Keith was walking next to Hunk who had an arm around him attempting to keep both of them warm. In the few minutes that they had been walking nearly all of them had slipped on the ice that appeared from nowhere at least once. With so much focus on trying to keep steady Keith didn't recognize that the group had stopped walking until Hunk stopped him from bumping into Coran.
Peering around Coran Keith saw Allura and Shiro only a few feet ahead. He moved past Coran curiosity grabbing his attention. As he approached he saw the outline of Shiro on the ground looking at something Allura looking over his shoulder. Allura then turned and addressed the group.
"Does anyone happen to have a light source of some kind?"
Everyone checked their pockets, prying the wet clothing apart to check deep pockets. Keith didn't bother to check as he knew for a fact that he didn't carry a light of any kind on him.
"Oh! I have one!" Hunk said piping up. It was a small penlight, but when he turned it on it was clear it had a strong beam. He shined it over everyone to find them staring at him in disbelief. "What?"
"Hunk how long have you had that?" Allura asked calmly. Almost too calmly, too the point where he consciously took a step back.
"Um..well I think it's been in my pocket for a while." Hunk said completely unaware of how close Allura had gotten. Keith honestly felt bad for him wishing he had mentioned it earlier so they wouldn't be having this conversation now.
"So you're saying you had the light on you the whole time?"
Don't answer that! he thought trying to grab Hunk's attention, but he had his eye's locked with Allura's.
"Yes?"
Keith audibly face palmed groaning as he heard Shiro shift nervously next to him.
"Right. So we've been wondering the tunnels for hours, in the DARK, might I add. While you had a flashlight in your pocket the whole time? We could've cut the time in half if we could see where we're going!"
Realizing his mistake he glanced just behind Allura to Keith and Shiro, his eyes begging for help. They both just shrugged indicating Hunk was on his own.
Allura snatched the penlight from his hand and returned to where Shiro and Keith stood. Pointing the flashlight at the ground they all froze at what they saw. It was Lance's blue baseball tee all crumpled on the metal flooring of the tunnel completely soaked in blood. Right next to the wall was a pool of it scaring each of them. Looking farther down the tunnel every few inches there was a new drop of blood. Which of the two missing Paladins had lost so much blood and from the looks of things was still losing it?
Without another word, everyone followed Allura carefully avoiding the drops of blood. Keith had completely forgotten that he was freezing with what they had discovered it had invaded his mind and took it over. Now that he thought about every possible outcome of this the cold started to sink into his body again.
It wasn't but a few minutes before they heard shuffling ahead. Coming around a corner they found a Shirtless Lance kneeling on the ground leaning over something. The group approached not announcing it was them. In one swift move, Lance had his bayard activated and he had it trained on them. They held up their hands all explaining that it was them. Sighing with relief he lowered his bayard and sank against the wall. They quickly approached him, Allura immediately started to check him over, but he refused it motioning to the figure he was leaning over when they first came across them.
Allura trained the penlight on where Lance was gesturing only to drop it in fright. The penlight landed so that it cast a shadow of a figure picking up another one and disappearing down the tunnel.