"Come on Marinette, you'd be great" Alya Césaire pleaded to her best friend, Marinette Dupain-Cheng as they both entered the library
"You're just saying that because you're my friend, Alya" Marinette countered her friend's claim "You haven't seen me act before, so you have no way of knowing"
Marinette tried to walk faster to get to the shelves that kept her class's "History of France" books, but Alya rushed faster to them "That doesn't mean you shouldn't give it a try. I mean it's Romeo and Juliet for crying out loud! Who wouldn't want to be Juliet"
"Anyone who wouldn't want to kill themselves?" Marinette sacastically answered as she lightly pushed her friend away from the shelf she was blocking "I mean, considering how pracically the only other girls in that show are the moms and the maid, that doesn't give much of an option, does it?
"Well why not be a boy? It's going to be a gender blind performance, anyway, which means you would have a better chance of getting in since they won't care what gender you are"
"Alya, I have too much time worrying about school to audition. Besides, I'm not exactally the most fluent in both Shakespeare's plays and language"
"They'd probably have someone help understand what they're saying, so that's not a problem either"
"Fine, but how about the fact that the only Shakespeare words I know are "Romeo, Romeo..."" Marinette started waving her free arm around and spinning while reciting the famous words ""Wherefore art thou-" Adrien!"
Yes as the girl started spinning, Marinette noticed behind her was Adrien Agrest, the boy she had a crush on who almost got smacked by the back of her wrist. The shock of seeing her one-day husband made her jump back and drop her heavy history book
"H-hey Adrien!" The blue-haired girl tried to act cool by leaning on the shelf, which made some books drop on the other side which, while embarrassing, did give her some room for her elbow to lean on for a casual look
"Hey Marinette. Hey Alya" The model addressed both girls "Were you practicing the audition for the gender blind Romeo and Juliet?"
"Yes! I mean no! I mean..." Marinette tried to find the mind set she had for Alya earlier "Well you see-"
"She's thinking about it" Alya interrupted her friend's stuttering "Are you going to audition"
"Well, yeah actually" Adrien happily answered "Shakespeare is one of my favorite writers in history. I always find how his characters talk and act interesting. And since Romeo and Juliet is my father's favorite show, for once it didn't take a ton to convince him to let me audition"
"So you must know a lot of his work than, don't you. Meaning you could help someone with a monologue if they needed it" Alya gave a devious look to Marinette, much to the dismay and refusal of her friend of the idea she knew she had
"If they did, I'd be more than happy to"
"Well what a coincidence!" Alya gripped onto her shoulders and pushed Marinette in front of Adrien "See me and Marinette really want to get in, but neither of us know a good Shakespeare monologue to audition with"
"Is that all? Well in that case we can use the computer to look up monologues for the both of you!"
"Well that's great! Isn't it Marinette?" Alya came closer to see the fake smile mixed with angry eyebrows of her friend
"Yeah, great" Marinette said through her teeth while trying to escape Alya's grasp "Could you both give me a minuet real quick"
"Sure. We'll go ahead and get one of the computers started"
"Thaaaaaanks"
And faster than you could say "Miraculous" Marinette rushed behind a book shelve that didn't have students in it, leaving her to bang her head on it
"Alya, why?"
"It will be fine, Marinette"
Marinette turned her head to the right to see her kwami, Tiki, floating to the right of her
"Tiki, Hide!" Marinette quickly cupped her hand around her Kwami and made sure there wasn't anyone around who saw her "Someone could see you!"
"Marinette, you should stop saying that you can't" Tiki changed the subject "You'd be a great actress. After all, you practically already are one with Ladybug"
"But what about being Ladybug. I mean there could be times when I was needed for the show but also needed to be Ladybug" The blue haired girl argued
"You already balence both of your lives as much as you can, so it would be to hard to put something else in there too, would it?"
"But..." Marinette started to kneel down with a somber look on her face "What if I'm not good enough for it?"
"Marinette, both me and Alya wouldn't want you to do this if we didn't think you could do it. You're an incredibly talented girl who would be great in the show, weather you get the part of Juliet or someone else"
"You... you really think so?"
"At least audition for the show and see what happens. Please" Tiki floated up annd started giving Marinette her big eyes in a pleading look
"Well how can I say no when you give me a look like that" Marinette joked as she got up and opened her bag up for Tiki to fly back in
"Yo, Mari!" Alya came into the shelve Marinette was in "Adrien booted up a computer and logged in! Come on!"
Alya grabbed her best friend's arm as they rushed to the computer Adrien was looking up on the 2nd floor of the library with 4 other computers next to him
"You ok Marinette?" Her crush asked a little concerned
"Yeah I'm fine. Have any ideas for a monologue?"
