Claw Noir made it to the mansion and sighed in relief that Felix was safe. It was too easy to be relieved as he checked him the hard way with his X-ray vision.

"Hold still," Ge said before using X-ray vision just to be sure there was no curse or anything in the bloodstream in his veins.

"What the hell are you doing?! Ever heard of personal space?!" Felix pushed him off, "I'm bloody hell fine!"

"Good, no curse in your bloodstream or anywhere in your body. I had to be sure. You do know Lila will do anything to slip something up your ass if you're caught off guard" Claw Noir said.

"I'm fine, cuz. My ass is unharmed if that's what you wanna hear. My neck is not bitten, okay. You really went through a lot in deep dead slumber" Felix said before handing him a bottle of blood, "While you were hunting a liar, I designed a cape for you in hoping you'll dance with your lovely princess at the masquerade ball. You gotta look your best since you can't even alter your costume like a Dracula style" Felix said.

"Thank you," Adrien said.

"You look very pissed. You failed again, huh?" Felix knows that he lost Lila again.

"Yes, and Lie-la used Chloe as a decoy to get away," Claw Noir said.

"You should've used mind control, slowpoke!" Felix said.

"I tried that but it doesn't work on Lila! It's like she has a protection spell against all my vampire powers. Physically and supernaturally" Claw Noir said.

"Damn it. Not even a bite works, huh?" Felix asked.

"She has ultraviolet radiation lotion on her skin. I can't touch her or I get burned. It's like literally touching the sun" Claw Noir said, glancing at the stolen witchcraft book if there was something he could find to remove the protection spell from her. He opened it and searched through it.

"Gross! Love potions? Damn it, Lila, you really should know what sexuality can do in a time like this!" Claw Noir cringed before finding something else in this book, "Ah, anti-protection potion. Great, the ingredients require one vampire fang for it. I hope my new fang grows"

"At least your fang is not infected which requires you to pull it out. Or get punched really hard in the mouth for the tooth to fall" Felix smirked.

"Punch my face and I scratch your face with my claws" Claw Noir hissed.

"All right! All right! Sheesh! Pulling it out it is" Felix took out some pliers and started to pull on one of Claw Noir's fangs.

"It's a lot tougher than it looks!" Felix struggled.

"Just pull it out!" Claw Noir said.

After a couple of pulls, Felix pulled the fang out.

"AAGGHHH!!!! FUCK!" Claw Noir held his mouth from bleeding but then he indeed felt his new fang growing back.

"Sorry, Adrien, but I got it" Felix held the fang up.

"Great. Agh! At least losing a fang, another grows back. The curse won't allow me to be fangless which obviously makes sense if I choose to get rid of my fangs, the curse can still grow back new ones for a suffering eternity" Claw Noir licks his new fang.

"Yeah, now what's next?" Felix wondered.

"Cherry blossom petal, rat tail, pigeon feather, and hair from an undead. Simply easy enough. Hair from an undead, that's obviously me because I'm undead. Claws in" He detransformed so Felix can get a hair sample.

He plucks a strand of hair from Adrien and places it next to the fang, "Well, of course. People that are dead, the hair can't grow back. Especially for a Frankenstein monster too. For a vampire, that depends on how much blood you drink to regenerate as well as hair growth" Felix said.

"That's right," Adrien said.

"Cherry blossom petal I can find. Rat tail and pigeon feather should be easy for you since cats hunt birds and rats" Felix making fun of his cat nature.

"Piece of cake," Adrien said.

"Sometimes I wonder if I got your cocky side from the family. Everyone at school thinks I look like Draco Malfoy from Harry Potter because I do trouble like him" Felix said.

"Minus the magic," Adrien said.

"But Lila is the one to do dark magic," Felix said.

"Makes her our Voldemort or Bellatrix" Adrien said.

"Whatever. But at least you enjoyed the movie the other night with me. I don't want that bitch to curse me into something far worse than a vampire. A werewolf is more suffering. Now please find the ingredients before she gets ahold of me. My dog might get bewitched and won't protect me" Felix said.

"I'll do my best. Plagg, claws out!" Adrien transformed again.

"And don't let catnip slow you down" Felix snickered.

"I hope not," Claw Noir said.

"Always keep your ass in gear, Adrien," Felix said.

"I always get my ass in gear," Claw Noir said before jumping out the window.

Mice are like his prey, just like hunting criminals are his mice to catch his prey. He started to search for any rat remains to take. Of course, they don't kill him if they are diseased or dangerously injected with something if it affects dogs or cats to eat poisoned rats.

"Come to daddy, rats" Claw Noir searching for one in the alley like a great predator to smell one.

He crawls on all four while searching, "Now where could you be?" He sniffed.

"Well, well, well. Look what we got here, boys. A hooker kitten" The thug laughed along with the men.

"I. AM. NOT. A. HOOKER!!!" Claw Noir bears his claws.

"He's very pissed off. I am so scared to get clawed by a kitten with his tiny claws" They laughed.

"I'm more than very pissed off. I can do more than scratching with my claws, boys. I can bite!" Claw Noir blends in the shadows to confuse them since they can't see the dark shadows.

He got behind them and snatched one of them and bites down his neck. Hearing the screams in the dark alley the others can't see.

"Okay, this is getting out of hand!" One of them said.

"I'm your worst nightmare!" Claw Noir emerged, blood around his mouth.

"What the fuck?!" They all tried to run but the feline was too fast as he got in front of them.

"So, am I a hooker? A kitten? A scaredy cat? I expected better judgment" Claw Noir made the walk backward.

"We were joking! Honest!" They all cowardly lies.

