Chapter 34
Broken Mirrors
It was strange not having Keith around, even though he was gone most of the time or ended up showing up late to our missions. Sometimes I would forget that he left and turn around in my seat, but his usual brooding self was missing. I had become so habituated with the other Paladin's presence; they had become my new family. Yes, the universe was cruel in taking away people who were very dear to me, but it felt like it was making up for that one mistake. Shiro was returned to us, Keith left, but the certainty of knowing he was still alive somewhere battling the Galra made it just a bit easier to bear.
Pidge was feeling the same way, often thinking about her lost brother and father. They had been missing for over two years now and their trace was growing cold. She managed to scout information from the Galra bases we infiltrated or data bestowed by the Blade of Marmora. Pidge grew more impatient by the day, even though I tried to always remind her that she should take it one step at a time. One day she found a lead on her brother and decided it was time to follow it.
All Paladins, minus Pidge, with Coran stood on the bridge of the Castle looking at the main Screen.
"Pidge, I don't like the idea of you going alone." Shiro said, "You sure you don't need backup?"
"I'm sure." Pidge responded, "The Intel that shopkeeper gave me leads me to believe they could pull out of their current location at any time. I need to act fast. This may be my only chance. Plus, you guys still have plenty to do on Olkarion."
"Be on alert Pidge." I advised, "I hope you find what you're looking for." She gave me a smile and nodded her head.
"Hey, while you're out, will you look for some more Fluuto beans?" Hunk asked with hope; Lance's eyes widen at his request.
"No, no, no!" Lance exclaimed, "No more beans for Hunk!"
Pidge let out a groan knowing fairly well why Lance was protesting, "Gotta, go." She said and turned off the visual comm.
Everyone in the room began to leave to go do their assigned tasks, I headed for the exit of the castle looking for Storm who had been absent from the Control room. I followed his energy signature through our link; it guided me to a ledge overlooking the city. He observed the crowd below with un-interest, his tail twitch side to side slowly and his scales sparkled in the sunlight; it had become a custom of him to be here.
"Bored?" I asked as I stopped next to him.
He answered not turning his gaze away from below,"No, yes, I don't know honestly. I have this strange feeling."
I picked up a hint of sadness, "Storm, you know you can tell me anything. What's wrong?"
"I feel… left out." He drew lines of the ground with one of his talons.
"You are as much a part of team Voltron as any of us." I touched his neck, he finally looked down at me.
"Is not the same, all Paladins including you have their lions. The lions allow you the fight outside in space not just inside the atmosphere of a planet. I want to be as useful as any of them, but I can't. I am stuck on the ground or inside the castle with no means of aiding you."
"Don't say that." I stepped forward and took his snout in my hands, "You are not useless. Without you I would have died long ago, you are my support. The only being in this universe who knows me inside and out. We have been bonded since I was less than a year old; Drakie and Drako united for an entire lifetime. Without you Storm, I am nothing."
He huffed through his nostril blowing my hair around, "You'll never be nothing, Taylin, with or without me." Storm looked down deep in thought before resuming, "Perhaps the time of the Drakos has passed, we don't know if others of our race have survived. Maybe I am the last Drako left in the universe."
I sighed and concentrated on the scales of his snout, running my hand over them softly, "I hold hope that someday we will find others like us. If I let that hope die, I don't know what will become of me."
Storm lifted his head and gazed down at the Olkari below, they rushed around helping refugees get settled in, some of them moved from one place to the other in their wooden mech suites, "If only I had my armor back, it would allow me to fight in space and provide better aid when needed." He thought of the armor created by the Drakie scientists back on Negetia; it curled around him expanding until his whole body was covered in silver plaiting.
I crossed my arms and looked at the floor, there was nothing I would not do for Storm, even if it was something that went against my fears. The armor would be very difficult to replicate as the blue print were lost. It was made to fit him perfectly and shift at his command, it recognized his energy.
