Chapter 32

At the manor of the Agreste's, Adrien entered into the dining room and took his seat at the end of the large table, then glanced at a sheet, which had an arrow pointing at the table, where he saw three plates placed far away from him making him furrow his eyebrows perplexed and grabbed the sheet to look around and see a note from his father's assistant Nathalie Sancoeur.

"Dear Adrien. I spoke with your father and he allowed me to call one of your friends to come over for dinner. Nino Lahiffe was his name. I know you two are such good friends so I convinced your father to at least have you two spend time together until you leave for London the next few days. We will be joining dinner a little late, but don't wait for us, the chef knows about you. Oh and don't worry, today's menu is Vanille-Curry shredded chicken. Your friend doesn't need to worry about the meat,"

"Wow that's cool," Adrien spoke, then took a photo of it and sat down, then opened his messages to see several of his friends online, and on the top he had the names Aja, William, Jake, Rolland and Nino, afterward he picked Nino's name to send him a message, then before he began to type Nino just had sent him at that moment a message, which Adrien saw and smiled.

"I'm waiting here for you Sir Agreste," Nino's comment said with four laughing emojis. Adrien replied with a thumb up, then noticed another message coming in, which was from his current girlfriend Aja.

"Our Jake just lost the USB stick with our presentation and this before the due date. Have you still got the old file of us saved?" The girlfriend questioned with a puppy eye emoji.

"Oh boy not again," Adrien groaned, then Adrien pressed on the recording button to send the girl a voice message. "Hey Aja, I have it inside my laptop in my dorm, ask William to let you in and I'll tell you where it is," Adrien let go of the button, then placed his smartphone on the table and left the dining room to look out for his friend Nino. Adrien opened the door to see Nino entering past the gate at the end of the plot, then he saw Adrien and ran toward him to embrace him.

"Dude I can't believe your old man called me to see you. What did you do to him?" Questioned the brown-skinned boy.

"Nothing, I rarely saw him today," Adrien explained. "I'm wondering why he allowed you to come over,"

"Hope it's not bad," Nino commented walking into the dining room along with the blonde, then Nino sat on the side and watched Adrien sit down on his place, where he left his smartphone. "Hey guess who's pregnant?"

"Uh…...your mom?" Guessed the friend making Nino shake his head.

"No, it's Miss Bustier,"

"Really? I didn't know she was married or in a relationship,"

"Apparently she is," Nino answered. "Explains why she was nauseous the past weeks,"

"Yep,"

"How was the fencing tournament?" Questioned the brunette boy. "Did your team win?"

"We ended in fourth place,"
"That's still great though," Nino assured earning a nod from the blonde. "Thanks Nino….how's your superhero duty going? I haven't spotted you out a lot lately,"

"You know besides Ladybug and Onyx, there's also Hydra and Super Snake. They're the ones, who have the best powers to use, I'm more of a protector," Nino replied. "I'm happy when we don't fail together,"

"That's great. I wish I could be with you working against Hawk Moth, but we know this won't happen again after what happened back with Miracle Queen,"

"I know you do. Onyx has quite been a good help to Ladybug along with the others, but that's good as long as Paris doesn't get endangered by any more akumas," Explained the brown-eyed boy. "Ladybug made sure we all could train together and improve our skills. Probably why we made a good job the past times,"

"Sure I believe that. Keep up the good work and soon or later Hawk Moth will be in our hands," Adrien stated watching Nino pick out his smartphone as he felt it vibrate to check a message he received from Alya.

"Oh wow, I wonder who made it to take a picture of Ladybug kissing Onyx," Nino said surprised watching Adrien get up to see in the picture, where Ladybug had her hands on Onyx's face, making the former superhero smile.

"Wow, If you knew how much I would have given to have Ladybug kiss me the way she's doing right now," Adrien noted making Nino look neutral at him.

"If you think something is going on between them, there's nothing. Ladybug had a crush on him, but apparently, he is into someone else and both decided to stay as friends. But we know newspapers and all that like to make up stories," Nino explained making Adrien chuckle.

