Chapter 15
Funny Fact: I cut out of boredom of a used sheet the names of the classmates to make the draw for the compliments in the class.
At the start of the next week Gabriel Agreste went together with the mother of Kagami to the city hall and waited there inside a meeting room for the state agent they want to discuss their idea about building a home for the homeless pets and to offer the homeless people a spot for them to work there, until they find a place to work and live.
"Are you and Kagami feeling alright after, what happened on the night after our dinner?" Questioned the fashion designer earning a nod from the blue-haired woman.
"Nothing harmed us" Responded Tomoe. "Our driver is recovering from the concussion and might come out of the hospital at the end of the week."
"That is good" Replied Mr. Agreste. "If you two don't feel safe at home, we have free rooms in the house and you and Kagami could sleep there until this guy gets caught"
"Thank you Gabriel-san, but it's not necessary"
"Sure, but in case you change your mind, the door is always open" The blonde said making the Japanese woman smile, afterward the door got open and at the entrance appeared a woman with blonde hair carrying a file on her hands, then she walked up at the two, that sat in front of the meeting desk and gave the two her hand.
"Sorry for the delay, I'm Mrs. Hapréle and I've talked with you on the telephone last week Mr. Agreste. As I heard about your idea I've looked through all the buildings, that are free and picked up a few of them. I can explain to you how I imagined everything in and outside of the building and if you two want we can change some things or remove or add some more details." The woman explained sitting down next to Gabriel showing him the first four pictures of different types of buildings, then Gabriel picked up the third image which was a large factory over an island, that was located at the Seine. Gabriel recognized the building, which used to be a car manufacturer and built in the past many French vehicles for the imports and for selling.
"This old car factory would be perfect," Gabriel said, then Mrs. Hapréle took from her file a few sheets out and handed them to the man.
"The first idea would be the ground floor would have the cages for the stray pets with dog doors, so they could always go in and out to the outside, which would be surrounded by fences. At the outside I also thought on a small path for people to go look around and watch the strays, walking in the free space."
"Sounds neat" Replied Mrs. Tsurugi.
"In the kennels nowadays the pets have also a free space to walk and play, but it's not as big as it's going to be here" Mrs. Hapréle explained the two adults vice versa to her. "I don't know if you wanted to do anything else on the second floor, so I brought these ideas here" The blonde woman mentioned handing out the sheets at Gabriel Agreste, so he could look at them.
"The first drabble is only a copy of the first floor with the cages, including a stairway down to the latter mentioned floor. The second drabble contains at the end of the floor a veterinary station, who depending on who you organize to come here either work all day here or in her own clinic and comes by, when necessary."
"Okay"
"In front of the veterinary on the right side is going to be the office of the warden, next to it would be the souvenir shop, if you're planning to have one or we can leave it out. On the other side would be the stall for the people to buy snacks and drinks, next to it would be the restrooms….and eventually, I might change this up to here, where the souvenir shop is or right next to the office if the souvenir shop isn't part of the plans"
"Good and the other ones?" Asked Gabriel moving together with the woman to the next sheet.
"This one is quite similar to the first, besides the office takes place here, where the vet was in the first sketch. The souvenirs are now here in front of the office and vice versa from the souvenirs will be the stall for the snacks, new here, where the toilets were in the first will be one or two elevators and on the other side of the room the restrooms"
"The fourth one the vet and the office are here on the back together, in front of the vet are the restrooms, while in front of the office the stall stands along with the souvenir shop and the lifts. Next to the toilets will be a row of cages again for the strays."
"They're all good," Gabriel said. "The last one I liked the most"
"That's great, what about you Mrs. Tsurugi?" The woman asked looking at the woman, that had her eyes covered with her sunglasses.
"The last two sounded great to me, but I thought about instead of having a souvenir shop, there could be a side, where only the restrooms, the stand and the lifts were and on the other end more cages for the animals, but for those, who have special needs and need to recover. Maybe a special cage or room for them?" Tomoe Tsurugi suggested then the woman appointed it on the last sheet, she showed the two adults.
