Ch.4 Getting the Gist of All…
After that day, the day Alya told me of her secret. I started to confide to her of the many things I had left out. She seemed to have a good idea as to what I was taking about. And she told me many things too. Such as…
"You're the Chosen one Marinette! You have so much potential it's not even funny!" Alya practically screeched at the confused Blunette.
"I-T don't know Alya… Chat-." She was interrupted yet again.
"If this is about that mangy cat I swear! He is just jealous Mari! You have to accept Tikki!" Alya kept trying to persuade our pigged tailed hero.
"I-I'll think about it… okay?" Marinette finally responded and took a deep breath.
"Besides, I don't think I can cut it…." She finally said in a dejected tone. Alya started to turn burn with rage. Marinette then backed away slowly from the burning teen she called friend. Finally, Alya brushed her anger, and started to think. They kept walking. Marinette was completely unaware of a stranger as she bumped into a girl.
"Oh- sorry about that!" Marinette quickly shot out. She turned red for her incompetence. The stranger had familiar blonde hair put in a pony-tail. Marinette finally looked up, to see Chloe.
"Hey watch where yo-…" Chloe cut herself off quickly the moment she looked at Marinette. Chloe looked as though she saw death itself.
"…. Um…" The shy bluenette tried to start off, only to be blocked by Alya's protective arm.
"What the Hell were you thinking using your powers like that!? You think you're so high and mighty just cause-…" Alya cut herself quickly, and just gave a death stare to the blonde brat. Chloe gave the same look to the fox girl as well. The air just became tense. The young chosen one had no clue what to do.
"He-hey listen Mair-tra-… Marinette… I-I…" Chloe tried formulating the words now lost in her head. Marinette gave a simple smile.
"It's alright Chloe… But don't do that again ok…?" Chloe and Alya both had a shocked expression with their eyes wide open and their mouths opened wide at what she just said. The five -minute bell rang, and off the three gals went, in complete silence. The day went off without a hitch.
"Bye Alya see you tomorrow." Marinette waved her hand and started to walk off in the direction of the bakery.
"Ahh-wait Marinette!" Alya grabbed her bff's arm and whispered in her ear.
"Meet me at the park at 5 alright. Don't be late. If you do not show up, I'll personally grab you from the balcony." She whispered.
"What for?" Marinette responded by her friend's sudden demand.
"Let's just say I have to introduce you to someone…" She finished off and sprinted off in the opposite direction, possibly her home. Alya just waved at the confused bluenette and took off in a sprint.
"Oooookkkkaaaayyyy….." she managed to mutter.
'Well, guess I'll tell my parents about it and see if their ok with it…" What Alya, nor Marinette noticed were a pair of green eyes watching them behind the school beam.
"Just what are you trying to do, Alya?" He spoke to himself.
It was 5:05 and Marinette was sprinting to the park as fast as she could. She soon found Alya standing while stomping on her foot, clearly impatient.
"Girl finally you're here. I seriously thought you might have bailed on me or something." Alya said in a joking manner.
"I – aha- am soo- mph- sorry …" The poor girl was trying to catch her breathe. Alya gave a smirk and asked.
"So what got you late?"
"Physic homework, I can never figure those darn problems, then I lost track of time." She responded.
"Mmm Alright…" Alya then started to giggle at Marinette. She made a pouty face clearly upset at her friend's sudden outburst.
"Ok I'm sorry Mari! Here give Alya a hug ya cutie!" Marinette found herself in another of Alya's infamous bear hug.
"Alya I can't breathe, you're gonna kill me!" She joked. Alya gave a huge grin, and let her go. Then she started to walk off.
"H-hey where are you going?" Mari yelled to her friend.
"Come on slow poke, I'm taking you to meet someone really important. Mari ran after her bestie, and the two of them found themselves in a massage therapy shop.
"Um…" Mari was confused.
"Well what are you waiting for? Come on lets go, he's waiting for us."
"R-ight…" The Bluenette and the amber-haired girls walked inside of a massage therapy shop. The interior of the shop had a wooden counter, with a little bell on top of the counter. Alya went over to the counter and slammed her hand on the poor bell. It gave a loud ringing noise.
"Hey Alya I don't think that was a good idea, what if he's too busy?"
"Him busy pffft- yeah right at this hour!" the impatient blogger responded. Her friend looked at the clock that indicated so.
"Huh… Well-I-Ugh I don't know!" Marinette shouts while throwing her arms in the air.
"What the hell is taking that old geezer to get here?! Geez. Master Fu! Yoi! Hey get your old ass over here! Are you even home?!" Alya started yelling inside the building.
"Shsssssh! Alya what if someone hears you?" Marinette whispered-screamed.
"As if I give a damn about that!" And so the crazed lunatic, named Alya jumped over the counter and sprinted to the left side of the hallway behind said counter.
"A-Alya! Where are you going!?" Marinette ran after her crazy best friend who now ran down another corridor and down a staircase that looked kind of eerie, but no one seemed to mind.
"Hey ya old fart! Get your old wrinkly ass over here!" Alya was practically screeching at this point. Poor Marinette had given up on her nut-job of a friend.
CRASH! A terrible crashing noise had startled the two. The air changed drastically. Mari knew something… demonic… caused it? She wasn't sure what she was sensing, but Marinette wasn't the only one felling apprehensive. Even Alya had a serious look on her.
"Stay behind me…" and she put a protective arm in front of Mari. The bluenette just nodded her head in response, and in a heartbeat was behind Alya.
"Trixx, Fox Tails out…" In a quiet voice and the designer's best friend was bursting in a blinding orange light. Volpin stood in place of the blogger. She had her flute ready for whatever was causing that alarming raucous. Volpin crept in the direction towards it. Marinette soon followed. They stood right behind a wall, Volpin closer to the hallway. The powerless girl kept quiet so that Volpin could concentrate on the job.
"It's right past this hallway…" She whispered to the scared designer. Mari only gulped in response.
"Just stay close to me and you'll be safe, I promise you that…" she still felt uneased, but some of the tension left her body and she schooled a new determined face.
Mari nods and says, "whatever happens I have complete faith in you…"
Volpin first gets out of her corner only to find a monstrous purple beast that appeared to be a …. Squirrel?
"An akuma?" The fox-themed vigilante spoke in shock.
"How the hell did this guy get in?" Marinette stayed behind the corner and spectated in complete awe.
The eerie looking squirrel's face lit up a demonic purple mask and a voice can be heard.
"Well, well if it isn't Volpin… looks like I've been found out." The voice spoke nonchalant.
"What the hell are you doing here?!" Volpin demanded.
"My faithful servant make yourself useful and destroy this shameful being." And the squirrel charged right at Volpin. Marinette's blood was rushing to her head. She was scared still for her friend.
"Oh no you don't you vermin!" And she swung her staff at the monster which sent the poor animal flying to the wall. The squirrel went unconscious.
"Well, that was surprisingly easy…" But Alya and her big mouth spoke way too soon for now an army of a hundred or so squirrel-like creatures had appeared right in front of the one beast the fox had sent flying with her staff.
"Spoke too soon…" She sighed and face palmed. Volpin turns her head and yells.
"Marinette run!" The bluenette and Volpin ran away from the pack of akumitized squirrels.