Nathaniel x reader!

Chapter 9- Where's Ladybug?

Hey guys! Remember when I put that video of Chloe on one of my previous chapters? She may seem great at times but.... Well, you all know. 😐🙄🤨
Okay, here we go!

Adrien's POV~
However distressed I was, I had to get ahold of myself. I quickly ran into the hallway, looking for a room to transform, but the akumatized Chloe/Marinette was sort of floating around, spraying water and fire everywhere. They seemed to be arguing with each other, but it wasn't affecting their speed, unfortunately. I pressed myself against a shadowed wall behind the door to Chloe's room and held my breath as they exited the room next to my right. I quietly slipped into the room after they had gone downstairs, looking for someone. I took a breath, and transformed.

Then, to my horror, Nathaniel poked his head above a turned over sofa and gasped. I squeezed my eyes shut,  praying that he hadn't seen Adrien.

"Chat Noir? How did you get here so fast?" Nathaniel asked. I sighed with relief, and was about to spit out an excuse when he cut me off. "Nevermind, nevermind. Come here! Y/n's hurt!"

"Oh! Um, sure." I leaped over the sofa, and saw y/n, the left side of her face dark red and black, and her left arm pale blue. She was unconscious.

"Can you help, or...?" Nathaniel pleaded.

"I really don't think I can, until Ladybug's purified the akuma, you know? I'm sorry, Na- I mean, yeah. I'll go find Ladybug, okay?" I was super panicky, I don't know why.

"Okay..." Nathaniel said sadly, holding y/n's head in his lap. He gave her a hug and nodded at me to go.

I sprinted out of the room and half-fell down the stairs. What the heck was happening to me? I was losing my cat balance. It wasn't good.

"Ladybug!" I called.

No answer. I left Chloe's house, searching for the akuma victims.

"AdRiEn AgReStE!" I heard a shriek, every syllable in a different voice. One tone was angry, one tone was sad. It must be Marinette and Chloe.

I rounded the corner and saw the backside of the akuma. I slipped back around the corner. A sneak attack might work out here, but where was Ladybug?? I needed her!

Lachrymose's POV~
(Just Google it)
We are angry. We are angry.

We are sad, we are sad.

It's all Adrien's fault, it's all his fault. So we are going to make him, and others feel our pain.

"Hey there ladies!" A voice calls. It is the cat, the black cat whose jewelry Hawkmoth wants. The ring. We see it.

"Chat Noir." That is his name. We say it.

We do not like each other but we are one. 

"And you are...? You know, it's kind of rude to not introduce yourself." The cat says, haughtily.

"We are Lachrymose. FURIOUS Lachrymose. Come here, kitty kitty." We say this with anger and tears. We yell, and fire and water erupt. The cat dodges, but we hit him the second time. He yells in pain, the internal pain.

"Lachrymose? You mean, like..." He appears to be considering something, but then he is finally hit with the ANGER and SADNESS we feel. At his tears, a piece of us is sad, but we do not know why, and this ANGERS us.

"Sad kitty! Give us your ring, you poor soul."

"Ladybug!" He cries in agony.

We scream. A powerful urge to take the earring off of our left ear strikes us. We are confused. Our eyes flicker, and our vision is thrown off.

More water and flames cover the sad black cat. We lunge for the ring in the fire. We have his hand in our grasp.

"Now, where is Adrien, little kitty?" We say. We want our revenge. No, we want him to love us. No, we are angry. WE ARE ANGRY!

"Cataclysm!" A voice cries, and a strange release of pressure on the left side causes us to see black.

Chat Noir's POV~
I detroyed the hair ribbon that I had seen the akuma fly into. I took a huge deep breath in relief as I saw the black and purple butterfly escape, but then realized that it could not be purified because Ladybug wasn't here.

"Pound it," I sarcastically say to myself. Where in the world was Ladybug? I thought about trying to catch the akuma, but it could easily infect me in this state. There would like be another akuma attack in a few minutes or so, but I was too exhausted to follow it without Ladybug.

Exhausted? Since when? I was a miraculous holder!!

Whatever. I decided not to worry about it for now, and instead sit down against the outer wall of Chloe's house.

"Chat Noir?! What's going on? What happened?" Marinette asked me, extremely worriedly.

"Oh, hey princess. Just save you from an akuma, that's all," I managed, not really looking up.

"Oh no. Oh no, oh no, oh no. I was akumatized! Oh God, how?" She exclaimed.

"That's okay Marinette, it happens to everyone."

"But not-! Um, yeah, sure. Thanks, Chat," she said, cutting herself off. She shook her head, like she was disappointed in herself. That's when I noticed her hair was still down. It was very pretty. I shook my head again, and stood up.

"Wait, what happened to the akuma?" Marinette asked.

"Oh yeah, that. Since Ladybug didn't show, it got away. I couldn't do anything about it because I already used my catacly- oh crap, I gotta go, I'm about to transform back!" I cried, realizing I had just about thirty seconds before Adrien Agreste made his show. I bolted as fast as I could to the other corner of Chloe's house, but 'as fast as I could' wasn't as fast as it should have been, since something was off with my ring.

I ducked around the building just in time.

"Plagg, what's going on with my miraculous?" I asked, as soon as I detransformed.

"I think you meant to ask, what's wrong with ME! You forgot to feed me!!" He shrieked.

"Oh. Sorry, Plagg. I don't have any Camembert... We were in such a hurry last time, and... Shhh! Hide!" I hissed the last part in a whisper and ran along the wall of Chloe's mansion to the opposite side, and slipped my way inside. I needed to act like I had been hiding, and also find Plagg some cheese.

Marinette's POV~
I was so upset I had allowed myself to be akumatized! And now the akuma was getting away!! I had to go purify it before it got to anyone else.

I transformed along the edge of Chloe's house, and felt the familiar confidence come along with it. I was also briefly reminded that Adrien loved this part of me. Adrien!! Shoot- I hadn't been able to summon a lucky charm and fix any damage that might have happened- what if I hurt him?!

I bolted through Chloe's house, searching for the akuma that had somehow gotten to me. I was running so, so fast, barely taking notice of the colorful puddles of blue and orange. I accidentally slipped in one and the muck got all over me. I quickly kept moving, but a moment later I cried out in pain. It felt as though someone had shoved a giant slice of depression pie down my throat and then topped it of with pure fury. I was both infuriated and so, so sad at the same time. I tried to ignore the awful feelings and kept searching for the akuma. Then I noticed Adrien in one of Chloe's kitchens. He was holding a small piece of cheese and a tiny black thing.

What?? The black thing was floating, and it looked very familiar---

No. Way.

Adrien was Chat Noir.