Chapter Seven

London, England, May, 2012

"What?! What a silly reason is this!"

She didn't pay attention to little kwami while he looking at her. "I'm telling to you, Miss Emily. Is it true to leave them for this? You said he is a designer," he said while he trying to stay calm. "Don't you think is that normal to he didn't have time to take for you?"

The young woman couldn't resist the kwami's dark looks. "Okay, I know! That's why I need you!" She got to the point. "I have to go back to Paris and win my family back."

"No, Miss Agreste! I cannot allow that. You should never use a kwami ​​for your own gain. This is the most important rule of miracles." But the young woman was determined to get her family back. She had made a mistake, and she was going to fix it, whatever the outcome. When Emilie persistently didn't speak, Duusu continued.

"And how are you going to do it, Miss Agreste? How do you know that they will accept you back? Will they forgive you?"

"There's a super villain in Paris. He also wants the miracles of Ladybug and the Black Cat," she said coolly. "I'll help him and get the miracles myself."

Dusuu was more outraged by these words. He knew about the Hawk Moth. Hawk Moth, too, somehow got hold of the lost kwami, learned about the power of two miracles and for some unknown reason wanted them both. He rejected that he don't want an owner like Nooroo's. So how can he do it, he should object all.

"Miss Agreste, as I told you before, you can't use miracles for bad purposes!"

"Why don't you understand, Duusu? I want my family and that's not a bad thing!"

Duusu sat down by the window, flying. He thought that she was right in her own way, that she wanted to correct the mistake she had made. But the use of the miracles of Ladybug and Cat Noir was much greater and, moreover, could have had consequences that no one could have predicted. His instincts were telling him to go against it, but he was a little kwami after all. He did not possess such extraordinary powers as those of Tikki and Plagg. Only the word "I understand," poured out from inside and out.

Mrs. Agreste smiled. "Good. I'm packing my things. We'releaving tomorrow."

Duusu felt miserable. With the last words coming out of the mouth of the new owner, he felt worse than being punched. He could not have predicted that his fate would be similar to Nooroo. Both of the little kwami had been taken prisoner and were being forced to do things they didn't want.

Watching the pouring rain, he fell into deep thoughts. For some reason, his feelings kept telling him that nothing would ever be the same again.

***

April, Eighteen, Paris

Can you imagine Adrien Agreste is in my house right now! Because I still can't believe in my fate, and when he turns his head in other directions, I keep pinching my arm to see if I'm in a dream!

Of course, the first thing that attracted his attention as soon as he walked through the door of the bakery was the candies. He was most glad to see the croissants, because, according to his told, his father said that in order to maintain her health, he allowed himself to eat candies only ONE DAY A week. Being a perfect model also has its challenges!

He was very happy to hear that I was interested in fashion. But I didn't tell him that. He saw a few photos of her hanging on my wall, so I had to tell him the lie that I wanted to become a designer in the future and that he was my idol. Naturally, he understood. I even showed him a few of my drawings! The most he liked among them was the fluffy dress that I started designing recently. When he said it would suit me so well, I tried hard not to fall over and faint!

I realized that his father was a very protective person when he called me half an hour after we started sitting down and talking. I don't think he seemed happy about it either. If I didn't know that his father only allowed him to go out for school and his courses, I would almost have thought that he didn't want to leave me or something like that...

When I got up to say goodbye to him, Adrien suddenly paused and his green eyes stuck out somewhere. I looked into his eyes carefully and tried to decide where he was looking. When I turned my head to the left side, I was damned about my stupidity once again from the inside.

"Marinete. This is the rose... W-where did that come from?"

At that moment I didn't know what to answer. When I saw the rose that Cat Noir gave me days ago in my yellow vase that I put on my work desk, I was officially petrified. Of course, I couldn't say that the Black Cat gave it to him!

"Uhm-well, this is for me- Lyon! Yes, it must have come from a friend from Lyon. Yeah, it's definitely from my friend! If... if you like it very much, it's yours!"

I took it out of the vase and handed it to him. It was red, as the Cat Noir gave it. But some parts of it were starting to fade. I think the fading must have been due to the last words I said when I left the Eiffel with him. I felt a little strange and bad thinking about it like that.

Smiling strangely and taking the rose from me, I realized that Adrien was also interested in nature.

I went up to my room just after he left. Because I had a thank to my best friend.

"Thank you, Tikki, thanks to you I had a great day! I don't know what I'd do without you!"

"Of course you would have messed it all up, Marinette," she said with a chuckle. "You should also thank yourself, not me, you did a great job today!"

"Marinette, your night-tea is ready, dear!"

I left Tikki and went downstairs and promised to bring her a macaron on the way.

