Today on Wedding Ladybug, Syren's back, but this time she's after Marinette's mother's ring, and she steals it with success! Then a distraught Marinette listens to a story about her mother from her dad, and it throws her for a loop! And a concerned Adrien decides to step in and help, only to wind up getting caught in the crossfire between akumas and angels yet again... And reveals something different about him.
In a beautiful church in Paris, Marinette was wearing her other's bridal gown with her hair down, and was standing in front of the priest at the altar. Next to her was the silhouette of a man who'd she'd exchanged marriage vows with. They already had their legal ceremony at city hall with Mayor Bourgeois as the officiant, and now they were holding another one for their spectators, including friends and family.
"Marinette, will you please take this ring?" The groom requested as he held out the rose quartz ring that Marinette received from her mother.
"I will." Marinette consented as she let the groom slip the ring on her left hand.
The two of them were slowly leaning in for a kiss, when...
The church doors flew open with a loud bang and someone shouted, "Stop right there!"
Marinette and her groom turned to the doors and Marinette asked, "What's going on?! Why'd you cut in like that?!"
"Because I can't approve of this wedding!" A familiar voice said and the light changed to reveal Adrien.
"Ugh! Just when I was about to be married to my soulmate till death do us part, dumb ol' Adrien has to go and ruin it!" Marinette complained, crying in disappointment.
"That ring on your finger, Marinette!" Adrien said, pointing to the bride. "That isn't yours, is it?"
"Well, no... This ring belonged to my mother, and she gave it to me before she passed away." Marinette said, holding up the ring to be seen.
It started fading away. In shock, she said, "Hold on! Mom's ring!"
It completely vanished, and that ended the scene.
"No... No, mom's ring... It's vanishing from my hand... NO!" Marinette murmured, still half asleep.
"Marinette, wake up," Tom said, shaking his daughter awake. "You're only having a bad dream."
Marinette's eyes fluttered open and then she sat up in her bed. Looking at her hands, she saw the ring fingers were bare and then she started crying, saying, "NO! I really did lose mom's ring!"
"I don't remember you ever wearing Sabine's ring to bed with you." Tom commented, calming Marinette down.
Once she stopped her crying, she got out of bed, ran down the stairs and opened one of her drawers. It held the box that had her mom's ring in it. She opened the box and lo and behold, the ring was there.
"Oh, phew... It's still here. You were right dad, it was only a dream." Marinette said, smiling in relief.
In the akuma realm, Syren was being subjected to harsh punishment at the hands of Mayura. On the floor, she was being electrocuted by akuma energy, the intent of her demise being obvious.
"F... Forgive me, Queen Mayura, I beg you!" Syren pleaded.
"The only punishment for repeated failures is the end of your life, Syren!" Mayura began as she took a few feathers out of her fan. They started dancing around above her hand and they turned from white to dark blue.
She blew them out of her hand and towards Syren with the intention to kill her, but then Dark Cupid intercepted the blow and took a heavy shock to his body. Syren looked on in surprise as Dark Cupid endured the pain of Mayura's attack.
Once the pain faded, Dark Cupid knelt down and said, "Leave Syren in my hands, ma reine! She hasn't outlived her usefulness yet, so killing her off would be inefficient."
"Dark Cupid, you shouldn't concern yourself with others, and instead be more concerned about saving your own hide," Mayura began, but then she gave an amused smile. "That said, I can't help but find it entertaining to see an akuma going out of their way to save someone other than themselves. In that case, I leave Syren to you, Dark Cupid. You may do with her as you see fit."
Mayura gave a wicked snicker before leaving the throne room.
"What was that for?" Syren asked as Dark Cupid stood up. "Why save me?"
"I need you, Syren," Dark Cupid said as he turned around and held his hand out to Syren. "I need your power. Help me out, Syren."
Syren looked up at Dark Cupid, her eyes fixated on him.
