I in no way own any of the original characters in this story and Voltron is the property of World Events Productions, ltd. (So nobody sue me okay ^^;;) The new characters on the other hand are mine and under no circumstances are they to be used without my permission.
Here is the next installment of New Beginnings...
Voltron New Beginnings
Chapter 3
By Cindra
Edited by Christina Bryan
Cassie immediately placed a call to her father as soon as they had arrived at the Castle. "Daddy! You must come to Arus immediately or Keith is going to die!" Cassie was all but in tears as she talked to her father via huge screen in the castle control room.
"Why Cassie what has happened to the Captain of the Voltron Force?" Oran began to frown as he gazed at his daughters tear streaked face.
"He got cut by my special dagger when he was fighting with Lotor!" Cassie all but shouted at her father.
"Then I shall send someone to Arus with the antidote at once." Oran was still puzzled by his daughter's actions, had she fallen for this Captain? He vaguely recalled hearing Keith's adopted father mention something about his son being engaged to Princess Allura, so that couldn't be the cause of her distress.
"NO! Father you and Mother must come to Arus!" Cassie shouted.
Oran narrowed his eyes and glared at his child, "Why? Who is it this time?"
Cassie felt her face begin to turn crimson as her father continued to glare at her, "No, it's not that...Daddy... well...um..." She tried to explain but couldn't come up with the right words.
"What is it daughter!" He bellowed, "What are you trying to tell me?" He was losing his patience with his oldest child.
"Dad, Keith is your son!" Cassie finally managed to say what she was trying to tell him. Oran's eyebrow's shot up in surprise, as he took in what his child was trying to say to him. *Could it be true? Is my son alive after all of these years?* Oran thought to himself. "Are you sure Cassie? What makes you think that Keith is my son?" Oran's voice grew hoarse with emotion.
"Father that is the reason why Lotor kidnapped me. He wanted to set a trap so that he could kill Keith! He used me as bait!" Cassie whimpered shakily. "Besides that he looks like a younger version of you!"
"Zandra, our son is alive and living on Arus!" The King turned so that he could tell his wife the news.
"Cassie? Is this true, is my baby boy alive?" Zandra excitedly asked her daughter. "Well...Mom...he's kind of sort in a coma...but he is alive." Cassie said her voice laced with guilt.
"What Happened Cassandra!" Zandra glared at her child.
"He accidentally got cut with my dagger when he was fighting Lotor." Cassie felt tears burning in her eyes.
"I hate to interrupt this family discussion, but my best friend just went into cardiac arrest, so if you people wouldn't mind stop arguing and get here ASAP!" Lance roared angrily at all of them.
"We're are on our way and will be there before dawn." The king answered Lance he was barely able to keep the emotion out of his voice.
"I only hope that Keith can hang on that long you highness." Lance snarled before he cut off the transmission.
"Lance, I'm sorry." Cassie hated the look that Lance was giving her.
"You should be princess, while you and your parents were arguing in here Keith might have died!" Lance growled with frustration as tears streamed down his face.
"I said, that, I was sorry!" Cassie wailed at him in agony and got up from her chair so that she could run from the room away from Lance.
"Cassie wait, I'm sorry that I snarled at you like that." Lance easily caught up to her and pulled her into his arms. "It's just that Keith is like a brother to me and if he doesn't make it..." His voice broke he couldn't say the next words. Cassie reached up and brushed the tears from his cheek, "He'll make it Lance...he just has to..." She whispered her voice hoarse from crying.
Lance and Cassie stood in the castle corridor clinging to each other, hoping that Keith would be okay.
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Princess Allura was frantic when the medical monitors began to scream for the fourth time that evening. "NO, Keith! You can't leave me! I'll die with out you in my life!" She screamed in terror when he went into cardiac arrest.
"Allura Move! Koran ordered the princess tears were streaming down his face, as he pulled the frantic girl away from the bed.
"Fight Keith!" Hunk ordered his friend from his bed in the castle Medical wing; he too was in tears.
"Fight it Keith! The team needs you, Arus needs you, the general needs you, your new family needs you and Allura needs you most of all!" Pidge shouted hoarsely as the doctors that finally got him stable once more, he too was in bed and recovering from this latest battle.
"He's a fighter alright, but if he doesn't get that antidote in 24 hours he's not going to make it." Doctor Stevens informed a very shaken Koran.
