Marinette sat in class with her sketch pad in front of her. She was drawing a princess, being that it was in a way related to the lesson. It was her constructive English class, supposedly to improve her writing. So far, it was a good class. At least for Marinette. Many of her classmates had other thoughts on it.

But the lesson of the week was The Different Types or Common Storylines. And today was the day they talked about love story cliche's. You know, like the girl/boy thinks they love someone else and their good ol pal is helping them until the girl/boy realizes they were in love with their pal all along, like in Just Friends? Why do they always kiss in the rain, like in the Notebook? Or the "I don't know who he is" cliche such as masquerade? Or love at first sight in Romeo and Juliet?

"Now tell me, why must the prince kiss the princess to break the spell?" Mrs. Bustier asked. Everyone was either embarrassed, stunned, zoned out, or ignoring her. But Rose bounced in her seat.

"Ooh Ooh Ooh! Because only love can break the curse!" She sighed. "How lovely."

"In most cases, that is correct Rose. But what-"

"Excuse me?!" Violet stood up with a snap. Everyone claimed their necks around to see her. "But what happened when the prince ate that apple and fricken choked so hard he passed out and everyone has a funeral? So we just expect another prince to come over and suck it out of his throat?! Or should it be a woman?! What if the princess that is under a spell is lesbian?! Or an asexual aromantic?! Or in love with a fictional character? She gonna die?! Huh?! Girls do not rely on MEN to wake them frown magical a coma. No! We women can do it ourselves! (Well that wouldn't work actually... erm) that prince ain't touching MY lips! No siree! He better call an ambulance because that won't be how I have my first kiss! HACK no!"

The class kinda stared at her blankly. At this point, she was standing empoweringly on her desk. Mrs. Bustier asked her to get down but she continued her speech.

"In fact in most stories love does not break the spell! In Snow White, she choked on an apple and passed out. When the prince kissed her he had somehow sucked the apple up her throat far enough for her to breath again and spit it out. In sleeping beauty, she was cursed to sleep 100s of years unless kissed by a prince's son. So that ain't true love! What about Frozen?! That was sisterly love and neither of them was princes and no kiss was involved! Moana fricken broke a curse BY HERSELF! Step it up fairy tales!" She folded her arms and sat down.

"Thank you for that.. um... explanation Violet. But we aren't thinking literal for these examples. Class, please open your textbooks to page 86." Mrs. Bustier re reigned the class to her control as they had their lesson about true love's kiss.

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"Is that..." LadyBug's eyes widened amongst her mask.

"Kim?" Chat Noir finished for her.

"I am not Kim any more! I am DARK CUPID!" He bellowed, aiming his arrow on his bow shaft at LadyBug. He fired the arrow, barely missing LadyBug as she dodged it. "And I will make all lovers hate each other! No one will love again!" He flapped his pure black wings, which were now strangely shaped with markings from cards on them.

"Ok um.. calm down?" Chat asked as politely as it could sound, while at the same time, holding a cackly tone in his voice. Dark Cupid shot yet another of his black-tipped arrows at Chat Noir, but he knocked it away with his baton. "How about we take this to the air?"

Chat thrashed his mighty wings, carrying himself to the sky with Dark Cupid at nigh. LadyBug frisked into the air, catching herself with her own delicate wings. She followed from a great distance awaiting the scene to unfold.

She swiftly gathered herself in a pace faster than theirs and readied herself above them. The two boys tangled each other in a viscous fight just below her. Chat managed to knock the quiver off of Dark Cupid's back, making him fall down to fetch it.
Chat raced him but Dark Cupid was different. LadyBug was animalizing the situation before drawing her conclusion. Based on what she'd observed, Dark Cupid's wings were more than different in appearance. He was able to fly faster than any other human she'd seen before. Faster than the flight champions in the Olympics it seemed!

Dark Cupid was at the ground in a flash, quiver and arrows in hand. He knocked an arrow and aimed it at the sky where Chat Noir was only just realizing the problem.

"Chat tumble!!" Lady Bug screamed, hoping he'd roll to the side. But Dark Cupid has drawn back his bow and released his grasp. A pointed black arrow spun into the air, lodging itself in Chat Noirs chest. The exact same spot The White Doll had stabbed him. The very center.

Chat hit the ground within seconds of this happened with LadyBug in pursuit. Dark Cupid  had shot yet another arrow at her, but she was far enough away to evade its dreadful path. She spun her yo-yo at his bow in hopes of hooking it, but had fallen short of it.

Ladybug landed with a loud thump on her feet, her wings arched above her in protection. Dark Cupid sneered, flaring his teeth.

