Here is the 43rd oneshot in my Miraculous Revelations series. This is the 5th in my 12 days of Christmas post hiatus gift, the second after 'Fanfiction' with a very interesting title. This particular oneshot was suggested by Whovianeverlark17 in a review of 'Toys' (33rd oneshot) but given my backlog and occasional bonus oneshot it has been delayed until now. Given that this is the same person who suggested 'Cold' (as well as 'Injury' and 'Paranoia'), which is seen as one of the best in this series, there is a lot to live up to with this oneshot but as always I try my best. I have had to take a few liberties with this one due to the content of it so bear with me on those but as always I have tried to stick as true to canon as possible when dealing with the kwamis, their abilities and what is and what has not been made public knowledge. That's all for this pre oneshot note, sit back and enjoy the latest oneshot in this series, Miraculous.
Disclaimer: I own nothing related to this show.
Miraculous - Cat Noir is late to fight an akuma, really late, and Marinette is forced to fight it alone. However, her Lucky Charm has other ideas and directs her to seek an ally, which she does. Unfortunately, all of her temporary allies are out of town for the weekend but she knows one guy who is in town, who hasn't wielded a miraculous, and who she trusts with the power of a miraculous, she just needs to find him. All Marinette has to do is give a miraculous to Adrien, what could possibly go wrong with that?
Miraculous
"Cat Noir, where the hell are you?" Marinette muttered as she looked down from a rooftop on the akuma that was tearing up the Louvre's glass pyramid thing looking for whatever had akumatized it. "You should already be here by now."
Marinette opened her yo-yo to the communication function and tried to call Cat Noir again. Again, it went straight to voicemail. That only meant one thing, he hadn't transformed yet. Marinette swore in frustration at the situation.
It wasn't like Cat Noir to be late to an akuma attack, he usually beat her to them and had already engaged the akuma in banter, and yet she had been here for almost 10 minutes and he had still not shown up. Marinette couldn't fight it alone, at least not without his kwami Plagg to aid her as well, but neither were here. She knew that something must be keeping him because he hadn't transformed yet but for the life of her she didn't know what it was.
"Mr. D'Argencourt, please I have to go." Adrien said to his fencing instructor. "Dad wants me home during any akuma attack, it ensures that I am safe. I have been a target for a few akumas in the past so I really need to go."
"I'm sorry Adrien but I would be remiss in my duty as your instructor if I did not keep you all here and protect you." The fencing master said shaking his head as he rejected Adrien's 5th attempt to leave. "You are safe here and that is final."
Adrien grumbled as he turned back and walked over to the bench in the locker room, it was hopeless. The akuma had struck Paris while he had been in a fencing lesson and Mr. D'Argencourt had decided it was best to lock them all in the changing room and protect them himself. The fencing master even kept a count of the students so Adrien couldn't use the bathroom excuse to go and fight the akuma. He was stuck here.
"I'm sorry m'lady." Adrien said with a sad sigh as he looked out towards where the akuma had been reported to be attacking. "You will have to do defeat this one without me, find someone worthy to fight alongside you today."
"Lucky Charm!" Marinette called out throwing her yo-yo into the air.
She had waited 5 more minutes for Cat Noir and had gotten fed up with waiting him to show up. It looked like he was indisposed so Marinette decided to try and take the akuma on her own. As such Marinette had used her Lucky Charm to speed up the fight and give her an edge right from the start.
Of course the power of her miraculous worked in mysterious ways and the ladybug print item it came down with was a massage pillow; the same style as the one Master Fu used. Instantly Marinette knew what she needed to do and where she needed to go.
"Great." Marinette muttered as she turned and ran towards his massage parlor. "I need an ally and I've already wasted too much time. Cat Noir, you had better have a damn good explanation for missing this fight."
As Marinette ran across the rooftops to Master Fu's she thought about which of the three allies had entrusted miraculouses to in the past would be best against a powerful akuma that could destroy a large glass pyramid with its raw strength. That was when Marinette realized that she had a problem; none of her three previous temporary allies were going to be available to help her.
