Disclaimer: I only own the awful chapter names

Author Notes: Rise is not my favourite character, though I hope this doesn't offend people too much. (๑ↀᆺↀ๑)

Night Three

Nico had been huddled in a ball, sobbing for about half an hour when the phone rang. Remaining in the foetal position he reached up and blindly groped around the desk for the phone, after a few minutes of fumbling he finally managed to pick up the phone and brought it down to his ear.

"Hello?" Nico sobbed into the phone waiting for the cheerful voice of Yosuke to answer him.

"Sensei? Is that you?" That… that wasn't Yosuke. Nico stopped sobbing in confusion over the other person on the phone.

"Teddie?" Nico asked, dreading the answer.

"Of course! You don't sound too good sensei." Teddie answered Nico. Nico stared at the phone for a few seconds wondering how Teddie could be.

"Well, yeah I don't sound good Teddie. I'm being emotionally and physiologically tortured by the girls!" Nico was almost shouting at the bear by the end of his statement.

"I know! The girls told me all about it!" Teddie's voice was far too happy given the current situation.

Wait, why was Teddie even calling him?

"Teddie, why the fuck are you calling me?" Nico asked the bear, attempting to figure out what was currently going on.

"I wanted to talk to you Sensei! I haven't talked with you in soooo bear-y long! I was so bear-y lonely with just Yosuke to hang out with." Nico was befuddled by what Teddie was saying, why couldn't he take this seriously?!

"Teddie, I need you to listen to me and tell me why you called!" Nico nearly screamed into the phone, beyond frustrated at the other by this point.

"I wanted to tell you something Sensei! I finally figured out why I could never score with anyone before!" Teddie's voice was full of childish excitement. In any other situation Nico would have been amused by Teddie's antics.

"Huh, why would that be Teddie?" Nico prompted after a few moments of silence from the other side of the phone.

"It's because you had already scored with everyone, Sensei! That's why I couldn't score with anyone. Sensei, why did you do something like that? It was bear-y naughty of you, Sensei!" Nico really didn't need this right now, glancing at the clock he noticed that it was still 11 so the night hadn't started yet.

"Listen Teddie, if that's all you wanted to talk about then I'm going to hang up now, Chie and Yukiko are coming to murder me if you hadn't noticed!"

"Don't forget Rise-chan!" Teddie's childish voice interrupted Nico's tangent.

"… What?" Nico replied, confusion dripping from his tone.

"Rise-chan was beary angry with you when the girls figured out what you did. She was not a happy bear, and she took it out of poor Teddie when he was only trying to make her feel better!" By this point Teddie had dissolved into tears on the other side of the line.

Nico had no idea what was going on. Where was Yosuke? Wasn't he supposed to be the one calling him at the start of the nights?

"Um… Teddie, what are you talking about? And why should I care about that now?" That was probably harsher than he meant it, hopefully he hadn't hurt the bear's feeling too much.

"But Sensei!" Teddie's tears seemed to disappear as though they never existed… they probably hadn't now that Nico thought about it. "I'm trying to tell you that Rise's coming to see you tonight and I don't think she'll go beary easy on you!"

"Teddie… now is not the time for your bear puns." Nico sighed in exasperation, why did Teddie always persist in those stupid puns?

"Awww! But Sensei!" Now, it was whining again, this was getting very old, very fast. As Nico opened his mouth to hopefully redirect the bear he heard a commotion from the other side of the phone.

"What do you think you're doing, you stupid bear?!" That sounded like it was Yosuke.

"But Yosuke! I was only –"

"I don't care what you were 'only doing'! Don't ever try to mess this up or the girls will put you into that office instead, you hear me?!" That was definitely Yosuke, no doubt about that.

The call ended suddenly as the clock on the desk struck 12am, signifying the start of the third night.

'That… was weird. I should probably stop talking to those guys.' Nico thought in the silence of the room as he flicked up the camera to check on the show stage, noticing that Chie had already left the stage and wasn't visible in the camera.

What was it that Teddie had said about Rise? Well, just in case he should check out the Pirate Cove camera as it was night three and that was usually when foxy started to become more active.

He switched the camera to Pirate's Cove and almost had a heart-attack over the image that was shown on the screen. There was of course the purple, star-patterned curtains but they were pulled apart slightly to partially reveal the figure within.

While the other girls were dressed in a more formal matter, Rise was dressed in a more scandalous manner from what Nico observed, deep beige short-shorts coming up to her mid-thighs, a deep red tank top showed off her toned stomach and flawless tanned skin, what seemed to be a red fox tail was wrapped around her waist and two similarly coloured fox ears topped her head, emerging from her copper pigtails and one of her brown eyes was covered by a heart-shaped eye patch. What startled Nico the most about what he saw it was the grin of her face, it was stretched so widely that it almost seemed to be about to break her face in two.

