Yo, OTPeople, I'm back! And don't worry, MissfanFic0405, I won't abandon this fic until I finish it. This is sorta going to be the wizardified (yep, that's totally a word) version of the Origin episodes, with a fun little take on the umbrella scene. In this AU, Ladybug doesn't screw up and purifies the akuma the first time. Throughout the entire fic, I'm gonna mention some of the villains just to give you a vague outline of what the timeline is like. EXCEPT! Here is the important part. I was having a whole lot of trouble with the Hogwarts magic vs technology thing (no one has a phone in this AU, just to keep the awesome magicky vibe) but the Ladyblog still exists, except it's a newspaper called The Ladybulletin instead of a blog. I can't and won't write about technology-based villains like the Gamer, Rogercop, and Lady Wifi because I would have to change the whole villain in general. Here are villains that I will DEFINITELY write about though: Mr. Pigeon (going to be Mr. Owl in this fanfic), Timebreaker, Animan, Evillustrator, Copycat, Vanisher, Antibug, Volpina, Puppeteer, Stoneheart (duh), Dark Cupid, and Darkblade (going to be Darkwand in the fanfic). I hope I got everything cleared up. Here you go!
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Chapter 2: Who Needs Dementors When You Have Akumas?
Gabriel fastened the butterfly brooch onto his immaculate white robes.
"Expecto Patronum," he calmly said, flicking his cold, black, ebony wand.
A silvery, butterfly-like creature that emitted a faint purple glow emerged from the brooch.
Gabriel had seen this creature before; for this was Nooroo, an enchanted Patronus, better known as his late wife's kwami.
An expression of pure terror washed over Nooroo's face as he realised what Gabriel had in mind for the poor little kwami.
"Gabriel, how many times do Duusu and I have to explain? You can't bring her back. She's dead now. You have to accept it. Avery is-"
"Do. Not. Say. Her. Name," Gabriel ordered him, his voice icy enough to freeze an entire ocean on a hot summer's day.
"Why did you just lock Duusu away?" Nooroo asked him. "You were chosen for each other. Only he has the ability to make you see things the right way again."
"Have you forgotten your past, Nooroo?" Gabriel menacingly replied. "I looked in the Guardian's Book. As I recall, the Butterfly Miraculous has been used for evil more than once before. Obviously, you're the most diabolically experienced of all the kwamis."
"It's not my fault," Nooroo cried, pale, ghostly tears cascading from his silvery-lavender face.
"Remind me of the powers a Miraculous user is granted when the Miraculous in question is being used for evil," Gabriel said.
Gabriel was Nooroo's master now, and he had no choice but to tell him.
"You shall be granted a spell more powerful than the Three Curses. It is called the Akuma Kedavra, and you can use it to control, hurt, and/or give superpowers to a wizard."
"I like the sound of that. Nooroo, darkwings rise!" Gabriel said, his white robes transforming into dark gray robes with a dark purple lining.
He had a metallic mask and his ebony wand grew larger until it resembled a cane.
"From now on, I am Hawkmoth. I shall create villains to get the Black Cat and Ladybug Miraculouses. I need them to resurrect Avery Lionne," he confidently stated his goals to himself.
He let out a perfect evil laugh.
"Do you hear me, world? I will bring her back!" Hawkmoth shouted at nobody in particular.
…...…...…...…...….
Gasps of awe filled the Hogwarts Express as they arrived at the station near Hogwarts.
The school was visible in the distance, beckoning the young wizards to go to it.
"It's so beautiful!" a girl named Rose happily sighed.
"It truly is," the girl next to her, Juleka, agreed.
"Wow! They sent me pictures of Hogwarts, but this is majestic!" Alya exclaimed, astounded by Hogwarts. "It looks like a fairy-tale castle!"
Marinette looked up from her sketchbook.
So this was going to be the place she called home for the next four years.
"It's…..spectacular!" Marinette breathlessly gasped.
Nobody disagreed, not even Chloe.
