Later that night Plagg noticed that Marinette was being awfully quiet in the mill. Concerned he went to check on her.

Marinette?" Plagg said walking into the mill. "Princess Marinette?" There was no answer. "I just wanted to see if you were okay." He didn't see her anyway where but he did here creaking. Up top a figure was trying to hide from him. Suddenly it fell off the top.

"Ahhh! Monster!"

"No! No! No!" It said.

"Oh no help!"

"Shhh!"

"Adrien! Adrien!"

"No! No! It's okay! It's okay!"

"What did you do to the princess?!"

"Plagg! I am the princess! It's me! In this body!"

"Oh my god! You ate the princess!" He shouted. "Can you hear me?!" He called to her stomach.

"Plagg!"

"Keep breathing!"

"No!"

"I'll get you out of there! Adrien! Adri-"

She clamped his mouth shut. "This is me." He looked at her. Her nails hand become claws and were painted deep red, a red covered around eyes, she had tiny antennas, and on her back was a pair of ladybug wings. She was a hybrid creature just like Adrien.

"Marinette?" Plagg said. "What happened to you? You're...a...different."

"I'm ugly! Okay?" She cried.

"Well yeah was it something you ate?"

"No! I've been this way ever since I was a little girl."

"What do you mean?"

"It only happens at night after sundown." She sighed. "By night one way, by day another. This shall be the norm, until you find true live's first kiss. Then take love's true form."

"Oh that's beautiful. Poetry isn't really my style but that's not bad."

"It's a spell! After the witch locked me up she cast a spell on me. During the day I'm human but at night I'm a ladybug hybrid, a hideous creature. No one would rescue a princess who is a hideous creature! When the witch left the curse was forgotten."

"Oh I'm guessing that wasn't in the book huh?"

"Every night I become this." She looked at her reflection in a barrel of water. "This horrible, ugly, beast!" She smacked her reflection. "That's why I have to marry Lord Theo tomorrow before the sun sets and he sees me...like this!" She started to cry.

"Alright calm down. It's not that bad. You're not that ugly. In fact you look okay and you only look like this at night. Adrien is ugly twenty-four seven. Actually the term I would use to describe you two is strange looking."

"But Plagg, I'm a princess. And this is not how a princess is meant to look."

"Marinette, how about you don't marry Theo."

"I have to only my true love'skiss can break the spell."

"But you know, you're kind of a hybrid and Adrien...Well you have a lot in common."

"Adrien?"

"Marinette." Adrien said. He was outside. "First of all, how's it going? Good, great. I saw this flower and I thought of you because it's pretty and, well I don't really like it but I thought you might like it because you're pretty but I like you anyway. And I...I'm in trouble."

He took a deep breath.

"Marinette, I really like you because you're big and bright, and by big I don't mean chubby. You're not fat. I meant your personality. Uh...heh...heh. Sorry about that fat thing I'm on the hefty side myself, I have to blame the gene pool which- oh man where am I going with this?"

He clutched the rose nervously and went up to the mill. "Okay, here we go."

He got ready to knock when his ear caught hold of the conversation.

"Plagg, who could love a creature so hideous and ugly? I can't stay here with Adrien. I have to marry my true love." Adrien felt as if a knife had been thrusted into his heart. She was just like everyone else, she saw him as a freak of nature and nothing else. He threw down the rose and ran away. "It's the only way to break the spell, if I'm not beautiful then no one will love me."

"Well you at least have to tell Adrien the truth." Plagg said.

"No! You can't breathe a word no one must ever know."

"But Marinette-"

"Please! He wouldn't understand. No one would understand."

"What's the point of being able to talk if you gotta keep secrets?"

"Promise you won't tell. Promise!"

"Alright I won't tell him. But you should." He went outside. "Man, before this I'm gonna need a whole lot of serious therapy. Look at my eye twitching."

Marinette looked outside, she found a rose on the ground. "Where did this come from?" She asked herself. "Did...Did Adrien get this for me?" She brought the rose inside. All night she thought about weather or not she should tell Adrien the truth.

"I tell him." She said plucking the petals off the rose. "I tell him not, I tell him, I tell him not, I tell him!" She declared. "Adrien!" She said running outside. "Adrien! There's something I-"

The sun rose, pink dust surrounded her and she turned back into a human. Adrien walked up to her, he looked very mad and hurt.

"Adrien I need to tell you something."

"No need!" He said angrily. "I heard you last night."

"You heard all that?"

"Every word, who could love a creature so hideous?"

"I thought that wouldn't matter to you."

"Well it does!"

"Adrien maybe you misunderstood. Let me explain-"

"I don't want to hear it!" He snapped.  "I should've known! You're just like everyone else! And I want nothing to do with you!"

Marinette felt her heart shatter into a million pieces when he said those words. She thought that he actually cared. That he just might be...

Suddenly a group of horses and knights led by Theo appeared.

"Princess Marinette." He said.

"As promised." Adrien said.

"Here you go, the deed to your swamp which has been cleared out." Theo said. "Forgive me for startling you princess but you startled me for I have never seen such a radiant beauty before. I am Lord Theo."

"Lord Theo?" Marinette said. "Oh...You're a lot older than I thought."

"Yes but I'm very mature and rich might I add."

"Alright what did I miss?" Plagg said waking up.

"Princess Marinette I ask for your hand in marriage." Theo said. "Will you be the perfect bride for the perfect groom."

She looked back at Adrien, hoping he would say something. But he said nothing, he just kept walking.

"Lord Theo I accept."

"Excellent! Our marriage will be the greatest! We'll have wealth, power."

"Love?" She said.

"Yeah whatever. I'll start the plans for tomorrow we wed."

"No!"

Adrien stopped and turned around hoping she had changed her mind.

"Why wait?" She said. "Let's get married today, before sunset."

"Anxious are we? You're right! The sooner the better! There's so much to do." She was taken back to his kingdom.

"Adrien what are you doing? You're letting her get away." Plagg said.

"Yeah so what?" Adrien said.

"Kid there's something about her you don't know. I talked to her last night-"

"Yeah I know! So why don't you follow her home?! I don't need you!"

"But I thought-"

"You thought wrong!"