Chapter 3: First Days are Always a Bit Under the Weather (Part 2)

Hello my wonderful readers!!! I am so, so, so sorry for the super late upload. School has not been treating me well and has taken up a lot of my time. I'm sorry I couldn't have uploaded sooner and you all had to wait three months for this, but here it is. I did make it a little bit longer because of how long you all had to wait. I hope you like it and please let me know if there are any grammatical errors or plot errors. Thank you and I hope you enjoy the chapter!!!

Oh yes I also included a sketch of what the outfit looked like in my head. Sorry it sucks because I'm not an artist, but anyways there it is.

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(Y/F/N)'s POV

After lunch, we went to Ms. Bustier's for homeroom, but then they all left while I stayed for a combination class of French and history which I alone was taking. Soon, we all met back up in Ms. Mendeleiev's class for science, but in each class I was a bit, how you would say, bored because the program back when I was training made sure everything was ingrained in my head. As the bell rang and I headed out to go to my fencing class, someone calls my name behind me. The voice belonged to none other than Adrien. Although, I just met him today and we shared our experiences as celebrities or more like he shared his and I had to give a fabricated life, I felt bad lying to him. I've put up so many personas for my missions in the past, but something about this boy is making me feel guilty. I shouldn't dwell too much into it. It may just be my downfall in revealing myself and jeopardize the mission. He is a target after all, just like Marinette. I wave towards him, "Hey Adrien. Did you need something?"

Slightly huffing out of breath, "I... Noticed you... Were walking in the same direction as I and I was curious if we might have the same last class."

"Oh... Well I have fencing as my last class."

His eyes gleam with joy, "Really?! Me too!"

"Oh wow! Maybe you can show me a thing or two," not that I really needed it, "during class. I'm just starting out." I rub the back of my neck shyly.

"Oh sure. I'd be happy to help." He gives a smile that only he can do. We both head to the locker room to change into our fencing uniforms. As we changed, I could see his toned muscles from his slightly defined abs to his biceps. It must be from being his superhero alter ego. I take my uniform to a stall and begin to change in there so that no one sees the scars all across my back. I exit the stall to see Adrien has finished changing as well and we both head out to see Mr. D'Argencourt. He begins instructing in French and then goes over to me and begins explaining the same instructions, but in English. He tells me that I will be partnered up with Adrien. "Don't worry, (Y/F/N). I won't go too hard on you. Just relax." I take in a deep breath and nod at him to show that I'm ready. We both place the masks down and placed our blades in engagement. An 'allez' was yelled out by Mr. D'Argencourt and Adrien took the first move and lunged toward me. Backing up, I parried his lunge. I begin to slow down a bit to not draw attention to my expertise and let Adrien take the first round. The buzzer sounds and we both lift up our masks and smile at each other.

"Wow! Adrien you're really good at fencing!"

Adrien rubs the back of his neck, "No, I'm not. It's just you're starting out, while I've been fencing for a while." He chuckles a bit.

"Shall we go again?"

"I'm ready when you are." I nod to him and place my mask down as he does so too. We get back into position. Another 'allez' is yelled. I lunge this time at him and caught him off-guard, sounding off the buzzer and giving me an immediate win. We step back and lift our masks up. "Nice one, (Y/F/N)! You got me when I wasn't paying attention." He gives a chuckle.

"Thanks. I know we aren't playing for points, but we both have a point each."

"Yeah, we do. Shall we make this a deciding match on who's the better player?" he asks with a smirk.

"Well, you're obviously the better player, but I have luck on my side to defend me."

"We'll see about that." Still smirking as he places down his mask. He is up to something. I place my mask down and we place our blades back into engagement. As soon as the 'allez' was said, Adrien tried to lunge at me like I did to him. Parrying his attack, I tried to riposte, but he parried it. It was a back and forth between us parrying and riposting. He was definitely moving faster than the first time we were dueling. However, he could never move as fast as me if I was going at my full power. He was moving a little lower than half my ability, basically still child's play. After about fifteen minutes of going back and forth, I decided to end it and did a feint. He parried it and lunged toward me to which I slide under and lunge my blade at his chest. The buzzer sounds. I hear gasps and cheers and look to Mr. D'Argencourt to see his mouth gaped open. I stand back up and take my mask off and watch as Adrien lifts his mask to reveal his eyes and mouth wide open and stupefied by my victory. I pull off a small blush and sheepishly rubbed the back of my neck.