"Okay about the outside now, have you got any special wishes?" Questioned Madame Hapréle and Gabriel glanced at Mrs. Tsurugi, who had her face straight at the woman.
"Is it possible, that we could talk with a gardener or a landscaper about this?" Gabriel asked the woman.
"You need most likely to meet one of them and explain your situation and they would give you any ideas about how it should look like for the pets. I don't think it needs to be a perfect garden since most of the pets use it as a bathroom to do their needs"
"Yes of course, but I was more thinking about, that the homeless people, we would hire could walk the pets around like normal owners"
"Or we could also let visitors walk the pets for free?" Suggested the mother of Kagami. "Eventually if that person starts to like the pet and the pet likes the person too, they could also adopt the pet if they want"
"Just like in the kennels?"
"What would be also a good idea would be for children and teens to spend a few hours with a pet and take care of them like the pet really belonged to them, so they could learn how much responsibility it takes to own a pet."
"That's something I wanted to do with my son at some point, but I was afraid it wouldn't work out or Adrien would get hurt by the pet"
"This wouldn't happen that easy Gabriel"
"I know, it was long ago I wanted to give my son a pet. It was on the time my wife had disappeared. My former assistant Nathalie had suggested me to buy my son a Labrador"
"Labradors are very smart dogs. Back in Japan people had suggested me to get one to use as assistance when I went out."
"So you had one?"
"No, but I was always busy with Kagami's schedule, that I decided to not get one, because then I wouldn't have any time to take care of him" Explained Mrs. Agreste earning a nod from the blonde.
"If you two want, I can look up for addresses for all the available gardeners and landscapes around Paris, so you can get more ideas for the outside. I also will hand you out my visit card and if you want I can suggest you some architects and companies to take care of the renovation of the building, if we're staying with this one"
"Sure I'm fine with it and Mrs. Tsurugi?" Asked Adrien's father looking at the mother of his son's girlfriend, who nodded in agreement with the man. "Yes we take that house"
"Good so I can prepare the contract for you two to sign," The woman said taking out from her file a tablet, then placed it on the table turning it on. Afterward, she opened the writing app to search for the specific contract, that was needed for the two.
At the Françoise Dupont high school, the class of Miss Bustier went back into their classroom after the break to attend her next lessons, which was English.
"Good morning everyone" Greeted Miss Bustier watching all the classmates entering into her room, then Rose passed by the teacher.
"Morning Miss Bustier, can I pick out a name from the jar to give her a compliment?" Asked the short blonde earning a nod from the teacher.
"Of course you can" Responded the redhead with a smile watching the short girl happily pick the jar with the names of the classmates to put her hand in it and take a small note out of the jar, afterward she opened the sheet to read the name.
"I've got Nathaniel," Rose said making the redhead groan as he had to come to the front of the class.
"Why me?" Nathaniel asked as he was about to sit down next to the girlfriend.
"Lucky you, it ain't me," Lila said making Nathaniel look bewildered at her.
"Why?"
"Well you wouldn't like the compliments I would give you," Lila said wiggling with her eyebrows setting the boy in shock.
"Lila, you're crazy"
"You don't need to tell me something I already know Nathy" Lila replied with a giggle, then Nathaniel walked to Rose, who smiled at him excited to hear his compliment.
"You already know that and I probably said this like a thousand times, but you're the nicest girl in our school"
"Awww thank you so much Nathaniel and you've got the funkiest hairstyle from all the boys here," Rose said looking at her classmates, then watched Kim caress his blonde highlight over his hair.
"You forgot me Rose," Kim said forming his hand into a pistol, making the short teenage girl giggle.
"Sorry, but Nath has the best," Rose said watching Nathaniel head back to his seat and dropped his arms over the table.
"Can I pick the next two?" Asked Rose earning a nod from the teacher, therefore Rose stuck her arm into the jar again and Alya got up from her sheet walking with her tablet in her arms.
"Miss Bustier, can I prepare myself for the presentation?" Questioned the Martinic descendant girl, then the teacher agreed accompanying the girl to her desk to assist her in connecting the tablet with the overhead projector.
