THE GREAT GIOVANNI POTAGE

“Changing the world, one step at a time? That pretty noble of you.” With everything good and sorted for now, Cornflower began the trek to the beginning of the hall once again. Once she reached the end, She made sure to retrieve her new plant, before returning the villain’s giddy visage.

She spared a glance back, the hallway was so empty without the whoopee cushions strewn about. Maybe sometime she could convince the faculty to decorate the school. At least, if she wasn’t distracted by work or other magic users first. Maybe she could ask Giovanni to help, and some other students, too.

“At least all that’s over.” With that, she dusted off the brim of her hat, apparently forgetting about the dust that had accumulated under the crown. What she hadn’t forgot, was the Great Giovanni’s dragon friend, now watching them both with some interest. If it weren’t for the height difference, Cornflower would have probably asked to pet the little familiar.

Now that all the action was past them, just standing around was kind of boring. She could get back to exploring, but it seemed like a missed opportunity to not hang out with Gio some more. “What do you usually do around here, Giovanni? I mean, when you and your dragon aren’t in class? Any particular locations you like going to?” Asking that aloud felt a little odd, like she was networking rather that asking to hang out, but she hoped Giovanni got what she had intended.

One of his boys? Like a sort-of school clique or something? The way he was describing it, the first thing she thought was that Giovanni was some type of childsitter or mentor before coming here. Before it had occurred to her that speculating on that kind of thing was somewhat rude, Cornflower had jumped tracks to what he said regarding lessons.

At some point, she would have to team up with other students and prove their collective prowess? Sounded stressful. Although there was an entire school of individuals with magical abilities, she couldn’t help but shudder when her mind wandered to any potential accidents, especially when higher-level skills have the capacity to end fights permanently. “…I-I hope that won’t be for a while yet, all things considered.” If she were aware, she would cringe again for unintentionally ruining the mood.

After an awkwardly tense moment, Cornflower was able to relax. Suddenly remembering that the Great Giovanni promised to lend his aid if needed helped. The fact that even in a new world, there were people who saw a friend in her, almost instantly. The small gem brought her hat back to her head, heedless of what was in it earlier. It served as a sort of anchor, keeping her grounded in the present.

“It would b-be an honor to be one of your ‘boys’, Gio. T-thank you so much.” Oh man, it seemed she wasn’t as assured in herself as she hoped. The sputtering was making her look quite silly. He just offered her his friendship, it’s not like they were in any trouble now!

A new minion potentially joining meant Giovanni was in a very positive mood, but to see one of his potential new ‘boys’ looking worried about something? Well, that simply wouldn’t do at all, he wanted to hear any of his boys out: thinking as hard as he could for the sake of said boy, it seemed the nerves kicked in regarding the whole ‘working together’ thing on tasks the teachers asked...was she a little unsure about facing dangerous stuff? He extended a hand out, which he would use to hold the other’s hand if she accepted it. “Hey, I get facing the unknown can be a little scary, there’s all the ‘what-ifs’ running through one’s head, right?” He knew the nerd, Sylvie, well enough to have a feeling someone serious-looking like his newest potential minion PROBABLY worried about the same general stuff. “You’re not gonna haveta face it alone, though! I’ve got your back no matter what happens: the GREAT Giovanni looks out for his boys - even if ya decide not to be one in the end, I can’t just ignore people who look that worried about something! If I wanna change the world with my SUPER IMPOSING powers someday, a good start is to start small, riight?” When he took over the world, it wouldn’t be any good if the people of the world he took over didn’t trust him to listen and solve situations!! So that made listening and trying to help with problems his boys faced - and potential boys faced - super important, so they could trust HIS MALOVENT AND IMPOSING rule later! “So, if ya wanna talk about stuff, I’ll listen and do my darnest to help out. Anywaays.” Putting the lid back on the box with the last few whoopee cushions put away, his eyes lit up at the other agreeing to the terms of minion-ship. YES, YES!! He’d make sure she didn’t regret it! “Mwahahhahaha!! Awesome, awesome! This’ll be great, Sapphy! Shame the rest’a my boys aren’t here so I can introduce you to them right now, but the honor’s all mine, really! Let’s do cool things as a team!!”

