Hey guys sorry it took wayyy too long. It's a pretty long chapter, so I finally added Nino and Alya's interesting story. I already got the idea for what I'm going to do for the reveal, so that will come in a couple chapters! Umm, anyway Enjoy!

Nathaniel was at the hotel that his mom (the mayor) owned. Nathaniel had to always be picture perfect in order to keep his mother's good reputation. He knew that his mom would do anything for him. His mother helped him get away with basically anything he wanted.

Except for the fact that he was fascinated by the two new superheroes running around Paris. Especially Chat Noir.

He had tried to get the superhero duo's attention multiple times. There had been new villains, but nothing that Chat Noir and Ladybug couldn't handle. Nathaniel had asked his mother to see if the police could get Ladybug and Chat Noir to come meet him, but the heroes always fled the scene too quick.

"Ugh! They have all this time to do whatever they want, but they won't meet me. They even met that stupid Nino, just because he writes a blog!" Nathaniel said to Ivan.

"Don't you always look at Cattastic Chat?"

"That is besides the point!"

Ivan did whatever Nathaniel wanted. Ivan could be intimidating to other people, and so he acted like Nathaniel's bodyguard and his personal minion. But Nathaniel always would give him things like a friend would.

"Aw man school is about to start. I have to go make Marinette love me!"
Ivan just laughed in his head. He had always seen the way that Marinette looks when he was around. She didn't really like him in that way.

"Good luck. Try giving her flowers, or chocolate!" Ivan said in attempt to cheer Nathaniel up.

"You are so stupid! She needs something much greater than just useless junk like that!"
Ivan knew that Marinette would probably like the thought that went into it.

Whenever Ivan had seen Marinette, Ivan knew that she liked people's hearts, not their looks.

And Ivan knew that Nathaniel was mean.

Yet, Ivan still encouraged Nathaniel to get Marinette to love him.

At school, Adrien ran in at the last minute before class. He saw a specific dark-haired girl look at him. Marinette smiled at him. She always thought it was funny how late he would be everyday.

Adrien's heart melted when she smiled. He smiled back and had a huge blush on his face.

Marinette turned away when Alya started talking to her again.

Nino started laughing, which returned Adrien to the real world.

"What?"
"Dude you seriously need to get a grip whenever you are around Marinette!" Nino said through his laughs.

"Shut up." Adrien said while sitting down.

"Okay, today we will be working with our partners. I have decided that you will be in groups of four. I have chosen who you will be with based on how well people act together. Sabrina, Chloe, Juleka, and Rose will be our first group. Nathaniel, Ivan, Kim, and Max will be the second group. Mylene and Alix have chosen to do one on their own and just be a two-person group. And finally, Marinette, Adrien, Nino, and Alya. You have a week to do this project! You will all do amazing I can feel it! Good luck!"
"This is not fair! I will have you know that my mother will want me with Marinette! I will call her right now!"
"Wait Nathaniel. I am sure that we can work something out!"
Marinette walked up to Nathaniel and said, "If you take me out of my group, I will not let you hang out at my interview tonight." She said in a calm voice. She wanted some time with normal people for a change.

"Okay fine. Whatever you want, love"
Marinette rolled her eyes and sat back down. Nathaniel would do anything to be with her. She didn't even think he was nice to anyone! Why would she be with someone like him!

Then Marinette realised how mad she was getting and just calmed down.

Meanwhile, Adrien thought that he was going to have a meltdown, he was going to be paired with Marinette? How would he act, what would he do?

Nino saw how crazy he was getting, and calmed him down by saying, "Dont worry! We will all be there with you."

"Okay….."

When the class went to their groups, Adrien was sure he was going to be a nervous wreck. He found that when he was Chat Noir, he could handle girls. He even liked winking at them and seeing how they would react. Mostly they would look like they were going to faint.

He couldn't act flirtatious with Marinette because of two reasons.

Nino would probably notice that he seemed like Chat Noir.

But also just because he probably wouldn't even be able to be flirty with Marinette.

So, he just would wing it when they did the project together. It also helped that Nino and Alya would be there with them.

Nino and Alya were such a cute match, at least Adrien noticed.

Nino wouldn't talk about him and Alya when he asked.

So, he just stopped asking.

In the middle of his thoughts, a loud voice yelled, "BOO"

Both boys freaked out, before they realized it was just Alya scaring them. "You. Are. Mean" Was all Nino had to say. Adrien chuckled, when he saw Marinette walking up behind her.

