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"They never mention the elephant poop." Adrien said in distress as he looked at the enormous pile of elephant poop in front of him. He shook his head, he couldn't just talk to himself or else people would think that he was crazy. But he was just so used to talking to Plagg all of the time that it was hard not to just start talking to thin air.
Adrien sighs as picks up a shovel and walks forwards. He grumbles to himself along the way.
"Whenever people talk about running away to join the circus they never mention having to scoop up elephant poop. There is so much elephant poop here. I already hate this." He held his nose with one hand at the stench and tried to move forwards. The elephant let out a loud bellow and he took a few steps backwards nervously.
"These things are much bigger up close."
"And you're doing it all wrong." A voice calls from behind him. Adrien turns with a nervous look on his face. He is wearing new clothes that feel weird, cheap baggy jeans and a black sweat shirt and a red baseball cap. His new haircut feels even weirder, it is shaved down to his scalp and he feels like everyone is staring at it.
The girl walking towards him is tall and has a big frown on her face and sharp eyes. Her head is similarily shaved like his and he wonders if there is only one barber in the circus.
"I'm doing what wrong?" He said as she yanked the shovel out of his hands and walked back a few steps he followed afterwards. Her arms were coated in strong muscles.
"This. All of this. Let me see your hands." She says snapping her fingers. He isn't sure what to do or say so he just holds out his hands. She grabs them before turning them over one way and then another shaking her head in disgust. She spits on the ground and frowns even deeper.
"Just what I thought, you've never done a hard days work in your life have you? What did Tommy just point you in this direction and tell you to muck out the elephants?"
"Yes actually, word for word that's what the short greasy man told me." Adrien said trying not to be intimidated. He had a headache and didn't know why he was still standing in the circus. He felt out of place and confused. Plagg had told him to be patient and to stick around and wait...But he didn't know how much longer he could!
Then he felt where his ring should be and he knew that he would have to stay.
"Well I can tell that he didn't check out your hands. What is that a manicure? And they're way too soft. Grab those gloves hanging over there before you hurt yourself." She said gesturing gruffly to a nearby fence post that had some thick leather gloves. Adrien trottered over to them and picked them up. He glances back to where the girl is standing.
"Aren't you going to wear any?" He asks as she snorts and shakes her head in disgust.
"What are you nuts? I'm plenty strong and tough." She says flexing her arm, he could see that she had thick callouses on her hands, and a few popped blisters he didn't doubt that she was tough but it still seemed a bit extreme to just pick up a shovel without hand protection.
"Okay first off you approached them from behind that's your first mistake, if they got spooked they would have trampeled you. You also need a bucket. So go and grab that bucket." She said pointing towards a nearby bucket. Adrien looked at it and then looked at the woman, that bucket did not seem remotely big enough for all of the elephant poop.
Hours later Adrien realized that he had been right. It was nowhere large enough. The woman kept on snapping her fingers at him, making him run faster, or bend with his knees, or take over with the shovel, then she would get angry with how he shoveled and she would demonstrate again and again how he was supposed to do it.
Adrien sighed when it was finally over and sat on the grass with a massive sigh.
"What are you doing? Get up? There's more stuff to do." The woman snapped and gestured for him to stand.
"Can't we take a break? Just for a second? I think that I might die if I keep on working." Adrien complained. She glowered down at him before sighing and sitting down beside him.
"You are really not cut out for this job are you?" She said shaking her head and continued to glower off in the distance. Adrien frowned in response, sure he might have had a bit of a slow start but that was no reason to be rude about it!
"Oh and you are? What were you born here or something?"
"Yes actually." She said with a smirk. "Born and raised. I'm a circus brat. Names Hazel."
"Oh...well I'm-"
"I know who you are blondie. And I don't really care. You will get your circus name in time. Just be patient." She said before tapping her foot for a few seconds. She stood up and offered her hand this time. "Come on breaks over. Back to work."
"Circus name?" Adrien asked in confusion.
Many many hours later Adrien walked in from an outdoor shower, shivering from the cold water that still beaded his skin. He glances around the small caravan that he and the Gorilla were sharing. He grabs his clothes and pulls them on before falling onto the cot in delight.
"Adrien?" Plagg asks poking his head out from behind a small opening in the wall of the trailer.
"Plagg!" Adrien cried out before the small black cat like creature flew to him and they bumped foreheads. "Man is it good to see you!" Adrien said in delight before wincing and twisting and gripping his lower back.
"OW! Okay that hurt, wow." He grumbles as Plagg floats in front of him in concern.
"Wow you look awful, what have they been putting you through?"
"Just chores so far, cleaning up elephant poop, cleaning up horse poop, cleaning cars. It's weird. I don't think that I've ever been this exhausted in my entire life and I don't get why! I'm a superhero for crying out loud! I sprint across the rooftops and jump twenty stories!"
"Adrien...dude...you are doing actual hard back breaking labor without my help, what did you think would happen? This isn't piano practice, this isn't fencing with their fancy rules. The only rule of circus life is survive while doing back breaking manual labor that is probably super illegal surrounded by dangerous machinery and animals."