Later on in the living room, Marinette was finishing up her breakfast and getting ready for school: Nooroo and Tikki were hiding in Marinette's bag as always.
"You should take the ring off before you leave for school, okay?" Tom stated to his daughter.
"I'll take it off when I get there, dad. Anyway, I gotta get going. See you after school, dad!" Marinette said as she ran out the door and went off to school.
Tom chuckled before looking at a family photo of the three of them together. Marinette was still just a little tot, and she was being held in Sabine's arms.
"Sabine, tell me: do you think I'm not hard enough on Marinette?" Tom asked the picture, as if he were talking to his wife. He gazed at Sabine's smiling face.
As Marinette was walking to school, she was looking at the ring on her hand.
"Are you okay, Marinette?" Tikki asked as she flew out from inside the clutch. Nooroo was worried, too.
"I know it was only a dream, you two, but losing my mother's ring is inexcusable. I can't let it happen in the waking world." Marinette said to her kwamis as she looked at her mother's ring.
The kwamis ducked back into the purse when they heard a car coming. A fancy limousine pulled up on the side of the curb, and then Adrien stepped out of the car.
"Hey, Mariboo," Adrien said as he approached the girl, and Marinette got on edge. "So, what's the deal with the ring on your finger? Engaged or something?"
Marinette groaned and said, "No, and even if I was, I wouldn't be engaged to you."
Adrien chuckled and said, "Of course not. I'd never propose to you."
Marinette remembered how Adrien acted in her dream, interrupting her wedding and asking about the ring. She growled and said, "I'm leaving!"
She stomped away to get to school, but Adrien grabbed her wrist, saying, "Hey, wait, I..."
Marinette glared back at him, took her hand away, and she spat, "I'm serious, Adrien! I don't want to talk to you right now."
She turned on her heel and went back to walking to school, but...
"Come on, Mariboo, I-" Adrien began, but as he stepped forward, he stepped on a stray can and wound up rolling on it like a log roller, but he wound up stumbling and running into a pole, smacking his face and forehead right into it.
He slowly slipped down and landed on his stomach, going unconscious for a second. Marinette put her hands to her face in surprise and shock, before saying, "Adrien!"
Within minutes, Marinette brought Adrien to the nearby park. She sat on a bench, and Adrien was lying on his back with his head on her lap and a cloth over his face. Marinette was holding on to his head with her hand.
"I'm sorry about this, Adrien," Marinette began. "I never wanted you to get hurt. Not in a billion years. I'm so sorry."
Marinette's ring started shining and sparkles were radiating from it. The soothing light and love waves coming from it blanketed themselves around the park area, sprinkling themselves over flowers, bathing pairs of birds in the trees, and making the park a peaceful place.
"Mm... This feels nice, wherever I am." Adrien murmured.
"Oh, you're awake?" Marinette asked.
"Just woke up a second ago." Adrien confirmed.
"Then you'd better get off..." Marinette began, giggling a little bit.
"Hang on, is it okay if I stay like this for a bit?" Adrien requested.
Marinette sighed and said, "Fine, whatever."
They sat there peacefully, but they weren't going to be alone for a while. Under the flowing water of the fountain, Syren materialized.
"I'm sensing a powerful love wave... Now where is it..." Syren said as she started looking around. She immediately noticed the ring on Marinette's finger. "Bingo! That's gotta be part of the Miraculous Something Four!"
A little while later, Adrien got up and stretched his arms a bit.
"Well, we're late for school," Adrien stated. "But since we're here, why not have some fun? It's such nice weather out. Hey, I see a vending machine. Want some juice? My treat!"
"Adrien!" Marinette said as Adrien took off for the nearby vending machine. "He's incorrigible."
"I'm sensing an evil presence!" Nooroo shouted, popping out of Marinette's bag out of nowhere. Tikki, too.
"AH! Nooroo, don't jump-scare me like that!" Marinette squeaked, flailing her arms and falling off the bench.
