Chapter 1: Funky Carnival of Despair [INTRO]

"Nggh…" Yoshida rubbed her head as trying to open her eyes. Her ears could hear a chiming sound from her surrounding, with some machines' sound. As fast as she could, she recovered her blurry vision to good one. When she finally recovered her vision, she felt a soft fur which usually used to make a stuffed doll was on her left. Slowly, she looked to her left. There was a big bear doll which had white fur and blue ribbon on its neck. She took it and place on her lap.

'I'm kind of knowing this doll, maybe it was one of dolls in one of older maid's daughter,' she still hugged that doll, she felt so comfortable and warm when she hugged that doll.

"?" she noticed that she was on a kart in a merry-go-round. She stood up and walked out from that merry-go-round, still holding the big teddy bear.

"Hey, have woken up?" someone asked. With no second, Yoshida turned her head to the source of the voice with full of guard and readily threw her knives. But her eyes was widen and took down her knives as she knew who was she faced, Shohi Elleveur. He was in front of locket mini building which opposite with the merry-go-round, so of course that she wouldn't recognize him.

"Shohi, where are we? And where is everyone?" Yoshida slowly asked him, but Shohi could hear her low voice.

"Naturistrict Carnival City, a city which was known as famous carnival and has a lot of amusement park, and also we are in one of the arena which has theme 'colorful fun'," he answered as looking to the black dark sky. "And also, you are the first one who I met after woke up." He continued his answer as looking to other direction which he couldn't see Yoshida's figure.

"Did you ever come to here?" Yoshida asked again as sat on one of park bench near her. Shohi followed her too and sat on same park bench, still keep distance of them.

"Once when I was still in Elementary," he answered quickly.

Silence.

"Wait, are you bringing that doll with you?" the one who broke the silence was Shohi, and he directly pointed at a big teddy bear which Yoshida brought from the merry-go-round, which was always on her left when she was still sleeping.

"Why?" a quick question from confused Yoshida.

"Nothing," a quick answer from silent Shohi.

Silence.

"Hey, let's search the others. It is better than nothing," the one who broke the silence with suggestion was Yoshida. She stood up, still holding the teddy bear.

"Fine," Shohi agreed and they started to search their friends, which were helping to get out from despair.

"What have you visited, Shohi?" Yoshida asked as walking beside him.

"As I recall, six grabbing-machines, two shooting games, an exchange present court, and two food court," he answered quickly, seemed not want to spend the important time.

"When did you find me then?" another question was thrown from Yoshida.

"More than a half hour," another question answered by Shohi.

"It was a bit off when you could travel all parts of this place with that amount of time, what did you do?"

"Guarding," a short answer with many meaning, it caught a sharp eye of Yoshida.

"Guarding?" she asked as hearing that answer. It made a jump on Shohi, but he changed to his normal pace.

"It is not your business,"

"Khhh…" Slowly, Miyazaki woke up from the ground. He stood up and looked to every corner of where he was sleeping, or fainting. There was his machine gun along with a bag of ammunition, and the room was very dusty with old-styled bed and drawer with many spider webs. He took his machine gun along with the bag and headed out from the room. He was in an abandoned house with old-styled house. There wasn't any trace of living humans there, if you looked from how dusty it was. He checked every parts of the house, but he found nothing more than dust and old stuff.

"Wait, is there a basement?" he mumbled as doing one more check until he found unvisited door. Slowly but sure, he opened the door.

A man was fainted on the ground with his hands and legs were tied by rope, and her hands were slashed but lucky his pulse wasn't slashed or hurt.

Miyazaki hurried to the basement and ran to the fainted man, and he took off his blazer and ripped some part of his shirt (Why? Because he didn't have any blazer like he was wearing) and covered the injury. If he remembered, there wasn't any medication pack in the house. He untied the rope and released that fainted man's hands and legs.

"Kuh… It hurts…" that man said as he tried to stand, but he fell again and lucky that Miyazaki caught him, but he struggled so much so they fell down.

"Dude, relax, are you having a hurry?" Miyazaki tried to calm him down. Noticed that paranoid didn't do anything, he calmed down.

