Hello. This is my first Ladybug and Cat Noir fanfic and I'm also a huge fan of it as well as a fan of Sonic the Hedgehog. I've been writing Sonic fanfics for a very long time, and now this time, I have decided to write something else than just Sonic. My grammar is a little rusty but I still use Grammarly.
The day I watched Senti-bubbler and where Cat Blanc comes in, it made me think that it could be a foreshadowing of him returning maybe from Ladybug's nightmare. Which I think that Sandboy might return again. I could be wrong but I have seen a few fan writers write their own stories of Cat Blanc returning as a nightmare from Ladybug.
As much as we all want Ladybug and Cat Noir to reveal their true secret identities, sometimes we have to accept that they can't because of the consequences. Just like how it happened in the episode Cat Blanc where their love destroyed Paris. As for Shadow Moth, even though I understand he wants his wife back but using those miraculous to make a wish can have serious catastrophes. For instance, if his wife comes back to life, someone will take her place in a coma and it could be Adrien. Some wishes can have dark sides that don't always make dreams come true.
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Another Akuma attack happened again but Paris always know that two heroes come to save the day, de-akumatize the victim, Ladybug purifying the butterfly, and her magic ladybugs fixing up the damage.
Now the next day this time, it was just a small rescue of two cats stuck on a tree as our heroes come to rescue the cats and bring them back to their owners.
"Aww….it seems we both match" Cat Noir holding a black cat with green slit eyes, "If I was like this cute fella, I would be purrrfectly your kitty, milady." He teased his partner but she looked distressed by looking at the white cat with blue eyes in her arms, she didn't hear Cat Noir's cat pun or his flirts.
"Milady, you okay?" He asked which snapped out of her thoughts.
"Huh? Oh, yeah. I'm okay. Just thinking, that's all. That kitty you're holding, it seems that it found its mother." Ladybug teased her kitty as she noticed the actual black cat playing Cat Noir's golden bell.
"We look matched and I gotta say, he likes me." Cat Noir chuckled.
But something made his lady feel distressed and somewhat scared when she looks at the white cat with blue eyes. As much as he hates secrets, he doesn't wanna force his lady to tell him, not when she's stressed.
The two heroes eventually returned the cats to their owners and went on the roof to continue patrolling.
"Milady, if something is bothering you, you can tell me. After all….I'm your purrrfect kitty to comfort you." I leaned in close with his flirty tone.
Ladybug moved his face away, "Cat Noir, enough with the cat puns. I'm just…" She wasn't herself and Cat Noir just wants to help, "I just haven't gotten enough sleep, that's all."
"Nightmares? Everyone gets nightmares, milady. Even me. But talking about it gets the stress out. I'm not gonna force you to tell me but I'll wait when you're ready. But please trust your favorite black kitty. I'm always here for you" Cat Noir said.
"Thanks, kitty. When I feel like talking about it, I'll be ready. Just not today." Ladybug smiled.
"I know, I'm not gonna lie but you did seem pale this morning. Whatever nightmare it is, I'll be sure to paw-sitively protect you in my paws." I flirted with his puns which made his lady roll her eyes in annoyance.
"Really? Are you gonna sharpen your claws to protect me from monsters, kitty cat?" She teased him back to get the humor out.
"I got nine lives, milady. This cat is never afraid of monsters. Meow" He smirked and does a move of a cat scratch in the air.
"Of course. I like your company, we're a team." Ladybug said.
"Indeed, milady." He kissed the back palm of her hand, "See you around, bugaboo." He winked and used his baton to go from roof to roof before his lady tries to scold him for calling her that annoying nickname again.
"Oh, kitty." She just shook her head and headed home.
x
Later that night, Adrien still gets upset that his father is not here to have dinner with him again. Nathalie informed him as always but Adrien didn't say anything to her and just goes into his room with a depressed look.
"What's the point if he shuts me out? He'll never change." Adrien goes into his bathroom to brush his teeth and later changes into his pajamas.
"Kid, your father is just a bad cheese but hopefully he'll treat you better," Plagg said as he eats his Camembert.
"Yeah, until he realizes what he's missing out on. He'll never move on knowing that mom is away for so long" Adrien sighs and goes to sleep.
x
At Marinette's place, she was having a nightmare again, only this time is much worse than the original nightmare of her secret crush falling for Chloe.
