Marinette slumped low in her seat, bored half to death with her history teacher's monotonous voice. He was talking about The French Revolution, but everyone who had ever seen Les Mis already knew all about that. Well, kind of.
Alya was evidently bored, too. She was making small origami fortune tellers, or at lest trying to. Alya wasn't exactly the most discreet person in the universe, and the constant crumpling of paper from her seat was enough to alert any reasonable teacher that a student wasn't paying attention.
Marinette let out a silent sigh, just waiting for the clock to reach 3:00. Then she could go home.
It was actually kind of funny: the famous superhero Ladybug, who led an extremely exciting life fighting crime, was having a horribly mundane day at school.
Speaking - or thinking - of Ladybug, Marinette couldn't help but wonder who her companion, Chat Noir, really was behind his mask. Marinette knew that, while it seemed like an easy thing to figure out, the Miraculouses that she and Chat Noir wore distorted their features, so anyone figuring out who the two young superheroes really were was impossible. Unless, of course, they purposely revealed themselves.
That got Marinette thinking. She loved having the haze of mystery surrounding her as Ladybug, but oh how Marinette suddenly wanted to reveal her identity to Chat Noir. She felt that she could trust him, now. Really, really trust him.
Marinette was so caught up in her thoughts that she didn't even realize that the school day was over until Alya was shaking her shoulder, as if to wake Marinette up from a dream.
"Earth to Marinette," Alya said, causing Marinetts to hop out of her seat almost instantly. Alya jumped back not in surprise, but to protect herself from Marinette's chair that had just flown backwards.
"Woah, no need to do that!" Alya said.
Marinette blushed. "Sorry," she said sheepishly. "I didn't mean to do that."
"I know, you were lost in your thoughts," Alya brushed it off. "You were thinking about some ridiculously handsome guy. We've all been there."
More heat rose to Marinette's cheeks. Chat Noir was rather good looking, now that she thought about it. But the two were just friends, nothing more. Marinette didn't even like Chat Noir like that. Right?
Right?
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As Alya and Marinette were walking out of school, Alya talking about some crazy conspiracy theory about Ladybug's identity, the two girls encountered Chloe, who had surrounded a brunette girl.
"Oh, come on. Harry Potter? Only losers and nerds still read books," Chloe taunted, pulling the young-looking girl's book out of her hands.
"Hey, give it back!" the girl demanded, lunging forward to grab the large book that Chloe had ripped from her hands.
"Why would I?" Chloe snickered. "The way I see it, I'm doing you a favor. You won't ever have any friends if you read." And, with one flick of her wrist, Chloe threw the large book in the trash.
The brunette girl's face dropped, and she began to weep. "You jerk!" the girl shouted. "That was my favorite book in the world!" With a sob, the brunette ran away from the school.
"Hey, Chloe!" Marinette yelled at the snooty blonde. "That's not a cool thing to do."
Chloe rolled her eyes. "Like you know anything about cool," she said. "You're a walking disaster when it comes to popularity and coolness."
"Well, at least she actually has friends!" Alya retorted.
Chloe tossed her ponytail over her shoulder. "Well, I have money and fashion sense," she said, "so who do you think is going to actually succeed in life?" With a triumphant cackle, Chloe strutted away from Alya and Marinette, Sabrina following behind her like a helpless puppy.
"That jerk," Marinette seethed, glaring at where Chloe had been standing only moments before. "Doesn't she know what respect is?"
"Girl, I know," Alya shook her head and sighed. "Some people just never learn."
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The brunette girl, Reyna, who Chloe had terrorized earlier ran down the street, uncontrollable sobs escaping her. The horrible lump of designer clothes and hairspray that was Chloe had just thrown away Reyna's favorite book of all time. People couldn't just do that without getting punished!
Reyna fell to her knees in the middle of an alleyway, unable to keep moving while her body wracked with sobs.
Reyna didn't even see the dark Akuma that was flying toward her.
The dark butterfly entered the wand that was strapped at Reyna's belt - to show she was a witch - and the girl was overcome with a feeling of dark magic.
"Hello, Ravenclaw," a deep voice said in Reyna's head. "I am HawkMoth, and I will give you revenge on the girl who wronged you, if you do something in return for me."
"Yes, Hawk Moth," Reyna replied, a wicked smile crossing her features.
