Heh, wow...the final chapter is already here, it makes me shed a tear that this story is wrapping up so soon but at the same time I had fun writing this story, and I assure you I do have more Ladybug FanFic ideas so please do keep following me for more! :D
But I was thinking of taking a break from posting stories just for a little while so I can work on other things, maybe a couple of weeks or so I don't know. It's been a while since I've had no unfinished stories; I usually have either one or two going at once. Anyways, this Chapter is basically tying up any loose ends and solidifying what happened in the previous Chapter.
So enjoy the final Chapter of Revelations! ^^
Miraculous Ladybug (C) Thomas Astruc/ Zagtoon
Chapter 33 – Perfect Day
As morning rose so did a new era of happiness and hope, that whole day was spent on more family bonding and some well deserved rest. Adrien was finally reunited with his parents, Marinette felt at peace now that there wouldn't be anymore akuma attacks, but there will be the occasional criminal from time to time, so she and Cat Noir weren't useless anymore. That day after all those moments in the darkness, everything brightened in the Agreste family, and in Marinette's life. It was what happened on the last day of school for the week that mattered the most.
As the sun rose to welcome Friday, Marinette stretched her arms and yawned from a pleasant sleep, she knew skipping a day of school wasn't good for her from other's perspective, not knowing that she was really Ladybug, but Marinette kept the excuse of her being sick in check so she could stay home and rest, but now she was more than ready to wake up and get going to school.
Adrien on the other hand, was still fast asleep, but then familiar footsteps walked quietly into the room. Nathalie saw Adrien's kwami Plagg nestling against Adrien's head on the pillow. With an adoring smile, she knelt down and kissed her son's forehead, causing the sleeping teen to moan before opening his eyes.
He smiled when he saw those amazing green eyes that he shared; he sat up and embraced his mother, wrapping his arms around her slim body as she pulled in close, loving her son ever so much. Nathalie ruffled up Adrien's hair a little before letting go, smirking playfully before touching his nose with one finger and giggling.
"Time for school sunshine." She greeted, before gently patting the dozed black cat kwami on the pillow.
Plagg moaned and shooed away Nathalie's hand. "No...Dreaming of cheese...don't disturb me!" Plagg grumbled, his eyes tightly shut in need of space.
Nathalie giggled once again before starting to make her way towards the door. "I made your breakfast Adrien," She informed before placing her hand on the door, turning her eyes towards him with a delightful smile. "With love."
The blonde teen's smile grew wider than it ever could, his heart melted at the feeling of having his mother back here to stay, he collapsed on his bed again, his arms spread across the bed, causing Plagg to fly off and scream in a panic. Adrien sighed as he closed his eyes at the amazing thought that his whole life seemed complete now.
"I love my life, my mother's back, I have the love of my life, my family's reunited..." He said to himself, staring with a widened smile at the ceiling before sighing again, his body fully relaxed. "I have everything I need right here."
Plagg cleared his throat in need of attention, Adrien looked up at his kwami and saw the look of annoyance and frustration on the little kwami's face, and he chuckled before having Plagg follow him to the kitchen. While they ate, Adrien thought about Marinette and their relationship. It was then that he had a brilliant idea, and couldn't wait to see it in action once he got to school.
"I have the perfect plan for today; I can feel that today is only the start of something amazing." Adrien stated, before taking another mouthful of his breakfast, even though yesterday was a great start to the family bonding, today was when it all started in one hit, and Adrien was pumped for the day.
So a little while later, Adrien was ready for school, before he walked out the door, he saw both his mother and father standing by the front door with a pleasant smile on their faces. Adrien smiled warmly before running up to hug them both.
"Have a great day at school son."
"We love you." Nathalie added, kissing her son on the forehead.
Adrien caressed his forehead, acknowledging the kiss from his mother before he looked up at his father with happiness and respect; Gabriel nodded silently with a gentle smile before gently resting a hand and gesturing him towards outside.
