Once upon a time, a long time ago there was a peasant and his wife, they were gifted with land and a beautiful home, but they still longed for more. They longed for a child. After seasons had passed, and the pair became worn and grey, they became weary. The woman became lonely and longed for the pitter pat of tiny feet. "I want a baby, even if it is an ugly beast."

The woman had her baby alright, but she had got exactly what she'd asked for, a babe with the face of a beast. A boy with the face of a hedgehog and the body of a human. The pair are horrified by the sight, but overjoyed by the presence of a child.

Time past and the days drug by slowly for the poor boy. One day a fair arrived in the city and the peasant man wanted to go. He'd asked his son what he'd like to be brought home. The boy answered, bagpipes. He'd wanted bagpipes.

When the peasant returned home he gave his wife what he had brought for her and finally he gave the hedgehog boy the bagpipes. However, when the peasant man returned to give him the requested bagpipes, the hedgehog boy had one more request. "Please go down to the blacksmith and have my rooster shod so that I may ride away. If you do as told I will never return." The man did as told, and the hedgehog boy kept his promise. The boy took herd animals to tend in his new home, the nearby woods.

In his new home, the hedgehog boy made a home in tall, aged tree. There he resided for many years. While in the residence of the old tree, he played music on his bagpipes that told stories of bitter sweetness.

This was greatly altered by a lost wandering king, who had been led astray by the hedgehog's music. The king wondered around aimlessly until he came upon the tree where the hedgehog had taken residence. The king called up to the hedgehog, and asked politely as possible, if the hedgehog could help him find his way back home. The hedgehog agreed, but for a price. The king would promise him the first thing that greeted him upon his arrival back to the kingdom. The king, although a man of his word, merely dismissed the promise without much thought. The first thing that greeted him would likely be of no value, and he could easily give it away.

Unfortunately, the first thing that had greeted him had held a lot more value than expected. The king's daughter, having seen him approaching, had ran to meet him. The king was distressed, but was a man of his word, and unfortunately, a man of his word always kept his word. The old king, full of regret, told his young daughter of the promise that he had made to the hedgehog boy in exchange for assistance. The young princess, out of love for her father, vowed to go with the hedgehog boy when he arrived to claim her.

The day came that the hedgehog boy returned for the princess. The king treated the hedgehog boy with kindness and had him escorted to the throne room where the princess waited patiently. Although startled by the hedgehog boy's the girl welcomed the hedgehog boy to the best of her ability, and they were wed. The king watched them leave filled with a deep sorrow for his deed.

The evening that followed was eventful. When the time arrived, the princess was afraid of the hedgehog boy's quills. However, he convinced her that he would bring no harm to her. He had earlier told the king to have four men to lie in wait by their bedroom door. He also requested them for the four men to make a large fire. He informed them that he was planning on taking off his hedgehog skin after going entering their bedchambers. He also made them promise to pick the skin up and throw it into the fire.

When the hedgehog boy entered the bedchambers, he took off the hedgehog skin, and laid it outside the door. The men immediately grabbed it, and tossed it into the blazing fire, and then the hedgehog boy was no more and in his stead was a human man. The princess had witnessed the events in awe and had been overjoyed. Now the princess and once-hedgehog boy's wedding was celebrated. And they lived happily ever after….

Marinette watched as Chat went flying off the balcony being drug by the vine. She recoiled as she watched him go flying through the air. She hoped he could hold off Briar Rose long enough for her to transform.

Chat winced as his shoulder collided with a building that he had been dragged past. This akuma was definitely not gentle in the least. His eyes were watering from the pain he was in. Every time he moved the leg with the vine wrapped around it, the thorn on the vine dug deeper. He had to say that the akuma were becoming more violent. He bit back a groan of pain as the vine dropped him in front of Briar Rose, who was tapping her foot impatiently.

"Hmph," Briar Rose tutted as she moved closer to Chat Noir. "I was expecting much more of a fight out of one of Paris's beloved heroes. No matter, just makes this easier." She said, reaching out a clawed hand to take the ring from Chat's finger. Before she could pull the ring from his finger, Chat moved backward as fast as his injured leg allowed him.

"Now, now, we can do this the easy way or we can do this the hard way." Briar Rose said moving towards the cat superhero. Chat let out a low hiss as she approached. He reached out an arm to steady himself and made a halfhearted leap unto a ledge of a nearby building. He had miscalculated the distance and nearly missed, he narrowly was able to get a hand-hold onto the ledge. He pulled himself onto the building as Briar Rose neared. She raised her arm to summon more thorny vines but was stopped by a spotted yo-yo wrapping around her arm. "Not so fast, Briar Rose." Ladybug said, providing the perfect distraction for Chat to get the akumatized object, which he had a pretty good guess was the tiara perched upon Briar's head. While she was distracted, he lept and snatched the tiara from her head. He tossed the akumatized object to Ladybug, who quickly broke it over her knew. She threw her yo-yo out to catch the akuma, and as always caught it.

"Bye bye, petit papillon." She said as she wistfully watched the now purified butterfly fly away.

Chat made sure to check on the akuma victim before making his leave across Paris's city tops. He had done a mini patrol over Paris before making his way back to his home. Although everything had gone normally, something was off. This became evident when he went to detransform. Instead of going straight back to his normal feline form, he was stuck in between. He still had a majority of his human body, with the expectation of the now real ears and tail. He also had a few patches of black fur on his chest and lower stomach. Well, kid, you really have a problem now. The kwami's voice was loud and clear inside his head. He gritted his teeth, he would now have to figure out some way of getting out of the bakery before-

"Chat Noir?" A surprised voice said from behind him.

Well, there goes that plan out the window. Chat groaned internally.

A/N I really didn't mean for this to be a filler chapter. I had planned on making it longer and I do apologize for that. I plan on not updating for two weeks to a month so I can work on this fic and finish as many chapters as I can. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Also the fairy-tale I referenced at the beginning of the chapter is Hans-my-Hedgehog which is originally written by the brothers Grimm. If you want to find out more about it, I'd recommend just doing a quick Google search using the keyword "Hans-my-Hedgehog", it's a fairly easy fairytale to find despite it not being widely known.

And as always if you spot any mistakes, let me know. I do proofread and use a spell check, but I don't always catch everything.

I own none of the characters or the fairytale mentioned in the beginning of the chapter.