You're The Music That's Been Playing In My Head: Book 3

Crocoduel: Part 2

"(y/n) I have to say that I'm really impressed. I never thought you'd be this chill about seeing Luka again," Alya tells me with a proud smile before I respond. "I'm actually really excited to see him, it'll be nice to finally get over all that awkwardness and be friends again,"  We get on the boat and my eyes quickly lock with Lukas. Ok...Wasn't expecting to see him so soon but I can do this. I take in a deep breath and give a small smile as I wave when Marinette grabs my arm and drags me down into the hold shouting "Excuse us we've got something to do down in the hold bye!"

I'm dragged down into the kitchen and we hide behind the counter as I hiss at Marinette "What do you think you're doing?!" Her head pops up and she gestures for Juleka to join us. "Juleka why is he here?" She turns away from us and Marinette's gaze softens. "You couldn't tell him...I'm sorry Juleka I never should've asked you to do the impossible," Mari hugs Juls and she hugs back while I piece together what Marinette did.

"Did you seriously ask Juleka to choose between me and her brother?" She nervously nods and I thwack her upside the head. "Marinette! I've told you I can handle this, you do not need to solve my issues with Luka especially if you're gonna drag others in to solve it, that is between me and him and I want to see him, it's the only way to move forward. I'll be okay just let me deal with my own problems, I'll ask for help if I need it but right now I don't need you doing any of this so just stop."

Mari nods in understanding, telling me she'll explain everything to everyone. We hear a commotion upstairs and we hear that Jagged Stone has shown up and we ask what he was doing here. "Well, he's my dad...Though he's probably here just for Luka, he likes him better," Juleka explains and I ask "Why would you think that?" Luka and Jagged come downstairs talking about a base. "Go and hide this and of course not a word to your sister," Jagged says handing Luka a base and Juls groans in sadness causing Marinette to jump up in anger.

"JAGGED!" He jumps in shock while I show myself as well trying to stop Mari since we didn't know the whole story. "Hey Luka, I know we need to talk and I promise we will where everything will be explained but first-" "We need to talk to your dad!" Mari cuts in demanding answers for why he was showing favoritism and not getting anything for Juleka as she's pulled out of her hiding place.

"Thanks so much for the amazing discretion Marinette. Very rock 'n' roll," Jagged drolls out sarcastically before grabbing the base and handing it to Juleka "But this base isn't for Luka, it was supposed to be a surprise gift to Juleka. I heard she plays base so I wanted to give her the very first base I've ever owned. Happy birthday, darling," He then riffles through his back and pulls out the first album of Croco Duo, and takes out the disc handing it to Luka.

"I wanted to give you the first album I ever did with your mom, this is one of the few albums ever made and this disc is extremely rare, I thought you'd appreciate it," That's when Anarka comes stomping in, yelling at Jagged. "How dare you come here and give my son the album that caused our breakup!" "Caused our breakup?! You mean the album that helped me get my life back after you left me," The two start fighting as they each tug on the disc and we all watch in horror as an akuma flies in just as the disc breaks.

Quickly we rush upstairs shouting for everyone to get off the boat as we watch the re-akumatization of Captain Hardrock and Guitar Villain. The two start fighting each other in the sky while arguing about who wrecked who's life while Mari and slipped away thanks to Alya distracting everyone.

After transforming we head to the Eiffel Tower where we frown at the fact that we still couldn't reach the two even with Ladybug's yoyo. "Your powers are offkey Ladybug!" "You shouldn't venture into deep waters if you don't know how to swim," The two taunt us before chasing after us at the command of Shadowmoth. We continue to run from the two till a speaker hits us sending us through a wall and we go tumbling onto a roof, the two arguing about who gets our miraculous when Chat Noir intervenes, helping us up as I tease them. "Promise me you two won't end up like them when you become an old couple." "That requires us to be a couple first," They both shoot back and I snicker before we try to attack with no avail.