"Adrien, don't forget about the meeting we have with the perfume ad agents after school today."

"Don't worry Nathalie I won't." I waved goodbye to her before I closed the car door. Great, I have a Government test Friday and instead of getting a head start on studying I have to go to a meeting today. It's a wonder how I even manage to keep my perfect grades between modeling and saving Paris. I rubbed my ring that I always wore, the ring that gave me the freedom to escape my busy life, even just for a few hours.

I walked into my classroom and waved to my classmates before sitting at my desk. I looked down at my ring, I still remember the day I got it. I had tried to sneak into another school for my desperate need for a normal life when I saw an old man that needed help, little did I know that that old man was the last guardian of the miraculous. He called himself Master Fu and gifted me Plagg and his powers. But most importantly he gifted me a new life where I can be myself.

"Hey Adrien." I looked up to see Nino, my best friend. He took off his headphones and sat next to me. "So, what did your dad say going to the movies tonight?"

"What do you think?" I asked and gave him a all to knowing look.

"Bummer." Nino sighed. "Marinette is going to be down about this."

"Marinette?" I asked confused. "Why would she be so upset by this?"

"Ah-No...um see what I meant was that BOTH Marinette and Alya would be bummed about this..haha" Nino rubbed the back of his neck and smiled guiltily, like he had almost let out a secret.

I looked up to see both Alya and Marinette walking in the classroom. Alya waved at us with a bright smile and Marinette waved and gave me a shy smile. That Marinette, she's so awesome, but I still haven't gotten her to be completely relaxed around me yet. She sat down behind me and I turned around to see her show Alya some new fashion designs she came up with. Not only was Marinette the sweetest girl I knew, but she was also amazingly talented with fashion. I smiled at her as she became excited talking about her latest fashion project.

"Psst...pssst..."

I looked down at Plagg to see him poking his head out of my backpack. He pointed at Marinette then me and made obnoxious kissy faces.

"Knock it off" I hissed at him and nudged my backpack with my foot to knock him back inside.

"What?"

I looked back at Marinette to see her looking startled. She grabbed the end of her drawing book and pulled it a little closer to herself.

"Ah! I-I mean your designs! They're a knock out!" I felt my face go red with embarrassment. Luckily Marinette bought my excuse because she suddenly started blushing and mumbled "T-Thank you."

Alya gave Marinette a little nudge and winked at her, which only made Marinette blush harder. I smiled at them before turning back around to face the class board. Miss Bustier was about to start class when there was a piercing shriek coming from the hallway. Everyone turned around to see another teacher run in the classroom.

"Run! Akuma attack!" She yelled and ran back out the room. Everyone ran out of the class in search for a safe hiding space.

"Adrien let's go!" Nino yelled.

The four of us ran out of the class and into the gym lockers. We each opened a locker to hide in when we heard a frightening laugh coming from outside the gym locker door. I looked beside me to see Marinette paralyzed with fear.

I reached out to grab her shoulder gently and said, "Don't worry. We'll be okay." I tried to give her the best reassuring smile I could and it looked like because she stepped into her locker and I shut the door behind her. Once I saw the Nino and Alya were also in the lockers I ran out of the gym locker room and looked for the nearest broom closet.

I shut the door behind me and said "Plagg claws out!"

After my transformation I opened the door to come face to face with the akumatized villain, a lunch lady covered in a yellow thick suit that had a pattern of recipes on them, she wore green gas mask and hair net that I assumed had the akuma inside.

"You need to eat more greens young man!" She ripped off the letters that her on her suit and threw them at me. I dodged them quickly and turned around the green goop of mess that was now in the closet. I can only imagine what that would have turned me into.

"Sorry, but my diet doesn't consist of being turned into green sludge. It does however consist of getting rid of you." I took out my metal stick and extended it to get ready to fight.

I snatched the hair net off the lunch lady who was now tight up with a string of sausages. I ripped the fragile hair net in half and saw the akuma fly away.

"Cataclysm!" I yelled before quickly snatching it and destroying the akuma.

