At Collège Françoise Dupont, our class was making a movie about two cops, who were facing off against a monster. Yeah, we were doing a horror movie. Me and Frost were victims that were attacked by the monster, Tricha was on the costume and makeup department, and Jay worked the boom mic. Everybody else helped with the sets. Everything seemed to work pretty smoothly, but we had one problem while filming.
"Agent Smith, it's too dangerous. We must evacuate!" Frost said as he played Officer Jones, as cop in the movie.
"You are suggesting we run, Officer Jones?" Mylène said as she played Agent Smith. "After it devoured my family, my friends, even my beloved dog, Sniffles? Never! I won't run! I no longer fear it, I'm going to face it, then I'll—Wahh!" She then ran off after being scared by Ivan wearing the monster mask.
"Cut!" Nino said as we stopped shooting and Mylène hid under the desk.
Yeah, that was the problem. Mylène kept getting scared off. I for one was getting ticked off.
"Sorry, Mylène." Ivan said as he apologized to her.
"Are you kidding me?" I said as I walked over. "Mylène, can't you get through this without being scared off? We did this ten times already."
"Fourteenth actually, but it was counting." Ali said, correcting me.
"Whatever. If you keep this up, we'll never get past the first scene." I said.
"I'm sorry… I'm gonna do better on the next take… I promise." Mylène said, still a bit shaken.
"Anyone want some tea?" Rose asked as she gave her a cup of tea.
"You're playing a hero from the Special Forces, you're not supposed to get all freaked out." I said.
"I know, but…that monster mask he's wearing is so realistic and scary!" Mylène said.
"Just big old me, Mylène! Nothing to be scared of." Ivan said.
"You ask me, he doesn't even need a mask." Jay said as he struggled with the mic. "And why am I on boom mic duty? I can't even lift this."
"Sorry, it was the only position open, Jay." Nino told him. "Ivan, put the mask back on, you're playing the monster! And Mylène, we need you to stay in character." Ivan put the monster mask on and scared Mylène.
"I need to sing my happy song, it always makes me feel better…" She said as she began to sing her song.
Smelly wolf, smelly wolf,
Stinky breath and slimy…
"Aah!" She screamed as she bumped into Adrien.
"And the award for biggest scaredy-cat goes to Mylène." Basar said. "I don't see why she's the cop. Girl's afraid of her own shadow."
"Basar!" I said as I looked at him.
"What?" Basar asked. "It's true. If you ask me this should be done by someone braver than her."
Mylène then ran away, crying from Basar's hurtful words.
"Mylène!" Marinette said. "Anyone gonna go after her?"
"Mylène, wait!" Ivan said as he took his monster mask off and ran after her.
In the Collège's court, Mylène was sitting on a bench, sobbing. Then Ivan found her and tries to comfort her.
"Ummm…don't listen to those bozos. Easy to judge when they're not in front of the camera. You're doing awesome." Ivan said. "Come back! I promise I'll roar more quietly." Then Mylène stopped sobbing and looked at him. "Here. It's from my favorite band, the Zombie Skull Crushers." Ivan then gave her a black skull pin.
"Wow…" Mylène said as put the pin on her. "Uh, that's, uhh…really sweet of you, Ivan. But…they're right. I can't act to save my life… Excuse me" She then ran away crying.
In Hawkmoth's lair, Hawkmoth's window began to open.
"A film shoot…oh, yes. So many emotions. Some fake, yet others very, very real." He said. He then turned a butterfly into an akuma. The akuma flew out into Paris. "Akuma Dargon."
Chronicles of Kaze: Chapter 6
I then woke up and said "Yes, master?"
"Looks like you are going to have a big role." He said as the akuma then flew towards me. "There is a girl who has been driven with sadness. Take this akuma and overpower his young misunderstood artist…"
"This time I'll do better." I said after I absorbed the akuma. I then turned to Colt and said "Colt!"
"Yes, boss?" Colt asked as he went over to me.
"We got a new villain to get and I'll need the muscle to do it." I answered.
