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A Miraculous Halloween

Chapter 7: Recognizable

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It was the day of the Halloween dance, and Adrien was busy being pampered by his costume designer entourage.

The young blonde wore a tight black spandex suit with a bell on the collar, a pair of black leather boots, a cat-ear headband and a black rubber stick-on mask.

'To be honest, I look exactly like Chat Noir, if I do say so myself. That's what worries me,' Adrien thought, his nervous face sweating.

"Hm," the dressmaker said, "I think we have done a great job!"

Natalie came into the room, and immediately gasped. "Wow, he really does look like Chat Noir," Natalie smiled. "If I didn't know any better, I would have thought one of Paris' superheroes had broken into this room."

After a few more comments of praise for the costume designer entourage, congratulations and admiration, Adrien requested to be left alone in his room. Of course, everyone immediately complied.

When Plagg was sure everyone was no longer there, he immediately rose up from Adrien's duffel bag.

"Woah, Adrien, you do look like Chat! It's like you already transformed, but you didn't because I'm still here!" Plagg exclaimed in anxious surprise.

It was clear that Adrien was just as nervous as Plagg sounded like. "Yeah, I know. Is there anything at all you can do to help me look at least a little different?"

"All this stress is making me hungry," Plagg grimaced, holding his stomach. "Give me some cheese and I'll think about it."

Rolling his eyes, Adrien tossed a wheel of Camembert to Plagg, then sat down on a chair, holding his head between his sweaty palms.

"WAIT! Now I remember there is one thing I can do," Plagg exclaimed in proud happiness.

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"What is it Tikki?" Marinette asked desperately. "What can you do to at least try to conceal my identity?"

Marinette, being the fashion designer she is, really outdid herself. She made a red spandex suit with black spots sewed carefully onto the fabric, and a Ladybug mask to match.

To at least drive a few people off her identity, she tied her hair into a neat bun with a red ribbon, instead of the usual pigtails she wore both as Ladybug and Marinette. She knew that Ladybug doesn't wear her hair into a bun, but she'd do whatever she could to avert some people's interest of how she looked too much like Ladybug.

Still, she and Tikki knew that if anyone would observe rather carefully, they would note that Marinette looked too much eerily similar to the Parisian hero.

"We kwamis are magic. We have some spells mastered to help our users conceal their identities!" Tikki joyously replied. "Among those spells is a spell cast so other people will not be able to really think that you are one and the same with Ladybug."

"So… how does this work?" Marinette inquired in nervousness.

"Well, I just have to chant a few things, and you will not be recognizable as Ladybug, rather you will be looking more like Marinette. Normal civilians around you shouldn't be able to suspect that you seriously are Ladybug."

"Great! Let's do this then!" Marinette beamed widely, feeling supremely grateful for her kwami and its powers at this very moment.

Tikki, though, was still a bit skeptical. "There is one problem though…"

"What? I'm sure we can work our way through it!"

"Well, Mari," Tikki squeaked, "the problem is that Chat Noir wouldn't be affected by this spell. If he sees you as Marinette, he most likely will be able to tell that you are Ladybug."

"Eh, that's okay," Marinette answered with confidence. "What are the chances that I'll be seeing him tonight? I promise I'll be careful."

"Okay then."

And with a flourish, Tikki started chanting the spell.

Suddenly, Marinette was surrounded by gold flecks of dust, and her skin started glowing. When the circle of gold dust disappeared, she returned back to normal.

Except for the fact that normal people now see her as Marinette even though she has a very similar Ladybug costume on.

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"Sooo, now normal people see me only as Adrien? For them I only have little resemblance to Chat?" Adrien asked in happiness, Plagg having cast the spell already.

"Yep, except Ladybug can tell," Plagg answered, still very proud that he thought of the spell.

"Okay, then let's get this Halloween party sta-"

Adrien was interrupted by a familiar voice that was Nadja Chamack. The reporter seemed to be scared.

"Nadja Chamack here," she looked confident but her voice was shaky. "We have an akuma attack unfolding right outside the Dupain-Cheng bakery. This akumatized villain seems to go by the name of Bloodbaker, and has a huge knife in his hand as a weapon. The bakery owner, Mr. Tom Dupain, said that it was an angry baker who claimed that the Dupain-Chengs had copied his signature Halloween pastry, Dracula's Blood Tart. Ladybug, Chat Noir, if you're watching this, be careful! This may be our most dangerous akuma yet-"

Adrien turned off the television. "That's where Mari lives! Plagg, we need to transform. Marinette's in danger! Plagg, claws out!"

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Marinette was busy watching the news about the akumatized villain. "Oh, no. Why now? A tough akuma just when I was about to dance with Adrien," she swooned at that last part.

"It's okay Mari," Tikki said. "Come on, transform!"

"Tikki, spo-" Marinette was interrupted by a loud thump from her trapdoor.

"Tikki hide!" She whispered as she ascended up the steps to her bed to open the trapdoor.

Chat dropped from the trapdoor opening and onto her bed.

"Mari!" Chat Noir sat there in panic. "Are you okay.. wait. Bugaboo?"

Chat looked really confused. Apparently, he seemed to think that Mari was Ladybug. They did look very similar, after all.

'But the spell…' Marinette wondered. 'Oh right, Chat Noir can see right through it…'

She just decided to play along.

"Oh hey Chat! Yes I am Ladybug," she giggled nervously.

"What are you doing in Marinette's room?" He raised an eyebrow inquiringly.

"Wellll, I saw the news and the akuma and wanted to check on her, but apparently she already left for the Halloween dance she's attending so I guess she's safe!" Marinette chattered in anxiousness.

Chat grinned. "Ah, okay. But how do you know about the Halloween dance?"

"Oh um, she told me."

"Well, okay then! Let's go and battle that villain-"

Chat was cut off by Mari. "Yeah, um… You go ahead first. I gotta finish something…"

After all, she had yet to transform into Ladybug.

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Seems like his Lady got to his Princess first, huh?

Although Adrien did acknowledge the fact that it was true Ladybug was very much possibly stronger than Chat, he found something about Ladybug strange.

Not just his Lady, but Marinette too. Something was off.

Maybe because the Halloween dance doesn't start until like TWO HOURS later!

Hopping from rooftop to rooftop, Chat Noir pondered on why two of his favorite girls in the world were acting so weird.

Also, why did Ladybug request to be left behind? She's usually the one who cares to be first…

'Eh, whatever,' Adrien told himself in his head. 'Focus on the akuma. I have a dance to get to.'

He reached the place where the villain was. Apparently, he brought Tom Dupain (Mari's dad) to the top of the Eiffel Tower, supposedly he wantes to drop him from the highest point.

He hoped Marinette was okay.

Quickly, he leaped onto the space behind Bloodbaker, the akumatized.

"I don't suppose you'll give me a free pastry if we defeat this Bloodbaker," Chat teased, directing it to the baker.

"When we defeat Bloodbaker." a voice confidently said.

Ladybug jumped down from a nearby roof to beside Chat.

"Hey Bugaboo," he grinned playfully, "Always a pleasure to see you again."

"Come on Chat, let's not waste any more time," Ladybug bared her teeth, determined to spend little time on this fight so she could get more ready for the big party. "I need to do something right after."

"Likewise," Chat Noir smirked, ready to take on the akuma.

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