This is loosely based on the story 'A Change' by Loveheart4life. It's not a copy or alternative it's just something happened in the story that I want to make a plot for. Please check out the original story. I warn there is a mention of suicide and death, but neither happen.
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It wasn't rare for Adrien, Alya and Nino to stay over at Marinette's every now and then. In fact it happened quite often. Marinette was the only girl Gabriel actually approved of thanks to her talent of designing.
Marinette loved it when her friends stayed over, in fact it was helping Marinette with her shyness towards Adrien. The one thing she didn't enjoy though was the pranks. Alya had let slip that she was quite gullable and the boys were constantly pranking her. Alya found it hilarious, though for Marinette she found it annoying.
None of them thought Marinette had it in her to get back at them, but boy was Marinette gonna get back at them. She had spent weeks gathering info on their fears, their weak points and after about 3 weeks, she was ready.
She always knew developing her stalking on Adrien would come in handy.
The first phase of her plan was to get all three to stay over which wasn't a bother. All three would easily agree and her parents were practically shipping her and Adrien and they simply loved it when he came over.
Phase 2, get supplies. This was a tad harder but thanks to her being quite close to Jagged Stone, special effects were pretty much done. Then makeup which she had plenty of so she was sweet in that area. Costumes were sorted, she already had them designed.
Phase 3, hide speakers throughout the house and record little messages on her phone using a voice changer app.
Phase 4 , get her parents in on it. They couldn't be in the bakery while the prank took place.
And now she was done. The only thing left, keep it secret which was fine, she had plenty of practice.
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Alya was packing for that night at Marinette's. While packing she was on a group call with Nino and Adrien, plotting on how to annoy Mari that night. They decided on spooky stories. Nino googled a few, chuckling at the results. 'This was gonna be good' they were all thinking.
Oh boy how right they were.
Adrien finished packing and hung up. About five minutes later he showed up again on Nino's line.
"We'll be there in 5 Al." Nino said.
"Then we'll head for Mari's."
Alya nodded, throwing her charger and phone into her bag and zipping it closed. She walked to the living room and hugged her father who was leaving for work. She calmed her sisters and put on the tv before hearing the door knocking. She said goodbye to her mum before leaving with the boys to the blue-nette's house.
They merrily walked down the street, completely oblivious as to what would come. Nino showed Adrien and Alya the stories he had selected and they each chose one to tell. Alya grabbed her phone from her bag and texted the blue-nette to prepare plenty of pillows and get a few stories of her own.
"Why pillows though?" Adrien asked, adjusting his bag strap on his shoulder.
"I'm not cruel." Alya answered. "If she gets scared, she can hug one."
Adrien grinned as Alya and Nino fist-bumped. They were so cute together. Adrien shipped it, Adrien shipped a lot of people like him and Ladybug, at some point as well, him and Marinette. But he was over that.
Meanwhile Marinette sat in her room preparing for the sleepover. She looked at her phone that lit up, alerting her of a notification. The blue-nette checked it and seen the brunette's message. Spooky stories. That just made her plan a whole lot easier. She followed her orders and prepared some pillows before planning out a story to go with her prank. She could hardly wait. She just hoped it worked.
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The three teenagers arrived about 10 minutes later and they just messed about like average teens. Marinette's parents watched from a distance, internally laughing, knowing what was going to happen. They left at about 10:30 for 'work stuff' telling the kids they wouldn't be back until at least 8 the next morning.
"SPOOKY STORIES NOW!" Alya exclaimed and everyone agreed before they all started clambering up the stairs to Marinette's room and choosing a spot on the floor. Marinette grabbed a few pillows in advance, to keep up the act. She knew the others would be the ones needing pillows tonight.
"I'll close the curtains." Adrien offered standing up but Marinette practically screamed knowing that her stash of Adrien photos were hidden over there. She grinned sheepishly before muttering, "No it's ok I'll do it."
When Marinette returned the room was pitch black the only light being the torch on Alya's phone. "I'll start!" the brunette said placing the torch under her chin making her look a lot more spooky.
"Once, about 30 years ago, there was a 17 year old girl in her house baby sitting her younger brother while her mother and father were at a wedding. Everything was perfectly normal, the boy was in bed and the girl was in the living room watching a film. Her phone was sitting beside her as she watched the film and then it rang. She answered it and found it was her mother asking about her brother. She said her was fine but went and checked anyway. He was perfectly safe. She returned to the living room and sat down. Her phone rang again. It was an unknown caller. The girl answered. "How's the baby sweetheart?" and then it hung up. The girl put it down to a prank call but it rang again. "Please just tell me how the baby is sweetheart!" This time the girl hung up. This happneded 3 more times and the girl got annoyed so she called the police. They traced the call and rang the girl back. "You need to get out of the house NOW! The call is coming from inside your building!" The girl suddenly heard breathing. She slowly turned around and looked behind the sofa, and right there sat a woman dressed in black with long scraggly black hair covering her face. "How's the baby doing?" The girl tried to run away and get her brother but the woman grabbed her. "I asked you a question."
