The crypt door was locked with a metal latch. Together they unlocked the latch and entered the crypt. Adrien grabbed a torch and the two of them went deeper into the crypt. It was filled with tombs and caskets.
"This place is creepy." Marinette said.
"I'll say milady."
"Where do you think this key is?"
"It's in one of these tombs." Tikki said.
"Which one?" Adrien said.
"We'll have to look." Marinette said.
They opened a few tombs and checked for a key but all they found were rotting corpses. There was one tomb bigger than the rest, they opened it. In the middle of the corpses chest was a black key. Adrien stuck his hand in it and pulled it out.
"Great! Now what?"
"We have to get back to the mansion." Tikki said.
"Say what?"
"Trust us." Tikki said.
"Okay let's get going bugaboo."
"Adrien not now."
"Why not now? Why don't you want to talk about it?"
"Adrien I..I liked you. I had a crush on you and I've always been afraid that you would never feel that way about me because I'm just some clumsy girl."
"Marinette."
"But you love Ladybug and I'm nothing like her."
"Marinette you are Ladybug I-"
"Don't say it! Look you'll only end up disappointed in me."
"Marinette is that how you see yourself?"
"Shh! Did you hear something?"
They looked over and watched as one tomb opened. A zombie came out of it and he didn't seem happy about his key being taken.
"Okay I didn't see that coming." Adrien said. "Alright, don't panic it's just one."
"Um Adrien...check again." Marinette said pointing to the other zombies getting out of their tombs.
"Oh he has friends. How nice." Adrien said. "Look buddy, we don't want any trouble. We just need this little key and now that we have it we'll just be on our way."
But they just hissed and roared.
"Oh boy! Time to transform." She said. "Tikki spots on!"
"Plagg claws out!"
They transformed and began to fight them off. But there were too many, once they knocked one zombie down another came back up. They were closing in on them.
"Oh man! You're breath! Ugh! When was the last time you guys brushed?" Adrien said with disgust.
"We need to get out of here!" Marinette said.
"I'm on it!"
He knocked three down with his baton while she tripped three with her yo-yo. Once there was in an opening they rain to the stairs. They were halfway there when a corpse hand came out of a trench and grabbed Marinette's arm. She screamed.
"Get away from her!" Adrien tackled the arm causing it to pull him into the water.
"Chat!" She screamed in horror.
Underwater the corpse kept pulling him down and holding him. It was trying to drown him. Ladybug quickly dove in the fought to pull Chat Noir from the corpse's arms. Finally it got loose and they swam back up. The two of them bolted up to the door outside. They slammed the door shut and sealed it with a latch. It took them at least an hour to stop their heavy breathing.
"Oh God." She said.
"I'll never watch another zombie movie again." He said. They turned back to normal. "This key better be worth it."
"It is." Tikki said. "Let's get going before something else bad happens."
"Like what? What on earth could be worse than what we just went through?"
"How about that?" Plagg said. The gargoyles had finally gotten through the trees.
"Oh come on! Not them again!" Marinette said.
"Alright! Plagg claws- Hey! What the?" Two of them tackled him to the ground and started to punch and tear up his clothes. "Hey! Stop! That hurts!"
"Let him go!" Marinette said. She threw a bolder at it's head breaking it to bits. She helped Adrien up and they started to run. The second one quickly flew after them, in one swift move it grabbed Marinette by her jacket and started to pull her up.
"Adrien!" She screamed.
Before they could get too high Adrien jumped, grabbed on to her waist, and held on with all his strength. "I've got you Marinette!" He said. "I won't let you go."
They weighed the gargoyle down causing him to drop them both and fly straight into a tree, due to not paying attention.
"Are you alright?"
"Yes. We barely escaped with our lives."
"We got lucky probably because of this." He said pulling something from his jacket. It was the bracelet she had given him.
"You kept that?"
"Yeah, it's kind of like my lucky charm."
She smiled, he smiled back. Victor had been watching everything through the fortune teller's crystal ball. "It would seemed I have underestimated those two. Grim!"
"Yes sir." He said frightfully.
"I have a job for you." He pulled a stone from a box. One side was amber yellow and the other side was sapphire blue.
"What is it?"
"A powerful stone. When used correctly it can send a person to a place where they either experience their fondest dreams or their worst nightmares." He said. "But with a wave of my hand I can make this powerful, strong, and dangerous stone." He waved his hand and it turned into a fruit, one side grassy green the other a crimson red. "Look like a rare, harmless, and tasty fruit."
"What do you want me to do with it?"
"Find those two, offer it to them. They must be starving by now so they won't refuse. Then cut it in half and make sure each of them takes at least one bite of the half."
"It...it ain't gonna hurt them is it?"
"That is none of your concern."
"I won't harm them."
"You'll do as I say or I'll send you to you know where."
"No! Please! Have mercy!"
"You know what to do and I'll be watching."
"Oh! You have no soul."