The air was cold and eerie, although there was no reason for it to be like that. Well, at least for the time being. The person of interest was sleeping peacefully. Or as peacefully as they could sleep while sitting down at a desk. Had they fallen asleep in class? Quite possibly, but this person is not the type of person to get bored by some lectures. The person of interest was called Nonam. Nonam Nins. The air got more cold as he slowly drifted awake.

Huh…? Where am I? He thought to himself. His surroundings seemed familiar but somewhat unknown to him. He slowly stood up and looked around. What am I doing here? I don't remember being here… He took in his surroundings and came to the conclusion that he was at a school. He walked over to the door and slowly opened it. What lay beyond this? Who kne- Oh, it was just a hallway. He trotted on through the school. For a school, it was empty and quiet. The only sound that could be heard was Nonam walking, but even then, he walked with a silent notion. Wait, it wasn't completely silent… there were… mumbling? He started to run to where the source of the sound.

SLAM!

Nonam slammed open a door and he was confronted by 15 people standing around talking.

"Another asshole?" Some guy said with his arms crossed, he was wearing something on his back.

"Hey, that wasn't the nicest thing" A girl with red hair said. She wore a nice little hat.

The boy that made the initial comment rolled his eyes "Whatever"

Nonam looked around. Why was everyone gathered here in this place…?

Someone put a hand on his shoulder, which gave him a little jump "Hey! Don't squirm around so much" The boy said, his eyes seemed filled with crazy intents. "We're in the same situation as you!"

"R-right!" Nonam mumbled.

"It's right!" A girl who appeared to be wearing a pilot outfit said "We've been here for a while. I was like the first person here and it was super lonely!"

A girl with dirty blonde hair seemed somewhat annoyed by the bubbly pilot girl "Yeah, she was here when I got here, and she wouldn't shut up…"

"Ladies, ladies!" A boy with black hair put his hands on their shoulders. "Try and get along"
The dirty blonde girl remove the guys arm "If you want to live, I suggest not doing that… ever again."

The boy did finger guns as he slowly walked away "Got it!"

"So, no one knows why we are here?" Nonam asked.

"If we knew, we would have been talking about that" The boy with the sheath said.

"Understandable… Wait… are you all Ultimates?" Nonam asked.

A boy who had been sitting in the corner, curiously looking at something, stood up and tilted his head "It would appear so" He smiled. So pure.

Another boy who was sitting down in front of the stage rolled his eyes. He wore a maroon shirt and had black hair. "That's about the only thing any of us have in common. But that's not the time to speak about this." He stood up. "And I would suggest to find a way out, but I already tried. All the doors leading to the outside are barricaded. Including the windows."

An auburn girl shook her head "Well maybe you simply didn't look hard enough"

"Someone like me wouldn't have missed something"

Nonam was kinda overwhelmed by all of these people

"Well…" A small little girl said. "I did find something in a classroom…" She twiddled her thumbs "The window there wasn't barricaded.

"I thought you said you checked everywhere?" The auburn girl smirked.

The maroon shirted kid simply shrugs "All classrooms look the same. Who has time to look through all of them."

A boy who hadn't spoken piped up "Well then we should go check the classroom!" He had a sense of leadership to him.

Another boy ran over to the door that Nonam had previously entered through. "Well then! What are we waiting for!" He tried to open the door, however, it didn't want to open for him "Well ain't that strange" He tried again, but his hands slipped and he fell to the ground "I'm OK!" He yelled out.

A girl walked over to him "Are you OK?" She asked in a sweet voice.

"Yeah!" The boy said. Before trying to open the door again.

"Jesus Christ…" A voice said, but who said it wasn't importan- it was the guy with the sheath.

"Maybe… the door is locked?" The shy girl said.

"Well then how did he, and us, get in!" The boy besides Nonam said, maybe a little too loud.

"You're… you're right." She said shyly, retracting her statement.

"No, she might be right…" The girl with auburn hair crossed her arms."It could be locked from the outside"

"There's no way!" A loud girl said. She walked over to the door and tried to open it herself "Well! I definitely can't open it! So it has to be locked!" She grunted, a little angry. She calmed herself down before turning towards everyone else "So, any suggestions?"

