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Alya's jaw dropped when she saw the outfit Marinette had made for Adrien. The shirt was dark green, the pants were only a single shade lighter, the boots were black with little lime green paw prints on either side.
But it was the jacket that was the real masterpiece of the entire outfit. It was a black long coat with lime green stitches and a collar that turned up shadowing his face, coupled with the black mask and gunmetal grey bandana with faux cat ears on top, one would hardly believe that this was the same guy that routinely got beaten up by ten-year-olds.
Adrien for his part had never felt so confident before, it was like the outfit was magic and gave him a boost. It felt nice. In fact, Adrien was so confident that when he saw Marinette he smirked. In the time aboard Tikki, he had come to really appreciate her.
The young seamstress blushed, she had never seen him smirk before. She hadn't expected the clothes look so good on him.
When the boys finally stopped, Marinette low-key hid behind Alya, for some reason unknown to Adrien, everyone who saw this found it extremely funny. Chloe, who was already dressed as her pirate persona, Queen Bee, and was standing nearby, took a form of pity on her captain.
"Mari, can you go wake Gabriel up? He'll want to be awake when we come ashore."
Smiling at her oldest friend Marinette nodded, as she seemed to have lost her voice for the moment, and headed towards the older man's room with plans of changing into Ladybug after she woke him.
With a sly smile, the yellow and black dressed pirate turned on Adrien, "So do you have a name for yourself? Or do we just call you Kitten?"
"You may call me Chat Noir. Your Majesty." Adrien shot back, with an exaggerated bow. By this point, Alya, Nino, Alix, and Kim, who had both walked up when they saw Adrien in his pirate suit, were all holding in their laughter.
Chloe played along and with extreme exaggeration batted her eyes, "Oh, I like this one. He knows how to flatter a girl. I think I'll keep him." That was the last straw as four of the most feared pirates on the open sea fell to the deck laughing while the rest of the crew just ignored them, used to their strange ways.
It took them a few minutes to calm down, during which Chloe and Adrien had joined in. The six of them had just stopped laughing when Gabriel approached them. Turning to Nino he asked, "When will we be on land again?"
The turtle themed pirate smiled kindly, "As soon as the captain as given you the oath." Now Adrien turned to look at his friend in confusion.
"What oath?"
"The oath of the harbor." Ladybug's voice answered. Everyone looked around before Mylene spotted the spotted captain coming out from her room, straightening a sleeve. "Every ship that lands at this harbor must have every single person aboard it swear that they will do no harm while docked. If for some reason there is a conflict the two offending members may each take a boat out on the water and settle their affairs there. This is meant to be a safe place, even the vilest of pirates would not dare break the one rule."
Coming to stand in front of father and son Ladybug continues, "Tikki brought you to this safe haven, a place that many consider home, or the closest thing to home they have. Members of us even have family in the harbor." Pausing Ladybug looks each one dead in the eye before finishing, "If either of you breaks this rule of peace, there will be no place you go that we will not find you. No hole to hide in that will not be turned into a grave. Do you both swear to keep the peace?"
Adrien didn't even think before agreeing. Gabriel barely spared a thought in his agreement. After all, one does not break a promise with the captain of the most terrifying pirate crew on the open sea.
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