Arianne stood backstage, watching one of her competitors playing his song. She observed every move, every note, every emotion he felt.

It was a good song, Arianne had to admit that, and it was also quite long; it lasted five minutes, while hers only lasted three or a bit more, but she tried not to think about that. She tried not to compare herself to anyone.

As he kept playing, she approached the mirror and checked her appearance  just in case.

"Ugh, where did you get that dress?" asked a girl besides her. She cocked her head to the side, to find Eloise Allard looking at her with narrowed eyes. She was another one of the competitors, and she could easily pass as Chloe's lost sister. They had the same evil and mean attitude "On a second-hand store?"

"Where did you get that face?" questioned Arianne, folding her arms "Did they have to make you a new one because your old one was so ugly? I really don't see the difference" Eloise chuckled dryly.

"I don't care what you say to me" 

"The feeling is mutual" 

"Arianne Mercier, you're up!" announced the assistant, as the guy who had been playing until then got in. Arianne smirked at Eloise.

"Now, if you excuse me, I have more important things to do than argue with you" she grabbed her violin, which had been resting in one corner 'till then, and walked towards the stage.

She scanned the crowd in search for her friends and found them, in one of the rows at the back. Alya, Marinette, Nino, Adrien and Thiago were smiling at her, and Arianne managed to smile back before taking her position.

Taking a deep breath, she started to play.

Once she was done, the room erupted in applause. Her friends were the first ones to stand up.

Arianne smiled with some sweat on her forehead, and bowed, before standing in one corner of the stage to await the judges' score that would be shown in screen. There were five judges in total.

Her score was 9-8-7-10-9, one of the highest scores so far. The room erupted in applause once more at the talent of the young violinist.

The next day, it was 7:45 and Thiago was sitting on the kitchen table, having a bowl of cereals for breakfast before going to school.

"Hey, where's Aria?" questioned Jazmin as she ate some cookies.

"Still asleep" replied Thiago. 

"Don't you think maybe you should wake her up?" asked the tiger once more.

"We still have one hour left" 

"Still. Just in case" 

"Maybe you're right" Thiago nodded, and started to walk towards Arianne's room in the hallway "Aria?" he knocked on the door, before opening it softly. In there, the girl was sleeping peacefully, while Ayu looked at her with a smile.

"The competition exhausted her" explained the kwami softly, so Arianne wouldn't wake up.

"She looks at ease" added Jazmin, staring at the sleeping girl "Maybe she should skip school for the day. She deserves some rest"

"I agree with you there" replied Thiago, before looking at Ayu "If anything comes up, let us know" the kwami nodded.

"I'll take care of her. You guys go to school"

One hour later, Thiago was walking towards school with Jazmin inside his jacket pocket. It was very weird to be without Arianne, but he agreed with the idea that she deserved to rest. She had a lot of things with her mind, with the competition and the whole Adrien thing.

"Hey, dude" Nino greeted, bumping fists with Thiago, who then bumped fists with Adrien.

"Hey, what's up?" he asked. That was always his greeting.

"Where's Aria?" asked Adrien, finding it strange that Arianne and Thiago didn't arrived together as usual.

"She needed to rest after the competition last night" replied Thiago "It drained her"

"It was worth it, though. She rocked" added Nino and his friends had to agree. She had been amazing on stage.

"What happened to her?" asked Thiago to Marinette and Alya sitting behind him in class. He was talking about Chloe, who looked as if she had been ran over by a truck.

"Maybe she's missing her BFF?" suggested Marinette, looking at her friends.

"Sabrina has been absent since yesterday" added Alya, but Thiago frowned.

"Would Chloe really be like that because of Sabrina? She uses her, I don't think she cares about her" replied Thiago, just as the teacher went by and hushed "Perdón" said Thiago in a low voice, and decided to keep quiet, since he didn't feel like dealing with the teacher.

Then, Chloe screamed, calling everyone's attention.

"What is it, Chloe?" asked the teacher annoyed, as the blonde turned to look at her.

"Someone pulled my hair!" replied Chloe, and the teacher turned to look at Alex and Myléne sitting behind the girl with a quizzical expression.

"I didn't do it, Mrs. M" replied Myléne shaking her hands.

