Before I start this chapter, I wanna say I made some concept art for Jade Turtle in my free time and you can check it out here post/162724325813/concept-art-for-my-miraculous-fan-fiction-that-i
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The Wolfman
Everyone was excited for Halloween. Only a couple of days left until the big day, more importantly the big costume party being thrown by Mayor Bourgeois. In the good spirit of the holiday the mayor had decided to throw a big party with a bunch of celebrities and big names in Paris, and of course his little girl and her friends. Chloe invited all of the team, as well as Nino, Sam, and the rest of the class. She also requested that Marinette make everyone on the team their costumes, which she happily agreed to do. Chloe even had a group costume planned for the team, having each hero dress in someone else's super suit. Adrien was going to be Volpina, Marinette was going Cat Noir, Alya was going to be Queen Bee, Chloe happily accepted being Ladybug. And purely in the spirit of the holiday, Marinette also was going to make the kwamis small costumes as well. Chloe planned to win her fathers costume contest, at least the group costume portion.
"Just a couple more days," Chloe said as she watched Marinette sew the costumes together.
"These costumes look so good," Pollen said as she flew by where Marinette was stitching together the costumes, "creative and fashionable."
"Thanks Pollen," Marinette said with a smile.
"And I finally get to be Ladybug," Chloe said, doing a little dance in her seat, "I remember those times I would dress as Ladybug and run around daddy's hotel."
"I remember too," Marinette said, "mostly because it led Lady Wi-Fi, Vanisher, and Anti-Bug."
"How could anyone tolerate me," Chloe said, flopping back on Marinette's bed, "I caused so many akumas. Dark Cupid, Princess Fragrance, Lady Wi-Fi..."
"and I caused you and Lila to get akumatized," Marinette added, "and now you're a hero who saves people from Hawk Moth and his akumas."
"And you're good at it too," Tikki chimed in, "in fact I think you're as good as Marinette."
"I personally think so," Marinette said, "so good you probably could be Ladybug if you try." Marinette the threw a red and black costume at Chloe, "so why don't you try."
Chloe laughed and then walked away to go try on the Ladybug costume. Chloe came back a couple of minutes later wearing the costume, and immediately noticed Marinette made some small changes. Marinette gave the suit black gloves and boots as well as a short cape resembling ladybug wings. "It's beautiful," Chloe said as she spun around admiring the costume.
"And what would Ladybug be without her kwami," Pollen said as she flew around Chloe in a small red hood with black spots.
"Pollen you look so adorable," Chloe said, cradling the yellow kwami in her palms.
"Like I said," Pollen went on, "they are fashionable."
Chloe let out a small laugh before looking over at Marinette. She had also put on her costume, hers looking almost exactly like Cat Noir except for the lack of sleeves. Instead it had a long pair of gloves that went up to the her elbows. Her normal red hair ties were replaced with black ones, she also slightly messed up her hair to match the way Adrien wore his when he was Cat Noir. She had drawn cat whiskers on her face as well as wore a mask similar to Cat Noir's but with the addition of small points on her mask resembling cat ears. "Well my lady," She said extending a hand towards Chloe, "shall we go catch up with the others."
"First get me Camembert," Tikki said, wearing a small hood resembling a black cat.
Chloe laughed so hard that she fell back, Marinette ran to help her up. "You should be more careful," Marinette said as she pulled Chloe up, "just because you're pretending to be me doesn't mean you should be clumsy."
"Aw, and I was gonna be late for class tomorrow too," Chloe said, making both of them laugh.
"Come on," Marinette said, "we should change and go meet Alya, Adrien, Nino, and Sam." Chloe nodded and after a couple minutes, both had changed back into their street clothes and went off to meet the others at the Bourgeois hotel. They were all planning to meet there to help with decorations, despite Chloe's father saying that they could just have the workers do it, but Marinette wanted to put some personal Halloween input and everyone wanted to help her.
They walked to the large hotel, Marinette carrying a small bag containing all the costumes so that Alya and Adrien could try on theirs. When they eventually got to the hotel, the doorman immediately opened the door so they could get through, walking into the large lobby of the hotel and heading straight for the large ballroom where the party was going to be.
Adrien and Alya were already there putting up decorations, meanwhile Nino was in the back of the room setting up his DJ equipment with Sam setting up some of the Rainmakers equipment. "Hey," Chloe shouted waving her hand. Everyone briefly stopped what they were doing to look at Chloe.
Everyone walked out towards where Chloe and Marinette were standing. "Hey dudes what took you so long," Nino said over the mic at his turntable.
"We were making the costumes for the party Saturday," Marinette said as she held up the small bag.
"Well Marinette made them," Chloe said, "I just watched."
"At least you're honest," Alya said, "Now let me see the costume I want to try it on."
Marinette handed the small bag to Alya who promptly ran with it, with Adrien running behind yelling at her to give him his costume. after a couple of minutes Alya and Adrien came back wear their costumes. Alya's costume was pretty much the same as Chloe's Queen Bee suit with the addition of some bee wings on the back.
Adrien's costume was very different however. Instead of having the standard skin tight suit like everyone else, his costume was very loose fitting. He wore a white t-shirt with under an orange leather jacket, he also had orange leather pants with black boots and white gloves. The ears on top of his head were less like the one's Alya had, which were short similar to the ones he had as Cat Noir, and more like the ones Lila had, long and slim.
