Hey guys I'm back with a Ladybug story! This one I aim to have more mature themes in it, it's kinda going in a similar direction that my Danny Phantom story "Forgetful Love" did, I don't know why but I just like writing that sort of thing. I do have other stories I'm working on at the moment, and I'd love to start posting all three of them (yes three) right now but then I'd just be overwhelmed with stress, so I'm going to take this one story at a time for now, and later on I'll see if I can post two stories at the same time.
So here's a summary of the plot, in case you wanted more details about it:
Over three years had passed since Marinette and Adrien became the two superhero protectors of Paris. Now Hawkmoth will unleash a new villain that will stop at nothing to make others do what they want, being controlled by this new villain, Cat Noir does the unthinkable to Ladybug and only through gradual signs does he realise later what he has done to her. New feelings begin to develop and more conflicted thoughts about everything going on in Marinette's life begin to consume her. She's too scared to tell anyone about it, but know that eventually she'll start to show through.
Well there's the plot for you, I so can't wait to write this story till the very end. Let's get reading! :D
Miraculous Ladybug (C) Thomas Astruc/ Zagtoon
Chapter 1 – The Witch Master
It has been three years since Marinette and Adrien received their miraculous, and had become the protectors of Paris. During those three years there had been many close calls to each other finding out their secret identity, but they have both managed to keep it a secret from each other for all of three years. Adrien and Marinette were now in their senior years of high school and everything was put under pressure, both Marinette and Adrien's lives became a whole lot more difficult with Hawkmoth constantly not wanting to give up, while the pressure of schoolwork built up as another day went by.
A new week had started and neither of them were looking forward to yet another stressful week of saving the day while at the same time saving their grades. Although they enjoyed saving the day and their time spent at school, it was the part where neither of them got a whole lot of sleep, but somehow they managed to look like they could take it all in, unfortunately the stress was more apparent in Marinette as she was unable to keep her alarm from letting her snooze in an hour into class time.
That exact thing happened on the first school day of the week, her phone buzzed as she grumbled in tiredness, desperately aching for more sleep. The tired teen turned to her phone and saw that Alya was trying to call her, but then her eyes picked up on four specific numbers in the corner of the screen, and made her scream and scramble to get out of bed.
Although she was close to being an adult, she still acted as the same clumsy girl she always was, she hoped that someday she would stop being such a klutz and be on time for once, and also be able to maintain her balance. But when she was Ladybug it was a whole different story, it was the only time she wasn't her clumsy self. She was a totally different person under that mask and she was proud of it, what bothered her was the fact that it was getting extremely difficult to balance both the pressure of being a super hero and a senior student in high school.
Tikki, Marinette's kwami had slept in also and was doing all she could to help Marinette get ready for school. The teen rushed down the stairs putting on her cool jacket before quickly taking a croissant out of the tray of freshly baked croissants on the cupboard and then running out the door, not having any time to kiss her parents goodbye for the day.
"Oh why do I always have to be late? I've been going to school for so long I should be more on time for once!" Marinette cried as she stood at the edge of the street, waiting for the signal to allow her to cross the road.
Tikki appeared from Marinette's little side purse, giving a small adoring smile of assurance. "Marinette, remember you're a superhero too. You've managed this long with both school and your superhero life. You're doing fine," She assured, before adding a teasing comment. "Just don't turn off your alarm before going to bed." The kwami ended in a giggle.
Marinette scowled at her kwami before the signal beeped, allowing her to cross the road. She dashed across the road, narrowly dodging the other people walking across, and within a few minutes she was panting her way to her seat in chemistry class.
"That's the ninth time this month you've been late to my classes Marinette, and it's only the fifteenth!" The teacher claimed, her hand resting firmly against the desk before she ticked off Marinette as being late.
"I'm sorry..." Marinette apologised, taking her seat next to Alya.
The rest of the morning carried out normally, with Marinette taking a few short glances at Adrien every so often, still after three years of having a crush on him not having any luck being together yet, luckily Chloe hadn't grasped Adrien either, because he only found Chloe as a good friend. Yet, Marinette had always wondered all this time why he only considered her as a friend too, she had to admit that he was only being a nice respectable guy but at the same time her mind boggled on the idea of why Adrien hadn't noticed her feelings after so long.