A feeling in my gut told me what I needed to do. It was something I needed to confront sooner or later, and the anxiety of not knowing was eating at me; I needed to visit my home planet or what was left of it. There might be a chance that some part of the Castle of Drakie survived, hopefully the armory, in order to retrieve Storm's armor.
I pretended to have received a massage on my wrist communicator, "Hey, I'll see you soon. I'm needed in the control room."
Storm nodded without suspecting anything, I retreated my mind from him and began my journey back to the castle. Thankfully I wore my Paladin armor already, I just needed to get to White's hangar without raising any suspicion. My heart beat faster as I walked through the corridors at what I was about to do, maybe it was a good idea to tell someone of my whereabouts just in case I needed to be found, but on the other hand, word would reach Storm and he would prevent me from going. I felt like a thieve sneaking around the castle, I looked behind me before turning a corner but kept walking and to my dismay, I smacked on something hard. I rubbed my head before opening my eyes to see black and slowly raised them to come face to face with Shiro.
"Are you ok?" He asked concerned taking my hand off my head and examining me for damage.
"Yes, totally fine." My chirpy voice sounded fake, I wanted to cringe.
"You seem fine, thankfully it was my chest and not the wall." He chuckled, "What were you doing sneaking around?" Shiro cocked his head to the side and raised an eyebrow.
"Me?" I responded pointing at myself, "Sneaking around? No, I'm not sneaking around. Why would I be doing that, pfft, sneaking." I tried to play it cool, but Shiro quickly caught on. I swear this man could read me like a book.
"Your rambling." He crossed his arms, "What are you up to?"
"Nothing, really." I quickly answered, but he said nothing and kept looking down at me with no sign of moving until I told him otherwise.
"Fine." I cracked hunching over; one look from him made me melt. "I'm going to go retrieve Storm's armor."
"Storm has armor?" He asked, "And where are you going to retrieve it from?"
"From Negetia." I said in a small voice.
"Negetia…" He trailed off, "Negetia… wait a second. Isn't that your home planet?" Shiro uncrossed his arms in realization and looked a bit shocked, "Do you know how dangerous that could be? You don't know the state your planet might be in and you are planning to go on your own? It hard to believe Storm would allow you to do so by yourself." He stopped to think and squinted his grey eyes at me, "He doesn't know, does he?"
"No." I said defeated, "But I need to try to find it. Storm is upset about not being able to help us in the war effort. It's been such a long time since I seen him like this, I can feel the sadness pouring over through our link. I need to do this for him."
"I highly doubt Storm condones putting yourself at risk. He wants you safe here."
I was beginning to feel a bit irritated, Shiro's interrogation was making me lose precious time. My need to leave was making me anxious. "You want me safe here." I said plainly, but it sounded more like an allegation.
"Well, yeah." He responded, "You are very important to me, I don't want you to get hurt."
I looked up at him and took a deep breath before saying anything back, I placed my hands on his arms, "I have to do this, please let me go." I said with a pout. Shiro glanced at me from a side view not wanting to look at me directly, we stayed like that for a few ticks until he groaned and lower his head with a deep sigh.
"Give me a few minutes, I'll meet you in your hangar."
"You're coming with me?" I asked bewildered.
"You are stubborn, and I know nothing is going to make you change your mind, so I'm coming with you." My hands slipped off his arms and he quickly reached out to catch one.
"You would do this for me?"
"I would follow you to the ends of the galaxy to make sure you are safe." He answered with sincerity, my heart fluttered at his words. He smiled before turning around to change into his armor. How I had convinced him of letting me go, was beyond me but I was glad I had someone for support on this journey.
I headed out to my hangar without meeting anyone else on the way, everything seemed quiet in the castle.
Once the hangar doors opened, the White Lion stood up ready to leave like it knew where we were going. Negetia was Nimawe's home, even though she ceased to be a Drakie such a long time ago, but roots can never really be forgotten, it's what makes us who we are.
She lowered her head to the ground inviting me in and stepped on the launch pad before I even made it to my seat.
"Wait, Nimawe." I said patting her handles, "We are still waiting on someone."