"You guys look so cool," Chloe said as she circled around the two and looked at them. She was so impressed with Marinette's detail, even the fake miraculouses she had made for the costumes looked authentic. She noticed the small kwamis floating behind Adrien and Alya so that their costumes could be seen as well. Plagg was wearing a orange fox hood and Trixx wearing a yellow hood with black stripes on it, Chloe couldn't resist letting out an aw at how cute the two kwamis were. After being seen by Chloe, the kwamis went back into hiding before Nino or Sam could see them.
"You look awesome," Nino said, "where's mine?"
"Oh... I... uh," Marinette forgot about Nino, she was a little upset because she could've made him a Jade Turtle costume to finish the set.
Nino laughed. "Relax, I'm just messing with you. I already got a costume."
Marinette let out a sigh of relief at that. "Good, I was not ready to make another costume."
"Good because I'm making my own costume," Sam said, "always preferred it to store bought and I get to add my own touches."
"What are you going as," Alya said as she admired her Queen Bee costume.
"Ironically enough," Sam said, "I'm going as Jade Turtle. I already made the mask as well as his fancy cloak thing."
"one, that's not irony," Marinette said, "and two, he doesn't wear a mask. He wears goggles."
"Oh," Sam hung his head but was happy that screwing up his own costume would drive some suspicion away from him. He was worried they may be catching on because of how he disappeared during lunch and fell asleep during class because of his late night patrols.
"You know you could've asked me to make your costume," Marinette said, "I made the costumes for everyone else, I could've made yours as well."
"I just wanted to make this one on my own," Sam said, "that Turtle guy has helped me a couple times, wanted to show my gratitude by making a costume of him."
"Well I guess I understand that," Chloe said, "I did the same thing when Ladybug saved me."
"So where is the costume," Marinette said as she looked around searching for it.
"I didn't bring it," Sam said, "wasn't finished and I didn't want to mess it up while I set up the band equipment."
"So when can we see it," Adrien said as he got in Sam's face.
Sam gently pushed Adrien away, "You can see it Saturday, at the party."
"Aw," Alya said as she got close to Sam, "but what's a Queen Bee without her Jade Turtle."
"Happy," Chloe and Sam said simultaneously. They briefly looked at each other, then laughed at their own joke.
"It wasn't that funny," Adrien said, rolling his eyes.
"I don't know," Marinette said as she put on her Cat Noir mask, "I thought it was purr-fect."
Everyone let out a laugh at that. "Well we had better get back to work," Adrien said, "we only got so much time before this place needs to be ready." Everyone nodded and went back to work while Alya and Adrien went to take off their costumes so they didn't mess them up, they came back a few minutes later to continue helping.
The next day, the team basically all slept through class. The entire team worked late on the ballroom for the party to get it finished so they wouldn't have to work on it tomorrow, that didn't work. It also didn't help that after that all of them had to go on patrol, Jade Turtle had insisted they do but the entire time him and Queen Bee just argued. None of them got to bed until about one in the morning. Nino luckily wasn't on patrol, everyone was so glad they had one normal friend, and gave them the notes for class that day. After school everyone went back to the ballroom and finished setting up, Sam tuning and setting up instruments, Nino checking his records as well as testing his equipment, Chloe and Alya setting up the various tables and putting Halloween table cloths and decorations on them, and Marinette and Adrien were hanging streamers, paper jack-o-lanterns, and cobwebs on the ceiling.
"It looks amazing," Mayor Bourgeois said as he walked in.
"Thank you daddy," Chloe said as she ran over and gave him a hug, "but it was mostly Marinette's creative eye, we just put up the decorations."
"And set up the music," Sam shouted from across the room.
"And set up the music," Chloe reiterated to her father.
"Well it all is amazing," Mayor Bourgeois said as he admired the room.
"Thank you sir," Marinette said as she climbed down from the ladder she was on, "We've been happy to help."
"Yes I'm glad you did," Mayor Bourgeois said shaking Marinette's hand, "There is no one I could hire who could have done a better job." Marinette blushed a bit at the compliment and lowered her head so the mayor wouldn't see. "You have outdone yourself," he continued as he admired everything, "now you all of you should get home and get ready for the party tomorrow." Everyone nodded and proceeded to leave the ballroom.
Chloe went to the penthouse suite in the hotel and tried on the costume Marinette made, simply admiring the beauty of it in the mirror. "You know," Pollen said as she flew around Chloe, "if you wear it all the time, it'll eventually get ruined."
"Don't worry Pollen," Chloe said, "I'm gonna take it off, I just wanted to see it one more time."
"You really have been excited for this party haven't you," Pollen said, "you've been decorating, helping with the costumes, everything!"
"What can I say," Chloe said with a smile, "it's my first Halloween since I've become part of the team and I want it to be memorable." Chloe walked away and changed back into her yellow jacket and the rest of her street clothes. When Chloe came back, someone was knocking on the door. She walked over to the door of her penthouse and opened it to see a wolf.
Chloe panicked and fell backward. "I'm sorry miss," the wolf said as he took off his mask to reveal a young man with black hair wearing thick rimmed glasses, "I didn't mean to scare you."