"And jerks." Adrien grumbles before shaking his head. "There is this one girl here named Hazel. She is just the worst! I don't want to be mean or anything but she is just so rude! I can't stand it! I tried to be nice to her all day but it seems like she is refusing everything! I don't know what to do!" Adrien said before pointing to his head.
"And this isn't exactly all that great either. I'm surprised that you didn't mention it yet." Plagg snickers and shakes his paw before floating up and rubbing Adrien's dome.
"I was getting to it. I was just coming up with a joke that would be funny and somehow cheese related. But I've got nothing. It looks really really stupid."
"I just don't get why they would need to shave my head for lice, why not just use a spray?" Plagg winces at that, he knows exactly why, but he can't say a thing, his holder the Gorilla had forbidden it, and if there was one thing that a kwamii can't do it is to diobey a direct order from a holder.
"Meh who knows, humans are weird right?" The two heard a squeaking from the door to the trailer. Plagg exchanged a nervously look with Adrien before flying back to his hiding spot.
"And speaking of weird! Good luck kid!" Plagg called as encouragingly as he could from where he was now hiding. Adrien turned and watched as the Gorilla opened up the door, fumbled for a second and managed to hook his thumb in and then slip inside. He was carrying two large platters with him covered with napkins.
The gorilla looked stiffly at Adrien and then down at his hands and then towards the table. The gorilla walked over to the table and set down the two large platters before removing the napkins and revealing the mountains of food that were underneath. Adrien grinned and rushed over only to be stopped when the Gorilla held up his large trash can lid sized palm.
He glanced down at Adrien's hands and then rubbed his own together.
Adrien looks at his hands in confusion before glancing back at The Gorilla and sighing.
"You're serious?"
"NINO! SERIOUSLY! SLOW DOWN!" Alya yelped at the top of her lungs as she pedaled her bike as fast as she could after the young man. He was standing on his bike, pedaling like a mad man down the streets, turning corners too fast and glancing around like he had bees in his head.
"I can't! I need to find him!" Nino shouts over his shoulder. Alya manages to just get behind him at the next corner, she huffs and pants and yelps before breaking having almost collided with Nino who had stopped at a dead end alley way.
Nino growls and picks his bike up to turn it around. Alya took the opportunity to jump off of her bike and grab his handlebars and slam the bike wheel back onto the pavement.
"Nino! Wait!" His head shot up, they were blushing, red faced, breathing heavily, their hair was curling and sweaty against their faces. Their glasses were fogged up and they were both out of breath.
"I can't. I need to find him Alya." Nino said desperately. She held up her finger warningly.
"Nino at the rate you're going you are going to hit someone. Or hurt yourself. Or burn yourself out. Or do all three all at once. And I am not letting that happen." She said snapping her fingers and frowning.
Nino's mouth flapped helplessly before he closed his eyes and slumped.
"Fine. Whatever you beat me. We can stop for the day." He grumbles. Alya quirks an eyebrow in confusion.
"What are you talking about? We're nowhere close to being done today! We just need to be calm and think this entire thing through. I don't want you to get lost while looking for Adrien!"
"Adrien isn't lost though. You heard the news babe. The chances that he just ran away...I mean...His home life is pretty crappy, but I don't think that he would just ditch us without telling anyone." Alya smiles as sweetly and gently as she could, taking her boyfriends chin in her hand and tilting it up so that she could kiss his sweaty cheek and give him a peck on the lips.
"I know that this is scary babe. But trust me. We are going to find Adrien. He has one of the most recognizable faces in the world. There is no way that he could just disappear. I know you're concerned but let's think this through okay?"
Nino chuckles before taking her hand in his.
"It's funny you know? You giving me a pep talk about slowing down and thinking?" Alya frowns and pouts.
"And what's that suposed to mean smart guy?" She snaps which just makes Nino chuckle even harder. Alya frowns and then calms herself down.
"We know where everyone else is searching right now. We know where Adrien normally hangs out. Let's try to think of something outside of the box before we start running around like a pair of chickens with their heads cut off okay?" Alya said before turning her bike around and letting her boyfriend out of the alley.
"We need to think outside the box here." Marinette said pouring over the map with Kagami. There were multiple circles all around the map, of the city, of the countryside. And if she wasn't mistaken of airports.
"That's why I called you. You jump in and out of the sanity box all the time. It should be easy for you to come up with something." Kagami said. Marinette does a double take before realizing that it was meant as a weird sort of compliment. Marinette rubs her eyes. This was going to take a while, and she really really really wished that she could escape and transform into Ladybug. That might actually be useful.
She would just have to wait and see. But she knew that she could at least try to find Adrien with Kagami. Marinette knew that if there was one thing that could track Adrien down it would be the power of love! Or the power of two girls who were crushing pretty hard on the same cute guy. And who had a car. And a map. And a secret super duper powerful god of creation.
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