Chapter 2:
Only 2 days away from "Ladybug and Chat Noir Day", and everyone was setting up for the festival to honor them. From merchandise to balloons to parade floats, everyone was super excited. Even the students at Françoise Dupont were getting ready for the big festival. Ms. Bustiers's class was working on a float of their own. Everyone pitched in, even Chloe. Adrien felt pretty honored to have a day dedicated to him [well as Chat Noir] while Marinette was slightly embarrassed by it. The two were standing next to each other gluing streamers to the sides of the float. Marinette went to grab for the glue the same time Adrien did, and their hands touched. They immediately pulled back. Adrien noticed Marinette blushing a bit, and he turned away to hide his embarrassment.
"Haha, guess this is the second time this happened," laughed Adrien.
"Oh! Uh, yea, haha, weird right?" Marinette stuttered as she was thinking that she will never wash her hand that Adrien touched.
"Oh ADRIKINS! Let's work on this side of the float together!" screamed Chloe as she pushed Marinette aside and went up to hug Adrien.
"Marinette are you okay?" asked Adrien.
"Yeah, I'm fine." responded Marinette as she was ready to go all Ladybug up on Chloe's butt, but she held in her anger and left to join Alya and Nino, whom were working on the other side of the float.
Adrien sighed and was stuck in the clutches of Chloe. He watched as Marinette walked over to join their friends. Marinette explained what happened to Alya and Nino as she pointed over to Chloe and Adrien. The two laughed and soon Marinette laughed as well.
"Marinette, it's such a shame that you couldn't spend some more time with Adrien," said Nino. [Nino told Marinette the truth about Alya telling him who was Marinette's crush. At first both Alya and Marinette were mad, but after talking things out, Marinette was cool with Nino, and became good friends with him.]
"It's okay Nino, I get too nervous to talk to him anyway," replied Marinette.
"Girl, you need to face Adrien and talk to him normally. How are you ever going to confess to him?" lectured Alya.
"Confess?!" Marinette screamed and then quickly covered her mouth, realizing how loud she was being. "I'm not going to confess, or not yet at least."
"Then what were you going to do, continue looking at Adrien from afar and fangirling at his pictures in your room forever?" said Alya impatiently.
"Maybe…" replied Marinette.
Alya smiled and gave in to her best friend, giving her a hug. The three continued working on the float along with the rest of the class. Adrien, unfortunately, was stuck with Chloe and Sabrina.
Meanwhile, somewhere, in another part of Paris, a chef was preparing the dough to make cookies for the festival…
"Oh Chef Michael! We have ten orders already!" cried a waiter.
"Don't worry, I can handle that," smiled Chef Michael.
Just as the chef was finished preparing the dough and was about to start on the orders, the restaurant manager came in.
"Michael! What on Earth are you doing? There are hungry customers out there. Hurry and pick up the pace!" yelled the manager.
"Just a moment sir, I'm just about to put the cookie dough away so I can start on the orders." said Chef Michael opening the fridge.
The angry manager swatted the bowl of dough out of Michael's hands as it fell to the floor and spilled everywhere.
"Who cares about some stupid cookie dough. The customers are more important. Now clean this up," scuffed the manager as he left to cater to the customers.
"Are you alright Chef?" asked the waiter, feeling helpless.
"Sigh. It took me two days to perfect the recipe for the best cookies to serve at the festival. I'm sorry, I need a moment," Chef Michael exclaimed getting up and leaving through the back door.
"Don't worry. I will clean it up for you." said the waiter.
Chef Michael banged his hands against the wall. Countless times, he has been dealing with the horrible manager's abuse, and not just him, the whole staff as well. He's normally calm and collected, but right now, he was mad. Hawkmoth had sensed the anger and knew it was time again to strike.
"Go my little akuma, help the chef whip up a plan against the tyrant manager." smiled Hawkmoth as he turned the glowing white butterfly into a black crystallized akuma. Then, off the little one flew to it's new victim. It landed on the chef's hat, and he was soon transformed. His chef hat grew longer and was dyed in rainbows of frosting and hair changed from blonde to a dark chocolate brown. The chef's skin started to change into cookie dough and his outfit changed colors to match his hat.
"Hawkmoth is my name, and Cookie Monster is yours. You will first take care of your stupid manager, and then find Ladybug along with Chat Noir and grab their Miraculouses." explained Hawkmoth.
"As you wish master. Today some tough cookies will crumble. Mwahahaha." the Cookie Monster said.
He propelled himself up into the air with a wave of cookie dough and rode it back into the restaurant. The waiter saw the sweet beast and ran to the customers, telling them to run.
"Why hello there manager, have a taste of THIS!" screamed the Cookie Monster as a huge ball of sticky dough shot out from his hands and trapped the manager.
"HELP! SOMEONE!" cried out the manager.
"AHAHAHAHAHAHA!" laughed the Cookie Monster.