ok this is something that has been in my head forever and i wanted to post it... there are a severe lack of Daniel stories
i do not own voltron force D: i wish i did and if i did there would be more episodes... (re uploded for spell and grammer checks)
"Looks like Daniel is coming back to join the pride," said Lance, grinning smugly.
"I don't think he's come to join us," said Vince as Daniel's pained scream rang in his head.
Black lion turned around, with Daniel inside his eyes glowing violet. Black's claws flew down at green's face…
"No!" screamed Daniel sitting up in bed. Daniel looked at his hands which were glowing purple. No, it couldn't have come back. The glow faded and Daniel knew he would not be able to go back to sleep with this knowledge. He was still infected with haggarium.
He looked at the top bunk where his friend slept peacefully. For a moment he wanted to wake Vince and tell him about the returned illness, but then he re-thought. No one would find out this time.
Escaping out of the room he went downstairs and into the basement. Looking around carefully he stepped into the passage way to the not-so-secret-hide-out. In that room Vince had a cleverly hidden device that had only one purpose, to measure the amount of haggarium in his blood.
When Daniel saw the small red numbers his spirits plunged. When he had first started feeling the effects without other contact with other haggarium the amount had been twenty percent. When he had started feeling dizzy because of the changing numbers it was thirty percent. When he started having the visions it had been forty. But now those little red numbers red fifty. He wasn't just sick… he was dying.
Daniel spent most of his time outside the castle for the next two weeks his haggarium infection rising, but he couldn't tell anyone- no one could know.
He always had a determined smile plastered on his face, but he also had a sad desperation in his eyes. Daniel had the dream every night now and he always woke up right before he could hurt anyone.
He was, forever, pondering it, trying to separate what his mind had made up from reality. Pidge actually had made the upgrades to black lion, but he himself had not been able to use it except to see how the pilot changed, and only being able to see it in the lions launching room.
At breakfast on the first day of the third week Keith looked over at Daniel who wasn't eating his food and looked lost in thought. But there was something else different about him. He didn't look like the strong fifteen year old boy who had walked into the castle with an uncontrollable spirit and wild fire in his eyes.
He looked small and tired. He had bags under his eyes and his dark hair fell in his face, but not with the wild mess it unusually was, just lying there. You could count almost every rib under his Voltron uniform, his hands were thin, and his face was deathly pale no matter how much time he spent outside. That couldn't all have happened in only two weeks… could it?
Daniel suddenly stood up and left the room leaving his untouched breakfast behind.
"Keith," said Lance standing too, "can I talk to you for a minute?"
"Sure, Lance," agreed Keith.
The two walked out into the hall just in time to see Daniel turn the corner.
"Keith, I'm worried about the kid," Lance started glancing at the place the young cadet had just disappeared. "He's as thin as a rake and he's always distracted. When Pidge showed him the upgrade for black he barely smiled and then left! I-"
"I know Lance," interrupted Keith. "And I'm worried about him to."
"Maybe we should ask Vince," suggested Lance, "he might know." Keith approved so Lance stuck his head back into the room he'd just vacated and said, "Hey Vince come here for a second?"
What they both didn't know was hat Vince was as worried and confused about his friend as they were. The only one who knew about the haggarium infection was Daniel and he was determined to keep it that way.
"Vince do you know what's wrong with Daniel?" asked Keith.
Vince looked down and frowned. "No I don't, but if you want I can ask him," he took a deep breath. "Can I tell you something?" Vince asked. Both the older men nodded. "You have to promise me that Daniel won't find out I told you."
"Vince we promise, what is going on?" interrupted Lance
"When Daniel merged with Voltron the thing, the Lider, infected him with haggarium," Keith and Lance both gaped at him, "that's how he knew what was going on in Lotor's head and that was how we beat him because Daniel could see in his head."
"And that's what's wrong with him, he's infected?" asked Keith.
Vince shook his head, "no we got rid of the infection. He's definitely haggarium free," and Vince meant it he was completely convinced that his best friend was totally cured.
If he only knew how wrong he was.
"I don't know what's wrong with Daniel. But I will ask," said Vince. "But can I finish breakfast first?"
so i hope you like it there is going to be a few more chapters... review please?