Day 5: Surfaced Memories
*Ding Dong, Bing, Bong*
"Wake up you bastards! It is now 7am and night-time is officially over, let's make this day a good one!"
Serenade groaned as he flopped out of bed doing his usual routine and heading to the cafeteria. Just at the door though, Tickery burst through the door in a panic
"Serenade! Y-you must see what Tickery has saw in the cafeteria!" She told in
"What is it?"
"Horrible! It's is horrible!" She sprinted off. What's going on? Serenade entered the cafeteria and saw exactly why Tickery freaking out so much. On the wall next to the door to the kitchen, somebody had written
WHO'S NEXT?
Some of the other students were standing there stunned by it. Beau, Nimbus, Orion and Zoom.
"What...the...hell?" Beau said
"This is...truly discomforting to be around in this place" Orion bit her nail.
"What hell-driven demon has done this?!" Nimbus said agitated
"I-it was like this when we got here" Zoom told Serenade
"This is...insane..." Serenade says in shock
"We sent Tickery to gather the others so we may discover the one that has done this" Orion explains, and just like she said, within minutes everyone had gathered in the cafeteria with surprised or angered expressions.
"Who the fuck did this?!" Punch yelled out angrily
"I-is this b-blood?" B stuttered
"No..." Beau says "It's just ketchup"
"T-this is just...wrong" Olive said
"Oh? It isn't so bad" A voice said "Don't discredit my work, Olive. Is that what friends usually do?" It was Lock.
"This was YOU?!!" Punch cracked her knuckles.
"Well, of course...I thought that I would write this up just before the doors to here locked up for the night. A nice little present for making it through a day without brutally murdering one another" He chuckled.
"Alright! That's it!" Punch swung but Lock dodged
"You are focusing on brute force more than dodging your opponents attacks" he smirks
"L-Locky...? T-this isn't you" Tickery whimpered
"You right" he sighed "Sorry about that, just kind of did in a spur of the moment from the excitement of the game"
"Game?" Nimbus repeated "Is all this is to you?"
"Monokuma said it himself, this a mutual killings game, people are bound to whipped up into a frenzy when they start to think about getting out of here"
"So what are you saying about the deaths up until now?!" Hammer said to him
"Those were meaningless sacrifices for us to get closer to the end" and as he said that
*SLAP!*
"You...have no right to say that" Zoom said who just received a pitiful look from the orange Pegasus. "Gold...Digital...Wild and Moonlight...their deaths were not meaningless!"
"Oh really?" he looks at her dead in the eyes "Tell me something that we got out of them dying!" There was a silence "Exactly, if we don't gain anything out of their deaths then they were meaningless. It's as simple as that"
"You can't be serious man!" Hammer said annoyed
"...hm?" Lock blinked a few times "Serious about what?"
"Don't play dumb after everything you just said!" Beau yelled at him
"W-what?!" he look confused
"You just said all of the deaths were meaningless!" Zoom told him
"Wait...Ack! No, no, no, no, no! You don't understand!"
"What? Don't understand what?!" Zoom said
"I have....attitude sparks sometimes..."
"Attitude sparks?" Olive repeats
"Yeah...sometimes I'll say things I don't mean or I lie about something for no reason...I-if I offended any of you...I am so sorry..." There was a silence.
"I forgive him" Serenade finally says. Breaking the tension.
"R-really? Thanks..." Lock gave a weak smile
"Well...if you are telling the truth, then forgiveness is most certainly in order" Orion gives a bow to apologise.
"If Miss Orion can find it in her heart to forgive you, then I can do the same" Nimbus folds his arms
"And if Serenade thinks you're worth forgiving, then you have to be!" Samurai adds
"Oh boy, here comes fan-city central" Zoom jokes.
"Thanks you guys...I...I'll clean this up" Lock says but before he had the chance to move or for anyone to make a response, the monitor turned on
"Ahem! This is a school announcement! Can all students please make their way to the gymnasium for a very important briefing? Thank you!" the monitor turned off. Everyone took a long pause.
