Chapter 16, The duelling giant.
Alexis was walking to the cafeteria with Mindy and Jasmine, "I can't believe that Crowler set us so much homework, why does he always give us blue's more than the others" said Mindy, Alexis thought of what to say, it was true Crowler did always give Obelisk blue students more homework then he did Ra or Slifer.
"I think he doesn't what us to fall behind, because then he might feel embarrassed that his students are failing" said Alexis, as the three continued walking the school speakers turned on and everyone heard Crowler's voice "All Obelisk blue students report to classroom 4B immediately", "What do you think that's about" asked Jasmine, "I don't know, but we'd better get to the classroom quickly" said Alexis.
At classroom 4B all of Obelisk blue was gathered together with Dr Crowler standing in front of everyone "Ok student I have a very important announcement to make" said Crowler "Some of you may know this but most of you don't, many Obelisk students have been attacked after dark".
"The victims have reported that the attacker was some kind of duelling giant, and that he has been challenging then to duels and then he steals both their strongest cards and their jackets" Crowler continued.
"Because of this I am asking all of you to avoid going out at night if possible, and if any of you has any information then please report it to me immediately, now then I believe that you all have homework to do, and just because there is a duelling giant running around does not mean you will not receive detention for not completing it, dismissed" finished Crowler.
Mindy turned to her friends "What are we going to do" she asked, "I don't think there's anything we can do" said Jasmine, "Come on, the cafeteria will be closed by the time we get there, so I say we go to the library and get started on this homework" said Alexis.
The three left the room only to see Jaden running up to them "Hey Alex you got a minuet" he said, "What's the matter Jaden" asked Alexis, "Me and the others are planning a stakeout tonight to find out who's been stealing sandwiches, you want to come" said Jaden, "Sorry Jaden, but Dr Crowler gave all of Obelisk blue extra homework, so I'm too busy" said Alexis, "Well ok then, maybe next time" said Jaden looking disappointed.
After Alexis and her friends left, Robin who had hear what Jaden had asked Alexis walked out of the classroom "Hey Robin, do you want to" said Jaden "I've got homework too Jaden" said Robin before Jaden could finish and then he headed to the library to start his homework without another word to Jaden.
The library was now filled with Obelisk students all trying to complete their homework, Dr Crowler had demanded that they all write him a paper on all the Number monsters from Number 1 all the way up to 107, the paper must include every individual monster's names, rank and effect.
Alexis was sitting with Mindy and Jasmine, "I can't believe we have to do all this work before tomorrow afternoon" said Mindy, "I know but we've got to do a lot of work so we'd better get started" said Jasmine, and the three started work on their homework.
After many hours of working some of the Obelisk students had left to return to their dorms, "I'm getting pretty tired, I think it's time to head back" said Mindy, Alexis looked at her work, she was only at Number 88 Gimmick puppet of leo "You can head back, but I want to finish this work first" said Alexis.
Jasmine checked the time "But Alexis it's going to be dark soon, and you heard what Crowler said" she said, "Don't worry about me, I'm not afraid of some duelling giant, and I don't want to rush to finish this work in the morning" said Alexis, Jasmine wanted to argue but she know it was pointless so she and Mindy left Alexis to finish her work alone.
Finally Alexis finished her homework, looking up from her work she realised that all the other students was gone, "They all went back to their dorms" came a familiar voice, Alexis turned around to see Robin sitting at a table still doing his homework.
Alexis walked over to him "How are you doing" she asked, "Almost done, I just have to do Number 107 Galaxy-eyes tachyon dragon" said Robin, Alexis sat next to him and waited for him to finish.
Once Robin was done he wiped his eyes and breathed deeply "That work was a nightmare" he said "Well knowing Crowler he'll probably tell us to do the same with all the Chaos Numbers next" said Alexis.
Robin turned to look at Alexis and looked out the window "How long have we been here, it's already dark" said Robin, Alexis looked out the window and saw that he was right in was pitch black outside, "We'd better get back to our dorms, I'd hate to be tired for school tomorrow" she said and the two left the library.