"Didn't you hear what he said?! There's an akuma close by!" Tikki shouted.
"What?!" Marinette asked, growing serious.
On top of the fountain, Syren raised her hands and giant streams of water raced to Marinette and snagged her by the forearm.
"Marinette!" Nooroo and Tikki shouted as Marinette was dragged over to Syren, and lifted up to her eye level.
"Hey, what do you want?!" Marinette shouted.
"I'm interested in this cute little ring of yours." Syren said as she went to take the ring off Marinette's fingers.
"Leave it! That ring was my mother's!" Marinette shouted as she worked up the strength to bite Syren in the arm and then she punched the akuma in the face.
"OW! Why, you...!" Syren shouted and sent Marinette tumbling into the water.
'Okay, gotta transform!' Marinette thought, before standing up and shouting, "Lucky Wedding Flo..."
But then she noticed that Syren was gone. Marinette looked on her hands and saw that the ring was gone. Her eyes widened and she went into shock for a second.
"Mariboo, do you want apple or orange juice? I wasn't sure what you liked." Adrien said as he made his way back, but then he saw Marinette sitting in the fountain.
Marinette's face was all wet and water was streaming down her face, but it was hard to tell whether it was the water from the fountain or the tears. Maybe both?
"Mariboo, what are you doing in there?!" Adrien asked, dropping the cans and rushing over to the girl.
"Mom's ring..." Marinette muttered, just above a whisper. Adrien was looking at her in worry, completely shocked.
In the akuma realm, Dark Cupid was lounging around when Syren materialized in a blast of water.
"I have a present for you! One of the Miraculous Something Four!" Syren said chirpily.
"Say what?" Dark Cupid asked.
"With this, I repay you for saving me!" Syren said as she tossed the ring over to Dark Cupid.
"Hang on, is that...?" Dark Cupid began.
He recognized the ring as the one that Marinette was wearing when they first met each other.
"The ring the girl had..." Dark Cupid said, and then he blasted some akuma energy at the ring. It was fully intact, and Dark Cupid took it in his grip. "It really is one of the Miraculous Something Four!"
Back with Marinette, Adrien sat her on the edge of the fountain, but her expression didn't seem to falter.
"I'll find it for you," Adrien said, stepping in the fountain and he started moving his hands in the water to find the jewelry piece. "I'm sure it's in here somewhere."
"Don't bother getting wet, Adrien," Marinette said. "The ring wasn't dropped in the fountain."
Adrien looked to Marinette questioningly.
He brought her into the car and he asked the chauffeur to bring them back to Marinette's home. As they sat in the back seat, he saw how depressed Marinette was.
"I've never seen you like this, Mariboo. Getting this down over a missing ring... It must be pretty special to you, huh?" Adrien asked.
"A memento from my mother." Marinette confirmed.
"I'm so sorry..." Adrien said, his expression clouding over.
They got back to the bakery soon enough and Adrien walked into the house with her. They stood before Tom, and Marinette was still dripping wet.
"Marinette! What happened?!" Tom shouted, worried.
"Sorry, sir," Adrien said, giving Tom the backpack. "I should leave the rest of it in your hands..."
Adrien left out the door, with Tom saying, "Hold on!"
But Marinette leaped into her dad's chest and started sobbing and crying. She wailed, "I'm so sorry, dad! I lost mom's ring while in the park! I'm SO sorry!"
Marinette continued crying, and Tom just let her sob for a little while.
A few minutes after she got her tears out, Tom sent Marinette upstairs to take a shower and get cleaned up. Tom went to the picture and he said, "Sabine. I want to ask your permission to tell our daughter the truth."
Marinette came out of the shower wearing a pink bathroom, her hair down, and wearing slippers.
"Marinette?" Tom said. "Come over here. I need to tell you something. It's pretty important."
Marinette sat on the couch and she said, "I'm so sorry, dad... Mom's precious memento, and it's gone."
