Chapter 7- Fashion Magazine of Despair- Astray
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Honestly, naming these chapters have been more harder, then writing the actual chapter…
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For anyone who has played Danganronpa, this case will be very similar to the 2nd case with a few differences.
Gwen covered her mouth in horror, at the sight of Zoey hanging there with her neck hanging limply to the side. "Zoey?" she whispered, under her breath. "Who would've done this?"
The rest of the contestant had ran over to the locker rooms when they had heard the announcement. Currently everyone was piled into the small room, staring at the body. It had already been around ten minutes after Noah had first found the body and Mike was staring blankly at nothing and sitting in a corner.
Noah turned his attention to the body and winced. "Who would do this?" he wondered. "Monokuma never gave us a motive like last time. It's hard to believe that someone would kill her just to get out of here." He knit his eyebrows together. "So the only people who would kill her is someone who would have a personal grudge against her. The only person who I think would have one…" His eyes flickered to Mike. "…is Mal."
As Noah watched, Mike knelt down and grabbed a weight off the ground and lifted it above his head. Noah's eyes widened. "Someone stop him!" He pointed to Mike.
Brick immediately grabbed Mike's arms, causing him to drop the weight, and pushed him to the wall. "Calm down, man!" Brick grunted.
"Zoey died!" screamed Mike. "And we're all going to die-" His words suddenly stopped as he fell unconscious, his head leaning against the wall.
"Is he okay?" asked Sam, frowning at Mike.
Mike slowly opened his eyes, with his usual spiky hair covering his right eye. "What's going on?" he wondered, his entire expression looking dazed and his voice sounding somewhat off. He caught sight of Zoey's body hanging there and smirked. "Wow… is she dead?" He gave a short laugh, before coughing violently.
Brick and Sam hoisted Mike to his feet with their shoulders. "We'll get him back to his room," promised Brick. He and Sam led Mike out of the room.
"No…" Mike attempted to struggle. "The despair…feels…too great." That's all he managed to say before Sam closed the door behind them.
"BWAHAHAHA!" Monokuma, once again, appeared out of nowhere in the middle of the group that had stayed behind to examine the body. This included Noah, Dawn, Alejandro, Heather, Courtney, Scott, Gwen, Trent, Cody, Sierra, and Jo. The rest either left because they couldn't stand the sight of the body or went to look for some clues.
Monokuma wiped an invisible tear from his eye. "I swear you guys are amazing! Unlike the others, I didn't even have to give you idiots a motive!"
Noah's eyes narrowed. "The others…?"
Monokuma waved his paw. "Well, the only reason I came was to give you losers this." His red slash gleamed.
Immediately, a beep was heard from Noah's IDphone among with everybody else's. He took it out and looked at it to reveal Monokuma File #2.
Clue: Monokuma File #2
Monokuma shrugged and walked out of the locker room before anyone else could say another word. "Well, good luck!"
Noah sighed at Monokuma's attitude and gazed down at his phone to look at the new Monokuma File #2. "The victim is Zoey, a participant of TDROTI," he read from his IDphone. "Time of Death: Around 10:30. She was found dead in the male locker room near the pool. She died from a cracked neck. Other injuries include a small paper cut on right hand." He sighed. "Well this doesn't help at all. We don't know what the weapon was."
Alejandro nodded at Noah. "Right," he said. "You'll be coming with me, Noah!"
Noah frowned. "What do you mean by that?" he asked.
Alejandro smirked. "It means we will be doing the investigation, together." He gestured towards the door and walked out. "Let's go."
Noah sighed and followed him out.
Everyone looked at Heather. "Um, what's going on?" asked Cody.
Heather only smiled. "Nothing."
Gwen raised an eyebrow. "Right…" she said incredulously.
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Noah followed Alejandro into the library, while looking absolutely confused. "Okay, what are we doing here?" he asked impatiently.
Alejandro said nothing and opened the door to the archives. He went in and came out carrying the sam binder he had been reading the day before. He handed it to Noah. "This is what I wanted to show you," explained Alejandro.
With confusion still written on his face, he opened up the binder. His eyes widened.
Alejandro smirked when he noticed Noah's expression. "I see you've realized what that is."
Noah flipped through a couple more pages. "This is…" he whispered softly to himself, shocked at what he held in his hands. "Mal's criminal record!"
Clue: Mal's Criminal Record
Noah stopped at a certain page in the binder, which described what Mal's crimes were. "Subject was found torturing the young daughter of a very successful business man, who had gone missing a week ago," he read to himself. "She was found pinned to the wall with knives cutting straight through her hands and feet. Luckily she was found still alive. Subject's story was that he was planning to release a ransom to get some money and then release her. Surprisingly it was later found out that subject attempted the same thing about a year ago and succeeded."
Noah read throughout the passage another time, before frowning. "It does sound like Mal, but…"
"But, what?" asked Alejandro.
