Drama tales of a Highschool
A/N:
Hey guys! How are you doing? One more chapter! Whenever I have free time I just sit down to some music and start writing, so you can expect a lot of Updates in the near future. I'll warn you if something happens!
Anyway, I'd like to apologize for the week-long wait. School you know? but i'll try my best for future updates!
So, on with the story!
Chapter 4 – Arcade Runners
"Cordelia…" She whispered, even though Robin was already catching up with Chrom and Vaike who were heading for the locker rooms.
Robin laid his hand on Chrom's shoulder.
"That was a great game. Let's join the Basketball team." Said Robin, waiting for Chrom to respond.
Chrom nodded.
"Yep. We have to. Do you think we're going to let these talents go to waste?" Asked Chrom with a smirk on his face, finally noticing that Vaike had walked in first.
"Heck no. According to the paper, trainings start tomorrow. Think there will be any girls watching us?" Asked Robin, excited.
"Of course not. Well, maybe in games, but certainly not in trainings." Said Chrom. "Besides, We still need to find more people to make a team. The Coach asked it, remember?" Asked Chrom.
"What about Vaike? He's tall, and physically strong. For rebounding, the teacher will find him useful." Said Robin.
Vaike was not as tall as Robin, who stood at about 1.85m (6.1 ft), but at around 1.80m (aprox. 5.9 ft), Vaike was still pretty tall, and with the physical strength that Robin lacked he could easily grab any rebound.
Chrom thought for a second who could also help them in a basketball team.
"OWAIN! He might not look like it, but I'm thinking that physically he could do it" Said Chrom.
"Ok, that's four. What about the fifth?" Asked Robin.
"Well, Let's just see if we can take the two of them. If so, then I'm thinking that the coach will find someone else for the gap of the fifth player. Besides, there are more players, unless the other players are other complete trash, then we won't be a part of the first string that easily." Said Chrom before walking in the locker room along with Robin.
Robin entered the little room where their things were stored, just to see Owain describing the game he had just watched Robin and Chrom play to Vaike, who had missed most of it.
"Suddenly, Robin with Light fast speed passed through Chrom, jumped really high, and slammed it! It was Epic!" Shouted Owain.
"Glad to know you think so. You two. We chose you to join the basketball team with us. What do you think?" Asked Robin.
Vaike thought for a second.
"Oh lord, I beseech you. Thank you for thy Gift. I Shall join you, oh Dark one." Said Owain.
"Yeah, I'm in. Nothing better to do anyway." Said Vaike.
Robin quickly changed before the 4 of them left the locker room.
Gaius approached them as they were leaving the locker room.
"Hey there. I'd say good game, but you didn't make me any money, so… I'm pretty pissed. Anyway, you guys wanna hit the arcade?" Asked Gaius.
"There's an arcade around here?"Asked Robin.
Chrom nodded.
"Yeah, it's not too far. We're regulars. But… We still have Poetry class next." Said Chrom.
"Honestly, I was never a fan of poetry. So… Who cares?" Asked Robin.
Vaike got close to Robin and Gaius, putting his arms around both of them.
"Approved! Teach is joining your Ranks!" Said Vaike.
Robin laughed, as Owain picked up his wallet.
"I Beseech you, oh Dark one. This morning, the wallet I hold was empty. If the lords give me the power to join you, I Shall." He said before opening his wallet and finding a couple of big ones.
Owain stared at his wallet for a few seconds.
"Who's up for the ARCADE?" Shouted Owain.
Owain kept shouting until Robin, Vaike and Gaius joined in on the Shouting.
"AR-CADE! AR-CADE! AR-CADE!" They were all shouting in unison , throwing their arms in the air.
Chrom felt defeated.
"Well, if I don't enjoy life while I'm young, when will I?" Asked Chrom.
Robin extended his fist, expecting Chrom to bump it.
Chrom quickly extended his fist, bumping Robin's.
"That's right. You only live once, might as well enjoy it while it lasts." Said Robin with a smile.
As Robin, Vaike, Owain, Gaius and Chrom left the area surrounding the gymnasium, they decided to leave the school quickly, not to be found out.
Unfortunately for them, Lissa and Olivia had been quick to change and met up with them.
"Hey there guys! Poetry next, right?" Asked the blonde girl.
"Yeah… Poetry. We'll go ahead and see you later." Said Robin, trying to gain time to escape.
"At least wait for Anna. She's usually with us, so let's see if we can go all together." Said Lissa.
'Damn it.' Thought Robin, unfortunately, he was not able to gain enough time for them to leave.
