Ding Dong!

"Everyone wake up! It's now 7am!" Monokuma's voice came from the speakers.

"F*ck you," I flipped off the air before getting up.

That bear was getting on my nerves and I'm starting to hate him more than I already do.

I changed into my regular clothes and went to the dining room.

The people who were left were there. Even Pikachu and the two cats were there.

"Morning Tommy," Isabelle said, politely.

I nodded to acknowledge her.

I sat down and looked at the breakfast. It was some breakfast muffins.

I feel like whoever is supplying us breakfast must be getting tired and lazy about it.

I ate one muffin though.

Everyone was silent and some weren't even looking at one another.

I didn't like the silence. It was too overwhelming but if I make a sound, all the attention would be on me.

As much as I like attention, I don't like it on me 24/7 and on times that I don't want people looking at me.

Like now.

Bing Bong!

"Everyone please head to the gym! Be there or be square!" Monokuma said after we were mostly done with our breakfast.

Not again, I thought.

Everyone went to the gym and Monokuma was there, awaiting us.

"Why the long faces? Upupupu~ don't tell me, I don't want to hear any sob stories this early," Monokuma said.

"B*tch," I muttered under my breath.

"Anyway, so does anyone remember the garden?" Monokuma asked.

"Yeah...what about it?" Susie asked.

"Well you know how you couldn't explore much of it? Well now, I opened it all up! The garden and some hallways I mean," Monokuma explained.

"I see...," Mukuro said.

"That's all! Your motives will come in sometime in the days," Monokuma explained and he disappeared.

"Guess we have to explore now," Kazuichi sighed.

"Once more," Minami added on.

We all went to the garden and ended up going separate ways.

"The shed is still here and almost empty as well," I muttered as I peeked into the shed.

The garden was still full of plants though. I wonder if any of them are dangerous so we can stay wary about it.

"There are no dangerous plants here. In fact, they're all growing healthy and strong," Leafpool explained as I brought my concerns to her.

"But why is that? I barely see sunlight here so how are the plants growing?" I asked.

"That I cannot answer sadly," Leafpool shook her head sadly.

I continue on exploring.

There was this technological room and it had a hydraulic press.

I have a bad feeling about that press.

"I think we should stay away from this press for now," I suggested to Kazuichi, Hibiki and Susie.

"Yeah agreed. It says here that due to complications in the past, it can no longer tell if there's something or someone under it as it's lowering down," Kazuichi explained.

"I don't want to see anyone under there," Susie muttered.

Hibiki nodded.

This room was giving me the creeps so I left.

The second room was this weird fortune teller type of room.

There was no crystal ball or anything related to fortune telling so I guess that's why no one was here.

I have a really bad feeling about this room though. I should investigate this.

I looked around the room, behind curtains and under the tables.

Nothing!

Until...

"A-ha. Now we're going somewhere," I said as I looked behind the last curtain that was next to the exit and saw that there was a vent there.

And it was open.

I decided not to investigate where the vent goes to until much later because I did not want to get stuck in a vent again.

Maybe someone who is smaller and go and investigate it later.

...

Whoops, better not tell Ed that though, I thought.

Speaking of him, I wonder how is he doing? I haven't seen him around. He's probably investigating.

I left the starry room and went into a third one.

The third one actually had people in it.

It was a regular classroom again but there were burn marks and scratches on it.

Yeah that's totally welcoming.

"Oh Tommy hi!" Isabelle waved.

"Did you find anything?" I asked.

"Sadly no. But this room is a mystery itself. How did those burn marks and scratches got there?" Mukuro asked.

"It is weird," I nodded.

"There could have been a fire but if so, how?" Minami suggested.

"Also the scratches! They are a mix of human and animal, what the heck happened here?" Mukuro muttered.

"When you say animal, do you mean like Leafpool animal, the alien cat animal or Isabelle animal?" I asked.

"They do seem familiar to me. Well some," Isabelle noted.

"What do you mean by that?" Minami asked.

"There are a lot of people or animals on the island that I help mange. Some have claws that could make scratches like these although they seem like they were already here before us," Isabelle explained.

"And I don't remember anyone from the island missing! How can this be?" She asked.

"Well something is up. I reckon that this could be part of a bigger piece to this mystery. Why are we here and who brought us here? And why?" I suggested.

"That's a question I have been asking myself as well," Minami nodded.

After taking a long look around, other than the burn marks and scratches, there wasn't anything else note worthy to keep on searching.

So I left but not before noticing the tired and long sigh from Mukuro.

I went back to the classroom to ask her if she was alright.

"Can I tell you in private?" Mukuro asked.

"Umm sure," I said.

We went to the hallway where Mukuro sat down against the wall and held onto her knees.

I sat down next to her.

"How are you feeling? Anything good? Bad?" I started.

"I don't know what I'm feeling," Mukuro said.

"What do you mean?"

"What I mean is that...I have been feeling empty and afraid. Afraid of each passing minute and afraid of what the others might do to one another. We already seen four people commit a murder. Who's to say that it won't happen again until there's one person left standing? And I'm also indecisive about leaving this place," Mukuro explained.

"Indecisive? Surely you must have at least one person to come back to after leaving this place," I said.

"That's just it! I don't know who! My motive on my loved one was someone who may not know I existed and may not forgive me for what...for what I have done," Mukuro's tone turned soft as she said this but continued when I didn't make any comment on it, "and I don't want to see my sister's face again. I don't want to feel that amount of despair from her. I...I just can't take it!"

She buried her face into her knees.

"..."

To be honest...I never seen Mukuro like this.

I only ever seen her break character when she yelled at Annabeth on why did she kill Papyrus and Noya.

Having the most calm minded person that I know of so far, break down like that.

It scares me.

It scares me so badly.

I can't make up an excuse on that everything will be ok because it doesn't take a million IQ to know that it's not ok but I also don't want her to worry.

I don't want to lie nor do I want to tell the cold truth.

So...

What do I do?

What can I do?

I took a deep breath to evaluate my decision.

"Who says that we need to split up?"

"Huh?"

"There's nothing that prevents you from going with a friend after leaving. Because at the end of the day, we all care for one another even if we're stuck in a situation like this. Honestly if we weren't in this situation, this could be a nice school year where nothing remotely similar to this happens. Once leaving, you can bunk with a friend until you're able to find a new home for yourself. With a friend by your side, life isn't all that bad," I explained.

"..."

Mukuro was speechless.

"Ah was that too corny? Sorry about that. I like to say that I'm too awkwardly social," I laughed.

"Tommy...thank you."

"Huh?"

"I only had my sister by my side so I didn't have many friends and on the battlefield, it's kill or be killed so I couldn't make a lot of friends. To know that I have friends here...it gives me hope," Mukuro smiled.

"No problem, I'm glad that I'm able to cheer a friend up," I assured her.

"Well, guess we got to keep on exploring! We might not know if we end up finding an exit (although I doubt it," I exclaimed, getting up while muttering the last part under my breath.

"Yeah," Mukuro nodded and got up as well.

We went to explore some more of the opened floor.

A/N: Tommy and Mukuro friendship supremacy.

Anyway this is the chapter where I screw with everyone and make people cry.

Why?

Because I'm evil. Also this is a Fanganronpa.

Predictions on who died and who lives this chapter?

Cya in the next one -Flare