"No," Tom began. "The thing is... That ring wasn't your mother's memento."
"Excuse me?" Marinette asked.
"Your mother... She's not dead, Marinette." Tom stated.
Marinette's eyes went wide.
"Your mother is out there at this very moment, alive and well." Tom stated.
"Mom's alive...?!" Marinette said, shocked.
The picture of the family was focused on, and specifically Marinette as a little toddler in Sabine's arms.
Marinette was a baby, sleeping on the sofa, and wearing her cute clothes. Sabine kissed her baby's cheek, and sat down on the couch with her. She rubbed Marinette's head and had a sad look on her face.
"Tom, darling... It's really hurting me inside to say this, but if I stay in this house, grave danger beyond your imagination will fall upon you and little Marinette," Sabine said before standing up. "Please forgive me for being selfish, but I have to go!"
"Will you at least tell me why?" Tom asked. He wasn't as buff as he was in present day, and his mustache and sideburns weren't on his face either.
Sabine walked up to her husband and said, "No matter what, I will return. That, I promise. But until that day comes, please take care of our Marinette."
Sabine stood up on the coffee table and kissed Tom on the lips before running out the door, crying.
"Sabine!" Tom shouted.
He ran out the door after his wife, but he saw some magical sparkles rising up from the spot where Sabine vanished. He approached it, and saw a glowing red sparkle slowly falling down. He saw that it was Sabine's ring, and caught it in the palm of his hand.
"I love you and Marinette from the bottom of my heart." Sabine's voice said from out of nowhere.
"I decided that I'd tell the truth once you were older and mature enough to hear this openly," Tom said while Marinette had a faraway look in her eyes. "It pains me to admit that I've been lying about this for over a decade. I'm so sorry, Marinette."
Marinette continued to listen. She hated liars, but it wasn't like her father meant any harm. In fact, she was lying to him constantly by hiding the fact that she was a Love Angel, so she didn't have any right to talk.
"Your mom will return one day, that I believe with my entire heart and soul." Tom stated.
Marinette went back up into her bedroom to change into some new clothes for school. Meanwhile, her dad notified the school that she was gonna be late. She shut the lid on the ring box and looked at it absently.
"Marinette, are you okay?" Tikki asked. Nooroo was also worried about her.
"Mom's alive..." Marinette informed her kwamis. They gasped in shock. "I'm thinking... Is it possible that there's a relationship between mom disappearing and the way that these akumas keep after the ring?"
"That's very possible, Marinette." Nooroo said.
At school, Adrien looked in Marinette's classroom to see if she made it after that little incident in the park.
"Marinette's not here." Alya said, noticing Adrien was looking around for someone.
"Okay." Adrien replied.
"What's the matter? Got your eye on her?" Alya teased.
"No! Not at all!" Adrien immediately denied, but not without any hint of redness in his face.
"But it is a bit odd for Marinette to be absent this way," Chloé commented. "I wonder if something happened? Maybe a cold or flu?"
"That wouldn't be like her. She's got a good immune system." Alya replied.
"Well, the water in the fountain was pretty cold." Adrien murmured.
"What was that?" Chloé asked. "Is there something you know that we don't?"
"Um, nothing!" Adrien replied.
"You're acting suspicious," Alya teased before getting her phone out and getting ready to videotape Adrien. "Alright, spill it!"
"I mean it, there's nothing going on!" Adrien protested.
Marinette walked into the classroom like nothing was going on, and then the trio noticed that their pigtailed companion was there.
"Oh, Marinette!" Chloé said. "Alya's right. Your immune system's too strong for you to get a cold! That'd be ridiculous, utterly ridiculous!"
Marinette sat at her desk, and then Chloé approached. She asked, "What happened this morning?"
"Nothing really..." Marinette began, giving Chloé a weak smile.
"Did something go down with this dude?" Alya asked as she dragged Adrien over to the designer.
