(I don't own the Mighty Ducks or anything related to them, they all belong to Steven Brill and Disney.)
Julie sat at graduation but now instead of listening to the Dean she was listening to a monotone teacher go on about how happy her years at Eden Hall had been and thanking everyone under the sun. From what Julie gathered she was retiring. The person next to her was snoring again, so she nudged him again and he stopped, she then heard someone else starting up and looked a few people down and saw one of the guys sound asleep also.
"Excuse me can you tap him a little."
"Yeah." Said the person next to her teammate laughing.
"What?" Said Fulton waking up, the guy next to him pointed over to Julie.
"You were snoring louder than Dean I could hear you over here."
"Sorry." Said Fulton with a smile seeing that Dean was still sound asleep.
"…Thank you." Said the speaker. Every one applauded as the Dean came back up.
"And now ladies and gentlemen I present this year's valedictorian Bentley Rockefeller."
"Thank you and welcome parents, faculty, fellow graduates, and distinguished guests…" Julie tuned it out from there the guy speaking was an ass. The speech went on for about ten minutes. Finally the Dean came back and announced that it was time to hand out the diplomas. Julie shook the person next to her and looked around to see the other ducks being roused.
"What?"
"Diploma time?" Julie whispered.
"Good, so what did I miss?"
"Buckley, a few others, Rockefeller, oh and Fulton snoring."
"Nice."
"Here we go." Said the Dean as they started calling the As. "Lester Averman."
"Shut up Averman!" Came the response of the 12 ducks and then they heard the duck call go off behind them.
"Bombay's here." Said Fulton.
"Michael Banhanos, Adam Michael Banks."
"Cake-Eater!" Was yelled at Adam and duck call could be heard; Meanwhile Julie sat there bored unless they were yelling at their friends.
"Charles Andrew Conway."
"Aye, Aye Captain Duck." Charlie's mother Casey was sitting with Gordon and some of the other parents. Those around them that weren't duck parents were getting annoyed with the team and Gordon who was blowing the duck caller, while Casey laughed these were their kids all 13 of them. They went through all the letters until they got to G where they had some more kids.
"Guy Pierre Germaine."
"I was this close!"
"Gregory Goldberg."
"Goldberg!!" Casey and Gordon started laughing as soon as they said that. Gordon looked over at Orion who was sitting in his chair with the other faculty laughing with his head in his hands. Gordon looked back at Goldie's parents who were laughing also.
It took 15 minutes before the time came for more ducks to be called and it started with Luis.
"Luis Ramon Mendoza."
"BREAKS!" Luis shook his head laughing because he knew how true it was no matter how long he skated he still had a hard time stopping.
"Constance Moreau."
"I'm a duck!" Yelled the other ducks.
"She said that right after an Icelander said something to her she then knocked him on his ass." Said Gordon to Casey.
"I believe it." Responded Casey. "They didn't call her the Velvet Hammer for nothing."
It finally came time for Julie's row to stand and walk to the front.
"Come on Duckie." Said Dean helping her up. Fulton heard what he called her and started laughing.
"Bite me." Said Julie. "It's your fault I'm like this."
"Whatever you say." Dean said walking with her towards the stage. He had taken to calling her Duckie due to the fact that the pregnancy caused her to waddle a little. The got up to the stage and waited for their names to be called.
"Dean Anthony Portman."
"I don't need no school!"
"And strangely enough he's graduating." Said Gordon after he blew the duck call.
"Julie Elizabeth Portman."
"Meow!" Julie walked across the stage and off right into Dean's arms to which Dean promptly kissed her.
"Why is he kissing his sister like that?" Said the woman sitting behind Gordon. Casey and him looked at each other and started laughing from the distance they were you couldn't tell Julie was pregnant.
"I wish I had looked that good when I was pregnant with Charlie." Commented Casey.
"You can't even tell."
"I think she mentioned she ordered it big." Finished Casey.
"Fulton Alexander Reed."
"Look out it's Fulton!"
"A long way from busting windshields in an alley." Said Gordon remembering how he met Fulton.
"Dwayne Boyd Robertson."
"Yee-Haw!"
"They're ruining our graduation." Said the lady behind Gordon.
"Your graduation, last time I checked they were the one's receiving the diplomas." Said Gordon turning around.
"Gordon!" Casey said grabbing his arm turning him around.
"Russell Carmichael Tyler."
"It's Knuckle Puck time."
"Where is that annoying buzzing sound coming from?"
"Gee I don't know I've only been blowing it for the past two hours." Said Gordon quietly as Casey laughed.
"I can't believe they all graduated why do I feel old all of a sudden?" Asked Casey.
"Same reason I do, we raised them watched them grow up. Man, I was 28 when I met them."
"I didn't like you at 28 very much."
"What are you talking about I didn't like me at 28."
"Kenneth Wu."
"Hey Ref!" Yelled the ducks happy they made it through the last 4 years and graduation together.
"Ladies and Gentlemen I now present to you the graduating class of 1999."
The entire group threw their caps into the air and hugged which ever teammate was closest to them. The groups of family and friends swarmed the field to find their graduates; Gordon just played the duck call. Soon he had all the ducks around him and their families.
"All right shut up you guys, congratulations." Said Gordon loudly.
"How many people did you tick off with the duck call?" Asked Dean.
"Probably quite a few, by the way the people behind us think you two are brother and sister." At that Dean and Julie looked at each other.
"Eww." They said at the same time.
"You all graduated with honors too that is an amazing thing." Said Casey very proud of all the kids she saw as her own.
"Orion's fault I assure you." Said Fulton.
"At least you guys didn't quack at the principal." Said Gordon remembering the time he had to get them out of detention. "Best pranks you pulled here?"
"Brazilian fire ants." Said Russ.
"Who did you do that to? And where did you get them?" Asked Casey.
"Varsity freshman year and Buckley's office." Said Julie.
"No the best one was the liquid nitrogen and varsity's clothing." Said Ken.
"That wasn't that good." Said Adam.
"You're just mad because your clothes were involved." Said Russ.
"How did this all start?" Asked Gordon knowing they didn't do things like this on a whim.
"Well they were taking Ken's lunch so me, Fulton, Russ, and Guy followed a horse, and passed off the remains of that as brownies. Then we went to practice and came back to find all of our clothes in the shower with the water running and Freshmen suck on the ceiling." Said Charlie.
"That lead to Liquid Nitrogen which completely froze their stuff." Said Julie.
"Oh and we wrote 'Varsity Sucks Ice on their ceiling." Said Ken.
"Where did you guys get the liquid nitrogen?" Asked Gordon.
"Science lab." Said Ken who was standing with his parents.
"Were you involved with this?" Asked Josephine Portman.
"I wasn't here yet, but my wife was very involved." Said Dean looking at Julie.
"Hey all I did was push the tank, Russ had control of the nozzle and hose. After that they took us to dinner and stiffed us with an $800 bill and so we had to work it off, which lead to the fire ants in their dorm rooms, rich boys have very interesting boxer choices."
"Remind me never to cross you guys." Said Gordon.
"I have a question how did you get the ants?" Asked Fulton's mom.
"Reverse vacuum and a jar." Said Charlie.
"And that was all freshman year." Said Fulton.
While they were all standing there remembering their excapades Julie thought of her and Dean's wedding…
(Which will be seen next chapter…)
