Kaetlyn finished loading the dishwasher with the dirty dishes that accumulated throughout the day. She was washing her hands under the kitchen sink when her dad groaned in annoyance.
"Something wrong?" The girl asked as she scrubbed the hand soap on her hands.
"Oh, It's nothing. Just about work from home." Her dad rubbed his eyes. He sat at the dining table with a laptop in front of him. He's been using it for a couple hours now. Only break was dinner.
"What about Amity? Is something wrong?" Kaetlyn listed so many possibilities about what her father could be referring to, but she never expected what came out of his mouth.
"This weeks news at Amity Park has a whole page dedicated to a recently sighted ghost saving the town from other ghosts." He didn't have to look at his daughter's face to know that she wore a bewildered expression, "I know. I didn't believe it either, but Matthew wrote the page. Even called him to make sure. Said he's seen the ghost with his own eyes, and that man never tells a lie, even if it would benefit him."
Matthew was one of the man's friends from work. Kaetlyn would always end up driving with her dad to his house. All her father and Matthew talked about was gossip at work and brainstorm about next week's article.
"Is there a name to the ghost?" Kaetlyn decided to ask. It would get annoying to refer to the ghost as..well..'the ghost' the whole time.
"Not an official one, but people are calling him 'Inviso-Bill'." Her father answered.
"That's a pretty stupid name."
"Kaetlyn!" He scolded.
"Sorry…" Even if her dad would agree with her on something like that, he would still correct her. Kaetlyn's father had always taught her about good manners. Even if the rude comment was true.
"I'll be in my room." Kaetlyn said before retreating to her bedroom. She turned on her computer and started a video call with Sam, her goth friend.
"What are you doing?" Lunna asked, out of view from the camera for safety in identities.
"Asking Sam about this 'Inviso-Bill' character. She lives in Amity after all. She might have a bit more information."
Speaking of the devil, Sam's face flashed on the screen. She sat up in her bed, the laptop in her lap. "So what you called me for? It's not even lunch yet."
"My dad found a news article about some ghost named 'Inviso-Bill'. I was wondering if you might know anything about him."
Sam's eyes widened. She seemed to have frozen. Kaetlyn even checked to make sure the call wasn't buffering.
"S-Sam..?" The sound of her name brought the goth back to earth. She still looked shocked. Her face wore a mixture of fear, confusion, and utter shock. At the same time, Sam seemed to be pondering something. Kaetlyn started to worry about her friend's mental health.
"Uh…." Was all the girl in Amity could say. She shook her head before speaking, "Sorry, just...didn't know your dad still checked the news back here."
A little suspicious over her friend's actions, Kaetlyn simply nodded, "Alright…?"
"Um, Inviso-Bill...uh...Yeah, I don't know much. Sure, everyone talks about him. He was previously seen as evil, but after a few times of saving the town from ghost attacks, the ghost was eventually seen as a hero."
"W-w-wait." Kaetlyn said, "Inviso-Bill is a ghost..previously seen as evil….then proved to be a hero….that fights other ghosts?!"
"Yep, pretty much." Sam replied simply.
"What the f-"
"Is there anything else you wanted to talk about."
Kaetlyn thought for a second. Was there anything else she could learn about this ghost? She was still trying to get over the fact that ghosts are real!
"No..that's it. Just confused about the topic. Thanks."
"You're welcome. See ya."
"See ya." Kaetlyn echoed as the screen turned black. She closed out of the installment that allowed her to communicate with her friends.
"Why didn't you ask anything else?" Lunna chimed in, sitting on the computer desk.
"I learned what I wanted to know. Besides," Kaetlyn typed in the search engine and pressed 'Enter'. Website links about Inviso-Bill appeared below. "I could always just search about him."
"Hm…." Lunna scanned the screen, "How about this one?"
Kaetlyn clicked the link her kwami suggested. Together, they began reading.
--
Marinette wore her pajamas, lying in her loft bed. "Is everything okay?" Tikki asked. A ladybug kwami that allowed the girl to transform in the famous Ladybug.
"Just thinking." Marinette had a slightly melancholy tone in her voice.
"About what."
"About what Master Fu said the other day." The pigtailed girl answered.
"Still worried about that?"
"Yes, Tikki." Marinette sat up, "Lune's Miraculous was stolen. How could she have gotten it anyway?! The wolf miraculous can't have any different effects from all the others. How did Lune get her miraculous?" She fell back down. Tikki floated over to be a few inches away from above the girl's face.