As Nico stared at the screen, Rise's shoulder's seemed to shake in mirth and an almost hysteric giggle emerged from her throat echoing down the hallway into his room sending shivers down Nico's spine.

Suddenly, hearing something outside the door, he snapped from his stupor checking his door light before shutting the door quickly to stop Chie from entering the room.

Now, was not the time to be distracted, it was probably about 12:30 and he had a long way to go if he wanted to survive the night.

SCH-CLUNK!

THUD! THUD!

"Damn it! That's the second time already!" The night wasn't going in Nico's favours at the current point of time, Rise seemed to want to jump him as she was very persistent in her efforts to get into the room, it was only about 4:20 and she had just run at him for the second time that night.

Nico quickly opened the door, hoping to save some power as he only had slightly over 30% of his power left and the rest of the night to use it. He snapped the camera up to the Pirate's Cove seeing that Rise was still hiding behind the curtains, allowing Nico to breathe a bit, last time she had even bothered to retreat behind the curtains completely.

Not to mention each time she had run at him, she had spoken at him through the metal barrier, "Sensei! Why don't you let me in so we can play?!" Each time she yelled through the door, Nico felt a shiver run down his spine and he would do his best to ignore the scary girl.

A quick flick through the other cameras showed that Naoto still had left the stage, Chie was currently coming down the hall towards his room and Yukiko was currently hanging around the party room. Nico had noticed that Yukiko wasn't very aggressive and hadn't attempted to get into his room very often.

Nico took a second to breathe and calm down from the fright the girls were putting him through, checking the clock on his desk, he saw that twenty minutes had passed meaning he had just over an hour left of this night.

Flipping up the camera once again Nico prepared himself for the rest of the night, if things went well, he would be able to move on into the next night with little effort.

He flicked back over to the Pirate's Cove feed seeing that the curtain's had opened slightly and Rise was peering through the gap and gazing at him through the camera. Ignoring Rise for the moment, he flicked back to where he had seen Chie just moments ago seeing her missing he flicked the camera down and checked the left door lights, shutting the door when he saw her illuminated form.

The night continued with little interesting events for the next half-hour or so before he realised, it was 5:30 and he only had to survive the next half hour and he would be one night closer to getting out of this nightmare.

He flicked his camera up and over to the Pirate's Cove feed, noticing to his horror that the curtains were once again thrown open and the sign was now perched in the middle of the stage, Rise nowhere to be seen.

Nico swiftly flicked the camera down and almost fumbled with the door button momentarily before he slammed his hand down, closing the door with a resounding SCH-CLUNK ensuring that the young girl wouldn't be able to enter the room.

Nico flicked the camera back up and turned to the right hallway feed, and watched as Rise darted down the hallway before he heard the tell-tale THUD, THUD on his right door. Nico waited for the customary taunt from Rise but was surprised when he heard the increasingly familiar sound of crying coming from the other side of his closed door.

"… *sob* S-Senpai… why don't you want to stay with me?! W-Why w-w-wasn't I g-good enough for you?! W-Why did you need all those other girls?! I t-t-tried so hard… hic… to be someone you could be proud of… to be someone you'd be proud to call your girlfriend! B-b-but I-I-I w-w-wasn't g-g-good e-e-enough f-for y-y-you, I-I w-wasn't w-w-worth enough t-t-to b-b-be y-y-your g-g-g-girlfriend. S-S-Senpai! W-why would you do this to me?! Wasn't I your friend or did you not care about me the way I thought you did?! W-was it… all in my head? D-did… did I fabricate everything I thought we had together?"

Nico almost opened up the door to the poor girl, before he remember that the decision no matter how much he sincerely wanted to reassure and apologize to the girl it would most likely lead to either his death or extreme pain. With that in mind Nico was forced to stay in his room as Rise took off sobbing down the hallway.

Nico had tears rolling down his cheeks as he turned his attention towards the clock to check how much time was left on the clock, only to feel a sense of dread fill him as the power failed him, leaving the entire building in pitch blankness.

Nico was very close to a full-blown panic attack as he realizes that he would have to spend a few minutes playing dead in the dark to fully survive the night. Nico had to exert some very serious self-control in order to not jump when he heard the song that signified that Naoto was coming to get him.

To Nico is sounded like the theme of her dungeon if he remembered right. He kept as still as he could as the piece of music continued growing louder and louder as Naoto got closer to his office room.

As the sound of the music grew to its loudest, signifying that she was standing outside his door. When the clock chimed 6am and Naoto was forced to leave him be as he had survived the night.

Before Nico could breathe a sigh of relief he was petrified by the words that floated in from the outside of his room:

"You may have evaded me tonight, but do not believe that you will be so lucky in the future."