We waited for a few doboshes until finally Shiro showed up, he waved his arms in the air thinking I would launch without him. I turned White around and opened her jaws letting him in, the doors to the cockpit made a low hissing sound announcing his presence.
"Were you planning to leave without me?" He asked with a frown.
"No, Nimawe is just eager to leave." I responded with a small smile.
I turned us back to the tunnel, White plotted a course to the exit and took off in an instant. We flew close to the forest line, the green trees below passed by in a blur, some Olkari turned to look up at us and waved as we passed. I felt Shiro place his hands on the back of my seat, "Why are you flying so low?"
"To avoid getting detected by the others." I said with a bit of guilt.
"We still need to tell someone we are leaving the planet, Taylin." He stated, "They will be worried."
I sighed, "You're right, but I prefer to tell Coran than to have to speak with Allura. She will not be happy with my plans." I pressed some buttons on my control panel without further comment and Coran's face appeared on my screen, he was on the control room as usual.
"Queen Fireheart, in what may I be of service?"
"Coran, we just wanted to inform you that we will be leaving Olkarion for a short while. We will try to be back as soon as possible."
"Where are you going?" Coran asked confused.
"Just know that it's for a good cause." I answered not waiting to reveal more to him.
"That's not much to go on, the others will not agree you both going solo."
"Do me a favor, please let them know we left until we are missed." He looked at me hesitantly but nodded his head. I closed down the comm and pulled my lion's handles back shooting us out of the atmosphere with an incredible speed. Knowing Storm, he must have sensed something was up and the moment I left the planet, he would know of my absence. I was in for a scolding at my return.
I placed in the coordinates into my control panel and we were off, the stars passed by guiding us with their light against the darkness of space. As we moved a feeling of dread began to crawl up from my stomach to my heart. I was afraid to know how my planet was destroyed, I never imagined that I would return after so long. My hands began to tremble and sweat, I tried to steady them by grabbing onto my handles harder, but it was no use. Shiro placed a hand on my shoulder seeing my distress, "I'm here." Was all he said. If it wasn't for him, I would have surely cowards back to Olkarion, but his reassurance and presence gave me the strength to keep going.
In my anguish, I had lost track of how much time had transpired and soon my control panel lit up informing us that we neared our destination. Familiar star constellations began to appear; I looked at them with sorrow remembering how Mother and I use to look up at them from the balcony of my room. My heartbeat sped up, it felt like it was beating in my throat and ears. The White Lion growled as we got closer and before us stood Negetia. I tried to always be strong and look at the bright side of everything, but this was something I was totally unprepared for. Bits of the planet's surface floated around in the blackness, its beautiful aura was gone leaving a vastness so big it looked terrifying. It was dark and grey like it had never seen light at some point in its life. In its outer rim floated a grave yard of Drakie ships all tattered and broken. This must have been the last defense of the planet, but they were no match for Zarkon, he had over powered them and destroyed Negetia leaving it to resemble Daibaazal. Zarkon had gotten his revenge after the destruction of his own home world; if only he had understood he was the one the blame.
I could no longer sit and look at my dead planet, I abruptly stood up and walked to the back of the cockpit holding my head. Angry tears began to surface wetting my face and I took off my helmet throwing it on the ground in rage, and I broke. Tears began to flow like a river as I paced from one end of the cockpit to the other. Shiro came up to me after seeing my outburst and stopped me in my tracks by taking me in his arms. He embraced me so tightly trying to make me comprehend I was not alone in any of this.
"Taylin, you are going to be okay." He reassured, "You will find your people and establish a new home for them, and through it all, I will never leave your side. I will stand by you no matter what happens."
I could not help to think how lucky I had been to find someone like Shiro, his love and affection for me traveled through our bond and flooded me with a warm feeling pushing back the grief. He kept on whispering promises to me, caressing my hair and back, never letting go. Shiro brought me out of my sorrow and soon my cries had died down until they were just silent scuffles.
" Can you please take over for me?" I asked, "I don't think I can pilot right now."
