Day 21: Bride

It was weekend and Marinette would have never imagined waking up at 8:15 by a weird tug on her shoulder. She instead buried her face further into the pillow under her.

"Marinette!" Adrien whispered, his breath warm against her ear. "Akuma downstairs."

Suddenly, she was wide awake.

"Akuma? Where?" she exclaimed, sitting up straight, glancing around. Adrien's gaze was focussed on the trapdoor leading down.

There was a loud crash, shattering glass. Both were out of the bed in a hurry, Tikki and Plagg by their side when they touched the ground, and were transformed when they burst through the trapdoor.

The living room was deserted, but another crash from the bakery made them skip down one more flight of steps until they entered the bakery from behind.

"Chat! Bring them out of here," Ladybug called, seeing her parents, arm in arm in a corner, hiding from the glittering splitters that flew through the air. In the middle of the room stood a girl in a sparkling white dress made out of the finest silk and fabrics. The A-line skirt flowed down to her knees and her cleavage was so revealing, Ladybug flushed lightly red, seeing this.

Maybe that was part of the reason why she wanted Chat out of the bakery, so he could not stare too long.

The Akuma's reddish hair was braided into a knot atop of her head, a few strands lightly curling down to her shoulders that seemed to be coated with glitter. A white veil hiding the Akuma's face. She looked like a bride. With a magazine in her hand. The Akuma.

"Where is Marinette Dupain-Cheng?!" the Akuma screeched, flinging a long chain in her hand into another display, destroying the glass. "She stole my Adrien and she's going to pay!"

"Not another one," she sighed and flicked against Chat's shoulder, making him move. With a light flush, he turned and leaped over to her parents, accompanying them outside.

Ladybug dodged the chain the Akuma flung towards her and leaped out of the bakery by the front door. They could barely fight the girl in the narrow bakery. Outside they would have a better range to work with.

Rolling out of the way of another incoming attack, Ladybug hid behind a car, watching the street splitter because of the impact with the metal.

"Ladybug!" the Akuma called, "Give me your Miraculous and I can resume to capture Adrien's heart!"

Rolling her eyes, Ladybug called her Lucky Charm, getting a sheet of paper back.

"Taking a page out of her book, My Lady?" Chat snickered, landing next to her behind the parked car. "If I were you, I'd really like to marry Adrien as well," he winked.

Lightly flushing, Ladybug ignored his comment and peeked through the windows of the car, trying to spot the Akuma. "Where is she?"

"Watch out!" Chat suddenly screamed and flung himself into her side. Both rolled out of the way, just when the car in their back got destroyed by the chain that effectively turned the Mercedes into a cabriolet.

"You're not going to hide from me!"

Quickly glancing around, Ladybug knew instantly what to do. "Chat! Distract her!"

"At your service," he smirked and leaped off her. Calling his cataclysm, Chat sprinted past the Akuma in a crouch, destroying the ground at her feet. The cobblestone splintered and cracked and opened and the Akuma got stuck in the opening hole.

Flailing because of her sudden lost footing, the Akuma let her magazine fall to the ground. With a quick movement, Ladybug snatched the magazine from the street, confused, because she had not needed her Lucky Charm.

"Well, that was easy," Chat shrugged and stepped next to her.

The Akuma was still stuck, screeching atop of her lungs of how unfair life was. Easily tearing the magazine in two, the butterfly flew out of the two halves. Capturing the bug, the cleansed it and glanced down to the Lucky Charm. The page blinked and when she glanced to the magazine in her hand, it blinked as well.

Turning the pages around, she found her own face smiling up to her. The cover sported a photo from the one shoot where Marinette had helped out a few weeks prior.

"This came out this morning," Chat murmured.

With a heavy sigh, Ladybug threw her sheet into the air, calling the cure. The tiny Ladybugs roamed over the bakery and also over the akumatized girl, transforming her back.

Crouching down, Ladybug gave the girl the magazine back. "I'm sorry about this magazine," she apologized.

"Oh," the girl simply frowned, "It's not your fault, Ladybug. It's the fault of this Marinette."

Ladybug shook her head, wanted to say something, but Chat stepped in. "You can't change who someone loves," he said. "And if you really claim to love someone... don't you want them to be happy?"

The girl on the ground frowned, taking the magazine out of Ladybug's hand.

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Marinette slumped back into her bed, exhausted. "I hate Akumas this early in the morning."

"It's nearly half past eight," Adrien chuckled and fell next to her, drawing his arms around her waist. He was so warm, so nice to have next to her. Too bad she still had to work on Alya's suit later. But this does not mean she could not enjoy a few more moments with her boyfriend.

Giggling, she turned in his arms and placed a light kiss against his scalp while he nuzzled his nose against her throat.

HAVE YOU SEEN THE TWO EPISODES? I'M DYING! I don't want to spoiler those who have not or don't want to see them yet, but OMG, they are beautiful TT-TT prepare for fluff and SHOCKING news.

For those who HAVE seen them and want to freak out with me, don't hesitate to PM me XD

Until tomorrow ;)