Author's Note: Okay, I can see why everyone is freaking out over today's episode, omg. It's soo cute *insert anime heart eyes* but I read it somewhere that they will know each other's identity at the end of season three…? Correct me if I'm wrong but yeah…anyways, let's get started!
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Summary: Chat Noir gets hurt badly in the battle with the akumatized villain. This caused Ladybug panic and she takes him to her house so that he can be healed. However, things are got more complicated when Chat Noir's transformation is about to fade off. He must heal quickly before time runs out.
Chapter 10: A Cat in the House
Heavy footsteps rang throughout the park.
"Noir, try to corner him! I'll go to the other side!" Ladybug exclaimed.
With a nod, Noir went to the opposite direction of Ladybug and picked up the speed.
"You will never catch me, fools!" the enemy spoke, laughing madly as he continued to fly by using his fire powers.
"Incendias! Don't forget what your main goal is."
Eyes narrowed, Incendias screeched to a halt and sharply turned around as he saw Ladybug coming towards him.
"Your time ends now!" he exclaimed. However, before he can even fire his powers, something tackled him from the side which made him fall to the ground with a thud.
"Noir, you idiot." Ladybug cursed under her breath as she stopped running.
Chat Noir gave a cheeky grin at Incendias. "What now, hotshot?"
Incendias narrowed his eyes and charged his hands. "I hope you can handle the heat!"
Noir had his eyes wide as the enemy released his fire power.
"Noir, get out of there!" Ladybug cried out, throwing her yo-yo in attempt to save him.
But her throwing came too late and all she heard was the loud piercing screams that came from Chat Noir.
"CHAT NOIR!"
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Marinette furiously paced across the floor in her room; her mind being overflown by her thoughts.
"Marinette." Tikki's voice came.
No answer.
"Marinette." she tried again.
Same response.
Frowning, the red and black Kwami a circular object that was on her table so she flew towards it and then grabbed it, throwing at the deep in thought Marinette.
"Ow!" she exclaimed, rubbing at the side of her head. She glared at her fellow companion. "What was that for?"
"For you to have your attention to me."
"Well, you didn't have to throw something at me. You could've just simply shouted my name."
Tikki gave an unamused look. "Anyways," she replied, hastily. "You need to calm down. We just simply take care of Chat Noir until he is better."
"Easier said than done! What if he—"
A sudden beep came which alerted the two. Mari turned her head towards the unconscious Chat Noir and realized that his transformation was about to fade out.
"Ohmigosh! This is exactly what I was being afraid of!" she panicked, her face being written in terror. "What if he transforms now? What if I now know his secret identity? Then everything will change and Chat Noir will hate me forever and I will be working alone forever and—"
"Marinette!" came Tikki's sharp voice which surprisingly had managed have Marinette stop rambling.
"Look just go get a blanket or something and cover him so that you won't know."
"Uh, right."
"And hurry!"
Mari once again went back to panicking and she practically zoomed down the stairs and into the living room. Just her luck, there was a large blanket that was big enough to cover Chat Noir. She took the blanket and ran back upstairs.
"Marinette, hurry!" Tikki cried out as she saw the flash that came from Chat Noir.
The flash started to go uncover a part of his head and Mari gave out a screech as she quickly dived towards him and planted the blanket on top of him so that he was covered. She didn't opened her eyes until she felt the transformation had ended and when it was, she gave out a sigh of relief.
"Whew, that was a close one." Mari replied.
"A close one for what?"
From the new voice, Mari gave out a screech and she fell off her bed, falling to the floor. Tikki quickly flew towards Mari's bag and hid in it.
"Who's there—Alya!" she gave out a gasp once she found out who it was.
"Uhm, hi?" Alya raised an eyebrow. "Am I missing something here?"
"Uh…no! No, of course!" Mari said, sheepishly.
"Riiight. If that's the case, now explain to me why there's a sudden lump on your bed that looks like its covered?" she pointed to the blanket.