"N-no…." She cringed in her sleep.
Marinette as Ladybug was trying to get away from something or someone chasing her in Paris. No citizens around but just regular white cats with blue eyes meowing.
"This is a nightmare" Marinette whimpered from the cats looking at her.
"Oh milady. Now that I know your secret identity we can finally be in love." A cold sinister voice lurking around gave a chill up her spine.
"Stay away from me!" She cried.
"Your secret is already out of the bag, Marinette!" The voice cackled.
Ladybug tries to get away but saw her worst nightmare petting a white cat purring in his arms while looking at her.
"Don't tell me that you're afraid of white cats like me" He purred and kept petting the white cat, "Aren't ladybugs and white cats alike with good luck?" He asked and puts the cat down.
"You're not real!" She backed away but could not escape her nightmare.
He hissed angrily at what she just said and extended his claws out, "You're breaking my heart, Marinette. You can't escape me this time. I'm like a ghost kitty to haunt you for eternity." He crawled on all fours like a cat towards her.
"Stop!" She tripped backward and tries to get away but Cat Blanc already grabbed her and pulled her close.
"My sweet bugaboo, the cat catches his prey." He smirked with pointy feline fangs. She knew what he was gonna do and that would mean marking her as his soulmate.
"Please don't!" She begged him to stop when he got close to her neck, licking it to give it an ice-cold feeling hickey.
"Don't worry, this won't hurt a bit, my purr-incess" He smirked and bit her in the neck to mark her.
Marinette wakes up with a scream which woke Tikki and the other kwamis in her room. They all saw how terrified she looked from her nightmare again.
"What's wrong Marinette?" Tikki asked.
"I had a bad dream; I saw an army of white cats attacking me! And Cat Blanc marking me as his mate! This is terrifying!" She hyperventilated.
"Cat Blanc, isn't it?" Wayzz asked.
"I know he's from an alternative timeline but I fear of Car Noir getting akumatized into that. This is making me crazy" Marinette whimpered and held her pillow for comfort.
"Don't tell me it's because you fear hurting Cat Noir's feelings?" Kalki guessed.
"Well, yeah. If he found out my secret identity, Shadow Moth would surely akumatize him." Marinette said, a little shaken from her nightmare.
"It won't happen, Marinette. Cat Noir is your friend. He would never get akumatized." Tikki assured her.
That moment got cut off when they heard a familiar singing voice outside, "The Sandboy just checked in, now nightmares can begin"
Marinette gasped at knowing the last time the innocent boy got akumatized, he can bring nightmares to life again. But worst of all, her worst nightmare too.
"Aahhhh! Not now!" She got off her bed to avoid the sparkling sand dust pouring down through her roof.
Unfortunately, it missed her and she sighed in relief that Sandboy probably passed by. She climbed back up the ladder to her bed and opened the trapdoor of her balcony and saw Sandboy bringing nightmares to life in Paris all over again.
"It's time to transform!" Said a determined Marinette.
"Tikki, spots on!" She transformed into Ladybug and swung her yo-yo from building to building and dodging other nightmares going around.
"Not this time!" She jumped over one multicolored sand.
Sandboy spotted her and dives down with his akumatized pillow to shoot sand dust at her, "You won't survive your worst nightmare for long, Ladybug!"
"We shall see, unlike last time!" Ladybug replied.
Cat Noir came along too to join in with his lady, "This time we aren't feel-line scared. Nice to see you again, boogeyboy." He taunted.
"It's Sandboy you stupid cat!" Sandboy shot sand dust but Ladybug tackled Cat Noir to avoid the sand dust.
But in the progress, she got hit by the sand dust. She ended up tumbling with him on the roof when Cat Noir ends up on top of her, "We seriously gotta stop tackling one another" He groaned and got off of his lady.
"Good shot, Sandboy! Get me her miraculous now!" Shadow Moth said through the pink neon mask on Sandboy's face.
Ladybug knew she got hit and she had to get Cat Noir and herself out of here before her worst nightmare causes chaos in this world.
"We gotta get out of here! He could be anywhere right now!" Ladybug spinning her yo-yo to shield herself.
"You still have your powers? You fought your nightmare?" Cat Noir was amazed she didn't lose her powers this time.
"Now is not the time, kitty!" Ladybug said.
"Look out!" Cat Noir moved Ladybug out of the way from Sandboy closing in.
