Marinette was in her suit and she was running on roof-tops, finally feeling free. She could feel the adrenaline rushing through her veins and she loved it. She was in her own world when she had the suit on. She was about to go back home until she heard a huge crash.

Adrien however was not believing he could be a superhero. He went to his roof and practiced balancing on his baton. Plagg explained mostly everything to him, so he knew how to work the suit. Only he could get the akuma out of objects (using his cataclysm), and only the girl with the ladybug earrings could cleanse the akuma. Adrien had finally gotten the hang of it, so he went toward where he heard the crash come from. He ran over roof-tops until he saw a huge fortress. It was made out of huge tree branches and leaves, and many other plants. There were people inside screaming for help. Adrien was about to run towards the fortress, until he was hit by a girl in a red and black suit.

"Oh my god. I am so sorry. I am still trying to get the hang of it."
"No problem at all. So you are my partner my kwami told me about?"

"Yes. I am- um- Ladybug! Yes. Ladybug. And you are?"
"I um am-"
His sentence was interrupted by Floroshade smacking both of them away with a thick tree branch. Luckily, both of them got back up. Ladybug threw her yoyo at Floroshade, but he flicked it away.

"Where is the akuma?" Ladybug asked.

"I don't see anything on him that could have an akuma on it. Wait! He hasn't opened his fist at all! There must be an object inside his hand that could have the akuma in it!"
"Good idea! Do you know how we could get it?"
"I have an idea." Adrien said.

Ladybug was about to ask what he meant when he disappeared.

"Looks like someone was a scaredy-cat!" Floroshade laughed.

Ladybug didn't know what her partner was doing, so she was distracting Floroshade.

Adrien knew that Floroshade had to be Kim. The only thing that would make him mad like that would be about Chloe. Kim had a huge crush on Chloe. Ivan was probably making fun of Kim because of how much he liked Chloe.

He knew he needed Chloe's help.
Adrien ran toward Chloe's house. She was the daughter of the school janitor.

When he got to her house, Chloe also knew that Floroshade was Kim. "How can I help?" Chloe asked.

Ladybug was running toward Floroshade. He was trying to grab and trip her with branches and thorns. She was about to hit him, when she felt a tree growing out of the ground and wrapping around her feet, and went up her body. Soon, she was wrapped fully in tree branches.
Midnight Monarch said to Floroshade, "Grab her earrings!"

Floroshade walked up to Ladybug and touched her earrings, but Adrien smacked him out of the way before Floroshade could grab them.

"Thanks. What was your plan?"
"Her" Adrien said, while pointing to Chloe.

Adrien went up to Chloe and grabbed her and put a blindfold on her.

"I don't think it would be a good idea for a superhero to kidnap someone." Ladybug said sarcastically.
"Well obviously! Don't worry she-"
Chloe interrupted with the blindfold still on, "He told me what to do. I just want him to return to normal."
"Aww! You guys are made for each other" Ladybug couldn't help herself.

Floroshade got up, still a little weak from Adrien's hit. Then, he saw that they had Chloe.

"Let go of her NOW!"
"Not until you give us whatever is in your hand."
"Never!" Floroshade said while running toward them. He looked significantly angrier than before. Floroshade was about to shove both heroes down, but they jumped out of the way first. Then, Floroshade grabbed Chloe.

"What was your plan exactly?" Ladybug said, not knowing what to do now.

"You said it yourself, 'they were made for each other'"
"Well that doesn't mean that we should give her to a supervillain."
"Well now it's your turn." Adrien grabbed Ladybug and threw her toward Floroshade. Floroshade grabbed her in the hand that held the akuma, and he dropped it.

"Oh so that was your plan!"

"Yep." Adrien said. He grabbed a crumpled up piece of paper. Then tore it. A butterfly came out of the paper.
In her lair, Midnight Monarch was about to enjoy what was coming next.

The next day, Marinette woke up with the sun shining bright in her eyes. That was wierd because she always kept the blinds closed, so she could wake up naturally. Marinette turned over in her bed and Tikki popped out of nowhere.
Marinette almost screamed, but she stopped herself.

"Tikki you almost gave me a heart attack."
"Sorry. But I am so drained from last night. I need food."
"What do you need to eat?"
"Chocolate chip cookies."