"Uh—I—er…"
Alya shook her head and started to lift the blanket. Panicked, Mari dove for the cover and jumped on it.
"No, don't uncover it!" she exclaimed, hugging the cover as though her life was depending on it. Seeing the look, Mari started to give out a lame excuse. "Uh, it's for a surprise…for my uhm…dad! Yeah, my dad! I mean, it wouldn't be fair if you, me and my mom are the only ones who knows what the surprise is and my dad doesn't. He too would be curious and would go into my room so that he can find out what it is." Mari blurted it out.
Alya gave a laugh. "Girl, you are getting weirder every time I see you but I believe you."
Mari gave out a sigh of relief but regained herself when Alya turned her attention back to her.
"So uh do you wanna go to the park just to hang out?"
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A soft groan came followed by eyes flickering open. He winced as he even tried to move but he forced himself to push himself up. The blanket fell, uncovering who it really is.
Adrien winced as he gave a gentle rub at his burned side and flashbacks from the battle with the akumatized villain came into his mind. He groaned, remembering at the fact that he still didn't defeated the enemy; if his guess was true, then Ladybug also didn't caught it as well.
His eyesight was eventually returned to normal once the blurriness faded away and he took this time to take a look at his surroundings. The room which he currently was pink and there were many photos that seemed to be him. A white desk was at the corner and it looked like a typical girl's room.
He concluded.
He was in a girl's room but he has no idea how he got here.
"Well, someone's a fan of you." a voice said, bringing his attention to it.
A black Kwami stared at a photo.
"Yeah, whatever." he groaned.
"So, uh, how are you feeling?" Plagg asked him.
"I feel like I got hit by a bus." he muttered. He then remembered that there was a blanket which had covered him. "Uhm, remind me again. Why was I covered in a blanket? And where am I?"
"Well, you obviously are in a room."
Adrien gave an unamused look. "No really? I thought we were in the bathroom." he said, sarcastically. "I meant who does the room belong to, genius?"
Frowning, Plagg flew towards the desk and started to search, hoping that he can find the answer to the question.
"Oh look! I found something!" he exclaimed. "The paper says this property belongs to Marinette."
Adrien gasped just by hearing that name. "I'm in her room?!" he echoed. He then stared back at the blanket and thought back to the time he was still Chat Noir. "Great. This is bad. This is very bad!"
"Don't worry. You won't get cooties from being in girl's room." Plagg reassured him.
"Not that, you idiot." he grumbled, throwing a pillow at Plagg which struck him and he fell due to the impact.
"What was that for?" he complained.
"What I mean is that what if she saw me being transformed into me?" Adrien asked, ignoring his complaint. "It could ruin our friendship!"
"Friendship of what? You as Adrien or you as Chat Noir? Relax, kid. Remember: you don't know whose Ladybug. What makes you think she knows who you really are? What if she put the blanket to cover you so that she won't find out your true identity?"
That made Adrien be at ease a little. "If that's the case, then how did I ended up here?"
Plagg shrugged. "Maybe Marinette saw you injured in the park and she took in until you are completely healed. See? You are in the hands of a good person. There's nothing to—Adrien, where do you think you're going?" Plagg screeched.
Adrien, who was up on his feet while he ignored the searing pain, walked towards the stairs that looked like it was leading up to the balcony.
"I'm getting out of here. Even if that's the case, even if that was true, I can't risk that. She probably won't even like me if she find out."
"But how do you know? You won't find out if you run away."
"I'm not running away." Adrien insisted. "I'm just doing for it better cause. Now are you going to come with me or are you staying here?"
Plagg sighed then pulled out his infamous cheese. "Right after I finish eating. All that talking made me tired."
Adrien let out a frustrated growl and he marched towards his fellow companion. He grabbed both sides of the blanket but then he heard a voice—no, two voices. One of the voices he knew who it was but he wasn't quite sure who the second voice belonged to.
"I hope he's alright. I'm just really worried him."
"He will be fine. He always is."