In the corner, there was a girl who had spoken yet. She had purple hair and glasses "Well, it would make sense for it to be locked like that. Whoever kidnapped us probably wants us all in one room"

"Kidnapped?" The pilot gasped "What would they want to do with us?"

The girl with glasses and purple hair shrugged "Beats me, despite you being Ultimates, there isn't much things interesting about you people."

"That includes you too" The maroon shirted kid crossed his arms.

She rolled her eyes "Oh please, I'm leagues above any of you. Don't compare me to you"

"Well obviously, not, because you are here!" The boy started to raise his voice.

The boy with the hat stepped in between them both "Please, try not to fight" He smiled at them both.

"Stay out of this kid!" The boy glared at him. "You don't want to mess with me!" He reached his hands in his pocket to grab something.

The boy with the sheath instinctively reached for the handle of the sword he had "Don't do that" He said coldly.

The boy, noticing what he had his hand on slowly removed his own from his pockets "Whatever you say" He lifted his hands up in the air and walked away.

"Can we at least try and get along? We all seem to be in the same situation and none of us seem to know why we are here. So it would be better if we cooperate together!" The boy with the leadership said. On closer inspection, he wore some really nice clothes too.

"I agree!" The sweet girl said. She was holding her hands in front of her.

"So are we sure that none of us remember what happened to us?" The boy asked, trying to get as much information as possible out of everyone.

"Look, if any of us remembered. We would have said it" The boy with the sheath glared at him.

The boy with the hat seemed to be eyeing the place around. "Do you guys hear that…?" He said softly.

The shy girl slowly nodded "Y-yes… I'm not the only one it seems…"

Nonam looked around the room "It's… coming from the stage at the back of the gym!"

Everyone slowly turned towards the stage, a noticeable noise was heard. After a few more seconds. Something popped out from behind the podium. "Hellooooooooo and welcome everyo*ne!" It was a… bear?

"What the hell is a bear doing!" The boy with the sheath asked.

"Well, it appears to be talking" The not so bright boy said.

"That's not what I me- You know what, never mind" He sighed.

The boy with the hat tilted his head left and right to try and look at the bear "Well it's definitely not a real a bear"

"I'm surrounded by idiots" The purple haired girl said. "What do you want?"

"Whaaat? No greeting your headmaster?" The bear said "That's not how students should act! You should look up to me!"
"H-headmaster?" The shy girl said.

"Well what else would I be!" The bear said angrily.

"Who are you?" The auburn girl got straight to the point.

"Well, you may all refer to me, as Monokuma! I'm the reason you are all here!" The bear laughed a little.

"You fuck!" The maroon shirted kid yelled out.

"Oh? You are the reason why we are in such a particular situation?" The boy with the crazy eyes leaned forward a little before standing up straight again "Oh well" He shrugged. "What use to you have for us?"

"What use? Well, there's plenty of use!" Monokuma said "Just you wait and seeeee!"

One of the girls clenched her fist "Get us the fuck out of here! You piece of shit!" She was breathing heavily before she started to calm herself down "My bad…"

"You say you are our headmaster?" Nonam crossed his arms "What kind of headmaster is a bear?"

"Well, me of course!" Monokuma said.

"That, doesn't quite answer the question" Nonam took a few steps forward "Why do none of us remember anything?"

"Well that's obviously because you acquired amnesia!" Monokuma giggled and covered his mouth. "I had nothing to do with it!"

"For all of us to seemingly forget what happened to us, it doesn't make any sense!" The girl with the glasses frowned "So of course you had something to do with it!"

Monokuma shrugged "Hey, maybe I did! Who knows!"

The boy with the nice clothes took a few steps towards Monokuma "Well, what do you intend to do to us!"

"I don't plan on doing anything to you guys" Monokuma said "You will all do stuff to each other!"

The boy didn't seem convinced "What does that mean?"

"How many of you do you think will make it out?" Monokuma answered his question with another question.

The boy in the fancy closed seemed to get a little angrier "All of us!"

"Wrong!" Monokuma laughed "Only like 6 or 7 of you will survive!"

