06/22/24
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The next day, Adrien is still becoming more neglected every day from his father who barely spends time with him. Nathalie does all the support than him which doesn't make it any better. Even with Plagg's company, Adrien still felt upset.
"Meow" Plagg meowed.
"Don't. I can hardly remember what love feels like anymore. Especially attention that I barely remember. This mansion doesn't feel like home to me anymore" Adrien said, barely having any joy since his father stopped being a father to him except to give him activities like piano lessons and Chinese, this was like his father just pushing him further away.
"It feels like I lost my dad a long time ago" He pets Plagg's head.
Plagg nuzzled his friend's hand, "But still, being a thief is what drives me out of insanity" Adrien said, knowing he didn't gain powers from a radioactive cat, he would never be free.
He leans back on his bed. He remembers how much his rage triggers something inside him like an inner demon to come to life which was why he became a thief in the shadows for 2 years, away from being seen by Ladybug focusing on bad guys while he gets away from robbery.
"Father will realize too late what he missed. That his own son became a criminal" Adrien thought.
Plagg hides underneath the bed when Nathalie comes inside his room, "Your father will be in his office. You have piano lessons today"
"Right of course" Adrien got up to start his practice.
He walked up to the piano and began playing a tune. Still upset he can barely focus since he has no one to support him and when he gets too pressured to get his father's approval, he only gets scowled by his father to accuses him of not trying hard enough. He slams his fists on the keyboards with a loud tune note blaring. He breathes heavily and slams the cover back down. He noticed his nails feeling sharp from his rage. So he had to calm down so nobody noticed.
"Keep it together, kitty. Mother wouldn't want you to feel so much anxiety building up" Adrien breathes in and out.
He then turned the music note page and selected a song called The Wall Between Us. The play went well for the next few minutes. Even if it's not perfect enough. He didn't want to pressure himself too much by trying too hard. He tapped into his emotions through the play.
He saw his father come in with Nathalie to see his progress if he practiced or not. Nathalie was a bit supportive but Gabriel only cares about perfection. She worries that if he pressures him again, it will only upset Adrien too much to one day hate his father.
Adrien kept playing but Gabriel raised his hand to stop, "Well?" Adrien waited for an answer.
"I expect more effort, Adrien. You're not trying hard enough" Gabriel replied.
Adrien growled at his unsupportive approval. He tried so hard for weeks and this is what he gets, "Can I be alone, please?" He looks away to hold in his tears.
Gabriel did not like that tone but Nathalie stopped him before he put too much pressure on Adrien which is not a good idea.
"Adrien how could you.." He was cut off.
"I think we better do as he says," Nathalie said and they left Adrien in the room alone.
"Gabriel, you're being too hard on him. Both of you lost Emilie, he's already starting to lose his father more. He's trying so hard but you're only putting too much pressure on him. Sooner or later, you'll lose him more" Nathalie said before heading downstairs.
Gabriel heard a loud shout of frustration in Adrien's room, knowing he was the cause of this but shook it off that Adrien was just overreacting but Gabriel had no idea that Adrien was starting to lose trust in his father. He ignored him and just headed back to his office downstairs.
Adrien calms down before he accidentally lets out his nails to become claws again. He needed a store to rob to take this pressure out. He heads to his closet and puts on his catsuit. Once his mask was on, his eyes turned fully green with slit pupils. He stares at his hoodie and decides that Paris should know who he is. He was in hiding long enough until Ladybug already saw his face.
He ran out on the rooftops to go to the nearest bank. He jumps down and makes sure there are no cops around but Ladybug will get persuasive eventually. He used his claws to circle the window to open the door from the inside. Once he snuck in, he used his paralyzing grip on one of the guards.
"Sweet dreams," He said.
The vault has a strict lock code but it never stopped him since he's the master of the safecracker. He listens as he unlocks it.
"Meow, come to kitty, my puuurrrrecious" He opens the vault only to see that the Mime and the Magician already beat him to it, probably the Magician's way in.
"Well, well, well. Look what the bad kitties dragged in" Cat Noir smirked.
"Ah, long time no scratch, kitten. Lost your ball of yarn again? Got tired of chasing mice? Better yet, no phobia to hide your scaredy cat face" Magician cackled.
"No, but you're not putting me in the bag" Cat Noir replied.
The mime makes a mime gun to shoot him but Cat Noir whips him, "Long time no speak. I don't need to know what invisible weapon you're gonna use. I can see its shadow" Cat Noir whips him again.
The magician waved her wand to levitate the money bags at Cat Noir.
"Ooh, how kind of you to share!" Cat Noir dodged from the ton of weight crushing him.
"I'll be nice to crush your nine lives a living hell!" The magician missed every shot.
"I rather keep them!" Cat Noir caught one bag.
"Glad you say so!" Magician caused magic to make it come to life into a monster.
"Shit!" Cat Noir dodged it.
The Magician summons more monsters to attack him.
"Shit! Okay, let's get ugly again!" Cat Noir used his super speed while everything around him moved slowly.