Marinette screamed interrupting the story. "Sorry, it's scary."
Alya sighed before finishing. "That night both the girl and boy went missing and were never seen again. After investigating further they found that a woman with black hair had lived there previously and her son went missing so she resorted to murder, she paid the death penalty."
"Spooky." Adrien admitted. Nino and Marinette nodded in agreement.
"Well" Marinette started. "My turn."
Nino snickered a bit and Marinette sent him a glare. "Just because I get scared easy doesn't mean I can't scare you."
That statement was a mistake. Alya, Nino and even Adrien, were on the floor laughing their heads off, tears running down their cheeks. Marinette just sat their, pouting with her arms crossed until the three stopped. When they finally did, she cleared her throat then begun.
"Quite a while ago, where my parent's bakery now stands was an old house. No one had lived in it for years, and it was rotting so much it could have collapsed at any moment. All of Paris was scared of when it would collapse but no one dared touch it for it was apparently haunted by a ghost known as 'The Snatcher'. It was said that whoever dares touch the house would be snatched. No one knew what this meant but everyone stayed clear of the building. Now one day a man came to look at the property and he was walking around and suddenly a figure jumped out of a room and snatched him. He was pulled into the room where the ghost absorbed his soul and took control of his body."
"W-what happened?" Adrien asked.
"The man jumped of the roof and died." Marinette answered. "It was put down to suicide, but that wasn't the case. A few years back the building was finally knocked down and in it's place this bakery was built. It is said that the Snatcher roams my house, waiting for the right moment to SNATCH!" The blue-nette purposefully put emphasis on the last word causing all three to jump.
"Wow." Adrien muttered under his breath. "I didn't know you had it in you Mari."
"Told ya." Marinette answered standing up.
"Where are you going?" Nino asked.
"Toilet."she answered. It was then that a shadow appeared right behind Marinette, it lifted it's arms and grabbed the designer who was dragged off screaming.
"OMG MARINETTE!" all three shouted, running after her. They followed the figure who was dragging Marinette who was struggling to break free. The chase continued until the two disappeared into a bathroom and the door locked. Alya, Nino and Adien began pounding on it, in hopes of saving their friend but their efforts were in vain.
Meanwhile inside of the bathroom Marinette struggled to contain her giggles. They called her gullable. She popped in some red contacts and covered her face in talcum powder. She turned off the projection of the figure using a small remote in her pocket. She could hear her friends banging on the door which made Marinette grin. Her plan was working. She pulled out her phone and scrolled through her camera roll and selected her first video. She double checked that her Bluetooth was on and linked to the multiple wireless speakers before hitting play.
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DO YOU WANT YOUR FRIEND BACK?
HOW FUNNY
THAT'S WHAT THEY ALL SAY
WELL GUESS WHAT...
YOU WILL NOT BE GETTING HER BACK
YOU CAN HAVE HER BODY
BUT I GUARANTEE,
IT WILL BE USELESS...
SOULESS...
DEAD...
BUT FIRST..
LET'S HAVE SOME FUN
To say Adrien, Alya and Nino were scared was an understatement, they were terrified, not just for themselves, but for their friend. If this Snathcher dude was true to his word well...
They didn't want to think about it.
It was then the bathroom door unlocked and it slowly opened to reveal Marinette, but it almost didn't seem like Marinette. It had red eyes instead of blue ones. White skin instead of her usual pinkish tone. And it looked a lot more sinister than Marinette normally did. It tilted it's head to the side slightly, taking in the three teens, studying them carefully. It grinned, showing off Marinette's normally kind smile, but it just terrified Adrien, Alya and Nino.
"Run."
And boy did they. They sprinted faster than they had ever sprinted before all the way downstairs to the bakery where they hid under the counter. Each tried to quieten down the other's breathing but it didn't do much. They heard footsteps coming closer and closer and they stopped.
'Were they safe'.
Hella no they weren't.
Marinette's head appeared from over the counter, the Chesire grin still plastered all over her features. One of her hands reached down and they she just stood still. And the voice started talking again.
ARE YOU TRULY SCARED YET?
YOU MAY THINK YOU ARE, BUT I'M NOT TOO SURE
WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH YOU?
KILL YOU?
OR MAKE YOU SUFFER...
I'M NOT SURE
BUT I WILL BE SOON
I JUST NEED SOME TIME TO MAKE UP MY MIND.
LET'S PLAY HIDE AND SEEK.
"No please no. Just let Mari go. She'll move out if you want!" Alya begged.
