Graduation. An important and unavoidable event for anypony and everypony. Now Vinyl and her whole class were having theirs.
The week leading up to the Graduation had been magical for every one of the Valehooftorians, all of whom were now walking on stage and prepping for their respective Finales.
Vinyl and Octavia had not spent a moment apart, even writing their final songs together. How fitting then that Rarity’s outfits would reflect that.
Vinyl’s dress was a grey cocktail dress with a musical progression of the first song Vinyl had heard Octavia play stitched into it. It also came with a new pair of sunglasses, grayish purple, to reflect the color of Octavia’s eyes.
Octavia’s dress was a white flowing dress with designs of eighth notes and vinyl records placed intermixed. Octavia’s dress also came with a new hair bow, white with a spot of cerise on either side to reflect Vinyl’s eyes.
The other Valehooftorian’s outfits were also quite impressive.
Jewels’ outfit looked as though it were a living shimmering canvas, constantly flowing as she moved about the stage demonstrating her now complete gallery of paintings and adding one last painting that she started and finished within the ceremony itself. Her last painting was that of everypony throwing their tassels in the air.
Stifle’s outfit was what appeared to be a simple black tuxedo, but it was much more. The design of it all was in fact woven together to look like developed film. He was flying about, taking pictures every few seconds and collecting them. Within a few moments, he had all the photos arranged into a large collage in the shape of a heart.
Red Gala’s outfit was that of an outwardly spiralling flower, colored to look like various types of apples. She performed a duet she had written in Ponyville, accompanied by her cousin Applejack. It did not last overly long nor was it overly complicated, but it was beautiful to everypony who heard it.
Olive Oil’s was a dress designed to look like the suit worn by a Head Chef, complete with the signature Chefs Hat. For her Finale, she created a scale model of Princess Celestia out of chocolate and various icings. It left everypony in awe.
Colttrane’s was a black and blue suit, layered in such a way that both colors were apparent, to represent how Jazz could be interpreted as dark or sad depending on one’s mood. He performed one of the songs he had written with Big Macintosh on vocals. Nopony had ever heard Big Macintosh sing, and they were all quite appeased with the results.
Razzle wore a suit that looked as though it were woven from an actual explosion. He and the other Pyrotechnic Ponies set about a large scale show that ended in a firework representation of the activation of the Elements of Harmony.
Zuzana’s dress was woven in such a way that it appeared to be invisible next to her coat. In her Finale, Zuzana had a section of the other graduating ponies come up and reveal the secondary outfits she had created for them to wear underneath the standard outfit.
Eloy had a suit that looked as though it were a keyboard with differently colored keys on it. He performed background music for a song that Fluttershy sang. It was quite beautiful to hear Fluttershy sing, and the mixing of various sound done by Eloy was normally not possible by anypony but the DJ Pony’s.
As Fluttershy sang her last note, Vinyl and Octavia stepped up, preparing to do their finale. As Octavia looked to Vinyl and saw that she was nervous, she instantly knew what to do.
“Hey Vinyl?” Octavia asked.
“Yeah?” Vinyl answered.
“Love you.” Octavia replied, smiling as she saw Vinyl do the same.
“I love you too Octavia. Now and forever.” Vinyl replied, straightening up and finally readying herself for the show.
Vinyl and Octavia’s performance would be talked about for years. The way their styles blended together was beautiful, each complimenting the other in a way that nopony else could do. Their song was the last act, and thus was the longest. When it ended, Vinyl and Octavia looked at each other again as the entire audience erupted in applause.
Shortly after that, the picture Jewels had painted became a picture Stifle could take. In the crowd of falling hats, many ponies were caught kissing. Vinyl and Octavia’s lasted far longer though, and nopony anywhere could care. Their school lives had come to a musical end, but the rest of their lives were just beginning to crescendo. Everything was perfect in the end to them, and nopony else’s opinions mattered but their own.
The End