Dark Abyss

The water below looked dark and still, reflecting the lights and the old bridge above it. Yet underneath that mirror like surface, raged currents that tumbled around trash and small rocks. Anna wanted her life to end, she didn't want a second chance, but she got it anyway... In the world of Voltron: Legendary Defenders!

WARRING!: Mentions of suicide, self harm, and abuse.

~Chapter One: Falling Into The Dark Abyss~

When walking down a busy street people except to be safe, that nothing is wrong as they walk among the colorful leaves of Autumn.

Families with children taking a stroll to the park, couples lovingly cuddling to stay warm in the slight chill, singles just enjoying the season with their overpriced pumpkin spice lattes, artisans looking for inspiration for their next master piece. Nothing is wrong, but not many people look past the surface of a seemingly picturesque moment of real life.

They don't see the homeless vagabonds that populate the park in secret, searching for gullible people to enable their bad habits of alcohol and drugs. There are still people with over priced Pumpkin spice lattes, not caring for anything that didn't involve themselves or anything on their expensive new phones. Self absorbed women gossiping as young children roughly played on the decades old playground equipment. A group of young men, with poorly concealed guns, tucked hazardly into the bands of their baggy pants, looking at everyone that passed with contempt and hostility.

Anna gave a sigh as she shivered her normally golden eyes dulled to yellow, unfocused as they glanced around at the park her family used to go to. Ghosts of the past ran and played around the rusted old playground, echoes of children laughing cruelly played in her ears. The cold bite of air chomped at her skin under the large black jacket and exposed bruised face, black and blue distorting her lightly tanned skin.

No one questioned or even looked at her as she made her way to an old wooden bridge, a few planks plagued with rot and some completely missing forming holes big enough for a small child to fall threw. "It's not condemned?" she questioned softly as she looked at the fallen and defiled sign that lay on the ground.

Bridge Closed

The letters where not very readable under the spray paint, but she knew what the sign looked like after two decades of it being posted. Sighing again, her faded black sneakers stepped on the rioting planks, the old wood crying out at the heavy weight of the young woman as she walked across the bridge until she was over the water. Carefully approaching the old railing, she reached out with a shivering blood stained hand, gripping the rotting wood gently as she approached to see over the rail. The water below looked dark and still, reflecting the flickering street lights and the old bridge above it. Yet underneath that mirror like surface, raged currents that tumbled around trash and small rocks.

Anna could see her reflection among the trash, bruised and bloody from events prior, most of the blood soaked into the black fabric of her clothes and hair with some specks staining her skin. Trembling a few tears escaped from her eyes as she leaned forward on the rails.

There was a loud crack and following splash, only a few turned to look for the source of the sound. A few noticing the missing railing from the old bridge before going back to their lives. Never hearing someone struggling in the water... then again Anna didn't struggle as she let the cold water wash away the blood and cooled her bruises. Letting the dark abyss take her away with the rest of the trash.

~Voltron~

Anna's eyes flew open suddenly in shock, gasping and choking on air. Her body trying to curl in on itself but restraints around her ankles and wrists prevented it.

"What the?" Anna croaked out as she looked at the restraints, eyes squinting agents the bright light above her, squirming around she could feel another metal like restraint around her waist. "What's going on he-he-rear?" she stuttered as her head fell back and a strange masked person appeared in her view. A long white bird like mask with six glowing yellow eyes stared down at her, a dark purple robe hiding what the mask didn't.

"Subject 195 is awake." A deep voice came from behind the mask, making Anna shiver in slightly warm room, as it moved away getting something that looked like a large syringe filled with light purple liquid. "The experiment can now commence." It said with a rather sinister tone as all the color drained from Anna's once lightly tanned skin as an overly large needle pierced her skin, injecting the strange liquid into her veins.

PAIN

That was all she could comprehend as they gave her a more needles filled with that strange liquid, it only stopped once her heart exploded in her chest. At least it felt like it did when blood spilled from every hole in her body, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and even her neither regions. A bright white was all she could see before being greeted by a black abyss. Feeling something sharp seep out from her bones, pricing muscle, fat, and other organs as they cut open her skin from the inside, down her arms, her legs her back neck and even her head.

It was painful, she wanted to scream but wasn't sure if she could, trying to fill her punctured lungs with oxygen, only giving out a strange wheezing noise with each breath she tried to take. The pain dulled away as she became numb, relaxing as her vision cleared to see three cloaked and masked people in the operating room, or whatever they called it, standing around and watching her suffer. Anger flashed into her system before being over written by sudden pain, muffled sounds entered her bleeding ears but she could not comprehend what the strange beings where saying to one another as they turned their backs to her.

"Failure."

Anna stopped breathing as the beings disappeared, frozen by the one word she could understand.

'Fail...ure?' she questioned before her senses gave out again, greeting the dark abyss once again.

~Voltron~

It was cold.

That was the first thing Anna noticed as she was arouse form the abyss again, disappointed.

'I thought it would be the last time... why can't I just die already?' She thought as some tears welled into her eyes, only to be blinked away as her amber eyes looked into surprised yellow eyes of a purple creature.

"You're still alive?" it asked in a surprised tone, looking down at her with pity. "You are rather reliant for such a young cub. The other subjects usually died during the first injection." It said, confusing and depressing Anna who let out a strange bark of disbelief. 'Of course... When one wants to meet Death, he reschedules.' She thought bitterly as they slowly closed their eyes, only to fly open as the sound of the restraints retracting surprised her. The purple being looking determined about something as it looked at her.

"Can you sit up?" it asked, Anna wanted to roll her eyes at him but slowly she tried to sit up for the first time in what felt like centuries.

'Shit!'

Anna cursed in her mind at the pain moving caused, even carefully moving muscles she had not used for so long, even simply sitting up was agonizingly painful. Blinking away the dark edges of her vision she could see she was not dressed in her baggy dark clothes, but a maroon and gray body suit, with what looked like small lavender crystals growing out of her skin like hair, all over her legs, arms, chest and she dreaded where else she would find them growing.

'What the hell!?' Anna questioned as she painfully moved her legs off the table to drape down the side, carefully flexing her stiff toes, before slipping off the table. A sudden and massive wave of pain ran threw her feet and threw her body, her legs gave out and made her plummet to the floor, only the unyielding force of the floor wasn't felt. Instead it was something like soft, warm fur that brushed ageists her sensitive skin. Golden eyes widen as they looked at the purple being whom had its arms under her back and knees, picking her up as easily as if she was a small child, walking out of the room and into a dark purple hall way.

