Miraculous Ladybug: The Lifeguard

Chapter 8 - Breathless

Ladybug broke the surface tension with her outstretched fingers, making her like a guided missile breaking the sound barrier as she dove into the pool. The momentum of her rushed but still graceful dive propelled her almost deep enough already to reach her feline companion. The smooth and water-resistant fabric of her suit enabled her to cut through the water with ease, putting wetsuits and competitive swimwear to shame.

There had not been enough time to transform into her Aquatic form, which might have been useful; she wouldn't have had any trouble breathing and her fins would have helped her reach her kitty faster. But Chat Noir need her help, now and had been underwater far to long already. And with a few powerful kicks she was finally down to him and through her blurred vision, she could tell he was definitely unconscious, laying at the bottom of the pool. Chat had fell into the deep end of the pool, which was lucky for him and unlucky for Ladybug, since it was a good few meters down.

Ladybug re-positioned herself, wrapping her arms under and around his waist. She dragged his lifeless body up to meet her, planting a gloved hand on each of his cheeks. Without a second thought, she moved her mouth to his and breathed life back into the cat.

She could feel the leather clad boy twitching beneath her, perhaps a sign of semi-consciousness, or a innate reflex of having the love of his life kiss him. Whatever the case, once she had dumped what air she had left in her lungs, she pushed off from the tiled bottom dragging the cat boy up with her, his chest to her right side with her arm around him.

As the surface was getting closer, Ladybug was getting to the last bits of her usable air. Her body was starting to gulp for air that wasn't there, causing her diaphragm to spasm uncontrollably, but she pushed on, kicking as hard as she could and paddling upward with her spare hand.

She let out a massive gasp when her blue haired head was finally out of the water, then immediately pulled Chat to the surface, laying him on his back ahead of her. Out of nowhere, the rescue flotation device that the Akuma had filled with evil energy to transform the lifeguard dropped into Ladybug's field of view.

"Grab on!" A voice called from across the pool. It was the citizen that had been akumatized, the lifeguard Jess.

Ladybug scooped her partner up again and put the float under him, leading the long rope out. Jess pulled on it, reeling the super duo. Ladybug was trying to assist but her exhausted efforts didn't yield much. At the side of the pool, with the assistance of Ladybug, Jess carefully lifted Chat out of the water and off to the side. Ladybug's blue pigtails were sodden with chlorinated water, leaving them dripping and drooped. Jess checked the superhero over. Rolling him onto his side to clear his airways.

"He's fine. Just got a some head injuries. He should come around any..." The Lifeguard was cut off by the beeping of both miraculous, indicated they only had a little bit of time before they needed to change back into civilian form.

"I need to go, but I can't leave him!" Ladybug panicked, cupping a hand over her earring. "He's about to transform back too."

Jess studied Chat for another moment. She thought to herself that the boy's injury, seemed familiar.

A little too familiar....

~Thanks for reading, honestly this is what the entire story has been leading up to. This story is kinda inspired by this post by Baraschino on Tumblr: http://baraschino.tumblr.com/post/143652196444/cats-cant-swim ~