Chloe had exploded on Tuesday morning upon discovering her favorite bracelet and her poster of Adrien had been stolen, amongst a number of things. She didn't care that guests at the hotel or her father had been robbed as well. The mayor's daughter had gone around accusing everyone; including going as far as to threatening that she would have the police arrest Marinette for her "prior" attempt to steal the same missing bracelet. After all, Marinette had snuck into her bedroom before to give her nightmares. Marinette had collapsed from the stress and had to spend two periods in the nurse's office to recover.

That had been the last straw. Mr. Damocles called Mayor Bourgeois to inform him about his daughter's inexcusable behavior. He declared that if he didn't come pick up his daughter she would be suspended from the rest of the school year including exams. In France, if you didn't do or get a high score on exams, you couldn't move up or worse, you couldn't move on to high school. The Mayor had rushed over and taken Chloe home, mumbling about taking her to mental ward to see if her head was on straight.

Because of what happened at school, Marinette's doctor's visit was rescheduled to the day after exams ended. Hopefully by then she would be halfway through her recovery. Seeing as his girlfriend, would need all the help she could get to pass exams and stay healthy, Adrien had pleaded with his father to let him have some extra time with her. Surprisingly, Gabriel agreed as long as Adrien made up for it by doing some extra modeling. Taking the deal Adrien was determined to do all he could to the best of his abilities.


Wednesday morning in the courtyard, kids from all grades were talking about someone stealing their stuff. Alya was interviewing, (interrogating really), everyone to write up an article on it for the student blog. The young reporter was taking this personally since her computer had been stolen the night before. "Can you believe this? Almost everyone in our entire grade had something stolen from them last night," Alya pronounced to her friends. She ran a hand through her hair in frustration as she flopped onto a bench.

Looking up at friends with a gleeful smile she said, "Do you think this is another akuma? If it is my blog will hit the roof with people asking how Ladybug and Chat Noir will handled this. You don't think this is another…"

"Alya for once can't you just accepted that it's not an akuma?!" Marinette snapped harshly. Leaning down she got into Alya's face. "There are actually plenty of everyday criminals who do things such as breaking and entering to stealing." Adrien had to pull Marinette back from Alya, who was trembling in fear. She never seen her BF super angry before.

"Chill Marinette, you know how Alya has a one tracked mind," Nino stated before placing a hand on his girlfriend's shoulder who looked at him. Said boy was frowning a bit as he gave her the same look when she had accused Chloe of being Ladybug. "Still I think Marinette's right. You can't go around claiming everything is the responsibility of an akuma. There's been a news report about a rash of robberies all across the city ranging from work places to private homes."

Alya had to accept that it was more likely that a ring of thieves had gone on a crime spree and the police would catch them soon enough. Still, she was curious if her friends been robbed. Nino admitted that his collection of vinyl records had been taken. Adrien pointed out with his high tech security system, no one was going to get in and Marinette simply said there wasn't a real reason to rob a bakery.

The bell rang and everyone headed to class. For some reason the students from Ms. Mandeville's classes didn't go into their classroom. They followed Ms. Bustier's students into their classroom. The four friends were the last ones in the classroom and they were in for a shock.

Instead of Ms. Bustier there was a substitute teacher. The teen heroes instantly recognized Peace Keeper, no Ning, in a disguise that was as close to the real her as you could get, without revealing her identity. She had made herself two inches taller and her hair was about two shades lighter and styled with a French braid. Her skin tone was a merger of oriental and tan. It looked as if she lost ten pounds, but it was her alright.

"Welcome students, I'm sure they is a lot of confusion today," Peace Keeper stated gently. "My name is Sun Fu. Ms. Bustier and Mendeleev will be absent for the rest of the school year for personal reasons. Since finals are next week Mr. Damocles hired me to be the substitute for both classes. Since this is a bigger classroom for the rest of the year we'll be meeting here."

She asked the students to make room for the extras about three or four to a bench. Aurore and Mireille chose to sit with Rose and Juleka while Jean joined Nathaniel's bench. Lila sat down next Adrien giving a warning look that no one else was to sit with them. The boy didn't know it yet, but he would be hers.