He kept his arms around me and stood their hesitantly but pulled apart after a few ticks removing some of my tears from my face with his gloved hand. Shiro moved to sit on my seat and placed his hands on the White Lion's controls, thankfully, she did not protest and allowed him to pilot her.
We moved in carefully to avoid getting hit by the planet's debris, I pointed at the location where the Castle of Drakie stood on a map on the screen. When we broke the atmosphere, everything seemed to be the same color as the planet outside. All the buildings that once stood bright and tall wore a blanket of grey, the sky above us continued to be the same black as the space around us. This place did not seem to be the planet I was born in; I decided to think of it that way to avoid having another emotional break down.
As we got closer to the surface, it was becoming harder to see in the blackness, but Nimawe extended her wings which they lit up in a luminescent white light that gave us the edge we needed. The light allowed us to see the deserted castle, its high towers destroyed over the years and its once beautiful garden gone. Memories began to flood my mind at lighting speed, but I closed my eyes trying to push them back and concentrated in the task ahead. Shiro circled around a few times trying to find a safe place to land my lion close to the castle, but too many structures littered the floor, so we ended up settling down at the end of the great bridge that connected the other cities to the castle. In my time, it was more of a decoration as everyone had the means of flight.
Shiro stood up and picked up my helmet from where I had discarded it and placed it on my head. Together we stepped out of the cockpit and White lowered her head to let us out, she retracted her head and stood standing on all fours still with her wings extended; she did not want to leave us in the dark. Her light casted long shadows all around us making the place look even spookier than it was already.
"We need to cross the bridge, it's the only way to get inside." I said pointing a finger at the castle.
"I would have liked to have seen this place before the war." Shiro commented gazing at the fallen structures.
"It was an amazing place, full of color and light. Drakos of so many different colors traveled the blue skies and Drakies busied themselves in their own tasks talking to one another or training in their abilities. I used to stand in the tallest tower of the castle just looking at them carry on sometimes for vargas until my mother came looking for me." I said caught in the memory, but I grew solemn in an instant, "I did not want you to see my planet like this."
"Hey." He placed a hand on my shoulder, "Remember that everything material has at one-point, fade away, but you are still here, alive… Negetia now resides in you."
I gave him a small smile and touch the hand on my shoulder, "Let proceed, I want to be out of here as soon as possible."
We began to make our way to the entrance of the castle side by side. Some of the pillars that decorated the walk way were ether totally gone or cut in half. Pieces of the bridge's floor were missing; it was a miracle that it was still standing.
We kept on walking and when we got about half way into the bridge it suddenly began to tremble. At first, I thought nothing of it as the vibrations coursed through the bottom of my souls up the rest of my body, but they later became more intense causing Shiro to finally notice.
"Is it just me or is the ground shaking?" He asked.
"No, it began a few ticks ago." I answered analyzing our surrounding.
A loud cracking noise came from behind us making us stop and look back, everything seemed quiet and even the ground stopped moving when we did so, but that did not last for long. A section of the bridge suddenly gave out and began to create a crack toward us. Shiro grabbed my hand pulling me along as the rest of the bridge began to come down. The tumbling of rocks made us run even faster, the precipice getting closer to our feet. The landing pad still seemed at-least ten feet away and the ground beneath our feet was starting to feel less solid, it felt like an invisible force was dragging me down.
"Jump!" I yelled, Shiro followed my lead. In midair our jetpacks activated brining us the rest of the way until our feet once again touched solid ground. We looked behind us, breathing heavily, at the great abyss that now stood between us and the White Lion.
"That was close." Shiro stated still trying to catch his breath.
"Let's get inside the armory and leave before anything else comes tumbling down." I said moving toward the cracked gates. I managed to find an open space where the gate had been totally ripped of its hinge, I pressed my back on the wall and passed through. Shiro being broader than me passed by with a bit more difficulty but still managed to make it.
I turned to analyze our surroundings, the courtyard was totally in ruins, nothing stood in its rightfully place. It seemed like a giant twister had passed through and turned everything upside down. I summoned a ball of light to hover above our heads as the walls of the citadel covered us from the White Lion's.
