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Nathanael didn't want to go to some dingy warehouse on a Saturday especially when he had homework to do. Even less so when it was in one of the sketchiest parts of Paris. But Alya and Nino had pressured him into going to the impromptu dance party because Nino was to DJ the event. Nathan decided to go reluctantly, he put on his most 'street' clothes he had, his black and white striped hoodie, a purple scarf, a pair of black jeans and his red sneakers. At around 9 pm he snuck out of his house and got into Nino's car parked just down the street. As they arrived he could hear the loud thumping bass and could see the lights flickering, and moving in different colors through the upper windows of the building. As he walked past the ‘security’ if you could even call two random kids wearing hoodies and baggy jeans with a cigarette in their mouths "security". He was let in past them after Nino let them know he was with them. As he passed the proscenium that was the doorway he was almost instantly blinded by the lightshow that was going on. After his eyes had adjusted to the bright lights he saw all the people in the warehouse making a circle in the crowd. Although he couldn't see what was going on due to his smaller stature he could tell it was pretty amazing. He stood on a pallet that was near the crowd and he looked over the crowd seeing 2 dancers. One of which was rocking a black and green hoodie adorned with cat ears and matching skate shoes, he looked as if he was floating across the floor, and at the drop to the song the current DJ was playing he landed a clean backflip ending the ‘battle’ he was currently in.

He looked over after the battle seeing the MC of the party, get on the mic.

“Alright Ladies and Gents, DJ Tek over here is ending his set early, but I think I know a guy you all have been waiting for, give it up for my man D.V.N.O.!”

He sees Nino get behind the decks and immediately begins playing a track which got the whole floor to make some room for the cat-eared dancer as he stood making an open call out to the crowd looking for his next challenger. Nathan recognized it as Planisphere by Justice, a song that Nino had played before on he and Alya’s internet radio show.

“Anyone else want some of this? I can go all night.”

“I think I can take you on!” Suddenly Nathan sees the entire crowd make room for a girl wearing the red sports top with black spots, and an equally black and red pair of sneakers.

“You think you can beat me Ladybug? You aren't even worth my time”

“Easily Chat Noir. Why? Are you afraid you might lose petit chaton?”

She gave a sly grin eliciting a similar grin from the Cat-eared boy. As soon as the beat of the song started playing, the crowd moved in just enough to keep Nathan from seeing what was going on. He got off the palette and walked around trying to find any semblance of a view, in between people he could occasionally see the feet of ‘The Ladybug’ as she presumably began to dance.

Nathan wanted to see what was going on. The only place he could possibly get a good view of the action was from the stage. As he began to walk towards the stage he got shoved by the crowd moving back, while one of the two people landed what was presumed to be a backflip. He fell against one of the pallet stacks, he noticed under all the lights that it was a bunch of boxes of spray paint. He looked over to the stage seeing a bunch of hooded figures painting on pieces of plywood. That was his ticket onto the stage to get him a better view. Nathanael grabbed a box of spray paint, which had nothing but black, fire engine red and neon green. He hopped onto the hastily put together stage, and looked over Nino’s shoulder seeing the dancing duel that was going down. For every move that Chat did, Ladybug had an answer. He was taken out of his view when he was poked by one of the graffiti painters.

“Hey kid, you gonna use those?” He looks and sees the guy pointing to his box of spray paint.

“Uh yeah I am. Can I use a couple of pieces of the plywood?”

“Yeah man help yourself.”

He sees the painter point to a pile of plywood laying next to the stage.

Nathan grabs 2 pieces of the plywood propping them up behind Nino, against one of the pieces of scaffolding holding the lighting rig in place. Nathanael opens the box and grabs the black can of spray paint beginning to paint a shapeless figure. He turns and sees Chat and Ladybug still in the middle of their battle. He instantly gets some inspiration from their ongoing battle. He starts to paint a silhouette of each of the two combatants. He started painting the outline of Chat Noir. As he was filling it in, he added details like his hoodie including the ears, which he detailed with the bright green tips. He then added the green eye makeup and finally the green detailing for his shoes. He began to do the same for Ladybug creating the outline of her form and then filling it in. As soon as he was finished adding in the details for Ladybug’s shoes, the battle that was going on had concluded, with Ladybug being crowned the victor. Nathanael sighed, the whole reason he came up to the stage was to see the battle and he had missed it. He squatted down in front of his work about to sign with his name, when he realizes that everyone else was tagging things like ‘Beatz’, ‘Hero’ and ‘Skum1’. Nathan figures to fit in, he needed to go by a similar pseudonym. He grabbed the last remaining can of black, painting the first name that came to mind ‘Evillustrator’. Underneath both of the paintings. Once he was finished signing his work, he turns to see the crowd gawking at his paintings. Even getting the attention of Chat and Ladybug. He hears things being said by the crowd.

“Dude that is badass!”

“I am taking those home!”

Nino turns around seeing Nathanael’s paintings. He sat there for a second, mouth agape.

“Dude Nathan, I didn't know you were a writer. Those look awesome.”

Nathan stammered out,

“A-Actually I am no-” He isnt able to finish that sentence because he sees everyone start to scramble out of the warehouse.

He hears the security guys out front yell to the crowd,

“Cops! Cops! GO GO GO!”

He sees Nino quickly pack his laptop back into his bag, Nathan grabs the box of spray paint and dashes out of the warehouse with Alya and Nino making it to Nino's car. They then speed off into the night narrowly avoiding the police.

“Dude, that was a pretty sick piece you did back there Nathan. Are you a writer?”

“Yeah Nathan, I took pictures before the police showed up, these are gonna look amazing on the blog. We had no idea you did street art.”

Nathan was gonna pipe up that he wasn’t an artist, but he remembered the look that Ladybug gave him when the crowd noticed the paintings. He then pondered for a moment and said,

“Yeah... I am, I am the ‘Evillustrator’.”

“The name is sorta lame Nathan, but I mean if you do work as good as what you did back there, I don't think anyone will hate that name.”

Nathan looked to the box of paints next to him, if these things gave him the power to paint those amazing pieces, and to get the attention of Ladybug then he didn't mind adopting the mantle.