"It hurts…" he just mumbled that sentence from his mouth. Miyazaki just saw his face as it showed all hurts that the unknown man felt. They stayed in a silence.

"Your name…" he asked slowly as still mumbling his hurts. "tell me…" he continued.

"Miyazaki Shin," Miyazaki slowly answered as looking to his eyes, an endless emptiness. "What about you?" he asked back.

"Name?" he mumbled but it seemed Miyazaki didn't care about it. "Abe Mori…" he said as looking to his front.

"Abe-kun is fine?" Miyazaki said as smiling to him. Abe seemed smile back and nodded slowly. Miyazaki seemed a bit relieved that he was better, and then stood up.

"I will search for help, wait here…"

"Everyone!" a soft voice came from "Super High School Level Waitress", Suzuki Haruka tried to call her friends. She searched everywhere she could but she still didn't find them. She was standing, in front of an abandoned station.

"Hey! Suzuki, have found someone?" a girl came closer to her, "Super High School Level Weather Girl", Hiyayaka Atsui. She seemed hyper-worried about their friends.

"I-If we don't find them, t-then, w-we…" Suzuki said, afraid to losing friends. She seemed want to cry with very teary eyes. Hiyayaka seemed also want to cry, but she likely hid it because didn't want see Suzuki cried too.

"Don't cry, Suzuki!" Hiyayaka said, tried to calm Suzuki's fear.

"Oi, Suzuki! Hiyayaka!" a boy came closer to them and pulled them. "I need help!"

"What happened, Miyazaki-san?" Suzuki asked that boy, Miyazaki Shin.

"Someone injured! I need your help!" Miyazaki exclaimed as running to an abandoned house.

"Actually what happened?" a boy with two falcons on his shoulder asked as sat on a staircase in front of a fancy and big white mansion with three other boys and two girls.. Sometimes, he held one of his falcons and seemed speaking to them.

"I don't know, how I supposed know that…" white-suited man held his own head, confused. He took his phone and checked it, and mumbled some curses. "Damn, no signal…"

"It seems the signal was blocked," a girl with gray blue eyes and red ruby pendant said as closed her own phone and sighed.

"My phone too," a white-black haired boy sighed as noticing his phone didn't have any signal. Filling his boringness, he took his headset, wore it on each his ears, and plugged in the cable. He turned on his music player and the music played.

"I hate this, really…" cyan-haired boy hissed as started to stay in silence, thinking about something.

And the left, a girl with red violet-eyes was remaining silent, almost shown anger, and irritation.

Those people were Hanenagai Tori, Sei Sakamoto, Ikeda Etsuko, Kamiyara Isoto, Yusaburu Shian, and Kitae Kamiko. They were woken up in a same place, on a field in a mansion. There was no one in the mansion, or you could say unlocked room in the mansion. There were several rooms in the mansion which were locked.

And now, they were still thinking about where they should examine. But, when they wanted to see the GPS, there wasn't any signal.

"Someone has any clue, what the heck is this place?" Yusaburu asked with anger, almost smashed his phone but lucky that his anger didn't win against his consciousness

"I think I have seen this place," Ikeda said surprisingly. "Maybe this is an infamous carnival city, I can see from the decoration."

"Carnival?" Hanenagai seemed so interested about that, and his face seemed happier than before.

"It is not good as you think, Hanenagai-san." Kamiyara said and sighed heavily as he turned off his mp3 player, unplugged the headset from his phone, took off the headset, and stuffed it in his jacket's pocket.

"Naturistrict Carnival City," a voice came up in the conversation, a voice came from Kitae Kamiko.

"Huh? What is that?" Hanenagai asked curiously.

"Tch, just ask that woman," Kitae hissed as looking for another direction.

"'Naturistrict Carnival City', a city which was infamous because was being entertainment center, and also this city was the most visited city by children. But the most interesting and attractive parts of this city were the carnival and the circus. So they called it 'Carnival City'." Ikeda explained it simply as she could, and lucky that they could understand.

They stayed in a silence again, no more conversation.

"Wow, I was ever be in here! Naturistrict Carnival City!" a blonde twin tails haired girl exclaimed as grabbing her digital camera and took pictures many corner of the city, "Super High School Level Traveler", Morwyn Olwen or usually called Ori.

