Prompt: 46. "You can go first."

It was that time of year again. The invitations were sent out about a big fancy ball, held by none other than Chloé Bourgeois. The Mayor and Chloe held a ball every year, and every year, Marinette and her family were invited. The past balls had all been safe and as quiet as balls were. That was before the young teen had become Ladybug.

Like previous years, Chloe gave the entire town warning about the upcoming ball months in advance, giving Marinette plenty of time to come up with an idea for her dress and make it. The dark haired girl knew that a lot of the highest people in the fashion industry would be attending the event, and she took it as a opportunity to create a masterpiece that was certain to get her noticed.

If any of the professionals noticed her work, it would be like a dream come true. Especially if Gabriel Agreste noticed her work. It would mean the young fashion designer would once again have a chance at having her work showcased, and that was something that she could strive for.

She had sat down at her desk, pencil in hand looming over her sketch book. An hour later, a distressed Marinette had almost thrown her pencil onto the table, before remembering that shattered lead wasn't the most beneficial to work with.

Dragging her hands over her face, her eyelids heavy from slumping over the desk and doing nothing for an hour. She swung around in her chair, her eye catching sight of the little kwami next to her. Tikki had devoured a whole two plates of chocolate chip cookies while Marinette had sat at her desk in an eternal state of designers block.

Tikki, noticing that Marinette had become fed up with the project, flew over to the girl, landing on her shoulder.

"We could go patrolling, Marinette. It would do you the world of good, and you might get some inspiration while we are out." Tikki said softly, stroking the girl's hair as much as she was physically able to with her small structure.

Marinette looked at Tikki out of the corner of her eye before sighing and nodding in agreement. "It is getting a bit darker, so now would be a good time to go out patrolling." Even though it was Chat's night to patrol, it wouldn't hurt to have some extra company, cover some of the extra ground around Paris.

Getting up out of her swivel chair, Marinette transformed into the miraculous Ladybug. She slid open her window, and slipped out into the oncoming night.

The two heroes had decided to patrol on alternative nights so at least one of them was wide awake enough the next day in case of an akuma attack. The last time, they both had been worn out from the patrol the night before, and what could have been a quick battle had turned into a length that they weren't very proud of.

"I didn't realise you would me joining me tonight, my Lady." Chat purred, appearing from behind a chimney. "To what to I own this immense pleasure?" He said, strutting down to the black spoofed girl and kissing her hand.

Ladybug rolled her eyes. "My lack of inspiration I'm afraid. Being cooped up was getting under my skin, so I decided to come and bug you." She smirked, slightly annoyed she had started with the Ladybug puns, that was Chat's job, not hers.

"If it's of any consolation, you are the only inspiration that I would ever need." Chat supplied. To which, Ladybug grew extremely excited.

"That's it Chat!" She exclaimed, going over to him and taking his face into her hands. "You're so brilliant I could kiss you!" She beamed at him. "Thank you so much, I'll see you later!"

Chat Noir started to stutter, her reaction catching him totally off guard. "W-Wait! What about that kiss?!" But his words fell on deaf ears as Ladybug swung further and further away from him.

The ball, was one of the most extravagant events of the year, and even Adrien's initial thoughts on how dressed up the venue would be was seriously below how 'spectacular' (as Chloe had pronounced proudly) it had turned out to be.

Due to the theme being a masquerade ball, Adrien couldn't help but dress up as his favourite alternate ego, Chat Noir. So he pranced into the crowded room, looking around to see if his Lady had also come to the same idea he had. His black suit, fitted with a green a green lining and a ring like object around the top of his tie. His mask not only covered what his Chat Noir mask covered, but extended to his forehead and produced ears. All in all, he loved his mask.

As he looked around, he heard several murmurs and gasps from the bottom of a stained area. He turned around, and his mouth almost dropped at the sight of the lady in red. Her dress started off right around her body, the design obviously originating from the Chinese culture. As the dress flowed down to the floor, the red became lighter and suited dark red and black dots that obviously were a reference to Ladybug. To top it all off, the dress was complimented with three layers of a very, very pale pink.

He looked at her mask, the dark red accessory had designs that he was sure were something like antennas, but all within the mask. He walked over to her and offered his hand, escorting her down the last few steps.

"You look absolutely stunning my Lady." He all but whispered. Ladybug smiled in response, looking at how well Chat had dressed up thoroughly.

"You don't clean up too bad yourself Kitty." She teased. Just as Chat was about to ask his Lady to dance, a pair of voices interrupted them.

"I found them! Alya, I found them! Adrien, Marinette, you guys finally made it!" Nino said, his attire a dark blue, with a light blue mask to match, a black tear near one eye, and what seemed to be a reverse tear near the other.

"Wow! Marinette! You look gorgeous! You do too Adrien, just amazing!" The girl rambled, her dress black and white, and striped. Which while beautiful, was not at all easy on the eyes. "I like the way you too have dressed with influences from Paris' two favourite heroes, that's so cute!"

Chat Noir and Ladybug's faces had paled. Neither of them expecting something like this to happen. "You know, I think I might go home, seen one ball, you've seen them all." Marinette said, taking off her mask and turning around slowly. "I'll see you guys later."

"You know, I might just escort you home, Marinette. Later guys." Adrien supplied after being jolted out of shock by Marinette's words. He turned to the girl who was waiting a few steps in front of them

Needless to say, some very interesting rumours were heard about Ladybug and Chat Noir the next day, that seemed to almost parallel with the rumours surrounding Marinette and Adrien.

Gasp! What is this? Is this that 1000 worded prompt I had promised you guys? It is? Great!

I really hope you enjoyed this one! I felt like a lot of 500 fics were too short for you guys, and so I wanted to spice it up a little, add a few more words. Plus our fandom is all about masked balls, so I said to myself 'why not?'

I'm absoluteness hopeless at describing clothing, so here is the link to what they wear to the ball (even if we have to type it in letter by letter): post/133048937750/ive-noticed-the-miraculous-ladybug-fandom-being

Also, if I don't produce quite as many drabbles over the next few months, it's because I am currently plotting and writing my first multi-chapter fic for the Miraculous Ladybug fandom! I've seen some drawings of the AU, and I haven't seen a fic about it been posted yet, so I'm taking it into my own hands and writing it!

Yes, some things will be different, giving the universe and when the story is set, but it will all be explained as to why it is like that in the actual story.

I am being vague for a reason by the way, and that reason is " No spoilers :-)"

So look forward to that!

TheiaNeko~ (Rionydal)