Meanwhile, Marinette was wide awake and downstairs having breakfast, her parents were glad to see her looking well and ready to start a new day. Shortly after finishing breakfast, she got dressed and prepared her bag, and in all the meantime she smiled in excitement as she was finally able to go to school and not worry about Hawkmoth anymore.
"Marinette there's something wrong with you today." Tikki stated, giggling with her eyes closed in delight.
Marinette looked up, smiling as she raised an eyebrow in question. "What's wrong with me?" She asked.
Tikki giggled again before opening her bright blue eyes at Marinette, she zipped up to Marinette's cheek and hugged it tightly. "You're very happy!" The kwami exclaimed with glee.
With parted lips of a smile, Marinette cupped her hands against Tikki in gratitude, glad to have such a loving kwami giving her confidence, strength, bravery and above all the power to help save the world alongside Cat Noir. She couldn't imagine her life without Tikki, she meant everything to her. But there was someone else who was battling for first place on Marinette's list of the people she loved the most.
She couldn't wait to see Adrien today; it would be the first time since the final battle against Hawkmoth that she'd see him smile. However she grew slightly disappointed when she remembered that they were keeping their relationship a secret, but she knew it was for the best. So she shrugged it off before heading off for school, giving her parents a goodbye kiss as she walked out the door.
After crossing the road excitedly, Marinette looked up expecting to see Adrien's limo pulled up in front of the school, but to her surprise it wasn't. She couldn't see his friend Nino either, and before she could even think to look for them Alya came running up to her, Alya's excitement overwhelming Marinette's.
"You would not believe what I found out yesterday! I can't believe you didn't bother to pick up the phone or even come to school you slacker!" She teased before continuing. "Ladybug and Cat Noir were here at our school fighting their archenemy! Rumour has it that they defeated him!" Alya explained, squeeing in excitement as she clenched her hands against her mouth.
Marinette's first reaction was how she knew about it since it wasn't even before sunrise that the battle took place, but then she remembered that there was evidence of their fight scattered across the courtyard, and it was possible that the school's security camera's could have picked it up, Marinette could see a security camera off in the far distance facing the centre of the courtyard so that could have been a possibility. She was glad they didn't have cameras in the bathroom.
"How did you know that?" Marinette asked, smiling with her hands clasped behind her back.
Alya directed her towards the security camera before she whipped out her phone, the ladybug keychain apparent on her phone as well. With giggles of excitement Alya swiped through her phone to find the blog and then found the video she had posted of what she could find.
"It was hard to convince the security guys that I wanted the Ladybug footage but eventually they let me have some of it." She explained, before pointing to the peacock dressed woman. "And look at that! It must be another superhero!"
With a chuckle and a hand over her mouth, Marinette closed her eyes for a moment before shrugging. "I don't know, she certainly looks like that, but I'm not sure how often she'll be seen more." Marinette replied, smirking.
After much more talking about that battle and what Alya knew of it, Marinette looked back towards the front of the school and sighed with sadness as she didn't see Adrien come in, but she had that hope that perhaps he arrived much earlier than she did and was already in class. But as she turned out the corner of her eye she saw two people come into view as they walked up the steps. She turned fully to see Adrien and Nino walking and talking together. She sighed in relief before she was pulled away by Alya, reminding her that they were going to be late for class.
Not long later, Marinette watched the door of the classroom open as Adrien and Nino walked on in. Adrien's eyes met Marinette's for a second and they both couldn't stop smiling, they both felt so eager just to embrace each other right there but they both knew they would have to wait till later, but Adrien had a hunch that his plan would work, he just had to wait till break time to initiate it.
So as class went on, a few glances from Adrien were seen while Marinette couldn't stop looking at him the entire lesson, Alya continuously nudging her arm to remind her that she can look at Adrien later, Marinette then and there felt so eager to tell her that they were dating so then all this secret hiding could stop and then they could just be together out in the open, but she felt like so many problems would arise if either one of them announced it in front of everyone.