"I know, I still feel sad, that there's no way I and Ladybug could ever be a thing, but I've got Aja now and she's been so far really cool,"

"Cool. Make sure you treat her the way she deserves. Be attentive to her and all. You know sometimes we don't appreciate what we have until we lost it,"

"I believe you," Adrien agreed walking back to his table as the chef appeared carrying two salads for the boys.


At the house of Marinette, she sat along with Luka on the chaise lounge chatting in the presence of Tikki, which was looking at the computer screen at the movie the duo was supposed to watch.

"You really didn't know his identity and kept rejecting him?" Luka questioned earning a nod from Marinette. "Wow, now that's the hardest Karma someone can experience,"

"Kind of the only thing in here I can call karma is the fact, I've been attracted to Onyx, then ended up being rejected just like I did with Cat Noir as he was interested in my Ladybug side,"

"Okay that too," Agreed Luka. "But why this nonsense of superheroes not having to know each other's identities? That would facilitate a few things in life. I mean when you gave me the miraculous or anyone else you knew it,"

"Well Cat Noir and I were supposed to have taken care of Hawk Moth about earlier perhaps, but now as some akumas got stronger we needed more help and Master Fu handed out more miraculouses to use, but he couldn't distribute them cause he would put himself in danger. Sadly the last time I blew up our meeting by visiting him in my super suit, which Hawk Moth somehow managed to catch up and trap him later on,"

"Lot of things could be different if you had known Adrien's identity just like everyone else's before. But we never know, it could have been worse,"

"Yeah…..hey, I just noticed Bunnyx didn't show up yet. The last time she showed up because Onyx's identity got known by Hydra and something in the future happened, which lead us all to doom. This was the second time it had to do with an identity revelation. About us two, she hasn't shown up yet, which is definitely a good sign as nothing about what happened today is going to ruin anything in the future,"

"These things about the alternate futures have always confused me. This I have to admit,"

"I've dealt with that a few times. Similar to dealing with akumas, but at different time,"

"Okay," Luka responded, then saw Marinette's smartphone vibrate as it received a message and Marinette opened it and sighed, while Luka looked at her, which showed him the news site with Ladybug kissing Onyx.

"Ladybug & Onyx new in the top ten celebrity pair list?"

"Who took that picture?" Luka questioned making Marinette shrug her shoulders.

"I don't know. But the person has a very excellent camera to be able to do that," Answered the Chinese girl. "If people ask us anything we tell them it was nothing, we're just friends. Or better Onyx answers the questions, he's more likely to be precise in answering them and not mess up sentences just like I do,"

"I don't think you do it bad as Ladybug,"

"Yes you're right, but about this sort of stuff I'm not really safe in giving answers," Explained the superheroine.

"You two can face it together without any problem. Just focus on what you have to say, not what the others want you to say"

"We will together," Stated the blue-haired girl, then saw another message enter into her smartphone, which was from Onyx.

"I and Hydra planned to train our fencing skills together at the top of the gym hall at the elementary school at 9th arrondissement. If anyone's interested,"

"Are you going?" Luka questioned making Marinette shake her head.

"I promised to watch a movie with you. I'm not going to postpone it as long as there isn't an akuma attack,"

"Okay that's good then," Luka answered watching Marinette move the computer screen toward the two, so both could together watch the movie they had chosen.


Hydra and Onyx fought on the top of a hall hastily with their weapons. Hydra's skills seemed to have gotten better with the time, along with her reaction time at every hit she blocked from the male superhero. Onyx walked back while parrying attacks from his friend approaching the end of the roof, then he jumped at the edge of the roof bouncing over the girl, which smirked pulling him on the tail, so he would fall down.

"Hey! That's cheating!" Onyx complained making Hydra laughing, then she went down on her knees to help the superhero up.

"You know villains don't care if they cheat or not, right?" Pointed out the raven-haired heroine watching Onyx pass his hands above his arms to wipe down dust from the suit.

"Yes, you've got a point there," Confessed the cat-themed superhero. "By the way, when have we practiced together the last time? I've noticed your skills are way better than mines. Now I really had to take myself together to duel you now"

"Well….I've been training a few times with a friend of mine. I actually lied to her I'd love to join fencing class, but in reality, I just want to improve my sword skills,"

"I've been thinking about if I should join or not. I may as well wait a few months to see how the fights with akumas will go on so far, otherwise, I can learn with you," Onyx stated earning a nod from the girl.

