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"Mister Bug, it's growing on me!" I scream, terrified with tears running down my face.

His bright green eyes look at my arm. Dark black energy is seen through my skin, running through my veins, from my arm all the way down to my feet. The dark energy is no doubt coming from the cat miraculous, but no matter what I try, I can't get it off.

"I know, Lady Noir," He whispers to me, reaching out and holding my face. "This will be over soon milady, I promise."

I look at him and start crying even more. The Ladybug miraculous has infected his face similar to mine. Black energy flows through the veins in his face from his earrings. They shoot across his face, one even through his eye, which is now a glowing a bright green which is seen through the dark. He too cannot seem to take the ladybug miraculous off.

"Are we... are we really going to di-"

"Don't think about that!" Mister Bug interrupts me. "I-I don't know."

I hold him tightly and pull him close to me. "If this is the end, I... I want to tell you something."

He quietly gasps. "Are you sure, Lady Noir?"

I nod, tears running down my cheeks.

"I... I have something to say too," he mumbles.

"On three, we both say it, okay?" I suggest, smiling through my fear.

He freezes, but then quietly nods.

"One..."

"Two..."

I take a deep breath, feeling my body burn from the dark magic flowing in me. I don't have much longer.

"...Three."

Kwami Swap [Miraculous]
Melody Wyatt

Marinette / Lady Noir's POV

"Honestly, I get why you never have time to make jokes milady!" Mister Bug calls out as we run across rooftops.

We're running back home after we just fought a super intense battle with Reflekdoll. We switched our kwamis because of a mix up with the miraculous, but I'm sure everything is okay now. Chat Noir is now going by 'Mister Bug', and I'm going by 'Lady Noir'. It's fun being a cat, but I can't wait to get my ladybug miraculous back! (Plus, Chat Noir's kwami drives me crazy.)

"We both have our rolls, huh buggaboy?" I tease him, with a wink. His face turns bright red.

I just giggle. Mister Bug rolls his eyes with a smile, and we both part ways, jumping into separate alleyways to detransform.

"Plagg, claws in!" I shout, and a bright green light fills the alleyway.

"I'm tired..." The tiny kwami, Plagg, whines as he collapses in my cupped hands.

I just giggle and roll my eyes. "Whatever. I hope a macaroon will do!"

"Mmm, don't mind if I do!" The black kwami squeaks, and takes a giant bite of my macaroon.

After a little while of him eating, I tug on the cat miraculous and plan to hand it to him, but gasp. A feeling of dread climbs up my body.

"Marinette?" Plagg asks with a mouth full of macaroon. "What's wrong?"

I tug on the ring again, and again, but nothing happens. My face goes pale.

"Plagg, the ring..." I bite my lip and look at him nervously. "... i-it won't come off!"

Plagg flies over to my finger and tugs on it slightly. "Sure it will!"

I hold my hand out infront of me and spread my fingers out. "Please, go ahead."

"You just need to..." Plagg's voice trials off as he continues to tug at the ring with little luck. "Um...okay. It's never done that before."

"H-Huh?!" I stutter, feeling my heart pound from nervousment.

"Transform back into Lady Noir and try to find Chat Noir - uh, I mean - Mister Bug," Plagg suggests.

"Alright, that seems to be the only option we have here," I reply quietly, looking away. "Plagg, claws out."

The bright green light returns once again, and I hold my hands out in front of me. They're covered in the black leather I just fought Reflekdoll in. I squeeze my hands tightly and sigh nervously. I hope I don't accidentally see Mister Bug detransform.

I extend my baton and fling myself high in the air, scanning my surroundings for the familiar red and black polka-dot pattern. My face lights up when I see Mister Bug in an alley way, but that's quickly swallowed up by dread. If he hasn't transformed back yet, that most likely means he's having the same problems I am...

"Mister Bug?" I quietly ask as I lower myself down into the alleyway with my baton.

"Milady!" Mister Bug shouts, surprised but tinted with nervousness. "The earrings, t-they won't come off! I'm sorry for making you wait, it's just..."

He's apologizing to me? I feel my heart beat in my chest. Even if I don't want to admit it, he's extremely precious and I value him. I smile and sigh, shaking my head.

"The same thing is happening to me," I mutter, looking away. "Your ring... it's like it's stuck on me or something."

