//------------------------------// // Day 4: Chapter 1 // Story: Dangan RomPonya // by Serenade-Stereo //------------------------------// Day 4: The new floor Serenade did, what became: his usual routine after the Monokuma Announcement. Get up, get dressed and head to the cafeteria. He heard something resembling argument inside and upon entering he saw Beau yelling at B who was trembling with Hammer, Olive, Lock and Orion watching the two. "You freakin' weirdo! Is something you usually do?! Go around, eavesdropping on other peoples conversations?!" "I'm s-s-s-sorry!" B cringed "What the heck is going on?!" Serenade said shifting the attention towards him. Beau shot him a glare. "Little miss shy-shit was eavesdropping on us last night when I was talking to you outside your room!" "I w-w-w-was only walking to m-m-my room! I s-s-swear!" B protested nervously. "Yeah right! Like I'd ever believe you!" "T-there's no stoppin' this, dude!" Hammer tells him "They've been at for like five minutes now!" "Serenade! You seriously can't be okay with this!" Beau says to him "Well....if B was just going to her room, there's no reason to get mad at her" Serenade says to her "...you know what?" Beau's eye twitches "Fine" She sits down at the centre table. We all sat in silence until the rest of the students showed up "Alright, so what's the plan for today?" Samurai asks "We should start by sharing the results of our investigation of the second floor from yesterday" Serenade suggests "Well" Nimbus starts "There's a dojo that has practice dummies, practice swords, you name it" "Pfft!" Samurai scoffs "Even the like's of Hope's Peak couldn't match the skill of my practice sword!" "I don't think that has anything to do with the second floor!" Beau yells at him "Well..." Olive scratches her head "It isn't that big but...there's a physics lab that have a few machines inside, there was this huge one in the centre but I'm not sure what it was for..." "Obviously, it needs no introduction" Orion says "But the geography room had a few tables with textbooks set out like they were prepared for a class. They even looked they were used recently since there was no dust on them" "Weird" Hammer simply states "Oh! It's my turn! There was a storage closet filled these awesome tools so now I've totally upgraded my utility!" he twirls a drill and a screwdriver. "U-umm...w-well, it isn't on the second floor but just down the hall next to here. A s-storage room filled with f-food and a l-laundry room that have p-personal lockers for each of us..." B says "Is that everything?" Zoom asks without being given a response "Well, the third floor to the building should be open now so let's head up!" Everyone nodded and headed up to the newly opened third floor. They scattered around to search. I wonder what kind of place this floor is Serenade walked along the hallway to one of the doors. It was an ordinary looking art room. "Well that's pretty boring..." He looked around, canvases, paints, brushes, colouring pencils, sketching pencils. Then his eyes stopped at something laying on the floor. A photo. What the heck is this doing here? He picked it up and was instantly hit with shock. It was Gold, Wild and Moonlight in the very room that Serenade was in. Smiling and the huge difference was the windows. Unlike everywhere in the school, these windows didn't have iron plates covering them. So did that mean that this was taken somewhere else? "ACK?! Give that back right now!" Monokuma burst out of nowhere, snatching the photo from Serenade's hand "What the heck is that?!" "Hmm? It's a photo, duh!" "No! Why are Moonlight, Wild and Gold all there, smiling and with none of these iron plates on the windows?!" "Because somebody took a photo when this was happening" "That can't be true! I bet it's a fake!" "Upupupu! Nope! Not a fake! This photo is as real as real can be!" "W...what...?" Serenade said stunned "If you don't believe me then alright, that's your choice but seriously, I have GOT to make sure I don't drop these!" And then he vanishes, leaving a confused Serenade standing in the middle of the classroom. He shook his head and left the room to continue his investigation. A room at the end of one the halls, next to the blocked off stairs to the fourth floor was were two changing rooms. One boy and one girls.Olive, Tickery, and Samurai were already there. "Serenade! This floor has a pool! A POOL!" Tickery jumps joyfully. "We need to use our ElectroIDs to open the lock and it doesn't seem like it will work on the other room" Samurai tells him "Which...I suppose would only makes