Anna stared at the creature… its purple fur with lavender stripes on his head looked very familiar. Yellow eyes looked down at her, giving a strange and foreign smile. "No one will hurt you again little one. I will make sure of it." It told her in a rather protective, fatherly sort of tone. Anna stared at it, him, for a while as his quick pace, soft breathing, and clam pulse soothed her senses.

Slowly her eyes shut again, this time the dark abyss was warm and furry.

~Voltron~

Anna didn't want to wake up, slowly becoming aware of things around her. She was on her front, laying on something like a bed; she couldn't sleep on her sides or her back for several reasons beside the pain and weird gems poking out of her skin. The strange suit she was in was gone, and she was dressed in a slik night gown that went down to her ankles, little bows decorated the straps that ran over her thin shoulders and one just above her rather aching chest. The gown feeling like smooth silk compared to the well worn blue blanket was draped over her and a pillow that smelled soothingly familiar to her. Wrapping her arms around it, she buried her face in it to breath in the scent, trying to place it before someone knocked one the door.

She tensed at the sudden noise, door slid open before she could even think to respond.

"Rise and shine little one, it's time to eat." A recognizable voice called out; opening one golden eye she saw the purple being who took her away from the strange place and the painful experiments. He was holding a tray of what she assumed was food; a little steam was rising from the bowl and a glass with clear liquid with it. She blinked slowly as he came closer, stopping as he set the tray down on what looked to be a table that folded out of the wall.

"Can you sit up again?" he asked gently, making Anna blink owlishly. Carefully she arched her back, several loud cracks filling the room, moving her legs slowly to come under her body as she pressed one hand into the bed, the other still hugging the pillow, folding her legs in front of her as she held the pillow to her chest for comfort. She stared at the purple furred creature in confusion and curiosity, her vision oddly blurry.

"That's a good girl, can you hold this?" he asked, smiling gently while holding out what looked like a spoon.

Carefully Anna reached out to grab it, the crystals on her skin looking more like shimmering scales then crystals. She grabbed it carefully and took it from the furred creature. She was shaking noticeably and the spoon slipped from her weak fingers. She flinched, screwing her eyes tightly, expecting the clattering of the spoon and to be punished for her failure to complete a simple task.

"Hmm. Seems you're not able to. I'll feed you myself, but just for today." She heard the purple furred creature say, popping her eyes open in surprise. She saw the spoon in his hand, as his other hand reached for the bowl of some warm stew. Dipping the spoon in it, he gently blew on the burnt orange colored concoction before holding it out in front of her mouth steadily. Looking at it unsurely before taking a careful sniff, smelling something like meat and exotic spices coming from it. She looked at the spoon and then at the creature for a brief moment before staring at the offered food again.

The furry creature noticed her reluctance even as her mouth watered and stomach roared , demanding to be filled. A frown crossed his lips as he looked at her, seeing a very frightened and meek creature that wouldn't hurt a fly, or even could in her current state of health.

Recalling the scarce information on Subject 195: she was subjected to experimentation and injections for only a few Quintents, with no mention of where she came from or even where she was acquired in their meticulously kept records. The druids where forcefully splicing foreign DNA stands into a living being, let alone one past it's normal growth stage, it was an insane idea that was pointless. This little one looked like she had tried to fight off the druids at some point, judging by the extra restraints, only to fail as they forced her to change. She survived each experiment by a slender hair, until the latest injection... her body finally giving out, and the Druids declared her a failure. He was tasked with deposing of the body, and he did... just not how they wished he did. The little one was still alive, much to his amazement, but she was no longer the same form before the druids experiments.

White hair that looked more like strands of white crystals spilled over her shoulders in slight waves down her back; her skin retained its tanned coloring, small lavender crystals doted her cheek bones, eyes were bighting form their dull yellow to gold, outlined with beautiful full dark lashes, bones visible under her skin that was not already covered by the painful looking crystals, jutting out like unwanted hairs.

"Eat little one." He voiced with concern as he saw her lips press shut as she moved backwards slightly, looking away from him as she hugged the pillow closer. "It's okay, look." He sighed and brought the spoon to his mouth and gave a satisfied noise but she still looked at him with suspicion. "It's not poised, and you need to eat." He told her but Anna only bit her lip in concern. The furred creature sighed and set the bowl and spoon down before turning to leave before he realized something.

"My name is Ulaz, Little one. I wish for you to come and trust me. You are going to be here for a very long time." Anna blinked at his words, watching his retreating back before the door closed behind him, a small beep was heard from the other side, presumably to lock her in. She looked over at the food left for her before looking around at the room it self. It was small with a single bed, a closet and a small book self above what looked to be desk with books, paper, and pens.

Curious, she carefully stood up on shaky legs, abandoning the pillow on the bed, to slowly reach the desk. Looking curiously at the all books, seeing strange symbols instead of familiar letters. Ignoring the food she reached out for the cover of one book, flipping it open to a random page that made her golden eyes sparkle with excitement at the familiar looking illustration.

~Voltron~

In a large darkly lit room stood several masculine masked and hooded beings, all surrounding a smaller, more feminine shaped masked being, hood down with a bright white mane of hair pulled back into a high wavy ponytail practically glowing in the dark room. "Are you ready little one?" a deep voice asked, getting a small nod from the female in the middle before one of the males broke from the circle, carrying something that looked like a dagger in hand before offering it to the little one... blade first.

With an ungloved hand she wrapped her fingers around the blade tightly, drawing dark purple blood that slowly coated the blade.

"Do you swear your life to the Blade of Marmora?" he asked, mask tilted down to look as the female.

"I swear my life to the Blade." She spoke confidently, gripping the dagger tighter, letting out more blood.

"Will you keep its secrets, and do whatever is in your power to bring down Zarkon?" the male asked, a loud silence filling the room. "I will do what I see fit, to free everyone form Zarkon's Iron fisted rule." She said with confidence, as the silence reigned over the group... for several ticks, waiting for her to continue the pledge. "And it's secrets?" the male prompted, not sounding very happy, but the female was quite for a bit too long. "Little one." He growled out, getting anger before she let out a sigh.

"A far as Zarkaon is concerned, there is no Blade of Marmora trying to over throw him." she responded, before the male gave a deep growl. "That is why we take its secrets into the next world, and so will you." He said sternly as the female tilted her head slightly.

"I will take its secrets with me to the next world. Happy now?" she asked, and he gave a snort in reply as a few others around him chuckled quietly.

"Then by this blade, you hear by give your body, mind, and soul to our cause." He said before letting go of the hilt, the symbol engraved on it glowed a bright lavender as the small dagger grew in length and became thinner, making a slight curve at the tip before the symbol changed into another, it's glow fading. The female grabbed the handle of the new katana with her other hand, reading the familiar symbol on the hilt.