"Looks like I won. I guess... Heheh..." Mostly everyone is still surprised and I look at Mr. D'Argencourt to see his eyes rolling back and falling backwards. Oh goodness, another one fainted, but at least it wasn't by my looks. I turn to stare back into the emerald green eyes in front of me. "Let me get that for you." I push his chin up to close his mouth and place my hand over my mouth and let out a small giggle. I can only begin to imagine what is going through his mind. I look over as a bunch of fencing kids are over towards Mr. D'Argencourt trying to wake him up. "Well I think that's enough fencing for today. Ready to change and head to your photoshoot, Adrien?" I look at him and he's just staring off into space.

Adrien's POV

What the heck just happened?! I just remember seeing (Y/F/N) and me parrying back and forth and he tried to hit me and I parried it. I then tried to lunge at him and he just smoothly slid under and strike me. I've never seen such fluid motion before. He can't be just a beginner and that was definitely not luck.

"...photoshoot, Adrien?" That was still unbelievable. I think Mr. D'Argencourt fainted and some of the other students ran toward him. "Adrien?" I can't move at all. I'm still replaying what happened through my head over and over again. Did he figure out that I was trying to move faster this time? But how could he keep up? "Adrien?!"

A hand waves in my face and I snap out of the daze. "What?! What happened?!"

"Well you sort of just froze in place. Did you hear my question at all?"

I rub the back of my neck as a pink tint rises across my face of embarrassment for freezing up. "Oh... Sorry, I didn't catch it. Heheh."

"Okay. Well, I asked if we should get changed to go to your photoshoot, since I don't think Mr. D'Argencourt is going to wake up anytime soon."

"Oh... Yeah, sounds like a good plan."

"Okey dokey." He gives a closed eye smile and I notice that he doesn't have a single drop of sweat on him. I take off my gloves and wipe my forehead and look at my glistening hand of sweat. How is that possible? We both walk to the locker room and I see (Y/F/N) grab his clothes and head back to the stalls to change and wonder why he went though. Maybe he's self-conscious about his body? Ehh, I'll ask him about it later after the shoot. As I finished changing, I grabbed my bag and waited for him by the entrance of the school. It's nice to have a friend that has some of the same experiences as me, someone I can truly connect with. I hear the door to the locker room open and I wave my hand toward (Y/F/N) to let him know I was at the entrance. He gave that closed-eye smile again, the one that I and others have associated him with. He skips over to me like a little kid. Maybe that's why all the girls fall for him. He's just like a little boy with no care in his life other than having fun. I wish my life could be like that. He finally reached me, "Hey Adrien! Sorry to keep you waiting." He looked down a bit and a slight pink of embarrassment for keeping me waiting.

I lean down a bit because he's almost a head shorter than me and place my hand on his shoulder. "Don't worry about it, (Y/F/N)! You're fine! It wasn't really that long anyways."

He looks up and into my eyes and I now have more time to see his (E/C) eyes. The shimmer in his eyes like a shining star and sparkling like the masked, silent helper yesterday. I could look at them all day, but a hand waved in my face. "Wha... Oh sorry, (Y/F/N). It's just your eyes are unlike any I've seen before. I can see why every girl and some guys feel like they are in a trance when they look at you. Heheh." I close my eyes and rubbed the back of my neck like I always do when I'm nervous. When I opened them to see (Y/F/N), I saw his face was a shade darker. "You ready to go?" I asked and he nodded in reply. We then walked toward the park where Vincent was setting up the photo shoot around the fountain. "Hello, Vincent. Sorry, I'm a bit late. I wanted to bring a friend to keep me company."

He turned to see (Y/F/N) and had wide eyes. "Why of course! I couldn't rush celebrities like (Y/F/N)." He turns to (Y/F/N), "Hello, Mr. (Y/L/N). I'm honored to be in your presence. My name is Vincent."