"You have a point...but It's best not to worry about it. I mean, it's not like Lune is a villain, like Hawkmoth. She's a hero too!"
Marinette smiled, "Yeah, I guess you're right."
--
"Welp, I'm fried." Kaetlyn groaned, rubbing her eyes. She and Lunna had been reading articles over Inviso-Bill for the past hour.
"I think I might be too…" The kwami yawned, "What time is it?"
Kaetlyn glanced at her computer screen before turning it off, "Eight-ish…? My eyes are heavy…" Apparently, reading about ghost heroes was more tiring than being a hero herself.
"Let's get some rest." Lunna yawned once more before clumsily floating to a plushy pillow and falling asleep on top of it.
Kaetlyn used one of her dad's many pillows and placed it on one of the two shelves built into her bed frame. It acted as a comfy place for her kwami to sleep while she tossed and turned, being the wild sleeper she is.
Kaetlyn got dressed in an oversized t-shirt and night pants as her pajamas before wrapping herself in her blankets. Her dad may enjoy pillows -conflicting with the stereotype that mother's have all the pillows in the world, but Kaetlyn prefered warm blankets that kept the warmth inside during cold nights.
What did she know about this Inviso-Bill? She knew he was a ghost. She knew he fought other ghosts that caused catastrophe all over Amity. He seemed to be a teenager, maybe he died that young?
Ghosts can't age, can they? And why would a teenager wear a skin tight suit? …..Other than being chosen as a miraculous holder…. Inviso-Bill died wearing that, not transforming into the outfit like Paris' heroes. Was he at a costume party? Must've been a killer one…
At the realization that Kaetlyn made a pun, she sandwiched her head between two pillows and soon enough fell fast asleep.
The sun greeted the still sleeping Kaetlyn with Saturday morning sunlight. She only woke up when her phone started buzzing frantically with spamming text messages.
It's worse than an alarm clock!
Reaching up on the shelf without Lunna's bed, the half asleep girl stared at her phone's lock screen and saw Alya filling it with texts like, "Where are you?" and "Have you seen the news??? It's Carla Nightingale!!!"
Too lazy to type and knowing how awake her friend was, Kaetlyn called Alya, who answered in less than two seconds.
"You need to turn on the TV NOW!!" Kaetlyn pulled away the phone from her ear as she screeched through the microphone on hers.
"Give me a second…" Kaetlyn moaned as she slowly stretched, still wrapped in her several blankets, "I'm not even out of bed.."
"Hurry!!!"
"I'm coming, I'm coming…" She exhaustedly waddled out her bedroom, hanging up on Alya as she headed into the living area to turn on the TV and change it to the news station.
A girl who seems to be the same age as Kaetlyn, maybe older, sang and danced on the screen.
She had long wavy brown hair, peach skin, and brown eyes. The singer wore a short-sleeved white shirt and miniskirt, both having a pattern of yellow, magenta, cyan, and green triangles. A pair of black legging that ombre into a dark blue at the bottom covered her legs, with black spool shoes covering her feet.
After the girl finished singing her song, the screen cut to a portrait of a bald man wearing a blue t-shirt and white pants.
"And that was Clara Nightingale's hit single Big Bang!" He said with enthusiasm, "Clara," The screen cut to the man facing the girl that still danced, "in just a few months, you've become an international sensation with your ultra unique singing and style. Apparently, you even sing and dance in your sleep. Do you ever stop?"
"Never, you see. Dancing and singing are everything to me!" The girl explained reply and she cha-chad around the screen.
"Great...she rhymes…" Kaetlyn mumbled sarcastically.
"Sh! I'm listening!" Lunna hushed as she stared at the tv, floating beside her miraculous' holder.
"Fine…..Wait! Lunna! What are you doing?!" The girl hissed in a hushed voice, "What if my parents see you?!"
"Calm down. Your mother left for work and your dad it still asleep."
"Doesn't mean he won't wake-"
"Sh!"
Kaetlyn rolled her eyes and continued watching the news, secretly planning on disowning her miraculous if her father saw the arrogant kwami.
"You've come to Paris to film the video for your next song, which is going to be titled..'Miraculous'!" The man announced to the audience on the other side of the screen.
What??
"I really admire and adore Ladybug, and Chat Noir!"
"What about Lune? She's a pretty good hero herself!" Lunna snapped, addressing the rhyming girl. Kaetlyn just let her kwami be herself.
"I homage to them, I wanted to pay, because they inspire me every single day!"
