I don't own Miraculous or anything from Girl vs. Monster.
I've only watched the Disney Channel movie Girl vs. Monster once or twice, but I've listened to this song from it enough times to love it. And after watching the Miraculous episode Sandboy, I thought it would fit in so well.
Plus, it finally gave me a good setting and song for Ladybug/Marinette to sing as a solo.
I've been bouncing ideas for Halloween-themed fanfiction stories for Miraculous around in my head for weeks, but I haven't loved any of them enough to write them. So if I wasn't going to write a whole story (even just a short one-shot) for Miraculous, I could at least upload a new Halloween-themed parody here.
*Spoilers for the season 2 episode Sandboy.* Watch it first before u read this if u haven't yet. It's the creepiest episode so far so now is the ideal time to watch it anyway.
Posted: 10/14/18
Ladybug and Chat Noir were in trouble.
After getting hit with Sandboy's sand, their worst nightmares had come to life.
There they stood on the street in front of Notre Dame, back to back. Chat Noir facing his worst fear, which was apparently her welding a giant, scary blade and attacking him, constantly yelling about her hatred of him. And her without her powers, Sandboy floated above them, waiting for the best moment to swoop down and take their miraculouses.
Ladybug was terrified.
Adrien confessing his undying love for Chloe had been a reoccurring nightmare of hers for a while and it made her wake up annoyed and freaked out. This nightmare however, made her wake up screaming at their worst.
She'd be Ladybug, fighting some evil alongside Chat Noir and she would suddenly become completely powerless, just when Chat or some citizen needed her the most.
She couldn't move, her yoyo wouldn't work right, she'd stumble pathetically, or she'd miss something. Sometimes it was her hand or yoyo just missing grabbing onto something while airborne, so when she missed it, she fell. Sometimes her hand or yoyo just missed grabbing onto someone else while they were airborne and she had to sit there helplessly and watch them fall.
Whose were all bad, but the worst was having to watch someone she loved fall or get hurt; one of her parents, her grandma, Alya… Adrien.
And then sometimes it was Chat. When it was him, she felt horrible seeing him get hurt, but it also meant she had failed as not only a hero, but as a partner. His partner.
This time however, she was not dreaming. She couldn't just wake up in her bed as Marinette, Tikki patting her cheek, telling her it was just a bad dream. She was really standing there, completely powerless while up against an akuma, and Chat Noir was being forced to fight a formidable foe and she couldn't even help him. And all the other people of Paris who were being attacked by their worst fears, she couldn't help them either.
"The Sandboy just checked in, now nightmares can begin," she heard Sandboy sing menacingly as he floated on his pillow above her. He looked very pleased and ready to attack. With her powerless and Chat occupied, they were sitting ducks.
This was her worst nightmare. She and Chat would lose their miraculouses and it would be all her fault because she was powerless.
Because she was weak.
Because she was afraid.
And that was when it hit her.
She wasn't powerless because she was weak. Sandboy was making her weak because that was what she was afraid of.
She was powerless because she was afraid.
Ladybug looked around at the connecting streets. People were running everywhere, running from there worst nightmares. Dinosaurs, giant spiders, jaguars, alligators, evil trash cans. They were everywhere, chasing the person who was afraid of them. And it was because they were afraid that these things were brought to life.
All these people were afraid just like her.
She then looked back at Chat Noir fighting her evil, nightmare doppelganger. He wore a brave face as he fought back but she could still see the fear in his eyes and posture. He never attacked her. He just blocked her attacks and defended himself, or he retreated by jumping out of the way.
His fear was of her not only hating him, but of having to fight her. He was afraid of hurting her too, just as she was. Whether they meant to or not.
He was afraid too, just like her.
Dreaming or not, these were all just bad dreams. True, they now had a physical form, but they weren't actually real. They were just Sandboy's sand before it could read their fears and make themselves real. Take away the fear, and they would just be sand again.