Noting Lila's spot and her body language, Sun Fu/Peace Keeper decided to get down to business. She hadn't spent yesterday spending money for a trip for two to Las Vegas and giving the two teachers round trip tickets. Not to mention making a one-time use identity and inserting herself in computer's database as the next one on the list of substitutes and convincing Mr. Damocles she could handle both classes, without the purpose of keeping the students safe and collect evidence on Lila.

"Students' listen up. The rest of the week will be reviewing and practicing for your final exams next week. I know a lot of you have anxiety and feel loss, but I assure you that I will do my best to prepare you." She started passing out packets with six pages to them. She also put up dividers between students so they couldn't look at one another for answers.

"You'll be writing several essays during your finals. Grammar, spelling, and clear points of interests are all points on whether you get a good grade no matter how your overall essay turns out. You'll be writing three essays for me based on the topic at the top of the pages. The three categories are Literature, Language, and History."

Settling behind the desk she informed that once they finished their essays to turn their papers in so she could review them. Once the whole class was done she'd hand the essays back and from there put them in groups to help one another get better at what troubles they had. "You don't have to rush, you have all period to do this. You may begin."


Lila felt the teacher's eyes roaming the classroom, making sure everyone didn't cheat. Essay writing was a tricky thing for her because the answers had to come from her. Staring at the Literature page, the topic was to write a short essay on one of the books, the class read this year. A few books had been listed to help students decide.

She choose fairy tales. When Ms. Fu's attention was on the back row, Lila pretended to reach down, to retrieve a fallen pencil. As an added bonus she used a compact mirror to catch part of Adrien's essay. Sitting back up she started to write the essay making sure it was different enough so no one would realize she was copying his.

Her father taught her the next trick. Listening to the movement of a pencil she was able to figure out what Alya was writing. It was a big help on the Language page that asked them to describe different parts of language and how they went together. Once more she changed it slightly adding on embellishments to make it read and look different.

The finale page on the History of France, she choose Sabrina to use. The girl was used to doing other peoples' work and had done most of her homework. Memorizing those notes she had a halfway decent essay, but she needed more. As Sabrina got up to turn in her essay, she tripped over her shoes because the laces had been undone. The packet slipped out of her hands exposing her history essay. Thanks to her parents, Lila knew how to speed read. Completing the essay with her own sass, she finished her work.

With great pride she handed in her packet as she swung her hips about. "Here you go, Ms. Fu. I think you'll find I'm excellent student despite my short time here." Taking the packet Sun Fu/Peace Keeper got a good look at the girl's hands. There were faint marks on her hand as if she had handled some thick line a few days ago. It was hardly evidence, but it was something.

After looking over the essays and highlighting mistakes, Sun Fu/Peace Keeper handed them back and started to assign seven groups of four to help one another. Marinette, Adrien, and Nathanial along with Lila, were in one group. "For this period you will be working together to help one another to help the other members in your group improve on their weak points. Please, be patient and clear with your explanation, of what they need to work on."

Nathanial and Marinette were not happy about being in the same group as Lila. Adrien wasn't sure what to do. His civilian and hero life were in conflict because he had to be a gentlemen and had listen to any potential offers from Lila's family business, while at the same time not getting angry enough to attack her for what she did two nights ago. He was certain that Peace Keeper was right about the Italian girl's midnight activities.

"So who should we help first? I know, what about me, since I'm the one who doesn't really know the material." She leaned against Adrien as she showed him her essays. Under the desk, she wrapped one leg around his causing him to blush. "I'm confused here about why Ms. Fu called my literature analysis not original."

Nathanial frowned and tugged the packet towards him. Reviewing the literature section he read the notes before adding his own opinion. "All your literature analysis are common and your voice really isn't heard. Like here, you wrote, "fairy tales were originally stories for adults in order to scare them to follow social order, only to be reborn as the inspiration for every child to achieve their dreams, especially me.""