"Auditions will be held at the Grand Cali Hotel, is that right?" The man said, "A little birdie told me that you already found your Chat Noir. Care to share the good news?"
"My lips are sealed~ but soon he'll be revealed! We must still cast Ladybug and Lune, by the way! Yes, I'll be wanting someone as Lune to join our play! So come down and Audition today!"
Wide eyed, Kaetlyn called Alya again, not having to wait a single second.
"So did you watch it?!" The girl asked anxiously.
"Uh...yeah, yeah I watched the news alright." Kaetlyn replied, still in confused shock, "W-who's Clara Nightingale?"
"Only one of the best singers ever to exist! She's made so many popular songs! How could you not know her?!"
"Ah, well, you know...I grew up in America. Our countries don't have the same popular singers.." She made her way back into her bedroom, Lunna zipped past her and waited on her pillow.
"Are you going to audition as anyone? Me and the girls are all going."
"Me? Audition as Lune or Ladybug? Ha! Like I could ever pull off being one of them…" Kaetlyn said the last part shakily.
"Marinette's coming too! So I won't be the only one you know."
Does she know know me that well? Impressed.
"How about I just watch the auditions? Not much of a dancer, or actor.."
"Fine, but don't be late!" Alya hung up. Kaetlyn searched through her closet for a fresh set of clothes."
"Why don't you audition? Dip your feet into the water a bit." Lunna suggested as Kaetlyn pulled out a random t-shirt.
"And risk my identity?! As my kwami, I thought you would be pestering me to not go."
"I mean as Ladybug. Keeps your identity as 'Lune' safe, and you get to experience a once-in-a-lifetime event!"
She pulled her shirt over her torso while explaining, "I wasn't lying when I said I'm not an actor or dancer. I prefer to watch people do that stuff instead of doing it myself."
Lunna growled in annoyance, "Fine, but don't come crying to me when you change your mind and it's too late!"
"Whatever you say…" Kaetlyn sighed.
Entering the glass roofed building, Kaetlyn opened her mouth in awe at the sight of the large, colorful stage and even larger line of people!
Alya and the girls waving frantically at her caught her attention. Kaetlyn sped walked up to the group that was sectioned off from her by the red ropes.
"Glad you can finally make it!" She exclaimed, "Come on, we're going to audition!"
"Alya, I told you before, I don't do that sort of thing. I just came to watch."
"That's a bummer.." Juleka said.
"It would've been fun if we could all do it!" Rose explained.
"Sorry, guys. Not like I'd be a good fit as anyone. I'll just be over there." Kaetlyn pointed behind her at an empty wall beside the entrance before waving goodbye.
"Thank you for coming, all of you! This is a dream come true! Together we'll all dance and sing! It's going to be awesome and amazing!" Clara Nightingale leaped and spun all over the stage, "And now, meet our rising star: Adrien as Chat Noir!!"
Everyone awed over Adrien Agreste as he exited a van while wearing an almost exact replica of Chat Noir's suit. Only, he didn't have the mask. He spoke to someone on a tablet that the person held. One of the employees rushed into the van Adrien came out. Was something wrong?
"It's okay!" Clara practically sung through her microphone, "We don't need the mask for tryouts anyway!"
Ah...so Adrien forgot his mask? Or maybe lost it?
As more employees removed the red rope at the front of one of the two lines, the girls either trying out as Ladybug or Lune got up on stage and began dancing. One-by-one, each girl showed off their performance with Adrien, each being dismissed to wait until the auditions were over for a decision to be made.
After the line ran out of people, Kaetlyn noticed Clara glancing at the one on the opposite side of the spacious room. She remained leaning against the wall as the singer took a tray of what seemed to be balls of soft pretzels. Kaetlyn still wasn't custom to French dishes, so she suspected the baked good to be anything. Certainly looked like pretzels though.
"You must be starving from all this waiting." Nightingale said as she walked up to the full line of auditioners. Something seemed up, her creased eyebrows and mischievous grin seemed out of character.
Suddenly, Clara tripped over her own feet and fell flat on her face! The baked treats flew into the air only to come crashing down onto the floor! Before anything else could happen, Marinette slipped under the ropes and helped the rhyming singer up.
"Ah, there you are. Here's a hug, because you are Ladybug!" Clara said to the pigtailed girl as she hugged her.
After some scared sentences followed by a nervous laugh from Marinette, Nightingale took the girl's hand, "You did what Ladybug would have!" She pulled the auditioner into a waltz, "Just the same! Your heart is pure like hers. What's your name?"