"Looks like...Monokuma has prepared our next motive" Beau states
"D-dammit...why?" Nimbus grunts
"Hell knows why this mono-turd this trying to make us fight like wild animals" Punch sighs.
"Well...we don't know what he's capable of if we don't go..." Serenade admits and after a few more seconds of silence they all head for the gymnasium.
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They all stand nervously, aside from Beau who seems calm and collected about the situation.
"Where the hell is he?" Beau asks
"How are we supposed to know man?" Hammer says
"I'm nervous about what he's got up his sleeve" Olive comments
"Sleeves? He has sleeves?" Tickery tilts her head
"No, Tickery. It's a figure of...oh never mind" Lock folds his arms, giving up on trying to explain things to Tickery. Just as he did everyone's attention was brought to the stage by some noises and in a matter of seconds, Monokuma jumped from behind and landed, sitting on the podium.
"Alright you bastards! How are ya' feeling?" He asks
"Do you honestly care?" Zoom says back
"Nope!"
"Alright, let's get this over with, what hell-bent motive do you have planned for us this time?" Beau asks annoyed
"Motive? Why do you automatically think that was why I called you here?" He laughed "This is about that little message!"
"Did you do that?!" Punch yelled
"Oh, no, no, no! I would never do that! Bear's honour! One of you thirteen did it!"
Did he say...thirteen?
"Oh. Right. You don't know about him yet..." Monokuma shrugs "Oh well"
"Hold on a second!" Hammer interrupts "You're telling us there are SEVENTEEN students here?!"
"Yep. But, you have no chance of meeting him, he is much better at hiding in the shadows than Nimbus!"
"Impossible." Nimbus simply states
"Then how come you haven't found him yet?" Monokuma chuckles
"You know what? He's probably lying, so what is it about the writing?" Beau asks
"No, that was it, one of the thirteen surviving students is the one that wrote it...oh and one more thing!"
"What?" Beau folded her arms
"Your motives!"
"Oh...of course" Zoom rolled her eyes as Monokuma pulls out twelve slips of paper
"This was one of favourites back in the day!" He throws them in the air, one falling at each students feet with their name written on it. Serenade picked it up and unfolded it. "These are a copy of your deepest. Darkest secrets!" Serenade gulped as he read was written. "I decided to put one to three on it depending on what the chances of you killing another are!"
Serenade let out a small gasp.
Serenade has a boyfriend. He has MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder) and...just look at his arms for the last one.
"You...little...shit" Serenade stuttered
"Aw...is somebody afraid again? Afraid of their secrets being revealed?" Monokuma laughed.
"How did you find this...?" Hammer looked pale.
"I have my sources!"
"Fuck you teddy bear...fuck...you" Lock said angrily.
"And if you don't want your secret revealed, you'll kill someone in the next twenty-four hours! Byeeeeee!" And he hopped back down off the podium into Celestia know where. The twelve stood in silence for what felt like forever, as if the twenty-four hours had already past and Monokuma was about to announce each little secret to everyone. Serenade knew he couldn't let that happen, but he couldn't kill anyone....could he?
N-no! I have to push those thoughts away!
"A thirteenth student" Beau says breaking the silence "How interesting..." and without another word to be said Beau turned and left as composed as always.
"I think Monokuma is lying about that seventeenth student, there's no sign of them existing after all" Olive pointed out
"True...sixteen rooms, sixteen lockers in the laundry room, sixteen podiums in class trials...no way is there a new student hiding here!" Zoom agreed.
"W-well....m-maybe we should h-head back for a little bit a-and try to c-comprehend what is happening..." B suggests
"We've been trying to comprehend what has been happening to us the last few days Ms Positive" Nimbus says
"Well, she's right. Let's head back..." Serenade says trying to stay calm. He held tightly onto the piece of paper, he knew what would happen if his secrets were to be found out.
He'd die before letting that happen though.