tushanshu_logs | Here There Be Dragons

The dragon's ghostly tail sweeps through a crowd of people, taking out a market stall. Hopefully they're not too crushed under the debris. Chat heads off after the wolf, it was big and irritating and needed to get dealt with.

He would try his damndest to catch her, blind rage pushing him onwards. He doesn't seem to heed Ladybug at all, a rarity indeed, roaring as he quickens his pace, going after the wolf, jaws snapping at fresh air as she keeps ahead of him. She's still faster, at least.

On the one hand, it was good the wolf got the dragon's attention. On the other... Ladybug now had a dilemma. Chase after the pair or check to see if anyone needed hel--

Yeah that..wasn't even a real dilemma. Of COURSE she'd go and see if there was anyone who got smacked under debris. This unfortunately, meant the dragon and wolf would have a lead on her to wherever they were going. Fortunately she could swing herself across the city and catch up with them relatively quickly, so after that brief pause she quickly scampered over towards said market stall.

HOPEFULLY the wolf would be able to stay out of the dragon's jaws for now. Being in a giant creature's mouth is no fun. Ladybug knew that from experience.

Valdis stays close enough to keep the dragon focused. She winces when she hears the crash of the market stall breaking apart, and quickens her pace slightly. One of the city gates is up ahead, and Valdis heads for it, outside the city there will be less chance of casualties.

The dragon keeps going after the wolf, something to pinpoint the anger on, something to strike down and fix whatever wrong has bubbled up inside him to turn him this way at all. He doesn't even notice when he follows her towards the gates, letting out a roar. He bunches his hindquarters together (comically like a cat, buttwiggle and all) and makes a flying leap at her.

Ladybug was delayed a few minutes longer than she wanted to - were the situation less dire, she would have stayed to help tidy up, but instead she waited long enough to make sure everyone at the scene was all right, before she pulled her yoyo out and swung herself up to follow the path that the wolf and dragon took.

Valdis lunges through the gate just in time to avoid being crushed by the dragon's pounce, she spins around, fixing her gaze on the large creature. Her eyes widen as she recognizes the soul.

Chat?

This was bad.

If there's any recognition of her, or even of his name, he doesn't show it. He turns, at least now outside of the city so he can cause a little less damage, roaring. He's about to turn after Valdis again, when he notices the unmistakable red and black spotted ensemble that is Ladybug, his head moving to follow her, jaws snapping to try and get at her.

Oh good, she can still hear them. The dragonkitty doesn't sound happy either. All this destruction - she wasn't sure if her Miraculous would be able to repair the damage, but she'd at least cross her fingers and hope. Later. For right now, though, she needed to focus on OHGODNOTGETTINGSNAPPEDUP IN DRAGON JAWS.

She'd been swinging onto the scene, in fact, but seeing the dragon redirecting its attention to her, she had to immediately check her swing lest it send her right into its mouth where snapping jaws were a bad thing to be near. "No..oPe! Too slow -!" She narrowly whipped past, practically feeling the air as jaws closed behind her - two seconds slower and she'd be dragonchow. She instead swung herself around to the rear side of the creature, glancing around for that 'wolfie briefly.

Valdis jumped after the dragon as it swung around to snap at Ladybug. Chat didn't recognize her, so whatever magic had turned him into a dragon had also clouded his mind. Not important now. What was important was getting his attention back on her. Now that they were outside the city, there was less danger to civilians.

Valdis didn't bother with warning. She lunged at the dragons's throat, trying to slam her skull into it.

It's a really good job Valdis is here, he was making for another turn to snap at Ladybug. The wolf slamming into him is enough to make him stumble, claws scrabbling the ground. At least Valdis can get a nice look at that necklace he's wearing. So mystical, so green, so creepy.

He turns his head, trying to snap down at her while regaining his footing, for now, Ladybug might have the opportunity of surprise. He's distracted.

