Shall We Dance?- A Miraculous Ladybug Fanfiction

Chapter 29

“She will need to stay in bed for the next couple of days. By my estimate, she will be able to return to school by Tuesday and be completely back to normal by Wednesday. Until then, she will need to take it easy. Ladybug should only act if there is an extreme emergency.”

“Yes Master Fu. I’ll make sure of it.” There was a pause.

“I did not expect the akuma to have such an effect on her. This is something to take into consideration.”

“I think it’s my fault Master Fu,” a third voice chirped.

“What could you mean dear Tikki?”

“I think… I think when I left some of my magic behind, it clashed with Nightmare’s magic and essentially, some of it was left behind in her body even after the cure was done. This would have been like poison in her system. Fighting as Ladybug would have helped it spread faster. Mari was fine until I separated from the earrings.”

“That’s right. She woke up this morning acting like nothing was wrong. It wasn’t until she collapsed that we knew anything was wrong.” There was silence. Someone hummed.

“This is an interesting turn of events. However, I think I have just the solution.” There was the sound of someone shuffling around and then rummaging through something. When the noise stopped, she could hear him continue, “Have her drink this three times a day until she returns to school. Then she will need to cut back to only twice: once in the morning and evening before she sleeps.”

“What about Wednesday?”

“If all goes well, she should not need it but we’ll go ahead and say the same thing: morning and evening.” There was silence again.

“Thank-you Master Fu. I’ll be sure to watch over her.” There was a chuckle.

“Of course young Chat Noir. Now, I will proceed downstairs to speak to her parents about keeping her in bed.”

“I’ve already called Nathalie. I’ll be staying here until school Monday.” The silence again. She wished they wouldn’t stop talking or moving. She couldn’t keep up with the conversation if she couldn’t hear them. There was the shuffling again and this time, there was the sound of wood on wood as Master Fu started walking with his cane.

“Keep me updated on her condition. Paris will be in grave danger if we lose our Ladybug.”

“Yes Master Fu.” She heard her door open and shut and someone sat in her rolling chair with a sigh.

“Hey, cheer up kid,” a new voice said. She could practically hear Adrien thrusting his head into his hands as he replied, “Cheer up Plagg? I put her in danger. Again. Master Fu said take it easy and I just had to take her on a date.”

“It’s not your fault Adrien….”

“But it is Tikki. I suggested the date. I took her all the way across town. I took her there despite knowing that Nightmare was still out there.” There was silence again. If she knew her kwami, she was currently floating over to hug Adrien’s head before floating down to her desk to give off some words of wisdom.

“What’s done is done Adrien,” she finally said. “Nightmare was a different type of akuma. We didn’t know how the magic was going to react. Maybe it was because of her dark emotions. They were far darker than any other akuma we’ve ever faced before.” There was yet another pause. Really, she wanted to scream at all of them to stop with the pauses. “Besides, if anyone’s to blame… it’s me. I shouldn’t have left a part of my magic behind. Marinette probably would have been alright either way if I hadn’t….”

“But how would we have gotten her out in the first place,” he asked, cutting her off. “Your magic let me and Plagg into the dream. It was the only reason we were able to pull her out in the first place.”

“Yes but….”

“ALRIGHT that’s enough of that you two.” Both of them fell silent as Plagg cut in. Normally, he would keep his nose out of stuff like this but he couldn’t stand listening to his partners blaming themselves for what happened to the sleeping girl. “You’ve already said it Tikki. What’s done is done. Nothing we do can undo the past. All we can do is learn from our mistakes and move on.” Pause. Suddenly, the two of them were laughing and Plagg made a humming noise as he stared at them. “What’s so funny?”

“You! You acting all wise and stuff,” Adrien gasped between breaths. The black cat kwami let out a frustrated huff.

“Fine. See me never give advice to you ever again.”

“Oh come on Plagg. You’ve been playing the aloof card since we woke up this time,” Tikki added. “You can’t suddenly try to revert. It’s not cool.” She was sure he was blushing as Adrien asked, “Wait, you’re telling me this guy is actually wise?”

“Yep. He’s always advised the Black Cats while I had the Ladybugs. He has to have some brains in him so that the Cats could be just as heroic as the Bugs because sometimes we wouldn't find each other. Sometimes, we were in completely different places. It just depended on the situation.”

“Sometimes, we were made to fight against each other,” Plagg whispered. The air suddenly turned solemn. Adrien swallowed.

“I’m… I’m sorry.”

“Don’t be. Like I said. We can’t change the past.”

“That’s right,” Tikki agreed. “In the end, everything works out the way it needs to. Thank-you Plagg.”

“Don’t mention it.” Pause again. “Seriously. We’re never going to talk about this again.” The two of them giggled again and swore that they wouldn’t (but they so intended to later on). She smiled happily, realizing that the stress in the room was gone, and she was free to float back into darkness.