//------------------------------// // Class Trial 3: Execution // Story: Dangan RomPonya // by Serenade-Stereo //------------------------------// The usual red button rose from the ground for the third time. Monokuma pulled out his tiny gavel, his eye sparked red and he hit the button with the gavel. Game Over!! Tickery Clock was found Guilty!! Commencing Execution!! The huge metal chain flew into the room, grappling itself onto Tickery's neck and dragging her away through the door. The monitor flashed on to see Tickery hitting against something hard and a few more chains retrain her. The lights flash on in the room to reveal a huge clock like machine, each hour had a different means of execution. Fire, Electricity, knives, lasers and many others. It was a randomized execution It's Half-Past Your Death Time There was a shudder before the minute hand that Tickery was strapped to started spinning around. It started off slow but as it looped around more and more it in turn got faster and faster. The camera seemed to be following her face, you could see the strain from the air force that was hitting her and then suddenly the mechanism stopped. Monokuma was sat in front of the clock and cackled before pressing a button which revealed her execution method. Electrocution. There was a sudden pour of salty water over Tickery. She spat some water out of her mouth with a gagging expression on her face. There was a zapping noise coming from the centre of the clock. It was the electricity turning on! The electrical current travelled down the clock hand quickly, coursing through Tickery. Her hair stood on ends until a bright flash of light engulfed the room and when it cleared, on the floor next to Monokuma was a pile of ash and Tickery had disappeared from the clock hand. ---------------- "Tickery..." Olive said, teary-eyed. "D-dang...that's brutal" Grimdark commented on what he just saw. "That's probably worse that the last two..." Nimbus said "Why...? Why are you leaving me alone like this...?" Olive wept "Lock...Tickery...who's left...? Nobody..." "That's not true Olive..." Serenade said "You have us, you can't be alone in a place like this..." his words didn't seem to have any effect on her mood "O-Olive...?" B started "P-please...please don't me s-sad, it won't h-help anyone, especially n-not y-you...would Tickery or L-Lock want you to f-feel sad?" Olive was silent "But...if we just told Zoom about the whole suicide thing...this never would have happened, Tickery would still be here..." "Listen here!" Grimdark yelled "Do you honestly think that crying about this will make you feel any better? Do you think blaming yourself for happened will bring her back?" "Of course not..." Olive simply said back "Guys...maybe she just needs to find her own way of dealing with this" Serenade sighs "We can't pressure her into just letting go" "Ack!" B cried out "I, I'm s-s-s-sorry for pressuring y-y-y-you!" "It's fine...really..." She didn't seem sincere about it though. "Well...I think we need to head to our rooms...we have a lot to discuss tomorrow" Beau tells them "Hm? Like what?" Nimbus asks. Beau only glances at Grimdark before walking into the elevator, closely followed by everyone else. "Before I forget! Grimdark, I installed a room for you during the execution!" Monokuma says from his seat "Whatever..." Grimdark folds his arms before the elevator closes and they ride back up to the school. ---------------- Serenade sat on his bed, thinking about what just happened. Tickery...she was like the ray of sunshine we needed in here...and now she's dead... There was a knock at his door. He pushed his thoughts away before getting up and answering his door to find Olive, looking shamefully down onto the floor. "Serenade...?" She said nervously "Olive? What's wrong?" He asked concerned. "Can...I come in...?" She still didn't look up but Serenade let her in. She sat on Serenade's bed. "Sorry for barging in..." "It's fine...do you need to talk about something...?" He knew it was stupid question to ask. She must have came here to talk about Lock and Tickery. "Could you..." She started "Could you roll up your sleeves for a second?" What...? "W-why?" "I...I found this..." She pulls out a slip of paper. He couldn't have...he checked his pockets, double checked, triple checked...it was gone. Serenade went pale. Olive knew...about everything. "I...I know I shouldn't have read it Serenade...I'm really sorry..." "I...I..." He couldn't speak, it all came to fast. He kept these so far down and for them to be discovered just like that...his eyes fell of the guitar sitting in the corner, he recalled what Beau had told him. A weapon for each student...no, he shouldn't think like that. "Serenade...?" Olive looked up to him ".....sorry.....if you already know the other two...then you should know the last one..." Serenade reluctantly rolled up his sleeve to be met with a horrified looking Olive, sat on his bed. On his left arm, it was covered in old scars. "Oh...Celestia..." Olive covered her mouth "W-why...?" "It ties in with the multiple personality...when I was younger I used to get bullied a lot just like Zoom did...one day I was dragged behind the school building, it was the usual treatment but halfway in I heard a voice saying they could take care of them for me...so...I agreed to let them and I blacked out...when I came to all the bullies had been knocked out, covered in cuts and bruises. That's where the multiple personality made its first appearance, it even had its own name: Shadow Rain. I ran back home and tried to retreat into my room but I lost control a second time and this time I had thrown my older brother down the stairs, he fell in such a way that it damaged his eyesight so he needs special made glasses now...I stayed in my room for two days and...that's where the first five of these came from, one scar equals one person I've hurt...all because I couldn't control Shadow..." Olive stood up and wrapped her arms around Serenade. "That's horrible...but...you didn't need to do that to yourself..." "It was me that couldn't keep him stable then...I've got control over him now though..." "Well that's good...at least you've made sure that nobody else can be hurt by him..." "Yeah...I suppose..." Olive pulled away as Serenade said that "I...I should go...sorry for having to make you say that...here" She gives Serenade the paper "I won't tell anyone else...promise..." She smiles before leaving his room. Olive...at least you're being strong to...that's always good...especially in a place like here, I'll never make it out, not when I'm to weak to do so. I will survive as long as I can though...Thunder...dad...my family...my friends are all waiting for me to never return on the other side of the building... Serenade laid on his bed, shoes kicked off along with his shirt and pants, curled under the blanket he shut his eyes feeling like a heavy load had just been taken off his shoulders.