As anyone following this story knows by now, I'm horrible at deadlines and commitments so I'm not even goin to bother giving you guys an estimated date for the next chapter. Sorry this one took so long though, I really am! I'm a wife and a mother and rarely do I find the motivation to write but hopefully I can give you guys more of this soon. I can't thank everyone enough though for all the follows, favorites, and reviews. You guys are the best!
"Ms. Bustier, I'm concerned about Sabrina.. she uh, doesn't look so good.." Chloe was talking privately to her teacher the next morning at breakfast. She held her hands close to her chest nervously and whispered, "she's acting off too. She even yelled at me to leave her alone. She's never treated me like that before!"
It was morning again, everyone was enjoying French toast, bacon, and eggs the best they could despite the uneasiness they all felt. Sabrina didn't show up that morning, Chloe stating she looked a little puffy and bloated, and had said Sabrina felt too tired to get up.
Ms. Bustier sighed, "I don't know what to do. We don't have any cell reception out here, the bus still won't be here for quite some time, and there's no where to really go for help. It seems that we are stranded."
The teacher got up, asking Chloe to come with her. Together they went into the cabin. Not even a minute later, Chloe began screaming hysterically and ran out of the cabin.
"Warts! She's covered in nasty, disgusting, GREEN, warts!" Chloe shrieked at no one in particular.
Everyone was upset by this news, disgust on all of their faces. Ms. Bustier hurried out afterwards. She gathered all of her students together, her face deep with concern.
"I'm going to be honest with all of you," she began with a sigh, "Sabrina looks terribly sick. I don't know how so quickly but my only guess is that whatever happened to me the other, well something similar is happening to her."
There were gasps around the circle. Marinette felt Tikki at her side press against her. Alya brought a hand to her mouth, Adrien frowned very deeply, and Mylene began to sob.
"We still have over a week until the bus is coming for us," Ms. Bustier sighed, "I have no way of contacting Ladybug and Chat Noir, but I have an idea that hopefully can help prevent Sabrina from transforming into any kind of monster like I had. Honestly, I have no idea if this will work but it won't hurt to try right?"
Everyone nodded in agreement, so she continued, "I'll need a few willing female volunteers, but I'm hoping if we can wash Sabrina good in the showers it can help the warts disappear or at the least get off the layer of sweat and grime on her.."
To everyone's surprise, Chloe's hand shot straight up immediately, "I'm Sabrina's only best friend, so I think it's fit that I be there for her since she will need me."
While the wording wasn't sweet, there was a blush on her sad worried face and everyone could feel the care behind her words. Marinette and Alya looked at each other, and with a silent nod in agreement they too volunteered to help out. Ms. Bustier was grateful, and asked the girls to put on there least liked clothes and meet her in 15 minutes at the showers.
In their cabin, Alya and Marinette changed into sweats and plain tshirts. Tikki hid in Marinette's pant pocket while the two girls talked nervously.
"Do you think this is actually going to work? To stop her from becoming into some kind of slug monster too?" Alya asked.
Marinette bit her lip and laid back against her bed, pulling a pillow over her face and sighing, "I'm hopeful, I'm happy to try and help out but I have no clue."
Alya jumped off of her own bed and landed onto Mari's. Marinette squeaked in surprise, then laughed as Alya's face looked way too serious.
"Girl I'm serious! Do you think? I mean what if.. what if those warts are contagious?" Alya whispered as she snuggled up next to Marinette on the bed.
Marinette cringed, and looked straight into Alya'a eyes. In mock horror she gasped, "Then Nino will never kiss you again!"
Alya grabbed the pillow off of Marinette and smacked her with it, the two girls laughing freely for a few more moments before they had to go.
Once at the showers, Ms. Bustier, Chloe, and what was assumed to be Sabrina stood there. Sabrina looked awful, her face was swollen and her glasses looked as if they were going to fall off her face, hair flat and greasy and she was incredibly sweaty. Her face and arms were covered in green, pussy warts.
"Don't look at me like that!" Sabrina snapped at Alya, her voice rough and almost croaky.
"Sorry," Alya winced.