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Marinette sat at her computer, absentmindedly playing a video game, when she heard a blood-curdling scream.
Marinette shot out of her chair and ran to her window, Tikki flying right behind her.
What Marinette saw was something out of a nightmare.
Riding on a broomstick, a girl with a wild blue hat on her head cackled and shot spells out of a wand everywhere.
"Stupefy!" the villain squealed, pointing her wand at a random passerby. The man flew backwards into a wall, and, when he got up, he looked exactly like...Ron Weasley.
"You know what this means," Marinette said. "Tikki, transform me!"
After a few seconds, Marinette was completely transformed into Ladybug. Without a second thought, she unraveled her yo-yo and swung out of her bedroom window.
Ladybug ran for a few blocks down the streets of Paris, trying desperately to catch up with the witch, when none other than Chat Noir dropped down by her side.
"Hello, my lady," he said, trying to kiss Ladybug's hand.
"Chat, while I'm flattered, we need to catch her, if you haven't realized!" Ladybug pulled her hand away to point to where the witch was firing spells all over.
"Right," Chat said.
The two heroes sprinted after where the girl was riding away on her broomstick and wreaking havoc upon Paris.
Many times the witch caught sight of the two heroes on her tail, and she tried to fire spells at the two. They were playing a game of cat and mouse, and, ironic as it may seem, Chat Noir was the mouse. (As was Ladybug, of course.)
"I have a possibly insane idea," Ladybug panted.
"What is it?" Chat Noir asked. Instead of answering, Ladybug pulled Chat to her and wrapped her yo-yo around the villain's broomstick. Before Chat Noir could get out a word of protest, the two were flying up to the broomstick, Chat holding extremely tightly to Ladybug. (Not that it bothered him, though.)
"Hey!" the villain shrieked when Ladybug and Chat Noir landed on her broom. Unfortunately, the broomstick wasn't meant to be stood on, nor was it made for more than one person.
The witch landed her broom on a rooftop. "Get their Miraculouses!" a deep voice hissed in her head.
"Who are you?" Ladybug asked, stepping forward a bit.
"I'm Ravenclaw," the villain, Ravenclaw, said proudly.
Without any warning, she sent out a spell towards the two heroes, trapping them in a cage.
"Shoot!" Chat Noir managed to stop himself from cursing.
Ravenclaw was just about to fly away, when the deep voice told her to get the Miraculouses from Chat Noir and Ladybug.
Just as Ravenclaw turned to try and wrestle Lasybug and Chat Noir's Miraculouses from them, something caught Ladybug's eye. "The Akuma is in her wand," Ladybug whispered to Chat Noir.
"How are we going to get out of here, though?" Chat asked, to which Ladybug just sent him an 'are you serious' look.
"Oh, right," Chat Noir said. And then, louder, "Cataclysm!" Chat Noir broke the metal of the cage, which made Ravenclaw gasp in surprise and dismay.
"How do we get her wand from her?" Chat Noir whispered.
"I know," said Ladybug. "Lucky Charm!"
"A bouncy ball?" Ladybug asked. "What am I supposed to do with this?"
Chat Noir simply shrugged. What a big help he was.
Ladybug searched around. Then, she saw it.
Bouncing off the ground, the ball hit the wand out of Ravenclaw's hand. And the cheap thing broke right away!
"You've done enough harm, little Akuma," Ladybug said, capturing the dark bug. "Bye-bye, little butterfly," she said, setting it free. And then, tossing the ball up in the air - "Miraculous Ladybug!"
"Pound it!"
The darkness faded from Ravenclaw, who turned out to be the young brunette Chloe had tormented earlier in the day. "Wh-where am I?" the girl asked, frantically looking around.
"Well, you have to be home, I assume," Chat said in response.
The girl nodded. "You're right," she said. And, picking up her wand, she dashed away.
Ladybug's Miraculous beeped.
"You better run," said Chat Noir, expecting her to agree and bolt away like she usually did.
Instead, Ladybug stayed rooted to her spot.
"Ladybug?" Chat asked. Was she going to reveal her identity?
Ladybug took a deep breath. "Well," she said, "you know how you always want to find out my identity?"
Chat nodded.
"Well..."
Ladybug destransformed.
And, standing there, was...
"Marinette?"
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A/N: Yay! First one shot is out of the way! Most of the others will be shorter and (hopefully) better than this one, probably, but...yeah!