It was just a theory, but it was worth a try.
If she could get passed her fear, she could get her powers back and defeat Sandboy.
If she was going to pull this off, she would have to use the best method she knew of in calming herself when she was scared. Channeling all her reserved courage, Ladybug took a deep breath…
Ladybug:
You used to make my heart pound
Just the thought of you
You used to be a cold wind
Always blowing through
But I won't take it anymore
That's not what I came here... for
(Her voice was timid and slow at first, but finally getting those words out felt good. So good, she sung the next part with a bit more gusto.)
I'm stuck in your head
I'm back from the dead
Gothcha runnin' scared
I'm fearless
I'm callin' you out
I'm takin' you down
Don't cha come around
I'm fearless
(Feeling her courage and confidence build inside her, she could also feel her strength returning.)
I'm fearless!
She belted out the last line, feeling like her old self again. Ladybug took her yoyo from her hip and started spinning it. Sure enough, she spun it flawlessly in a circle, even tested herself further by doing a trick or two.
Ladybug laughed in elation. It had actually worked. She was back! And if it worked for her, it could work for everyone else.
"What!?" Sandboy exclaimed, not believing what he was seeing.
Ladybug turned away from Sandboy just in time to see Chat once again jump away from another attack from Evil Ladybug, landing only a few feet away from her.
"Stand still, you stupid cat!" the evil copy yelled in rage as she heaved her giant black and red blade up, pointing it at him. Chat stood his ground, holding his staff up in front of him, his face set almost like he was in pain. He hated having to fight his lady. And hearing her say those awful things to him must be painful for him as well.
"Chat Noir, look at me!" Ladybug yelled to her partner. Chat tuned his head to her, his eyes brightening a bit at seeing her. "I'm the real Ladybug, not her." She gestured to her evil counterpart on the other end of the street. Chat briefly glanced back to her before returning his gaze back to the real Ladybug. "I don't hate you, you know that. You're my best friend," she said honestly to him with a warm smile. Chat smiled back. "You don't have to be afraid of her."
Realization dawned on Chat's face as he stared at her. Slowly, Chat turned back to the Ladybug he had been defending himself from all night. She was walking slowly back to him, menacingly, the blade perched on her shoulder. A disgustingly, evil smirk on her face.
He'd been so foolish. That wasn't his lady. His lady would never say those things and attack him like this. His lady wasn't evil, his lady didn't despise him. She was just a manifestation of his own fears of Ladybug never loving him back like he loved her.
"You finally gonna fight back mangy cat?" the Evil Ladybug said as she stepped closer.
Chat just smirked back. "Why bother?" he said, lowering his staff. "I know the real Ladybug and you're not her." He pointed his staff at her teasingly. Evil Ladybug stopped in her tracks. "You're just a stupid dream." At his words, a puff of colorful sand blew from the center of the Evil Ladybug's body. She was still there, but it was clear Chat's refusal to give into his fear was weakening her.
Seeing that Chat now had a handle on his fears, Ladybug was glad, but then realized the rest of Paris could use a hand too. She could still see a lot of people running in the streets around them and hear their screams of terror.
She had to get her message about standing up to their fears out to them.
Looking around, she spotted a bus in the middle of the road and ran over to it. Jumping onto the roof, she started to sing again. Loud and proud.
Ladybug:
Oo-woah, woah-o
I'm fearless
(Ladybug looked up, making eye contact with Sandboy.)
I got the upper hand now
And you're losin' ground
I'm ready now to fight back
This is my rebound
You see the gloves are comin' off
Tell me when you've had enough
Yeah
(Sandboy shot more sand from his pillow at her, but Ladybug easily dodged it with a flip.)
Ready for a showdown
And we're face-to-face
I think I'll rearrange it
Put you in your place
Won't let you get the best of me
Check it, you're afraid of me…
(Ladybug stun around, dancing around the roof of the bus joyfully.)