"Marinette, how was your day with your friend?"

perfect, Mom! I even gave him a flower!' so it's over, but I had to let my excitement in. "It was good, we both had a lot of fun," I said, closing the topic.

My dad joined us and turned on the TV. As usual, the subject of the evening news was Cat Noir and me. I was so glad that people liked us.

"The people of Paris are grateful to the Cat Noir and Ladybug, who saved us at the cost of their lives. The super-evil Hawk Moth will also have given up, which has not been seen in an akuma attack for a long time..."

Half an hour has passed since the news broke. When I saw the program that started with biting the macaron in my hand with happiness and peace at the same time, I found it very difficult not to drown in the tea I sipped.

"You will have an amazing opportunity in tonight's episode of Face to Face! The opportunity to talk with Ladybug and the Cat Noir! And with me, Nadia Shamack. Some interesting facts about our favorite superheroes will be revealed! Continuing to wait..!"

My heart was broken when I saw Cat Noir winked at the camera. I quickly put my macaron on the table and coughed quickly and asked my family for permission to go up to my room. How I didn't know I was going to be on the show? How could I be the last to hear it!

While Tikki was flying next to me, I quickly climbed the stairs and sat down on my bed and logged into the internet application from my phone. After typing 'ladyblog' in the search section, I glance down browsed the resulting page.

The last time Alya shared a post was half an hour ago. Under the cool photo of Cat Noir and me, there was a title like this: Stand by to find out the unknown facts about our favorite superheroes! At 21:45...

I quickly looked at the clock. 21.30 it was. If I was in hurry, I could get to the building in fifteen minutes and be there before the shooting started. Of course, the fastest way I got there was by going as a Ladybug. For this I whispered my usual conversion words. "Tikki, spots on!"

On a cold and not so dark night, I could find my way by the light of the moon and street lamps, throwing my yoyo from place to place. Even though this wasn't my first show, I don't know if it was from the cold, I was shivering. But every time I was cold, I was thinking about a few hours ago and comforting myself.

The streets were empty, as if there was a death silence. I was getting closer and closer to the studio, but there was no movement, not a single light. We had participated in this program twice before, and each time people surrounded the building.

This creepy silence was not a bode well.

There was not a single sign of life inside the building either. Fortunately, the light of the elevator button allowed me to find my way. I carefully approached the light, pressed the button, and from the thin sound that came out, I realized that the elevator was coming towards my floor.

About a minute later I was on the top floor. Unfortunately, it was also too dark here. At that moment, I remembered that I had a flashlight feature in my yoyo and after playing with a few settings, now I had a lighting. In fear, I started to walk slowly to the red door.

As I approached the door, some whispers and shouts increased, which made me more nervous. I got closer and closer to the light filtering from the lower side of the door and prepared my yoyo against any attack.

I put my head closer to the door and listened to the sound of my heart beating fast and screaming for a few seconds. Could this have been the game of someone who had been akumatized? There was only one way I could find out the answer... I plucked up my all courage, I took a deep breath and made a quick entrance to the studio by kicking the door.

There was a sight waiting for me that I had never expected... There was only a huge screen in front of me and hundreds of people waiting for help in a white room on that screen!

I'm close to them more. They were tapping on the screen and waiting for my help.

"Ladybug! Please help us!"

"I beg you, get us out of here!"

"We're stucked here!"

And dozens more cries for help... When I turned my head to the other side, the sound that I was too familiar with added to my fuss.

"Ladybug... our daughter Marinette was at home! She's alone and very scared right now! Please save her first!"

"Mom... AH... Mrs. Cheng, your daughter should definitely be safe at home, I'm sure she's a very strong girl," I called out, wanting to calm my mother down... But my mother pressed her head harder against my father's chest this time, while my father wrapped his arms around her more tightly.

I had to find super villain and hope that Cat Noir came right away before I messed up. Strangely enough, even if super villain saw me, it didn't attack, I think it was waiting for the cat.

I was curious, I was sure there would be a shooting here... It was also written like this on Alya's blog. And why were all the people here?

"Hey what's up... My lady?" The Black Cat also entered the studio just like me, he was shocked by what he saw. He looked at me with inquiring eyes, but unfortunately I didn't have any explanation for this either.

"Aha! Our guests have arrived too!" I took up my fighting position when a tall and skinny man in a white suit and black sunglasses jumped in front of us. "I'm Hacker-X."

"What do you want with these innocent people, you freak!" Cat Noir opened his stick to the end and attacked Hacker-X. But super villain was as strong as we were, he grabbed his stick by the end, turned it full circle around himself and threw him to the farthest distance. The people on the screen were watching us with fear and anxiety.