"You got it, boss." I then used my Shadow Path to head into Paris, carrying Colt with me.
In the classroom. Nino was angry at Basar for making Mylène run away.
"Epic, Basar! Real epic!" Nino said. "What are we supposed to do now without our leading actress?"
"It wasn't my fault she's such a chicken." Basar said.
"It is your fault!" Ivan said as he came in. "Mylène is crying her eyes out on the bathroom thanks to you!"
"Says who?" Basar said as he glared at Ivan.
"Hey, hey! Everyone chill out!" Marinette said as she tried to prevent a fight. "You're right, it is Basar's fault, but fighting isn't gonna bring Mylène back. I'm the producer and I'm gonna do everything in my power to finish filming tonight!"
"The deadline for the Parisian Student Short Film Fesrival is tomorrow evening, precisely 26 hours, 15 minutes and 14, 13 seconds from now." Max said.
"Thank you, Max! And we still have editing, post-sound, soundtrack…" Marinette said.
"And who's gonna take Mylène's part?" Adrien asked.
"I will." Chloé said.
"You?" I asked. "You haven't even read the script!"
"Of course I have!" Chloé said. "Well, the first scene anyway. I can even tell you that it ends with a kiss between Agent Smith and Officer Jones."
"Huh?" I said in confusion to it. I then looked to Alya who wrote this movie in the first place. "You wrote that?"
"Hold up." Alya said as she looked at the script. "I didn't write that."
"Uh…I wrote it." Nino said and I raised an eyebrow at him. "It was just a little tweak. You know, to move the story forward."
"What?" Alya yelled at him. "You added at my script without even telling me? That's low!"
"Wait a minute! You mean our script!" Nino said. Then Frost sighed.
"Juice?" Rose said as she gave him a glass of juice.
"Thanks, Rose." Frost said to her.
"Oh, who cares who wrote what?" Chloé said. "We've got to film this thing, right?"
"She's right. Principal Damocles is only allowing us to use school until 6 p.m. sharp. Which leaves us 9 hours, 12 minutes and 12 seconds. 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6…" Max said.
"Thanks, Max. We get the point." I said to him. "Okay. Let's get to shooting."
Meanwhile, Colt and I arrived at the school and reached the bathroom, where Mylène was hiding.
"Why are you so intimidated and scared all the time?" She asked herself. She then began to cry again.
"Yes, why be so scared all the time?" I said as she screamed from the sight of both Colt and I in front of her. "No need to be afraid. We are here to help."
"How?" Mylène asked with a sniffle. I motioned Colt to take this one and Colt pointed to himself in disbelief that I wanted him to do this. I never had to ask my minions to influence someone onto our side before. I nodded and Colt then went over and started to talk to her.
"We have a way of help people see your way." Colt said. "Imagine it. They will finally understand to be like you. No more insults. Will you let us help?"
Mylène then nodded "yes".
"Then let me ask you something: is that pin important to you?" I asked as I pointed to the pin on her head. She nodded "yes" and I motioned her to come over to me. I then used my claw and induced the pin with akuma energy. Then Mylène gave a look of rage. "Horrificator, I am Akuma Dargon. And this is my associate, Terrorcata. Up until now, you have felt fear. From now on, you will cause fear. And after you show them how they make you feel, you will do something for me in return."
"Yes, master." Mylène said as the akuma energy transformed her into the real life version of Ivan's interpretation of the monster we had made for the movie with magenta, purple, indigo blobby skin, three big, yellow eyes, and sky blue, blobby locks. Colt and I moved out of the way as she spat goo at the mirror.
"Then let's go and spread some fear." I said as I transformed into Akuma Dargon.
"Yeah." Colt said as he transformed into Terrorcotta.
"Mylène? Mylène?" Tricha said as she looked for Mylène, but only found the mirror covered in goo. She then used got a cotton swab and got some of the goo off. "What the…?" She said as she looked at the goo and then put it in a bag.
"Tricha, did you find Mylène?" Meri asked as she entered the bathroom.