The artist tapped the sentence and told her aside from using social order and adding herself, the sentence could have come straight out of a textbook. No originality at all. Marinette read down further before flipping the pages over. "I think what Ms. Fu is trying to tell you, is that while your essays are written well, there's no words describing how you came to those conclusions or why you made them in the first place."

Lila eyes narrowed and a slight frown appeared on her face. Taking back her paper she gently nudge Adrien head down to look at her paper. "What do you think about my essays Adrien? The substitute also commented that some of my sentences are to short or incomplete." Scooting even closer she wrapped both her legs around his.

Adrien rubbed the back of his neck before disentangling his legs from her. He looked at her language essay and showed her the different parts of grammar and demonstrate how to use them while writing about them. Of course she complimented Adrien on what a good tutor he was.

Marinette was shaking and trying to keep her breathing under control. Lila was obviously flirting with Adrien, knowing full well he was her boyfriend, but that didn't seem to stop her from being all over him. If she was well enough, Marinette would have reached out for the girl to give Lila a massive lecture. The truth was, she just too exhausted to do it. Being nearly frozen to death two nights ago had zapped some of her strength she regained, setting her recovery back.

Nathaniel saw how his friends were in a bind. Stepping up, he drew attention away from Lila by saying it was time to review his weak points. Lila started to protest only Adrien gratefully said yes. For the rest of the period whenever Lila tried to lead the conversation to herself, he interfered, although he couldn't stop her from making moves on Adrien, who tried to thwart her advances.

After two more lessons reviewing math and science, it was time for lunch. Adrien was in a hurry to get Marinette home when Lila grabbed his arm. "So Adrien, I figured we could go out to lunch. My grandparents have an offer for your father, but I thought I check with you first." Her grip tightened, leaving an impression on his arm in the shape of her her hand.

"I'm sorry Lila, but I'm spending lunch at the bakery with Marinette. She needs me right now. Maybe another time." Rubbing his arm, he walked over to Marinette and left.

Lila was standing on the staircase her focus on the last spot she saw Adrien. She clutched her hands together in a first. That was first class, literally, seduction of a teenage boy. Even marking him as hers he escaped. "I will have what I want!" she hissed out loud.

"Leave them alone," a male voice said. She turned to see Nathaniel standing tall and holding his ground. "Adrien is one of the nicest students around here and he's worked hard all year learning what it means to be normal. Marinette is the kindest, caring, and the most wonderful friend in our whole grade. They both deserve their happiness together and don't need the likes of you messing that up."

The teen thief stepped into his personal space glaring at him. Who did he think he was to tell her what to do? "You don't want me as an enemy. I'll ruin your life." She pushed him up against a pillar. "You think anyone would listen to you if you told them I threatened you?"

Nathaniel freed himself and said, "You can't hide who you really are forever. Once your mask falls, your popularity will drop and then no one will want to be near you." He walked away leaving a fuming Lila. From the classroom door, the disguised UN agent, smiled with pride that someone had stood up to the thief and was calling her out. Lila was going to make a mistake and then Peace Keeper would arrest her for life.


It was late Thursday afternoon when Adrien walked into the mansion. Marinette had been a mix of anxiety and tired. He could sense she was holding something back, but he couldn't figure out what. He was hoping to talk to his father about Treasures Incorporated and Lila's family, hoping he could find evidence to help Peace Keeper in her mission.

"I assure you Mr. Agreste is not pleased by this situation. He paid good money for this painting. It's unprofessional that we should have to re-measure the space," Nathalie voice carried through the mansion. Curious, Adrien tiptoed up the stairs to his father's office.

Peeking inside he saw Nathalie with a sever expression on her face, clutching her clipboard. She didn't look happy as she talked with, oh it was Peace Keeper, no what was her name? Ning, no Sun, oh Frida Raimondi the art appraiser. "I really need to get a score card to keep track of all her identities."

