Author's Note

(Hello everyone. Vaatidj is here bringing you the first part of the first chapter of Danganronpa: Equestrian Despair. Man that’s a mouthful. Anyway, for those of you who are wondering what the Daily life thing in the title is, allow me to explain. In Danganronpa, there are three different stages to each chapter, Daily life, Deadly life, and the Class Trial. During daily life, we will be exploring the things that happen before the next murder is committed and will get to know the characters a bit. The question you are now asking is, who is the first to be murdered? Guess you will just have to read to find out. Now that this is out of the way, onward with the chapter.)

The Beginning of Despare (Daily Life part 1)

For the last few minutes, everything has been so quiet. No one has moved from their spot in the gym, afraid that someone might try to kill them right their. As for me, I had taken the time to look through the book Monokuma had put in our bags and read the rules he had set. According to the book, 10:00 pm to 7:00 am is the night hours and certain areas will be closed off during that time. It also stated that any harm towards the principle will be punished, and considering what he wanted us to do to each other, I wouldn’t like to know what that punishment would be.

“So,” Rainbow Dash started, clearly trying to end the tension in the room “Anyone want to go explore the school?” Everyone looked at her with suspicion. “Look, if we stay in here, we are going to die of starvation. Wouldn’t you all rather live in this school and survive than die without even trying?”

Rainbow Dash brought up a good point. If we are going to live here, we needed to learn to trust each other and find out what we had access to. No point in living if you aren’t going to try. Daring Do was the first to step up and reply after this.

“You’re right,” She said to Rainbow Dash “Even if someone attacks me and I die, I would rather know what this school is like than give up,” After she stepped up everyone else started to as well. Before I knew it we had all agreed and were deciding what to investigate.

Cadence got out a map and - being the ultimate princess - chose who investigated what. “I’ll investigate the main hall with Luna and Flash,” She directed “Fluttershy, Derpy, and Doctor will investigate the laundry room and sauna. Twilight, Rainbow, and Daring Do should check the kitchen and Dining hall. Finally, Zecora, Applejack, and Bon Bon will investigate the classroom. As for Vinyl, Pinkie, Rarity, Trixie, and Gilda, please feel free to mingle among the groups and check your rooms if you need to. We will all meet in the Dining hall 12:00 pm”

With that, everyone headed out to go investigate the school. The dining hall didn’t prove itself to difficult to find, being close to the gym and the dorms. The dining hall had multiple small tables surrounding a giant one in the middle that looked like it would sit 13 of the 18 ponies at it. To the right was an ACTUAL WINDOW (someone call the developers, they left a visible window in the game) that showed a garden of some sort on the other side of it. Saddly, it looked like an inside garden, which means that escape was still not possible for what we know.

I looked up to the clock on the wall at the front of the room to see that the time read 11:25. Wow, either Monokuma talked for longer than expected, or we were just standing there in the gym silent for a really long time. Either way, it looked like there wasn’t a way out of the school through here, so we continued to the kitchen.

Once we entered the kitchen (which was at the other end of the dining hall) we were amazed by the amount of food and supplies there was for cooking. “At least he isn’t going to let us starve to death in here,” Rainbow Dash said, happy that Monokuma had at least a little kindness in this “kill or be killed” game.

“Sure we may have food,” Daring Do pointed out to me and Rainbow “but with 18 people, aren’t we going to run out pretty quickly?” This was good point. Even if we did have food, it would run out sooner or later… right?

“Oh, don’t you worry about that my students,” I jumped as I heard Monokuma suddenly appear from behind me (raise your hand if you heard Monokuma’s theme playing in your head). “I make sure that the food is restocked when it is getting low, wouldn’t want to ruin the fun of killing each other right,”

“Where the hell did you come from?” I asked. I definitely would have noticed he was there if he was following us the entire time.

“I have my ways of getting around the school,” Monokuma semi-answered “but that’s not something you are going to have to worry about. Besides, it would ruin the grand finale I have planned for the end of this game, if you all manage to survive a certain number of trials that is,” After he said that he ran around the corner. I went to go chase after him, but he had somehow managed to disappear as soon as he rounded the corner.