Marinette looked at Adrien and merely shook her head before looking away, depressed.
Adrien looked at her. He'd never seen her this depressed, and it really got him worried.
In the akuma realm, Syren and Dark Cupid were talking about the ring. The ring was contained in a transparent prism.
"I've always experienced that there are usually one or two of the Love Angels with the girl that this ring belongs to," Dark Cupid said before walking over to Syren and putting a hand on her shoulder. This got her to look him in the eye. "Syren, I need you to lend me your powers once more. One final fight with the Love Angels."
Syren kept looking at Dark Cupid in the eyes, and he once again said, "There's no way an akuma of your caliber can lose to the likes of them if you set your mind to it."
"Flatterer." Syren said as she looked away.
"Syren," Dark Cupid said, his tone softening and getting Syren to look at him again. "You need to know how grateful I am to you."
"That's sweet of you to say, Dark Cupid." Syren said with a smile.
"Then you'll help?" Dark Cupid probed.
"Yes," Syren said with a determined smile. "I'm not gonna do anything on the side, and I'll team up with you in this fight."
The two akumas kept their eyes on each other while guarding the ring.
Back at the school, Adrien was holding on to a small box. The contents of the box were a ring nearly identical to the one Marinette had, with a few differences in the design. He was looking at it worriedly, was muttering to himself, rubbing the back of his head, and more.
"Yo, dude!" Nino said, popping out of nowhere.
Adrien shouted in surprised and jumped. The box went up in the air, and Adrien scrambled to catch it. Luckily he caught it in his hands, and he sighed in relief.
"Don't scare me like that, Nino." Adrien requested, breathing.
"Sorry, dude," Nino apologized. "So what's that?"
"It's a ring..." Adrien began, blushing.
"Oh, you've got a person in mind?" Nino asked and giving a teasing nudge to his best friend. "Who is it?"
"It's for Marinette." Adrien admitted.
"Dude, I always thought you had a thing for her! Nice job, making the first move!" Nino praised.
"No, that's not it at all," Adrien protested, blushing. "It's... Kind of a long story. And I'm not gonna give it to her in person."
"Huh? Secret admirer approach?" Nino asked.
"No," Adrien repeated. "Like I said, long story. And knowing her, she'd be a lot happier to get this if she didn't know it was from me. I just gotta get it to her without her finding out somehow... Oh, I know!"
Marinette was soon at her locker at the end of the school day. Tikki and Nooroo were still looking at their owner in worry.
Marinette absentmindedly opened the locker and then she saw something on one of the shelves that stuck out to her.
"What's this?" Marinette asked as she took out the out-of-place object: it was an open ring box that contained a similar rose quartz ring.
"Wow, it's so pretty!" Tikki said. "It's not your mother's ring, but..."
"Yeah, I wonder where it came from?" Nooroo asked.
"It's beautiful," Marinette said, a smile creeping on to her face. "Who put it here? I wonder if someone has a crush on me!"
"Maybe they do!" Tikki replied.
"And maybe they were too shy to give it to me in person so they put it in my locker, and now they're just waiting to appear and admit that they're in love with me! Then we date and we fall madly in love with each other, we'll get married, have three kids, a house, and a dog - no, a cat! Wait, screw that! A hamster!" Marinette squealed, her fantasies running wild.
Nooroo and Tikki just looked at Marinette, amused at her ramblings.
"Maybe you should just start with talking to this person first." Nooroo suggested.
"Uh, yeah, good point." Marinette admitted.
"Hey, dudette." A voice said from nearby, and Nooroo and Tikki immediately ducked back in to hide.
"Oh, Nino, hi!" Marinette said. "Isn't this ring beautiful?"
"Yeah, it is. Adrien has good taste." Nino said, but then he covered his mouth in shock at what he said.
"Wait? Adrien?" Marinette asked.
"Um, yeah..." Nino began, before confessing. "Yeah, that ring's from Adrien, dude. He didn't want to give it to you himself."