Inside the room, Frida/Peace Keeper kept her cool as she listened to Nathalie go on about how she was supposed to make sure the item was moved intact. "Ma'am I am not responsible for the previous owner of the painting's actions during the transfer and shipping of the piece. The previous owner was the one who cracked the frame of the painting." The art appraiser assured her that once the new frame was attached the painting would be here. It was just taking a bit longer because Mr. Agreste wanted a custom built frame so she needed to re-measure the space.

"Hmm, wonder why Father isn't handling this himself. He's particular when it comes to his art acquisitions," Adrien whispered to Plagg.

"Who cares? Let's sneak into the kitchen and get some high grade cheese. I hope my special order has come in," the Kwamii stated as he rubbed his tiny paws together. Drool was coming out of his mouth in anticipation.

"Hey I thought we agreed no more special orders without my permission! It's my credit card you're using and I'm the one who has to pay it back." His Chosen hissed as the due headed downstairs. They were about to take the back way to the kitchen when Gabriel voice was heard.

"No, the pattern has to be perfect. What do you mean it's backwards? Incompetent fool I'll be there soon." Gabriel slammed his phone down. On the table was a large old book. Carefully, he picked it up and put the book in a secrete safe, (one Adrien didn't know about) behind his mother's portrait. After staring at the portrait for a few minutes he left.

"I wonder what that was all about. Plagg you have…" looking down into his jacket he realized his cat Kwami wasn't there. "Plagg where are you?! Come back here at once!" he hissed softly.

A low meow led him towards the painting that was now pushed aside. There were noises coming from within and the door popped open. Plagg appeared to be in a trance as he placed the book in Adrien's hands.

"What are you doing? Why are you giving me this book?! We need to put it back right now."

"Don't!" a voice whispered behind him. Afraid it was his father, he let out a breath he didn't know he'd been holding because it was just a disguised Peace Keeper behind him. She was staring at the book in awe. "Do you realize what you have in your hands?"

"Um a book my dad purchased when he was in Tibet a few years ago?"

Peace Keeper smacked her hands together. "Of course that's what Butterfly meant. Tibet's nickname is the roof of the world. No wonder Nooroo's last user wrote he was going to die. Even with a Miraculous, most people can't survive the high elevation and lack of oxygen."

Adrien was puzzled for a second until a light bulb went off in his head. He opened the book and was surprised to see a picture of another Chat Noir. He was holding the Miraculous Book that Peace Keeper had been sent to get! Why in the world did his dad have this? Did he know what it contained in its pages?"

"You have to keep that book safe until you can smuggled it out to the Great Guardian. Erase any footage there is of this moment."

"I can't just steal from my father! He's going to find out I took it one way or another."

"Not if we can create a fake book and put it back before he finds out. Please Adrien, that book contains secrets and history about the Kwamiis and the Miraculouses that have been lost for over three hundred years!"

Hearing voices coming Adrien hastily locked the safe, not getting a look at the other contents. Stuffing the book in his bag, he hurried to his room promising to erase the footage later. The disguised agent nodded and went to speak with Mr. Agreste about his painting. The Guardian could wait one more day for that book.


It was early Friday morning at Foxes Burrow. Lila had been once more summoned to her grandparents' office. She steeled herself ready to answer any questions the Reynard and Kumiho had for her. "I will prove myself to them. By this time next week, not only will the Fox Miraculous be mine along with Adrien, but Ladybug and Chat Noir will be no more!" she told herself. Knocking on the door she heard her grandfather telling her to enter.

With a calm expression on her face sat down in the chair and waited for permission to speak. Simon looked at his granddaughter for a minute before speaking. "You've been very busy young lady. According to reports you managed to ensnare everyone in your class and almost everyone in Ms. Bustier's class. There are three students who aren't not under your control." He placed the three bios belonging to Adrien, Marinette, and Nathanial on the desk.

He pushed Nathanial bio closer to her. "In your early reports, the artist was under your control with the promise of meeting one of our top graphic artist. Now he's against you. Why?"

"Nathanial is nothing, but a sad artist, who could never measure up to be one of the greatest. He saw me being a bit cruel to Marinette so he stepped in as her guardian angel," she answered in respectful, but at the same time, mocking voice. "That weakling dared to challenge me. If he thinks he's going to ruin my reputation then I'll bite him."