Alya had taken Nino out of town for the weekend to introduce him to her grandparents, at her parents insistence that they meet her boyfriend. She had been so happy for the chance for a weekend away with Nino that Marinette hadn't even thought about the fact that Alya or Nino might be needed in Paris to fight an akuma, though neither illusion or protection seemed to be of use against this akuma. That would have left one option open for an experienced ally, albeit one that Marinette only turned to in dire situations. Chloe.
However, Chloe was away for the weekend with her father and mother at a retreat for all the mayors of French cities down in the south of the country. Of course, this meant that Chloe was tanning and being pampered by servants with her mother and sharing it all on social media to annoy everyone from school, while her father worked. This meant that she too was unavailable to aid Marinette with this akuma, not that Chloe's Venom would be able to pierce the akuma's thick looking skin.
No, with her three experienced allies gone that meant that she would have to choose a new ally, and likely a new miraculous for that ally to use. Fortunately, there was still one person in Paris that Marinette trusted with such power, not that she trusted Chloe with it but the girl had her uses at times, she just needed to pick out the right miraculous for him and find him. Thankfully, she knew his schedule by heart.
"Master Fu, my Lucky Charm sent me here again." Marinette said as she burst into Master Fu's massage parlor to find him enjoying a cup of tea with Wayzz.
"Again?" Master Fu asked confused. "I know your power works in strange ways but it seldom requires this many allies."
"Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that they are fighting another two akuma wielders and as such they require more assistance than usual." Wayzz suggested as he floated over to greet Tikki. "The last time more than 2 miraculouses were used at the same time to fight evil was when Daizzi had his miraculous stolen and his owner forced him to do great evil a few thousand years ago, some dude called Attila the Hun I believe but it was a long time ago so the name might escape me. Anyway, it took four of us being active and in frequent use at the same time to bring him down, not just the two most powerful miraculouses. It then took Daizzi a few centuries to recover from that terrifying ordeal."
"That is a logical reason to have more in circulation than is absolutely necessary." Master Fu said stroking his goatee as he walked over to his gramophone and began to unlock it so that he could remove the Miraculous Jewelry Box. "It is rare for a Miraculous Holder to be evil or for a miraculous to be used for evil purposes so it would take a few miraculouses to balance that out I would presume. We already know that Hawk Moth has an ally of his own with the Peahen Miraculous Holder so more might be needed to combat our enemies. However, until I am certain that they need to be in permanent circulation, I will continue to only allow you to chose an ally on a temporary basis."
As Master Fu had been speaking he had been unlocking and then removing the Miraculous Jewelry Box. Once it was out, he placed it on his massage bed and opened it as he done the few time Marinette had needed an ally to aid her against an akuma.
"Marinette Dupain-Cheng, pick an ally you can trust to fight alongside you on this mission. Choose wisely; such power's on hand to serve a greater good. Once the mission is over, you must retrieve the Miraculous from them." Master Fu intoned as the box opened all of its compartments revealing the 19 miraculous slots.
As soon as she saw the miraculouses, Marinette instinctively reached for the Fox Pendent for Alya but then remembered that her best friend was away and couldn't help her at the moment. That was when she paused and look at all of the miraculouses for the first time, focusing on the 12-side compartment miraculouses that appeared to represent the 12 animals of the Chinese Zodiac.
"My past 3 allies are all out of town so I need a new one but I don't know which one to choose." Marinette said with a worried note in her voice. "I am only here because Cat Noir is missing and I need a miraculous ally now. It always takes two of us to defeat an akuma."
"Take the Snake Miraculous then." Tikki said helpfully as she flew over to a teal colored bangle with a serpent design on it. "Sass is the wisest kwami so when there is no clear choice, most of us defer to him. We will need his wisdom, patience, and intuition to win out today. Without more to go on, this is the kwami for the job."
"Very well, I know just who to trust with this." Marinette said as she pulled out the Snake Miraculous and help it up while Master Fu returned the box to normal. "Thank you Master, I will have it back to you in no time."
Marinette waited for Master Fu to box it up and then left his massage parlor. Once outside, Marinette found a safe place to transform before she swung away towards her school and where Mr. D'Argencourt had his fencing class at this time, the Saturday class was only for the top level students so there was no doubt that he would be there. All Marinette had to do was to get there as quickly as possible and hope to god that he was still there.