The boy with the weird eyes seemed a little angry "THAT'S ABSURD!"

"I don't really think so! Puhuhuhu!" Monokuma laughed.

"Hey you bastard! Why don't you tell us what you are planning!" The punk girl yelled out at him before trying to calm herself down.

"Well, I'm planning something I would like to refer as… the killing game" His red eye flashed a little. That can't be good.

"K-killing game?" The shy girl asked.

"A killing game!" Monokuma confirmed. He looked around at everyone else "Oh my! You all haven't even introduced yourself to each other! It will be a very confusing read!" And with that, Monokuma left the room.

A distinct clicking sound was heard and the dumb boy turned towards the gym doors "Hey! I think they are unlocked!" He tested out the doors and they did indeed open up, and, without any second thought, rushed out. Several people seemed to follow his lead, leaving only a few people behind.

Nonam watched everyone leave the gym, slowly shaking his head. What the hell was going on.

He was about to follow everyone when a hand grabbed him and stopped him "Where do you think you are going?" A girls voice said.

When he turned around to look at who it was, it was the girl with auburn hair. She had two nice twin tails.

"Well it would be advantageous to explore the school" Nonam said.

"Well why don't you take the time to talk to the people here?" The girl rolled her eyes, before smiling "Hi, I'm Arianna!" She extended her hand to shake his "I'm the Ultimate Actor"

Nonam slowly extended his hand and shook it "I'm… Nonam" He said somewhat shyly. "I'm the Ultimate… the huh… Ultimate…" He let go of her hand started to think for a bit. Wait… what WAS my Ultimate talent?

"Don't tell me you forgot!" Arianna crossed her arms.

"Oh! That's right! I actually took a sort of entrance exam" Nonam said.

"Entrance exam? Wouldn't that place you in the reserve sector?" She seemed pretty skeptical.

"Well, normally… but apparently I did so good I was moved to the main part of the academy… along with all the Ultimates" Nonam was now deep in thought.

"I, find that hard to believe" She said.

"I… I know it's not very believable. But I guess you could call me the Ultimate Academic? If that is a thing…"

"I mean, it could be" Arianna shrugged

Nonam started to think "So I guess it would be good to meet everyone else who is in this same situation as us…"

She slowly nodded "Yeah…" She looked around the gym and spotted the only other person who hadn't left the room. "Well we should at least start with him over there."

The boy looked up, noticing that he was being spoken about. He eagerly walked over to them and waved "Hello!" He tilted his head a little, his hat staying neatly on his head. "I should probably get to introducing myself" He tilted his head the other way "I'm Tristan Everton, I'm the Ultimate Animal Caretaker!"

"Ultimate Animal Caretaker huh?" Nonam seem intrigued.

"Yeah, I got the title after single handedly helping a few animals from extinction" Tristan said proudly.

Arianna frowned a little "I didn't do something has good as that to get my title. I just got lucky and landed a role in a top play and soon I was well known…"

"Hey, better than writing a test" Nonam rolled his eyes.

Tristan tilted his head "No matter how we all became Ultimates, we still became Ultimates. Meaning we have a lot of talent"

She sighed a little "Yeah, you're right. Well there's no point in staying in the gym. Let's go."

Tristan sat back on the ground "You two go on, I have other stuff to do" He took off his hat to reveal two mouses were hidden under it.

"Where did you…?" Arianna wanted to ask but Nonam had already started to leave.

The two made it out of the gym and started looking around for other people to talk to. Luckily they found someone roaming around the hallways.

A girl who wore somewhat loose clothes and had a punk look to her was reading some of the posters on the wall. She wore a black beanie hat on her and also had a necklace. While reading the posters, she cursed under her breath. She didn't seem to have noticed the two yet.

"Hey." Arianna said softly.

No reaction

"HEY!" She yelled a little louder.

This, caught her attention "JESUS FUCKING CHRIST SHIT!"

"I think you got her attention" Nonam said

She turned to face them both, a little angry "Don't sneak up on me like that!" She said angrily before calming herself down "Sorry...I guess I really so lash out at people" She said shyly.

"Forget about that, who are you" Arianna got straight to the point.

"Oh! Right! I'm Catrina Rwuicks and I'm the Ultimate DJ!"