Kumiho watched Lila's body language and word use. The artist wasn't a big loss. She didn't think he had to pull to convince others that Lila was anything other than a popular, smart, and kind rich girl she pretend to be. "Please be careful young Vixen. If the boy stood up to you he might grow a big enough spine to ruin you."

Lila nodded, not concerned at all. Still heading her words would be in her best interests. Satisfied, Kumiho tapped the two remaining bios. While Lila had gotten closer to Adrien and marked him for her next victim, it was unclear how she planned to capture his interests long enough to get access to the Agreste fortune.

"I don't have to remind you how many years have been spent trying to gain a hold in the Agreste Company only to thwart each time. Gabriel Agreste is a powerful man and completely dominates the fashion industry while at the same time influencing most of Europe."

Lila started to open her mouth, stopped, the tried to talk again before holding back her question. Her grandfather chose to break protocol to explain. "Several years ago we did business with him, attempting to gain a foothold in his company providing for transportation, shipping, and set up for his runway shows."

"Several times we attempted to steal some of the designs or pay off the models to not show up, but all our efforts were in vain. No matter what we did we couldn't get what we wanted and force a partnership with Treasures Incorporated. Since then he's only used our shipping forces if he's got no other choice."

Filing that little tidbit away for future use, the meeting resumed with both leaders asking how she planned to complete her mission with only eight days left. So far she had only drawn the attention of the superheroes once and ran into an extremely talented art retrieval agent.

"Simple, rumor has it that Chat Noir considers Marinette to be his Princess. Likewise Ladybug seems to have a crush on Adrien. I've already put doubts in Marinette's head and created a bond with Adrien. I plan to capture both of them in different traps forcing the duo to apart."

Snapping her fingers she continued on forcing the heroes to give her the information she wanted and their Miraculous before killing them. Use a similar trap to capture Peace Keeper before tracking an Akuma to find out where Hawkmoth was. Kill him and take his Miraculous before launching an assault to get the Fox miraculous. It was a perfect plan.

At school, Adrien was keeping a death grip on his bag. The only way to keep the Miraculous Book safe was to keep it on him twenty four seven. It was lucky that Plagg could phase through solid objects because he couldn't get to the security controls himself. The little kitty Kwami ended up destroying the security feed and spent all of last night keeping an eye on the safe to ensure Mr. Agreste didn't go looking into it.

"I can't believe you made me do a stake out without any cheese! It was cruel and inhumane."

Adrien rolled his eyes and fed Plagg another large piece of cheese. It was scary how Plagg could almost unhinge his jaw to eat such an enormous amount. "It can't have been that bad. Besides, you promised you do anything to protect this book."

Plagg groaned again. "I'm one of the last Kwamiis that should be trusted with the Book. I'm more likely to accidentally destroy it." Ducking into the bag he took up a position next to the hidden book. Hopefully the apprentice had finished the fake book by now.

Adrien hurried upstairs to the classroom thankful to be the first there besides the disguised teacher. Their eyes locked and she slightly shook her head. He frowned tapping his bag indicating he had to the book. She tapped her watch enough times to convey it would be finished by tonight. The model posed like Marinette before mimicking sitting and reading. She nodded slightly.

As the rest of the class entered the room Sun/Peace Keeper smiled at each of them. "I'm very proud of all the work you students have put in for preparing for your exams. I know this year is very important for this class considering everything that has happened this school year."

The students chuckled at that commented. This had been the most unusual year in the history of Paris. Who knew what the summer would bring? "Today, will be a bit different then the past few days. We'll take turns going to the library or the computer labs. I want you to take the time study any material we haven't had a chance to cover yet. In the meantime, I have some practice exams for everyone to do while their waiting for a turn."

Max raised his hands and the sub acknowledge him. "Normally, a teacher will teach us some relaxing techniques to help keep us from getting too stressed out. Are we doing that this year?"

Sun nodded, explaining that during the last period that they would go over some of that and she had arranged for a visitor to come in to give everyone a massage. That got the students excited to have a little pampering.