"Alya, you seriously are going to give someone a heart attack one of these days." Marinette said with a small smile on her face.

Her smile made Adrien's heart flutter. "Well it's normal. I mean- well"
Nino jumped in and said, "Well everyone knows how Adrien gets scared easily"
Adrien was grateful that his friend saw him struggling.

Marinette suddenly got a little sad. Why was he acting nervous? He seemed to be mad at her a couple days ago, but he acted confident. Did he not like her?

Marinette tried to just think the best and decided to think about it later.

"Well, we better get started. So, what book should we do our project on? It is a pretty open topic, so what do we want to learn about?" Marinette said in a cheery voice.

"Ugh, I almost forgot it was on a non-fictional book." Alya said, clearly not going to enjoy this project.

"Cheer up Alya, we just have to find something that you want to learn about!" Nino replied. "I want to learn about the two new superheroes in Paris!"

"There is probably no books on them, because they are so new. Even if there was, they wouldn't know what to write it on. People don't know who they are, or where they are from. It wouldn't be a long book, and they could only write about their powers based on what people could see. There has only been two akuma's." Adrien said, surprising all of them. He realised all of them were staring at them, looking very surprised. "What?"
"Dude, okay we realise that but how much thought did you put into them? Not even I have thought about it that much."
"I don't know. Your blog is a hit, so I guess I just hear about them from you." Adrien tried to cover up.

Marinette was speechless. What if he was Cha- no way. They are too different. But it still surprised her.

"Well, that is a good point, but what if they weren't the first superheroes. There has been many stories written about a Ladybug-based superhero and a Cat-based superhero written before technology or any helpful evidence. But, even if we wanted to use that, people would probably think that it was fake or people's imagination. Plus, it has to have sources to be considered a non-fiction book."
This time, everyone looked at Marinette, just staring.

Adrien was surprised. Why had she put that much thought into it? Was she Ladybu- no way. They were way too different. Marinette was calm and kind. Ladybug was a risk-taker. But Adrien was still very surprised.

"Girl, I'm speechless. Clearly you and Adrien have been spending way too much of your free time thinking about Paris' new superheroes and their history,"
Marinette just shrugged it off, and Adrien could only think 'wow'.

After school ended, everyone was glad to be out. It had been a long week, and everyone was happy for it to be Friday. Marinette went straight to her interview with Nathaniel. Nathaniel just stood behind the scenes winking at Marinette. Adrien just went home to help his parents with whatever they needed for their next photoshoot.

After the interview Marinette's mother made her go to self-defense. While at self-defense, Marinette realised that her and Chat were doing patrol that night. She asked if she could leave 20 minutes early, and made up a lie to her teacher.

Her teacher had been super impressed, even though Marinette barely tried. She couldn't risk people seeing how good her instincts have gotten thanks to a pair of earrings. But, she pretended like she didn't know much about protecting herself. Plus, the first week all they taught her was not to use these skills other than if someone is threatening you. Which got boring after a while.

But, her instructor said she could leave early if she could beat him without using one of her arms. She knew she was probably already late, and she was going to see Chat Noir. So, her instructor put his hand behind his back, and Marinette did the same.

He threw a punch at her shoulder with one arm, and she blocked it right away. She grabbed his arm, and kicked him in the side and he fell down quickly. Marinette ran out before he could say anything.

Chat Noir was on the Eiffel Tower, which was their meeting spot. It was beautiful because they could see the sun setting, and it was even more beautiful because they could see the whole city from up their. Marinette loved sunsets.

Ladybug was at the bottom of the Eiffel Tower looking up at Chat Noir. The sunset in the background made him look so hot.

She blushed a little when she thought of that, and she swung her yoyo and jumped up next to Chat.

"Sorry I'm late"
"It's fine. Are you ready?"

"Yep!"
The two superheroes swung and jumped around Paris, and suddenly, Ladybug started to make small talk with Chat Noir.

"So, what do you like to do outside of being a superhero?"
"Well, I love helping people and-"
"Well obviously" Ladybug said with a smirk.

"What is that supposed to mean?" Chat said.

"Well," Ladybug said sarcastically, "Of course a superhero loves saving people."
Chat just laughed and said, "Well sorry if my superhero instincts tell me to help people 24/7."
Both superheroes laughed and then started to play a game of tag.

Obviously, Ladybug won.

"It's not fair that you get to swing everywhere like Spiderman!"
"Nice excuse" Ladybug said with a huge grin on her face.

