Fandom High Graduation Ceremony, Class of 2017, Early Saturday Evening [Part 1]

[bigdamnprincipal]

Right after sunset, to make sure all types of guests could safely attend, the ceremony for graduation was ready to go. The lawn of the school had been lit up with blue and gold lights, which reflected nicely off of the glitter scattered throughout the lawn.

Hey, if your glitter supplies never got low, you'd make everything sparkly as often as possible too.

There were chairs set up for all of the graduates, and plenty of seats for guests to come and watch. The weather was beautiful, cooling off after the hot, sunny day, and Fandom was firmly on the ground, unlike last year.

Congratulations, Class of 2017! Things might not be so great across the causeway, but at least the world didn't end before you could get here today!

Fandom High Graduation Ceremony, Class of 2017, Early Saturday Evening [Part 2]

[bigdamnprincipal]

As the last graduate sat down, there was a bit of silence as those who had experienced graduation ceremonies before waited to see what would happen.

When the silence had dragged on for a full minute, Zoe got up to speak--and was immediately interrupted by a voice at the end of the crowd. "Excuse me, am I late?"

Zoe peered out to see the source of the question, trying to look calm for the sake of people's guests. "I'm afraid so, we've just finished."

"Gee, that's too bad," the man said, making his way up to the stage. "Portalocity is the worst, I don't know how you folks get anywhere with that system. I had my speech prepared and everything. Graduation is such a special day, you know?"

As he got closer to the stage, Zoe moved to try to get in his way, but the moment he reached the stage, the safety protocols switched on, and a barrier surrounded the graduates and the gentleman, who looked around and laughed.

"Now that's just downright impressive!" he said, but the smile quickly faded from his face as he let out a groan. "Unfortunately, I don't think I'm going to get to my speech after all." He gasped as his face began to bloat and morph, and the process moved down along his whole body until the man was gone, replaced by a giant green heavily scaled snake.

Sorry graduates, it looked like you weren't getting a quiet ending after all.