They both jumped off the roof and ran to the Eiffel tower. Ladybug did not see Cat Blanc but she knew he might be lurking anywhere like a predator stalking its prey.
"Ladybug now is the time to tell me what your new nightmare is!" Cat Noir running with her and jumped up higher to the Eiffel tower.
"It's—-" She was cut off when a white-clawed hand covered her mouth and pulled her in the elevator of the Eiffel tower. She muffled screamed and wiggled out from the grip.
"Ladybug!" Cat Noir ran to save her but the person that grabbed her, he extended his white baton to push Cat Noir away from reaching the elevator doors closing.
"Remember me, milady?" Her nightmare purred near her neck.
"Let me go, Cat Blanc! You're not real to me!" She tried to get him off but being in an enclosed elevator going up, she couldn't.
He smirked with a Cheshire smile, "Don't break my heart, Marinette. I'm starving for our love. After all, Paris is the city of love" Cat Blanc said with a menacing look which scared Ladybug but she pushed him away just when the elevator doors opened so she could get away.
Cat Noir made it up to the top and saw Ladybug getting away from a white cat version of himself.
"Where have you been?" Ladybug asked while twirling her yo-yo as a shield.
"I couldn't find you. And am I seeing a ghost of me? That's your nightmare?" Cat Noir was not pleased with this.
"He's not a ghost! He's you! I don't have much time to explain!" Ladybug said.
"Grrrrr! That weak black cat! That's my lady!" Cat Blanc growled and makes a white sphere in his right hand, "That old me is long gone, Milady!"
"Go find Sandboy! I'll deal with ghost cat!" Cat Noir twirled his baton.
"You don't understand. His cataclysm is limitless and deadly!" Ladybug protested.
"I'll be fine. Trust me milady!" Cat Noir insisted.
The white sphere came towards him but he twirled his baton to deflect it, "No arguing! Go now!" He said and ran to his white doppelgänger who also charged at him to make this fight into a catfight.
"You have no idea what I am, huh?" Cat Blanc dodged every scratch attack from his counterpart.
"Evil, menacing, and obsessive much? I'm not anything like you!" Cat Noir said while fighting his evil version, dodging his scratch attacks that scratched the rails.
But unfortunately, he got his belt tail grabbed and was kicked in the back, "Agh!"
"No, I got akumatized. I feel stronger, powerful, and very feline than you!" Cat Blanc chuckled evilly and grabs Cat Noir's throat, "And I know Ladybug's secret identity. Don't you wanna know who she is underneath that mask?"
He tried to get his counterpart's claw hand off his neck, "Not from a psycho like you! I'm not even gonna go public with it!" He refused.
Cat Blanc threw him against the bars of the tower, "Too bad, so sad. My original copy refuses! You always wanted to know her secret identity. You and I are the same person!" He cackled and ran on all fours to fight him.
"Well, I'm nothing like you!" Cat Noir lunges at him and they locked hands.
Cat Blanc hissed angrily like a cat, "Oh really? Do you think milady will return your feelings? You'll feel heartbroken and when that happens, you'll end up like me!" He grunted but got kicked in the stomach.
"That will never happen! My lady may not like my puns or my flirty nature but deep down, she cares about me as a friend. I would never force her to love me." Cat Noir glared as his pupils became very slit.
"Then let's find out, alley cat!" Cat Blanc jumped off the tower to go after Ladybug.
"Oh no, you don't!" Cat Noir jumped down and used his baton to catch up to him.
x
Ladybug managed to defeat Sandboy with her Lucky Charm and given a magical charm to him. And just as she was about to toss-up her Lucky Charm, someone tackled her down to prevent that.
"Ugh! No! Let me go!" She screamed and her arms got pinned by her nightmare.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. You've been cold-hearted to me, bugaboo" A cold voice said as he moved the lucky charm object out of her hands and tossed it aside.
"No!" Ladybug gasped in horror.
"Sweet bugaboo, don't take my dreams away. I want you as my purr-fect bug." Cat Blanc purred and was about to do the same move he did in her nightmare with his pointy feline fangs to mark her neck.
"No! No! No!" She closed her eyes to be prepared but someone pulled him away from her.
"Get your snowy ice-cold paws off my lady you villain me!" Cat Noir pulled his white counterpart off his lady.
