Only seven of us remained…
There was Arianna, she was the person I trusted the most here. And she was always helping me out.
There was Chase, he isn't the brightest, but he's shown to be of much help with small theories he's come up with.
Delilah was, well, I don't know what to say about her, she seems to shift personalities to what conveniences her the best.
There was Eliza, she isn't the most outgoing, but she tries her best. And she seems way more comfortable in a domain she is good at.
There was Marisa, she's good at investigating the crime scene. Although she can be really reserved to herself. There's moment she won't come out of her room. But she's still a great help.
And finally, there was Xi. Xi seems to be a genius, but also insane. He goes against what we say half the time just for his own sick pleasure. But… something happened and now he isn't trying to torment us as much… what happened.
And finally. There's me… I don't know how I'm going to do this. But I'm going to end this fucking killing game!
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The day, started off as any other would… the Monokuma Morning Announcement played in the background, but no one really listened to those anymore. Nonam made his way to the cafeteria. There just so… few people left. Not many people were talking anymore.
"Guys… we can't just always ignore each other!" Eliza said "We need to stick together even more now!"
But still, no one spoke.
No one wanted to say something.
No one could say anything.
Until
"Geez! You guys are such downers!" Delilah said. "Learn to cheer up! Yeah, we lost three friends, but! That just means we can't let their deaths be in vain! We need to keep fighting forward!"
"Hey Delilah…" Chase started.
"Yeah?" She tilted her head cutely.
"Shut up…" He mumbled.
"Dick…" Delilah mumbled.
Eliza sighed and stood up "But she's right… we can't just give up… what would the others have wanted?"
"To be alive" He mumbled.
"Well, I mean, that's not wrong…" She sighed a little "But that's not the point!"
Marisa looked up at them "But we can't just forget about everyone who's died…"
Eliza turned to face her "I'm not saying to forget! I'm saying to fight for them!"
Arianna stood up "Yeah. You are right. We can't give up now. Monokuma can't keep this game going on forever. There's just so few of us left. A class trial with six people would be boring to him…"
Suddenly.
Bear.
"That's not exactly true! You know what! I'll be nice! I'll strike a deal with you seven! One more class trial and then it will all be over! For the most part…"
"W-who would believe that!" Eliza called out.
Delilah started to think "Actually it makes quite a lot of sense, actually. If two someone gets killed and we hold a class trial. Our numbers will dwindle down to five. If someone else dies, there will be a class trial with only four people. And no one would like that…"
"If you don't accept the deal! I'll make sure that only three of you survive! You don't want that, do you?"
Eliza huffed her cheeks "Fine!"
"What are you doing?" Chase sat down properly.
Eliza sat back down and looked at Chase "It's not like we will actually have a fifth trial… this is just in case…" She glanced over at Xi and Delilah. "We can't trust them… I just… don't want to have to do two more of these…" She said.
"Welp! I better go prepare!" Monokuma laughed, and with that, he was gone.
"Dammit! What the hell is he planning!" Chase yelled out.
"Nothing we can't overcome!" Delilah said optimistically.
"Shut up, bitch."
"Dick"
Eliza looked at them both and coughed a few times "W-we should head up soon. To the fifth floor!"
"Is that truly the wise choice? Every new killing has happened on the newly discovered floor…" Arianna was thinking deeply.
"T-that's just terrible luck!" Eliza said.
Nonam looked at everyone "I don't think we should ignore the fifth floor…"
"See! Nonam agrees!" Eliza yelled out excitedly.
"We have nothing to lose…" Xi said. "Plus, a new place for a body would be nice."
Great, he's back to his usual self
"All in favor of visiting the new floor, say 'Chase is a dick'!" Delilah giggled.
"Wait! What the hell is that!" Chase said.
She pouted slightly "Fiiine… say 'I'"
In total, five people said 'I'
"Democracy! Yeah!" She shouted out loud. "Let's go!"
"The systems rigged…" Chase mumbled as he got up.
Everyone soon followed a happy Delilah towards the fifth floor.
However.