Anna quickly left the locker Room running to catch up to them, greeting everyone with a smile as she arrived.
Her smile had something special. Robin could not tell what, though. As they all left to go for poetry, a class Robin wished he didn't have to take.
As they all arrived in the B block, where the Poetry class would be held, a lot of familiar faces surrounded the classroom where they would be.
Robin recognized a lot of those people, who had been watching the basketball game.
A lot of people surrounded Robin and Chrom, telling them what a great game it was, especially a girl by the name of Sumia, at least that's what he called her, which was holding Chrom tightly.
"You were great out there! That last minute clutch was great!" She said with a big smile.
It was just the first day of school and Robin already knew that Sumia was head over heels for this guy.
'Lucky Bastard.' He thought.
This until Vaike intervened.
"When are you going to put a ring on that? Wait too long and you may lose it." He said as if he was mocking Chrom.
Sumia blushed with the statement.
"What are you talking about?" He asked, trying to seem dense, seem being the word, since the guy was bad at acting, Robin knew he was lying.
After talking amongst them for a bit, Owain and Gaius had come up with an escape plan, so simple that Robin was stupid not to have thought about it earlier.
"Chrom, Robin, the two of us are going to the bar, to pick up something to eat, you two coming?" Asked Gaius with a smile.
'That's our queue' Thought Robin.
Robin nodded along with Chrom who hugged Sumia, much to her embarrassment before leaving with the rest of the squad.
"Good thinking you two. Time to bust our quarters in fighting games, I'm First!" Said Robin, excited.
The others started laughing at Robin's enthusiasm.
As they left the school, they went in the direction of the arcade. The arcade itself wasn't far from the school, but since the entrance was in the opposite side of the Arcade, you had to walk around the school from the outside just to reach it.
As they turned left, to go around the school in time, as they spotted a coffee shop down the road, just before the street that went around the school.
Chrom decided to point to said coffee shop.
"Aren't you guys hungry? I know for sure I am. Let's go pick up something to eat." Said Chrom, as they approached the store.
As they entered, they spotted Cordelia in a corner drinking coffee as she was doing a cross-word puzzle.
"A Cross-Word puzzle?" Asked Robin, approaching Cordelia.
"Oh, Robin. Yes, I find relaxation in these." She said. This surprised Robin. Although she seemed quite uptight, he never took her for someone who would do Cross words.
Chrom approached Robin, talking about the arcade, not realizing that Cordelia was there.
"Come on Robin, order whatever you want, the time at the arcade is precious." He said, quickly noticing Cordelia as he finished that sentence.
Robin landed his hand on his face.
"We have poetry next. Why would you go to the arcade?" Asked Cordelia.
"Because Poetry Blows sweetie, and the arcade is calling for us." Said Gaius with a smirk on his face.
"I hate the nickname Sweetie. I guess what you do is none of my business." She said before getting up.
Robin quickly followed after her, as the other guys remained inside the coffee shop.
"I know it sounds stupid." He said.
"It does." Responded the Red head young woman.
"Think of it this way. You're not going to be young forever. I know, I shouldn't be neglecting duties, but… What if I turn old and Gray just to think that I should have done things differently? Or to think that I should have enjoyed it more?" Asked Robin.
"I understand. Truly." She said.
"Come on, why don't you join us?" He asked.
Cordelia stared at Robin for a few seconds, not knowing what to do. Did she want to skip class and have fun? Or to go to class and maybe regret it in a few years?
"Would you go even if you knew it might bite you later?" Asked Cordelia.
Robin didn't know how to respond. For a moment he was lost in thought as her beautiful red moved with the wind, as if they were one.
She was staring at Robin, waiting for an answer.
"It's better to regret doing something rather than regretting not doing it. That's what I Think though; you have your own principals to abide by. These are just mine." Said Robin.
Chrom and the others were leaving the Coffee shop, but quickly stopped as they saw Robin and Cordelia together.
"I'll join you then." She said.
Robin smiled and started walking next to her, as he could see she was feeling nervous.
"What? You were able to convince red?" Asked Gaius.
"Convince? Not really. I just asked her if she wanted to come with us." Said Robin.
"I thought this was supposed to be just us." Said Vaike.
Cordelia froze when she heard that.
"If I'm intruding…" She was quickly interrupted by Robin.
"I told you… She's coming." Said Robin, staring at Vaike, as if he was about to kill someone.
Vaike quickly took a step back and apologized.
"You're Right! That was senseless of me. Sorry." He said, still scared of Robin.
