For the record, the questions that I ask the OC creators, could you send those via PM so nothing really gets spoiled? But I digress, its time for chapter 4! Who knows what will happen? But now I guess we need to get out of here dont we? Minoru is about to wake up...
Minoru woke up to a very, very annoying voice.
"Goooooooooooooooood morning everyone! Time to greet another beautiful day!" Minoru groaned, hoping that the events of the other day were just a dream, that all of his classmates and him were just regular students in a high class school making them into high class citizens. While putting his jeans on, something started to annoy Minoru, almost like a constant scratch in the back of his head. He was then interrupted by a knock on the door.
"Minooooooruuuuuu! Time to get up, we are gonna have breakfast together!" Kisaku shouted from the other side of his door. He sighed at the girl's energy, how could she be so happy at a time like this? Nevertheless he got his shirt on and walked out of his room to the cafeteria.
"Hey everyone. Anyone else wish that all of this was just some weird joke played by the upper classmen?" Minoru walked into the cafeteria, noticing he was the last one in. He grabbed his food and sat down, that question still in the back of his head, bugging him. Kinnosuke, being the person who could read anyone like a book, noticed this and said with his usually smirk on his face.
"Something bothering you Minrou?" Minoru looked up at him grimacing, all eyes were on him. Well, better find out now while everyone is here. He stood up and turned towards the camera, cupping his hands around his mouth to project his voice.
"Monokuma! Get down here, I have a question for you!" Rosine looked at Minoru rather pissed off, his yelling had made her smear her lipstick. Monokuma appeared from behind Daisuke, startling the poor boy.
"What? What the hell do you want?" The bear looked annoyed, but now that he was here, it was best to take the opportunity now then let him use it later.
"If I remember correctly, the original survivors told my class that they had been out for two years, or at least you wiped their memories from that far." Minoru could tell that no one else liked where this was going. Some of the students looked on with increasing anticipation, wanting to know the answer to the question he knew he was going to ask. Others, such as Daisuke, were slowly becoming unnerved by the situation, with the thought of their memory being wiped at the forefront of their minds.
"I'm gonna assume thats exactly what happened to us, so here is my question: How long have we been out?" Minoru looked at Monokuma, that stupid grin plastered on its face, just mocking all who looked at him. Monokuma then bursted into laughter, throwing everyone off edge.
"So the one who knows the history of this place finally asks the million dollar question? Took ya long enough! I guess I should answer your question." Minoru's heart jumped in his chest, then landed in his stomach. Why did he get so excited knowing that this truth was going to hurt alot of them?
"...Nine months." Everyone was on their feet now, screaming questions at Monokuma, wanting to know answers for what happened, what memories he took. Minoru knew it was no use, it wasnt going to answer anything they asked for now, it jsut laughed at them and continued on.
"Upupupupupu! You all being trapped here is the fruits of my labor! Those nine months getting Hope's Peak looking like this again was tiring work!" The bear laughed at their anger, their fear, their anxiety. He left the kids to finish their breakfast, but some had lost their appetite. Rosine, angry at the turn of events, turned to Minoru.
"I don't know or understand why you tried to make friends here if you had any idea of why we were here!" She screamed at him, her red hair getting flung to the front of her face in her rage. "All these 'friends' are gonna do is betray you in the end and kill you!" Most of the other students protested this, but she kept going.
"Like, take archer bitch here for example, she could probably kill anyone with a single arrow. Beefcake here could do it with his bare hands, the scardy cat has a knife, but I doubt he had the balls to use it." Chizuki and Bloodic looked on in rage, but kept quiet, Daisuke simply whispered a no. Rosine continued with her rant.
"We have a kid who makes bombs for fun, hell who says he isnt doing it now? A bully who could drive you to suicide if he put his mind to it, a rapper who could do just about anything." Apus looked down at his hands while Hikazu tried to contain his anger, possibly to keep his old self from showing and Tomoya yelled in protest, but Minoru sat him down, wanting to hear the rest of this.
"That skateboarder douchebag could probably cave in someone's skull with that thing, little miss sbumissive probably would do anything you told her to, our journalist and 'persuader' have the same issue as our bully, a few good words and its to the noose." Ryder seethed in anger and Matsuzuka and Kinnosuke looked on with interest, even through their anger, managed to keep a calm and level head. Ana looked like she was either gonna cry or tear Rosine's head off one.
"Chessy hear is too much of a feminist to hurt a girl, the cosplayer, although is a ditz, could probably dress like anyone here to throw us off her trail and the thief could do any sneaky shit..." Thats when she was interrupted by Kisara, who had clearly had enough of this, slammed her hands down on the table and glared with nothing but pure rage.
"I may be a criminal, but I'm no killer, even so, your really starting to push my buttons, bitch." Everyone after hearing Kisara interrupt Rosine also threw in their rebuttals to her accusations.
"Your a disgrace to all women!" Hiro screamed at her, completely losing his cool.
"I'm trying to make myself better, unlike you!" Hikazu didn't yell at her, but he knew that he could basically relapse into old tendencies at any time.
"With the arrows I brought with me? I doubt I could pierce clothing." Chizuki snorted after hearing the overblown accusation.
