Chapter 5
School Time
Burpy explained to Tikki, who had no clue about what went down after the blast, everything that happened, from Black to Cat Noir. By the time that he finished explaining, they were already outside the hospital where Marinette was. They went in, with Tikki hiding in Burpy's pocket, and made their way to the ward where Marinette was. A doctor showed them in, and inside was not only Marinette and her parents, but a whole group of people, all roughly the same age as Marinette, they must be her friends. Marinette was awake and noticed Burpy come in,
"hi Burpy" she said, "everyone, this is Burpy, one of my new friends."
"he actually saved Marinette, earlier" cut in Marinette's father, "he pulled her right out of the rubble." At this point, all the people started congratulated him and shook his hand, one boy wearing a red cap said,
"dude, you saved her life!" Burpy didn't know what to say, he had never had this much attention, and yet, the thought of Black still being around was still on his mind. Before he could say anything though, the doors were thrown open by a man wearing a red, white, and blue sash, he had grey hair and a small head. Behind him was a young girl, she was wearing a yellow long-sleeved jacket over a white shirt with black stripes around the waist, she had a scowl on her face, as if she was forced to come with the man. The man said to Marinette's father, with sadness in his voice,
"I am so sorry about what has happened to your daughter," he said, "we shall let you know when the villain is caught."
"thank you, mayor Bougeois, we appreciate that" said Marinette's mother, she then turned towards Burpy and the rest of the visitors, "and now I think that you all should be heading to school, you don't want to be late now." Everyone started to walk out of the ward apart from Marinette's parents, the visitors said their goodbyes and walked out of the room, with Burpy following close behind. He looked back briefly and saw Tikki waving from under Marinette's bed.
The school that Marinette's friends went to was relatively big, and Burpy didn't even go to human school, so how was he meant to learn stuff there? But all the same, Burpy was dragged in by Marinette's friends, he was then pushed into a classroom where a teacher was sitting behind her desk, she was wearing a light blue jacket with a teal collared shirt and a white undershirt beneath, along with a pair of white earrings and a small gold necklace.
"Hello" she said kindly to Burpy, as the rest of the students took their seats, "who are you?"
"Burpy" said Burpy, this was going to be terrible!
"Burpy what?" Said the teacher, then a voice from behind them that Burpy recognised said,
"Flame, Miss Bustier" said a blond boy wearing a white jacket who just came in "he just arrived in Paris." The teacher seemed to believe that, and said,
"Well Mr Flame, you are more than welcome to join our class whilst you are in Paris, just take a seat that's free whist I add you to the register." Burpy looked around, the only spare seat was next to a girl with tanned skin and hazel eyes, she was wearing black-rimmed glasses, with a white spot on each side, a white tank top underneath a short-sleeved plaid shirt with white, orange, and purple stripes; light blue jeans, and white sneakers with black tops. Burpy walked over and said,
"Um, do you mind if I sit here?" He asked the girl. She looked at him and said,
"only until Marinette gets back, she usually sits here." She then whispered to him, "I know that it was you that saved Ladybug and Cat Noir earlier, you are immune to fire." She seemed to know a lot already, Burpy had to ask,
"who are you" as he sat down next to the girl, she was tapping on her phone and responded without looking up,
"Alya Césaire, nice to meet you Burpy" they then shook hands.
A few hours later, Burpy was feeling better about this human school, he had already made a friend and he surprisingly understood the new facts he had learnt about life on the surface. Alya had even lent him some paper so he could write down his new found facts. He was walking through the courtyard when he bumped into the blond boy from earlier, he waved Burpy over to him and he then whispered in a low voice,
"hello again Burpy," he said, and Burpy realised where he recognised the voice from!
"Cat Noir?" Burpy whispered back, the boy nodded and said,
"call me Adrien without my suit on," he said, he then pulled the side of his jacket away from his body to reveal a small, black cat shaped creature, this time, Burpy didn't make a mistake,
"that's a Kwami, isn't it", the black Kwami then turned to look at Burpy and said in a high voice,
"Adrien must trust you more than anyone else if he is showing me to you, my name is Plagg, do you have any camembert?" Burpy was slightly taken aback by Plagg's question, what even is camembert?!
"sorry," replied Burpy, "but I have no idea what that is", it was then when the explosion happened.
The explosion blasted the school doors wide open and in its place was a monster like figure, Black was back with another Gattler, and even worse was that he had a dark green Ghoul on his shoulder, the Ghoul had one red eye and four fangs and red markings over its body, and Burpy recognised it, it was the GOON!
