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1: Bruises

I wake up with a jolt as I feel pain between my legs. I open my eyes, seeing the night sky. I grunt as I slowly sit up looking around my unfamiliar surroundings.

I was in a... alley?

How did I get here?

Where's tiki?

Where am I?

Thousands of questions begin to cross my head, but the most important, what happened to me?

I didn't realize I was crying until I felt cold tears dropping on my hand.

Suddenly, I heard a crash far away. Everyone started to scream and shout. Everyone woke in seconds realizing what happened.

I then noticed  that someone has been akumatized. I quickly got up running out of the alley to the dark streets. Oh the pain I was feeling right now was unbearable. But I didn't stop running. This was no time to cry, I'm ladybug. I cant cry right now. I have to get tiki. I wipe away my cold tears.

Eventually, I made it to the bakery and ran up my room limping.

I see tiki already awake nervous.

"Tiki! Somebody has been akumatized we have to hurry!" I exclaimed trying to hold back tears.

"Marinette? Are you ok?" Tiki asked worriedly.

"Tiki spots on!" I transformed, ignoring her concern.

(A/N: I don't know how to make up my own akuma attack so just imagine a fight from the show. I'm sorry 😭)

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"Bye bye little butterfly" I say as I let go of the deakumatized butterfly.

"Pound it" Chat Noir says while reaching his hand out for a fist bump with an accomplished smile on his face.

I was too tired to even raise my hand so all I did was give him a soft smile and say "Goodnight kitty".

As I'm turning away I can see his smile slowly turn into a frown. Knowing he was gonna start asking questions, I head out.

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Now landing on my balcony silently trying not to wake up anybody, I tip-toe back into my room and fall straight on the bed.

"Tiki spots off" I whisper.

I transform back into my pajamas as tiki spirals out of my earrings.

"Marinette? Are you alright? Why weren't you in you in your room when I woke?" Tiki starts blabbering.

"Woah tiki why so many questions?" I giggle.

"Marinetteee it's not funny. I was worried something might've happened to you." Tiki frowns.

"Well, I was actually dow-" I started but was interrupted by tiki.

"And don't even say you were downstairs because I looked around the house and you weren't anywhere." Tiki stated.

I was silent after that. I could just tell her the truth but I'm not even sure of what happened myself.

"You do know that you can tell me anything right? You can talk to me." She says.

"Yes tiki I know but I'm not so sure of what happened either..." I start.

Tiki just gives me a look telling me to go on.

My eyes start watering realizing I don't know the answers to her questions. Or what happened to me.

Tiki sees this and hugs my chin in a effort to comfort me.

I was crying out of confusion, pain, and anger. I was angry because I was dumb enough to go out at midnight, confused because I don't remember a thing, and pained because of the soreness between my legs.

Pain between my legs...

Oh.

I started sobbing as I realized what might've happened to me.

I could tell tiki was getting more and more worried.

I begin to wipe my tears and start telling Tiki everything I remember.

After I finished telling her everything, she starts mumbling things I couldn't make out. I was in my own thoughts at the moment.

I just nodded and begin to climb down the latter down to my floor.

Checking the clock above my desk, it was 4:57 AM.

"Marinette you should get some sleep" She says.

"Im not that tired right now. I think I'm gonna go take a quick shower." I announce.

Tiki just nods considering that my white tank top and pink shorts are fully covered in dirt.

I head to my bathroom and then to the mirror.

I wipe my dried tears away and I start to take my clothes off piece by piece

I gasp seeing my body in the mirror.

I couldn't even recognize myself...

There were bruises all over my body. Mostly my chest and neck.

My hands slowly rise up to touch the bruises on my neck, they were red with a hint of purple.

I quickly turn away from the mirror, trying to remove the image from my mind, and hop into the shower to distract myself. I picked up the soap and start scrubbing the dirt off of myself.

When I was done cleaning myself, I got out of the shower and started to dry myself with my grey towel.

I change into my second pair of pajamas and walk out of my bathroom.

I spot Tiki already asleep next to my pillow so I climbed silently up the ladder and hop onto the bed.

I try to get comfortable but it seemed impossible.

Finally, I found a good position on my side and started to drowse of in my thoughts.

There's school tomorrow morning, I really don't want to go. But how do I convince my parents without a reason?

I began to think of excuses for not going to school tomorrow but none of them sounded convincing sense I never miss a day.

Maybe it's for the best? After all, I'm ladybug. I'm strong and I can handle anything.

Making up my mind that I'm going to school, I flutter my eyes close trying to fall asleep.

(PS: I am so sorry for not being online. I had completely forgotten about the existence of the story and app. But, I'm back now. I think? Anyways I hope you guys love the chapters I post! Pls read

ALSO pls pls pls feel free to give suggestions. Im always down to make new changes. Just comment. Okay that's it bye