08/29/23
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At the kingdom, King Gabriel wasn't in the mood for kelp to eat since Adrien had disappeared. Sooner or later, he would have his nephew take the throne someday since he's the only descendant left.
"Are you sure you didn't find him?" Nathalie asked Felix.
"I'm sure. I looked everywhere" Felix lied, not wanting to tell them where Adrien was.
"Sire!" The mermen teens came with a sleeping Nathaniel who could not wake up this morning.
"Nathaniel won't wake up! We found him like this at the coral reef!" Marc said, caring about him too much.
"Wake him up again!" Gabriel not being helpful.
"We tried! Nothing seems to wake him up" Marc said.
"What happened to him?" Felix asked, noticing that Nathaniel was breathing but still asleep.
"We don't know. The kiss mark won't come off" Marc said.
"There's something funny going on here" Felix got suspicious.
He swims out of the throne to go and find Adrien up on the surface.
"Felix?!" Max called.
"Where is he going?" Marc asked.
x
At the land kingdom, Plagg heard the news from the staff and went to go and wake Adrien up.
"Adrien! Wake up!" Plagg shouted.
Adrien woke up hearing Plagg shout, too tired to argue at why so early in the morning.
"You're not gonna believe me but the princess found her angel," Plagg said.
Adrien raised a brow at what he meant.
"Come quick!" Plagg tossed Adrien his shirt, "Hurry up!
Adrien did not have time to put on his shoes, he was gonna have to go bare feet this time. He rushed out the door and headed downstairs.
When he came down he saw Marinette and her parents with the mystery boy, "Nathaniel?" Adrien recognized the boy's features.
"I guess I was mistaken, You found your mystery boy," Queen Sabine said.
"Yes, like a surprise, Marinette," Tom said.
"We wish to be married soon by sunset," Marinette said in a monotone and this broke Adrien's heart.
There was no way she would say that to the stranger she just barely met. Tikki gestures to Plagg to come quietly to talk in private.
"Now? But Marinette, you just met him" Sabine said.
"He saved my life, so I owe him," Marinette said.
Adrien hides behind the pillar, feeling very heartbroken. There was no way Marinette could be a two-timer. She's way too kind, innocent, and compassionate. And Nathaniel doesn't even know much about the surface world. He would never do that. Adrien knows that Nathaniel has always been with Marc all the time.
He ran outside in sadness and the kwamis followed him. Cerise in Nathaniel disguise saw him and she smirked that the merman boy was heartbroken and had no chance of getting that kiss.
"Adrien! Adrien, wait!" Plagg followed him but Adrien was just too heartbroken to listen.
He came to the dock near the shore to be alone, sobbing in heartache that this was the last day he'd lose his human form and be back in the waters, alone and unloved.
"Oh, no. He's heartbroken" Tikki said.
"Why didn't you tell me that your owner is a two-timer?!" Plagg yelling in Tikki's face.
"She's not! I swear, she did not have a second boyfriend! She just met him last night and she was acting weird all morning" Tikki explained.
"I don't like this, Tikki! We both saw your bug and my kitten bonding yesterday. Which was romantic" Plagg said.
Felix came to the surface and found his cousin sobbing like he had his heart broken very badly.
"Adrien?" He swam up to him.
Adrien perks and sees his cousin, but does not feel like wondering why he's here. He can't speak to explain. He sighs and looks away, watching the sun that will be hours until it sets and he'll turn back to a merman.
"What happened?" Felix asked.
Adrien shrugs helplessly, not in the mood.
"He can't speak, you fool! He traded his voice to the sea witch and got human legs!" Plagg said.
"What the? Wait, what?! Adrien, what the hell were you thinking?!" Felix asked but realized that he was making his cousin very vulnerable.
Adrien sees the boat and wedding music playing as it goes to the ocean, hearing people celebrating the wedding. Unable to sing without his voice, he sings in his head.
