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HI GUYS! karyllekat here, with another short chapter TT-TT i know right you must be very disappointed in me because i'm disappointed in myself... as much as i want to write two more chapters (to make up for my long hiatus) over the weekend, I really can't because my final exams start next week, and i HAVE to review because I'm already really low in some subjects, a.k.a. Math (the subject that I hate and it hates me back), Science (i failed the last test) and History (which isn't that bad but we have to memorize dates=numbers). Please have mercy on me -_-

My exams end Tuesday but I can't start writing until Saturday because after the tests I have to attend a three-day nature camp thingy hosted by my school, and gadgets are NOT ALLOWED. Therefore i cannot write and only brainstorm.

I am soooo sorry, i hope you'll forgive me once again *cry cry*

on with the story, in which i prepared A LOT OF

no spoilers~ hehehehe,, ENJOY!

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A Miraculous Halloween

Chapter 11: Calm Before the Storm

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"Mmmmph," Chat groaned, slowly opening his green eyes. He looked around, and saw that he was in a girl's bedroom. A really familiar room… Marinette's room.

He struggled to prop himself up with his numb arms. Looking around, he noticed he couldn't see properly… His right eye hurt, and the slight dizziness didn't help either.

"Chat Noir? Are you alright?"

He turned towards the heavenly familiar voice. He saw the outline of a red and black figure, he couldn't recognize the person.

"Who are you?" Chat scratched his head and whimpered as he felt pain when he rubbed a certain part.

The voice replied. "Chaton. It's me, Ladybug. You know, your partner-in-crime? Or rather, your partner in saving Paris."

The blurriness subsided once he heard Ladybug's name. He now clearly saw the pigtailed hero, her face worried.

"My Lady, are you alright? What are we doing in Marinette's room?"

"Er- it was the nearest familiar place I could find," Ladybug reasoned, although Chat had a tiny bit of him thinking she was lying. "Chat, lie down and get some rest. You're badly hurt."

"What do you mean, 'badly hurt'?" Chat tried jumping out of the bed he was laying on, but Ladybug held him back. "I'm all up and ready to go fight again!"

Ladybug rubbed her forehead, sighing heavily. "That's just it Chat. You aren't in good condition. Don't you remember Bloodbaker cutting your side and practically slicing your face with his knife?"

And that's when the memories came flooding back.

And the pain started to strike.

Chat winced, squeezing his eyes shut as his head felt like it was about to burst into a million bloody pieces. His right eye, side, and wound was starting to painfully throb too.

Ladybug pulled out a cloth and carefully dabbed at the face wound. She then took a white shirt and wrapped it around Chat's injury.

"How long…?" Chat asked quietly.

Ladybug raised both her eyebrows, not taking her eyes off from the injury she was treating. "Hm?"

"How long did I stay injured here, Bugaboo?"

"Only five minutes, not that long," Ladybug answered softly, now bandaging Chat's stomach wound. "I'm surprised at how quickly you can recover from passing out. Bloodbaker hurt you bad."

Chat widened his eyes as he heard a faint beep. 'Poor Plagg must be holding up the transformation the best he can in there,' Adrien guiltily thought. He wouldn't want the reveal to go this way.

But then he suddenly realized.

He was wearing a Chat Noir costume under! A costume that looks so much like Chat, and Ladybug won't be able to tell that he's Adrien!

"Plagg, claws in…" Chat murmured tiredly as Plagg got released from the now silver ring.

The black cat kwami immediately fell to the bed beside Adrien, who was now untransformed but didn't look like he was.

Ladybug breathed a sigh of relief, "Ahh, I thought you were in your normal clothes… Good thing you aren't. I wouldn't want our identities to be revealed at a time like this."

Both Adrien and Chat heard a tiny beep from Ladybug's earrings. Suddenly, a red and black spotted kwami was released from the earrings, resting itself on Marinette's spotted shoulder.

"Oh right," Ladybug giggled, "Good thing I'm wearing a Ladybug costume under, too."

Marinette, completely unaware that Chat Noir/Adrien knew how she looked like during the Halloween Party, had her hair tied into a neat bun, with red and black accessories all over, exactly how she looked like in the party.

"Marinette..?" Chat said sleepily and weakly, currently unable to process most of the things going on around him.

Ladybug, who was facing her back to Chat, turned around when she heard her name. "Yea- er… She isn't here Chat," Her voice shakily protected her identity.

"You look so much like her," Chat whispered, not carefully thinking through what he was about to say since he was only half conscious. "So beautiful and heavenly. The both of you are."

Ladybug's face that was pale from worry suddenly turned to a deep scarlet color, matching her costume. She knew that Chat loved Ladybug, but it still gave her a weird, bubbly feeling. But now, he confessed that he thought Marinette was beautiful too? 'Oh no, he's falling for both sides of me…' Ladybug thought blushingly.

That made Marinette think of her crush, Adrien Agreste.

"Adrien!" Ladybug gasped loudly, worrying for her love.

Chat suddenly regained all consciousness upon hearing his name being called.

"Oh, uh, Ladybug I know he's stuck in the hotel safe room. I think he's safe."

"Still!" Ladybug cried, "I need to be worried about him! He might have died!" She paused. She didn't want to sound to desperate, so she added, "Everyone else, too!"