"No. But I found this on the bathroom mirror." She said as she showed her the goo.
"What is that?" Meri asked as she saw it.
"I don't know. We better get this to Axel" Tricha said and they both left to show that Fire Dragon pest.
"Time to use some scare tactics, Horrificator." I said as I looked at Horrificator. "And thrive."
Back in the classroom, we were filming again.
"Horrificator, take 15." Ali said as they started rolling.
"Action!" Nino said.
"Agent Smith, it's too dangerous. We must evacuate!" Frost said as he played Officer Jones, as cop in the movie.
"You are suggesting we run, Officer Jones?" Chloé said as she played Agent Smith. "After it devoured my family, my friends, even my beloved dog, Sniffles? Never! I won't run! I no longer fear it, I'm going to face it, then I'll…!"
While they did, I inspected the goo Tricha and Meri found and saw it emanating with akuma energy.
"Oh, no." I said for I knew this meant a new villain was loose. "You said you found this in the bathroom?"
"Yeah. Why?" She asked.
"Because this is emanating akuma energy." I answered.
"What?" Tricha asked. "But where's the villain?"
"Huh?" I said as I felt something drop on my head. I put my hand to the spot and found the same goo that I inspected. "She's in the air vent." We then ran off to find this new villain. We got to the hallway and saw it split into 3 different directions. "Split up and find the villain. We don't know what we're dealing with, so warn me immediately and do not engage."
So we went in split up to those different directions to search for this new villain. Tricha took the left hallway, I took the middle one, and Meri took the one on the right. We didn't know, but Horrificator saw us and followed Tricha.
Back in the classroom, they were still filming and were about to do the kissing scene when Frost noticed that I was gone and said "Cut!"
"What's wrong, Frost?" Nino asked.
"Yeah. That was perfect." Jay said.
"Has anyone seen Axel?" Frost asked and everyone looked around and saw that I was gone.
"He's right. Axel's gone." Adrien said.
"So is Tricha and Meri." Basar said.
"Where'd they go?" Marinette asked. Then Frost looked to his left, saw a puddle of goo on the floor, and went over to it. Everybody soon joined him as he used his finger to wipe some of it off.
"What is that?" Basar asked as he saw the goo.
"I'm not sure." Frost said as he then looked up and saw it coming from the vent above. "But I bet this is what caused Axel and the girls disappear." He didn't know it, but Jay had the camera rolling on him as he said it. "Come on, we need to find them." He then saw Jay holding the camera. "Jay, what are you doing?"
"Hey, we're making a horror movie and what's better than the real thing?" Jay said, making a good point.
"He's right." Basar said. "We can shoot a real monster instead of a fake one."
"Fine. But let's hurry and find Axel and the others." Frost said as they all went to look for me and the girls. When they got to the hallway, they split up with Frost, Chloé, Kim, and Max taking the left hallway, Adrien, Marinette, Jay, Ali, and Basar taking the middle, and Alya, Rose, Juleka, Nathaniel, Nino, and Ivan took the one on the right.
Back with Tricha, she was still looking for the villain and went to look in the nurse's office. But, before she even touched the doorknob, she felt something touch her shoulder and screamed as she turned around. She stop screaming when she saw it was only Frost.
"Frost, you scared me half to death." Tricha said, angry at Frost.
"Sorry." Frost said. "What are you doing out here anyway?"
"I'm looking for Mylène." Tricha said. "I tried to look for her in the bathroom, but only found some strange goo on the mirror."
"Mylène's gone too?" Frost said.
"Maybe whatever left that goo took her." Chloé said fearfully. "Frost, I'm scared."
"Did you hear something?" Kim asked as he heard something move.
"No. What?" Max asked. Then Horrificator appeared behind them and they all screamed.
I managed to hear the screams while searching through the hallway, fearing the worst. I then felt something touch my shoulder and screamed. I calmed down when I saw Ali behind me.
"Ali." I said as I caught my breath. "You scared me."
"Sorry." Ali apologized.
"Axel, what's going on?" Marinette asked.