"Heart." she mused softly, running a bloody finger over it with pride.

"Welcome to the Blade of Marmora, Devine." The male said sternly but as soon as he did the other members eagerly approached the small female. "Glad to officially have you join us Litt-Ah, Devine." Another male spoke, correcting himself as the female took off her mask. Exposing her sparkling golden eyes and excited smile that stretched across her lightly tanned face, glowing white markings on her cheek bones and exposing her feline like teeth with glee.

"Thanks. It's gonna be nice not hearing everyone calling me little one for a change." She responded, looking over the group of her mentors and teachers with a slowly dropping smile. "Hey... where's Master Ulaz?" she asked, her mood damping before another, a much larger male ruffled her hair with his large hand. "Not to worry. He left to set The Champion free, just like you have been begging Kolivan to let you do." He informed her as she let out an excited squeal as her white hair glowed.

"Really! He believed me!?" she asked, bouncing on her heals excitedly even as the others scoffed. "Yes, but Ulaz always indulges you with those child's tales." Golden eyes narrowed at the one who said that. "It's not just a story! It's real! Voltron will be coming back to help us defeat Zarkon." she declared adamantly, as the room grew quiet. Anna, or Devine as she was renamed in this new reality, could feel their sadness and frustration with her seemly childish belief. She turned to the largest member in the group.

"You believe me, right?" she looked at him with large eyes and a pout, fluttering her dark lashes up at him cutely.

"Agh! Y-yes, of course I do, but we know Zarkon has recently found the red lion. Who knows if he has found the others, or if they even still exist." The large male reasoned before Devine gave him a confident smirk. "They do exist! That's why I'm going to Arus to help them." she declared as there was a collective sigh all around her.

"You can't just take off to some far off planet, based on an ancient child's tale. There are other things you can do to help right here."

Devine rolled her eyes at the masked male before smirking.

"Yeah, but that child's tale has a big red, mecha cat of evidence. At some point those stories must be true. I can finely show you the universe is trying to correct itself. The lions will find new Paladins and form Voltron once again." She stood confidently and pointed her new sword in a seeming random direction, envisioning the 10,000 year old Galra Leader standing before the tip of her blade.

"They will help set us free from Zarkon." She declared, serious as there was a moment of silence among them.

"Do you even know where Arus is?" A male asked after a while, not convinced. "Found the coordinates ages ago, and I already programmed it into a small craft I'm taking there." Devine responded proudly, securing the katana on her left hip. "What about supplies?" a different male spoke up. "There's also a castle waiting on Arus with supplies. All it needs are the lions." She supplied him an answer, but that still did not ease the group's worries.

"What about the Paladins?"

"I have some extra clothes that will help me blend in with them. Other than that, I think we'll get along very nicely." She crossed her arms over her chest with pride.

"What of the locals of Arus?"

Devine rolled her eyes at the question, pouting.

"They're a peaceful, primitive tribe of cute little creatures a third my size, I'm more likely to hug them than fight them." She placed both hands on her wide hips and glared at them.

"I'm not the same little one Master Ulaz brought in for training so long ago. He trained me just as hard as all of you have for the past few years! I'm faster, stronger, smarter, and far more skilled then when you first met me. I even have my own connections to help me bring down Zarkon." She smiled softly looking at each member who each took time to teach her something. They taught her how to fight hand to hand, use various weapons, to survive on several different types of planets, how to read and write in the Galra's language, among a few other things that interested her. They didn't have to, but they fed her thrust for knowledge and drive to understand the Galra culture all the same, she could feel how proud they were of her. Even making connections out side their secretive group to further expand their allies.

"You have yet to land a simple spacecraft safely." Someone spoke up from behind the group, they all looked at their leader, with his arms crossed over his chest, Devine could tell he was feeling assured about that one little detail, making her roll her eyes. "I don't need to know how to pilot, Master Kolivan. I'm only going a few galaxies away and form there I will be support or back-up. It's not like the lions will choose me any way." She reasoned sadly.

"And what of the incident with the red lion?" He asked her, making her cringe at the memory of her first failed mission. "That was just a flute, I'm no paladin. The true paladins will arrive on Arus in the next few Quintents, right in front of the Castel of Lions with The Blue Lion, Sapphire." She explained as their leader shook his head at the silly prediction. "Even if you do not become a paladin of Voltron, I will not allow you to leave here without being able to land safely."

"WHAT! You can't do that you're not the boss of- You're not my DAD! " She yelled, correcting herself but still getting an amused chuckle from the Blade's leader as he faced her. "I may not be your father young lady, but I am your Master. Ulaz left you in my care, and as a member of the Blade of Marmora, you will follow my orders. Do I make myself clear, Little One?" He mocked her before leaving her glaring at his back, but he missed her lips fighting to pull up in a smirk.

'You're not gonna stop me.'

~Voltron~

Devine frowned as she looked at her back in the mirror, the top portion of her suit peeled off down to her waist, with a back exposing white top covering her chest and stomach. While on her back where hundreds of small, multi colored shards growing out of her skin.

"I just harvested two bags full yesterday." She pouted carefully pulling out a clear colored shard from her back, only to wince at the small pain it caused. "It'll be fine for the next few Quintents... hopefully…" She sighed as she looked around her semi dark room. A backpack was sitting on the bed, packed with a few supplies and a change of earth clothes, along with her Katana in its new sheath, and a belt with several pockets resting on top of her notebook and a book Ulaz had gifted her before he left to rescue the Champion, wanting to see the human before he would forget their shared experience.

Devine took a deep calming breath, letting it out slowly before slipping back into her suit again. She picked up the belt and slipped it across her body, placing the Katana on her back before she picked up her backpack and the books, heading for the door. It slipped open as she poked her head into the quiet hall way, looking both ways before completely leaving her room to make her way to the docking bay...

Leaving behind a simple note on her bed before finding small ship and prepare it to leave for Arus.

~Voltron~

"Whew~ That was easier then I thought it would be." Devine mussed as she set her bag into the cock pit before settling into the pilot seat, turning the ship on and checking the systems before it was closed behind her. A smile slowly bloomed on her lips as she turned on the auto pilot as it set a course for Arus. The engines came to life just as the hanger doors opened to the dark abyss of space. "I never thought I would ever be flying into outer space, or meeting soon to be Legendary Defenders~." She giggled, her mind wondering to the future paladins for a moment until a familiar purple face appeared on a communication screen, not looking to happy.

Devine let out a yelp of surprise before Kolivan started to speak.

