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Blue Dragon AU - Crossover Voltron: Legendary Defender Version 1 Part 1.
Kluke ran.
Violet energy gathered around her when she jumped, allowing her to cross a gap to wide for any natural leap. It only made her more uneasy. Raw magic wasn't easy to manipulate, it bent easily to her will only when the planet wanted it to. No monsters attack, they didn't react to her out all except to move out of her way. That utter lack of hostility too she had learnt only means dangerous things, for if the monsters weren't attacking or fleeing it means bigger problems.
It was rare for the planet to actively interfere in the lives of its inhabitants. In fact until the outsiders came no one had realized the planet even had the capability to make deliberate changes. But mere months after Nene's defeat the outsiders had come from the sky and the planet had screamed.
She'd been the first to feel it. She didn't know why. Her team had felt it second, Jiro, Marumaro, Zola and Shu, followed by the other Shadow-Wielders who had awakened in the aftermath of Nene's death, but she had been the first. Perhaps it was because she is a doctor, perhaps because she is the most empathetic of the team whom had slain Nene, maybe because in many ways she was the heart of her team. The reason where mysterious but the result resonated through her.
When the outsiders came the planet screamed and Phoenix burned, her Shadow made of ashes and embers and the winds, of rage and grief and pain, the avenger and the protector, singing songs of war. Phoenix is the impenetrable shield and the devouring flame, and when Kluke reaches for the Battlefield it springs eagerly towards her enemies. It is a shift in herself, in her power like she has felt only twice before. Once when on Nene's Floating Fortress when she swallowed a Light Sphere and a Shadow rose, powerful and deadly with a screech and wings spread wide. Second when she fought and defeated her own Shadow, when she awakened Phoenix from within herself and remade the Shadow as her own. This third time when the outsiders came, the planet raging against them and its power curling through her, no-longer a passive fact of everyday life but an active force backing her.
She can activate Battlefields without touch and engulf armies when the planet singings with her. Against the outsiders the monsters fight alongside her, for they are of this planet too and they hate these outsiders as the planet hates them. For the destruction of these outsiders Phoenix becomes corporeal with an ease Kluke's never had before, the Battlefield shifts into Phoenix's Field and they can wreak havoc without harm to anything but her enemies, it is a gift the planet gives her so she may slay their enemies. And when the outsiders are gone the power slipped away. The planet returned to its normal self. Harsh and full of monsters but also fair in its own way. So she knows what power blazing under her skin and shadow deepening by her feet means, can feel the beat of the planet's heart singing Outsider-Intruder-Alien like a war drum.
Kluke runs.
She runs to where she saw something blazing fall from the sky. Because she is Kluke, Wielder of the Shadow Phoenix, Slayer of Monsters, Defeater of Nene, Master the Black and Barrier Magic Classes and this is the duty she has chosen. She defends her planet and her people.
She runs because if whatever has fallen is a threat to her people or her planet she will face it first and she will destroy it or die trying. Because they call her Hero and Saviour, Doctor and Shadow-Wielder. Because she brought down a tyrant once but she did it for herself. Because now she calls all the people of this planet her own and she will fight for them. She has had her grief and her vengeance and the children of today will grow up in the closest thing to peace that she can give them. Her planet makes monsters but it is fair in its own way and these outsiders threaten its people in a way even Nene hadn't managed. Nene was a tyrant, a monster and a madman with the power to conquer the world and the cruelty to laugh as its people died screaming but he was still of this world. And Kluke hates him, will always hate him for the murder of her parents, for the loss of her innocence and for the terror he wrought across the world but Nene was trying to remake the world as he thought it should be, not destroy it.
And the outsiders will destroy it.
They do not come merely to conquer. They come to rape her world, to ravage it and enslave her people, to drink the very life from the world. Quintessence they call it and she would kneel willing at Nene's feet before she let them drain her world dry. Although in a way she thinks this is Nene's fault. When he split the planet in half he woke it up in a way. They think that since the planet combined into a single sphere it has been quiet, almost dormant. Two halves connected by a great plasma beam and a thousand floating cubes is how the planet sings best but it's louder when its awake and that's what made the outsiders notice, that's what drew them here.