Okay he was a little too snappy for her liking. "Gotta do something about that snappy attitude of yours," but what. BUT WHAT. She had at LEAST two options - she could tangle its leg and try and get it to stumble again, but it's mouth will still be an issue. Maybe the Miraculous has an idea on how to wrangle the beast? Well it's a worth a shot at any rate. "Here goes...everything. Lucky Charm!" She swings her yoyo up into the air *budgeteffectbudgeteffectbudgeteffect* and a few seconds later a red and black spotted ..thing drops into her hands.

"What th.." A muzzle. A large muzzle at that. "What am I..." Oh. OH. She glanced over at the dragon and sighhhed. "REALLY?" Fine Miraculous, you know what you're doing. She hopes. While the dragon is distracted by Valdiwolf, totally-not-Marinette sprints forward and vaults up into the air with a graceful flip, aiming to come down on the dragon's head from above and snap that muzzle over its mouth. "I'm putting you on a strict diet." A strict no wolf, no human diet, that is. Because she can't NOT give a quirky one-line as she backflips away from the angry beastie.

Valdis jumps out of the way of the dragon's jaws once more, moving slowly, trying to keep the attention on her. That necklace though, she didn't recognize it and it felt wrong. She snarled about to jump up and grab at it with her teeth when Ladybug swung down and popped a large muzzle over Chat-dragon's mouth.

Nice. She exclaims, coming up to the girl's side, her voice light and soft in Ladybug's head. There's something weird about that necklace, Ladybug.

The Miraculous would always do whatever the heck it wanted. If Chat was in control of his senses, he would have made a crappy-ass pun about it. Alas, he is not, and he makes a surprised noise as the muzzle snaps his jaws shut. He makes a rumbling noise, unable to roar now, shaking his head vigorously, trying and failing to dislodge it.

But yes, please and thank you deal with the necklace, ladies.

And Ladybug would firmly tell Chat that maybe she wanted to keep the muzzle on him in that case. It'd save her from crappy ass puns! Ladybug gave the rather large wolflike beastie a surprised glance for a second, and then back to the dragon. "The necklace?" She studied the thing - pretty in and of itself, sure, but it was also kind of weird for a dragon to wear a necklace. "Let's see if we can get a closer look then. Care to lend a haa---" Um. "Paw?" She hoped the dragon wouldn't be able to free himself from the Miraculous before they were able to get that necklace off, at least!

Valdis didn't need Ladybug to ask twice. She lunged at the dragon, throwing her shoulder against his chest, trying to knock him over, or at least distract him further so that Ladybug could get at the necklace.

Hurry.

The dragon snarls under his muzzle, stumbling down onto his side, he can't bite at Valdis any more, but his front legs come down, trying to slash and grab at her, to get her off him so he can- well he can't eat her, but he can do SOMETHING. No fair you guys.

"On it!" Ladybug nodded at Valdis, scrambling up and trying to squirm out of the way of flailing dragonlimps. DOGP-- er, CATpi--er. PILE ON THE DRAGON. She might take a scratch herself, since she's all in his business right now, but eh, them's the breaks. If she can handle being flung halfway across the city, she can handle a scratch or two. She meanwhile, searches the necklace for a clasp or something - short of that she's going to grab it with her hands and try and wrench it off. How hard can it be to get a necklace off, right?

With far more agility than a creature her size should have, Valdis leaped clear of the flailing claws, racing around to grip the muzzle with her teeth in order to try to pin the dragon's head down. Hopefully that would help Ladybug get a better grip on that accursed necklace.

The dragon snarls, thrashing around as he's PILED upon. His head is down though, thanks to Valdis, and all that thrashing does a ton of Ladybug's job for her. It doesn't take much for the thing to be ripped off, and as it does, the 'dragon' very quickly changes back into one (1) confused looking teenage cat-themed superhero.

"Uh....what just then happened?"

"Got it!" Ladybug crowed triumphantly, only to suddenly spill onto the ground in surprise when the dragon turned from rawr rawr into a certain confused kitty. The dragon muzzle similarly dropped to the ground now that the target's face had changed a great deal, and she picked that one up too, sitting back on her heels, "A.. Chat Noir, you don't remember anything?"

Valdis jumps backward as the dragon shifts back into Chat. She stays put, however, staring at the necklace through narrowed eyes.

Are you both alright?

Here There Be Dragons

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