When they got there…
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Delilah opened the doors to the fifth floor, but a sad expression appeared on her face "What… this… this… what…" There was nothing. The room was simply a room with nothing. The walls were made of metal, and there was no furniture in the room. Delilah started to mumble stuff to herself, but none of it was discernible.
Soon, everyone had entered the room, Eliza, closing the door behind everyone. "W-what's going on?" She asked.
"This is just a one room fucking floor!" Delilah yelled out.
Suddenly, a screen appeared on the metal wall. "Hey! You aren't supposed to be here yet! I haven't done renovating the place!"
"So there is more!" Delilah called out.
"Now all of you scram!" Monokuma said.
Chase walked over to the door, ready to leave. However…
Clack! Clack! Clack!
"W-what! I-i-it's LOCKED!" He yelled out.
Arianna ran over to the door and tried to pry it open, but it didn't work. "Monokuma! What's the meaning of this?"
"Oh? It's locked? It's because you aren't supposed to be here! This is your fault!"
Xi sent a glance towards Eliza "And who's the one to suggest we go here?"
"I-I didn't know this was going to happen!" Eliza squeaked.
"Hey! Leave her alone!" Chase yelled at Xi.
"If I remember correctly, you were one of the people who didn't want to come here…" Xi pointed out.
Marisa, meanwhile was doing her own thing. She was crouching near the walls and looking at it attentively.
"So what if I didn't want to come here?" Chase crossed his arms.
Xi smirked "Well then you should be mad at Eliza for insisting on coming here…"
"No. I'm not going to get mad at her…" Chase said.
"What a hypocrite" Xi shrugged and walked away.
This is quickly… falling apart…
"Everyone! Let's all stay friends!" Delilah called out.
Very… quickly…
Marisa, seemed to be getting impatient by everyone but kept doing what she was doing.
Soon, it calmed down a little "So… what do we do now?" Chase asked. "This is probably all part of Monokuma's trap… Right before he left he said…"
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"That's not exactly true! You know what! I'll be nice! I'll strike a deal with you seven! One more class trial and then it will all be over! For the most part…"
"W-who would believe that!" Eliza called out.
Delilah started to think "Actually it makes quite a lot of sense, actually. If two someone gets killed and we hold a class trial. Our numbers will dwindle down to five. If someone else dies, there will be a class trial with only four people. And no one would like that…"
"If you don't accept the deal! I'll make sure that only three of you survive! You don't want that, do you?"
Eliza huffed her cheeks "Fine!"
"What are you doing?" Chase sat down properly.
Eliza sat back down and looked at Chase "It's not like we will actually have a fifth trial… this is just in case…" She glanced over at Xi and Delilah. "We can't trust them… I just… don't want to have to do two more of these…" She said.
"Welp! I better go prepare!" Monokuma laughed, and with that, he was gone.
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"This means this has to do with a potential fifth trial. This has to be the motive…" He finished.
Marisa stood up "Doesn't take a genius to notice that…" She walked over to another wall.
"Someone's been awfully rude today…" Xi said.
"What are you doing, Marisa?" Delilah tilted her head.
"Trying to find a way… out!" She pushed on the wall, and a little section of it got pushed into it. Suddenly, the wall started to shake. And, like a hidden door, the wall moved out of the way. "There, a way out…"
Suddenly, the screen lit up "Actually, that's only leads further down. So sad you found it so soon. I was hoping you would all starve in this room… Oh well! Inside the Forever Maze! There is one way out. You will have to search long and hard for it!" And with that, the screen turned off.
"We should go in…" Marisa said. "If there's a way out… we need to find it…" She walked further into the hallway.
"The Forever Maze…" Nonam mumbled.
This can only end badly.
Everyone followed Marisa down the hallway.
"So what do you think makes this, the Forever Maze?" Chase asked, looking around.
"I-it can't possibly be endless…" Eliza said. "This is the fifth floor, it has to fit on top of the fourth floor."
"I don't think 'forever' refers to the length. But how long we might spend here…" Xi pointed out.
"I don't want to stay here forever!" Eliza shouted.