Risking it all only to fall
Back where I started
Back near the shore, back to before
You took my hand
Betcha on land they understand
And they don't strand you, brokenhearted
What did I give to live where you are?
Where do I go with nowhere to turn to?
He took out the black and white photo of her and him the day they hung out, he tossed it in the water. Felix grabbed it and looked at it, realizing that his cousin got heartbroken.
"Oh, no. He loves her by his heart" Felix said.
"We have to stop the wedding somehow," Plagg said.
"We can't. Marinette made her choice" Tikki said.
"Then I'll give her something for hurting my kitten!" Plagg flees to the boat.
"Plagg! Don't be stupid!" Tikki groans in frustration that he's stubborn.
Plagg thought of something to teach that princess a lesson or two but when he heard that familiar siren voice, he thought it was Adrien.
"Adrien?" Plagg follows the voice and cane to an open window boat and the voice grows louder, spotting the glowing seashell necklace and the man putting it on.
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah
La-da-da, la-da-di, la-da-da, la-da-da
La-da-di, la-da-da, la-da-da-da-da
La-da-di, la-da-da, la-da-da
The fake Nathaniel syncs Adrien's voice into his, dancing around like a girl and it weirded Plagg that this man is strange. He's seen men dance but never would this man sing or dance like a girl. The fake Nathaniel smashed the little handheld mirror against the chase, making Plagg gulp hard.
What a lovely little groom I'll make
My dear, I'll look divine
Things are working out according to my ultimate design
Soon I'll have that little merman
And the ocean will be mine
But then Plagg saw the reflection change into that of Cerise as she cackled evilly.
"Oh no, the sea witch! I gotta warn Adrien" Plagg gasps and flies to go find his owner.
Felix tried to reason with his cousin to go and try again, but Adrien was simply too depressed to do anything other than wait until he's turned back into a merman and go home.
"You cannot give up so easily. There has to be a misunderstanding" Felix said.
"There you are! I've been looking. I saw him, but it wasn't you! It was her! It wasn't in the mirror! She has your voice!" Plagg tried to explain to them but had no success as they didn't catch up.
"What are you talking about?" Tikki asked.
"DON'T YOU GET WHAT I'M TELLING YOU ALL?!" Plagg yelled.
Adrien shook his head no and didn't know what Plagg was panicking about.
"The Princess has been tricked! It's not Nathaniel! That man showed up is the sea witch in fake Nathaniel disguise!" Plagg explained.
"Fake Nathaniel? Sea witch?" Felix gasped as he realized it was Cerise who put the real Nathaniel to sleep so she could take his body form as her disguise. Now it makes sense why Nathaniel was put to sleep because of that sea witch.
"What are we gonna do?" Tikki asked.
Adrien then got determined to stop Cerise before it was too late. The sun was halfway setting soon. He jumps into the waters.
"Kid, you won't be able to swim fast enough in time!" Plagg said.
Tikki bites on the ropes to release the barrels in the water, "Grab on to that!"
Adrien got an idea and outs the loop rope around Felix's waist
"What are you…Oh," He realized what this is for but got splashed by Adrien, telling him to move right now while he hung on the barrel for support, "Not easy without your tail fins, huh? That's why I always think humans are slow" Felix swims and dives repeatedly to help get Adrien to the boat.
"They still won't make it in time!" Plagg said.
"No, but we gotta stall the wedding now! Follow me!" Tikki said.
"Stall the wedding? Ah yes!" Plagg got an idea and flew to the lagoon area to attract the animals with his screams.
Tikki did the same too and the animals were growing into an army.
"Let's move it now!" Plagg said.
"We got an emergency!" Tikki said.
x
On the ship, the bewitched Marinette and the disguised Cerise were walking to the aisle and Ming Yue growled lowly at the disguised Cerise which she heard and received a kick in the face, making the panther yowl. Cerise smirked seeing the sun going down as they reached the altar.
"We are gonna make it! We are almost there, Adrien!" Felix swims faster with Adrien holding onto the barrel for support.