"But my mom doesn't like me eating too much sugar."
"Well, find a way! I'm hungry."
"Not now. I'm going back to bed."
"Noooo I want cookies!"
"Ugh fine."

Adrien was at home with his parents eating breakfast before school started. His mom gave him french toast with extra powdered sugar. The TV came on with the mayor speaking. Adrien could see Nathaniel standing in the background looking at the camera's like they were pointed at him.

Adrien's mother said, "Wow. Now there are such things as supervillains and powers."

"Yes. It is very surprising. But Floroshade is just one of our friend's being controlled."
"It's a very crazy world out there."
"Yep." Adrien said while looking sad.

"Hey. It's okay to be scared. We have new superheroes and they will protect you. We have nothing to be afraid of."
"You're right. Oh my gosh! I'm so late! Bye mom!" Adrien said while kissing his mom on the cheek and running out the door.

Marinette was on her way to a photoshoot that had surprisingly came up out of nowhere on her schedule. That usually never happened. Everything was always perfectly planned for her. Marinette and Sam were driving to the photoshoot, when her mom called her. The limo was parked in front of the school.
"What are we doing here?" Marinette said through the phone.

"Sam convinced me to allow you to go to school. But you must still sing songs, do photoshoots, take Spanish, and I have signed you up for self-defense, just to be safe."
"Oh my god! Thank you so much mother! I won't let you down."
"I am counting on it. Sam will give you your schedule when you wake up everyday."
"Thank you guys!"
And with that, Marinette ran into her new school.

The school didn't have a lot of kids, so Marinette got to her class pretty fast. Nathaniel was right at the door talking with his friend Ivan.

"Marinette! Finally you could make it! I have a seat for you right next to me!"
"Thanks Nathaniel."
Marinette didn't really like how Nathaniel was mean to everyone else. For all she knew, he probably kicked a kid out of their desk so she could sit there. But, Nathaniel was Marinette's only friend. They met when they were young, and when Marinette had just started singing.

Nathaniel went up to a seat that was on the other row of chairs and Marinette saw him put gum on his desk.

"What are you doing Nathaniel?"
"This is what we do at school. Man, you have a lot to learn."
Marinette ran up to the seat and tried picking it off, when a boy came in the class.
"What are you doing?" Adrien said while running up to her.

Adrien saw who it was. It was Marinette. Adrien didn't care because he realized she was putting gum on his seat.

"Sorry, I was just tryin-"
"You are Nathaniel's friend right? I bet he put you up to this."
"No, I-um."
Adrien just put a piece of tissue on it and sat down next to it. Adrien was sitting next to Nino.

"Wow. I thought she was nice, because I have seen some of her interviews. Guess I was wrong."

"Yes. me too." Adrien said.

While Mr. Damocles was teaching a lesson, the TV in the classroom turned on. They saw a bunch of people just turning into trees. There were people in the middle of the street who just randomly turned into a huge beast that looked like it was made out of stone, with moss in some places. All the highschoolers freaked out. Mr. Damocles let them go home early.

Marinette was running, but not to her house. She ran through the park, looking for a place to transform.
Tikki popped out of her bag and said, "You know, if you can get out of school early, then I hope there is more akuma attacks."
"No way! It is serious, the akuma could hurt people"
"Whatever. I just want a cookie before you transform!"
"There is no time for that! Tikki, spots on!"
Tikki just groaned before she was absorbed into the earrings.

Adrien however, ran out of the school and Plagg popped out of his bag.

"I thought we defeated the akuma?" said Adrien.
"Did you get the akuma out and cleanse it?"
"Oh no. I told you I wouldn't be good at this! Someone else deserves to have the ring!"
He took off his ring and Plagg disappeared.

Ladybug was watching people on the street turn into Floroshade's army. She knew she couldn't do much. Her powers could cleanse, but only after she used her lucky charm. So, she went to find Floroshade in an attempt to stop him. She was wondering where her new partner was.

Adrien was at home with his parents watching the news, until he heard a crash from outside. His parents went to see if everyone was okay. There was lots of rubble, and there were a couple people running to get to safety. Just like Adrien, his parents felt the need to help. So, they ran to help the scared people, until his parents turned into Floroshade's army.
Adrien screamed, then he knew what he had to do. He couldn't let this happen. So, he put his ring back on and said, "Plagg, I need to help my parents!"
"I knew you could do it kid!"
"Plagg, claws out!"