"I'd love to," Responded the superheroine, then watched Onyx put his staff back and gaze over the city along with Hydra, which recognized the sound of music coming from somewhere and looked up at Onyx.

"Is there any concert hall in the near?"

"I think it's the opera house down there," Onyx noticed. "I think it's like the Broadway of Paris you know,"

"Broadway?" Questioned the superheroine watching the friend shrug his shoulders.

"Okay probably the wrong way to describe it, but shows occur there,"

"Mostly opera-related thought,"

"Yes, are you interested in to going there?" Onyx offered making Hydra shrug her shoulders.

"Into the opera?"

"Well I don't think that's possible right now, but we can go to the top of it?" Suggested Onyx watching Hydra ponder about it and nod convinced to join him. "Come on," Onyx jumped at the next roof followed by Hydra making their way at a large building in an Italian architectural style therefore Hydra stopped before getting to the top of that building.

"Wow" Hydra commented admiring the building, then looked at Onyx, which was staring at the house, then moved his head to the friend, noticing with his head to jump at the top of the building and they got at the top of the opera, where the main entrance was recognizing the topic of the music play.

"I think I've heard this once somewhere," Onyx mentioned seeing Hydra admire the golden statue at the corner of the building, then he approached her and she smiled at him as he came to see it too.

"I need to check this building out from the inside one day and any play I can get into," Hydra commented earning a nod from Onyx.

"Anyday you'll get the chance to see a show here," Onyx assured. "Hey you…..could ask any of your friends or your mother," Suggested Onyx earning a nod from the superheroine.

"I'm not sure if they're interested in this,"

"Just suggest them, one of them will for sure go out with you there," Onyx assured earning a nod from Hydra, then Onyx looked at the rest of the rooftop, grabbing Hydra's hand making her furrow her eyebrows bewildered at his deed, then he pointed to the other side of the building and he jumped forward at the next roof edge heading to the round part of the building, then Onyx took his staff to catapult himself with the girl up to the roof, then Hydra looked around encountering on the triangle-shaped side of the roof behind the round level another statue with a posing horse, then she looked back to admire the city from the Garniér opera as Onyx took a glimpse through the window of the round room to see if he could see anything.

"Nothing to see here. The hall must be located behind there. It sounds louder to my ears,"

"You've got a good hearing, Onyx," Hydra commented making the hero grin.

"Yes, I think it's part of my miraculous. I even see better in the dark than usual,"

"It's great for you to use in the darkness, mostly during akuma attacks," Hydra said earning a nod from the raven-haired superhero, listening to the audience, then widened his eyes as he heard various types of string instruments beginning to play and he looked at Hydra, which noticed them too and he held out his hand at the girl, which looked at his hand and up at him unknowing what he meant.

"Care for a little dance?" Onyx asked the heroine, which smiled a little at the offer of the superhero, then she placed her hand on his and he pulled her with him walking upon the sphere, then took her other hand behind his back and looked at Hydra, which looked up at the boy. "You know how to dance, right?"

"Not really" Hydra answered earning a nod from the superhero, which slowly guided the girl around looking at their feet along with the friend as he showed her some simple steps she could go on with. "Just like this?" Asked the Chinese descendant girl making the tallboy nod guiding her and watching the movements of the raven-haired which she was imprinting during the moment.

"You're doing it well," Complimented the cat miraculous holder making the girl smile, which passed under Onyx's arm as he slowly spun her and pulled back. Both took four steps aside going near the wall, then Onyx stopped to gently rotate Hydra, which afterward led back against him mistakenly bump onto his chest, shrieking Yi's alter ego provoking a small chuckle on the big guy. She copied his reaction, pleased he didn't feel bothered by the minor accident, and continued their little waltzer on the rooftop, this time Hydra had gained the confidence to take the steps while Onyx guided her along the roof noticing the ballad from the inside of the opera get higher making Hydra's smile bigger and Onyx's was more of a charming one at admiring her childhood friend in the super suit dancing with him. Down at the streets, a couple of citizens stood around chatting with each other, then one of the men, which was listening to the group looked up at the roof, therefore squinted his eyes recognizing the dragon and cat miraculous holder waltzing together on the rooftop of the opera and he moved a friend on the shoulder and pointed up at the duo, waiting for the friend and the group gaze up to the dancing superheroes, fascinating the group, which admired the situation.

