Doki Doki Literature Club a Phantom Threat

Chapter 1: A Change In One's Heart

Here's some important information over this chapter, the MC's name is Shay, and this takes place right after finishing Doki Doki Literature club, and taking all Natsuki possible routes. Also, I originally wrote this fic in fanfiction.net, though I decided to also move it to this website also since I made an account to read stories here too.

Monika floated endlessly in her prison, hearing the continuous screams of agony that pulled her away from her thoughts, but she no longer cared.

"What's the point?" she said, as she clutched her chest.

She had successfully pulled her plan off, she made Sayori hang herself, caused Yuri to kill herself, and Natsuki had been removed from the game. It was all perfect just her and Shay, she finally had her moment in the sunshine, what she wanted was there... then why did she feel so hurt.

The player removed her from the game, though that was only part of the reason she felt hurt. Truth be told it was her club members. She felt horrible for what she did, which is why she resisted the urge from deleting them completely.

"I really deserve this don't I Shay... that's why it has to be this way..." she tried to hold back her tears, which didn't last long. "I'm so sorry... everyone." She began weeping silently waiting for her moment to be erased.

She then saw a strong white light distinguishing the darkness and drowning out the shouting and screams that bothered her for so long. "This must be it then." She said as she felt the light spread ever so closer to her. She prepared herself to feel the sharpest of pain, just like when the player had removed her... but she felt nothing. The light felt warm and was pulling her in.

"Wh-What?" Monika stammered quietly, "is this how it feels to be erased?"

The white light engulfed her completely. She covered her eyes as it got too bright, she felt herself no longer floating but instead lying down. "Where? am..." she stopped herself short as she opened her eyes and saw that she was in her room. "Huh?! Was I dreaming, did any of that even happen?" she began questioning herself as she heard her alarm go off.

It was time to go to school, but she had no idea if she should go. "Didn't Shay delete me? Why am I still here? There's no way none of that could've been a dream it all felt to real." She looked outside her window and was confronted with her usual home street, "I really am back," she said softly.

Players Point of View:

"Hey, it worked the game didn't crash this time." After a long time of tampering with the game files, the player was finally able to get the game to reload, (What those changes where will remain a secret for now).

Time Skip.

Back to Monika:

Monika had arrived at her school but began walking slowly and awkwardly as she made her way in. 'I should've stayed home' she thought, 'What if people don't even know me? After all I did leave the game intact, I just removed myself from it, because that's what Shay wanted right?' as she thought this she bit her lip out of stress.

"Maybe I should go to the club room" Monika told herself, trying to calm herself down.

Upon Arriving she saw Natsuki carrying a tray of cupcakes and glaring at the door with an annoyed expression. "Dumb door... I can't just put these cupcakes down." Natsuki said not realizing that Monika was next to her.

Monika was frozen in place, she had no idea what to do. It honestly felt like she was watching a ghost of her friend, a friend whose life she made a living hell. She remembered how she raised Natsuki's father's aggressiveness, and how she passed out when hanging out with Shay. She didn't know whether to approach Natsuki, 'Does she even know who I am?' Monika thought.

Natsuki then took notice of the pondering Monika, and said "Oh Monika hey, do you mind opening the door to the club for me," Monika was snapped out of her thoughts, but stayed silence and didn't move to which Natsuki then said, "I mean it's not like I need your help or anything, I just really would've appreciated the jester." She said as she turned her head in a tsundere like fashion. "O-Oh I'm sorry, I just got lost in my own thoughts." She put out a genuine smile as she opened the door for the pink haired girl. "There you go," Monika said. "Thank you" replied Natsuki as she went in and plopped the tray down in a desk.

"Hey Natsuki, what are the cupcakes for?" Monika asked curiously. "What you don't remember, today is the day Sayori is bringing her friend Shay into the club." Natsuki said from the backroom, making place for the cupcakes. "Sheesh you're our president, how do you not know this, Sayori even asked for your permission," snarked Natsuki in a playful way. "Oh, I'm sorry, I've just been so busy that I forgot," Monika said as she let out one of her usual laughs. "By the way..." Monika said as she looked out the hallway to make sure no one was around, "Was your dad okay with you baking these?"

Monika was the only one in the club that knew about Natsuki and how her father treated her. The two where good friends, so Monika would always bring little snack's that were appropriate towards the school rules to give to Natsuki. "Yeah, he wasn't home all day yesterday, so he wasn't much of a bother, in fact," Natsuki began "this helped me prepare one of my best cupcakes yet." She made a pose, acting as if she just won some sort of competition. "I can't wait to show you and Sayori, I just know you two are going to like it, I had so much fun making them..." she went silent, "I wish I could always feel this happy you know..." Natsuki looked down at the ground, "I'm lucky I even had ingredients to make these sweets." She said silently, "Monika thank you for being there for me, you, Sayori, and Yuri, you all mean a lot to me, even if I don't show it I really appreciate everyone, you're like family to me... the family I always dreamed of having." Right then and there Monika felt extremely guilty, but she swallowed and said, "It's okay Natsuki," as she embraced her and said, "I will always be there for you." The two continued on until it was time to get to class, "Well see you later Monika." Natsuki said with a smile while cleaning her tears off, she happily made her way to her class.

Monika's smiled disappeared as she made her way to her room, 'Natsuki I'm so sorry for what I did to you... to all of you, I won't ever do it again I promise... I'll try to be good this time, I won't let myself get swayed by Shay. I promise to stay neutral.' She told herself this as she stopped by her classroom to put on a smile before going in.