Oh, so the Great Giovanni wasn’t too far ahead of her then. Maybe if everything turned out well, they could study together! Part of the reason she came here was to meet new people, and strange circumstances aside Giovanni was pretty fun to be around.

“That’s good to know. Being my first day and all, it’s only natural to wonder where everyone stands.” It’s not that she imagined she’d be using her magic against anyone soon, but as everything on the academy grounds was magic-themed, it’s not like she would offend someone by mistake.

Fire magic, huh? it made perfect sense to her, Giovanni was red-haired, quite passionate, and seemed to style himself as some kind of superpowered individual. Of course he would choose to learn to control fire.

If only the same applied to her. She chose puppet magic and dark magic, of all things. Cornflower had thought it reasonable at the time; she needed magic to protect others, and chose the school of life so she could heal and fortify her allies. That meant she had to pick minors with more offensive potential to balance it out. In the end, having the power to build a virtual army and manipulate her enemies’ shadows seemed like the best choice for a gem with little physical prowess.

“You do have the makings of a great fire user in you, I can tell already.” Cornflower smiled, her cheeks warming as the honest observations fell forth. “I doubt a first-day puppet student would be able to pull off anything of that caliber.” And with that statement, Cornflower swept the last of the whoopee cushions from her hat to the box, freeing up the hallway once again.

While his methods were certainly unexpected, Cornflower couldn’t argue with the precision Giovanni had. He was swatting away toys like his reputation depended on it, which made enough sense. If any faculty actually found out he was responsible in the first place, he’d likely be punished or at least reprimanded. 

Once the epithet user reached the end of the hall, right where her succulent was from prior to helping at this little venture, Cornflower followed after. “Allow me to finish up here, then!” Picking up the stragglers after Giovanni’s paper-bat rush was hardly a trial, but she still had to travel the whole length of the corridor and back to reach the box.

After about three of the gag toys were retrieved, she had the thought that if she took off her hat, she could use the ribbons to tie around her waist, making it into a makeshift sling of sorts. If nothing else, it would make it easier to carry them back to the box if she did, instead of precariously balancing them all in the crook of her arm.

Working quickly, the gem undid the bow fixing her hat to her head. Straightening the ribbons out, Cornflower wrapped then around her waist twice, to ensure some stability, and set the whoopee cushions on top of the crown. It was a little odd, before she only took oof her hat whenever she slept, which wasn’t often, but it wouldn’t hurt. More importantly, finishing up here would free her up to find her classes and dorm. “While I work, how long have you been here? And how has your magic come along?”

Haha - that was a good workout! He kinda missed being able to practise his baseball so easily - maybe he should consider asking the teachers here about a sports place one could practise in, or at least like a park or something - flashing a satisfied grin as he leant on the hallway wall to rest the make-shift bat against it back at Sapphy, he paused to admire the small plant. Seemed like a little plant was given to everyone who went to the Sunrise school, huh? They were pretty cute, not about to complain about it, but he had to wonder what plants had to do with ‘magic’, it wasn’t like they were learning flowers and stuff? Maybe because plants were ‘alive’, so they suited ‘Life’ magic better? Hm! Much to think about. Looked like there was only a few of the ‘traps’ left now, which Sapphy used part of the fancy hat she had to carry them into the box...well, now he really COULDN’T tell her who’d put the stuff there at all, she’d wrecked her cool hat for it! He knew how important ‘fancy’ clothes could be sometimes, he’d be pretty upset if he wrecked one of his costume pieces too, or had to! At least internally, anyway! Though, his observations and patting of his dragon resting in his cape was cut short at questions: “I’ve been here about a month an’ a bit by now? My magic’s coming along pretty awesome! I’d probably be one stage above a newbie due to my time here, haha! I’d show ya a demonstration, but probably not a good idea to use BLAZING FLAMES indoors, ya know?”

