"Marinette stop, that tickles" Adrien laughed as the girl nuzzled into his cheek. Marinette only continued, she knew exactly what she was doing. Adrien began to think; If she's half cat… she'll like this… Adrien then scratched under her chin and Marinette purred.
"I'll be back tomorrow afternoon after school, but so you can see your parents without freaking them out wear…" Adrien scanned her room, noticing the photos of him all over her walls but ignoring them – this wasn't the time. "A hat!" he picked up a summer hat that was just sitting on her desk. "Do not leave your house okay?"
Marinette meowed and nodded in agreement with him.
Good girl… "See you tomorrow" Adrien waved, he bid her parents goodnight and told them he would be back tomorrow.
"Adrien, we need to find out how to cure her and fast. We can handle a human cat but what is she fully converts?!" Plagg flew out of his jacket and looked genuinely worried.
"What else can I do right now Plagg?" Adrien sighed. "She wasn't even acting herself either"
"We need to find out" Plagg insisted.
"Yes but how? Shall I Google her symptoms? That's ridiculous" he laughed nervously. "Human growing cat ears…"
"It's the only lead we have" Plagg said.
When Adrien got home he was met by a very annoyed Natalie. "And where have you been" she asked with a cold tone.
"I'm sorry I'm late home but a good friend of mine has fallen ill so I went to see if she was okay" Adrien knew this wasn't a good enough reason but it was the truth.
"Not acceptable Adrien!"
"Yeah, so you expect me to leave my friend when she needs me?" Adrien questioned.
"That's not what I said" Natalie was a little taken aback from what he had said to her. "What is wrong then?"
"A very high fever" Adrien lied.
'Tomorrow you'll take her some medicine. I'll leave it out for you" she then walked off. Adrien was a little shocked but then pushed those feelings down. Marinette…
Marinette!" Tikki said with a worried tone. "Adrien saw the pictures!"
"I don't care meow" Marinette rolled around in her covers playing with them like a kitten would.
"Snap out of it!" Tikki shouted.
"I'm myself meow" the girl was getting worse by the second.
"I wonder…" Tikki zoomed into Marinette's earrings and transformed her into Ladybug.
"Tikki!" Marinette shouted. "Whoa…" she looked into the mirror and noticed the ears were gone. She ran to her computer and typed in her symptoms. "Human cat" she read.
Ladybug scrolled through page after page after page until she found what she needed. Ladybug read carefully through the article. Seems she wasn't the first person to fall under this kind of spell.
Adrien was reading, "All these ingredients will take me months to find!" he sighed. "I've never even heard of the Jade Vine Strongylodon Macrobotys flower!"
"You HAVE to find it!" Plagg said biting into his cheese.
"Yes I know I do" Adrien goggled the flower to find it is endangered. "GREAT!" What do I do now? "I know I can get Tongkai Ali as father has had it before" Adrien looked at the four ingredients he needed.
Jade Vine
Tongkai Ale
Holy Water
Dragon Fruit
"What I make this this is up to me but still I have to find this stuff first!" Adrien then had an idea. He was an Agreste. He could get whatever he wanted. Quickly writing them down he ran to find Natalie. 'Natalie!"
"Adrien? What is it?" She asked.
"I've been doing some research and can you buy me these please? According to Cheng Stifu – Marinette's uncle, it makes a great soup to restore health" Adrien handed her the piece of paper.
"These will be hard to find Adrien" the women sighed reading the list.
"You can get them though, right?" Adrien asked.
"Yes, nothing is too hard. I'll get started."
"Thank you!" Adrien smiled. He walked into his room thinking; Do I go..?
"Maybe Chat should go visit his Princess?" Plagg snickered.
"I was just thinking that" Adrien smiled. "Plagg, Claws out!"
Ladybug had transformed back into Marinette, forgetting everything she had just read.
"Marinette?" Tikki asked.
"Hello Tikki" She smiled weakly at her friend "I'm okay…"
"No you're not Princess" Chat said.
Tikki quickly hid so Chat couldn't see her. "C-Chat?" Marinette stared at him.
"I thought I'd check up on you" He smiled "Loving the ears"
'I pull them off better than you" she put her hands on her hips but lost her balance.
'Whoa there…" Chat caught her in his arms.
Marinette felt something familiar with Chat but couldn't quite pick out what it was.
"You should go to bed. Before this illness gets worse" he said.
"Do you know what's wrong with me?" she whispered.
"I had a chat with Adrien… I saw him leave here earlier and wanted to see why! He's going to look after you… but yes I do" Chat rambled. "He's spending a lot of money to get the ingredients to make you better. He cares"
"He's so sweet" the little girl blushed. "I really love him, he's purrfect"
"You aren't feline any better, making bad cat puns is my thing" Chat laughed putting Marinette to bed.
"Meow, goodnight Chat"
"Goodnight Princess" Chat jumped out of her window. Please don't get any worse…
"Ladybug didn't clean up all of Red Rovers mess I see… PERFECT"
The next day Adrien went back to visit Marinette like he said he would. He walked into her room and saw how messy it was. You'd think she owned a cat.
"Marinette?" he asked.
'Meow, Adrien!" Marinette jumped out on him, landing on top of him as they fell.
"I see you still have cat ears then" He laughed.
"And… A tail!' Marinette turned around and sure enough there was a white tail to match her white ears.
"So it's gotten worse" Adrien sighed. "You haven't been outside right?"
"Nope meow" Marinette shook her head. "I've been locked up all day" Just like a cat…
Adrien looked her up and down. "Are you in pain?"
"No meow" She nuzzled up to him again.
Adrien smiled, she didn't seem to be that bad. He began to pet her and she purred. "I've ordered some things that will change you back, but it will take a while. I also need to get some of your favourite perfume"
"Why meow?" Marinette questioned she stared into his eyes and Adrien blushed a little.
"So that IF you fully change and can no longer speak English or walk on two feet, you'll always smell your human sent" Adrien grinned. "You'll have to wear a collar though"
"But I'm not a cat meow" Marinette purred.
"You so ARE!" Adrien poked her cheek. "My little kitty"
Marinette blushed I-I'm his what?! "Here" Marinette walked to her desk and picked up her favourite perfume. "This is La vie est belle Légère" she handed Adrien the bottle.
"I'm going to take a photo because I don't know how much I'll use and I don't want to waste it" Adrien pulled out his phone and took a picture of the bottle. "I'll buy it on my way home when I go and get a collar"
"Make it pretty" Marinette giggled and purred. "Like Chat Noirs, with a bell! And PINK!" She nuzzled into him more.
"Sure thing" Adrien smiled petting her again. She really is cute… "I should probably go so I can get the stuff"
"You coming back tomorrow meow?" Marinette rolled over and looked into his eyes.
"How can I say no to those eyes" Adrien rubbed his nose against hers like he would to a really cat when he thinks they are cute. "Ill be back tomorrow Marinette"
"Adrien what the hell?! Ladybug?" Plagg asked.
"I'm not getting anywhere with her Plagg. At least with Marinette I'm actually feeling like she wants me around. Plus the feelings are mutual-ish. I'm still confused" Adrien walked into a pet shop.
"Psst, you like Marinette more now" Plagg whispered.
Adrien brought a pink collar with a silver bell and walked straight back out. "I don't even know Plagg. I like them both…" He blushed. Adrien then picked up a bottle of perfume from the shop next to his house.
"You'll ask Marinette out by the end of this I bet!" Plagg chuckled.
"Plagg shut up!" Adrien blushed even more thinking about it.