"This girl crazy, or what?" Lunna whispered to Kaetlyn from her hoodie.
"And you wanted me to be a part of her music video." She looked at the awkward situation her friend was in. Marinette seemed stiff and nervous, Carla had her knees on the ground, holding out her hand.
"U-um, excuse me?" Kaetlyn called as she briskly hurried to the pigtails' side, "Excuse me? Uh, I don't think Marinette feels all the comfortable right now, maybe someone else should be Ladybug? I-if she doesn't want to be that is.." She felt awkward herself putting herself into the situation.
"And who are, may I ask?" Carla asked.
"Erm...Kaetlyn..?" She answered, bewildered.
"So I have found Lune as well, at last!"
"Wai-wai-wait...what?!!!! I-I think you got the wrong idea. Y-you see-"
Carla stood up and spun around Kaetlyn, "So shy, yet brave enough to bring comfort out of her way. All to save her friend's day! Lune would do the same! So, are you game?"
It took Kaetlyn a while to process this.
"Woo! Go Kaetlyn and Marinette!" Alya cheered.
"You guys can do it!" Alix added, followed by more supportive comments from their friends.
"...Sorry, but I'll have to decline. I'm not a good dancer." Leave it up to Kaetlyn, the queen of excuses, to come up with the perfect excuse on reasons 'why not?'.
"That's so nice of you," Marinette explained, "and I'm one of your hugest fans, but...I came here to be an extra with my friends and I really wanna stay with them."
Carla Nightingale gave a saddened smile as she stood up from the floor, "That's a pity. A shame, but I understand it's true. That's a very cool gesture, very Ladybug of you." She said to Marinette, who smiled in response.
Before the dancer could speak to Kaetlyn, a girl dressed like ladybug walked into the room confidently. She even had the same hairstyle. Kaetlyn would've believed it truly was Ladybug if it weren't for that all-too-familiar voice…
"Thank you all for coming! You can go home now."
Chloe…
"Uh...heads up, brat alert in the immediate vicinity." Alya announced snarkily to her friends.
"'Brat' is an understatement." Kaetlyn stated in an annoyed tone. Why did the clown have to always appear when she was least wanted, which happens to be all the time.
Chloe strutted up the stairs, onto the stage where Adrien and Clara stood, "Your Ladybug has arrived. So when does the shoot begin?"
"Chloe," Adrien spoke, "everyone has to audition, you know that."
She turned to face where the audience would be and stretched her arms, "Oh yeah, that little formality.."
The blonde -currently wearing a ladybug wig- jogged to an empty space on stage to turn around and run back, stopping midway to lift her left leg up to create a hundred-eighty degree angle and spinning on her opposite foot.
Placing her raised leg back on the ground, she tooks a large step forwards and spun again, this time in a ballerina sort of pose. A few more poses and spins, ending with breakdancing on the floor and a dramatic pose, all the girls still in line applauded and cheered for Chloe. Kaetlyn only scowled.
"You definitely got enough talent for me, but you and Chat Noir have to be a good match, you see?"
Chloe draped herself over Adrien with a hug, "No problem! Adrikins and I have known each other since we were little!"
Carla pondered her decision, but Mayor Bourgeois won her over, "The thought of the world's greatest fashion designer and the daughter of the mayor of Paris. That would be just perfect."
Marinette growled.
"Is there a problem, Master Dupain-Cheng?" Alya addressed the girl, referring to a joke they made when Chloe first walked in.
"Chloe playing Ladybug? No way! Not gonna happen!"
"Oh? That bothers you more than not being with Adrien in a video?"
"Uh...If I were Ladybug, I wouldn't want a brat like Chloe playing me!"
The girls turned their attention to Chloe as she started giggling with joy and creating the nickname 'Adrecat' for Adrien. As if the evil clown playing a hero wasn't enough, she had to make awful puns as nicknames too?!
"Hey wait!" Marinette climbed on stage, "I've changed my mind. I do wanna be Ladybug!"
Carla pumped her hand into the air, "Awesome! This will be the best video yet!" She spun over to kiss Marinette on her cheeks, "Thank you. Thank you Marinette!" She rushed over to Chloe, "I'm really sorry, what's-your-name, but you can still be an extra in the video if your game?"
Kaetlyn snickered at the singer referring to the clown as 'what's-your-name'.
"What?! You want me to be a mere...EXTRA?!!" She stomped away, her father, the mayor, following behind her, "Ridiculous! Utterly ridiculous!"