The voice didn't answer. Instead Marinette just walked to a corner then turned back around. "I will count to 30. Only thirty. Then I will seek Anyone I find will be taken care of and then we'll see if my master is ready."
She turned to face the wall and started, "1..2..3..4..5"
Nino legged it upstairs to Marinette's bedroom where he hid under her vanity. Alya ran behind one of the display cases and ducked down and Adrien ran to the bathroom.
"26..27..28..29..30... ready or not, here I come.
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Nino panted heavily, completely terrified. It had been about 30 seconds from when Marinette said the classic seeker line, but he had heard nothing since then.
Creeeaaaak
'Well done Nino you jinxed it!'
"Come out, come out wherever you are."
Nino looked out from his hiding spot and seen a familiar pair of ballet pumps. Oh flip, they were walking towards him.
Marinette bent down and grabbed Nino by the arms, dragging him out of his hiding spot and stuffing a gag in his mouth. She tied his arms and carried him to a storage closet in the bakery. She threw him in and locked it from the outside.
1 down, 2 to go.
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Normally playing hide and seek with Marinette was fun. There were loads of places to hide and sometimes Tom and Sabine would play as well. But this game would most likely put Alya off playing ever again. EVER!
She heard Marinette creep upstairs then come back down. She risked a glance and seen that she was holding a terrified Nino, who she threw into a storage closet. Marinette whipped around staring at where Alya had been since she had ducked back down to her hiding spot.
Hopefully she thought it was her eyes playing tricks on her. Please please please please.
No one heard her begging as Marinette grabbed her, repeated the process she carried out on Nino then threw Alya into the closet as well.
Just 1 more to go.
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Adrien had panicked. He ran straight to the bathroom and realised there was next to none in the hiding spot category. Except. Adrien ran over to the bathtub and climbed inside it laying down on his back. He fitted perfectly. Hopefully Marinette wouldn't find him.
He was probably there for about 5 minutes before he heard steps coming towards the bathroom. He prayed that she would continue but no, he really had he WORST luck. Marinette entered the bathroom and glanced around.
"Adrien, I know you're in here. I've already got your friends, you lasted the longest but I know you're in here. Why don't you just come out?"
Adrien reminded himself to breathe as he thought. Was she going to find him?
His questions were answered as Marinette's head popped up from the side of the bath.
"Pity. I liked you." She said before she tied him up and brought him to the storage closet.
She un-gagged all three of them and watched as they all scurried closer together, staring at what used to be their friend.
Then the voice started talking again.
I'VE MADE UP MY MIND
I'LL LEAVE YOU THREE ALONE JUST AS LONG AS YOU LEAVE THE BAKERY
BUT I WILL MAKE YOU SUFFER
I'M NOT LETTING YOUR FRIEND GO
IN FACT
YOU'LL HAVE TO WITNESS HER DEATH
Alya's breathing hitched at the ghost's words.
"Follow me." Marinette whispered. "No funny buissness, you don't want to know what happens then."
Adrien shakily stood up followed by Alya and a terrified Nino. They followed the blue-nette up the stairs and Adrien couldn't help but notice how she rubbed her eyes. Was she tired?
They entered Marinette's room and the three teens watched horrified as Marinette screamed in pain and dropped to the floor. A figure appeared and it leaned over Marinette's body, ready to take care of her.
"STOP PLEASE! MARI NEVER DID ANYTHING WRONG IN HER LIFE! SHE IS STILL SO YOUNG!" Adrien begged
The entire room was silent, that is until Marinette burst out laughing from her place on the floor. She rolled about on the floor, tears streaming down her face.
"Wait a sec." Alya started. "This was a prank?"
Marinette nodded, unable to speak thanks to her laughing fit.
Nino fainted.
And Adrien stood, completely dumb-struck.
"Wow. Was this revenge?"
Marinette calmed down a bit before saying, "I guess you could say that."
"So there is no Snatcher, you weren't possessed and you weren't about to die." Alya stated.
Marinette nodded
"But..." Adrien started pointing to the figure. "How?"
"Oh that. I happen to be on Jagged Stone's good side." Marinette answered, reaching into her pocket and grabbing a remote. She pressed a button and the figure disappeared.
Nino woke up and stared at Marinette. "I will never, I say NEVER underestimate you ever again."
Adrien and Alya nodded their agreement.
"See." Marinette said, rather sassily. "I can be scary when I want to be."
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Finsihed! This was honestly so much fun to write and I'm kinda sad it's over. I wish I could make it a multiple chapter story but I don't know any way to continue it so guess it's just going to stay a one-shot.
The reason Marinette rubbed her eyes is because she was removing the contacts to get her blue eyes back.
I say again, I got my inspiration from Loveheart4life and I recommend you check out their story 'A Change.' It's where I got my inspiration for this.
Please review and tell me what you think!
~cookiebook322