"Oh... It's nice to meet you, Vincent. Please, call me (Y/F/N) and please I'm just here to help keep Adrien entertained. I hope I'm not too bothersome or intruding," he said, sheepishly rubbing his left arm with his right hand.

"Oh goodness!!! No, of course not!!! Please have a seat at the bench and relax. Adrien will be free for a bit at his breaks."

"Okey dokey," (Y/F/N) says with his closed-eye smile. He turns to me. "I'll be over there if you need me, okay?"

"Okay." I smile back at him and watch as he skips toward the bench. I give a sigh and walk to the edge of the fountain to begin the long, but hopefully less boring photo shoot.

(Y/F/N)'s POV

It's been about an hour and thirty minutes before Adrien was given a break. He walked over and sat next to me as Vincent was looking through all the shots. As he sat down, he slumped on the bench entirely bored and exhausted. I really don't know what to do in this situation, so I hesitantly inch my hand to his shoulder and give a gentle rub. "I guess I now know what you mean by it gets boring during these shoots. Heheh."

"Yep. The life of a model. Whoopie," he says with sarcasm and twirling his finger. We sat in silence for a bit and then Adrien turns his head and perks up. "Hey since we don't know each other that well, why don't we do something similar to twenty questions and ask each other about our lives?" he questions with a gleam in his eye.

"Sure. Do you want to ask first?"

"I can go first? Wow, no one lets me go first before. I'm usually bombarded with all the questions first and most are about who I'm in love with or if they can have my autograph or picture." There was a pause between the question and statement. His surprised expression and statement made me feel sad because I could tell that people wanted to know stuff about him that would benefit them and not truly get to know him as a person. "Thank you for letting me go first," he smiles with a soft expression.

"You're welcome. So what did you wanna ask first?"

Small time skip

It's been about thirty minutes of back and forth questioning with laughing here and there. However, we are in the deeper questions now. I just finished talking about how both of my parents have passed away when I was really young. He responds, "I didn't know. I'm so sorry."

"It's alright. It's been years now. I only play my music because of them. It's to tell me that they are always with me." I squeeze out a few tears and wipe them away. "How are your parents?" As I asked this, Adrien tenses up. "Oh... I'm sorry I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable by asking that. You don't have to tell me if you're uncomfortable talking about it." I place a hand on his shoulder and feel his tenseness melt away under my touch.

He places a hand on top of my own. "Thank you, but talking to you this whole time has made me really comfortable even though I just met you today." He then began to explain how his mother had recently disappeared last year and how life at home had drastically changed with his father constantly in his office and basically ignoring him. The only time his father had talked to him is when he needs to tell him to do better in school, extracurricular activities, or remind him of his duties as a model. I felt him beginning to shake when I was rubbing his back and watched him place his face in his hands and began to cry his emotions out. "I just miss her so much. I miss her, my father, our family... Our happy life." I pulled him off his hands and pulled him into a hug. Whenever I was down back at the base, especially when I thought about how my birth parents never wanted me, Uncle Coop would pull me into this exact hug and let me grip him tight as I cried into his shoulder. Adrien was shocked at first, but did the same as I once did with Uncle Coop. I felt him grip handfuls of my shirt and the tears soaking through to my shoulder.

"It's okay, Adrien. You have lots of friends who will be there for you. I will always be there for you." I hold him tighter and rub his back more.

He pulls away with tears still slipping down his face. "Thank you. I really needed this."

"You're always welcome." I say, smiling back at him. "Now, let's wipe these away. You still gotta finish your shoot, remember?" I giggle, wiping the tears away with my thumbs. Adrien gives a small smile and a small nod and heads back to the fountain.

"I've got it!", Vincent shouts as he walks towards me. "(Y/F/N), if you don't mind I need you to find a girl to help partner up with Adrien, can you do that for me?" I simply nod and walk around the park and spot Alya, Marinette, and a little girl.

I call their names and they wave back at me. I run towards them, "Hey girls! What're you doing here?"