"We still need to find someone for Lune...Kaetlyn, to ask if your still up for it, would it be too soon?" Carla crouched down from the stage to be at near eye level with the girl.
She looked at her friends, then at all the girls in line, then up at Marinette and Adrien. Being Lune risked her identity being revealed, and she knew most of the other people in line would love to play as a superhero in Carla's video, but her friends seemed to want her to play the wolf when the singer first offered the role.
"It would be nice to have all of us in the video together, Kaetlyn." Adrien spoke.
She didn't want to let anyone down.. "Mm….o..kay...I'll be Lune.." She said, still a little unsure.
"Great! Now with all dancers at their best, why don't you two go get dressed?" Carla motioned her arms to point at two vans, each filled with costumes.
Kaetlyn shyly walked into one of them, yellow lights shining softly. She made sure the door was locked tight before getting dressed in the Lune outfit already laid out on the dresser surface.
"Are you going to put the mask on?" Lunna asked. Kaetlyn wore the white suit and ears, but held the mask in her hands.
"I'm gonna have to. It would seem too suspicious if I just lost it like Adrien did. Two people losing their masks?"
"But with your ponytail and face structure, people are bound to connect the dots."
"Hm…" Kaetlyn thought for a second, "I may not be able to do anything about my face, but what about my hair?"
Kaetlyn walked out the van wearing the suit, ears, and mask. Everyone cheered as she walked up on stage, Adrien and Marinette already standing there, but neither with their masks...
"Spotlight!" Carla called through her microphone. She huddled the three teenagers into a circle, "So, your Ladybug, Chat Noir, and Lune, right?"
"NO!! Uh..um…" All three exclaimed and suttered in sync, "Yeah!" They each followed with nervous laughter.
Beginning to practice the dance routine, Carla didn't question why neither Adrien or Marinette didn't have their masks, but questioned Kaetlyn.
"I must say, you look pretty. And I say that with a smile, but why not your old hairstyle?"
"Oh, well...I just felt like changing things up a bit. That's all." Kaetlyn had her hair tied on a long braid that rested on her left shoulder, and parted at the same side, her bangs covered most of her left eye.
Adrien, Kaetlyn, and Marinette continued their practice routine until Chloe and the mayor burst through the doors.
"I'm sorry," The mayor began, "my minister of staff realized you never submitted permit blah blah in the circular blah that one can blah blah C city hall, which is blah blah blah blah closed for renovations till August, which means you don't have a permit to shoot anywhere in France, including Paris."
Kaetlyn couldn't understand his French, the mayor had been speaking so fast! She's just starting to get the hang of understanding people who speak at an average pace. All she knew was that Carla had just been prevented from doing her shoot.
"I-I don't understand!"
Chloe answered, "It means: No more dancing, no more singing today. The nightingale can spread her wings and fly away!" She tossed Carla's microphone in the air after snatching it out of her hand.
"No!" She exclaimed as she dropped all the flyers the mayor handed her and darted for her mic.
Kaetlyn clenched her fists and gritted her teeth, wishing she could explode and totally annihilate this clown without having any consequences in return.
"No.." Carla echoed, "The video needs to be shot here, in Paris; the capitol of love..the city of Chat Noir, Lune, and Ladybug.. This ruins all of my plans.. I'm so sorry my beloved fans!!" She rushed off, sobbing.
"Good riddens." Chloe uttered from her foul mouth.
"What the heck is your problem you little-!" Kaetlyn was interrupted.
"My problem?! She had it coming after not letting me be Ladybug!"
"You think just because your father has money you can do whatever you want?! Knowing you, you probably blackmailed her father into doing this!"
Everyone gasped, accusing such a thing to the mayor's daughter seemed like a big deal to everybody, but titles didn't matter to Kaetlyn. She didn't care if someone was a famous actor or even the king of the world! What Chloe did was vile, putrid, horrid!
"Young lady, you better watch your tone." Mayor Bourgeois snapped at Kaetlyn, who would've bit back if it weren't for whatever punishment the stupid laws would give her for talking back at him.
Just then, an illuminating magenta strip of light whipped Chloe and her father, though it more of phased through them, seeing they had no reaction until they noticed the noticed the magenta outline surrounding them.
A girl with long blonde pigtails, the tips of her hair being dyed teal and red on alternating opposite sides. Her skin white, and red and teal eyes being covered by green, blue, and red striped glasses. The blonde wore a magenta sparkling bodysuit with colorful designs the same as the stage Kaetlyn stood on. In her hand looked like Fairy Godmother's magic wand from Cinderella, except with a blue candy cane pattern.