"I don't know if I should be impressed or disappointed with you, Little one." He frowned at her, as she gave a nervous smile. "How about impressed?" she suggested but he ignore her response. "Regardless, you have been trained well by the other members and I see you are adamant about meeting these, Paladins. So you are free to do as you wish..."

"Yes! Thank you!" She cheered abruptly, but he did not stop speaking...

"So long as you do not crash into anything along your way." he finished and Devine quickly realized that it was a recording, before she could say anything lese the ship took off into space, the auto pilot disengaged but the coordinates still locked into the system. "Good Luck." Where his final words as the screen went blank, Devive desperately grabbing the rouge controls in panic, the accelerator blasting a max speed as she struggled to get control of the ship and suppress her fear of losing control.

From the dark control room Kolivan watched the ship disappear, its thrusters becoming one with the billions of stars around it before diapering from his perceived site within a few ticks. "Are you sure that was wise choice, Leader? Knowing who she truly is?" a masked blade member asked worriedly as the elder Galra closed his yellow eyes softly. "No, but we wouldn't be able to keep her from going regardless of who she is or isn't." he responded before walking away to his quarters.

~Voltron~

It seemed to be another peaceful day for the Arusians, harvesting the fruits that grew in the trees, children playing, women cleaning and cooking. All while their king shared the words of their Lion goddess with them. It was just like any other day on Arus and it was rather boring for one young male Arusian that was a few miles away from the lively village.

"Yah!" he gave a battle cry as he imagined fighting several bad guys with a stick that acted like his mighty sword. "Take that! You evil fiends! Ha! Ho! HA! Fall before my- might?" the Arusian trailed off as he heard a strange sound in the sky, looking up he saw a ship bellowing black smoke from one of its engines, barely skimming the tree tops before it plowed into the ground with great force.

"Invaders!" He squeaked out in panic, dropping his stick to run to his village, only to stop within a few feet as he realized something. "No! I am a brave warrior! And warriors do not run from danger." He declared, picking up his discarded stick before running to find the ship's crash site. Silently praying to the goddess that he would get her blessing for fighting bravely.

~Voltron~

"Quiznak~." Devine cursed as she separated herself from the console of the ship, red light flooding the cockpit along with smoke. "Why do I always mess up on the landing?" She grumbled before picking up her bag and kicking open the door letting the thick smoke out as she escaped. Once her feet hit the dirt she started run to a safe distance form a pending explosion.

"Hold it right there evil invad-ER?!" The Arusian warrior jumped in front of her, pointing his stick sword at her, only to be picked up hastily in her dash. The Arusian was confused and terrified at the dark, masked being that grabbed him, he didn't fight it as it threw it's rather soft and warm body over him, curing around him protectively for a few moments before looking back at the ship.

"It didn't explode?" just as she asked the ship blew up into tiny pieces and flames. "Spoke to soon." Devine sighed before looking down at the Arusian she had covered, her breasts slowly suffocating it. "Sorry! Are you okay?" She asked, quickly pulling away as the Arusian took a deep breath. "Are you hurt?" she asked as it seemed to catch its breath before it glared at her, nearly poking her mask with the stick.

"S-stay back invader! I am the Arusian's greatest warrior!" it declared, visibly trembling and stuttering. "I-I will not let y-you take my home!" he declared with as much confidence as he could. "Awww~." Devive cooed before putting her hands up with open palms."I'm not here to invade anyone." She then separated her ring and middle fingers on both hands to from a V. "I come in peace."

"Y-you look like an e-evil invader! I-i will not fall for your t-tricks!" it glared at her and flinched as she reached for her mask, taking it off to show her face before slipping off her hood in the process, letting her waist length white hair free to glow in the sun light. "Does this really look like a face of evil?" she asked him with a soft smile as he looked at her in awe, lowering the stick.

"What are you?" he asked confused and then startled as Devine stood up to her full height. "Well I was human, but now... I'm the liaison for The Paladins of Voltron." She announced proudly but only got a confused look form the Arusian. "What's a Voltron?" it asked, making Devine's eyes widen in surprise before she realized something.

"Oh! Right, your people have stories about a Lion Goddess."

"Y-you know the Lion Goddess!" Klyzap shouted in disbelief, looking up at the strange creature before him. "Well... no. I know of her, and that soon there will be five lions coming together in the sky to bring peace to the known universe." She told him as he looked at her with wide eyes and open mouth. "You... are you an oracle?" the Arusian asked unsurely as Devine bit her lip. "No, I just know how the universe will try and correct itself. It's been 10,000 years, so something must be in motion and I want to help with that." She told the little Arusian, looking down with a small smile holding out her gloved hand.

"Will you help me?" she asked as the small creature looked at her hand and then up at her face.

~Voltron~

"How much longer is Sapphire gonna take?" Devine groaned as she lay out on the soft grass in the ruins of the Castle of Lion's courtyard. Sighing she looked up at the blue skies with fluffy white clouds scattered everywhere. It was the same sky she had stared at for the past two Quintents just waiting for the Blue Lion to deliver the Paladins to Arus to start off their grand destinies. The wait was painfully long despite entertaining herself and mingling with the odd Arusian natives before she became unconfutable with their king's rule. She took this extra time to think of what she would say to the young humans so far from home or anything familiar to Earth.

"I should really be softly friendly. They would be understandably scared and confused about all this. Hunk will want to go back, so a bit of positive encouragement would be good. Lance would fall for the sleeping cutie in the castle bit. Keith and Katie will be a bit harder, as for Shiro-" she trailed off, blushing as she thought of the handsome leader with a fond smile.

"He'll probably make sure they all stick together, hook him and I can get them all. I wonder... if he will even remember me?" She questioned before sitting up, looking at her hands that rested on top of her legs, clad in dark purple jeans, with her feet in gray and black sneaker like shoes, while a lavender tank top and utility belt were hidden under her favorite baggy black jacket, along with some fingerless black gloves, exposing the pointed, lavender colored shards that replaced her finger nails being part of her Human disguise. Nervously she twirled a finger in her lose white hair. At first glace just looks as white as fresh snow, but a closer look with bright light, the strands had a rainbow of colors while still being just as soft and thick as her original hair had been. She then set the strand behind her pointed ear, before rubbing at the white V shaped markings on her cheek bones, making her look like an Altean. An attempt to ease the still sleeping Alteans inside the locked castle into trusting her.

Turing golden eyes back to the sky for the trillionth time, she finally saw something a bit different. A speck that was slowly becoming larger or getting closer.

"Sapphire?" she called out standing up as she could see a four legged shape forming, it's colors nearly matching the sky until it got closer. The blue Lion's yellow eyes glowed in greeting as Devine's golden eyes glowed back in response hearing a roar of greeting resound inside her head, flowing threw her bones and over her skin. She shivered at the feeling but smiled once the Blue Lion was close enough to be seen clearly. The down draft the Lion made while landing blew at her clothes and hair as she admired its majesty.