Marinette blinked in surprise.
"Thing is, he's been worried about you. You're not your usual cheerful self, and it's been boggling his mind." Nino explained.
"...Really? He's that worried about me?" Marinette asked, looking at the ring.
"Yeah," Nino said before making to leave. "By the way, since he was late for school today, he'll be taking detention by cleaning up the school pool area. That's where he'll be if you wanna talk to him later."
"Thanks, Nino." Marinette said quietly as Nino left.
"What's the matter, Marinette?" Nooroo asked.
"I probably should do something for Adrien." Marinette began.
Tikki gave a smile and said, "That's very sweet of you."
Alya and Chloé were waiting outside the school for Marinette, but she was running late.
"Where is she? Bad enough she was late today, but late walking home with us? Ridiculous! Utterly ridiculous!" Chloé complained.
"Tardiness is par for the course for Duchess Marinette, but she seems fairly off-kilter today. Doesn't she, my queen?" Pollen asked.
"I know," Alya said to Pollen. "I'm sure something must've happened that she doesn't want to tell us."
"But she'll tell when she's ready, I'm sure." Trixx replied to her owner.
But then their phones went off and Alya pulled hers out. She said, "Hey, it's from Marinette. She says that something's come up and she can't make it. She's telling us to go ahead on our own."
The girls and kwamis looked at each other in confusion.
At the school pool, Adrien was mopping up the pool ground, putting in a lot of elbow grease into his work. He was trying to catch his breath, and he wiped his forehead.
"Damn, this isn't a one-person job..." Adrien muttered.
"Then maybe it's a job for two?" A voice asked and he turned around to see Marinette, also carrying a broom. "You won't be able to get home until after dark if you keep working like that. But now I'm here to help."
"Really?" Adrien asked, a questioning look and a smile on his face. "You're going to help me even though you're not the one being punished?"
"It was my fault that you're in detention," Marinette said. "So, here I am!"
"Okay! Hey, wanna have a race to make this go faster?" Adrien asked as he put his broom in position.
"You're on!" Marinette said, also putting her broom in position. "Three, two, one, race!"
The two of them took off running and racing around the sides of the pool while sweeping. They were teasing each other, laughing, smiling, and having so much fun. But Marinette ended up losing control of her broom and she wound up tripping herself up. The pair hollered in fright before they ended up falling over in a small heap. But then they went right back to laughing.
"Geez, that was fun!" Adrien said.
"Yeah, it was!" Marinette agreed, giggling.
Adrien calmed down from his laughter as he sat up, but then Marinette giggled a little more.
"Oh Adrien?" Marinette asked in a singsong voice. Adrien looked at her and saw that she was wearing the ring he got her. "Merci beaucoup."
"Um... What're you talking about? I don't know anything!" Adrien stammered, blushing and turning his face away.
"Don't bother hiding it, Adrien. It's out in broad daylight now." Marinette teased.
"Damn it... Nino said something, didn't he?!" Adrien muttered to himself.
The peace wasn't to last, though. Out of the pool a giant, faceless water snake emerged from the pool and it howled.
"What the hell is that?!" Adrien shouted as he and Marinette stood up and turned around to face the beast.
Hovering overhead were both Dark Cupid and Syren, and the latter of the two of them said, "I like to use to cool off passionate fires of love."
"Dark Cupid and Syren!" Marinette shouted, surprised to see the akumas twice in one day.
"Nice to see you again, little girl!" Syren said to Marinette.
"My name is Marinette, so use it! And you give me back my mother's ring this instant, you third-rate skinny dipper!" Marinette shouted.
Adrien's eyes widened and he immediately understood: the girl confronting them now stole the ring.
"You did it?!" Adrien angrily demanded of Syren.
"I wouldn't have taken it to begin with if I was going to give it back." Syren giggled.
The water snake raged towards them and was about to hit the two teens. Marinette couldn't transform out in the open like this! She'd not only expose herself to the akumas, but then Adrien would find out!
