"Vixx!" Juuno exclaimed, scrambling to get away from the fox, glaring when she snickered back at him. Huffing at the kwami's sudden appearance, he turned to fix the ruffled feathers of his tail. "What are you doing here?" he hisses, then narrows his green eyes. "I swear, if you ran away from your chosen again-"
"Juuni," Vixx sighs, leaning against the big white cat plush. "You think I would do such a thing? With this sweet Kit I have?"
"Yes! You're ridiculously childish enough too!" Juuno huffs, pouting at her. It's only been a minute of their official reunion and he was already feeling tired.
And Tikki complains that she had it hard.
She did not.
Plagg was conveniently lazy.
If any of them had it hard, Juuno did.
Even Beea could be more reasonable than Vixx.
Vixx wasn't. She was eager for mischief and trouble. And wasn't afraid of the trouble she could get into.
It always lead to him getting very tired...
Vixx snorts and sticks out her tongue. "I have more class than Plagg."
Juuno rolls his eyes and drops down beside her, frowning. Just as he was about to ask what she was doing here, he stiffened when he heard the humans below.
"Do you want me to go up there and check?"
"No!" his chosen cried out quickly, "No. You're the guest! It's probably just some, uh, bug. I'll go check."
Juuno fretted, crest stiffening up.
Oh no.
"You sure?" Adrien asked, "I don't mind-"
"You keep playing the game I'll be right back," Marinette rushed out, already racing up the steps.
A nervous cluck came out of Juuno. Turning, he found Vixx was already gone, leaving him in plain sight on the bed. Humming angrily, he turned to face Marinetre as she came up, giving him an odd look. "What's going on?" she hissed softly.
"The movie was getting good," Juuno offered weakly, giving her a sheepish smile.
Marinette spared an odd look to her iPad. Then to her kwami. "Them getting dressed up for Austenland...?"
"You sparked an appreciation for clothes in me!" Juuno said.
She raised a brow. "Ok," she said slowly. "Just, be quiet?"
"Of course!" Juuno promised.
"Everything ok?" Adrien called, making Marinette jump.
"Yes!" she said quickly. "Bug! It was just a bug!"
"Really?"
"Really!"
Juuno waved after her as she departed, then sighed, his crest drooping down and echoing his exhaustion. Vixx popped up right next to him, startling the peacock. Gleefully, she asked, "Did you just lie Juuni?" Her tail gave an excited wag at the prospect.
Juuno gasped, offended. "I did not!"
"That sounded like lying."
"The whole movie is good!" Juuno defended, "And yes! Thanks to Marinette I can appreciate human fashion! I did not lie Vixx!"
"Uh huh," she purrs, snickering at her frustrated counterpart.
"Why are you here?" he demands, waving to the room below, which was now awkwardly quiet. Mindfully his whispered angrily, "You almost got caught!"
"I joined my chosen here," Vixx said.
Juuno stared at her.
Vixx just smiled, waiting for it to click.
Juuno twitched, crests rising stiffly. "Ch-chosen?!" Juuno repeated.
"Yes," she said, leaning into Juuno's space, "my chosen. He's here."
Gaping at her, Juuno darted the the edge of the bed, staring down at the boy with wide eyes. Vixx followed, very amused. "He, he's, he's a, a..." Juuno stuttered, gaping down at the blond.
It was him.
It was Malin.
Adrien... Adrien was...
"A fox," Vixx gleefully finishes.
"How?!" Juuno asked, his crest raised high and straight. "He's, he's so..."
Vixx giggled. "He may be sweet and gentle, but Juuni, he's just so devious," Vixx wiggled, humming like she just bit into the sweetest fruit. "It's delicious how sly he is. How good he is at deceiving people. So many think he's so perfect and sweet, unaware of his much darker nature. I've just been skimmed the surface of it Juuni."
Juuno frowns. Turning to her, he demands, "How dark does that nature go?"
Vixx scoffs. "I doubt he'll ever hurt your Chick Juuni."
"Vixx."
She sighs and answers, "He is possessive. Manipulative. Easily jealous. He's not above lying and manipulating to keep what he considers to be his."
"She won't like that," he sighs.
Vixx shrugs. "Most humans don't." Eyeing Juuno's little bluebird, Vixx grins. "You're little Chick can be a little too bold herself."
"She is a peacock."
She turns to him, humming curiously. "A fully fledged one?"
"I chose her," Juuno states, shuffling awkwardly.