"Now come Sabrina, we are going to help you clean up a little." Ms. Bustier said gently as she led the girls into the female shower room. She carried with her a bag filled with towels and soaps. Sabrina huffed irritably, but otherwise didn't say anything.
Ms. Bustier turned on one of the shower heads. It was an old public shower, the floors and walls all a light brown clay like texture and one wall had a row of five shower heads. She took one of Sabrina's swollen hands carefully and led her over.
"I know this is going to be embarrassing, but we are here to help you clean up. We all care about you very much and we promise to not be judgmental, right ladies?" Ms. Bustier gave the other three girls a firm look. They all nodded quickly.
Ms. Bustier turned back to Sabrina, "Do you need help removing your clothes dear? Please keep on your underwear but we need to help you wash up."
Sabrina scowled, her puffy face looking more frog like as she attempted to pull off the camping hoodie she'd been wearing. She struggled a bit and with an obnoxious blow of her lips she gave up.
"I need help." She stated simply while avoiding everyone's eyes.
Ms. Bustier respectfully helped Sabrina pull off the hoodie and tshirt underneath, then as politely as she could she helped Sabrina step out of her leggings as well. The girl stood there in bright purple undies and a white sports bra. Her body was clearly bloated, and her whole stomach, back, and legs had warts as well. On her right rib was a dark, painful looking purple bruise similar to the one Ms. Bustier had, had on her neck before.
Marinette stopped herself from gasping at Sabrina's appearance, but her jaw still dropped slightly, "Sabrina, are you in pain?"
Sabrina turned slowly to Marinette, her voice deeper then before, "I am fine, Marinette."
"Alya, can you do me a favor and run to my cabin? Inside I have a little stool that will be perfect for Sabrina to sit on," Ms. Bustier asked; Alya immediately agreed and hurried off to fetch the stool.
It only took a minute and then Alya was back, the wooden stool in her arms. She was slightly out of breath but carefully placed the stool into the stream of water from the shower head. Sabrina sat on it, still avoiding to look at her companions. Ms. Bustier pulled out wash rags and shower gel, giving them to the three girls.
Chloe went first, walking behind Sabrina and tenderly placing the cloth against her back. She rubbed it but only for a moment as right away the warts started popping and a green/yellow puss poured out. The blonde girl shrieked in fear, jumping away from her friend shamelessly.
Ms. Bustier gave Chloe a glare, and then asked Sabrina softly, "Sabrina did that hurt?" The red haired girl shook her head no, her green eyes barely visible as her face was even more puffy.
Marinette turned to Alya, "ready for this?"
Alya gave a sympathetic look at Sabrina, but then whispered to Marinette, "sorry Mari, but I just don't think I can stomach this. You and Ms. Bustier are on your own."
The bluenette nodded, and with a deep breath she took Chloe's spot behind Sabrina while Ms. Bustier knelt down beside the redhead and began scrubbing her legs. Sabrina's eyes closed in contentment as she was cleaned. The warts were all popping as they scrubbed her rough skin. Marinette felt Tikki shaking, the longer she was beside Sabrina the more Tikki shook in fear. It made Marinette incredibly nervous and she felt herself rushing while she tried to stay gentle.
"I can take care of the rest, thank you for your help Marinette," Ms. Bustier said, sensing Marinette's odd nervousness.
Mari nodded, then joined Alya and Chloe who stood off to the side waiting. Ms. Bustier shampooed Sabrina's hair, and then rinsed her off and turned off the shower. She got out a dry towel and carefully patted the girl dry. Sabrina didn't look much better, her body had ballooned up even more and while the warts were popped her body looked blistered and painful. The bruise on her rib was very prominent and horrendous to even imagine having.
Chloe came back over to help Sabrina put on new clean clothes. The four headed back to their own cabins to join their classmates. Sabrina went back to bed, Chloe stayed with her to keep an eye on her. Alya returned to their cabin, while Marinette said she needed to go to the bathroom real fast.
"I'll only be a minute, go on ahead!" Marinette insisted after Alya offered to wait for her.
