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Still not mine
Chapter 40: Dark Blade
Chat Noir and Ladybug watched the chaos below them.
"All I'm saying is that Jagged Stone is right below us," Chat Noir argued. "And that we totally have time to grab an autograph."
"And all I'm saying is that we need to focus." Ladybug took another bite of her sandwich.
"We're superheroes," Chat Noir argued. "We can totally skip the line and we'll be back before Darkblade knights another person."
Ladybug rolled her eyes. "We have helped Jagged Stone before. I'm sure he would give you an autograph after this is over."
The two of them lapsed into comfortable silence as they are their sandwiches, drank their water, and watched Dark Blade march towards city hall.
"Do you have a plan yet?" Chat Noir asked.
"The most important part is not letting him place his flag," Ladybug said. "One of us needs to defend the flagpole while the other takes on Dark Blade."
"I'll take on Dark Blade," Chat Noir offered. "I've been practicing my fencing." He mimed a few fencing moves. Ladybug rolled her eyes, trying to keep a smile from sneaking up on her lips.
Chat Noir finished off his water bottle, and tossed it down onto a trashcan on the street below. The bottle landed easily into the trash.
"Feeling refreshed enough for another battle?" Ladybug asked.
"Good as new."
Dark Blade marched up to the city hall, and Ladybug and Chat Noir dropped in front of him.
"Cometh to vow thy loyalty?" Dark Blade asked.
"Just remember, before you go turning us into knights," Ladybug replied. "Knights don't wear earrings."
"What is thou point?" Dark Blade asked.
"She means that if you want any hope of taking our Miraculouses," Chat Noir explained. "You can't knight us."
"Then I will defeat thy in the olde fashion way!" Dark Blade declared.
"I'm pretty sure that's not the - never mind." Chat Noir extended his baton. "I just hope you can see through that helmet."
"Charge!"
The knights behind Dark Blade charged. Ladybug spun her yo-yo and caught it around a knight's sword. Chat Noir deflected a blow and pushed a knight out of his way. He ducked under another attack, then dodged another, making his way to Dark Blade.
Dark Blade knighted two cars, turning them into catapults. "On me! Let us raiseth my flag!"
Ladybug looped her yo-yo around the flagpole and pulled herself up, ready to meet the first knights to make it to the roof.
"Not so fast Dark Blade!" Chat Noir called. "You still have yet to beat your challenger."
"Are you Bourgeois's champion?" Dark Blade asked. "Do you dare challenge me?"
"Kinda and yes," Chat Noir answered. "En Garde!"
"Pret!" Dark Blade replied.
"Allez!"
The first guard made it to the roof with a thud. Ladybug easily kicked him back off, trusting that the magical armor would keep the innocent civilian safe.
Another guard, and Ladybug smacked him with her shoulder, and he stumbled off the roof.
Two more guards collided with a wall, and third one over shot Ladybug. Ladybug wrapped her yo-yo around his ankle and used his momentum to swing him around and send him back off the roof.
Two more knight landed on the roof. Ladybug slid under the legs of one and wrapped her yo-yo around his torso. She kicked him in the knees, bringing him down on her, and then kicked him off and sent him off the roof. She dodged a sword strike from the other knight and swiped his legs out from under him. He toppled off the roof.
Two more knights. One fell off the roof by himself, and Ladybug kicked the other one off easily.
Two by two, more guards landed on or near the roof, and Ladybug sent them back down. She glanced off the edge of the roof to get a glance of how Chat Noir was doing.
Chat Noir blocked the blow, and returned the strike.
He was fencing with his non-dominant hand, which wasn't helping anything. His other wrist was too injured to use.
He stepped into a strike and smacked Dark Blade in the neck, stepping back again before Dark Blade could retaliate.
"Thou are a talented opponent," Dark Blade noted. "Who teaches thee?"
Oh, the irony.
"I'm self-taught," Chat Noir lied, countering another attack.
"My father taught me," Dark Blade said. "Though I am finding it much easier with these powers I have been so generously given."
"Good thing you aren't the only super-powered fencer around." Chat Noir lunged, the end of his baton smacking Dark Blade in the chest, sending him back a few paces.
"Not super-powered enough!" Dark Blade replied, striking forward and hitting Chat Noir hard on the shoulder.
Chat Noir stumbled backwards, readjusted his grip, and lunged again.
Ladybug swung another knight off of the roof and dodged as a second knight slashed at her.
Ladybug looked down to where Chat Noir was recovering from a blow to his shoulder. She eyed the guard advancing on her.
"I think it's time to kill two birds with one stone."
Ladybug wrapped her yo-yo around the Knight and launched him off the roof. He fell through the air and landed on Dark Blade.
"Nice aim!" Chat Noir called.
"Thanks!" Ladybug replied. "Grab his sword!"
Ladybug watched as Chat Noir grabbed the sword and smashed it on the ground. It didn't break.
He tried it again, and again. The third time the sword chipped, but it was enough for the winds to pick up again.
Alya grinned as her search finally revealed results.
She opened up her phone and texted the name to the number Ladybug had left her.
Alya hit send, and turned her attention back to her computer. Now, who was Adeline Droz?
Yeah, my old English is horrible. But at least my modern English is pretty good - most of the time.