Yay! September 1! It's Ladynoir and Adrinette's anniversary!
And thus I will post this story made for ML Bigbang 2023 last year to celebrate.
(I received the privilege of having Dori_Sketches to make the beautiful art you see and Des to beta-read my story.)
Do not re-post unless you've received permission from the artist.
Just freakin' look at them! 😍 Gosh I'm melting!!! 😆😅
Miraculous Lucid Dreamers
Chapter 1.1 – The Protector of Dreams and the Hater of Reality
“Cataclysm!”
Chat Noir raised his hand as he said the access word to the power of destruction. His hand emitted dark liquid sparks and touched the brown toy bear that the giant brown bear was holding, turning it charcoal-like and pulverizing it in the process, releasing the child from the curse of the Crookmitten. The giant brown bear then began to shrink. The giant bear’s silhouette disintegrated into the air, revealing a sniffing small boy.
Chat Noir sighed in relief, thankful that the boy was back to normal.
“Are you okay?” Chat Noir asked as he bent one knee to level the boy’s height, placing his head on his shoulder.
The little boy stopped rubbing his tears and looked at him. The little boy shook his head.
“I’m scared…”
Chat smiled softly. “Knightmare?”
“Hm-mh..” The boy nodded then sniffed. “There was a giant black monster that was eating other children’s favorite toys and he was going to eat my teddy bear too. I ran really fast to get away but my teddy tried to protect me and told me to run. But he was captured by the giant monster…and…and…waaahhh!!! I saw the monster eat my teddy alive!” The boy cried again, harder this time.
“Shh. Shh…Don’t worry. Everything’s fine now. You won’t have Knightmares for the rest of the night because Ihe Crookmitten, the unidentified Lucid Dreamer that’s been trying to ruin the peace of Land Des Rêves Lucides. A place where people like him, Lucid Dreamers, visit to escape reality. Crookmitten po already defeated the monster from your dream.”
The boy stopped crying, his eyes were evidently red and puffy. “Really?”
He ruffled the boy’s chocolate colored hair. “Yep.” He reassured him.
The monster he was referring to was the creature he had become. Just an hour ago, a giant teddy bear attacked the Playpen village and started eating all the children’s favorite toys. Chat Noir immediately knew that it was the work of turs Knightmare dust to the thing that the dreamer was holding whenever they feel a negative emotion and turns them into something else based on the thing they were sad or scared or angry about.
It’s his job as the holder of the Miraculous of Destruction to destroy the thing holding the Knightmare dust and release that person from their nightmares.
The boy suddenly looked dreaded and his eyes frantically roamed everywhere as if he was searching for something. “My teddy! He’s gone!”
Chat Noir bit his lip out of guilt. He doesn’t know if the boy would understand that he destroyed his teddy bear to free him from the curse.
“I’m sorry…but I had to use your teddy to fight the monster.” Chat told him the half-truth, biting his lower lip in guilt. “But this is the realm of dreams. You could make the exact same teddy you had before.”
The little boy desperately shook his head. “But Teddy is really special to me. There’s no one else like him.”
Chat understood what the little kid meant. It’s hard to lose something that you really cared about, things that hold special memories.
“How about this? We’ll close our eyes together, and then imagine you have your teddy in front of you. Now, you need to imagine really hard so he can find his way back to you.”
There’s a hint of fear and doubt in the boy’s eyes when he looks at him.
“Trust me…Uhm…Can I ask your name?”
“Kevin.”
“Awright, Kevin. Close your eyes and imagine really hard.”
Chat watched as the lids covered the blue hues.
A few seconds passed, a small white ball of light appeared in front of the child. Chat smiled. The white ball gently formed into the shape of a teddy.
Chat Noir whispered softly to the concentrating Kevin. “Imagine harder. Picture what your teddy really looked like.”
Kevin’s brows frowned as he followed Chat’s instructions.
Suddenly, an exact replica of the teddy popped off in front of them as the light covering it disappeared.
Chat took the teddy gently with his hands. “You can open your eyes now.”
A beaming smile welcomed the Lucid Teddy bear and was immediately squished into a hug.
“Thank you! Thank you a lot!”
Chat Noir stood up and ruffled Kevin’s hair again.
