This masterpiece is only mine

The room sets itself up, all around the room, and audience is set up of dolls, dolls without faces but still resembling people. They seem to be friends, family, and then even the students from the first two mutual killings. Doubles pop up, triples, more and more of each puppet fill up the seats. In the middle of the room, something resembling a mermaid is hoisted up. It’s almost the size of a two story building. Then more puppets show up around it, each one holding a sword. Footsteps echo. Click, clack, click, clack. Serenity enters the room with a spear in one hand. She stops walking, looking up to the mermaid figure, then starting to walk again, slowly gaining pace until she was running. The puppets of the past classes charge at her, their swords held high as they ran. She spun the spear in her hands and slashed at the puppets as she herself ran. Tetsuya, Iain, Anna H, Lohendra, Yousuke, Tommy…one by one they fell.

Skidding to a stop, she looks up at the towering mermaid, it looks back down at her, swinging its own sword at her now. She jumps back, avoiding the attack, glaring at the creature. More puppets come up around her just to be cut in half by the spear. She charges at the mermaid once more, this time getting her spear into its tail. But as she goes to pull it out, she finds it’s stuck. No matter how much she pulls on it, it won’t budge. The mermaid shrieks, striking at Serenity once more. She jumps back, looking at the remaining puppets. There…seems to be more? Where are they coming from? Some of them she can recognize from both the museum and her mom’s school pictures. Without her weapon, she can’t necessarily attack these things…she sprints at the mermaid figure once more, just to find that her weapon had disappeared. Another swing of the sword made her draw back. “Shit…” Serenity looked around, hoping one of the puppets she’d killed earlier had dropped a weapon. A crack came from the mermaid’s armored body. “BEHIND YOU.” It sounded hurt, desparate. Serenity’s eyes lit up, turning behind her when a sword impaled her chest, the light in her eyes quickly fading. Behind her stood a puppet in the image of her mother when she attended Hope’s Peak

Serenity pushes the door open, and…

HOLY FUCKING SHIT.

After the motive of no food or drinks had been announced, it didn’t take too long before everyone’s stomach was growling, and hunger pangs became gradually more common - and more painful. Lack of nutrition has made you and most of your fellow Neo Atlantica citizens fairly weak, so most of you have been avoiding too much unnecessary physical activity.

You’re passing by the Bohemian District on your way back to your bunker when you begin to hear shouting and commotion. Your heart sinks - you can already quickly guess what’s going on, and begin to head in the direction of all the chatter, finding yourself in front of the entrance, which Silas, Kris and Chieko have already gathered around.

Chieko’s face is pale and terrified, with one hand over her mouth. She points her other hand shakily inside the spa, and you peer in to see yet another dead body of one of your classmates.

“ Ding dong! Attention, everyone! A body has been found! You have just a few hours before trial to gather as much evidence as you can! See you then!”

It’s only been two days since the tragic deaths of Duncan Collins and Eito Kusaka, but luckily, routine horrific nightmares have ceased, and you’ve been able to get some decent rest, along with the rest of your classmates. Just when things are going back to normal, you hear the familiar announcement.

“Attention citizens! Please report to Town Hall immediately for an important announcement!”

There he goes again. Hoping that this week’s motive isn’t quite so brutal as last week’s, you reluctantly head to Town Hall and take a seat, waiting for Monobear to speak up.

“Good morning, bastards! You’ve all been sleeping well, I take, now that the waves of horrible nightmares have ebbed? Or maybe not…”

“You know, sleep is essential in keeping the human body in tip-top shape, but it can only go so far! The human body is pretty weak,  and it needs so many things to keep the gears turning! Like, for example, food. Which brings me to this week’s motive…”

“Upupu…as of right now, all the food and drinks have been removed from Neo Atlantica! You’ll have to make due with just water! Of course…there’s one way to get food and drinks back, and that’s by murdering one of your fellow students!”

Everyone in the dome has been under incredible strain lately due to the recent motive. Nightmares have plagued every student each time they dare fall asleep, and the only way to bring about an end to the horrible visions is to kill. People have been starting to become slightly delusional and everyone is feeling the heat of the situation as the nightmares become more and more vivid with each night. You can feel it in your bones that someone would crack and murder someone soon.

You find yourself trudging down the street in an effort to keep yourself awake when suddenly you hear a bloodcurdling scream come from the bohemian district. You feel your blood run cold as you quickly follow the sound of the horrified shriek. When you approach the whole foods store, you see Tori standing near the entrance. She has her hand pressed over her mouth and an expression of disgust. It’s easy to assume that the victim must be inside.

You take a deep breath and step into the store, only to be greeted by the dead body of one of your classmates.

“ Ding dong! Attention, everyone! A body has been found! You have just a few hours before trial to gather as much evidence as you can! See you then!”

Their death is unavoidable. Who knows if either of them will be able to speak like this in a few weeks. Everyone knows at least rumors of the last games, so yeah, thinking it’s a joke is not necessarily the smartest or safest way to live here. She nods, fiddling with her thumbs out of worry.

Feeling solemn, Raeleigh felt another grimace appear on his face- had it ever really left in the first place? He could tell how worried she was, and wished he could do something to take her mind off of the grim situation, but… well… that was easier said than done, of course.

He nodded at the next words she had said. It was unavoidable, really, no once can ignore this type of situation. And while they can all remain hopeful that someone, anyone can save them from it all they probably won’t be that lucky. Not without a few causalities first. It’s never that easy.

With a soft sound of realization Raeleigh had remembered that they hadn’t even introduced themselves to one another, and with that rememberance he decided it would pobably be good to do so now. He wouldn’t want the conversation to get anymore depressing than it already has.

She’s brought out of her train of thought as he speaks again. Oh- a topic change. This is good yeah. If she stays sulking it won’t be good for her mental health at all, it would probably wipe away her creativity and that’s not something she wants right now.

Great, she just had a whole conversation with someone and didn’t even get their name. Smart going, Serenity. Well, since he’s brought it up now, there’s no reason she shouldn’t introduce herself as well.

The last few days since the first trial of many to come have been rather grim. The atmosphere’s intensity hasn’t let up, many students are a lot less chipper than before, and the students that had previously thought this was all just a big cruel joke are finally facing reality.

Just when you thought you could finally get some time to relax in peace that loathsome bear’s voice cuts in.

“Attention citizens! Please report to Town Hall immediately for an important announcement!”

And… That was that. A command you never wanted to hear from the start of this all that makes a shiver run down your spine in fear of what could possibly happen this week. 

Feeling particularly dreadful you, alongside all of your other classmates, make your way to the Town Hall. The same thing as last week repeats where you all reluctantly seat yourselves, waiting for everyone else to arrive. And when they do, sure enough, Monobear begins to speak.

“Welcome back, upupu! Have you bastards had a nice few days to let the severity of this situation sink in? Do you all finally know this is so much more than just a little game?”

“Well… It doesn’t matter if you believe it or not, what matters is whether or not who will make it out alive, hmm? …That’s if any of you will even be alive by the end of this that is!”

“To help heat things up a bit I’ve prepared a simply fascinating motive for you all. I’m sure those of you that know of the last games beyond the rumors might know of this special motive, upupu…”

“When each of you return to your bunkers later today, you will find an unopened envelope underneath your pillows. Contained in that very same envelope is the deepest, most darkest secret of one of your fellow citizens! Sound familiar to some of you bastards? I’d hope so… It’s simply scandalous just how messed up some of you bastards truly are!”