I woke up disoriented and groggy, to the sound of a door handle jiggling. It wasn't until I got out of the bed I was laying in that I noticed where I was, it was the old Hope's Peak dorms, and that's when the panic set in.

"Oh my god, oh my god," I began pacing around the small room, trying to rationalize what's going on, "maybe I just fell and got hurt so they put me here and everything is fi-" I was cut off by the jiggling door handle again. I made my way slowly to the door, opening it to be greeted by nothing but the sound still persisting, I walked around the room until I figured out that the noise was coming from the bathroom.

"Um... hello?" This was pretty freaky, not only am I possibly locked in Hope's Peak, but there might be someone in the room with me. Shakily I turned the handle only to find that the door won't open, "you've got to unlock it?"

"There is no lock, pick up the door, then open it," I leapt back when the person on the other side replied.

"Ok?" I did what they said, the door swinging open to reveal a guy in a monokuma head. At the sight of him, all of what had happened came rushing back, "You! You're keeping us here, why?!"

"Relax buddy, I'm not the only one keeping you here," he said it like it was no big deal.

"Not the only one?" I wondered, "Who are you?"

"I'm a mono-teacher," he said it like it explained everything. Well it explains a little, that this guy is definitely a despair and working for monokuma.

"Where is everyone else?"

"They are in their rooms, but they can't leave till the morning bell goes off," he said.

"Okay," so they are still alive, that is good, "can I leave?"

"No."

"Okay," this was kinda weird, standing imprisoned in a bedroom by a random guy in a bear head, "So... what do I call you?"

"Mono teacher no. 55" the monokuma head said.

Did he say 55? Does that means there's at least 54 others running around!? That may be a problem. I decided to make the best of my little one-on-one moment here and ask some more questions, and hopefully get some answers, "Why am I here?"

"I don't know... to spread despair? I mean that's why I'm here!" 55 gave a little laugh.

"Are you a mastermind or something?" I asked, feeling sick at the thought, "I-is this another killing game?"

"I don't know, I'm merely here to help out, answer questions, be mysterious," he listed, "and don't worry, all of your questions will be answered at the assembly."

An assembly? That doesn't sound good. After that conversation I just shuffled around looking at the walls and bed, when the bell finally sounded. I left as soon as I could going to the cafeteria first, on my way there I meet Kenta.

"Hey, was there a guy in a monokuma head in your bathroom?" I asked, it was probably the weirdest thing I'd ever said.

"Nope, mine was standing over my bed," he answered.

"That's creepy," actually that's super creepy.

"Hey!" I turn to see Haruna running towards, "Wait for me!" At the command me and Kenta waited until she stopped next to us.

"Okay, Go!" Haruna yelled and took off running again.

"Is she trying to race us?" I asked, Kenta shrugging in response. Then we continued on into the cafeteria, to see Haruna looking angry.

"When people go through the trouble of making a fair start, and even saying "GO," it usually means they want to race," she said accusingly, "we are doing this again."

"I'll skip," I said, I'm still out of it from the terrifying wake up call. Haruna shot me a glare, ready to protest.

"I'll do it," Kenta said, that made Haruna light up in a smug way.

I looked at him suspiciously, "Why? Do you like running?"

"Why so distrustful," Kenta laughed, "and no, actually I hate running."

"Oh so you think you can win, huh?" she pointed her finger at Kenta, "You've got another thin- Go!" At the sudden yell, she took off around the cafeteria, Kenta fallowing with a weird expression.

I just sat down and waited, the others had to be waking up soon. As soon as I thought that the doors opened revealing another group of three, it was Yukihiro, Evan, and M.

"Hey over here!" I called them over, they all took a seat near me, "Did you all have Monokuma-head-people in your room?"

"I did," came M's blunt reply, "it refused to answer my questions."

"Mine left as soon as I woke up," Yukihiro told, "do we know why they were there?"

"Most likely to monitor us, but I must admit I'm curious of their overall purpose," Evan said.