"Sing, dance, or rhyme, or you'll be frozen in no time!" The girl informed through a graceful spin.
Kaetlyn hurried to find a hiding spot to transform. By now, she knew an akumatized victim when she saw one.
She peeked from behind a van, as Chloe complained away, her hand started to turn the same magenta that outlined her. In the blink of an eye, the color spread and turned her into a terrified magenta statue! She looked like a plastic action figure with all the vibrant reflections bouncing off of her.
The girl spun her wand around, creating a magenta whip to form from it, then started transforming everyone else into statues.
"Lunna! Moon, Rise!" First the suit, then the mask and ears, finishing off with the tail-like cape and sheathe for her duo hook swords. Lune noticed her hairdo.
"Um…" She used her index finger and thumb to pick up the end up her long braid, "Why do I still have this? Lunn-...oh, wait." Any questions she had would need to wait, for her kwami had been fused into her bracelet.
Lune followed the villain to the roof of the building.
"Sing, dance, or rhyme, or you'll be frozen in no time!"
"Yeah, yeah, we get it. No need to repeat yourself."
"Lune, what a surprise! Never thought you'd appear so quickly right before my eyes!" She used her whip on the wolf, who ducked just in time.
"Okay, that was close."
The villain was about to whip Lune again, but Ladybug's yoyo prevented her.
"I thought you were a fan of all of us, Nightingale, so you should know that we fight villains!"
Taking a second look, it did make sense for the villain to be Nightingale, with the rhyming and everything. Lune is horrible with names, but how could she not recognize her face?! White skin, separate colored eyes, blonde hair...okay maybe she's not that ba-
"WOAH!!"
Lune backflipped out of Nightingale's whip.
"I'm Frightningale from here on out. Forever and ever, there's no doubt!" She began attacking the two female heroes, who continuously dodged, "And if you two stand in my way, there'll be a price to pay!"
"You have to com 'round. Don't let negative emotions take you over!" Ladybug sent her yoyo flying, but Frightningale leaned back and grabbed hold of the string.
"Uh...I think it's too late to convince her to become her smiling popstar self." Lune suggested monotone.
Still holding onto the string, Frightningale leaped down to match the heroes' level, "Song and dance will make the world a better place. Don't agree with me? HA! Then your a disgrace!"
Lune unsheathed one of her hook swords as Ladybug and the rhyming victim were caught in their own mini battle on the roads of Paris.
"I can help you if you give me your akuma!"
"I won't let you take my akuma away! I like the new me, and I'm here to stay!" As Frightningale ran up to Ladybug, Lune would've blocked the villain if Chat Noir didn't trip her first with his staff.
"Do you mind if I join the dance?" He asked as he rested his chin on the end of his staff.
Frightningale stood up and leaped all the way onto the roof of the building across the road! "You're like all the others, but you can't silence me! I'm just trying to make the world better, can't you see?"
That's what I thought I was doing when I was Enmity… Lune started questioning herself again, was she even worthy to be Lune? A hero who lets themselves become akumatized isn't a hero at all. Just some wannabe who attempts to help people, but ends up failing.
"Lune!" Ladybug brought the dazed hero back to earth.
"Hm?"
"I take left, Chat Noir takes right, and you strike from behind."
"Oh..uh..okay."
The three heroes took their routes to surround Frightningale, which would have succeeded if she wasn't so graceful! Chat extended his staff, Ladybug tossed her yoyo, and Lune threw her sword like a spear. Her given weapons aren't exactly meant for ranged combat... It was the best she could do.
They tried their triple attack again. This time, Lune prepared to swing her other sword. Maybe she could knock Frightningale unconscious so Ladybug could grab the akuma with ease.
As the other two used their weapons, the villain backflipped out of the way. Lune couldn't even reach her! How high can this woman jump?!
Ladybug's yoyo ended up wrapping around Chat Noir. Frightningale attempted to whip him and put him under the same statue-ifying curse, but Ladybug tugged her yoyo string and sent him twirling out of the way and into her arms.
The villain successfully whipped them. The two now had a magenta outline around them.
If I can get her wand, maybe I can get the akuma too!
Lune jumped from behind, clutching onto Frightningale's wand. She gave a hero a distasteful look.
"Uh, hi. Yeah….I'll be needing this. So if you could just hand it over over? That would be great." Lune said before her and the akumatized victim began a game of tug-of-war for the wand.