"Well that's an interesting title." Nonam said without much emotion in it.

Arianna smirked a little "You'd probably be able to liven up any party you go to!"

Catrina laughed a little "That's right, I've been invited to many parties before because of my title! I'm basically the life of the party!" She giggled. "So if you need me for anything! Feel free to call me!" She handed them both a business card.

Nonam shook his head "I don't think that will be necessary-"

"TAKE THE DAMN THING!" Catrina yelled at them.

They both took the card and started to walk away.

"Huh…" Arianna said as they walked away "She's weird…"

"Yup…"

After a bit of walking, they encountered someone else. He was the boy with the sheath from earlier. He seemed like he was talking to someone. "Alright, first of all! Taking pictures of other people is kinda a dick move!"

"Well it's what I do!" A girl tried to defend herself "I am a journalist after all, once we get out of here, you better bet this is making the papers!"

When Arianna and Nonam walked closer to see who he was talking to, it was the girl with the red hair and the blue hat. She seemed to be wearing a sort of dress. Obviously nothing too fancy, but something that would be perfect for the summer.

As for the boy, he had on a blank shirt, although it wasn't actually blank, but Nonam couldn't see the motive on his shirt. He wore jeans and had light brown hair with nice blue eyes to sorta match.
"Are you two fighting?" Nonam asked the two.

The boy turned to look at Nonam "Well yeah, she took a picture without permission.

And on cue, a bright flash could be seen with the sound that came with it.

After recovering from the flash, the boy turned angrily at the girl "See!"

She put away her camera. "Well what do you expect the Ultimate Journalist to do besides take pictures of an interesting story?"

"Ultimate Journalist, huh?" Nonam asked her.

"Of course~! I've been interested in it since I was a child. I would always take pictures and sometimes, it even made it onto the paper!" She giggled "The name is Marisa Campbell, by the way!"

The boy crossed his arms "And I'm Arti Fyshial. The Ultimate Swordwielder. Any swords in existence, I can probably use"

Marisa took another picture, this time of Arti's sheath.

This ticked him off even more "Alright! That's it!" He grabbed her camera and threw it in the air, placing a hand on the sword handle. He was probably going to cut it in half when it fell down to the perfect height. Although he never got the chance to strike at it.

Arti found himself on the ground, ouch.

Nonam stood where he used to be standing, holding the camera "Why must you be so quick to cause damage?" He gave the camera back to Marisa, who, upon taking it, took a few steps away from Arti.

Arti slowly got up and started to walk away, without saying much. He was not happy.

Nonam watched him leave and when he went to turn back towards Marisa, another flash happened.

Marisa giggled a little "Well, I'll be off too! I have to go find more things! This is going up on my blo-" She reached out for her phone and let out a scream.

Arianna cringed at the high pitch scream "What, did you lose a finger?"

Marisa started to freak out even more "My phone!" She yelled out.

"Calm down" Nonam said. "You must have dropped it"

She turned to face Arianna and Nonam "Well you two check for your phones!"

They both obliged and went to check for their phones before remarking it was missing.

"See? We all don't have our phones!" Marisa said worriedly "I'll go see about the others!" And with that, she ran off.

The duo stayed silent for a moment before Nonam spoke up "Why is everyone here weird?"

"Beats me…" Arianna mumbled. Soon, they both continued to walk around the school. Soon they arrived to what appeared to be a library. Once they both walked in, they saw two people. They were both blonde, however one had dirty blonde hair and she seemed frustrated, while the other seemed completely oblivious to the fact that she didn't want to be talked to "Is everything OK?" The blonde boy asked.

The girl was looking through some books, trying to ignore him "Yeah… yeah" She opened up a book, starting to read through it. When she realized it wasn't an interesting story, she threw it behind her, the boy, barely managing to avoid getting hit in the face. "You might want to watch out where you throw those"

She threw another book "Whatever"

Nonam caught this second book and started flipping through it "Well, try searching in a different section. This is a history type book"

The girl seemed even more annoyed "What will it take for you all to leave"

"We are just tryi-" Nonam started to say.

