Chapter 34, The field trip.

Professor Banner was teaching the class today, he was teaching everyone the differences between a regular duel and a speed duel.

The bell finally rang signalling the end of class, "Everyone please don't forget your homework" said Banner before anyone could leave, everyone walked up to Banner's desk and received a folder from the Professor.

Later that day Robin was sitting in his room preparing to start his homework, he opened the folder and found that one of the papers seemed different than the others.

Robin read the letter in his head, "Congratulations, you have been chosen to partake in a special field trip to a hidden part of the island, please report to the back of the main building tomorrow at 9am, remember to bring a packed lunch with you, all who attend this trip will receive extra credit of their next test, signed Professor Lyman Banner".

"A special field trip, well at least it gets me out of school for the day" thought Robin as he put the letter to one side while he started work on his homework.

The next day Robin walking to the back of the building to start the field trip when he ran into Alexis, "Hi Robin ready for the field trip" she said, "Sure, I just hope Banner takes us somewhere exiting" said Robin.

The two arrived at the back of the main building and found Banner and Bastion waiting for them, "That's strange, I would have thought that there'd be more people here by now" said Robin, "Don't worry Robin the others will be here soon" said Banner.

Everyone sat down and waited for the others to arrive, after about five minutes Chazz arrived, then almost ten minutes later Jaden finally arrived.

"Ok, now that everyone's here shall we begin" said Banner happily, everyone seemed confused, "Professor not everyone is here, what about the rest of the class" asked Alexis, "Their not coming, I decided to only invite you five" said Banner.

The group was even more confused now, "Why" asked Robin, "Because you five are my best students and I thought that you deserved a treat" answered Banner, Jaden seemed to be satisfied with this answer.

"Ok everyone lets go" said Banner as he began to lead the group away from the main building, everyone followed Banner, however Robin and Alexis stayed at the back of the group so that they could talk to each other without anyone hearing.

"Does this seem a little strange to you" whispered Alexis, "Very, I could understand us, but Jaden's one of the worst students in Banner's class, why would Banner invite him to a special field trip" whispered Robin.

"Should we do something" asked Alexis, Robin shock his head "No, for now let's just go along with it, it might be nothing anyway" he whispered.

The group followed Banner for over an hour until they reached a clearing that none of them had seen before, "Ok children I think this would be a good place to have our lunch" said Banner.

Within a few minutes everyone had sat down and pulled their lunches out of their backpacks, Robin had a club sandwich, Alexis had an egg salad, Bastion had some fish cakes, Chazz had a roast beef sandwich and Jaden had brought some rice balls filled with beans.

"So what have you brought teach" asked Jaden, "I packed myself a pepperoni pizza, I can't wait to eat it" said Banner as he opened his backpack, to everyone's surprise Banner's cat Pharaoh jumped out of the backpack covered in tomato sauce.

"Pharaoh what are you doing here" asked Banner, Banner looked inside his backpack "My, my pizza, you ate my pizza" said Banner annoyance and anger clear in his voice.

Pharaoh curled up in Banner's lap and fell asleep, "I could never stay mad at you" said Banner as his face returned to its usual happy expression, "Maybe one of the children will share their lunch with me" thought Banner, however when Banner looked around he saw that all of the children had already eaten their lunches, "Or maybe not" he thought.

Banner stood up and placed his now sleeping cat back into his backpack, "Come along everyone, it's not much further now, we should reach our destination soon" he said, "Professor where exactly are we going" asked Bastion, "If I told you it would spoil the surprise" said Banner.

Everyone followed Banner deeper into the forest, after about twenty minutes they finally reached their destination, "Children I would like to welcome you to the ancient ruins" said Banner, the area was filled with old stone ruins that was barely standing, the ruins looked to be thousands of years old.

Bastion was amazed by the ruins, but the others was less impressed, "Why did you bring us here" asked Jaden, "Why Jaden haven't you heard, they say that ancient Egyptian pharaohs used to play a very similar game as duel monsters, so I thought it would be interesting if we came to some ancient ruins" explained Banner.

"But we live in Japan not Egypt" said Robin, "Yes well we can just pretend that we're in Egypt" said Banner, Jaden seemed to like this idea "Aright, I'm going to find some ancient duel monster cards" he said as he ran up to the ruins.

The others walked around the ruins, "Well this isn't exactly what I was expecting when I came on this trip" said Robin as he leaned against one of the ruins, "Oh really, what was you expecting" asked Chazz.

"Well I was thinking" started Robin however he stopped abruptly when he heard something nearby move, Robin turned his head and saw that there was a black and orange snake sitting on the ruins looking at him.

Robin screamed and jumped back almost five feet landing on his ass, "Don't worry Robin that's only a Akamata snake, it's not venomous" said Bastion, everyone started to laugh that Robin had reacted the way he did over a harmless snake.

However most of the group stopped laughing when they noticed that Robin was still sitting on the ground and had not recovered, Alexis approached Robin and saw that he was pale, sweating and had a thousand yard stare in his eyes.