In the end, Frightningale won and whipped Lune as well. Now, all three heroes had to dance or rhyme to prevent from becoming magenta statues.
"Welcome to my musical show! I hope it will be your fatal blow!" Frightningale exclaimed, followed by evil laughter.
Chat was about to run up to the villain and attack her if Ladybug didn't interrupt him, "Wait! Stay right here and dance! Or else you'll be frozen-" Her hand started to turn pur magenta, "Eh….without a..chance!" Her arm turned back, then began dancing to preventing from transforming again.
"Yeah, you're right. We have to rhyme! Not so easy..hm...all the time?" Chat then began dancing too.
"...You guys are crazy." Lune stated, her arms crossed. Up to her left calf muscle turned into a statue.
"Lune, you have to rhyme and dance if you don't want to end up like the people of France!" Ladybug informed, seemingly already getting the hang of this poetry stuff.
With a scowl, Lune tried thinking of a response to turn her leg back, "I'm full aware of that...don't..get me wrong, but I'm..not one for dancing and rhyming….like in a s..ong??" Good enough for the curse's taste. Her leg could now move again.
"Haha! Yes!" Only to turn back… "Ugh…."
"Don't forget, you need to rhyme when speaking, and you need to dancing while...sneaking??" Chat reminded, as if Ladybug's warning wasn't enough..which it wasn't.
"Like I know how to write poetry. Doesn't it work if I say random things that rhyme, like...woefully?" Her leg changed back to normal.
"Don't forget to dance! Or you'll be stuck in that stance!" Frightningale said through a devilish grin.
Lune looked at her partners and tried copying their dancing movements. She replicated them decently..maybe? The wolf never knew how to dance, she didn't think she'd need classes either.
She noticed a moth outline form around the villain's eyes.
"Hawkmoth, you bet. Miraculous you'll get!" Frightningale slid down the domed shaped roof to offer an attack the the heroes, only to be countered with Ladybug's yoyo.
"Stay in charge, Chat Noir. Don't blow a fuse, don't forget your dancing fight moves!"
"Dancing fight moves?" His face lit up, "Like my capoeira grooves!" Pulling off some sa-weet~ moves, Chat was able to prevent Frightningale from attacking.
"Daaaaang, Chat!" Lune needed to end the next part with a rhyme… "Your skills are as graceful as a cat's!"
The heroes all backflipped in their own style to dodge their opponents whip. Backflipping seems to be the move of the day.
"Aha! Why is Chat Noir so dumb? He doesn't know fifty plus fifty as a sum." She chimed.
What?
"Yes I do! The dummy is you! It's-"
"Fifty plus fifty is a hundred and two!" Ladybug interrupted.
"Huh?" Chat Noir, Lune, and Frightningale questioned in unison.
"Your math is crazy. Count again My lady." Chat said as Ladybug blocked the villain's attacked with her yoyo. Lune braced herself in case any would come flying her way.
"Fifty plus fifty, the sum doesn't rhyme! One more false move and your trapped big time!" The ladybug leaped backwards to dodge another attack.
"I almost made a serious boo boo, but I didn't! Thanks to you!" Chat then twirled out of the whip's way. The three of them continued dodging for a while.
"Look, as much as I love this exercise, I say we finish this before the music dies." Lune mentioned, the first part being sarcastic.
Being cornered on the edge of the roof, the three of them leaped down to the streets and hid.
"You three think you're being so clever, but soon you'll tire yourselves and be frozen forever!" Frightningale's voice echoed through the scattered magenta statues of terrified civilians.
"It's not in our favor at a glance, because we constantly have to advance while keeping up the song and dance! We can leave nothing to chance." Ladybug whispered as she, Chat, and Lune found a way to continue dancing through their crouched positions behind a bus.
"Sweet bugaboo, I agree, but what possible plan do you see?" Chat asked. Lune would usually find a snarky comment to follow, but preferred to say as least as possible to decrease her chances of turning into an action figure like Chloe.
"Our last weapon can do her harm. It is my Lucky Charm!" Handcuffs fells into Ladybug's hands. "What is this thrown our way?"
"Handcuffs I would say." Lune answered.
"Wow, no way…" Chat said sarcastically.
"I'll find a way to point out the obvious any day!" Lune realized her skill in rhymes, "Hey, I'm suddenly getting good at this." Then her hand turned a reflective magenta. "Maybe I should stop. Why do you need cuffs anyways? To play as a cop?" Whew..her hand turned back to normal.
