Shoujo Kakumei Utena, its concepts and personalities are copyrighted by Be-Papas. I, BioKraze, own nothing save the original plot of this fanfiction.
Author's Note: Yeah, I know. I'm morbid and evil. This, however, is nothing compared to my crowning achievment of ultraviolent fanfiction...but I got stupid and wiped the story. Ah, well. Enjoy!
Mariko Koyama's corpse was discovered near the front door of the eastern dormitory by another student, as the evening fell upon Ohtori Academy's white buildings. Her body had been gutted, the entrails spread out about the corpse to mimic the image of a rose. The abstract design was the chilling "signature" of the murderer, known to the students and the public only as the "Bloody Rose."
The death of the Student Council's treasurer was the latest in a string of brutal killings. Already the other members had been dispatched in the same violent manner, the gruesome arrangement of their internal organs recognisable as the crest of the great Ohtori Academy. Nobody knew the identity of the Bloody Rose, but there were many that speculated.
The usual suspects had been ruled out, as none of them would have been capable of murder, let alone the level of violence involved. All five bodies had been viciously slashed apart, the deep cuts and gouges calculated to deliver the greatest level and length of suffering while they remained alive. They were always discovered in close proximity to the eastern dormitory, if not within its rooms and hallways.
The murders seemed carefully planned, each victim's remains discovered within a week of one another. It was only after the third victim was discovered - Shigeru Okabe, the vice president of the Student Council - that the student body truly panicked, fearful of their lives. Despite the presence of the local police force and the attempts of the faculty to ease their fears, the students began to institute measures of their own.
They began to travel in groups of four or five, in case the killer attacked. Students kept watches at night, and entire classes moved about as single bodies, monitored by one or more teachers. The deaths of the prominent students was a great shock, but there was a rumor that was even more shocking in its implications.
After almost two months since the first death, the police were unable to identify the Bloody Rose. Yet the simple fact of the location had soon instilled an unquenchable terror within the collective mindset of the student body. The eastern dormitory became infamous for tales of hauntings, as well known as the Nemuro Memorial Hall. It was said by some of the more imaginative teens that the east hall was haunted by the ghosts of the late Student Council members. Very few wandered the east dorm's halls and chambers for two years.
Then nobody - adult or juvenile - dared set foot within the east hall. Slowly, the building fell into disrepair, and dust accumulated upon its silent surfaces for eight whole years. For almost a decade, people feared the legend of the east hall. The Bloody Rose must surely have moved on, but the hideous deaths lingered long in the impressionable minds of the academy's youth.
Then, after ten years of disuse, the eastern dormitory's halls and chambers were inhabited by two young women. One was a popular freshman with pink hair and a rebellious spirit. The other was an enigmatic, mysterious girl who silently tended a sunlit garden of roses whose colours spanned the entire spectrum of light.
Unbeknownst to the students of Ohtori Academy, the infamous killer known as the Bloody Rose had returned for a second round of murder and mayhem. Soon, no person would be safe in the school. The history of horrors would begin to repeat itself once more...