He ran up to the Magician and took her wand away. He can't see what the mime is holding but when he touches it, it visibly cuts his hand and loses focus with his speed.
"A sword!" He realized.
The mime kicks him away, sending him to the open vault door.
"Well, hey there, Kitty Cat," Ladybug said, looking down at Cat Noir.
"Agh….Get the hell out of here!" Cat Noir looks at his bloodied glove hand.
"Not without you" Ladybug helps him up.
"Aww….how romantic. Bug has come to save her pet" Magician taunted.
"He's not my boyfriend!" Ladybug took her yoyo out and threw it at Magician only to have it turned into a gummy worm.
"Your toys are useless, Ladybug! Get them out of my sight!" She ordered the mime.
The Mime nods and sets the fuse of an invisible cannon.
"What is it now? I can't see!" Ladybug said.
"MOVE!" Cat Noir tackled her down.
The invisible shot nearly hit them but missed. The feline was on top of her and felt completely embarrassed like that.
"Okay this is getting weird" Ladybug blushed.
"I told you those crooks are dangerous!" Cat Noir rolled to the side with her to avoid the invisible daggers.
"No kidding. One uses invisible weapons!" Ladybug said.
"And the other witchcraft that's real!" Cat Noir gets up and snacks his whip on the floor, "Enough tricks of shit, guys!"
"Watch your tongue, Cat! I got more tricks up my sleeve!" The Magician said.
"Except it's not metaphorically speaking!" Cat Noir whips them to spook them Before they try anything.
Ladybug fought the Mime and did her best to avoid his invisible weapons.
"Here kitty kitty kitty! Be a nice kitty cat or you'll be out of the bag very soon!" The magician taunted.
Cat Noir hissed and dodged her every attack before jumping on her, "Alright! The show's over!" He punched her and then he thrusts her forward before flipping over with her to knock her out.
"Agh!" She felt like she injured herself.
"One down, one to go," Cat Noir said.
"Agh! You're pulling me with a rope or whip, right?!" Ladybug felt herself getting pulled by the mime, struggling to break free from it.
The real whip grabbed Mime's neck and pulled him towards Cat Noir, "Never telepathically speak to my lady like that!"
"Thanks, Kitty," Ladybug said.
The mime tries something else but Cat Noir tightens the whips around his neck, "Don't even think about it!"
The mime already mimes a dagger to stab him in the gut.
"Watch out!" Ladybug warned Cat Noir.
Instead, it hit his leg instead of the gut which would've stabbed all the way to his vitals to kill him, "AAAGH!" Cat Noir then knocks him out.
He stumbled backward as he tried to find the invisible dagger on his leg but couldn't.
"There" Ladybug pulls it out.
"OWWW! That's gonna leave a mark!" Cat Noir yowled.
He couldn't move his injured leg so it weakened him, "Agh!" He stumbles but tries to move.
"Kitty, stop! You'll make it worse!" Ladybug held him but he was too stubborn.
If he's injured, she'll have the chance to throw him in jail, "I'm not falling for that trick!" He stubbornly pushed her aside since he could hear the police from the distance.
Thinking quickly, Ladybug grabs a nearby cloth and wraps it around his leg.
"What are you doing?!" Cat Noir hissed.
"I'm doing the right thing. Stopping the bleeding" Ladybug said.
"Just so I can live and get tossed in jail with those crooks?!" Cat Nour growled at her 'fake' pity.
"No! Because you'll die by blood loss!" Ladybug said sternly.
"You said it yourself. You already caught me. Do what you do best as a hero!" Cat Noir glared, not once in his life did he trust anyone to care about him, "You don't care about me! You only care about your pride!"
"I'm not heartless! I'm trying to help you! You saved my life, I'm saving yours! That's what a hero does! Even if it's on bad people too!" Ladybug said, trying to be reasonable to him that she's not that selfish to win like that and just put him in jail to feel good for herself, "I don't throw bad people in jail just to feel great. I toss bad people who have no remorse at all but you're nothing like them! None of them ever did good for me, even if we have our differences. Kitty, I'm not trying to throw you in jail. Please. I'm just aiding you"
Cat Noir knew she was right, without her, he'd die. Or worse, feels like he would have barely survived if no one aided him in time.
"That should do it," Ladybug said.
"I can't walk," Cat Noir said before the cops arrived soon.
"I'll leave these two to them. The cameras haven't recorded you" Ladybug noted the cameras have been turned into balloons. She carried Cat Noir out of the bank.
"Magician" Cat Noir guessed, groaning at how much stress in the leg it is when he tries to move it.
Ladybug carried him to the rooftop and placed him down.
"Agh! Shit!" He can feel his leg bleeding a lot, "That asshole really stabbed me good"
"Don't move. I gotta see it" Ladybug removes the cloth and it looks very bad from the blood loss, "Damn it that looks very painful. It probably broke the vein"
"Not the hospital, please. Nobody should know my identity" Cat Noir groaned.
"I think I got some medical tools here." Ladybug reaches into her utility belt.
"Great. Good luck to balance my bad luck" Cat Noir said sarcastically.