In, Hey everyone, it is now time for the motives! Who do you think is going to be the first victim? Try to guess and see if your guess is right. Who knows what could happen in a school full of despair...Upupupu...

Location: Trophy Room Time: 12: 50 pm

Gathering in the trophy room, Maizuno, Naegi and I stood there in awkward silence. Looking at their faces, they were just as nervous as I was. I mean who wouldn't be, when a toy bear tells you to go into a room where you will receive motives to murder?

Maizuno broke the silence, "We... should probably get going..."

Naegi agreed, "Yeah, we're only procrastinating... Besides, we can't find anything out by staying here, can we?"

"Your right... Let's get going," I replied.

We started to make our way down the halls. We were so on edge that we were jumping to the slightest sounds. Then we arrived at the AV room and the lights were on shinning through the glass of the door.

Naegi suddenly spoke, "Man... This room gives me the chills..."

"Yeah... it does," I agreed.

Maizuno spoke, "Hey, come on guys. The others are still waiting for us to get back to the Gym..."

We nodded and walked into the AV room. It was a pretty neat room; it had a giant projector on the other side of the room. There were also rows of mini projectors and desks; about 15 of them. On one of them, there was a small cardboard box; next to it was a pile of headphones. I ran up to the box ripping it open. Inside, I saw 13 different CD's inside. They all had our names on it. My eyes locked on one that had my name on it. Picking it up, I looked on the back and it said "Play Me".

Neagi asked walking over, "What's in the box?"

"CD's... with our names on it." I answered.

Maizuno surprised, "E-everyone's names?!"

Naegi calmly said while looking into the box, "Yeah... it appears so..."

"Guess we should see what's on ours..." I suggested. They all nodded and we went to separate mini-projectors. I turned it on, popped in the CD, and plugged in my headphones. The screen flickered to life showing an image of a woman and a girl around my age, if not younger. The woman had a leather jacket, similar to mine, while the girl had a sweater and skirt on. At first, I didn't recognize them at all, but then I felt tears run down my cheeks. It was my Mom and sister smiling at the screen.

Mother greeted, "Hello Ace! I wanted to say congratulations on getting into Hope's Peak! I am so proud of you!"

My sister, Kora, had started laughing, "It's so nice you got into the best school in the world! I can't wait for you to come home to tell me all about it!"

I couldn't believe that I was seeing them. After all the madness that started happening during my arrival at Hope's Peak, I was glad to see my family again. However, my joy soon turned into confusion and despair. The screen flickered again, showing Kora and Mother again. However, they were in distress. Kora had a katana in hand, arm bleeding, and while mother was all cut up and was hovering in front of Kora. The dojo they were in was completely destroyed and blood was splattered all over the rice-paper windows.

Mother commanded, "Kora! You need to get out of here! NOW!"

Kora cried back, "No way! I'm not leaving you here!"

Mother snapped back, "Kora! You need to find your brother, get to the school, and DON'T COME BACK HERE!"

After that, the screen flickered once more, showing Monokuma's face.

Monokuma laughed, "Upupup... Oh what oh what could have happened to Ace Hogana's family? Did they get attacked? Was someone harming them? Who will ever find out what happened? If you wanna know, find out after GRADUATION!"

With that, the screen went blank. What the hell did I just see?! I asked myself over and over again not being able to process what the video just showed me. I screamed and slashed the monitor in half. I then heard a scream from behind me.

I turned and saw Maizuno looking severely stressed with fear written all over her face. She stuttered, " H-how!? How did he even-!?"

Naegi was disturbed as well and threw his headphones, "What the?!"

Maizuno ran out of the AV room with tears streaming down her cheeks.

Naegi called after her, "Maizuno! Wait!"

He charged after her, begging her to stop. As he left, everyone else started flooding into the AV room looking at the box.

Asahina asked, "What just happened in here? Why did Naegi and Maizuno storm out?!"

Kirigiri examined the area, the remains of the AV monitor I slashed, and the CD box. Kirigiri then asked, "Was it the CD's that caused all this chaos?"

I was shaking as I nodded my head. Everyone went into the box to grab their CD's and playing them on the monitors. Their faces, like ours, went from joy to despair.

Asahina screamed, "No way! There's just no way!"

Sakura growled, "How... how did they get defeated so easily?!"

Jade fell to the ground, "No... My family... I can't take anymore of this!"

I ran towards Jade trying to comfort him. "Jade... it's alright, calm down. Please calm down." I repeated, trying to calm her down. As I said that, I was also trying to calm myself down. After a few minutes, everyone was in uproar.

Then Togami stepped in front of the group shaking his head. He sighed, "Oh please, you guys are all so gullible. Do you really think that was real?"

Asahina shocked, "What do you mean 'if it's real'?!"

Togami shook his head, "God help you all... Do you all really think that those videos were real? Monokuma said they were just motives to start the killings, can we be 100% sure that Monokuma didn't make these just to make us kill?"

"No, but what if they are real?! You can't be sure that they aren't real!" I countered.

Togami simply chuckled. "You are right, but I guess we can agree to disagree at this point. But my question to everyone now is this," he turned to everyone else, "What will you now do with this new found information? Will you kill to find out the truth or will you go about your business?"

Kirigiri cut in, "You have a habit of killing any and all hope..."

Togaimi started to reply, "I'm just telling you all the truth, that's all..." With that Togami left with Fukawa following close behind.