"This... is... happening~" Devine grinned widely as the blue lion's paws hit the ground, making lose dirt and rocks jump from its sudden weight, her body was really glowing and her eyes where nearly sparking as the Lion's head came down to let out it's passengers. "Okay. Just relax Devine, no need to over whelm them on the first day." She spoke to herself, taking a deep breath and letting it out before putting on a clam smile as the Lion's mouth opened to let out it's passengers. Five pairs of eyes stared at her in confusion, making her slightly nervous, her smile damping as two pairs narrowed at her in suspicion as they disembarked the lion.

"It's about time you guys got here. Was getting worried you might have taken the wrong wormhole for a bit there." She said calmly, slightly joking as they all looked at her in surprise and confusion.

"Um? Does anyone else see the talking ball of light?" The Big yellow one, Hunk asked looking at her unsurely.

"Ball of light?" Devine questioned before she glanced at her hair and blushed as she saw it was giving off its own light. "Oh! Sorry, I kinda glow when I'm overly excited. You can call me Devine, and I will be your liaison for this little um... adventure into the final frontier." She announced with a bit of nervousness as they just stared at her, the glow diming to more reasonable levels as anxiety bubbled in her chest at their reactions.

"You knew we were coming?" The shortest one in green asked first, sounding surprised.

"Kinda. I was off by a few Quintents, but now that Sapphire's brought you-"

"Sapphire?" The scrawny one in blue, Lance interrupted in confusion, Devine stopped herself before biting her lip. "Yeah, it's kinda the name of the Blue Lion behind you. At least that's what I call her." She motioned to the lion as she closed her mouth once the humans where all clear. Devine could feel a soft purr reverberating through her body along with a warm feeling.

"Did you make this thing?" The One in red, Keith asked as he pointed a thumb back at the lion. "No, and her name is Sapphire, or Safie if you want to make it cute and short." She frowned at Keith, crossing her arms as she gave him a stern look and he looked taken aback at her response.

"Okay... Devine, can you tell us why Sapphire brought us here?" Shiro asked, making Devine light up again, as Shiro, the soon to be leader of Voltron and the new Black Paladin right before her. "To bright! To bright!" Pidge and the others quickly looked away before they where blinded, as Devine nervously dimed, embarrassed. "Sorry, about that. Safie brought all of you here to help defeat Emperor Zarkon, and end his long tyrannical reign of terror over the known universe." She told them seriously as they looked at her with wide eyes.

"Nope! Sorry, I think you have the wrong guys in a blue lion. So... how do we get back to Earth?" Hunk asked nervously as Devine shook her head. "Sorry to disappoint, but Earth is several trillion light-years away, it would be easier to just face Zarkon then try and go back to Earth. Either way you will still have to face him." she explained and she could feel Hunk was nervous and scared.

"So we will have to face Zarkon, now or later." Shiro asked, as Devine nodded grimly. "Yes, Sapphire and four other lions, with suitable paladins, are needed to from the legendary mecha, Voltron."

"Wow, you sure know a lot about this stuff for such a little kid." Lance was saying as he reached out a hand to pat Devine on the head as if she was a child. She flinched when she saw his hand reach for her head, she grabbed his wrist with a firm hold, giving him an annoyed glare and low growl out of reflex.

"I am NOT a little kid, even by your planet's standards." She corrected him, giving his wrist a good squeeze before letting it go. The blue paladin cupped his wrist and looked at her with slight fear. "Right, you're a strong... whatever you are." Lance said unsurely, looking at the odd collection of human and non human traits Devine had exposed. "I'm human... or... mentally I'm still kinda am.." she sheepishly admitted, tucking her hands into the jacket pockets, this got their interest just as expected.

"You're human? W-what happened to you?" Pidge asked, looking a bit paler, along with Shiro who clenched his Galra prosthetic arm. Devine looked away from them, admiring the castle for the hundredth time before looking at Shiro and then down at his arm. "You got the much nicer end of the Druids experimentations... and I rather not remember my experience with them either." She let out a sigh, cringing at the phantom feeling of needles plunging into her skin. Shiro looking at her in confusion but still understanding the sentiment.

"We so not prepared for this." Hunk voiced before turning to the blue lion."Excuse me, Miss Sapphire, but could you take me home now... please?" he pleaded with the still lion, fear clearly coming off him. "You can't leave now. The Princess is still waiting inside the castle, and it's rude to make a lady, let alone royalty wait." Devine declared, nearly smirking as Lance's attention was caught. "Princess?" He question eagerly, Devine had to bite her lip to stop from smiling, pointing at large doors of the Castel of Lions.

"Yes. She's been asleep in her castle since Zarkon's evil reign began. Waiting for her pla-"

"Say no more! Hold on princess, your prince is on his way!" Lance yelled confidently as he made his way across the bridge eagerly, not waiting for her to finish her prepared pitch. 'Got'em!' Devine mentally cheered as she looked at the others expectantly.

"What about the rest of you?" she asked as she walked over to her backpack and sword picking them up from their spot in the soft grass. Hearing some whispers from behind her, about her existence being to convenient. Devine frowned as she felt Keith's distrust, but reasoned her own worry away quickly. "Ugh, I think I'm gonna be sick." Hunk voiced, holding his upset stomach that gave a loud protest. This propped Devine to reach into her bag and pull out three things wrapped in leaves, holding them out to the large paladin in offering. "Here. This should help your stomach settle a little." Hunk looked at it with confusion.

"What is it? Can Human's eat this?" he asked worriedly as he took one, looking unsure. "Of course, it's a local treat made from the pulp of fruits and something akin to bread. It has a citrusy taste to it but the bead is a little sweet and the green leaf wrapping keeps it nice and soft." She explained, but the big guy seemed hesitant. Devine opened one and took a small bite out of the little delight, chewing then swallowing it quickly to speak.

"See, nothing to worry about." She tried to assure him as he unwrapped it and took a small bite, ignoring the childish temptation to act poisoned. Devine didn't hide her smile as his eyes lit up with surprise and the rest was quickly gone. "That was good, you got any more?" He asked, looking eager for another taste of the Arusian treat. "Hunk." Shiro scolded his gluttony, but Devine just laughed softly. "No worries, I have the recipe memorized, and I can always get more from the locals." She smiled as she gave Hunk another treat and finished her own.

"Besides I think two will be enough to settle his stomach away. Would you guys like some too?" she asked before they agreed to try it as well, also delighted with the taste. "It's not bad." Keith wrote it off, pouting all the same when the treat was gone.