Arianna angrily walked over to the girl "Excuse me?" It would seem that she didn't like being treated like that.

The girl turned to look at Arianna, with a very annoyed expression "Can I help you?"

Arianna gritted her teeth and looked like she wanted to fight the girl, but of course she held back the urge to do so. "What's with your shit attitude!"

"My shit attitude? What's with your shit face?" The girl shot back.

Nonam took some cautionary steps back. The other boy, did the same thing.

Arianna was getting more frustrated as the argument went on "Look, bitch, I don't know who you think you are, but you aren't the fucking Queen!"

"Well neither are you, so you can take your ass and leave"

Nonam looked over at the boy "Is she always like this?"

The boy looked over at Nonam "I don't know, she didn't really want to talk much to me. Oh! I'm Christopher Hide by the way. I'm the Ultimate Lucky Student!"

"Lucky Student? That's a talent?" Nonam asked.

"W-wha? Of course it's a talent! Or else I wouldn't have been chosen!" Christopher tried to defend himself.

"Riiiight" Nonam brushed off Christopher's talent and looked back at the argument and holy shit, books were flying.

"Look! You have to believe me when I say I'm luck-" Christopher got hit by a book before he could finish his sentence. Yup, luck.

Nonam decided to step in and got in between the two girls "Alright! That's enough!" He turned to look at the girl. "Me and Arianna are just going around trying to get to know everyone!"

"Terra Rea, Ultimate Rebel, that should be enough!" She broke her hand free from Nonam and walked out of the library.

Nonam shook his head and headed out of the other exit of the library, Arianna following close behind "Just so you know, I would have kicked her ass!"

"Yeah yeah…" He rolled his eyes.

They walked for a bit more before hearing some mumbling and some giggling. Arianna walked over to where the sound was coming from and it was the the cafeteria. Inside, there was a boy and a girl. A girl with colourful hair and a boy with black hair. The girl, on closer inspection was wearing a uniform of sorts. Not like military, but more like a pilot uniform. Although it seemed to also be too small for her. The guy was about 5 inches taller than her, with just a little over 6 feet tall. The guy also seemed to be flirting with the girl, who also didn't seem to mind and was playfully flirting back.

"We're here for not even an hour and you two are already flirting?" Arianna asked, unimpressed.

"Well, what did you expect? I am the Ultimate Flirt, after all" The boy with the black hair said.

The pilot girl smirked "He has such a way with words" She giggled. She stood up from sitting on the table and stretched "Although he is going to need to try harder if he wants me" She winked started to walk away "I'm Delilah Lyi! I'm the Ultimate Pilot! Flew my first plane at the age of 12. Scared the craaaap out of my parents" She giggled before walking out of the cafeteria.

The boy watched her leave, kinda entranced by her. He shook his head and looked at Arianna and Nonam "Well, I guess I should say my name! The name is Chase Snips!"

"So, apparently you are just the thing for the ladies?" Arianna rolled her eyes.

Chase smoothly walked over to her "Well of course I am, I'll make you feel good all ov-" He never got to finish.

Arianna slapped him across the face "How about no…" She said coldly. "Come on Nonam, let's go!" She started to walk away.

He couldn't do anything BUT oblige to her. They both started to walk around, maybe a little uneasy because everyone around here was kinda weird in their own rights. Soon they found someone they hadn't talked to yet. He had a weird assortment of hair colours. With white, grey, and black. His whole appearance seemed somewhat intimidating. When he sensed people walking, he glanced over at Nonam and Arianna, his cold dark eyes gazing into the depths of their soul. It was hard to tell what colour his eyes were, but they were definitely unnatural. He stared at them for a bit without saying anything.

"Huh…" Nonam started to say.

He quickly realized how weird he looked and stood up straight "Oh! Sorry! My bad! I guess I just got so use to watching people I forget to talk sometimes" He laughed a little.

"What do mean by watching people?"

"Oh! I guess that does sound a little creepy if I say it just like that, sorry, that was not my intention. I am the Ultimate Psychologist. I actually helped do a lot of mental tests on the people who went to the school, including helping give Ultimate titles based on personality and not talent themselves. The name is Xi Loung, but you can call me Xi Loung"

Chase smoothly slid into the scene with finger guns pointed at Arianna. "And you can call me anytime"

It a matter of seconds, Chase had already been punched away.

