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Lila ran as fast as she could, trying to outpace her pursuers.
“Got anything to say for your lies, Liar-La?” Princess Fragrance demanded landing behind her. Lila swore under her breath, she was so sure that she’d lost her.
“Yes!” Lila said, still compelled to tell the truth. “I wish that I had gotten that Akuma instead of you. Then maybe I’d be getting revenge on that stupid Bird-Man.”
“You lie to us for months!” Princess Fragrance said. “You’ve hurt Marinette! You deserve what’s coming to you!”
“ROSE STOP!” Juleka yelled from the end of the Alley. The sight and sound of Juleka yelling stopped both girls in their tracks.
Ladybug suddenly leapt down and grabbed Lila, leaping up to the rooftop.
“It’s about time you got here, you useless bug,” Lila snapped.
“Don’t complain about rescues you don’t like,” Chat Noir said dryly.
“This one hundred percent your fault, Lila,” Ladybug said.
“It’s that stupid Bird-Man’s fault!” Lila protested.
“Veriteagle wouldn’t have used his powers on you, if you hadn’t been such a liar, Lila,” Ladybug countered. “Absolutely your fault. Enjoy the next few months of speaking the absolute truth, and nothing but the truth.”
Ladybug and Chat Noir leapt off of the roof, leaving Lila on top of it. She ran to the edge of the roof and looked down, seeing Princess Fragrance surrounded by King Monkey, Pegasus, Rena Rouge, Ladybug, and Chat Noir.
“I would have thought that you would have learned from Miracle Guardian,” Ladybug said. “You can’t use the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculouses to alter reality Hawkmoth. The price is too high.”
“Forget it milady,” Chat Noir said, smashing Rose’s perfume bottle. “Some people just don’t learn."
The Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculouses can alter reality? Lila thought in surprise.
“Miraculous Ladybug!” Ladybug yelled as a wave of healing Ladybugs swarmed over Paris. Lila looked excitedly over her own body, but frowned. The white aura surrounding her had remained even after the healing wave.
“Stupid useless heroes,” she muttered.
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Adrien and Marinette sat on a picnic blanket cuddling in the park, a spread of food from the Bakery and Alya’s mother’s new restaurant Le Chevre were scattered about the oversized blanket.
“Oh my Gosh,” Rose was squealing, cuddled up next to Juleka. “You guys are so cute together! I can’t believe that Project Secret Garden finally came true!”
“Project Secret Garden?” Adrien asked, cocking an eyebrow at Marinette, who smirked.
“Nope,” she said. “A girl has to keep some dignity. You will never get to find out what that one is.”
“I’ll tell you later,” Alix said. “You’ll think it’s hilarious.”
“Alix!” Marinette said.
The teens all started giggling.
Lila glared at them from out of her bedroom window, angrily batting at the white aura that refused to leave her alone.
“Enjoy yourself while you can, Marinette,” Lila sneered. “Once I figure out how to take Ladybug and Chat Noir’s Miraculous, I’ll change reality itself with my wish, and make all of my dreams come true.”
“Mi Bella,” Lila’s mother said as she enter her bedroom. “I just received an email from your school’s headmaster saying that he wishes to meet with me next week?”
Lila opened her mouth automatically to lie to her mother but instead said,
“He probably wants to talk to you about my months of absences and various doctor’s notes that I forged,”
Lila’s eyes suddenly widened as she realized what she had just said out loud.
“What?” Lila’s mom said, blinking at her daughter.
“Or..or maybe he wants to review the events when I deliberately got my goodie-two shoes classmate Marinette expelled….SHIT!”
“I think we’re going to have that meeting tomorrow,” Lila’s mom said. “And you’re grounded. Assuming that you don’t get arrested for Truancy. Anything else you wish to share with me, Lila?”
“Nothing I want to share,” Lila snapped. “But that stupid Truth-Spell that Miraculous User put on me makes me share anyway! ARRGH. I wish that Hawkmoth would just Akumatize me again already…”
“Akumatize you AGAIN?”
“SHIT!”