fandomhigh | Fandom High Graduation Ceremony, Class of 2012, Early Saturday Evening (Part 2)

Were you all enjoying your graduation, children? Ingvar certainly hoped you were. It was so much fun, after all! Though... it could be a little more fun, couldn't it? It felt as if something was missing somehow. Something to really make it... fun.

Ingvar knew what it was.

And so, while the graduates were still on and around the stage, the earth began to rumble. Large black clouds of smoke pushed out of Ingvar's volcano and into the air, obscuring the sky and the moon. Soon, the air was covered in a thick black blanket of darkness.

The tune of the rumbling shifted.

Around the stage, clear protective walls sprung up. This was not Fandom's first tango on graduation day, thank you. She knew how to take care of what was hers.

Unfortunately, Ingvar knew its mother well. Moments later, it began to rain: a thick downpour of familiar plastic poppets in varying levels of creepiness, but also nice, brown, fluffy ...red-eyed, sharp-clawed teddy bears. And leading the charge, teeth-first--

"DROP BEARS!"

[OCD is up! Have at it! Audience | Grads: Fight! | Grads: Hide! | Aftermath | OOC 1 | OOC 2]

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Hoshi happily gave Raven a hug. "Just take it one step at a time. Today, you defeated a bunch of really creepy bears. Tomorrow, you deal with the next thing the island cooks up," she said.

"Hopefully it will be more like a rain of jello than carnivorous stuffed animals," Raven said, wrinkling her nose as she hugged Hoshi back.

"Mmmm, jello rain sounds good," said Hoshi with a grin. "Nothing fun like that happens in my world."

"How have you been doing?" Raven asked. "I hope all has been well in your world. We were forced to pretend a short time ago for a week that Fandom was a normal school, but fortunately that should not happen again."

"I would hate to have to pretend that this was a normal place," said Hoshi, frowning. "And I've been good, though it's been a little lonely. People don't hang out in common rooms and share meals at my university like they do in Fandom."

"I hope that if I attend college it will not be like that for me," Raven said, frowning slightly as well. "I would miss that a great deal. It is how I met many of my friends here in Fandom."

"I realize now that it's better if you go through welcome orientation and live with the same people from the beginning," said Hoshi. "But I skipped those since they put me in higher-level classes from the start. My classmates already knew each other, and I was a stranger. But now I know what to do when I take the next step."

"I would only be attending classes for a year," Raven said. "I must find some way to pass the year between now and when Karla graduates."

"You could take classes, or you could do some traveling," said Hoshi. "Personally, I'd love to travel. But if I were waiting for someone, I might just choose to find a job in town so I could stay in Fandom. That way, you don't take a chance of traveling somewhere and getting cut off."

There was a tinge of regret in her voice, though Hoshi wasn't sure that there was anything she could have done to prevent herself from losing Hurley.

"I do not know if it is possible to stay," Raven said. She was certainly picking up on Hoshi's feelings and had a good idea what they were about. "I thought all students were expected to leave and follow their own path for at least a little while. Believe me, I do not want to leave. I have never been on my own in the outside world before for very long."

"And I can understand why it's helpful to get out there and see the outside world," said Hoshi. "It's just that I didn't expect to get caught up in my own world and feel so cut off from Fandom. But you'll have time to decide for yourself. Are you going to stay for the whole summer?"

"I think so," Raven said, but she didn't sound entirely certain. She managed to find a smile. "I suppose I will stay as long as I can since I am so reluctant to leave Fandom."

Edited 2012-04-29 03:50 (UTC)

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