"Alright, everyone! Get in the Thestral-drawn carriages!" Otis shouted.
Marinette, Nino, and Alya boarded one of the carriages.
"Can either of you see the Thestrals? I can't. Can Muggle-born people not see them?" Alya frowned.
"Ummm…..you see, the only people who can see Thestrals are ones that have seen…..….death," Marinette hesitantly explained.
"Oh," Alya said, her eyes wide. "Do you see them?"
"No," Marinette and Nino simultaneously denied.
"I don't think that there's anyone here that can actually see the Thestrals," Marinette theorized.
But she was wrong.
Very, very wrong.
Because Adrien Agreste could see the Thestrals as clear as day.
They were scary, gigantic, black skeletal horse-like creatures with wings, making terrible noises that could frighten the bravest of heroes.
He looked straight at the Thestral's face, his emerald eyes glaring at its soulless white ones.
"I'm not afraid of you," Adrien said.
"Adrien, dear, get into the carriage," Chloe urged him.
"Do you want to see my wand?" Chloe asked, showing him before he could even answer. "It's 10 ¼ inches, birch, and veela hair. What about yours?"
"11 inches, pine, phoenix feather," Adrien responded.
"Alright, everyone, into the carriages!" Otis shouted, shoving Chloe and Adrien into different carriages.
Adrien looked at who he was going to be sitting with for the length of the ride.
It was the people who were glaring at him on the Hogwarts Express.
Wonderful.
Twenty-five minutes and ten seconds.
That's how long it took for the ride to end.
Adrien counted.
Twenty-five minutes and ten seconds of awkward silence.
Twenty-five minutes and ten seconds of staring at the horrifying Thestrals.
Adrien had never been more glad to get off of a carriage.
…...…..
All of the Hogwarts first-years were hanging out in "The Lounge," better known as the Room of Requirement on the first day of school.
The Lounge was pretty much where the first-years just sat and chatted until it was time to be sorted.
It was a very large room, with a lot of comfy couches and chairs, bookshelves, tables, and four banners, each bearing the symbol of either Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, or Slytherin.
"We arrived early this year, so that means-" Marinette mentally counted the hours in her head. "Six hours until the Sorting Hat is plopped onto our heads."
"So that means six hours of just chilling out and talking," Nino added.
"How does this whole sorting thing work out again?" Alya asked.
"For starters, don't be creeped out when Headmaster Fu puts a talking, mind-reading hat on your head," Nino said.
"That sounds rather…...interesting," Alya commented, her left eyebrow raised.
"It's called the Sorting Hat. It's going to put you in one of four houses. Gryffindor" -Marinette pointed to the red banner with a golden lion in the center- "is for people who are heroic and brave. That's where the Famous Three started out."
"Famous Three?" Alya asked.
"Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley. They're the ones who stopped Lord Voldemort from taking over the entire Wizarding World," Nino explained.
"Oh. That evil hideous pale noseless bald dude?" Alya guessed.
It took a lot of willpower for Marinette to not laugh at the most sinister person in the universe being described in that manner.
"Anyway, Hufflepuff" -Marinette pointed to the yellow banner with a black badger in the center- "is for people who are loyal to their friends."
"Well, now I know for sure which house Chloe's definitely not going to be sorted into," Alya snorted.
"Ravenclaw is pretty the house for smart and intelligent people," Nino said as he pointed to the blue banner with a bronze eagle in the middle. "I never quite understood why their symbol is an eagle when they call themselves Ravenclaw."
"And last, but definitely least, is Slytherin," Marinette said, pointing to the last banner, a green one with a silver snake. "The Sorting Hat says that Slytherin is for cunning and ambitious people. But really, nearly all of the most infamous magical villains came from Slytherin. Most of them are really mean, but there are a few decent ones."
"Got it. So there's the heroic house, the evil house, the nerd house, and the 'you got a B+ on your test, but here's a golden star anyway because we care about you' house," Alya confirmed.
Nino and Marinette cracked up.