When the class bell rang, everyone left in a hurry, Alya and Marinette walking out side by side with Adrien and Nino following slowly behind, Adrien looked up at Marinette so much that he knew Nino was going to question him sooner or later, and just when his thoughts went there, Nino raised the question.
"Dude, why do you keep looking at Marinette? It's like you like her or something..." Nino stated, before gasping, his playful mind coming into play. "Do you like Marinette eh?" He teased, gently punching his best friend in the shoulder.
Adrien looked up with a small grin, rubbing his shoulder a little in response to the gentle punch. "You'll find out later." He replied, before walking on ahead to keep Nino lost for words.
"What...?" Nino wondered, before waving out to Adrien who was walking faster. "Hey Adrien wait up!"
The blonde teen didn't speak a word while he was putting his things away; instead he kept a bright smile on his face while his eyes expressed content. Nino constantly pestered him with questions from his confusion but Adrien ignored them, causing Nino to get extremely frustrated as his curiosity got the best of him.
During that same time, Marinette and Alya were resting on a bench in the courtyard sharing a piece of fruit together as Marinette began to get her design book out, wanting to sketch some new designs based off of the peacock miraculous outfit. But then a shadow covered her bag, Marinette's blue eyes followed upwards to see the cause of the sudden shadow, she flinched within a second and backed towards Alya in the sudden presence of Adrien, her crush instincts kicking on queue.
"Hey Marinette, hey Alya." Adrien greeted with a delightful wave, Nino revealing himself right behind him.
"So, are you gonna tell me now?" Nino asked, his eyebrows narrowed in impatience as Adrien glanced at his best friend.
Marinette placed her book away, shaking a little in nervousness towards Adrien's presence, she wondered why he was right there in front of her, she sincerely wished it would be a kiss but at the same time she wished that it was only a simple greeting and then he'd be on his way. The navy haired teen crossed her legs as she sat on the bench trying to relax herself but could still feel her heartbeat racing a thousand miles an hour, he was going to be the death of her, she loved him so much.
Alya looked up in question to what Nino just asked Adrien. It sparked her interest as she scooted over a little on the bench to get a better sense at what Nino meant. "What are you talking about?"
While Nino explained to Alya about Adrien constantly looking over at Marinette during class earlier, Adrien sat down next to Marinette, causing the girl's eyes to widen as he let their bodies touch, he sat as close to her as possible before Nino stopped mid sentence to see Adrien sitting very closely next to Marinette.
"What are you doing now?" Nino cried, not having a clue what was up with Adrien.
Marinette sat there with her heart racing, she licked her lips as she deeply wanted to kiss him but her shyness got the best of her and she sucked her lips in, looking away slightly as an intense shade of red tinted her cheeks, Adrien's too. It was then that Alya looked and gasped at the scene.
"Wait, hold up. What are you doing Adrien?" Alya questioned, shocked yet excited at the same time.
It was then that Adrien made it all the more obvious that he and Marinette were in a relationship, he wrapped his arm around her and pulled her in closer, smiling the entire time while Marinette remained stiff, extremely nervous and shocked as to why Adrien was revealing their relationship to their best friends. It wasn't extremely obvious, and before either Alya or Nino could response, Adrien gently pulled Marinette's chin in close and sealed her lips with an enchanting kiss.
Two loud gasps were heard as Adrien and Marinette melted into the kiss, Adrien cupped her cheeks while Marinette wrapped her arms tightly around him, minimalising the distance between their bodies. They both fell extremely deep into the kiss before the sounds of a certain daddy's girl screaming at them made them unlock from each other's lips.
"Adrien, how could you!?" Chloe cried from the distance, Sabrina by her side sharing a similar but less intense expression. "And of all people why with her!?" She exclaimed, pointing a finger to Marinette.