"It wasn't her!" Thiago opened his eyes wide upon hearing that Chloe was defending someone else. There was definitely something wrong with her "It's...it's some invisible mystical being, like a Leprechaun or a unicorn!" everyone started laughing at Chloe when she said that, but Thiago, Marinette and Adrien didn't, 'cause with all the things they had faced, an invisible being didn't come as such a surprise.

Chloe then started to run because her purse was following her all around to try and hit her. Then, she was pushed onto the desk and someone pulled her hair, and then she was almost being pushed out of the classroom. Adrien and Nino's tablets were slid across their desk as if someone was walking by, and then the door was closed.

Thiago narrowed his eyes upon seeing that.

"Miss, please, I have to go the restroom!" Adrien spoke up and stood up, before leaving the classroom.

"Me too!" Marinette spoke up behind him and went off, too. Thiago was not gonna use the same excuse as they did, 'cause it would be suspicious. He also waited a bit to not look conspicuous. 

"Miss, I'm not feeling very well" said Thiago "Can I go to the nurse's office?" the teacher nodded, and he went off.

"An attack on Chloe is an attack on Paris!" announced the mayor, just as the three heroes landed behind him. Loup d'Argent, of course, couldn't make it.

"Don't worry, Mr. Burgoise" said Tigre Blanco "We'll find the culprit"

"You have our word" added Chat Noir with a smirk.

"Hey, where's Loup?" questioned Ladybug to Tigre Blanco next to him upon not seeing the wolf.

"She was ill" lied Tigre Blanco, to which Ladybug nodded.

"Chloe, my darling, we have special guests for you!" announced the mayor later in Chloe's room.

"Ladybug!" they heard the blonde's voice behind her, and she was immediately hugging Ladybug "I knew you'd come to save me!" Tigre Blanco couldn't help but chuckle upon seeing that scene.

"This never gets old" he said to Chat Noir next to him, who nodded in agreement with a silent chuckle. Both boys chose to ignore Ladybug's glare as she tried to get rid of Chloe's grip "C'mon, let's check the wardrobes" the mayor had told them that the culprit had stolen his daughter's clothes, so maybe they could find some clues inside them.

Chat Noir went to check the clothes wardrobe, and Tigre Blanco the wardrobe that used to have the shoes. In the meanwhile, Chloe kept taking pictures of Ladybug and the mayor was explaining how he had to call the biggest designers so they could make some new clothes for Chloe.

Honestly, nobody cared about that, but they couldn't say anything, since it was the mayor speaking.

After searching for a while, they didn't find anything, and Ladybug resolved to turn the video cameras of the mansion on to spot any suspicious movement.

"Have you had any runnings with anyone lately?" questioned Ladybug with a bored expression, she clearly didn't want to be there. 

"I never have runnings with anyone. Everyone absolutely loves me" replied the girl, very full of herself, and Tigre had to resist the urge of rolling his eyes.

"I beg to differ" he chose to say instead, in a low voice to Chat Noir, who snickered. Ladybug then spotted a photo of Chloe and Sabrina on the floor.

"Really?" questioned Ladybug, showing her the picture "Not even with your closest friends?" Chloe grabbed the photo and stared at it for a moment, before dropping it on the floor.

"Sabrina? Impossible, she adores me. I'm her idol" replied Chloe, and Ladybug groaned.

"Ugh, why isn't Loup here?" she questioned loudly, before approaching the mayor "Your daughter's safe here with the doors and windows locked. This enemy is invisible, but it definitely can't go through walls" Chloe hugged Ladybug once more.

"I'm sure you'll make my life perfect again!" as Ladybug tried to get rid of her grip once more, Tigre Blanco couldn't help but chuckle. The scene amused him way too much.

"Do you want me guys to take you a picture?" he questioned, and Ladybug opened her eyes wide. He was doing it of purpose, of course, 'cause he loved annoying his bug friend.

"Don't even think about it, tiger!" Ladybug exclaimed, and Tigre chuckled once more.

"Oh, that's a great idea!" Chloe nodded excitedly, and proceeded to hand him her phone. He grabbed it and snapped the picture. Chloe was smiling and Ladybug had a deadpan face, clearly not amused. Once that was done, Tigre handed the phone back to Chloe while laughing his heart out.

"Ugh, I hate you" groaned Ladybug, walking as far as way as she could from Chloe.

