This is a AU story I've been thinking of on what one of the classes before Makoto's class woke up or whatever since something must've happened to the other classes since there is some proof and Monokuma does mention some other ultimates at times. Oh and this is a slight different take for the killing game but I'll let you readers find out on your own.
Mayumi Yajirushi which is 17 and 6.3 feet tall along with pale skin, green eyes, and long orange hair that goes to the middle of her back while wearing black pants, a dark green long sleeve shirt with a black illustration of a dragon on the back of her shirt and black leather looking gloves wakes up in a hallway of a school. Only thing she could remember before waking up was how the headmaster had a plan to keep the students of Hope's Peak Academy safe from despair but something bad happened and she couldn't remember what it was while standing up.
"Hey ultimate archer are you fully awake?" A male voice asks to reveal a 16 year old man that's 6.2 feet tall along with dark red messy hair that goes to the end of his neck and blue eyes while wearing a black dress shirt, black pants, dark red gloves and a black mask that only covers his eyes with holes in them so he can see as he walks towards her with a smirk. "Masayoshi Ningyou the ultimate puppeteer, yeah I'm fully awake." Mayumi answers as his smirk fades and is replaced with a serious look quickly as he takes a step towards her before putting a hand to his head as if he has a headache.
"Do you know what is going on?" Masayoshi asks "no I don't sadly." Mayumi answers before walking over to him and sees that blood is dripping from his head to reveal that he must've been knocked out with force by a blow to the head. "Do you think the ultimate despair did this?" Mayumi asks "no its not Enoshima, there must've been another ultimate despair but in our class." Masayoshi answers before they look around to see that the walls look slightly broken to reveal that they're on the second floor of the dorms. "Come on let's see if we can find out what's going on." Masayoshi says before walking towards the stairs to the first floor with Mayumi following him closely, the two goes down the stairs with Masayoshi looking around the floor with Mayumi behind him.
"So um Masayoshi do you remember any of the previous events?" Mayumi asks "of course I do or I would've forgotten you." Masayoshi answers in a emotionless tone as they try the dorm doors on the first floor to find them all locked. "This seems odd, this is one of the classes that agreed to being locked in the school yet it seems like they're locked in their rooms." Masayoshi explains "how is that weird?" Mayumi asks "simple, most of them are active students so they wouldn't be in their rooms all day." Masayoshi answers before they start walking to the dining hall to hear some clanking noises as they quickly run in.
They see a 17 year old woman that's 5.8 feet tall along with fair white skin, light brown hair that goes to the middle of her back and green eyes along with a tattoo of a cross on the back of her left hand while wearing a white short asleeve shirt with a illustration of a cross on the front, black pants and a necklace with a crucifix in the middle of it. "Kazuko Nakano, the ultimate preacher she knows all religions but she apparently likes Christianity the most and she's been used to tell people about religions since she was 10." Mayumi explains with a smile before she stops when Masayoshi glares at her to show that he doesn't care.
"And she's also clumsy making all that noise." Masayoshi says so Kazuko looks at him a little afraid making Masayoshi smile at what he has done before he gestures to her to speak. "So even the ultimate puppeteer is hostile, but again I already knew that since we are classmates." Kazuko explains before they hear footsteps in their direction as Masayoshi pulls a carving knife out of his pocket. "Hey we're all friends here." A male voice says to reveal a 16 year old man that's six feet tall along with fair white skin, blue eyes and black hair that goes to the end of his neck that curls at the end of each strand while wearing a white dress shirt, dark blue pants, and a dark blue formal jacket along with white gloves walks in.
"Sadao Utsugi, the ultimate actor." Masayoshi mutters as he puts his carving knife away as Sadao silently walks up to him and glares at Masayoshi. "We might not like each other but try not to stab me, we still need to find the other students and figure out what's going on." Sadao explains before walking past Masayoshi to see if there is anything to eat while Mayumi smiles before following Sadao.
"Masayoshi why do you not like Sadao?" Kazuko asks "its a secret, but let's say he took something away from me before this all started." Masayoshi answers before leaving the dining hall alone and starts heading for the stairs to see that he can go up with them. "What's wrong?" A light voice asks to reveal a certain black and white bear appearing behind Masayoshi which just stares at it acting as if its a remote controlled puppet. "What do you want puppet?" Masayoshi asks as he sees Monokuma glaring at Masayoshi as he starts to get angry and shows his claws almost scaring the puppeteer.
"I'm not a puppet, and I think I should tell you some guidelines of what's going on since you seem the most understandable." Monokuma answers before laughing slightly so he clenches a fist as he takes a step towards the bear. "And what would these guidelines be?" Masayoshi asks "calm down and save those hands for controlling Pinocchio, its pretty simple the first rule is you can't hurt me or I'll punish you and that goes to all of your friends. The biggest guideline is there's a traitor amongst you and if you don't figure out who they are you'll start losing classmates." Monokuma explains before Masayoshi closes his eyes and tries to calm down from hearing the words about his puppets being like Pinocchio.
"So you're saying there is a ultimate despair among us?" Masayoshi asks "yep." Monokuma answers before heading into the dining hall making Masayoshi run up to the second floor to see that the gate to the stairs is open. "Masayoshi Monokuma just told us what's going on so what are you doing?" A female voice asks to reveal Kazuko standing behind Masayoshi with a concerned look. "You're not going to believe me but I'm going to find our classmates and a way out." Masayoshi answers "I know you wouldn't hurt anyone but why do you keep wanting to do this alone?" Kazuko asks "because if I'm going to try to do this by myself it will make the despair target me first and also no one else will trust a puppeteer that only trusts his puppets and no one else." Masayoshi explains before walking up to the second floor leaving Kazuko alone at the bottom of the stairs.
And that's the end of chapter 1 so don't forget to review I would like to know how well I'm doing right now with this story even though I'm already writing the truth (another dangan ronpa story of mine) at the same time.