At the same time however, Marinette still felt shy as ever to reveal her feelings to him, she didn't know what he would think of her after that. She always feared the worst would happen; that they wouldn't be friends anymore or Adrien would always act awkward around her.
During lunch break, Adrien catches Marinette looking at him; he raises an eyebrow in confusion, wondering why Marinette is staring at him. His immediate thoughts were either Marinette wanted his attention or she was just zoning out. It was then that Alya nudged her friend and Marinette shook her head, realising that she was staring at Adrien; she smiled gleefully as she waved at him. He smiled and waved back in reply.
"You know Marinette, I'm surprised at you. You've managed to hold on to him this long without anything truly happening, and with competition." Alya stated, right before Adrien's presumed nickname Chloe called him was heard.
The pair looked up and saw a familiar blonde girl running up to Adrien and embracing him tightly, Adrien felt like he was almost being crushed, he gritted his teeth slightly in the sudden tightness of Chloe's arms around his body, not long before he gently pushed her off and greeted her warmly.
"Hey Chloe, nice to see you around." He greeted, smiling nervously at her, still in slight shock from the sudden hug, but he did have to admit she had been hugging him like that for so long, he should've gotten used to it by now.
Chloe cleared her throat before delicately placing a hand against her chest. "My father's holding a special party tonight and you're invited." She explained, leaning closer towards his face, making Adrien lean away in the sudden closeness.
"Why is your father holding a special party for?" Adrien asked, gently pushing Chloe off of him again.
The mayor's daughter huffed as she crossed her arms, expecting Adrien to know what she was talking about, feeling insulted that he had forgotten. "I can't believe you forgot something as important as that! My seventeen and a half birthday isn't that important to you?!" She snapped, before gasping at her sudden change in mood around him, before she started to caress his face. "I'm sorry Adrien..." She said sweetly with a smile. "Are you still going to come?"
Adrien sighed, knowing that she wasn't going to take no for an answer, he bluntly answered yes before Chloe's cheers echoed throughout the courtyard. Marinette and Alya could only assume that Adrien was attending something of Chloe's, from what they could hear it sounded like a party of some sort.
"Looks like daddy's girl is going to get what she wanted...again." Marinette said with a moan, turning her back towards Chloe, lowering her eyes in frustration that Chloe always got what she wanted, only because of her father.
Alya scooted closer to her best friend, patting her back gently in assurance. "Don't worry girl, there's got to be a reason why he hasn't got a girlfriend yet. Who knows? He could just be waiting until after high school." She explained with an assuring smile.
Marinette sunk down slightly, groaning in the process as she thought of the possibility of more waiting to come until she would be with Adrien. "But Adrien and I have different career paths. I want to be a fashion designer while I'm more than sure he wants to get into Photography...become a professional photographer or just stay the way he is now...he seems to be living fine with what Gabriel gives him." Marinette explained, knowing how well known both Adrien and his father were.
"It'll happen someday, just don't give up on it."
She knew Alya was right, and of course she wasn't going to give up, there had to be a reason why she loved Adrien for so long without quitting. Deep down in her heart she knew that someday there will be that chance where the two of them are together at last. Marinette only hated the waiting part of it all, it had been like this for so long she just wanted it to end and be with him already, but she knew that good things come to those who wait.
Later that day after school, Marinette and Alya decided to catch up on some homework together at Marinette's place. After an hour or two, Marinette went downstairs to fetch some snacks, but then suddenly, the ground shook underneath them. The cookies Marinette once held in her hands had fallen, and screams of terror were heard from outside, Tom and Sabine looked up in fear as they saw a floating person with some sort of wand. They were red in appearance and Marinette knew that this was Hawkmoth once again.
But before she could find a place to transform, Alya ran downstairs with her phone in hand and a widened smile printed across her face, she dashed to the door, grabbing Marinette's hand in the process. As soon as they were outside, Alya and Marinette saw that there were many people glowing a bright red and were doing strange things, some were destroying vehicles, some were chasing after others, and some were fighting each other.
Marinette's blue eyes darted upwards towards the floating villain who laughed evilly, their laugh echoing against the nearby buildings. She clenched her fists tightly, wanting to get Alya to a safe place back inside the bakery while she found a place to hide and transform.
"No one wants to be happy? I'll make them happy! I am Witch Master! And you will all do what I tell you to do, whatever it may be!" The villain announced.