There was only one person she trusted with a miraculous at a time like this and he should still be safely at the school if the standard protocols were followed and if Mr. D'Argencourt was being his usual protective self. Marinette needed to find the one person in her close group of friends who had never held a miraculous but who she trusted with one, she needed to find her crush, she needed Adrien Agreste.
"Merde, what the hell does Mr. D'Argencourt think he is doing?" Marinette asked herself as she reached the school and found out that the fencing instructor had barricaded himself and all his students in the changing room. At least he was being his usual protective self but this was too much, even for him.
For some reason the fencing master thought that that would protect the students, despite the fact that the akuma was in a different area of Paris and likely wouldn't reach the school. Though it would probably do little to the akuma if it did attack, most akuma's weren't phased by normal weapons.
Normally teachers allowed the students to go home, after keeping them to make sure the way home was safe hence the proper protocols. All this was unless the school was deemed to be the safest place, in which case the students staying in their classrooms and waited it out, but the fencing master clearly thought that his plan was safer. All it did was prevent Marinette from giving Adrien a miraculous and defeating the akuma at last, though it did make sure that Adrien was here and not at home where it could have been more awkward for her to give him a miraculous.
Marinette needed a plan to get to Adrien. She had to get the students out of the room and then intercept Adrien to get his help with the akuma. What she needed was a distraction that would force Mr. D'Argencourt to leave the room whether he liked it or not.
That distraction just so happened to present itself to Marinette in the shape of a bright red fire alarm built into the side of the wall outside the changing room. Marinette knew that she shouldn't pull it, it was technically illegal to do so, but desperate times called for desperate measures.
Without a second's hesitation, Marinette pulled the fire alarm and then ducked behind the door so that she wouldn't be seen but could watch the students leave and grab Adrien as he left. Then she would swing him to the rooftop, hopefully without being clumsy and dropping him, and then make her pitch to him regarding her need for his assistance. A simple plan but as always, Marinette's luck wasn't on her side.
"Alright we have to leave now but I want you all to head straight home." Mr. D'Argencourt said as he left the locker room brandishing his fencing sword to make sure the coast was clear. "And I will be checking in will all of your parents to make sure that you got home safely."
There was a babble of talking as the fencing students left the locker room and headed for the school's exit in an orderly fashion, they all knew that the akuma was nowhere near the school so they were in no real danger. The school also knew that an akuma attack was occurring so they wouldn't check the fire alarm as closely as usual as it did occasionally double as an akuma alarm. That meant that Marinette had time to grab Adrien, give him the miraculous, and head to face the akuma before anyone came to investigate.
Marinette watched as all the students, most still in fencing gear but unmasked, left the locker room and then the school while her heart beat at twice the normal rate, so normal for being alone with Adrien. However, Marinette did not see Adrien leave which was not a good sign. She needed him more than ever right now.
Glancing into the locker room she saw a shock of blond hair dash into the men's bathroom. Marinette knew that she would regret going in there but she had to grab Adrien and at least a bathroom was private. Without a second's thought, Marinette followed Adrien into the bathroom and closed the door behind her.
Shock would have been an understatement. As soon as Marinette entered Adrien turned, yelped in surprise and fell on his ass on the bathroom floor as what looked like a black blur flew away but that was in the peripheries of Marinette's vision, all she was focused on was Adrien.
"Adrien right?" Marinette asked just to throw off any suspicions that she might actually know him. Adrien nodded up at her, still shocked that she was there and clearly a little embarrassed that she was in the men's room. "Good, I cannot find Cat Noir anywhere and there is an akuma terrorizing the Louvre. Will you help me?"
As soon as the fire alarm went off and Mr. D'Argencourt reluctantly agreed to let them go, Adrien hung back on the pretext of grabbing something from his locker. That wasn't an entire lie, he did have to grab something from his locker, that something just happened to be Plagg, who also happened to be pigging out on cheese in his locker while Adrien was fencing. As soon as Plagg was safely ensconced in his fencing tunic, Adrien headed to the men's bathroom to transform. He was already late to meet Ladybug, he needed to make up for lost time.
