"Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid…" Marinette had made herself solid for the sole purpose of banging her head into the metal bedpost.
This was nothing new to Marinette. She'd scared people off before, but she'd been hoping this would be different… somehow. But her own lack of a plan was to blame for that.
She should have known things would turn out like this, like they always did. She had no doubt they were probably leaving the house altogether. Pretty soon, she'd be on her own again.
Suddenly, the sound of laughter and swirling winds was heard and Marinette's head shot up, before letting it hit the bedpost again. "Oh, great. Here we go again…"
The large doors leading to an outside balcony burst open, and Marinette saw three large tornado-looking shapes swirling across the city as they approached the house. Marinette was reminded that, of course, they got to leave the house whenever they wanted, unlike her. The afterlife sure was cruel.
The tornadoes reached the balcony before vanishing, revealing the three ghosts with whom Marinette had to share the manor.
Three ghost girls floated in the middle of the room, one tall with blonde hair in a ponytail and gleaming blue eyes, another a short orange-haired girl with glasses covering green eyes, and the last was a small pink haired girl with a greenish skin tone and wearing a strange black and pink costume with a rose on the chest.
Marinette chuckled and waved casually. "Hey, Chloe… Sabrina… Rose…"
"Princess Fragrance, little bug," the spirit of the villainess corrected with an evil chuckle.
Marinette frowned sadly. She couldn't be too sure, but she could just barely remember a smiling petite blonde girl who was always so kind to everybody whenever she looked at Princess Fragrance. It seemed she had died while still under the influence of whatever it was that cursed her to become this villainess who had a strange habit of referring to her as a bug. She didn't even seem to know why she did.
"R-right… sorry. Did you girls have fun out there?" Marinette asked kindly.
"We were hanging around a fashion show, but we-" Sabrina's reply was cut off as Chloe glared at her, and she flinched before turning up her nose at Marinette spitefully alongside Chloe. Marinette sighed. Sometimes, Sabrina would almost be friendly, but she could just never stand up to Chloe.
"But the designs were awful and the models were drab," Chloe said mockingly. "I decided we needed to liven up the place."
"Never seen so many people in high heels run so fast," Sabrina chuckled, her mischievous side coming out. "I have a special talent for invisible pranks."
"Nobody wanted to try my perfect pink perfume," Fragrance said disgustedly, spinning her little perfume gun in her hand before chuckling. "So I let them try the green one! Oooh, if only my old powers were working like they used to! I'd have them all bowing to me."
"That's a real shame," Marinette agreed, desperate to keep them distracted.
"So, to answer your question," Chloe continued. "On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being fun, 1 being you… then yes, we had quite a wonderful time. Not that you'd know what it's like, rooted in one place all the time." Sabrina and Princess Fragrance joined her in laughing at her misfortune.
Marinette glared at her. "You know I don't have a choice in that matter."
"But more importantly," Chloe said dismissively, barely even noticing the other girl's protest. "You don't care about our day out. You never have. So what's going on here?"
"Uh, what?" If she was still alive, she was sure she'd be sweating. At least that was one upside of being a ghost.
"You're hiding something," Chloe said evilly, looking around the room. "What is it, I wonder?"
"Oh, come on… you're imagining things! I know we don't always get along, but you're also the only company I have around here. So you know, we're not… friends exactly, but uh…
"Acquaintances?" Sabrina asked.
"Yeah, that! In fact, I think you should tell me all about your day. I wanna know all about it!" Gritting her teeth as she spoke, she wrapped an arm around Chloe and started leading her out to the balcony. "Come on, let's all fly up to the roof and just have a nice girl-talk! All four of us!"
"Girl-talk? With you?" Chloe broke away from the flustered ghost girl. "Ridiculous! Utterly ridiculous! Now I know something's wrong."
Princess Fragrance suddenly flew close and wrapped an arm around Marinette's neck, bringing her close as she aimed her perfume gun at her face. "Say, little bug, you wouldn't happen to be trying to keep us out of the house, would you?"
"N-no! No, of course not." Marinette pulled away, looking around at them worried.