"That's a horrifying thought…" Chase mumbled.
Marisa was looking around attentively. For now, the hallway didn't split off "This is not making any sense…"
Arianna was pretty much having the same thought "We should have reached somewhere else to turn by now… We've only been going straight…"
"What's if it's not actually a maze…" Eliza suggested.
"No… Monokuma would not name something forever maze, if it wasn't a maze…" Marisa said.
"Then what's the gimmick…" Nonam said. "There must be a gimmick that makes this a maze…"
"A gimmick…" Marisa mumbled to herself.
Then as if on cue… a loud roaring sound was heard. But not from an animal, but from a mechanism.
Nonam stole a quick glance at his shirt and quickly got into action "Everyone! Take cover!"
Arianna, Chase, Marisa, and Xi all ran further down the hallway while Delilah, Eliza, and Nonam backed away.
"Take cover from what?" Delilah tilted her head.
Suddenly, also on cue. A metal wall came flying out of the wall and blocked off the two groups from each other.
"Oooooh!" Delilah said.
"Shit! What the hell!" Nonam yelled out.
"W-what's happening?" Eliza was freaking out.
"We've been separated!" Nonam yelled as he ran over to the wall. He hit it several times with his fists. "Dammit…"
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Marisa slowly stood up.
What the hell was that…
She looked over at the wall
Did we get seperated…? Dammit, if that's the case. This might be why it's called Forever Maze…
Marisa took a deep breath "I think it's called Forever Maze, because as we've seen, stuff can change. It's almost impossible to get out of…"
Dammit Monokuma…
"Shit, so we are separated from the others…?" Arianna said. "Well, I guess we just need to find our way to them.
Marisa walked over to the metal wall and gave it a low knock. "It seems to thick to thick to even talk through this…"
"Eh… thick" Chase smirked a little.
"Get your head out of the gutter" Marisa sighed.
Well, there's only one thing we can do…
"For now, we must keep pressing forward. There's no use staying here…" Marisa told everyone.
"I wonder… if this maze… will become someone's grave." Xi smirked.
Marisa, ignored him, and kept walking away. This time, other routes were open for them to go down.
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"So, I guess we should go further into the maze" Delilah said.
"I don't want to go further into it!" Eliza complained. "Coming here is a bad idea and I shouldn't have suggested it!"
"Well, now's too late to be worrying about that" Delilah said.
"We should keep aware of what direction is left and right according to this wall. Especially if we want to reach the other side to meet up with everyone…"
"I wonder if we are going to stay here for days…" Delilah said.
"Pleeease! Not for days!" Eliza cried out. "I don't want to stay here for another hour!"
Getting these two through this maze will be rather… difficult…
"I'm just saying…" Delilah sighed "But don't worry… we won't…"
Eliza was looking gloomy as she was walking. Suddenly, something caught her attention. "Hey! What's this!" She ran into a room and looked around. "This maze as a classroom in it…"
Delilah followed her in, followed by Nonam.
"I don't think we should be getting sidetracked like…" Nonam sighed.
Eliza walked further into the room and stopped at the teacher's desk. "Hey! It's a book!" She took it and opened it. She read through it a bit before freezing. "What's… what's this…"
Delilah ran over to her and took the book "What is it?" She giggled. She read over it "Oh! It's just our student profiles!" She started flipping through the pages "Ultimate Journalist, Ultimate Swordwielder, Ultimate Lucky Student, Ultimate… well… that's not important!" She skipped to the end of the book to read through it. "Hmm… nothing we don't know…"
"So! We're we all in the same class?" Eliza cheered up.
"Yeah, it seems like it…" Delilah replied. "But that's stuff we could have guess easily. No new information is in here…"
Nonam took a step towards Delilah "May I see the book"
"No! Why would I trust something like this to you!" Delilah crossed her arms. She somehow stuffed the book inside her shirt. "You wouldn't dare try and it from me" She winked. She took a step towards him. "Unless… you want to get close-"
"No"
"Meanie…"
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"We've been walking for a while…" Chase sighed.