In the bathrooms, Tikki flew out to speak to her chosen, "Marinette be ready! I have a bad feeling about this and soon you and Chat Noir may need to fight again!"
"How soon?" Marinette asked with worry.
"Very!" Tikki exclaimed, "while you were washing her I could sense this darkness, so strongly! Almost as strong as when Ms. Bustier had started turning into a slug!"
Just as Marinette was about to respond, they could hear screaming outside again, "I think you're right Tikki, Spots on!"
The kwami flew into Marinette's earrings and Ladybug was transformed. She ran out of the bathrooms to find her classmates running around the campsite in a frenzy. Sabrina was in the center by the fire pit. She stood hunched over, her body huge and skin turning green. Her hair was falling off of her head, and glasses were absorbed into her face. The warts were back too.
Alya noticed Ladybug first, "Ladybug you're here!" The joy on her face gave Ladybug a rush of pride. Others soon noticed too and ran to Ladybug.
"Can you help Sabrina!?"
"How did you fix Ms. Bustier? Can you do it to Sabrina too?"
"Is this an akuma!?"
"Where's Chat Noir?"
"Dude!" Nino yelled, catching Ladybug's attention.
Nino was looking at Adrien in bewilderment, who was looking incredibly guilty as he was heading towards his cabin.
"Dude," Nino repeated, "where the heck are you going?! Ladybug is here!"
A bright blush spread across Adrien's face and he grinned sheepishly, "Uh yeah I know I uh, just gotta pee!" And with that he sprinted behind the cabin. Nino muttered something about Adrien and crazy and then stood besides Alya who was star struck in front of Ladybug.
"Ladybug!" Chloe grabbed on to the superhero's arm hastily, "Please help Sabrina! I think she's in pain!"
They all turned back to the girl, who was now on her hands and knees and coughing hard. Her clothes seemed to be dissolving into her body, and before there eyes she became a giant, wart covered toad. She croaked, and looked up at them. In a single leap, she was on top of Ladybug. The students screamed, all of them running away. Alya reached out to help Ladybug but Nino pulled her away.
"I'd toadally stay off this bug if I were you," a familiar voice called out.
Chat Noir ran out and with a sturdy swing of his baton he knocked the toad off of Ladybug. Ladybug gasped for breath as the heavy weight was off of her, and Chat Noir helped her up.
"Sorry I'm late, my lady," he said as he took her hand and kissed her knuckles, "Are you alright?"
She pulled her hand away and poked his noise, "I'm alright now, thanks to you minou!"
Toad Sabrina leaped back at them, but this time the two heroes dodged the giant amphibian. She opened her mouth and a long sticky tongue shot at them. Ladybug managed to snap her yo-yo out in time, it hit the tongue loudly and sent it back into Sabrina's mouth.
"We need to lead her away from the campsite," Ladybug said to Chat Noir.
He nodded in agreement, and the two sprinted down towards the woods.
"Help!" Rose screeched from behind the heroes.
To their dismay, Sabrina had in fact NOT followed them and instead decided to charge at students that were still outside. Rose was wrapped up in the giant pink tongue, and to everyone's horror Sabrina pulled Rose inside of her mouth. There was a shocked moment of silence, and then Sabrina spat out Rose on to the dirt floor.
Juleka ran for her friend, and as she did Sabrina's tongue shot out again. This time ready, Ladybug countered it with her yo-yo and wrapped the tongue up in its string. Ladybug pulled back to let go, and the tongue shot back into Sabrina's mouth and had enough force to send her flying back. Juleka helped Rose up, but gasped loudly and backed away from the petite blonde girl. Her hands and arms had warts similar to Sabrina's early ones, except these were rapidly spreading and growing to other parts of her body. Quickly, her entire body was swelling up and her flesh began turning into a sickening green. In a matter of only 30 seconds, Rose resembled a large (but still smaller than Sabrina) blown up toad shaped balloon. She lay on the floor unable to move, and Juleka hovered a hand over her friend's face, too scared to touch her.
"Don't touch her," Ladybug warned, "it could be contagious!"
Juleka backed away, looking so distraught and helpless as to what to do to help Rose.