The groups were the same from the other day so the quartet were the first to go to the library to study. Marinette sat down at the table as the boys gathered the books they needed to study. Lila pretended to go search, but came back right away and "tripped" over Adrien's bag. Plagg tried to keep the book inside, but it spilled partway out.

"Hmm, what's this?" Lila bent down only for Marinette to grab the bag and the book. "What was that for? I just wanted to look at what is was."

"You shouldn't….look through people things. If Adrien…wanted…to show you…he would have done so." Marinette had to catch her breath. She really needed to be resting after pushing herself so hard this week. "Lila, I know you want to be friends with Adrien, but this isn't the way to go."

Lila glowered at her. "Really, what are you the expert on friendship? Please, you seemed to be someone who runs from danger."

Again Marinette feelings and self-worth plummeted. Why did she let every little word from Lila get to her? She was no coward and would prove it. "I'm not a person who runs from danger. I did earn my position as class rep."

Lila rolled her eyes and scoffed. She was not impressed. "Anyone can do that, but I seem to recall you didn't fulfill your duties. You seemed to skip out on those in return for dreaming impossible fantasies." Lila laughed at her own joke and then asked how often she drew out those fantasies

The boys came back to see Marinette near tears as she held Adrien's bag close to her chest. The giant book started to fall to the floor. Adrien dropped all his books and dove to the floor catching the Miraculous Book. The book flipped open revealing for a page from the book showing a fox themed heroine. Lila's eyes lit up as Adrien slammed the book shut.

Adrien looked so relieved. "This book is a collectible from my Father's private library. He doesn't know I borrowed it to show you Marinette. I thought you get some ideas from the illustrations." The expression in his eyes conveyed what that book really was.

"I'll take it home with me and keep it safe until after school." Marinette quickly put the book in her backpack and zipped it up tightly. Neither one saw Lila's eyes light up nor the grin that appeared on her face. She knew a treasure when she saw one. That book was valuable and could lead her to the ultimate prize. Now she had to finish her seduction of Adrien and get rid of Marinette for good.


Lila Rossi was a girl with many resources. As much as she detested asking for help, she need a Crab Eating Fox member, whose specialties were cyber and tech related crimes, to hack into Nathalie's tablet to get a hold of Adrien's schedule. Without it, she doubted she could corner him alone. At least her family had plenty of fake talismans at home to use for practice and occasions like this. They looked like the Fox Miraculous, but each had F etched in the back indicating it was a false one.

Hiding around the corner she used a camera with a long distance scope to take pictures of Adrien in the park. He appeared to be waiting for someone. According to his schedule, he was supposed to be tutoring Marinette at her house. "Looks like he decided to ditch the bore. Now's my chance to oh I hate her!"

Marinette came into the park and sat down on the park bench, pulling out the mysterious book. The huddled as they studied it together. Lila let out a huff and moved a bit closer, still making sure to hide. "Move it already, I need some pictures of that book to confirm my suspicions. If that's what I think it is, then I could accomplish what my Nonna, (her mom's mother), couldn't."

Forty years ago, her grandmother had come across an article about new rare books the Bibiotech Nazionale Marcianna had acquired from a recent auction. One of the books in the picture accompanying the article had caught her eyes. A book with a strange gold design on the cover. Nonna had seen that design associated with another fox themed hero before. Unfortunately, the book had disappeared before she could snag it.

"It would make a perfect bonus. Not to mention when I finally get my hands on that Fox Miraculous, no doubt it will help me bring out the full powers of item. Then I can rule the Fox's Teeth forever!" She could see it playing in her head right then. Becoming the biggest, scariest, and deadliest member of the family. Her first business, after she took care of the heroes and Marinette, and make Adrien hers, would be to turn Tod into toy!

Checking the park again, she saw Marinette had left the bench, leaving Adrien reading the book by himself. He was on a page that had a picture of someone who looked similar to Chat Noir before turning the page to see a man dressed in purple with a cane. A few butterflies floated around his head. Was he related to the mysterious Hawkmoth? Who cared at the moment, this was her chance.