"Never!" The white cat villain hissed angrily that he got interrupted, he scratched Cat Noir's chest with steel claws.
"AAAAGH!" Cat Noir fell down in pain, holding his chest from the deep clawed chest oozing blood out.
"Cat Noir!" Ladybug screamed in horror.
"Only one cat is territorial for his lady and that's me!" Cat Blanc smirked at his injured counterpart.
"That's enough, Cat Blanc! You can haunt me in my nightmares all you want but you'll never exist in my dreams again!" Ladybug glared and went to retrieve the lucky charm object.
"NO!" Cat Blanc ran to her but felt his tail belt get pulled by Cat Noir.
"Do it now, milady!" Cat Noir stifled but still used his remaining strength to keep the white cat from stopping her.
"Miraculous Ladybug!" Ladybug tossed it up.
"NOOO!" Cat Blanc screamed as the magic ladybugs scattered around to fix up the damage caused by Sandboy and erasing the nightmares all over Paris.
It even made Cat Blanc disappear too as well as healing Cat Noir's clawed chest.
Cat Noir noticed how frightened she looked to see her worst nightmare in the real world.
"Ladybug. It's okay, it's okay." Cat Noir went up to her and pulled her into a hug.
Suddenly, they heard their jewelry beeping that they'll transform back.
"I gotta go." Ladybug still looked scared but Cat Noir is not gonna let her feel scared again by going back to sleeping alone.
"Ladybug, wait. Let's just recharge again and talk about this, please. I can't stand to see you scared of my evil version." Cat Noir said as he jumped to the roof to hide behind the chimney before transforming back to Adrien.
x
As soon as they recharged their kwamis and transforming back to heroes, Ladybug told Cat Noir that the boy is okay and safe at home. She explained everything to Cat Noir the story of encountering Cat Blanc from an alternative timeline.
"That's why we can't be in love, Cat Noir. If you found out my secret identity, there will be dangerous consequences if Hawk Moth preyed on our negative emotions." Ladybug said sadly.
Cat Noir understood her but then he pulled her to sit down on his lap, "Ladybug, I understand and even if it takes a long time to finally defeat Shadow Moth, you know I still love you, milady. Don't ever think I'll become evil or twisted like that white cat. I'm not him." He said softly to calm her stress down.
"My kitty" Ladybug drifted to sleep.
Cat Noir smiled and held her close so that she doesn't have to suffer another nightmare again. He even took a short nap since the sun is rising soon, he wanted his lady to not be scared again.
x
Much later, he woke up and saw the sun shining a morning day. He looked down to see his lady sleeping peacefully which made him purr softly at how close she is near his side.
"Cat Noir?" Ladybug groaned from her sleep.
"Hey, bugaboo. Did my purrrfect comforting make you sleep paw-sitively better?" Cat Noir asked with cat puns.
Ladybug rolled her eyes in annoyance by his cat puns but at least she knows that this is her real kitty, not that insane white cat villain, "Yeah, You're so cozy." Ladybug smiled.
"My fur is purrfectly soft and cozy as always, milady." Cat Noir smirked.
"Are you sure you didn't groom yourself, kitty cat?" Ladybug teased back.
"Nope, because I love seeing you sleep peacefully in my paws. I'm nocturnal at night, milady. We black cats are good at blending in the shadows." Cat Noir purred like a cute cat.
"If you were in the shadows, you would be like a Halloween cat or a werecat" Ladybug teased.
"Meow. Perhaps you can tame me, milady. I feel lonely like a street cat starving for love." Cat Noir pretending to be sad like a cat.
"Aww….there, there, my poor kitty" She patted his head in a teasing way, "You're the best kitty." Ladybug hugged him again.
"Meow. It seems I brought my scaredy bugaboo back to my brave bugaboo." He purred and hugged her back, nuzzling his face near her hair.
He nudged on his lady to scratch his ears since he needed it. She did and heard him purr and his tail belt slowly swift left and right while doing so.
"Awww…..my sweet kitty." Ladybug giggled and pets his ears and head some more to hear him purr happily.
"Milady." Cat Nor chuckled.
After going separate ways, Ladybug became Marinette again and went downstairs to join her parents for breakfast and Cat Noir went back to his mansion before he could get a scolding from his father.
From that day on, Marinette felt more secured about her partnership with Cat Noir as Ladybug, hoping for sure they'll remain as a team even in the future.