Hydra made two spins under the lead of the dark-dressed superhero, then got pulled back onto the arms of the superhero, which caught her and gazed onto the yellow-brownish sclera of the dragon miraculous holder. Hydra stared into the ones of Onyx, then turned her lips from the line she had into a lovely smile, which was mirrored by the raven-haired superhero, who slowly approached the heroine with his face going on for a kiss, followed by Hydra closing her eyes to lean in for it. Hydra placed her arms on Onyx's chest, moving her feet up to get to his height and before she kissed him, she opened her eyes again feeling disturbed and murmured under her breath turning into water, followed by Onyx moving his head further, then used his arm to palpate around him and opened his eyes to notice Hydra wasn't there.

"Hydra?" Onyx asked, then spotted on the roof water ran down the roof and materialize itself on the other roof next to them and saw Hydra appear. "There you are, "Onyx mentioned sliding down from the roof down at the friend.

"I'm sorry Onyx…..I think I wasn't ready for this now," Hydra commented making Onyx nod.

"Sorry I didn't mean to kiss you just like that. I got carried away"

"It's alright…..you know you just made me think about a friend of mine in my civilian life," Stated the heroine making Onyx wide his eyes.

"Really?…...Uh really?" Onyx tried to sound surprised at the sentence of the girl, then she nodded and leaned her back on the wall of the roof.

"Well we had a conversation together and during the conversation, we were talking and looking into the eyes and I got lost in his eyes and ended up kissing him. I'm not sure now if he actually wanted to kiss me or not. I know the other days he tried to talk with me about it, but I didn't want him to waste his time on me if he doesn't seem interested in me. He offered me to try that kiss out again, but I didn't want him to do it, just because the other day it didn't work out,"

"That kind of sounds strange now, to be honest. Didn't you think he just reacted wrong and…..I don't know, tried to explain to you, that he may like you, but because of what happened with Oni-Chan passing near you his fear may have overtaken him in some way?"

"I don't know. It sounds realistic, but the way he looked at me, made me feel estranged and worried about his thoughts,"

"Well…..maybe you two should talk about that again…..Like we have to…..you got to let each other finish first what you want to say and listen to the other. You'll both will fix that issue,"

"Well it's worth a try," Stated the heroine earning a nod from the superhero, then she looked around the city and back to the raven-haired superhero, that was staring at the half-moon in the sky and the heroine approached the hero to embrace him, making him wide his eyes. "Thanks for the advice,"

"No…..problem" Responded the cat superhero, then watched Hydra jump to the next building leaving the superhero alone, which smiled from the hug he received from his crush afterward he looked down to see a limousine break down, then he took out his staff to jump down at the road to approach the vehicle and saw from the back her school comrade Chloé Bourgeois get out of it annoyed at the breakdown.

"Need help?" Questioned the cat superhero watching Chloé stare at him and smile euphoric at recognizing the superhero, then she ran against him to give him a hug.

"Wow, you're Onyx!" Chloé announced, then took a look at him and looked up at the boy. "Oh, you're actually hotter in real life than in the images they take of you,"

"Uh…...thanks," Onyx responded, then looked at the driver opening the hood on the front and saw smoke coming out of it. "Wow, that looks bad,"

"We're now getting late to daddy's birthday, because of this. You know how to fix a car?"

"No, the only thing I could do for you, would be bringing you to the party or get a tow truck to come" Offered Onyx watching Chloé think about his suggestion.

"I could use some help to take the gifts to the party,"

"Sure, how many are they?" Onyx questioned watching Chloé open the door to reveal half of the limousine filled with various types of presents making Onyx wide his eyes.

"Around 10 pieces I think," Chloé responded. "It won't be a problem, right?"

"I may need a few times…...but…... I can help you out," Onyx answered making Chloé smile and take out a few presents, then loaded the superhero with all the presents she managed to take out of the car.