"Well, alright Xi, do a test on m-" Arianna started to say.

"You became an actor not only on the fact that you got lucky, but also the fact that you are two faced and you found it easy to put on a mask and pretend to be someone else, which is why acting is so easy for you. Eventually you picked up fame with it and you never let it go, and even now, you hide behind a mask of your own creation" Xi said pretty quickly.

Arianna froze and had nothing to say.

Nonam looked at her curiously. Was what was said, true?

"None of that is true!" Arianna said angrily, huffing a little.

Xi smirked deviously "I speak only the truth" He turned around to start to walk away "Sometimes it might be hard to grasp!"

Arianna looked like she wanted to kick his ass, but luckily, thanks to Nonam, she didn't have the chance "Let's keep looking!" He told her.

"Fine…" She mumbled to herself before following Nonam. Soon, they found themselves outside a classroom with the door slightly open. When they peered inside, he saw two other students, one was a short black haired girl, the other was the boy with the maroon shirt. "I thought you said you saw a window here!" The boy said.

The girl squeaked a little "All… the classrooms look the same!" She tried to defend herself.

The boy sighed "Yeah, I guess you are right.

Nonam opened the door to step in and they both turned to look at him. "Oh, hey, you're the boy that arrived last" The maroon kid said "I guess I should introduce myself since I didn't back then. I'm David Talon, the Ultimate Blacksmith."

The girl kinda hid behind David before getting out into the open "And… I'm Eliza Dalton… The… the… Ultimate Chef" She blushed a little, she was shy and insecure.

"Well she was saying this classroom had a window, so she must have been mistaken" David crossed his arms

She seemed a little mad "Well… it's not my fault all classrooms look… the same…! And you even said it yourself!" Despite being insecure, she was trying to stand her own ground.

David glared at her "Using my own words against me?"

Eliza squeaked a little before taking a few steps back. "R-right…" She held her hands together.

He rolled his eyes and headed for the exit "Well I got better things to do then be brought around in circles" He passed by Nonam and Arianna.

Nonam looked over at Eliza "Are you OK?"

She squeaked again before nodding at them "Y-yes!" She smiled. "I… I should probably go too!" She quickly left the room, avoiding any eye contact, she was blushing from being so shy.

"Well that was a waste" Arianna commented before leaving the room to see if she could find

some other people to talk to.

"Look, we don't know what kinda situation we are in" The voice of a boy was heard. It was coming from the other hallway "There's no way this is a mere prank!"

"So what seems more logical, some force beyond our control managed to kidnap sixteen students and place them in a school, which they so happen to have to themselves. This isn't just any school! This is Hope Peaks Academy, nonetheless!" The voice is a smart sounding woman was also heard.

When Nonam and Arianna turned the corner and saw a black haired kid and a girl with purple hair and glasses.

"Well, this seems too large for a mere prank" The boy crossed his arms.

"Well even if it isn't a prank! There must be a more logical explanation than a mass attack like this that went unnoticed. There's no telling how long we've actually been here. But one thing's for certain. I feel older than the last time I remember." The purple haired girl said.

"Huh… Excuse me!" Arianna said politely, trying to get their attention.

The girl sent a glare towards Arianna before sighing "Yes?"

"We are just going around trying to get to know everyone" She smiled.

"Well, in those seem like it would make sense" The girl frowned.

The boy smiled "Well, I'll go first! My name is Gabriel Peterson! I'm the Ultimate Politician! I got that title by helping my dad make a lot of crucial decisions. Also because of my sense of leadership" Gabriel said proudly.

"Yeah, although that sense of leadership won't get me to cooperate. I've learned that people only get in the way of true talent." The girl crossed her arms "I'm Jenna Claws. The Ultimate Scientist. It's pretty obvious how I could have gained a title like that. And if it isn't, it's not worth the effort to explain it."

"Ignore her" Gabriel said, trying to steer the conversation away from her "She's just on edge"
Jenna started to walk away "Last I checked, you were on edge because you think we are all kidnapped"

Gabriel was going to say something but decided to stay calm. "So how has your greetings gone?" He asked politely.