Even though her attention was primarily occupied by bobbing and weaving past the trap-laden hall, she did not miss the sheer effort that was Giovanni in between every step. He looked like a balloon that was about to pop! Though she did appreciate that he was willing to keep his word. Especially since they had only met ten minutes ago!

But no, there was no need to mention any of that as she handed off the cushions to their original owner. Instead, Cornflower threw another glance at her fast companion, in the hope he could land some aid.

“Giovanni, do you have any plans for the rest of these,” she ask while gesticulating with both arms. “Because if not, then we may be here for a while.” Which wasn’t that much of a bother to her. Giovanni was fine company, and it was her first day so she didn’t need to be in class. However, spending all of her first day cleaning up a mess she didn’t make would have been a bit of a drag, even if she would never admit that out loud.

Well, he was glad that his AWESOME ability to keep the promises to minions (or at least potential ones in this case) was clearly appreciated, given he noted how Sapphy had been seemingly focused on him as well as the traps littering the hallway and all - at least, he GUESSED? With not being able to see eyes under that fluffy-looking haircut it was really hard to tell where the other’s line of sight even WAS, but he’d just roll with his awesome promise-keeping being appreciated! Though, the hallway was still pretty full after all that, huh. Not AS bad, but there was little safe spots evident on the ground here and there like an extreme hopscotch or something. Seemed like she was outta ideas about the rest right now, and turned to his awesomeness for help...hm. HM. He closed his eyes to try and think about it, before snapping his fingers in a flash of inspiration! Yes, YES! That might work! No, it HAD to! “A classroom where there’s probably paper an’ stuff is right next to me...hold up a moment!” Darting into said classroom a bit, he came back out triumphantly with a poster, rolling it up into a tube-like shape that looked quite sturdy. “If I take advantage of those lil’ safe spots you were able to make, and leave the box here....MUAHAHA!! Watch carefully, as the TOP BATTER AND STAR PLAYER OF NEW JAZZ CITY WORKS HIS MAGIC!” With the tube held high, he darted down the hall agiley, his hard work and practise with baseball coming into play - he swinging the tube around in spirals as he went, smacking the whoopee cushions with the tube on contact and they letting out squeals of protest as they were smacked into the box as he ran - he stepped on a few here and there, but one couldn’t deny that the method with being able to have those ‘safe spots’ Sapphy had made was effective... Though incredibly noisy, and he was clearly laughing as he went, his dragon waking up in all this and hiding bemused squeaky laughter in Giovanni’s cape as he went. Wow. Well, at least the plan worked, though? 

She began to nod in agreement, up until the villain changed course and gave her a nickname. Not that she minded, she knew her name was rather wordy and most people just called her Cornflower anyway, but she thought it rather amusing when he just referred to himself as “the great Giovanni Potage” and all.

“I don’t mind. It’s quite cute actually.” She responded with a slight shrug. Everything about Giovanni seemed off: his choice of clothing, the way he laughed, the oddly sharp teeth… Everything about him was pointing to ‘villainous intent,’ except his actual personality. The terror in his eyes when she first stepped into the hall was not unlike a lost puppy’s, and not at all like an evil mastermind’s. No, this guy was legit, he just had a strange way about him, Cornflower assumed.

As for giving him the stack of cushions she still had, there was no way Giovanni would catch them all if she threw them. That meant she was forced to cross the hall. No, no problem there. Any trepidation she had about embarrassing herself went out the window the second she chose to help this guy.