"What are we going to do?" Mister Bug dreads.

I sigh and hold myself. "I-I don't know. I know I'm the one who always has the plans but I just don't know what to do! Our miraculouses are stuck on each other and-"

Mister Bug's miraculous beeps.

"- you're about to transform back," I whisper, practically shaking. "Kitty, I don't know what to do!"

"Hey, last time I checked, Lady Noir, you're the one who's a kitty. Now, I'm the ladybug. So now I'll make the plans," he informs me, holding my shoulders. "Let's just go home and get some rest. I'm sure everything will be better in the next battle."

"Are you sure?"

He nods. "We'll switch our miraculous back at the next akuma fight, 'kay?"

I hold myself and look away.

"Hey, look at me milady," Mister Bug murmurs, rubbing my cheek with his thumb. "We've always been fine, no matter what challenges we face. We will be okay. I'm positive we will be!"

I look at him with big eyes. "Thanks, Chat."

He smiles gently which comforts me. "That's Mister Bug to you!"

I laugh.

Mister Bug rubs the back of his neck. "Plagg is gonna be a challenge to get use to. He's negligent and lazy, but also carefree and easy going. He's a sweet kwami once you get to know him. Promise me you'll watch over him, okay?"

I nod. "You'll like Tikki. She's sweet and kind and often saves me from acting like an idiot."

Misterbug laughs, and immediately relieves the tension in the air. It feels good to not be worried about what's going to happen. Misterbug is right, I'm sure we'll be fine. I've just got to survive until the next akuma battle. Everything will be fixed by then, I'm sure of it.

Mister Bug's miraculous beeps again, more urgently this time, which snaps me out of my thoughts.

"Okay, you sure you'll be okay Misterbug?" I ask him, not as nervous anymore.

He nods and places his hands on his hips, and tilts his head with a smirk. "Totally. See you soon, milady."

I weakly smile. "See you soon, lovebug."

"LOVEBUG?!" Misterbug gasps, with his face lighting up and holding his hands against his cheeks.

I cringe and shut my eyes tight, feeling my cheeks heat up from embarrassment. "N-No, I didn't mean that! I just meant it as a better name then Misterbug! Y-You're kwami is rubbing off on me!"

"Sure, blame it on the kwami, kitten," Misterbug teases, leaning in close to my face.

I stomp my foot and pout. "Now I see where you get your flirting from!"

"So you were flirting with me milady?"

I groan and facepalm myself, ignoring him. "See you later, Mister Bug."

"See you soon, my kitty," he teases with a charming smirk.

I roll my eyes with a smile, then use my baton to shoot myself into the sky and arrive at my house. I land on my balcony and detransform. I watch as Plagg slips out of the ring and flies right up to my face.

"I'm guessing you two couldn't come to a conclusion?"

I shake my head. "We're just going to wait until the next battle. I'm sure whatever's happening will be fixed by then."

Plagg groans and phases through the wooden balcony floor, leaving me alone.

"PLAGG!" I squeak.

I gasp and scramble down my ladder. Once I reach my bedroom, I practically turn bright red. Plagg is staring very intensely at my many posters of Adrien that I have hanging up on the walls.

"My my my, what do we have here?" He snickers, floating right up to a poster from one of his magazine shoots.

"N-Nothing!" I squeal, sliding in front of his view and holding my arms out in front of the poster so he can't see.

Plagg freezes, but then a sly smirk grows on his face. "You sure do have a lot of picture of A - I mean - this boy. How come, Marinette~?"

"W-Well, you see, I uh, was assigned a model for my art class!! Yeah! And I needed to study every single inch of his face really really closely for the portrait, because it's a life style assignment, which needs maximum detail!" I quickly spit out, but then hang my head and groan. "I'm rambling, aren't I?

"Let's try this again," Plagg snickers.

I sigh. "H-he's this guy from my class. His name is Adrien. I... I like him. I like him a lot."

"YOU LIKE HIM?!" Plagg shouts.

"Marinette, what's going on up there?" My mom calls through the floor.

I place a hand over Plagg's mouth. "N-Nothing, mom! Just watching TV!"

Plagg nips the palm of my hand and I quietly shriek, recoiling my hand and shaking it. After a while of my nerves screaming from pain, I shoot him a deadly glare. The kwami just snickers.