"It's fine," Chloe said, "just not every day you open your door to see a wolf."
The kid helped Chloe back onto her feet, "again I'm so sorry. I was just looking for people to join my wolf pack for the party tomorrow."
"Wolf pack," Chloe said in confusion, "What's that supposed to be?"
"A group costume for the contest tomorrow," the kid said as he pulled his stuff together, "the name's Eric and I'm looking for people to join me for my group costume so we can win the costume contest at Mayor Bourgeois' party tomorrow."
"Wouldn't it be better to get some friends to help with your costume," Chloe asked giving a skeptical look.
"No," Eric said, "because werewolves randomly pick who they want to transform. That and I don't have any friends."
"Oh," Chloe said, she felt bad but didn't know what to do, "I'm sorry but I already got a costume, in fact it's a group costume."
"That's fine," Eric said with a smile, but Chloe could see in his eyes that he was upset, "I can find other..."
"Hey," one of the employees of the hotel shouted from down the hall, "I told you that you're not supposed to be up here."
"I got to run," Eric said before running off to escape the employee.
"Well he was interesting," Pollen said as Chloe closed the door and sat down.
"Of all places he could look for candidates for his wolf pack," Chloe said as she thought about Eric, "why the penthouse suite in the Bourgeois hotel?"
Pollen let out a shrug with her tiny stubs, "maybe he really wanted you."
Chloe shook her head, "can't be. Until recently, I wasn't exactly nice or humble. He'd have to be crazy to think Chloe Bourgeois would go along with any idea that wasn't her own."
Pollen thought for a second, "well then I have no idea."
Chloe quickly put the thought out of her mind and decided to watch some TV. After a good nights rest, Chloe got up and prepared for the party. She checked her costume to make sure she had all the pieces, watched the news for a bit to make sure there were no akuma attacks, and finally it was time.
Chloe put on her costume and helped Pollen into her hood before going downstairs to the lobby to meet up with everyone else. She quickly got there and saw Marinette, Alya, and Adrien as well as Sam in his Jade Turtle costume. It was surprisingly well made, however Chloe noticed there were some differences between Sam's costume and Shelly's suit. Sam had green sleeves and pants instead of yellow and wore a small green mask over his face instead of goggles. Other than that the costume was pretty accurate.
"There you are lady," Marinette said as she bowed in front of Chloe and stretched out her hand, "waiting for you to arrive was paw-sitively dreadful."
"Boo," Adrien said with his hands cupped over his mouth, "your puns are terrible."
"I purr-sonally think they're a-mew-zing," Marinette said as she walked over to Adrien and planted a kiss on his forehead.
"Hey," Chloe said with her arms crossed, "I thought I was your lady?"
"You are my lady," Marinette said, "but he's my gentleman."
"You sure do make a good tomcat," Alya said through her laughter.
"And you make a good buzz brain," Sam said turning to Alya.
"Is that so Shell Head," Alya said as she go on her toes to get in Sam's face.
Chloe laughed at how good Sam's imitation of Shelly was. "Well come on," Chloe said once she stopped laughing, "we better get to the party."
Everyone followed Chloe into the ballroom and gasped in awe. They knew the room looked good during the day, but the way it looked in the night was creepy. It was only lit by the paper jack-o-lanterns Adrien and Marinette had hung earlier, leaving a haunting light on the already creepy decorations they had placed on the tables. But they were all more in awe about the celebrities. They could see Jagged Stone, XY, and celebrities that the team couldn't even recognize.
"Hey guys," Nino said as he walked by carrying a box of records. Everyone got to see his costume for the first time. It was a red hoodie with yellow and blue stripes painted around the arms with a blue stripe painted around the waist as well as a yellow waist band he also had a black dot on his chest with two black lines going from the dot over to his shoulders and down his back into a yellow backpack he was wearing that had some handle sticking out of it. He was also wearing black pants, gloves and boots, the boots having yellow and blue stripes painted at the top. Finally he was wearing blue face paint around his eyes with a black dot above his left eye and another below his right eye. Everyone was shocked to see that Nino was dressed as the Bubbler.
Everyone went silent in shock, except for Sam, "what are you meant to be?"
"The Bubbler," Nino said as he put the small box by his turntable, "it's who I was when I got akumatized."
"Why would you want to be that," Sam asked as he scanned Nino's costume.
"Because I wasn't the only one who agreed to these costumes," Nino said as he gestured to certain people around the room, specifically their classmates. They could see the costumes everyone was wearing. Kim was Dark Cupid, Rose was Princess Fragrance, Juleka was Reflekta, and Ivan was Stoneheart, but those were just the ones that that they were able to see. "When you guys said you were going as the heroes," Nino continued, "Rose came up with the idea that you guys were going to need villains."
"That's amazing," Adrien said as he looked at all the different costumes, "crazy, but amazing."
"I had planned to do something similar," Sam said, "but I didn't to set myself on fire."
Everyone laughed, until the mood was killed by someone yelling across the room. "No one wants to help with your stupid idea," a mysterious voice shouted. Everyone turned to see some person they didn't recognize yelling at someone Chloe recognized.
"But dad," Eric said, wearing his full werewolf costume and holding a second wolf mask.