“Alright. Promise not to laugh.” With that, the sapphire set off at a jog, running as quickly from one end to the other. As she went, there were fart sounds coming at varying intervals as the gem dodged some of the whoopee cushions to invariably run into others. Eventually, the cacophony died down and Cornflower skidded to a halt before Giovanni. “Heh, um. That was a bad idea in hindsight.” If anything, she should have picked up a few as she was running, but nothing to do about that now.

As always, his amazing nickname skills were adored by all those around him: the long-named madam nodded in what he assumed was eagerness before he introduced the nickname, before exclaiming that it was ‘quite cute’: well, it just seemed to fit the best, like ‘Beartrap’ for Molly or ‘nerd’ for THE biggest nerd he’d ever met! Call him ‘mister perceptive’, because he was GREAT at seeing the best and most amazing nicknames for anyone out there! “I know, right?! Though, admiration of amazingly awesome nicknaming skills will have to wait until all these cushions are in the box, I’d think!” It seemed like with the prospect of handing the large pile of deflated cushions to him, though...they were too many in number to just toss like one big pile of frisbees like the singular one had been, they would have just landed on the floor all over again! How was the gal gonna get around that, he puzzled, one brain cell tumbling in brief thought... “Promise not to laugh?” He was cut short from trying to think of a plot there at her request as he parroted what had been said back to her questioningly before making a small little crossing symbol with his hand not holding the box over his heart - if someone was asking him to make a promise, he’d be the AWESOME Giovanni and take it seriously. “Cross my heart, I won’t laugh!” Though, he had to really restrain himself there to keep the promise as the other actually RAN down the ‘danger filled’ hallway to reach him - no, no...h-he had to keep his composure, he promised!

Well, that was certainly a show of emotion on his part. Even if the epithet-user’s laugh left a few things to be desired, it was kind of nice knowing she made someone here happy. Perhaps it was about time for her to return the gesture. Pulling up a small smile as she worked, she clasped the remaining cushions in between her hands before responding to his inquiry.

“I am Cornflower Sapphire, and yes. I just arrived here.” As her hands were already together, all she had to do was to bend her knees to perform a passable curtsy. This time, the gem forced her hands together at a much faster pace, causing a much more reverberating noise to come out of the cushions. How she managed to remain visibly unaffected by the whole ordeal was a mystery for the ages, but it was certain her nearly deadpan looks added to the ridiculousness of it all.

“Pfff, sorry about that. I thought deflating them all at once would deafen the sound, not make it worse… Have you- did you see whoever dropped them? Maybe we can catch up to them!” By now she was so distracted with conversation she completely forgot about why she was squeezing the whoopee cushions, so she could hand them off to the nice young man before her.

A nod to non-verbally acknowledge the villain’s words and Cornflower set out to clearing the hallway. Despite his willingness to take the offending whoopee cushions off her hands, she still didn’t realize they were his.

After the first few cushions, she had to set her succulent down so she could pick up more. Unfortunately, the more cushions she stacked in her arms the more frequent the silly noises coming from the gag toys were. It was all she could do to keep a straight face as she worked. There was absolutely no way she could meet him on the other side like this. He did say to throw them so he could catch them in his box, but could she trust her arm for that?

A moment’s pondering led her to come up with another idea. The whoopee cushions were pretty flat without any air. Maybe she could squeeze all the air out and toss them like frisbees! Plucking one from the stack held in the crook of her arm, Cornflower squished it flat with both hands, ignored the loud fart-sound that resulted (really, how did no one in class hear that?) and caught Giovanni’s attention with a question before she tossed it.

“Are you a professor here? Or are you currently in training?”

