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SEASON TWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!111!1
~It's time for food appreciation!~
Adrien was awoken in the middle of the night.
Usually, Adrien was a heavy sleeper. Having school, piano lessons, fencing lessons, Chinese lessons, photoshoots and on top of all that having to fight supervillains as Chat Noir (not that he didn't like it) did a pretty good number on him. By the time he got home from patrols late at night, he was tired and ready for sleep. However, something in the middle of the night roused him and it wasn't anything small like a mouse or something- not like those would get into the mansion anyways.
In fact, Adrien was positive that his room was setting on fire.
That may have been a bit of a stretch, but in his defense he was half asleep and the orangish lights being tossed around the walls of his room weren't assuring in the slightest. If it wasn't a fire, then what could it be?
Adrien's worry had immediately peaked when he had glanced over and Plagg was nowhere to be seen. Adrien could feel his heart drop- had Hawkmoth somehow taken his ring, his kwami, and then set his room on fire to get rid of him?- but then he saw he was still wearing his Miraculous and was allowed a moment of relief before suspicion filtered through him again.
His nose was registering the strong smell of Camembert cheese.
Warily, Adrien sat up in his bed and silently swung his legs around the edge of his bed, shaking hair out of his eyes. The alarm clock on his bedside table read 12:06 AM. His eyes had adjusted to the dim lighting of his room and he could make out a shadow stretched out across the floor of his room and climbing up his walls.
It was a very catlike shadow.
Adrien narrowed his eyes and got up, silently padding over to where his white couch was. He crouched down behind the sofa and peeked over the edge.
It was Plagg.
Adrien promptly choked and fell over behind the couch, taking a few seconds to regulate his breathing before shooting back up on his feet, almost unable to believe what he was seeing. Plagg was floating above a portrait of someone in black and white, surrounded by candles, with flowers and flower petals strewn about. The lighting made Plagg's green eyes seem even more luminous than usual, and the light hit his little cat face in a way that, in all honesty, freaked Adrien out.
Plagg had gone mad and was summoning the dead!
"PLAGG!" Adrien hissed, admittedly slightly afraid that he was coming in between some otherworldly ritual, and even more afraid that his kwami wasn't going to be normal. "What are you doing?!"
Plagg slowly turned his head to face Adrien and, in a moment of total rush decision, Adrien sprinted out and grabbed Plagg before diving back behind the couch. His kwami squirmed around in his grasp and Adrien risked a glance at the horrible scene that was the summoning behind him before whipping his head back to glare at Plagg.
"Oi, let go of me, kid!" Plagg finally gave up and sunk his little teeth into Adrien's hand. The boy yelped and snatched his hand back, two little oozing pricks of blood on them, and Plagg was gagging.
"Ugh! Human blood is so gross! What the heck was that about?!"
Adrien forsook his bleeding hand and instead stared at Plagg incredulously. "Me?! You're the one summoning the dead here!"
Plagg blinked confusedly. "Summoning the- what?"
Adrien gestured with his hand out to the scene and two drops of blood rolled onto his wrist. "You know? The whole candles thing you were literally just doing with the picture and candles and-" Adrien sputtered. "Wait, why are you even awake at midnight Plagg?!"
Plagg rolled his big eyes, suddenly not seeming as creepy as before when they were reflecting candlelight. "It's a special occasion! I was gonna wake you up for it anyways. It's a good thing your lazy rear got up on its own though."
Adrien could find nothing to say in the face of pure hypocrisy. Plagg was calling him lazy. What a laugh.
"Ok well," Adrien said through gritted teeth. Plagg was one of his best friends, he really did need Plagg in his life and it was because of Plagg that he'd gotten through some tough times but damn if the little thing wasn't annoying! "Please, care to share what this occasion is."
"It's Marie Harel's birthday!" Plagg proudly said, and was met with a blank stare.
"Who?"
Plagg clutched his little paws to his chest in agony like he was shot. "Marie Harel! Don't tell me you don't know!" Adrien said nothing and Plagg groaned. "Kids these days! So uncultured I swear!"
