Chat followed the trails of inked writing all over the streets that also didn't seem to come off. He extended his staff and perched on top to get a better look. Now that he could see the city he saw that there were some unusual characters around the streets. Literally. Characters from books were walking around terrorising people. A wolf was chasing a girl in a red cape close by so Chat sprung into action. He jumped and landed in front of the girl. She stopped for a second and looked at him, that's when he noticed the writing on her face that seemed to get bigger every second, like a word was being added to a story. She turned around and saw the wolf. "I'm sorry, but I can't stay. My story is nearly over." There were tears in her eyes as she ran. But she didn't get far. The wolf caught up and ate the girl whole. Chat turned away in grimace then ran toward the wolf and threw his staff at it, but before it could do any harm the wolf disappeared. He then heard a loud laughter and turned to face whoever it was.
"Poor little girl, trapped in her book forever now. Without the huntsman she will die." A girl wearing a dress covered in writing looked at him with an evil smirk. "I am bookworm!" She announced.
"Why did that girl disappear?" Chat demanded.
"She got to the end of her story, I thought you would have figured that out." She said it like it was obvious. "The writing on her face. Once it finishes her story she disappears into her chosen book." She seemed proud. "I have the ability to make people's fates the fates of book characters and have their happy endings," she frowned. "An unhappy one." Chat was still confused. "I can take people out of books also that's why red couldn't get away. I took away the huntsman so no one to save her meant no happy ending."
"Why would you do that?" He shouted at her.
"Because happy endings don't exist!" Her expression changed into and angry girl. "Not even in books thanks to me now." She almost instantly changed back into the sweet faced girl.
"Where's ladybug?" Chat said aloud but accident.
"I probably gave her a story and it ended." She shrugged as chats anger rose. "Not as bad as the fate I gave that girl pretending to be Snow White. She didn't look anything like her anyway."
"Marinette.." He whispered to himself.
"She can't be woken up." She laughed. "Only by a kiss that is."
Chat realised what she said and quickly jumped away.
Chat reached the school now unrecognisable because now it wasn't the school, it was a giant castle. He tried the giant front wooden door but it was locked from the inside. He looked around for a way in and noticed a window with the curtains blowing out, at least two stories up. He extended his staff and looked through the window and saw Marinette lying in a glass coffin.
He climbed through the window and looked around the room I case of any traps. When he was sure it was he walked over to the sleeping Marinette, writing covered her face and her arms he didn't have much time left. But Chat was distracted by Marinette. She looked beautiful.
"Wow.." He sighed.
Remember I can communicate with you.
Plaggs voice was heard inside his mind. "And now you answer?"
I'm just usually sleeping.
"Typical"
He walked closer to Marinette still frozen in her glass bed. He knelt down beside her, inches away from her face. "I can not believe I'm doing this."
He pressed his lips against hers and the room was changing around them but he kept his eyes closed.
Marinette woke suddenly to the feel of someone's lips against hers, when she opened her eyes and saw Chat Noir she jumped and he fell back.
"Haha sorry princess.." He rubbed the back of his head awkwardly and reminded Marinette of someone, but she didn't know who.
"What happened? Why am I here? Why did you kiss me? What happened to Adrien?" Marinette was holding Chat by his collar, close to his face.
"Well there is a new villain that gives people the fates of book characters but they have a bad ending and get stuck inside the book, she did that to you and you would have died because there is no prince to save you, that's why I kissed you, to break the spell and uh Adrien is fine I evacuated everyone out including him. He's safe at home."
"Phew," Marinette could breathe now. "I guess I should thank you somehow for saving me?" She shrugged.
"Uh well it was nothing really-" before he could say anything she kissed him on the cheek which left him frozen for a few seconds. "Uh d-do you want me to take you home?"
"No!" She half shouted. "I mean, it's not that far I can manage." She sheepishly giggled.
Chat shrugged and left the building which was still briefly in the shape of a castle but was slowly fading.
"We lost some time while you were having a nap." Tikki told Marinette.
"I wasn't napping I was cursed or something." Marinette paced her room.
"It was exactly that. While you were snoozing I followed Chat Noir. The new villain is a girl who chooses fates from book characters, and gives them to real people, but she changes it. If it ends in a happy ending the spell is lifted, if it ends badly, they get trapped inside their book, which she keeps with her at all times I might add."
"Well then we know what the akuma is already." Marinette shrugged. "Tikki! Spots on!"
Ladybug saw her partner chasing a very peculiar looking person. "Found you." She cooed.
She swung from building to building still keeping contact with where this villain was going, which was towards the louvre pyramid. "Oh no you don't."
She caught up to them within seconds and ran aside Chat. "Nice of you to drop in." Chat said.
"I was nearly caught inside her book. But I managed to escape." She half lied.
"Well now your here, let's find her akuma." Chat suggested.
"Already have silly kitty." Ladybug pointed towards the villain. "Her book."
"Nicely done m'lady." He smirked over at her. They both ran as fast as they could to catch up to her but had no luck until the villain landed outside the louvre.
"Who are you?" Ladybug demanded.
