Danganronpa Switched

Chapter 1: Meeting the Ultimates

I stared at the letter in my hand again and sighed. Honestly, Hope's Peak Academy was the last place I imagined I'd end up. It's supposed to be an elite school, where if you graduate you'd be set for life. They only accept the best students, students that have the right to call themselves "Ultimates". My talent was nothing to smile or giggle about. Sure, it has made me famous in all of Japan, but I wasn't THAT good at being a pop idol. Still, I'm not turning down an invitation to Hope's Peak. I squeezed the letter and began to walk through the gates of Hopes Peak. The school was a lot bigger then I thought it would be. It had to be like 20 times larger than my old school and there were buildings all over campus. It seemed more like a college than a high school. I was about to start exploring the campus for a little bit, but then I began to feel sick. My body was numbing all over and any sudden movements were making me horribly dizzy. My vision blurred as my body collapsed on the ground and everything went into darkness.

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I lifted my head and found myself sitting in a classroom desk. I felt more confused then I'd ever been in years. Was I in Hopes Peak? Why did I pass out? Millions of questions were flooding through my head at once. I wobbled out of my desk and took a look around the classroom I was in. My vision was still cloudy making it hard to concentrate. Everything in the classroom seemed normal. There were a podium, blackboard, and desks. It was stuff you expected to see in a classroom. I looked around again and my eyes noticed the windows on the other side of the room. They were all bolted shut with metal plates. I blinked thinking I was imagining everything but the metal plates on the windows remained. I couldn't even turn the bolts on the windows or remove the metal plates at all. Giving up, I sighed and went back to the desk I woke up in. This time I noticed a piece of paper I didn't see at the start. School semester has begun. As you embark on new beginnings, this school will become your life. Was this some kind of a joke? I shook it off and stared at the clock on the far end of the classroom. It read 8:05. "Damn it," I said to myself. I was supposed to be in the entrance hall by 8:00 this morning and now I was 5 minutes late. I left the desk and made my way to the door. This was just way too weird. The hallway was about the same size I expected it to be from the size of the school but there was something off about the hallway. It had an eerie atmosphere and dimmed purple and green nights. It looked like something you'd see in a horror game. The nights were making my head spin but I tried to ignore it as I made my way to the entrance hall. I seemed to be getting slower with every step I took. Eventually, I came across some very large doors, which I could only assume was the entrance halls doors. I sighed and looked down at my feet, and pushed open the door. I was hoping for some reason that if I couldn't see them, then they couldn't see me. Sadly, that lasted only 2 seconds before a voice screamed so loud that it echoed around the entire room. "YOU'RE LATE!!"

"How the hell could she have known when she would wake up?!" A quieter but still fairly loud voice said. Knowing I couldn't hide any longer, I slowly lifted my head to see my new classmates. They looked fairly normal, but at the same time, I don't know if you can call ultimates "normal".

"So that makes the student count 16 now. Is that everyone?" a girl with a lavender ponytail said. She said it in such a way that as if she didn't actually care, but just wanted the silence to stop. I really didn't blame her.

"I would assume so. We should get started with introductions again since she wasn't here originally," a very large, uh girl, with white hair replied.

"Ah, of course," I said finally. "My name is Celestia Ludenberg. I'm far known as the Ultimate-."

"NICE TO MEET YOU CELESTIA! MY NAME IS MAKOTO NAEGI AND IM KNOWN AS THE ULTIMATE MORAL COMPASS!" the loud boy from the start yelled. I looked down and sighed. I knew Makoto far too well from the Internet. He was known for being an honor student with a very ongoing and obnoxious personality. He has never broken a single rule in his life. He was adults dream and nightmare all mixed into one. He defiantly looked like a hall monitor that's for sure. He was wearing dark jeans and a suit like shirt representing his old school. I began to wonder if it was a school uniform he was required to wear. His brown hair was average length for males and he had an ahoge sticking out of the top. Honestly, I'm shocked I didn't recognize him as soon as he started yelling. "As I was saying," I said glaring at Makoto. "My name is Celestia Ludenberg and I'm known as the Ultimate Pop Model. However, I would prefer if you called me Celeste." I smiled hoping that it would take the tension sprouting in the room.