"My sword may be sharp, but I refuse to raise it against any of you." Bloodic kept eating through all of this, not one looking up from his food.
"Come on now, you cant say you have that little faith in me?" Kisaku looked completely unfazed by anything that just went down.
"I refuse to do that, plus I dont have the proper materials." Apus tried to defend himself with a joke, which was made clear with a small smile. After noticing the only one who laughed, or even smiled, was Minoru, he looked back down at his hands.
"Pretty gun-hoe about accusing us, arn't you, trust fund whore?" Ryder's insult was sharp, almost able to cut through all the layers of lipstick Rosine had applied.
"I believe I can speak for both me and Matsuzuka when I say that killing anyone here is not on our list of things to do." Kinnosuke spoke in his usual manor, with a nod from Matsuzuka to confirm it.
Looking around at all the people defending themselves from her comments, Rosine stomped off in an angry manor, causing everyone to depart, some leaving in groups, with others leaving on their own. Minoru was about to leave before he was stopped by Matsuzuka.
"I think we should explore the rest of the building, or at least the portion we have left." She seemed excited, but sad at the same time. Minoru understood, you just found out your memory was wiped for nine months, its January now, what happened during that time period? Shaking off that question, at least for now, Minoru agreed to walk around with Matsuzuka in order to map out the building.
"So how did you get your title?" Minoru asked randomly while they were investigating what appeared to be some sort of school store, there was everything from watches to little plush Monokumas, which the both of them kept a wide berth to.
Matsuzuka tapped her chin with her pen as she looked around. "Well my father started taking me to the press when I was younger, I loved it there, eventually he took me five days a week. He even let me write my own articles! I started traveling around with him, always looking for a good scoop. I eventually got so good that I was taking up the front page with my articles. One day we just got a letter saying I was accepted here as the Ultimate Journalist, I figured I could improve my talents and make my dad proud, but..."
"But this happened." Minoru finished her sentence, knowing how she felt. After investigating the remainder of the first floor, both of them said their farewells after a long period of silence. Minoru looked at a watch he took from the store, figuring he could set it once the nighttime announcement came on. Walking back to his room he encountered Bloodic, who grabbed him before he could go into his room.
"I need someone to meditate with." Minoru looked at him confused, Bloodic merely sighed as he explained. "In an place where anyone is willing to kill you, I'd rather have someone to watch my back." Minoru nodded, knowing another reason was that Bloodic could probably break his spine in a few different ways if he tried to do something stupid.
After a bit of meditating, the two of them retired to the cafeteria, in which Minoru asked Bloodic the same question he asked Matsuzuka. Bloodic chuckled as he drank the milk sitting in front of him.
"The Ultimate Martial Artist title is not one to be taken lightly, in order to gain the title, you must best the previous owner of the title, I am currently the third recipient of the title."
"What happens if the owner is never beaten and dies of natural causes?" Minoru was curious, considering you have to beat someone who could find a way to take you out in a hundred ways, you have to know a hundred of your own.
"If that happens then there is a tournament held in order to get the title. Mine was a very long and grueling battle." He slowly drank his milk, as if this was something he talked about every day.
"Who was the person you beat?" Minoru wanted to know a bit more, hoping to get some more of the story. Bloodic finished his glass and stood up.
"My brother." He said it so bluntly, Minoru though it would hurt when he said it. He walked over to the kitchen to put his glass away and never looked back at Minoru, must have it a bad note.
Just as he thought that night call was finally going to happen, Monokuma came on earlier than expected.
"Ahem! All students need to report to the gymnasium, now!" Monokuma's voice was forceful, he had something up his sleeve, and Minoru didnt like it.
After the entire class assembled in the gym, everyone was expecting Monokuma to pop out of the stage like he did before, however, he didnt. The lights dimmed as a projector came on showing Monokuma holding a camera in his paws, fidgeting. That same sick smile plastered on his face.
"So I see none of you bastards have the pair to kill on your own? That's fine, i have some... motivation for you." Monokuma turned the camera, what was on the other side of that camera made the whole room stop breathing. The camera settled on two people tied up in a chair, two people Minoru knew very well.
"Siseal...Father..." Minoru clenched his fists, his nails digging into his hands. Monokuma pulled the camera back, showing many other people tied up, many gagged, others in hospital beds, barely alive. Monokuma laughed as he saw the reactions through the camera in the gyms. He pulled the camera back even further to show a giant wood chipper and an incinerator. Everyone went silent, Minoru continued to clench his fists.
"Well if you haven't figured out the motive, let me put it out straight for all of you: If I dont see a corpse in 48 hours, all of your loved ones get to go head first into oblivion!" Monokuma laughed as the feed cut from the screen. Minoru turned to everyone, his hands covered in blood, his eyes blank of expression.
"I dont care who dies, I dont care who kills, if I have to do it or someone kills me. They have nothing to do with this, and they wont die for us." Everyone looked at everyone as the nighttime announcement began. The game had begun
This wasnt a bad chapter to write, this was alot easier, I'm using the script less and less. So the motive is set and everyone has a reason, who will live, who will die. This will all be decided by a strawpull. So now its question time!
This is again for all the OC creators: I plan on having a team events, such as a poker game, pool party, karaoke,etc. Would they take part in these events, if not why and which ones?