Noah shook his head, having a strange feeling that he was missing something. "Nothing," he replied, just as the doors to the library opened and Sam and Brick walked in carrying the golden replica sword.
"Um…" Noah said, bewildered. "Where did you get that?"
"It was in Mike's room," explained Sam. "Brick said that we should probably return it to the library."
Brick scratched his head. "I'm just confused on how it got in his room."
Noah examined the sword taking notice that some of the gold paint that had covered had somehow been brushed off. Mainly in the blade and the hilt of the katana.
Clue: Fake Golden Sword
Alejandro's smile stretched. "Well, that's all I wanted to show you," he said, his eyes wavering over the three, before he left the room. "I'm pretty sure you've figured out the culprit."
Brick watched him leave, with confusion on face. He turned to Noah. "What was that all about?"
Noah gazed at the binder in his hand. "Nothing," he replied taking a quick picture of Mal's Criminal Report and placing the binder on the desk. "I'll help you put back the sword."
Sam frowned. "Um…okay," he said, surprised at the help Noah was offering. They went to the trophy stand, but were surprised when they found it absolutely destroyed.
"What happened here?" Brick stared at the broken glass littering the floor.
Noah sighed in exasperation. "Obviously, the culprit broke into the case to get the sword."
Clue: Broken glass
Something caught Noah's eye. Near one of the selves was an open book that seemed be about brain disorders. He knelt down next to it and noticed that they were very faint traces of gold dust and a bit of blood staining the floor, next to the book.
Clue: Golden Dust
Clue: Blood on the floor
Clue: Open Book
"What wrong?" Noah's head snapped up, when he heard Sam speak up. He gazed at the two, who were staring at him in confusion.
"Nothing," he answered, coldly. He stood up, as his eyes traveled to the door to the archive room. "Maybe…" he murmured.
Clue: Others' IDphones
He looked away before noticing something else very strange on the floor.
On the floor, there were some more drops of blood that seemed to be leading outside of the library. Noah followed the trail outside, as it led out to the hallway. He continued to follow it until he ended up in front of the boys' locker room once again. He blinked in surprise. "The trail led here…?" he wondered aloud.
Clue updated: Blood on the floor
Noah gazed up at the giant turret that was bolted to the ceiling. He assumed that Monokuma had shut it down, since it had never shot anyone down when the girls had entered the boys' locker room.
"Of course that would mean that the culprit had to be a boy, since a girl couldn't enter the room," muttered Noah. "But then how did Zoey get into the room?" He looked down to see multiple bullets on the ground. Some of them were squashed flat, as if they had hit something extremely are like metal.
Clue: Bullets
Noah looked at the entrance to where the murder had taken place. He slowly opened the door and walked inside. Everyone had apparently left, and only Dawn, Gwen and Cody had stayed behind.
Dawn was inspecting the body when Noah came up from behind her. "Good," she said not even turning around. "I found something that might be of interest to you."
Noah walked up to the body and examined it, before wincing. Zoey seemed to be alive just yesterday. Heck, Noah had even talked to her, yesterday. But now, her eyes were glassy with her limbs completely limp. The only thing that stopped her from crashing the floor was the rope.
Noah suddenly narrowed his eyes. "Wait a minute…" He looked more closely at the rope tied around her neck. However, it wasn't a rope. It was an extension cord.
Clue: Extension Cord
She pointed to Zoey's limp neck with no expression on her face. "There's something on her neck," she pointed out.
Noah looked more closely at the neck and noticed the gold dust that was on it. "That looks like what I saw in the library…"
Clue Updated: Golden Dust
Noah turned his head and noticed, something very strange in the corner. A dolly and a blue tarp were parked there.
Noah looked at Gwen and pointed to the two foreign objects. "Were they always here?"
Gwen shrugged. "How should I know?" she asked. "This is the first time I've been in here."
Cody raised his hand. "I was in here yesterday," he explained. "As far as I can remember I've never seen it before."
Gwen took another look at the two objects in the corner. "Actually," he said , suddenly. "I think I saw something similar to them in the storage room."
Noah nodded. "Thanks." He narrowed his eyes as he looked at the body of Zoey. "I promise I'll find who killed you," he swore.
Clue: Dolly
Clue: Tarps
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Noah was the second person there.
Duncan turned as if he was waiting for him. "Yo," he greeted, while pinching his nose with his fingers
Surprised at the rather normal greeting, Noah took a step back. "Why so friendly?" he asked suspiciously. He took a sudden sniff and covered his nose in disgust. "What's that smell?!"
"Though…" Noah suddenly thought. "I'm pretty sure that I've smelled this before…"
Clue: Lingering Mysterious Smell
"I don't know," Duncan said. "It definitely wasn't here yesterday. I guess it came from the person who was here last night."
Noah glared at Duncan skeptically.
"What?" Duncan asked, before realizing something. "I didn't do it!"