"But what if he isn't this time?"
"We're going." Adrien said and grabbed the blanket that captured Plagg. He quickly tied the ends of the cover. But as Plagg met darkness, a thought went inside his head.
I know that voice.
Adrien started to run up the stairs that lead to the balcony. However, he winced when a sharp searing pain came and he placed his hand at the edge of his side.
Ignoring it, he resumed running up the stairs and he was out.
The door from the bottom was opened, revealing Tikki and Marinette. Tikki was flying backwards in order to cheer Marinette up.
"Cheer up, Marinette. Everything will work out just fine. You'll see. You have to have faith in your—"Tikki stopped in mid-sentence as she turned around. She had her eyes wide though this grabbed Mari's interest.
"What? Tikki, what happened?" Mari turned to the direction which Tikki was staring at and gave a gasp. "No, no, no, no, no!"
There, on the bed, where there should've been a person, the bed was now empty. Mari fell to her knees, her wide eyes never leaving her bed.
"No, this can't be. I knew I shouldn't have Alya convince me to come!" she exclaimed. "Where is he? Tikki, where is he?" she began to panic as thoughts went into her head. "What happened to him? He can't possibly escape. He's still hurt. What if his wound is opened again? What if because of the open wound, he collapsed in the street and someone else took him? What if—what if—"
"Mari, you seriously need to calm down." the Kwami spoke in a stern voice. "All this stress can't be good for you. So just take a nice deep breath and let it out—"
"TIKKI, WHAT IF HE IS DEAD?!" Mari screamed. "Then it will be all my fault. He was under my care. The Paris will blame me for his death and I will be thrown into a thirty year prison! I'm too young to be in prison!" she whimpered, falling to her knees once again.
A slap was heard but it wasn't enough to actually cause pain but it did made Mari shook a little.
"Calm down this instant! We are going to find him. You're going to be transformed into Ladybug so that the search will be easier and—Mari, where do you think you're going?"
"I'm going to find him." Marinette stated as she went down the stairs.
Tikki groaned. "Oh no. Don't be such an idiot. You're not going to let him find you in that form!" she screeched. "So I'm going with you!"
Mari stopped then turned her attention to her Kwami. "You're right." she walked back up.
"I know I'm right." she boasted.
Sneakily, Marinette grabbed a box and hid behind her back. "I do not want him to find out who Ladybug really is but…as this mission could possibly be dangerous—"
"And really foolish." Tikki added.
"I wouldn't want anything to happen to you, now would I?" Mari asked, her face suddenly being close to Tikki.
"I—"Tikki paused, finally seeing that Mari was grinning evilly. "What are you—"
Before she had the chance to even finish the sentence, she was suddenly encased in darkness; she got trapped in a box.
"Mari! MARI! LET ME OUT! LET ME OUT!" Tikki exclaimed, loudly as she tried to get out of the box.
"Sorry but I can't have you on this mission." Marinette responded then went down the stairs.
:(/\):
Plagg struggled against the cover as he was frantically trying to get out. "Adrien. Adrien, let me out!" he exclaimed. "As your Kwami, I command you to let me out!"
"Are you always this annoying?" Adrien yelled, finally letting the Kwami to be free.
"I wouldn't be if you didn't put me in that blanket." he glared.
"Well, it wasn't the only way to have you come with me." Adrien peeked out of his hiding spot but since his back was facing Plagg, the creature started to fly backwards. "Now, since Ladybug is probably looking for me, I should stay clear for a while until this whole thing dies down and then you will transform me in—" Adrien stopped talking and noticed that his Kwami wasn't him.
"PLAGG!" he raged.
:(/\):
Plagg hurriedly flew, trying to get to his destination which was Marinette's house. He knew that voice. He just hopes that she was still in the house.
"Are you here? Tikki, where are you?" Plagg yelled once he flew into the open window of Mari's room.
He stopped, scanning the room until a box caught his attention. He could've sworn he saw that it had moved. He continued to stare at the object until this time, his eyes weren't playing games him. The box actually moved.