"Yeah and where's Tricha and Meri?" Basar asked.
"We went searching for the new villain running through the school." I said and I then showed them the bag of goo. "See this? This pink goo is emanating with akuma energy. We split up to find the villain that left it behind. We think Mylène might've been evilized."
"What makes you say that?" Basar asked.
"Because it was found in the bathroom." I said. "Come on, let's find safe place and transform." We then ran off to do so. We didn't know it, but Horrificator saw us, and started covering the school in goo.
We got to a safe place and got ready to transform.
"Jay, turn that camera off." I said as he did so and put the camera down. I then took off my shoe. "Everybody, take off your shoes."
"Why?" Jay asked.
"So they'll think we've disappeared too." I said as I then dropped my shoe on the floor. Then the others followed my lead.
"Yuck! And you say I stink of Camembert!" Plagg said as he smelled the odor coming from Adrien's shoe.
"Let's do this." I said. "Nooroo, let's fly!"
"Tikki, spots on!"
"Plagg, claws out!"
Me, Marinette, and Adrien then transformed into El Dragon, Ladybug, and Cat Noir. Then the others followed our lead. We then got out and saw that the goo was covering and knew this meant one thing.
"She's sealing us in." I said as the goo completely covered the window.
"We're trapped, just like in a real horror movie." Posidacus said as he tried to open the window, found it stuck, and then got the camera out and record everything. We then heard a scream and I knew whose it was.
"Tricha!" I said as we all went to check on my cousin.
Our classmates heard the scream too and followed it to where they found a mirror on the floor.
"This is Tricha's mirror." Alya said as she picked it up. She and everyone else saw they were next to Mr. Damocles' Office. Alya then looked for Mr. Damocles. She opened the door and peeked inside. "Mr. Damocles? Sir?" There was nobody inside.
"Even Principal Damocles is nowhere to be found!" Rose said.
"Quick, check the windows!" Nino said as he saw the goo.
"Crazy…" Juleka said. Then me and the gang appeared on the scene.
"Is everyone okay?" I asked.
"We're fine." Rose said.
"We heard some screams and headed over right away." I said.
"We also found this." Posidacus said as he hand Nino the camera.
"Jay." Nino said with depression. Then he looked with joy and then pointed the camera at us. "The Element Gang in my movie? This is legit!"
"And on my Ladyblog!" Alya said as she recorded what was going on with her phone.
"Thanks to the new villain, we all trapped within the school." I said. "We need to find her and catch her akuma."
"But where would she go?" Apolloid asked. "This school is so big, she could be anywhere."
"Don't mind me, finding the missing piece of solving this crazy mystery with Cat Noir and Ladybug…" Nino said. "This movie's gonna be so swank!"
"Stay together, right behind us!" I said as we moved out to find the villain. I then grabbed Nino. "You too, Spielberg!"
In the cellar, Horrificator kidnapped Tricha and then placed her in some kind of trap made of goo. She then began to shiver and gave a look of fear. Then Horrificator grew bigger.
"Absorb their fear, Horrificator…feed on it!" I said to her. "It will give you strength. And soon enough, you will be giving us strength too."
"I can't believe Horrificator is able to use her goo to create anyone's worst fears." Terrorcotta said. "Just look over there and those guys." He pointed over to Meri, Frost, Chloé, Kim, and Max, who were cowering as monsters scared them.
Back with me and the gang, we were still looking for the villain. We didn't know it, but the goo started to move. When we started hearing screeching above us. We looked up and we saw that the ceiling was covered in bats.
"Aah! Bats!" I screamed as I started running. Then all the bats started chasing me.
"What's with him?" Cat asked.
"He haves a fear of bats." Apolloid answered. "Wait, why are there bats around here?"
"Aah!" I yelled as the group saw me being carried off by bats in a wrap of goo. "Help me!"
"Don't worry, El Dragon! We got ya!" Apolloid said as he and the rest of the gang got ready to help me, but then Horrificator appeared and kidnapped Nathaniel. Our classmates were scared of her, all except Juleka.