"Now we have to call….Ivan and…..Marinette to the front of the class" Rose said watching Marinette get up from her seat followed by Ivan, who was sitting vice versa to the empty seat next to Marinette.
"That will be interesting," Rose said watching Marinette and Ivan stood in front of each other, wondering, what they could say about each other.
"I like the fact you always seem to find a solution to everything," Ivan said making the girl with the pigtails smile.
"The best thing I find about you Ivan is, that you're always there for your friends and your girlfriend, whenever they need you"
"Aww that was cute," Rose said putting her arm into the jar again. "This is the last time I promise," Rose said looking at Miss Bustier, that checked together with Alya on the tablet if the presentation was working.
"Now we got….Juleka and Kagami" Rose said watching her girlfriend and her friend come to the front of the class to give each other a compliment.
"My favorite thing about you is your smile," Kagami said making Rose smile and hug her tall girlfriend.
"That's my favorite thing about her too"
"Aww," Kagami said watching Juleka turn a little pink on her face as the shorter girl gave her a hug.
"Boohoo, I'm crying, can we start the lessons, please? I want to learn something" Chloé said waving her hand in front of her mouth after yawning.
"Only Juleka needs to say something, then we're done. It only takes a few seconds" Rose said earning a nod from the two friends beside her.
"What do you want her to say?" Asked Chloé.
"A compliment. That's what all this game is about" Rose responded at the other blonde girl. "Come on Juleka, you can do it"
"You're very smart Kagami," Juleka said a little quiet, making Kagami smile, who following after wide her eyes as she heard along with the girl Chloé interrupting them again.
"Everyone in the class knows she's smart and very skilled at fencing. Don't you have something new?" Asked Chloé.
"Chloé Bourgeois, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all" Miss Bustier said glaring sternly at the daughter of the mayor.
"But what's the point of this game, if certain people keep saying the same thing about the others?" Asked the girl.
"Chloé just listen to Miss Bustier and stay out of it" Adrien ordered his childhood friend. "Arguing about something, that belongs to our school schedule is none of your business"
"Ignore Chloé, just tell anything, so we can go back to our seats," Kagami told the girl earning a nod from the raven-haired girl.
"You...you're p...pretty" Complimented Juleka making the Japanese girl smile, then shriek as again the mayor's daughter raised her voice in the middle of the class.
"Aha! I told you Adrikins you couldn't trust this sushi-eating rat. She's flirting with Juleka!"
"No one is flirting here!" Hissed Adrien annoyed with the attitude of his friend. "That was just a normal compliment"
"What is your problem Chloé?" Asked the Japanese descendant girl. "Why do you have to mess with the others"
"That's one of your business, Kagami" Replied the blonde crossing her arms, causing the brown-eyed girl to roll her eyes.
"What's the point of this conversation," The girl said looking at Juleka, that was sad about the situation, then Kagami placed her arm behind the raven-haired girl's back to caress it. "Forget everything Chloé said" The blue-haired girl said watching the girl make her way back to the seat and sit down, followed by Rose and the blonde focused along with the other classmates on Alya's presentation. The overhead projector got turned on showing a picture of a young journalist with short brown hair with several photos related with the news and down on the presentation, Alya had her full name on it, followed by the theme of her presentation.
"Greetings everyone, I'm going to do a presentation about one of my favorite idols. I wanted to do about Ladybug, but she had got retired a few years ago. So my second choice was the young journalist River Langerak, who visited this high school here and she accepted it and I spend the whole afternoon with her, seeing her at the work and she told me, how she got there" Alya said, then used a remote to change on her power point to the next slide showing the table of contents of her presentation.
At the last row, Nathaniel was drawing on his sketchbook, then Lila came with her face closer to his ear to whisper into it.
"When Alix is going to do the presentation about you and how are you going to manage this?" The brunette asked her boyfriend.
"Don't worry, I have a stupid plan" Responded Nathaniel. "I'm pretending, that I have to go during the presentations to the toilet, then I transform into a hero and enter through the window to visit all"
"You're going to pretend, that you got diarrhea or something?"