It was then that Marinette knew for certain that this was indeed another one of Hawkmoth's akumas. She felt so frustrated every time she thought about him, why haven't they found him after three years? She wanted him defeated, the miraculous he possessed wasn't his and it needed to be taken away from him.
"This is so cool!" Alya cried, filming everything that was going on. Meanwhile Marinette wanted to leave so she could transform, and at the same time make sure that her friend was safe, but as she tried to yank Alya back inside, Alya insisted that she stay out with her. "Stay out with me Marinette, you'll miss out when you see Ladybug and Cat Noir show up and defeat this villain!"
Marinette had nothing to respond with, only a sigh and a small smirk about how much Alya adored her alter ego, she then tightly gripped Alya's arm before pulling her inside back into the bakery. And luckily it was in the nick of time too, the akumatised victim was about to have them under their spell.
"We should get into hiding, away from the windows." Marinette suggested, her parents agreeing with the idea.
Her parents nodded, quickly locking the door to the bakery and running inside and closing all the windows, Alya moaned as she wanted to be out there filming all of this for her Ladyblog, she followed Marinette upstairs to her bedroom and filmed out of the little window at the front of Marinette's room.
Marinette had to find a place to transform, without thinking twice about it, she saw the hatch to the balcony and decided to make an excuse about going out there, she knew in one way or another it would be risking her identity if she were to transform outside her room, but she had no choice, and she knew as long as Alya didn't see, or anyone that wasn't under the Witch Master's control, her secret identity would be safe.
"I'm just going to check this door make sure it's locked." Marinette explained, Alya nodding in reply before keeping her eyes peeled on the villain just outside the building.
And just then, after closing the hatch to the balcony from the outside, Marinette released Tikki from her purse and was then transformed into Ladybug. Straight after that exact moment, the ground shook and the entire building began to feel like it was going to crumble, but luckily, the rumbling stopped, Ladybug looked down at the hatch to hear Alya from the inside calling out to her. She decided not to respond and quickly swing herself to the nearest building.
To grasp the villain's attention, she called out to the Witch Master, mocking them in the process before running from roof to roof away from the bakery and towards the park. The Witch Master tried to send people to get Ladybug, but then a smack of a familiar staff prevented the akumatised victim to do so.
Cat Noir appeared on a nearby rooftop, his staff retracting back towards him before he leapt over towards Ladybug with a smile, glad to see her once again.
"Glad to see you again my lady, any idea on who this person is and why Hawkmoth akumatised them?" He greeted with a smirk, before asking her in a more serious tone who that person was.
Ladybug rested her hips firmly against her hips before she let out a quick breath of air. "I don't know, but whoever they are we need to stop them before they take total control of the city." She exclaimed, gripping her yoyo tight.
"Got it." Chat replied with a nod, gripping his staff before spinning it around his fingers, preparing to use a run attack.
The Witch Master turned to see Cat Noir and Ladybug, unbeknownst to them, this person that was akumatised adored those two as a couple, and wished for more than anything for them to be together. As she saw Cat Noir preparing to attack her, she quickly dodged the attack, waving her wand towards Chat but missing by a hair. She could hear Hawkmoth through her mind to grab their miraculouses.
"No Hawkmoth, I'm using this power to get what I want!" She declared, before waving her wand to cast a special spell onto Cat Noir.
But before she could do that, Hawkmoth gripped his fist tightly, causing the girl to breathe heavily as a tight feeling was felt around her neck, and she had no choice but to oblige.
Ladybug landed next to Cat Noir, wanting a clear idea on where the akuma was so they could defeat her. She talked with him for some time, before realising that they were out in the open, Ladybug quickly pushed herself onto Chat to dodge a spell attack from the Witch Master. Chat grinned as he saw she was sitting on top of him. She groaned before lifting him back up, but before Chat could fully stand up, he was hit with the spell.
"Chat Noir, no!" Ladybug cried.
So I'm getting right into things this time, to be honest I would've flowed it out a little more but I don't my stories to be horrifically long, and this Chapter is only a little short than how much I usually write for a chapter because it's the first chapter and I want to hear feedback from you guys on whether I should continue this story or not, I can obviously imagine most of you saying yes to this but I'd like to hear your thoughts on the first Chapter.
I haven't figured a proper uploading schedule yet but I will in time, in the meantime, thanks for reading the first Chapter! ^^