I'll be there for you

[mansionstaff]

Who: EV ERY ONE
What: Graduation. Prom.
When: The evening of May 31st.
Where: The Stadium.
Warnings: WHO KNOWS

One might find the stadium a little hot and humid for those used to a spring graduation ceremony. This fine evening the Academy is experiencing its first hints of summer, a warm breeze providing relief to those who would sit on the stadium floor, which had been rearranged into a platform overlooking neat rows of chairs meant to seat the gathered crowd of faculty and students. Towards the other end of the complex was the arrangement for the prom that was to follow. Food and drink, chairs and tables, each with a floral centerpiece, and, of course, a dance floor.



Before everyone could get their party on, however, there was the main event of the evening. From his place at the podium, Master Hand watched students and staff alike find their way into the stadium. With the recent robot shenanigans, there seemed to be tensions in need of dispelling. If the Headmaster knew one thing, however, it was that some silly city antics were not going to ruin this esteemed event. Not tonight. Not if he could help it.

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HEY DUDES! Here's how stuff is going to work. We kick off the log with GRADUATION. This part of the log will be divided into separate threads. I'll post them all at once, so feel free to hop around, mingle, post whenever, wherever.

HOWEVER, once the PROM starts, it will be up to you guys to post your own threads. Please check out last year's log if you'd like an idea of how this works. Everything after the thread titled "DISMISSAL" (I will post that in a bit, so don't post prom threads until I have that up!) will be considered prom, though don't let that stop you from continuing to post in the graduation section.

Please label all your threads appropriately! (Examples: "SHENANIGANS AT THE FOOD TABLE", "DANCE-OFF", "THE PUNCH IS SPIKED", "BOTHER X" In general, a location + what is going on in the thread is the way to go. Obviously, more than one thread can take place at the same location. 

Linking back and forth when and if you thread hop is very much appreciated. If things start to look a bit laggy, we'll bump to the next page. Most importantly, HAVE FUN, and let a mod know about any problems or concerns you might have!

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[butterbelieveamanspromise]

"I'm sick of hearing your worthless talk!!"

To release the hand shackling his wrist, he rammed his skull into Byakuya's. Hair porn commenced. The impact rattled his own head, but that wasn't stopping him at all from jerking him by the collar again to drive him straight into the spring-loaded punch he slammed into his gut.

[richasshole]

Stars exploded behind Byakuya's eyes as he was viciously headbutted. He had just enough time to think figures that Oowada's skull would be that thick before the pain in his head was replaced by the blunt attack to his stomach.

Damn. The gang leader had a mean uppercut, that much was entirely undeniable at this point. The blonde chided himself for the weak noise that snuck its way out of his throat at the impact, but didn't allow him much time to feel upset before placing both hands on Mondo's shoulders and pushing down. He brought a knee quickly and solidly into his classmate's lower abdomen, a strike that would have been centered in Mondo's crotch had Byakuya been less hasty and more used to fighting at all.

[butterbelieveamanspromise]

So he thought he could fight back! This was interesting, and strangely exhilarating to have his scrawny-looking opponent exchange blows rather than just take them. The strike to his abdomen was less than exhilarating, but it only caused him to flinch his advance for a handful of seconds- he'd taken worse blows before and plowed through them like they were nothing but fly bites.

"At least you've got the guts not to back down!" bellowed Mondo as he swung a right hook to the face. "But I'm gonna make you regret it!"

He was so lost in his own little bloodlust haze that the rest of the world sort of faded to black. Laying the smackdown on Byakuya was long overdue, and so was the last time he got to beat someone like this. They were likely causing quite the scene.

[continentalcross]

A scene was most definitely being caused, and Byakuya didn't even have the chance to curse to himself before Mondo's fist made contact with the side of his face. He heard a disheartening crack and a pinch of pain (a shard of glasses frame metal scratching into his skin) to compliment the powerhouse punch. He stumbled to the side. And then...

And then...

And then he hit the chain link fence set up to keep kids from tumbling off the roof of the school. This time, the punch had been directed to his jaw, and Byakuya had bitten the inside of his cheek. He swallowed blood, and cast an icy glare at the punk that had delivered the punch.

"Had enough, shithead?" Mondo ground out, cracking the knuckles in one hand. Chihiro tugged uselessly on his jacket sleeve.

"Oowada- san, please... !"

Bykauya felt hands on his shoulder, along with a familiar, stuttering voice.

"B-byakuya- sama!! Are you alright?!" Touko whimpered, and the heir viciously pushed her off of him, standing back up to his full height.

"I should have known it was you who wanted to meet me, considering the atrocious handwriting," he deadpanned. Mondo's eye twitched.