"The armory it located on the East wing of the castle." I informed as I began to resume walking.
It was a bit difficult to move inside the castle, if you could even call it a castle anymore, most of its outside structure was destroyed. We had to ether crawl under fallen debris or use are jetpacks to aid us in getting over obstacles. It was a slow process, but we managed to make it to the armory which had a big crater on the wall were its entrance use to stand. The ball of light followed above me as we entered the room, I moved a small fallen wall to the side with my powers, leaning it against another. Swords and daggers littered the floor, but most of the important weapons were all gone, not one energy bow hung in its rack.
"How does Storm's armor look like?" Shiro's voice echoed in the room.
I turned around to look at him to explain, "Its a silver cube about this size, "I extended my arms out until they were at the same level as my shoulders, "and has thin veins coursing on the surface of its body that give off a blue glow." Shiro nodded and activated the flash light on his wrist pointing is at different areas. I went the opposite way and looked in every corner, shelve, rack, chests, anything that could hold it, but it seemed to be nowhere in sight.
"It has to be here." I whispered to myself biting my bottom lip, but the possibility of finding it was rapidly diminishing with each passing tick, the armor was nowhere to be found.
I walked back to the entrance, "Did you find anything?"
"No, I don't think its here."
I huffed and looked down at the ground, "I've been a fool to come here. I just placed your life in danger, and for what? Nothing." A gust of wind filled the room at my irritation.
"Is there any other place where it could be?" He asked.
I paced back and forth trying to clear my head and settle my emotions down before an element manifested itself, "I have no idea, it's been so long. It could practically be anywhere; the whole planet is in ruins. Perhaps, the planet was scavenged, and the armor taken, but I highly doubt they knew what they had their hands on. To anyone who see the armor, it looks like a regular cube."
Shiro took my hand stopping me from moving away from him and inter winded our fingers, "Come on, let get back to the lion. The others must know that we left Olkarion, we also need to know of Pidge's whereabouts."
I let him pull me along and together we made our way back to the entrance of the main gates. We arrived at the courtyard once again and I over looked it for one last time; so much of my childhood was engraved in the castle's very walls. The sound of my Father's and Mother's laughter resonated in my head like I was actually hearing it. The courtyard was suddenly decorated with different species of flowers and the guards standing by the doors often glanced my way with small smiles as I ran. I did not watch my footing and tripped, tumbling to the floor, my knee was scraped in the process, tears threaten to spill out of the corner of my eyes. Mother rushed to me to examine my injury, father right behind her. She looked down at it and later gazed into my eyes with a smile reassuring that it was just a scrape. She placed her hand over the scrape and closed her eyes, her hand began to glow a soft white. After a few ticks, she removed it to reveal a red spot and the scrape almost completely gone. She whispered my name with so much care as her eyes sparkled in the sunlight. I touched her face and she said my name again, but this time her voice sounded rougher until it was no longer her voice. Everything around us began to lose it color, being sucked away until I stood there in utter darkness. I closed my eyes trying to escape it, and when I reopened them Shiro was standing in front of me looking at me with worry; he had his hands on my shoulders.
"Taylin, are you alright?"
"Sorry… I just got caught up in the moment."
Shiro placed his right hand on the side of my face and bended down a bit until our helmets touched. I wanted so badly to touch his lips with my own, but our visors prevented us from doing so. The planet's atmosphere was toxic, it was uninhabitable.
"We need to find a way to get across." Shiro said breaking the silence.
"That won't be a problem." I stepped back, making his hand fall of my head. He analyzed me, and I manifested my wings extending them out as high as they could go. "I am going to carry us across." Shiro looked at them in awe being the first time he ever been close to see them for himself. He reached out a hand to touch my left wing with the tip of his pointer finger feeling the roughness of the scales on his gloved hand.
"I sometimes forget you're not human." He said with a slight chuckle.
