Author's Note: Sooo we're having a rainy weather but tomorrow we're not…anyways, we will see some action in this chapter too ^^ let's get going!

Shout Outs: Thanks to Bml1997 for reviewing the story. Thanks to quaylacheers for reviewing the story. Thanks to Babbocat15 for reviewing the story. Thanks to LilyTheNinjaGirl for reviewing and following the story. Thanks to kris potter for favoring the story.

Chapter 6: The Villain Strikes Part 2

Mari gave an irritated look as she leaned against the door, arms crossed. So far, that little pritzy pain in the butt wouldn't leave her alone and it was irritating her to the point where she would want to throw her off the building and say it was an accident.

She would've thought that by transforming into Ladybug, it would've knocked some sense into her but no. It only pursued her.

"Mari, you shouldn't stoop so low to her level." Tikki replied, peeking out of her purse. "You're better than that. That's why you're Ladybug." she smiled.

Marinette smiled. "I know but I can't help it. I was supposed to take care of Adrien only. Not her. I can't get anything done when she's here." she groaned. "Tikki, what am I supposed to do?"

"Well…do what you can do… not what others expect you to do." Tikki responded. "Then you will be even more…miraculous!" she giggled.

The designer smiled softly, patting her Kwami. "Thanks, Tikki."

And the little Kwami went back to hiding as the designer pushed the doors open.

"Adrien?" Mari called out. He turned his head to the side and smiled weakly.

"Hey."

Mari timidly gave a "hi" back. "Just wondering if you need anything?"

Adrien looked around himself before shrugging. "I think I'm fine." he sniffed. "Although maybe another box of 'issues…"

Seemingly knowing what he spoke, Mari nodded. She then went to feel his forehead which was still slightly burning up.

"I'll also get you a cloth."

The girl then exited out of the door to grab the items…even the box of 'issues…whatever that is but Mari has a hunch that he was referring to tissues.

Chloe paced back and forth, giving out a huff of angry. That little brat always has to ruin her plans, even if she was alone with Adrien. She was furious, to say the least. But as the daughter of the Mayor, she has to pull some strings…even if it's beyond her standards.

She needs to get the little vixen out of the picture.

Huffing, Chloe flopped down onto the couch and turned on the TV. As she browsed through the channels, there was one where it captured her attention.

"…the villain that calls herself Frozena had returned to the streets of Paris to cause havoc and we urge the citizens to stay home until we are in contact with Ladybug and Chat Noir who have not yet appeared. Questions made most people to wonder where they are now." the reporter said.

The girl gave on a thoughtful look. Frozena is still on a rampage…which is strange since she thought the two heroes had taken care of her; they always do. So what was it so different of this time that they couldn't take care of the icy villain?

Chloe made an evil grin as an idea was formed into her head.

Time to pull some strings. Smirking, Chloe waltzed out of the room but only went back in when she saw Marinette climbing up the stairs. This only made her grin grew wider.

When the coast was clear, Chloe ran out of the room and out to the entrance. She got some things to do.

Meanwhile, Marinette reached the door of Adrien, knocked then entered in.

"Adrien? Oh, good. You're awake. I thought you might've slept." Marinette responded, handing him the box of tissues for which he was very grateful.

According to Chloe, he wasn't so great with charades and here was Marinette, knowing exactly what he needed…

So, that being said, Adrien didn't see what the problem was.

He shrugged the thought nevertheless.

"No…I think I've slept enough." Adrien replied. "When you're sick, there isn't much to do…other than watching TV."

Marinette glanced at the large screen but suddenly felt her body be paralyzed. "Wha?" she gasped, dropping the box.

"…the police force are doing their best to not let Paris be a winter wonderland. Once again, we urge the citizens to stay out of the harm's way…"

"Mari? Marinette?" Adrien asked, concerned of his classmate.

"I…uh…I've got to go." she stammered before making a run out the door.

"Wait!"

Too late since Mari closed the door. Adrien sighed.

"I don't get it. Why does she keep running away?" he wondered.

Plagg shrugged. "It's simple. You can gain the girls but you can't keep worth of them." he laughed which made Adrien scowl.

The boy then grabbed an empty box of tissue and dumped the hole onto Plagg who was captured.

"ADRIEN!?" Plagg shouted, trying to get out of the box. "ADRIEENNNNN! LET ME OUTTA HEREEEEEEE!"

Marinette ran down the streets to where the danger was. She exceeded the reporter's warning about staying at home; she needed to get out there. On the streets.

