Author's Note: I promised myself I would write a fic until I was up to date. But, since I'm watching the show in English, it doesn't seem like that will be any time soon. Unless I post this after I'm up to date, and make this note entirely pointless. I will try to stay true to the canon as much as possible, but I am using OCs and Head Canons also. But I'm rambling, so I'll leave you with this first chapter. Set after episode 12 "Darkblade." Hope you enjoy.^^
Chapter One: The City of Romance.
Lea Keller, born and raised in Somerset, England, had been horrified to find out she was moving to France. Her parents, who had both grown up in Germany, had settled in England after finding out that Lea's mother was pregnant. Lea knew they loved to travel, but she had a life in England. Her friends lived in England, and her exams would be coming up soon. She'd have to take them in French, she realised. She'd taken German as one of her GSCEs in school, although her mother had been teaching her anyway, now she knew why they wanted her to take French as well.
She buttoned up her coat as she sauntered through the rainy English weather. Her last day in the country, and she was spending it walking around aimlessly in the rain. Her phone was ringing constantly; some random piece of music she'd heard in an advert once and liked the sound of. Eventually, she ducked under a bus stop and answered her phone.
"Hallo, Mutti," she greeted her mother, whose name had been displayed on her caller ID.
Her mother ranted at her in German for a few minutes. She was clearly angry that Lea had left before dinner without saying anything. Inevitably, Lea had let her mother persuade her to come home. And the next morning, the family of four were boarding a plane to France.
It was a week before Lea could start school. Kerstin and Axel Keller wanted to make absolute sure that their children were fully moved in, familiar with the surrounding area, and fluent enough in French before starting school. Oliver was only six, and would be starting Primary School. Kerstin had called ahead to warn them of Oliver's vague understanding of the French language. Despite the fact that Lea had been unwilling to move, she'd quickly changed her mind once they arrived. Her parents were relieved when she'd expressed a wish to explore Paris more thoroughly.
She was the first to wake up on her first day of school. Lea combed through her medium length mousey brown hair. She pulled on a pair of large head phones, using them to pin back her hair so it wouldn't fall back into her turquoise eyes. After applying a thin layer of lip gloss and minimal mascara, she located some clean underwear and put them on. Then she wrestled with a pair of jeans and tugged on her favourite Tshirt. She plugged her headphones into her phone and pressed play, then headed downstairs to make some breakfast. Fifteen minutes later, she was sprinting down the street, eagerly awaiting her first day of school.
There was a loud crash, not that Lea heard it with her music on, and a car landed on the pavement in front of her. She screamed and turned to flee, but another car blocked her path. She pulled her headphones down and let them sit around her shoulders, watching crowds of people disperse. A loud roar erupted from behind the car, almost made comical by the fact that she could hear The Trick to Life by The Hoosiers playing through her headphones. She swallowed, and crouched down on the ground, as a large green head peered over the car. Before Lea could scream again, a black clad figure flung themselves at the monster and started hitting it with a stick. They shouted something over their shoulder, and another person, dressed in red this time, joined them. There was a brief struggle with the reptilian beast, before the female, who seemed to be dressed as a ladybird, pried something from the creature's hand and destroyed it. The reptile started to glow and shrink, and soon became a frail looking elderly woman. The red girl shouted something at a little butterfly and things around them started fixing themselves. Lea was breath taken as the cars flew away to their respective parking spaces.
The girl, who wore a skin tight red and black polka dotted suit, turned to high five the boy, who wore a skin tight black suit with cat ears and a tail.
"We didn't even use our powers, nice," the guy exclaimed.
The old woman behind them was thanking them profusely.
"What just happened?" Lea inquired, keeping her eyes on the woman who had presumably been about to eat her.
"Are you new to Paris?" The girl asked.
"We're Ladybug and Cat Noir, protectors of Paris and all its inhabitants," the guy announced excitedly, beaming at her.
"Well, thanks, I guess," Lea replied. "I need to get to school now."
They both gasped in unison. And Lea smirked as they hurried away in opposite directions. Her first day of school was already more exciting than she'd expected, and she hadn't even reached the school yet.
Lea tried ducking into the classroom unnoticed, but her teacher spotted her immediately. The lesson had already started, but Lea was called up to introduce herself anyway.
"My name is Lea Keller," Lea said uncertainly."I grew up in England, but my parents are from Germany. I have a little brother, and I moved here last week."
Ms Bustier asked Lea to find a seat once she was done, and Lea immediately headed to the back of the room. Her heart was still racing from her encounter with the "Protectors of Paris" and she guessed that the move wouldn't be as boring as she had initially thought.