Chapter 1: The Castle of lions

While getting chased by a giant alien ship, four teens, Lance, Kieth, Hunk, and Pidge, alongside a alien abductee, Shiro, find themselves at the edge of the solar system in a Blue Lion ship.

"Where are we?" Asked Keith looking around at the Galaxy.

"Edge of the solar system. There's Kerberos." Shiro pointed out Pluto's moon as they passed by.

"It takes months for our ships to get out this far, we got out here in five seconds." Pidge gaped in awe as she adjusted her glasses.

There was a sudden flash of light and a wormhole appeared in front of the ship, Lance could feel the lion tell him something.

The heavyset teen known as Hunk blinked in disbelief, "What is that?"

"Uh, this may seem crazy, but I think the lion wants us to go through there!"

"Where does it go?" Pudge looked to Lance for an answer, the Cuban teen only shrugged.

"I-I don't know. Shiro, you're the senior officer here. What should we do?"

"Whatever is happening, the lion knows more than we do. I say we trust it, but we're a team now. We should decide together."

Lance sighed, "All right, guess we're all ditching class tomorrow."

In an instant, the Lion zipped into the wormhole and shot through it like a bullet while leaving the enemy ship behind, the crew screamed as it made its way to the end. Moments later the ship was spat out into a seemingly different part of the universe.

Lance wiped the sweat from his brow as he and the rest of the crew caught their breath, "Whoa...that was..." His voice trailed off, Hunk, being prone to motion sickness, turned around and threw up his lunch. "So sorry...!"

Pidge steadied herself, "I'm just surprised it took this long."

Shiro's eyes studied the new starlit terrain inquisitively, "I don't recognize any of these constellations...we must be a long, long way from Earth."

"The lion seems to want to go to this planet...I think... I think it's going home." Everyone braced themselves as they headed for a planet that resembled earth and entered the atmosphere. The steep angle of the ship pushed everyone into Lance's seat, the teen furrowed his brow, "Guys, personal space! Hunk, your breath is killing me!"

Hunk scratched the back of his neck sheepishly, "Um, is it just me or is anyone else having second thoughts about flying through that mysterious wormhole? Why are we even listening to a robotic lion anyway?"

"It got us away from that alien warship, didn't it?"

Keith rolled his eyes, "I don't know if you noticed, but we're in an alien warship."

Lance chuckled, "Oh, is the washout scared?"

"With an egotistical, amateur cargo pilot like you at the helm? Terrified."

Shiro broke up the argument before it got too out of hand, "All right, knock it off! No one's happy to be in this situation, but we're here now. If we want to get through this, we've got to do it together."

"So, what do we do?" Pidge asked.

"First, we find out where we're headed. Lance?"

Lance frowned, "I.. don't know...I'm sorry. The lion's not talking to me anymore...Wait! Wait, wait, wait! Shh! Listen...I think I hear something." He smirked as he slowly began to pass gas.

"I'm hearing it, too..."

Hunk could hear it too, "It's, uh - It's kind of a - a high-pitched squeal?"

The crew didn't know what it was until they heard the raspberry, they all groaned and held their noses.

"For fucks sake, Lance!" Kieth slugged the Cuban teen in the shoulder.

Lance laughed as he straightened out the lion, "But seriously, there's a castle up ahead."

The crew gaped in amazement when they saw a long white bridge that led to a giant castle that was built into a mountain.

"Wow..."

Shiro was skeptical of the location and narrowed his eyes, "Keep your guard up."

The youngest teen tilted her head, "Something wrong?"

"My crew was captured by aliens once. I'm not going to let it happen again." He replied as the ship landed in front of a door with a large stylistic V on it. The group exited the lion's mouth and stared at the door.

They all jumped in surprise when the Blue ship stood up straight and began to rear its head back.

Hunk gasped and hid behind Shiro, "No, no! I knew it was going to eat us! No!"

The mechanical beast then let out a loud roar, this triggered the door and it opened noisily.

The obese teen peeked out from behind Shiro's shoulder and whimpered, "Oh, the door is open. Guess I was wrong about you." The team entered a dark and empty room, Hunk called out with an echoing voice, "Hello?" He shrugged when there was no reply.

"From the size of the lion, I expected these steps to be bigger."

"Hold for identity scan." Came a female computer voice, a laser decended from the ceiling and swept over the group.

Pidge was startled, "What?"

"Why are we here? What do you want with us?" Shiro demanded the computer, but had no answer.

At that moment, lights began to turn on and soon a hallway was illuminated.

The short haired girl shrugged, "I guess we're going that way."

"Hello?" Hunk's voice continued to reverberate off the tall walls of the massive building as they continued down the hall and down a staircase. The newly formed team soon found themselves in a large circular room with a alien computer in the center of it.

Lance peered around at the room, "Where are we?"

Pidge bent down to get a closer look at the foreign monitor, "It's.. some kind of control room." She gasped when the panel lit up and three pods rose from the floor, each holding someone in them. An alien teenage girl with white hair, a red haired alien man with a moustache, and a teenage boy with auburn hair who looked completely human.

"Are these guys... dead?" The discomfort in Hunks voice was fairly obvious.

Suddenly, one of the capsules opened and the girl stumbled out, falling into Lance's grasp.

"Father!"

Lance blushed as the woman looked up at him with her big blue eyes, magenta crescents decorated her upper cheekbones and a gold crown wrapped around her forehead.

"Hello..." The Cuban gave his best attempt at a Flynn Rider smolder.

"Who are you? Where am I?"

"I'm Lance...and you're right here in my arms."

