Chapter 4, Embarrassing defeat.

The next morning all of the students woke to find packages outside their doors, inside was their new school jackets. Robin tried his on and looked in the mirror, it was a normal length jacket that was blue with a white trim.

Robin packed his school bag and headed too class. Once he reached the main building he saw the other students he meet yesterday, Jaden was talking to two other Slifer students, Bastion was by himself writing in a notebook, Alexis was with her friends and Chazz was bossing two Obelisk students around.

The bell rang and everyone went to their very first class. Dr Crowler was teaching the first years today, Crowler started by making sure everyone remembers his class rules, he had so many rules that some students had to write them down.

Once he was satisfied that everyone know the rules Crowler started the lesson. "Now then class today we will be learning all the different card types from monsters to traps" he said, everyone made notes as Crowler talked about monsters, spells and traps.

At 12pm the bell rang signalling break had started, Jaden woke up having fallen asleep near the start of the lesson, And everyone left the classroom to enjoy themselves.

Alexis was talking with Mindy and Jasmine when she noticed that Robin was sitting by himself "Alexis, hey Alexis" said Jasmine bringing her back to reality, "Oh sorry what was you saying" she said.

"What was you looking at" asked Jasmine, "She was looking at that boy over there, he looks pretty dreamy" said Mindy, Jasmine looked annoyed at Alexis "It's not like that Jasmine" said Alexis "It's just that I thought its strange, that's the boy who beat Crowler but he doesn't seem to have any friends here".

The bell rang telling everyone to return to class, on her way there Alexis thought "Maybe I should talk to Robin after class, for such a good duellist I don't know anything about him", back in class Crowler talked about the different monsters you can keep in your extra deck, at the end of class everyone collector their things and left.

Robin decided to explore the building and went to look around, he was just at one of the duelling arenas when he heard a voice "Robin, there you are, I wanted to talk to you", Robin turned around to see Alexis "Hello Alexis, what did you what to talk about".

But before they could say another word they was interrupted by Chazz and his friends "There he is" said Chazz walking up to Robin "you may have beaten Crowler but remember there's only room for one king in this school and that's me".

Robin just stood there and said "Do you mind, we was trying to talk" Chazz looked annoyed "A girl like Alexis shouldn't be talking to a peasant, she should be talking to a king like me", now Alexis was annoyed "Why would I want to talk to an arrogant ass like you" Chazz pretended that he didn't hear her.

"I'll show you just how inferior you are, I challenge you to a duel, midnight tonight" said Chazz "But that's paced curfew, you could get in trouble" said Alexis. "What's the matter scared, you should be" said Chazz.

Chazz was just about to leave when he was stopped by Robin saying "I see what you're doing, you want to face me in privet, that way if you lose you won't embarrass yourself", muttering could be heard from the other blue students. Chazz looked angry "That's not the reason, I'll take you on any time any place" he shouted.

"What about right here right now" said Robin turning to the duelling arena. "That's fine with me" said Chazz as they both made their way down. Many students began saying "What's that kid thinking" and "Chazz has got this in the bag". Alexis just stood there and watched she had a feeling this wasn't going to end the way the others thought.

The duel started "I'll start off" said Chazz "By summoning X head cannon in attack mode, and placing one card face down".

X head cannon ATK 1800 DEF 1500 LV 4 LIGHT machine.

"Not bad" said Robin "I play a monster in defence mode and a face down card, and end my turn"

Chazz started his turn "I activate my face down, Dust tornado to destroy your face down". Robin's mirror force was destroyed. "Now I activate Double summon, so I can summon two monsters this turn, and I chose Y dragon head, and Z metal tank".

Y dragon head ATK 1500 DEF 1600 LV 4 LIGHT machine.

Z metal tank ATK 1500 DEF 1300 LV 4 LIGHT machine.

"Now I contact fuse my three monsters to summon Xyz dragon cannon"

Xyz dragon cannon ATK 2800 DEF 2600 LV 8 LIGHT machine.

"Now by sending one card in my hand to the graveyard I can destroy one of your cards" said Chazz as Robins defence monster was destroyed. The card was Purple poison magician.

Purple poison magician ATK 1200 DEF 2100 LV 4 DARK spellcaster.

Robin smiled "Nice work when my magician is destroyed I can destroy one face up card you control". Chazz looked horrified as Dragon cannon exploded before his eyes "I end my turn" he said still in shock.

Robin drew his card and grinned "I play Monster reborn to revive your Xyz dragon cannon, then I summon Skilled white magician in attack mode".