"You've got a fuckin' come back for everything, don't you? Why don't you try picking on someone your own size for once?" he hissed, indicating Chihiro, who blushed and stammered.

"You're going to regret this, worm," Byakuya huffed, but was interrupted by Kiyotaka suddenly bursting through the roof doors, screaming.

"Brother! There is absolutely no--"

... Byakuya was suddenly aware that he was at Smash Academy's prom, one hand on the wall to support himself, the other gripping his forehead. He was shaking.

"Wh... What the hell... ?"

He looked back at Mondo, voice flat.

"... You're going to regret that."

[butterbelieveamanspromise]

Mondo snorted, grinning like a hyena as he retracted to a more imposing height. "I'm going to regret it?! You're the one who's looked like he's already reaching his limit!"

[worldrestored]

He still had no idea what was happening exactly. Being thrown into a new world when he'd expected his old and smack-dab in a school celebration of some sort. Naoki had walked through the crowd, which looked like a mixture of humans and demons (he thinks?). Had he been tricked? He had won, fair and square...

His thoughts were interrupted by the duo fighting. It was hard to ignore, admittedly, and Naoki had to stop himself from just jumping in. Fighting he could understand, having been stuck knee-deep in it for the past few months in a world without hope. Oddly the two of them going at it managed to calm him down, so he just stared, silently, waiting for them to be done.

Except Pixie didn't have his patience, and did the talking for him. Without warning there was now a 12 inch fairy hovering between the two of them, wings buzzing as she crossed her arms.

"Hey you two weirdos! Where are we, exactly?" She didn't seem too worried that she had literally put herself right in the middle of the fight itself, or that she was literally just insulting them.

[richasshole]

Byakuya wasn't going to deny to himself that he was over the moon at being interrupted-- regardless of how much he detested Mondo, he had just had either a hallucination or a memory. That, combined with the fact that Mondo was an actual mountain of a man made him not so eager to really get into it with the gang leader.

He hadn't been at the school long enough to mask his surprise at the tiny winged humanoid, though. He pushed himself off the wall, eyes wide.

Robot, or actual pixie? Anything seemed to be possible. He gawked at her, gaze then drifting to Mondo to check his reaction.

[butterbelieveamanspromise]

Definitely more overtly shocked and confused than Byakuya's with his jaw hanging open like that. She had successfully deterred his immediate focus away from the bruising blond he was cornering. He narrowed his eyes, scrutinizing the interruption hanging before his own two eyes without having much success in making sense of it. Therefore, he completely disregarded her question in favor of his own.

"A fairy?" he asked, as though questioning this spectacle aloud would clear everything up. Sure looked like one. It was a tiny girl with bug wings. What else could it be?

[worldrestored]

She nodded, incredibly amused at their reaction and paraded in the air before actually talking.

"Fairy clan actually! I'm Pixie! And that's..." she pointed to Naoki, "Hitoshura!" He raised his arm and gave a single, quick wave. Hello, nice to meet you, etc etc. At least you guys were humans and not a bunch of undressed demons.

"So I know you were beating each other up, but you mind telling us where we are, corn-head?"

[butterbelieveamanspromise]

Sounding uncertain but mostly due to the abruptness of the pixie's appearance, Mondo replied stupidly, "Uhh, prom?" like that was the answer she was looking for. A beat later, he added, "And who're you callin' corn-head? It's not corn! It's hair!"

Times his hair has been called corn tonight: at least 3.

[worldrestored]

Naoki shook his head behind her while Pixie wasn't watching. Don't encourage her, you're encouraging her she'll just go for it.

"Corn hair! Corn hair, he he he...what's a prom?!"

Demons didn't exactly have proms. Please ignore the facepalming Naoki in the back.

[richasshole]

Byakuya pointed at Pixie, indignant levels turned up to max.

"You're expecting us to explain something like that to you, when you barge in between us looking like... that?!"

Seriously? There were fairies here? Somehow it felt even more surreal than the dead walking. It was like he had just walked into a weird video game.

"Explain yourself! Why are you a fairy?!" The knock to the head might have jarred more than just memories loose. He was at a loss.

[worldrestored]

There was a strange silence for a few seconds. Then Pixie spoke again.

" I was born this way. I take it back. You guys can't be humans, you're waaaaay too dumb!"

Naoki could understand Byakuya's uneasiness, but this whole place seemed to be surrounded by strange things. Was Pixie really the first thing that had made him crack?

[butterbelieveamanspromise]

"We're definitely humans! And you don't gotta be so rude about it!" protested Corn Hair through his teeth, annoyed by all this degradation and being shoved into a sudden and confusing plot twist. "It's not like we're gonna suddenly piece everything together after you fucking startle us like that! I never seen a fairy before and I definitely never had one just about poke my eye like that!"