"How long have you been here?" Shiro asked, finishing his treat almost as fast as the others. "Not long, the locals are friendly so there wasn't much trouble." She explained, putting away Lance's share for later, but she did not miss Hunk eyeing the treat. "What's with the sword then?" Keth asked, suspicious as he eyed her weapon with some interest. "Just because this planet is safe and peaceful doesn't mean they all are." She reasoned, looking over her shoulder at the sheathed katana, the Blade of Marmora insignia glittering in the sunlight. "So you've actually used it?" Pidge asked looking a little confused. "Not this one yet, but I've used other swords and weapons too." She informed the smallest paladin.

"Where did you get it?" Keith asked, looking a tad more interested, but Devine just gave a sad smile. "Sorry, that's a secret. Speaking of which..." She pressed an index finger to the tip of Hunk's nose as his eyes where wide in surprise at being caught trying to get Lance's treat out of her bag. "It's not polite to go through other people's things, young man." She scolded him as Hunk gave a nervous chuckle under the disapproving looks.

"Right. Sorry." He apologized nervously, glancing at Pidge for a moment before nervously scratching the back of his head. "It really helped to settle my stomach." Devine just gave him a kind smile. "You're welcome, but please don't try that again. Even if you return the items it's still very rude." She scolded him knowingly, making the large boy pale in fear and feel a bit creped out by her words.

"Let's catch up to Prince Phillip before he hurts himself trying to open those doors." She suggested making her way to a struggling Lance.

"What was that about?" Pidge asked, curious, making Hunk stiffen at the question. "Ah, probably nothing to worry about, let's go get those really big doors open." Hunk raced after her, leave the other three confused before the blue Lion let out a loud roar, startling them all as the large doors to the castle slowly started opening, letting them inside the dark castle.

"It's a good thing you glow in the dark." Lance mussed as the glow Devine admitted, lighting up the castle's massive foyer, letting them see every detail of the ancient Altean castel.

"HELLO!" Hunk shouted out into the castle, creating an eco threw out the empty, dark halls. The humans turned to glare at him, for alerting whatever could have been in the castle, but only air was disturbed. "Don't worry, the only in things in this castle are us and those still in the status pods." Devine assured them but tensed as a triangle section of the floor beneath them glowed under their feet.

-Hold for Identity scan.-

'Quiznack.' Devine cursed as they were all scanned by the computer, she held her breath and held very still as her body was scanned, her blood running cold as it ended… and nothing really happened besides the lights of the castle switched on and directed them to the status pods... where Princess Allura and Coran still slept. "This way, but be careful. Some security proto call may have been activated." Devine lead them down the hall, looking for any signs that she was going to be attacked, relaxing a tad as they came to the status chamber.

"What is this place?" Lance asked as he entered after Devine who made a b-line for the control panel in the room. It lit up at her touch, a holographic screen displaying unfamiliar characters to her as she took a moment to try and understand the Altean characters. "It looks like a control room, but it seems a little dark." Pidge mentioned as the rest of them entered, Devine trying several buttons before two capsules rose up from the floor, startling the future Paladins.

"What are those? Are those people inside? Are they dead!?" Hunk panicked as he could make out the Altean's forms frozen inside the pods. "No just asleep, but it's time to wake the princess and her aid." Devine smiled as she pressed another button to defrost the princess, walking over to her pod as it opened.

"Father!" She gasped desperately, reaching out to the late king as a much delayed reflex, falling forward out of her pod. "Whoa there princess. Take it easy there. You've been in there a long time." Devine caught the princess before she could hit the floor, her body tense before looking at the face of an unfamiliar looking Altean. "Who are you? Where are we?" she asked, looking a bit scared and reasonably confused as Devine helped her get steady. "I am called Devine, and we are in the Castel of Lions. There is no need to be scared." She tried to assure the princess, slowly getting rid of her fear with a soft smile.

"Hello~ Princess, I'm Lance." Lance came from behind Shiro, trying to be swave as he hit on the princess who just stared at him with wide eyes.

"Your ears." She mentioned and Lance looked to the side in confusion.

"Yeah?"

"Their hideous! What's wrong with them!?" the princess yelled as she turned away from him in disgust. Devine bit her lip trying to suppress her mirth at the exchange and Lance's horrified reaction. "Nothing! They heard exactly what you said about them!" He shot back but was too slow as the princess grabbed his arm and twisted it behind his back; bringing the lanky boy to his knees. "Who are you!? Where is King Alfor!? Why are you in my castle!?" the princess demanded from Lance who was in pain from the very well done arm lock she was using on him.

As amusing as it was, Devine knew she had to get the princess off the new blue paladin.

"Actually princess, it was the blue lion that brought them here, and granted us entrance into the castle." She explained calmly over Lance's whimpering, the princess looked at her with wide eyes, seeming to trust her words. "How do you have the blue lion? Where is its Paladin? What are all of you doing here?" she asked, looking at the other humans in the room, Devine could feel her panic rise as something came to her mind as she let go of Lance's arm.

"How long has it been?" Allura asked, looking shaken as she made her way to the control panel. "How about you tell us who you are? Maybe we can help." Shiro suggested helpfully as Hunk was still hiding behind him. "Right, how rude of me. I am Princess Allurra of planet Altea. Now, i've got to know how long we've been asleep." The princess mentioned, a little calmer as she operated the control panel with Pidge watching with curiosity and amazement at the holographic screens.

Devine gently bit her lip before speaking up to deliver the bad news to Allura.

"Princess, you've been asleep long enough for the grand stories of Voltron to become mere myths in the minds of the known universe." The princess looked at her with disbelieving eyes. "What? No! That simply cannot be true." She denied as she franticly looked for evidence on the control panel.

"Enemy Combatants!" Devine heard Coran yell as he fell out of his pod, everyone except the princess looking at him. "Quiznak! You're lucky I have a case of the old Sleep Chamber Knees. Otherwise, I'd grab your head like this, wrap you up like so, and... one, two, three, sleepy time!" The older male Altean, Coran boasted, demonstrating something that looked like a sleeper hold.

"Oh Yeah? Well, before you did that, I'd..." Lance made some weird motion that tried to imitate a marshal art move of some kind. "Like that."

"Really? How could you do that when I've already come at you with this? Ha, ha, ha, hey!" Coran made some over the top marshal arts looking moves, the whole scene made Devine cringe at all the errors they made in their movements and stance. "These guys are really good." Hunk admired his friend and the Altean putting on a show, but Devine ran her hand down her face in annoyance. "Not to anyone that knows actual Marshal arts forms." She spoke up, getting Corans attention.

