Marinette woke up for the day just like any other. Panicking and scrambling just to make it to school on time!
Even though it was April 1st, she never usually participated in usual festivities of her classmates, of pulling pranks and jokes. Not only did she not really have the time to spare for such antics, but also, she wasn't really into scaring people. And what if she unintentionally hurt someone?! She would never be able to forgive herself if that happened! So, it was best she just stay out of it.
Which didn't stop other people from pulling pranks on the unparticipating teen. But that was fine. Mari could take a joke like a champ!
Thankfully, her parents weren't into pranking either. For the most part. One year, her papa tried to mark up the price of bread by doubling it. But he only did that to 2 customers. Her papa had gotten a kick out of seeing their eyes bulge out of their head, before digging around for more change to STILL buy the bread! Regardless of the price. Just went to show how much Parisians really loved their bakery. But he had been quick to call April fools, and everyone had shared a good laugh.
That had been 4 years ago, and he hasn't done anything since.
So it was a bit odd for Marinette when she reached the bakery, all ready for school, and her dad waved at her to wait just a minute.
Stalled beside the island in the back, Mari waited for the bakery to empty of its 2 customers. When Tom walked up to his daughter, he had gave a hearty laugh and slung an arm around her shoulders.
"I'm glad your getting into the spirit, Marinette! I always thought you should try jokes at least once!" the small space filled with his jovial laughter.
But Marinette was just perplexed.
What on earth...?!
"What do you mean papa?"
"Switching the salt and sugar this morning! It was a GENIOUS idea, but yoh can't catch me that way!" and he just laughed louder. And Marinette just got more confused.
He finally steered his daughter towards the front of the store, and grabbed a small bag off the counter and passed it to her.
" Now hurry off to school before your late! And maybe you'll get me next year." and with a wink and a shove, she was on the sidewalk. Still not moving.
"Tikki, what just happened?!" she finally whispered to the tiny god hanging out in her purse.
"UGH!" was all that Mari heard harshly spoken from inside her bag.
"That Plagg! He tries to prank me every year! I would have thought he'd have grown out of that by now. It's only been thousands of years."
Marinette just giggled at her kwamis annoyance, and continued on to school.
Tikki was minding her own business, lounging in her holder's bag while class was going, when Plagg startled her as he phased quickly inside.
" Good morning sugar cube. How was your morning...? Maybe a little..." the black cat God snickered, "Salty?!"
Tikki just crossed her little red arms in annoyance and rolled her eyes at her counterpart.
"Plagg, your an idiot. They are professional bakers! Of course they taste their ingredients before they use them! Your pranks are stupid."
Plagg gasped in utter shock.
"I am HILARIOUS!" he hissed in annoyance. "And your a stick in the mud!"
With those parting words, the offended kwami zoomed back to his own holders bag.
Later that night, Tikki was lost in thought when Marinette asked her a question.
Marinette stared at her kwami, waiting for an answer. When none came after a few. Minutes, she gently stroked Tikkis head drawing her out of her own thoughts.
"I'm sorry Marinette. We're you talking to me?"
"I just wondered if you were ok."
"Oh, I'm fine Marinette! I was just thinking about Plagg."
"What about him?" Mari questioned.
"Well, he's been trying to prank me for as long as I can remember. And he thinks he's so clever! But he's not! He's just annoying!"
Marinette giggled softly. "Maybe it's about time you tell him that."
"You know what, I think your right! It's time i show Plagg what a good prank REALLY is!"
The next morning, Plagg was startled awake as Adrien got out of bed, shifting the pillow the black God was sleeping on.
"Morning Plagg," he greeted softly, "I didn't mean to wake you."
With a huge yawn, the black being stretched, and slowly floated into the air.
"I guess it's ok. But while I'm up, I might as well have a snack." he gleefully declared, while rubbing his little arms together.
And with that being said, Plagg zoomed to Adrien's mini fridge, as his holder closed the door to the bathroom.
Plagg struggled to try and open the door of the fridge, which seemed odd. It wasn't usually this hard to open. But he distinctly remembered gorging himself of delicious cheese yesterday, with him lounging on the seal with the door open. So maybe he wasn't careful and cheese got stuck on the edge.
He'd have to be more careful. One mustn't waste precious cheese!
So with that in his head, he simply phased through the door.
And immediately was freezing cold. He floated, shocked. Everything inside the fridge was a brick of ice.
He thinked a paw on a wheel of cheese to try and move it, and there was at least an inch of ice surrounding everything inside!
Plagg slowly backed away in horror, before zooming quickly to where Adrien was in the shower.
"Adrien!!" he whined, " the mini fridge is frozen!"
"Huh," Adrien then hummed in thought. "Must have malfunctioned. I'll get Natalie to replace it today. Just grab from one of your other stashes."
Plagg huffed in annoyance. Adrien never took his cheese love seriously! All that precious cheese... WASTED! And his holder didn't even bat an eye.
Whatever. It was his money.
Zooming off, Plagg opened the cupboard above adrien's desk where he had some cheese stashed. Seeing 4 glorious wheels stacked perfectly, the God salivated, and threw himself against the cheese, rubbing it gently, whispering sweet nothing's to it.
"My glorious, wonderful, deliciously smelly... Cheese?" he drew back sharply.
Sniffed.
Where was the smell?
His deliciously cheesy moldy smell?!
Ripping open one wheel, he was greeted with cardboard inside. Quickly, Plagg tore through the other 3 wheels to find the same thing!
He quickly zipped off to one of Adrien's trophies where he had more cheese stashed, and a soon as he landed on a wheel, he was overwhelmed with the smell of chocolate.