"You seem so happy, Ori-san. What thing was caught your interest?" black haired with red eyes boy asked Olwen who was very exhausted, Jake Hunter.

"Hehehe, I'm just taking pictures of so old-unvisited-city-by-me," she giggled as continuing take some pictures again. Jake followed her giggle by another giggle.

"Look at the city! It seems so abandoned! Are you still storing those pictures?" multi-colored boy exclaimed as pointing the city slowly. "You can see the houses and other facilities like abandoned! Not good for your photo collection!" He was Makabe Hikaru.

"Who cares? The park still seems AWEZOME!" she still exclaimed as taking more pictures like crazy.

"She is such an idiot, some spirits say that she is a nuisance for them," a black short haired boy with emerald eyes said straightly without any expression. It attracted Olwen's attention and rushed to thatboy, Kawashima Daigo.

"What do you mean?" she asked with low voice, full of anger.

"It was the spirits, not me," Kawashima answered with simple and normal tone. "And if you want to know, ask them,"

"I can't and you can!" Olwen exclaimed, still with her anger.

"So? Are you going to ask my help?"

"May… be?"

"No."

"Stop fighting, guys. Let's thinking about what was happening to us!" Makabe separated those fighting people and suggested in a time.

"I can explain where are we now!" Olwen raised her hand as started explaining.

"Naturistrict Carnival City is the name, a city which infamous because carnival and circus, and also facilities and area! This city is great but I never think that it will be abandoned! Oh yeah, we are in front of this gate, but I never see this. If this is north gate, we are in area A where the carnival is themed as 'First Attraction: Colorful and Fun'!" she explained with very fast dialect, maybe because experience to talking fast with foreigner in little time?

"The Name 'Colorful and Fun' is kind of 'funny'?" Jake mumbled to himself, but Olwen didn't really care.

"This area is famous as lodge area, so it must be a lot hotel-motel!" she explained again, with brighter dialect.

"Wait, there is even hotel? I mean, proper hotel, in this abandoned city?" Jake asked slowly as looked to the floor.

"I don't know! BUT, if you really want to find it, let's explore the city!"

"I'm tired," Kawashima murmured as following the very bright-exhausted duo walked away.

Silence between three people, a girl and two boys. The girl was thinking hardly about what was happening. White-haired boy was remaining silent, and following these two, the sporty one was staying silent.

They were Kokoro Kumiko, Fujiosuki Tetsuya, and Motoro Sumata at nearly restaurant.

'I miss my bike…'

DING DONG DING DONG

A voice came from nowhere in each location, game center, abandoned house, mansion, north gate, and restaurant. It attracted every single hope survivors to hear.

"Ettou, Everyone who was still alive assemble on Ceremonial Field in Mono-Flower Mansion! Who abandoned it will be dragged with force! Upupupu! So, I will wait for ya!"

And so, the source of voice shut to none.

At the game center…

"Well, what do you think, Shohi-san?" Yoshida asked slowly, still hugging the teddy bear.

"We will follow it first, it must be something interesting," Shohi smirked with another scary-cocky grin.

At the abandoned house…

"What is that?" Suzuki asked, almost trembled with fear.

"What is THAT?! It must be something like some scary horror movies!" Hiyayaka over-acted her emotion.

"No, it is not." Abe said calmly.

"Let's check it. Hiyayaka, help me hold Abe-kun!" Miyazaki said as came closer to the Abe to help him.

At in front of The Mansion…

"Maybe this mansion?" Hanenagai asked as looking to the mansion.

"Who knows?" Ikeda said as stepping one step closer to the mansion.

"I think we should obey that announcement," Sei walked to inside the mansion.

"Actually, I'm kinda feel something bad," Yusaburu claimed his feeling and walked to the inside.

"Yusaburu-san, I think I'm too, kinda feel bad…" Kamiyara sighed and walked in.

"Tch," Kitae clicked her tongue and went to the mansion.

At the way…

"Hear that guys? We must hurry!" Olwen exclaimed as faster her walking.

"It just me, or I feel something bad?" Jake mumbled as stopping his walk.

"My spirits say that we must obey it," Kawashima said, still walking.

