"Oh I live over there," Marinette pointed to the bakery, "and I decided to go for a walk."
"Ah, was there something else you wanted to talk about or did you just need to say hi?"
"Oh right, um, were you flirting with me earlier when you asked me to call you by your first name?" Marinette said he cheeks felt like they were on fire.
"Oh, no that wasn't my intention at all." The two had started walking towards the park with the statue of Ladybug and Chatnoir across the street a child was chasing a ball into the street when a car came speeding down the road. Jaiden reacted without hesitation, he charged to the kid and shoved him out of the street, the squeal of tires desperately trying to stop drowned out every noise in the area followed by the smack of the car colliding with Jaiden body, he was thrown into the windshield of the car leaving a sickening crack. The car stopped and Jaidens limp body rolled off the hood and landed on the pavement. The child's mother was holding her son tightly with tears streaming down her face at the though of losing her son. Marinette ran over to Jaiden calling an ambulance as she moved. The driver was unconscious due to the air bags being deployed. Jaiden was breathing but not conscious, when the ambulance arrived they rushed him to the hospital and Marinette's parents had seen the display and took their daughter inside. Marinette didn't eat much or get much sleep.
The next morning Marinette felt like death, she was running a little late but she doubted the sub would care, besides Alya had her back. When she entered the classroom she dropped her bag to the floor and without thinking she ran and gave Mr.Pierce a hug as if her life depended on it.