I gave him a smile and with a finger asked him to turn around. He complied, and I wrapped my arms around his torso tightly and began to flap my wings rapidly until we were a few feet in the air, "If you're scared of heights, don't look down."
"I'm a pilot." He responded with amusement, "Heights are the least of my problems."
I kept flapping my wings until we hovered over the gates and began to move toward were the bridge once stood. It was much easier moving in one direction than going up since the extra weight did drag me down. The White Lion stood at a distance waiting for us, but when we got closer she took flight and took us into her jaws.
"You could have done that a while back you know." I told her annoyed; she growled in response.
We entered the cockpit and I took my seat taking us up and out of the planet's dead atmosphere. I sort of felt relieved to leave the planet behind. This was no longer my world, it was a fragmented mirror of what it once was, shattered and broken until it was beyond recognition.
Just as I was going to press my handles forward to activate the boosters, an enormous ship came into view from the ship graveyard floating around the planet. I immediately recognized it as the Draximum, the ship had sustained heavy damage to its hull and its main cannon was blown to pieces. As I looked it over, I had a thought, what if Storm's armor was on the ship? Surely the most important weapons could have been moved there.
Shiro, seeing me frozen, tapped my shoulder.
"I know where it could be." I said in realization; Shiro looked at me with a gaze that told me to continue.
"If the armory of the castle was completely empty, it stands to reason that all weapons were moved aboard the main starship." I pointed at the ship outside that floated slowly in our direction.
"Well, let get moving then." He said and placed himself behind me.
Moving White to the Draximum was no easy task, we had to avoid several ships that clustered around it, White's size made it a bit more difficult. A few scrape here and there later and we finally docked in the upper hatch. We exited to lion through the chest plate and floated down the hatch. Everything was incomplete darkness inside; creaking noises came from down the halls.
"Which way?"
I activated a map of the ship on my communicator and a pointed toward our left. Together we moved in silence flashing our lights at any dark corner that could conceal a danger. We finally made it to some double doors and with the help of Shiro, I managed to get them open revealing yet another dark room. I pointed my light toward the main control panel of the ship's armory and placed my hand on the ignition button. Nothing seemed to happen at first, but suddenly the control panel flickered to life.
"Huh, I'm surprised the backup generator is still working." I said typing away searching for the ship's manifest.
"Can you turn on the lights?" Shiro asked.
"Let me see." I opened another screen on the panel but as much as I wanted to, the system would not let me access the lights due to low power; the little amount of energy the generator had left was powering the control panel currently in my hands. "Not enough power to turn on the lights." Shiro just nodded and began to flash his light around the room while I resumed my work. I scrolled through the countless items that would be aboard the ship, I kept of scrolling, but it would not appear. I growled in frustration and kept searching more quickly just reading the beginning of each item, until I finally found what I was looking for.
"I found it!" I exclaimed raising my hands up in the air, "It is quadrant 675 inside the storage compartments."
I floated to the doors located in the back of the room and placed my palm on the panel, it scanned my hand and a verity of number and letters began to pass by in a blur until my name popped on the screen and glowed green opening the doors. Most of the compartment were empty, I wondered as we moved along what had happened during the fight to protect Negetia. Had my father been on board when the ship when it was destroyed? It pained me to know that so many people lost their lives in this final battle, if only I could have been around to do something about it, but my father had locked me away on The Castle of Lions before I could protest.
I was so caught up in my thoughts that Shiro had to snapped me out by taking my arm and pulling me back; I passed by compartment 675 without noticing.
"This is it." Shiro said pressing the button on the side making the doors slide open with a low hiss.
I wanted to bite my nails off as we waited for the small doors to finally open, when Shiro finally peaked inside he reached for something and brought out a silver cube that glowed a soft blue in the darkness.
"Yes, we found it." I cheered with joy.
"Wow, this is amazing." Shiro commented, "I never seen anything like it."
He passed the armor to me and I took it in my arms graciously with a smile and began to follow him out of the storage room. Before we exited the armory completely I noticed a small data storage unit that floated at a corner by the entrance. I took it my hand before making my way out and back to the White Lion. I stored the armor in White's lower hangar and took my place at the hem of the ship to fly us out back to Olkarion.
