09/18/23
14 Reviews, 15 Favs, 12 Follows
With Marinette, she was sitting near a waterfall talking to Tikki about her failures. Blu Tembo kept himself away from her to let her be.
"Why can't I just tell the truth without jeopardizing my friendship with him?" Marinette sobs.
"If Lila didn't appear none of this would have happened," Tikki said.
"I really am obsessed with Adrien. It causes disasters just like Monarch's obsession with the miraculous condemning him" Marinette sobs.
"Ladybug?" Blu Tembo comes out and spooks her.
"Go away!" Marinette shouted.
"I cannot let you suffer with guilt, Ladybug. You need to tell me what's wrong. Why didn't you tell your kitty?" Blu Tembo wants to know, despite how stubborn she can be without trying to talk about it, "If you can't talk about it to him, talk about it to me"
"Because I was worried if I told him, he would reveal it to Adrien since Cat Noir really hates Gabriel. Adrien's mother knows the secret since Gabriel died and vows to keep the fact they are the same a secret for Adrien's mental health. He's been through enough crap already. Whenever I try something noble I screw up! I don't deserve guardianship of to be Ladybug! I'm such an idiot!" Marinette broke down. She took the earrings out, "Tikki, I'm renouncing you"
"Stop!" Blu Tembo grabbed her wrists, "Trunkk, fold my ears" He detransformed to show his identity to her, "Ladybug, you may be young but no one is like you. Keeping secrets doesn't last forever. I get that it's tough at how they are going to react but sometimes the truth is better than a well meant lie or being kept hidden. Yes, it's scary but if Adrien found out on his own, he would be upset and angry. As for Cat Noir, he cares about you and he's scared to think he's not enough for you to be your partner. He can be obnoxious but maybe his life is not so great or that he just doesn't like to be left alone"
"Cat Noir is never forgiving me this time and neither is Adrien if he knew who I was. Lila was right, I'm a big liar too" Marinette looks away.
"No, Lila is the biggest liar. She's trying to break your spirit. She's expecting you to give up too easily. You can't let fear rule you because that's not how to solve a solution by giving up. Heroes never give up. If Cat Noir is still upset, give him time to come around. He never abandons you. What that liar did was uncool and wrong to break his spirit by revealing the truth" Pelle said.
"What's worse she might know who I am" Marinette puts the earrings in her pocket.
"Ladybug, please stop talking with negative thoughts. This isn't the Ladybug I know who inspired me with speeches of determination. The Ladybug I know would promise to protect along with her kitty cat" Pelle said, taking the earrings out and putting them back on her ears, "Ladybug or not, you have been a hero all along. You can't let fear divide you and your kitty. Right now, my cat is probably talking with your cat. I'm sure he'll understand why you kept secrets from him. Please, don't lose him. He's your only hero friend who aided you in Akuma battles for a year"
Marinette just sighs, "I failed him too often. But if I need to stop Lila, I need him again. Tikki, spots on!" She transformed back.
Just then they heard Spino King's roar coming their way.
"Vad i helsefyr?! Trunkk, Flap my ears!" Pelle transformed back to Blu Tembo.
x
With Luna and Adrien as well as her father, Maurice riding on a giganotaur found them and he sure realized that the kid and young adult did wear a miraculous.
"Maurice!" Raptor Man exclaimed.
"Howdy kids and you too, Tarzan man for trapping both of us down here!" Maurice made his dinosaur stop.
"Hey! It wasn't my fault we both got stuck here for 10 years!" Raptor Man raised his fist.
"You stopped me from escaping, amigo!" Maurice accused.
"Don't call me your amigo! I stopped you by trapping both of us down here! I can't let your madness harm the world with your miraculous obsession. Especially that you would harm my family and my daughter too!" Raptor Man said.
"That's your dad?" Adrien asked.
"It's a long story" Luna grabbed his hand to run and hide in the jungle while her father deals with a madman.
"We got to help him!" Adrien said.