Extending my finger to Hacker-x, I said, "You can't just take innocent people prisoner! Let them be free immediately!" I said fearlessly. I thought he would be impressed by this, but it never was. When I turned my head from the screen to super villain, I saw him take a phone out of his pocket and turn the screen towards me. "You'd better get ready to go there, too, Ladybug!"

When a white light appeared on the phone, I closed my eyes in fear and opened my yoyo. But super villain's exasperated voice made me open my eyes. "Oh, come on!"

When I looked at Hacker-x out of the corner of my eye, he had turned off his phone and was looking at me angrily. I immediately left there and ran to Cat Noir.

"Akuma must be on his phone, Cat Noir! You should close your eyes when he turns his phone towards you!"

"Oh, was it precisely the telephone I was not to look at, my lady?" Immediately afterwards, I heard a high-pitched meowing sound and after opening the shield of my yoyo, I looked at the big screen. Cat Noir was teleported there.

Super villain and I were left alone. This scared me too much, but I made my first move by plucked up my all courage and throwing my yoyo towards him. I made various moves to get to his phone, where I was sure that there was an akuma, but it was in vain, the akuma was very strong. And then a voice I never expected caused a little hope to arise inside me. "Cataclysm!"

There was a crack on the big white screen first. After the whole screen disappeared, Cat Noir fell out of it. All the people seemed to have disappeared.

Hacker-x was angrily staring at Cat Noir. "Silly cat! You ruined my whole plan!"

I used my Lucky Charm to take advantage of the opportunity when super villain dealing with cat.

"A packet of rice? Alone, uncooked rice is bad for cat digestion, my lady."

It wasn't hard to think of a brilliant idea when I carefully looked at the rice packet in my hand for a few seconds. "We will not use this Cat Noir, it's a sign!"

I quickly threw my yoyo at the window, broke the glass, and went out the window and straight to the roof. Super villain and Cat Noir came after me.

"Enough of this fun, now it's time to say goodbye to your miracles."

"I think you decided on your victory too soon, Hacker-x," I said, smiling triumphantly, as he took out his phone and turned it towards us.

"What?! No!"

As soon as he took out the phone in the rainy weather, there were a few sizzles. If super villain dropped the phone from his hand in a hurry, there was no way that akuma wouldn't come out on his own.

"Good-bye, little butterfly!"

"High five!"

"Uhm, my lady? With your permission, Can I ask you a few questions?"

"Oh, of course, kitty! It's a mistake to even get permission for such a thing!"

He was ready to ask with a chuckle, but when he heard his question, I wished he hadn't asked.

"What did you do with the rose I gave you?"

His question was very clear. And his eyes seemed to want a definite answer from me. I could made him upset or happy with an answer I would have given.

"My lady, are you there?"

"Hmm, I want to exercise my right to the audience lifeline!"

"I am sorry, my lady," he said, after a slight chuckle. "I want to hear the answer from you."

Swallowing hard "Uhm... I think I gave it to my friend," I said.

"Because he needed it, and I had to give it away."

He didn't seem too upset by the answer, which I thought would upset him. In fact, he almost hugged me and thanked me. "It's all right, Ladybug, you've done your best. I know you really like to help others. So, I don't blame you."

I was relieved by what he said. "Well. Then..."

"Then, good night. See you soon!"

I knew something was wrong when he left me cheerfully and too quickly to say goodbye to him. But I had a feeling that I shouldn't question him anymore, that the most important thing was that he wasn't broken.

***

Adrien put Marinette's rose in the vase he asked Nathalie for. He was zo confused. After a few seconds of careful looking to the vase and the rose, he turned to Plagg, who was lying on his pillow as usual.

"Plagg, this rose is my perfume, so it's the smell of the perfume I put for Ladybug... you think she is the real Ladybug... Could it be Marinette?"

Plagg looked up from his rotten cheese, which he loved so much, and looked at Adrien with fearful eyes. "What!"

"No! You shouldn't even think about it for a second! How many times do I have to tell you what will happen when you find out about your secret identities! For example, you can no longer be a Cat Noir! In addition, thousands of girls in Paris are your fans, and Marinette is one of them! Don't you think it's normal that she uses it in his products!"

When he came across Adrien Plagg's meaningless reaction, he realized how wrong it was to ask him about it and tried to lighteen the mood.

"Calm down, Plagg. This is just an idea. Maybe she and you are telling the truth. Her friend gave it to her and put it out of my perfume." He got up from his desk and threw himself on his back on the bed. "I'll never find out who Ladybug is. She'll never love me!" He looked at the photo of Ladybug in his hand. He only smiled at her in the photo.