"Alright Plagg, it's time to help Ladybug." Adrien said quietly as soon as he was in the bathroom, the door was closed, and had opened the tunic to let his kwami out. "Plagg, claws o…"
Adrien didn't get a chance to finish his activation phrase as at that moment the door behind him opened again. Adrien had been so focused on transforming that the sound caused him to turn, yelp in surprise at the intruder and fall unceremoniously onto his ass, the last part embarrassing him. Of all people, Ladybug was in the men's room with him for some reason and she had almost seen him transform. Hopefully, Plagg had hidden before she noticed that he was there.
"Adrien right?" Ladybug asked him as she looked down at him on the dirty bathroom floor. Adrien nodded up at her, still shocked and a little embarrassed that she was here at all, he had planned to go find her and now she needed to go so that he could transform but he couldn't tell her that. "Good, I cannot find Cat Noir anywhere and there is an akuma terrorizing the Louvre. Will you help me?"
"Of course, m'l… I mean Ladybug, I am always willing to help you in any way I can." Adrien said quickly, hoping that it would get Ladybug to leave so that he could actually help her as Cat Noir.
This wasn't the case. What did happen was something that changed their relationship forever.
"Ok good, let's up you get, I mean get you up." Marinette said cursing herself for still being a tongue-tied school girl around her crush even when transformed as Ladybug, Adrien just had that kind of effect on her. Regardless, she offered him a hand to help him up though she was reluctant to let it go.
"So what help to you need from me?" Adrien asked a little more hurriedly than Marinette expected. "I am just an average citizen."
"Well Cat Noir is nowhere to be found and I need a partner to take out this akuma." Marinette said in her most confident Ladybug voice, it took a lot of effort not to become a clumsy mess around Adrien, even when she was Ladybug. "One I could trust. Seeing as I have worked with you in the past and I know you are a good person, I am trusting you to assist me. Will you help me Adrien?"
"Of, of course." Adrien said hesitantly and Marinette sighed in relief as she took out the box containing the Snake Miraculous.
"Good." Marinette said with a smile as she extended the box in her hand to Adrien. "Adrien Agreste, this is the Snake Miraculous and frankly I am not sure what power it will give you. I do know that you will use it for the greater good and when you are done you will return it to me. Will you accept this miraculous?"
Adrien just stared at her and the miraculous in what Marinette assumed was open mouthed awe at the miraculous he was being presented with. That was a standard reaction for people when they were first entrusted with a miraculous Marinette had found. With a slow nod, Adrien agreed and took the box, his ring flashing as he did so.
Adrien stared at the miraculous box with a mixture of shock and horror. Ladybug had decided to trust him with a miraculous, naturally not knowing that he was Cat Noir and already had one. However, his crush had been very insistent so with a little hesitation and reluctance, Adrien agreed and took the miraculous from Ladybug's outstretched hand.
Knowing what to expect but deciding to maintain a shocked expression when it happened so as to not blow his cover, Adrien slowly opened the lid. A teal ball of energy manifested above a simple bangle of the same color with a serpent motif on it. In seconds the ball had coalesced into the shape of a kwami with a distinctively serpentine appearance.
The Snake Kwami was sea green with a broad triangular head, yellow eyes, fangs and a forked tongue that he used to taste the air around him, the tongue matching his skin color. He had the classic snake's hood over his head and that ran down his back and into his long, black tipped tail. There was also a black, diamond shaped pattern in a line down his back. His serpentine, yellow eyes looked up at Adrien with a keen intellect and no hint of mischief that he had never seen in Plagg's eyes.
"Hello, I am Sass and today I shall be your kwami." Sass, the Snake Kwami's name apparently, said in a calm, measured, reassuring voice. "It is good to be out in the field again, it has been too many centuries since I was last active. All you need to do to activate my power is slide my miraculous on your wrist there and then… oh! Oh no, no, no this will not work, this will not work at all. I am sorry dear boy but I cannot be your kwami today, nor can you wield my miraculous at this time."
