My Little Miraculous Ladybug

Midnight Snacks

It was the early evening. Master Fu and his kwami, Wayzz, had just about closed up shop for the day. As both of them watched the old master's patient walk out of his place for the day, Wayzz turned to him.

"Master," he started, "do you believe that her fortunes will reverse for the better?"

Master Fu paused, deep in thinking. At last, he turned to the open chest of Miraculouses.

"Perhaps they will," he answered vaguely.

"Another thing," Wayzz continued. "I felt something deathly, chillingly cold come over me a while ago, as she was leaving. I don't know why, but it felt so . . . familiar. What do you think it means?"

Master Fu said nothing, but rather approached the Miraculous chest and studied the small oval-shaped purple brooch that he had successfully recaptured and kept safe for the past two months, rubbing it delicately. At last, he turned back to his kwami.

"I don't know, Wayzz," he said, a bit solemn. "But I have a feeling that pretty soon, our heroes will be forced back out into the open."

-break—

Wednesday afternoon rolled around to find that the students were still either getting the gym set up for the dance or generally milling about with nothing to do. With the official end of school coming in a few weeks, most of the teachers had relaxed the homework load on the students. This gave the students plenty of time to talk to their dates and get to know them better. For example, Kim could be seen talking to Juleka, his dance partner, very rapidly talking about getting a corsage to match her dress. Juleka smiled and blushed very bashfully; she never knew that Kim was starting having a thing for her. Max, meanwhile, asked Rose what time he should pick her up, to which she blushed, giggled, and responded, "The earlier, the better"; Ivan was seen that day practicing his dance moves on Mylene; and Nino and Alya chuckled together in good company. It was in this atmosphere of blossoming love that Marinette went up to Adrien and Plagg.

"Adrien, Plagg," she started , "would you be interested in coming over to my house for a sleepover?"

"We'd love to join," Plagg started earnestly. "But unfortunately, Adrien has other engagements to take care of."

"I do," Adrien agreed. "I have a piano lesson in thirty minutes and a Chinese lesson afterwards. Maybe if there's time, I can ask my father if I can."

"Okay," Marinette said. "Looking forward to seeing you there." And with that, she went up to Alya after seeing that Nino had disappeared, and asked her if she wanted to join in on the sleepover, to which she accepted.

"Hey," Tikki chirped, "maybe we should ask Twilight and her friends if they want to come over. You know?"

"You're right, TIkki," Marinette agreed. "We should give that a try." And with that, with Alya following them, they walked up to the girls, who, for some reason, were huddled together in a circle. Marinette cleared her throat, and everyone turned to pay attention to her.

"Twilight, girls," she started, "Tikki and I have been discussing this, and we want to invite you to a sleepover tonight at our house."

Twilight and the girls looked at each other. All of a sudden, Discord teleported next to the group.

"A sleepover?" he asked, obviously excited with delight. "At your place?"

"Sure," Marinette said. "I just hope you're okay with the games we have in store for the entertainment."

"I'm way ahead of you," the draconequus grinned. "I'm down for anything you have going on. The only question is whether they are." He motioned his paw toward the girls.