Marisa let out a low sigh "Yeah, we have been. That's how a maze like this works. We keep walking into we find out destination…"
"What if there isn't a way out?" He asked.
"The reason why it's called Forever Maze could be because there actually isn't a way out…" Xi smirked.
"No, there needs to be a way out!" Marisa said.
"Oh! I know the way out!" Xi smirked.
Marisa stopped walking and turned towards him "And what would that be?"
"Murder…" Xi said.
"No! We are not doing that at all!" Chase yelled out.
"Xi, please stop thinking like that…" Arianna sighed "Although I think he is right… It's just for Monokuma to have the only way out to kill someone."
"Well none of us are stupid enough to do that…" Chase said.
"Yeah, however…" Marisa looked around "We keep saying that, however, our numbers are down to seven… less than half we started with. Nine of us are already gone…"
The hallway went silent.
Chase looked at the ground "Even more reason to not kill someone… It's going to be harder to pin the blame on someone else with so little people left… They would have to be out of their mind to even think of doing something like that…"
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Delilah was walking, humming to herself. "So! After we get out of this maze, you should make a huge meal for all of us!" She was looking at Eliza.
"B-but for so few people?" Eliza mumbled "I don't want to go overboard like last time… there was… just so few people!"
"Sooo what?" Delilah giggled "I'll help you out and make sure you don't make too much!"
"O-OK…"
Nonam was looking at Delilah the whole time.
She saw something in the document… what did she see… ! Wait… did she see my talent and refuses to show me it? Dammit!
"Hey… Delilah, why won't you let me see the document?" Nonam asked her.
"Because it's not really important…" She shrugged.
He stopped walking "If it's not important, why bring it with you?"
She also stopped walking. "Maybe it's because the truth is horrifying? Ever think of that?"
"T-that's more reasons for us to fully see the document!" Eliza squeaked.
"I'm sorry…" She sighed "But to stay hopeful, I can't show you the document…"
Nonam glared at her, but she was looking away at the time.
Dammit… I can't let her keep that forever…
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Chase stopped walking with the others when they reached a room. "Hey… this seems like a room…"
Marisa stopped walking and quickly turned to Chase "A room?" She walked over to it and walked inside.
"Wait, shouldn't we make sure it's safe!" Chase called out.
"I'm sure Monokuma would not want one of us to randomly die from a trap…" She said. She looked around the room. "Feel free to help me out."
However, no one else wanted to go in.
"Alright… have it your way…" She walked around the room. Suddenly, she stepped on a pressure plate and a timer started going off. Suddenly, the doors were blocked off, which there are three of them, by glass panels. "Shit!" She started to panic a little. The timer showed sixty seconds.
"Marisa!" Arianna called out. "Shit!"
Fifty-five seconds left.
Chase started kicking at the glass. "Come on!"
Fifty seconds left.
But no matter they tried. Nothing was working.
Forty seconds left.
Thirty seconds left.
Twenty seconds left.
Ten seconds left.
Marisa walked over to the wall and started examining in. Suddenly, at five seconds left, the room opened up a bunch of holes that seemed like arrows would come out of. However, when Marisa saw this, she smirked and took a few steps back.
Zero seconds.
Instead of arrows, just a sudden gust of wind came pouring out for several seconds. But that was it. Marisa was OK besides her summer dress, which she had forgotten she wearing, lifted up a little bit. "Shit…" She mumbled.
After the timer was done, the glass panel was lifted.
"Marisa! What the hell was that!" Chase yelled out.
"I knew nothing bad was going to happen… Monokuma wouldn't allow this to happen for no reason. Also when I looked into the newly opened holes, there was nothing in. I didn't expect there to be wind, however." She looked around the room "This could be easily turned into a death trap… We should be careful…" She walked out of the room.
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Delilah, soon stopped walking and plopped down onto the ground. "Can we stop walking? This is getting exhausting!"
Nonam stopped and looked at Eliza, who sat down on the ground "Yeah… I guess a break won't hurt…" He lowered himself until he could properly sit down.