Adrien rolled his eyes. "Okay, okay, who is Marie Harel?"
"Marie Harel," Plagg said, stressing the name, "was the amazing, intelligent woman who made the breakthrough known as Camembert!"
Adrien's eyes widened fractionally, not used to seeing praise in regards to someone else come out of Plagg's mouth. Really, the only thing Plagg complimented was his cheese… until now.
"Marie Harel deserves respect," Plagg said primly, "so I'm honoring her tonight right as her birthday begins."
"Wow," was all Adrien could say, dumbfounded. Plagg mistook it for awe and proudly nodded his head.
"Yes, yes, I know. I think you're finally understanding what value Camembert really holds in all of its gooey, smelly, richness-"
"Okay," Adrien amusedly interjected, then yawned right after. He was relieved that Plagg hadn't been possessed or the likes, but he was just as equally tired. "You can keep celebrating and all, but try not to burn my room down. I'm going back to bed."
"Wait!" Plagg said, and Adrien suddenly stopped. The kwami zipped back to the portrait surrounded by candles and flowers and picked one of the flowers up, which turned out to be connected to other flowers in a large chain. Plagg flew back to Adrien and unceremoniously tossed it onto his charge's head, tugging it down and mussing up Adrien's intense bedhead even more in the process.
"It is important that you heroes know the true value of the sustenance for your kwamis," Plagg said, sounding the most serious he'd ever been. "So you shall wear this flower chain in honor of Marie Harel all day today!"
Adrien raised an eyebrow. "Even in school?"
Plagg nodded. "Yup."
Adrien lifted up the flowers around his neck with one hand and ran a thumb over one smooth, off white petal. "Where'd you even get this?"
Plagg smugly crossed his arms. "You think I'm the only kwami who does this, but all Miraculous holders wear the same thing when it's their kwami's food's creator's birthday," Plagg said, and Adrien blinked as he tried to follow along with the confusing explanation. "I have my ways."
"Uh… okay," Adrien said, yawning again. He really just needed some sleep. This was a very realistic, and equally weird, dream. "Goodnight, Plagg."
"Night kid!"
A couple of hours later, Adrien woke up to the sound of his six o'clock alarm blaring, just as routine. He opened his eyes and yawned, just as routine. He got up and stretched, and saw Plagg snoozing on one of his pillows. There was natural sunlight brightening up his room.
"Plagg, I had the weirdest dream, you were in it and- " Adrien looked down and suddenly paused. "Oh."
Plagg cracked his mouth wide open as he lazily floated up. "Man, I hate alarms. They're so-" Plagg caught sight of the slightly-crushed flower chain around Adrien's neck and suddenly gasped, zipping forward with newfound energy.
"Today is a special day," Plagg declared. "Hurry! We have to make the most of it!"
Adrien rolled his eyes as he got ready for school at his usual pace. "Someone just had a change of heart."
The day passed by after that. Nathalie noticed his flower chain with a raised eyebrow. Adrien, in his own defense, said that it was April 28th and that as the son of a fashion tycoon he should be going with the trends. Nathalie bought it, and Adrien was proud that he was able to come up with such a well thought out excuse on the spot.
People in school also noticed his flower necklace and came up to him, complimenting him and asking if it was the new trend. He'd just rubbed the back of his head with a short laugh, saying that it might come up, and went with the flow. Rose asked him what kind of flower it was, saying she'd never seen one like it before, and Adrien suddenly got wary seeing as how Rose was practically an expert on flowers and told her it was a rarer type. Marinette's face also looked pinkish all day, and Alya and Nino were snickering and teasing her for something that he didn't catch.
The things he did for Plagg!
However, it wasn't until later that year during summer break, on the 17th of June when he was going to hang out with Alya, Nino and Marinette at the park- miraculously being approved by his father- that he noticed Marinette was wearing a flower chain suspiciously similar to the one he'd been wearing on Marie Harel's birthday.
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