As the priest started to read, Tikki and Plagg sent several birds at Cerise, almost tripping her and tackling her many times. Sea lions launched themselves onboard, scaring the guests. Some dolphins managed to spray water at Cerise during the chaos as more birds attacked her. One crab even pinched her on the nose and starfishes latch themselves onto her.
"Get off me, you slimy creatures!" She tossed them off.
The sea lions tossed her towards the wedding cake.
The twin cousins made it to the ship, Adrien gestured to Felix to go get his father that he must know about this.
"Warn your father?" Felix guessed since he didn't know what his cousin was gesturing without his voice.
Adrien nodded and Felix understood, "Got it" Felix dived into the waters and Adrien climbed up.
Everyone at the wedding was too startled by the animals going crazy and why they were attacking the groom. Plagg flies at Cerise to get the seashell necklace off of her but Cerise swats him away.
Adrien runs towards her and tackles the disguised Cerise, the two rolling on the floor wrestling.
"What are you doing?! Get off me you blond brat!" Cerise shouted.
"Adrien! Get off of him!" Marinette tried to intervene but was pulled by Alya and Nino.
"Girl, this isn't you!" Alya pulled her.
"Get off!" Marinette struggled aggressively.
"Calm down!" Nino said.
But Adrien managed to snatch the necklace and kicked her back.
Some tried to help Cerise off but she shouted, "GET OFF ME!"
Adrien smashed the shell and his voice glowing orb vocalized, making everyone stop. It broke the trance spell from Marinette's eyes before questioning what was going on. The orb continues to vocalize as it floats towards Adrien, having his mouth open wide and swallowing it, finally gasping with the sounds of his voice, putting his hands on his neck.
"Adrien?" Marinette said.
"Marinette" Adrien spoke with a smile before Ming-Yue purred on his legs, showing Marinette that this is the boy.
"You can talk" Marinette approached him, "It was you all along. I should've known" Marinette held his hands.
"Adrien! Get away from her!" Cerise said but gasped that she was talking with her own voice in disguise, no longer having Adrien's voice anymore.
"You're an imposter, Cerise!" Adrien yelled.
"Adrien, what's going on?" Marinette startled.
"Marinette, I….I wanted to tell you that…" Adrien was gonna kiss her and she also leaned in too.
"Adrien no!" Cerise yelled.
But it was too late as the sun set down on the horizon, Adrien gasped and could not feel his feet when he felt his fin tail come back, making him nearly fall but Marinette helped him up.
Everyone gasped at his fishtail swaying up and down.
"HAHAHAHA! You're too late!" Cerise laughed and transformed into her own true form as a mermaid.
Everyone gasped that the groom was a woman in disguise. Never thought that she would go too far with bewitching the princess. She grabbed a small live octopus and ate it savagely, transforming her tail into tentacles, and swatting everyone out of the way.
"Stay back!" Marinette blocks her way.
"Shut up!" Cerise smacks her aside and goes to Adrien.
"Come! It is time!" Cerise grabs Adrien with her new tentacles and dives into the waters with him.
"ADRIEN!" Marinette looks over the deck, "No! Argh! No way I'm letting her take you! Tikki, spots on!" She transformed into Ladybug, "You saved my life, now it's my turn to save yours"
x
"LET GO!" Adrien struggled.
"Not a chance! 3 days and no kiss! That was the deal!" Cerise said.
"We had a deal! You broke the rules! You went against the deal!" Adrien struggled to get her off.
"The deal's off!" Cerise cackled.
"CERISE!" King Gabriel got in front of her.
"Let him go!" He said with the trident glowing.
"Forget it, your majesty! He belongs to me now!" Cerise said.
Gabriel fires an energy wave from the trident but it gets blocked by an energy shield, making Cerise laugh.
"You see, we made a deal, in blood is unbreakable even for you" Cerise strokes Adrien's cut scale that was bleeding.
"I'm sorry father, this is all my fault," Adrien said.
"What do you want with my son?" Gabriel asked.