Knowing it was worthless to look for a him, I went back to investigating with Rainbow and Daring Do. After a little bit more investigation, we headed back out to the dining hall to see that everyone had almost arrived. Gilda, the only one who hadn’t been there when we stopped investigating, came in a second or two later and sat at a table in the back away from the others.

“Well,” Cheerilee began “Now that everyone is here let’s start discussing what we found. Cadence, Luna, and Flash, would you mind starting off?”

“Might as well,” Flash said, a sad look on his face. “The main entrance isn’t really that much of an entrance if you ask me,”

“What the hell do you mean by that?” Gilda asked.

“IT WOULD SEEM THAT THE EXIT IS BLOCKED BY A GIANT METALLIC VAULT,” Luna exclaimed with her so call “Royal Equestrian voice”

“SERIOUSLY,” Cheerilee shouted angrily “Could you try not yelling so loud, you're going to scare somepony,”

“Sorry,” Luna apologized with a much more normal toned voice “I kind of forgot some of us were a little… “shyer” than others,” She quietly giggled. Fluttershy, who was sitting at one of the smaller tables nearby, tried to hide herself from view by ducking under the table.

“Getting back on topic,” Cadence said annoyed “It’s impossible to open the door as it’s too hard to break through. There was also more cameras and there mounted with some sort of weapon on it, so it’s probably best not to even try,”

“I’ll speak next,” Doctor whooves said “I would like to start off by saying that the sauna seems to be closed off for the moment,”

“Why would you think that is?” Bon Bon asked. It did seem strange that a place like the sauna would be closed off to use.

“My guess is either something’s broken or there’s something Monokuma doesn’t want us to know,” Doctor Whooves replied “It does seem strange that he would do something like this in the first place. What motive does HE have for wanting us to kill each other?”

I had then remembered something Monokuma said to me earlier “Speaking of which, Monokuma came to use when we were investigating the kitchen. He told us it would be restocked when need, and that he had some sort of “grand finale” planned if enough of us survive the trials.”

“Wait, what trials?” Derpy asked. It’s true, Monokuma didn’t explain what trials were at all.

“Well, I don’t know about you all but I’d rather not find out” Applejack respond. What she said was definitely true. If all went well, we would hopefully not have to find out.

“Anyway, while that is interesting to know,” Doctor Whooves continued “It would be obvious to say that there isn’t a way out through the laundry room,”

“Guess I’m up next,” Applejack said “All the other classrooms are the same as the one we all woke up in. No escapable windows, completely abandon, and no secret exits of any kind,”

“So there really is no way to escape without killing,” Cheerilee said, saddened that it was ending up true. Honestly, I was surprised that they sealed it up as good as they did. I figured that at least one exit would have ended up being unsealed.

“Look, I know you all are sad and everything that we didn’t find a clue to what’s going on,” Gilda said. She didn’t seem to care about escaping at all. “but can I mentioned that I wouldn’t like having one of you looser ponies backstabbing me tonight,”

“How dare you!” Cheerilee exclaimed.

“Look,” Gilda said, trying to set herself straight “I’m not saying you guy’s are going to, but I would like to sleep at night without the threat of one of you killing me,” This is true, it would be nice to be able to sleep without fear of someone breaking in my room. “I say we make a rule of our own. No one leaves their room during night hours,”

Everyone seemed to agree with this, and so we added a rule of our owns. No one leaves their dorm from 10:00 at night to 7:00 in the morning. The rest of the day went pretty fast, for the last hour or so before the night hours, I hung out with Vinyl and discussed music and stuff like that for a bit. She seemed kind of upset that the only floor available didn’t have a electronic music room or anything.

Once 10:00 hit we heard a small jingle play before hear Monokuma’s voice over the loudspeaker “Attention. We are now entering the night hours, the dining hall is now closed off to all students in the school. Good night,” I entered my dorm and went over to my bed, immediately falling asleep.