I don't own Miraculous Ladybug, neither Love o2o and the novel.
The WeatherForce clan
"Did you see his face? The more you spoke, the more he blushed!" Rose said excitedly as the group of girls walked back to the Science department.
"I laughed so much that at one point I had to cover my face with my hands, he looked so confident!" Alya told them still laughing.
"At least you could laugh, I had to hold the phone all the time and I couldn't move because the video would be out of focus." Chloè mentioned with a pout.
"Did you get to record everything?"
"Who do you take me for? Of course!" Chloè, somewhat offended, responds. "Do I upload it to the forum now?"
"Pass it to me first, I'll edit it a bit."
While Alya and Chloè were exchanging the videos, Rose seems to remember something and stops walking. "Oh no!"
Juleka who was at her side asks her what is going on. Rose pulls out her phone while she tries to explain, but only blurted words without context such as 'late', 'company', 'work' and 'Akuma'. With this last word Alya understands what she is trying to say.
"Are you talking about interviews for the summer practices in 'Neo Akuma'?"
"Yes! I was so busy in classes that I didn't have time, the inscriptions ended last week! "
"Oh, don't worry about that. All four of us have been accepted to have the interview." Alya told her unconcernedly. However, her friends turned to her. The only one who didn't seem surprised was Juleka.
"... Did I forgot to tell you? I sent the inscriptions for all of us, except for Juleka who already has work in her studio. "
"Really?! I didn´t know that Neo Akuma had opened inscriptions this year." Marinette and Chloè exchanged surprised looks.
"I didn't expect it either, but I got a notification and decided to sign us up before a bunch of people did."
"My savior!" Rose throws herself on Alya like a little monkey, which makes the brunette almost lose her balance. "You're going to leave me breathless!"
After Juleka put down Rose from Alya's back, the two say goodbye to the rest of the group because their afternoon classes. Meanwhile, Marinette, Alya and Chloè return to the dorms.
"CLOTHES!" Chloè shouts looking inside her closet.
"Clothes?" Marinette asks puzzled but her eyes don't look away from the game on the computer.
"Yes! I have nothing to wear, we need to go shopping right now! "
"Your closet is going to explode, how come you have nothing?" Alya tries to reason with her.
"My clothes are beautiful, but what we need is clothes that make us look professional. My dresses are mostly for parties or for everyday class."
"Your daily clothes are famous brands clothes."
"Non non, it's about the style, dear." Chloè insists. "Besides, I bet you that Rose only has pink clothes or rainbow and unicorns printed dresses."
Alya rolls her eyes, but she must admit that what the blonde says is true. It won't be a good impression to go to the interview with such striking clothes. "How about we go when Rose finishes her class? She has a few minutes left."
While Chloè jumps with joy, Alya approaches the blue haired to get her out of her game. "Go shopping? No thanks, every time I go with you both of you try to put on me very flamboyant or revealing clothes. Besides, I don't know if I'm going to attend the interview."
"Revealing, you say; it was a sleeveless blouse! It wasn't a big deal, and what do you mean that you don't know if you're going to go the interview?"
"Yeah, wasn't Neo Akuma one of the companies on your dream list?"
Marinette closes the game and turns off the computer. "Neo Akuma is the second, ZAG Studios is the first. But that's not the problem, what happens is that Manon asked me to teach her at the summer with a friend of hers and I already said yes. I don't know how flexible the schedules are in Neo Akuma."
"Well, but why don't you at least go to the interview? It can serve you as practice for the future. "
Marinette thinks a little. Her friend is right, even if she can't accept the job, it would be useful to give the interview a shot and experiment a bit. In the end she loses nothing, rather gains experience. A few seconds later she accepts and Chloè returns to her celebration.
"Hey! Now we can count with Marinette's bargaining skills! "
"That's what they just want me for, oh poor me, I'm being used!" The blue-haired girl sighs dramatically as her friends laugh at her little drama performance.