"I am the bookworm. I know every story that has ever existed." She growled at her.
"Now might be a good time to use your lucky charm." Chat tried to tell her secretly.
"Just be patient." Ladybug walked towards Bookworm. "And how do you plan on getting rid of us?"
"Romeo, Romeo, where art thou Romeo?" She recited. "Two helplessly inlove humans. What if I take the love away. And put in a little hate." She reached inside her book and letters hovered around her hand like dark magic. She thrusted her hand towards the two heroes, who skilfully dodged the magic leaving the words and letters stuck to the street.
"Sorry but we are super heroes, and we definitely aren't helplessly inlove." Ladybug grimaced at the thought. "But we do know how you work."
Bookworm reached into her book again and pulled out more black letters and shot them towards a stray dog tied to a pole nearby. It instantly transformed into a lion and broke free from the chain. "Poor little lion with no courage. Take the coward away and nothing stands in their way. Add a bit of loyalty and he shall forever be my servant."
The lion gave one look at bookworm and bowed in worship and looked over to the heroes and began to give a low growl that could make you turn your head.
"Hmm I think I'll call you Lancelot, after the great knight." She smiled at her triumph. "Lancelot charge." She pointed towards ladybug and Chat noir and he did exactly what she told him to. Charged. But instead of doing harm to Ladybug and her partner he landed in a puddle and began to howl and he also seemed to be. "Melting?" Chat noir looked puzzled. "Ladybug the spell is melting away!"
"I know Chat, I have eyes." Ladybug thought for a few moments And then it hit her. "I got it!" But as she said so another army of lions approached aside bookworm.
"My knights! Kill them!" Every big cat was now running at extreme pace belittling the space between ladybug and danger.
"Ladybug? Anytime now." Chat half shouted to his partner.
"Ok, don't get your whiskers in a twist." She threw her yoyo into the air and used the magic words. "Lucky charm!"
A long hose fell into her arms. "Finally something that I don't have to think about." She plugged the hose into a nearby tap. "Chat Noir try to grab the book!"
"Sure thing m'lady." He bounded off out of sight.
Ladybug grabbed the end of the hose and twisted the handle and felt the pulse of water traveling through the tube, and then it burst out the end spraying water everywhere. She aimed it first at the lions all charging towards her with jaws metres away from her, now all transforming back into the pets they all were. She then aimed at the one causing all this commotion. Bookworm.
The look of horror that spread across her face, when she saw the water getting higher and higher and closer to her, could not be put into words.
But when it finally hit her it hit her hard, she tried to block herself by raising her hands, but by doing so she dropped the book, her precious book.
Cha noir was waiting for the opportune moment to haul himself up to reach the book. And when he finally saw it falling towards the earth he extended his baton and jumped off it. Getting closer and closer to it he caught it with one swift swing of his arm. "Ladybug catch!" He threw it down towards his partner and also his love.
"Thankyou Chat I don't know what I would do without you!" Chats heart filled with joy and warmth.
"Anytime m'lady."
Ladybug tore the book into two, by ripping the spine, and letting the akuma escape.
She threw her yoyo towards the black bug. "I free you from evil!" Capturing the akuma she pressed the top of her yoyo freeing a beautiful white butterfly. "Bye bye little butterfly."
Marinette found it hard running back home in a princess costume. It itched and scratched in places where she found uncomfortable to mention. "Only one more block!" She could see the bakery in the distance.
"Marinette you were awesome today! I bet if everyone knew you were ladybug you would be excused from class more regularly." Tikki laughed inside Marinette's bag.
"But no one must ever know." She started to slow her running down. "You told me that remember. My first day."
"Well you can tell one person, and only when you trust each other completely." She flew out of her bag.
"Who?"
"Well who else. Your partner. Chat Noir." She said it like it was obvious.
"She can know who I am?" Adrien sat up in his bed. "But you said that no one can know?"
"Maybe I did but that was only because I'm too lazy to explain." Plagg bit into a large slab of Camembert.
"Maybe I can finally show her my true feelings if I'm my true self." Adrien thought for a moment. "I know exactly what to do."
Chat Noir was doing his patrols like he usually did when he finally saw his lady doing hers. When she finally stopped on a roof he made his move. Landing right beside her he felt her flinch. "Chat don't scare me. I do know twenty seven ways how to kill someone with food tongs." They both giggled at that for a minute.
"Ladybug I didn't come out tonight to just do my patrols." He faced her being more serious around her than ever before. "I need to tell you something."
"That's not a good way to start a conversation." She looked into his eyes.
"Ladybug ever since I met you I felt a connection between us, like we were meant to be." He tried hard to not look away. "Ladybug I love you."
The Marinette inside her was screaming and the ladybug on the outside wasn't. "Chat, I- I don't know what to say. I mean all those flirtatious remarks? You meant them? I'm sorry but my heart belongs to someone else." Tears started to sting her eyes so she turned away and began to walk.
"Wait ladybug!" He grabbed her hand and made her turn. "There is something I wanted you to see." He took a deep breathe in. "Claws in." The magic faded away like sand blowing the the wind, revealing the person chat really was.
"Adrien!?"