"More like a terrible stomach-ache" Corrected the redhead. "Don't worry, I'll be careful"
"Alright and please don't do anything crazy, during the presentation"
"Of course not" Nathaniel promised the girl, then got nudged by her. Parallel to the couple Rose was paying attention to Alya's presentation, next to her Juleka had her head leaned down to the desk sobbing quietly, afterward she cleaned her tears with her hand and lied her head down on the table earning a surprised look of her girlfriend.
"Come Juleka, forget what Chloé said. She's not worth your attention" Rose said passing her hand on Juleka's back to comfort her.
"Is Juleka crying?" Asked the Vietnamese classmate looking back at Rose, watching the dark-dressed girl sob on her arms, then watched Rose nod to respond in mute at his question. "Maybe she needs to be alone for a moment until she feels better?"
"Too bad Luka isn't here for us, he knows how to calm her down," Rose said afterward Juleka got up and passed behind Nathaniel and Lila, who gazed back at her worried about her feelings, also the students in front of them noted, that something was wrong with the raven-haired girl.
"Juleka, are you alright?" Asked the Italian girl, then as the sister of Luka passed beside Ivan, Kagami got up from her seat and grabbed the girl on her hand.
"You don't have to go out there all alone. Stay here with your friends, stay here with Rose" Kagami suggested the girl with the purple streak, who looked away from the Asian descendant girl. "Come with me"
"Kagami please go back to your seat." Commanded Miss Bustier making Kagami sight and walk back to her seat. "Juleka, you know you're a very great and strong girl. You had a rough childhood as your father had left your family all alone"
"So that's why she doesn't have a boyfriend like everyone else"
"Chloé!" Shouted the half of the classmates.
"Girl can you just shell up for the next few hours?" Asked the Moroccan descendant student, that sat next to Adrien.
"Loving someone of the same gender isn't wrong" Added Myléne.
"Of course it is!" Hissed Chloé. "I mean, how is she supposed to found a family in the future if she and Rose are both females?" Asked Chloé looking at Juleka, that looked back at Rose, which got shocked about the question. Juleka covered her face starting to cry, making all the others look at her beside Chloé in pitifulness.
"Your luck Chloé is, that Ladybug and Cat Noir have defeated Hawk Moth a few years ago. If Hawk Moth was still around, he for sure would have akumatized Juleka, so she could kick your ass" Alix said glaring at the blonde girl.
"Good thing now I don't have to worry about it anymore," Chloé said with a short chuckle, then on the side of the desk, Lila smashed with her flat hands on the table shrieking Chloé.
"You know what you are?" Asked the Italian girl. "You're a miserable, spoiled brat"
"Who asked you Pinocchio?" The blonde asked, then behind Lila Juleka fell on her knees looking at the ground, afterward, all classmates turned their eyes on her to see her there inhaling in and out slowly.
"Juleka are you alright?" Asked Adrien coming down at her to see her facial expression wasn't sad anymore, but now angry.
"Juleka is gone for now," Juleka said with a deep voice disappearing in a cloud of dark smoke and the raven-haired girl had disappeared and a dark blue tune colored version of Reflekta stood there with the hair gelled up like a manga character forming pyramid-like form. On the place of the skirt, the villain wore a blue kilt coming down to her knees and light blue thighs and dark blue boots. "The name is Genderbend"
"Oh oh," Adrien said making Marinette gulp about the akumatization of her boyfriend's sister.
"But wasn't Hawk Moth already defeated?" Asked Nino looking at the blonde, who shrugged the shoulders and Kagami passed beside Nino and Adrien slowly heading at the exit of the classroom.
"Where do you think you're going?" Asked Genderbend raising her arm up aiming with her laser gun, she had installed on her arm at the Japanese girl, that shrieked as the villain caught her.
"Out of here" Responded Kagami making Chloé laugh.
"You all say she's very brave and all that and look now who wants to leave this classroom as soon as an akuma appears?"