"It's funny how it's only now that I'm realizing how stereotypical all of the houses are," Nino laughed.
"KIM!" a boy suddenly yelled. "I'm so gonna get-"
"Ivan! Go to the Headmaster's office!" Professor Bustier, the head of Gryffindor, scolded him.
Ivan grumbled something and followed Professor Bustier's demands.
…...
"How convenient. Time for my first akumatized villain to appear!" Hawkmoth evilly laughed from Hogwarts' attic.
A white butterfly landed in his hands.
The Butterfly Miraculous attracted butterflies; he was going to have to remember that.
Hawkmoth pointed his wand at the butterfly.
"Akuma Kedavra!" he yelled.
Dark magic encased the butterfly, turning it a violent shade of black and purple, like a bruise.
"Now, akumatize this troubled wizard!" Hawkmoth commanded.
The akuma flew through a hole in the window.
"Perfect," Hawkmoth grinned.
…...
The akuma fluttered throughout the halls of Hogwarts, searching for its victim.
It soon found its target and landed on a crumpled ball of paper in the boy's hand.
"I am Hawkmoth. Stoneheart, you can get revenge on Kim and win Mylene's heart with the powers I shall give you, but I need one thing in return: the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculouses," Hawkmoth commanded Ivan.
"Sure thing, Hawkmoth," Ivan agreed.
Dark magic corroded the boy, leaving behind a gigantic Mountain Troll- but made completely out of stone.
Headmaster Fu walked out of his office, but immediately rushed back in closed the door again upon seeing Stoneheart.
A silvery turtle-like Patronus with a light green aura appeared from under a desk.
"Gabriel has started his reign of terror. Do you think that the students you chose have found the Miraculouses yet?" Wayzz asked his master.
"I have a feeling that they will, soon enough," Headmaster Fu reassured Wayzz. "First it was the fourth Basilisk within thirty years, then the Imp riot, then the Tebo stampede, which took forever to stop because they're invisible. Then there was not one but three Chimaeras that got loose in the school last year. Now an evil Miraculous user is using demon butterflies to turn the students into wizard supervillains. Oh dear, Hogwarts really needs a bigger security budget."
…...
Marinette walked back from the bathroom, accidentally tripping on the way to The Lounge.
A small wooden box flew out of her pocket.
Since when was that there?
She picked it up and opened it.
A flash of red light appeared, and Marinette felt the sudden urge to cast a Patronus Charm to protect herself.
She whipped out her wand and shouted, "Expecto Patronum!"
A small, silvery creature appeared.
And it certainly did not look like a Patronus.
It large bluish eyes, two antennae, and a faded black spot on its head.
It had a small body with four….flippers? Was that the correct word? It also had a strange little tail- no, it was three tails.
Most importantly, it was unnaturally glowing red.
"What are you?" Marinette asked.
"I'm an enchanted Patronus. My name's Tikki. You see that box?" the Patronus said in a sweet voice, like that of a child's.
"You can talk?!" Marinette shrieked.
"Shhhhh, not so loud!" Tikki scolded her. "I'm not an ordinary Patronus. I'm a kwami. Please put on the earrings in the box. It takes a lot of magic for me to be here when you don't have the earrings on."
Marinette followed Tikki's instructions and put on the two red earrings, each bearing five black dots.
As soon as they touched her ears, the earrings turned completely black.
"That's much better," Tikki said.
Marinette noticed that Tikki seemed to be less faded now.
"So why do I have a special Patronus? I mean, my friend Alya would be a much better person to be trusted with a kwami and-" Marinette rambled.
