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Ladybug was first on the scene. She assessed the scene. Lila was back to being Volpina, nothing changed. Hawkmoth was really just not creative. Imagine Hawkmoth being a fashion designer. Ladybug laughed at the thought.
“Hello, my lady! Anything new?”
“Nope. Hawkmoth isn’t creative, at all.”
“Cataclysm!” He shouted out.
“Lucky Charm!” She got a replica of Volpina’s flute, but ladybugififed?
When they looked back at Volpina, there was an illusion of them fighting on the Eiffel Tower, but it looked like Volpina was winning. They tried to find the real Volpina. It took barely a second since Volpina didn’t even try to hide. She was just above them barely hidden in the corner of one of the Eiffel Tower’s legs.
They destroyed the illusion and Ladybug used her yoyo to wrap around Volpina and drag her into the middle where the previous illusion was, now none of it was an illusion.
“Wanna give me your miraculous before I take it myself?” Lila asked.
“Well, I’m paw-sitive that we’ll take you down.” Ladybug rolled her eyes.
“Well, kitty, I’m paw-sitive that I’ll be winning.”
“Okay, yes, we get it, horrible puns, blah, blah. Can we move on?” Lila made an illusion of five hundred Volpinas. She disappeared into the crowd. Ladybug nodded at Chat Noir. They destroyed them all in one minute. When they got to Volpina, she smiled. They touched her and she was destroyed. An illusion, wait, where was she? That thought was discarded when a big sphere showed up on a nearby rooftop. Lila’s voice followed. She pretended that her powers were real this time, Chat and Ladybug rolled their eyes.
They ran up and hid behind a nearby building.
“Chat, distract her and I’ll sneak up and do something. Just be prepared to cataclysm something I’ll throw to you. Just pretend that you’ll give up your miraculous, pretend to be fooled by that weird sphere thing.”
“Got it.” They disbanded and Chat landed right in front of Lila. He pretended he wanted to give up his miraculous if she didn’t destroy Paris. Ladybug had to stop herself from rolling her eyes, seriously, everyone knows her power is illusion. Why does she think people believe her? Volpina stopped her illusion and told him to touch the chimney to get rid of his Cataclysm.
Ladybug snuck up behind her and swapped the flutes. Chat saw and leaped away. Volpina clenched her teeth and grabbed the ladybugified flute, not realizing that they were switched and put it to her lips, closed her eyes and played it. When nothing happened, her eyes snapped open and she saw the flute wasn’t her own. When she looked back up at Ladybug and Chat Noir, Chat Noir had just catclysmed her flute. Ladybug purified the akuma. Lila’s transformation dropped.
She dropped the flute and Ladybug picked it up.
“Miraculous Ladybug!”
“Pound it!” Both of the heroes chorused.
“Can you drop off Lila? My transformation’s almost up.” Chat nodded and grabbed Lila much to her dismay. Ladybug left and detransformed. She gave Tikki a cookie and went home.
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Today was Friday so she caught up on some sleep and commission. That’’s what she did for the weekend, occasionally hanging out with Sabrina, Chloe and Adrien. She did this a lot on her weekends. But, this weekend would be different.
Adrien had asked her out like on a proper date at the coffee shop and then, they went to the skating rink. It was fun.
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On Monday, they all walked into school. Everyone apologized for being rude to Lila as they had all seen what happened in the office as someone had accidentally recorded the whole thing and leaked it. They have no idea about who it was. (It was Marinette.)
“I’m so sorry, girl! You can sit next to me again!”
“I’m fine with sitting here, Alya.”
“Oh. Okay. I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have doubted you.”
“I forgive you. But, we are not friends again. I do however unmark you as an enemy.”
“Unmark me?”
“Haven’t you noticed how the whole school’s been treating you differently?”
“Like how no one moves out of the way or makes room for me. Or other things. Wait, that was you?”
“Yes. Well, I didn’t tell them to do it, they just did it. One of the perks of being a queen, I suppose.”
“Oh, well I, uh, if you ever want to hang out. I’ll be free.”
“Okay. Bye.”
This happened with each and every one of her classmates. She changed all of their statuses to neutral and announced it to the school. They wouldn’t have special privileges or would be public enemy number one.
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Marinette and Chloe ruled the school for years until university. They had to admit it was fun being a queen, but they liked being normal. The class and the four never got back to the normal they used to have, but after what they did, it was expected.
Lila wasn’t heard from. Life was great. They met Luka and Kagami and started hanging out with them more. Their friendship circle grew while everyone looked at it outside of the group. They had their chance and they blew it.
Slowly, people started forgetting that Lila ever existed as people had their own much better accomplishments, she faded into the dark. The only trace left of her was the cold wall Marinette put up when the class tried to speak to her.
When they all went to university, that went away too. The only person left who remembered Lila was Hawkmoth. But, he didn’t care enough to try to bring her back, he only remembered her as the girl who was slightly good at her job. Just slightly, she never actually got Marinette akumatized after all.
Life went on. The only thing people didn’t forget was the Queens.