Marinette and the Magic Lamp

Diamond in the Rough

Adrien made it back to the palace with the guard on horse back. The other guards took Marinette and Alya to the dungeons using another route. Adrien quickly changed into his royal apparel and started looking for Lila.

Lila and Chris were coming out of their secret room at the end of the hall. Lila was out first and Chris decided to be funny and take his time.

"Lila?" Lila heard Adrien's voice and quickly closed the secret door, getting Chris stuck in between.

"Awk! Lila I'm stuck!" Lila ignored Chris and quickly made herself look pretty.

"How may I be of service to you, your majesty?" Lila said in her most friendliest and innocent voice, bowing and using her cape to cover Chris who was still stuck in the door.

Adrien didn't care how friendly Lila was trying to sound because he just shot out, "The guards just took two girls from the market, on your orders."

"Well, your majesty, your father has charged me with keeping the peace in Agrabah. Those two were criminals after all."

"Oh, really? What was the crime?" Adrien was still pissed.

"Lila, I can't breathe!" Chris said only loud enough for Lila to hear, but she still only smiled at Adrien. Lila kicked him back in. "Wow, that hurt!"

"Why, kidnapping the prince, of course," she answered Adrien innocently.

"They didn't kidnap me! I ran away!"

Lila gasped as if she were shocked. "Oh, my! This is terrible! If only I knew."

"What do you mean?" Adrien's tone dropped from upset to sad in under one second.

"Sadly, the sentence for the girl with the dark hair has already been carried out, as well as the brown haired girl."

"What sentences?" Adrien sounded anxious.

"The brown haired girl is going to spend life in the dungeons, whereas the dark haired girl's sentence, because she seemed most involved with the supposed kidnapping, is death-"

"NO!!" Adrien fell to the floor and started tearing up.

"-by beheading," Lila finished. This made Adrien even more upset. Lila went over to Adrien and apologized, "I am extremely sorry, your majesty."

"How could you?" Adrien looked into her eyes when he said this and then he ran off.

Chris finally got through the door. He flew up to Lila's shoulder and he was coughing.
"So, how did it go?" he asked, finally speaking normal. Lila looked in the direction Adrien ran in and answered, still smiling, "I really hate seeing him like this, but he believed it. That street rat never had a chance."

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Adrien cried on his bed. Plagg came to comfort him and Nino came in, too. He took a seat next to Adrien.

"Whoa, dude, what happened?" he asked. Adrien calmed down just enough to tell him, "It's all my fault, Nino. I didn't even know her name."

"What are you talking- - wait! "Her"?! You mean to tell me that you met a girl in the market? What happened? Didn't she like you? Did she find out that you're the prince? No, if she found out you're the prince of course she'd love you-" Nino rambled on for like that for a few seconds, then Adrien stopped him.

"No, nothing like that. You see, it started with this child staring at some bread," Adrien told him the whole story. At the end, Nino was angry. He never liked Lila since she showed up. He told Adrien to talk to his dad about it because it wasn't exactly legal for Lila to do that without the Sultan's permission. Adrien nodded.