"Shut up Chloé, she's one of the fewer girls here that have the guts to tell you off your shitty behavior"
"Talking about shitty behavior have you first listened to your voice?" Asked the blonde. "You sound like that weird Swede from the Bing Bong Song"
"Well if I were you I would take a nice selfie of yourself, cause afterward you'll not going to look that pretty anymore"
"If I have to look like you it's not gonna make you look better, cause you still look as awful as before" Chloé mentioned making Genderbend furrow her eyebrows in anger, lifting her arm up pointing at Chloé, then as she fired her laser arrow Chloé got pulled to the floor towards Genderbend and the laser hit Sabrina instead.
"Sabrina!" Shouted a few classmates, afterwards, Sabrina had changed gender and now she had short red hair similar to Kagami's, a purple men vest and light blue shorts with black shoes on her feet.
"Sabrina has turned into a guy" Lila mentioned surprised standing close to Miss Bustier, which had grabbed the brunette on the arms to avoid her from going back.
"That explains, why the name Genderbend," Kim said then shrieked as Genderbend pointed her gun at him firing another laser transforming him into a female with the same clothing, but with a ponytail, blush, red gloss and eyelashes over the eyelid. "Ah!" Screamed Kim nearly like a girl, making Ivan laugh along with Nino.
"So who's the next?" Asked Genderbend looking around at the back to only see Ivan in front of the seat of Nathaniel and Lila.
"A new makeover for Nathaniel would not be bad" Chloé said with a laughter, then Genderbend turned herself around aiming the French girl again and as she shot the arrow in front of Chloé's face appeared a mirror, which ended up ricochet the attack back at the villain, who jumped in surprise at the reflect and hid behind Myléne frighting her, therefore she got anxious as she witnessed her boyfriend being hit by the ray and turn into a woman. Genderbend looked back at the previous victim, which had grabbed the mirror to see the symbol of the art miraculous holder, then she looked at the door to recognize the superhero Super Nathan standing at the entrance of the door along with Lady Red.
"Dear Juleka, why did you get sad?" Asked Super Nathan. "A girl that cute and smart doesn't need to get herself brought down like that"
"I'm a boy, you idiot," Genderbend said making Super Nathan wide his eyes bewildered, afterward the purple-skinned superhero got hit by an arrow and turned also into a girl, but with red shoulder-length hair.
"Now that was low" Super Nathan said as Genderbend smirked about it.
"Oh great well done, how are you going to get us out of this?" Asked Chloé as Super Nathan wasn't able to work without his tablet.
"With my bare hands" Super Nathan said running towards Genderbend, who held her weapon towards the superhero, then Super Nathan jumped at the villain bringing her down on the floor.
"Quick get out of here!" Demanded Lady Red stepping in the classroom, then watched the students ran quickly at the exit, then observed Super Nathan trying to hold Genderbend down, then Lila assisted Super Nathan holding the villain down, then the villain pushed Lila away from her, which flew against the table of the teacher hitting her head on it.
"Lila!" Shouted Super Nathan getting shoved away towards the desk of Marinette, then Lady Red stepped in front of Lila spinning her yo-yo in front of her, then looked down at the Italian girl, who was patting her own head from the impact on the wooden desk.
"You're alright?" Asked the Japanese heroine earning a thumb up from the brunette.
"You're not going to be able to protect your friend forever," The dark blue villain said, then heard a familiar voice coming from the door to see the cat-themed superhero stand there playing with his tail on his hand.
"There is a super villain we gotta defeat? That's pawesome!" Cat Noir said making Genderbend look unimpressed at the hero coming up with his cat puns. "What? Are they claw-ful?" Questioned Cat Noir. "I can do better," The superhero said looking at Lady Red and Lila winking at them quickly with his left eye, earning a nod from the two as they got, what Cat Noir had planned.
"Fur-real I'm a very….cathletic person….I also enjoy reading lots of furry tails, but what I enjoy the most is….hanging out with my fur-ends…...Litter-ally….I...uhm…."
"You're tricking me!" Shouted Genderbend shooting an arrow towards Lady Red, who just managed to deflect the attack in time with her yo-yo, after that Super Nathan, who still was in the female body jumped at Genderbend bringing her down on the floor.