"Well despit how little girls play a big role in his stories, there are quite a few I think would be good for you that aren't Juliet"
"Well that's good, considering they won't allow anyone with a line of dislodge from that show to use for their audition" Alya retorted
"Yeah. Well let's see what you like" Adrien said as he started typing in a search for "Female Shakespeare Monologues"
Before he could hit enter, the screen shined a bright light that made the 3 students cover their eyes and back away from it. When they tried to see why the screen was so bright they saw something crawl out of it. The light faded and they looked to see what looked like a potato with 4 metal spider legs and a red eye. On the top of this creater's brown shell was a darker brown eye drawing with 3 eyelashes on the bottom of it and 1 on top
"What is that thing?" Marinette tried to inspect the creature
Before she could, however, the creature's red eye started lighting up with a red laser swirling in front of it. And in the blink of an eye, it shot a red beam rght towards Marinette
"GET DOWN!"
before the laser could hit her, Adrien tackled Marinette to the ground, saving her from getting hurt by the laser, which shot the the support of one of it's levels straight off. If that wasn't bad enough, the rest of the computers all started up with more bright lights that let out even more creatures
"We need to get out of here!" Adrien said as he quickly pulled Marinette up and rushed while gripping onto her and Alya's arms
The 3 of them ran down the stairs as fast as they could and tried to make their way to the doors, but the creatures all had jumped down before they could make it
"What are those hideous things?" Chloe Bourgeois, behind the trio, said, grossed out by their appearance "They looks like burned potatoes with a spider crawling out of each"
"They look like some kind of robot-bug science projects" Her friend, Sabrina Raincomprix, added onto it from behind Chloe
"Are it some kind of super rare animals that escaped into the school or something?" Marinette and Adrien's other friend and Alya's boyfriend, Nino Lahiffe, asked
Before any of their questions could be asked, all 5 of them started generating another laser to blast. Thinking fast, Marinette and Alya grabbed Chloe and Sabrina while Adrien grabbed Nino and they each went into a different book shelve to save them before the creatures started shooting. As soon as the other kids in the library saw what the creatures could do, they also rushed to find the closest cover to find
"Get off of me, Marinette!" Chloe commanded as she pushed her blue haired enemy off and got up
"Well sorry for saving your butt" Marinette sarcastically argued, with some fire boiling in her with how unthankful Chloe was
"Oh please" Chloe turned back "I could have seen those lasers coming from a mile away. I have the vision of a hawk!"
Just than, the bookshelf ahead of them was starting to get shot at, which scared Chloe for how suprising it was. So she crouched down behind said bookshelf, grabbed a book about "How to draw animals" and hoped it would be able to protect her
"With the bravery and brains of a chicken" Marinette quietly retorted as she quietly went to the other said of their cover bookshelf and opened her purse to see a surprised and a little bit scared Tiki
"Marinette, what's going on?" Her kwami asked
"There are some weird creatures attacking the students in the library" Marinette explained
"Than why aren't you turning into Ladybug?!"
"They blocked the exit and there's no where here I can transform where someone couldn't catch me"
Their quick little talk was interrupted by the wall of the book shelve next to her was blasted. After a jump of surprise, she turned forward to see one of the creatures had separated from it's pack and almost Marinette. The spider legged thing started walking towards Marinette, readying to shoot more lasers. Marinette slowly walked backwards, trying to find someway to stop the laser from firing right at her. Unable to think of any other solution, she just threw books on the shelves at it, hoping one would hit it and make it unable to get up. One book she threw called "Drawing Walking Objects" was able to spin while being thrown. The world seemed to slow down for Marinette to see the edge of the book had scraped the eye symbol on the creature's shell, and than, as the rest of the book collided with the monster...
*BOOM!*
The creature exploded, leaving debris of the defeated monster that, for whatever reason, quickly faded away like a defeated enemy in a video game. How the ruble cleaned itself, Marinette didn't know. However, seeing the week spot of these creatures made her realize something
"I might not have to be Ladybug to beat these guys" She told Tiki as she started coming up with a plan
"Chloe!"
Marinette grabbed the book and threw it at Chloe, who was caught off guard and got hit in the shoulder
"OW! What was that for?! Are you cowering in fear like the rest of us or working against us?!" Chloe angrily asked
"Just use that book to squash the thing behind you"
"What makes you think I'll-wait what thing?"
Chloe turned around to see another robot insect thing was right behind her. After giving a huge screatch of suprise and fear, she gripped onto the closest book and squashed it with all her might
*BOOM!*
The explosion of the second creature blew Chloe back by a couple of feet, leaving the blonde popular girl shocked at what she was just able to do
"Now is doing what I asked really so hard?" Marinette playfully mocked as she helped Chloe up, who only took her hand because there wasn't anything else to get herself up with
Marinette peaked out their bookshelves to see one of the monsters was guarding was still guarding the doors with the remaining 2 still missing. The blue haired girl looked around to try and find the others that separated. She saw that in the book shelves across and ahead of her, Alya was covering Sabrina from one of them while the laser was about to shoot them
"Alya!" Marinette rushed over to their bookshelves, grabbed a science book about sedimentary rocks and crushed the creature with it before either girl could get hurt
*BOOM!"