"He's my father!" They hid behind the waterfall, "Guapo, uh, I mean, Chico, my father has been stuck down here for 10 years. Your uncle may have been stuck down here longer than him. We don't know this man" Luna said.
"I may not know him too but if he's my uncle, maybe there's a way to come to his senses," Adrien said.
"He's not your uncle anymore, Chico. I'm sorry but I just don't think there's any chance for him to come back to his senses. He has no human heart to listen. You said your father never listens to you at all, your uncle is probably the same like him" Luna reasoned with him.
"There might be a chance, After all, he hated his brother. If Lila succeeds before him, he'll be nothing but her lapdog" Adrien said.
"Uhhh…..actually. There's something I have to tell you about that liar. That day when me and Elefante became new superheroes…uhhhhh…we discovered something that she's far worse than a liar" Luna hesitated.
"Aside from she wore a wig and lenses like you told me?" Adrien wondered.
"Her real name is Cerise" Luna replied.
"What?" Adrien exclaimed.
"Yeah, or I don't know. She probably used a lot of aliases if one of them got exposed, she would come up with a new fake name" Luna said.
"Definitely far worse than Felix destroying my beloved cheese. I told you she was bad news then craving attention!" Plagg yelled in his kitten's ear.
Adrien pushed Plagg away from his ear, "Cheese can be remade at any time, but Cerise has gone too far this time. Plagg claws out!" Adrien transformed.
"Your kwami really smells like over-expired cheese. Clawws, let's hunt!" Luna transformed into Panthera.
"Let's help your old man out!" Cat Noir said.
"When this is over, please talk to your mariquita. She's probably miserable right now" Panthera said before climbing on the trees.
"Right," Cat Noir said and ran with her.
Raptor Man dodged the jaws of death from killing him, "Maurice! You got to listen to reason!" Raptor Man lands on a boulder.
"I listened enough when you stop me from seizing the monkey people's miraculous!" Maurice urged his beast to eat him.
"CATACLYSM!" Cat Noir shouted and caused a tree to fall onto the giganotosaurus.
"Dad!" Panthera saw her father exhausted.
"Luna!" Raptor Man looks up.
"Transform back! Your kwami needs to eat!" Panthera said.
"Razor, let's stop" He detransformed.
Cat Noir fights Uncle and the Giganotaur to distract it, "For a dinosaur whisperer, you really have no friends. Is that why you're angry because your brother had more fake friends than you?" Cat Noir taunted.
"He ruined everything for me!" Maurice yelled.
"As well as ruining his son's life all because he can't live without a wife instead of taking responsibility as a dad. I never liked him" Cat Noir extends his staff to avoid the jaws.
"Such a pity!" Maurice said as the giganotosaurus lunged at Cat Noir.
"Clawws, Sabor, unify!" Panthera transforms into Black Smilodon again and quickly gets in front of the beast and does her superpower of domination, "Glare!" She says the superpower word.
The giganotosaurus backed down, feeling her powers affecting it.
"GRRRRR! That's right! Cats have nine lives, big boy!" Black Smilodon snarled.
"Kitty!" Ladybug runs in with Blu Tembo but Cat Noir looks away, not ready to talk to her but he can help her.
While they fought Maurice and the giganotosaurus, Chrysalis sensed Ladybug's negative emotions, "Perfect" She took one butterfly and akumatized it, "Ladybug, with your condition you'll be my slave"
The feline saw the akuma going straight toward his lady, "Milady! No!" Cat Noir gasped.
But too late, the Akuma got into one of her pigtail ribbons, "Now you're mine now, Dark Bug! Go and finish Cat Noir off!" Chrysalis forcibly made Ladybug obey.
"No...I...WON'T! AAAAAAAGH!" Ladybug got consumed by the dark particles, turning her into a black-suited version of herself with purple spots and a collar, her hair turning blond and her eyes golden, "Oh Kitty. It's time for you to perish! Lucky charm!" Dark bug summoned a sword.