"I think we've meet everyone now" Arianna started to count. "Wait, no, there's one more person we haven't meet… eight boys and seven girls…" She started to think "Who haven't I talked to…"

Suddenly, someone was standing between them "Have you two been roaming around the school together? How cute!" A female voice said.

Nonam almost jumped out of shock.

Arianna turned to look at the girl "Who the hell are you?"

She laughed a little "I'm Larissa Banks! Nice to meet you!"

"Convenient" Arianna mumbled. She already did not like Larissa, her personality was going to get on her nerves and she hated to admit it, but she probably had the better body.

Larissa looked at both Nonam and Arianna "You two are pretty cute together!"

Yeah, Arianna wasn't going to like her "What!" She said, mostly angry but with a faint blush.

"I think… that's a bad deduction…"

"Bad deduction!" Larissa asked "Well I hardly do those! I am the Ultimate Matchmaker after all! I rarely make mistakes. There's a 99% chance I will succeed!"

"Must be one of those lucky 1%" Arianna huffed.

"That doesn't seem very lucky to me" Larissa kinda pouted a little bit.

"Hey, not because I want to change the subject or anything, but maybe we should gather everyone and meet up at the gym again!" Gabriel suggested.

Nonam turned towards Gabriel "Well it would be better to have everyone in one place to discuss about stuff"

"Great! I'll go gather some people! You do the same thing!" Gabriel waved goodbye and walked away.

Nonam was about to say something but decided to keep his mouth shut. He turned towards Larissa and Arianna. "We should head back over to the gym, we talked with everyone that was here"

Larissa giggled a little "I'll leave you two alone!" She quickly dissapeared to head to the gym.

Arianna sighed "She annoys me"

"Everyone annoys you" Nonam said plainly, walking away.

Arianna was going to refute that but decided to stay quiet.

They soon gathered people and made their way to the gym.

"Alright… what did you gather us here for?" Terra crossed her arms.

Gabriel was standing on the stage "Alright, this can't be some prank that someone decided to pull, because it seems too elaborate for a silly prank"

"Well what other possibility is there?" Arti asked

"Some organization has kidnapped us!" Gabriel suggested.

"K-kidnapped us?" Eliza stuttered a little "Who would do that!"

Gabriel started to think deeply "I don't know… but it does have to do with this school. I can deduce this is indeed Hope Peaks Academy!"

"No shit sherlock!" David called out "The symbol is on the floor!" He pointed out.

Gabriel looked at the floor "It would seem my deduction was correct!"

"But who would want to kidnap us" Jenna brought up.

"Well, that's a more difficult question. All we know is that a bear named Monokuma did it" Gabriel kept going.

"That's right" Monokuma said, standing on the podium besides Gabriel.

This, of course, caught him off guard, and he fell of the stage "What the!"

"It is me! Monokuma!" The bear laughed maniacally "I kidnapped you all here! This is no prank, and you are soon to find out that fact!"

"Why did you kidnap us! You mention something about a killing game!" Gabriel slowly got up.

"That's right! The killing game!" Monokuma grinned. "You guys are all going to participate in a killing game!"

Chase gritted his teeth and clenched his fist, pointing at Monokuma "There's no way we would do something like that!"

"Oh? There isn't. Man, it's like you think that I would expect you too! Puhuhuhu" Monokuma laughed "Of course you are going to do it! Or else, you won't be getting out of here alive! Or even dead, your bodies will eternally trapped here. To suffer forever!"

"Bullshit!" Arti cried out.

"T-there's no way any of us would kill!" Eliza mumbled, but it probably went unheard.

"We aren't stupid, you know!" Arianna crossed her arms.

"Although, it would be an interesting experiment" Xi grinned, his crazy eyes, more apparent than before.

"You fucking psycho!" Catrina yelled at him.

"That's psychologist to you!" Xi corrected her. "So, Monokuma, is it? What makes you so sure we will kill each other?"

