Chapter 5 – The ultimate power

Ladybug rushed back to the car she hid Chat Noir behind to see the butterflies flying away from him. He was no longer scorched or grazed but he was still unconscious despite her magic.

Before having a moment to think her earrings beeped indicating that she was about to transform back. Chat's ring also beeped which caused her to panic.

"What do I do? What do I do?!" She franticly asked herself aloud. She had two options: Leave him somewhere to de-transform and risk him being too injured to get home by himself. Or take him with her and risk finding out his identity. There was no way she could do the first, but she wasn't too thrilled about doing the second either.

She picked him up and ran away to the nearest bathroom she could find. It was the best place around that she could lock the door to.

She was still unsure if she was doing the right thing and decided she needed a second opinion.

"Tikki! Spots off!"

Tikki immediately flew to look at Chat when she materialised, "He's looking pretty bad Marinette! I'm not sure if he's just knocked out." She told her sounding very worried.

"You mean he's de-" Marinette was unable to finish her sentence and began to tear up.

"NO! NO! I DIDN'T MEAN TO PHASE IT LIKE THAT!" Tikki shouted before Marinette fully broke down into tears, "But if we leave it too long it might not be out of the question!"

Marinette shakily sighed in relief and wiped a tear from her cheek. "How do we help him then?" she asked her kwami.

Before Tikki could answer a blinding green light shine from Chat forcing Marinette and Tikki to shield their eyes. Once Tikki opened hers again she saw an exhausted looking Plagg inspecting Adrien's body. He froze and looked up at her, "TIKKI!". He flew into Tikki's arms and hugged her like he hadn't been able to for thousands of years.

Her face was frozen. "Tikki are you okay?" he asked her concerned.

Without taking her eyes off Adrien she mouthed to him, "Oh my gosh! Adrien is Chat Noir?!".

Before either kwami could say anymore Marinette spoke again with her eyes still covered, "Tikki! Is that Chat Noir's kwami? I don't want to look at Chat's identity."

"Wow she really is persistent about the identity thing, isn't she? I thought he was exaggerating." Plagg remarked gesturing to Adrien. "The name's Plagg, and yes I am." Plagg shook Marinette's free hand with his tiny paw, "Nice to finally meet you in person Marinette Dupain-Cheng!".

Marinette recoiled at him saying her full name, "Chat can't hear us, can he?".

"No, he's still unconscious Marinette but we should really get to helping him and save the catch up for later" Tikki instructed.

"How do we do that though Tikki?" She asked.

"Remember when I healed your headache this morning?" Tikki began, "I believe that with enough energy there's a chance that I can channel that power to a greater effect through you, when you are Ladybug."

"Cookies are in my bag" Marinette told her, "So you're going to give me your healing kiss power as Ladybug? Isn't that kinda weird considering Chat's unconscious?"

"Not much different to when he was under Dark Cupid's spell and you were fine with that" Plagg teased.

Marinette went red, "I uhh- Ok, I guess I have to."

"Hey Tikki since when have you had healing powers? I thought that was Wayzz's thing." Plagg enquired.

"Well it was something I just kind of figured out I could do when I kissed my previous holders' injuries. It was always a sweet gesture like how a mother would kiss her child's bruises, but it started to have physical benefits. I've never thought about doing it as Ladybug until now." Tikki answered while finishing the cookie. "Ok Marinette, I think I'm ready!"

"Tikki! Spots on!"

Plagg had to shield his eyes from the bright pink light. Once he opened them Marinette was now Ladybug but with her eyes shut tightly.

"Ok Plagg, I need you to guide me so that I kiss his forehead, since I can't see it myself." Ladybug instructed, "Do you think you can do that?"

Plagg trying to hide his mischievous giggles agreed. "Ok lean forward. Keep going. Keep going. Down a bit. Ok put your hands out you're going to feel the sides of his head now. Good. Now move your head down a little. Perfect! You're right above his forehead now"

Ladybug braced herself and puckered her lips as she lowered them down onto Chat. Her lips made contact with him except something was wrong, this wasn't his forehead. She pulled up, "PLAGG! THOSE ARE HIS LIPS!" she shouted.

Plagg replied through his laughter, "Keep going Ladybug I could see it working!".

After scolding Plagg she reluctantly planted her lips back against his. She suddenly was able to feel a magical energy passing through her lips into his, the energy was willing her to kiss him harder and without even thinking about it she did. She began to feel the same energy flowing out of her heart and without realising it she was no longer holding back and instead was melting into the kiss. She was feeling a growing sensation of this energy leaving every part of her body and flowing through her lips to the point where she felt numb, yet, she was unable to stop. She had practically no control over her body anymore as she began kissing more and more passionately all whilst the energy in her lips felt stronger and stronger. She was just about able to hear the sound of Plagg complaining about how gross it was to watch. Yet this didn't deter her body from continuing and the energy getting even more powerful.

Adrien woke up feeling unnaturally energised as if he had just drunk several energy drinks. His heart was pounding in his chest so powerfully that he could feel the energy entering it. In fact, he could feel his whole body being filled by this energy and it felt like it was all coming from his lips.

