Note: Here's the next Chapter guys! I have no idea where I'm going with this but whatever.

Warning: Blood will be spilt in this chapter and there will be a tiny bit of torture, nothing too bad, but for those who get squeamish easily please watch out!

HIDDEN

Adrien was sitting in his desk at school when he noticed something weird.

Marinette, that shy girl who sat behind him, wasn't there.

Sure, she had been late plenty of times, but never absent! Maybe she was sick. He'd have to ask Alya later about that.

It was lunch time and Adrien was sitting at his normal table. He looked over and saw Alya, remembering his question about Marinette, Adrien walked over to her. That's when he saw something that made his skin crawl with suspense. Alya was crying.

"Um, Alya, what is it? Does this have anything to do with Marinette being gone today?"

Alya looked at him with red rimmed eyes and sniffled.

"Marinette disappeared yesterday after school, she hasn't been seen since."

Adrien went cold. He had never really paid much attention to the quiet Marinette, but he still didn't want anything bad to happen to her!

"Oh no, I hope she's ok..."

Alya nodded in agreement, wiped her nose a bit, then wandered off.

Adrien stood there for a bit wondering what could have happened to Marinette.

Unknown to Adrien, the one being who knew what had happened to Marinette was behind him searching for Plagg. Or rather, smelling, for Plagg. Tikki had known from the very beginning that Chat Noir was in Marinettes class. She could smell the camembert seeping around the classroom and knew that that cheese obsessed, glutton of a Kwami was nearby.

Now, Tikki had never had a reason to go searching for Plagg before, choosing instead to let Chat Noir keep his identity a secret.

Now, Tikki began flying around silently, making sure to stay out of sight as she sniffed for that smelly camembert.

Tikki caught the scent trail and began following it.

When Tikki found herself following Adriens trail she almost stopped, thinking she had been following to wrong trail. But her curiosity got the better of her and Tikki began chuckling silently as her suspicion that Chat Noir was Adrien grew.

Tikki flew down to the bag that Adrien always had on him, and gently poked it. There was a slight rustle.

"Plagg?" Tikki whispered.

The rustling stopped. Then a small black form wriggled it's way out of the bag.

"TIKKI?!" Plagg was stunned. What was Tikki doing here? Why wasn't she with Ladybug?

"Uuuuuhhhh, Adrien?"

Plagg tugged the sleeve of the blond boy to get his attention.

"Plagg, I swear, if this is about getting you more cheese the-"

Adrien stopped talking as he turned his head to see the red Kwami staring at him.

"Plagg," Adrien whispered curiously, "who's this?"

"This, my friend, is Tikki, Ladybugs Kwami."

"And why is she here?"

"I don't exactly know."

Tikki piped up as she replied with her carefully thought out explanation.

"Ladybug sent me here to tell you something,"

"Ok, yeah, I can see how that's important, but first, how did you know I was Chat Noir? And are you planning non telling Ladybug who I am?"

"Well, I didn't know you were Chat Noir at first, but I knew he was in this school, the cheese smell was proof of that," Tikki scrunched up her nose in disgust as Plagg chuckled.

"I followed the cheese trail today and found it leading to you, and don't worry, I won't tell Ladybug who you are, that's your secret, not mine."

Adrien let loose a breath of relief.

"Ok, now that that's taken care of, what did Ladybug want you to tell me?"

"Well, you see, there's this girl that Ladybug was watching over yesterday that got kidnapped, her name is Marinette, know her?"

Adriens eyes widened in fear, Marinette had been kidnapped!

"Why did Ladybug want me to know this?"

Adriens voice shook.

"Something came uo, she is unable to help Marinette, she needs your help, will you help?"

Tikki tried hard to keep the desperation out of her voice.

The determination shown in his now set face shined its way through his voice.

"You bet I will."

Marinettes head felt heavy and painful. Her mouth felt like it was full of sour tasting cotton. Her limbs were like lead and she had to work to raise her head.

Squinting her eyes in the painful half-light, Marinette could tell she was in a grungy basement. Her wrists and ankles were chained to a chair and her mouth was gagged by a smelly old rag. Her cheek felt painful. What on earth was she doing here? How did she get here? And why did everything hurt so much?

"Aah, so the Sleeping Beauty awakens!"

Her heart stopped. She remembered that voice. That cold-hearted, cruel, hard voice. Now she remembered what had happened. But that still didn't answer her question as to why she was here.

"Marinette Dupain-Cheng,"

The voice was mocking her. Squinting her eyes even more, Marinette could make out a tall man who looked to be in his mid-thirtys.

"I bet you're wondering what you're doing here, let me answer that question for you,"

Silver metal glinted in his hand as he walked closer to Marinette. Now that she could see his face, Marinette could make out dark brown hair that was buzzcut. His eyes were an icy cold grey.

He raised his small knife to Marinettes jawline, slowly sliding it across leaving a thin trail of scarlet droplets across her pale face. Marinette whimpered. She had never felt so helpless before.

"We have information that Chat Noir and Ladybug go to your school,"

"How did he figure that out?!" Marinette thought in fear that he knew who she was.

"Since you seemed like the one they would miss the most, we have taken you as bait."

Wait, what?!

Bait?

Marinette was thouroughly confused now, not only was she supposed to be bait for herself and Chat Noir, but they thought she was the one everyone would miss the most?

Also, Chat went to her school?

"You see, the boss wants you alive and kicking for when they come,"

Well, that was a plus, at least they weren't going to kill her.

"However,"

Crap, a "however".

Marinette winced at what she knew was coming.

"That doesn't stop me from leaving you bruised and battered for when they come."

The man sneered at her.

"Isn't this going to be fun Marinette?"

He took the small knife and this time, raked it across her forearm.

Marinettes scream was muffled by the gag.

Fun indeed.

Note: so this seems to be going well so far! Should I make this a reveal fic or not? Thanks for reading!

~Nerdqueen395