"Hey, why did any of you become what you are right now…?" Delilah asked. "Well beside's Nonam. He's pretty much a nothing…" She giggled.
"Hey, I would know what I am if I could see my damn file" Nonam said.
"Nope!" Delilah giggled.
"W-well…" Eliza started to talk "I became a chef because my parents would never cook, and I guess I got tired of eating take-out all the time. So I started using what little ingredients I had to make myself some food. After a few years I became pretty good and by age 12, I was already working in restaurants. I actually got my parents to stop eating at fast food all the time because they like my food more. Soon, the school recognized me and I was asked to attend Hope's Peak. Of course I accepted. They said anyone who goes there is almost guaranteed to be successful in life. What about you…?"
"Me?" Delilah said, humming a little bit. "I hated being confined to the ground when I was a kid. I wanted to be up in the air, where the birds fly. However, my parents were kinda against that dream… So I murdered them"
Eliza and Nonam looked at Delilah like she was crazy.
"I'm kidding!" She giggled. "But they were against the idea of me going on a plane. However that didn't stop me from going to the plane museum in my hometown. I proved to my parents that I was meant to become one. My mother eventually caved in and bought plane tickets so I could experience a plane ride. Well, she wasn't very interested, so that left little 13 year old me to do whatever I wanted. I snuck into the cock- heh… cock… I mean! I snuck into the cockpit, but what I didn't expect to find was the pilot dead and the co-pilot tied up. Meanwhile a criminal of sorts was controlling the plane. And stupid little me decided to try and fight the criminal. Luckily he had left the weapon he used to kill the pilot lying around. I grabbed it and hit him. I didn't kill him, not yet anyways" She giggled evilishy. "Now, against my better judgement, I decided to try and pilot the plane myself, instead of untying the co-pilot. I actually managed to do good, but the plane still crashed, although it was mostly a minor crash. However, because I did stuff, no casualties were received. Although I did get a major injuries. My mind became disjointed of sorts and that's why I'm crazy!" She giggled a little. "The co-pilot that had been there found me and started giving me personal lessons on how to fly planes. And I was also noticed by Hope Peak's Academy."
Nonam had listened to both of those stories. "Eh… Hope's Peak hadn't even noticed me until I tried to get into the reserve course. Apparently I stayed under the radar. But that's pretty much it…"
"So you seriously don't know what your talent is?" Delilah sat up.
"Nope…" He sighed.
"Hmm…" She started to think deeply about something. But it doesn't seem like she will say what it is.
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Somehow, miraculously, the other group was having a similar conversation.
"Why I became an Actress? It just seemed fun" Arianna smiled "I guess as a kid I was good a lying and hiding my true intentions. One year we had to take an art class and I was going to sign up for visual arts, however that class was full so I got stuck in the drama class. At first I hated it for not being the class I wanted. But after a while, I started to enjoy it and actually passed at the top of my class. My teacher hooked me up with some of her contacts and suddenly, I found myself playing at a frequent amount of shows. Soon, I was almost always getting the lead role. One time I was going to play at a huge theatre. However I got given a minor role because all the other actors there were way better than me… However, in case the lead actress couldn't go on. I was supposed to be her backup. The night of the play, the lead actress were nowhere to be seen. So I went up instead of hers. Little did I know that representatives of Hope Peak's were there. I was probably scouted that night and planned to be sent a letter shortly after."
"I wonder what happened to the lead actress" Xi smirked "It's like someone included sabotage…"
"What are you implying!" Arianna yelled out.
"Nothing much" He shrugged "But you could have easily disposed of her to get that lead role"
Marisa shook her head "I don't think she would do that… what about you Xi?"
"Me? Oh well, nothing too interesting" He started to think deeply. "I guess it all started when in my friend group, I used to be the one that helps solves everyone… emotional problems. I'd give them advice that somehow worked. A nearby psychology building caught on to what I was doing and thought that I could be of some use. I worked my way to the top and eventually starting treating some criminals, with, little to no mental state left. However, spending so much time in several crazy peoples mind had an effect on my own mind and I turned like they did. Still great at my job. I could save everyone but myself."