I just groan and roll my eyes. "Why is it such a big surprise that I, a normal school girl, have a crush?!"

"Nothing," Plagg quickly replies. "It's just incredibly, painfully ironic."

"Huh?"

"You have a schedule of this kid?!" Plagg asks, flying towards my pull-down chart of Adrien's daily schedule.

I awkwardly giggle and rub the back of my head, turning my feet inward and looking away. My ears heat up along with the rest of my face.

"Totally creepy," Plagg remarks. "I like it."

"Plagg!" I groan, stomping my foot.

He flies away and grabs a black marker on my desk, then flies back to my chart and scribbles something over a date. I let out a screech and sprint to my chart, but it's too late. The damage has been done.

"Plagg!" I whine, falling to the ground. "Why did you do that?!"

He tilts his head. "He doesn't have a photoshoot at the park on Wednesday, it's at the Eiffel Tower. You got it mixed up."

I blink twice, silent. "... how do you know that?"

He shrugs with a cat-like smile. "Are you gonna stalk him there too?"

I playfully glare at him.

Plagg just laughs and does a flip in the air. "Who knew that Ladybug was crushing on the famous teen supermodel?"

I scrunch my face up and bite my lip. "You're embarrassing me."

"Oh, really? Good!" Plagg snickers.

"Plagg!"

"Okay, I'll stop now! Sorry, sorry..."

I stand up, brushing dirt off of my jeans. "Thank you."

"...Mrs. Agreste."

I throw my pillow at him and he doges the blow while snickering. He flips in the air and flies right back up to my face, taunting me. I scoff and cross my arms.

After I grab my pillow and place it back on my bed, I grab my towel hanging up on my bathroom door and look backwards at the floating black kwami.

"Imma go ahead and shower, okay?" I inform him. "Don't destroy my room or anything like that."

He silently nods.

I close the bathroom door and lock it. I lean against the door with a deep sigh, completely exhausted from dealing with Plagg all day. Chat Noir was right, he is super reckless, but also super clever. Chat Noir and him act exactly identical in a way.

I gently tug my hair ties out of my hair and let my hair fall down loose. I run my hands through my hair and my scalp tingles, relieving all stress the from the day. I slide my shirt off my shoulders and take my jeans off, gently folding them and placing them on the marble counter next to my sink.

Out of instinct, I reach for my earrings, but quietly freeze when I realize that they aren't there. A wave of sadness hits me. I miss Tikki. I hope she's doing okay with Chat Noir.

I hold my hand out with the cat miraculous and stare at it, with my fingers sprawled out. The silver ring stares back at me and I feel a slight blush craw across my face. I'm wearing Chat Noir's ring. This ring he works so hard to protect. The ring he loves so dearly. The ring that he looks at everyday when he wakes up.

I hold the ring against my chest and smile. It's sweet. It reminds me of the one that Adrien wears at his model shoots.

I turn the shower on and step inside the tub. The water runs against my body and my hair. I quickly wash up, careful of the ring stuck on my finger. It may be stuck on me, but it's not resistant to mold. After several minutes, I step out of the bathtub and steam fills the bathroom. I dry my hair, and with a wrapped towel around my body, step back into my room.

And when I do, I want to scream. Books lay open and spread across the room. My bedsheets are messed up. Papers and pencils are tossed carelessly across the floor. My drawers are open and my closet is now on the floor. I stand frozen in my spot, but then glare at Plagg who made this whole mess.

"Oh hey. How was your shower?" He asks, floating with a croissant in his hands.

"Plagg," I scold with my teeth closed.

Plagg freezes. "Oh yeah, the whole 'don't mess up my room' thing. Sorry about that. Anyways, you got any more food?"

Welcome to my first chapter :) I swear that I am gonna finish this book. Y'all hear me?? I'm going to finish!! This!! Book!!

Anyways, I seriously liked the idea of Marinette and Plagg being friends. I wanted to see how it would be in the show but unfortunately we don't get many interactions between the two :c

Lastly, make sure to vote on this chapter! More votes = more views = more ideas for chapters! (If you're new here, I always read the comments and try and follow every suggestion for the next chapter. So, if you have an idea, comment it!)

See y'all next chapter! - Melody