Oh, if only she had known about this sooner.

The designer halted in her tracks. "Tikki, spots on!"

In a pink flash, she was transformed into Ladybug. She then used her yoyo to quickly get to the closest spot so she can meet up with the villain.

"Die! You pests!" Frozena snarled, sending out its icy spikes.

"Hey you. Yeah, you. The one who's talking to herself."

Frozena looked around and glanced up to see the familiar heroine who was standing on the rooftop of the store.

"Ah, Ladybug. I see you decided to come out and play even if your dear partner isn't here."

Ladybug narrowed her eyes, taking out her yoyo twirling it to the side. "If you even dared touch him, you'll be answering to my fists!"

Frozena sneered. "Aww, how cute." she drawled. "But you see…I only came here to talk. Not to fight."

Ladybug , with eyes still narrowed, started to lower the spin on her yoyo. "About…?"

Sensing that her curiosity had risen, she continued. "You see, a citizen had decided to come up to me and…oh I don't know how to put this." she muttered, trying to recall exactly what she had said to her. "She said if you could help me find this girl, Marinette then everything would be swell. Said something about having her out of the picture—for what reason, I don't know." Frozena shrugged. "And as if I don't have something better to do." she muttered.

And while she was listening, Marinette couldn't help but to drop her jaw with shock and disbelief. Great. Not only does she have to deal with her but she has to deal at the fact that this…villain is after her. And she has a hunch that Chloe was behind this.

She simply can't stand competition.

Marinette scowled. "Uh…does this citizen happen to have blonde hair, with evil look, annoying attitude and is the daughter of the Mayor?"

"Yes!" Frozena exclaimed. "But I simply forgotten her name—I wasn't really paying attention to her. I mean, who would? Now, if you could just simply point me to the direction of where this Marinette is, everything would go fine—we can even avoid this fight."

Marinette's scowl deepened, resuming spinning her yoyo. "No."

"I—"Frozena blinked, staring at her. "No? You say no?"

"Exactly that. I'm not about to put some citizen's life in danger all because of that wretch wanting to get rid of her. Sorry but like every other villain, you're going down." Ladybug growled, preparing to attack.

Frozena's smile faltered, turning into a dark frown. "Pity. I thought you would agree but as they say…once a do-gooder, always a do-gooder and you're about to go down in history!" she screamed, finally releasing her power that was building up.

At the right moment, Ladybug jumped in the air to avoid the streaks of spikes that went towards her. The spikes touched the pole, freezing as the spotted heroine landed back on the rooftop. Now that Frozena had mentioned, Mari hadn't saw Chloe in the past twenty minutes. Guess she could say now she knew where she went.

It's time to show this villain that while there were heroes in the city, they do not have the right to attack it.

"And you're about to be purified!" Ladybug proclaimed, running towards her.

She leaped off the rooftop, flinging her yoyo but it proved to be futile since the adversary released her ice streaks, freezing the object which had dropped to the ground.

Ladybug stared at her frozen yoyo which earned a nasty laugh from the enemy.

"What are you going to do now, Ladybug?" she taunted. "Without your yoyo, you're powerless."

Ladybug shot her a look. "I'm not powerless!"

The heroine ran towards her but Frozena simply smirked and she made a shield across her. When the time was right, Ladybug jumped in the air to perform a kick and as a result, the kick smashed through the icy shield shattering it like glass and Frozena was knocked backwards, falling to the floor.

"No, my shield!" she howled.

"I'm still powerless, am I?" Ladybug sneered.

Eyes wide, her frantic eyes stared at the broken pieces before a look of hatred was washed over her face.

"You! You will pay for this!" she snarled. And like that, frozen with rage, the villain disappeared in the icy blue smoke.

Ladybug stared at the empty spot before letting out a sigh, picking up the yoyo.

"Tikki, come out." in a weak flash, she went back to her civilian form and the Kwami fell on the palms of her hands.

"You okay?" Tikki replied, quietly.

"I guess so. I'm just worried where that villain disappeared now. Why would Chloe send her to find me?" she wondered.

Tikki shook her head, for once not having an answer. "I don't know, Marinette. I don't know."

Sensing that the silence was going to fall, Marinette began walking. "Come on. Let's get back to Adrien."

As the two walked, Tikki couldn't help but to wonder. This was the second time Chat Noir didn't show up. Where was he? She knew that he had Plagg but Plagg had never told who Chat Noir actually was because of safety.