"I'm sure he's fine," Chat forced a smile, because right now he was very NOT fine, that's for sure.

"I'll call him, just in case," Marinette ran to her phone, and instinctively pushed the buttons to her memorized password. She then dialed Adrien's number, which she also memorized.

Chat had to do something, quick. Now that he was untransformed, his phone was in the back pocket of his spandex suit. If she called, then she would hear his ringtone, and ask why he had Adrien's phone.

"No! I'm pretty sure that phones aren't allowed in the hotel safe room for security purposes," Chat blabbered, desperate to keep his identity a secret, at least for now. "Wait… how come you know Marinette's phone password and Adrien's phone number…?"

Ladybug just stood there, motionless. 'Ohno, if I don't act wisely my identity would be in danger!' Marinette thought in a panic.

"Ermmmm… for question one, Marinette told me? For question two, ummm I have my sources?" Marinette said, sounding unsure and caught off-guard.

"How?" Adrien asked, confused. "I mean, even Alya doesn't know her password."

'Of course she doesn't. If I told her I'd never hear the end of it…' Marinette thought. Her phone password was marinetteagreste, the name she wanted to keep in her future years.

"We're actually best buds, just that no one knows," Marinette giggled nervously, her eyes darting around the room to look anywhere but at Chat Noir's eyes.

"Ooookaaaaay... " Adrien raised the eyebrow which was cut by Bloodbaker. "I'm telling Alya,"

Marinette sighed in relief. Alya getting jealous was the absolute least of her problems right now.

"Wait, what do you mean by 'I have my sources'?" Adrien asked curiously. "Seems way shady to me."

"Eheheh, Chaton. I'm nothing to worry about," Marinette chuckled, making Adrien smile. "I'm the same old Ladybug you know so well. Anyway, I better text Adrien."

"Didn't I already say phones aren't allowed in the safe room?"

"It's just a simple text asking him if he and the others are safe, Chat. I mean, he could look at it after we defeat the villain," Ladybug reasoned, her nimble fingers quickly typing on the phone keyboard.

"NO, WAIT-"

Chat stared at Ladybug in horror, then looked at his back pocket when he saw his Lady press the send button.

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"Miraculous! Simply the best! Up to the test when things go wrooooong!" Adrien's smartphone loudly played his text ringtone as he received the message.

Adrien immediately facepalmed. 'Way to go, Adrien. You totally chose a great ringtone. NOT.' he scolded himself silently.

He looked at Ladybug, who seemed to be holding back her laughter. "Seriously?! That's your ringtone?!" She burst into a fit of giggles.

"We-eeeelllll…" Adrien grinned sheepishly.

Marinette walked over to Adrien and took his smartphone, reading the message he received. No matter how hard he tried to grab it from her, she raised an arm to make it out of his reach.

"Hi Adrien, are you okay over there in the hotel safe room? I hope you are. From, Ladybug," Marinette read the text aloud. "Hm, interesting, I sent the EXACT SAME TEXT to Adrien's phone!" She glared at Chat.

"Uh oh" was all Chat could think to say.

"Did you steal Adrien's phone from him?!" Ladybug accusingly pointed a finger at Chat.

"Er…" Chat acted all flustered, but deep inside, he was really relieved. He thought Ladybug would figure out his identity. "I saw the phone on the floor, and picked it up. I was gonna give it back to Adrien after the akuma battle…"

"Hmph! Why didn't you tell me?!"

"I tried to!"

"Anyways, we better get moving. Let's go watch the latest news for any update on the akuma," Marinette told Adrien as she sat on her desk chair and swirled around to the computer.

Opening her computer, she forgot a vital detail.

Her laptop wallpaper was ADRIEN.

And CHAT NOIR, who KNEW ADRIEN, was just SITTING OVER THERE.

"Cute laptop wallpaper," Chat snickered.

Ladybug shook her head. "Nononono, this isn't mine. This is Marinette's."

"Erm- I never said it was yours…"

"Oh, I just thought you meant that."

"It's great to know," Chat smiled, "That Adrien has a really, really great and loyal friend like Marinette. He's even her wallpaper!"

Ladybug looked away, as her face had reddened intensely. "Yeah, a great friend," she murmured, hoping to be something more than a friend in the near future.

She opened her browser, only to receive a notification from the Ladyblog.

She clicked the link and watched the newly uploaded video.

"Hey guys! Alya Cesaire here, filming for the Ladyblog!"

Marinette immediately recognized Alya in her devil costume, with Nino in his grim reaper one right behind her.

"So, I'm filming because there's this big Bloodbaker akuma fight outside, and it's a total shame that I can't watch my two fave heroes in action. Anyways, I'm currently at the Le Grand Paris Hotel's safe room-"

A loud crash was heard, interrupting Alya's commentating.

"Hey kiddos," The face of the villain they had fought minutes ago, Bloodbaker, was directed to the screen. And they had a feeling this guy was the real deal.

"So I came to crash the party, go and cry all you want because I defeated your two precious heroes."

Ear-shattering screams were heard as Bloodbaker swung his butcher knives, with an angry, zombie-like horde of Bloodbakers trailing behind him.

Ladybug quickly pressed pause as her face paled in horror.

"Oh, no."