The explosion once again knocked everyone off their feet and left to just look at the disappearing debris
"Girl, how did you-"
"Their weak spot is that eye symbol on their shell" Marinette interrupted "But it looks like crushing them with books works too
She suddenly heard a sound like one of those lasers getting shot behind her. When she turned, she didn't see a laser heading her way, but Adrien with a French dictionary being used as a shield with his other hard holding a ruler he found on the ground next to him. One of the creatures had shown it's ugly face from behind the book shelve in front of Marinette and Chloe and almost got Marinette, but thankfully Adrien came just in time. As the robot tried shooting even more, Adrien continued to grip the dictionary in his had and threw his ruler at the creature. The tip of the ruler was just barely able to impale the monster's weak spot, as the symbol started glowing a bit
*BOOM!*
The 4th creature exploded, leaving the lone guard at the doors left. In it's last attempt to stop the kids from leaving, the monster continued shooting while Adrien continued blocking
"Hey Mari" Adrien grunted a call out while still trying to block the lasers "You have something shap to use?"
Marinette, after a moment, acted fast and searched her backpack to see if there was anything. She found a pencil in her bag that was fairly dharppened recently
"You think this will do?" The designer asked the model
"It'll have to. Follow behind be and try to get it!"
Marinette nodded and rushed behind Adrien's back. Usually she'd freak out how she was touching Adrien, but even she knew this wasn't the time for that. Adrien rushed as the creature continued to shoot his dictionary. Suddenly, Adrien stepped aside leaving Marinette unguarded with only a pencil for the monster. It started to charge a more powerful attack just as Marinette threw the pencil at the monster's week spot
Thankfully, she was able to hit before it did. The pencil didn't just impale the monster, it went right through it's week spot, leaving it to waddle desperately until...
*BOOM!*
The last monster was finally defeated. All the other students in the library cheered and ran out as fast as they could
"Freedom!" Chloe cried out "Finally free from those hidious, horrible things"
Sabrina quickly joined her friend as the both exited together
"Nice job, Marinette" Adriedn walked up to the girl who had a crush on him "You really saved everyone"
"Oh, well it was nothing" Marinette tried to act like it was nothing and hide her 'EEEEEEEE! ADRIEN SAID I SAVED EVERYONE WHICH MEANS I SAVED HIM WHICH MEANS HE OWES ME WHICH MEANS WE CAN GET-' you get the picture
"He's right" Nino added as he prepared to exit out the doors as well "That was like something Ladybug would do! We all owe you big time!"
"I'M NOT LADYBUG, WHAT ARE YOU SAYING!?" Marinette panicked
"As great as that was, we better leave before anything else shows up from those computers" Alya suggested
"Right. Let's get out" Marinette and Adrien both said at the same time, causing Marinette to blush a bit
The trio followed everyone else to outside the school, where they were safe from the danger.
Except, there was more danger outside. Even more that 5 of those creatures. Try over 20 with around 5 other kinds of monsters running around Paris. That kind of danger
Author's note: Boom! Cliff Hanger! I'l admit, i wanted to have Grieving Angel show herself in this chapter, but I felt this chapter was already long enough (for a chapter in the very begining of the story) so that sadly has to be saved for next time. Don't worry though, we'll see her in her totally not just an edgy re-paint of her season 4 outfit awesomeness
Now about that gender-blind Romeo and Juliet, which I'm sure a lot of you are wondering "Why." Well it's because last year, my school did a gender-blind game of thrones style Henry v, which was a lot of fun (I was Nym and our Henry was played awesomely be a girl who's a good friend of mine, in case you were wandering). So much so that Shakespeare with not automatic gender rolls had been on my mind ever since. So when coming up with the idea for this fic, a gender-blind Romeo and Juliet came to mind which will be a really fun side plot
Also, I hope I'm representing the characters well. I mean i feel I'm doing great with Marinette and good with Adrien, but I'm not sure how I'm doing with the other characters like Alya, Chloe, Nino, Ect. Well I guess the reviews will answer it for me. Speaking of reviews, here are a couple responses to some
Michael78: I didn't even know they had the same actor! wouldn't it be a huge coincidence if Jagged's English VA was Odd's French VA? That's be crazy. Also the "when" doesn't really matter for the miraculous timeline as the events of Volpina and Marinette's meeting with Master Fu aren't really going to get mentioned much, if all for that matter. However, i decided for it to take place a little after season 1 due to how season 2 seems to be the start of Marinette and Adrien getting together; at least that's what all the leaks and news and images from the creator's Instagram tells me, which is something i'll have at some point in this fic
Matt: I've checked it out. While i do enjoy it, i'll admit it gets pretty expositional at points and the marvelous, whether it's intentional or not, seem to be just knock offs of the miraculous (not to be mean to the creator if he stumbles on this) but maybe that's just because, as of this chapter, there have only been 3 chapters so it still has time to grow
Jasmine: I love both shows too. Seriously can't wait for season 2
SoraFranco: It's cool dude. My grammar and typing isn't always top notch either, so you're not the only one with English problems at times
Before I go, I'd like to thank the people favoring, following and reviewing this story. I don't say it much but despite, at the very beginning, not getting as many views as my other stories, I'm still getting a good number of reviews. 5 reviews before the next chapter is something I don't think I've seen too much of before, and I really am glad I'm getting attention, even if it's for a show that isn't super popular anymore
With all that said, if you liked this chapter, leave a favorite, a follow, a review, and I'll see you guys next time