Ripping off the packages from 5 more wheels of cheese, showed him they were nothing but bricks of chocolate.
With a small scream, he high tailed it to his last stash spot high up on the bookshelves in the kids room.
Sniffing the air, he was almost certain he was saved. A delicious stinky smell filled his tiny nostrils.
But ripping open this packaging showed they were just some of Adrien's old stinky socks.
With a scream of fructration, Plagg located Adrien and slammed into his chest.
"We need to go down for breakfast NOW!" He demanded.
"Is everything ok Plagg?!" his kid asked worriedly. But Plagg was certain he was hyperventilating, and couldn't say anything more.
His cheese.
ALL of his cheese!
GONE!!
But the kid always had a cheese plate at breakfast!
"Breakfast." the God croaked out quickly.
With a shrug and an eye roll at the kwamis dramatics, Adrien grabbed his bag and headed to the dining hall.
Where his breakfast was already laid out for him.
Taking his seat, his chef came out and headed his way.
Odd, the chef never left the kitchen.
"I am so sorry monsieur, but there was an accident in the kitchen, and the glass shelf that held all our cheese broke and dropped everything on it into a pitcher of orange juice. All we have left is some dairy free cheese."
And with that, he backed out from the room and was gone.
Suddenly, a keening wail filled the room." Nooooooooo!!! "
Plagg fell out of his pocket and threw himself on the table with a smack.
" Plagg!" Adrien scolded." Someone will hear you! "
"My precious camembert!!" he cried, big huge tears running down his tiny head.
"Don't worry, I'm sure I've got some in my locker at school."
Adrien rushed up the school steps to try and get to his locker as fast as possible. Plagg had almost been inconsolable this morning!
And what on earth could have happened to all that cheese?!
Suddenly, Plagg jerked inside his pocket, bringing him to a standstill.
"Up the stairs, your classroom." he whispered harshly from inside his shirt.
As directed, the blonde made his way to his classroom. The closer he got, the more sniffing he heard from his pocket.
His kwami was wierd.
Then it hit him too. He was right outside his classroom door, and all he could smell was cheese.
Peering inside, he noticed half the class was there. He slowly made it to his seat, but just before he sat down, he noticed Marinette and Alya munching on some baked goods.
That smelt suspiciously like Plaggs stinky cheese.
"Her Marinette, " he greeted with a smile.
She turned sharply at his words, and then her face lit up in a smile.
"Good morning Adrien! You seem a bit frazzled today."
"Yeah Adrien," Alya chimed in, "in a rush today?"
Looking down at himself, he noticed his shirt was askew from Plagg pulling on it, and one of his socks was tucked over his pants.
"Uh, yeah, i was kinda in a rush to leave my house." he muttered, embarrassed.
Alya just smirked at him.
Wierd.
He was suddenly jabbed hard in the chest. A glance down showed Plaggs huge eyes pleading with him, and then glancing at the blue eyed teen.
"Hey Mari, what do you have there?!" he asked quietly, after rearranging his appearance.
"Oh! Papa made some camembert filled danishes this morning! For some reason, he woke up to wheels and wheels of it piled in our fridge!" she finished with a giggle.
"O- oh," he stuttered. Odd. Marinette's dad had never baked with cheese in all the time he had known Mari. "How... Odd."
The girl just giggled.
He slid into his seat and faced the front. But Plagg wasn't done, apparently. He kept jabbing the blondes chest. What did he want him to do?! Steal Marinette's breakfast?!
The more he ignored his kwami though, the harder he got jabbed.
A hiss harshly filled the room. Everyone present looked at him, shocked.
"uh, uh" he scrambled for something to say. "stabbed myself with a pencil on accident. Hurts."
He turned back to the front, and stared down at his desk, cheeks flaming. He tried To madly squish his kwami in his pocket to get him to stop.
Behind him, he heard rustling paper, and then more delicious smells from the seat behind him. Never before had Plaggs cheese smelt this good, even to him!
A loud moan emanated from Adrien's shirt pocket.
Once again, everyone turned to him.
"Adrien, are you ok?"
He turned to see Marinette staring at him in sympathy.
Shit.
He got lost for a few moments in the alluring blue of her eyes. But was drawn out harshly when she blushed prettily.
"S-so s-sorry," he stuttered. "I smelt your baked goods, and it reminded me of how inadequate and tasteless my own breakfast was."
More pretty blushes.
"I'm so sorry Adrien. If I had known, I would have saved you my last one." she spoke breathily.
He quickly scooted to look forward as Plagg let out another wail from his pocket. Making Adrien's face flame redder.
A hand on his shoulder had his shooting out of his chair in surprise, making him bang his knee on the desk sharply. Looking back, Marinette was just pulling her hand back towards herself.
God, how embarrassing! People were going to think he was a lunatic!!
"I believe papa has some more left. We could go get you some? There's 10 minutes left before class."
A huge sigh of relief left Adrien. He quickly nodded his head, and bent down to push his bag farther under his desk so nobody would trip on it.
And of course, Plagg had to open his big fat mouth right then.
"Oh my God, Marinette, I love you! "
The whole class froze, and Adrien stood up sharply.
Snickers could be heard all over the place, and his face was as red as a tomato.
"Did uh... I say that out loud?!" he whispered, horrified.
"Sure did lover boy!" Alya cried between giggles and tears.
Fucking Plagg!
Plagg phased through Marinette's bag, not surprising the red God at all.
"Im surprised it took you this long to come over." she stated.
"What the hell was that?!" the black God demanded. "I thought you said pranks were stupid?!"
"No, i said YOUR pranks are stupid." the ladybug kwami stated with a self satisfied smirk.
I think we knew who came out the winner that year ;)