"Oh, I can see right through that pigtailed, blue-haired head of yours," Chloe said, giving Marinette several condescending pats on the head.
"No, no, I just think we don't spend enough time together, you know? Actually, you know what? Why even spend time with boring old me and this lame house, anyway? You should have even more fun. You know, go haunt more people or something!"
"Hmm…" Chloe said, tapping her chin thoughtfully. "You know, I have always wanted to try tennis."
"Y-yeah, that sounds great! Ooh, ghost tennis is even better than regular tennis!" Marinette babbled.
"Indeed," Chloe smirked, raising a hand and transfiguring it into a huge tennis racket. "Give it a try!" She whacked Marinette with the racket, sending the poor ghost girl flying out the window and into the air.
"Waaaaaaaah!"
"Sabrina," Chloe said, clicking her fingers. Sabrina nodded at her command with a giggle and flew off to grab Marinette and fly away into the distance with her. It was the only way for Marinette to get past the force that kept her stuck to the house.
"Now that she's out of the way…" She looked at Princess Fragrance, who was looking through Adrien's suitcase on the floor and spraying his clothes with her pink perfume. "What are you doing?"
"Ugh, I can smell the living stench from all the way over there. I'm fixing it!" Spray.
"Wait, living…?" Chloe grinned. "Princess! There's living people here."
Princess Fragrance seemed to realize it finally and grinned as she dropped a shirt. "Of course… so that's what she was hiding from us."
"Well, let's not keep them waiting," Chloe said wickedly.
Meanwhile, Marinette was struggling to pull away from Sabrina, who was flying while dragging her by the collar of her shirt. "Let me go! Where are you taking me?" She cried out over the sound of rushing wind.
"Nowhere, really," Sabrina replied with a giggle. "Just getting you out of the way for now."
Marinette looked back in the direction of the house in desperation. "I said… let go!" By force of will, she pulled back in the other direction, stopping Sabrina's flight, then she grabbed Sabrina's and performed a flip in midair, tossing the other girl over her shoulder.
"Aah!" Sabrina yelled as she went flying, quickly stopping her wild flight.
Marinette looked at her own hands in surprise, wondering where that came from. Then she suddenly felt a pull of some kind and remembered what happened when the one holding her let go while they were far from the house and the force keeping her there. It was one of Chloe's favorite methods of messing with her.
"Oh no-Waaaaaaaaaah!" Marinette's body began to fly backwards, getting pulled all the way back to the house. In fact, she was heading right for the ground outside of the house. Marinette quickly made herself solid to stop herself, as she had once gone right through the ground, a very scary moment.
Slam! There was no appearance of a crash in the ground, but a very dizzy Marinette lay there. As a ghost she couldn't get knocked out, but it didn't feel good when she hit something very hard in solid form.
Sabrina chuckled, and heard a loud yell from inside the house. She grinned evilly and turned herself invisible before going inside.
Nathalie crept down the hallway towards Adrien's room, keeping against the wall. She had heard voices coming from it a few minutes ago, but now it was very silent. The lights in the hallway nearest to the door were flickering every now and then, and a white fog was coming from the slightly open door. She shivered as she pushed it open slowly, seeing no one in the room and nothing out of the ordinary except the fog which seemed to just hover in the area. The whole hallway had felt icy cold and now it was even worse.
"Alright," she said in a low voice, attempting to sound authoritative. "We both know you're here. Maybe you don't mean any harm, but I can't know that until you come out. So… show yourself now!"
"Gladly!" Came an unfamiliar voice. Nathalie turned around and two monstrous looking ghost faces suddenly screamed at her, "BOO!"
Nathalie let out a scream and turned and ran out of the room as the ghost girls gave chase!
Meanwhile, Adrien was still sitting and waiting in the closet, trying to ignore how much he hated the small enclosed space. Suddenly, he heard Nathalie's yell, and sprang up to his feet. "Nathalie?!" He ran to open the door, but the old door didn't budge. It was stuck. "Oh come on!"
