The stars were the only thing that illuminated the night as Shiro and Keith patrolled along the borders of Camp Half-Blood.
"So, Keith. What do you think about Allura?"
And there it was. Keith knew something was up as soon as he and Shiro started patrolling and Shiro kept fidgeting next to him.
"Shiro. I, no basically everyone at camp, knows that you have a huge crush on her. I'm happy for you, really, she's nice."
He could see Shiro turning an amazing shade of red as he spluttered something incoherent to deny what Keith just said.
Keith just rolled his eyes.
Everyone in camp was talking about all the unresolved tension between the two instructors while both seemed to ignore their mutual attraction.
A scream near the border ended Shiro's spluttering abruptly and made them both stop in their tracks.
Looking at each other they slowly crept in the direction of the shout.
They could easily make out the direction they needed to go as the shout turned into faint talking.
They didn't spend time wondering who was talking as they made their way across the border and trough the small forest next to it.
"STAY AWAY!"
Keith felt the sudden urge to take a few steps back and could see Shiro stopping next to him too.
"You're going to turn away and leave me alone."
And suddenly he didn't feel like checking out what was happening anymore.
He just wanted to return back to camp as the voice filled his head.
In the back of his mind a thought was screaming at him that this smooth voice was doing something to him but right now he couldn't care less about what was happing.
A cold hand on his shoulder made his head turn to Shiro who was standing next to him with furrowed eyebrows.
"Keith. We need to snap out of this. Someone, this voice, is trying to control us."
Keith focused on his breathing. He felt his chest move up a down and realised that the movements of his body were not his but someone else instructing him.
Letting out a slow breath he focused on moving his body the way he wanted to.
He and Shiro looked at each other and nodded and they slowly began advancing through the small forest.
Now that they were aware of what the voice could do to them, it became easier to resist it but it still took a lot of effort not to follow it's instructions that were still sounding though the forest.
Soon a small clearing opened up in front of them. They could see someone taking careful steps backwards with their hands raised while a small giant eyed them.
The person spoke up again, "Everything is normal. Turn back. Leave me alone."
Keith could feel his body freezing up again, ready to follow the voice's instructions when he snapped. "Hey, dude! Could you maybe stop that?"
At the sudden noise the giant that was standing in the clearing fell out of his trance and roared so load the trees around them shook.
"Keith!"
"Sorry, Shiro. My bad."
Keith drew his heavy sword to stand in the giants way as he stomped toward them.
He made a few careful steps in the direction of the giant as he got closer. The giant lifted one arm, readying himself to throw a punch at Keith. When he was just in reach, Keith let himself fall of the floor the moment he could see the giant's fist charging in his direction, and slit through the giants legs. The giant, out of balance now, of not striking his target, stumbled.
Using this to his advantage Keith rammed his sword in the giant's back. A last confused grunt could be heard from the giant as he dissolved into monster dust.
Keith felt himself being covered in the monster dust and had to wipe his eyes to see again. Yickes.
"Good job Keith! Though your footwork could still use some more practise.", Shiro praised him from the sideline.
Grumbling Keith looked around the small clearing in search for other enemies when he saw the person who was talking before.
During the fight they made another few steps back into the woods that surrounded the clearing.
Keith stepped forward as Shiro lit up his mechanical arm so they could see who they just rescued.
Now that person moved forward again so they were in the circle of light that emitted from Shiro's arm.
Keith's breath stopped.
The guy's clothes were all torn up and Keith could see a bandage wrapped around one of his hands. His brown hair was slicked back with sweat and there were fine cuts along his right cheek. His eyes stood out in the dark night, glinting bright blue in the faint light even if they had dark circles underneath them. He looked like he hadn't slept well for days.
He was breathtaking.
He carefully eyed Keith's weapon and Shiro's arm.
"Well. It looks like I'm at the right place then.", said the guy.
"I'm going to be safe here, right?"
For a moment his voice cracked which he quickly tried to cover up with a cough.
"Yeah, you're safe here. I'm Shiro. And this is Keith." Shiro nodded in Keith's direction and Keith waved awkwardly.
"Lance."
"I'm sure you must be exhausted, Lance. Let's return to camp first, you'll be safe there and can rest.", Shiro continued.
"Sure yeah, why not. Following two strangers with weapons deeper in the forest. Yep, totally safe.", they could hear Lance whisper as he made his way over to them.
But after a few steps he started to sway, kneels buckling underneath him. Before either Shiro or Keith could react, Lance was on his knees on the forest ground.
Keith was next to the other demigod in an instant.
"You okay?"
Keith reached out his hand to help Lance up who just scoffed. "Like I'll need your help, mullet boy."
Keith heard Shiro snot behind him as he stared at Lace who slowly picked himself back up.
"Mullet boy?", Keith whispered confused.
Lance stalked around him to follow Shiro in the direction of the camp.
All that Keith could do was stare after him with his mouth hanging open. He could fell his face flush as he stumbled to catch up to them.
Hey! I hope you liked it!
I got inspired by the super amazing thesearchingastronaut on tumblr and her demigod Klance AU so here I am!
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