DanganRonpa: Prepare for Despair

" Jeez, that's brutal. Even by my standards." The bear tilted its head, " You suuuuure ya wanna do that? "

" Alright! You gotta deal! " the bear spit on its paw and offered it to Felix.

"I'll take your word for it," Felix said, looking at the bear with slight disgust in his eyes. "Where does this hallway lead anyway?" he asked as he began to walk down the hallway.

" That way." the bear pointed down the hallway with his clean paw as he wiped his spit onto Felix's pants.

Felix closed his eyes and took a deep breath before following the hallway down to the end.

At the end of the hallway there was a ladder leading upwards. Unlike the ladder before, this one seemed more sturdy and secure.

Felix looked at the bear and sighed. 'Oh well' he thought. 'The only way is up.'

Felix climbed up the ladder, more cautiously this time around. He carefully checking each rung with his hands to test the strength of them. The ladder was in even better condition than it had appeared; the rungs didn't even groan or creak under his feet. Finally he reached the top, which revealed a small crawl space going straight ahead. The hole was small enough to crouch down in, and easy to crawl through.

Felix crawled into the space and followed it.

Down the path Felix went, turning and squeezing around corners to reach the end. At the end, the path shifted upwards, revealing a trap door, of which Felix was underneath.

Taking yet another deep breath, Felix pushed up on the hatch of the trap door.

The hatch didn't give way as Felix pushed. He tried again putting more strength into it, but it was as if something was on top of it. He faintly heard voices above him.

Felix began banging on the hatch and shouted "Hey, can you hear me?"

Throughout the school the bell went off. " Attention, attention! Listen up you bastards!" Monokuma yelled, with his voice echoing through the hallways. Please gather your bodies to the closest gate to the first floor. I will collect each of you in groups to escort you down to the courtroom. Time for us to start the CLAAAAAAASS TRIAL! "

Monokuma jumped up behind Felix and grabbed him by his cat's hood, pulling him back through the vent. He stopped at the ladder and gestured for Felix to make his way down.

Julie wrung her hands as the announce went off. " Fuck." she cursed as she stood up. " Fuck fuck fuck." she made her way to the door and frowned at Devin behind her, " How the hell are we going to pull this off? "

Heather sat still as the announcement went off, mindlessly picking up scraps of paper as she went. She tried to control her breathing, succeeding only at making it sound more labored and scared. " We'll be okay. Right, Liam?" she tried to sound confident.

"Felix..."Alicia called nervously waiting at the top of the ladder. She couldn't leave for the trial without him.

Felix climbed down the ladder hastily and ran back through the hallway to the ladder to the auditorium. He climbed as quickly as he dared and when he got to the broken part, he half jumped to the next rung, pulling himself up as fast as he could.

"What happened down there?" She asked, helping pull him up when he got near the top. "The bear went down after you and I was worried."

"Sorry, there was a hallway, it led to a ladder and that led to a crawlspace which led to a trap door. I'm not sure where that leads to just yet but I plan to find out. Also I'm the bear's servant for a day soon as a punishment for "vandalising" School property. I heard voices when I was at the other trap door though so I think it may come out at one of the other floors. he stopped talking and took a deep breath. "I also want to see if there's anything in the workshop I can use to fix this ladder. It can't be too much different to sculpting, right?"

"You never know." Alicia said cautiously. "We'd better get to the gate though, the trial's going to start."She took Felix's hand and dragged him behind her through the school and back to the gate.