"I guess it's my turn…?" Marisa smiled "Well, for some reason I was always someone who watched the news and read the newspaper. Although I was only interested in reports of people who died. I decided I wanted to become a reporter so I practiced my writing. But I always had it do with a murder case. One day, a murder happened near my house and I snuck off to go to the scene. I wrote down everything that I found and tried to make a report out of. I was caught by a policeman at the scene and he took me home. He must have read the paper I was writing on because he spoke to my parents about it and then the next day they took me to the news station. Turns out what I had written was very close to what had actually happened. So I got an invite here, an invite there. All of a sudden I was writing news reports on various murders. And somehow, I was able to figure out who did it. But it wasn't hard to do it then. I had to accuse people I didn't know or care about. Here… I have to accuse people I've learned to know… and I guess that's why I'm just so silent. I didn't want to show my true journalist talent in fear of becoming a target. But now, there's no time for that."
"Well…" Arianna said thinking.
Xi didn't really wanted to hear anything more backstory from her and turned to Chase "What about you?"
The Ultimate Flirt remained silent for a bit before talking "Fuck you…"
Suddenly, mechanisms started to sound and something behind them was moving. The metal wall vanished and all that was left was a glass pane. However, on the other side.
"Guys?" Delilah said, looking at them through the glass panel.
"Hey! We found them!" Chase called out.
"Well" Marisa shook her head "We didn't really find them persay…"
"Who cares!" Chase yelled out. "How are you three doing?"
"We are doing good…" Nonam said. "We haven't found a way out yet…"
"This place stretches on foooorever!" Delilah added in. "We'll probably die before we find a way out…"
"D-don't say that!" Eliza squeaked.
"Well it's the truth…" Delilah shrugged.
Chase let out a yawn "Man… how long have we been here… I'm getting tired…"
Ding Dong! Dong Ding! Ding Dong! Dong Dong!
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A monitor from the wall lit up to reveal Monokuma's face. "A body as be- Woops, wrong announcement! It is currently 10 pm! You better get some rest and lock yourselves in your room! Oh wait… you can't do that! Better hope no one kills you in your sleep! Monokuma! Out!" The screen turned off, leaving everyone in silence.
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"Dammit, I don't want someone to kill me in my sleep…" Chase sighed.
Xi started to think "It's probably the most likely occurrence…"
"N-n-n-n-n-o!" Eliza screamed out. She was terrified of that happening.
Marisa started to think "We could always do a watch system. Two people stay up in shifts to watch everyone! And we make sure to switch it so it's not always the same two. I'll stay up with you Eliza" She offered.
"O-OK!" She smiled.
Arianna looked over at Nonam "Hey, me and you?"
Nonam nodded.
"Oooo Xi!" Delilah giggled.
He let out a sigh but nodded. "It was either you or Chase"
"Geez, you are making me seem like a nuisance…" He sighed.
"Well, I want everyone to stay up for something…" Marisa said "So there will need to be a group of three…"
Chase glanced over at Eliza but looked at another group "As much as I don't want to do this… I'm going to pick Delilah and Xi. I don't trust those two…"
"But I'm trustworthy!" Delilah complained
"Alright, so who wants the first shift?" Marisa asked.
"OO! OO!" Delilah lifted her hand. "Before that! Look at this!" She pointed at a map on the wall. This seems to show what the maze is currently like!" She tapped it a few times "Damn, it doesn't show our position nor does it allow me to change the interface…" She let t a sigh and sat back down "Also my group will take the first watch!"
Marisa nodded "Me and Eliza will have the second watch. And I guess Nonam and Arianna will have the last shift"
"I'm OK with that" Arianna said. "I'm used to getting up early for rehearsals anyways…"
"And I don't mind either" Nonam said.
Marisa stretched her arms and let out a yawn. "Well, I'm going to bed now."
Soon, everyone had gone to sleep but the three on watch. It was going to be a peaceful nice… or was it?
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"Hey, wake up Marisa…" A voice called out.