"Marinette, you are the Chosen One for a reason. This may seem sort of crazy, but I can grant you unimaginable power. Those earrings the Ladybug Miraculous. When you have a Miraculous on, instead of a normal Patronus, an enchanted Patronus called a kwami appears. There's a new threat in Hogwarts. Another Miraculous wielder, a man named Hawkmoth, is using his powers for evil. He sends out dark butterflies, also known as akumas. These akumas turn people with negative emotions into supervillains. You need to break the akumatized object to free the akuma. Speaking of which, your wand will be turned into a yo-yo. You can use it to purify the akuma. That's the most important part. With this yo-yo you can also use an important spell called Lucky Charm. It summons any object you need to defeat the villain, but using it means that you only have five minutes before you detransform again. After you purify the akuma, throw your Lucky Charm item into the air and yell 'Miraculous Ladybug!' That will reverse any damage that the akumatized villain has caused. You also have a partner who has the Black Cat Miraculous," Tikki explained.
"Fight the akumatized villain with my partner, use Lucky Charm, break the akumatized object, purify the akuma, say 'Miraculous Ladybug,' and then detransform. Okay. Anything else?" Marinette asked.
"To transform again, I need energy. I get energy from cookies! Chocolate chip's my favorite. And to transform, you just need to say my name, then 'spots on.' Got it?" Tikki said. "You should probably transform now."
"Tikki, spots on!" Marinette yelled.
Tikki was sucked into the earrings.
A wave of pink and red sparkles enveloped Marinette.
She ran back to the bathroom and looked at herself in the mirror.
Her robes were black, with very wide red trimming that was covered in black dots, like a ladybug.
They were tied together with a single black button on her waist.
She wore a white ruffled blouse underneath and black spandex leggings.
She tight red boots underneath, spotted with black.
The were the same material as her leggings, but a little bit thicker.
Red ribbons had been added to her dark blue pigtails.
She looked down and saw that her wand had turned into a red yo-yo with five black spots, much like her earrings.
She wore red fingerless Quidditch gloves with a black spot on the back of each hand.
A red eye-mask with five black spots finished the costume.
"Wow," was all Marinette could say.
…...
Adrien walked back into Hogwarts.
He didn't realize how much he needed that fresh air.
On the way in, a box fell out of his pocket.
He picked the box up.
"What's this?" Adrien asked himself.
He opened the box and a flash of green light blinded him.
He cast a Patronus Charm to protect himself, and a silvery cat appeared.
Well, it wasn't actually a cat, per say, but more of a cat-like creature.
It had a large head with a long black hair on its head and two long black whiskers on either side of its head.
It had squinting, completely green eyes.
Its body had a long tail and two crossed arms, with two tiny legs.
It had a strange black glow.
Now, Adrien had spent endless hours reading about Patronuses, and he was as sure as God himself that this wasn't a normal one.
"Put the ring on and give me cheese," the creature deadpanned.
"Excuse me?" Adrien asked.
The creature rolled its eyes. "It's in the box."
Adrien looked inside the box, and sure enough, there was a black ring with a green paw print in the middle.
He slipped the ring on, and it immediately turned silver.
"Give me camembert," the creature commanded, now less faded than before.
"Sorry, I don't have any. I'll get you some later. So what's your name? Are you kinda like the genie in the lamp?" Adrien asked.
"Call me Plagg," the creature said. "I'm a kwami, an enchanted Patronus. That ring you're wearing turns your normal Patronus into me. It's the Black Cat Miraculous, and when I'm sucked into it, I use my 'god of total destruction' powers to give you Cataclysm, which can destroy anything you touch. You also have a partner, the owner of the Ladybug Miraculous."
"So, what do I have to do to get these powers?" Adrien questioned.
"Well, you just have to say my name, then say 'claws out.' Got it?" Plagg said.
"Plagg, claws out!" Adrien yelled.
"But I'm not done explaaaaaaaaiiiiiiii-" Plagg protested as he was sucked into the ring.
A wave of green electricity rushed over Adrien.
He looked down at himself.
His robes were black, with narrow, neon green trimming.
He wore a black shirt with a neon green paw print in the middle.
He had black pants and shin-high black leather boots.
Even though his robes were open, he wore a black belt around his waist that loosened into a long tail at the end.
He wore leather gloves that sharpened into dangerous metal claws at the fingertips.