"Or something bad happen, right?" Makabe murmured but Kawashima still could hear it, but he ignored it, pretending didn't hear it.

At near of the restaurant…

"Hey, what was that?" Motoro asked as walking faster when Fujiosuki and Kokoro did too.

"I feel something if we deny that announcement," Kokoro said, still walking, almost like running.

"I smell death everywhere," Fujiosuki murmured.

"Finally," Yoshida stepped in to the big mansion.

"We are the last," Shohi said as walked to the inside. Yoshida followed him immediately. They didn't give any single words until reaching a big door which leaded to the backyard, where the field could be seen. Slowly, both Shohi and Yoshida opened the door, and in the sight…

There were seventeen people, an unfamiliar faces, and the left were familiar: hopes survivors. They were looking at Shohi and Yoshida, who came up in late time.

"Hey! Yoshida! Shohi!" Hiyayaka called them as waved her right arm, seemed very happy meeting them.

"Hey, were you dating, Yoshida-chan and Shohi-chan?" Olwen teased them, and of course it caused response from them, while Yoshida was looking to another direction which didn't meet her friends or anyone, and Shohi seemed a bit embarrassed while was looking to another direction, opposite of Yoshida's. Almost all people giggled and smiled.

"Who is he?" Shohi changed the topic and pointed to Abe who was talking to Miyazaki. Noticing that, Abe smiled and introduced himself.

"My name is Abe Mori. Nice to meet you," That was what he said, and it seemed that Shohi didn't care too much about him.

"Oh! Where did you get that, Yoshida?" Hanenagai asked and pointed to big teddy bear which she hugged.

"When I woke up, this bear was beside me, so I take it with me," Yoshida asked straightly as still hugging that teddy bear.

"This is so cute and fluffy! I wish I can have this!" Hanenagai wished.

"If you want, I can give you," Yoshida said as handing the big teddy bear to Hanenagai, but he handed it back.

"You don't need to! I can search it!" Hanenagai said as smiling with his "childish" aura.

"Both of you heard the announcement too, didn't you?" Fujiosuki asked.

"Yeah," Yoshida answered so simple.

"I feel something bad will happen, it is coming to us," Suzuki murmured and suddenly changed the topic and aura. They fell in to silent, and thought something different. They were looking each other with distrust aura.

"Can I have your attention?"

A voice came from the hotel's statue, and it was same with announcement's voice. They looked to the statue, and there was intense aura flew between them. A rush of sight looked to the statue, and suddenly white-black bear jumped and sat on the empty space on the statue.

"Welcome to the Naturistrict Carnival City! And I'm this city's mayor, Monokuma!"

Nineteen people fell to silence, looked to a 'bear' on the statue, speaking to them.

"A t-teddy bear?" Suzuki surprised and almost fell down because black-white mechanic 'bear'.

"I am not teddy bear, I'm Monokuma!" that bear or Monokuma exclaimed with anger.

"I never hear that type of bear," Jake said innocently.

"It is a robot bear, that settles." Miyazaki refuted Jake's said shortly.

"This seems pretty weird if you look to this mansion and that bear," Kamiyara said. "They looked aren't abandoned at all," he continued.

"Of course, because I'm the mayor!" Monokuma exclaimed with anger again, now waved 'his' two hands.

"I never think that mayor is a robot, robot bear," Suzuki slowly said.

"It is controlled by someone, or Puppet master we can say," Ikeda explained a simple method.

"So, who are you?" Yoshida asked with very straight voice and to the point.

"I'm Monokuma! Is that enough?!" Monokuma angered.

"I want your real name, is that enough?" Yoshida paid back his angered.

"Grr! You will be punished-" It cut by Shohi's words.

"By asking your identity? You never say that it is your privacy." He said simply.

"Today, you're won, kids," Monokuma still angered, but it seemed he changed the topic.

"I want to give you some announcement guys," he said, having some laughs in it. "YOU WILL BE IN HERE FOREVER, IN THIS CITY!"

As he was announcing the very-unbelievable-crap-thing-but-true, all people there were surprised, but some of them hid their emotion, such like Yoshida, Shohi, Ikeda, and Kokoro.

"Wh-what do you mean?" Kitae opened her mouth now, seemed a bit surprised.