Marisa slowly opened her eyes and looked around to see Chase sitting down beside her. "Huh…?"
"It's your turn for the watch…" Chase said. "Eliza is already up…"
She looked up at the glass pane and saw Eliza. She sat up properly and stifled a yawn. "What time is it?"
"Well my perception of time isn't great. But it felt like 3 hours had passed. Probably less, though…" He lied down on the floor. "Well, see you all in the morning!" He called out, passing right out.
Marisa looked over at Eliza, who was sitting down against the panel of glass. "You don't need to be afraid. I highly doubt someone will try and kill anyone with so little people left. If someone dies, that means that they have less people to pin the blame on"
"Y-yeah… you are right…" Eliza said.
Soon, the sound of glass lowering was heard.
"Huh?" Marisa put her hands were the glass panel separating both groups were. It was no longer there. She smiled and scooted besides Eliza, who had noticed the whole thing. "I'll make sure you live. Alright. I can't imagine someone like you dying in a place like this…"
"M-maybe that's how I survived this long… because people would feel bad about killing me…" She whimpered.
"Well, maybe that is true. But don't think of it like that…" Marisa smiled. "Think of it like-"
And then everything went dark.
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Why hadn't I been woken up yet…? This is weird…
Ding Dong! Dong Ding! Ding Dong! Dong Dong!
Is that… the morning announcement… or…?
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The screen lit up in front of Nonam to reveal Monokuma's face "This an announcement for Hope Peak's Academy! It is currently morning time! So have another fantastic murder filled day!" Then, the screen turned off.
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What… I should have been woken up for my watch… But I never was… maybe Marisa and Eliza lost track of time?
Nonam looked around and went to lean on the glass panel for support. However, he fell right through and his head landed right next to Delilah's.
"The glass panel is gone!" She giggled. "Isn't that exciting!"
"GAH!" He quickly sat back up and looked around "When did this happen?"
Delilah shrugged "I don't know… it was like this when I woke up…"
Arianna slowly got up and looked at Nonam and Delilah, before freaking out because they were on the groups side. "How did you get here?"
"Duuuh! The glass pane is gone now!" Delilah giggled.
Arianna looked around and knew right away something was off "W-where's Eliza?" She freaked out.
"Eliza?" Nonam turned to where she had been sleeping. However, she wasn't there.
W-what? Where could she have gone?
"Everyone! Wake up!" Arianna called out.
The people who were still sleeping, Chase, Marisa, and Xi, slowly got up.
Marisa was clutching her head, seemingly a little dizzy "Ugh… what happened last night…"
"We have to go! Eliza is missing!" Arianna shouted.
"What!" Marisa quickly got up and stopped clutching her head. "W-we need to split up and find her! She could be… no… she can't!"
Delilah ran over to the map that showed a live display of the maze. "Alright! I'll cover this area!" She pointed to an area to the west of here.
Soon she gave everyone a spot to cover.
Nonam had the North.
Arianna, the South.
Xi took the locations around here.
Marisa took the East, although she volunteered for that section.
And Chase had been given the huge row of classrooms that was not to far from here.
"Alright everyone! Break!" Delilah called out, running towards the West.
Soon, everyone split up.
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"Dammit…" Nonam mumbled.
Eliza can't be dead. She probably went to go check something, and got lost… no… I refuse to believe any of this!
He went from hallway, to hallway. But still, on Eliza could be found. He headed more East towards where Marisa was searching.
We can't afford to lose another person! We are already at a lost with seven people. We don't need to lose one more… we can't lose one more…
Soon, he arrived at a room. It was far into the East side of the maze, but, he wouldn't have been able to tell.
However, soon, a trail of blood was visible.
What? Blood… oh god no!
He started to follow the path of blood, coming across various messages plastered over the wall.
"Can you save them?"
"Time is running out…"
"Make a move, boy…"
What the hell is all of this? And why is it written in blood. More specifically, who's blood!
Soon, he reached a door. An ominous door. He hadn't seen this door before, however, there was something odd about it. On the other side, beeping noise could be heard.
