Hello again. Here's the next chappie! Have you guessed who dies? No? Well, now's your chance to find out who. (laughs evilly). Enjoy! =P

Chapter 5: Til Death Do Us Part

3:00 pm - Back in the shelter

Serenity was helping Kaiba with his examinations.

"Serenity, you don't have to stay in here. I don't want you to be here if you don't want to." Kaiba said as he wrote something down in a notebook which he was using to take notes on.

"But I wanna be here with you, Kaiba. We haven't been able to spend much time together ever since we've landed & I want to spend as much time with you as possible."

"Yeah, I'm sorry we haven't spent that much time together as much as we wanted to..." Kaiba took her hands into his. "...but I promise you, I'll make it up to you." He then kissed her. "I'm gonna check on Mokuba to see if he found something. Could you stay here while I find him?"

"Sure."

Kaiba then left, leaving Serenity alone with the thing. She looked at it for a moment, but then started reading Kaiba's notes. As soon as she looked away from the thing, its finger started to slightly move for a moment. Serenity turned back around to see if there was anything else she could read to help find out about this thing. Nothing. Just the thing, laying dead still now. She went back to reading Kaiba's notes. Then, the thing's arm slowly started moving down the table &across the floor, moving closer and closer to Serenity......

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" Hey, guys." Kaiba walked into the blimp finding everyone there, except for Mokuba. "Have you guys seen Mokuba?" He asked them.

"Yeah, you just missed him." Yugi answered. "He went back to the shelter to tell you what he found out."

"What did he find out? Did he tell you"?

"Well, he told us that the thing isn't dead yet. That it somehow survived being frozen out there in the snow."

"You mean that thing is still alive?"

"That's what Mokuba said."

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"Hey, Serenity. Seto. I found........" Mokuba walked into the room where he last saw his brother & Serenity. He stopped in his racks when he saw blood all over the floor. He noticed there was a trail of blood, so he followed it with his eyes. It led to the far corner where he saw the thing with its tentacles crawling all around her.......... 'taking her over.'

"Serenity!!!!" He screamed in horror.

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"It can't still be alive. Are you sure that's exactly what Mokuba said?"

"Yes, Kaiba. That's exactly what he told us."

"I left Serenity alone with that thing! I have to get her away from it before its too late." Kaiba ran out of the blimp to the shelter.

"Oh no. Serenity!" Joey had a look of fear on his face. He ran out of the blimp as fast as he could. "Please let her be alright!" He thought to himself repeatedly as he ran past Kaiba.

"Joey!" Rose called after him. She, too, started running towards the shelter, hoping that her best friend was okay. Hoped that nothing happened to her. Everyone else soon followed.

"SERENITY!!!!" Joey yelled as he slammed through the door to the shelter. He went into the room, but all he saw was the blood all over the floor! Serenity & the thing were gone. Then, he noticed pieces of glass on the floor. They were from the window leading outside. "Their outside!!" Joey said as he ran back outside with everyone behind him. They saw Serenity running towards the blimp.

"Serenity!!!" Joey yelled after his little sister. Serenity seemed to be stumbling as she approached the blimp. Joey ran towards her & finally reached her. He put his hands on her shoulders. "Serenity, are you okay!?!"

"Joey! Get away from her!!!" Kaiba yelled. "It's not her!"

"What!?!" Joey asked with a look of confusion on his face.

"Look at her hands!!!" Rose said.

Joey looked at her hands. They looked exactly the same way as that thing's hands were. Joey didn't want to believe what he just saw. Tristan pulled Joey away from her. Joey fell to the ground as Rose ran to him. Kaiba walked over to Serenity & stood in front of her. He was holding something in his hands. It was a flare! He raised it up & lit it. He threw it at Serenity as she let out a loud roar as she went up in flames.

"Kaiba! You bastard!!! What the hell are you doing!?!" Joey got up off the ground & ran towards Kaiba. He punched him & knocked him to the ground. He grabbed the collar of Kaiba's jacket as he stood over him. "I'm gonna fuckin' kill you, you son of a bitch!!!"

Kaiba kicked Joey in his side & Joey fell to the ground. Kaiba quickly restrained him, holding his arms so he wouldn't try to throw a punch at him again. Yugi held Joey's feet down so he wouldn't kick Kaiba. "Joey, calm down!" He yelled to Joey, but he wouldn't stop struggling.

"Joey!!! Joey, listen to me!" Kaiba tried to calm him down. "That wasn't Serenity!"

Joey stopped struggling & look at Kaiba. "I don't believe you!"

"You have to believe me. I loved Serenity & you know I would never do anything to hurt her!"

"If that wasn't her, then who was it?"

"It was that thing." Kaiba let go of Joey.

Joey stood up with a confused look on his face. "That thing? What? H...How could that be that thing & not my sister?"

"It has the ability to imitate other living things. Their physical appearance. their memories, .....everything. That's what MacReady meant when he said 'it takes you over'. I thought that was the case but I didn't believe it. It seemed impossible for anything to be able to imitate other things. If I had believed it, I wouldn't have left Serenity alone with that thing." He tried to hold back tears, but he couldn't fight it anymore. Tears rolled down his face as he continued to speak. "It's all my fault. Serenity is dead because of me."

"Kaiba," Rose said. "This is not your fault. If I hadn't have found that thing we wouldn't be in this mess. We would go on with the tournament." Tears started to form in corners of her eyes. "And........and Serenity would still be alive. This is MY fault not yours, Kaiba."

"Hey!" Mai interrupted. "Look you two. This is nobody's fault! Somebody here would've eventually find that thing if you hadn't, Rose. And no one here knew for sure what that thing was capable of, not even you, Kaiba! So, this not your fault, either."

"I guess your right, Mai." Rose replied.

"Of course I am." Mai smiled.

"Thanks, Mai."

"Anytime."

Kaiba started walking towards the shelter.

"Hey, Kaiba! Where ya goin'?" Joey yelled out to Kaiba.

"I have to go find Mokuba. I have to make sure he's okay. He's all I have, now. You guys stay in the blimp."

Everyone agreed. They all went back inside the blimp, except for Yugi. "Are you gonna be okay, Kaiba?"

"I'll be fine, Yugi. Just go in the blimp. Don't worry about me."

Yugi hesitated for a moment, then he turned towards the blimp, "Alright, Kaiba." He started walking towards the blimp & into it, shutting the door behind him.

Kaiba started walking towards the shelter again. He walked in & immediately started looking for his brother, the very last person he had left. He couldn't bare to lose another loved one. "As soon as I find Mokuba, we're leaving this place. I can't stand to be here anymore. " He continued his search, but he couldn't seem to find him anywhere. "Where is he? Did that thing get to him? No! Don't even think that! I can't lose him. I've gotta find him so we can get the hell out of here."

OMG! I can't believe I killed off Serenity! Tear NEways, plz R&R. I'll update soon.