Suddenly the lunch lady next to me turned back into a normal old lady, obviously confused about her surroundings.

I leaned down in front of her and smiled. "I'll explain everything."

I was back in my room. Unfortunately, the akuma attack didn't disrupt school and classes resumed like nothing happened. It was an everyday thing for someone to get akumatized by Hawkmoth now. I've tried finding clues on who he could be, but whoever Hawkmoth was covered his tracks very well.

"Ugh! I'm exhausted! An akuma attack and we still had to stay at school." Plagg flew out of my backpack once we were in the privacy of my own room.

"I need a good cat nap, but first!" Plagg flew in my desk where I kept my large stash of camembert cheese for my kwami. He opened the bag and tore off a big chunk of the disgustingly pungent cheese and popped it into his mouth.

"You know I'm a walking wheel of cheese because of your obsession with that stuff." I said in disgust. "I swear people spray room freshener whenever I'm near them now."

"You humans don't know what a heavenly taste this is." Plagg said while biting into another piece of cheese. "That's a shame."

I sat down on my red couch before turning on the news to watch footage of the akuma attack that took place earlier. The new reporter showed footage of victims having to be hospitalized, I winced at the thought of not being able to somehow turned everything back to normal afterwards. The akuma attacks are never really deadly, but still what kind of hero am I?

I looked at the time on my watch. Oh well, time for business. I sat up from the couch and turned off the TV. "Come on Plagg we have to go."

"Plagg?"

I looked at my desk to find him in a food coma and surrounded by crumbs. I let out a quiet chuckle, "You definitely have a problem Plagg."

I scooped the little kwami up and put him in my shirt pocket. I hurried out the door to go to the meeting.

Finally! That boring meeting was finally over. I hate having to be there during those meetings and listen to Nathalie negotiate money deals, I especially hate never having any say in those meetings. I just sit there like the eye candy they see me as.

Plagg flew out of my shirt pocket the second I closed my bedroom door behind me. "Man that meeting was bo-o-r-r-ring! I don't know how you manage to stay awake through all of them." He flew to my foosball machine to fiddle with the tiny foosball men.

"Trust me, I almost fell asleep a dozen times through all of the them." I jumped and landed comfortably on my bed. I felt my phone buzz and took it out. Oh a message from Nino. I opened it to see a picture of him, Alya, and Marinette standing in line for the movies.

"Are you sure you can't come dude?" Read the text.

I looked at the picture of my friends and felt a tugging feeling inside me. They really do look like they're having fun. Aw man why did I have to have the strictest father ever. Hmmm...actually Adrien Agreste has a strict father, but Chat Noir was able to do whatever he wanted.

With a mischievous smirk I looked over at Plagg who found his way to my CD's and was rummaging through them.

"Hey Plagg, feel like watching a flick tonight?"

"That movie was a lot scarier than I thought it would be." Marinette said with a shudder.

"Oh, it wasn't that scary." Alya said, she wrinkled her nose, apparently disappointed that the movie couldn't scare her.

"I don't know, I'll have to agree with Marinette. That movie had me jumping out of my seat a couple of times." I said with an embarrassed laugh.

I managed to sneak out of my room as Chat Noir and meet up with my friends at the Slick Flick movie theater.

"Alright dude!" Nino fist bumped me.

"Wow Agreste, you actually broke a rule. I'm impressed." Alya gave me a nod of approval.

"Well my father can't keep me locked up all the time." I said. I looked over at Marinette who hid behind Alya. She waved weakly at me and I gave her a bright smile.

We went to the snack bar to grab some popcorn and drinks. Alya and Nino were in front of us trying to pick out which candy they wanted to pour in their popcorn. Marinette looked deep in thought, she'd turn her head to me as though to say something, but quickly turned around mumbled words to herself.

"This movie should be good right?" I asked, trying to start a conversation.

"Huh? Oh yeah great movie! Um I'm really g-glad you came. This wouldn't be fun without you." She suddenly turned pink all over. "Ah- I mean o-of c-course this would be just as fun without you it wouldn't make any big difference, well maybe it would make a small difference. I mean u-um uh."