Taking the box he had shown the blue-haired stranger into a firmer grip, Giovanni put on his best ‘TIME FOR WORK’ serious face - yet any attempts of him trying to look imposing and work-focused were really hard considering he hated being ‘formal’ and stuff unless he super had to be, and they TOTALLY went out the window anyway when he noted the fact that the other stacking the whoopee cushions in her arms were making noises anyway. He couldn’t help snickering loudly, only barely holding back laughter: no, no, keep your cool Giovanni! Nope, that wasn’t working at all, he almost teetering over in bemused dramatic villian laughter when she actually squeezed the thing. “Bwahahahhah--hh-oh, boy, that sure is something!” Thankfully, he wasn’t laughing so hard he’d rolled around on the floor, at least, and that meant he caught the deflated cushion easily when it was thrown to him, but he tried to rein in his bemused laughter at the question. “Hahha....haa...ahem. DEEP BREATHS... Do I LOOK like the ‘serious teach’ type to ya? Nah, I’m a student here, probably the same as you! I am - the holder of POWERFUL VOLCANO STUFF AND PASSION, THE GREAT GIOVANNI POTAGE! Pretty amazing, riight? Who might you be, eh?”

Meanwhile, someone else was having a more pleasant time. After Cornflower had received her succulent and directions to her current housing, she elected to travel to Sunrise Academy proper and mentally map out the campus. Things were going pretty well so far, although there was almost no one around, either occupied with classes or elsewhere in the academy.

It didn’t take too long to find a hallway positively swamped with little rubber toys littering the floor. About ten feet away was a young man with a troubled expression plastered on his face as he looked despairingly at them. Maybe he was a teacher? That would explain his grandiose attire at any rate. Although, he was carrying a large cardboard box… maybe he was a new student too and had the foresight to pack his belongings for the journey.

At any rate, there was no use in just standing there staring at him, nevermind the fact that no one could tell with her bangs in the way. She might as well offer her help. “…Hello there. Would you like some help with these things?” As the sapphire spoke she reached down and grabbed one of the cushions. “This looks like a lot to clean up by yourself.”

His internal one brain cell whirring to no avail in his attempts to simply try and stare really hard at the problem all over the floor until it solved itself was cut short as a stranger he didn’t know spoke up from a bit away down the hallway - ah! It looked like his judgement on others using this passageway to walk through was indeed correct, but where was the fun in the prank if he couldn’t escape it himself?! He would have liked to watch from a distance and then proclaim a ‘April Fools’ when it worked, but the affect would be a lot less cool if he couldn’t even escape his OWN prank, uugh! His thoughts thus preoccupied with trying to figure out a way around his own trick, the other’s unique appearance was not his focus at the current time, he responding to them with a: “Uh, yeah, enough being moved so I can actually move around without setting them all off would be great!” Recovering from this and pranking the stranger could wait, but he fell silent at her actually reaching down for one. She was brave enough to do that despite the risk of it making prank noises?! Wow...that was bold. She didn’t even set it off despite the sensitivity of the ones he’d gotten, which sure was something! “Just throw them here, I’ll put it in my lil moving box I have!” The fact that he’d taken them OUT of there in the first place, he’d skip over for now. Yeah. Because anyone who could not set off a trap like this must be very skilled...so minion recruiting was now in mind, as well as getting enough out of the way that he wouldn’t set his own prank off!

“Right, this is coming from someone who showed me around Solarium.”

A skeptical look is shown on Adrien’s face as he tried not to laugh at this comical situation. He isn’t going to believe in Giovanni’s claims straight away. He remembered that he has a kind heart despite that ‘villainous’ facade while Adrien tried to call him out about it one time. But he denies it, which is very amusing for Adrien but he decided to play along.

I might eat once in a while, I guess and share it with my dorm mates if I run into them. Adrien looks at the creampuffs. It reminds him of Marinette’s bakery back in France. He has to give credit to Giovanni who worked hard for it. He might admit that he’s friendly too to newcomers. He knows they’ll be neighbors.

“Thanks for the warm welcome, I didn’t expect a welcoming committee after I arrived here.” He chuckled in amusement after taking the box of cream puffs from him in gratitude. If he has to run into his dorm mates some time, he might give some of these to them. He hoped they’re friendly of the sort.