Both heroes laughed some more, and they ran around finishing up their patrol for the night.

"Well see you next time." Chat Noir said before jumping away.

"Looking forward to it." Marinette said quietly with a smile on her face.

When Adrien got home, he could not wipe the smile off of his face. Ladybug was an awesome partner to have. He was glad he met her. And that she was his very good friend.

When Marinette got home, she also could not wipe a smile off of her face. Chat Noir made her feel like she was not alone in this world. Her mother was distant, and even though Sam acted like an adult she could look up to, she had no one close to her. Chat Noir brought her happiness. He was amazing and she felt giddy remembering all that happened on patrol. They had goofed around so much.

"Marinette, I want cookies!"
"Tikki I can't stop thinking about him. Did you see what happened tonight?"
"Yes I saw you love-birds. Now, give me my treat"
"Ugh fine. Be that way."

The next day, Marinette was with Nathaniel and talking about the two superheroes.

"Did you hear that people are coming all over the world to meet them? That is so funny that they think they will waste their time talking to people who aren't even important."
Marinette rolled her eyes.

Meanwhile Adrien forced Nino to ask Alya out. Or at least he was trying to force him.

"Why is it a big deal anyway?"

"Ugh! Why do you keep on bugging me about it?"
"Because you are my best friend and I care about your love-life."
"Alya and I are like brother and sister. Plus, she deserves way better than me."
"Hey, don't beat yourself up! You are a great guy, and you need to show Alya that!" Adrien said.

(get ready for a memory)

When Nino first came to the school, Alya was the first person he talked to. After a couple of days, they had talked about their cultures and they had slowly become closer as friends. Eventually, Nino asked Alya out. Alya kindly said no because she wanted to know him more.

(and now back to the present)

But now, Alya wanted Nino to ask her out. She would have said yes.

Adrien said, "Well, you two need to work out whatever happened."
Nino had just realised he made it sound a lot worse than it was.

"Fine I will talk to her." Nino said, because it would shut Adrien up.
"Yes!" Adrien said, feeling happy.

Alya was sitting in the park with Marinette. She had finished the interview and got away from Nathaniel. Before she had to go to self defense again, she met up with Alya.

"Hey, so what do you think of the new superheroes?" Marinette was curious.
"Ladybug seems badass, and same goes for Chat Noir. They are the first superheroes ever! It's so cool. Especially when we live in the same city."
Marinette chuckled and she was about to say how much she liked Chat Noir, but Nino walked up to the two girls.

"Um- Hey! Alya can I talk to you?"
Alya looked at Marinette, and Marinette knew that she wanted her to leave them alone. Marinette smiled and whispered to Nino, "Good luck." Because she knew that Nino was going to ask Alya out.

"I'll talk to you later!" Marinette said, while leaving. It was Friday night and she had to go to self-defense again. She didn't know how she could talk to her teacher again, because of what she did.

"Hey Nino. What's up?"

"I wanted to know if-," He took a deep breath and started again, "I wanted to know if you would go on a date with me?"

Alya was excited. She was scared that he would never ask her again, but now she was happy.

She smiled when she said, "Of course I would!"

"Great," Nino said, "Let's go to the movies!"
"I'd love to" Alya said, still smiling.

Nino walked away and was so relieved and happy at the same time. Not many people got a second chance, so he was excited. Alya was also feeling the same way. She thought that he would never ask her again.

On Thursday, Nathaniel had finally convinced his mother to have a ceremony in honor of the two heroes. It took a while to convince her, but she was going to have a press conference and wanted to ask the superheroes to come. So, she did the press conference and asked the superheroes to come for a parade in their honor. Everyone was excited. Everyone had spent the past couple days preparing for the celebration. Now, it was one day away! Everyone was going to dress up like them, and they were going to have fun. Nathaniel was proud that he had thought of that idea. He had been wanting to meet Chat Noir and Ladybug.

Marinette had tried to convince Nathaniel not to do it, but he was stubborn.
Adrien didn't want the attention, but when him and Ladybug met up for a patrol, they talked and realised there was no way they could get out of it.

When it came time to have the parade, everyone was so excited. Nathaniel could barely wait to meet the heroes. While his mom was making a speech, the two heroes came and everyone cheered. The parade was crazy! There were so many people up and down the streets of Paris. Everyone was wearing red and black, or black and green. Ladybug didn't think that they needed this type of attention, but she liked that everyone was together celebrating. Chat Noir didn't think any of this was necessary. It was their job to protect Paris, and Adrien didn't care if they got an award, because he was just happy to help. But, both heroes knew that they gave people hope, and so they showed up at the parade.