After picking up Rose from her classes, the group of friends left campus to see clothes in nearby stores. A couple of hours after visiting several stores and evading some opinions of Rose ("I tell you, we should dress like nerds, we want to enter the videogame department after all. Alya we should buy glasses" "Rose, I already wear glasses."), the girls returned to the dorm with several bags in their arms.
By seven o'clock, Marinette re-enters to MV and finds a ChatNoir message notification. Apparently he is asking her to meet him in a specific area of the game called the 'Tower of the 5 pillars' ". Ladybug has gone several times to that place because many battles between players usually occur there due to the wide and high terrain. With a "I'll be there in a few minutes", Ladybug arrives at the indicated place and encounters a strange scene: the avatar of a male character is tied to one of the pillars, apparently under an enchantment and, on the other hand, a completely calm ChatNoir is watching the captured one. What is happening?
[Ladybug]: ChatNoir?
[Ladybug]: What is happening here?
[Ladybug]: Is he chained with the 'violin strings' enchantment?
[ChatNoir]: Yes
[ChatNoir]: He will not be able to escape.
[ChatNoir]: Do you want to kill him?
Kill him? What has this player done? Marinette doesn't understand the situation very well and observes the player in greater detail. His ID is [Ibiscus] and his level is not that high compared to several members of his guild, although the user's name sounds familiar…
[Ibiscus]: Ha!
[Ibiscus]: ChatNoir, I just said that you had married a leftover.
[Ibiscus]: If you just want to end up with me, kill me already!
[Ibiscus]: Or is it that you want to see how a girl humiliates me?
Oh! No wonder the name ID seemed familiar. He was one of the players who spoke against her in the public chat since the day of the wedding.
[Ladybug]: Now I remember!
[Ladybug]: You are one of those who only speak badly at the wedding.
[Ibiscus]: Ha Ha, of course!
[Ibiscus]: Finish with me if you can.
[Ladybug]: Do not worry, just wait :)
Ladybug begins to go through her weapons, one by one showing them to ChatNoir.
[Ladybug]: We give him a slow death?
[ChatNoir]: The best option of course!
[ChatNoir]: As slow as possible.
Marinette really liked to find out these sides of ChatNoir. Ladybug is not one of those resentful players who are looking always for revenge, but something fun from time to time isn´t good? It's just a game after all. Ladybug keeps looking through her weapons until she finally finds the right one: the beginner's weapon. This weapon is a small level 1 knife which wouldn't do much damage to players with intermediate or high levels. A slow death, good thing she didn't get rid of it!
[Ibiscus]: A beginner weapon?
Ladybug smiles and slices Ibiscus once. In red letters comes a [-1] over his head, which quickly vanishes. A point! Due to the level of the player, it will take a few thousand slices to lose a life. Full of joy, Marinette puts Ladybug in automatic, giving consecutive cuts to the player.
[Ibiscus]: ok! ok!
[Ibiscus]: I know I talked more than I should, but if you want to kill me, just do it at once!
[ChatNoir]: Don't worry, you won't die.
[ChatNoir]: When your Stamina (* life points, energy) is about to run out, we will heal you completely.
[Ibiscus]: Oh great, the worst humiliation.
Marinette thought that everything was a bit strange. If Ibiscus wanted to die at once, then he could simply disconnect. In a battle, when the players disconnect, the system would judge according to the situation if it qualifies as an escape or a death. Ibiscus was not afraid of death, so why would he stay to let them attack him slowly?
Ladybug sent a message to ChatNoir: "Did he go dumb from the anger? Why doesn't he go offline?"
Quickly, Chat sent a message: "He's doing a serial quest."
Marinette was completely consumed with laughter.
ChatNoir, you are really, really scary! Too cunning and treacherous...