I'm stuck in your head
I'm back, back from the dead
Gothcha runnin' scared
I'm fearless
I'm callin' you out
I'm takin' you down
Don't you come around
I'm fearless
I'm fearless!
Nearby Parisians heard the singing and started making their way over to its source, their fears still pursuing them.
I'm fearless
Converging on the scene, the people of Paris approached the bus Ladybug sang on top of, taking in the words of her song.
You used to make my heart pound
Just the thought of you
But now you're in the background
Whatcha gonna do?
Sound off if you hear this
(Ladybug looked down at the crowd of people encouragingly.)
We're feelin' fearless
We're feelin' fearless!
Feeling a new wave of courage, inspired by the heroine, the people looked back at their fears, their feet solid on the ground, shoulders squared, faces sit. They were still scared, but that didn't mean they couldn't stand up for themselves.
Just bad dreams, right?
I'm stuck in your head
I'm back, back from the dead
(Mylene stared down the Horrificator as it towered over her, hissing, but Mylene didn't backdown. Muttering her happy song under her breath, she watched the monster shrink smaller and smaller until it disappeared in a puff of colorful sand.)
Gothcha runnin' scared
I'm fearless
I'm callin' you out
I'm takin' you down
(The garbage man grabbed ahold of the lid of one of the living trash cans that had been chasing him and shoved a black bag full of trash in it before slamming it shut, a triumphant grin on his face. The can disappeared in a puff of colorful sand, along with the other bins.)
Don't you come around
I'm fearless…
Chat Noir closed in on the evil Ladybug. He walked calm and confidently toward her as she kept backing away cowardly from him.
Now that he wasn't afraid of her, she was afraid of him.
With a last-ditch effort snarl, she raised her blade to try and strike him again, but Chat managed to grab it from her, rip it from her hands and toss it away.
There she stopped. Chat stopped and just stared at her. "Sorry, milady, but I'm not afraid of you anymore," he declared. And just like that, her eyes widened as she dissolved into colorful sand and disappeared.
Proud of himself, Chat smiled with a solid nod. Then he remembered there was still an akuma to take care of. Looking around, he located the giant, black and red blade he had thrown away, ran over to it and grabbed it. Turning his eyes to the sky, he saw Sandboy hovering above the crowd, yelling in frustration that his nightmares were failing.
Seeing that the onesie wearing villain was distracted pleased the feline hero. Giant blade in his hands, he jumped up a nearby building to the roof and started running in the direction of the boy on the pillow, listening to his lady's song.
I'm stuck in your head
I'm back, back from the dead
(Reaching the end of the building's roof, Chat leaped off and swung the blade, slicing into the bottom of the pillow, freeing the dark butterfly. Sandboy didn't even notice until he started plummeting to the ground.
Ladybug watched as Chat tossed the blade her way so he could catch the kid safely. Ladybug gracefully caught the blade in her hand, never missing a beat.)
Gothcha runnin' scared
I'm fearless
(After placing the blade at her feet, Ladybug grabbed her yoyo to purify the akuma as Chat placed the kid safely on the sidewalk.)
I'm callin' you out
I'm takin' you down
Don't you come back now
I'm fearless
(Ladybug released the white butterfly from her yoyo as Chat leapt onto the top of the bus next to her.)
I'm fearless!
Ladybug picked the blade up again and tossed it into the air. "Miraculous Ladybug!" she cried. Swarms of Ladybugs flew through the skies of Paris, restoring everything back to normal.
Any damage was fixed, fears that hadn't been faced disappeared, including the horrifyingly wide-eyed copy of Adrien that was creeping down the street.
Sandboy turned back into his normal self. A little boy with spiky dark bluenette hair, wearing white and blue pajamas took his place.
The crowd cheered and started to disperse. Ladybug and Chat Noir hopped off the bus roof and walked over to the little boy.
"Well, what was that all about little friend?" Ladybug said sweetly as she knelt down in front of the little boy sitting on the ground.
