Chapter One - The Domino Effect

---Yami no Marik was walking home from yet another murder with Yami Bakura when all of a sudden he felt a sharp pain in the middle of his back. He heard Yami Bakura's gasp and Ryou's laugh...

---Yami Bakura was in absolute shock. Had Ryou really stabbed YnM? He hadn't thought that poor, innocent Ryou was even capable of inflicting pain on someone...

---Joey didn't know why, but for some reason he felt a sudden hate towards Ryou, who he had always liked. But now, knife in hand, he ran towards him and as he turned to see what was happening, Joey slit his throat and laughed...

---Serenity Wheeler had always adored her big brother. Not today, today something inside her was screaming at her. The same voice that had told her to steal the gun, the same voice that showed her to where her brother was. Slowly she walked toward Joey, ignoring the blood and Yami Bakura holding Ryou, she then stopped and pointed the gun at his head and pulled the trigger...

---Yami had no idea why he had left Yugi and Duke, but something was wrong. He looked up from his feet when he heard the gunshot, not 10 feet away from where he stood was Serenity, holding a gun and laughing psychotically. He looked pasted her and saw Joey, his best friend, lying on the ground, a pool of blood surrounding him. Adrenalin and hatred now pumping through his veins, Yami ran toward Serenity, snapping her neck...

---Daniella didn't know where she was, or how she had escaped the castle. All she knew was that she had woken up someplace named Domino City, and that she had heard a gunshot from somewhere, but there were no screams. She would have been confused, but she felt nothing. Daniella stood up from the bench she had awoken on and started walking toward where the shot had come from...

---Yami Bakura sat in shock, with Ryou dead in his arms and Yami standing over Serenity's dead body.

"What's going on here, Bakura?" he asked, anger in his voice.

"How the hell am I supposed to know? Me and Yami no Marik had been walking home from Tea's house when all of a sudden Ryou ran up and stabbed him in the back. Then Joey..." he trailed off, not wanting to say it.

"Then Serenity shot her own brother in the head? Something is wrong here..."

"No shit! And what about you? It's a little out of character of you to murder someone in cold blood!" Yami Bakura had stood up, now staring down Yami.

Yami looked down, no longer able to hold Bakura's glare, "I don't know what came over me... there was so much anger and I saw Joey dead and I just... I just couldn't... I COULDN'T LET HER LIVE!"

---Yugi was worried, Yami had just left with no hint of where he was going, or when he'd be back. Duke was in the kitchen getting a snack. He had told him not to worry but he couldn't help it. Something waswrong, but Yugi just couldn't wrap his head around what it was...

---Daniella was looking around at all of the bright city lights, still not feeling anything. It had been an hour since she heard the gunshot, but still she searched. Only once in her life had she been so compelled to kill, but it hadn't been this strong. As she walked through the busy street she wondered what was happening, why it was that she felt the need to kill someone wearing a pyramid necklace...

---When Yami and Yami Bakura had finishes burning the bodies of their beloved friends they started walking back to the park, where the murders had occurred.

When they arrived, Yami Bakura stopped and looked around at the people passing by, "Why wouldn't anyone have screamed when our friends were being killed? Why didn't anyone question the blood?" He looked at Yami, "We have to tell those who haven't been killed, I just hope we're not the only ones..."

Yami nodded and they turned to walk back to his house, when they saw a women wearing a tattered maid uniform standing in front of them..

---The first thing Daniella saw was the gold pyramid hanging from his neck, that's all she needed to see. Before either of the two men standing before her could blink, she pulled out the knife she had taken from a table outside a restaurant and stabbed the one with the pyramid. As he fell to the ground, gasping for air, she wondered why she was still compelled to kill...

---Yugi felt a sharp pain in his heart, he turned to Duke and said, "Something's wrong. I'm going to go look for Yami."

Duke stood up, "I'll go with you, but I'm sure he's fine. He probably just needed some air and went to the park or something."

Yugi shook his head, "He would have said something, there is definitely something wrong."

With that they walked out the door and headed to the park in search for Yami, not knowing what they were about to get themselves into...

---Yami Bakura just stood and watched as the maid stabbed his friend, he had seen so many deaths that day it barely phased him. "Who are you?" is all he could say.

The maid laughed, "You don't need to know my name."

Bakura was surprised by the lack of emotion in her voice, never before had he met someone so content with killing people. "Why did you kill my friend?"

She shrugged, "I don't know. Is there anyone else in this city with a necklace like that?"

Almost as if he had been called, Yugi walked up from behind the stranger with Duke, with a very worried expression. He hadn't seen Yami's body yet...

---Duke couldn't believe his eyes, and he wondered why Yugi wasn't able to see Yami's dead body right there. He was just looking at the girl speaking with Bakura.

"Why are you looking for people with necklaces like mine?" Yugi asked curiously.

The strange girl laughed and licked the blood on the knife she was holding, "I dunno, but something tells me you're about to find out." With that she stabbed Yugi in the heart. He dropped to the ground, the last thing he saw was Yami's dead body.

The only words that Duke could bring himself to say were, "You crazy bitch!"

The girl smiled, winked, and stabbed Duke...

---Daniella let the body of the green-eyed boy fall with the knife still in his diaphragm.

"Why'd you kill him?" Bakura was getting pissed off now.

She just shrugged, "He called me a 'crazy bitch' I didn't like it."

The white haired boy glared at her and all of a sudden the strange necklace he was wearing started to glow, "I'm sick of your shit, have fun in the shadow realm. Crazy bitch." He laughed and then there was darkness...