"Not that," Noah drawled, unimpressed at Duncan's stupidity. "You said that someone came here last night," he inquired, before he narrowed his eyes. "What were you doing here last night?"
Duncan rubbed the back of his neck, sheepishly. "I came here trying to look for a way out like last time." He gulped. "But I saw someone running away from here with something in their arms and they were pushing the dolly."
"And why didn't you tell, anyone?" inquired Noah, angrily.
"Well, I didn't really see the person well enough," Duncan made clear. "All I know is that they had dark skin and dark hair." He carefully examined Noah's face. "I can tell for certain, though, that it isn't you. You're too scrawny."
Clue: Duncan's Account
Noah looked around. "You said they had the dolly?" he asked Duncan.
Duncan nodded wordlessly.
Sitting in the same place they were when he had first come here were the tarps. However he noticed that one of them were missing.
Clue updated: Dolly
Clue updated: Tarps
"Ding, Dong!" Monokuma's voice suddenly came on, stopping Noah from doing anything else. "Investigation time is up! Please meet me in the elevator room. We shall begin the class trial soon!"
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Noah came into the elevator room, to find all the other contestants already there. Most of them were gathered around Mike, who stared blankly at a wall. Noah walked up to him and stared at his blank face, his mouth stretching thin. "If what Alejandro told me is true… then Mal has come back," he thought. "Should I…?" He shook his head. "No. There's still no proof. For all we know, it could just be a coincidence."
Alejandro's smile increased as if sensing what Noah was going through.
The elevator door opened. "This elevator will take you to the conference room," he said merrily. "Single file, please."
Everyone filed into the elevator without a single word. Brick and Sam picked up Mike, who was still staring at the wall blankly, and escorted him into the elevator. Noah followed them and when he walked in, the doors closed behind him.
As the elevator went down, he stared at his IDphone and looked through the clues he had received throughout the investigation.
Just then the doors opened up to reveal the trial room. Once again, Monokuma sat on a giant throne chair in the back and there were twenty-five stands that were all connected together to form a circle. Katie's and Lightning's portraits were placed in their spots with two added, which were Sadie and Zoey. A bloodily X ran through their faces. However the room was now painted tan with red curtains, that had the same flowers that Zoey kept in her hair embellished in the design, draped across the walls.
Monokuma spread out his arms to greet the contestants. "Now," he said cheerfully. "Let the second class trial, begin!"
Verbal Bullets:
Clue: Mal's Criminal Record- A record of Mal's crimes and an explanation on how he got into juvie. Says, "Subject was found torturing the young daughter of a very successful business man, who had gone missing a week ago. She was found pinned to the wall with knives cutting straight through her hands and feet. Luckily she was found still alive. Subject's story was that he was planning to release a ransom to get some money and then release her. Surprisingly it was later found out that subject attempted the same thing about a year ago and succeeded."
Clue: Monokuma File #2- Says, "The victim is Zoey, a participant of TDROTI. Time of Death: Around 10:30. She was found dead in the male locker room near the pool. She died from a cracked neck. Other injuries include a small paper cut on right hand."
Clue: Fake Golden Sword- A fake golden sword found near the trophies. Some paint on the blade and the hilt has been removed. Was taken out of its glass case. Found in Mike's room.
Clue: Broken Glass- Glass found near the case. Obviously, from the sword's case.
Clue: Golden Dust- This dust was found on Zoey's neck and on the floor of the the library.
Clue: Blood on the floor- Blood was found on the floor of the library near the golden dust. There was trail leading to the boys' locker room.
Clue: Open Book- An open book on the floor talking about brain disorders
Clue: Others' IDphones- Lightning's and Sadie's IDphones were found in the box. Katie's was also in there, but completely broken.
Clue: Bullets- Bullets from the turret were fired. Some seemed to be flattened as if they hit something extremely hard.
Clue: Extension Cord- The thing that tied Zoey to the two exercise machines was an extension cord. Someone had used that cord very recently…
Clue: Dolly- The dolly had apparently moved from the storage room to the boys locker room.
Clue: Tarp- A tarp was found in the boys locker room. The only place to get one is the storage room.
Clue: Lingering Mysterious Smell- A mysterious smell was found inside the storage room with no pinpoint able source. However, Noah seems to recognize it…
Clue: Duncan's Account- Duncan was apparently in the storage room when someone, with dark skin and dark hair, taking the dolly and carrying something in their arms. Duncan is certain that it isn't Noah.
Sorry if it seemed rushed. I really wanted to finish it today.
So who do you think killed Zoey? And how did it happen? What was the weapon?
Also I was recently watching Mirai Nikki/The Future Diary. I've been planning on doing a fic similar to this except with this idea in mind. Tell me what you'd think of this idea. It will be basically this fic with a lot more action and gore.
Reviews and Constructive Criticism are appreciated.