Hello everyone! I'm here with my latest fanfiction obsession - that being The Miraculous Tales of Ladybug and Chat Noir.
There were many fanfiction ideas and prompts that flew through my mind as I was reading fanfictions. This will be mainly written in a 3RD Person POV.
Disclaimer: Miraculous Ladybug and Chat Noir do not belong to me. There will be also be a lot of music involved with this fic, they belong to their respective owners. Only thing I own are my ideas and the plot.
And now on to the fic! Hope you enjoy
Currently the Bluenette was sitting in a recording studio to meet Nino. She usually collaborated with Nino for clothing or cover art, seeing as she does the same for Jagged Stone as well. This was a different situation though, Nino had asked her sing a featur in his album, maybe even have a few tracks of her own. "Entertainment and Fashion were two industries that were very intertwined, but then again fashion was something that was involved in ALMOST everything." Marinette thought.
Her thoughts idly back on her lycée years, and the bittersweet end of everyone going their seperate ways in life whether it was Université or jobs, well except for herself and Nino. Marinette had stayed in Paris was currently working in her family's boulangerie all the while running an online shop where she sold her designs. While Nino had become a successful DJ within the entertainment world thanks to Marinette's connections with Jagged Stone.
Each of her former classmates had gone their seperate ways. Adrien had left for America due to his modeling career and his dad's company. Which really saddened Marinette, as she hadn't been able to confess her buried feeling for him, she was doubly-struck with sadness when Alya had gotten accepted in to a Université in Belgium. While Marinette had been upset that her first love and best friend were going so far away for who knows how long she knew how much it meant to both of them (maybe not so much as for Adrien, but his excitement to go was obvious), so she tried to put on a brave face but bid them both a tearful goodbye on their departures. Nino being there as well shedding his own tears for his own reasons, his best bro was going away, but what had hurt him more was that Alya had put their relationship hold, which killed him a bit on the inside.
Releasing a small sigh Marinette stroked the cover of her old diary with a wistful look of rememberance, perhaps it was a bit of Nino's influence but it seemed that whatever she now wrote or read could be readjusted into a poem or lyrics. Opening up the diary the familiar words washed over her, the diary seemed to whipser back to Marinette of her feelings about her days, her crush on Adrien, Chat Noir's puns, her friendships, the troubles of being the Heroine, Ladybug.
Speaking of ladybugs and chats, Tikki and Plagg were always ever the secret support Marinette had appreciated and cherished throughout the years. How Plagg came in to her care, was a bit of a shocker. She fiddled with the ring that was on her right thumb. The public seemed enthusiastic of her being Lady (She has so many names the public made up for her Chatte/Lady Noire/Lucky Cat, there were too many to the point that she just told the to just call her Lady), once they put things together that she was now a combination of Ladybug and Chat Noir. Some questioned where her Chat Noir went, but kept silent telling them that she was now doing things on her own, but she'll be even more vigilant than before.
Despite the fact Hawkmoth seemed to have to have mysteriously disappeared at the end of lycée, the two kwami had stayed with her and Ladybug still watched over Paris, being ever so vigilant, silently waiting for the other shoe to drop. Hawkmoth's sudden activities having stopped made her paranoid at first, especially since Chat Noir seemed to have gone missing. THAT had been the worst blow she had received. It was later the same day that Alya and Adrien had taken off their respective flights that she had been summoned by Master Fu.
-Flashback-
"Ladybug, please come in." The Guardian beckoned her in to his abode. She instictively took off her shoes at the entrance, then followed him to his living room where he had tea and snacks awaiting them. Wayzz already sitting on the table next to his own kwami sized cup of tea. Opening her purse Marinette had coaxed her kwami out. Tikki greeted Wayzz with a nuzzle and Master Fu with a smile, before she perched herself near her chosen.
"Master Fu, why did you call us? Is there an issue?" Tikki had voiced what was on both her and Marinette's minds. Master Fu had a solemn look on his usually kindred face, "It's about your Chat Noir."
Marinette and Tikki where about to jump to question him but the Guardian held up a hand silencing them both, "He had given back his Miraculous earlier today," he brought out the ring which was soon followed by a Black Cat looking Kwami lazily floating over to Tikki, "This is Plagg, the cat Kwami in charge of Chat Noir's Miraculous. As I was saying before, Chat Noir had come to me saying he would be traveling out of the country due to personal matters and would not know when he would be able to come back." During Master Fu's explanation Plagg had floated over to sit with Tikki, feeling he needed to be close.
The words had struck something deep within Marinette, sadness and something else-something that she couldn't name. "He never...he didn't tell me anything about this..." Tears slowly making their descent down her face, a complete and utter look of sadness on her face.
Master Fu look on feeling distraught for the heroine, Tikki floated up nuzzling Marinette's cheek in an attempt to comfort her.
Plagg however had surprised everyone within the room by going to Marinette's other cheek, giving her a nuzzle and letting out a deep yet comforting purr. Marinette looked at Plagg with confusion filling her eyes. He kept up his purr to comfort the sad girl "My chat, didn't have a choice in leaving, Princess." He look her in the eye, "Besides how would he be able to explain why or how would he-as Chat would be in the country that he was in?" Plagg shook he head, "His reasoning was something that I couldn't understand completely, but I do know he had you in mind when he made this decision."