Vixx hugs her tail, wrapping it around her. "Thought so. I didn't think the Guardian chose her. I hadn't felt you near for a few decades." Turning to him, she asked, "How did she get you?"
"I don't know," Juuno shrugged, looking away. "I just felt a negative shift in Nooroo and reached out for a chosen. The ladybug and black cat weren't activated yet and I wanted to help save Nooroo. I woke to her."
"To Belle Bleue," Vixx said. She giggled, rocking on her haunches. "My Kit really should've confessed like I suggested he should."
Juuno balked. "Vixx, screaming at people is not a good way to confess love!"
"It gets the point across!" she snips.
"No it doesn't! It just makes confusion and noise!"
"Oh, like displaying your colors is totally clear."
"It is," Juuno said, crossing his arms with a harrumph. "You're showing off your beauty, your colors, sharing it with someone special to you. And only those special to you can see them and-"
Rolling her eyes as Juuno talked on about displaying colors. Bored, she watched the two humans, noting that the tense awkwardness was melting away as they started to relax. Vixx grinned evilly. She wasn't going to let her Kit get comfortable yet.
Slipping in close to Juuno and startling the kwami silent, Vixx screamed in his face, baffling the peacock enough to fan his tail and startling the two humans below. Snickering, she grabbed Juuno and dove inside the bed.
"I'm going to check that!" Adrien rushed out, hopping out of his seat before Marinette could move to grab him. Ignoring her frantic pleas, Adrien rushed up the stairs and stopped at the edge of the soft pink bed. Glaring at it, and the shelf above, he couldn't see the troublesome fox.
"Y-you know," Marinette called from below. "I, I think it was just Jacques! He's a, a pigeon that likes to hang here."
Adrien straightens, giving her an odd look. "Pigeons don't sound like that."
She shrugged helplessly, weakly arguing, "He's a strange pigeon."
"Maybe he flew in?" Adrien offered, starting to crawl on her bed and feeling the sheets, "Let me check."
"Please don't," Marinette hissed under her breath as she stressed, dancing in place and biting her nails. He was going to discover Juuno!
She could not let this happen!
With a frantic glance at her trapdoor, she beckoned, "Hey you hungry?"
"Uh," Adrien responded from above, frowning at the soft sheets, not finding any lumps when he smooth it out. He drew closer to the wall, checking the pillows and shelf above. "Kinda?" he said.
"Then let's get something to eat I'm famished," Marientte rushed out.
"But the pigeon-"
There was a giggle.
Right below him.
Adrien tenses. Then glances down.
Vixx was here.
So close, and yet, so frustratingly far.
"Come out right now," Adrien orders, crouching close to the bed.
"Adrien?" Marinette pleads from below. "Come on?"
"Ok," he forced out, glaring down at the bed. Softly he growls at it, "This is not over." And withdraws.
Marinette sighs in relief, and turns towards the trapdoor.
Vixx pops out, taking advantage of her Kit's distraction, grabbing one of the smaller pillows and throwing it at the back of his head. She then dives down on Juuno before the kwami could come out, sending them back inside the bed.
Adrien tensed when the pillow bounced uselessly off his head.
He turns, glaring at the bed.
The of course very empty bed.
When he gets his hands on her...
"You coming?" Marinette calls, pausing by the trapdoor.
"Yes!" he reassured, hurrying down and flashing her a sheepish grin. "Let's eat. Food sounds great."
Sharing awkward, tense smiles, the two humans slipped down.
Vixx popped out, snickering. "Oh I'm so good, I even impress myself," she praises. Only to yip in surprise when Juuno tackles her from behind.
"What is wrong with you?!" the blue kwami cried, struggling to keep a hold of the fox as she struggles. "You almost got us caught!"
"Yeah I don't care," Vixx stresses, breaking free and darting around the room, evading Juuno as he dives after her.
"You always got to be so selfish!" Juuno growls, cringing when he bounces against the wall.
"Oh please," Vixx mocks, pausing to meet Juuno's glare. "Like you're a completely sweet bird?"
"I'm not a childish, selfish liar!" he spits, crest raised.
"No," she agreed, "but you do withhold information. Selective in what you share." She danced away when Juuno dove at her. "I think that's just as bad as a liar."
"At least I don't go threatening a reveal when it isn't wanted!" Juuno snaps.
"My Kit wants it," Vixx states.
"My Chick doesn't!" Juuno huffs, waving his arms about.