I felt much at ease on our way back, thanking the ancients for not letting us come back empty handed. In all honesty, it had hurt me to see my planet in ruins but finding what I was looking for brought a spark of happiness to my heart that I refused to let go. I would often glance to the side to see Shiro also wearing a smile, he smiled wider when he caught me looking. I took my hand off my right handle and took his hand in mine, "Thank you for coming with me, I'm glad I bumped into you in the castle."
He chuckled, "Correction, hurt yourself on my chest while trying to sneak out."
His statement caused me to let out a snort, "You still complied and came with me making you my accomplice."
Shiro let go of my hand and placed a finger under my chin, "Who could say no to that face." His comment made me blush, which only made him smile wider, "You see, I can still make you turn scarlet."
I had no other option than to laugh.
All the way back to Olkarion Shiro and I bickered with smiles and laughs that is until the planet came into view and the voice of Allura ended our moment, "Taylin! Where have you been?! Do you know how worried I was when Coran told me you and Shiro had left? And don't get me started on how Storm almost chased Coran out of the castle because he didn't know where you went."
I took a deep breath before answering, her reaction was to be expected, "Allura, we are both fine. We went to Negetia to retrieve Storm's armor."
"You went to Negetia?" She asked more softly; her voiced laced with sorrow, "How… how did it go?"
"That's not my planet anymore." Was my grim response; Allura did the probe any further.
"Just get back to the castle, alright." She said.
"Allura, have you heard from Pidge?" Shiro asked.
"Actually yes, she is heading back to Olkarion." She responded.
"Ok, we'll see you soon." Shiro said and turned off the comm.
"I wonder is Pidge found her brother." I said in thought.
"I hope she did." Shiro added in a serious tone, "For her sake."
We soon broke the Olkari atmosphere and plotted a course to the landing pads established for the lions outside the castle. Storm came whooshing down next to my assigned space and looked up, I could feel his gaze on us like a million daggers shot once.
The White Lion touched down and bended down to open her jaws to let us out, but I made no move to stand. "I really want to stay in here."
Shiro let us a sigh, "You knew this would happen, now you have to face the consequences."
I bowed, and my head growled, "Fine."
I followed him out and exited the lion to be met with bright blue eyes laced with concern, fear, relief, and anger.
"Why did you not tell you where leaving?! I was so worried about you. And worst of all you did not tell Coran exactly where you were going." He scolded.
"I promise you I never meant bad intent. I did not want to feel your sadness anymore. For the past couple of days, you have been brooding over that ledge feeling sorry for yourself because you could not aid us better." Storm was about to say something but retreated knowing fairly well my statement was true. "I journeyed to Negetia to retrieve the one thing that can let you battle inside and outside the atmosphere without getting your lungs crushed."
"You found my armor?"He asked bringing his head down to my level.
"We found it."
Stormed closed his eyes for a few ticks letting out gust of air through his nostrils, "I don't know if to be mad at you, eat you, or try to kiss you, but what you have done for me will never be forgotten."
I placed a hand on his snout, "You know I will do anything for you."
"As would I." Storm lifted his head a bit and place the tip of his snout on my forehead letting a feeling of warmth fill my whole body. It was a feeling that no sun could ever replicate, it was the warmth of true love.
Hello everyone, thanks for reading.
Thank you all for your lovely comments and the support.
Isn't lovely how Tay cares for Storm, I just love does two and Shiro's care for her as well makes me fuzzy inside.
ukitakeitalialover041757-Great chapter and I finally caught up with your story. Loved the Shiro x Taylin moments. I live for them!
APridefulSin-yes! amazingly well done. love it
Anonymous-E-Sad that Keith leaves, but he is still Team Voltron. I like how you added the end scene with Taylin saying goodbye to Keith before he left to continue his role the Blades. 10 out of 10.
rinpup14-God I'm caught up with all the episodes and how ur gonna fix ur plot with them is killing me with anticipation