The parade went by so fast, and Nathaniel had barely talked to the heroes, and when he tried to, they left! He was so mad! Nathaniel had gone to all the trouble to convince his mother and it was his idea! But the superheroes didn't even thank him! He couldn't believe it. But before he could say anything to his mother, a female voice appeared in his head and he couldn't resist it.

"I am Midnight Monarch. And you will be able to meet the two heroes. But you must give me their powers."
Nathaniel had wanted to stop the urge he felt to do whatever this voice said, but it was too strong.

"Okay."
"Well, all of your dreams will come true, Copycat."

Marinette and Adrien both went home exhausted. They both had excuses for their parents, so they didn't have to worry about that. But, they wanted to just go to sleep.

Both kwami's were especially tired. They had both requested a lot of food to make up for a half a day without it, and they immediately went to sleep.

Copycat was somewhere around Paris waiting for the right moment to strike. He realised it would have to wait until morning.

Adrien woke up to his parents editing photos done by the last shoot. He had energy in him, so he knew he got a lot of sleep. When he went downstairs to eat breakfast, his phone was buzzing like crazy. It was Nino calling him and texting him. He saw something about Alya. Uh Oh. What if she said no? Would Nino be mad at Adrien for trying to convince him to do it?

Adrien called Nino back, and found out that she had said yes! Adrien was proud of his friend. With a good mood, Adrien ate some cereal, and turned on the news. The headline was- CHAT NOIR-SUPERHERO OR SUPERVILLAIN?

Adrien freaked out! He ran up to his room and got on his computer to immediately figure out what they meant. He saw a video of himself robbing a bank. But he never did that! That was not him!
He lied to his parents, "I have to go meet up with Nino!"

Marinette was glad that she had gotten a lot of sleep. She woke up to Tikki yelling at her.
"Marinette! If you sleep anymore, your mom will think you are in a coma or something."
"Fine I will get up."
"Good and get me a cookie while you're at it"
Marinette rolled her eyes and smiled. She got Tikki a cookie then went over to her computer to see what was on the news.
CHAT NOIR-SUPERHERO OR SUPERVILLAIN?

"What?" Marinette said a little too loudly that it scared Tikki.

"You scared me! What is wrong?"
"Tikki, spots on!" Marinette said, while Tikki just groaned.

Chat Noir heard Ladybug jump behind him.
"Hey, what was this about you robbing a bank?"
"I don't know. That was not me! I promise." Chat Noir practically begged Ladybug not to believe what the video showed. Ladybug saw his face and needed to cheer him up immediately.

"Relax! I know that wasn't you. It might have been an akuma or something. We will figure it out!"

"Okay" Chat Noir said, happy that his partner believed him. "So how are we going to do that?"
"I don't know. We just have to wait. Until then, stay on alert. Who knows if he could detransform and find out who you are."
"Do you think he could actually do that?"
"Who knows what Midnight Monarch is capable of" Both heroes shivered of the thought about how much power Midnight Monarch actually has.

"Alright," Chat Noir said, "See ya later"
Marinette's heart fluttered at him saluting her before he jumped off the roof they were on.

She had it bad for him.

Copycat was hiding behind a corner. A butterfly mask came on his face and he was talking to Midnight Monarch again.
"You better not mess this up!"
"Relax, they will show up this time""They better"

A police officer saw him, and immediately pulled his gun at the sight of Chat Noir.
"Put your hands behind your head!" The police officer said while the gun was touching the back of his head.

"Okay" Copycat put his hands behind his head right around where the gun was at, then grabbed the gun and chucked it away from the officer. He punched the police officer and knocked him out.

"Stay on task!" Midnight Monarch yelled at him while starting to hurt him.

"Okay!" Copycat said because the pain was too much to bare. Clearly Midnight Monarch was starting to get impatient.

Copycat's next target was to finally get the hero's attention. He walked into the Musée d'Orsay and everyone was ran out, because of what they saw on the news about him turning evil. A security guard saw him, and started to run up to him. Copycat grabbed a famous painting and started running as fast as he could away from the security guard.

"Who are you?" A female voice asked him.

Copycat turned around to see Ladybug and Chat Noir.

"I'm Chat Noir" Copycat said with a wink.

Ladybug swung her yoyo around him and threw him against the wall. He was tangled up in the yoyo, when Ladybug walked up to him and put her face right in front of him.

