Miraculous Oneshots and Drabbles

Side Effects (Adrien)

It was just your average morning in Paris. The sun was shining, the birds were chirping and everything was calm. No akumas in sight.

Adrien woke up and stretched his arms out above his head, letting out a loud yawn. He nudged his sleeping kwami, Plagg, who woke up with a grumble before zipping away to fetch another slice of his beloved cheese.

Getting dressed for school, Adrien could hear as Plagg snickered at him for a reason unknown to him. The small kwami's laughter became louder and louder with every passing second.

"What?" Adrien asked, beginning to become agitated and slightly self conscious. "What's so funny?"

"Oh, nothing. You should probably continue getting ready. Look in the mirror and get rid of that bed head, you know." Plagg replied and swallowed his cheese whole, rubbing his now full stomach as he purred in content.

Adrien frowned at the vague response he had received but shrugged it off before heading into his bathroom to do his daily skin care routine and get rid of his so called bed head. He was a model after all and he had to make sure that he didn't get any spots or blemishes.

Looking into the mirror, he gaped at the his reflection in the mirror. He ran his hands through the parting of his hair and pulled some strands in front of his eyes to inspect what had happened to him.

'How am I supposed to explain this to my father?!'

He now knew what his insufferable kwami had been laughing about less than a minute before. Knowing Plagg, he probably had something to do with it as well.

His usually blond hair wasn't it's natural light colour anymore. Instead, it had turned from sandy blond to pitch black, resembling the colour of his suit when he became Chat Noir.

"Adrien!" He heard a muffled voice yell from the other side of the door. "You need to leave for school soon. You're already running late."

Nathalie.

Looking around his room, he grabbed the first hat that he saw so that he could attempt to cover his hair just in case she came inside. It was a black beanie that he'd had to wear for a photoshoot a few days prior and he was thankful that it would blend in if his newly dark hair decided to poke out from underneath.

"Plagg, why has this happened?" He asked as he stood in front of the mirror, adjusting it so that the hair underneath was hardly visible. "My hair was blond last night."

Plagg hummed and placed one of his paws on his chin, contemplating what could have possibly happened. He could vaguely remember a few of his other holders going through a similar situation in the past.

"It's simple really. You overused your powers yesterday so now you have to endure the side effects of it." Plagg explained from his perch on Adrien's shoulder.

Yesterday, he and Ladybug had to deal with an array of various akumas that had each attacked at different points throughout the day. There had been four of them in total and he'd used his cataclysm five times. That must be the overuse of magic that Plagg was talking about.

"Adrien!" He heard Nathalie shout from the other side of the door again, this time more urgently.

He quickly grabbed his bag and opened it, letting Plagg fly inside, before he ran past Nathalie and through the mansion towards the car that was already waiting for his arrival outside.

He could see his bodyguard, the gorilla as he liked to call him, sending him a confused glance through the rear-view mirror of the car.

It was unusual for Adrien to wear hats unless it was his job or, at a stretch, if it was currently winter. But right now they were in the middle of summer and hardly anyone was wearing a hat, even Nino had his hat off a lot more than he'd been wearing it.