Checking her appearance one last time she crossed the street and entered the park. Slithering over to the model used the tip of her finger to bring the book down and look the surprised model straight in the eye. "Hello Adrien. How are you doing?"

"Li li Lila?! What are you doing here?" he asked frantically. He looked around for help, but Marinette was still clear across the park getting some water to take a pain pill with. Ning/Peace Keeper had gone to the Guardian's home to finish creating the fake Miraculous Book to put back in the safe. He was on his own.

Lila sat down next to him, one arm around his shoulder the other holding the book and using her fingertips to flip the pages. "I was on a walk and I noticed you sitting by your lonesome. There was an illustration in your book I saw, that I wanted to compare to this," she said tapping her fake Miraculous.

Leaning in closer, she whispered to him, "My Noona gave me this talisman to me before I left Italy. She told me it had special powers that could make me a fox themed heroine called Volpena." Shifting her body until she was practically on his lap, she admitted she thought it was all a fairy tale until she saw the picture.

"Perhaps you can let me get a closer look to confirm or deny her claims. After all wouldn't it be a miracle if I could become a superherione and fight alongside Chat Noir and Ladybug?" She was about to give him a kiss on the cheek when she was shoved violently off Adrien and into the bench. Ignoring the pain she looked up to see Marinette standing tall with Adrien behind her.

"Stay away from Adrien Lila. He's my boyfriend not yours!"

"Really, I was just being friendly. Besides, why shouldn't I get close to Adrien considering that he and I are a lot of like? In fact, my family is getting ready to propose a deal with his father." Examining her nails Lila added that this was a great opportunity for the model's career. He and she would be working very closely together.

She shouldn't have said that. Marinette finally lost her cool and let loose all the frustration, anger, and sadness about her situation directing it at Lila. "I've have a had enough of your lies, manipulations, and fakeness!" she screamed. The teen thief was taken aback and opened her mouth to protest only for Marinette to speak over her.

"Ever since you came to school all you've done is lie to people, making promises you haven't kept. Nino hasn't had a meeting yet with anyone from Treasures Incorporated about launching his DJ career. You're avoiding both Alix and Kim meaning you don't intend to go rollerblading or to a soccer match with either of them. Let's see you also lied to Alya just so you could get an interview." Marinette counted on her fingers before mentioning something else.

"You haven't done any schoolwork no doubt forcing poor Sabrina to do yours. No wonder you have no originality when it comes to essay writing. Do you even read the material? Also it's not nice to take advantage of people, even if that person is Chloe. You weren't very subtle about knocking her off her pedestal to make yourself the most popular girl in school."

"Now wait just a minute there! I am an heiress and you're a…"

"What am I? A former akuma? Almost everyone in the class has been one!" Marinette paused for a moment, shuddering a bit before she spoke in a very tight controlled voice. "For the rest of my life, I'll carry the burden of remembering what I did. It hurts a lot and I wish I could change what happened, but I can't. All I can do is move forward in life."

Adrien looked at his girlfriend in a whole new light as she continued to call Lila on her behavior and fakeness. Marinette was channeling her inner Ladybug saying no matter what Lila said or threatened, it didn't matter, it wasn't going to bother her anymore. Soon everyone would see the real Lila the pretend heiress. A mischief smile appeared on the model's face. He explained corporate bylaws about succession and how Lila was way down the totem pole from being a real heiress.

"Marinette's right Lila. If you can't be honest about yourself, then I don't want to be your friend. Goodbye Lila." The two of them left the park leaving a fuming and vengeful teen frothing at the mouth.

If they had stayed behind, they would have seen an akuma enter the false Miraculous. Or heard her speaking to herself as she manipulated Hawkmoth into a deal where he got the Miraculouses he wanted and skipped town, after she found out where the Fox Miraculous was and secured it for herself to control her family.

All she asked was he wait until Saturday afternoon so she could set a trap for the heroes. Turning into Volpena, she licked her lips, played a melody and vanished from sight.