He looked at his gloved hands, only to see that his wand had grew into a large metal stick for combat.
He took out the mirror that his father had given him for 'modelling purposes only' out of his pocket and examined his face.
His messy, golden locks seemed to be even messier.
He wore leathery black cat ears on his head, and his eyes were completely green with slitted pupils.
Around them was a black eye-mask with a slight tip at the nose.
"I. Look. Awesome," Adrien said.
And he was 100% correct.
…...
Marinette walked out of the bathroom.
She looked at her yo-yo, then looked down at the floors below.
It was almost like a mall, because most of the floors were just wide perimeters and railings with two perpendicular walkways across the center.
"Let's try this thing out," she said to herself.
She threw the yo-yo at a pillar three floors above.
The yo-yo wrapped itself around the pillar, and launched Marinette up into the air.
She somersaulted and the yo-yo unwrapped itself.
Marinette plummeted downwards, to what she thought was certain death.
She crashed into a boy her age who was dressed like a cat and attempting to walk across a metal pole that he had stationed across a floor.
Her yo-yo saved them from crashing to the ground and tied them together, upside-down.
"I'm sorry for that," Marinette apologized.
"It's fine," the boy reassured her.
"I guess this is our first time experimenting with superpowers, huh?" Ladybug shrugged.
"It sure is. Hey, you're the partner that my kwami told me about, aren't you? I'm…." the boy hesitated. "I'm…..Cat Noir. Yeah, Cat Noir. What about you?"
"I'm Ma-" Marinette began. She tugged on the yo-yo and released them from the wires, accidentally hitting Cat Noir in the process.
"Madly clumsy," she sighed.
"No sweat," Cat Noir said.
The floor shook.
"What was that?" Cat Noir asked.
"That must be the akumatized villain," Marinette guessed.
"The what now? Sorry, I got a little excited and transformed before my kwami fully explained all the details of being a superhero," Cat Noir blushed.
"My kwami told me that a Miraculous is being used for evil. He's named Hawkmoth. He sends out dark butterflies called akumas to turn people with negative feelings into villains. We just have to fight the villain, use our powers, and break the akumatized item. Then I have to purify the akuma, and use my Miraculous Ladybug repairing spell to clean up all of the damage the akumatized villain made," Marinette explained.
The floor shook again.
"Uh oh. Whoever this akumatized villain is, he's huge," Marinette said.
Cat Noir looked outside a window. "You're right. He's a gigantic Mountain Troll made of stone. He has a girl in his hand. He must be in love with her, considering that he's not pummeling her. He's heading towards the Quidditch pitch."
"You know what the great part about my repairing spell is?" Marinette asked her partner.
"What?" Cat Noir asked.
"We can do stuff like this and everything is fixed later," Marinette responded, and broke the window with her yo-yo.
She swung over to the Quidditch pitch, Cat Noir pole-vaulting close behind her.
Nearly everyone was in the Quidditch pitch, demanding that the akumatized villain, Stoneheart, drop the girl who we was holding, who was named Mylene.
"Mylene will be mine forever!" Stoneheart shouted in a gravelly voice.
Everyone was huddled in the stands, terrified of the akumatized villain.
Well, everyone except for one person.
And, just by Marinette's luck, the one person who had dared get close to Stoneheart was none other than Alya, one of her only friends.
She had a camera and was rapidly taking pictures of Stoneheart.
Cat Noir leapt into action (literally) and saved Alya from an incoming part of the stands that Stoneheart had thrown at her.
He whacked Stoneheart with his metal stick, but it only caused the villain to become even bigger.
"How about some help, partner?" Cat Noir yelled.
"The world is counting on you, super red bug!" Alya shouted.
"Let's kick his rocky behind," Marinette said, joining in on the fight.
"So awesome!" Alya cheered.
After five more minutes of useless fighting, Cat Noir and Marinette retreated to one side of the Quidditch pitch.
"This isn't working. We need to use our powers," Marinette told her partner.