Nathalie ran down the hall as a floating statue bust of Gabriel Agreste followed her with Chloe's laugh echoing behind her. She ducked into the bathroom in the hall, and slammed the door shut as the bust crashed into it. She sighed with relief, until she turned around to see Princess Fragrance.
"Sorry, bathroom's closed for twenty minutes!" She said, aiming her perfume bottle at her and firing a green gas that filled the room. Nathalie coughed at the awful smell and quickly ran out in disgust.
"Don't you like the new Agreste fragrance?!" the evil Princess called out, laughing evilly as Nathalie was then chased by floating books snapping open and closed like little mouths.
Meanwhile, Marinette finally managed to get herself up and floated back into the house, shaking her head clear. She didn't know what to do, but she knew she had to stop this. As she flew past the closet, she heard Adrien's voice and him trying to open the door. She quickly flew to the door and pulled at it as he pushed again.
The door flew open and Adrien stumbled through. Marinette made herself solid and caught him in her arms causing her to fall down. As they landed in a crash, green eyes and blue eyes opened wide to realize how close they were… and that their lips were currently pressed together!
Adrien broke away from the accidental kiss in a shock and quickly ran away down the hall to find Nathalie. Marinette was too busy lying on the floor in a world of pinks, yellows, and bubbles everywhere over her first kiss.
Adrien ran into the main hall where he heard all the noise and looked over the stair railing to see Nathalie having a sword fight with two ghost girls! Chloe and Sabrina swung an umbrella and an old cane at her while Nathalie fought back with a mop.
Adrien watched, impressed as Nathalie performed an impressive spinning attack that sent the solid Chloe and Sabrina flying in two different directions. Chloe's cane flew out of her hands all the way up to the top of the staircase. "Wow! Nice, Nathalie!"
Nathalie looked up from her awesome fighting pose at the sound of his voice. "Adrien?! I told you to stay back there!"
"Oh come on, Nat! I'm not leaving you alone!"
"But…" She was then distracted by an invisible Sabrina coming back with another umbrella attack and barely parrying it as the two dueled into the library.
"Hold on, Nathalie!"
"You should be worrying about you," came a voice next to him. Adrien jumped away and was face to face with Princess Fragrance.
He scoffed. "Ha! Who said I'm worried?" He kicked the cane on the top step up to his hands and, showing off his fencing training, performed some quick and impressive spinning motions with it before holding it out like a sword. "En guarde!"
Princess Fragrance rolled her eyes before grinning with her own battle cry. "Radiant! Carefree! Disgusting!" She whipped up her gun and blasted Adrien with a cloud of green smoke. It smelled like rotten camembert!
"Ack!" Coughing and spluttering, Adrien dropped the cane and tried to cover his mouth and nose as Fragrance flew over and gave him a push towards the stairs!
The teen barely managed to grab the corner of the rug going down the stairs. The rug wrapped around him as he rolled down the steps.
"One crepe a la Agreste coming right up!" the Princess called down laughing as the rug unrolled itself on the floor. When Adrien was free, he stood up dizzily. It got worse when he was spun around again to face Chloe.
"Oh my gosh, it's Adrikins Agreste!" Chloe gushed as Adrien was too stunned to react as Chloe cuddled next to him. "Picture!" She cried out. Sabrina quickly flew out of the library, holding Nathalie's phone in her hands that she managed to swipe. Nathalie, meanwhile, was stuck in a big pile of books Sabrina had tripped her into. "Say cheese!" Snap. Snap. Snap.
"Aah!" Adrien yelled, blinded by many flashes while Chloe just struck a bunch of poses. While he was dazzled, Chloe spun him around and gave him a big smooch on the lips!
"Mmmwah!"
"Okay, that's ENOUGH!" Everyone looked up to see a very angry Marinette at the top of the stairs.
A/N: Hey guys! I'm so sorry it's taken so so long to get a new chapter out! Too many things just came up, but I came back and saw a lot of people following so thank you all so much! Hope you enjoyed this longer and crazy chapter! Haha it was a lot of fun to write! Tell me what your favorite parts were!