04/03/22
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At the abandoned building, Adrien was feeding on salmon fish since he's hungry again while Ladybug looks in the Grimoire spellbook.
"Let's see...werecat...where is it?" She turned pages.
"I just hope my father doesn't get akumatized again. He barely even uses that book" Adrien said while munching on the fresh chunk of fish meat.
"I'll give it back when I'll figure out how to break the curse," Ladybug said.
"I don't know. I have a feeling it doesn't belong to him. That book is like over a thousand years old" Adrien said and belched a little.
"Very likely. But it contains much info" Ladybug replied and soon enough she found a page about the werecats, "Listen to this. Thousands of years ago, witches used their cats to punish men by giving them the Werecat curse. But over time, it was forgotten by the world, and witches were executed." Ladybug said.
"Okay, is there more?" Adrien asked.
"Well, the ritual cure only happens on a full moon. The problem is that this spell is very ancient. You can read Chinese, right?" Ladybug asked.
"Yes, I've taken classes," Adrien said.
"Good, I can't read Chinese myself," Ladybug said.
Adrien took the book and read it in Chinese, "Wow, these are very ancient ingredients and spells from Ancient China. But maybe these can be found in modern times when everything changed" Adrien said.
"Which ones, Adrien?" Ladybug asked.
"A silk cloth, elements, and herbs," Adrien said.
"Okay then" Ladybug sat next to him to look.
"But I do have a friend who is half Chinese. Maybe she knows a bit of her family heritage. If this ritual cure works on the day of the full moon, maybe I don't have to hide anymore but I go back to being a prison of isolation again" Adrien said and tossed the Grimore book aside, feeling upset that if he gives up this curse, he won't be free ever again.
"We'll solve it, Adrien" Ladybug hugs him.
"I hope so." Adrien hugs back.
x
Later that night, Adrien practiced his partial transformations like his human nails turning to claws, human teeth turning to fangs, and his ears turning to cat ears. It wasn't easy to master them but he had to be careful not to let his anger blind him or he'll attack someone.
"Focus Adrien," He said to himself, and patches of black fur on his arms reappeared and disappeared as he focused.
"I gotta admit that your…fur…..was very soft like a kitten" Ladybug blushed.
"Wha-Really?" Adrien blushed too.
"Never mind" Ladybug chuckled nervously.
Adrien concentrates on turning his ears into black cat ears, "Meow. "Huh, not bad" He touched them.
"Awww…..you look like a gijinka" Ladybug awed.
"I do look like one" He looks in a mirror.
"Well do you hear better?" Ladybug asked.
"Yup. And it makes them twitch a bit" Adrien said.
"Can you smell too like a cat?" Ladybug asked.
"Yeah, I do" Adrien replied.
"And…night vision?" Ladybug said.
"Turn the lights off" He suggested and Ladybug did so but Adrien still saw her in the dark.
"Spooky in the dark? I can see you" Adrien crawled on all fours.
"Oh kitty, where are you?" Ladybug looks around.
Adrien chuckled that she can't see in the dark. It was like he's stalking his prey but instead, he's ready to pounce on her.
He crouched and leaps onto her, "WHOA HAHAHA!" Ladybug laughed.
"Like a kitten trying to catch a ladybug" Adrien laughed.
"You're one funny guy, Adrien" Ladybug said.
"Heh, and your one lucky lady. You know, I kinda enjoy having some time with you. A lot better than being stuck in that mansion" Adrien said as he got up and went to turn on the lights.
"Looks like my help is doing good," Ladybug said.
Suddenly, his stomach growled that his inner beast within is hungry again for fish, "I'm still hungry!" He clutched his stomach.
"Whoa, calm down! There are still more tuna fish cans over there" Ladybug pointed at the boxes.
Adrien picks up two boxes of tuna to eat from after tearing them open. He used his feline fangs to tear the meat off and eat quickly so he doesn't go savage again. Ladybug just sat there trying to not be disgusted.
"Man, this curse is eating me up, Ladybug. We gotta work fast or I'll never be human" Adrien said while eating.
"Alright Adrien, I'll try to do what we need for the ritual," Ladybug said.
"It's already nighttime. We need to sleep. You probably got school tomorrow. My friends must be worried sick that I disappeared." Adrien said, feeling full now as he heads to bed.
"Alright, call me if you need me," Ladybug said.
"Good night, Ladybug," Adrien said as he drifts to sleep.
"Good night Adrien" Ladybug jumps out the window and swings back home.
x
The next morning, Adrien was in disguise and getting some fresh air since he needs to walk around and get out more often.
"Whoever Ladybug is as civilian, I hope she's doing well," He said to himself.
He saw that no new billboards ads of him were up since his escape from the mansion. He hated his father raising him to be perfect but his mother raised him really well. Nobody can be 100% perfect in every way, sooner or later he must have his own decisions. The only problem is that he can't disobey him but he has to because his friend Nino did tell him to stand up for himself against his father.
"Okay Plagg, I better not be discovered," He said to his kwami.
"Scaredy-cat?" Plagg laughed.
"I'm a wanted teenager, Plagg" Adrien whispered.
"You're a missing child, not a fugitive" Plagg said.
"Same difference," Adrien said and goes into the alley.
Suddenly, he hears Volpina fighting Ladybug on the roof. Not her again! Lila just likes to get rid of Ladybug for ruining her life.
"Plagg! Claws out!" He transformed into Cat Noir.
He jumps up to join the fight, "Someone missed their kitty cat?!"
"Right on time, Cat Noir," Ladybug said.
"Argh! This is a girl fight, stupid alley cat!" Volpina yelled.
"Is that so? Right Bugaboo?" Cat Noir then asks Ladybug.
"Until you came, Kitty" Ladybug said.
"You brats won't be joking around when I take your miraculous!" Volpina plays her flute to create clone illusions of herself.
"You wanna play that way? You got it!" Cat Noir took his staff out.
"Cat, what are you doing?!" Ladybug exclaimed.
"Watch and learn," Cat Noir said and spins his staff and strikes it at Volpina's flute but she blocks it, "You know cats can scare foxes" Cat Noir taunted and caught his staff.
"Shut up!" Volpina's illusions attacked but Ladybug and Cat Noir attacked them with their weapons, making the illusions disappear.
Cat Noir jumped over and grabbed the real Volpina from behind, "Meow" He grabbed the necklace and tossed it to Ladybug.
"Time to de-evilize!" She purified the akuma to a regular butterfly, "Bye-bye little butterfly"
Volpina transforms back to Lila and Ladybug didn't even have to use her Lucky Charm this time.
"Pound it!" Both heroes fistbumps.