"Marinette…have you ever wondered how come Chat Noir didn't showed up? This was his second time." the Kwami observed.

Marinette slightly widened her eyes as she went back to the previous fight. Sure, at first, Mari thought of nothing of Chat Noir's disappearance but then after this battle, she started to wonder.

"I did too…" she answered. "Do you think he got sick?"

Tikki frowned. "I suppose. But isn't Adrien also sick? And remember the time when you went looking for him but he was gone and at the same time, Chat Noir was gone too?"

Marinette stopped walking, registering all the information Tikki had said. "You know…" the two stopped talking before Mari gave a sharp look at the Kwami with wide eyes.

"No way." she breathed. "No freakin way!" she screamed. "Please don't tell me that it's true!"

"Mari—"

"It can't be true!" Mari exclaimed. "This could ruin everything! Everything of what we have up to now!"

"Marinette."

"No, Tikki! If Adrien is Chat Noir then help me so, I'm going to murder someone!"

"MARINETTE! GET A GRIP! I was only SUGGESTING! I didn't actually thought that Chat Noir is Adrien! Don't make assumptions! Besides, if you really want to know, then why don't you ask Adrien yourself?"

Marinette blinked. "You know…I'm going to do that right now!"

If Adrien really is Chat Noir, things wouldn't be the same. Mari thought as she ran.

Frozena ran away from the scene until she found an alleyway and went to that direction, hiding herself and to catch her breath.

"Just where do you think you're going young lady? You were given specific orders to grab the Miraculouses! Not to run away!" the Master's voice screamed in her head.

Sorry, Master. She had the upper hand regardless of not having her yoyo. I—

"I don't accept failures. If you don't get a grip on yourself, then I'll be forced to take away your powers! I will give you one more chance, Frozena! Make me proud or lose yourself forever!"

And the purple outline vanished, leaving Frozena in her thoughts. She sighed, bitterly as she went back to her previous battle with Ladybug. Somehow it doesn't seem fair. She has it all.

Frozena walked out of the alley only to glance up. There, in the distance, the large mansion stood out of everything else. The tall towering walls that were supporting the large structure stood proudly in the view. After studying it, Frozena got an idea and with that, she gave out a nasty smile.

Time to make my debutante.

Marinette swung open the two front doors and raced up the stairs without stopping. Sure, they were odd glances from the butler but she shrugged them off as she didn't even paid attention to them.

Once she reached her destination, she swung the doors open with force which jolted Adrien, turning his head to the side.

"Mari—"

Unexpectedly, Adrien saw a blur and he leaned back as he found himself staring closely at the blue orbs that were staring back at him.

"Uh—"

"Are you Chat Noir?" she blurted out, unaware that she was on top of him.

Adrien, for a moment, widened his eyes until he quickly regained himself back. For a second, he lost control of himself. That totally threw him off-guard and he stared back at the desperate blue eyes that were searching his own and for a minute, he was lost in them.

Are you Chat Noir?

The question snapped him back to reality as she was still waiting for an answer. He shook his head. He had to lie.

"No. No, I'm not. Besides, I can't even do half the stuff he can." Adrien answered.

It was as though time had frozen itself since it was taking forever for Mari to response and he was still dreading of what she has to say. She was searching him…searching his eyes for either the lie or for the truth because after all, your eyes can't tell lies.

Only your voice.

After a minute or so, Marinette let out a sigh but to Adrien, it felt like a sigh of…relief? He was confused, needless to say.

"Oh…uh, okay…that's um...heh. Sorry." Mari replied, sheepishly finally unpinning her arms from the boy's arms as she put her hand around her neck, stammering.

Awkward silence. Adrien cleared his throat.

Marinette seemed to take a hint as she looked down and suddenly had her face go beet red from embarrassment.

"Oh my gosh! I—uh—um…I'm so sorry!" she stammered, quickly scrambling away and got off the bed. "I…uh…need to go…uhm…bye!"

And then she zoomed off which left a puzzled Adrien. Once it was safe, Plagg flew out.

"What was that all about?" he asked, confused. "It almost seemed as though she was glad that you "aren't" Chat Noir."

Adrien glanced at the closed door, being deep in thought.

He was very confused indeed.

Author's Note: And cut! Even though I had trouble with this chapter, I guess it was alright. So, the villain's back only to disappear again but then found a new plan. And then Mari nearly figured out the real identity of Adrien only to have Adrien "lie" to her and then a whole bunch of mess had happened…a person can only handle so much before they break down…/sigh/ well, what will happen next? Find out!