Marinette awoke in her bed, shaken from the dream. She sat up and yawned deeply as she walked to her desk.
She barely stifled a yelp as she saw her beloved kwami sleeping inside of the same glass jar that the god had made appear in her hands the night prior.
"Tikki!" She yelped and made a beeline for the jar. Opening the lid she waited for the red kwami to shake off her sleep.
"Marinette! I'm sorry that had to happen!" Tikki cried, "The celestial guardian never had appeared to prior Ladybugs before!"
"The Who?!" Marinette threw her hands to her head in shock.
"He's like the god version of the Great Guardian. He is the one who granted the human world with the miraculouses in the first place."
Marinette nodded still in clear confusion. "-wha? What did he mean when he said i had abused Ladybug's power?"
Tikki sighed and shook her head softly.
"Remember when you were battling The Bubbler and you used your miraculous to keep Chloe from kissing Adrien?" Marinette nodded. "Well that, and abandoning Chloe during The Evillustrator and causing her to get akumatized into Antibug-"
"I get it! I wasn't the best Superhero, you don't have to bring up all my faults." Marinette looked to her right.
"It's okay Marinette, this is the pressure of power. As Spiderman says 'With great power comes great responsibility'."
"Who's Spiderman?" Tikki chuckles. Glancing to the readers and winking.
"Don't worry, inside joke."
Marinette curled up around herself on the bed.
"What are we gonna do? Is this even the same family? Do I have completely different friends? What's going to happen?" Tikki gently brushed Marinette's head with her…( paw? Hand? We'll call it a paw for now.) Paw.
"It's okay Marinette. Let's get ready for school and check it out as everything goes on."
So they did. As Marinette head down to check out the rest of her home as she left for school, she saw her Maman and Papa, same as always. They were baking the Morning's treats and Maman was manning the counter.
Marinette sighed in relief at the familiarity of the situation. She happily walked the short distance to school. Greeting Alya at the door.
"Morning Alya!"
"Morning Marinette!" Alya returned her greeting ten-fold. Waving her arm frantically. "Come here girl! I gotta show you this new video of Piáo chóng and Hēi māo!"
Marinette was slightly confused to say the least, but approached her friend anyways.
Alya held up her Cell Phone to display to familiar colour schemes. A woman with a slightly messy bun flew over the building tops of the Chinese neighborhood, the two parts of her hair not in the bun flew beside her face alongside the red ribbons that tied her mask. The mask, with five black dots surrounded by red. Her outfit matching her mask, mainly red with black dots.
Beside her ran a man clad in black. On top of his head sat a cat-head-shaped hat. He held a bamboo staff, also masked, but his was completely black. The video showed the staff miraculously grow to launch himself in the air at the giant serpent woman that they were fighting.
"Ladybug…" Marinette whispered to herself. She reached a hand out to her purse, where Tikki was hiding.
"Yep! That's the meaning of her name anyways… Hey girl, are you alright? You're being preeetty quiet." Alya held out the "E" in pretty.
"Oh no! I'm fine! Just feel like I'm watching a movie or something… Don't their clothes look something along the lines of …Ancient?"
"Well duh! Girl have you not been reading the blog? Those two have confessed that they are many many years old. I quote 'Our magic has been around for many many years. Even before human understanding'. They're so awesome!" Alya held her phone and hands to her chest with a sigh. "I wish I could meet at least ONE of them to get my own interview! But they're all the way in China!" Marinette felt a pulse flow through her body. Alya made a wish. One that Marinette is really sure that she can do!
"Don't worry Alya! I'll do anything in my power to get you an interview with them!"
To that Alya just laughed. She clapped her hand on Marinette's back and led her inside.
"Yeah, and I'm a superhero too!" She laughed again as she sat down.
Marinette huffed and pulled out her stuff for class. She overheard the piercing scream of Chloe meeting Adrien in the hallway.
" ADRIKINNNNNNS!" UGH, this was going to be an interesting morning.
The two walked in the classroom, Chloe clamped around Adrien's arm like a bear trap. The look on his face surely showed the pain of being caught in one. She felt pulses throughout her body, looking at the model she felt a blush fill her face.
"Ugh, there she is tormenting poor model-boy again. Somebody should...help. Them." Alya accentuated each of the last two words with nudges to Marinette's arm.
"Go help your crush girl! Be the hero he falls for!" Alya whispers to her.
Marinette protested red faced but when Chloe saw the two she sneered.
"Oh look! Looks like Maritrash's face broke out in a Mari-rash!"
Marinette glared an icy fire. The blush fading from her face. And a stone cold determined look surfaced.
"Well at least I don't need to act like a rabid animal to get someone's attention."
She thought she heard a little metallic or glass sound in the distance, but she ignored it as she continued to try to get Chloe off of Adrien.
"He clearly does NOT feel comfortable with you calling him 'Adrikins' let alone you glomping all over him like an Anaconda. So release him and stop acting like an animal." She pointed to Chloe threateningly. "You always flaunt about how you're the Mayor's daughter, so ACT. LIKE. IT." She watched as Chloe stiffly let go of Adrien's arm. Chloe growled and put up a threatening pose as well.
"Listen Here Mari-wreck. If you ever talk like that again to me, I'll get daddy to kick you out of Paris!" Chloe yelled the last part and threw a punch at Marinette.
Marinette easily caught the fist due to her lightning reflexes and twisted the Blonde's arm behind her back. Resting the rich brat's arm between her shoulder blades, she sighed.
"I was hoping you wouldn't get violent. But I guess that was too much to ask." Marinette let her go. "Please, until you learn respect to others, leave all of us alone."
Marinette went up to Adrien, in Ladybug mode she apologized. "I'm sorry for all that, it's just, she was being so clingy and you looked uncomfortable, I wanted to help. I apologize if you think it went too far, she is your friend after all."
Without waiting for a response Marinette walked back to her seat. Another soft ping echo'd through her ears. She let the class pass by quickly. Ignoring Alya's frantic taps and notes until the bell rang.
"Yes Alya?" Marinette asked as they packed up for the next class.
"Girl! Since when were you so snappy! A-And those moves! Oh my GOSH girl! You talked to Adrien! IN FULL SENTENCES!" Alya was basically screaming, until marinette covered her mouth with her hand.
Marinette chuckled. "Well to explain those moves… A friend taught them to me." She brushed her hand against her purse. "A-and I'm sick of Chloe tormenting Adrien like that! He doesn't like to be in that position. And it doesn't feel too nice to see that happen so… I wanted to help."
"Mari, if he wasn't in love with you by that point he must be now!"
"Why?" She glances up to see Adrien's back as he runs out of the hallway.
She starts blushing all over again.
"I-I I uhhhh …"she trails and stops in her tracks.
Alya chuckles and pushes Marinette to their next class.
The rest of the day passes in a blur. She finishes the school day with no more exciting happenstance or moments.
"Welcome home, dear!" Marinette hears her Mom call.
"Hi Maman! Hi Papa!" She waves at them.
"That's a cute jar you have in your room honey. Are you collecting paper stars?" Marinette stops on her way up to her room.
"You were in my room?" She asked, she didn't mind, but she wanted to know.
"Yeah, just cleaning up your clothes on the floor." Marinette smiled and called "Okay" as she ascended.
Tikki flew out of her purse and flew to the jar. Look Marinette! Two bright green stars! You're fulfilling wishes already!"
Marinette was perplexed, how had she gotten two wishes done already?
Who could they be from? Maybe it's connected to the person somehow…
Oh well, Marinette'll figure it out later. For now she has hell- whoops **Homework! Stupid autocorrect! (Not Autocorrect)