I looked around the domed arena, and saw Zarkon, now standing, looking down at me like I was some type of lab rat or something. I just glared at him, daring him to do something while I tried to stop the bleeding on my side. He simply flicked his wrist, and four druids came through the same door the giant came out of.

"Quiznack," I groaned as I took a step back, bringing my hand that was not occupied to my side up.

The first one disappeared, then reappeared behind me. I ducked down and rolled out of the way of their hand. They then all four powered their dark magic, and took aim. One of them tried to advance, but I took a few steps backwards, before they all fired. I jumped out of the attack, hearing the crowd cheer, but the beams of lighting just followed. I landed on hard on my chest when the druids recharged their attack. I got back up to, and then they fired, but this time I couldn't move in time...

"AHHHHHH!" the scream that was ripped out of his throat was in human. It was horrible especially when they stopped, he just fell limp like a puppet got their strings cut.

The druids just shot my little brother at his chest at full force, and then just tilted their heads as he fell from the attack. The crowd just continued to scream, something about half-blood. I just stared at the figure on the arena's floor, shaking so hard he looked like a leaf on a windy day as he just panted, breathing hard. The druids then went up to him, grabbed his arms and started to drag him out leaving behind-

"Oh my god, is that a trail of blood?" I hear Hunk gag behind me as the other paladins just gasped.

"That's too much blood," I hear one of them state, but I couldn't match the voice to the names of the occupants in the room.

The video changed from the arena, to the menace of the universe, Zarkon. He had a cruel smile that seemed to have been twisted on his smug face as he spoke, "He's definitely something," the emperor just nodded his head.

"What are you going to do to him?" I ask through gritted teeth.

He just shrugged, "I let Haggar take a look since it seems that this one is special," he sneered before the feed was cut off and there was a strange silence that no one wanted to break.

There was some typing on going behind me from Pidge's station that made me look behind me to find that she was doing something on her screen that made her in deep thought.

"Pidge, what-"

"Not now Shiro, I'm almost in," she states as she licks her lips, "Bingo, yes!" she exclaims as she transfers her findings to the big screen with a big smile on her face.

It looked like a map of a galaxy, Solymus, and a purple dot, since Pidge insisted that we are not animals, moving.

"Pidge," Allura starts out slowly, "is this what I think it is?" she asks as she stands a little straighter.

"If you are thinking it's the galra ship Keith is on then yes," Pidge replied as she adjusted her glasses.

"Pidge! You're a genius!" Hunk exclaims as he rushes to squeeze her in a tight hug.

"Good job number five," a cheery voice declares behind us, startling us, "been here since Zarkon hailed," he answers before any of us could question him.

And with that, we started our planning, hoping we could save Keith in time.

I wake up on a table that seemed to be upright, and I was chained to it. I slowly opened my eyes to see four druids setting something up, making me gulp in fear.

"Ah, you finally wake," a croaked voice whispers to my left.

I turn my head to search for the source of the voice, but it seemed to be a huge mistake because I then got dizzy, the room spinning as I started to feel nauseated, and I groaned my discomfort. After a couple of seconds everything finally stopped moving. I then felt a cold, rough hand on my arm making me flinch.

"I sense something powerful within your quintessence," she smirked, "I'll like to complete a couple of elements on your quintessence," she smiled as she walked away from me.

I tracked her movements as she moved over what looked like a switch to something. She whispered something to a druid before she reached for the switch and pulled down the lever as I felt bolts of electricity shock me.

I gritted my teeth in pain as I felt my whole body burn from all injuries to the new ones that I knew were forming. I squeezed my eyes shut as I tried not to give joy to the witch from my pain, until I heard some knobs being turned and felt the bolts increase the burning pain of my body. I then screamed through gritted teeth.

Then I felt the burn from the electricity rise, and I couldn't hold in my scream as I felt everything burn. Like every molecule in my body was burning, disintegrating into nothing. Everything hurt, until I felt nothing at all and I was breathing heavily as I was leaning away from the table. My head was bowed as I just tried to gain my breath and try not to move too much, but I heard steps coming toward me, then the same hand that touched my arm earlier was back.

It was colder than earlier, and it made me flinch, which made my body burn a little more, resulting in me groaning in more pain as my breathing picked up again. The hand moved a little in an up and down motion as she hummed in acknowledgement.

"Well, it seems that the electricity shock seemed to have had made your quintessence faster in a way that seems incredible," she murmured, "Do you feel different than the pain," she moved in front of me to ask me, but I just sent her glare.

I did feel not normal from the shock. My body felt like it does whenever I have an adrenaline rush. I felt like I had energy, but everything hurt, I could feel every pain be electrified. I tried to calm my shaking, but the witch just grabbed my check, and squeezed to point where I felt drops of blood, but I didn't feel the pain, just start to see black spots in my line of vision.

"Fine, don't tell me, let's start the next test," she sneered through gritted teeth before she let go of my face and turned away.

They all walked out the room, leaving me strapped there. I was wearing a ripped black t-shirt, and a ripped pair of pants. Darkness start to cloud my vision, and my body started to feel number, and I gladly closed my eyes as I feel into unconsciousness.