It was only then that he realised that Ladybug was making out with him incredibly passionately and he began freaking out. This definitely was not a normal kiss. Then again, she didn't even normally kiss him. He had no idea what to do but his body as if on auto pilot began kissing Ladybug back.

Ladybug felt this change in the kiss a realised that it must have worked, yet she was unable to pull away, the energy still had control over her body. However, as he began to kiss her back more and more passionately she felt energy now start to entre her lips rather than leave. Adrien felt the exact opposite as he was now giving her energy. Ladybug then felt it leave again and come back again and this kept repeating until she felt it completely stop.

As if a switch was flicked she was suddenly in full control again and able to pull away from Chat. She lay back on the floor gasping to regain air with her eyes still closed after all of that. Adrien too was breathing deeply, only now realising he was Adrien, he noticed Ladybug's eyes were shut and realised why.

"Plagg! Claws out!"

"M'Lady you can open your eyes now." He told her.

Ladybug opened her eyes and looked at her partner. "Chat! You're alive!" She said in relief between deep breaths.

"Did I die?" Chat asked concerned by her statement.

"I'm not even sure at this point to be honest Chat." She replied half chuckling.

"What was that kiss about exactly?" Chat enquired.

"I'm not too sure about that either, from what I can gather my Kwami has healing kisses and gave me the power to do that to resurrect you." She explained, "It felt really strange though, I felt this energy leaving my heart and going through my lips into yours."

"I felt your energy entering my heart" Chat told her. "I think it was almost like some magical defibrillator or something, it filled my whole body with energy and life again after whatever state I was in before."

"That's good I guess" Ladybug replied half-heartedly.

"Are you okay M'Lady?" Chat asked her worried.

"It's just that, I felt the opposite. My body felt drained and I couldn't even control what it was doing. I felt almost… violated" She confessed to him.

"Oh my god, I'm so sorry M'Lady if I had known I-"

"No Chat it's not your fault at all. You didn't even make the conscious choice to do it. It's just how the power works I guess: To give your body life I have to take it away from mine."

"That's disgusting though. I can't expect you to just accept that for me"

"It's what I had to do Chat. It's much worse than the pain I would have gone through if I had lost you."

Chat grabbed her in a huge hug, tears streaming down his face. She hugged him back. It was the comfort they both needed.

"I love you M'Lady" Chat said still crying.

"You-"

"I mean it. Not just romantically, of all people in the world I care about you the most, as a friend, a partner and as family."

Ladybug herself began crying, "You already know how I feel romantically, but of course I love you in that way."

After a minute of silence and hugging each other. They pulled apart from each other and just looked at each other unsure of what to say or do.

Ladybug took some of the toilet paper and used it to wipe Chat's face dry.

"There you go, now you're not a mess." She said giggling.

Chat laughed before wiping her face in return, "You're never a mess."

She blushed sheepishly.

"So, tell me what's up with Multi-Man? I missed out on a lot after exploding I assume." Chat asked deciding to change the topic.

"Done. He's been purified and Hawkmoth's plans once again failed."

"Thank god! I couldn't bare to have to find him a third time." Chat said in relief, "How'd you do it all without me?"

"Well the statue as you found was a trap but luckily I wasn't there, so I was able to defend your body and miraculous, then with some help with Alya and the Police we were able to break all four watches."

"Alya!? As in Alya Césaire, the Ladyblog girl?"

"Yeah that's the one, she was foolish to put herself in danger, but I probably wouldn't have defeated Multi-Man so easily without her. She took out one of the clones all by herself." Ladybug said secretly very proud of her best friend.

"She's clearly something special I guess, we should keep her in mind if we're ever recruiting teammates." Chat jokingly replied unware that he just caused Ladybug to imagine how much Alya would not shut up about being a superhero and began pre-dreading that happening.

"We should probably get out of this bathroom now." Ladybug suggested.

"Yeah good idea" Chat agreed.

Just as they were about to go their separate ways Chat stopped Ladybug by grabbing her shoulder, "M'Lady, if you want to would you like to hangout together sometime? It's just that I realised that we barely know each other personally and I'd love to be closer to you."

"Of course Chat! How about we meet on the Eiffel Tower at midnight tomorrow? I would say tonight but I still haven't caught up on sleep after yesterday."

"Midnight?" Chat questioned.

"Yeah I like the atmosphere more" Ladybug explained, "it's more romantic" she added winking as she then swung away into the distance laughing to herself.

Chat stood stunned for a second before coming to his senses. And he thought he was bad for flirting with her, she's such a tease.

That's the end of Miraculous Day! (I guess now it's been a whole Miraculous 24 hours)

I hope you have all enjoyed reading it as much as I have writing it! Your support for both stories fills me with so much more confidence and motivation so thank you all for that.

(Personally, I am much happier with how this story has ended up compared to Miraculous Night as I feel that each chapter is strong as opposed to only 1 in MN that I think was. I can only hope that it's due to my writing as a whole improving so that I can continue to make better stories for you all.)

This is the end in the series but not going to be my last Miraculous fic. I have a few basic ideas of upcoming ones so I'll start working on those as soon as I can.

Once again thank you all for reading.

-LinguineReturns