"No I'm done listening," The other person, apparently Eric's dad, went on, "you've been running around the hotel all week looking for people to join your wolf pack. I've had to tell the hotel employees to make you stop."
"But dad," Eric said.
"Excuse me," Chloe said as she walked over to where Eric and his father were arguing, "but can I ask whats going on?"
"Yeah," Eric's father said, "I got my kid a wolf necklace when he was young and now he's obsessed with them."
"It's not an obsession," Eric yelled at his father, but his father didn't listen.
"And now he's trying to get other people involved by getting them these stupid wolf masks," his father said as he took one of the wolf masks his son was holding, "Your idea is ridiculous and this obsession is childish." He then took the mask he was holding and ripped it in two.
Eric stared at the ripped mask that his father had thrown on the ground. Eric then took off his own mask to reveal the tears he had in his eyes. Eric opened his mouth to speak but instead ran out of the ballroom in tears.
"Eric wait," Chloe yelled as she followed behind him, but she got stopped by her father.
"Chloe I need your help," He said but Chloe was just focused on getting around her father and wasn't paying attention.
"Uh... Yeah I'll help," Chloe said just trying to get past her father, not even knowing what she was agreeing to just wanting to get by before anything bad happened. Suddenly a loud howl echoed into the ballroom and rang in the ears of the patrons of the party. Many people thought it was part of the party and simply admired the sound, until a large werewolf burst through the doors of the ballroom. Everyone ran in fear from the monster, Sam being one of the first out the door with the rest of the class and the other patrons following behind him, however some people fell behind the others and were caught by the werewolf, who promptly scratched them on their chests. As soon as the creature placed his claws upon the civilians, they transformed into werewolves as well. "Welcome to the Wolfman pack," the creatures would say every time they caught someone and transformed them.
Chloe grabbed her friends and guided them to a large storage room. "We need to transform fast," Chloe said as Pollen flew out from under the wing of Chloe's costume.
"These creatures are transforming everyone into Wolfmen," Tikki said as she flew out, "we're going to need to stop them."
"We know," Plagg said as he took off his fox hood, "but thank you for stating the obvious."
"Alright everyone," Marinette said, "let's get to work."
"Tikki, Spots On!"
"Plagg, Claws Out!"
"Pollen, Stingers Out!"
"Trixx, Tail Up!"
The four heroes ran back into the ballroom to see that the one Wolfman had become a horde of them. "Glad you could join us," one of the Wolfmen said, "my pack outnumbers you, you cannot win. Give me your miraculous and we will not make you part of my pack."
"No thanks" Cat Noir said with a smile, "but the world may end the day a cat listens to a dog."
"Then we shall take them by force," the Wolfmen leader said. At these words, his pack attacked the heroes and forced them to go on the defensive. Each of the heroes just dodged and parried any attack that was thrown at them, trying to avoid the claws in order to not be transformed. They were desperately outnumered and could get nowhere near the Wolfmen leader, much less search for the akuma.
"We can't keep up like this," Ladybug shouted as she ducked under another swipe from one of the Wolfmen.
"There isn't much we can do," Volpina said as she parried another strike with her flute, "there's too many of them."
"We have to do something," Queen Bee said as she flipped over one of the Wolfmen, but it caught on to her technique and backhanded her into a wall. The Wolfman slowly walked over to her and prepared to transform her like the rest. However when he went for the strike, he was blocked by a familiar green figure.
"You know Stripes," Jade Turtle said as he held up the Wolfman's paw, "we really need to stop meeting like this."
"Good to see you too Shelly," Queen Bee said as she stood up.
Jade Turtle threw the Wolfman off of his shield and prepped it to block another attack. "This is a nice party," Turtle said as he blocked another attack, "I'm just gonna assume my invitation got lost in the mail."
"A Shell Head like you couldn't get an invitation to a party like this," Queen Bee said as she used her trompo to throw one of the Wolfmen across the room.
"Give up," the pack leader shouted at them, "you can not defeat the pack."
"Then we'll just beat you," Cat said as he jumped at the pack leader, only to promptly receive a quick slash to the chest from one of the other members of the pack.
"NO," Ladybug's voice rang through the room. everyone was in shock as they saw their friend get transformed into another Wolfman
Turtle didn't focus on this for long. "REWIND," Turtle shouted at the top of his lungs. Suddenly time reset itself to before Cat Noir was scratched.
"Give up," the pack leader shouted, "you can not defeat the pack."
"Then we'll just defeat you," Cat said as he jumped at the pack leader. Another Wolfman jumped to attack Cat Noir in the air, but got slammed by Turtle using his shield as a projectile. Cat Noir then smacked his staff against the pack leader sending him flying against a wall.
"Nice job Cat," Turtle shouted as he caught his shield, but then got scratched by a Wolfman from behind.
"ROOKIE," Cat shouted as he ran over to help his friend, smacking away any of the Wolfmen that got in his way. When he got to his friend, Turtle promptly kicked him in his chest to knock him away.
"RUN," Turtle shouted to his friends, "GET AWAY!"
Ladybug didn't want to admit it, but Jade was right. "Everyone retreat," Ladybug shouted as she jumped away from the Wolfmen, "We need to regroup and come up with a plan."
"What about the Rookie," Cat asked as he ran toward Ladybug, "we can't just leave him."