This time, everyone was in need of an explanation. Marinette was still speechless as to why Adrien suddenly kissed her in front of everyone, she grew extremely tense inside as she began to think that Adrien was going to reveal their secret identities to everyone, she clenched her hands with intense worry before she felt the warm touch of Adrien's hands over hers, he gave her one last glance before looking up towards Nino and Alya.
"Marinette and I are dating." Adrien announced with a proud smile, causing Marinette's eyes to widen as Adrien confirmed their relationship.
"What!?" Nino and Alya cried simultaneously, Chloe crying and running off in the distance.
Adrien turned to Marinette, hoping she'd know how to continue the announcement; Marinette looked down, a blush still apparent on her cheeks as she played with her fingers, stuttering slightly before looking up at Alya, her lips forming into a small smile.
"Y-yes...we are." Marinette confirmed.
Alya's smile widened with excitement, she was truly having the most amazing day, the only thing left that could put the cherry on top of the cake was finding out who the real Ladybug was. "No way! That's amazing news!"
"Why didn't you tell me sooner?" Nino asked, smiling but also disappointed that Adrien didn't tell him sooner. "How long has this been going on?"
Adrien looked at Marinette, smiling adoringly at her before looking back at Nino with an answer. "About a week." He answered, rubbing Marinette's shoulder to relax her.
"How did this even happen girl? Tell me everything!" Alya insisted, demanding every single detail.
So Marinette fleshed out all the details, while still keeping the side of Ladybug and Cat Noir a secret, she made up a few things but saw that Adrien was okay with that, Adrien made up a few things too just to keep their identities secret. Marinette was glad that Adrien wasn't going to reveal their secret identity too, but now she saw that there was more than one reason why they were together now. It was because they were made for each other.
A little while after school, Marinette bid farewell to Alya while Adrien waved goodbye to Nino before wrapping his arm around Marinette and heading towards the park. There they sat down close to each other admiring their peaceful surroundings. Tikki and Plagg decided to stay hidden because of their surroundings, there were a few people about and didn't want to risk being seen.
Marinette broke the silence a few minutes later, her curiosity wanting to know why Adrien told Alya and Nino that they were together.
"Why did you tell them?" She asked, before Adrien shifted closer, the gap between them less than half an inch.
He clasped his hand over hers in admiration as he looked deep into her sparkling bluebell eyes. "I couldn't hold it in any longer, I need to be with you everywhere I go, no matter whether we're superheroes or not." He explained, smiling with assurance. "I love you Marinette, there's no one else I'd rather be with."
Marinette felt her shyness creep in on her again as she blushed and looked away slightly, feeling modest that Adrien was complimenting her for how much he cared for her.
"Thanks Adrien, I love you too." She responded, stuttering slightly before looking up at her boyfriend.
The two held their gaze and were about to crash their lips before Adrien spoke a little more, making Marinette's heart melt as every word Adrien breathed made her fall for him even more than she did before.
"We're made for each other, please don't forget that."
"I won't." Marinette assured.
And with that, the pair locked their lips in a passionate kiss, they will always be there for each other, but most of all they will be there together to fight and save the day.
'Those two are made for each other.'
THE END.
And that's the end of that story! If I left anything out please let me know ASAP so I can fix it up as quickly as possible, but if I didn't forget anything then that's great! I know I kind of left out Adrien's family bonding but hey, I put some in enough to hopefully make you guys awe at it. :) I mainly wanted to focus on the love between Adrien and Marinette towards the end, that's how I initially wanted the story to end with anyway.
Now, as I addressed earlier, NO SEQUEL! I did have a few ideas for a sequel but I'm not going to fall into that trap of making sequels from my stories. I will make new Ladybug stories in time, but for now I'm going to take a break from writing and do some other things in the meantime. How long will this break be? I have no idea, but it might as well be two weeks because I can't seem to get enough of writing FanFics! :D
So I really hope you guys enjoyed being on this amazing journey with me. It did have its bumps here and there but I am extremely glad I pulled through in the end. Thank you all for your continued support and I hope you will like my other Ladybug stories in the future.
Until next time, see you later! ^^