Chapter 59, Truly back to normal.
Robin was walking home, he should be pleased that he had come 3rd in the junior national duelling championship but he was far too annoyed that his sister hadn't come to walk him home like she had promised.
After almost an hour of walking Robin finally reached his home, "Thanks of picking me up Raven" said a very frustrated Robin as he opened the door, however he received no answer.
"Mum, Dad, Raven, is anyone here" shouted Robin but received no response, Robin knew that this was strange why would his family leave the door unlooked if they had left the house.
Robin walked a little into the house and his heart stopped at what he saw.
Raven was laying at the bottom of the stares, her black hair was partly covering her face and her green eyes was shut, she wasn't moving at all, Robin ran to his sister and tried to wake her.
"Raven, Raven, wake up, please wake up" cried Robin as he shook his sister, Raven didn't wake or move, it was as if she was a corpse, "Mum, Dad, something's wrong with Raven" screamed a panicking Robin.
"Mum, Dad, where are you" screamed Robin as he ran around the house looking of his parents, soon Robin found them they was laying on the kitchen floor, neither one of them was moving they was just like Raven.
Robin fell to his knees with tears in his eyes as he realised what had happened, his family was dead, they was all dead, with nothing else to do Robin began to cry.
Robin woke up with a jump and with tears in his eyes, it took him a second to realised that he was in the infirmary, "What happened" he thought, "Robin your awake" said a voice, Robin turned his head and saw Alexis sitting in a chair next to him.
"Alexis, where am I" asked Robin still a little disoriented, "Your in the infirmary, after your duel with Kagemaru you passed out" explained Alexis, "I guess using that Shadow charm to break through that barrier took more out of me than I thought" said Robin with a half-smile.
"I was really worry, when we first got you here you wasn't showing any signs of waking up" said Alexis.
"How long was I out" asked Robin, "About a day, Nurse Fontaine said that you was just exhausted, although I think that she's starting to get suspicious that so many people have been coming in here with unexplained cases" explained Alexis.
"Well hopefully this whole Sacred beast fiasco is over now, are you and the others ok, no one got hurt during the crossfires of that duel did they" said Robin, "Everyone's fine, although I think that Jaden might hate you now" said Alexis.
"Jaden hates me? What did I do to finally piss him off" asked Robin with a smile, "He kind of blames you for Kagemaru's death" explained Alexis, "Kagemaru's dead" questioned Robin sounding genuinely surprised.
"I guess you did pass out before we noticed, Kagemaru didn't survive your last attack, when we checked on him he was dead" explained Alexis, "Well that wasn't really my intention, I just wanted to beat him" said Robin, "Although I won't lie, I'm not sorry that he's gone" thought Robin silently.
"Well anyway, Sheppard covered everything up like he usually does, although this time I'm kind of glad about it" said Alexis.
"Oh, is Mr Thorn awake" said Nurse Fontaine as she ran over, "Yeah, I'm fine, can I go now" asked Robin, "I'd just like to make sure that your well first, its not normal for a boy of your age to just collapse like you did" said Fontaine.
"I guess that I'll see you later Robin, you should be out pretty soon" said Alexis as she walked towards the door, "See you later Alexis, and tell Chazz that I'm still going to get him for what he did" said Robin.
Jaden was in one of the classroom playing Dungeon dice monsters against Syrus while Chumley watched.
"I heard that Robin woke up earlier today, he should be out of the infirmary by now" said Syrus as he rolled his dice but failed to summon a monster, "I don't really care about Robin anymore" said Jaden as he rolled his dice and summoned Elemental HERO Sparkman.
"Jaden I know that your angry with Robin, but he did save our lives" said Syrus hoping to make peace between the two, "I know, but why did he have to kill Kagemaru, surely there was another way" said Jaden as he used two movement crests to move Sparkman towards one of Syrus's monsters.
"I didn't want anyone to die either, but I think that Robin did the best that he could" said Chumley, Jaden sighed "If Robin hadn't have stopped me from duelling then I'm sure that I could have saved everyone" he said.
"Or maybe you would have been the one who died" thought Syrus as one of Jaden's monster attacked him and destroyed his last heart point.
Robin walked into the library and found Alexis and Bastion waiting for him, "Nice to see that your alright" said Bastion who was reading a book about strategy, "I'm just glad that this whole Sacred beast thing is finally over" said Robin as he sat down.