"We have to," Ladybug said, "he told us to get away, so that's what we'll do. We have a better chance at saving him if we come up with a plan and stop the pack leader."
Cat looked back at where his friend was only to see another Wolfman. "Alright," Cat said as he hung his head, and the whole team fled to outside the ballroom, into the lobby, and outside onto the rooftops.
Once the team reached a point where they felt the Wolfmen couldn't get them, or at least not get them for a while, they all stopped to catch their breath. "So what do we do," Volpina said as she searched around to make sure no Wolfmen were nearby.
"We need to find the akuma," Ladybug said, "it's obvious that the pack leader has it, but what could it be."
Queen Bee thought for a second, thinking of everything she heard from the exchange between Eric and his father. The entire wolf costume he was wearing became part of his body, can't be that. He left the ripped mask in the ballroom when he got akumatized, not that. Then she thought of something she didn't see, but knew Eric had. "It's a wolf necklace," Queen Bee shouted out, "it was the only thing the akuma victim was wearing that would make sense to hold it."
"Ok," Cat said. He was clearly upset about what happened to Turtle, judging by the lack of his joking nature. "So how do we get it."
"No idea," Queen Bee said as she thought about how to get something off his chest without meeting those claws. She sat down on one of the vents on the rooftop and tried to think.
Everyone sat in silence trying to think about how to get that necklace. "We're just gonna have to hope that our powers can help us when we get to that point," Ladybug said, breaking the long silence, "we need to worry about how to find the pack leader."
"You should not worry about that," A dark familiar voice said. Everyone turned to see the pack leader and a small group of his wolves behind him. Just as queen had thought, they could see a small silver wolf hanging from around his neck. "I have been personally tasked to stop you," the Wolfman said, "I want my pack to expand, it would be a waste to have everyone in my pack come after a mere four heroes."
"Shame," Cat said with anger, "you're certainly going to need the help." Cat charged the pack leader smacking away all of the lackeys that he had brought with him and went on the offensive. The rest of the team simply kept the other Wolfmen away from Cat as he went on a rampage against the leader.
"I believe this is the first time a Cat has chased a dog," the pack leader said as he blocked the different attacks from Cat's staff.
"Well that's what happens when you hurt my friends," Cat said as let out a furious barrage.
"Cat keep your head," Ladybug shouted, "don't let your anger get the better of you." She spoke too late. Cat rushed his attacks and in return he screwed up and got a scratch across his chest. Cat Noir fell to the floor and began growing hair.
"CAT," Ladybug screamed, Queen Bee threw her trompo around her in order to pull her away from the other Wolfmen before could get her. Ladybug tried to pull against Queen to go help Cat.
"Ladybug," Queen Bee shouted as she held back her friend, "you said it yourself, the best way to save them is to stop the leader." Ladybug didn't listen, she kept resisting, she kept trying to help Cat Noir despite him being fully transformed. "You're gonna hate me when you wake up bug," Queen Bee said before hitting her friend on the head and knocking her unconscious. "Volpina, we need to move."
Volpina listened and promptly finished beating away the last of the Wolfmen that were near her, but then one managed to slip behind her and scratch her on the back.
"VOLPINA," Queen Bee shouted, as her other friend fell to the floor.
"JUST GO," Volpina shouted back, "GET YOURSELF AND BUG AWAY BEFORE THEY GET YOU TOO!"
Queen Bee didn't want to, but she followed her friends orders and grabbed the unconscious Ladybug and started jumping across the roof tops to escape the Wolfmen. A couple of them fell when they tried to make the jump, but most of them kept following behind. Queen Bee kept running, occasionally jostling her arm in order to keep Ladybug on her shoulder. It was just the two of them now, and she knew if Ladybug got scratched there would be no hope of purifying the akuma.
Queen managed to get away from the Wolfmen after what felt like hours of running. She had run to the Eiffel tower, it was such a high point so it would take a while for any of the Wolfmen to climb up and the metal would hopefully ring against their claws so she could hear them coming. Queen layed her unconscious friend along the rail and then took a seat next to her. She needed a breather, after all that she could barely move her legs. She opened her trompo and looked at the time, it had been almost two hours since the first Wolfman appeared. She almost wanted to transform back so she could get to her phone and call Sam, but she knew that she couldn't do that. She was extremely worried about him for some reason, seeing as he'd been so nice and helpful to everyone. He even tried to be a hero as Blackbird. She could feel herself blush as she thought of his good deeds and shook the thought of Sam out of her mind.
"What's happening," Ladybug said as she woke up.
Queen Bee let out a sigh of relief that something else was happening to get her mind off Sam. "The Wolfmen are still on the attack," Queen Bee said, "you got knocked unconscious and I brought you here so we could rest." She didn't want to mention that she knocked her out.
"Where's Cat," Ladybug said as she looked around, still dazed from getting hit on the head, "and Volpina?"
"They were caught by the Wolfmen," Queen Bee said, looking at the ground.
"Do we know where the pack leader is," Ladybug said as she stood up and looked over the rail.
Queen shook her head, "I had to get you out of there so we still had a chance to purify the akuma."
"Alright," Ladybug said as she looked down on the city, Queen could tell that she was thinking about Cat Noir.