"Damn the boobs are kind of annoying to me," Super Nathan said making Lila giggle, then Lady Red stepped on right arm of Genderbend, where the laser gun was and Cat Noir took the baton from his back to break the wrist gun, then from the gun flew out a black colored butterfly, which the friends around Genderbend saw.
"It really is an akuma," Cat Noir said. "But what is it doing here?"
"Most important question, who is now using the moth miraculous" Added the Italian girl.
"I don't know, but we have to figure this out," Lady Red said letting her yo-yo roll down, then she spun it around to catch the akuma. "Time to de-evilize!"
Lady Red released the akuma from her yo-yo, who was now a normal butterfly again. "Goodbye, little butterfly" The blue-haired heroine observed with a smile the butterfly flying away out of the classroom, then she threw her yo-yo up in the air again. "Miraculous!" Shouted Lady Red to activate the healing light to restore everything back to normal, including setting Super Nathan and other students back into their previous genders.
"Yes! I'm a guy again!" Super Nathan shouted excited making his girlfriend laugh, then they looked down at Genderbend, who had transformed back into Juleka Couffaine.
"Are you alright, Juleka?" Asked Lady Red coming down to her knees.
"What happened?" Questioned the raven-haired girl seeing Super Nathan present with Lila and Cat Noir.
"You were akumatized, but whoever caused you this or why it's unknown" Responded Cat Noir. "Unless do you remember him entering in contact with you?"
"I don't know, he wanted me to transform so many people as possible into the opposite gender….he promised me he would turn me into a boy, if I did everything he said"
"He didn't ask anything about the miraculouses?" Questioned Lila and Juleka shrugged her shoulder.
"I don't remember" Replied Juleka.
"And why exactly do you want to turn into a boy?" Asked Cat Noir. "Do you not like it to be female?"
"It's just….I'm afraid about me and Rose's future."
"She won't ever leave you Juleka. She loves you" Lila comforted the raven-haired girl caressing her on the back. "And you know that too"
"I know, but what if everyone in the future has babies?" Asked Luka's younger sister. "What will be about Rose? She adores children and she has always gushed about how badly she wanted to have her own"
"You two can adopt?" Suggested Super Nathan. "There are many children, that don't have any parents and need to be adopted"
"Also artificial insemination is a thing….is that legal in France?" Questioned the Italian watching Lady Red shrug her shoulders.
"Come on Juleka, you two will find a way to have your own child. And I think Rose would like the idea of adopting a child or two. What do you think?" Suggested the blonde cat superhero.
"I think this is good" Juleka responded making the blonde smile. "Thank you" Super Nathan helped Juleka up, then walked her out of the classroom, leaving the other three back.
"This situation now makes me think on last time when Adrien asked me from where babies actually came from" Lady Red mentioned making the cat-themed superhero blush.
"Not that story again" Cat Noir said making Lila smirk at his reaction.
"What happened?" Asked Lila curious.
"Please it's just embarrassing"
"Come on, Adri. No one is ever gonna hear this, besides us" Lady Red pleaded the blonde, who crossed his arms ignoring the girlfriend.
"Nope"
"I swear I won't tell this anyone nor laugh at it" Lila promised the blonde, who rolled his eyes.
"Okay, because it's you," Cat Noir said faking a cough before he could say it. "Last winter I said something with I would even have 100 children to make Kagami happy, then she had turned really red about, what I said making Luka laugh. Of course, I got confused about his reaction, then asked him, what was so funny and he told me, it was impossible for us to have 100 children from our own and I asked him why afterward Kagami asked me if I knew exactly how babies were…..made…." Explained the dark-dressed superhero causing Lila to laugh and fall down on the floor at the story. "Then she and Luka explained to me and they kinda reacted like that too"
"We all know about him being oblivious sometimes, but this was kinda too much. But at least he knows it now"
"If this was the case with Nathaniel I think I couldn't be able to explain him everything without him feeling awkward about it or me not laughing"
"You were lucky then," Lady Red told her best friend, who nodded at the blue-haired girl. "Come let's get out of here and transform back, before they get suspicious about us" Cat Noir's girlfriend warned the blonde, then the three ran out of the classroom to drop their suits down.