Before Vixx could respond, they paused. There was a pound of coming feet, rushing up the steps.
Vixx dove for the bed, only to be tackled by Juuno. The two kwamis struggled, growling and clucking and growling as they shoved each other. When the trapdoor opened and a brush of golden locks started to rise out, Juuno shoved Vixx down and dove for the bed.
"Don't you move!" Adrien warned, pointing a finger at the scowling fox. Pursing her lips, she turned her violet eyes to Adrien. He continues, "You are in big trouble, Missy. Big trouble."
With a twitch of her tail, Vixx consented, dropping down with a coy smile. "Very well," she concedes. "Do your worse, Kit." Just as Adrien reaches for her, she quickly pops up, "Quick question!" Adrien pauses. Vixx asks, "We leaving now or..."
"You want macaroons or chocolate chip?" Marinette called from below.
Adrien stiffens.
Vixx smiles.
"If you take anything from here," Adrien threatens.
"I had my fun," Vixx eases. She turns upside down, cheekily reassuring, "I won't do anything."
"I don't trust you," he grumbles.
She just grins toothily.
"Adrien?" Marinette called from below, tense.
"Just checking my bag!" he hurried out, giving Vixx a strict finger point.
She gave him a salute.
Adrien crept back down and Vixx flew up.
Juuno had resettled on the shelf, and was tracing the movie back to where Vixx had interrupted him. She sat down next to the bowl, grabbing a blueberry and starting to nibble it away. "I'm mad at you," Juuno said, sitting down on the other side.
"Unsurprising," Vixx said, plopping the remaining half of the berry in her mouth. Juuno sighs, taking his own berry and starting to nibble it away. "This movie really good?" Vixx asks.
"It's cute."
She snorts. "You and your cute movies."
Juuno scoffs. "You're still impossible to watch movies with."
She shrugs, unapologetic. She kept largely quiet the remainder of the visit, watching the movie with Juuno, making comments that they snort and giggled at. When she heard Adrien approaching, she dove back into his bag. Popping out, she quickly called, "Don't be a stranger Juuni!" and dipped back in as Adrien came up. Grabbing his bag and dragging it close, he opened it slowly narrowing his eyes at the interior.
He blinked when he found Vixx lounging in his bag. "We leaving now?" she asks lightly.
"Yeah," he said slowly, glancing around the room.
"I didn't take anything," she huffs.
"Just making sure," Adrien said. It looked like nothing was out of place...
"Oh hey Kit!" Vixx voices, drawing Adrien back to her. With a grin, she said, "You should totally confess to this girl!"
Adrien slammed the lid of bag on her, scowling as she giggled.
Marinette sighed as she came up into her room, looking up to Juuno as he floated into view. She raised a brow at him, hands setting on her hips. "What was that?" she asked.
With a weak shrug, Juuno said, "An eventful day."
He floated down and dropped down on her chaise, falling asleep the instant he hit the cushion.
Marinette blinked at her kwami in surprise before shrugging it off, settling on her desk.
She'll probably find out later.
"I hope you're ready Vixx," Adrien warns.
Vixx absently hums in response, eyeing her reflection. Her tail could use some fluffing up...
Her ear twitched to the chink of a bowl. "Here!" Adrien declared.
Vixx turned to see what he had presented to her.
A bowel of sliced tomatoes.
Vixx gasped loudly, paws flying to her mouth as she stared at the bowel.
Adrien grinned smugly.
"Tomatoes?!" Vixx breathed, turning wide violet eyes to Adrien. "You're feeding me tomatoes?!"
"For a whole week," Adrien said, crossing his arms and glaring down at her. "You've been naughty."
Vixx fell to the table top, bemoaning, "Oh how will I live?!" With a big pout, the fox slowly crawled to the bowl. With a big grimace, she picked up a tomato slice, and inhaled it easily. Then she grabbed another, and another, and another, eating them away easily with no smudge of disgust. Adrien faltered.
Vixx turned to him, violet eyes laughing. "I'm a fox Kit," she said, "I'm not really picky about food."
"B-but you said you like sweets!"
"I do!" she confirmed, "Sweets are one my favorites! Sweet fruits to be exact. But I can stand eating some bitter, tarty foods. Like tomatoes." To confirm it, she popped another slice in her mouth.
Adrien stuttered and sputtered before waving his arms up in the air and stomping, leaving the amused kwami behind with the bowel.
Licking her lips, Vixx decides that today was a fun day.