"It's human nature" Jenna spoke for Monokuma "I thought you of all people, would understand. You have sixteen people trapped in a certain area. The only way out is to kill. At first, no one wants to kill and things continue on as normal, but then, slowly, the mind starts to think, how long before some ELSE kills. Quickly, that raises the urge to get out, with killing being, once again, the only way else. You want to kill someone before you get killed yourself, right? That is probably what is going to happen here." Jenna trailed off, treating everyone like idiots.

"That is true" Xi agreed "But it would take several days or even weeks before someone does kill. Humans are easily manipulated, but, sometimes they need that extra… push."

"An extra push?" Monokuma tilted his head "Are you talking about a mooootive?"

"Precisely" Xi smirked.

"Who would want to give a motive to any of you! I say you can last, tops, three days without murder! Puhuhuhu" Monokuma laughed.

"Hey! We are not ones to just go and kill people!" Marisa snapped a little at Monokuma "We have morals"

Monokuma looked over at Marisa "You may have morals, but does everyone here, have morals"

Marisa gritted her death. Monokuma was right. She didn't know anything about these people. And some didn't seemed bothered, like Xi and Jenna.

"Oh? That shut you up?" Monokuma tilted his head "Good! Your voice was starting to get annoying!"

"Is there any consequence with killing anyone?" David asked

"Well of course, there's a catch! Killing iiiis illegal after all!" Monokuma laughed "After a victim has been found, you will have investigate the facility. After some certain time, a trial will be held for you all to try and figure out who the culprit is. I will henceforth refer to the culprit as the blackened. And the innocent as the spotless! Anyways, the spotless will need to discuss who they think the blackened is. This will all end in a vote, once it seems everyone has come to a conclusive agreement, that is. After the vote, if they guessed correctly, the blackened will be punished. However, if they guess incorrectly, then everyone BUT the blackened will be punished"

"W-what do you mean by, p-p-punished?" Eliza said weakly. She was scared to know the answer.

"Oh, don't worry! The punishment isn't anything bad!" Monokuma reassure.

Eliza took a sigh of relief.

"The punishment is… EXECUTION!" Monokuma said.

Everyone froze and the air got very tense. No one could come to believe what they had just heard.

The first one to break the silence was Arti "F-FUCKING BULLSHIT!"

"It's 100% true! Would I lie!" Monokuma said innocently.

"Of course you would!" Arti barked back at him.

Monokuma seemed to ignore him "Have a fun filled killing game!" And with that, he vanished.

Gabriel regained his composure "Don't worry! Everyone! Everything will be OK! If we stay cal-"

"Why don't you shut the fuck up you twit!" Catrina yelled out before covering her mouth "I mean…" She calmed herself down "How do you expect us to stay calm in a situation like this?"

Gabriel started to sweat as he thought of something to say "I know it's hard to stay calm, but we all must think of something, we can't let him play around like this!"

Terra started to head over to the exit

"Terra!" Gabriel called out "Where do you think you are going!"

She slowly turned to look at Gabriel "I'm leaving, I don't want my potential last few days around people like you" And with that, she left.

"I… I don't feel safe here…" Eliza squeaked and she quickly left the room.

"Guys… Please…" Gabriel pleaded a little.

Chase shook his head as he also left.

Soon, all that remained were Arianna, Arti, Delilah, Gabriel, Jenna, Nonam, and Xi.

"Welp! You tried your best!" Arti said with a smirk "Better luck next time!" He started to leave.

"Stop!" Gabriel said, somewhat coldly. "If everyone keeps leaving. Then that won't help prevent people from dying. As a leader, it's up to me to make sure that doesn't happen. I don't want to be in a situation like this." He started to walk towards Arti, who had stopped "You think I want this! No, I don't! This is not something anyone would wish fo-"

Xi whistled innocently.

"This is not anything anyone but that guy would want!" Gabriel corrected himself.

"I'm only interested in seeing how people's morals become twisted." Xi tried to defend himself.

Gabriel decided to ignore him "So please, try and help out"

Arti turned around to walk away "People like you are going to be the first to go." He gripped onto his sword handle "I would know…" And with that, he walked out.

The gym fell silent.

One could hear a pen drop.

Gabriel sighed.

You could practically feel the despair, filling up the room.

Hope Peaks Academy.

Where Hope goes…

To die.