"I got mine to tell me a few things," I said, "he said he was Mono-teacher 55, and that all my questions would be answered at the assembly."

"Mono-teacher 55?" I turn to see Veliah standing behind me, "And what's this about an assembly?"

"I don't really know, but I think it will be soon, or else why even tell me about it," I said as she took a seat.

"55 was it? Did he say why we are here?" Evan asked.

"Not really, but he said something about spreading despair," I mentioned, and was met by yet another surprised visitor.

"Spread despair?!" Came the shocked yell of Alan, and that alerted the rest just coming in as well.

"What, whose spreading despair?!" Grant ran over to us, "We don't need to do that, let's calm down."

"I didn't mean us, I was repeating what the Monokuma-head said," I explained, but it didn't seem to calm Grant down.

"My Monokuma-head said that too," James said, joining us at the table.

"Did they mention why we were here?" I asked, James shook his head no.

"You don't think the reason we are here is because of another killing game?" Yoshiki's question sent a few of us reeling.

"No way, that's impossible," came Haruna's loud shriek, "Junko Enoshima is dead!"

"Are we sure of that?" Kenta said, "Plus I've heard there's been a bunch of knock off killing games that have taken place after original one."

"So you're saying that a Junko sympathiser is making another killing game, out of fan adoration," Akira summarized.

"We don't know that either, it could be entirely unrelated," Veliah added.

We all sat in silence for a bit mulling over the thought. When suddenly the cafeteria doors burst open and Yuzuru, Danny, and Kojiro were manhandled in by Monokuma-heads.

"Hey, jackasses a bit of advice, telling someone what's going on does wonders for cooperation," came Yuzuru's loud voice, as he readied himself to lunge at the monokuma heads, only to be held back by Danny and Kojiro.

"Calm down or you'll get yourself killed, don't be a fucking idiot," Kojiro fired back, letting out a laugh, that turned all of Yuzuru's anger on him.

"Are you telling me what to do?!" Yuzuru yelled, trying to kick his way out of the others grip. Danny let out a startled yell when a flying fist barely missed his face, giving Yuzuru a chance to escape. It was a brawl waiting to happen, and everyone knew it, but no one moved. Thankfully the fight was forgotten when the school bell rang and called us all to the gym.

"Are you ok?" I asked Danny, who then looked confused, "from getting hit?"

"Oh! it missed, it only startled me," he explained.

"Do you mind if I ask what happened?" I asked, I didn't want to bring something up if it's better left alone.

"Well I don't know everything, but I was forced out of my room by the Monokuma guys, so I think that happened to the others as well," he looked up, placing a finger on his chin, "I think Yuzuru didn't take that to well and started to fight them, that's around when I came in. Then the Monokuma head stopped him and said that harming faculty is against school rules, but he still went to fight them. That's when Kojiro came in, and I got him to hold Yuzuru back, then you saw the rest."

"Wow, sounds like a lot happened, I'm glad everyone's ok," I said. Faculty? Against School rules? This doesn't sound too good, in fact it sounds terrifyingly familiar, "Did you see where Yuzuru and Kojiro went?" I need their sides too, to see if the school rules comment is true.

"Yeah they're up ahead," Danny said pointing them out, Saying my thanks I went up to them.

"Hey Kojiro, can I ask you something?" He turned to me, still looking angry from before.

"Sure," Kojiro said after clearing his voice, seemingly calmer after that.

"Can you tell me what happened?"

"I don't really know, I just came out in time for Danny to yell for me to stop Yuzuru," Kojiro shrugged, "that's about it."

It didn't help much, and I can't go to Yuzuru, he looks ready to bite everyone's head off. I decided to just go on ahead and see what was going on in the gym. I was with the stragglers so a few of us were already there. I went up to Yoshiki who was near the door.

"Did I miss anything?" I asked.

"No, but a few of those Monokuma people have run across the stage," Yoshiki paused, "I saw you were talking to Danny and Kojiro, did you find out what caused the fight?"