The alien noticed something strange about this Lance, "Your ears..." His were rounded unlike her own which were pointed like an elf.

"Yeah?" Lance self consciously tugged on his lower lobe.

"They're hideous, what's wrong with them?"

"Nothing's wrong with them! They heard exactly what you said about them!" The teen helped as the woman snagged him by the ear and pinned his arm behind his back, Keith stifled a chuckle.

"Who are you? Where is King Alfor? What are you doing in my castle?"

Lance winced in pain, "A giant blue lion brought us here! That's all we know!"

"How do you have the Blue Lion? What happened to its paladin? What are you all doing here? Unless... How long has it been?" She glanced at the computer in the middle of the room, releasing her grip on Lance, who sighed in relief.

Shiro took a step towards the dark skinned girl, "We don't know what you're talking about. Why don't you tell us who you are? Maybe we can help."

"I am Princess Allura of Planet Altea, I've got to find out where we are and how long we've been asleep." She replied as she made her way to the computer. Allura placed both of her hands on its panel which lit up when she did so.

Pidge, pushing her glasses higher up on her nose, studied the screen, "Okay, that's how that works."

That's when he second pod opened and out came the tall ginger haired man, who was quite startled when he saw a group of humans in the castle.

"Enemy combatants! I'll save you, Princess!" He stumbled and nearly fell when attempting to run to her side, "Quiznak! You're lucky I have a case of the old sleep chamber knees. Otherwise, It'd be lights out for you!"

Lance let out a conceited scoff, "Surrre, blame the creepy sleeping pod, we all know you're extremely intimidated by me"

"Sure Lance, nobody in this room could possibly knock you out.." Kieth stated sarcastically, Lance glared at him.

Allura gasped, "It can't be..."

"What is it?"

" Coran, we've been asleep for 10,000 years!"

Coran's eyes widened, "Quiznak, what happened?"

Allura sank down to her knees in shock, "Planet Altea and all of the planets in our solar system have been destroyed...Coran, Father is gone. Our entire civilization... Zarkon." Tears floods the princess's eyes.

The name got Shiro's attention, "Zarkon?"

"He was the King of the Galra, a vile creature and enemy to all free people."

Memories began to flood back to the 25 year old, "I remember now... I was his prisoner."

Allura jumped to her feet, "He's still alive? Impossible!"

"I can't explain it, but it's true. He's searching for a super weapon called Voltron."

"He's searching for it because he knows it's the only thing that can defeat him, and that's exactly why we must find it before he does.

"Hey Allura, is this another friend of yours?" Pidge called from the other side of the room, she'd been studying the person in the third pod.

The princess moved toward the chamber and looked the the specimen over, "I don't recognize this being, he appears to be human. Coran, how about you?"

"I don't recall working with any humans 10,000 years ago..."

"Should we let him out of there?" Hunk quizzed, stepping closer and narrowing his eyes.

The big teen jumped back as soon as the pod opened, causing the boy inside to fall out on his hands and knees.

"Hunk! Why didn't you catch him?" Kieth and Lance bent down to help the stranger up.

"Sorry, I'm just...really jumpy right now. I mean come on we're on an alien planet for gods sake!"

Allura approached held up her hand to silence him, "Shh, he's waking up"

The auburn haired teen stirred in Lance and Keith's arms, he'd been wearing a white long sleeve shirt and white pants.

"Geez what happened to him? He's really having a hard time adjusting..." Shiro was concerned. The stranger's eyes then flashed open and flung Lance and Keith away from him, both cashing violently onto their backs. The teen then jumped into the air, landing behind Shiro and put him in a headlock, his free hand igniting into flames.

"Where the hell am I!?"

"Okay new guy is definitely not human! And he's going to kill us!" Hunk whimpered from behind Pidge.

"You're in the Castle of Lions, which is possibly galaxies away from where you're from!" Coran replied to the stranger's plea.

"NO! I need to get back!" He let Shiro fall to the floor, who gasped as he finally got air into his lungs.

"Ugh, just like the man said...mnnn...you're probably light years away from your home." Lance strained, pulling himself off the floor, Allura helped him.

"No, you don't understand, the blue lion is in danger! I need to get back to earth so I can protect it!"

"Wait, so are you human or not?" Hunk was very confused.

"That doesn't matter, I need to get back to earth before Zarkon sends another fleet to retrieve the blue lion."

"Uh news flash bud, we already have the blue lion" Keith spoke up, Pidge was helping him stand.

"What? But my source said that the Paladins were going to retrieve..." The teen's voice trailed off as he glanced around at the adolescents before him. "Oh no...nononono, are you serious!? I have to rely on a bunch of kids to save the Galaxy?"

"Hey, what's that supposed to mean? Aren't you like the same age as us?" Lance argued, Pidge piped in, "And Shiro's like 25, so you'd be relying on four teens and an adult, plus two aliens."

The stranger tapped his chin with his index finger, "Well I guess I'll have to work with what I've got..."

"I'm pleased that you are also protecting Voltron, but we didn't get your name quite yet." Allura stepped up to the boy.

"My name is Fel-AHH!" He was stuck unconscious by Shiro's metal fist and fell limply to the ground.

"SHIRO! What are you doing?!" The team rushed over to the tall man who loomed over his victim.

"That guy almost crushed my trachea into pieces!"

"Yeah, but he's on our side!" Coran corrected him, the abductee peered down at the unmoving auburn haired teen.

"I don't trust him..."


So...I just got into the Voltron fandom, and let me just say, I LOVE IT! I can't wait for season two! But anyway I hope you enjoyed this chapter, read and review!