Ladybug was running over rooftops, toward the dungeon that Floroshade had made. It was the most likely place that he would be. She was running until her partner came to her side.

"Where have you been?"

"Sorry, I was busy helping another part of Paris." Adrien thought of his parents.
"Okay. We need a plan of attack. We can't just run in there and hope for the best."
"Well, do we have any clue of what his weakness could be?"
"Weakness?" Ladybug asked, "What weakness?"
"Most akuma's have a weakness!" Adrien said, "Didn't your kwami explain any of this to you?"
"Sorry, my kwami is really lazy."
"Well, I have to capture the akuma and you have to cleanse it."
"Okay. Do plants have a weakness?"

"No. But maybe Floroshade does."
"We know that he has a soft spot for Chloe. But, we can't put her in harm's way again."
"Well, then we fight. Use your lucky charm and see what could help us."

"Good idea. Lucky charm!"

A bucket of fertilizer came down. "How could this be useful? Doesn't fertilizer help plants?"

"I don't know. Wait," Adrien had an idea,"Look how close he is to the water when he uses his powers for a while."
"He must need to give his plants water! Nice idea. Yet, how do we use the fertilizer?"
"It is ammonium nitrate!"
"Oh. Wait! That lowers PH levels!"
"Yes," Adrien said while forming a plan in his head, "It will make the water too thick. He won't be able to grow plants"

Floroshade was making people come to his dungeon. He was using his new army to find Chloe. Floroshade had found her parents, but not her. Midnight Monarch kept on reminding him what was at stake.
"Stop Floroshade! You're hurting innocent people! This is not what Chloe would want!"
"You could say he is hurting pedes-tree-ans" Ladybug said.

Her partner just chuckled in his head, but his thoughts were cut short by a tree branch coming at his very fast.

"Don't talk about Chloe!" Floroshade shouted while running toward Adrien.

Adrien quickly dodged him and ran towards the dungeon.

Meanwhile, Ladybug ran toward the lake behind his dungeon and poured all the fertilizer in it.

After the bucket was empty, Ladybug ran back to fight Floroshade. She loved this new feeling of freedom, and she knew she could use it to help people. Just the thought of it made her smile.
Adrien ran toward Floroshade and had the main goal of taking the note out of his hand. He needed to grab it again.

Ladybug showed up and Adrien said, "We don't have a third thing."
"Yes we do! Midnight Monarch wants the miraculous' more than anything. So, just appeal to Midnight Monarch and not Floroshade!"

Marinette just thought, 'wow'. She was very impressed.

Another branch came out and almost hit both of the heroes, until the branch just dropped to the ground. Floroshade just looked at the plants wondering why he couldn't grow them. He knew he needed to get back to the water. But, both heroes were running at him. Floroshade had to fight with out the plants helping him.

Adrien ran toward Floroshade and he grabbed Adrien immediately.

Floroshade could hear Midnight Monarch say, "GRAB THE RING".

Floroshade didn't know what to do. He was about to set him down, until he started to feel pain. It was like a terrible headache.

"GET ME HIS MIRACULOUS! NOW!"
Floroshade couldn't resist the pain, so he dropped the note and was about to take Adrien's ring away, until he said, "Thanks for that! And give a special thanks to Midnight Monarch!"
Adrien extended his baton and got out of Floroshade's grip.

Ladybug ran and grabbed the note and threw it to Adrien.
"Cataclysm!" He yelled.

A little purple butterfly flew out of the paper, and Ladybug yelled, "Time to de-evilize!"
She threw her yoyo out and it opened up and grabbed the akuma.
A white butterfly came out and Ladybug said in a soft voice, "Bye-bye little butterfly!"
"Miraculous Ladybug!" Ladybug said while throwing the fertilizer out into the sky.

Adrien knew he had to go home and see if Ladybug's power helped his parents, so he ran away.

Marinette thought out loud, "Wow. That was impressive."
Marinette was really impressed. He was very smart. And those green eyes. And that blonde hair.
Marinette was smitten with him.

Adrien ran towards his house, with his ring beeping. Before he could get back into his home, a high-schooler ran up to him, it was Nino. He was recording him.

"Woah. Who are you? How did you get your powers? I have so many questions."
"I am-um- Chat Noir."
Adrien had to think quickly, but he thought it was a cool name.

