The night after the trial was very restless. Everyone was depressed about both decision Pinkie Pie made and the fact that she died in such a horrible way was even worse. Out of everyone, I was probably the pony who took it the hardest. Up until the trial I considered the amnesia thing to be some sort of prank by Monokuma, but after what I heard her say, it was hard to believe that.

Perhaps, we all were from the start

Nothing could have hurt me more then that, and up to that point the only two I really knew were Sweetie Drops and Fluttershy. I had made a mess of myself during the execution, I swear I heard Gilda call me a cry baby, but she was right. The only thing I can do now is make sure that no one else ends up in the same position.

“Good Morning everyone,” Monokuma’s voice once again came up on the speaker “It is now 7:00 am which means it’s time to get up. Also, now that you have survived the first trial you now have access to the second floor of the school. So go on, explore your new parameters and please have a fantastic day,”

I hardly got any sleep last night, and I bet most of the others had as well. Fluttershy seemed to have sleep at least a little better then me as she woke up a lot later then I did. As hopped off our bed, I tried my best to rubbed the sleep out of my eyes. After we each took showers we stepped outside of the dorms into the hallway. We were going to go and check out the second floor, but someone called out to us before we got far.

“Hey, you two,” We looked behind ourselves to see that it was Gilda who had called out to us. She ran over to us and I was ready for whatever she had in store for us. Well, Everything except what she actually said. “I don’t usually say this, but thank you,”

There was a surprise, the student that seem to hate just about everyone here was actually thanking us. “For what?” I asked, not really sure of what she was thanking us for.

“For saving my life yesterday,” She replied “You helped in defending me when that stupid blue pegasus Rainbow Dash tried to frame me,” I had forgotten about that, which is quite strange considering the outburst she made defending herself. “Don’t think this makes us friends or anything, I’m just glad someone is thinking around here,”

“Well what did you expect me to do?” I asked rhetorically “Everyone would have died if I didn’t do something, I had to clear your name,”

“Yeah, yeah,” Gilda said, sounding kind of bored. “Anyway, I was actually calling for both of you because Sweetie Drops is getting some of us together for some sort of “plan” or whatever. Head to the second floor library, it shouldn’t be that hard to find,”

We nodded to her in agreement and headed off to the second floor. It wasn’t that hard to find it, just like Gilda said. There wasn’t that many rooms on the second floor and was located at the far end of the hallway on the left. We entered to see that Sweetie Drops and a few other were waiting for us at the end of the room. Out of the ponies there I saw Luna, Cadance, Flash, Rainbow Dash, Daring Do, and Vinyl. Gilda arrived shortly after I did with Zecora and Trixie.

“Now that we all stand in this room,” Zecora said, “Please explain what you called us to do,”

“Alright,” Sweetie Drops said, “I’ve called you all here because you are the ones that seem to be the most trustworthy,” She looks quickly at Rainbow Dash “And before you say anything about Gilda, let me just remind you who almost got us all killed,”

“I said I was sorry for that okay,” Rainbow Dash said, “I made a mistake, that’s all. Now tell us why we’re here,”

Sweetie Drops nodded “Don’t worry, I’m pretty sure all of you know why I called you here. We have a promise to fulfill and I intend to keep it,”

The promise she was talking about, it must have been the thing Pinkie said about Hope’s Peak during the trial. Pinkie mentioned something about finding out the truth, and that it would help us escape. I remember that I alone had made a promise to make sure everyone escapes, and it seems I wasn’t the only one.

“You mean the thing about find out what Hope’s Peak really is, right?” I asked, just to make sure.

“Yes,” Luna responded “and it seems we may have found out our first clue,” She walked over to a door at the end of the library. “Just to warn you, if none of you want to see this I completely understand. In fact, I’m sure none of us want to see blood after the murder case yesterday, but if you want to know the truth. Come over here,”

Everyone walked over to Luna as she opened the door to a stack of books in a small closed off area. They seemed to be pretty ordinary to me, but if something in these books held our answers it needed to be check out. Everyone looked at the dimly lit room with curiosity, Luna had warned us of blood, but I didn’t see anything that could do with blood… unless. I hear Fluttershy scream at the other side of the room to see she had opened one of the books. She quickly ran over to me a did her best to hide herself behind me.

“The hell,” Gilda said, completely shocked “Don’t tell me you’re scared of words,”

“It’s not the words,” Fluttershy said trembling “It’s the pictures. The pictures are what scared me,”

Gilda rolled her eyes, unable to believe something in a book managed to scare Fluttershy that badly. She went over to the book she had opened and took a look at it, only to get paralyzed in fear by what she saw. “Holy mother of Celestia,” I heard her mumble. We all walked over to her, wondering exactly what she had seen.

What I saw was one of the most terrifying things I have ever seen. The picture I saw was of a body of some strange creature pinned to the wall with scissors. Blood seemed to be everywhere on the creature, but what exactly was it? It certainly wasn’t from Equestria, that was sure, but I don’t remember ever seeing one. Was this yet another thing Monokuma erased from our memories. I looked at the other books to see that they were very much the same things, but there was something about them that interesting.