Thinking on it Marinette had a thought strike her hard, "What do I do now? I protect Paris on my own?"
Tikki and Plagg shared a look, "You could use both Miraculous Jewels.." this came from Master Fu, but it seemed to make Marinette even more confused.
-Flashback end-
After gaining the ability to transform with both Plagg and Tikki, it had taken her a while to get used to the new set of powers she had gained. With that she got some more stress, since it was also something new of having to get used to the new senses. It wasn't something that she could handle on her own, before she had Chat Noir to share the burden with, but now that she was acting on her own as Lady...she had gone to Nino to be a confidant. At first he was confused and surprised, but he turned out to be supportive to the point of almost marching to Master Fu with the hindsight of getting a Miraculous from him to be even more of a support. Shockingly Nino wasn't denied but he also wasn't accepted, Master Fu seemed to be evaluating Nino, but he shooed them both away with a deep look of thought on his face.
Going back to the current situation... Music wasn't her specialty, Marinette mused, no that was more of Nino's are of expertise. She was an artist, albeit not like Nathanaël as she was more into designing and fashion. Marinette idly thought back to the reason she was currently in the recording studio that belonged to her dark skinned friend, sure it was a sort of a business deal-but she saw it more as a favor. Nino had arrived and swooped her up into a hug, which startled her out of her memory stroll.
"Thanks for agreeing to help Mari!" Nino grinned widely at his long time friend. Returning his smile with her own Marinette gestured to a notepad next to her Diary. "I have the lyrics for your beats, DJ. I'm ready when you are." Nino seemed giddy to to hear what hear what she came up with and gestured her in to the booth while he manned the sound system.
Walking in Marinette gave him a copy of the lyrics she had written from her diary entry, She pick up the headset sitting on the lyric stand. Placing the papers on the stand she cued Nino to play the soundtrack.
Nino gave her a smile and a nod as he started the music, and hit record for the music. Discreetly he hit the record for the camera to record Marinette's singing within the booth. Closing her eyes and taking a breath she drew on her Lady confidence, she started to sing.
She gave it her best
She tried to fit in
She tried to be cool
But she never could win
Her mom says she's great
The kids think she's weird
Honestly she wish she could disappear
At one point she closed her eyes, just stopped reading the lyrics and was going with the rhythm. The lyrics all but burned in to her mind.
Why you try, try to be like the rest of them
When you know there's so much more within
There's only one you
Here's what ya' gotta do
Whoa, whoa...
Anytime you feel alone, put on your headphones
Love, love's coming through your headphones
Anytime you feel alone, put on your headphones
Love, love's coming through your headphones
L-o-o-ove is coming through your headphones
L-o-o-ove is coming through your headphones
Nino was stunned by the emotion Marinette put in to the song. He had a feeling this was written based off of when they were still in Lycée. How she felt about herself, how she felt towards Adrien. Nino felt a pang of sympathy and understanding, Alya had seemed to have completely drifted away from him. The next verse surprised him however.
He gets in his car
He falls apart
It came to an end
And now it's breaking his heart
He wants to give up
Wants to try again
Honestly he doesn't know what he's feeling
Hey, you might not see it with your eyes
But keep your head up to the sky
The sun is coming through
Here's what you gotta do
Marinette's eyes opened and made instant contact with Nino's, she smiled conveying to him that the song wasn't about Adrien, but for the both herself and Nino. He beamed at his friend's thoughtfulness.
Whoa, whoa...
Anytime you feel alone, put on your headphones
Love, love's coming through your headphones
Anytime you feel alone, put on your headphones
Love, love's coming through your headphones
L-o-o-ove is coming through your headphones
L-o-o-ove is coming through your headphones
So keep your head up high and dust off your shoulders
It's alright, no, it's not over
Love is here, it came to dry up all your tears
Oh, can you feel it
Gotta believe it, gotta see it
By your side in the middle of the night
So keep your head up high and the dust off your shoulders
It's alright, no it's not over
He chuckled at the irony of the lyrics she had wrote. Nino was known to be a bit of a headphone lover. The joke wasn't lost on him, the fact Marinette added that in to the song was a nice touch.
Anytime you feel alone, put on your headphones
Love, love's coming through your headphones
Anytime you feel alone, put on your headphones
Love, love's coming through your headphones
L-o-o-ove is coming through your headphones
L-o-o-ove is coming through your headphones
So keep your head up high and dust off your shoulders
Coming through your headphones
So keep your head up high and dust off your shoulders
Coming through your headphones
Marinette made her voice go a bit softer to add a dreamy and soft feel to the ending to the ending. A sparkle in her eye as she sang.
Twinkle, twinkle in your eye
Listen to this lullaby
The sun is shining in the sky
I see love it's in your eyes
This ain't the first time you felt like this
This ain't the first time, this ain't the first time
This ain't the last time you'll feel like this
But it'll be fine
If you can just, smile.
She smiled widely at the end, and gave Nino a peace sign as he gave her an exuberant thumbs up.
The song is called Headphones by Britt Nicole
Sorry to cut this a bit short guys but this will be it for the night
I hope you enjoyed the first chapter! Let me know what other songs I should include for later on in the story!
until next time ma petit cher