//------------------------------// // Day 11: Chapter 1 // Story: Dangan RomPonya // by Serenade-Stereo //------------------------------// Day 11: The Final Motive Serenade was already at the cafeteria that morning, he didn't want to hear the morning announcement first thing in the morning. Nobody else had arrived at the time so he was just standing there with his thoughts. *Ding dong, bing bong!* "Ahem! This is a school announcement! It is now 7am and therefore, Night-Time is officially over, let's have a great day today! And also...can everyone please gather in the gymnasium for some special news? Thank you all!" Oh no...can't he just wait for once and let us recover from the hell he puts us through? Faced with no other choice, Serenade headed to the gymnasium to receive Monokuma's 'Special news'. "Hi 'Nade..." That was Hammer's voice from behind him. Serenade didn't need to turn to know that either, he was the only one left that would call him Nade, only others were Wild and Tickery. "Getting ready for another 'fun' motive?" He asked sarcastically. "Oh joy! Why not just behead me now and get it over with...?" "I know...I hate this. He says his motives are despair but...it has to be more than that, right?" "Probably..." "So what do you think it is this time?" "No idea...but I already know it'll work...they always do..." "....sadly..." The two turned up to the gymnasium to find that Beau had already arrived. "How long have you been here?" "A while...I figured he'd deliver our motives so I came early today..." "At this point it is kind of predictable..." Hammer sighed. The doors opened. "Morning..." Olive greeted, Grimdark by her side. "Hmph...where are the others. Being late is unacceptable!" Grimdark folded his arms. "We aren't your troops..." Beau tells him. "Your point?" "Oh do not start an argument Ms Love, please?" Orion's voice came from the bleachers. "Hai! I too, am tired of hearing your bitter words" Nimbus added, appearing from the shadows. "When did you two get here?" Olive asked. "Before Hammer and Serenade, but after Beau..." Nimbus adjusted his scarf. "That's not specific!" Samurai says, entering with B. "Well...looks like everyone is here..." Grimdark states matter-of-factly. "Guys...no matter what happens. I don't want anyone else to die..." Olive says. "I've lost my best friends in here and I don't want anymore of these class trials to happen...I want that last one to be the final class trial!" "Olive..." Serenade mutters. "Look. I know how you feel but...I don't think we can prevent a death happening..." "S-Serenade...?" "Sorry, but, you guys can't say you don't think that either. I just finished saying that to Hammer...all motives work, no matter what..." Everyone was quiet for a few seconds. "Looks like even Serenade's hope is diminishing..." Beau says. "Upupupupupu! That's what I like to see! Despair! Beautiful despair!" Monokuma yells from the podium. "Alright, let's get it over with...what is it?" Serenade asks. "Well, you're straight to the point, why can't we just-?" "Motive..." "...I didn't say it was a motive..." "Huh?" Olive said surprised. "What is it?" "I needed to tell you all that...the next class trial will be the final class trial!" "F-final class trial?" Grimdark repeated. "A-a-are you letting us g-g-go?!" B asked joyously. "On one condition..." Monokuma rubs the back of his head. "If the victim is the Mastermind!" "...what?" Serenade simply said. "So the Mastermind is among us?!" Nimbus asked. "Yep! Somewhere among you remaining nine is the one that's been pulling the strings!" "And there's the motive..." "Well, it's not a 'motive' per se...like I said, it's special news! That Beau's theory was right all along!" "T-to think!" Orion exclaimed. "Someone...somebody is truly...." "Hmph, not that hard to believe actually...." Grimdark says. "It's a great way to hide away, the only reason they haven't mentioned this before is because they didn't think they could have used it as a motive at that point. The trigger must have been Beau talking about it..." "And bingo!" Monokuma says. "Gold star for Grimdark! Even though you have plenty of medals!" "Right..." "Anyway! I'd better go and let you guys all...discuss this among yourself!" Monokuma disappeared leaving the others to discuss. "So, how does he expect us to know?" Hammer says. "Probably wants us to take a random guess...." Grimdark answers. "It's like a game of Russian roulette..." Beau says. "One out of nine chances of getting the right person. Like how there's a one in six chance of being shot in the head in Russian roulette." "We couldn't just guess, could we?" Olive asks. "Someone will..." Serenade says. "Someone always does..." "Serenade...you don't really think that-" "Samurai, wake up and taste reality, come tomorrow someone will be dead! That's just the truth!" "B-b-b-but Serenade-" "Oh quit the fake stutter, B! You already told me it was gone a few days ago! The only reason you didn't say anything is because of Beau talking about the mastermind!" Everyone went silent, stunned by Serenade's sudden attitude. "All because of Punch?" Beau said. "She manipulated us for her own benefit. You don't even realize that we all would have died if she wasn't executed!" "Shut up! It was because of Monokuma making that stupid rule about the robot!" "She shouldn't have stolen it then! She shouldn't have smashed it up!" "Well-" "Both of you stop!" B yelled. Everyone turned to her. "Sorry but seriously, Serenade! I have to agree with Beau on this. Would you really feel better if we were all executed because of Punch?" "...well...." "Think about it...I know it must be hard but that doesn't mean you should be angered by this...I mean, yes you should be angry but you should be using that to counter the mastermind's despair..." "She's right..." Samurai says. ".......I know..." Serenade said. "Sorry...I should...I should just go..." Serenade brushed through the middle of them all and made his way back to his room. ----------- "Dammit! What is wrong with me?! I've been getting angry for no reason, I've been an asshole to everyone. It's like I'm not me anymore" Hehehe...funny you should say that... There was a voice. It was close to Serenade's but slightly deeper. "...go away...I don't need you talking to me now..." Yeah, yeah. You think I care what you want? I've been trapped up here for what now? Five years or something? I can say whatever I Celestia-damn want! "I'm just gonna ignore you..." Serenade laid back on his bed. Fine. I'll just talk. You realize that as long as you're in control that you'll never escape and murders will keep occurring, I could put an end to all that though. All that is needed for that is for you to give me full control.... "Yeah right...like that's gonna happen...how do you expect to stop all the murders and release everyone exactly...?" There was a brief silence. Upupupupu... Serenade went pale. Do you really want to know...?