Emma sighed and stood up from the piano, "I'm calling it. I'm not going to master the piano. Besides it was never my thing to begin with…"
As she said that Emma thought back to her early childhood memories, to her sister Emilie standing on the piano bench between her father and grandfather learning to play with them.
"I'm telling you, just get a Cat Noir and Ladybug costume," Zacharie explained, "you be Cat Noir and "rescue" her as Ladybug. Have a good larping time, get a kiss."
The suggestion made Emma make a face and once again flick Zacharie in the face. Honestly, the idea was already tacky. But it bugged her on a personal level.
Regardless of the fact that Emma shouldn't tempt fate by dressing up as her alter ego but Emma really didn't like Ladybug, She will admit the spotted hero got the job done but she did so annoyingly. The current Ladybug had this fixation on trying to emulate the past. Constantly comparing herself to the past Ladybug and other heroes. The girl still was trying to get Cat Noir to fist bump with the others.
Not to mention she would actively go off on moral tangents at the people that caused thr Akumatiztion during Akuma battles, which usually caused Cat Noir to get into trouble or get more hurt.
And the worst part? She continually was trying to be "besties" with Cat! And while Emma understood better friends equals better working habits and such, Emma was not about it though. She wanted to save the day and go back to her real life. Hell, if she was a guy Emma was sure Ladybug would be trying to woo Cat Noir to live that old shipping fantasy as well.
Emma's thoughts were interrupted as a blonde woman came down the stairs and saw Emma flicking Zacharie on the nose, "Emma? I didn't know you were here. What has Zacharie done now?"
"Hi, Aunt Rose," the teen greeted, "Zach is picking me about my love life."
"About your crush on Sophie?" The woman asked.
Emma slowly glared at the boy.
He held up his hands in surrender, "I didn't tell her!"
"Alya told me," Rose explained absently, "Lunch is ready if you're hungry."
The anxiety ridden girl groaned into her hands, "At this rate Sophie will be the only one who doesn't know!"
Zacharie looked to the side not wanting to even hint to Emma that Sophie knew now as well.
….
Louis looked at his girlfriend once more as she left. He was so worried about her, Emma's therapy cat had hung around the whole movie, sitting in Sophie's lap.
And no matter how much Louis didn't like the cat, the cat was usually right about someone being upset. So, if Sophie was upset why didn't she share it with him? Or tell him what was wrong?
Louis closed the door and shook his head. Hopefully, Sophie would tell him later. Till then Tsubasa was waiting for him at fencing practice.
….
Zacharie Couffaine's family was very tight net. It consisted of his two mothers, Rose and Juleka, his Grandmother Anarka, and his Uncle Luka. Amazingly though Emma had met every member of his family but his Mom Juleka. The woman was a reasonably successful model, not as much as Adrien Agreste had been, but still pretty popular. So, Emma guessed she must be pretty busy.
Still she didn't think her first meeting of Juleka would be when she would be running outside stop the pig villain from attacking her family by transforming into the tiger hero, Fang.
"This is getting ridiculous," Emma muttered to Plagg, " 3 heroes in one family?"
Plagg stuck his head out of her pocket, "Your family technically has had 3 heroes and 2 villains."
"Touche."
…..
Sophie sat in her computer chair and looked down at her phone, looking down at her unopened text from her father.
"Sophie? You okay?" Tikki asked as she floated up to look at her chosen.
"Not really. My father texted me," the blonde explained sadly, "My father left me and Mom when I was five. He barely talks to me now and when he does it just to make time to have lunch or something since he has to keep up appearances and stuff. I just...I just don't want to deal with it."
Tikki frowned at this, how terribly. It was almost like Adrien's father but less controlling.
Sophie looked but and blinked at the tv as she saw the pig villain fighting the tiger hero, "Oh no."
In the background a familiar black haired girl was in the background and fell over the railing and into the river behind her.
"Emma!" Sophie shot up and looked at Tikki, "We have to go! Tikki, Spots on!"
….
The cat hero swam up to the surface of the water and spit water out as she breached the water, "Next time, I'm not listening to Plagg. There had to be a better way to hide to transform."
Author's Note
Review please and thanks for reading. I appreciate all the favorites, follows, and reviews, your great.
So Emma doesn't like Ladybug. Conflict incoming. I'm trying to flesh out Louis a little better, I'm hoping to do that next chapter with his friend Tsubasa, guess who he's going to be related to.
Anyway, next chapter Cat Noir and Ladybug hero with Fang. See ya next time.
