Authors note:
Sorry this is a day late, I couldn't find my USB where this was stored. My other fanfic, Just A Friend ,was actually updated on time because that one is written one chapter at a time... this one is more planned and I have much more written in advance.
Please tell me what you like or don't like as a review, PM, or email to Asuraheterodyne . Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
Thank you for reading!
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"Agreste, Adrianna." Mme Bustier called. Adrianna froze. Was she in trouble? Was she supposed to go up in front of the class?
Nino, seeing her hesitation, took pity on the girl.
"You say 'present'" He whispered at her.
She stood up, raised her hand and shouted,
"PRESENT!"
The class giggled. Mme Bustier smiled kindly. Adrianna sat. Nino turned to her with a reassuring smile and a congratulatory fist bump. She felt pretty good. Nino would help her figure stuff out. She could do this!
"Bruel, Ivan" A thunderous crash assaulted their eardrums. The door was knocked down by the Stone giant from the day before.
"PREEEESEEEEENT!" The deafening roar emanated from the possessed teen, who stomped toward a short, rubenesque girl with colorful braids.
"MYYYYYYYLEEEEEENEEEEE" Adrianna dove out of the room, making sure that he brought his bag. She was suddenly very glad that her kwami was safely sleeping in her schoolbag.
"Adrianna heard screaming, some more roars, and two ground-shaking booms. She ran to the locker rooms that Chloe had shown her earlier.
"My first day of school and I don't even make it past roll call!" why couldn't this have waited until after school? She knew that this was someone else's crisis, this stone guy was clearly having a rough couple of days, but darn it all, she had to clean it up!
"A day off? Now that's what I'm talking about!" Plagg said. He floated out of her bag and into a locker.
"Oh no no no, we've got homework to do! PLAGG, TRANSFORM ME!" Adrianna felt herself go through the transformation. As much as Adrianna hated that she was missing the school time that she had fought so hard for, she would never grow tired of the rush that came with the transformation.
Chat grinned, excited. He may have actually danced out the door, He couldn't remember, he was too focused on his new body and the fact that he would see his Lady again.
"You have no idea who you're dealing with! My daddy, the mayor, will bring the police, the army, the entire cavalry!"
" and don't forget the superheroes!" Chat said as he jumped just high enough over the head of Stony that he was able to give it a solid smack on the head. He had assumed that this was one of the lackeys but to his surprise, it grew. Either this was the original, or all these guys had this power.
"Oh no! My bad!" When Chat had jumped over its head, he had landed in front of the stone giant and could now see that it held a very miffed Chloe, and a very scared colorful-braid-girl, who Chat assumed was Mylene.
"Ugh, super incompetent you mean!" Wow, a superhero tries to save Chloe's sorry butt and she is insulting him. That takes balls. And stupidity. Chat rolled his eyes, it was lucky that Chloe was dealing with Adrianna, not some random superhero. A deep growl interrupted Chat's annoyance,
"FAH!" Stony scoffed, "YOU WANTED THE CAVALRY? WELL HERE IT IS!" Smaller than Stone Heart, but still standing two stories high, were Stony's minions. Chat was quickly surrounded by humanoid pillars of rock. How on earth were they supposed to defeat all of these monsters? Heck, they could barely defeat one yesterday!
"SEIZE HIM!" suddenly Chat felt like the last marble in a game of Hungry Hungry Hippo. He bounced from place to place, acting purely on instinct. Each moment he was nearly crushed. Stony left Chat to his cronies.
Great, he was going to be beaten up by a bunch of low level monsters. He wasn't even worth watching. Ugh typical villain arrogance. Although as all of the close calls and dodging seemed to indicate, Stone Heart's arrogance may not have been entirely misplaced.
One of the golems grazed his leg as Chat sprung away from the pounding fist. His eyes watered and he just knew that if the leg hadn't been super powered, that it the bones would have been powdered. The blinding flash of pain sent him yowling onto the head of one of giants, causing it to slap at him like a mosquito. If he kept this up there would be no way that he wouldn't be captured or killed.
One of them got the bright idea to throw a car at him. The stone behemoth lifted it over its head. Okay, that's it. he needed help.
" If you can hear me Ladybug, I could use a little help!" Chat dodged the car, which bounced into a building. He hoped that on one was inside.
"What is she waiting for?" Huh? Chat turned to the voice. The crazy reporter girl was there. Fan-freaking-tastic.
Another car flew, Chat leapt to safety. The car bounced and he heard a gasp. The car was flying toward the stupid, stupid girl. Chat threw his staff again, willing it to save the apparently suicidal girl.
The car landed. Chat felt a wave of relief when he heard a scream of alarm, but not pain. She was alive and conscious, for now. There was no guarantee that the car wouldn't shift and crush her but-
A stone hand clamped around the Cat-themed hero. His legs, the only thing that was exposed, were waving frantically. His arms pushed against the rock that held him, but it was like pushing against solid walls. Chat yelled for help, for Ladybug, for something.
"LET GO YOU ROCK HEAD!" Chat bellowed, angrily trying to break free. The stone giants started to move. Chat heard Alya shout, but from inside the hand of death it was hard to tell what was going on.