"Are you going to be ok," Queen Bee said, "I know what happened wasn't easy to see." Queen could see that she was scared, and who could blame her. All of their friends had already been transformed in front of them, and who knew who else could've gotten transformed while they were up here. She was scared for her family, for the rest of the class, because that's just who she was. She always cared more about other people. Queen respected that about her, Ladybug taught her what it really meant to be a hero. She taught her to be humble, kind, and generous. And it desperately scared Bee to see her friend scared
"I'll be fine," Ladybug said forcing a smile, "and they'll be fine too, we just need to stop the Wolfman prime."
Queen Bee nodded her head in agreement. "Right now we need to rest and recover," Queen Bee said, "we can focus on the Wolfmen after we recover."
"Good," a voice said from the opposite side of the tower, "that means we can focus on you." The Wolfman leader came around the tower followed by three more Wolfmen. Each of the other three Wolfmen had a familiar trait, one had black cat ears on his head, one had a green hood, and one had a fox necklace hanging around it's neck. The Wolfman leader had brought their friends to fight them. "I will request one more time," the leaders voice rang, "give me your miraculous, only this time I offer to release your friends."
"No," Ladybug shouted, "We'll beat you and then we'll get our friends back on our own."
"Then you shall fail," the pack leader shouted before sicking the Wolfman heroes on the two. Queen Bee and Ladybug just dodged the attacks, not wanting to hurt their friends.
"How do we stop them," Queen Bee shouted as she dodged an attack from the Volpina wolf.
"The same way we beat all of them," Ladybug said as she jumped between the Cat Wolf and the Turtle wolf, then threw her yoyo in the air shouting, "LUCKY CHARM." Suddenly a small red jump rope with black dots landed in her hands.
"Great," Queen Bee said as she wrapped her trompo around the Turtle wolf and slammed it into the tower, she didn't care that much about not hurting the Shell Head, "now we can play with the new pups."
Ladybug quickly looked around the tower in an attempt to come up with a plan involving her Lucky Charm. She scanned the tower and came up with a plan real quick. "BEE," Ladybug shouted, HONEY NET!"
Bee knew exactly what this meant, it was a move they had practiced before in their free time. At the words the two began spinning around the three Wolfmen heroes and tangled their weapons around the nearby support beams and railing until the other three heroes were surrounded by a net made of Ladybug's yoyo and Queen Bee's trompo. "HONEY BEE," Queen Bee shouted as she placed her hand against the net they had made to put a golden shell around it. Bee could hear the other heroes banging inside. Bee pulled her trompo out of the shell and it landed in her hand, as she let out a smirk she could feel a scratch on her back.
"BEE," Ladybug shouted as her friend went through the transformation like the others. Ladybug didn't know what to do, her plan involved Queen Bee helping her create a moving trip wire out of the jump rope. Not only was she alone now, now she needed to come up with a new plan, hoping her lucky charm could help her stop the two wolves that were in front of her. She quickly came up with a new plan, run.
She had to get away. Ladybug quickly fled off the side of the tower only to see more Wolfmen crawling up the side of the tower, she was surrounded with nowhere to go. It seemed like almost all of Paris had been transformed, even recognizing her mother and father, Nino, Rose, and Juleka among them. She was terrified at what had happened to her friends, to her family, but she tucked her fear down in order to save them. If she wasn't brave who would be.
Suddenly her earrings beeped, she only had three minutes left, Ladybug had to stop this now or else she might not be able to escape the Wolfmen again she stared at her jump rope and quickly tried to come up with another plan. She took her jump rope and wrapped it around one of the railings before jumping across and doing the same at another railing creating a form of trip wire. The Bee wolf and the pack leader charged as she expected, she jumped over them and kicked them against the trip wire, forcing them to fall forward and land on the golden honey shell that bee had made. Both of them struggled, but could not escape the honey trap. Ladybug walked over and pulled the wolf necklace off the leader and smashed it under her foot, releasing the butterfly inside.
"No more evil doing for you little akuma," Ladybug said as she opened her yoyo. She then threw it at the small butterfly while shouting, "TIME TO DE-EVILIZE!" She then caught the small akuma inside. She then opened her yoyo again to release a beautiful white butterfly while saying, "bye bye little butterfly." She picked up her jump rope and threw it in the air with her signature words, "MIRACULOUS LADYBUG!"
The rope exploded into a wave of black and red, safely transforming everyone who was transformed into a wolf back into a human and safely put them at the bottom of the tower.
"What happened," a young boy, from what Ladybug remembered hi name was Eric, said as he sat up.
'I'd like to ask the same thing," Cat Noir said as he stood up and looked around.
"We won kitty," Ladybug said as she walked over and gave him the biggest hug she had ever given him. He smiled and hugged her out.
"You know what that means," Volpina said as she got up and held out her fist.
"Yeah," Queen Bee said as she walked over to Turtle on the floor and swiftly kicked him in the leg, "get up Shell Head." Suddenly she noticed something that made her eyes go wide and her face go red, the arms on Jade Turtle's outfit were green, not yellow. She let out a small scream as Turtle sat up and his hood fell off to reveal familiar brown hair with purple bangs.