He flew towards the box and saw the lock and with a click, it was unlocked and out came a happy Kwami.
"I'M FREE!" she exclaimed.
"Now, where's your companion?" Plagg asked.
This drew her attention and gave out a scream. "Ack! It's Plagg!"
"Yeah, nice to meet you too." he said flatly. "But really, where's your hero?"
Tikki frowned. "She locked me up in this stupid box so that I wouldn't go with her to search your stupid companion."
"Hey, watch it!"
Tikki paused. "Where is he, anyway?"
"Oh, uh…you know…I left him."
"…"
Tikki gave a stare at him before she screamed. "YOU LEFT HIM TO DIE?! YOU LEFT HIM TO DIE AND IF HE DIES, EVERYONE IS GOING TO ASSUME THE WORST OF LADYBUG AND PUT HER IN JAIL BECAUSE OF CHAT NOIR'S DEATH! AND YOU LEFT HIM!"
"Woah, woah, woah! Calm down! Who says anything about Ladybug going to jail? And I didn't left him to die! I merely ditched him to find you—"
"You what?" she screeched.
Plagg cringed. "Anyways, the only reason why I left him was because I thought Ladybug was with you!"
"Well, no. She isn't. Now, I need find her and you need to reunite with your companion and make sure that both of them don't meet!"
"Why?
"Why!? Really?" Tikki sighed. "Because if Marinette met Adrien in their civilian forms, Marinette is going to have suspicious about Adrien because he got hurt! He got hurt at the same spot where Chat Noir got injured! That's why! And she's going to suspect that Adrien is Chat Noir!"
Silence.
"Argh, we gotta find them!" Plagg exclaimed, flying towards the window then paused. "Well, you have to find Ladybug. I have to reunite with Adrien. And let's pretend this "meeting" never happened, okay? Because we promised each other—"
"Yeah, I know. I promise only if you keep to your words."
Plagg nodded then flew out of the window. Tikki sighed. I hope one day we can all be reunited together.
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Marinette panted as she was running down the streets of Paris, trying to find a certain hero. Meanwhile, on the other side of the corner, there was Adrien who looked like he wanted to push someone off the Eiffel Tower and say it was an accident.
Unaware to them, they were both going to meet each other right about no—
Thunk.
"Ow." Mari moaned, having her palm on her forehead.
"Mari! I'm so sorry! I wasn't looking where I was going."
Mari finally looked at the person whom she bumped into and widened her eyes. "Adrien!"
Adrien gave a weak smile and walked towards Marinette, crouching down. "Are you hurt?"
"Me? No, no, no! I'm fine, really." she quickly stood up. "See?" she then extended her hand to help him up.
Adrien took the hand but the minute the strain that was on his body came, it made Adrien gasp with pain and he clutched his side. Seeing this, it made Mari worry.
"Adrien? Are you alright?" Mari asked, worriedly as she went on her knees.
"I-I'm fine."
"Are you sure? You look like you're in a lot of pain." Mari noted.
"Yeah, I'm sure. Really, Marinette. I'm fine." he insisted. "It'll go soo—"he stopped in mid-sentence when something caught his attention behind Marinette's back.
There was Plagg who halted in his tracks in mid-air and widened his eyes. Adrien gave an angry look at him and in return, the creature gave a sheepish look. Meanwhile, something was also behind Adrien's back and the raven-haired girl widened her eyes when she Tikki flying into the view.
The Kwami stopped flying and gasped when she saw the scene. Marinette frantically motioned her to get out of sight.
"Uh, listen. I've got go to some er stuff at home." Adrien responded.
"Er, yeah me too. I gotta help my mom with er some new recipe she wanted to try."
The two got up and Marinette was about to walk away but then stopped. "Are you sure you're going to be okay?"
"Yeah." Adrien flashed her a smile, having the girl to nod. She then took off and quickly grabbed Tikki and pulled her out of sight.