"Okay! Marinette let's go find our seats." Alya grabbed her by the shoulders and turned her around. Marinette gave me a quick wave before following along with Alya. I chuckled at how pink Marinette's still was. It was too adorable to see her babble her sentences.

We had stopped at a cross walk sign. The sky was dark already by the time we left the movies and the stars were peeking through the night sky. Paris in night time was my favorite sight, not only did we get to have to Eifel tower lit up in twinkling lights, but the whole city was lit up like a beautiful painting. I noticed Alya whispering to Marinette who was frantically shaking her head. She must have noticed me staring because she squeaked and turned back to Alya.

"Well," Alya let out a loud yawn, "I'm all tired out. Nino your house isn't too far from mine, why don't you walk me home." She gave a slight nod to me and Nino tensed up a bit.

"O-oh right! I'd love to walk you home Alya." He gave me a nervous laugh, "Uh I'll see you tomorrow at school dude." Alya and Nino crossed the street quickly without saying a final goodbye to us.

I turned to Marinette who avoided looking at me directly. "Um I guess we should start walking." She said.

I was happy to walk Marinette home. She held a special place in my heart, she was the first real friend I made when I first started school. Marinette is the greatest friend there is to have, not only was she sweet, she was also funny, optimistic, and always willing to lend a helping hand. I just wish I could talk to her without making her uncomfortable. I tried my best to be as gentle as I would with her, but she seemed to always squirm and turn red whenever I was nearby.

"So that akuma attack was pretty scary today." I said.

"Yeah, it's good that we have a super hero watching over us, but it's terrible that there's no way to fix the damage that gets left here afterward."
I winced when I heard that. It's not like I haven't tried using my powers to fix things, but Plagg explained to me how he was the power of destruction and there was no way in changing that.

"Pfft, some kind of hero Chat Noir is." I said glumly.

"Don't say that! Chat Noir tries his best every day to keep us safe. He's the best thing to ever happen to Paris." Marinette said.

Now I was the one to turn pink. I was used to hearing praising from people about my heroic alter ego, but when Marinette talked about me, she would suddenly think look in her eyes, admiration? A Crush? Whatever it was always made me feel like the best hero because of her words.

I gave her a teasing smile and a nudge on the shoulder. "Does someone have a crush on Paris's feline?"

"Huh? Oh no!" She waved her arms frantically and shook her head. "I just...I just think he's very brave for putting himself out there every day for us all."

Within a few minutes we were at her family bakery, the best bakery in town to be exact. I walked her to her door.

"Well goodnight Marinette." I said sweetly. I was about to turn around, but I noticed her twiddling with her thumbs and looking down as if there was something on her mind.

"Is something wrong Mar?" I asked. She kept her head down and gave out a huge sigh. "Whatever it is, you can tell me." I said.

"A-Adrien there's something I've been wanting to tell you for a really long time." She said with her head down.

Whatever it was she wanted to tell me seemed really hard. I placed my fingers under her chin and lifted her face so she can look me in the eyes, "Whatever it is I'm here to listen."

Her eyes widened and she let out a small gasp of nervousness. I looked down into her deep blue eyes that seemed to always have me in a trance.

"Adrien...I lo-"

Before Marinette could finish her sentence I noticed a akuma flying above her head. I tensed up, ready to go into fight mode, but the akuma flew past us and into the streets.

"Uh- Marinette I need to go." I looked down at my watch to look more in hurry. "I just realized that it's very late and my father might try seeing me before he goes to bed."

"B-But-"

"I'm sorry, I promise I'll listen to what you have to say tomorrow at school." I gave her a sympathetic look. I gave her no time to answer and hurried off into the streets. I looked up at the sky looking for the akuma. Once I was a few blocks away I notice the little bug flying into the sky.

I ran into a back ally and looked around me carefully. Once I didn't see anyone close by, I transformed into Chat Noir and jumped on top of the buildings. I saw the akuma fly past the late night people of Paris. Odd, this akuma doesn't even look like it's looking for a negative feeling. What is this little guy doing?

