How Do I Tell You I Love You? A LadyNoir fic

A New Battle Begins

Marinette POV

"Mama, Papa, go hide in your room. I'm gonna go hide in mine." My parents nodded and fled to their room. I ran up the steps to my room. "Tikki?" I called out.

"I'm here Marinette." She flew in from under the bed to face me.

"Tikki! Spots On!" I ran out onto my balcony and swung out my yoyo in the direction the explosion came from. As I was swinging from rooftop to rooftop I caught sight of Cat Noir on his staff. I waved at him as we landed on the room. 

"It's great to see you M'lady. I missed you every mew-ment we were apart."

I giggled. "You've gotta be kitten me." Cat Noir gasped and clasped a hand to his chest.

"Bugaboo?! Making puns?! Who are you and what have you done with my paw-tner?!"

I rolled my eyes. "Come on. Let's beat this akuma." 

"I'm right behind you." We walked into the direction of large flashes of light near the mayor's office. I cupped my hands and yelled. "Hey, HeartBreak! Why not fight with someone your own size?" HeartBreak's head snapped back at us and grinned. "What do you mean? Chloe's plenty big enough for her britches." Cat Noir and I jumped down to meet her. 

"Come on and face me HeartBreak. That is, unless you're scared." I gave her a little smirk and raised both an eyebrow and a challenge. That certainly did the trick. She growled and came swinging at me. I jumped back this time, having learned my lesson. We lured her away to the park, which was a more open area to fight. 

She changed her way of fighting for this battle. Rather than just swinging her wand wildly, she relied on her magic. That made it a little harder to hit her. 

"Well, HeartBreak, you seem to be a fur-midable foe!" Cat Noir yelled.

"Aw," She shot another beam in his direction. "Don't be a sour-puss because you're losing!" Another beam came flying at us. Cat Noir and I hid behind a nearby building. "What are we going to do? We can't get close enough to get in a solid hit." He asked.

"I'll distract her, then you cycle back around and take her mask. That's where the akuma is."

"Huh. I'm usually the distracting one." Cat Noir winked at me.

"That's code for 'You're usually the bait'," He gasped.

"Oh, how my lady wounds me so!" I shoved him.

"Just go and do your job." He broke left and I charged forward at the girl.

"Hey! If you want my miraculous, then come and take it!" And oh boy did she. She came directly at me and started aiming. I jumped around, dodging the multicolored beams of light. I continued to jeer and taunt her to keep her from spotting Cat. Fortunately, she was really easy to bait into focusing on me. I would occasionally look at Cat Noir to check how close he was. He was right behind her. But right as he was about to grab the mask a pink beam hit me in the chest.