Voltron New Beginnings Chapter three, a voltron fanfic

Voltron New Beginnings

Chapter 3

Family reunion

By Cindra

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 in tears, as she talked to her father by tele-monitor in the castle control room.

"Why, Cassie? What has happened to the Captain of the Voltron Force?" Oran frowned in confusion, as he gazed at his daughter's tear streaked face.

"He got cut by my special dagger when he was fighting with Lotor!"

"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 father mention something about his son being engaged to Princess Allura, so that couldn't be the cause of her distress.

"No… it's urgent that it be you and Mother!"

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.

"Out with it, child!" He bellowed, "What are you trying to tell me?" He lost his patience with his oldest child.

"Daddy, you have to come, because Keith is your son!"

Oran's eyebrow's shot up in surprise, as he took in what she was trying to say to him. *Could it be true? Is my son alive after all of these years?* Oran thought. "Are you sure, Cassie? What makes you think that Keith is my son?" Oran's voice grew hoarse with emotion.

"Father, that's the reason Lotor kidnapped me. He wanted to set a trap so 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 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 kinda sorta in a coma...but yes he's alive." Cassie said her voice was laced with guilt.

"Cassandra, why is he in a coma!" 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 on our way and will be there before dawn." The King was barely able to keep the emotion out of his voice.

"I only hope that Keith can hang on that long, your majesty." Lance snarled before he cut off the transmission.

"Lance, I'm sorry." Cassie hated the look that Lance was giving her.

"You should be, while you and your parents were arguing in here Keith could have died!" Lance growled in frustration, as tears streamed down his face.

"I said that, I was sorry!" Cassie ran 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.

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 without 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 him. He'd left his own bed in castle Medical wing to look in on Keith when he heard the machines start screaming for the fourth time, he also 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 growled hoarsely, as the doctors finally got him stable once more. He also wasn't about to lie in bed recovering from their latest battle when Keith was in such dire straights.

"He's a fighter, all right, but if he doesn't get that antidote in 24 hours he's not going to make it." Doc Stevens told a much shaken Koran.

"It'll be here by dawn, Koran." Cassie told them, as she 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 with you if you were to die before she could see her baby boy again." Cassie continued to talk, as tears continued to spill down her cheeks.

"Then there's 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, yell at me! Just please do something, so we know that you're gonna be all right." Cassie's voice was almost gone by now.

Keith responded by firmly squeezing her hand.

"He's going to make it!" She shouted, happily jumping to her feet, giving Lance a hug followed by a kiss that Lance eagerly answered 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 too, Allura..." Keith whispered hoarsely and gave her hand a reassuring squeeze, as he closed his eyes again.

"Uh… guys. Lance and Cassie are still kissing." Hunk grinned.

"Keith, Lance wants to date your sister." Pidge teased.

"Over my dead body…" Keith muttered hoarsely before drifting off into a deep healing 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 all right?" She looked up at Dr. Stevens.

"Its okay, princess. He'll be fine once I give him the antidote. Now, I think that you should try to get some rest." The doctor ordered her.

"No! I'm not leaving him." She glared at both Dr. Stevens and Koran.

"But you were hurt when your ship crashed and 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, giving them all her best regal stare.

"Well, I for one can't wait to hit the sack." Lance yawned tiredly, "Can Cassie use your quarters, since you aren't gonna be needing them tonight?"

"Sure, I don't mind. Cassie, Lance can show you where my quarters are." Allura smiled at her friends.

Lance glanced at Hunk and Pidge, who were both being ordered back to their rooms. "Shall we," He motioned for Cassie to take his arm.

"Good-night, guys" Cassie called softly.

"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.

"So who exactly is this Devon guy?" Lance asked, 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 really handsome." 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?"

"I think you're extremely smart, fun to be with, and one hell of a 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 gonna give me a good-night kiss?" She pouted.

Lance gave her one of his heart stopping grins, before pulling her to him for a 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 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 when Lance seemed highly amused.

"Cassie, those are 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, Chidder 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 coaxed her to reach out to pet one of them.

Chedder did a little bow, before he kissed her hand in friendship.

"They are kind of cute for mice." Cassie let Chedder hop onto the palm of her hand.

"They like you, besides they can make sure that you're safe while you sleep." Lance reassured her in a calm soothing tone.

"My hero," Cassie kissed him on the cheek before he started to leave the room. "Night, Lance."

"Sweet Dreams, Princess."

"Lotor just went critical and the Doc says that it doesn't look too 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."

(A little while later)

"Keith?" Allura asked softly, "Can you hear me?"

"Hmm..." Keith answered sleepily.

"Wake up, we have some people here who are eager to finally meet you."

"Okay..." Keith mumbled groggily, opening his eyes. He had to wait for his vision to clear enough, so he could focus on the three strangers 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's voice was choked with emotion; tears of joy were streaming down his cheeks, as he looked upon the younger version of himself.

"We have all the time in the world to do that, for 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 bangs out of his eyes.

"It's not like I have much of a choice, mother, but I will try to stay out of trouble." Keith rasped 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're both magnets for trouble." Keith teased his baby sister. "Where is Cassie anyway?" Keith yawned.

"She's in my room sleeping, but I'll 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, darling, he is, now lie still and try to go back to sleep." Allura kissed him softly.

"Come here." He ordered softly patting the left side of his bed.

"All right," She sat down on his bed.

"Lie 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, lie 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 to 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.

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 all right, Cassie, you can come in. I'm not going to bite you." Keith teased his sister, who then broke into watery smile before quietly padding over to his bedside.

"I'm sorry that you were hurt." She whimpered softly 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 to 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, as he scowled in his sleep.

"Why me..." Keith groaned.

Chapter 4

I in no way own any of the original characters in this story and Voltron...The new characters on the other hand are mine and under no circumstances are they to be used without my permission.