Chapter Six

One murder left. It'd either be this murder, then Atem, or this murder and then Atem. At least, that's how Yugi saw it. He might be targeted too. Maybe they could catch the murderer before hand? He certainly hoped so. He couldn't stand to lose Atem again …

Serenity Wheeler was walking back to her dorm. There had been five murders now … It was unbelievable. Who would do such a thing? And to think that the police originally suspected her big brother ... Joey may have a short fuse, but he'd never kill anyone. But who could it be? Tristan, Tea, Pegasus, Ishizu and Mai were all gone … who would possibly kill them?

Serenity looked up as the lights suddenly flickered out. Someone hit her in the back of the head and she fell to the ground. She heard something clatter to the ground next to her, and turned to face it. It was a golden scale—the Millennium Scale.

Her heart began to pound faster. A Millennium Item could only mean one thing. She jumped to her feet—or at least, she tried to. A foot on her back kept her pinned to the ground. The attacker picked up the Millennium Scale and wrapped one of the sharp wires around her neck.

It began to choke her, but it was also digging into the skin of her throat. Serenity choked and coughed, and tried to cry out for help. She screamed, and she felt warm liquid run down her throat. She was terrified.

She screamed again, but it was cut short.

Serenity Wheeler fell, limp, onto the ground.

The attack smirked and dropped the Scale down by her head. One more to go, and he would finally succeed.

Joey woke with a start when he heard a scream. Honestly, he'd been expecting to wake up early to another scream—but not one this familiar. He jumped out of bed and ran out of the room and down the hall. No, this scream he recognized too well. But, it couldn't truly … she couldn't have …

Joey stopped dead in his tracks. There, on the floor with blood still pouring from her neck, was his little sister.

Her eyes were wide open in shock and horror, and tears still stained her face. Joey felt weak and he fell to his knees, not noticing the people coming out of their rooms to investigate.

Yugi ran over to Joey, but he couldn't think of anything to say. There was one murder left now, and one item; The Millennium Puzzle.

There were only two people that the killer would go after with the Puzzle … and it had to be either Yugi or Atem. Yugi still couldn't accept the fact that Atem might die. But who was the murderer?! It had to be one of those left. Yugi scanned the room, all the people there; Joey, Seto, Mokuba, Duke, Bakura, Ryou, Marik, Malik, Atem and himself. Somewhere within this group was the killer …

The next day, at 10.30 pm, everyone was wide awake. They all sat in their dorms, too scared to sleep. There was one person left to be murdered, and then it would be over … but who would it be? Who's the killer? Who's the victim? Too many questions were in the air that night, making the atmosphere tense with dread.

Yugi could barely take it. Atem had gone to talk with the officers about something, so he was alone in his dorm. Yugi stared out the window at the shadowed street beyond it. His breath clouded a small part of the window for a second, before fading. What if Atem was indeed the next victim? Would Yugi be able to take that? He knew he wouldn't. If Atem died, Yugi … Yugi would be broken.

Yugi heard the door behind him open and close. Footsteps came closer to the window. Yugi figured it was just Atem, but something was wrong.

In the same split second, Yugi realised three things; if this person was Atem, he hadn't greeted Yugi. Also, his footsteps sounded different. And, there was a quick flash of gold in the window—a reflection of the Millennium Puzzle. Yugi whipped around just in time to see the intruder fall to the ground. Atem stood behind him, with his fist extended. He'd just punched the attack in the back of the head.

The person had a black, sleeves hoodie on, which covered his face. The punch delivered to his had hadn't knocked him out. The attacker sat up and Atem walked around and stood in front of Yugi protectively. The attacked stood up and let the Millennium Puzzle fall to the floor. His hood fell down, revealing his face.