“You’re welcome. Go ahead and play with the other children. I’m sure they were all waiting for you.”
Kevin nodded and ran towards the direction of the newly rebuilt Playpen village. He joined the other Lucid dreamer kids and played with them. Some began flying while others were swinging on the ice-cream sandwich sing set. One kid bit a huge chunk from the wafer chain connecting the swing, making the kid riding it fall on his bum. They all laughed and started eating the rest of the chain wafer.
An applause played behind him.
“Another job well done, I might say, Miraculous of Destruction holder.”
“Felix…You’re wearing glasses. Did you do some paperwork in the Dream Realm again?”
The pale blonde sighed. “You can’t blame me. This is the only place where I can do my work without someone shouting next to me on how to do it ‘properly’.” He air-quoted the last sarcastic word. He shrugged his shoulders as he inserted his hands to his dark-grey dress pants. “Not all dreamers come to this place to change who they are okay?”
“Right, because you remain the same workaholic future duke of your kingdom. And you ‘love’ your work too much to just leave it alone in the reality.”
“Exactly.” He said. “Except this time, I can’t focus on my work with that giant volcano blocking the view of the Eiffel tower from my office.
Using his thumb, he pointed backwards to the unsettling view of the giant volcano which suddenly came to Land Des Rêves Lucides out of nowhere a few months ago. No one knows who conjured it. But they all want it to disappear so they could see the Eiffel tower again. Only the most imaginative dreamers could procure something that big in a dream. Just like how Marinette made the Eiffel tower years ago.
Speaking of Marinette…
“Have you seen her?” Chat Noir asked.
“Who?”
“Marinette. I was looking for her all over Land Des Rêves Lucides but I couldn’t find her.”
“Nope. Didn’t see her. I was busy working despite the lack of relaxation. Maybe she’s awake.”
That made Chat Noir worried. “But she should be sleeping by now.” He sighed. This is not a first, however. There were a lot of times where Marinette couldn’t visit the Dream Realm because of her job. Of which…he doesn’t know.
“She’s probably overworking herself again.” He sighed disappointingly and pointed his index finger in front of him. He imagined a passion fruit macaron in front of him and it popped in the dream in a second. A lot faster than that teddy bear from the boy earlier. When you’re a veteran Lucid dreamer, it’ll be easier to materialize anything to the dream realm. He ate the macaroon in one go. Delicious, he thought. Though the macarons that Marinette makes for him are a lot tastier.
“Huh… Too bad you can’t conjure your lover into this place.”
Chat smiled. “Yeah…too bad.”
In the Land of Lucid Dreams, ‘Anyone can create anything except anyone.’
“I miss her already.” Chat Noir said with a dreamy sigh, propping both hands on his staff and his chin against his fingers.
Felix made a fake vomiting noise. “Get out of here you whipped pussycat. Oh hang on a second…’you are’ getting out of here.”
“Huh? What are you talking about?”
“You’re disappearing, see?” Felix pointed him out.
He glanced at himself and saw that he was gradually turning transparent. It’s one of the indications that your presence in the dream realm is disappearing and returning to reality. It means that he’s waking up.
“That’s impossible.” He said, astonished by the discovery. ‘No one has ever dared to wake me up in the middle of my sleep.’ His room is heavily guarded from the outside.
“How is it impossible? You’re just waking up. Maybe someone’s calling for you.”
“NO! I can’t go back yet! I still need to see Marinette!” He’s been longing to see her for hours since he saw her yesternight.
Felix crossed his arms and raised an ‘are-you-kidding-me’ eyebrow at him.
“You’re overreacting. You’ll see her again tomorrow.”
“But what if I don’t?! Who knows when I’ll be able to see her again?! No! I don’t want to leave ye---.” He concentrated and forced himself to stay. But his efforts were futile as he’s getting more transparent, almost turning invisible. Then he was no longer in a dream
🎉Happy 1 year Anniversary to Ladybug and Cat Noir the Movie!!!🎉
This is my celebratory art: LadyNoir on the roof.
Gosh! It's been months since I last posted in tmblr. It's so good to be back. But I'll probably visit occasionally because there might be spoilers for S6 here already. I'm running away from them as much as possible.
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