"NO LADYBUG!" Cat Noir dodged her sword.
"If I can't keep anyone safe with secrets! NO ONE WILL!" Dark Bug strikes the sword again.
Blu Tembo and Black Smilodon saw the now akumatized Ladybug fight against her partner. They can't beat Chrysalis and Maurice at the same time. They are gonna have to retreat and let Raptor Man deal with Maurice since Chrysalis got away.
"Keep her busy while I help my Dad!" Black Smilodon said.
"Got it!" Blu Tembo rushed to help Cat Noir.
Right now Dark Bug landed one slash at Cat Noir's chest, "Am I enough for you now?! AM I?!" Dark Bug grins darkly.
"Agh! Milady! Stop! I didn't mean to be a jerk! Calm down!" Cat Noir blocked her sword with his staff, "I just don't like being stuck in the dark! You said it yourself! Your kitty is irreplaceable!"
"I don't need anyone anymore!" Dark Bug kicks him in the stomach, "And I will replace you!"
Blu Tembo jumps in and blocks her sword with his blowhorn, "Enough! Ladybug, remember what I told you! Lila akumatized you so you can suffer more! If you kill him, you'll be left all alone but let Lila win! Anger and hatred doesn't solve a solution to put your misery to an end!"
"GET OUT OF MY WAY!" Dark Bug didn't listen and shoves him off.
"She's too angry!" Cat Noir helps him up, "Damn it that liar bitch got into her head!" He ran with him to dodge the sword.
"GET BACK HERE YOU SCAREDY CAT!" Dark Bug chased after them.
"Her mind is filled with rage!" Cat Noir said as he jumped up on the trees with Blu Tembo.
"But her heart is not! Why didn't you let her explain?!" Blu Tembo said.
"I was angry that she lied to me again! She always doesn't talk to me about anything but keeps the truth away from me!" Cat Noir jumped to the next before the sword sliced the branch.
"Think Noir! You really want the entire world to think Adrien would become like his villainous Dad and leave him all alone in the world! Everyone would call him the Villain's boy! It was better to keep it that they were different people!" Blu Tembo angrily told Cat Noir off while dodging.
"HERE'S BUGGY!" Dark Bug screamed insanely.
"She hid the truth to protect you from perhaps getting akumatized!" Blu Tembo tackled Cat Noir down from getting chopped.
"And then what?! So she can play with my trust like I'm easily vulnerable? Whenever I tried to help her or cheer her up, she would get frustrated! She once threw me in the trash bin all because we got voted a couple of the year and it made her angry!" Cat Noir complained.
"And I'll make sure you drown in the litter box, pussy cat! Come here to your bugaboo!" Dark Bug screamed in so much rage.
"And now you made her angry enough to kill you!" Blu Tembo hides in the trees with Cat Noir.
"Where are you, Kitty?! Or are you too scared to get de-clawed?!" Dark Bug looks around, breathing heavily.
"You used to flirt with her. Flirt her back only this time with your seduction. It's always a girl's weakness" Blu Tembo suggested.
"Are you insane? It's not cool to play with people's feelings. I no longer flirt with her anymore. I have my own princess I love" Cat Noir glared.
"Do you want her to hunt you? You saw where the Akuma landed on?" Blu Tembo said.
"One of her ribbons," Cat Noir said.
"COME OUT AND FIGHT!" Dark Bug screamed.
"It's now or never, flirty cat" Blu Tembo said.
"Damn it. This is why you don't flirt with your Jaguar girl" Cat Noir jumps down.
"Not my type!" Blu Tembo said.
Dark Bug turns around with an evil look on her face, "Finally! Are you here to die or surrender your miraculous, pussy cat?!" Dark Bug said darkly.
"I always love your angry pout but not your crazy rage, milady. Care to pet me instead of slicing me? It will calm you down" Cat Noir flirted with her.
"Huh?" Dark Bug saw him approach her.
Blu Tembo blows his horn to create sexy jazz music playing.
