This chapter is a weird one…Lets just say there will be some de-transforming, close calls and some fights. I see someone awesome who I want to give a shout-out to. "I Dream Of Snowflakes" They said "Lets have chat noir put in danger" If you know me, you know I would be more than happy to make that happen! "I Dream Of Snowflakes" I'll start on it right away! This chapter leads into it! Hope you like it.
"You know what this means, right?" Ladybug asked. "Yeah, we gotta keep our eyes peeled." Mackenzie answered. Ladybug nodded, frowning. The two girls looked down at the ground in silence, not really knowing what else to say. Mackenzie started to think hard, eyes widening as she realized what she had to do. "Uh, we have a problem." Mackenzie said. "What?" Ladybug asked, her heart starting to pound in her throat.
"We have to keep Cat Noir safe, and with his stitches, that's going to be hard. And I have to clean the stitches to make sure the wound doesn't get infected. I can't do that with his suit on." Mackenzie explained. Ladybug thought about this, not really expecting to let herself or Mackenzie know the identity of Cat Noir. Somehow they had to get around that.
"Wait, if you need his suit off to clean the wound, how did you not need it off when you were stitching it?" Ladybug asked. "There was a hole in his suit when I was stitching it, now there's not." Mackenzie answered. "But I thought ahead…" Mackenzie said. "I said come to the river because there is water-" Mackenzie said, pointing to the river. "—And I just moved here, so I wouldn't really know who he is anyway. And I can turn him onto his stomach so his face isn't visible." Mackenzie said.
"Or you could just wake him up." Ladybug said. Mackenzie blushed, she forgot she wasn't in a hospital any more. "Yeah, that would probably be more realistic." Mackenzie agreed. The two girls slowly walked towards the sleeping Cat Noir, leaning down to his level before shaking him slightly.
Cat Noir moaned before opening his eyes gently. "Whaa?" Cat Noir breathed before lifting his head lightly, looking around. "What happened? Where are we?" He asked. Mackenzie quickly took the job of telling him they were by the river, but for some reason she didn't tell him why they needed to move. Ladybug didn't protest, though.
"I have to clean your stitches. Which means you have to de-transform…" Mackenzie explained. Cat Noir just looked up at the figure that resembled Mackenzie with a confused look. "Yeah, no." Cat Noir said flat out. This time Ladybug tried talking to him. "Please Cat Noir. It's for your own good." She said. "We promise not to look." Mackenzie added. "Yeah, Mackenzie just moved here, so she wouldn't recognize you anyway." Ladybug said, being very persuasive.
"Only if you're okay with it." Cat Noir said, directing his gaze towards Ladybug. Ladybug nodded. "Okay." Mackenzie whispered to herself. She grabbed some more cloth from that old sack she had been carrying with her this whole time and walked towards the river. She dipped the cloth in the cold water and walked back to the cat leaning against the tree.
"Okay, you de-transform while we turn around. You have to get on your stomach so we can't see your face." Mackenzie explained. "Okay." Cat Noir said. He watched as the two girls turned their backs behind some trees then he felt energy leaving his body. "I left some food out next to the bag for your kwami" Mackenzie said, aware that there was now a kwami listening. "Did you hear that, Plagg?" Adrien asked. "Yeah…" Plagg answered, before leaving his chosen to go eat, not even aware of Ladybug and Mackenzie only a couple feet away.
Adrien flipped himself over to his stomach, trying to restrain a scream climbing up into his throat. Finally, he managed to make sure that from any angle they went to, they wouldn't see his face. "Okay." Adrien moaned, letting the two girls he was ready. Mackenzie closed her eyes, took a deep breath in and turned around. 'This is it.' She thought, 'No going back.' Thankfully, since Mackenzie was new, she didn't recognize the white jacket and black T-shirt with the colored stripes that the boy was wearing.
She didn't recognize the orange tennis shoes and the blue genes. She didn't even recognize the blonde, short, clean cut hair that could only belong to Paris's one and only Adrien Agreste. "Okay." Mackenzie breathed to herself again. Slowly, ever so slowly, Mackenzie got down onto her knees and slowly lifted the cloth and set her hands on the boy's back. She slowly unwrapped his bandages and lifted his shirt.
"Okay, tell me if I have to stop." Mackenzie said. "K" Adrien said, from under his arms. Mackenzie then laid the cold, wet cloth on the stitches, expecting to hear a moan or hiss in pain. But instead, she heard a sigh of relief come from under Adrien's arms.
She had to restrain a laugh. Mackenzie rubbed and patted the stitches with the cloth, making sure she didn't rub it too hardly. After about three minutes, Mackenzie took the now pinkish colored cloth away. Adrien had to keep himself from whining. The cold water felt sooooo good, now that air could reach it again, it stung.
