Chapter 11

Emma awoke from her sleep to find herself alone, only to remember that she had moved away from the rest of the group before she had gone to sleep. She sat up and looked around to see that the others were all lying down and realised that she must have been the first one to wake up.

She moved closer to the rest of the group as she wanted to apologize for the way that she had been behaving, but as she neared them she saw that they had all been shot and were dead. She glanced around at every single one of them and then saw Kaiba, sat on his own as he watched her.

"What happened?" She asked in terrified surprise.

"They got in my way and tried to stop me from finding my little brother." Kaiba told her as he pulled a gun from inside his coat and looked at it. "I'm sure you would have done the same thing if you were in my shoes."

Emma didn't know how to react. She couldn't get her head around what Kaiba had done to her friends. She sank down to her knees and stared right in to the barrel of the gun that Kaiba had now aimed at her.

"And as I recall, you were the one who insisted that we rest." There was pure hatred in his eyes and voice. "So you're just as bad as the rest of them."

Everything seemed to happen in slow motion as she watched him pull the trigger. She attempted to cry out as she saw the bullet heading towards her but there was no sound to be heard. She closed her eyes as the bullet was just about to hit her and felt herself falling.

Emma awoke with a start and was close to the verge of tears from her dream. She saw Tea close by who turned and asked; "You alright?"

"Just a bad dream that was all." she assured Tea as she was about to wiped sweat from her forehead with the sleeve of her blouse but stopped. Joey's blood had dried on her sleeve and she felt herself shiver as flashbacks entered her mind. She pushed them away and joined the rest of the gang around the fire, "Has anything happened while I was asleep?"

"A danger zone was announced just a few moments ago." Yami told her, and she became worried.

"It's okay as it's miles away from us." Emma was surprisingly assured by Zene, who she hadn't heard say much, or seen interact with anybody besides Kaiba.

Emma glanced at Zene for a moment as she saw her smile back with a forced smile which told Emma told she was hiding something, but what? She continued to look around and didn't see Bakura or Sarah anywhere. She became worried again as the sky was dark and hoped that the two of them were okay.

Together Bakura and Sarah sat gazing up at the stars as they began to appear one by one in the night sky. It was the most beautiful thing that they had ever seen and also the saddest as they both knew that they would never see another night.

"How long now?" Sarah asked as she rested her head on Bakura's shoulder.

Bakura reached over to pick up his watch that was on top of their map which had their location marked out. He stared at it for a moment trying to make out the time from the little light that they had. "Three minutes left." he told her with his voice filled with sadness.

Sarah hugged him tightly as she push him slowly backwards so that they were both lying down, her head rest on his chest as she listened to his heart beat.

"Danger zone is now active." the speaker stated out across the island. "Two players, Bakura and Sarah, have been eliminated. Ten players still remaining."

The news hit Emma like a stab in the heart. "No!" she cried as she pounded the ground.

"It's not your fault." Tea tried to tell her with her own voice shaking.

"I brought them here." Emma cried. "I let them go when I knew that something was wrong, of course it's my fault." she continued to sob hating herself even more.