What felt like an eternity later, something bonked him on the head.
"Chat Noir! Extend it!" that was all he needed to slip his arm up and twist the rod to the side. The rod extended, opening the giants previously impenetrable grasp.
Chat tumbled from the giants grip and fell, bumping his head again. He sat up, rubbing his sore skull. He opened his eyes and felt a jolt of panic. A hand loomed toward him. Uh oh.
The world spun away from him, his leg leading the way. He found himself hanging upside down from a lamp post. Ladybug sat like a fiery guardian angel on the lamp.
"Sorry I was late." Seeing the twin-tailed superheroine made Chats stomach leap. Play it cool.
"Lady, have I ever told you that you turn my world upside down?" Chat said with a wink. Nailed it. Totally suave.
"Oh! You're quite the jokester aren't you?" Ladybug smiled. Three stone lunkheads roared, interrupting his Lady.
"-But your comedic timing needs work." Did she just pun? Okay, its official, she's perfect. "We gotta get out of here!" Once again the world flew around him. He twisted around and landed on a roof right behind the already running superheroine.
"Hey, aren't we going to take care of them?" they were leaping away from the three rock heads. She opened her yoyo like a phone and checked something.
"No!" one final rooftop and we landed at the Jardins du Trocadéro. "If we want to save them all then we go to the source!" they turned to the Eiffel tower, framed by the buildings to either side of them. Around the tower buzzed police and news helicopters filming the colossus that had climbed onto the frame of the Eiffel Tower like King Kong. "That one."
Stone Heart roared. Many minions of mineral made their way to their master. Chat stared at the scene. He was suddenly struck by the Hollywood of it all. He laughed.
"Where is Michael Bay?" Chat Looked around jokingly. Ladybug grinned, she'd had the same thought. Her face hardened. She looked back toward the surreal mess of cops, villains, and terrified onlookers.
"We better not have any explosions." She half joked. The helicopters were getting perilously close to Stony. One hit and their fuel tanks could rupture in a dramatic fireball. People were in those birds. Chat sobered.
"So what's the plan Milady?" Chat asked. He turned to the red-clad superheroine.
"Uh…" A megaphone screeched its feedback, interrupting her.
"I demand my daughter's safe return!" the mayor shouted.
"Erm… what about Mylene?" Chat asked to himself. He supposed that a father would be so panicked that he would tunnel vision on his only child, but honestly! He was also the mayor! It was his job to think about the people of his city as well.
"Daddy!" her pleading screech could barely be heard over the roar of a passing helicopter.
"You know what?" The giant roared. Ladybugs eyes bugged, realization written on her face. Ladybug's yoyo flew, and launched her toward the far away tower.
"You're welcome to her" Yay! Chat naïvely thought, right up until the second Stony threw the girl, screaming, to the pavement of the Pont d'léna.
Chat quickly extended his staff, jamming it to the ground. He flew, his heart in his throat, to try to save his only friend in the world. He wasn't going to make it.
A red blur collided with the screeching girl, who was halfway through pleading with any mystical power that would listen to save her life.
"I didn't promise!" the girl cradled in Ladybugs arms said. They were on the ground, safe. The Lady shot her a confused look. Chloe, ignoring the superheroine who'd just saved her life, ran to her relieved father. Chat landed next to the sour faced Ladybug.
Chat, momentarily relieved that he didn't have to witness his friend die, was horrified when the police chief gave the all clear to fire. Didn't they see Mylene in Stone Hearts grip?
"Wait! No don't attack them, you know it will only make it worse!" Ladybug shouted. Oh yeah. That too. Chat hadn't even remembered that the stone giant would be strengthened by any attack.
"I have a new plan, unlike you, so stand aside and let the professionals do their thing! You've already failed once!" the arm that wasn't in a sling gestured them to get lost.
Ladybug gasped, and looked as if the man had physically slapped her. She turned her gaze toward the ground.
"He's right you know… If I had captured Stone Hearts akuma, the first time around, none of this would have happened!" Ladybug said. Wait. What? No. Heck no! Adrianna had seen these jokers take a crack at taking down this guy. The police had failed, but Ladybug had actually done it! The only reason that this was happening again was because they had forgotten a step. A step which these idiots couldn't perform even if they wanted to!
"I knew I wasn't the right one for this job!" Chats thoughts screeched to a halt. He focused on her. Guilt. Doubt. Fear. All this he saw. This wasn't her. He had to show her that she was incredible, and let her know how much he believed in her.
"No." She looked up from her hands. Tears glistened in her eyes, not yet shed, but close.
"He is wrong. Without you, she'd no longer be here." He gestured with his eyes to the Chloe, still in her father's arms. "Because, without us, they won't make it." He turned her to face him. He looked directly into her beautiful bluebell doe eyes. He saw her confidence building slowly behind her eyes. It was like watching the sun rising. "and we will prove that to them. Trust me on this. Okay?" He winked at her.
She blinked. A smile formed on her face. It was possibly the most beautiful smile he had seen. It was full of confidence, hope, and trust.
"Okay."