"I'll use mine. According to my kwami, I can destroy anything I touch," he said.
"Cataclysm!" Cat Noir yelled.
He touched a stray Quaffle, and it crumbled into ashes.
"Wait, don't-" Marinette winced.
Cat Noir ran towards Stoneheart and touched his foot.
His emerald-green eyes widened.
"So I guess it's a one-time thing, huh?" Cat Noir muttered weakly.
Stoneheart punted him towards Marinette.
He landed on the grass with a satisfying thump.
"Meowch," he groaned.
"You shouldn't have done that! You have only five minutes before you detransform," Marinette scolded him.
"Lucky Charm!" she yelled.
A red, black-spotted suit materialized out of thin air.
With her Lucky Vision, Marinette saw Alya, the suit, and a long rubber tube.
Marinette attached the suit to the tube and threw it at Stoneheart.
He caught it.
"Hey Alya, fill the tube with water!" Marinette commanded her best friend.
"Sure thing!" Alya grinned, happy to help.
She took out her wand.
"Aqua Eructo!" Alya yelled.
A stream of water flew through the tube and into the suit.
Stoneheart released the rock in his hand.
Marinette broke it and an akuma flew out.
Suddenly, the akuma turned into a large image of Hawkmoth's face, which was made out of many, many akumas.
"Wizards of Hogwarts, my name is Hawkmoth. I only want the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculouses. Give them to me, and everyone will be saved!" Hawkmoth announced.
"Nice try, Hawkmoth," Ladybug said. "Let's not reverse the roles here. You're the one turning people into supervillains. One day, even if it takes ten years, we're going to find you and make you hand over your Miraculous!"
"Time to de-evilize!" Ladybug shouted, purifying all of the akumas.
"No matter who that girl is under the mask, I love her," Cat Noir breathlessly stated, his last sentence now a fact of life.
"Miraculous Ladybug!" Marinette shouted, thousands of tiny ladybugs flying around and repairing things everywhere they went.
"It's truly…..miraculous," Cat Noir gasped.
She walked over to Ivan and Mylene and helped them up.
Marinette unfolded the crumpled ball of paper and read it.
Mylene could never fall in love with an ugly half-giant like you!
Mylene snatched it from Marinette's hands.
"Ivan, that's a lie. I'll always love you, whether you're Muggle or wizard, human or half-giant, akumatized or not," Mylene said, and hugged Ivan.
A blush spread on Ivan's cheeks before he hugged her back.
"Gotta go before we change back," Marinette suggested to Cat Noir.
"Wait! At least tell me your names!" Alya interrupted.
"I'm Cat Noir," Marinette's partner purred.
"You can call me Ladybug," Marinette said.
Ladybug swung away with her yo-yo.
"So her name is Ladybug," Cat Noir dreamily sighed.
He ran away from the crowd and detransformed.
It was official: Cat Noir loved Ladybug, yang loved yin, the sun loved the moon.
Another perfect balance in the world had just been created.
…...
"The Ladybulletin! Hot off the press!" Alya showed Nino and Marinette.
"You have an entire newspaper dedicated to Ladybug already?" Nino asked, his jaw crashing through the ground and reaching the center of the earth.
"Yup! It's already become more popular than The Hogwarts Weekly!" Alya replied.
Marinette glanced at the clock. "Ten more minutes until we get sorted!"
"Can we check out the banquet hall?" Alya asked.
"Race you there!" Nino said, and sped off towards the room.
Alya and Marinette simply walked there.
Which meant that Nino arrived first.
"Chloe, that's mean and rude," he heard a voice say.
He peered in.
It was Chloe's boyfriend from earlier.
"So what? Those Gryffindor brats are going to get what they deserve," Chloe said.
She stuck a third piece of gum on the seats for the Gryffindor table.
Adrien tried to poke it off, which was just when Marinette and Alya walked in.
"Ha, ha. Very funny. Think you're being clever, aren't you?" Marinette deadpanned and scraped the gum off of the bench.