"Oh Ladybug!" the boy exclaimed before throwing his arms around the spotted heroine's middle, burying his face in her abdomen. "I watched a movie on TV. I was kinda scary. Then I went to bed and I had a really bad nightmare. I woke up and there was a black butterfly in my room, and a weird man spoke right in my face," he explained, his voice still sounding very frightened.
Both Ladybug and Chat Noir gasped at hearing this. "Hawkmoth. He fed off the negative emotion from a nightmare," Ladybug said to Chat, who was standing to her left, looking down at her and the boy.
"Just when I thought he couldn't stoop any lower," Chat growled. Using people, turning them into akumas, and making them do his dirty work was bad enough, but using a child when they were in such a vulnerable state was an entirely new low.
The boy pulled away from Ladybug and looked up at them tearfully. "I'm so sorry," he boy said, giving a light sniffle. "I must have scared a lot of people." He couldn't remember exactly what he did, but he knew that if he was akumatized, he must have done something bad. And he did at least recall the weird butterfly man mentioning 'nightmares' to him before everything went fuzzy.
A warm smile on her face, Ladybug gently tilted the boy's chin up to look at her again. "It's okay. It wasn't your fault," she said reassuringly before whipping a tear from the corner of his eye away. "Sometimes we can't help it—getting scared. What's important is that when we do get scared, we remind ourselves that we don't have to be." The boy whipped his arm over his own eyes with another sniffle before smiling back at her.
Chat Noir watched, his heart melting as the boy yawned and Ladybug stood, scooping him up in her arms, his head resting on her shoulder, his eyes closed peacefully with his short arms wrapped around her neck.
His lady was so kind and nurturing. She would make a wonderful mother someday.
"Come on Kitty, let's get this little guy home and back to bed," she said, turning back to her feline partner. Chat smiled back and nodded. He wanted to see the boy safely home too.
After sleepily muttering his address to the two heroes, the boy dozed off in Ladybug's arms as she and Chat Noir ran to the boy's home. When they knocked on the door, it opened to two frantic parents. "Lucas!" they had shouted in relief, seeing their beloved son brought home safe, sound, and fast asleep. After handing the sleeping boy off to the father and many thank yous to the two heroes, Ladybug and Chat Noir left.
Standing on the roof of Lucas's apartment building, the two heroes were about to part ways. Their miraculouses were close to running out of power, so it was time to say good night.
"Hey Chat," Ladybug said, making her feline companion turn back to her. She knew they had to get moving to make it back to their houses before their transformations wore off, but she wanted to ask him something that was bothering her. "You don't really think I'm as evil as your nightmare, do you?" she asked. He loved her, so she knew it hurt him every time she rejected his flirting. She assumed that was where his fear came from.
"Course I don't," Chat said to her without hesitation. Swiftly, he grabbed her hand. "You're the lady of my dreams," he said as he looked into her big bluebell eyes, a sweet smile graced his lips before pressing them to the back of her gloved hand.
Ladybug smiled back at him before gently taking her hand away. "Sweet dreams, Chat Noir," she said before flinging her yoyo and swung herself off into the night.
Chat watched her go until he could no longer see her. He could see her just fine with his night vision, but that didn't help when she got far enough away. "Sweet dreams, milady," he whispered to himself before turning and finally making his way home too.
With the night they've had, they could all use some sweet dreams. Adrien was hoping his would be about Ladybug and a cute little kid with his blonde hair and her beautiful bluebell eyes.
Yup, that was his most precious dream.
I originally didn't mean to extend the ending with them bringing the kid home and all, but I couldn't resist after rewatching the end of the actual episode and seeing the little boy hugging Ladybug. He's so cute! And I thought he deserved a name too. (He just looked like a 'Lucas' to me.) And I thought including Chat's feelings on it would be nice to include too.
Hope u enjoyed this parody, and Happy Halloween!