Looking down at Jade, I saw she had calmed down, but still looked scared. "Are you alright?" I asked her.

Jade replied, "S-shouldn't I be asking you that? You look like you saw a ghost."

I looked at the monitor screen and saw my reflection. I had sweat running down my face and I looked extremely pale. Shaking my head, I brought Jade to her feet. "Don't worry about me... I'll be fine..." I then turned to Kirigiri, who also looked shaken up by the video, "You okay?"

Kirigiri nodded, "As disturbing as that was, I think I'll be okay..."

I turned to everyone else in the room, "You guys alright, too?"

Fujusaki stuttered, "I-I think so..."

Asahina slowly said, "I'm going to lose my mind..."

Sakura comforted, "It's okay Asahina, everything is going to be okay."

Celes yawned, "I don't exactly think it is real... but what I do think is that something is going-"

"Don't even think about finishing that sentence!" someone shouted. We all jumped looking in the direction of the voice. It was Naegi; he had come back with Maizuno. He had an arm wrapped around her trying to keep her calm.

Celes exclaimed, "Oh, hi Naegi. Maizuno. Care to join us?"

Leon questioned, "Where were you two?"

Naegi answered, "It's not important at the moment. Listen, I know we are all sort of freaking out over the videos that we just saw, but we can't let the video scare us into doing something rash, got it?"

Kirigiri nodded, "Agreed. I say we investigate the 1st floor of the school; see if there is any way out. Then we can meet in the cafeteria to see what we uncovered. Anyone have objections?"

Everyone nodded their heads no. With that everyone left the AV room, leaving Jade and I alone in the room again.

Jade whispered, "Are you sure your alright?"

"I... no... No, I'm far from alright. I want to believe what Togami said, that these videos are nothing more than video's made to spook us into murdering... but it's nearly impossible..." I explained.

Jade responded, "I know. I feel the same way, but we should get investigating the 1st floor of the school. Maybe we can find the answers to our questions..."

Nodding my head, we made our way out the AV room and headed down to the Gym area. If there is anything out of the ordinary, then it should be in near the gym area or something... I thought.

As we were going to the Gym, we passed a gigantic door. Erie shadows were caste over us as we past. The door itself had red leather covering the metal door.

"Naegi... got any idea what that can be?" I asked.

Naegi shook his head, "No... but it looks pretty important."

Jade shivered, "Maybe... but I don't wanna stick around that long to find out. Let's hurry up..."

Jade hurriedly moved past the red door, passing Maizuno, Naegi and I. Looking back at the ominous door once more, I felt what made Jade go on the frits. It seemed... evil. Like something bad will happen if we enter.

Maizuno spoke, "Hey, you okay guys?"

Naegi and I jumped from shock of Maizuno's voice. Naegi and I seemed to have been entranced by the door.

Naegi apologized, "Sorry Maizuno..."

"Yeah... let's catch up to Jade and get to the Gym." I added on.

Maizuno nodded and we all dashed to the Gym, catching up to Jade in the Trophy Room. Jade smiled, "Okay, how should we do this?"

Maizuno suggested, "How about you go with Ace, Jade?"

I automatically blushed with my eyes opening wide in surprise. Jade smiled while making a face as if she was enjoying this. They planned this?! I thought in shock.

Jade replied, "Yeah, that's a pretty good idea... maybe you should go to Naegi then. I'm sure he would love that." Naegi then jumped in surprise and nearly fell over.

The girls then started breaking out laughing. In sync they said, "Hahaha! You both look like tomatoes!"

Naegi glared still flustered, "N-not cool! Come on guys, can we please try to stay focused on the task in hand?"

"Yeah, come on... I mean, can't we just investigate girls with girls and boys with boys?" I suggested flustered.

The girls both frowned not amused. Maizuno whined, "But whhhhhhy?!"

Jade chimed clinging to my arm, "No! I wanna go with Ace!" Maizuno did the same thing to Naegi.

Naegi and I locked eyes and I could tell we were thinking the same thing. Why me? Why now?! All of a sudden, a blood curling scream came from the Gym. The girls stopped playing around looking at the gym's doors.

"What was that?!" I asked out loud.

Naegi answered, "Only one way to find out!"

We all dove into the Gym, bracing ourselves for the worst. I had my blades drawn and so did Jade. At the same time, Naegi had gotten the gold-leaf practice sword and Maizuno had one of the trophies. We all lowered our weapons after scanning the area though. We all looked up, hearing more screaming coming from the roof of the Gym. We were all dumbstruck. It was a girl hanging from one of the iron beams.

The girl screamed, "Help me!" Then the girl lost her grip falling downward towards the ground.

I dropped my swords and dashed towards her land spot. Come on! Go faster! I prayed. I jumped and caught her in mid-jump. As I landed, we slid a couple more feet. Breathing heavily, I looked down at the girl I just saved. She was a blonde wearing a lose school miniskirt and a lose tie on. She had to ponytails, one tied by a bow, another tied by a bunny clip.

"Who are you?" I suddenly asked. She looked up weakly and whispering something before falling unconsciousness. The others came to my side amazed at my speed and close save.

Naegi asked, "Who is she?"

"Junko...Enoshima..." I answered.

A/N Sorry it took so long, the next chapter probably won't come out in a while. Hope you enjoyed! ~Ace Hogana