"Yeah, apparently the Monokuma heads forced them out of their rooms so Yuzuru tried fighting them," I explained.

"What was wrong with that? Why did they stop him?" He asked.

"Apparently the Monokuma head said that it was against school rules to harm faculty," after I said that, Yoshiki seemed to think it over.

"Perhaps we really are in a killing game," he said it off handily, but it still held a serious tone.

"Don't say that," we turned around to see Grant talking to us, "if you say something enough it becomes true, so stop saying that."

"Ahem! Please quiet down!" Everyone in the room turned to the stage where a podium stood, behind it a Monokuma head was speaking, "Now, I bet you're wondering why you're here, well I'm here to tell you!" There was a loud muddled sound of everyone talking at once.

"Then tell us already!" Haruna yelled.

"Rude, anyways I'm Mono-Teacher 21, I'm here on behalf of the headmaster, who can't make it right now, don't worry you will find out why in the second motive! As a few of you have guessed, you are indeed in a killing game!" We all already had our suspicions, but having it confirmed was still terrifying, "Now I currently can't tell you why, because even I don't know! But I do know that you all will kill each other and spread despair! Hahahaha!" the Mono teacher almost fell over with his cackling.

"No we won't! We aren't a bunch of teenagers, or have had our minds erased," I can tell Grant said that, because it came from right behind me, "some stupid motive won't break us!" His little proclamation got a few cheers.

"Oh we know that, so we've upped the difficulty, no gentle, kind, or mean settings this round! We've decided to tap into those basic human necessities, and take one away! But don't worry folks not all the surprises have been spoiled!" When Monoteacher 21 said that, there were gasps and shouts of disagreement.

"Which one have you taken away?" I heard Evan ask, "Can you tell us of the other surprises?"

"All the fun is in you finding out, so after this you can check. But before I leave I must tell you that since we don't have the convenience of PDA's we must make do with a bulletin board, which is located at the back of the gym and in the cafeteria, if you have any further questions seek out the Monoteachers in the classrooms," after the last second explanation, the monokuma teacher walked off stage and left.

"We aren't going to do any good just standing here, let's just check the bulletin board," Alan said, making his way to it. I decided to follow and look at it as well, while everybody else just left.

The bulletin board

1. Students may reside only within the school. Leaving campus is an unacceptable use of time.

2. "Night time" is from 10 pm to 7 am. Some areas are off-limits at night, so please exercise caution.

3. Sleeping anywhere other than the dormitory will be seen as sleeping in class and will be punished accordingly.

4. With minimal restrictions, you are free to explore Hope's Peak Academy at your discretion.

5. Violence against headmaster, and teachers is strictly prohibited.

6. Anyone who kills a fellow student and becomes "blackened" will graduate, unless they are discovered.

7. Until further notice all rooms will lock at certain times, the times will be posted on the doors to the rooms.

8. More rules may be added if necessary.

"Everything looks the same except 7," I said, "what doors do you think they will lock?" Is it related to the surprises that Monoteacher talked about?

"Maybe it has something to do with the surprises that Mono teacher mentioned?" Alan's guess was as good as mine.

"I'm just going to go to bed," I said, this killing game nonsense is wearing me out. So I left the gym and made my way to my room, only to find a note on the door. Taking it down I read it

'DORMS ARE CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE'

What's that supposed to mean, like I'm not allowed in? my thoughts were cut short by panic when the handle wouldn't budge. I even tried pushing harder, in a state of disbelief I then tried all the dorm rooms, all locked. Wait where are we supposed to sleep, is this the motive?!

"Hey Sanyu is something wrong?" I look to see James walking towards me.

"The dorm rooms are locked," I told him, James looked puzzled, "we can't sleep."

"So?" James said.

"We can only sleep in the dorm rooms, no where else," I could feel myself getting worked up, "this is the motive, sleep deprivation!"