Serial quests are the most difficult and sadistic type of quest in Miraculous Voyage. The tortuous nature came from the fact that, no matter how many parts of the mission have been completed, as long as the last mission has not been completed, there will be no reward. If the whole quest is completed, the experience points and the rewards are very good. But at the beginning it was almost impossible to reach the end. The response of the players was so fierce that the system changed it so that, depending on the difficulty, the players could die during the search one to three times. Even with the changes, they still couldn't be disconnected and the search has to be completed all at once. In short, the players had three lives, but they can't disconnect until all the missions in the quest are finished.
Ladybug had done many serial missions before, including a defeat, and she was thinking for a moment. They were 99 different parts to complete to end in a last epically long mission. If she doesn't remember it incorrectly, in the 'Tower of the 5 pillars' was the last part...
Recalling the tragedy that had been her own experience with this serial search, Ladybug began to feel a little sympathy for him. But sympathy is just sympathy, this person was really annoying. She would slice him for a while first. As it was automatic, her hand would not even get tired.
Then Ladybug started drinking some tea and talked to ChatNoir. Chat on the other hand seemed to be doing other things since his answers weren't very fast. Because of this, Marinette started doing some grammar exercises.
After another paragraph of reading comprehension was completed, she raised her head and saw that three other players had appeared in the tower. According to their IDs they were RainyWeather, TropicalWeather and SnowyWeather.
The WeatherForce clan? What are they doing here?
Apparently they were already there for a while and ChatNoir was still busy because he didn't answer them. Ladybug decides to open the chat's history window to read all the above.
[TropicalWeather]: Look, it's Ibiscus!
[SnowyWeather]: why is he in these conditions?
[TropicalWeather]: I can see ChatNoir!
[SnowyWeather]: Look, that woman is also there.
[RainyWeather]: how evil, they are torturing the poor player! How they love bulling those of lower levels...
[RainyWeather]: Ladybug! Why are you doing this?
[RainyWeather]: hey! Why are you ignoring us?
[SnowyWeather]: Tropical, do you know this guy?
[TropicalWeather]: He has helped me in some missions.
[SnowyWeather]: should we help him?
[TropicalWeather]: can we beat those two?
[RainyWeather]: We are not going to fight, we just have to make them see we are right.
[RainyWeather]: hey! Why don't you answer?
After reading the strange reasoning of the clan, Ladybug decides to answer since ChatNoir still doesn't.
[Ladybug]: We are solving some personal issues.
[Ladybug]: You can keep your path.
[RainyWeather]: what kind of issue needs this torture?
[RainyWeather]: this is just a game!
Marinette only got more irritated. Just when she was going to respond again, ChatNoir writes first.
[ChatNoir]: You're too intrusive.
[ChatNoir]: if you don't want to die either, leave now.
At the same time she received a private message from him which said: "I was busy a while ago, you keep going. I'll take care of them."
Kitten, are you sure you're solving the conflict and not making it worse?
As expected, RainyWeather and the others exploded. In fact, although the excuse they used was not the best, the clan had admiration and fantasies about ChatNoir. But Chat's words suddenly destroyed all of it.
[TropicalWeather]: Hey, you're going overboard!
[SnowyWeather]: Yes! What's so special about being number one on the server? Speaking in an inelegant way with women doesn't show courtesy.
Wow, Ladybug felt the hypocrisy. They used "that woman" to refer to her. Did that show any courtesy or elegance? Ladybug replied happily with the words they had previously used: "It's just a game, don't get mad."
[RainyWeather]: Does a game mean that someone can treat others badly? Does a game mean that high level players can harass lower levels? I'm very angry now!
Ladybug without words looked at the sky. The classic double standard. Talking to these kind of people, for someone who had a decent understanding of rationality and studied science, was a kind of torture.
What Ladybug feared most was fighting with those kind of selfish people who thought they were always right. She simply said: "Miraculous rules, let's make a PK battle, you three against us, if you win, you can take him away and we will not look for him later."
With this, ChatNoir wrote: "You can rest, I'll take care of it."