"Of course I mean that, this city will be your lives' shelter," he said, surprisingly that he said it with calm tone.

"You can't mean that," Motoro was still surprised, almost shocked.

"Why I can't?" Monokuma asked, toned that he was already knowing the answer.

"There were still our lives which laid there, outside! Why did you must lock us here?! That's unreasonable!" Olwen exclaimed with anger, and Monokuma stayed in silence.

"Upupupu…" Monokuma smirked. "GAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" he laughed very hardly, made a surprise to people who spaced out.

"YOU'RE TOO NAÏVE! NAÏVE LIKE A DEMON!" he still laughed between his pause. "YOUR LIVES ARE NOW IN THIS CITY FOREVER!"

"WHAT THE- ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?!" Miyazaki angered and rushed to where Monokuma was standing.

"But…" Monokuma said, it stopped Miyazaki and he seemed waiting that sentence finished. "There is a way to get out," when he said that, almost all people's attention. Actually, there was disbelief in some people, who may be has thought about possibilities.

"Upupu… I knew that you will get some interests to this…" Monokuma smirked and giggled.

"The way is…" Monokuma gave dramatic effect by playing some drum's sound.

"STOP SCREWING AROUND OR I WILL RIP YOUR LIFE!" Miyazaki exclaimed.

"Okay~"

"THE WAY IS KILLING SOMEONE WITHOUT BEING KNOWN!"

All people fell in silence, didn't believe about another-unbelievable-crap-but-also-another-strike- of-true. Some of them still didn't want to believe, hide an anger inside, or any possibilities beside that.

"Just as I thought," Shohi said, and other people who actually had a thought from the start nodded.

"WHAT JUST SOME CRAP DID YOU SAY?!" Miyazaki angered as rushed to the Monokuma and grabbed. He wanted to smack it, but he noticed that something beeping inside and he threw it as fast as he could to the air, and…

DUAR

Monokuma was blown up and didn't leave any pieces.

"Is that bear… just died?" Suzuki mumbled slowly.

"I am not bear, I'm Monokuma!" a familiar voice just appeared, and a familiar bear or Monokuma stood up on the statue.

"Upupupu… that was just warning, you know?" Monokuma giggled, almost laughing. "If you do that again, then there will be punishment awaiting you,"

"P-Punishment?" Suzuki murmured in fear.

"Oh yeah, another things, here you are," Monokuma gave us each people an Electronic Handbook. Yoshida checked the electronic handbook, and it showed her name and her data, and there were some applications in there like camera, memo, video recorder, and maps.

"It will be your only way to show your identity, so if you lost your Electronic Handbook, you won't get facilities," Monokuma explained. "And, you can read rules in there, obey that, beary guys!" and, he disappeared in blink.

Yoshida was in her room. There were their room which marked with nameplate on the door, and it only could be opened by owner's key which Monokuma gave after giving Electronic Handbook.

The Rules and Guide in Naturistrict Carnival City:

You can get out if killed someone without be known. People who killed by a culprit limit is two person. There will be a Corpse Discovery Announcement if three or more people discover a corpse, and when some time passed by investigation, a trial will be handled to reveal the villain.

There are several times' rules which you must obey, Nighttime and Morning time. Nighttime will be announced at 10.00 PM, and Morning time will be announced at 07.00 AM. During Nighttime, water won't flow at individual bathroom.

Lending or Borrowing Electronic Handbook are prohibited.

Breaking locks is prohibited.

There will be some rules which will be added later.

"Huh, situation just goes so heavy…" Yoshida sighed and fell her body to the bed. She sighed again and almost went to sleep.

"Oh wait, I forget to change my clothes," Yoshida said. She walked to the wardrobe and opened it. There were some set of her maid clothes and her sleep suit, a blue nightgown with a black half-body jacket. The nightgown was thick enough to hide her body shape which was very elegant and slim for being a maid. After changed and took off her left eye patch, she went to the door and locked it.

'Monokuma just said that he will announce every nighttime or morning, then he should announce if night enters,' she thought, and slowly fell her own body to the bed.