Mackenzie slowly lifted the boy up a little and started to re-wrap his bandages. That's when Adrien lost his balance. He felt it coming, and threw himself to the right, since he was falling left. He keep his face hidden, but not without hitting his head on the tree he was leaning on.
"Ahh." Adrien breathed, as he lifted an arm to rub his sore head. "You okay?" Mackenzie asked. "Yeah, I'm-I'm fine." Adrien answered, still rubbing his head. Mackenzie finished wrapping the boy's chest and gave him his shirt. Then she walked off, so she wouldn't see his identity.
Plagg came back and helped Adrien put his shirt back on, then helped him transform into Cat Noir. After the girls came back out from behind the trees, he looked around at their background and frowned. "So, why are we here?" Cat Noir asked. The two girls gave each other worried glances, knowing they would have to tell him eventually.
"Uh, someone came into the alley and we had to leave." Mackenzie answered, not telling the whole truth, but also not lying at the same time. Cat Noir just looked at her like she left a lot out, and she did. What was she suppose to tell him. "Well, we had to move because Hawk Moth found us and he wanted your Miraculous so I pretended to give it to him when actually it was my own ring. And when he left I had to drag you here so we wouldn't be found." Yeah right.
The short answer Mackenzie gave him must have passed by him for now, but later he would want a complete answer.
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She woke up to the sound of rustling, like someone trying to pick up something heavy. She looked around herself, Mackenzie sleeping over by that weird bush that smelled like blueberries and Cat Noir over by that tall oak tree. Nothing really out of the ordinary. So she went back to the warm patch of grass and fell asleep, for some reason not really trusting her own eyes.
Cat Noir slowly peaked from around the tree, hoping his trick had worked. He had set a couple of giant rocks and sticks in his place to make it seem like he was still sleeping. It was dark, so the two girls probably wouldn't notice anything strange until he was already long leaned over slightly, feeling a wave of pain that shot through his back. No. He could do this, he had to. Cat Noir had heard Mackenzie's voice when he first tried to move, she almost yelled. He knew she wouldn't have moved him unless who ever found them last night was a serious threat.
That could only mean a number of people, and the person at the top of the list was Hawk Moth. Hawk Moth. Why did that name bring so much fear? He was just another Paris citizen. Just like him and Ladybug, he was just a human being. If things had gone differently, anyone could have had those powers.
Maybe the name Hawk Moth brought fear because he created villains. So what? He could destroy anything, no matter what it was made of or how strongly it stood. Yeah, they were both of equal power. And they were both regular people. Hawk Moth could be anyone! He could be Marinette or Chloe or Nino or even his father!... Okay that last one was just crazy.
No more stalling. Cat Noir lifted himself up, trying not to scream. And walked slowly towards town. Doing his best not to collapse, he limped away. What he didn't know was that Ladybug and Mackenzie guessed Cat Noir would try to move while they were asleep, so they were only pretending.
His trick with the rocks and sticks hadn't worked at all. They waited until his staggered steps fainted a bit, then they started follow him.
They had to keep themselves from shouting at him or running in front of him, because once they figured out where he was going, all they wanted to do was yell at him a make him turn back. This was stupid. He wasn't that stupid, right? He wouldn't be dumb enough to actually try and fight Hawk Moth while he was injured like this, was he? No. He wasn't.
What did he expect to do? He had a serious injury, and Hawk Moth was very powerful. Ladybug's heart started to pound in her throat when she watched Cat Noir limp into the Agreste Mansion. What in the world was his little cat brain thinking?!
Cat Noir knew where to find some answers or at least a lead to his search. He remembered the secret vault his father had opened when Lila had claimed to be a decedent of Volpinia. There had to be answers in there somewhere.
He opened it up, finally guessing the password. He tried not to think too much about how the code was his mother's birthday digits. When he started looking around, he found a picture of his mother, a peacock pin and a butterfly pin. Could that butterfly pin be Hawk Moth's Miraculous!? Why would his father have that, and the peacock one too... Something was going on here.
Cat Noir started to worry about if his own father was Hawk Moth or not...when he suddenly felt a sting of pain in his right arm. Something or someone had stuck him with something. A numbness quickly took over around his whole body, and before he knew it, he had collapsed. All he could see or hear at this point was three figures.
One was tall and dark, another was smaller and was red and black. The third one wasn't fighting at all, it was heading towards him! He heard something along the lines of "Whatyoauthoing. Youcouldvvv killed youseld. Areyoika? Whatdhe sting you with?" Nothing made sense anymore, the feeling of nothing connecting was an all too familiar feeling he never wanted to experience again, but here he was.
The last thing he remembered seeing was the red and black figure falling, and the dark one heading towards him and the third figure. It wasn't a real fight, the figure that was talking to him was hit and fell to the ground. He saw hands heading towards him, then darkness...
BAM! I'm so evil! "I Dream Of Snowflakes" sorry I didn't actually make Cat Noir hurt, but there will DEFIANTLY be some of that in chapter 10! See you there!