Adrien quickly dismissed himself, his explanation being, "Dads calling me, gotta go somewhere quiet!" Before running up the grand staircase. He slipped into a random hotel room, and quickly transformed, after making sure Tikki was still fine. He noticed she did not look well at all, even paler than before. He asked her what was wrong, but she politely ignored the question (if that's possible).

After giving himself a small but much needed pep talk, he opened the window to the hotel and stepped out onto the balcony. It was a little harder than usual with out his bow staff, but he managed to climb to the top of the hotel, where he could see any incoming crazy doll girls. Just as his emerald green eyes did a sweep of the area, they locked on the small figure of the deadly Marionette. Although she was small from here, you could tell it was her, as anyone who saw her ran. As she crossed the street, cars screeched to a stop, and people screamed shrieked. She hadn't noticed Chat yet, thankfully.

He watched her near the entrance, twirling his staff expertly, with that same plastic smile adorning her perfected features. Her red eyes were focused and the unnatural red color drove unease into Chat Noir's core. He started scaling down the building, hurrying so she wouldn't reach the hotel before him. He finally jumped off one more window ledge, and landed lightly on the ground in front of the Akuma, and smiled teasingly.

"We meet again, how purr-fect." He grinned, somewhat nervously.

"I would say the same thing, kitty." The Marionette smiled back, somewhat sadly.

Chat Noir returned the sad look. "Listen, 'Marionette', I know Marinette is still in there. Why don't we both calm down and-"

"Aw, does the kitten feel useless with out his bugga-boo?" The Marionette sneered, twirling his staff like a baton. Chat Noir steeled himself, he knew she was just playing on what she thought his weakness was but...maybe he was useless? No, of course not, he's just as good as Ladybug.

"No, stop kitten around with me and lets just fight, since you seem to only want to do that." Chat frowned, fisting his hands and raising them up. The Marionette nodded and stepped towards him, lashing out the bow staff, hitting him in the side then twirling and hitting him again with her fist. Chat Noir stumbled and rubbed his bruised ribs, and with a shaky breath he tried to get his own hits in.

But it was hard. Most Akuma's, when deprived of their powers, are easy to get rid of. But The Marionette knew exactly what hit he would deliver, and she dodged and slid accordingly. Chat almost recongized her fighting style...using her defence as offense as well, fighting with out always hitting (she would bait him into punching her and then spin out of the way at the last second, making him stumble). It reminded him a lot of his Lady.

He thought it was just his wistfulness, his need for her to be with him. But now that he had thought of it...Marinette with a mask did look a lot like Ladybug. It was quite odd.

With all this thinking, he didn't notice The Marionette's solid kick heading for his gut. It landed and sent him flying into the hotel doors, and with a groan of pain he slid down. The doll Akuma dropped his staff, then walked smugly past him into the hotel, where the kids inside started running up the stairs in fear. However, before she could open the hotel's glass doors, she gasped.

She stumbled backwards, grabbing at Chat Noir, who had jumped onto her shoulders. "Hah! Gotcha!" He grunted, The Marionette's struggling rattling his already-in-pain ribs.

"Get off me! You stupid cat!" She growled, slamming her fists into his legs, and trying to reach back for his arms.

Chat Noir was occupied with grabbing the hair tie, holding her pitch black hair back. He grit his teeth and bared the hits she delivered. Aha! He snapped it off, and relief flooded through him. But no black butterfly fluttered from the ruined accessory...

He was wrong.

Suddenly he was thrown off The Marionette's shoulders, and he crashed through the glass of the hotel. He skidded to a stop and jumped to his feet, the red hair tie still gripped in his hand. Well, if it isn't in the hair tie, where would it be? He thought, irked that he got it wrong. He let out a shaky breath, attempting to calm his shaky nerves. Ok...what other accessory does she have?

He watched as the akuma neared him, black hair tumbling past her shoulders, the same color as the many cracks in her porcelain skin. Her eyes were blazing with annoyance and anger, she was probably miffed he got the jump on her. He smirked a little, it was always fun getting under peoples skin (at times).

"Last chance to get out of my way, tomcat." She hissed. Chat Noir shrugged.

"Won't happen, sorry. Chloe may be a brat, but that doesn mean she deserves to-"

"Don't you dare side with that...that monster. She does nothing but flaunt her power and create akumas with her horrible words and-" She too was cut off, as she forgot to keep an eye on the sneaky cat while she was ranting. He launched himself at her, and grabbed her middle, sending both of them to the ground. He straddled her and tried to keep her flailing arms down, as he searched her for anything that could contain the akuma.

As she struggled, her hair shifting, revealing obsidian black earrings. Eureka! These had to be it! He tried to keep her arms down as he attempted to take them off, but she twisted and kicked her way out of his grip.

She rolled back, but Chat Noir was done with fighting with her. He shot forward and grabbed her wrists, shoving her into a wall. She bared her teeth and struggled like a cornered animal. 'I need a distraction, quick, but how?' His mind raced, as he fought the akuma to keep her pinned. A sly thought crossed his mind. He grinned mischievously at her, before planting his lips firmly on hers.

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A/N

Oh my, what a flirty little cat. Of course, it was necessary to keep the feisty akuma distracted. Hope you enjoyed this, and thanks so much for all the views, follows, and favs! Wowie! I'm surprised how well-received this story is becoming!

Now, there's a fork in the plot here. Do you want Marinette to be de-akumad next chapter, or have her hold out for longer? Of course its gonna be a little angsty either way...but there will be adrienette to cheer things up. Also, I may start another story, but it will probably just be drabbles, and requests, things like that. Would you all be interested? Of course, this story will always be on my top list to update first.

Thanks for your wonderful reviews, and pointing out my stupid mistakes XD if you notice an error, go ahead and call me out on it! Anyways, have a nice day, and thanks for reading!