What is this?
He opened the door and stepped in. The first thing he noticed was that a person was sitting on a chair, wrapped in a cloth to cover who they were. A timer was going down, and he had first seen it at 37 seconds left. He didn't like the look of that and went to take a step forward. However, something stopped him.
What is this… glass? Shit! No!
Taking a look around the room, Chase was to his right, Arianna was facing him. They had a worried expression on their face. They must have come into the room while he was looking around. They couldn't go any further into the room because of the glass.
Twenty seconds left.
Chase was trying to punch the glass so it would break. Yeah, that wasn't going to work.
Fifteen seconds left.
Arianna ran out of the hall to look for something.
Ten seconds left.
What the hell is going to happen?
Five seconds.
The walls had small holes open.
And suddenly.
The wind blew, but not just the wind. Something else was in there too.
Spears of sorts. And multiple of them impaled the target, probably killing them instantly.
Chase and Nonam could not move after witnessing that. They had seen maybe people executed before them. However, there was something different than seeing someone who didn't do anything wrong, or couldn't even fight, get killed like they did.
"Shit!" Chase yelled out. He took several steps back to get a running start and…
SMASH-SHATTER!
He ran through the glass pane, which shattered into pieces. He got several injuries from it, however, that didn't stop him from going forward. He got one of the loose spears and ran to the glass pane separating Nonam from the room. And with a downward thrust.
SHATTER
He managed to shatter the glass pane to let Nonam in.
"Hurry! They might still be alive!" Chase was almost crying.
"R-right!" Nonam ran towards the body.
I understand why Chase is probably acting like this… we… we found her… this is where she went off too… goddammit! What happened!
Arianna returned with a chair from a classroom and shattered the glass, running in.
Nonam took a deep gulp and removed the sheet. But what they found was even more of a shocker…
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The victim had several spears stabbed into their legs, pinning them against the chair that they were sitting on. Their body was tied to the chair. Wrapped with a lengthy rope which seemed impossible to acquire anywhere on the fifth floor, let alone the spears. In their stomach, several spears were inside them, blood, oozing out of it in seemingly an endless stream. They even had one in their neck. Their mouth was taped shut. So they wouldn't have been able to scream for help. So it was almost a fluke they were found. On their head, they were bleeding from two wound that didn't appear to be inflicted from a spear. The victim… the victim was… the victim was…what…? The Ultimate Journalist, Marisa Campbell
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"W-what?" Nonam froze in spot.
H-how did she die? We SAW her alive several minutes ago!
"You mean… it's not Eliza?" Chase was still crying, a mix of emotions were racing through him.
"H-how the fuck did this happen to Marisa?" Arianna was also freaking out.
She was tasked, well, she volunteered to search this section. And now… she's dead…
"N-none of this makes sense!" Chase fell down to his knees. "Marisa is dead and Eliza is still missing… don't tell me there's another double murder…"
Ding Dong! Dong Ding! Ding Dong! Dong Dong!
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The screen lit up to reveal a smug Monokuma "A body has been discovered! Who will it be? You better hope it's not you. Did I say hope? What a weird choice of words! Anyways, the body is in that weird wind room! Find it on your own! Monokuma! Out!" And then the screen turned off.
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We all remained in silence. We had just witnessed this… just… how… how did any of this happen? Just two days ago, we lost Arti, David, and Larissa. Why did we need to lose someone else! And why so soon!
Soon, Delilah arrived at the room "Who died this time?" She looked at the body that belonged to Marisa and she didn't seem too sad. "Did any of you find Eliza?"
"No, none of us did find her…" Arianna sighed.
Nonam looked back and forth.
All we are currently missing is Eliza and Xi.
As if on cue, Xi walked into the room. He noticed Marisa and shrugged "It would seem we lost another one… and so soon…" He looked at Delilah and Nonam and gave them confused looks before shaking his head. "I didn't find Eliza at all, and I assume neither did any of you?"
"No… we didn't…" Arianna was looking around.
Everyone were looking at each other.
What the hell is going on…
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Six Students Remaining...