"Everybody run!" Apolloid said as everyone started running away.
"Awesome." Juleka said as she looked at Horrificator. Horrificator roared at Juleka, but she wasn't scared. "So awesome…" the goo moved over to her, but then backed away in an instant. Then Horrificator shrank. She then spat goo at Juleka, but Ladybug grabbed her and pulled her away just in time.
"Eww! What's your name, Drool-lator?" Cat said as Horrificator spat goo at him, but he avoided it with his staff.
"Her name is Horrificator!" Akuma Dargon said as he appeared by her side. "And she will make you all afraid. Once you all are swallowed by fear, there will be no one to stop us!" Then the slime moved and captured Cat. It tried to catch Apolloid, but he managed to dodge it. He turned behind him and saw that our classmates and Ladybug had been captured by the goo. Then Horrificator and Akuma Dargon came in and grabbed them all.
"Let them go!" Apolloid said to them.
"If you want them back, come to the cellar." Akuma Dargon said. "If you can face what you fear, you and your friends will go free." then he and Horrificator left. Seeing he had to, he started heading to the cellar.
In the cellar, Apolloid walked down the stairs trying to find everyone. He managed to find me, Ladybug, and Cat Noir inside some kind of cocoons made of goo. We were all having nightmares, each based on our own worst fears.
"Don't worry, guys." Apolloid said as he went over to us. "I'll get you out of there."
He was about to free us until he heard a familiar voice say "Hold it right there, young man!"
He looked behind him to see the one person he was scared to disappoint with an angry look on her face.
"Mom?" Apolloid asked as he saw here. "What are you doing here?"
"Here to discipline an earth elemental." She said as she smacked Apolloid it the wall. "You let your entire team get capture." She then smacked him. "You are a shame to the entire family! You are the biggest, most shameful elemental in history!"
As she kept talking, while he was cowering, Apolloid then realized something. He remembered when Horrificator failed to scare Juleka, she shrunk. He also remember how those bats appeared and scared me. That was my worst fear. That's when he figured it out. Horrificator's powers come from fear. He realized this wasn't his mother, but just a manifestation of his fear. If he doesn't show fear, then Horrificator would lose her powers. So he got up and glared at the manifest.
"Are you glaring at your mother?" She said. "Haven't disappointed me enough?"
"I'm not afraid of you not anymore. I know I mess up, but my actions are what make my parents proud of me. I know my mom will get mad at me, but I will make up my mistakes ʹcause that's what makes me who I am!" he then punched her in the chest and she started changing into goo. Then the goo scatter and reveal Terrorcata underneath it. Horrificator then came in and roared at him, but was shocked when she saw he wasn't afraid. "I'm not afraid of you either." Then Horrificator shrunk.
"How about I make you afraid?" Terrorcata said as he charged right at him. Then Apolloid punched him and sent him flying into the wall. "What the heck? That punch was strong than the usual delivery. How can you…" he said as he got back up. He then looked and gasped as Apolloid's body began to glow in a bright orange light. Then rocks covered his entire body and, with one flash, the rocks burst away and revealed that Apolloid had completely changed. His armor was a new refined steel knight's armor. He then put out his hand and a weapon formed. It looked like a double headed sledge hammer. He then tossed it and it cut me, Ladybug, and Cat loose from those cocoons. It then came back to him like a boomerang and he caught it.
"You guys okay?" Apolloid asked as he went over to us.
"Yeah. Whoa!" I said as I saw him. "Apolloid, you evolved!"
"He's right. Look at you!" Cat said, amazed by this.
"What are gonna call the new weapon you got there?" Ladybug asked.
"How about the Rock Hammer?" Apolloid said.
"Good choice." I said.
"Are you kidding me?!" Terrorcotta said.
"Don't just stand there." Akuma Dargon said to him. "Crush them!"
We then went on the attack, but Horrificator was still too strong for us to beat.
Looking around, I saw our classmates and our teammates were still indulged in fear.
"We'll never beat Horrificator if she keeps feeding off everyone's fear." I said.