"A hostage! You fiends!" the goofy Altean quickly put himself between Devine and the Paladins. "Not to worry little one, Uncle Coran will protect you!" he declared, confident as she saw the humans start to look scared, but not of him. As behind him, Devine extruded smokey gray sparks from her body as her ember eyes narrowed angrily at the Altean's back. She disliked anyone, besides her masters, calling her Little one.

"I am... NOT! A CHILD!"

She roared out angrily as she japed her pointer and middle finger into Coran's spine, unleashing a non lethal dose of the smokey gray sparks into his body.

"AH! Surprise attack from the rear!" he yelled as he felt the sparks spark his hair and mustache before her fell forward onto the floor, twitching from the shock. The paladins looked down at Coran before looking up at Devive with wide disbelieving eyes. "Anyone else still think I'm a child?" she asked, holding up her hand to create more sparks as she gave them a sharp tooth devilish grin. They no longer thought she was a child, and knew she could be rather scary when angry.

"Dude, is he dead?" Lance asked as he poked Coran, but the Altean didn't seem to respond. "He's still alive. I just gave him enough of a shock to hurt a little." She explained but nudged the Altean with her foot to find a response of some kind.

'Quiznack! Did I KILL Coran!?' she thought worriedly before the princess spoke. "This can't be." She sounded in distress, and that prompted Coran to stop playing dead. "What is it Allura?" he asked, looking at the princess worriedly. "We've been asleep for 10,000 years!" The princess distress was dominating the room, Devine bit her lip hard enough to bleed as the feeling of despair, loss, panic and anxiety over came her. The princess and Coran being the main sources almost made her fall to her knees under it all.

"Planet Altea... and all the planets in our solar system... have been destroyed." Allura delivered the crushing news to the older Altean, Devine knew what came next but was not prepared for how strong the emotion would be.

"Coran.. father is gone." The princess broke the news, and their emotions floored Devine in the process. The pressure knocking the air right out of her lungs as she lay on the floor, the panic from the five paladins didn't even register it was so strong.

"Hey are you okay?" Hunk asked first, hesitantly grabbing her gently to help her sit up.

"Why did you suddenly fall over?" Pidge asked, looking confused and concerned. Lance and Keith hovered close as did Shiro who seemed to be the only calm one but still very concerned about her. "Y-yeah, I'm just a little... receptive, to strong emotions." She told them, choking on some air before feeling something like joy and excitement helping her breath a little easier.

"You're an Altean! and an Empath! That's very rare ability for Altean, the last one was actually Allura's mother!" Coran praised looking impressed, but the princess was only soothed from her underlying pain for a moment. "Yes, it's good to know some of our people survived." Allura gave a sad smile, and Devine didn't have the heart to tell her the truth. She blinked in confusion as an orange handkerchief was suddenly in her face. "Here, you got a spot of blood right there." Coran offered pointing to the corner of his slightly frizzed mustache. Devine was touched by the gesture but it was quickly smothered by the thought of him only being nice because they thought she was Altean. Regardless she took the offering and wiped the odd dark purple blood from her lip.

"But he's not-OW!" Keith hopped on one foot as the other had been pounded by Devine's fist suddenly. "Thank you, but I'm afraid I'm only part Altean. You would be hard pressed to find someone that is even 1/64 Altean with the destruction of Altea scattering them all." She told them, giving them a reasonable thought of hope, and she wasn't lying about being part Altean after all. "It's alright. The destruction of our civilization is all because of Zarkon." Allura hissed the named angrily making Devine gag at the strength. "Sorry." Allura's emotion quickly went to worry, but the anger was still under it as Devine gasped for air.

"Zarkon?" Shiro questioned, slight distress was on his face as he seemed to remember something. "The King of the Galra, a vile creature and Enemy to all free people." Allura told them as she looked worriedly at a passed out Devine, the emotions having been too much for her. "Uh? Guys I don't think he's breathing." Pidge voiced as he noticed Devine go slack in Hunk's hold, looking for a pulse on her wrist.

"He's alive, I can feel a pulse." Pidge announced, curious about their liaison.

~Voltron~

Devine cringed as she rolled off her back and onto her side with a pained moan, gaining the attention of the Paladins.

"She's up!" someone cried out but Devine cringed as despair was still strong in the Alteans, the emotions feeling like a hangover. "Not so loud please." She pleaded, slowly sitting up and rubbing her head at the pain before cracking and eye open to see the Paladins looking relived. "Are you all right? You just passed out." Shiro asked, his worry touching as she used her feelings of joy help to wash away the despair. "Y-yeah, just wasn't too prepared for so much strong, negative emotions all at once." She assured them, taking slow, deep breaths.

"Well you can take my breath away anytime~." Devine blinked as she looked at Lance who was giving her a sly smile... it almost looked like he was flirting with her. "What?" she blurted out but Lance only smirked. "No need to be shy, there is plenty of Lance to love and admire~." He boasted, as he gave her a supposed to be seductive look but it just creped her out more as she scooted away from him.

"Okay, why is he acting so weird?" she asked before realizing her jacket was completely open, exposing her rather impressive assets, covered by a thin, gray tank top. "WHO UNZIPPED MY JACKET!" she shouted with a heavy blush, quickly zipping it back up and crossing her arms over her chest as the male paladins all looked away, looking guilty.

"It was Shiro." Pidge rated the older paladin out. "He wanted to make sure you could breath but..."

"We thought you were a guy this whole time, but I thought you were beautiful from the moment I laid eyes on you." Lance commented, making Devine shiver. "Please stop, it's getting a little creepy." She asked him, making the others sniffle a laugh at the blue paladin's pout; she could feel his slight hurt that quickly pierced her heart. "Not that you're bad looking, but I don't think you're over 18 just yet." She mentioned as it seemed to pacify him. "Thank you." Lance smirked at Keith, looking smug about something as the red paladin looked unimpressed.

"Come to think of it, I never asked for your names in all the excitement." Devine mentioned, looking at them with curious eyes, she knew their names but it would be creepy and hard to explain how she knew them.

"Oh right, well I'm Lance, the handsome one." Lance introduced himself with a smirk, making Devine bite her lip to suppress a snort, the handsome one for her was defiantly Shiro. "I'm Pidge, and the big guy is Hunk." Pidge smiled at her, and pointed her thumb at Hunk who was near her bag, suspiciously hiding something from her. "Keith." The red paladin responded, but seemed more interested in her sword that he held by the sheath. "And you can call me Shiro, Miss Devine." Shiro gave her a handsome smile that soothed her brain with clam and her own passion for the once fictional character made the pain go away.