"Do you really think that it is over this time" asked Alexis, "I think so, I don't think that there's anyone left who knows about the Sacred beasts" said Robin.
"So I guess that things can finally go back to normal" said Bastion, "Hopefully, I came to Duel academy hoping to have a normal life, I'm sick to death and shadow games" thought Robin.
"By the way, did you ever say anything to Atticus about the whole arranged date thing" Robin asked Alexis, "Trust me, I said more than just a few things" said Alexis thinking back to the argument that she had had with her brother.
"What I want to know is why did Sheppard what Jaden to duel Kagemaru" said Alexis, "I don't know, Sheppard always seems to play favourites with Jaden, he must be his secret son or something" joked Robin.
"By the way Robin, there's something I wanted to ask you" said Bastion, "What is it" asked Robin, "How did you get that Starving venom fusion dragon card, I heard that it was only released in America" asked Bastion.
"It was" said Robin as he pulled out his deck and showed the card in question to Bastion, "Wait, this card is printed in English" said Bastion as he looked at the card, "I know, I got this card while I was in America a couple of years ago" said Robin.
"Really, do you have anymore cards that was only printed over there" asked Bastion, "A couple" said Robin as he went through his deck and showed Bastion the other cards that he had gotten from America.
Chancellor Sheppard was in his office in deep thought, he was sad about the death of his old friend, he know that Kagemaru had to be stopped but he wished that things could have ended more peacefully.
For a moment Sheppard wondered how things would have ended if Jaden had duelled Kagemaru but he shook those thoughts from his head, there was no reason to wonder what could have been now that it was all over.
Sheppard sighed, he needed to do something to get his mind off of what had happened, he thought that maybe he could take a nice trip somewhere, however the end of the school year was drawing closer and he had to stay here for now.
Sheppard tried to think of another way to cheer himself up, however this was proving to be difficult, after a couple of minutes of thinking Sheppard gave up and reached into his desk and pulled out a bottle of brandy.
Sheppard poured himself a glass of brandy and started to drink, after a couple more glasses a idea finally came to Sheppard's partially intoxicated mind.
"That's it, we can have a party, but what kind of party should it be" said Sheppard out loud, Sheppard downed the rest of his glass, "Oh course, isn't it obvious, this is a duel monster school, so we'll have a duel monster party" he said.
Sheppard grabbed his phone and called Crowler to tell him about his idea.
The next day everyone found that posters had been placed all over the school, Robin who was on his way to his first class stopped at a group of students who was all crowded around one of the posters.
Robin pushed his was passed a couple of the students so that he could see what the poster said, This Sunday a party will be held to celebrate the game of Duel monsters, all students are invited, there is to be food, music and duels all day so feel free to attend, the party will also include a costume contest, all students may wear costumes of their favourite Duel monsters for a chance to win a prize of twenty booster packs, please speak to Ms Dorothy on Saturday to receive a costume.
Robin thought about this party as he headed towards class, "A party, I guess that Sheppard is trying to get people to stop thinking about all of the weird things that have been going on lately, still it could be fun".
Soon everybody was talking about the party, even Jaden who had been in a bad mood ever since Kagemaru's death seemed to have cheered up, "Alright, I can't wait to get my costume" he said in the middle of class.
"What are you going to go as" asked Syrus, "No idea, maybe Avian, or Bubbleman, or what about Sparkman" said Jaden excitedly, "That's enough, if you two don't keep it down you'll both be staying behind for detention" said Crowler who was sick of the two disturbing his lesson.
Once Saturday rolled around everyone headed to the shop to get a costume before all of the best ones was taken, to no ones surprise Jaden overslept and was one of the last ones to reach the shop.
Jaden came running into the shop completely out of breath after running all the way from the Slifer dorm, "What took you so long, I think that all of the costumes have been taken" said Bastion who had a orange costume tucked under his arm.
"What no way, I can't be the only one without a costume" said Jaden as he ran up to Ms Dorothy hoping to get a costume.
Chazz couldn't help but laugh at Jaden's foolishness, "Good luck trying to find any descent costumes Jaden, good thing that I've got one of the best" he said to himself as he looked at his costume of XYZ-dragon cannon, however Chazz failed to notice that Robin was watching him from the other side of the room with a mischievous smile.