"Marinette!" Adrien shouted as he snatched up the broom and tried to defend themselves.
He managed to block the water snake, but the broom was broken on impact and the brush of the broom bounced away. Adrien then stood in front of Marinette, blocking the attackers from her.
"Was it her? It was her, wasn't it, Marinette?" Adrien asked, looking determined and angry.
"Adrien..." Marinette said, surprised to see this gallant side to him.
The water snake charged at them once again. But this time, without anything to defend themselves, Adrien turned around and hugged Marinette close to him, protecting her.
Adrien started glowing pale green and began radiating an energy wave. The water snake stopped right in its tracks as a pale green barrier surrounded Adrien and Marinette.
"Huh?!" Syren and Dark Cupid gasped, surprised at this turn of events.
The water snake didn't move, and Syren demanded, "What's going on?! Attack!"
But there wasn't any response. The barrier faded away. Adrien, growing weak from the energy output he created, painfully moaned, "M... Marinette..."
He fell unconscious while hanging over Marinette's shoulders.
"Adrien!" Marinette shouted, but then the water snake smacked her from in front and she screamed while being knocked into the water, meanwhile Adrien was unconscious on the ground.
"That energy wave... The one that surrounded that boy just now... I've never seen one like that. It wasn't like any wave radiating from any angel or akuma I've ever encountered..." Dark Cupid murmured.
While Marinette was floating aimlessly in the pool, her eyes were open and she was holding her breath, thinking, 'Adrien...'
"Lucky Wedding Flower!" Marinette shouted under the water while transforming into Ladybug... Good thing her wedding dress was waterproof.
Ladybug jumped out of the pool and landed on the edge. She was glaring up at the two akumas.
"Well, well, look who's here. Syren?" Dark Cupid said as he started shooting his arrows and Syren created water blasts at Ladybug.
Ladybug jumped out of the way of the blast and she shouted, "Bridal Change! Wedding Dress Transform! Angel Creation Ladybug!"
She then landed on the ground again, her yo-yo ready and in more practical clothes.
"Get her!" Syren ordered and the water snake charged at Ladybug, but then...
"Mirage Bombard!" A shout came and light pellets pierced through the snake's body, causing it to lose its shape and the water fell back in the pool.
Rena Rouge and Queen Bee landed next to Ladybug, each girl flanking their leader.
"Ladybug's not the only Love Angel here!" Rena Rouge said as she put her flute away.
"You couldn't've forgotten about us, could you, Syren?!" Queen Bee asked rhetorically.
"Queen Bee, go for it!" Rena Rouge stated.
"Right!" Queen Bee said as she took out her top. "Venom Spin!"
The top started to spin and it circled around the top of the water underneath Syren. The toy leaped up and stabbed Syren in the leg, rendering her unable to move.
"Now or never, Ladybug!" Queen Bee said.
"Right! Ladybug Bridal Blast!" Ladybug declared as she shot a giant beam of white love waves at Syren.
Syren was directly hit and she started screaming. She turned her face towards Dark Cupid and she reached her hand out, shouting, "Dark Cupid! Help me... Dark Cupid!"
Dark Cupid only floated there in shock for a second before moving in closer in an attempt to help... But he stopped.
Syren's look softened and she smiled, before saying, "Dark Cupid... I can't begin to tell you how happy I was to work with you."
Once purified, she turned into sparkles and started floating up in the sky.
"Hah! You were happy? That's pretty foolish..." Dark Cupid complained before dematerializing.
The sparkles that were created out of the Syren's purified remains continued to fly to the clear sky.
Dark Cupid went back into the akuma realm and he cursed, "Damn you, Ladybug!"
But he crossed his arms as he started thinking about something else altogether: Adrien.
"And that boy who project that love wave... Who was he? It worries me..." Dark Cupid murmured.
