"She's late," Ladybug grumbled, leaning against the cool metal of the Eiffel Tower.

Chat snickered beside her and shook his head. "By five minutes, My Lady."

"But still-"

"I'm here, I'm here!" Reine Abeille shouted as she ran, stumbling as she stopped herself. "I'm…here…" she panted, hands on her knees. Ladybug held back a snort, taking a step forward.

"Well, since you're here, we can get started," Ladybug said. "First lesson, getting onto roofs!" She pulled her yoyo off her side and tossed it up, yanking her weight up. Reine looked up, not quite sure what she was supposed to do. She looked at Chat, who took a step closer.

"Ladybug's not one for change," he explained. "Just gotta make a good impression."

"How do I even get up there?" she asked, crossing her arms. "I don't exactly have a yoyo to fling myself up there with!"

"Neither do I," Chat started, "But my staff extends, so I just cat-apult myself. Watch." With that, Chat pulled his staff off his back and extended it against the ground, then leaned forward and stepped onto the tiles. "Easy!"

Chloe nodded and pulled her scepter from her side. It stiffened in her hands, so she held it out, extending it to the ground. She giggled as she went into the air, overjoyed that she did it correctly. But, just as she was about to step down, the scepter began to wobble. "What's going on-?"

Just then, the scepter went limp. Chloe gave a yelp as she fell.

"Reine!" Chat called. Ladybug looked back and yelped herself, running forward and tossing her yoyo onto a traffic light then onto Chloe's ankle to pull her back up. The two heroes jumped down from their places on roofs to see the bee-girl.

"Well, haven't done that in a while…" Ladybug giggled. Chat grabbed the blonde girl's arms as Ladybug retracted her yoyo. "Let's try that again, OK?" Ladybug suggested with a snicker. She pulled herself back onto a roof and waited for the other two. Once both cat and bee were by her side, they began the actual patrol.

"If you're going to be a hero, you're gonna jump across a lot of roofs and flying objects, so let's see how well you can do that!" Ladybug shouted, flinging herself across rooftops. Once she was about five away, she turned to face Reine Abeille and Chat. "Your turn!"

Chat took a step back, giving a bow to tell Chloe to go first. She glanced down at the alleyway below, squeaking at the distance. Oh, that was a long way down! She gulped and walked back several feet, taking a deep breath before she ran as fast she could. When her feet collided with the next rooftop's tiles, she fumbled and fell to her bottom.

"Ow!"

"Keep going!" Chat laughed. She huffed and got to her feet, taking the next roof with much of the same effect. The next one, she only stumbled, then again. Finally, she stuck the landing on the last one. As she caught her breath, Chat came up to her side. "Ladybug's already up a few more, c'mon!"

"What?!" Chloe groaned, running forward to repeat the process.


"Now, let's see how well you can fight," Ladybug said. They were in the park, but with night having fallen, no one was around.

Chloe stood before her, slightly nervous. She'd seen Ladybug fight, and she really didn't want to be on receiving end of that. "What do I do?" she asked, unsure of exactly how to fight. Fighting wasn't something she enjoyed, since it would ruin her nails and her hair. But, with the magic in her suit, that would cover that, right?

"Think fast!" Ladybug yelped, dropping down and swinging her leg out. Chloe cried out and jumped, stumbling back with arms flailing. "Recovery!" Ladybug called, popping up and sending her hand out to strike at Reine Abeille.

Chloe dodged the hand just barely, ducking and lunging at Ladybug's middle. That seemed to catch the supergirl by surprise as she grunted and struggled to figure out how to get out of the situation. Just as they were about to hit the ground, Ladybug put her hands to the grass and planted her feet. Chloe paused in confusion, which gave Ladybug time to lift her legs and fling the bee-girl off.

Chloe got up slowly as Ladybug flung herself upright. Chloe ran forward, deciding to put her all into the fight and maybe impress Ladybug. She brought her fist up to punch the hero, but just as the fist was about to connect with Ladybug's face, she caught it. Ladybug smirked and used the caught hand to spin Reine around, lock her arm behind her, and knock her to her knees.

Chloe groaned and rolled on her back, not wanting to fight anymore. It was exhausting! "Are we done yet?" she asked.

"Done?" Ladybug snickered. "Not in the slightest. Do you think you can just tap out in an akuma attack? You keep going until someone can't keep going!"

"Can we not."

"My Lady, she's probably tired. We've done a lot for someone who's not used to it," Chat said, laying a hand on Ladybug's shoulder.

Ladybug looked down at Reine and sighed, seeing how heavily she was breathing. The girl did look exhausted, and for her first night she didn't do that bad. "Alright, I guess that's good for tonight!"

"Thank you!" Reine breathed out. She didn't even feel like she had the energy to stand.


That next morning, Chloe could definitely feel her exhaustion. Every muscle in her body ached, and little bruises scattered her arms and thighs. Good thing she had just the jacket to cover her arms! As she was getting dressed, however, it became quite apparent how difficult that was.

"Ow!" she cried as she lifted her arms to pull on her shirt. She shimmied it over her head, seething the whole time. "Owwwwwowowow!" she continued, crying in pain as she pulled on her pants. "How do they do this?"

Buzzi hovered by her head, a chili dangling from her lips. "Well, they're used to it. You just did the most physical activity you've probably ever done."

"Hey!" Chloe yelled. Buzzi snickered and took off flying, laughing loudly as Chloe tried to chase her down. Sadly, Chloe was unsuccessful, since her sore body refused to jump after the flying kwami.


At school, Chloe tried to move the least amount possible. She made Sabrina go to her locker and grab her books as she limped off to class, just so she didn't have to go up the stairs more than once. Curse the schools for not having elevators!

She couldn't even write! Holding a pen was impossible when it felt like your hand would fall off any moment!

Worst of all, she couldn't even get up to greet Adrien! Ugh, why did her body hate her so much?! And, why didn't Buzzi feel as awful as she did?! So not fair!

"Chloe, are you alright?" Sabrina asked, poking her best friend's arm.

"Owwww! Don't DO that!" Chloe hissed, banging her hand against the table in frustration. Unfortunately, all that did was manage to help along another bruise to match all her other ones. "OW!" Chloe whined, dropping her head to the table. Screw it; she gave up! The day was not worth it anymore!

"…Chloe, do you need to go to the nurse?"

"No." Then there would be too many questions to answer, and most of the questions she couldn't answer. No, the nurse was the worst idea. She could just sneak some tylenol after the bell.

Sorry it took so long to update! I was sick - am still sick, actually - and didn't have much energy to write Chloe...

Review and tell me what you thought!