I said I won't take any long hiatuses so, here I am one day after my last chap post to give u another chap. :D please enjoy the story!!

also, I'm supposed to mention this story is based off 'Miraculous ladybug: tales of ladybug and chat noir'. And THAT is not owned by me lol. I'm just a nonbinary person who likes writing stories :)

I would also sometime like to write a Chat pov chapter after this ends cause he's my fav character in the show and he deserves more praise/attention/superhero-y moments instead of being a sidekick/damsel in distress.

ok, thass it. story commences here:

Tikki thinks I'm crazy after everything I've just told her. I understand someone waking up from a nightmare and blabbering about someone's death in reality would make them sound crazy so Tikki's probably right. Maybe everything else was a dream, and today is my reality and I'm wasting it writing down rules about a reality that doesn't exist. On the other hand, maybe this could actually help me.

After writing down everything I've gathered so far about the dream, I've been able to figure out some few rules of some sort.

1) The most obvious rule: The day can only repeat if Chat dies. Note: He only dies as Chat and not as Adrien.

2) Everything happens at a specific time and no specific thing can happen until something before it happens first. (this might be important)

3) I can't use my lucky charm at all to solve anything

4) I can't die before Chat does because I am needed for this loop to continue. I'm the only one who seems to be in a loop after all

and 5) There's going to be an akuma who always ends up killing Chat somehow.

I have at most three options that could work: 1) If I somehow die or kill myself before Chat himself dies. Problem with that is, I'd be dead. If I die, well, I won't go to college or have kids and a hamster. Plus, it's too risky, maybe I'll still end up waking up from a dream, or worse, Chat might still die after I die and I won't be there to repeat the loop, then, we'd both be dead.

Option 2: I can keep Chat from ever coming into contact with the akumatized victim seeing that he's the one who keeps killing Chat in the first place. Maybe, I can even prevent Adrien from ever transforming.

Option 3: I can prevent an akuma in the first place by finding this Combustion guy before he even becomes akumatized and calming him down. But there's tonnes of Parisians in Paris! How am I supposed to find one single person in all of Paris!?

Option two is the most reasonable to me. Thanks to Adrien's oblivious nature, he doesn't even know he'd practically just told me he was Chat Noir. And I think I already have the perfect plan set in motion to keep that idiot from being Chat Noir...

Tikki looks outside the window as screams resonate through the streets of Paris. "Marinette, I think it's time to let your dream puzzle go and save Paris!" she says, so to keep her sound in mind, I transform into Ladybug. Of course, the first thing I do is test out my lucky charm and like I predicted, it doesn't work.

The second thing I do is wait. I can only imagine Chat fighting off the akuma on his own, and I swear to myself I'm doing this for his own sake. If he has to die today so that I can save him tomorrow, so be it. And if he has to die at all at some point in our future, I'll have to accept it. I'll have to move on. It's a responsibility a superhero should be able to handle. He's supposed to have nine lives after all and I'm willing to save every last one of them.

"No worries," I reassure Tikki, "I'll save Paris soon." And it's then that I wake up again, as Marinette, with Tikki hovering above my face. I carry on as if it were the most normal day of my life but I'm secretly repeating the same thing in my head: This plan better work.

sorry this one is extremely short but the next one might be the longest yet. maybe I'll split it into two chaps too. idk lol. um, Chile. anyways, so... I feel like ending this one here would be better instead of just continuing the chap as if it were some boring old chapter. the next chap is probably the last! I have to start it with a bang! so thanks again for reading my fanfic. I really enjoy the actual show even with the cringe sometimes lol. I'm sincerely still in the fandom cause I want more Marichat, there's also the Hawkmoth reveal to Adrien, the ladynoir reveal, Adrien's mum coming back to life, or waking up! (I really don't know if she's dead or just in the 'sleeping beauty' kind of sleep)but wow, it's all so interesting to just leave the fandom cause of some cringe lol. anyway, thass it. see u in the next chap! Hopefully, I won't just forget about this story for an entire week again. okay, byebye!