"What the hell are you doing?!" Dark Bug couldn't fight his charm. It was too mesmerizing.
"Just showing you how sorry I was for not listening to you, Bugaboo" Cat Noir took her sword away.
"GGGRRRRR!" Dark Bug snarled to fight the charm but it was too much.
"Shhhh…..calm down" Cat Noir puts his finger on her lips.
"Don't you dare you loud and ugly...Mmmmmph?!" Dark bug was pulled into a kiss.
As much as he wanted to kiss his lady for a long time but he knew he had to save her the same way she did when he was under the Dark Cupid spell.
Then he rips the ribbon from her pigtail to get the Akuma out, "Cataclysm!" He touched the Akuma from escaping.
Ladybug fainted on the ground exhausted.
x
A while later in the village, Cat Noir cannot see her true identity since there's a new Hawk Moth. They still can't reveal their secret identities to each other again.
"How is she?" Adrien asked Luna.
"She's fine. Just exhausted and needs water. I'm surprised you haven't flirted with her as I remembered you used to" Luna said, healing up the slash on his chest with Zepol, one of Costa Rica's creams for temporary relief of minor aches and pains of muscles and joints, associated with simple backache, strains, bruises and sprains.
"Agh…It's because I'm in love with Marinette now" Adrien strained from the sting.
"That figures. Though heroes with lovers will always put them in danger" Luna said.
"I know. I should have let her explain rather than yell at her. Tembo was right, if the world knew my father was Monarch, they would address Adrien as a villain's kid" Adrien said.
"And that's why Ladybug did not want to reveal the truth to you and Paris. But you don't seem like your father. You do look more like your mother. I mean, I'm not gonna lie, you are muy guapo and your mother is very beautiful" Luna said shyly before applying another Zepol cream to his wound.
"He always says I'm much like her, being stubborn," Adrien said.
"He's right about that but he was wrong about everyone. You said he declares everyone as a bad influence, right? Perhaps that's his fear of losing you or that he never had friends your age. As a parent he should have been, he needs to understand that you're growing up and learn to let you go one day" Luna said.
"And now he gave his life to get Mom back. I have a feeling she knows it too" Adrien sighs.
"Lo siento, chico" Luna apologized and went behind him to pop his dislocated shoulder that Dark Bug gave him, "He probably didn't want you to be all alone" She tried to find the discomfort on his shoulder.
"Careful, she beat me good with her full anger," Adrien said.
"Beyond pissed than angry, Chico. If we don't pop it back in place, you'll still be in a lot of pain. My abuelita taught me a little about chiropractor" Luna said.
Adrien then flinched once she popped it back in place. Hearing the joint crack but it's back in place.
"Shit" Adrien strained.
"Sorry," Luna replied.
"Gracias" Adrien groaned and moved his shoulder to adjust, "She's probably too upset to talk to me now. Why can't I just be enough as her partner?"
"She has been trying to make up for hurting you in the past. But Cerise had to ruin it all by making you angry and hurting Ladybug enough to akumatize her" Luna said.
"I can't believe I would fall for her lies when we met," Adrien said.
"She had everyone fooled by her lies. I just can't believe she would be the new butterfly holder" Luna said.
"Milady told me that it vanished. She said it fell in the water and she couldn't find it" Adrien explained.
"I see. I guess Cerise found it. To be honest, me and Tembo almost fell for her lies but as grownups, we check our facts. The only thing she's not great at is understanding the values of life. She's in her fantasy world, not in reality" Luna hands him her bottle of water.
"Clearly she is. I shouldn't have told Marinette to stay out of it" Adrien said.
"Why did you do that? A pathological liar is far worse than a regular liar, Adrien. Good and bad can come from anyone. Even us. We chose to be good, Cerise chose to be bad. She doesn't care about remorse or anything. Whatever she's doing, it could be something from her past life that made her like this. Answers are sometimes from the past to know what makes a person go bad" Luna said before standing near the hut to make sure Marinette doesn't come to see Cat Noir's identity.