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I'll be there for you

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.

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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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"If for some reason she does - she won't - then I'll just bend her over my knee and swat at her butt a few times. I'm sure she'll get the idea right about then."

And if it wasn't the idea to accept Knuckles' proposal, then it'd probably be some kind of bedroom idea. Either way, it was something of a winning situation for her.

"Haha! I don't know if I want her spanked into marryin' me!" he replied with a laugh. "Though, it WOULD make for some pretty funny speeches at the reception!"

"Well, the spanking would likely be for something else."

And she didn't feel she needed to elaborate on that. But it didn't stop her from wearing that shit-eating grin. "But I'm sure I could use it as some incentive to send her in your direction. I always wanted to play a real prominent role in a relationship that wasn't mine."

"You did, huh?" Knuckles responded with a little smirk. "Well, you've been a great friend to both of us, y'know. I'd say it counts. Even without spanking."

"What can I say," Nabooru began as she casually rolled her shoulders back in a shrug. "That's my job. It's what I'm here for."

Then she raised an eyebrow in his direction, "Admittedly, it's hard to believe we've known each other for so long, you know? Hard to believe it's been... quite a few years. Like we're practically family at this point."

"Yeah! Like what? Four years now? Five? Guess I'm kinda bad at keepin' count. But family is a pretty good description. I mean, I never had one of my own so I guess I've kind of adopted my friends to fill that space, if I'm honest." he said with a small shrug and a self conscious chuckle. "It was the same with Ganondorf. The guy's like a brother to me. There's really not much of anything I wouldn't do for him."

She paused when she heard what he had to say. He'd never had much of a family, eh? Nabooru supposed she could believe that. She'd never met another echidna, after all. But she'd never asked either, mostly because she didn't want to pry somewhere she didn't belong in.

"Hm..." She nodded slowly. "I think I can understand that. I do feel that way about you, too. You're definitely kind of like a brother. Or whatever I guess a brother would feel like. Understandably, I don't know what that's like." She cracked a smile.

"Haha! I guess havin' a brother is pretty much like having a sister. I mean, the parts about it that count, anyhow." he replied with a smirk. "I like the idea of bein' like your brother. You can totally be my sister."

"Is that right?" Nabooru asked with a grin. "Congratulations, Knuckles. You can now consider yourself my first family member who isn't my king or something like that."

A pause and then she lifted a hand, "I guess that's not true. Consider yourself the second family member who isn't my king."

"I'll take second place." Knuckles replied, his interest piqued. "Who was first?"

"My son."

It was a very direct response from her. So afterward, she gave a bit of a sheepish smile and chose to clarify for him. "That I adopted, I mean. Near the beginning of the year, I adopted Pit - I'm sure you know him - as my son. So technically he's the first family member who wasn't originally a Gerudo. Still isn't, yet. But I'll have him initiated, I think. If he can pass the trials, of course."

"HUH - Yeah, Pit is a pal of mine. I guess we just haven't spent quite as much time together lately. I've had a lot on my plate..."

It was a weak excuse and he knew it. There had been the tensions in the city, Kitty's murder, school, work, the many and varied other friends he had not to mention trying to make sure Goombella didn't feel TOTALLY neglected. But something like that was Kind of a Big Deal. He should have known before now.

"Don't worry about it, okay?" she asked him. "I've kept it under wraps, so I'm pretty sure aside from Pit and myself, you're one of the few I've really told." She'd told Rhys, of course, and she supposed the priest might have been the first to know. But considering Byrne didn't even know and she was practically sleeping with him said something.

She didn't know what, but surely something.

"Just means you've got to be nice to him. If I find out you're teasing him or being mean, I'll kick your ass."

"Well, I feel honored to be one of the few." he replied with a genuine smile and a nod of gratitude - though, he still felt kind of crummy for not knowing before now.

"Nah, you got nothin' to worry about. He's a great guy. I entrusted him with a Chao, for what it's worth. I have to really feel a person is worthy before I let them look after my little charges from the Island."

"I know he's great," she muttered with a grin. "I adopted him, after all."

But she almost immediately grew serious when she considered his words. "I'm pretty sure I've heard the word before, but refresh my memory. What's a Chao? An animal of some kind? Like a pet?"

