Day 3: The Despair Nightmare
Now that we've got through the first class trail, the second floor of the building has been opened up to us. The staircase was right next to the cafeteria which makes it a short walk...I guess that's good...
"Alright, we'll split up and search!" Beau said taking control. "We'll travel in pairs so that way if one of us dies, we can easily say who it was". She looks over everyone and closes her eyes for a moment. "Alright team one. Moonlight and Zoom. Two. Nimbus and Hammer. Three. Punch and...that one" he gestures to B "Four. Orion and Lock. Five. Samurai and Wild. Six. Olive and Tickery...which leaves Serenade and I"
M-me and Beau...why me!?
"Alright everyone. let's split up!" They walk past her, to the second floor. That leaves Serenade and Beau. Alone. "Alright then...where do you wanna go first? Museum second floor?" She asks him
"Wait...how do you know about a second floor of the museum?"
"Monokuma gave me a private tour last night whilst everyone was asleep, couldn't investigate 'till now though..."
"How'd you manage to convince him to give you that?"
"When you're like me, you can get whatever you want" she got closer to Serenade. "And I mean...anything" she whispered into his ear. She stepped away "now come on...the museum is awesome!" she walks up the stairs.
"Er..." Is that really the same girl I investigated with yesterday? She seems to...nice...
"Well come on!" She said running back and grabbing Serenade's wrist. "I wanna check this out with you!" Serenade gave her a suspicious look.
"Beau...are you feeling okay?" She tilted her head. "You seem...out of sorts..." She giggles
"I'm fine, now come on!" She starts to drag Serenade up the stairs "Like I said, the museum is awesome!"
They walk past a few of the rooms until Beau stops in front of one that says 'Aquarium'. "This is it?" Serenade asks only to be answered with a nod. She opened the door to see blue walls and a huge glass pillar in the middle with many different species of aquatic animals.
"isn't it just...what's the word...?"
"Breath-taking?
"Yeah...come on, get a closer look!" She pulled Serenade over to the tank. The two stood there, just staring into it. "Hey...Serenade...?" Beau turned to him.
"Yeah?"
"It's an amazing sight...right?" Serenade nodded and she grinned. "Then why don't you..." Beau placed a hand on his back "take a closer look!?" She used all her strength to push Serenade head first into the tank.
Everything went black.
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Serenade awoke with a yelp. He was panting heavily and sweating like crazy. It was dream...thank Celestia. But it felt so real, he could feel her hand on his back, the pain of hitting against the glass, he was surprised he wasn't unconscious from that.
He looked at the clock. 9:00am, it was the right time. He fixed it. Serenade wasn't surprised when he found the drops of blood on the floor of his room, his deduction from the class trial was right, his room was where the body was hid until Tickery came along. Images of the execution were still flashing through his mind. To think that Monokuma was capable of something like that...no. He shouldn't dwell on it. It was like Beau said, the mutual killings had started and Serenade was on the chopping block because of the newspaper Moonlight and Zoom were creating.
Why did it have to be him? Serenade's never done anything wrong to her and she's plotting a motive for him to get killed.
"...I hate this..." he complained to himself. Obviously he wasn't the only one that wanted out, and today a new floor would be opened and he had to be ready to find some method of exiting.
He got out of bed, got dressed and left his room. Unlike yesterday, there was no Nimbus to throw an accusation at him but...Gold's room door was different. It had an X on it like his picture in the class trial. He didn't deserve what happened, even if he had spoken to Serenade once, he seemed like a good guy and then Digital...no it wasn't Digital's fault either...
It was Monokuma's fault all this happened.
Monokuma was the one that used those videos to force them to kill off one another to see if they were real. They probably weren't real...right?
Serenade continued to the cafeteria, like yesterday. He was last there.
"About time..." Nimbus said "We've been for like half an hour..."
"It was ten minutes!" Olive says back "Don't listen to him, he's just annoyed that he couldn't accuse you yesterday" she was met with a grunt from Nimbus.
"He should be" Hammer commented "I mean...Serenade's the guy that figured everything out in the end..."
"He's right..." Punch admitted
"We could have done it on our own..." Nimbus rebutted.
"Yeah but you'd be to busy thinking up new ways to accuse Serenade!" Punch retorted
"Would all of you just shut up!?" Beau yelled out "Honestly, getting mad at each other isn't going to get us out of here. Nimbus made a mistake, let's leave it at that"
"Always the voice of reason, eh, Beau? Upupupupu!" Monokuma's usual cackle sounded throughout the room as a monitor came down from the celling. "Now let me ask you all something, have any...fun dreams last night?" They all fell silent
"How did you...?" Samurai begun
"Upupupu! So you did! It didn't take long"
"What are you babbling on about?" Wild asked
"You all experience your 'Despair Nightmare's'!"
"Hmm? What is a 'Despair Nightmare'?" Orion asked intrigued.
"I'm glad you asked, a Despair Nightmare is like a vision of your death...except only one is real..."
"S-so" B started "o-one of those dreams....I-is real!?"
"Yep! The question is...which of course...who saw their own future, their own demise!? Who will uncover the dark secret behind the dreams?"
"Secret? What secret?" Nimbus asks
"If I told you, then I would be spoiling the fun of finding out!"
"Whatever...this is total BS, you're supposed to open the next floor of the building to us, right?" Punch says to change the subject
"Oh. That's already open, it opened as soon as Serenade walked through that door!"
"So you were just waiting for us all to gather here?" Wild says
"Yep. Don't want any of you to get ahead of anyone else!" He glanced at Beau as he said that
"Wait a second!" Serenade said suddenly "...Why did you look at Beau when you said that?"
"Eh? I don't know what you mean?" Monokuma rubbed the back of his head
"Monokuma...did you give Beau a tour of the second floor whilst the rest of us were asleep?"
"...Yeah" He simply stated. "So what? She asked, I granted her wish!"
"Why is she getting special treatment!?" Punch said angrily
"Look...you all could have asked as well. He could have said no to me...I guess I caught him in a good mood" Beau explained
"Well it was just after the class trial" Tickery added
"Hey Monokuma, how did you know Digital was the killer anyway?" Serenade asked "I mean you kind of just-"
"What an idiotic question..." Nimbus interrupted
"What?"
"Serenade...Monokuma has security cameras set up everywhere around the school so if there's a murder he knows who the culprit is right away" Olive explained
"O-oh..."
"W-well...t-to be fair Serenade w-was unconscious at the time s-so he had no way of k-knowing" B stutters out Thanks B...at least I have someone I can rely on for the most part...
"Well! I'd best be going now and like I said, the second floor is now available. Go and investigate to your heart's content!" And just like every other time. He was gone without a trace. The 14 students exchanged glances and then filed out the cafeteria to be faced with previously blocked off stairs to their right. Beau stepped in front of them all
"Alright everyone, I propose we split up into seven teams of two" Oh no...
"Is that really a good idea?" Zoom says with a nervous tone "I mean, what if we're paired up with our killer?"
"Y-yes, this reporter agrees!" Moonlight says slightly louder than Zoom
"Oh don't be such babies, you'll be fine! Alright so team one...Zoom and Moonlight. Since they seems so worried" The two seemed okay with their chosen partner "Two...Nimbus and Hammer" the colts nod "Three...Punch and....that one" she gestures to B who replies with a whimper. Bitch. "Four...Orion and Lock"
"Aw...Tickery wanted to be partnered up with Locky!" She complains
"Ugh...Five. Samurai and Wild. Six Tickery and Olive"
"Tickery is okay with this!"
"...which leaves...Serenade and I..." She looks at him.
Oh no....