"It'll be here by dawn Koran." Cassie informed them as she entered the room and went to sit by her brother's bedside reaching out to grab hold of his hand. "Listen to me big brother. You can't leave now. If you do then you won't be able to yell at Dad or hug Mom. I'll even let you order me around. You'd like Mom, Keith, she never gave up on thinking that you were alive and she would be very angry at you if you were to die before she could see her baby boy again." Cassie continued to talk as tears continued to fall down her cheeks. "Then there is this creepy guy named Prince Devon. Daddy wants me to marry him and I really need you to beat him up for me big brother, you wouldn't want one of your only sisters to be forced into an arranged marriage would you. That's right Keith, we have a baby sister she's thirteen and she needs her big brother to keep her out of trouble. Come on big brother answer me! Squeeze my hand, blink, and yell at me! Just please do something so that we know that you are going to be alright." Cassie's voice was almost gone by now. Finally, Keith responded by firmly squeezing her hand. "He's going to make it!" She shouted happily jumped to her feet and gave Lance a hug followed by a kiss and Lance eagerly kissed her back.
"Keith! Thank goodness...I love you so much." Allura ran over to sit beside his bed and smiled down at him.
Keith smiled back at her weakly, "Love you to Allura..." Keith whispered hoarsely and gave her hand a reassuring squeeze as he closed his eyes again, but not quite asleep.
"Uh... guys. Lance and Cassie are still kissing." Hunk grinned.
"Keith, I think that Lance wants to date your sister." Pidge teased.
"Over my dead body." Keith muttered hoarsely before drifting off into a deep sleep. Allura worriedly bit down on her lower lip when Keith fell back asleep. He was however, still trying to keep a firm grip on her hand so she was trying not to panic. "Is he going to be alright?" She looked up at Dr. Stevens.
"It's okay princess, he'll be fine once I give him the antidote. Now, I really think that you should try and get some rest." The doctor ordered her.
"No! I'm not going to leave Keith." She glared at both Dr. Stevens and Koran.
"But you were hurt when your ship crashed and you need your rest!" Nanny frowned at her.
"I am staying right here and I don't want to hear another word out of any of you!" Allura dared them to say anything and gave them all her best regal stare.
"Well, I for one can't wait to hit the sack." Lance yawned completely wiped out from the day's events. "Can Cassie use your quarters seeing as you aren't going to be needing them tonight?"
"Sure, Cassie, Lance can show you where my quarters are." Allura smiled at her friends.
Lance glanced over at the other two beds in the Medical ward. Hunk and Pidge were both stuck in bed recovering from their latest battle. "Shall we." He motioned for Cassie to take his arm.
"Good-night guys." Cassie called softly.
"Good-night beautiful." Hunk grinned at the look of death that Lance was giving him.
"Yeah, Good-night gorgeous." Pidge echoed trying to keep a straight face, as Lance's look grew even darker.
"Good-night Ladies!" Lance growled sarcastically earning a glare from his friends.
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"Who is this Devon guy?" Lance asked her as he escorted Cassie to her quarters.
"Just some jerk that my father chose for me to marry." Cassie yawned tiredly and leaned her head against his shoulder.
"A real jerk huh?" Lance frowned.
"You could say that, but he does have one thing in his favor." Cassie glanced up at Lance's brooding face. "He's drop dead gregarious." She tried not to giggle at the look that Lance was giving her.
"You know you didn't have to tell me the truth." Lance groaned.
"Oh, Lance, you are ten times better looking than he is." Cassie smiled up at him.
"I am?"
"Not only that; but your smart, fun to be with and one hell of a good kisser." She sighed dreamily.
Lance stopped in front of Allura's quarters," Here we are Cassie, your room for the night."
Cassie gave him a hurt expression, "Lance?"
"Yes Cassie."
"Aren't you going to give me a good-night kiss?" She pouted.
Lance gave her one of his heart stopping grins, before pulling her to him for a nice long kiss. "Good-night Cassie sleep well."
"Good-night Lance." She sighed dreamily and all but floated on air into Allura's quarters.
"What a woman." Lance had such a sappy grin on his face as he too walked on air towards his own quarters, until he heard a scream from Cassie's room and all but took the door off in his attempts to get to her.
"Lance!" Cassie screeched in terror.
"Cassie! What's wrong?" Lance shouted his weapon drawn as he entered the room, only to find Cassie standing on a chair as she pointed to four very frightened space mice.
"I hate mice Lance! Get them away from me!" She screeched in terror, "What's so funny Lance!" She wailed in frustration.
"Cassie, those are Princess Allura's little friend's. They happen to live in the castle and this is their room." Lance chuckled as he walked over to pick up the trembling mice. "This is Cheezy, Chedder, Suki and family." He held out his hands in front of the very frightened female still perched up on the chair.
