Chapter Twelve: Blood Filled Lakes

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh so back the FUCK off!

DM: Yugi can't come back because he has a bullet in his head.

Dragon: Duh!

DM: Dragon, be nice.

Dragon: Yeah, sorry.

DM: Whatever. Anyways, enjoy.

Seto had taken over the role of leading them out of the city. They had passed several small homes that were either blood stained or had zombies in the yards eating the small children or the residents. Serenity could stand the sight anymore and hid her face from the windows. It was beginning to be too much for her.

Mokuba had also given up but this was too hard for him. He was just a kid and this isn't what he was supposed to see. Seto looked over at his little brother for a second and ruffled his hair. "Go to sleep kid, you need it," he said and watched his little brother nod his head and drift off to a dreamless sleep.

Tristan had given Serenity his jacket and let her sleep on his shoulder. "Kaiba, how are we on gas?" he asked.

Seto looked down and looked slightly worried. "About a quarter of a tank," he replied.

Tristan nodded and got on the walkie-talkie with Malik and asked him the exact same question. Malik had answered with a quarter of a tank, just like Seto. Driving for three hours straight was starting to make Seto feel like the late Rolen, a chauffeur. Finally reaching the edge of a city, the cars stopped and they all got out. Serenity stretched out her legs and yawned. Mokuba had followed the same suit but fell to the ground thanks to Mai's dog. She began to roughhouse with the preteen and accidentally scratched him.

"Ouch! She scratched me," he said after pushing the dog away.

Seto looked at the scratched and smiled. Before any of this happened, Mokuba used to come home with scratches, bruises, meaning that he would always play where he knew it was dangerous but didn't care. Well, this time, Mokuba didn't mean to get knocked down or to get scratched but that's the way it happened. Seto put a bandage on the scratch and watched Mokuba play fetch with the dog. Maybe this dog could help Mokuba coop with the zombie situation?

Marik looked around and sighed. Life had changed in a night and it wasn't going to get better. Walking to a tree, Marik thought he heard something on the other side.

/What is it/ his hikari asked through their link.

/I thought I heard something./ he said and went to check it out. On the other side was a zombie eating what looked like its newest victim, a short red head. Another young girl screamed when she saw that. The zombie raised its head and grunted as it stood up and limped over to her. Marik raised his gun and shot the zombie. BANG The head fell of and landed in the lake.

"She was my best friend before that thing started to eat her," the blonde cried. She seemed really familiar. The blonde pigtails, the glasses, this was starting to add up.

"Rebecca, why are you here instead of being with your grandfather?" Marik asked.

Rebecca Hawkins raised her head and the tears continued to fall. "Because he's dead along with his expedition crew. They went to Egypt and came back looking ill. They said that there were people there that weren't feeling that good and got scratched. Grandpa came back and three hours later, died, came back to life and ate one of my friends. I ran away and found my friend about an hour ago. She and I got separated and now she's dead and it's all thanks to me. I told my grandfather not to go but he went anyways," she said with tears falling from her face.

Yami came out of the shadows and looked down at the half eaten girl and the two people talking. "Rebecca," he said softly, so not to scare her.

Rebecca looked up and for a second there, though that Yami was Yugi. "Yami? Where's Yugi? Is he here? Please tell me, where is he?" she asked the former pharaoh. Yami looked away and felt guilty. Rebecca had a HUGE crush on Yugi and now Yugi's dead. "No," Rebecca whispered as she caught what the pharaoh didn't say. Marik hung his head and turned away. "He can't be."

"He is. Come on, you can stay with us for a while," Yami said and the three of them walked back to the camp, but not before shooting the half eaten corpse in the head.

The blood of the zombie was defiling the lake's crystal clear water and it's victim. The blood and water mixed so fast that the whole lake turned red.

Seto looked up from his little brother's play and saw the girl prodigy. She was just as smart as he was at that age. But even though she was smart, she was naïve. "Rebecca, why are you here and not in London studying the artifacts there?" he asked, knowing exactly what her major was, ancient artifacts and legends.

Rebecca looked up and glared at him. "Because I came home early so I could see Yugi but I can't now," she said as she lowered her head and her shoulders shook with sobs. "He's dead and he can't ever come back to life. Just like our grandfathers."

"Grandfathers?" Yami asked. Before Yugi died, he wondered about his grandfather.

Rebecca nodded to Yami's question. "Mr. Muto was the one who infected my grandfather," she said with hatred dripping off each word.

Mokuba was surprised. Usually the blonde girl was sweet and nice but she changed after she left for college. (A/N: In the anime, Rebecca goes off to college at the age of eleven. How she got in is a mystery to me.) "Becca, what's happened to you?" he whispered. The dog growled at Rebecca and snarled every time Rebecca moved an inch closer to Mokuba.

Seto glared at the dog. Why was she raising her hackles to Rebecca? Was it something she could sense that the others couldn't? He looked at Rebecca again and saw something that confirmed his suspicions. Rebecca was bitten.

Bakura kept a close eye on the infected girl. He stopped Mai from moving any closer to the little girl. "Don't. She infected. She'll turn as soon as she dies," he snapped as Mai looked from the tomb robber to the young college student. "If you don't believe me, look at her hand. It's wrapped up and there's a deep red stain on it from underneath. She's going to die and then she'll hunt us down." Mai looked at Rebecca's hand and felt tears fall down her cheeks again.

Serenity hid behind Tristan, who cocked the shotgun. Seto pulled his brother behind him. He wasn't going to let this little brat bite his brother and make him lose everything that he has left. Yami turned from Rebecca and went to a vehicle and grabbed a pistol. Life wasn't fair and it definitely wasn't getting better.

Rebecca looked at them and was confused by their actions. She then looked at her hand and burst into tears. She knew her fate was sealed and there's nothing she could do about it. The only reason why she came back to Japan was to tell Yugi that she loved him. Now Yugi's dead and soon, she will be too. "I'm sorry," she said and drew a gun that she had hidden from behind her back. She cocked it and held it pointing upwards to her skull through her chin.

"Rebecca, don't do it!" Serenity cried. BANG Brains splattered everywhere and the body fell to the ground. Instead of risking her friend's safety, Rebecca had chosen suicide. Serenity and Mokuba collapsed on the ground in tears. None of them needed to see that. Serenity and Mokuba were the youngest and the most innocent of the group and so far, if they survive this and the world returns to normal, they would have to have some serious help.

Bakura heard his hikari cry through their link and tried to comfort him in the best way he could. /Ryou, she was saving all of us from herself when she would turn. Please hikari, quit crying./

/But why is all of this happening/ Ryou sobbed. Bakura shook his head and turned back to his friends, while still trying to calm Ryou down. Seto picked up his brother and let him cry on his shoulder. Serenity was held by Tristan and just sobbed. Death was all around her and she felt like if this killing and death weren't going to stop, then she might as well end her life like the little college student did.

DM: -cries- I brought her into this fic and she had to die!

Dragon: -wraps a wing around DM- Everything's fine now, she's with Yugi and the others. This chapter is sad but you had to do it.

DM: Please review if you want. –continues to cry-