"Chat get up." She commanded. But he didn't respond. "Come on I can't take him alone!" She said with exasperation.

"Oh. You can't take me at all. You don't have what it takes!" Dark Cupid seethed.

"Whatever. Chat come on!" Dark Cupid fired another arrow. It barely brushed LadyBug's ear, striking panic in her heart. She had just seen the shaft in Chat Noir's chest.

"He won't listen to you." Dark Cupid sneered.

"You don't know anything about him! He can fight it!" She tuer Dark Cupid's feet together and pulled him to the ground. He seemed shakes yo at the moment, so LadyBug seizes the opportunity to check on Chat. She rolled him over so his chest, as well as the arrow, pointed to the sky broadly.

"Chat noir?" She asked gently, retaining her fear. "H-how is this happening." She drew her fingers close to the arrow but did not touch it. She but her bottom lip, to keep it from trembling. She could not let Dark Cupid know she was afraid.

"M-M'lady." He groaned.

"Chat?!"

"I tried t-to fight it..." he trailed off, clamping his eyes shut.

"What?" She put a hand on his upper breast.

"Run..." was all he could say before a black void swallowed up his lips in an overpowering incasement. His eyes retracted to thin strips, and his nostrils flared. LadyBug knee something was wrong.

Dark Breaker seizes her by the back of her neck the lifted her into the sky. "Little LadyBug, are you afraid?"

She beat her wings rapidly, fast enough that one may think of her a humming bird. Anything to get him off of her. But his grip on her neck only tightened. "L-let go of m-me you c-coward!" She choked.

"Give me your miraculous first!"

"Never!" She screamed.

"Then I'll take it myself!" He bellowed ans grabbed her right ear. Ladybug kicked her legs back which caused Dark Cupid to drop her. She landed in a heroic pose. Before Chat tackles her. She barely had time to catch her breath.

"Hello, LadyBug!" His voice was evil and dark, but defiantly still belonged to him.

"Oh not you!" She groaned and kicked her feet. He scratched at her face, but her miraculous was protecting her body, and kept her unharmed. But she could very clearly see the open wound, smaller than an American Dime, in the center of his chest. It dribbled blood into her, as he stood over her.

She rolled him over so that she was onto, only for him to kick her into the air. "Get her Miraculous." Dark Cupid said lazily.

"Of course! I hate her!"  Chat Noir hissed. His words sunk in Lady Bugs heart, but she brushed it off as the akuma's magic. "I loath you LadyBug!"

"You said love wrong dummy!" She fought back, taking to the sky. Dark Cupid had vanished to prey on the civilians, but LadyBug had her hands full at the moment. She could only hope of doing this alone.

"Just saying your name is spiteful!" Chat retorted.

"Don't you mean delightful?" She teased. He swatted her side with the end of his metal baton, cracking a rib. "Ow!" She stumbled in the air. "Gah!" She looked at it, pain flooding her senses. But this was no time to worry about that.

"Get out of my life!" He said with abhorrence.

"Chat this isn't you!" She switched from fighting with fists and fire to battling with words. "I know you!"

"You know nothing about me!" He snarled.

"Funny, I just told that to the other guy." She said, breathing heavier and heavier with exhaustion. Chat Noir hissed. Suddenly a scene flashed into her mind. It was Rose standing up in class to answer a question.

"Only love can break the curse!" Rose said in her mind. LadyBug blushed at the thought of what she was about to do, but it was the only way. It was a good shot in her hopes.

"Ok kitty, come here!" She grabbed his wrist. He scratched her again but it caused her no damage.

"Cataclysm!" He called out summoning the rich power within his jeweled ring. Ladybug instantly let go of his wrist, as black bubbles of destruction coated his gloves fingers.

"Don't you dare!" She said as Chat swiped at her.

"I'm going to destroy you!" He cackled.

"Not today!" She roped him with her yo-yo. Flashes of  the other night fulgurate in her head. Chat holding her close, and taking her to fly. It seamed like some one under stood her, cared for her. Yes, she had to admit her heart belonged to him.

Chat hissed again but LadyBug has him dangling in the air.

"Come on, just a peck.." she brought him closer.

"HA!" He wrested out of the string. But Ladybug grabbed his face again. At the same time he stroked her wing with his empowered had of black magic.

The plummeted to the earth. LadyBug was desperate. She placed her lips on his as the wife's whipped their ears and cheeks. Black consumes her feathered wing. She closed her eyes, as did he. Feathers were plucked from her right wing and swept away into the updraft. His lips came clean. She opened her eyes as the curse had been lifted, and for a slight moment, she saw adoration on his face.

But it was gone in a second at they hit the ground from 200 feet in the air.