Xyz dragon cannon ATK 2800 DEF 2600 LV 8 LIGHT machine.

Skilled white magician ATK 1700 DEF 1900 LV 4 LIGHT spellcaster.

"Now my magician attack him directly" said Robin.

Chazz LP 4000 – 1700 = 2300.

"Now Dragon cannon finish off your old master" said Robin.

Chazz LP 2300 – 2800 = 0.

Many student looked on in shock. Robin left Chazz on his knees in disbelief as his friends just left his there to return to their dorm, Robin returned to Alexis and said "Right then Alexis what did you want to talk to me about".

"Well I wanted to ask you about your duelling skills" said Alexis as they left the duelling arena, Robin seemed confused "Why, what do you want to know".

Alexis smiled "Well you seem to know a lot about this game, I was wondering who taught you", when Alexis turned to Robin he seemed to be staring off into the distance and deep in thought.

"Robin are you ok" Alexis asked, Robin snapped back to reality "Oh sorry, what was you saying", "I just asked who taught you how to play duel monsters", Robin seemed to think for a moment "Well I started as self-taught, but then I meet someone who gave me some pretty intense training".

"Really, who was it maybe they could teach me a few things" said Alexis "You can't, he's dead, he died three months before I came here", Alexis was shocked to hear this "Oh, I'm sorry to hear that", "Don't be, I learned he wasn't that great of a person" said Robin.

"Look Alexis, I'm sorry but I've got things to do today so I've got to go" said Robin as he left Alexis alone. "That was odd, he didn't seem to want to talk about his teacher, maybe something happened between them" thought Alexis.

Chazz was still in the arena, he hadn't moved since he lost the duel "Mr Princeton please get off of the floor and come with me", Chazz recognized the voice as Dr Crowler turning around he saw Crowler standing over him.

Chazz stood up quickly "Dr Crowler, sir, you wasn't watching the duel was you" Crowler sighed "Yes Chazz, I'm afraid I did, but that doesn't matter I need your help with something", "Of course what is it".

Crowler smiled "There's another boy who isn't worthy of duel academy Jaden Yuki, I want you to defeat him in the first official school duel so I can expel him for incompetents" Chazz smiled "You mean that Slifer slacker I'll pulverise him", "Good I'll be looking forward to that" said Crowler.

Jaden walked with Syrus down the corridor they had just watched the duel between Robin and Chazz "Man that was a sweet duel Chazz got totally wrecked" said Jaden "I didn't think anyone could beat him that easy" replied Syrus.

"Oh one second Sy I've got to go to the bathroom" said Jaden as he ran to the nearest toilet. When he returned he saw two Obelisk students with Syrus, one holding him against the wall and the other looking through his deck.

"Hey let him go" shouted Jaden running up to them "Or what, what's a slacker like you going to do" said the one holding Syrus, "forget it, his cards are a bunch of crap anyway" said the other as he throw Syrus's cards over his shoulder.

"My cards" cried Syrus as he struggled out of the boys grip and started to pick up his cards. The two Obelisk students walked away intensely stepping on some of the cards as they left, Jaden kneeled down and helped Syrus pick his cards up "Sorry this happened Syrus" he said "Its ok Chumley told me the Obelisk's are always doing thinks like this" Syrus replied. Jaden gave a sad nod and continued to help his friend.

Robin leaned against a tree just outside the school building, he felt bad for leaving Alexis like that "Pull yourself together Robin it's not going to change what happened" he thought. After a few minutes he decided to look around the island and learn what this place was like.

Robin decided to start west today and work his way around the island over the next few days, heading west he soon came across the Slifer dorm "This place doesn't look as comfortable as the Obelisk dorm" he thought.

Suddenly he was approached by three Slifer students "Hey what's an obnoxious Obelisk doing here" one said "Shouldn't you be licking Crowler's boots teacher's pet" the second added "Maybe he's just looking for some easy opponents to boost his ego" the third finished.

"What do you three want there's no rule against me being here" said Robin, the three laughed as two of them moved to surrounded Robin "There's no school rule against it, but us Slifer's have our own rules" the first said "Should we show him what we mean" the second said "I think we should" the third finished.

The third boy grabbed Robin's left arm as the other two moved closer. Robin kicked the first boy in the stomach then elbowed the second in the face breaking his nose, the third boy tried to punch Robin but he blocked it and punched him in the jaw knocking him down.

The first boy charged Robin but he gave him a reverse roundhouse kick to the head knocking him out, the other two quickly backed off dragging their friend away with them. Robin gave them a threatening look before leaving the Slifer dorm "I don't think I'll be returning here any time soon".