The rise of Dark Angel

A Busy Day

Being Ladybug had started to take a toll on Marinette. Late night akuma battles resulting in her getting a few hours of sleep. Even though she has been overworking herself she still manages school life. It's a mystery how she handles everything especially when the workload has gotten bigger.

The class has been busy working on a fundraiser so they can have a class trip. They've been working during class and after school. Marinette was in charge of the fundraiser. She was chosen for her creative skills and for being class rep. She has lots of responsibilities but she tries to manage it all.

Marinette thought attending the after school meetings would be impossible. To her surprise Hawk Moth decided to be a decent human and seemed to only akumatize people at night. Only those fights are what lead to her being sleep deprived. Hawk Moth is still evil after all.

The only thing keeping Marinette from collapsing from lack of sleep is coffee. She's happy that she's awake and functional during the day. During the night is when she barely has enough energy to fight akumas. She has no idea how Chat Noir has so much energy at night when he doesn't get much sleep either. He says it's through the power of love but even love can't save you from sleep deprivation.

Today the class was finalizing everything. The fundraiser was the next day so they were very busy getting everything ready. Marinette made groups to work on different parts of the fundraiser. She split the class evenly into four groups. She made someone from each group a leader and told them to report to her on the progress they've made. She was very happy to have Alya, Nino, and Adrien in her group.

Marinette's group was in charge of getting the items ready to be sold at the fundraiser. They packaged, organized, and decorated anything that was going to be sold. They've been working hard for days. They only needed to pack the pastries Marinette was going to sell at her booth and a couple of items they didn't finish packaging yesterday. With the four of them working together they were able to finish within an hour. They labeled the boxes and put them in the area where they would be picked up tomorrow morning. They all walked back to the classroom to see if they could help any other groups.

While walking in they saw Lila walk to the front of the classroom. "Attention everyone!". Everyone stopped what they were doing and faced Lila. "I finally got the text message confirming the place of the fundraiser!". Everyone clapped. "We were given spots at the Jardin des Tuileries! I'll be sending a group message with the directions and time. Make sure to put your alarms so you're not late". Everyone checked their phones and put their alarms on. No one wanted to be late on this important event. "Ok back to work everyone!". The class went back to finishing their parts.

Marinette, Alya, Nino, and Adrien went to Nathaniel's group to see if they needed help with the posters and flyers. Turns out they still needed to print out more flyers and finish painting booth posters. Not wanting to get her bag dirty with paint Marinette placed her bag under the table. She checked the time and saw that they still had two hours before they had to go home. She went to charge her phone and grabbed her booth's poster to paint the drawing. After an hour they were done printing the flyers and almost done with the posters. Marinette was concentrated in painting pastries until Adrien startled her by tapping her shoulder. She ended up slipping her hand in a paint can.

"Sorry about that Marinette. Didn't mean for that to happen" said Adrien.

Marinette turned to Adrien and wiped some of the paint off from her hand. She used her clean hand to wipe off the paint but it caused her to have paint on both hands. "It's ok Adrien! No need to apologize. I always hand on paint. I mean paint on hands." Marinette laughed to hide her mess of words. Adrien smiled and laughed at Marinette's words.

"You're funny Marinette. I still feel bad. Let me get some paper towels for you to help clean your hands."

Marinette blushed at Adrien's laugh and from the thought of him touching her hands. She loved the idea of it but she can clean her own hands. She can let Adrien help her another time.

"Really it's ok. I'll just wash them off in the bathroom. Did you need anything?"

"Ok and yeah I was going to ask if I can borrow some black paint."

"Oh sure. I'm not using it anymore so you can just take the whole can."

Adrien saw the can and grabbed it. He apologized again before walking off to the table with the poster he was working on. Marinette smiled at how sweet Adrien was with her. She looked back at her hands and left the classroom to go wash the paint off.

Once she came back she saw that the whole class was cleaning up. Marinette thought how fast they worked while she was gone but she knew that she took a long time to clean her hands. Marinette touched the painted areas of her poster to see if it dried off. She walked to where her booth items were stored and put the poster there as well. Tomorrow morning she would pick up the items and take them to Jardin des Tuileries.

Marinette walked back to the classroom and picked up her bag. While yawning she told all the group leaders to text her the updates from their groups. They all said they would once they got home. Marinette was about to leave when Alya called her over.

"You forgot your phone" said Alya while giving her phone.

"Thanks Alya. You're a lifesaver." said Marinette

"You're lucky you have a best friend who remembers the things you don't."

Marinette smiled at Alya. "And that's why I'm happy to have you. I'll see you tomorrow". Alya waved goodbye as Marinette walked out of the classroom.

Marinette arrived at her room and went to her desk. She pulled out fundraiser papers and started working. Tikki flew out of Marinette's bag and was surprised to see Marinette reading papers and writing down text messages she got. Tikki looked at Marinette with worry as she saw her erase and write the same sentence for the past 10 minutes.

"Marinette I think you should go to sleep or take a break."

"But I need to write down these updates. Being in charge of a fundraiser is a lot of work and I don't want to let anyone down." said Marinette tiredly.

"I know but you need to take care of yourself. You can't help anyone if you can't help yourself."

"You're right. I'll sleep after I finish this. I'm almost done with the fundraiser details and then I can sleep. Ok?" said Marinette while looking at Tikki with pleading eyes.

"Ok but you have to go right to sleep." said Tikki sternly.

Marinette nodded and went back to work. She had details of all the booths, the number of items that were going to be sold, the costs of the materials, and so much more. These were needed to pay off the expenses from the fundraiser and to see how much profit they made. Also she liked to know all the details of the fundraiser. Marinette also had details about the trip and how much it was going to cost and the money they need to raise.

By the time Marinette finished with everything she saw that it was an hour past midnight. It was now Sunday the day of the fundraiser. Marinette was glad there was no akuma attack tonight. She can finally get a decent sleep. Marinette turned off the lights and plopped into her bed. She closed her eyes until-

BOOM.

A very loud explosion was coming from far away. Looks like she and Chat Noir won't be getting much sleep again. Marinette tiredly transformed and leapt into the night.

Author note:

Thank you for reading! I hope you enjoyed it. Not much has happened but next chapter is when things will get more interesting. Also Lila did something that will hurt Marinette later. Can you guess what it is? This is my first fanfic so I'd appreciate any advice on how I can improve. Until next week :)