sense..." "We're thinking of going for a swim later if you wanna come with us!" Olive smiles "W-well, I'm not a huge swimmer, but maybe..." "Y-you'll honestly hang out with us in the pool later?!" Samurai's eyes spark "S-sure..." "AWESOME!" As Samurai says that, the monitor in the room flashes on "Ahem! I'd just like to say something about the changing room doors to everyone. Since I like to keep things less than M for mature, I've installed the big Gatling gun on the ceiling in case a boy tries to get in the girls room or vice versa and also! You have to enter one at a time and you can't lend your ElectroID to another student...in fact, I should make that a rule now!" The ElectroIDs flashed onto the rules section: 8. The act of lending your ElectroID to another student is strictly prohibited and will result in punishment for both students "Wait...where did that Despair Nightmare rule go?" Tickery asked "I guess that since we now know the secret, that rule isn't needed anymore..." Olive says. "Well...I'm gonna check out the rest of the floor" Serenade tells the three before walking out. There should only be one more room according to the map... Serenade walks along to the final room and upon entering, he finds a garden room filled with plants and a small tool shed in the corner. "Yo! 'Nade!" That was Hammer's voice calling him from behind the shed, his tail was sticking out. "Yeah?" How did he know it was me? "C'mere! You gotta check this out!" He called over. Serenade shrugged as he walked over to see what was so special that he needed to see it. "Look at this bad boy!" He shows him a spanner "...um...what about it?" as Serenade asked Hammer gave him a shocked look "What do you mean 'what about it'?! This is a left-handed spanner, do you realize how long I have been looking for one of these?!" "Probably not..." "Like, 5 years! Every time I go to the store, they never have one and now I've finally found one!" "So, you're left handed?" "Yep, that's the hand I use for everything..." Hammer paused "W-wait! N-not like that!" Oh boy.... "How did you know it was me when I walked in? You didn't look from behind the shed" "I recognised your footsteps" "My footsteps?" "I have a little sister back home and she's always trying to distract from my work so I had to sharpen my hearing to know who comes into the room. That way, I can take her by surprise" "That's...actually really impressive" "Thanks!" "I wonder why this shed had a spanner in it anyway..." "It does actually have gardening tools as well: Hedge clippers, lawnmower, shovel, rake. You get the idea?" "Yeah..." "Well...I'm gonna go continue my investigation, later!" And with that Hammer gave a small pat on Serenade's shoulder before exiting the room. I think I've checked out all the major rooms on this floor. I should head back now. ----------------------- Back in the cafeteria everyone had already started gather in when Serenade arrived and in only a few minutes. Everyone had re-grouped. "Alright everyone!" Beau yells over everyone "What did we all find?" "There's a pool!" Tickery says quickly "It's got two changing rooms which are unlocked by using our ElectroIDs but they only open depending on gender of the card's owner" "Also, the changing rooms themselves have work out equipment" Samurai adds "There's a garden with a tool shed to the west of the floor" Hammer says "It has what you'd expect inside of it, lawnmower, headge clippers, others" "There was an art room as well" Orion says "It had canvases set up with paint brushes and pallets but nothing to out of the ordinary" "Actually..." Serenade stops her "There was something when I went in there..." "What would that be?" Nimbus asks "It sounds crazy but...I found a picture of Moonlight, Wild and Gold" "M-Moonlight?!" Zoom repeats "They're all smiling as well, but that isn't the weirdest part of it, the iron plates that are usually on the windows are missing!" "M-missing?! So what'cha saying? That photo ain't taken from Hope's Peak?!" Punch asks "Maybe they knew each other before we became trapped inside of this building?" Orion suggests "Moonlight never mentioned something like that" Zoom told the rest of them. "This....is a rather confusing puzzle indeed, you might have just found something useful, Serenade" Beau smirks "Uh...t-thanks..." "Well? Is that everything?" Beau asks to be given no response. "Well, it looks like we're done here..." They all scatter, Serenade goes back to his room for a little while ........I shouldn't be staying here the whole day...I wonder if I should hang out with someone to pass the time...?