"We're here to watch and play with Manon at the park," Marinette responds, nodding her head down toward the little girl. Her eyes wide open and stuttering.

"Oh I wanted to let you guys know that the photographer needs a girl to partner up with Adrien at his shoot and so I wanted to ask if one of you wanted to do it."

Alya pushes Marinette toward me and grabs Manon's hand. "Marinette will do it!!! She's great in pictures!!!" Marinette looks at me red-faced, back to Alya, and then back to be me, all while stuttering everything. I nod and take her over to Vincent to which he directs Marinette to sit next to Adrien. I walk back over to where Alya was with Manon and I hear Alya call me from the carousel.

As I begin to walk over, I see a girl wearing a dark purple dress that extend to white gloves, dark purple tights, white boots, hair in twisted pigtails that are swirled in dark purple and lavender, black make-up around her eyes that crackle out like lightning bolts, and carrying a dark purple parasol floating over the carousel. A scream is heard as the floating girl swings her parasol, releasing a gust of wind that blows away the people standing near the attraction and spirals around it to encase it in an ice dome. The girl then floats down and shoots lightning everywhere. I run off to a nearby alleyway and call out, "Arathor, shine bright!". My eyes change to an icy blue as does my hair (depending on length, your hair will be pulled back into a small ponytail like Link in BOTW, small bun like samurais, or no ponytail if it's really short.), an icy blue cloth materializes over me to cover me in a shinobi-like outfit, a darker shade blue wraps around the lower half of my face, my hands are covered by brown leather gloves, and metal arm guards, boots, shoulder guards, and a chest piece are the last to materialize. I pull up my hood and teleport in short distances called blinks. I no longer see the floating girl, but I can hear some commotion coming off thirty feet away. I blink my way up to the rooftops and spot the girl flying again and the clouds started floating in, darkening the once bright blue sky. I sprint across the roofs over to the commotion. As I arrive, I see the floor covered in a sheet of ice and the purple girl releases another gust of wind from her parasol. Both Ladybug and Chat Noir fly in the air before Ladybug latches onto a lamppost and grabs Chat Noir's tail. I change my baton into a bow and fire a few shots at the purple girl to stop the gust of wind. She takes notice of me and tries to hit me with lightning. I blink away before it hits me and hide. I try to peer around the chimney I'm hiding behind, but my attention shoots toward the two heroes flying over the roofs with cars and a bus. I run over to where they land and see them dodging cars. Well Ladybug was dodging, vaulting, and sliding under cars, Chat was almost crushed by two cars. They meet up in the center, but I notice a bus flying towards them. I jump at the bus and change the bow into a sword and slice the bus in half. I look back and they stare at me in awe.

"Who are you?" Ladybug questions. I walk over to them and they hesitate for a few seconds, but I tap a finger from their heads to mine and then back to their heads.

Sorry I don't usually talk with my voice. It doesn't keep our conversation confidential from any eavesdropper. Luckily the voice the telepathic message is going through sounds nothing like me. It's pretty neat how I can change the voice.

"How're you doing that?"

"It's one of my abilities as a miraculous user such as yourselves. You also don't have to use your voice. I basically act as a channel for us to communicate through thoughts."

"Really?!", Chat Noir chimes. "What am I thinking of?" Oh my dear sweet lady. How you wound me each time you reject me, but I will always love you.

Well I'm guessing you're talking about her and how you will always love her no matter how many rejections you receive from her. I say pointing to Ladybug.

"You're right!" he chimes. "Ladybug will always be on my mind," he says with a lovestruck smile, staring towards her. Ladybug just puts a palm against her head.

However, you know that she could hear it too, right?

"Really?!"

Yeah. I act as a channel for our thoughts remember? Were you even paying attention to when I said it the first time?

He rubs the back of his neck, just like Adrien. "No. Sorry. Heheh. My name is Chat Noir." He sticks his hand out.

It's a pleasure to meet you, Chat Noir. My name is Étoile Azur. I take his hand in mine and shake.

"If you couldn't guess, my name is Ladybug. It's nice to meet you Étoile Azur." She sticks her hand out and I shake it as well.