"Then let's change that. Lucky Charm!" Ladybug said as she used her powers which gave her a guitar string. "Guitar strings? Are you kidding me? Guitar, music… Mylène's song!" She then used her lucky vision and the things on a desktop, like a traffic cone and trashcan lids, flashed before her eyes. Ladybug then caught the desktop with her yo-yo. Meanwhile, Horrificator chased me, Apolloid, and Cat Noir and spat goo at us, but we dodged it and got Akuma Dargon and Terrorcotta trapped in them.
"That's it. Enough's enough. Cataclysm!" Cat said as he used his powers. He then used his Cataclysm to make the bars rust, trapping Horrificator. Ladybug then gave trashcan lids to Cat, a traffic cone to me, and a box to Apolloid.
"Okay, what's the plan?" I asked.
"We're all going to sing." Ladybug answered.
"Sing? So that's your plan?" Cat asked.
"The only way to get through this is to get your fear under control." Ladybug said. "You all know Smelly Wolf, don't you?"
"Seriously? Smelly Wolf?" Apolloid asked.
"Come on. Join the band." Ladybug said.
Then Apolloid sighed and got ready. Then Cat made a drum set with pots and the trashcan lids.
"Okay, everyone! 1, 2, 3, 4!" Ladybug said and we all began to sing.
Smelly wolf, smelly wolf,
Trapped in the stinky hut...
Then our classmates started joining in. Even the shivering Tricha.
Smelly wolf, smelly wolf, I'm gonna kick your…
Smelly wolf, smelly wolf, stinky breath and slimy drool,
Smelly wolf, smelly wolf, you are just silly!
Horrificator roared at us, but it started to shrink. That meant people were becoming brave and weakening her. I even watched as those monsters started turning back into goo.
"It's working!" I said. I even heard Tricha singing louder, which meant she was no longer feeling cold. I soon saw her join us as Horrificator shrunk to the size of a pack rat. The shrunken Horrificator saw the students, became frightened, ran off, and hugged Ivan.
"That's the same button I gave to Mylène!" Ivan said as he saw the pin.
"That's where the akuma is!" I said as I grabbed the pin and broke it, releasing the akuma. "Scaring time's over, akuma." I then put my staff in capture mode. "Time to de-evilize!" I then caught the akuma. "Gotcha!" I then released it as a purified butterfly. "Goodbye, little guy."
"Miraculous Ladybug!" Ladybug said as she tossed the guitar string into the air. It exploded into a blast of energy. Its energy turning everything back to normal. The goo disappeared and then the akuma energy turned Horrificator back into Mylène.
"Pound it!" Me, Ladybug, and Cat said as we pounded for another victory.
"Time to become scarce." Akuma Dargon said as he got Terrorcotta, turned into a shadow, and they both left.
"Awesome." Nino said as he had gotten his movie.
After we got back to Goussainville, I transformed back into my normal self and tossed Terrorcotta away and left him lying against the wall, where my so-called brick wall immediately turned back into Colt and curled up in shame. With that, I went into my room to rant out my frustrations.
"You don't scare me, Element Gang. I know I'll destroy you in the end! Someday, somehow, I'll destroy you!" I said angrily.
At City Hall, Nino showed the finished movie to the Mayor.
"Well, Mr. Mayor? What do you think? Off the hook, right?" Nino asked the mayor.
Outside, we were waiting for Nino as he came out.
"So how we do?" Jay asked him.
"We didn't make the cut! He said the monster was a horrible replica, completely unbelievable! No joke!" Nino said.
"Don't worry, bud. This is how all good movie directors start out." I said.
"Yeah, even if that final kiss wasn't quite what we thought it would be." Alya said, remembering how it ended with Ivan kissing Mylène.
Well, that had to be the scariest thing we've ever done. If you laughed at me for being scared of bats, stop it. Well, at least we finished the movie. Even though it didn't go out as planned, I say that this would be worth of the greatest movie theater. With our new evolved Apolloid, we got more of an edge against the Akuma Gang.