"Robin are you ok" asked Alexis with concern in her voice, Alexis placed her hand on Robin's shoulder, as soon as she touched Robin he snapped back to reality, "I'm fine, I'm fine" he said trying to convince himself more that he was Alexis, despite this Robin was still breathing heavily.

Alexis helped Robin to his feet, "I didn't know you was afraid of snakes" she said, Robin looked back at the snake one last time "I had a bad experience with one" he said as he walked back over to the group.

Jaden felt like making a joke about what just happened but a part of him said that this wasn't the appropriate time, "Hey, has anyone seen Professor Banner" asked Chazz, the others looked around and realised that Banner was gone.

"Maybe he examining the ruins" said Bastion, before anyone could start looking for Banner the ground suddenly began to shake, "What, an earthquake now?" said Robin in confusion.

Suddenly green beams of light shot out of the ruins and hit each member of the group, as everyone was hit with the light they suddenly fell unconscious and disappeared, leaving no trace of themselves behind.

Robin slowly woke up with a painful headache, he tried to open his eyes and was almost blinded by the sun, slowly Robin's vision cleared and he almost fell into shock at what he saw.

Robin was surrounded by stone buildings and he could see a large stone pyramid no far away, "What, where the hell am I" he thought, Robin looked around and realised that he was alone, "Alexis, Bastion, Chazz, Jaden" he called but received no answer.

Robin stood up, "Ok Robin, first things first you have to find out where you are, then you can find the others" he thought, Robin began to search for any clues to where he was, he noticed that the building seemed very strange, they didn't look like anything that would be built in the modern day.

Robin began to walk towards the pyramid thinking that it would be the best place to start, soon Robin heard footsteps coming his way, thinking quickly Robin hid behind a nearby wall.

Robin peaked out of the walk and saw several men walk by, they was all wearing black cloaks and carrying swords and spears, "These guys look dangerous, I'd better get out of here while I still can" he thought.

Before Robin had a chance to move he felt someone press a razor sharp knife against his throat, "Don't move intruder, or your life is forfeit" said a man who was standing behind Robin, "Damn it" said Robin.

Alexis had also woken up and started to head towards the pyramid, "I hope the others are ok" she thought, soon Alexis saw some of the men dressed in black cloaks, "I'd better avoid them" thought Alexis looking at their weapons.

Alexis was just about to head in the other direction when one of the men saw her, "Intruder" he shouted, Alexis did the only thing she could think of, she ran.

Alexis ran as fast as she could, the men was not far behind her, Alexis continued to run though the stone streets, as she ran more men saw her and began to chase after her as well, soon there was a dozen men behind her.

Alexis made a quick turn and started to run towards the forest, she hoped that she would be able to lose the men in the trees, Alexis was only feet away from the forest when she felt something wrap around her legs causing her to fall.

Alexis looked down and saw that one of the men had thrown a bolas at her feet, and it had wrapped around her legs, Alexis desperately tried to untangle her legs but the men quickly caught up to her and carried her away.

When Bastion woke up he was amazed at the stone city that he was standing in, "Incredible these building must be thousands of years old but they look brand new" he thought.

Bastion continued to stare at the city until some of the cloaked men found him, "Hello there, do you know where I am" asked Bastion failing to notice the danger he was in, the men ignored what Bastion said.

Before Bastion could react two of the men grabbed him by the arms and dragged him away.

When Chazz encountered some of the cloaked men he immediately realised that something was wrong, two of the men approached Chazz with the intention of capturing him.

The first man grabbed Chazz's left arm, however Chazz thinking quickly punched the man in the face, the second man came up behind Chazz and grabbed both of his arms, but Chazz stomped on the man's foot causing him to let him go.

Chazz was about to run but a third man walked up and pointed a spear at Chazz's throat, the other two men recovered and pulled their swords out of the cloaks and pointed them at Chazz.

Chazz knew that he had no way to escape now, so he surrendered and hoped that the men wouldn't kill him.

Robin had had his hands bounded and then he had been taken to the Chief of the city, standing next to him was Alexis, Bastion, Chazz and Banner, all of them had been tied up as well.

The Chief was a man who appeared to be in his mid-forties, he had a short black beard and grey eyes, his cloak was mostly white with only the hood being black, he was sitting on a throne watching Robin and the others.

"You five have been found guilty of trespassing in our city, do you know what the sentence is for such a crime" said the Chief, no one answered, "I'm guessing that we won't like the answer" thought Robin.

Seeing that none of the prisoners seemed to know the answer the Chief decided to tell them, "The five of you will be mummified and then buried alive" he said, a look of fear appeared on all five of their faces.

"What, you can't just bury us" said Chazz, "That would class as murder" said Bastion, although the Chief didn't seem to care about this, "I don't think our laws apply here" said Robin.

Before anyone could say anything else, a woman who's face was covered with a veil entered the room and whispered something to the Chief, the Chief seemed to think about something for several minutes.

"Guards take these five and prepare them for punishment, I will return shortly" said the Chief as he stood up and left the room with the veiled woman following closely behind.