I followed this akuma building to building, listening to the awes of the people bellow me as they recognized their local hero. Finally, I noticed the akuma squeeze itself into a sewer. I looked for a sewer hole I could climb down to quickly. Once inside I lost the akuma.

"Come on out little buddy. It's way past my crime fighting curfew." I said, hoping to find it still fluttering around. I walked deeper into the sewers, Paris may be beautiful, but the sewers were still the smelliest and grosses place here. I was about to give up, darn thing probably wasn't even Hawkmoth's.

As I was about to turn around I heard a disturbing laugh. I turned around and ran to the sound of whoever that was. Soon I was a purple glow coming from a corner of the sewers. I ducked down, trying to stay incognito. I peeked my head up to see what the purple light was coming from.

I gasped, "Hawkmoth." I whispered.

I never seen him in person before, but one look at him gave me the shivers. I saw that he was surrounded by a hoard of akumas that made the purple glow. What is he up to? Well whatever it is, I better put a stop to it.

I stood up from my hiding spot and took out my metal stick. "A disgusting home for a man with a disgusting heart I see."

Hawkmoth turned around, surprised to have been caught in his act. "Chat Noir what a delightful surprise. I was just about to look for you."

"Okay Hawkmoth let's get this over with." I ran to him ready to hit him, but he grabbed my stick and threw me to the wall. I grunted at the stinging pain in my back.

"Silly cat, you don't know what your messing with this time." Hawkmoth dipped his staff into the large group of flying akumas. When he took it out it was glowing purple. I tried dodging his hit, but he got me across my stomach.

"Nice try, but a cheap plastic walker isn't going to stop me." I said with confidence, suddenly I felt a sharp pain. I grabbed my stomach and felt something wet. I looked down and saw red. W-what? Blood? That's impossible! This suit was made of magic and was supposed to be indestructible to keep me safe. I looked up to see Hawkmoth coming at me again, this time he got my shoulder and I fell down to my knees in pain. I felt my breath shorten as he pointed his staff at my chest.

"Now Chat Noir, you're going to finally be gone." He said with pure evil in his eyes.

I quickly rolled away on my stomach and screamed. "Cataclysm!" With that I touched the ground he was on and saw the floor to the sewers cave in. Hawkmoth managed to grab on to the edge of the brick ground that was still intact. I didn't know if he managed to pull himself up because I ran as fast as I could after that. I made it out of the sewers thankfully before he could catch up. Once I was out, I leaped onto the nearest building.

I need to find Master Fu and fast. I heard my ring beep notifying me that I could detransform any minute now.

"Stay with me Plagg. I'm going to find help." I said. I winced at the sharp pains running through my body while I jumped on every roof trying to find Master Fu's apartment building. I thought I would collapse before finding, fortunately I found it just in time.

I leaped in front of the building door. I wasn't sure whether I should detransform yet. What if someone with a phone camera saw me? How would I explain to my father about my injuries? It was too risky being Adrien right now. I pushed open the doors and silently praised Master Fu for choosing to live on the first floor. Once I found his door, I pounded in it loudly. It was against my father's rules to ever be this rude no matter what condition I was in, but I couldn't be the perfect son right now without running out of too much blood. I felt my head feel light with every second I waited for the door to answer.

Master Fu answered the door and gasped. "Chat Noir? What are you doing here?"

I couldn't speak. My vision became dark and blurry, I think Master Fu said a few more words, but I couldn't hear them. I couldn't hear anything besides my own heartbeat. The last thing I remembered was reaching out to him with my glove covered hands before...

Hi! I'm glad my first chapter was well received! This is my first story with super hero's so I'm a little nervous. In case you didn't get it, the reason Chat Noir didn't finish his sentence is because he fainted from his injuries. I hope this chapter was good enough, I tried finding time to update but I have a bit of a busy schedule. So it might be every Friday or Wednesday I can update.

Till next time!