Chapter 10-Graduation
There were two pictures again this time. The first picture was a picture of Sam and Tucker wearing togas and Danny wearing a slightly tattered one. They all wore graduation caps except Sam who was wearing a tattered and still slightly smoking one. They were currently holding their diplomas and were laughing at Danny as his diploma that he tossed landed on his head for he didn't catch it on time. Danny's hair was still messy and was already slightly long. Tucker on the other hand maintained his old hairstyle. Sam's hair was also a little longer but still pulled up into its usual half ponytail.
Caption: Yup, its official, we graduated! Can you believe it? We got through our crazy high school life in one piece. Anyway, so Danny's being the clumsy boy he is, tossed his diploma which landed on his head. Yeah I know, my cap is tattered and I blame Skulker for it.
The other one was a picture of Sam's parents eating a hamburger with funny expressions.
Caption: Yep, that's my parents alright. Still can't believe they ate a hamburger though.
Flashback- - -
Graduation day finally arrived at Casper High for Danny's batch. The said boy still couldn't believe that he and his friends survived high school after all those crazy adventures and challenges they had. He was currently in his room fixing his toga and trying to fix his hair so that he could put on his cap nicely. But unfortunately, his hair had other plans. Instead of going the way Danny wanted it to go, it began to stick out in all directions leaving it messier than ever.
"Ugh! Hair, why do you have to be like this on my graduation of all days?" Danny whined as he tugged on his hair only to make it even messier.
"Scumbag hair." Danny grumbled as he decided to leave it that way.
"Danny! Hurry up we're going to be late!" Danny's mom called from downstairs.
"Coming mom!" Danny yelled back. He combed his hair one more time finally getting it to stay down before grabbing his cap and rushing downstairs. When he reached downstairs, his family began taking pictures.
"Um, mom? Dad? Jazz? Don't you guys think that those pictures are enough already? Plus we are really going to be late." Danny said. Jack chuckled and ruffled Danny's hair.
"Can you believe it Mads? Another Fenton graduating high school!" Jack said as he finished messing up Danny's hair again.
"Dad! It took me hours to get my hair to stay down!" Danny whined as he attempted to fix his hair again. Jack rolled his eyes and checked his watch before grabbing Danny by the waist. Literally.
"Come on Danny boy! We're going to be late!" Jack said making his way towards the door." Danny shook his head when suddenly his ghost sense went off. Jack noticed this.
"What's wrong son? Is there a ghost? If there's a ghost I'll rip them apart molecule by molecule!" Jack exclaimed causing him to accidentally let go of Danny resulting him to land face first on the ground.
"Whoops! Sorry Danny!" Jack said helping Danny to his feet." Danny dusted himself off before transforming and floating above his family. Wow, who knew I would still be wearing my toga while in ghost form? Danny thought.
"You guys go ahead; I'll catch up with you in a moment after I deal with this ghost." Danny said as he took off. Once he was outside, he scanned the skies for any signs of ghost but found none. He decided to head for Casper High instead. But as soon as he neared the school, he saw Skulker terrorizing his fellow graduates. He flew faster this time. As he came closer, he can see Skulker being hit by ghost rays. He looked down and saw Sam and Tucker shooting Skulker with their Fenton wrist rays. Then suddenly, Skulker swooped down and grabbed Sam and shot up to the air.
"Sam!" Tucker yelled. Danny swung into action.
"Hey Skulker!" he yelled making Skulker turn.
"Put Sam down." Danny said looking Skulker dead in the eye. Skulker merely laughed.
"Who said I should listen to you whelp?" Skulker retorted tightening the grip around Sam making her growl. He shot a ghost ray towards Danny who dodged it but his toga got slightly burned.
"Loosen on the grip will 'ya?" Sam yelled as she struggled to free herself. Skulker laughed again while tightening his grip more making Sam yelp in pain.
"Ah! Danny, will you kick his butt already? I can barely breathe here!" Sam said attempting to force her way out.
"Silence girl, do you want to die?" Skulker threatened.
"Not if I can help it." Danny said before blasting Skulker with a ghost ray who tried to hid his head behind Sam's cap but still got blasted… along with the cap. Anyway, enough with the cap. Let's get back to the story.
The blast hit Skulker on the face causing him to let go of Sam. While Danny dove to catch Sam, Tucker pulled out the thermos and sucked Skulker inside just as Danny caught Sam and set her on the ground again.
"Thanks Danny." Sam said as she dusted herself.
"No prob, Sam. You okay?" Danny asked circling her as he checked her for any injuries when he spotted her cap and gave it to her.
"Yeah I'm okay. But my cap's not." Sam said holding her cap up. The trio laughed before proceeding to the gym where a stage is set up. They took their seats and waited for the others to come in so the program can start. Danny looked around to see if his family was here yet and turns out they were seated four rows behind them. Maddie waved and he waved back. As he scanned the crowd, he saw Sam's parents seated next to his parents looking annoyed by them as usual and Tucker's parents just below them. Suddenly, Sam placed her hand on Danny's. He turned to look at her to see her smiling at him and he smiled back. Tucker caught them and made kissy noises at them. Sam rolled her eyes and began teasing Tucker about him and Valerie. Tucker teased her back and soon, they broke out into one of their debates again and poor Danny sat in the middle of them listening. They were soon interrupted with Mr. Lancer's voice echoing through the speakers.