As Robin and Alexis walked back to their dorms the two began to talk "So out of all the Number monsters which one is your favourite" asked Robin, "I don't know, I've never really thought about using xyz monsters before, but now that I think about it they could be useful in the event that I can't summon one of my ritual monsters" said Alexis.
As the two neared their dorms they heard a scream come from nearby, "What was that" asked Robin, "I don't know, but we'd better go see" said Alexis running in the direction of the scream with Robin not far behind.
Following the scream they found a Obelisk student on the ground with a giant figure standing over him, the giant appeared to be dressed in a combination of several blue jackets all sewn together making him look even bigger and covering his face.
The giant kneeled down and yanked the students duel disk off of his arm clearly hurting him in the process, the student clenched his arm in pain as the giant started to look through his deck.
"Hey, get away from him" shouted Alexis startling the giant coursing him to drop the duel disk and deck, the giant turned to look at Robin and Alexis and stared at them for a second before pointing at them and then at his duel disk which he then activated.
"I think he want's to duel us" said Robin then he whispered to Alexis "I'll keep him busy, you make sure that student's ok" Alexis nodded, "Ok duelling giant, if you like messing with Blue's try messing with me" said Robin activating his duel disk.
As soon as the duel started Alexis ran the Blue student and helped him up, as soon as he was on his feet he ran away at full speed leaving his duel disk and cards behind, "Your welcome" shouted Alexis sarcastically as she started to gather the boys cards together.
The giant took the first turn, first he summoned Giant orc in attack mode and then he played one card face down, after that he ended his turn.
Giant orc ATK 2200 DEF 0 LV 4 DARK fiend.
Robin drew his card "first I activate the spell card Shrink to cut your monster's ATK in half, then I summon Evilswarm zahak in attack mode" said Robin.
Giant orc ATK 2200 – 1100 = 1100.
Evilswarm zahak ATK 1850 DEF 850 LV 4 DARK dragon.
"Now attack his Giant orc" ordered Robin, Zahak attacked destroying Giant orc, "I end my turn".
Giant LP 4000 – 750 = 3250.
The giant summoned Chainsaw insect in attack mode, then he activated his face down card Skill drain, the giant had to pay 1000 LP in order for skill drain to negate all monster effects on the field.
Chainsaw insect ATK 2400 DEF 0 LV 4 EARTH insect.
Giant LP 3250 – 1000 = 2250.
The giant's Chainsaw insect attacked and destroyed Zahak, then the giant played a card face down.
Robin LP 4000 – 550 = 3450.
Robin started his turn "I activate Mystical space typhoon to destroy your Skill drain" said Robin, the giant activated his face down card Fake trap, Fake trap then destroyed it's self to protect Skill drain, "This isn't good" thought Robin, "I play a monster in defence mode and end my turn" he said.
The giant started his turn and summoned Indomitable fighter lei lei in attack mode, and used it to attack Robin's monster which was Purple poison magician and destroyed it.
Indomitable fighter lei lei ATK 2300 DEF 0 LV 4 EARTH beast-warrior.
Purple poison magician ATK 1200 DEF 2100 LV 4 DARK spellcaster.
"Nice try, but by destroying my magician you activated his effect, and since he's not on the field when his effect activates your Skill drain can't negate it, so now I can destroy your Chainsaw insect" explained Robin and Chainsaw insect was destroyed.
Without another monster to attack with the giant ended his turn.
Robin drew his card and smiled "I play a monster in defence mode, and one card face down, now I end my turn" he said.
The giant started his turn and summoned Armor exe in attack mode, then he used Lei lei to destroy Robin's monster which was Defender the magical knight.
Armor exe ATK 2400 DEF 1400 LV 4 LIGHT rock.
Defender the magical knight ATK 1600 DEF 2000 LV 4 LIGHT spellcaster.
Then the giant attacked Robin directly with Armor exe.
Robin LP 3450 – 2400 = 1050.