Sam sat up and put his hands on his face, only to pause and look at the green arms of the costume, he realized he had changed back. He then realized the hood had also fallen off his head, thinking they would recognize his hair. "Uh... I can explain," Sam said trying to think something up.
"They must've mistaken you for the real Jade Turtle," Ladybug said as she walked over to help him.
"Uh... yeah that," Sam said, he had never been happier a group of people was so dense.
"Look you're okay now," Cat said, "so why don't you go back to the pa... uh... whatever you were doing before this happened."
"Yeah," Sam said as he ran down to the elevator and took it down to the ground floor.
"Guy's I'm waiting," Volpina said with her arm still outstretched.
Queen Bee shook her head in order to get her focus back and shake the red off her face and Ladybug and Cat Noir let go of each other and walked toward Volpina. "Pound it," all the heroes said as they put their fists together.
"Kinda weird doing that without the rookie," Cat said.
"We don't need Shell Head," Queen said, "besides everything would go so much easier without him."
"Yeah and you would've been crushed ten times over," Volpina said. Everyone laughed at the dumb joke. They all got interrupted by the beeping of Ladybug's earrings and Queen's comb beeped.
"We better run," Ladybug said, "otherwise we might miss the rest of the party."
"Are you talking about the Bourgeois party," Eric asked, "were you guys there?"
"Uh...no," Queen Bee said, "we were throwing our own Halloween party. You know how it is."
"We will be jumping past the hotel if you need a lift," Cat Noir said with a smile, "I can carry you as long as you don't get motion sick."
"I'll get there on my own," Eric said.
"Alright," Cat said, "stay safe, ok?" Eric nodded and Cat smiled in return. After that all of the miraculous holders jumped off and made their way back to the party
Everyone ran back to the hotel and changed back in the store room. Like they had expected, everyone had gone back to business as usual after the akuma attack. Nino had taken a break from being DJ and Sam and the rest of the Rainmakers were playing now, Sam having switched out of his Jade Turtle costume back to his black jacket but he did keep his mask on."
"Chloe," A voice came from behind the group, all of them turned to see Mayor Bourgeois running up to them. "Are you ok," he said, "you're not hurt are you?"
"I'm fine daddy," Chloe said, pushing her father off of her to try and get some breathing room.
"Oh thank goodness," the mayor said as he let go of his daughter, "I was so worried for you."
"I'm fine," Chloe reiterated, "those wolves didn't even get near me."
"As long as you're fine," the mayor said as he stood up and and regained his composure, "if you don't want to judge the contest now because of what happened I would be fine with that."
"Contest," Chloe said with her confusion. She turned to her friends, but all of them just shrugged their shoulders or shook their heads.
"Don't you remember," Her father said with confusion, "I asked if you would judge the singles costume contest since you were only participating in the group cotest,"
Chloe only remembered agreeing to something, but not what she agreed to. "Um.. I don't know," Chloe said as she rubbed the back of her neck, then she saw a familiar face walk in and got an idea, "actually I'd be happy to do that."
"That is great," Mayor Bourgeois said as he clapped his hands together, "Just have your pick ready by the time your friend finishes his set."
Chloe nodded her head and her father walked off. She already had her pick ready, she just needed Sam to finish his set. Sam eventually finished his last song said good night to the people of the party and walked off stage. Mayor Bourgeois then walked on stage and took the microphone off of the stand. "Good evening everyone," Mayor Bourgeois said into the microphone, "how have you been enjoying the party." The crowd let out a loud cheer. "Very good," He continued, "and now we have a very important part of Halloween, the costumes." Everyone cheered again. "We have two categories, Singles and Groups. First to judge the Singles, my lovely daughter Chloe Bourgeois."
Chloe walked on stage and grabbed the microphone from her father, "thank you daddy. Now I'd like to say thank you all for coming and for showing your amazing creativity with these great costumes, however one stood out in particular today." She then jumped off stage and ran to grab her winner. She quickly ran back on stage with a familiar young man in a wolf costume, "I present to you Eric and his amazing werewolf costume." Everyone clapped and cheered as Chloe walked over and grabbed the large trophy as well as a large container that had been filled to the brim with candy. Chloe then leaned over and whispered in his ear, "Good job pack leader." Chloe could almost feel Eric blush through his mask. "Well that is all there is for my pick," Chloe said as she put the microphone back on it's stand, then stepped down off the stage.
"That was the akuma victim right," Sam said as Chloe walked back over to the group, he had switched back to his Jade Turtle costume, "pretty nice thing to do."
"Yeah I thought so," Chloe said.
"I think that may be the nicest thing you've ever done girl," Alya said as she wrapped an arm around her, "I can't believe you'd let that kid win."
"Yeah," Marinette said as she walked over to Chloe, "why did you do that."
"What can I say, Chloe said shrugging her shoulders, "maybe our new friend has inspired me to do more good." She leaned over and gave Sam a big hug. Chloe could see his face go bright red.
"Uh... Yeah," Sam said as he rubbed the back of his neck.
"Hey," A familiar voice said, everyone turned to see Eric running up, not wearing his mask anymore, "thank you so much for that."
"You're welcome," Chloe said, "it was the least I could do after what happened."
"You got akumatized," Sam said, he had taken off his hood and mask so they could see his cold expression, "which is better than what you deserve."
"SAM," Chloe said, "how could you say..."