“I’m studying Life, Dream and Music magic as my course in Sunrise Academy.” Adrien explains to him. “I’m a beginner at it but I won’t be able to transform into Cat Noir like I used to.”

“Hey!” Plagg remarks, offended. “At least you have me and your familiar!” The black cat kwami chimed in as his familiar nods in agreement.

“I told you Plagg, you’re irreplaceable.” Adrien responds, amused by his kwami’s antics.

“Duh, of course I am! Since a few people knows who are you are now, I’m more terrified of Tikki yelling at me if you know who Ladybug is.” Plagg shivers slightly at the thought.

When the other brought up the matter of being shown around the school before, Giovanni scowled and pointed with his free arm in a jabbing, accusatory motion. “HEY, that was totally in a different set of circumstances! Your place was taking care of one of my BOYS, it was within my best interests as a boss to ensure that place and those in it were in good condition so my minion would be happy and thus be even MORE awesome than she already is, though she doesn’t need to try hard to be awesome in my eyes - BUT I’M GETTING SIDETRACKED! You sly super hero guy, you got me villain monologing!”

Hmph, clearly this ‘good guy’ was not one to be underestimated if he got him into that bad guy situation of monologing so easily...he’d have to keep a close eye on him at very least, even if he didn’t rope him into joining his crew of awesome minions, that was for sure! Though, being thanked for his awesome cooking was at least a plus about the whole matter! Yes, he totally did the BEST job - being appreciated for that was nice!! Which was why he made sure to appreciate his boys properly, but not getting sidetracked again now nope!

“Of course, of course! NOBODY expects the approach of the great Giovanni - I come into the night like the midnight steam off a volcano, and erupt onto the scene with BLAZING FEROCITY OF LAVA, especially when it comes to surprising those around me! My courses are as fire-filled as me, supportive of my boys and full of the powers of creation AND destruction!” Yup, still sticking for THAT as his explanation of ‘I have Life Major and Fire and Love minor’.

“Plagg, I think your theory of a super villain in the dorms might be correct. Can’t stay for certain since our powers are taken from us.”

The laughter is getting obnoxious. It’s certainly not Hawkmoth, but maybe a different villain. Adrien finds him scratching his head in mild confusion. He would transform into Cat Noir but for some reason, he can’t at all. Guess he might be wary in opening that door. Is there a villain in their dorms or should he be more with it? Well, Adrien might find out soon enough.

Opening his door, he saw an all-too familiar person. It was someone he met from Solarium originally, when he was still in that place and showing him around. Unfortunately the portal to that place is sealed off now. But, he hopes everyone in that place is doing alright. Eyes widening in surprise, he points at the other dramatically.

“Hey! Aren’t you the guy who showed me around Solarium before?” He spoke, it was mildly a reaction but he was surprised. The messy look on Giovanni’s appearance was concerning. Adrien hopes that he won’t cause trouble while he’s here and he can’t transform into Cat Noir now.

“Gee, what a coincidence, huh Adrien? ” Plagg bursts out laughing at the scene unfolding in front of him as well as Adrien’s familiar. The model stares at the tray in question as he seems to be holding a container of… “Are those cream puffs?”