"Joking? You don't take the legacy of Paw Noir seriously!" Claw Noir scratched the metal pipes.

"AAAAGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!" They all covered their ears.

He stopped before they got the ringing inside their heads, "Cats are very aggressive when they feel threatened. You dumbasses are so stupid to never think what happens when you face against the dangerous and deadly feline"

"Please don't kill us!" They begged.

Claw Noir chuckled insanely that these criminals have no lessons in life. No matter how hard they try, they only ignore consequences, and those consequences become their death.

"Next time you'll end up like your comrade, but now....I need this!" He snatched a dead rat.

The thugs watched on in confusion as he left. He knew something was up because he wasn't stupid that Lila had bewitched these goons to be her eyes. Thugs are not that smart to face against Claw Noir. But he now needs more ingredients for the potion. Lila can play her game all she wants but Claw Noir wasn't giving her that because he knows that she's just pissing him off so that the more he gets angry, the dumber he gets to the point Lila will have an advantage.

"I used to be allergic to pigeons but my allergies are dead now" Claw Noir jumps up to the roof, trying to find a pigeon to scare off so it's feathers will get loose.

"Come on, birds. A little roo-roo would be nice" Claw Noir tried to find any spot that attracts pigeons in this city.

He knew they would certainly be in the park so he tried there. He can't just attack them in front of the public like that. He will just need to make a lie as in needing a feather for fashion design. But soon he heard the sound of a pigeon nearby.

"The sound of birds. Lovely" He jumped down to try and not to spook them since they were easily startled before flying off, "Come here, bird. I'm just a friendly, adorable, cuddly cat" Claw Noir carefully tries to get close.

The pigeon then turns to face him but gets scared as it flaps its wings to fly, leaving its feathers behind.

Claw collected the loose feathers, "Come to kitty"

A lot of civilians took pictures of him for social media on their phones. But he just turns and hisses at them before leaving. Now he knows what it's like being in Ladybug's place when people use their phones for everything. Especially in his time when he gets annoyed with fan girls smothering him.

"The modern world sure is much wilder," He thought.

Staring at the bakery, he just couldn't stop thinking about his dark princess. He loved being her dark guardian angel but he knows he is giving her more time to heal from her mental trauma.

He jumped to her balcony, hoping to lurk inside since he loved how tough she was with that composure of hers when she had a steady heartbeat.

"Bonjour!" He was greeted by teleportation ability and can see how much she was getting used to his lurking.

"Really? Upside down greeting?" Marinette rolled her eyes at his entrance by being upside down like a bat.

"I sleep upside down, my dear" He comes down, "You really got a steady heartbeat"

"And I hope you get bored of it and go to the next victim to lurk at. Biting people's asses again?" Marinette making fun of his biting routine.

"Still going on about that?" Claw Noir crossed his arms.

"Yes. Until you admit it" Marinette sneered.

"Try me, Princess" Claw Noir grinned.

"Nope. You try me. My neck is delicious to you, isn't it? You crave blood whenever you hear my pulse every time. Is it driving you crazy?" Marinette testing his addiction to crave on biting.

"You're not gonna like it when I bite you," Claw Noir said.

"I know. You bite like a bitch" Marinette snickered at whatever many times he bites necks to satisfy his hunger.

"Mmmhmm?" Claw Noir held her close.

"By the way, the news went crazy that Ladybug escorted Chloe back to city hall for aiding a fugitive," Marinette said.

"Serves her right," Claw Noir said.

"And where the hell were you?" Marinette glared.

"Forgive me, my princess. We cats are nocturnal. I let Ladybug do ladies first for the job" Claw Noir said politely.

"That figures," Marinette said, playing with his spikey bell.

"And your dress is coming along puuuuurrrrrrrrecious" Claw Noir glanced at the dress, "I can totally kiss you"

"As if" Marinette scoffed.

"You think I'm not the best kisser just because vampires are very good at being romantic?" Claw Noir paced.

"No. You've ever had a girlfriend over a century ago?" Marinette asked.

"Never," Claw Noir said.

"Such a pity," Marinette said.

"Girls only see me as a badass, you do not see me as popularity," Claw Noir said.

"Yeah, of course," Marinette said.

"Who knows? Maybe you'll find me as a great kisser. No man but me shall steal your lips. Now then, I must go. If Chloe is exiled, you'll gain your freedom at school" Claw Noir kissed her hand before leaving.

"Good luck Prince of Darkness," Marinette said.

-

As he arrives at the mansion, he really is lovesick again whenever he thinks about her. He really did want to taste those gorgeous lips of hers but he has to be patient with her.

"So how did it go?" Felix asked.

"Easy. I just so wanted to taste her lips" Claw Noir said.

"Focus, vampire cat. You look like you were hypnotized with love sickness rather than chasing mice all day without catching them" Felix rolled his eyes so that he knew he couldn't stop falling in love again.

"I can't help it," Claw Noir said.

"Then I hope you can once you do dance with her at the masquerade ball. That is if you don't get caught in mirrors" Felix dumps the ingredients in the brewing potion.

They started to mix it up before pouring it into a bottle.

"The only question is how do we get her to drink this? She's gonna know what it is" Felix asked.

"What's her favorite drink? Has she been to masquerade balls before?" Claw Noir asked.

"No, she hasn't," Felix said.

"I can't get close to her. It's as if walking up to the sun. Is there like needle injection that still exists in your time?" Claw Noir asked.

"Yes, there is," Felix said.

"So maybe that will work. As it is injected, no protection" Claw Noir said.

"Good idea" Felix agreed.