After the attack the giant ended his turn, "If your ending your turn then I'm activating my face down card Scapegoat" said Robin, as Scapegoat summoned four Sheep tokens to his side of the field in defence mode.
4x Sheep token ATK 0 DEF 0 LV 1 EARTH beast.
"That's strange, why didn't he use Scapegoat to defend himself from that last attack" thought Alexis.
Robin started his turn "I summon Alexandrite dragon in attack mode, and now I equip him with the spell card United we stand, this increases my dragon's ATK by 800 for every monster I control, and thanks to Scapegoat I have five for a total of 4000 ATK points" said Robin.
Alexandrite dragon ATK 2000 DEF 100 LV 4 LIGHT dragon.
Alexandrite dragon ATK 2000 + 4000 = 6000.
"Now my dragon attack Armor exe" ordered Robin, Armor exe was destroyed.
Giant LP 2250 – 3600 = 0.
The giant fell over in shock, "Now let's find out who this guy really is" said Robin as he approached the giant, "Stay away from him" come a voice from the bushes as a boy come running out and stood between Robin and the giant.
The boy was very short only about half of Robin's height, he had long dark green hair and had a yellow jacket showing he was in Ra yellow, "Brier, you was supposed to stay hidden" said the giant speaking for the first time, "I'm sorry, but I can't let these Obelisks hurt you" said Brier.
Alexis looked at Brier and noticed he was wearing an earpiece, "Wait, have you been helping him duel" she said, Brier looked at Alexis angrily "So what if I have, you people deserve it" he said.
At this point the giant had removed some of his outfit revealing his face, he had an almost square shaped head and short brown hair, Brier turned to him "Beauregard what are you doing, now they know your face" he said, "And now we know his name as well" said Robin in a very matter of fact way.
"Now do you want to explain yourself, or should we just turn you into Crowler" said Robin, "As if you don't know, you Blue bastards are always bullying us Yellow's, thinking your better then everyone else" said Brier.
"What, since when has me or Robin ever bullied you" said Alexis, "I've never even meet these two" said Robin, "Well some other Blue's have been bullying us" said Brier.
"I won't lie, some Blue's are nothing but arrogant bullies, but most are nice people just trying to get along in school, so tell me out of all the people you attacked how many of them was actually guilty of bullying you" said Robin.
Brier was speechless for a minuet as he realised his mistake "Only two I think" he said sadly, "So what are you going to do with us" asked Beauregard.
Robin and Alexis began to whisper to each other about what to do, "What do you think, I mean I do feel sorry for them getting bullied all the time" whispered Alexis, "I know, but after what they did we can't just let them off with a slap on the wrist" whispered Robin, the two continued to whisper until they settled on an idea.
"Ok how's about this, we won't say anything to Crowler if you turn yourselves in and return all the card's you stole, maybe that way they'll go easy on you" said Robin, both Brier and Beauregard looked worried at the thought of this however they both agreed.
The next day Robin was in the cafeteria eating his lunch when Alexis sat down with him carrying a sandwich, "So, do you think those two turned themselves in" she asked, "If they didn't then I'm going straight to Crowler and telling him everything" said Robin.
Alexis took a bite of her sandwich and her eyes widened in surprise, "Wow, I think I got the golden eggwich" she said, "Lucky you" said Robin with a smile, out of the corner of his eye he could see Jaden over by the sandwich basket with a Obelisk student looking annoyed about something.
Suddenly both Brier and Beauregard entered the cafeteria, however they was both now wearing Slifer red jackets, Robin and Alexis approached the two.
"So, I take it that you two turned yourselves in" said Robin quietly enough so no one else in the cafeteria would hear, Brier nodded sadly "After last night we told Professor Sartyr everything, he told us how disappointed he was in us and demoted us to Slifer red, he said that he wouldn't let us come back to Yellow until we learn how to duel someone face to face with honour" he said.
Robin gave a slight smile, he know that if he was forced to tell Crowler what happened then Brier and Beauregard would have been expelled and at least this way the two now had a chance to redeem themselves.