"RUN!" Burpy shouted, but they were already running, and Adrien had run away as well, soon, it was just him, Black and the Goon. "so," said Burpy, directly to the Goon, "long time no see." Black was aiming the Gattler at him again and sent a swarm of Hop-Jacks at him, the shockwaves were so large that they pushed him through a wall!
Burpy was in agony! But it was brief. He saw that he was in some sort of costume store and saw lots of Ladybug and Cat Noir costumes,
"There must be a play about them as well!" Burpy said to himself, he then had an idea and grabbed a metal pole and a nearby Cat Noir suit and said "Purrrfect"
Black was having more fun than he had had in weeks! He finds this "burning world" and now can take it over with the Goon's power! Then he saw someone step out of the hole in the wall, he was completely dressed in a black cat suit and had wild ginger hair, he was also wearing a black mask over his red eyes. And then, out of a side door came another person wearing the same sort of cat suit but had a wild crop of blond hair, they were both holding metal sticks in their hands, they seemed to be threatening him with them, he laughed, as if simple metal would stop Ghouls!
Burpy was getting very annoyed with Black, he had hurt everyone he knew and was now laughing at him, what Black did next really did push Burpy over the top. Black shot a dozen Pyringo Ghouls at Cat Noir, who had just arrived, and every Ghoul struck him straight in the chest! Cat Noir was thrown backwards and landed on the floor, unconscious. Burpy was livid! Cat Noir was his friend and now was as hurt as Marinette, Black had now loaded the Goon in his Gattler and was prepared to make Cat Noir a host for the Goon! This was too much for Burpy, he was so angry that he combusted and incinerated the Cat Noir suit he was wearing!
Meanwhile, in a hidden base under Paris, a man wearing a dark purple dress shirt with a black butterfly-shaped lapel, a brooch on the centre of the collar, black dress pants and over the majority of his face and neck was a silver mask, sensed something. This man was called HawkMoth and he was the evilest person in Paris, next to Black and the Goon.
"I sense a young boy," HawkMoth said aloud to no-one in particular, "angry at the fact of his loved ones getting hurt, what the perfect Prey for my Akuma!" he held out a black gloved hand, and a white butterfly landed in the palm of his hand, HawkMoth then covered the butterfly with his other hand, and dark energy started swarming into the butterfly. When Hawkmoth removed his hand, the butterfly was now a black Akuma.
"fly away my little Akuma," said HawkMoth as the Akuma flew towards the window, "and evilise this angered soul!" the Akuma flew out of the window and towards the school, it saw Burpy, as angry as before, and flew down and was absorbed into the metal pole that he was holding!
Burpy was about to release his fury on Black before he could evilise Cat Noir, when he felt an odd connection get created, and a voice started speaking in his head,
"Dark Fire, I am HawkMoth, I give you the power to defend your friends from any danger that they come across," Burpy then noticed that the metal pole in his hand was as purple as that evil firefighter's helmet! This HawkMoth was trying to turn him EVIL! "in exchange, you must bring me Ladybug and Cat Noir's miraculous." Burpy remembered how he had gotten rid of the evil butterfly before, he broke the firefighter's helmet, so all he had to do, was break the pole! Burpy spoke to Hawkmoth through gritted teeth,
"one-word Hawkmoth," he said as he took the pole in both hands, he shouted the last word as loud as he could "NEVER!" he then snapped the pole in half. The result of the psychic connection breaking was a huge shockwave that caused Black to miss Cat Noir by a whisker, and the Goon collided with the wall and de-transformed as unconscious as a rock.
Black went ballistic! He was so angry that he didn't notice the black butterfly infect his Gattler, but he did notice the voice in his head that said to him,
"Hello GhoulMaster, I am HawkMoth, I give you the power to corrupt anyone you touch, but in exchange, you must bring me Ladybug and Cat Noir's miraculous!" Black then saw an image of a black ring and two red earrings with black spots on them, Black was always power hungry, so the thought of more Ghouling powers was definitely what he wanted,
"Sign me up HawkMoth!" He said, greedily. Then, dark smoke started covering his entire body, starting from his Gattler and then up his arm and to the rest of his body, when the smoke cleared, Black looked completely different, he had a black and red slugterrain suit on and red lines were covering his body and tubes of dark water were attached to his body and his Gattler, there were also lots more Ghouls in his Gattler as well, and even they looked more evil! The GhoulMaster then turned and ran out of the school to test his powers and get himself an army.
Burpy was left with Cat Noir, he turned towards Cat Noir and asked,
"What just happened?!" Cat Noir got up, brushed himself off and said,
"I'll tell you what just happened, we just got schooled by that villain!"