Daganronpa: blue blood «retelling»

The maze and the mastermind

«Makoto Naegi's perspective»
"Let's split up!" I say. "In two groups, then we can both go different ways!"
"Ok. I'll go with Kyoko." Celestia announces.
"I'll join that group." Byakuya adds casually.
"Ok." I turn to Mukuro Ikusaba. "It's just you and me. Let's go!" We turn left, the maze looming ahead. My clammy hands touch the walls: steel, riddled wit nuts and bolts- it would be impossible to break through.
We make our way through, Chihiro every so often piping up from the student handbook to offer advice. Left, right, left, left, just following the fading light.
"Makoto, do you hear that?" Whispers Mukuro. She points slowly upwards, and my blood runs cold.

«Byakuya Togami's perspective»
The light is fading fast, the tunnels growing darker and darker. I clench the walls, listening to the thud of our footsteps and the trickle of blood from my nose.
Bang!
I slam into a dead end.
"Dead end. Let's turn back." I mutter.
"Ok. I new we should have gone left." Whispers Celestia from the darkness. "Kyoko?" She cries.
Silence.
"Where's Kyoko?" I murmur, walking back.
"Kyoko!" She wails, sprinting ahead. "Kyo-"
Slice!

«Mukuro Ikusaba's perspective»
"Oh god. Oh god oh god-" Makoto falls to the floor beside me.
It's everyone. All our dead classmates, hung like criminals by nooses above the maze. Leon's broken form, A beaten up Sakura, Kiyotaka and Hagakure's bodies bulging with the poison, poor Aoi too, Hifumi dripping with wax, Toko's face still shocked and screaming, Mondo dripping blood, And swaying with them, Kyoko Kirigiri.
"Kyoko!" Makoto screams. "Can you hear us."
She kicks her legs limply.
"We're coming up!" He starts trying to scale the walls, and steps pop out to help him.
"What... Makoto, I don't think this is a good idea...". I murmur, but he's already swaying on the top.
I start to scale it, adrenaline returned. If I shut my eyes, I can imagine this is all just a drill in army school.

«Byakuya Togami's perspective»
It takes a few moments for the pain to register.
But then I see the blood.
"Aegh-"
Spikes poke from my arms and legs, blue pouring from them. They burn like fire, and I start shaking as I realise I can't free myself.
"help..." I croak. Celestia Is gone, or is my vision starting to blur? "heLP..."

"Celeste! I'm so glad you're safe! Where's Byakuya?"
I can hear a conversation above me, Makoto and Celestia and Mukuro.
"I don't know... Kyoko... the body's..."
What are they talking about? Am I just going to bleed out here and die? Alone but so close?!
The world starts blackening.
"IM NOT GOING TO DIE." I whisper. I feebly try to push myself off. "I will... not..."
"Do you hear something?"

«Celestia Ludenberg's perspective»
"Byakuya!" Mukuro spins around, peering into the darkness. "Wait, we're coming!"
I look over and gag. Spikes sprout from the walls, razor sharp but thin as needles, impaling her in their hundreds.
Mukuro leaps down, pulling her off and dragging her limp body up to us.
"Guys!" Makoto yells from a while away. "Help!"
He struggles in the darkness, clinging to ropes that have sprung from the ceiling.
"Let's get climbing."