“Genocider Jack,” I read the cover of one of the books. “The thing that did this was a pony - or thing - name Genocider Jack,”

“It’s on every one of these books,” Daring Do noticed, “It seems as if it’s not a victim of a murder, but rather the murderer themselves,”

“Wait,” Flash said confused “Does that mean this Jack pony killed all these things? What the heck even is a Genocider?”

“Who knows,” Gilda responded, “However, are we sure this thing is even a pony? It sounds more like some psychotic dragon then anything else,”

“Excuse me,” Sweetie Drops interrupted our discussion “As all of you know, there seems to be some history behind Hope’s Peak Academy. These killings, they weren’t from the school as the locations shown don’t match anywhere I’ve seen so far. However, this Jack pony was definitely a student here if the school has this kind of information hiding in it. That being said… doesn’t something about that seem kind of off,”

I thought about what she just said, and realized that something was indeed kind of strange about all of this. “Didn’t the school only open a few days ago?”

Everyone understood what I meant. The invitation I got said that this was the opening year at the school, meaning that we were going to be the first students to attend it. However, if what Sweetie Drops said is correct, then that could be right.

“If that's the case,” Luna said, “Then the fact these books are probably just a coincidence. Still, it is kind of interesting,”

The wasn’t a lot to gain from the situation, and as it was most of us thought it was just another one of Monokuma’s things to try and make us commit murder. We all agreed that this area would not be entered under any circumstances, as it might cause somepony to murder another and none of us wanted that to happen. After that we all left and went of to explore the rest of the second floor. The only other notable location on the floor was the pool area.

There was a changing room before entering with notes on them. The right one was the girls and the left one was the boys. Monokuma had put a warning on them saying that anyone that would enter the opposite genders changing room would be punished, and seeing that his version of punishment was a little… extreme I didn’t want to find out what he had in store for those who tried. Me and Fluttershy agreed to head to the pool some other time and headed back to the main floor.

The rest of the day was uneventful, we had to make food ourselves with Pinkie gone and it was nowhere near as good. Rainbow Dash chatted with us a bit, but there wasn’t anything in it that was worth noting. As it was, we just kind of relaxed after that and went to sleep when Monokuma called nighttime.

--------- Day 2 ---------

The beginning of the day was very much the same as the day before. Got up, took a shower, brushed teeth, all the normal things really. I slept a lot better last night, the horror of the class trial had finally faded from me. Fluttershy and I headed to the cafeteria to get breakfast when we bumped into Applejack.

“Hey there,” Applejack greeted. We haven’t really chatted after the introduction on the first day. “Twilight and Fluttershy, right?”

We nodded in agreement and she said she wanted to talk about something at the cafeteria. She joined us as we made our way to get breakfast and sat down to talk with us after we had all gotten our food. We asked what she wanted to talked about, as it seemed like something had been on her mind the entire time.

“Well,” She started, searching for the right word “Since the trial, I’ve been feeling kind of off. I understand that you two shared the same room before Derpy’s murder because Fluttershy here was in danger, but now it’s over and it hasn’t changed one bit. I’ve been thinking about it, and I realized that something about my memories were a bit… off, I guess. The last day I remember before coming here was-”

“The summer sun celebration,” I answered for her. “You mean you noticed it too? The fact that most of that day is missing,”

“Exactly,” Applejack answered back “Ever since the trial I’ve been feeling as if I know somepony here. I figured it out before I fell asleep last night. Twilight, what Pinkie said about us all being friends, she wasn’t kidding. There's no way she was, so many things seem to have happened in that time between preparing for the celebration and getting the letter that it can not be a joke. Twilight, Monokuma’s not just trying to make us kill ponies, he’s making us kill our friends,”

I would have responded to her if I didn’t hear Flash yelling at Luna as they enter the cafeteria.

“It was just one night Flash,” Luna said, seeming to try and defend herself “What could have possibly happened to me. I was simply just invited over by Doctor Whooves,”

“Exactly, that is exactly what's wrong,” Flash said, absolutely furious “I sleep in my room for one night, ONE NIGHT, and when I knock on your door in the morning, you aren’t there. Then what happens, I see you coming out from another room with a stallion in it as well. Princess, should I remind you of your place in society? Because it sure seems like I have to,”

I wasn’t really sure what was going on, but something tells me it wasn’t a good idea to ask. Instead I turned back to Applejack to continue our discussion.

“Applejack, listen to me,” I grabbed her attention “Both Fluttershy and I know that, but you don’t have to worry. We are going to make sure nopony else gets murdered if it’s the last thing we do. What we have to do is find out exactly what Pinkie was talking about when she mentioned the history of this school and use that to somehow escape. I can assure you, no one else is going to die. I promise,”

Applejack was about to respond, but once again we were interrupted. This time by Monokuma as his voice played on the loudspeaker.

“Attention, would all students please report to the gym for an important announcement. I don’t care if you are just waking up, having princess issues, or haven’t finished your breakfast. You must report to the Gym… NOW,”

Author's Note

So, there was some interesting things in this chapter. While it is sad to be back at the Daily Life, as I feel they aren't as strong as the other portions of the chapter, I hope to keep up my good work on this. Also, I want to thank 4428Gamer, who has been helping me with this story. Remember, liking and commenting is always nice and feel free to follow if you want to stay updated on all my work.