Owain quickly approached Cordelia, before getting on his knee, as if he was about to propose, he grabbed Cordelia's hand, and started rambling about gods, or something.
"Oh milady. The powers of Darkness thank you for…" Owain was quickly interrupted by Robin, who gave a push with his leg.
"We've wasted enough time, class has already started, let's enjoy it if we can, ok?" Asked Robin.
Everyone stared at Robin for a few seconds before nodding.
Chrom then looked towards all the other guys, as if wanting confirmation for something.
The guys all nodded, as Robin stood there not understanding what was wrong.
Chrom pushed Robin against Cordelia as the guys started running towards the arcade.
Robin was about to start pursuit, just to remember Cordelia was right there.
Robin turned around to help the Red head who had fell on the ground from the impact.
"Sorry about that, you ok?" Asked Robin, concerned.
She nodded with a smile.
"I actually expected you to go after them." She said as she got up with Robin's help.
Robin quickly grabbed her hand.
"I'm not going after them, we are." Said Robin before he started pulling Cordelia's arm as he ran.
She didn't even know how to react, so she decided to go ahead with it.
As they caught up with them at the arcade entrance, The guys started laughing as if the funniest thing to ever embrace mankind had just happened.
"Seems like it had the intended Result" Said Gaius with a grin.
Robin quickly understood and let go of Cordelia's hand before apologizing.
"Sorry about that, I didn't mean to drag you around like that." Said Robin, embarrassed.
She responded with a smile.
"It's ok." She said.
Robin's heart just skipped a beat.
Robin stared at her for a few seconds. And how he admired her.
"Earth to Robin" Said Chrom giving a little push on the back of his head.
"Right. Sorry. Well, since we're here, might as well have fun, right?" Asked Robin.
They all nodded and entered the arcade, just to see the machines on, and a man cleaning the area.
"The First day of School! How I love this time of the year!" Said the man that was cleaning before directing himself towards the younglings entering the establishment.
"Hello! Will you be playing today?" Asked the man.
Chrom responded with a smile and a little bag full of coins to play.
"Of Course! Even I was missing the place." Said Chrom with a smile before directing himself towards one of the machines.
Chrom quickly called out Robin for the promised match.
"Robin! You said you were the king of fight games, didn't you? Get Ready!" Said Chrom.
Robin approached the machine, which was connected to a big screen on a wall. It was most likely also used for tournaments.
Robin quickly put the coin on his side of the machine, before the screen showing in all Capital letters.
"A CHALLENGER APPROACHES!" They could all see written on the screen.
Both quickly chose their fighters and a scenario.
The background was vivid, with colorful, yet interesting. The battle had already started, and the guys were all staring at the figure the two idiots were making over an arcade fighting game.
Cordelia on the other hand, wasn't thinking about the figure of those two idiots. Although she had just met Robin, she already knew Chrom for quite some time, and she couldn't stop herself from staring at the blue haired young man.
"ALRIGHT!" Shouted Chrom. "First round is mine!" He kept on going.
"There are three rounds; I can still kick your ass!" Shouted Robin.
Cordelia started looking around, when she saw Gaius and Vaike playing some sort of shooter. 'Wait, Light guns?' She thought.
"A light gun game?" She asked.
"Yeah, want to try?" Asked Gaius, giving Cordelia the blaster.
She picked it up with a smile, finally letting loose.
She started shooting, killing most enemies on screen along with Vaike.
Gaius was impressed, she was actually good at the game, the score had been going up like Crazy.
"Wow, you're pretty good, aren't you?" Asked Gaius with a smile.
Cordelia nodded with a smile.
"I used to play these games a lot with my dad when I was younger." She said.
"Wow, arcade?" Asked Vaike, interested.
"Yeah. Long time ago though." She said, as if holding grief.
They turned around to the sound of Robin's shouts.
"THERE YOU GO! CLUTCH BABY!" Shouted Robin.
Chrom left the machine and approached everyone else along with Robin.
"So? What are we playing next?" Asked Chrom.
Cordelia pointed to a big Dancing game.
"Let's try it out!" She said with a big smile.
A/N:
So, finally got Cordelia involved! I know that no other girl has been introduced, and that Owain has got really little Character development, along with Vaike. I'll be giving them some more time in the future. You can really look forward to it.
Some people have asked me. "Will everyone be paired up?" And I can't really answer that yet. Robin and Chrom definitely will, but I don't know who else though.
Well, I'm really sorry for the week long wait, hopefully it was worth it for you guys, sorry!
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A/N: Hope you liked this Chapter! I went a little overboard with this one, but I hope I added enough story! The heist is next, so be prepared.
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