Once at the corner, Marinette pulled Tikki back out.
"Tikki? What are you doing here? How did you escape from the box?"
"Er uh…I moved around a lot and I uh managed to escape!" Tikki placed on a smile.
Marinette frowned. "You're hiding something and I don't like it."
At the other side, Adrien grabbed Plagg and brought him close to him. "You are in so much trouble! Are you insane? You could've been seen and then what?!"
"Me? Insane? Says the one who blindly walked out into the city while he was being injured!" Plagg snapped back at him. "You know, you're lucky Marinette didn't figure out you are Chat Noir, you dolt!"
"I'm the dolt? What about you?"
Without a warning, something started to come towards the two but just in time, Plagg turned his head to the side and screamed.
"Ack, it's raining fire!" he yelled.
Adrien gasped and he luckily moved out of the way, letting the fire streak hit the wall of a store.
"Well, well, well. Look what we got here. A lost pedestrian. Don't worry…you will find your way home." the fire man spoke, sadistically.
At the corner…
"Now, let's transform into Ladybug so you can stop the villain. Maybe then Chat Noir will come but hopefully he won't." Tikki said.
Marinette sighed. "Fine."
Just as she was walking out of the corner, Marinette quickly went back to her spot as she gave an exclaim of shout.
"Ack!" she shouted, going back to the corner as she narrowly avoided the fire blast that nearly struck her. Peering out of the spot, Marinette widened her eyes when she saw Adrien who had his feet on the wall then jumped off in order to avoid the fire streak.
"Adrien!" she cried out. She crawled back. "Tikki, transform me!"
In a flash, Marinette was transformed into Ladybug. She quickly ran towards the battle scene and took out her yo-yo. The disk sprang into action and grabbed Adrien who was on the ground, pulling him out of the way.
"Go soak your roots, dweeb!" Marinette exclaimed, withdrawing her yo-yo back.
"Ladybug," he grinned, evilly. "I thought you had disappeared for good after I injured your teammate."
"Sorry but I would never disappear while there's still evil." Ladybug stated. She kneeled down and placed a hand on Adrien's shoulder. "Go. I will take care of this. Your safety is important to me."
Adrien nodded. "Right." he then got up and took off. Once out of sight, he talked to Plagg. "Plagg, transform me."
Nothing happened.
Growling, Adrien brought back his attention to the small stubborn creature.
"Sorry, Adrien. But I can't risk you getting hurt even more."
Adrien sighed. "Plagg, please. I can't let Ladybug get hurt. Please."
The two seemed to be staring deep in thought into each other's eyes. At last, Plagg sighed with defeat, lowering his defenses.
"Fine."
Adrien gave a huge smile. "Thanks, Plagg. Plagg, transform me!"
In a green flash, Adrien was transformed into his alter ego: Chat Noir. Noir got out of his hiding spot and studied the battle scene. Where Ladybug should've fought the villain, it wasn't there anymore. Eyes narrowed, Chat Noir searched the place until he spotted the certain red and black heroine.
She seemed to be heading towards the park. Noir analyzed in thought then it came to him. Water.
:(/\):
Marinette panted as she entered in the park, however, Incendias blasted his fire power and it seemed to have caught Ladybug's heels since she stumbled forward, falling to the ground.
"Haha, now I got you!" he sneered, preparing to blast his power once again.
"Steal the Miraculous now!"
The enemy blasted his attack but before it could even strike Ladybug, something cancelled the attack. Ladybug saw that it was Chat Noir, standing in front of her as he was twirling his staff around.
"Your havoc ends here!" Chat Noir growled, dangerously as he went into a fighting stance.
Incendias laughed. "You came after all as well. Good." he then had his expression turn dark. "You will be brought down to your doom!"
Chat Noir narrowed his eyes. "Then so be it."
Noir charged towards him but the adversary swiftly avoided him by moving to the side. However, Chat quickly twirled his staff in circles in order to block the fire that came at his way.
