Author's note:
I love this scene. It was so incredibly fun to write. I can relate to Chats reaction to Ladybug.
(I don't have a huge crush on Mari, what are you talking about?)
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Stone Heart roared. He began to cough. Why on earth would something that big cough? Maybe it had accidentally inhaled a bird? It hacked and retched and screamed until it exhaled a cloud of dark butterflies, Green Mile style. The stone giant, seemingly exhausted by the effort of birthing the insects, keeled over and fell onto the inside of the tower.
A face formed out of the butterflies. It had a high forehead, large nose, deep narrow eyes and a large, pointed chin. It opened its mouth and spoke in a deep silky tone that gave Adrianna chills, and made her feel like a child ready to cower.
"People of Paris!" the voice echoed, sounding like an inescapable force of nature, a demon that could not be fought or resisted.
"Listen carefully: "The whole city seemed to fall silent. All of Paris was going to hear whatever this villain had to say.
"I am Hawkmoth." People began to whisper and worry among themselves quietly.
"Hawkmoth?" Chat and Ladybug asked simultaneously. Who on earth was this? What was he doing? Why would he terrorize Paris? How did he gain his power? Who was this man? What would drive someone to create villains and hurt innocent people?
"Ladybug, Chat Noir! Give me the Ladybug earrings and the Cat ring now, you've done enough damage to these innocent people!" this foul, cruel, devious, evil little cockroach would casually harm others and then place the blame on those who tried to protect him? As much as his perverted lies grated against Chats ears, he looked around and saw that the Parisian police department seemed to look at the two heroes with growing accusation.
Chat knew that Hawkmoth's face and words would be broadcast across all of France, heck, it would be broadcast all around the world. There would be many that would see Chat and Ladybug as the enemy-
A clap resounded thorough the fearful crowd, sarcastic and slow. Ladybug walked toward the looming face of the titanic demon with a sardonic smile.
"Nice try Hawkmoth. But we know who the bad guy is. Let's not reverse the roles here." She held her arms out in an open gesture.
"Without you, none of these innocent victims would be transformed into villains." Her stance was now strong and defiant, like a cliff face daring the sea to crest it. Chat stared open-mouthed at the fiery strong willed beauty before him. Her confidence and cunning emanated from her in waves. She looked like a greek godess staring at an ancient beast, putting it in its proper place beneath her.
"Hawkmoth! No matter how long it takes, we will find you, and then it will be you who will hand us your miraculous!" She threw her yoyo and flew, in a righteous wave of fury toward the cloud of evil she intended to destroy.
"TIME TO FREE YOU FROM EVIL!" She seemed to hang in midair as she threw her yoyo, over and over into the sea of black fluttering insects. Hawkmoth screamed uselessly at the red-clad protector of Paris that tore at his effigy. Each stroke of her weapon cut swathes of insects from their swarm, until finally there weren't enough butterflies left to sustain the face of their master, and they seemed to explode, trying to escape the hero's wrath. She rounded up the last one with a final grunt and landed on the tower, in the place where the villains once stood.
Paris was in a state of awed shock. This girl-this hero had saved them. She turned to them and spoke, like the voice of a benevolent god,
"Let me make this promise to you, no matter who wants to harm you, Ladybug and Chat Noir will do everything in our power to keep you safe!" She held her yoyo out before her and over her head. She released the cleansed butterflies in a cloud of white, fluttering glory. They exploded out into the city in a ring of harmless beauty. She shone like the sun and all those who saw her impressive display broke from their shocked silence.
The whole of Paris cheered, fists pumping the air, jumping up and down, hollering and whooping for joy and relief. Everyone would remember where they were when Ladybug had promised to bring the mastermind, Hawkmoth, to justice.
"Wow," Chat stared at the girl who was resplendent in her victory, fiercely smiling and daring Hawkmoth to fight her. There would never be a person who shone more brightly than her. Adrianna didn't care who that girl was, whether she was a man, woman, anything in-between, there was no denying what Adrianna felt for her now. The entity that was Chat and Adrianna, model and hero, made an oath right then and there.
"Whoever she is beneath that mask, I love that girl." In that moment, Adrianna and Chat belonged, heart and soul, only to Ladybug. Whenever they pictured Ladybug, the first image that would come to mind was this triumphant goddess, standing on the Eiffel Tower in all her glory.
*MLMLML*
A crash came from the tower behind Ladybug. Chat rushed to the tower where ladybug had been knocked off balance. He helped her up and the leapt down to the now recovered Stone Heart.
"Help me!" the small girl in Stone Hearts grip cried. The giant shifted so that his body was between the heroes and his prize.
"YOU'LL NEVER TAKE MYLENE FROM ME!" he jumped, shaking the ground, onto a leg of the tower. The heroes picked themselves off the ground as Stony shouted,
"COME TO ME MY STONE BEINGS!" Stony climbed. A curious crunching scraping noise came from below them. Chat ran to the edge of the tower and leaned over to look down. To his horror the rocky minions were filing up onto each corner of the tower.
"We're surrounded! What do we do now? We can't attack him!" Chat had made that mistake several times.
" Yes, but we know where the Akuma is!" She turned to stare at Stone Heart who was still climbing up the side of the tower. He was using his left hand freely, and the only way he could hide the akuma would be…
"In his clenched fist! The one he is holding Mylene with, so…" Chat was cut off by Ladybug,
" So we know he's in love with her," Ladybug's face brightened " That's it! We don't separate Stone Heart and Mylene," She turned to face Chat, whose heart leapt, "We bring them closer together! They are made for one another, it's just that they don't know it yet!" her hands clasped expressively in a pose of appreciation of the romantic-ness of it all.
