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‘Get back here!’ Plagg yelled as he flew after a cackling Tikki.
‘You snooze, you lose!’ she sing-songed as she zipped around the umbrella behind Marinette’s chaise.
‘That doesn’t even make sense!’ he yowled as he followed her, flying past Adrien as they went through the trap door to the living room below. ‘I wasn’t even asleep!’
‘Could’ve fooled me, Stinky Sock,’ she teased as she did a lap around the room with him hot on her tail.
He growled as he tried to overtake her, almost whacking into a Tupperware while Tikki weaved through the assortment of salt and pepper shakers with ease. He flew straight through the centre of the cookie cutters that were standing on their sides on the bench, digging deep within himself to close the gap that had been growing between him and his cookie-loving counterpart. He almost had her-
‘And she’s over the finish line! Tikki wins!’ Tom crowed, handing Tikki a tiny medal Marinette had made.
‘Gah, I was so close!’ Plagg groaned, floating down to land next to his partner. ‘You were unfairly fast.’
‘I don’t weigh myself down with mountains of cheese,’ she joked lightheartedly, before handing him a slice of Camembert from the platter Sabine had prepared earlier. ‘You raced well today, Plagg.’
‘Thanks, Sugarcube,’ he said, taking the cheese, ‘but you know that I’ll totally beat you next time, right?’
Tikki’s eyes sparkled with the challenge. ‘You’re on!’
‘The next contenders in the Kwami Obstacle Course is… Kaalki and Fluff!’ Adrien announced. ‘Come on up to the starting line!’
Plagg watched as the two kwamis excitedly flew up into Marinette’s room.
‘Wait,’ said Tikki, sounding concerned, ‘doesn’t that leave Roaar and Orikko to compete against each other? We’ve gone through everyone else, haven’t we?’
Plagg dropped his Camembert. The last time Roaar and Orikko teamed up for something fun like this, Roaar tried to boost morale and excitement with friendly jests and words of encouragement… words which Orikko misinterpreted as insults, and did not take it too kindly. Orikko, feeling snubbed, wasn’t too polite to Roaar, who really didn’t like the rude attitude after her attempts to help her teammate’s mood. Things escalated, and, well, it wasn’t pretty. They haven’t been paired up since.
‘Okay!’ Marinette called from above. ‘Ready-’
The last time Roaar and Orikko were paired up, they were in the safety of the Miracle Box.
‘Steady-’
This time, they were in Marinette’s famoly home, in the outside world.
‘Go!’
Plagg looked at Tikki, despair in his gut. ‘Oh, shit.’