There were a bed, wardrobe, some drawer, a table, and a shower room in her room, and maybe the same with other's room. She recognized that almost all places and rooms have a television and camera. Maybe what Ikeda said when they gathered on Mansion's field, there must be puppet master. And, the windows were full in black because the time was almost reaching night.

Slowly but sure, Yoshida drifted to sleep.

"Uhm…" Yoshida slowly woke up, and her eyes gazed to the window, blacker than last time she saw.

'It is still night?' Yoshida thought. She walked to the wardrobe and took her white soft half-body jacket to cover some parts of her body. 'I can't sleep,'

'Maybe some spicy would do,' she thought as unlocked her room's door and went outside. The corridor was a pitch black if there weren't mini lamps which turned on and she had skillful night vision. She walked to the canteen where the kitchen was. The light was turned on, and maybe there was a person. Slowly, she peeked to the canteen. There was none. She walked to the kitchen, and saw a figure with yellow-haired figure with purple eyes was making a glass of coffee, Shohi Elleveur.

"Shohi!" Yoshida surprised because she never thought that there would be other people, and he is Shohi.

"I just thought it was someone else," Shohi said and continued to make a coffee. "Your left eye," he continued his sentence. Yoshida who heard that touched her left right, and she wasn't wearing an eye patch. Of course, it was revealing her hidden eye, a blue eye beside the golden one.

"That eye wasn't yours, right?" he straight-forwardly asked Yoshida who wanted to make a Jalapeno Poppers. "It is familiar with Togami's family sight."

"Right, it is," She nodded as continued making her favorite snack. "It occurred when I was still nine or ten years old, this is Byakkun's father's left eye."

And later, they fell to the silent. Shohi who finished his coffee seemed make another, earning a question popped in Yoshida's mind.

"Why are you making another coffee?" Yoshida asked while was frying Jalapeno Poppers. When he finished the coffee, he left it near to Yoshida and left the kitchen. She plated her food to the plate and looked to the hot coffee.

"Maybe, he made it to me," Yoshida took it, and blew the hot coffee slowly, and drank some of it.

"Thanks," she drank it slowly, and stayed in silence.

"Sweeter than I thought,"

"Hey, what do you want to watch?" Kamiyara asked while searching a cupboard full with some movies CD.

There were Miyazaki, Kamiyara, Hanenagai, Yusaburu, Suzuki, Olwen, Abe, Hiyayaka, and Motoro who were in guest room in the mansion. There were some sofas, a glass table, cupboard, bookshelf, and a LCD television only could play CDs with DVD player. They decided to stay together in guest room and spend time by watching movies. Lucky that there was a cupboard filled with many types of movies. And, the rules said going out after nighttime wasn't prohibited. To prevent the murder occurred, they gathered to spend night with together activities, and they chose watching movies.

"Hey, war movies should do!" Miyazaki recommended, but all people except him shook their own head.

"I think it shouldn't do," Hanenagai disagreed.

"Sports genre is good to watch!" Motoro recommended.

"I hate championship in this type of condition," Kamiyara disagreed. They sighed in same time.

"T-Then m-maybe comedy should be one?" Suzuki recommended with low voice, but Hiyayaka supported her.

"Suzuki recommended Comedy Movies, guys! We should watch it!" Hiyayaka exclaimed, supported Suzuki's recommendation.

"Wow, that's so great decision!" Yusaburu agreed with a thumb up.

"It should do, it is good recommendation!" Olwen agreed too.

"So, what should we watch?" Miyazaki asked.

"Mmh, I don't think I should watch," Abe slowly said, but some people noticed it.

"What do you mean? You should!" Hiyayaka said as smiled as wide as she could.

"But, I am new with you guys, and it seems that you know each other," Abe said lowly. "I am something difference with you guys…"

"Hey, if you want to get 'same' with each other, you should join this," Yusaburu simply said it.

"And, you can tell yourself if you join, and we will know each other!" Hanenagai continued what would Yusaburu say with full of smile.

"If I can, then yes…" he finally agreed.

NOTE

I love to use "Monokuma" instead "Monobear". Why? Because Monobear is somewhat like "Monobeer" or "Monobeard"

You know what? I stole school's wifi to update xD

Sorry if the intro is boring!

Reader, can I ask you something?

Please recommend some pairing of this story's OCs