As they caught me up with the situation and we started walking off, a broken screen jolted back on and revealed who I know now is Stormy Weather. She reveals her plan to end summer and bring a winter to the entirety of France. Ladybug figures out that she is at the broadcasting tower and Chat just makes a joke about looking good in a swimsuit. We race to the tower through the building blizzard. Upon entering, Chat makes a notion to a cardboard cut-out of a blonde girl that looks like Stormy Weather. Ladybug brings up that the akuma is in her parasol to which both Chat and I agree to. As we approach the doors of the broadcasting room I let them know we should be careful. However, something catches my ear. Someone else's breath is out here with us somewhere. I look around us, but both Chat and Ladybug have charged through the door. Wait! However, I was too late because they already kicked in to reveal a recording. I look to my left and fall onto my back and watch as a bolt of lightning almost strike me. I take out my baton and change it into the bow and fire three shots at her to which she dodged away and ran off. I chase after her as she goes up to the roof. I see her floating in the middle and swirling a tornado.

"Where's Ladybug and Chat Noir?! It doesn't matter, I'll get their miraculous after I take yours!" She says and laughs while sending hail and bolts of lightning at me. I fire my arrows at her and kick some of the raining hail back at her. "Stop moving!" She charged a lightning shot that was certainly bigger than any other she has done, I had to actually blink away to dodge it. I blinked up and continued to blink until I was a little higher than she was. I changed my bow into a katana and tried to downslash on her parasol, but I was blown back by a gust of wind. Changing back into the bow, our back and forth of shooting and dodging continued. The door slams open with Ladybug and Chat Noir finally arriving. Ladybug calls out "Lucky Charm" to only be given a bath towel. I hear their plan that involved Chat destroying the support beams of the billboard and hear Ladybug's thoughts of wrapping her yo-yo around Stormy Weather's ankle and eventually finding a vent to push air into the towel to fly up a bit and pull down Stormy Weather. I continue to fire shots at Stormy Weather to keep her distracted as Chat runs and cataclysms the support beams. As the billboard begins to fall, I run off and see her shoot a hole into the billboard. Ladybug wraps the yo-yo around the ankle and runs off and finds the vent to get her up into the air. As Stormy Weather is dragged down, her parasol is knocked out of her hand and Chat catches it and tosses it toward Ladybug. She catches it and snaps it against her leg. The Akuma flies out and as she tries to catch it in her yo-yo, she missed it.

"Oh no! It's getting away! We can't have another incident like Stoneheart!"

I got it. I walk to the edge and pull against the string of my bow. I shut my eyes and the arrow in place as it begins to glow brighter. I open my eyes to which they are no longer with its icy blue iris, but are pure white with icy blue flames coming off the edges of my eye sockets. I fire the charged arrow at the akuma and it reveals the white butterfly. That takes care of the akuma, but I can't repair any of the damage.

"Leave that to me. Miraculous Ladybug!" she yells and throws the towel in the air to fix all the damage done to Paris. The towel spins and sparkling ladybugs flood out to erase the dark clouds and fix all the damages to the buildings and cars. We all meet at the center of the rooftop, both Ladybug and Chat Noir have their fists together. They turn their head to me and nod their heads for me to come over.

What am I supposed to do?

"You just fist bump with us and say 'pound it'. It's our thing after every victory." I place my fist along theirs and we all yell "pound it" or to be specific, they both yelled "pound it", while I was speaking to them through telepathic messages. I hear beeps and look at their miraculouses. I guess physical miraculouses have different conditions then a bonded one. "Well that's our time to leave. Bug out!" With that, Ladybug swings off and leaves me with Chat Noir.

Chat you better go too. I'll take care of her.

"Okay. Thanks, Étoile. Till we meet again." He bows and jumps away. I walk the girl back into the building before I left to go back to the alleyway next to the park. I detransform and notice both Adrien and Marinette are back at the park doing more shots with Vincent. Wow, it's truly amazing that they don't realize they love each other. I spot Alya and Manon and head over to them.