"Yeah, yeah, I love you, too" replied Tigre, shrugging it off, 'cause he knew that wasn't true. Ladybug grabbed both boys from the arm and dragged them towards the elevator on the hall.

"Is something up?" questioned Chat Noir, leaning against the elevator wall "You seem—"

"She's hiding something" Ladybug cut her off, making Tigre frown.

"What makes you say that?" he didn't really notice anything suspicious in Chloe's attitude, she was her usual annoying self.

"I just...have a feeling" she replied "Trust me on this" once they reached the lower floor, they approached a butler nearby. She explained the situation before going to the point "Whatever you tell us won't go any further than this room"

"Mademoiselle did have a running with someone" he said in a low voice, making the trio look at him curiously. He then explained how Chloe and Sabrina were impersonating Ladybug and Loup d'Argent, and how he was the bad guy. There was an interview with Jagged Stone going on, and they thought that Chloe was the real Ladybug, so she pretended that she actually was, but Sabrina called her by her real name, which gave away that she wasn't, and you can imagine what happened then.

"She...pretended she was me?" questioned Ladybug in disbelief.

"She really must love you, huh?" questioned Tigre Blanco, folding his arms.

"She idolizes her" corrected the butler "Mademoiselle does argue with her friend Sabrina at times, I'd even go as far as to say that is the normal, but it was...different this time. Sabrina came back the next day" he then explained that Chloe pretended that she didn't know any Sabrina, and that she was invisible for her. Cue an akumatized Sabrina.

"Sabrina is obviously the invisible person Chloe was talking about" commented Tigre Blanco "She was akumatized by Hawkmoth" his partners nodded in agreement.

"You've been a great help to us. Thanks" said Ladybug to the butler kindly, and then they walked off.

"It's not gonna be easy to find someone we can't see" observed Chat Noir, and his partners had to agree with that.

"So we'll just have to wait for her to find us" replied Ladybug logically "But we do have an advantage. She doesn't know we're onto her" as they walked away, Sabrina, who had been hearing the whole thing, dropped one of the roses in a vase to the floor, calling the trio's attention.

"The flower?" questioned Tigre Blanco, looking at Ladybug, just as the piece of hair close to her ear started to float, as if someone was grabbing it "Look out!" yelled Tigre Blanco and jumped to Ladybug's side, as he started to move the boomerang in circles, to make a shield. Some vases were thrown their way, but they managed to block them. Ladybug then invoked her lucky charm, which turned out to be glitter.

"Looking for me, Sabrina?!" they heard Chloe's voice on the stairs, and turned around to find her dressed in a Ladybug costume "I'm right here!"

"Seriously?!" questioned Ladybug angrily "You need to leave!"

"If you stop this ridiculousness right now, I might let you be my BFF again" Chloe ignored Ladybug's comment as she walked down the stairs.

"You got no friends left, Chloe" said an invisible Sabrina, holding a book in her hands "And you'll never have ever again!" Ladybug pushed Chloe to the floor as Chat Noir blocked the things Vanisher was throwing their way with his staff.

As Ladybug took Chloe away from Vanisher's view, Chat Noir and Tigre Blanco were trying to attack her, while still trying to defend themselves in the process.

"This isn't a game, Chloe!" Ladybug told the blonde, and right after she was grabbed by someone.

"It's over, Ladybug!" exclaimed Vanisher as Ladybug tried to get rid of her grip

"Not yet!" she replied "Tigre!" she threw the small jar up in the air, and Tigre threw his boomerang towards it, breaking it and spilling all the glitter in the air. Now they could see Vanisher.

As Chat Noir and Tigre Blanco were fighting Vanisher, Ladybug dragged Chloe behind the desk and told her to hide there. At first, she thought the akuma was in Sabrina's bag, but Chloe told her it was a brooch she had given her. Ladybug went for the bag first, but soon realised that Chloe was right and went for the brooch. She captured the akuma, and everything returned to normal.

Ladybug went for a fist bump, but Chat Noir and Tigre Blanco were looking at her in disapproval.

"Why didn't you listen to Chloe?" questioned Chat Noir "She was only trying to help"

"Yeah, and she even was right in where the akuma was" added Tigre Blanco, folding his arms.

"First, because that girl put us in danger, and second, she completely lied to us earlier" 

"You know, it's okay to listen to other people sometimes" replied Tigre Blanco sharply "You don't have to do everything yourself"