"I'm Coran!" The older Altean popped into their group with a smile as he had a tray holding a two bowls, one with goop and a spoon as the other had something that looked like sliver candy wrappers. He offered a handful to the empath who took them in her hand in confusion. "Eat one of these; it should help will the emotional overload. They where Queen Amora's favorite." He mentioned her head throbbed in pain, she quickly unwrapped the blood red colored disk before popping it into her mouth. Devine's eyes went wide at the very familiar taste that washed over her tongue.

'Is this? Wine?' She questioned as Coran went up to Allura worriedly with the other bowl. "Princess, you must eat. It's been 10,000 years." He pleaded but the princess was still at the control panel, trying to catch up on the current status of the universe, whatever she was finding was not good.

"I'm not hungry." Allura said, not looking away from the numerous screens she pulled up."Man, 10,000 years... that's like 1,000 plus 10." Lance voiced in slight amazement, but Keith was not. "That's times ten." He corrected as Lance glared at him.

"Whatever drop out." Lance snubbed the red paladin as his grip on her sword tightened.

"Save the fighting for Zarkon you two. Keith hand me my sword please." Devine scolded, getting off the floor to walk over to Hunk and Keith, getting her sword from the red paladin before being handed her bag by Hunk who was interested in the goo Allura had rejected. "Since the princess is not gonna eat this, and if it's safe for human concussion..." Hunk trailed off as he looked at Devine for an answer.

"I'm surprised your still hungry. You threw up like five times and had three of those pastries." Pidge ratted out Hunk who gave an apologetic smile to Devine as she sighed; already figuring he would eat the last one. "It's edible, but lacks a lot of taste." She warned him but the big guy ate it anyway, finding out for himself how tasteless Altean goo was, especially after 10,000 years.

"I can't believe your civilization created such advanced technology ten thousand years ago." Shiro admitted, looking around in admiration. "It must have been an incredible place."

"Yes, it was... but now that's gone and who knows where the remaining Alteans could be." Coran responded and looked at Devine as did the princess with looks of some hope. "Sorry. I wouldn't know too much about that." she admitted, inwardly hoping there really had been more Altean survivors. "What about your parents? Surely one of them has a connection to another Altean or two." Allura asked, reaching for something as Devine bit her lip nervously, looking away. "My parents... my family, are dead, princess." She admitted hesitantly as she clenched her fists inside her jacket, the phantom feeling of a knife in her hand and hot blood running over her skin and clothes came to mind, before it was banished as soon as it came.

Devine filched as she felt two pairs of arms wrap around her, Coran and Allura hugging her to give her comfort like they need, only to make her uncomfortable. Devine could feel their emotions more clearly with the close contact, tears forming in her eyes as she pulled her hands out of the hug sandwich, and placed them on both Altean's backs... letting out a soothing white mist from her skin and letting it flow into their bodies.

"They died many years ago, I've had a lot of time to grieve, and not all of Altea was lost." She looked at the princess, gently brushing away a tear form her pink markings, making them glow slightly. Allura's teal eyes widen as she saw a happy memory from when she was a child, letting out a small gasp.

"You didn't go into the sleep chamber alone princess." Devine mentioned as there was a small squeak from one of the pods. Allura quickly approached the pod, kneeling down to let four small mice jump into her hands and squeak their greetings happily.

"Yes, it seems there is still hope in the universe." The princess smiled as she stood up with the mice, making her a bit happier.

"Thank you, for making Allura smile." Coran thanked Devine gratefully before the alarms blared, a spike in panic filled the room that turned from a calming blue to an alert red. The older Altean looked at the screen with worry.

"A Galra battleship has locked on to our location!" He declared as nearly everyone stood around the computer. "How did they find us so quickly?" Allura asked Coran, but the humans and Devine had an idea how. "I'm not sure, but I bet it's all Keith's fault." Lance deflected, crossing his arms in defense.

"Say whatever you've got to say to make yourself feel better." Keith glared at Lance from the corner of his eye before turning towards the blue paladin with enmity. "After getting all of us stuck on the other side of a wormhole!" Keith blamed him as Lance glared back at his fellow paladin. "I'll stick you in a wormhole!" Lance shot back as both took steps towards each other, ready to fight each other.

"Lance! Keith! Now is not the time to argue over who's at fault." She scolds them as Shiro got between them, pushing them apart. "Miss Devine's right, cadets. It's time for all of us to work as a team." Shiro scolded them, both boys feeling shame under the older Paladin's disapproval.

"How long before they arrive?" Shiro asked Coran who was looking at his fingers, counting something."At their current speed? Well I say, carry the two..." he muttered working out his math. "A scientific calculation would be a lot more appreciated here, Coran." Devine reasoned, knowing he was just making up inaccurate numbers.

"Oh! Right, let me see here. They will arrive in precisely..." Coran typed on the console and gasped in horror.

"Two Vargas!" he shouted, confusing the humans, but Devine understood how long they actually had.

"It's gonna be real close, but we only need to find the Yellow and Green lions." Devine muttered to herself as she got odd looks from the Alteans. "How do know that? And what of the red lion? Do you know where it is?" Allura asked, looking impressed and worried about someone else knowing where the lions where.

Devine stiffened as all eyes were on her, biting her lip nervously.

"Well... Sapphire, the Blue lion, brought them here." She mentioned to the Paladins. "The stories of old say the Black lion, was sealed away in this castle." She looked down at her feet, hesitating on talking about the red lion.

"Ruby, the red lion... is on that Galra battleship." she added, looking away shamefully.

"WHAT!" Coran and Allura shouted in alarm, panic blasting from the two Alteans, nearly knocking Devine over. "How did they get their evil claws on Ruby!?" Coran asked using the name Devine gave the lion, looking at the empath for the answer.

"Is this really important right now? We need to find the Yellow and Green lions still. I only know from the stories that yellow is practically buried under ground, and green is in some thick jungle area." She tried to deflect but Keith just had to be curious.

"How did they get the Red lion?" he asked her, noticing how she bit her lip when she was not staying something, like she was doing now. "It doesn't matter, we have very little time to locate, find, and bring back the other two lions. Then we can just take back the red lion and form Voltron. Together we will destroy the Galra Empire!" the princess said confidently,

"Princess, how are we gonna find the last two Lions?" Shiro asked, Allura who gave off confidence and certainty with a smile.

Author's Note: If you're actually reading these notes, please know that this story is mostly meant to be a therapeutic outlet for me as I suffer from Depression and a few other mental issues. Writing/composing some of these stories is one way I cope with my issues. Please no flaming if you review, this is not written to be a very good story and may be a little confusing at times. More like this may come and will likely have similar or additional warnings in the summaries.