HI GUYS! I'm soooo suppper sorry that I haven't been updating A Miraculous Halloween regularly. There's no excuse for this… I am so so soo so sorry. I sincerely apologize for keeping you waiting so long…
But I have to tell you though, you should actually expect these temporary hiatuses… I feel so bad but sometimes school just takes over my writing life. To be honest, sometimes not even school is the reason. Sometimes, I just feel really lazy and forget all about the fanfic.
I do hope you'll forgive me, though. I'm probably the worst fanfic writer ever. I'm only allowed to work on the fanfic on weekends and holidays so sometimes I'm either too busy or too lazy to even bother minding this story.
But thank you, thank you for still giving this story your love and support. I promise I'll make this up to you with this chapter. I managed to squeeze writing this in despite it's a weekday and school is still going on.
Oh, I almost forgot! BELATED HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! Thank you so much! HEARTS TO YOU ALL 333
Anyway, on with the story! Expect the Unexpected ;p
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A Miraculous Halloween
Chapter 10: Bloodbaker Horde
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Ladybug kicked a Bloodbaker's side, causing him to drop to his knees, sending the butcher knife, his weapon, flying. Luckily Chat was just beside and nimbly caught the knife by its handle. Breaking it into half, Chat saw an akuma flying away, but Ladybug quickly caught it and de-evilized it before it could go and akumatize someone else.
She saw a teenager lying on the floor, confusedly scratching her head as to what was going on.
"This isn't the original akumatized victim," Ladybug said worriedly as she ushered the teenage girl into the nearby building, away from harm. "We need to find him, so all the other Bloodbakers could go away!"
Chat Noir jabbed two other Bloodbakers in the stomach with the side of his extended staff, and stepped on both their butcher knives at the same time, breaking it as Ladybug de-evilized both akuma butterflies that flew out of the weapons. "At least now they just straightaway use the butcher knife. We just have to break one knife now, not two."
Ladybug sighed heavily, strangling three Bloodbakers with her yoyo's string and smashing the butcher knives with her fist. De-evilizing the akumas, she whined, "This is all my fault! Had I not been in such a hurry and forgot to de-evilize that akuma, we wouldn't be in such trouble…"
"It's okay My Lady, you probably had your reasons," Chat comforted Ladybug while knocking out another Bloodbaker and snapping his knife in half. "I mean, we got this. These Bloodbaker duplicates are wayyyy easier to defeat than the one we fought a while ago. These are just warmups for the real challenge!"
De-evilizing akuma after akuma with her yoyo, Ladybug looked down in shame. "Yeah, I guess so, but still. I'm so careless, I'm not cut out to be Ladybug."
"What do you mean? My Lady, you are the most excellent Ladybug Paris could ask for. And thanks to you, now we have quite a good exercise beating these akumas up," Chat cracked his knuckles with a sly grin. "I've missed fighting."
"Yeah, but Chat, look at the thousands of civilians in danger. Because of me! This is all on me."
Chat pushed his Lady out of the way as she was distracted and a Bloodbaker came to injure her. Sparring the villain's blade with his own staff, he said, "Come on, we could beat them up in no time! Just like Stoneheart, remember?"
"Yeah," Ladybug sighed heavily for like the millionth time, "Except this Bloodbaker has the potential to brutally kill people, including us!"
"Don't worry Bugaboo," Chat smiled sweetly. "I'll save you any day."
Ladybug rolled her eyes, about to say a sassy comeback but was interrupted by a huge widescreen TV on the streets. Nadja Chamack's face appeared on the screen, with the Eiffel Tower in the background.
"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Nadja Chamack here, live with you at the scene of the Eiffel Tower, and a very violent akuma standing at the top, yelling for the heroes of Paris."
The camera panned to Bloodbaker holding a bloody megaphone, screaming "LADYBUG! CHAT NOIR! COME DOWN AND FACE ME!"
The camera swirled back at Nadja's face. "Ladybug and Chat Noir, we hope you-"
She was interrupted by a Bloodbaker swinging towards the screen, shattering it with his knife.
Chat Noir twirled his baton. "I guess we found our real Bloodbaker."
"We need to defeat him to defeat all of them…" Ladybug said, terrified, "Come on, let's go and face him off."