Adrien only sighed, and Chloe had an exceptionally smug look on her face.
The rest of the student wizards filed into the banquet hall.
Nino walked over to Adrien. "Dude, why'd you stick up for Chloe like that? I know she's your girlfriend but-"
"Chloe is not my girlfriend," Adrien denied. "Besides, she's the only friend that I've ever had."
"Then I guess it's time for you to make some new ones," Nino grinned.
The Sorting Hat was presented and did its usual riddling routine before it was time for the first-years to be sorted.
Adrien Agreste was alphabetically first.
The Sorting Hat was placed on his head.
You've never had many friends before, so I don't know if you're loyal to them, the Sorting Hat thought. So not Hufflepuff.
You're very smart, but learning has been forced onto you, so not Ravenclaw.
That leaves Gryffindor or Slytherin.
Gryffindor.
Or Slytherin.
The Sorting Hat paused for a second.
Aha! I see your past. It's been very cold, Adrien. Your heart is one that wants to run away from its troubles, not conquer them. So-
"SLYTHERIN!" the Sorting Hat announced.
The Slytherin table cheered.
A Ravenclaw and two Hufflepuffs later, it was Chloe's turn and the Sorting Hat had only touched a single hair on her head before it immediately yelped and shrieked that she was a 'horrible, slimy, Slytherin.'
The Sorting Hat had a hard time choosing between Gryffindor and Ravenclaw for Alya, but it eventually declared that she was a Ravenclaw.
The Sorting Hat was placed upon Marinette Dupain-Cheng's head.
You love your friends, but you have much more important qualities. Hufflepuff is out of the question. You're smart and witty, but Ravenclaw is not the one for you. Your past is very warm and cuddly, compared to that other boy. His past is a frozen glacier. Brrrrrr!
"What other boy?" Marinette murmured.
You know him as Cat Noir. You are very brave, and have great potential. You just need to believe in yourself. You are-
"GRYFFINDOR!" the Sorting Hat proclaimed.
Nino was sorted into Hufflepuff soon afterwards.
After everyone else was sorted, the feast began. The floating candles danced above their heads. Everyone pigged out, and Marinette and Adrien snuck some chocolate chip cookies and camembert cheese for their kwamis when nobody was looking.
After the feast was over, everyone shuffled to their dorms to unpack, and Marinette looked longingly outside.
It was raining like mad.
And she had left her sketchbook under a tree.
Great.
"Hey," a voice said beside her.
Marinette looked at who the owner of the voice was, but soon turned away.
Adrien Agreste, the Slytherin boy who was friends with the most evil girl in the entire Wizarding World.
He opened up a black umbrella.
"I just wanted you to know that I was only trying to take the chewing gum off of the Gryffindor bench. I swear. I've never known many kids my age before. I've never had friends. It's all sort of…...…..new to me," Adrien admitted.
He held out his umbrella towards her.
Thunder boomed in that distance.
That was the only important sound that existed, because that thunder ignited a spark.
A spark between two people, a spark felt from the passing of an umbrella.
Marinette took the umbrella, but it immediately closed on her.
Adrien laughed.
Not the mean and haughty laugh of most rich kids, but the sincere, heartfelt laugh of a friend that makes everyone smile.
"See you tomorrow," Adrien said, and walked back inside.
"See you to- torom- uhhh, tomorrow," Marinette replied, absolutely awestruck. "Wow, why am I stuttering?"
"I think I have an idea why," Tikki giggled.
"My, my! The first day of school and you already have a girlfriend!" Plagg teased.
"She's not my girlfriend, Plagg," Adrien blushed. "She's just a friend. Oh! A friend!"
Marinette hurriedly retrieved her sketchbook.
It was right then and there that she decided maybe, just maybe, not all Slytherins were so bad.
Because Adrien Agreste had turned out to be her friend.
And maybe something more.
…...
Phew! That was the longest chapter I've ever written for any fanfic. Too tired to write more. Goodbye for now, OTPeople!