"Hello." She squeaked at the mice.
"They're harmless Cassie. You can touch them they don't bite." He ordered the very wary girl, who was now reaching out to pet one of them. Cheddar did a little bow before he kissed her hand in friendship.
"They are kind of cute for mice." Cassie actually let Chedder hop onto the palm of her hand.
"They like you, besides they can make sure that your safe while you sleep." Lance reassured her in a calm soothing tone.
"Okay, good-night, Lance." Cassie kissed him on the cheek before he started to leave the room.
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"Lotor just went critical sir and the Doc says that it doesn't look to promising." One of Koran's aids reported to him.
"Oh well, at least we tried to save him. I want you to notify me if there is any change. Have the King and Queen of Ziare arrived yet? Koran eyed the time on his screen.
"They will be docking at the space port in five minutes," was the reply from the aid.
Excellent I want them escorted to their son as soon as they arrive." Koran order.
~~~
(A little while later)
"Keith?" Allura asked softly, "Can you hear me?"
"Hmm..." Keith answered sleepily.
"Wake up there are some people here who are anxious to finally meet you." Allura said softly.
"Okay..." Keith mumbled groggily and opened his eyes, he had to wait for his vision to clear enough so that he could focus on the three strange visitors in the room.
"Keith, I would like you to meet your father, King Oran, your mother, Queen Zandra, and your baby sister, Princess Myria." Allura introduced him to his long lost family.
"My family?" Keith stared at them in disbelief, not trusting his own eyes.
"That's right son, so you have to get better. We have a lot to catch up on." His father said emotionally as tears of joy were streaming down his cheeks, as he looked upon the younger version of himself.
"Yes we do, but now you need your rest young man and there will be no more trying to get yourself killed. I lost my baby boy once and I'm not about to lose you again." Zandra reached over to brush his bandages.
"It's not like I have much of a choice mother, but I will try and stay out of trouble." Keith answered his mother hoarsely as tears streamed down his face.
Myria walked over to her brother's bedside." I need you too big brother, Cassie drives me crazy."
"Sounds like you and your sister are both magnets for trouble." Keith teased his baby sister.
"Where is Cassie?" Keith yawned.
"She's in my room sleeping, but I will go get her if you want me to." Allura smiled down at him.
"No, you stay here with our son. Zandra and I will go fetch our child, besides I want to know who this new beau of hers is." Zandra bent down and kissed her son on the forehead and the three of them left the room.
"Her new Beau?" Keith groaned and rolled his eyes in frustration, "He isn't talking about Lance is he?"
"Yes, he is darling, now lie still and try to go back to sleep." Allura kissed him softly on the lips.
"Come here." He ordered softly patting the left side of his bed.
"Alright." She replied and sat down on his bed.
"Lay down." He said sleepily.
"Keith I really don't..." Allura started to protest, but was cut off by Keith's hoarse growl.
"No buts, love, lay down and get some sleep." He ordered his stubborn princess.
"Are you sure?" Allura asked him worriedly as she carefully lay down beside him.
"Positive, now try and get some sleep." Keith snuggled her against him and closed his eyes.
"I love you Keith." Allura yawned sleepily exhausted from her lack of sleep.
"I love you too." Keith replied sleepily kissing her on the top of her head before drifting back to sleep.
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Cassie went to check on her brother a few hours later and found Keith wide-awake and watching his princess sleep in his arms. "Keith?" She whispered softly.
"It's alright Cassie you can come in I'm not going to bite you." Keith teased his sister, who then broke into a big smile before quietly padding over to his bedside.
"I'm sorry that you were hurt." She said softly. With tears shining in her chocolate brown eyes.
"Hey no harm done, little sister, besides I'm alive and on the mend because of your quick thinking." Keith tried to soothe his sister as he reached up to brush the tears from her cheeks.
"You scared the life out of me big brother!" Cassie frowned down at him," Don't you ever do that to me again!" She sniffled.
"I'll try to be more careful next time, okay sis." Keith yawned sleepily.
"We'll both try and do better next time big brother." Cassie whispered down at Keith who had fallen asleep. "Oh and by the way big brother, I plan on making Lance mine." She grinned down at Keith's as he frowned in his sleep.
"Why me..." Keith groaned in his sleep.
~~~ On to Chapter 4 ~~~
So that was Chapter three!!
You could say that all of this is just the calm before the storm!!^^
Next we are going to meet Prince Devon and I may even include the wedding of Keith and Allura in Chapter 4!!! Those two have got a major surprise in-store for them ^~
See Ya next chapter!!!
Cindra