Now Adrien was staring at the kwami in confusion. The kwami had stopped talking, not that Adrien understood what Sass was going on about at the end, and was staring blankly at the ring on Adrien's finger, a look of surprise but not shock on his intelligent face.
"Er, Sass is it?" Ladybug asked with a little worry in her voice. "What seems to be the problem. I kinda need Adrien to transform so we can deal with an akuma attack, we are both very late for it."
"Yes, well there is a slight technical problem with that plan of yours, one that your Lucky Charm could not have foreseen." Sass said almost clinically as he floated upwards to look at both Adrien and Ladybug. "Well magical problem to be precise but I cannot be this human's kwami for he already had a kwami. One person cannot wield two miraculouses at once, the magics of our separate power sources would interfere and cancel each other out, the exception being the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculouses but those two have always been odd ones out. I am sorry Ladybug but I cannot help this human."
"You, you're a miraculous holder?" Ladybug asked Adrien to which all he could do was nod, Sass had given his secret away so there was little point left in denying it.
"That must mean." Ladybug muttered and Adrien braced himself to come clean to her about being Cat Noir, not how he had expected to reveal his identity to Ladybug but he trusted her so he was fine with her knowing. Of course that was not what Ladybug was thinking, not at all.
"That you must be Hawk Moth!" Ladybug exclaimed as she leapt backwards and began to spin he yo-yo furiously, preparing to attack. "How could I have not realized that the boy I loved and who sits in front of me in class was Hawk Moth, but it makes perfect sense. It's why you are never around during an akuma, or when you are they never, ever harm you. Hell, Gorizilla released me instead of letting you die, how can I have been this fucking stupid."
"It's not like that…" Adrien began confused at what Ladybug was babbling on about but knowing that he had just been mistaken for their arch enemy.
"The boy is quite correct, he is not the wielder of the Moth Miraculous." Sass added but it was clear that Ladybug was beyond listening.
"Shut up, I am taking you in Hawk Moth!" Ladybug yelled as she threw her yo-yo at Adrien. "Come quietly and there will be no trouble at all."
Adrien knew he stood no chance against Ladybug while in civilian form but he still leapt backwards just to be safe and to try and put some distance between them. Regardless, it was Plagg who came to his rescue.
"WAIT!" Adrien's kwami yelled as he shot out from his hiding spot and intercepted the yo-yo, both going at full speed.
The result was Plagg stopping the yo-yo's momentum but being thrown back into a bathroom mirror so hard he cracked it with a painful sounding crash. All the anger in Ladybug's face drained and she went pale when she saw which kwami had come to protect Adrien. There was no doubt as to which miraculous Adrien wielded now that Plagg had shown his face.
"Damn that hurt." Plagg grumbled as he extricated himself from the shattered mirror and nonchalantly pulled a shard of it out of what Adrien thought was his kwami's ass, at least it wasn't bleeding which was a good sign. "And I have taken a few blows in my life."
"A few?" Sass asked as he hovered over to help Plagg and make sure that his fellow kwami was ok.
"Fine, a couple hundred thousand from just about every being under the sun but who's counting." Plagg muttered while Sass looked him over. "But that was bad, even by my high standards. Seriously, you thought that my human was Hawk Moth, you know him, you love him, do you really think that he would be evil?"
"Well no but it was just a knee jerk reaction when Sass said that Adrien already had a miraculous." Ladybug mumbled as she flushed with embarrassment. Adrien wasn't sure he understood fully what was going on but he wasn't going to open his mouth anytime soon, best to keep quiet and wait for answers. "I didn't think that you would be his kwami, sorry."
"Meh, it's ok, I've had worse." Plagg said before turning to Sass, who was apparently inspecting Plagg's tail. "But you, you should know better. Now thanks to you my human's secret identity is known to his partner when she wanted their identities to remain a secret. I look forward to hearing about your punishment from all of my usual sources, it had better be as good as the last one I had to suffer for breaking the oath."