And then she ran off, climbing up the tower and out of sight. Chat's brain tried to catch up with what Ladybug had said. He understood what all of her words meant, but darn it all if he understood what the girl was planning.
"I'm not really following you, but I guess I better trust you!" Chat turned to an imaginary audience and in an amused tone said, "Something tells me this is how it's gonna be from here on out." Chat jumped to follow his Lady.
Stone Heart clung to the top of the Eiffel tower, damsel in hand, Helicopters buzzing, looking every inch like King Kong. Chat wondered when he was going to pound his chest and roar.
Ladybug perched herself on the very tip of the tallest rod of the tower.
"Help! I'm scared of heights!" Stony's fist cried.
"Everything's gonna be alright!" Ladybug reassured Mylene.
Stony roared loud enough that the helicopters circling him were knocked back by it. Chat put his hands over his ears. His cat hearing couldn't take all of this.
Two minions appeared behind Chat. He jumped out of the way and shouted,
"How are you planning to get them closer than they already are?" Mylene was in his fist for Pete's sake, she couldn't get much closer than that! Chat felt a hand clamp around him. Not again!
"By using our powers! LUCKY CHARM!" Chat was thrown into the air, up and over the peak of the tower, as if he were a ball they were playing pass with. He caught a strut as he fell and flipped out of reach of the stone lackeys. He craned his neck to look at Ladybug. She stood there with some sort ladybug print backpack on.
"You sure you know what you're doing?" he asked, more to see if he could help than anything else.
"We'll see soon enough!" she tossed her yoyo as if testing its weight. In a flash, she flicked it around Stone Hearts arm and neck.
"His hand, get ready!" Chat placed his weight on the balls of his feet, ready for anything. Ladybug hauled back on her yoyo, putting her whole weight into the effort.
The result was Stone Heart and Mylene's lips meeting.
Stone Heart gasped in surprise and dropped Mylene. She grabbed onto his pinky for dear life, but the purple rock that held Stony's akuma fell.
Chat pounced over the side of the tower, stopping along the way to have his staff give him more speed to gain on the small stone. When he reached it, he smacked the rock with his staff like Babe Ruth hitting his 700th home run.
He jammed his staff into the Eiffel tower and halted his fall. Stone Heart disintegrated leaving only Ivan in its wake. To Chat's horror, both Ivan and Mylene fell. He couldn't save both, and he couldn't do it while he was dangling for his life. He climbed up to stand on his staff.
"Chat Noir, you take care of Ivan!" Ladybug, the voice of reason, shouted. She was going after Mylene. He could take care of Ivan. He sprang from the end of his staff and powered up his Cataclysm.
He would later wonder why he had felt the need to use his Cataclysm when his staff would have worked just fine, and he had learned that he could sorta make things by destroying them, which was totally cool!
In the heat of the moment though, he used his Cataclysm to make a rod that would hold both him and Ivan, whom he caught by the arm just in time.
"Gotcha!" Ladybug said, and saw the ladybug yoyo close around the black butterfly overhead. She caught Mylene and opened up a parachute. That's what was in the backpack.
Ladybug had saved the day.
*MLMLML*
Chat had tossed Ivan over to the nearest horizontal strut so that Chat could get his staff to get them down. Ivan may have twisted an ankle on the landing, but he hung on admirably. Chat got his staff and used it to gently lower them to the ground.
"Bye-bye petit papillon!"
"MIRACULOUS LADYBUG!" Chat heard a shout, and pink magical swarms of ladybugs rushed around Paris fixing all the damage that had been done.
"Woah! Are you seeing what I'm seeing?" Chat supported Ivan with his bad foot as they walked toward the girls.
"Yeah! It's beautiful, incredible, amazing, marvelous! It's… MIRACULOUS!
*MLMLML*
Chat stood a little apart from the three other teens, staring at the girl in red as if she were an angel that was blessing them with her presence. Chat's mind had gone blank, the only person in the world was the twin-tailed beauty before him. Chat thought about her courage, her strength, her blazing intelligence and selflessness. She was everything that Chat didn't know he needed… until now.
Ladybug left the pair of victims and walked toward Chat. Chat's mind jumpstarted. He needed to be cool, suave, and charming; nothing less would do for his Lady. She turned her eyes to the couple, talking quietly, Chat followed suit.
Mylene hugged Ivan, who blushed. They were so cute. Chat caught himself wishing that he and his Lady could be like that.
"Awww! They're so made for each other" the Lady said dreamily, her hands clasping near her face in a gesture of appreciation.
"Just like us two!" Chat said, and reached for The Lady's shoulder, attempting to establish a romantic closeness.
Oblivious to Chat's effort, Ladybug turned and grabbed the proffered arm and wrenched it so that she could see the still beeping ring on his finger.
"Uh oh! You see that?" She said, pointing at the toe-less paw on the ring, " Time to split. See you soon Chat Noir!" she walked away, fingers waving in goodbye. The ironic smile playing on her lips told him that she knew that she had reversed the roles on the now dumbstruck Chat. He waved back at her as she flew off and out of sight.
"Can't wait, Milady" He said and bowed, a soft smile on his lips. He made his exit.
Author's note:
UMBRELLA SCENE NEXT! \(*^U^*)/