"Sam," Eric cut her off, his face faded into an almost wicked smile, "I haven't seen you in so long, how's it been going."
"Fine," Sam said staring Eric dead in the eyes, "at least until you showed up."
"Wait," Marinette said as she stepped between them, "you know each other."
"How rude," Eric said as he started pacing around Sam, "you never told your friends about me?"
"To be fair I try to forget about you," Sam said as he followedEric with his eyes not turning his body.
"Well now that I'm here you can't forget," Eric said stopping in front of Sam, "so introduce me."
Sam let out a long sigh, "everyone I want you to meet Eric Firgate, my brother."
"Wait what," Adrien said as he switched his stare between the two.
"You have a younger brother," Alya said as she studied Eric.
"Actually he's older," Sam said with a cocky smile.
"Always rubbing in that you're a couple inches taller than me," Eric said.
"Well and generally more mature," Sam said, "now tell me what are you doing in Paris?"
"Father had business here," Eric said, "but decide to attend this party in his free time, and you can guess how disappointed he was to see his favorite son playing his mediocre music like his father told him not to."
"I've never been one to follow orders," Sam said as he looked down on his brother, "but I know you are. So follow this one, leave."
"Seeing as father already left," Eric said with his wicked smile, "I'll join him, but expect a stern call from father soon."
"I will," Sam said with his cocky smirk, "and I will happily press the ignore button when he does."
Eric laughed, then turned and left the ballroom. "That was unpleasant," Adrien said.
"Every encounter with him is," Sam said with his cool joking expression returning, "any encounter with my family is."
"you really don't like your family," Alya asked as she put a hand on Sam's shoulder.
Sam shook his head, "I really don't want to talk about them right now."
"We understand," Marinette said, "let's move on."
"Thank you," Sam said.
"It's no problem," Chloe said, "we don't need to talk about it if you don't want to. We're here for you ok." She then gave Sam another hug, making him turn bright red again.
"Uh.. uh... yeah... uh... thanks," Sam said stumbling over his words.
Everyone let out a laugh at Sam struggling to talk. Suddenly they were all cut off by the music stopping and the sound of Mayor Bourgeois' voice booming from the speakers. "Now that you've all had a chance to congratulate our singles winner," He said into the microphone, "We will now go into the group costume contest. Our judge for this event is someone you all know that seemed perfect for the situation, Mr. Jagged Stone."
Jagged Stone hopped on stage and grabbed the microphone from out of Mayor Bourgeois' hand. "Thank you," He said as he grabbed the mic from the mayor's hand, "now I know I'm not one for fashion, besides my own that is, but I have been looking at the amazing groups of people around the party and have made my decision." Jagged Stone then ran off the stage and grabbed Marinette and the rest of the team and brought them all on stage. "I happily award the group contest victory to Ms. Marinette and her miraculous team."
Everyone was extremely surprised, they all didn't know what to say. Marinette was handed the large trophy and the large container of candy was handed to Chloe, however it was so big Adrien had to help hold it up. A cameraman walked up to get their picture. Chloe and Adrien put down the candy and Marinette put down the trophy. Everyone took a pose based on the hero that they were dressed as with Marinette holding her staff behind her back and placing a hand on the ground, Adrien planting the long reed flute into the ground and leaning on it, Alya holding her trompo and putting her other hand on her hip, Chloe holding her yoyo and doing a mild flexing pose, and Sam taking the fake shield off his back and prepping it in front of him. Each of them let out a big smile as the cameraman took their picture and all of them thought that despite all the trouble, this had been a good Halloween.
END
EPILOGUE:
He was standing in the center of the room, angry at the failure of his latest villain, he was angry at how they had defeated him once again, and most of all he was angry about how she would not stop taunting him. "A werewolf huh," She said pacing around him, "great idea. Nothing could go wrong."
"Silence yourself," He said in response, "or I will happily silence you."
"Easy now," She said in response, "I'm just saying, you could've just sent me and I'd have them by now."
"They have defeated you once," he said, "they will defeat you again. You have your mission."
"I know I know," She said as she sat on the seat behind her, "find the last miraculous so we can use it against them. I've heard your plan multiple times, I'm a little bit sick of hearing it in fact."
"If you are tired of hearing it," He said turning away from his large window to face her, "then perhaps you should find what I seek and then I will stop talking about it."
"Fine fine," She said as she stood up, "but it might help if you make an akuma that actually kept them busy for more than a couple of hours, I need more time without those goody two shoes punks so I can look for it."
"Well Empress," he said as he planted his walking stick into the ground, "perhaps you should just stop waiting for my akumas to attack and just look. You're wasting time."
"Listen," Empress said, getting in his face, "we both know if they catch wind of what I'm searching for, it'll only make it harder for me to find. So Hawk Moth, why don't you make a villain that can actually stop them."
Hawk Moth looked down on her and prepared to speak, but quickly spun around as his window opened, "Very well Empress, if you want a villain then I shall give you one as dramatic as you are." He then took one of the small butterflies that landed in his hands and put dark energy in it changing it from white to black and purple. "Now fly my akuma and help this soul prove that he is the true star of the show." He then turned and faced Empress, "And you go find the peacock miraculous."
"Yes sir," Empress said, jokingly making a bow before running out the door.