Seeing the battle, Ladybug threw her yo-yo in the air. "Lucky Charm!"
In the flash, an object came and it landed on her hands. "An extinguisher? Well, at least the luck is improving." she noted.
She quickly scanned the place then got it. As soon as she did, Chat Noir fell to the ground and the villain dove for him. But, Noir brought his feet up and placed them on his stomach so that he flipped the enemy over. Quickly, Noir got to his feet and twirled his staff once more into circles to block out the attack.
"Noir, do you think you can destroy the fountain?" Ladybug aske.
He had his eyes wide. "The fountain? But it could flood the park."
"I know but it's the only way."
Noir sighed. "You're crazier than that psycho but I will do it."
With that, Noir avoided the blast one more time then he ran towards the fountain. As he did, Ladybug went to the other side so that the opponent couldn't reach Noir.
"You want him? You're going to have to get through me first."
"With pleasure!" he laughed, wickedly before firing his power.
Ladybug performed several of backflips in order to avoid the blast and while she was coming closer to the fountain, she could hear Noir's voice.
"Cataclysm!"
He placed his energized hand on the fountain and out came a torrent of water. Since the fountain was damaged, Ladybug quickly leaped into the air and let the water race towards the villain who had his eyes wide.
"No!" he exclaimed as the full blast of water collided with him, putting him out.
Chat Noir hesitantly walked towards the powered down enemy. "Is he…out?"
As soon as he said that, Incendias immediately powered back on. "Think again!"
"Oh I will! Noir, get ready!"
Ladybug released the extinguisher, letting out the smoke going towards Incendias. Incendias screamed in pain as he felt himself being out once more. As he was, Chat Noir hurriedly ran towards him and grabbed the akumatized item which was sunglasses. The extinguisher died out and Chat threw the item towards Ladybug who caught it then smashed it at the ground.
A black butterfly flew out of it.
"You're done for! It's time for you to be free!" she proclaimed, capturing the critter in her disk then let it out. "Bye, bye, little butterfly."
Noir grinned, delighted that it was finally over. "Mission—"
A hug was thrown at him.
"Ladybug?"
"Noir…I thought I lost you when he struck you…" she murmured, gently tightening her hug. "I can't lose you. I need you. I can't do this alone."
Saddened, Noir grabbed her hands and made her to look at him. "No matter what the villain throws at us, I won't ever leave you. I will always be with you. You can be sure of that."
Ladybug smiled but then a beep came. "I've got to go." she replied. "See you."
Chat Noir nodded and watched her took off.
:(/\):
"Once again, I got foiled from Ladybug and Chat Noir! But no matter, the next time we meet, I will be sure to spill the blood of Chat Noir! I will reach my goal!" Hawk Moth shouted before he got enveloped in darkness.
:(/\):
Marinette climbed up the stairs and reached her room. Once in, she saw Tikki sitting on her bed with her head hung down. Guilt ran through Marinette like a wild fire.
"Tikki…" Marinette started, sitting next to her little Kwami. "About today." she sighed. "What I did wasn't right and I feel like I owe you an apology."
Tikki shook her head. "No. You don't. What you did today was necessary and I understand that now. I should've known better. I'm sorry." Tikki apologized.
Marinette smiled. "It's alright." she then paused. "Something else is troubling you."
Tikki struggled of what to say. There's so many things she wanted to tell her but in doing so, she feels like she will break her trust. Instead, Tikki let it slide.
She shook her head. "Ah, no. There's nothing."
Author's Note: Oooh, Tikki. You should've told her…tsk, tsk. But…TODAY'S EPISODE KILLED ME! RIP ME T_T If you haven't watched it yet, you really should. You can search on it YouTube. On the other note, this was fun to write but at the same time, it pained me because I had to hurt my poor little baby (Adrien) T_T and you know…I feel bad for Hawk Moth. I mean he keeps on getting close to steal the Miraculous and then it's like: haha, just kidding! Have a nice day, you know? anyways, toodles!