Okay, my very sincere apologies. I swore I'd have this up yesterday or the day before but due to unforeseen circumstances, I didn't have time to put it up. And it's super short. See, Writer's block is being a you know what right now...DIE YOU!

Disclaimer: ...if I did...would I be apologizing? Wait, scratch, why would I be here?

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It had been three weeks now, they were at the very beginning of their fourth week. How could they have been so stupid to allow themselves to walk into this trap and live in this unrelenting terror for this long? Their minds were going to crack under this pressure, their sanity was going to disappear in the midst of all this madness. Just the fact that they were still sane, in control of what was going on said much for their strength of mind.

Serenity closed her eyes and struggled to keep a tear from spilling over at the thought of all those who had gone before them. Joey was gone…Tristan, Tea…all gone. Even Yami, the one who had been the one to protect the world many times over was dead, his blood having had stained the ground. Why would someone do this to them? She shivered although it was warm inside and wrapped her arms around her knees as she stared at the sky, wondering. Who was going to be next, Marik, Malik, Isis, Ryou, Yugi, Bakura, her? Or maybe Mokuba or Seto? She turned towards the room and she found herself looking into the depths of a fancy gilded mirror and her expression changed as she saw herself. Nothing new, to be sure, but she could have sworn for a moment that she'd felt something while looking this time…

She saw the door open and nodded as Seto and Mokuba stepped into the room, both of them walking towards the nook in which she was in and also looked towards where her gaze was directed. Tears of fear ran down her face as she suddenly found words to speak and said what had been on her mind as she gazed at the stars.

"Star light…star bright, first star I see tonight…I wish I may, I wish I might…have this wish, I wish…tonight." So childish…she knew it was…but she wanted that wish, forever. I wish that we'll all be safe.

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Marik's arms wrapped around his hikari's smaller frame and drew him close, refusing to let go of him as he nestled his chin on the fluffy blonde mane. He held him close as he stared into the mirror in front of him and his eyes widened as he saw shadows creeping up on him and Malik and he stared, at the mad expression in his eyes, the silent but cruel laugh he had seen and he twisted around sharply to see…

Nothing. There was nothing there and the dark one could have wept with relief had it not been for the fact that he had never wept and didn't know how. He didn't even know what this feeling in the core of stomach was that made his chest hurt and the stinging in his eyes was, but he knew it was a good thing.

Then his thoughts went back to what he had seen in the mirror and he breathed out heavily. Never again, never again would he be like this, never have a reason to turn that way again. It was over. His breathing was ragged when Malik woke up and he stirred drowsily. "Something wrong?" The clueless one asked quietly, expression drowsy.

"Nothing, nothing you should worry about." He said quietly and held onto Malik tightly. Never again. Never,

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Ryou knew it was too risky to try anything in person this time, everyone was far too paranoid for that to happen now, so he had to be clever, and clever he was, even if what he did had not been focused entirely on one person, he'd had to spread it to the whole mansion, although it was mainly focused on someone…one person.

But nothing would happen until he slept…so he resolved to sleep as soon as possible, Bakura watching over his unnaturally quick descent to slumber before slowly drifting off to sleep himself, his head resting on his arms. Soon a light snoring was heard from their room and many others…

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Duke watched Yugi drift off to sleep after taking a drink of water and noted that he fell asleep a little too quickly but nothing else before gazing at his reflection for a second and made to look away and to go back to bed before realizing that his eyes, they were drawn to the mirror some way, for some reason he didn't know. He turned, eyes narrowing and he looked even more deeply, his gaze dark and suspicious before he saw white petals fluttering around behind him and then he looked startled as he turned to see what others had seen. Absolutely nothing. He tried to force himself then, not to look at his reflection, but he looked and nothing changed…until everything changed.

His reflection was not his…it was his but not his. Those weren't his carefree scornful eyes he saw in his reflection, the gaze he saw was spiteful, angry, cruel…his eyes widened on the outside while his reflection never changed but grew even darker. They were malicious and he began to shake as he remembered that expression and where he'd seen it.

"Alright Duke, we'll try it, but I really don't think it's going to work…" Duke shook his head at the girl next to him teasingly and laughed.

"Of course it's going to work Yuki, when has anything I've done been a mistake? Especially with you?" Duke laughed as he slowly sweet talked the girl next to him into coming around. She was Yuki Kayama, a daughter of an important businessman that could make his dream come true…it seemed everything was going great in a relationship, but of course, he was just using her. After all, Pegasus had told him to.

Ten days later, she was in despair and commited suicide and he had his corporation beginning to go…not knowing he'd inadvertly killed someone more important than he could know, a certain girlfriend of a certain Ryou Bakura. He'd known that she was going out with someone, but never who.

Duke shook even more as he realized what was going on. No, he couldn't die, not now…His eyes widened as he took a step away and something started ringing and pounding in his ears before…

Ryou's face appeared in the growing shadows and then everything imploded.

That was how they found him in the morning, Yugi yelling out and finding Duke dead on the ground with an expression of pure terror on his face and a shattered mirror around him without harming him, each shard reflecting a black rose petal.

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UH...Yeah. Bye. Hope to write a new chapter soon. Oh and...I GOT A HUNDRED REVIEWS! WHOOT!

AHH! Updated...ano...does anyone want to see anyone else killed? I could easily start wrapping this up next chapter, or the chapter after that, unless I get inspired or someone gives me an idea good enough to drag this on.