Looking around, Ladybug answered, "They're not for her..they're meant for us! Now Chat Noir, do your stuff!"
Chat flexed his hand, knowing she referred to his cataclysm. "...I can't find a rhyme." He said through a frown, "Can you help me this time?"
Lune tried thinking of something, but Ladybug beat her, "Chat Noir, you're a sweet talker rhymer dancer and walker. Look at the bright side today. Say goodbye to pessimism and hello to.."
Chat's eyes brightened, "Hello to Optimism! Cataclysm!"
At that, Ladybug cuffed her and the cat's hands together, as well as use her yoyo to tie each of one of their feet. It looked like they were attending some weird three legged race.
"Hey, what about me? There aren't two of us. There's three." Lune pointed out.
"Don't worry, forget I did not. Sneak behind and wait for my signal. That'll help us a lot." Ladybug ordered just as Frightningale lifted the bus with her bare hands! Jeez, how powerful is an akumatized villain?!
"Connected, we're one. Our movements are synced. So let's get a move on because we are linked!" Ladybug exclaimed as she and Chat duked it out with the villain.
Lune leaped out of sight, so Frightningale still doesn't know where she is yet. Taking the advantage, she stealthily swerved around the magenta statues and climbed inside the building where Clara's stage still stood.
Chat Noir and Ladybug managed to steer their opponent inside with no difficulty. Frightingale stood up after being knocked over and sprinted onto her stage.
"You can't bend the rules! Dancing tied up is cheating fools!"
"You're feeling unsteady. You know you've lost already!" Chat rhymed -like he should- as he and Ladybug strutted down the walkway. They seemed pretty confident. Especially Chat, who seems to breathe the runway. Almost as if we were use to acting like a model.
Lune made sure she was out of Frightningale's sight, so ended up behind the decorated background of the stage.
"I agree," Ladybug said, "you seemed to have lost your pride, but you'll lose more thanks to the wolf on our side!"
Taking that as her cue, Lune leaped down to be right behind the villain.
"Hi there! Remember me? I'm going to need to take that wand of yours, you see?" Lune snatched Frightningale's wand and tossed it to Chat, who caught it with his cataclysmic hand. It turned pitch black before disintegrating into dust. Out came Hawk Moth's butterfly.
"Miraculous Ladybug!" All three heroes called out as Ladybug tossed her spotted handcuffs into the air, letting the swarm of ladybug repair everything that had been damaged.
With the constant need to rhyme and dance out of the way, "Time to de-evilize!" Lune watched as the pure white moth fluttered out of Ladybug's yoyo and back to wherever it came from.
"Pound it!" The three of them exclaimed as they pounded fists.
"Oh yeah," Chat began, "Lune?
"Hm?
"I never got to ask, but why is your hair different?"
"Oh uh...dunno! A makeover..I guess?? Um...oh! Won't you look at that, my five minutes are about to run out, see ya!" Lune darted off. She wasn't actually running out of time on her miraculous, for she never used her Midnight Howl. It just gave her an excuse to escape before she might slip up and reveal a hint about her civilian form.
Hiding behind the outdoor wall and front doors that were still wide open, Lune transformed back to normal.
"Seriously though, why was my hair still this darn braid?!" Kaetlyn hissed quietly at Lunna.
"The miraculous changed your outfit based on current fashion. In this case, it doesn't need to change your hairstyle to match your uniform." The kwami explained.
"Don't I get a say in how I look?!"
"You could've always just tied your hair back up." Lunna shrugged
"Hard to do with non removable wolf ears on your head.."
With a growl, Kaetlyn walked from behind the door and back into the building.
"I was saved by the two of you!? How amazing! Too good to be true!" Carla Nightingale exclaimed as she twirled.
"And Lune." Chat informed.
"She had to run off, but she did some good work helping us." Ladybug added.
Kaetlyn smiled. It meant so much to her to be appreciated like this. Though, the warm fuzzy feeling in her stomach that she wasn't used to ruined the moment. It felt so strange to feel so...light? How would you describe it?
"Sounds like you're a pretty good hero, Kaetlyn." Lunna whispered.
"Maybe, though I need to find better ways to keep my alter ego a secret other than change my hairdo."
"True."
"...I think I've had enough rhymes for one day."
Lunna giggled as Kaetlyn walked up to Carla. Ladybug and Chat Noir already left because of their time limit. Instead of rehearsing the dance again, Kaetlyn discovered that she and most of Paris would be practicing together to make a music video.