You're The Music That's Been Playing In My Head: Book 2

Captain Hardrock: Part 3

By the time Ladybug and I got to the deck, we saw Chat had gotten himself chained up. LB uses her yoyo to destroy the chain just as we landed on the deck. 

"Seize them!" Captain Hardrock orders, and more chains come flying that the three of us dodged or used our weapons to block. 

She goes to make another order when we hear police sirens and turn to see a few police boats chasing after us. Including Officer Roger, who was demanding she stop in the name of the law. Stereos were blasted at them, and Chat Noir, Ladybug, and I came to their rescue. 

"Stay undercover. We'll handle her."

More stereos were sent our way. 

"I hope you two brought your sea legs," LB comments, and Chat jokes back. 

"I'll be purrfect as long as I stay dry." 

"Didn't you know that polar bears like water?" I shoot back as we make our way back onto Liberty. 

More chains come our way, and we start hopping on them to get closer to Captain Hardrock. Our weapons clash repeatedly as we try to hit each other. Growing impatient, Captain Hardrock climbs the shrouds with a laugh.

"Any idea where the akuma is?" Chat asked as we dodged more chains. 

"Dunno, but it's gotta be on the ship somewhere," LB responds. 

"In that case, a cataclysm will settle this," He goes to activate his power when I grab his hand and pull it down.

"Don't! There's prisoners down in the hold. If you sink the ship, they could drown." 

Our attention turns back to Hardrock when she starts firing at Nightengale's concert. 

"We've gotta stop this ship somehow," Ladybug says.

Chat nods, hopping up to the sails and trying to rip them. "Time this vessel anchored." 

Nothing happened, so I tried with my kunai knives and still nothing happened. My anxiety started to spike up, my mind going blank except for self-deprication, the words of me being a failure and not able to do anything ringing in my head. I shake my head, trying to focus. I can do basic attacks without messing up.

I think...

Jeez, it was getting harder to ignore these thoughts.

"No good, it's indestructible." 

Hearing this, Ladybug grabs hold of the wheel, but it won't budge.

"Liberty answers only to me seize her!" Captain Hardrock reveals.

Chat, and I charge at her while Ladybug disappears. Chat, and I start sword fighting with Hardrock, our weapons clashing once again. With each attack self self-doubt clung tighter and tighter, making me start to doubt my attacks. Eventually, this gives Hardrock the opportunity to throw us off the main mast, and there wasn't enough time to react to avoid the chains, and we were chained to the pole in the crow's nest. Captain Hardrock jumps in and smirks at us, while I lightly bang the back of my head against the pole.

Dang it, I thought I had been getting better! The past few akumatizations, I thought I was getting better again. But this just proves I can only be a good hero when on autopilot, like they had forced me to go into it with how stressful they had been, or with something else distracting me!

"My treasure will be your miraculous kitty cat and polar bear." 

She goes to grab the ring first when LB's yoyo wraps around her wrist, and she's dragged back down to the deck. 

"Don't be an impatient scurvy Ladybug, you're next in line!" We hear before the two start battling, and again we hear Officer Roger. 

"I command you to stop your acts of piracy in the name of the law!" 

"Him again?" I huff out in annoyance.

What part of we'll handle this, did he not understand?

Liberty fires at him again, and he's sent flying into a tree. While Hardrock was distracted, LB took this time to come to our rescue, and we hid. 

"If you refuse to give me your miraculous, my next target will be Mayor Bourgeois and his land lumbering orchestra! Liberty next up City Hall!" 

"Thanks, M'Lady, any longer and we would've been fish food." 

"Of course, but we've got a problem. I couldn't free the prisoners, and I have no idea what I'm supposed to do with this," Ladybug informs us, unlocking her lucky charm – a metal chain.

"It's probably just trying to tell you that you're chained to us forever," Chat jokes while LB looks around.

Last Edit - September 19th, 2022

Revised - December 7th, 2025