"Cool. So di-"
Chat Noir was already gone.

He got on his balcony and de-transformed. He ran in his house and saw his parents looking worried.
"Oh thank goodness you are still here."
Adrien ran up to his father and mother and they all shared a hug. He was lucky to have them.

Marinette however, ran home and her mom was looking for her. She went to her front gate and Sam let her in. Her mother was there and she didn't look mad. She actually looked worried.
Marinette knew it was probably because she missed an interview.

But before she knew it, her mom was hugging her. Her mom saw her earrings and said, "Those are new. I didn't know you wore earrings outside of photoshoots."
Suddenly Marinette took a step away from her mother. She glanced away and said, "There are a lot of things you don't know about me."

Marinette ran up to her room and looked on her computer. She saw a new blog posted by Nino.

She thought it was nice now that she knew people her own age who weren't rich or famous.

Marinette looked on the computer and she watched Nino's video.

Tikki popped out and said, "WOW I am exhausted. I want a cookie!"
"Okay in a minute."

Marinette pressed play. She watched it then leaned back in her chair looking at the paused video of Chat Noir.

"Chat Noir. His name is Chat Noir." Marinette said dreamily.

"Wow it's a miracle. I just want to go to sleep."

The next day at school was hard for the two heroes. Marinette had barely gotten any sleep, thinking about her little crush on Chat Noir. Adrien was thinking about his new life. How could he keep this from everyone? His best friend was now dedicated to figuring out Chat Noir. Plagg encouraged him that it would all work out in the end. His mind also drifted to Marinette that night. Why had she been so mean to him? Did she not like him? She didn't even know him! He was really confused. Adrien was late to school, and he was tired. He knew it was going to be a long day. It had also started to rain, which made him feel even more tired.

At the end of the day, he went outside, and he was about to run home, until he heard Marinette scream at him through the window of her limo.

"Come here!"
Adrien just looked at Plagg in his coat, and Plagg had a worried look on his face, like she might bully him. But, when he got closer to the limo, his expression got happier like he remembered something funny. Adrien thought 'why not?'

He got in the Limo and Marinette said, "I am so sorry. Nathaniel and I met when I just got famous and he was my only friend in Paris. It got annoying when he was super mean to everyone else, and I don't like him that much. But he is my only friend in Paris right now other than Alya, who I have known for a while, and I was trying to remove it off of your seat when I saw what he had done. I am so sorry, this is all just new to me."
Adrien was speechless. He never knew that Marinette was friends with Alya, but he hadn't met her yet. He suddenly felt bad for her. He looked in her eyes. They were beautiful bluebelle eyes. He was about to say something when he got super nervous, he couldn't get the words out of his mouth, and Marinette looked out the window and turned back to Adrien.

"Well. Looks like we are at your house. I guess I will see you at school tomorrow!"
"Um- Yes! S-see ya later!"
Marinette just chuckled as he stepped out of her Limo.
Tikki popped out and said, "Wow! Looks like you got a boyfriend!"
"No. He's just a friend. Wow. I can now say that I have friends." Marinette smiled.

Adrien ran into the photography studio and he walked up to his parents and gave them a big hug. He didn't know what would happen next. Now that he knew that she didn't mean to be mean to him, his crush on her came back. Now, he could barely say a sentence to her without stuttering, and when thought of her, a smile came to his face.

Marinette saw from her limo how Adrien and his family were. They were so close. Her mom had barely shown her any affection (except when she hugged her). Her mom had become despondent ever since her father disappeared without a trace. Marinette didn't even know what happened to him. One day, he was just gone. As Marinette drove up to her mansion, the big gates opened, and Marinette walked into her house. Marinette's mother saw her and told her, "You are going to release your new album soon, and I have planned a concert and a release party."
Marinette had worked very hard on her new album, and she was excited, but she ran up to her room and watched Nino's video again about Chat Noir. She blushed a little and then the news came up with a new problem. Another akuma attack.

"Tikki, spots on!"
Meanwhile in another home in Paris, a boy saw the same news story.

"Plagg, claws out!"

You guys are amazing! I never thought that I would get many views at all on this story! I will probably be posting every week. If I can't, I am sorry. But a little side note- Chloe and Mylene switched places :).

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