Speaking of Adrien, he was coming to. Chloé and Alya stuck around too. Ladybug had already used her Miraculous Ladybug to fix everything while Adrien was still comatose.
"Adrien? Can you hear me?" Marinette asked. Adrien's eyes blearily opened and his vision focused on Marinette. "Thank goodness, Adrien."
"Marinette?!" Adrien asked as he sat up and then grabbed Marinette by her arms. "Talk to me! Are you hurt?!"
He then hugged Marinette close and started looking around cautiously. He asked, "What happened to that water snake and those flying weirdos?!"
"What are you going on about?" Chloé asked.
"Maybe you had a crazy dream while you were out cold like that." Alya suggested, causing Adrien to pause, embarrassed.
Marinette giggled and leaned in closer to Adrien's chest. She thought, 'I'm glad you're alright, Adrien. I really am.'
"Ooh... Since when did this relationship of yours start?" Alya teased.
"Don't go making me jealous, you two!" Chloé added.
Marinette and Adrien blushed while looking at each other. Marinette scrambled out of his arms and said, "Wh-What?! M-Me and Adrien?! If as! No, I mean, as if!"
But her movements were so sudden and jerky that she wound up accidentally shoving Adrien into the pool.
He got up out of the water and shouted, "Hey, are you trying to drown me, Mariboo?!"
"Sorry!" Marinette shouted as she went to help Adrien get out of the water, the girls laughing.
Alright, Syren's been defeated! And now we have some more information about Sabine and her disappearance, and Marinette's questioning whether there's a connection between the akumas' assault and her mother going AWOL. And it's now confirmed that Sabine's ring is, in fact, one of the Miraculous Something Four!
But now we have a bigger problem: Adrien seems to have caught the curiosity of Dark Cupid!
Speaking of which, on the next chapter of Wedding Ladybug, just when Adrien starts cluing in on the girls' secret, Dark Cupid decides to switch targets and kidnaps him! In order to get him out of there, the girls have gotta waltz into the lair of the enemy known as the Akuma's Forest, and they wind up having to deal with some of the plants that can turn your friends into your enemies! How's Ladybug gonna fight two-on-one?!
Preview time! Let's see... Does episode 18 strike your fancy?
Summer break had started for the school and the girls decided to have a sleepover at Le Grand Paris hotel. They were all in Chloé's room, and since she locked the door and asked for privacy, all four kwamis were out in the open and enjoying the party. The girls were all in their pajamas, too.
"Cheers, to summer vacation!" The trio of girls sang, toasting to their temporary freedom.
The kwamis had their own little toast, too.
Marinette gulped down her juice and said, "We can stay up as long as we'd like tonight!"
"No kidding, girl," Alya agreed. "We need some time to have a little more fun."
"Agreed," Chloé said. "We need to relax a bit. School is ridiculous, utterly ridiculous enough, but fighting akumas all the time on top of that? We need a break."
"I couldn't agree more, my queen!" Pollen said as she was munching on a honey biscuit. "Even the Love Angels need a sabbatical every once in a while."
"Yeah, too bad the akumas don't stop for anything." Trixx commented as she ate a piece of melon.
"Come on, enough talking about the akumas," Tikki said, trying to get the mood back on track. "Let's just relax, have some fun and good food, and just forget about the akuma-angel war for tonight."
"Okay!" Marinette said, knowing her kwami had a good point.
The light reflected on the ring Marinette was wearing and Alya pointed out, "Oh, Marinette! That's a beautiful ring, girl."
"Huh?" Marinette asked as she showed the girls her ring.
"Looks like an engagement ring to me." Alya commented.
"Oh, this actually belonged to my mom," Marinette informed. "I just like wearing it."
"Marinette, you don't have a boyfriend yet. Why wear a ring?" Chloé snickered.
Marinette blushed in response, before saying, "Um... pot, kettle. Have you met?"
The girls burst out laughing at this, realizing how right Marinette was.