"I totally forgot you weren't there," James suddenly exclaimed, "I was sent to get you, we found a chart in the cafeteria about that."

"Oh," that was anticlimactic, and I felt a little embarrassed for learning everything so late.

"Hey don't worry, at least you've proved our suspicions," James clapped me on the back, the action sent me tumbling, "dude, you're super light."

I grumbled, and then went with James to the cafeteria, "What are you all doing?" I asked, watching them huddle around a large board.

"Apparently there are door timers," Yukihiro sighed, "they have a time chart posted here."

Interested, I squeezed my way to a better view.

Floor 1:School Grounds

1. Gymnasium. 7am-10pm

2. Trophy Room. Open

3. Restrooms. Open

4. Stairwell to Floor 2. Closed

5. Infirmary. 5pm-10pm

6. Student Store. 10pm-10am

7. Entrance Hall. Open

8. Media Center. 3pm-5pm

9. Floor 1 Classrooms. Open

10. Passage to Floor 1 Dorms. Open

11. Elevator to Trial Room. To be announced

Floor 1: Dormitory

1. Sauna. 10pm-7am

2. Public Bath. 7am-2pm, 3pm-10pm

3. Laundry Room. Open

4. Passage to Floor 1 School Grounds. Open

5. Cafeteria. 10am-10pm

6. Kitchen. Open

7. Storage Room. 4pm-10pm

8. Stairwell to Floor 2. Closed

9. Restrooms. Open

10. Trash Incinerator. 8pm-5am

11. Student Dorm. Closed

"What the hell, this is so fucking confusing," Yuzuru yelled, "I mean, I don't even know what time is it now!"

"Now that you mention it I haven't seen any clocks," Akira's observation caused a murmur.

"We have too many questions, to simply figure it out through observation," Veliah said, "didn't that monokuma 21 mention that the classrooms had Monokuma teachers?"

"The classrooms will stay open, so we should ask them for help," Evan said, "let's ask about the 'surprises' we haven't figured out."

With that we all made our way to the classrooms.

When we opened the door we were greeted by a shout.

"Hello students! It's me, Monoteacher 55, I'm here to answer any questions you may have," I was a little shocked to see the Monokuma head from my room here, but it did make sense, "Sanyu my star pupil, good to see you."

"He's the Monokuma head that was in my room," I explained before anyone got the wrong idea.

"We have no time for nonsense, 55, you will answer all of our questions," M demanded.

"Yeah, yeah get on with it," 55 flopped into a rolling chair, with that the rapid fire question round started.

"Is the motive for the first case sleep deprivation?"

"Yes."

"Why are there no clocks?"

"So all hours would blur together, also there will be no morning & night announcements."

"What is the purpose of door timers?

"Is confusing, and we want that."

"Some of my stuff is missing, where is it?"

"All personal belongings are in the storage room."

"What happens if we fall asleep?"

"Instant death."

"Um... oh! What happens if we stay in a room when it locks?"

"You just get locked in, can't leave," 55 spins in his chair, "okay one more question then you have to leave."

"How long will this motive last?"

"Until one of you is dead," abruptly 55 stood up and started pushing us out, "okay, great class, first block's over, it's lunch, I don't care, get out."

Outside of the classroom we just stood there, looking at each other.

"What now?" I asked.

I'm screaming, you guys made me so happy with those reviews! Thank you, it really did hype me up! I hope you all enjoyed the Monoteachers, I was a little iffy on them, But went with them in the end! OMG I didn't even notice some of the names were spelled wrong! I'm writing on my iPad so auto correct doesn't like certain names, I'm sorry!

Beta notes: OK beta reader here again and guys….. to all you writers/would-be writers please please please do not EVER use "till" when meaning "until" till does NOT mean the same thing as 'til, till means like farming and stuff, 'til is the shortened version of until which should really only be typed out like that if the character is speaking/thinking and has a lisp/accent… please don't use 'til/till and make it easy for your beta readers with until