"It's not my fault that because of the secret identities and the fact that these two both know and trust one another in their current states that Ladybug would give Adrien a miraculous." Sass said simply while Plagg glowered at him. "It makes logical sense given who else has received one, remember Trixx and Pollen keep me well informed regarding the goings on in the world today. Ladybug, however, didn't know that Adrien here had a miraculous and as such didn't know that a person cannot wield two at a time, with the exception of the wish granting ability of wielding yours and Tikki's that is. I apologize for revealing the secret, at least partially, but given the circumstances this will be classified as a no other alternative scenario and as such I did not break my oath. Mage will understand and acquit me of breaking a sacred oath."
"Bloody snake always slithering out of trouble." Plagg grumbled under his breath but loud enough for them all to hear it. "I always get punished for breaking the oath, even when it is only partially my fault, but you manage to get away with almost anything. Nothing sticks to you, does it scales."
"It is what snakes do best, even if we get a bad rap for it." Sass said with a fang toothed smile. "However, I suggest that we all quickly sort this shit out because as I recall there is still an akuma on the loose in Paris that you two need to deal with. Ladybug, I think that it is time for the truth, given what you just found out. It would be for the best."
Adrien was still confused by a lot that had happened, other than the fact that Ladybug now knew he was Cat Noir, but he wasn't going anywhere. Sass was right, there was a lot to sort out right now before they went to face the akuma. Adrien turned, as did Plagg and Sass, to look at Ladybug, only she could explain everything right now, only she had the answers it seemed.
Marinette just stared blankly at Adrien and the two kwamis as they stared back at here. She had no idea what they expected of her, she was almost as lost as Adrien looked at the situation in front of her. She had already messed up once, she didn't want to mess up again.
From what she could already tell, Adrien was a Miraculous Holder. That much had been made clear by Sass when he refused to allow Adrien to use his miraculous and had said that Adrien wielded a miraculous of his own. Marinette's instinctual reaction had been that Adrien was Hawk Moth given everything that she had concluded and the situation they were in, but she had forgotten about Cat Noir due to his absence earlier. Now, though, based on the fact that Plagg was there, the latter was clearly Adrien's kwami. That meant that Adrien was Cat Noir and that she had accidentally caused him to reveal that to her.
Marinette felt stupid for jumping to the Hawk Moth explanation first and not Cat Noir. She had faced Hawk Moth, knew that he was an older man and not a teenager like her and Cat Noir. Adrien was her age and even looked a little like Cat Noir and not like Hawk Moth at all. Marinette had allowed her irritation at Cat Noir not being there and the fact that Hawk Moth was also a Miraculous Holder cloud her judgement. She would be forever sorry for that.
Still, there was one thing left to deal with, the same thing as before, Adrien being a Miraculous Holder. Marinette had assumed that Adrien had never been around during the akuma attacks because of a rule from his father or something. That and the fact that until now he had never been necessary when she needed an ally had been why he had never been chosen to aid her.
Now it all made sense. With Adrien being Cat Noir, he had an excuse for always being absent. Of course, because of the secret identities, Marinette had no idea that Adrien was a Miraculous Holder and had chosen him which had led to Sass revealing the truth. It had all been purely accidental but that still did not negate the fact that his secret was now out there. All it taken was for Marinette to have the wrong reaction upon learning that Adrien had a miraculous and now she knew who Cat Noir was, he was her love, he was Adrien.
That led to a different problem regarding Cat Noir's feelings for her and her own feelings for Adrien but Marinette knew that that was something that they should talk about when there was not an akuma trying to destroy the Louvre for some still as of yet unknown reason. No, Marinette knew what she had to do. It would explain everything and pay Adrien back for finding out his secret. It was the only way and it was what both Sass and Plagg were expecting her to do.
"Adrien, I am sorry for all this, this is the only way that I think I can explain everything." Marinette said as she steeled herself for what she knew she had to do. "Tikki, spots off."
Adrien's mouth fell open as Ladybug allowed her transformation to fall. In her place stood Marinette Dupain-Cheng, one of his closest friends. Adrien had not expected her to be Ladybug though if he thought back on it, there was some sense to it given Marinette's habit of missing entire akuma attacks, being behind on work, class, and sleep, and not getting akumatized herself. There was also the mention of her loving him but Adrien had a feeling that that could wait for when they actually discussed the fact that they were Ladybug and Cat Noir. Right now they had more pressing issues to discuss.