"Sort of. They're little water spirits. They stay like babies throughout most of their lives. They like to play and do all kinds of things, but they take on the traits of the people around them. Pit's Chao, Miracle, turned into a Hero Chao that looks like a little angel. I knew it would." Knuckles explained. "I've seen 'em do that before. Most of the ones I spent any time with turned into rough and tumble little guys."

She cocked an eyebrow as she listened. Maybe she hadn't heard him talk about them before. She was pretty sure she'd remember a talk about water spirits. At least she thought she would. Unless drinking was involved. She conveniently forgot most things that involved drinking.

"...Huh. So what exactly do these spirits do?"

"They eat fruit, run around, fly, climb. All sorts of things. When I say water spirit, I don't mean like... powerful water elemental or anything. Like water, they take on traits from things introduced to them. Strangely, a lot of them can't actually swim."

He'd never really told her the story about his people's connection to the Chao. There were a lot of things they'd never discussed.

"Four thousand years ago, my people came across the Chao, and their Guardian Chaos. HE was an all powerful water spirit, who guarded the Master Emerald like I do. Unfortunately, after finding out that the Emerald was a huge source of power, my ancestor, Pachacamac, waged war on Chaos and killed many Chao with his army. They were innocent and defenseless and it was a stupid, cowardly thing to do... Chaos was understandably pissed and destroyed most of my race that day."

As the Sage of Spirit, or so she'd been told that she was, Nabooru wondered if she had some kind of control over such things. She wished she'd asked the goddess of the time. Because come to think of it, she still didn't really know how to utilise her magic and Bob was no longer around to help out.

Her eyebrows knit together as she listened to Knuckles explain the history of Chao and his connection with the echidna. Well, minute connection anyway. He said a lot of names she hadn't heard before, and while she really didn't understand most of it, she got the general idea, which was better than not getting anything at all.

"You say most. Did anyone aside from you survive?" she asked. Or maybe it was all before his time. He said ancestor, which seemed to imply that perhaps that Pachacamac was a couple of generations at least before Knuckles's generation was beginning.

"Oh, this was four thousand years ago." Knuckles replied. "The remaining Echidna wound up guarding the Emerald to try and make sure it's power never inspired anyone else to do anything crazy like that. But, over time, they dwindled and died out till there were just my parents. And even they died before I was hatched. I never met 'em."

Well. That certainly answered that.

"You hatched out of an egg," she parroted as she looked at him. "For some reason I think echidna were... like mammals. Or maybe the word is marsupial. Something like that. Whatever the case is, I... I'm having a hard time not picture you being a cucco or something."

"Echidnas are mammals. We're kind of different, though. Echidnas are a kind of mammal called a Monotreme. Marsupial kids grow up in their mother's pouch. Like a big, mucus filled pocket in front of their tummy. Monotremes lay eggs."

There were other differences between his kind and other mammals, of course. But he wasn't about to get too wordy with the biology lesson.

"...what's a cucco?"

Honestly, she wanted to be done the moment he started talking about mucus filled pockets for holding one's young. But then, she supposed it couldn't be any grosser than natural childbirth the way the Gerudo - or any other humans - did. She eyed him skeptically for many long moments and nodded just to acknowledge him.

And thankfully he asked about cuccos.

"Uh..." She squinted. "...Like... chickens? I guess that's close enough. I don't really know the difference. Cuccos have feathers and lay eggs and what not. Kind of annoying, but good in a stew."

"Ugh. Haha!" Knuckles replied, pulling a little face of his own. Stew made from flesh was certainly not something he would consider GOOD. But he got what she meant.

"Well, Echidna really weren't anything like Chickens and I doubt we're any good for stewing, either - Too muscular and stringy and you'd probably ruin your teeth just tryin'. But I guess the egg layin' part is still pretty accurate."

"Well, if echidna were anything like you..." Nabooru trailed off. She shifted to flex for him indicatively. "You work out so much that I know you're very muscular already. I can't imagine you'd be very tasty either. At least, not in that fashion. No amount of seasoning can fix tough meat. And I don't really know much about cooking."

Which just went to show that Nabooru had probably cooked for herself on more than one occasion for herself.

I'll be there for you

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HUH I didn't get the notif for this. Lucky I checked for a reply. XD

OH... Notifs have been kind of wonky lately, I've noticed. (At least for me.)

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