"I'm going to ask one more time. Who. Are You?" Ladybug said loudly.

Copycat smiled and got out of the yoyo, and swung his baton at Ladybug. It hit her leg and she fell, but quickly got back up. Copycat grabbed his baton.

"Well, since you want to know so badly," Copycat said with a grin, "I'm Copycat"
"Ugh, of course your name is a pun." Ladybug said.

"Enough chit-chat" Chat Noir said while running at Copycat. He extended his baton and it hit Copycat, but he got back up and extended his own baton. Then, the two started fighting and after a while of watching, Ladybug couldn't tell who was who.

"Who is the real Chat Noir?"

"I am." both cat's said at the same time.
Ladybug growled, and jumped near them.
"Okay, whoever the real Chat Noir is, should know about our relationship."
Adrien just thought, 'what'. Then he realized what she was doing.

Copycat stood up and said, "Well of course I know about our relationship."

Ladybug went up close to him and said, "So you know what we are?" in a soft voice.

"Of course." Copycat said, leaning in to kiss her. He knew he could confuse her. But little did he know, he walked into a trap.

RIght before they kissed, Ladybug grabbed him with her yoyo and pinned him against the wall.

"We aren't together like that." 'yet' Ladybug thought. But before she knew it, Copycat got out of her yoyo and ran towards her. She quickly dodged him, and used her power. "Lucky Charm!"

A fishing rod came down that was black with red polka dots. "How am I supposed to use this?"

Then, she looked at Copycat (now fighting Chat Noir) and saw the only thing that was different between the two. Copycat had an extra pocket in his suit! That was where the akuma must be!
Ladybug could tell who Copycat was, and he threw Chat Noir across the room. Ladybug got mad and grabbed something in his extra pocket with her fishing rod. She pulled out a piece of paper. She threw it to Chat Noir before she could see what was on it.

"Cataclysm!" Chat said, while touching the paper. A black butterfly came out, and Ladybug grabbed it with her yoyo.

"Time to de-evilize!" Ladybug said when a white little butterfly flew out of her yoyo.

"Bye, bye little butterfly" She said with a smile.

She threw the fishing rod in the air and said, "Miraculous Ladybug!"

Before she knew it, her tiny ladybug's swept through the city and fixed whatever was destroyed in the attack.

Both heroes celebrated with their fist bump "Pound it!" Both said, glad to have finally defeated Copycat.

Meanwhile, Nathaniel was on the floor, questioning what happened.

"Oh my gosh! Both superheroes!" He took out his phone and took a selfie with them. Both heroes were too tired to say no. So, they signed a piece of paper for him, and then Ladybug heard her earrings beep.
"Got to go! Bug out!" She said before she swung away.

Chat Noir smiled and ran back to his own house before he de-transformed.

Adrien woke up very tired. He could see that the sun was out. He sat up then realised that he was probably very late. He ran downstairs and was about to run out of the house, before he realized that the oven clock said it was one hour before school started. His parents were watching him, amused at what he was doing.

And his parents were surprised to see him up that early.

"Hi honey, nice to see you finally waking up early" His mother said with a sarcastic tone.

"Ha. ha. Good morning to you too mom."

Adrien went back upstairs, happy that he could sleep a little more.

Then Adrien realized that he was a superhero with a kwami.

He ran up the stairs into his room and saw Plagg lying on the floor.

"Plagg? What happened?"
"I was trying to wake you up, and when you woke up, you threw me across the room." Plagg said, waking up.
"Sorry, here is some cheese"

"It's not the first time that has happened" Plagg said, remembering lots of things the previous miraculous holders have done.

Adrien went back downstairs, with Plagg in his pocket. He ate some cereal, and decided to do a quick patrol to get ready for the day.

Even though he woke up early, he was still late for school.

"Dude, when will you ever learn to come to class early?"

Adrien just sat down and they started listening to the teacher.

"Okay, so today we will still be working on our projects, the due date is next week." Mr. Damocles said.

Adrien had gotten very better at being around Marinette, with the help of Nino and Alya.

So they got into their groups, and they all picked out books they thought might be a good idea.

They all decided what book they were going to do their project on.
"I like Marinette's." Adrien said, trying to keep it cool.

"Thanks Adrien, I can't wait to do it!" Marinette said with a soft smile.

'I really can't wait to do this' Adrien thought.

Lol sorry I kinda rushed the parade part. Oh well. Review pls and get ready for the next chapter- a reverse dark cupid!

CLIFFHANGERRRRR

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