"Everyone please settle down…" when everyone managed to settle down and stay quiet, he continued, "good afternoon to all of you. Today is a special day for our seniors because today marks a new chapter of your lives. After today, you will go on with your lives and be anything you want to be. In other words, today is your graduation." There were a few claps and whistles.
"For some of you, high school had been fun. For others, torture. And for some people, a mixture of both and even more." Mr. Lancer said as he looked at the trio's direction making them blush. He chuckled slightly before proceeding. "But even if all those challenges came into your way, not to mention all the ghosts, you still made it through with flying colors. Now without further ado, I wish you all congratulations and good luck to the years ahead." Cheers erupted as Mr. Lancer stepped down from the stage and the program started. The Valedictorian and Salutatorian took said their speeches. (A/N: sorry, I couldn't decide on who was going to be valedictorian and salutatorian. Plus, I couldn't make up some speeches for them so please! For the love of God: don't hate me!)
Soon, names were called up to the stage in alphabetical order to hand them their diplomas.
"Daniel Fenton," once his name was called he got up the stage and received his diploma.
"Congratulations, Daniel." Mr. Lancer said smiling. Danny smiled back.
"Thanks Mr. Lancer. I'm glad I made it through in one piece." Danny said jokingly. They both chuckled before they heard someone shout.
"That's my boy! That's my son out their! I'm so proud of him! He's a Fenton you know." Jack exclaimed standing up and pointing at Danny. Maddie was shaking her head but was still smiling at Danny with tears in her eyes, as well as Jazz who came all the way from Harvard just to see her little brother. Danny smiled and waved at them pointing to his diploma.
"Tucker Foley," he went down the stage just as Tucker went up.
"Congratulations, Mr. Foley." Mr. Lancer said patting Tucker on the back.
"Thanks Mr. Lancer. You know, I'll probably miss you… ha ha, I'm only kidding! " Tucker said making Lancer frown. Tucker cleared his throat.
"Sorry…" he said blushing making Lancer smile a bit. Danny gave him a thumbs up and smiled at him he even shouted "you go Tuck!" making Tucker laugh and blush slightly. When he got down, he and Tucker did a fist pump and gave each other a brotherly hug. A few names were called before the speaker called Valerie.
"Valerie Grey," Valerie smiled as she went up stage and received her diploma.
"Congratulations, Valerie." Lancer said shaking her hand.
"Thank you Mr. Lancer. I'm surprised you called me by my name and not by 'Ms. Grey'" Valerie said. Lancer just smiled.
"Nice one Val!" Tucker yelled making Valerie along with some students laugh. As she went down the stage, Tucker gave her a light kiss on the lips.
"Ahh! My eyes, they burn!" Danny said jokingly earning him a punch on the shoulder courtesy of Tucker.
"Oh shut up Danny, you and Sam are much worse." Valerie said. Before Danny could even respond, Sam's name was called.
"Samantha Manson," he saw Sam scowl as the speaker mentioned her full name but soon wiped it off as she come face to face with Lancer.
"Congratulations Samantha." Lancer said making Sam scowl again.
"Thanks Mr. Lancer but can you please just call me 'Sam'?" Sam said. Lancer smiled.
"Very well Sam." Sam grinned before hearing Danny and Tucker shout again.
"Go Sam!" Danny shouted. "Nice one Samantha!" Tucker purposely shouted earning him a glare from Sam. Lancer chuckled.
"I think you have someone to teach a lesson to. Congratulations again Miss Manson." Sam rolled her eyes before thanking Lancer and making her way down the stage. She punched Tucker on the shoulder before kissing Danny on the cheek and hugging Valerie. The two of them became close over the years.
After the all the names were called, Lancer took over the microphone.
"Congratulations to Casper High batch 2012!" Lancer said as the students cheered and threw their hats and diplomas in the air. (A/N: yeah so I set it as batch of 2012…)
"Valerie," Valerie turned to see her dad calling her smiling.
"I'll catch up with you guys later." Valerie said kissing Tucker on the cheek before going to her dad.
"I wonder what's wrong." Tucker said to Danny and Sam.
"It probably was some kind of congratulations or something. I mean her dad wasn't frowning. I'm sure Valerie would tell you if something's wrong anyway." Danny reassured making Tucker smile.
"Hey guys, let's see who could throw their diplomas the highest." Tucker said grinning. Danny and Sam agreed.
"On three… one… two… three!" they tossed their diplomas and Danny's was the highest. Tucker and Sam caught theirs in time but Danny wasn't so lucky. Just as the diploma landed on his head, they saw a camera flash.
"Oh Danny, you never outgrow your clumsiness." Jazz said shaking her head while smiling as she came with the Fentons, Mansons and Foleys.
End Flashback- - -
Danny smiled and closed his eyes as the cool breeze hit his face. High school graduation was always fun to remember. After the ceremony, Sam's parents surprisingly treated them all (even Valerie and her dad) to the Nasty Burger. Shocking, but it's true. Sam was the most surprised of all but it soon turned into happiness. Everyone had fun watching Sam's parents eat a hamburger. Tucker even took a picture of it. Danny laughed a little before proceeding to the next page.