Quickly, the superhero duo dashed off together to find the first Bloodbaker.
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"Ladybug and Chat Noir!" Bloodbaker cackled evilly upon seeing the two heroes gracefully land beside him. "We didn't finish our little chat a while ago… let's pick up where we left off, shall we?"
"Come on, Monsieur Bloodbaker, we don't want to fight with you again…" Ladybug reasoned, once again wanting to return to the Halloween party after the fight.
Bloodbaker smirked, showing his blood-red canines. "But I want to."
Pouncing up onto the air, the megaphone in Bloodbaker's hands quickly shifted into his usual bloody butcher knife. He tried to slice Ladybug and Chat Noir with it in midair.
Quickly, the ladybug and the black cat scampered away, narrowly avoiding the killer knife in the villain's hands.
"COME ON," Chat groaned loudly, obviously bothered by the fact that he almost got chopped by Bloodbaker. "SERIOUSLY? NOW HE CAN CHANGE WEAPONS?! I TAKE BACK WHAT I SAID ABOUT THIS BEING EASY."
Ladybug shivered in fear, seeing Bloodbaker between the two heroes changing his bloody knife into a chainsaw. Yes, that kind of chainsaw that killers would use.
Hastily, he swung the chainsaw towards Ladybug, but Ladybug acted fast and used her yoyo to transfer onto another ground. Chat, though, was having trouble as Bloodbaker came nearer to him, swinging the bloody chainsaw menacingly.
"Remember, Bloodbaker," Hawkmoth telepathically told the villain, "Their miraculouses are your first priority. Take it away, give them to me, and all the power in the world will be yours."
Bloodbaker answered back with a simple nod before reaching towards the hand Chat had the ring on.
Ladybug quickly carried Chat out of the way while blocking his view of the villain.
"My Lady, what are you doing?!" Chat inquired worriedly, seeing that Ladybug was now directly face to face with Bloodbaker. "You might get hurt!"
"No, Chat, I know what I'm doing. Just stay away," Ladybug answered, gritting her teeth with a serious and scary look on her face.
In a flash, she twirled her yoyo, letting the string take hold of the weapon handle. Pulling the yoyo away from Bloodbaker with all her might, she managed to let the chainsaw slip from the hands of the akuma.
Chat beamed up at His Lady. She really was amazing.
Ladybug held the weapon with one hand, about to punch it to pieces, when the chainsaw suddenly reverted its form.
From a bloody red chainsaw to a killer blood boomerang. A knife-like, super sharp one at that.
"A boomerang always returns to its master. Don't you know that?" Bloodbaker smirked as the bloody boomerang sliced Ladybug's yoyo string and returned to Bloodbaker. He carefully caught it between his two fingers.
Bloodbaker evilly eyed Ladybug, whom had lost most hope because her trusty yoyo had broken. Chat Noir just sat there, astonished.
"Bloodbaker! The MIRACULOUSES!" Hawkmoth's voice rang in Bloodbaker ear.
Reaching out to Ladybug while she was still off guard, he pinned her down to the ground, threatening to slice her open if she moved or made a sound.
Carefully but quickly, he moved a hand to one of her ears, while pinning her down with his other arm.
He started removing the back of her earring, and started sliding the whole earring out, until…
WHACK! Bloodbaker heard a shwooshing sound before he blacked out. Chat Noir hit the villain hard on his head with the trusty staff.
"Didn't forget about me, did you?" Chat confidently strode over to the knocked-out body.
Ladybug whimpered, fixing her earrings, hands shaking. "Thank you, Chat," she gasped. That was way too close.
Chat turned around and smiled at Ladybug. "Now, while he's blacked out, let's destroy his weapon-"
He was interrupted by a light tap on his shoulder. Turning around, Chat Noir looked at the Bloodbaker rising to his knees in disbelief. Ladybug was quaking in fear.
"Not… happening…" Bloodbaker said eerily. His voice now had a haunting feel to it. "You ain't getting rid of me that easily, kitty cat."
Brandishing his brand-new extra large butcher shiny with blood, he swung it carelessly towards the nearest body he could see - Chat Noir.
Dodging the knife little by little, he avoided any damage as he stepped behind Ladybug.