Ms. Bustier was back outside, rushing the remaining students to get inside a building and hide. Juleka, Kim, and Max obeyed and hurried after their teacher, Juleka regretfully leaving behind Rose.
Sabrina was back up this time lashing her tongue out at Chat Noir. He used his baton to smack it away, and then jumped on top of the toad. Ladybug tried to wrap her yo-yo around Sabrina to keep her from going towards the cabin where Ms. Bustier and the others had ran to, but she was strong and dragged Ladybug along with her. With a giant leap, Ladybug lost her grip on the yo-yo string and fell ungracefully into the dirt.
Sabrina stopped, turned back and again shot her tongue at Ladybug. Chat Noir tried to stop it but lost his balance as Sabrina jumped into the air again. He fell off to the side, and to his horror watched Ladybug get pulled into Sabrina's mouth.
She was spat out after a few seconds, and Ladybug rolled herself away from the frog and tried to get up. Her body was feeling weak and numb and she gravely looked up at Chat Noir who ran at her.
"Ladybug!" He yelled, kneeling down besides her and reaching for her.
"Chat stay away! Don't touch me!" She gasped out as she painfully fell on to her elbows, "You need to cataclysm her just like the slug! Her bruise spot is on the right side of her ribs!"
"Don't worry Ladybug, I'll end this," Chat promised, struggling to look away as Ladybug swelled up just as bad and quickly as Rose had.
The leathered black cat got up, determination on his face as he readied himself. Sabrina stared at him, tauntingly it seemed, watching him and waiting to see what he'd do.
"I thought I toad you not to mess with my lady," he said angrily, his deep voice almost a hiss, "Cataclysm!"
He ran at Sabrina full speed, sliding down and barely dodging her tongue as it shot out at his face. His right hand flowed with the black magic in it, ready to destroy whatever he touched. With a final dive, he stretched his hand at Sabrina and slammed his palm into the bruise at her side.
Like before, an incredibly strong invisible force of energy sent him flying back. Another grotesque black bubble formed around Sabrina and Chat Noir dove behind a tree to avoid the splash as it popped. The pop was loud and sent a shake through the ground in the are. He peaked out around the tree, to find a confused and nasty slime covered, but relatively normal looking Sabrina. Ladybug was still laying in the spot where she'd been before, back to her normal self but looking frail and exhausted.
Chat Noir ran to her side, picked her up off the floor and lifted her into his lap. He held her close, burying his face in her hair despite the slightly funky residue on her. She whimpered slightly, hand on his chest and able to feel his rapid heart beat.
"I'm so glad you're okay," he whispered lovingly, and so passionately that it sent a chill down her spine. Ladybug wrapped her around around his waist reassuringly. They sat for a moment, before both their miraculous gave warnings for their detransformations.
"Will you be okay?" He asked her, his large green eyes so intense and full of concern.
Ladybug softened, her body feeling warm from the care he was showing her. To be honest, the last thing she wanted to do in that moment was pull away from him. But their identities were crucial and she knew they needed to go. With a nod, she got out up out of his arms and kissed his head. His mouth dropped and an adorable blush blossomed across his face.
"Thanks for saving me, Chaton." With a wink, she ran off to a wooded area.
For a moment he was speechless and frozen in place. His ring beeped again, which woke him from his daze. He got up quickly, rushing to another sections of woods and just barely making it behind trees as his transformation ended and he was back to being Adrien.
"Shut it boy," Plagg whined before Adrien could even say anything, "I do not want to hear any of this cheese about you and Ladybug. All I want to hear from your mouth is that you have some cheese for me to feast on!"
Adrien sighed dreamily, ignoring Plagg's remakes, "Plagg she kissed me! Not on the lips or anything but still she kissed me!"
Plagg held back a smirk as he rolled his eyes, "kid just feed me please."
I know kind of a weird place to end but I wanted to get this posted to you guys ASAP! Your reviews feed my inspiration, I'm also open to any suggestions as I'm not totally positive with where I'm going with this yet haha! Thanks so much for reading, hopefully I can get another chapter up soon!