Oho? Despite his boisterous laughing, he was sure he faintly heard someone behind the door actually recognising him as a super villain from his bad guy laugh! That only made him laugh all the more, quite pleased that SOMEONE noticed and appreciated his awesomeness - but as the door swung open, the shock and surprise that he felt on the person he saw cut his laugh short with adruptness the way nothing else could do, the pink-haired male jabbing a shocked finger in a dramatic point at the other, and his dragon, too, gasping in surprise as Giovanni blurted out: “IT’S YOU???” He very well remembered his time in the other world, the people he’d helped: and that ‘kitty cat’ super-hero had been one that definitely stuck to his mind seeing as he’d literally dragged him through the portal and showed off the school and all - and with the whole ‘mistaking him for a bad guy too because of the costume’ thing on top of it and all, it was honestly ironic, almost, that the same thing kinda had happened? Well, in the case of ‘mistaking him for a potential minion’ this time, anyway, but po-ta-to, po-tah-to. Wait, if HE was the guy who was the new roomie, then - then - Giovanni’s one brain cell whirled about to make sense of it like a hamster on the wheel, but further attempts to think about it were cut short at his jabbed point being met with a point at the exact same time. “Yes, that’s RIGHT! OF COURSE YOU’D REMEMBER ME, THE GREAT AND TERRIBLE GIOVANNI POTAGE!” Pointing to the sky with his free hand triumphantly, but pouted at being laughed at in a most SERIOUS and INTIMIDATING manner (at least Giovanni THOUGHT he was, but it honestly just looked childish more than anything.) He was a BAD GUY of most imposing degree, they shouldn’t laugh at that! RUDE. The topic of his cream puffs actually got his head back into thinking mode, however, and realisation hit him like one of Car Crash’s errant driving skills - “THAT’S RIGHT!! I planned to give them to the newbie moving to the room next to mine so we could be cool bros over the gift and they might wanna be my minion after! So... does this all mean YOU'RE the new roomie in question?! UGH, i can't adopt a potential GOOD GUY into my BOYS, how lame! You’d whistle-blow on me so fast it’d put Sylvie to shame!!” Pouting further at this realisation, he tapped a foot on the ground grumpily - but realisation hit at the same time, and the pout was quickly replaced by the kind of toothed grin a shark might give to a smaller fish, which probably didn’t seem that reassuring! “Wait - maybe - there IS a benefit! Everyone sees you as a ‘good guy’, so NOBODY would see you being one of my boys coming at all! Subverting expectations, mwahahha!!”

Plagg looks disgruntled. When Adrien takes the letter and leaps into the new area with no hesitation, the kwami has a feeling they might run into some familiar faces. He doesn’t know what happens to the rest. The blond feels like he hasn’t helped that much in that place but he seems really worried about where everyone has go off to. The first thing Adrien has noticed about the school giving off magical energies as though it had popped out straight from a fantasy book he used to read. Should he be seeing more dragons soon? The familiar he ran into was said is his own now. Adrien learned that there are many courses of magic to be learned in some way. He’d love to learn more about them but life and dream magic are his current interests.

“Kid, you’re overthinking too much. Stop worrying about them. I’m sure they’ll be fine. ” Plagg said as the dragon nods in agreement. Rolling his green eyes, the kwami stares at him in annoyance.

“You may be Adrien’s familiar. But I’m way cuter than you.” Plagg sarcastically adds , Adrien chuckles and looks at at Plagg.

“Plagg, you know you’re irreplaceable right? I’m sure you and my familiar will get along. ” Adrien reaasures him. Most of his things are now organized. He wouldn’t want his future dorm mates to have a bad impression on him. So he keeps everything in check to see that his clothes aren’t on the floor, making sure it’s entirely clean.

“Now that’s done, we should check what’s out in Sunrise Academy.” Adrien tells his kwami. “Lead the way little guy-”

But before Adrien can do that, he hears a loud noise from outside of his dormitory. It causes him to jump.

What the heck was that? Adrien wonders even Plagg looks done with everything.

“We just got here, are you kitten me?! It better not be on Hawkmoth level of activity!” The kwami exclaims, completely baffled.