ChatNoir positioned himself elegantly in front, taking out his silver wand. Ladybug replied with an "Okay, then I'll just look :)"
The three girls from WeatherForce clan didn't accept the battle. When Ladybug challenged them, they still had some confidence, but ChatNoir's disparaging estimate of them and their absolute confidence made them doubt.
A musician, no matter how strong he is, could he really beat three of them by himself?
Their avatars didn't move, apparently they were using private messages to communicate. Ibiscus, who had been in constantly silence, had several lines of text appearing on his head.
[Ibiscus]: Battle PK?
[Ibiscus]: What is going on?
[Ibiscus]: Ladybug, are you still slicing me?
[Ibiscus]: I already had a shower and I'm still here.
[TropicalWeather]: Ibiscus, it's me!
[Ibiscus]: Tropical? What are you doing here?
[TropicalWeather]: We're to help you.
Ibiscus read the chat history and got irritated. This TropicalWeather with whom he was very unfamiliar, had met many times before, but had never seen her fight against any "injustice" before. What was special about him?
If several strong players had arrived, then resolving the differences would be easy, but this woman couldn't do anything and belonged to the WeatherForce clan. Ibiscus couldn't help but remember StormyWeather. Even though she was not here, anyone who thinks of the Weather family will contact him first with Stormy. According to her, Stormy left ChatNoir, and then stole Ladybug's husband...
For all the gods! He still wanted to play the game, not accidentally get involved in the server's most rumored romantic affair. In addition, ChatNoir and Ladybug were a pair of vengeful lovers who were malicious and had resentful memories. It wasn't a good idea to enter into conflict with them; nothing good would come out of offending them now, especially ChatNoir. At noon, Ibiscus had seen him. At that time, ChatNoir acted as if he hadn't seen him and then, during the night, he was waiting for him in the tower...
Did he knew he was doing a serial quest, so he purposely waited in the last part?
That is not possible, he couldn't have known...
The more Ibiscus thought, the more chills ran down his spine. His first priority was to finish the quest. For this, he had been online continuously for eight or nine hours. He can't make any mistakes now. Dying once wouldn't be a problem since he hadn't died before. With that thought in mind, he hurriedly said to Tropical, "It does't matter, it's okay, some problems should be solved, beauties shouldn't have to fight, hahahaha, if you fight I will not have any honor left."
The girls who had been filled with indignation couldn't believe that the "victim" wasn't even on their side. For a moment, they were speechless before Rainy snorted and the three left furiously.
[Ibiscus]: Ladybug, just continue.
[Ibiscus]: I'll go to do the laundry, by then you'll have finished with me.
Marinette couldn't help but laugh. This person was detestable, but at least he had a good sense of humor. It was just that his mouth was very dirty. Ladybug put away the knife.
[Ladybug]: I think that's enough.
[Ladybug]: I don't need to continue spending internet and energy.
[Ladybug]: I'd better collect herbs.
[ChatNoir]: if my lady say so.
Marinette let out a small scream. This Chat, he can't stop making her blush even for a moment, right? Ladybug just nodded and headed towards the medicinal fields followed by the black musician.
[Ibiscus]: hey!
[Ibiscus]: wait!
[Ibiscus]: can you remove the strings at least?
[Ladybug]: What was that?
[ChatNoir]: you didn't like it?
[Ladybug]: It's not that...
[ChatNoir]: can I still use it then?
[Ladybug]: ...only if I can call you kitty.
[ChatNoir]: ...
[ChatNoir]: deal.
Author notes
I have several things to say so 1) Last week I didn't update due to a family trip in Easter (holiday since Thursday to Sunday), so I bring a chapter longer than usual. 2) Some of you have asked me to upload the story in Wattpad too. To be honest, I don't use that server a lot and I would have to create an account. Opinions about it? 3) I don't know if you knew but the cover of the story is uploaded with better quality on my Twitter ( Little_Rain0048), all credits to my friend Serendipity for the drawing: /Little_Rain0048/status/1108849121232859136?s=20 Thanks for reading!