"Oh, nothing. It's you I want! I want to see you suffer like I have suffered for 3 bloody years! And the son of the great sea king is a very precious commodity for the unfortunate soul" Cerise said.
Adrien made his escape but the eels grabbed him, "AGH!"
Gabriel tries to save Adrien but Cerise stops him.
"Ah ah ah, I wouldn't," She said while the eels tortured Adrien.
"AGGHH!" He screamed.
"Shocking isn't it? Because I always was a gal with an eye for a bargain. What do you say for a trade? Hmmm? What is precious little Adrien worth to you?" Cerise then proposed a trade.
Gabriel looks at his trident and then at Adrien, knowing he needs to save him. So he tossed the trident to Cerise, which she caught with one of her tentacles.
Cerise then laughed loudly, "HAHAHAHA! It's mine now"
The eels let go of Adrien and instead grabbed Gabriel as Cerise kept laughing maniacally.
"Father! NO!" Adrien saw them electrocute him to death before dissolving into nothing.
Cerise then puts on Gabriel's crown on her head. Adrien screamed in grief for losing another parent again and he grew angry at Cerise.
"YOU MONSTER!" Adrien yelled in anger and tried to attack her but got swatted aside by a tentacle.
"Don't fool with me you brat! Deal or not I'll…AGH!" Cerise got cut on the arm by Ladybug's lucky charm harpoon, "Why that fool!" Cerise pinned Adrien down with her tentacles.
Plagg found Adrien being pinned by the sea witch and had to help him.
"Marinette! Look out!" Adrien screamed.
"After her!" Cerise ordered her eels.
Ladybug was swimming up to the boat but got pulled down by the eels.
Adrien had to help her now, "Plagg, claws out!" He transformed into Cat Noir clawed Cerise's tentacle off him and pushed her aside when the trident blast hit the eels instead of Ladybug.
"My babies! GRRRR!" Cerise gasps at killing her eels but then turns to the two heroes in pure rage. She grasps the trident tight to grow in size.
Cat Noir remerges to the surface, "Marinette!" He calls out to her and swim towards each other, "Milady, get to shore or she'll kill you!" Cat Noir said.
"I won't leave you!" Ladybug held his hand.
They felt something rumbling underneath as Cerise emerged as a giant from the water, "HAHAHAHAHAHA YES!"
Both were on top of her crown, steadying their balance.
"Give me your hand!" Ladybug reached out.
"NOW!" They jump off the giant Cerise, splashing in the water, and swim back up the surface.
"LOOK OUT!" They dodged one of her tentacles.
"NOW I RULE THE SEAS! ALL UNDER MY POWER!" Cerise bellowed.
With the trident she summons lightning and the waves kept growing bigger. They apparently swept Ladybug under the waves.
"Marinette!" Cat Noir screams and looks at Cerise.
"So much for true love!" Cerise prepares to kill Cat Noir.
He dives in to avoid the giant trident crushing him. Cerise thought that she may have killed him but he was still alive. The trident circles the water to create an underwater tornado. As it reached the bottom, the shipwrecks moved upwards towards the surface.
Cat Noir swam towards one of the ships, having a plan in mind seeing the sharp bow stern. The waves splashed on a boat along with Cat Noir bumping against the edge of the ship, unable to move on deck. He sees the wheel and with his mighty strength, he moves like a seal to get to the wheel.
Ladybug climbs onboard another wreck, seeing Cerise targeting her, "So long princess!"
Cat Noir made it to the ship wheel, ignoring the heavy rain making him slip, he used his upper body to support himself on the ship wheel with his hands, steering it to move it straight towards Cerise.
With one look of determination, "This is for my father, bitch! GRAGH!" Cat Noir pulls the ship wheel hard to direct it towards Cerise to impale her.
"AGH!" The giant tried to grab Cat Noir but missed as she fell backward to her death.
Cat Noir had to save Ladybug for she has passed out due to swimming so much she can barely move. He caught her just before she sank to the bottom towards shore.