Now, being the active and AMAZING bad guy he was, Giovanni kept a sharp eye on when it seemed like new potential BOYS AND MINIONS might be arriving: and hearing that the dorm next to the one he was roomed in with Wataru had just recently gotten a new person? Haha! He’d be a fool to not strike while the iron was hot - with that portal to the other place closing, what he’d seen there still remained strong in his mind, and he was thus determined even moreso than usual: to collect BOYS of most trusted and amazing nature. By collecting further BOYS, he could grow as a person all the better when he had someone to push forward and help be the best THEY could be - because wanting to do his best for his boys kept him trying a whole bunch too! It was a double bonus, too!! Not only did it push him to get stronger for Beartrap and the NERD, but he also got to help a minion again like back home, which he really missed now that the portal to the other place was gone and he couldn’t do it to Beartrap right now. He’d gotten up super early to prepare a celebration meal, because the BEST way to recruit minions was with awesome treats: he hadn’t been called ‘Creampuff’ back when he was just a minion in the ex-Blasters for nothing, so he’d cooked his famous chocolate cream puffs (the mess he’d made forgotten and left behind, splatters of chocolate and cream and flour all over the place - recruiting the minion came first, he’d go back and clean it later, honest!) His dragon running around in circles at his feet excitedly, he strode with pride to the neighbor’s door, knocking with an excessive amount of noise with his arm that WASN’T carrying the plastic container full of chocolate cream puffs as his dragon chirped again and again to also attract attention - the knocking and the squeaking creating quite the din outside, Giovanni himself hardly seeming to notice or care that he still had splatters of chocolate icing on his face in his exciteable rush to recruit. Yes, YES!! IT WAS THE MOST PERFECT EVIL PLAN! FIRST YOU GET THE SUGAR, THEN YOU GET THE COOL MINIONS!! Sometimes he was SO bad at cool plots, he scared himself!! As a result of his plan being so amazingly awesome, he couldn’t help but laugh in a dramatic bad-guy fashion as he was want to do, adding to the din and (unknown to him, likely very concerning to hear out of context) noise outside... “MWAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH--”

🐱–“I have my reasons for detransforming in such a short notice.” Adrien remarks with a joke. “Don’t think I know that. We usually handle the big ones back in France. Usually the evil guy goes after our Miraculous jewelry but in Koi is a refreshing change for once aside from the fact that it gets weird sometimes. ” Hawkmoth in Koi can be a bad thing because he can find new victims to akumatize.

🐱–Once the group enters the portal, Adrien jaws drop at the sight. It seems to be a little different than Koi. Adrien was amazed by the new sights around him. This is Solarium? No wonder the little guy was ecstatic to go back home.

🐱–“Wow, this feels like a little different than Koi. Since I’m here now, I’ll explain to you what happened to the island.” He remarks , there’s more students bonding with their familiars and studying. But what caught Adrien’s attention the most was the school. He glances at Giovanni. “Hey, you said Solarium teaches magic right? Is this where you study?”

🐱–The dragon chirps to Adrien’s answer as if it’s a yes. It seems to want to lead to Adrien to where he might be staying in the new world temporarily. “Okay okay. I get it. Where do you want me to follow you little guy? Not now, yet. I still have things to deal with first.”

“Ya reasons, huuh? Yeah, fair enough, just trying ta give ya some heads up in case ya run into someone who WOULD take advantage of it, ya know? If your world has people who are after those sparkly things, then there’s the chance some’a them could have ended up HERE and are listening right now! Or even in Koi! So the moral of my story is to be a little more cautious, but trusting in people isn’t SUPER bad! I trust my BOYS more than anything, and we all do our best for each-other, muahaha!” Well - it was clear to see the boisterous villain did have a good heart under that constant claiming he ‘was’ bad, anyway. Entering the portal, his school lay ahead, and his dragon wiggled excitedly to be back ‘home’ on his shoulder. “Heheh - it sure is a lot different than your little city, huh? A whole school dedicated to magic and learning with dragons - it’s pretty dang cool, right?! This is where I study, the Sunlight Academy! There’re two schools here, Sunlight and Sunset, so it’s a pretty big place!” Listing them off on his gloved fingers, he had to laugh at the guy’s little buddy being excited to show him around. “There’s even different ‘elements’ of magic ya can learn, to do with the natural stuff around people, like fire, air, the BONDS ya feel for ya boys....stuff like that!”