"Hey girls! I'm glad to see you're both safe and out of the ice dome." I say while walking to them.

"It was so scary! Ladybug couldn't break the ice. But Alya kept me happy with her stories," Manon said, swinging Alya's arm.

"Of course Ladybug will save the day. She's Ladybug, she always does and never gives up on us!" Alya cheers and fistbumps the air.

Remembering that I have to meet Master Fu, "Hey Alya, can you tell Adrien that I just remembered that I have to plan out a concert happening later in the week?"

"Of course! I can't wait to see you play live!"

"Thanks, Alya!" I hug her and jog off. Once I'm somewhere without anybody nearby, "Longg, can you please take me to Master Fu."

Longg slips out of my bag, "Of course. Just follow my directions."

Small time skip

I'm in front of a door that has the depiction of bamboo on it. I knock on the door and hear an elderly man softly say, "Come in." As I enter, my gaze falls upon the elderly man I saved yesterday. "Hello, (Y/F/N)."

"Hello, Master Fu."

"Please come sit." I approach him and sit cross legged in front of him. "May I ask for the reason for this visit?"

"Yes. I've come to return Longg." I hold out the miraculous box toward him.

"Why? You are worthy of owning it and will be of great aid to Ladybug and Chat Noir."

"I'm sorry, Master Fu, but I guess you didn't notice something about me."

"What might that be?"

"This." Arathor show yourself to Master Fu.

I shall, (Y/F/N). A white and blue light comes out of my chest and forms into Arathor's visual form.

"It cannot be. The star miraculous has been said to be lost for millennia."

"Hello, guardian. I was thought to have been lost, but I have been through galaxies along with my counterpart, until I finally crashed near (Y/F/N)."

"I see. Where is the wormhole miraculous?"

"They are still soaring through space. I lost connection with them when I crashed."

"Interesting. Knowing the location of one of the lost miraculous is nice, but knowing that it is in good hands is very pleasing."

"Indeed. I'm very lucky to be placed in (Y/F/N)'s hands. What has happened to Nooroo? Why are the akumatized people looking for the ladybug and cat miraculous? Why are some of the miraculous with you and not back at the temple?"

"Ahhh... There's a lot you have missed since your disappearance. Two of the miraculous have been lost since your disappearance. One being the butterfly miraculous and the other being the peacock miraculous. The Guardian's temple has been long since destroyed after something I had done and so the guardians before me told me to take whatever miraculous we still had and to run away as far as I could. However, whoever has the butterfly miraculous is also here in Paris. I believe he knows quite a bit about the miraculous and intends to gain both the ladybug and cat miraculous to unite them for their ultimate power."

"That is indeed the most likely reason for anyone to bring those two miraculous together. We need to stop whoever they are or else they could bring chaos to the entire world."

"How will we find them?"

"I have no idea. (Y/F/N) and I will discuss a plan on how to discover their location or clues that can lead us to them."

"Okay. This sounds like a plan." Master Fu turns to me, "I understand now why you can't accept Longg. May I ask why you have come to Paris?"

"Paris is one of the great cities of inspiration for any artist and after losing my parents, I needed a new place for inspiration."

"I see. Well, I'm happy that you will be able to accompany Ladybug and Chat Noir in their mission to defeat Hawkmoth and end the destruction of Paris." He then pushes the buttons on his phonograph in a pattern that I memorize. The top lifts and opens up to reveal the miraculous box to which he places the dragon miraculous back in.

"I will help them in any way they need me. I must be going now."

The phonograph closes and he turns back towards me. "Yes, till we meet again."

I bow and Arathor flies back into my chest. I leave and head back to my apartment. I complete my homework and get ready for bed. "How will we find out Hawkmoth's location?"

I'm not sure yet, but we will figure out something soon enough.

"Okay. Good night, Arathor."

Good night, (Y/F/N).

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Thank you all again for reading my chapter!!! I apologize again for the super late upload, but I hope you liked it and I hope I can write a bunch more before school starts again. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to comment them in the chapter or pm me. I always love to hear from you all. I hope you have a good morning, afternoon, evening, and night.

~BP

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