"Marinette, you're Ladybug?" Adrien asked finally breaking the silence.
"I, I am." Marinette muttered much more shyly than usual. "And I am sorry for all this, given our secrets there was no way that I could have known that you had a miraculous before deciding to trust you with one when my Lucky Charm directed me to find an ally."
"Don't worry, I forgive you." Adrien said with a smile. He knew Marinette would feel bad about this and he didn't want her to, it was an honest and accidental mix up, that's all. "You couldn't have known and I am sorry that I forced this on you by being unable to help when I was most needed."
"Yeah, I saw what D'Argencourt was doing, annoying really." Marinette agreed. "He means well but it was the wrong idea. Plus Nino and Alya are out of town so you were the only one I could trust."
"What about Chloe, she has experience wielding a miraculous." Adrien pointed out.
"She's also out of town and besides I only trust her when the akuma is something that requires her specific skill set to handle." Marinette said shaking her head at the idea. "You I trust more and because you haven't wielded one yet, well at least I was unaware that you were as experienced as I was, I thought that you would make the best ally today."
"Well technically I am the best ally, m'lady." Adrien said with his best cocky Cat Noir grin and Marinette let out a laugh at that.
"That is true kitty." She said still laughing. "You are miles better than anyone else I could ask for."
"As much as I do love to study the flirting, courting, and mating rituals of the human teenager, could you two please transform and deal with the akuma that you were supposed to deal with a long time ago." Sass said interrupting both of them and causing Marinette to blush furiously at the kwami's words. Given the heat on Adrien's cheeks, he was sure that he was also blushing.
"On sec, just let me make sure there is no more pieces of mirror in me." Plagg said as he began to check himself over once more. "It would be pretty painful for my human to transform with an impurity, I know it was for my last 7 holders who tried that and I am trying to not repeat my many mistakes of the past this time around."
"Probably a good idea." Sass said with a nod. "Marinette if you would please transform then you can put me in my miraculous and hold onto me until you are done with the akuma, that would be great. Then I can be returned to Master Fu and the Miraculous Jewelry Box."
"What? Oh yeah good idea." Marinette said snapping out of her embarrassment. "Tikki, spots on!"
In seconds Marinette was once more Ladybug, that would take some getting used to for Adrien but he knew that he would in time. Adrien watched as Marinette opened the box she had brought and Sass flew into his miraculous with a nod to both of them. Sass was very different to Plagg, Adrien had to admit that.
"Alright I am mirror fragment free." Plagg said proudly bringing Adrien back to the situation at hand. "Let's go kick some akuma ass."
"Plagg, claws out!" Adrien said with a smile as he transformed. Soon he and his lady were standing together once more, this time in a men's room at their school. "I believe you know where this akuma is bugaboo. Lead the way."
"As always kitty." Marinette said with a smile of her own as she turned and left the bathroom, Adrien following her as they began to run towards the akuma's last known location.
Adrien knew that everything between them had just been irreparably changed and that things would be different forever going forward. However, Adrien had a feeling that they would be for the better now that they knew each other's secret identity. He and Ladybug, Marinette, would be alright, they always were.
A little bit longer than the past few oneshots in this 12 day blitz but I had a little more time on my hands for this one. The next few will likely be on the shorter side again given time constraints, though there are other longer ones planned for this period, but they will be out as promised. To answer any possible questions here, Daizzi is the Pig Kwami and the French version has him using male pronouns, though as with Trixx and Nooroo, Daizzi is female in some of the other versions but I stay true to the French. There will be a Snake Miraculous holder in season 3 but I don't want to spoil it for anyone who is avoiding spoilers and as such did not use his holder, costume, or name in this oneshot, I just felt like Sass fitted best for this particular chapter and I have made up the whole mixing miraculous thing. Of all my oneshots, this one is likely to end up being non-canon when the show is all done. That's all for this oneshot, as always keep letting me know what you think in your reviews, both of this series as a whole and of my 12 days of Christmas binge. Until tomorrow.
Stringdog