"LADYBUG!" Chat shouted in fear as Bloodbaker raised his knife high, preparing to strike Ladybug as the helpless hero just shielded herself with her hands, waiting for herself to die...
Chat Noir had nothing else to do. He had no choice. He had to destroy Bloodbaker AND that weapon.
"CATACLYSM!" Chat growled and swung his hand towards the direction of Bloodbaker. He didn't even care who or what he hit, as long as it was going to negatively affect Bloodbaker… Just to keep Ladybug safe.
Unfortunately, Bloodbaker anticipated this move and grabbed Chat's arm. He held it so hard, that Bloodbaker's knuckles turned a shade of white.
"I always wondered what Cataclysm would do to a person," Bloodbaker bared his teeth in a wicked smile, looking down at Ladybug, helplessly cowering.
Chat Noir's eyes widened in realization of what was about to happen. Bloodbaker would force Chat's hand to use Cataclysm on Ladybug. His one and only love.
He DEFINITELY couldn't let that happen, but his arm's direction was controlled by Bloodbaker.
Bloodbaker grinned menacingly. "Say goodbye to your partner, black cat."
And with that, he lowered Chat Noir's hand. Chat tried with all his might to struggle against it, but it happened.
His hand succumbed to the controls of Bloodbaker, but he tried, really tried, to at least save his Lady.
At least just this once.
He moved his wrist, and managed to not hit Ladybug.
But he touched the ledge below her.
And before him, he saw Ladybug plummeting to the ground along with the scape of metal she used as her floor.
"LADYBUG!" Chat Noir cried out, but to no avail. He peered down, and couldn't see His Lady's body.
'Maybe she isn't dead… Her body's not there…' Chat Noir breathed a sigh of relief.
As if reading his thoughts, Bloodbaker erased Chat's hopes by saying "You know, even if she did fall and die from up here, you wouldn't see her since we're so high up from the ground. And I see a splotch of red down there."
Chat's heart broke into a million pieces, but he needed to hide it. He needed to show he had no weakness. He needed to fight for Ladybug.
Anger boiled inside of the hero, and he raised up his staff to knock out Bloodbaker once again.
But unluckily, Bloodbaker found his weak spot, and used his butcher knife to wound Chat's stomach's side.
Clutching his side, Chat groaned painfully, feeling the burn and blood seeping out through the cut. Bloodbaker just stood there, motionlessly grinning.
"Time to end you, then I'll get your miraculouses when you're dead as a doornail," Bloodbaker stepped behind Chat, ready to push him off the Eiffel Tower.
"Not...S-So fast…"
Chat heard a familiar voice near him, and looked beside him to see a red hand spotted with black gripping the edge of the tower. That hand pulled the rest of its body up, revealing Ladybug with a black eye and disheveled hair.
"Oh my God…" Chat Noir panted, still gripping his wound. "She made it…"
Bloodbaker stood there, seemingly rooted to the ground. "How… are you still…" He wondered aloud, "How are you still ALIVE?"
"Honestly? I'm not sure," Ladybug chuckled lightly. "Lucky charm, I guess."
Chat smiled. Knowing his Lady was still alive was like a huge boost to his confidence and strength. While Bloodbaker was still facing his back to Chat, he took the opportunity to bust him in the head.
Swinging the staff down quicker than he intended, the staff suddenly stopped an inch away from Bloodbaker's head.
He saw Bloodbaker using a finger to stop the staff from hitting onto his head, and he just grinned maliciously.
"Bye, kitty kitty," the villain had a glint in his eye.
He sliced his butcher knife across Chat's face, leaving a huge bloody gash from the top of his mask until just below his lip.
Chat gasped, feeling the searing pain from the cut as he covered his face with a hand and hastily tried to stop the bleeding.
"Chat!" He heard Ladybug cry. But he couldn't answer, for the last voice he heard before he blacked out in dizziness and pain was the voice of his one love.
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HI GUYS! I'M SO SORRY I APOLOGIZE AGAIN FOR THE INCONVENIENCE OF PUTTING THIS STORY ON A TEMPORARY HIATUS! T-T really sorry…
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter and next chapter would be FULL-ON LADYNOIR! Plus a special surprise heeheehee
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