Chapter 27, Chazz's choice.
After the duel and Slade's attack on Chazz, everyone had prepared for the closing ceremony.
Slade and Jagger had quickly left the island taking the rare cards that they had brought with them, Chazz had recovered from the attack and was currently talking to Yuri, Robin was being congratulated by all of Duel academy.
"Wow, nice work out there" said a Obelisk girl, "Now we've beaten North academy three years in a row" said a Ra boy, "Really, three years in a row, that's great" said a Slifer boy in amazement.
The group soon started to talk about some of the big moves that was made during the duel, thanks to this Robin was able to slip out of the room without anyone noticing.
A few minutes later Chazz was looking for Chancellor Foster, there was something very important he wanted to talk to him about, finally Chazz found Foster inside the library he seemed to be in deep thought.
"Sir could I speak with you for a moment" said Chazz as he entered the library, "Of course my boy, what's on your mind" said Foster with a smile, Chazz sat down and said "Firstly I'd like to apologise for disappointing you".
"Chazz you haven't disappointed me, you did your best and that's all I could ask from you" said Foster, "Thank you, Chancellor, but there is something else I wanted to talk to you about" said Chazz clearly saddened by something, "What is it Chazz?" asked Foster.
"Chancellor I want to stay at Duel academy" said Chazz, Foster was shocked by this "But Chazz why on earth would you want to do that" he asked, Chazz took a deep breath before responding "It's because I want to prove to myself that I can beat Robin and Jaden and everybody else here, and I can't do that if I'm at North academy".
Foster looked a little sad to hear this, "I understand Chazz, if you're sure this is what you want then I'll go and speak with Chancellor Shepperd" he said as he stood up and began to walk towards the exit.
"Sir wait" said Chazz as he pulled the Armed dragon cards from his pocket and held them out to Foster, "You should take these back, their yours after all", Foster smiled and said "No, you can keep them think of it as a going away present", Foster then left the library leaving a very surprised Chazz behind.
Sometime latter everyone had gathered together in front of the main building to watch the trophy be presented to Duel academy, the Duel academy students stood on one side and the North academy students stood on the other.
Shepperd and Foster stood in front of everyone with the trophy sitting in between them, the trophy was made of silver and was shaped like three duel monster cards all standing up and forming a triangle.
Ms Dorothy stepped forward with a microphone in her hand and spoke to everyone, "I would like to thank you all for coming here and for supporting your school during this event, I hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did".
"Remember it doesn't matter who won this year, what matters is that both sides did their best and that we all had fun", while most of the students seemed to agree with what Ms Dorothy said there was a few who clearly disagreed.
"That being said there has to be a winner and this year the winner in Duel academy" said Dorothy, the students of Duel academy began to cheer while the North academy students just clapped quietly.
Dorothy picked up the trophy and presented it to Shepperd, Shepperd took the trophy and Dorothy gave him a kiss on the cheek causing Shepperd to turn as red as beetroot.
Soon the North academy students began to board the submarine preparing to return to North academy, Yuri was about to climb inside when he noticed that Chazz was missing, Yuri turned around and saw that Chazz was leaning against a wall watching the others board the submarine.
"Come on Chazz don't you want to get a good seat" said Yuri, "I'm not coming" said Chazz, Yuri was shocked "What" he said in surprise, "I'm staying here" said Chazz.
"But Chazz you're the best duellist at North academy, we can't afford to lose you" said Yuri with tears forming in his eyes, "I'm sorry, but I want to stay here until I can defeat both Jaden and Robin in a duel" said Chazz.
Yuri was about to say something else but was interrupted by Foster "Now Yuri I know that it is sad that Chazz is leaving us, but if this is what he wants I say we should support him" he said.
As soon as the other North academy students heard that Chazz was staying at Duel academy they all ran out of the submarine to say goodbye, before they all reboarded the submarine they decided to give Chazz one last cheer, "Chazz it up, Chazz it up" as they cheered some of them began to cry.
Finally Foster wished Chazz good luck and then he boarded the submarine and set sail, Chazz watched as the submarine disappeared into the water hoping that he had made the right chose.
Everyone began to leave and return to their dorms, Chazz was just about to head towards the blue dorm when he was stopped by Professor Banner, "Chazz I'm happy that you have chosen to remain here at Duel academy, however there is something important I must tell you about where you will be staying" said Banner.
"What's the matter, did someone move into my old room while I was gone" asked Chazz slightly confused, "No it's not that, you see your technically a transfer student which means that you have to start in Slifer red" said Banner.
Chazz was left speechless as what Banner said began to sink in, he had only heard rumours about the living conditions of the red dorm and he hoped now more than ever that they was false.
