Hello again, everyone!
I hope you enjoyed the third chapter!
Seeing her reflection in the Seine water, Aisha gasped and loved her hi-low dark paisley patterned gown with dark leggings, lace long sleeves, and low-inch block heels. The extraordinary collar neckline feathers coming out from her longish neck and gold accessories.
She saw a small crowd and pointed her charm bracelet at them. A small yellow sparkly ball came out and hit them, and their eyes went pitch black, and turned to Aisha.
"How can we serve you, Your Royal Highness?" they said in droned unison, curtsying at her.
Aisha gasped and smirked. "Ooh, this is going to be fun."
She kept on zapping people with her blaster, and more and more people obeyed her every order and command.
Marinette and Adrien—in separate rooms of the houseboat, stared at their phones when they both received the Megakuma alert.
"Don't be amused; it's just the news," Nadja said her famous catchphrase. "A supervillainess by the name of Princess Lalla Halina is causing chaos in Paris."
The two gasped. It was Aisha that Shadow Moth evilized this time, and there was video footage of her blasting innocent civilians with her charm bracelet blaster and turning them into her obedient minions, forcing them to spread her message around Paris.
"I AM PRINCESS LALLA HALINA!" Aisha roared. "SEE ME! HEAR ME! AND I KNOW YOU ALL WILL VERY SOON…"
"Aisha…" Marinette turned off her phone; she knew it was now or never to transform. "We gotta help her! Tikki! Spots on!"
Adrien slipped his phone as Plagg came out of his open white shirt. "Plagg, we have to transform!"
"Okay," Plagg groaned. "But she better make it up to us by bringing us some Camembert and some cheese from her homeland when this is all over."
"Plagg! Claws out!"
Ladybug and Cat Noir met up. "Bonjour, milady…" Cat Noir flirted, making Ladybug roll her eyes a bit.
"Lovely seeing you again, Little Kitty…" Ladybug replied before hearing some crashes nearby. "Hang on, Aisha…"
Cat Noir's eyes widened and he did a double take. "Aisha?"
Ladybug tried to choose her words carefully. "Uh, Marinette filled me in on her—Aisha is a princess from the African country of Nikenobia. She wants to help take charge and make changes, but she's not allowed to do that in her home country; she's even in an arranged marriage."
Cat Noir looked away, reflecting on his time with her in Nikenobia.
"There are certain things I can't do because of…traditions and customs that come with being in…my position in the royal family. Sometimes I'm expected to be seen and not heard unless spoken to. Or neither seen nor heard. Not be allowed to give my opinions. Do this-do that. Don't-do-this or don't-do-that. And so much more, and it's just so tiring. I'm even betrothed into an arranged marriage to the Crown Prince Adofo."
"I'm sorry to hear that."
"But one day, someway, somehow, I'm going to make those changes for myself. The better for this country. This world. You just have to keep on going. And keep on believing that it will get better."
"We have to bring her back to her senses," Ladybug replied.
Cat Noir was more than ready. "Right!"
Princess Lalla Halina has dozens of hypnotized minions walking behind her, making her known to Paris with poster signs via streaming. Her message is always the same: 'HEAR ME! SEE ME!"
"Ah," she started savoring every moment of this. "I love being in control."
Ladybug and Cat Noir appeared a few feet away from her and her army. "Ladybug and Cat Noir. Such a pleasure to meet you two."
"Well, then…" Ladybug swung in by her magical yo-yo. "Get ready for your big coup, Your Royal Meanness…"
"It's about time you passed the crown," Cat Noir retorted. "Preferably to either Ladybug or myself. I would make a purrfet leader."
A purple mask appeared in front of Aisha's face again. "Princess Lalla Halina, don't let these two stop you from being seen and heard but don't forget about their Miraculouses."
"But, of course, Shadow Moth," said Princess Lalla before the mask disappeared. "Either you are with me or against me, Ladybug and Cat Noir. Unless, of course, you give me your Miraculouses."
Ladybug tapped under her chin. "Let me think long and hard about that…mmm…nope!"
Cat Noir raised his hand. "I second that. It's time for you to be stopped."
"YOU'RE NOT GOING TO STOP ME FROM BEING SEEN AND HEARD!" Princess Lalla Halina growled and ordered her minions, "GET THEM!"
The spellbound followers charged toward the two heroes. Still, Ladybug and Cat Noir were proven to be faster and they managed to dodge them.
After Ladybug avoided a few, Princess Lalla Halina attacked her.
"Whoa-whoa-whoa! Ah!" Ladybug dodged some of her swings.
"What's the matter, Ladybug? You didn't think a princess of my status would be able to defend herself?" she threw a couple of hard punches at her and gave Ladybug a powerful kick that had her flying toward a brick building roof.
"Ladybug!" Cat Noir cried and shot daggers at Princess Lalla Halina, who responded with a sarcastic oops smirk. Snarling his teeth, Cat Noir pulled out his extended staff and stormed towards her. "You are so gonna pay for that…"
"Oh?" Princess Lalla Halina yawned, swiftly avoiding his staff attacks.
"You really are good…and strong…" Cat Noir felt her tight grips.
"I'm quite the martial artist…" Princess Lalla Halina smirked and gave him a powerful kick that had him flying in the same direction she jerked Ladybug.
Shadow Moth spoke to Princess Lalla Halina. "Very good, Your Royal Highness. Impressive. If you keep this up, they'll be too weak to fight you, and you can steal their Miraculous."
Princess Lalla Halina snickered sinisterly.
Ladybug and Cat Noir groaned from the pain inflicted on them by Princess Lalla Halina.
"Are you okay, milady?" Cat Noir helped her up to her feet again.
Ladybug gave him a thumb's up while stretching her back. "Never been better."
Out of nowhere, Princess Lalla Halina flew up on the rooftop. 'Want me to kick it up a notch again?"
"Oh, so you have jokes now, huh?" Cat Noir snarked; he and Ladybug got into a fighting stance.
"Who says a princess can't have a sense of humor?" Princess Lalla Halina sneered. "I'll give you another chance to give me your Miraculouses, and maybe I'll stop all this madness…"
"You wish!"
"Never!"
Princess Lalla Halina grimaced her face. "Have it your way…"
Ladybug and Cat Noir charged toward the akumaized villainess, but she kept dodging their every move, every punch, every kick; she even kicked Cat Noir away to a different rooftop.
"It would be so much easier for you to give me your Miraculous," said Princess Lalla Halina. "There's so much you can do with it," she looked Ladybug in the eye when she said that.
"Never…"
Ladybug broke free from her grip, and even when she threw her yo-yo at her, the Princess Lalla evaded that—she even managed to grab ahold of it and used it to swing Ladybug far to another rooftop.
Cat Noir wasn't ready to give up and came back itching for another fight, but Princess Lalla Halina eluded his strikes and kicked him against where Ladybug was, landing on top of her.
"That'll teach you two to stay in your places and out of my way," Princess Lalla Halina snapped before spreading her message.
A/N: Again, let me know what you think of the story...
