Chapter 1 the date.
Disclaimer: I don't own Miraculous Ladybug in this story is if Marinette was meant for the Fox medallion. This is a Marinette x Nathaniel don't like don't care. This is inspired by imthepunchlord's Lucky Fox Paradox who said I could make this. Thanks to Silverbell2002 for your help and promise.
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Thought.
Outside POV
The events of the day played in Marinette's mind as she laid on her bed; first with Nathaniel being humiliated in front of the whole class and later with Chloe being attacked in the library by falling berets and a giant hairdryer. Luckily, Ladybug and Chat Noir came and saved her. While the thought settled in, Marinette didn't see a figure standing outside her window.
Suddenly a strange noise came from the window next to her and Marinette turned to see the glass disappearing, a figure soon walking in a minute later. She became frightened as the strange looking person came further into her room. He had on a white shirt with black lines with yellow, blue, and red circles in the middle of his chest. He also had what looked like a sketch pad and a pen tightly clasped in his hand. His red hair faded into a purple at the tips that matched his skin, a black mask emphasizing his green eyes.
By this point, Marinette was freaking out and backed away, her voice shaking as she asked, "W-Who are you?"
"I'm the Evillustrator." The voice sounded familiar.
"Nathaniel, is that you?" Marinette was a bit surprised as he nodded his head and she continued, "Why are you here? Are you here to hurt me?"
He looked shocked but quickly assured her, "No I would never! You're Marinette, the sweetest and most perfect girl I have ever seen. Not like Chloe, who is evil and vile; I could never hurt you."
Marinette blushed at his comment and Nathaniel drew something on his sketchpad, a piece of paper soon came out of nowhere, gently floating towards Marinette. She caught it and read the short sentence, admiring the drawings that came with it. It was an invitation to Nathaniel's birthday party.
"Today is your birthday." Marinette's eyes widen in realization and looked up to ask, "Why didn't you tell anyone?"
He didn't reply.
Feeling bad that Nathaniel got akumatized on his birthday, Marinette decided to make the best out of the situation, "I'll go to your birthday party, Nathaniel," A smile lit up his face and Marinette quickly added, "But you have to stop attacking Chloe, I hate violence,"
He agreed, saying how happy he was and told her where and when to meet him. After exiting the window, he came from, he drew the glass back in place. Marinette wrote the place and time on a notebook, soon getting a call from Sabrina asking to meet in the library to work on their project together, which Marinette said yes. As she leaves, she tells her parents that she was going to come home late. On a roof across the street, a woman in a fox custom watched as Marinette ran to the school.
As Marinette reached the library, she saw Sabrina waiting outside. Sabrina waved and waving back, Marinette's notebook slipped out of her grip. Sabrina bent down and grabbed it for Marinette, seeing the note Marinette had written minutes beforehand; Evillustrator hastily written above. A puzzled look crossed Sabrina's face and Marinette said she would explain once they got inside. They went to a secluded place and Marinette told her everything. Sabrina was shocked that her new friend was going on a date with an akuma to save Chloe.
"I thought you hated her," Sabrina whispered.
"True, I don't like her. But that doesn't mean I want her to be attacked, especially with the attitude she has afterward," Marinette informed Sabrina, who nodded in agreement.
A few hours passed by as the two girls worked on their project, soon going their separate ways as they left the school. But instead of going home, Sabrina went to find Alya, knowing if anyone could in touch with Ladybug and Chat Noir, it's her. After a while, Sabrina saw Adrien and headed towards him.
"Adrien, have you seen Alya by any chance?" She asked him.
"What do you need her for?" Hesitating for a moment, Sabrina decides to fill Adrien in on Marinette's plans to meet Evillustrator that evening. He was taken aback a bit but quickly told her where she might find Alya and left running.
Adrien's POV
I thought that today would be another fun easy day but was mistaken as an akuma showed up in school; attacking Chloe and resulting with me having to guard her for most of the afternoon and do some of her work. After Ladybug came and switched places with me, I was going to meet up with Nino and Alya to work on our project when I ran into Sabrina, asking me where Alya was and telling me something that frightened me.
Running to a place where I could transform, I pulled out my phone and opened the Ladyblog seeing a message for Ladybug and me. Once I found a quiet place Plagg came out and before he began protesting, I called out, "Plagg, claws out."
After Plagg was pulled into the miraculous, I was transformed into Chat Noir and raced to Ayla's house. I saw Ladybug and went to her side, her sky-blue hair flashed in the sun and her green eyes danced behind her mask.
I looked over and asked her, "You saw the blogger's post?" She nodded, and we set off again.
As we reached Alya's house, we saw Alya pacing outside on her balcony. She saw us and quickly explained the situation with Marinette. We went to the bridge that was said to be the meet-up point and waited. As we waited, Ladybug said out loud;
"This girl is either brave or stupid." I wanted to retort but even I had to agree to what she said so instead said, "She's trying to protect someone from harm, so we can cut her a break." Ladybug shrugged and looked at the river as the sun turned it a light orange.
After half an hour passed by, we finally saw Marinette walk up to the bridge. As she got about halfway over the bridge, a boat came down the river, the akumatized victim standing on the bow of the boat. He must have spotted Marinette because he stopped the boat and drew a platform for Marinette to climb aboard. Once she was safely on, they began to move again.
Marinette's POV
When I got on the boat I was impressed by the whole thing, the details must have taken him forever to do.
"You did this all by yourself Nathaniel?" He nodded sheepishly but his face glowed with pride and I smiled as we sailed down the river. "Sorry that I don't have a present for you."
He shook his head and blushed a little, "Don't worry about it, your company is all I need. Sorry if that's too cheesy."
He led me to a bench where we sat side by side and I gently laid my head on his shoulder, noticing how his blush from earlier turned a deeper red. As we sat there with only the sound of water lapping the side of the boat, I thought that I saw someone on the side of the river looking back at us. Before I could say anything, Ladybug and Chat Noir jumped on the boat looking at Nathaniel with determined eyes and weapons ready. Nathanial was surprised by the superhero duo and stopped the boat, quickly drawing a bridge as a hint for me to leave.
Before running away, I turned to Nathaniel and kissed his cheek happily whispering, "Happy birthday Nathaniel."
He blushed, and I ran with the sounds of the battle fading behind me. As I reached the bakery, I saw Ladybug's restoring ladybugs zoom past, a blur of red and black. I walked inside and went straight to bed, tired after my adventurous day.
?'s POV
Once the girl's light was off, I jumped onto her balcony, careful not to wake the sleeping girl under me. I de-transformed and Trixx, the fox kwami, came out of my miraculous.
"Are you sure you should do this?" Trixx asked, settling into my cupped hands for the last time.
I nodded, taking off the miraculous and Trixx was magically pulled back into it. I pulled out a box and placed the neckless gently in, feeling its warm surface once more. I crept in her room and placed the box on her desk. To the darkness and sleeping girl, I whispered: "You will have a tough choice kid and I'm sorry." As I left the moonlight turned my blond hair to a pale yellow and I quickly got off the balcony and ran off.
TBC sorry if this isn't what you expected but this is the best, I could come up with so far who is the mystery person?