Hello~! I really do hope you enjoyed the prologue to this story! I have been booming with ideas and whenever i get the chance I type them up! I know I got some other stories up and I promise I am working on them, so please be patient! But for now, enjoy another story i have for you! Because I really do hope you are enjoying this! I am trying my best with this one since it is Battle Royale and if anyone knows what that is or the book (which no I have not read the book or watched the movie just parts of a manga based on it) then you know its different from usual stuffs!

Enough of my rambling! On with the fic!

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Battle Royale

First Day on the Island

Some notifications were given to us before they began the roll call. They were simple enough, two people left standing and every time ten people were killed they would shoot off a red round; besides after the first kill where they will be shooting off a green round, almost like a go. It was like a way to notify us all after ten of us were killed off. Injured were not helped, it was a survival game, as if set up by the teachers themselves to be entertained. I'm not sure, but my father told me that they are somehow watching your every move and have a way to tell if you are dead. The last thing we were told is that when it got down to five people, a yellow flare will be shot into the air to notify the last remaining people it was just five of us then. I know that it is going to turn crazy since just viewing all the scared or determined faces showed how it will.

Names were called out and person left after person, it was horrible thinking that they were picking names out of a jar, literally they were. It was like this was a game to Miss Nico. It unnerved me that she smiled her mischievous, I'm-not-up-to-anything-good smile. Some people actually had begun to cry after the few names called and prayers were even being said. Though, my friends and I kept silent as people got up to leave through the door at the back of the room. Soon it came to where my friends were called off and luckily Saga and Shuraiya were called one after another. A part of me was hoping they find each other soon and another part hoped they find a place close so I will find them.

Of course, that seemed like a very rare thing to think up, but I couldn't help it. We all were just brought here to be told that we have to kill or be killed. Not only that, two out of seventy-one of us are going to die in probably just a few days' time. And did I forget to mention that we have a weapon picked for us, and who knows what kind of weapon people will have. Some might have guns or maybe a grenade on them. It was just so confusing… and completely terrifying. People go insane when it's about their survival and this will definitely show how selfish people are.

"Roronoa Zoro." I got up from my chair as I soon took notice of the few left in the room and it made me wonder how long I had actually been in here. The sound of my boots scuffing the ground was made as I exited the door. In the room was my math teacher, Mister Rob, and he just stood with a smirk on his face. To think I had a bad feeling about him and I was always right… That's right, I had thought that that, but probably never again in that boring room.

Don't think like that, you are going to make it through.

"Here is your bag, and weapon of choice."

The bag he mentioned was pulled from a small window in the wall and I assumed someone was handing them off. I let the bag find my shoulder and the weapon of choice was taken from the wall that had seemed to have a lot more weapons, but all have been passed out. What worried me when I grasped the sword to hold onto was the few weapons left that included a rifle, bow and arrows, and some other weapons. This worried me since there were places on the wall that included large weaponry, maybe a flamethrower for all I know. This suddenly had me realizing, though, why they had done the personal quiz at the beginning of this school year.

"Good luck." This grunt left me when I noticed him fix his suit, but keep that smirking face of satisfaction on him. As I made my way towards the door, he waved out at the end of the room, he gave a knowing look and I just shifted to it.

When I opened it, I noticed it led to a short hall with only one door. I made my way down it with deep breaths as I needed to calm my mind. The door behind me had finally clicked closed as I approached the other door. Before carefully opening the door, I made sure to stand on the side out of the opening, just in case someone was ready to attack. My hand turned the knob and I pushed it open whilst hiding and soon moved to wave my bag out. When nothing shot at it, I shifted to the other side of the door.

Still nothing.

I took it as an okay sign and gazed out at the scenery with a quick scan of an enemy. I noticed the woods not too far from me and viewed which way I should go and see what areas had been less traveled. The less traveled the better for me, anyways. Taking note of the lighting had me notice that it took a long while for the roll call. We had arrived before noon and it was early evening time now, the perfect time to be having dinner.

But back on the current situation.

Seeing the traces of footprints confirmed people ran or waited for someone else. Though body lying to the side with arrows sticking out of them, a sign of no mercy proved something happened. Then there were blood trails of someone being injured and running away and I began to come to one conclusion. Someone climbed onto the roof and is using some type of bow to kill people off in the beginning. Some relief found me when I noticed the body wasn't any of my friends and also the person on the roof was none of them. They all preferred warrior type of weapons like me.

I latched my sword to my belt and unsheathed quietly before exiting the door and looked up at the little deck roof it provided. My hands twirled the blade and I stabbed it straight up and heard a curling scream before weight was off my blade. The shifting was made before the body fell off the roof and I noticed them to be Sube Alvida and I had stabbed her right in the stomach. It seemed like she was leaning over whilst aiming her crossbow. She grasped at her wound before gazing to me in horror. Hands scrambled to grasp her weapon and I heard my father's words ring in my head.

"The first time I had to kill someone, I hesitated and that led to me being severely wounded in the beginning. If you are ever in a situation like this, don't hesitate because they are like you. They want to survive and you need to make sure your will to survive is stronger than theirs."

The sound of my blade whipping through the air was heard as I got her clean across the back of her neck. Her body fell and her hand lay right next to the crossbow as she stared on at it with frantic eyes. I had paralyzed her, but she would soon bleed out, or someone else would get her, and I moved to grasp the crossbow and then tugged her bag off. The items that would have been with the girl she had shot were probably on the roof, but I don't have time to grasp it because I wasn't sure how long I took on getting out here and everything.

Don't get me wrong, the whole time taking the items had my eyes stinging and I felt bile rear up at the back of my throat as I wanted to puke. Never had I ever thought this day would come and as I ran towards the tree line, I had to stop to take in deep breaths. I swallowed hard as I shifted away from the tree I was leaning against and moved along the woods. I didn't have time to stop, I didn't have time to regret, and I didn't have time to be distracted.

I have—No, I need to survive this.

First thing I need to do is to find Kohza, Saga, or Shuraiya.

Hopefully they are all okay.

"Zoro!" The hushed tone of my name made me glance to the side before up and looked to see Saga waving me over from up in a tree. My boots moved and I soon ran up next to the tree. I began climbing up in it since it was a large tree and Saga helped by pulling me up. Once up on the branch, he directed me towards the trunk more and I noticed the little burrow where we moved my two bags with the ones in there already. "I see you ran into trouble."

"Alvida was on the roof shooting people with her crossbow."

"You killed her?"

"I had no choice." Saga nodded quickly before putting three fingers up and I blinked in surprise before he put an arm around my shoulders to pull me close.

"I killed the three because they got to Shuraiya." My body stiffened at the mention of it and I felt something in my hand and gazed to see it was Shuraiya's student ID. "I tried saving him… I really did, Zoro, but he was so severely wounded that all I could do was hold him while he passed." The choke in his voice made me gulp the lump in my throat and I pulled him close with the sting strong in my eyes.

"At least he saw a familiar face before passing." A nod left my friend as we sat in silence, mourning for our friend. My hand had a hold of his head as I tucked my face into his neck with a choked sob and felt as he quivered with tears soaking my shirt.

Why did it have to happen this year?

Will all my friends die?

Will I survive?

Too many questions and I don't have any clue on what the answer will be except:

I have to try.