A cold hand touched my arm, and I jolted back to awareness slowly. I raised my head which felt heavy on my shoulders to see through my bangs that the witch just smiling menacingly down on me. A groaned escaped me as I started to regain feeling in my body.

"We'll about to begin," she whispered before she walked over to the other druids that were in the room to prepare something.

Then she quickly turned around and placed a hot poker thing on my arm, and I felt pain burn my skin, making me drop my head onto my chest, but it seemed like it wasn't hurting as badly as it was supposed to. She moved around my arm until it seems that all skin was touch by the hot metal. It felt like my arm fell asleep and I was feeling the pins and needles, but worse. When I heard her hum, I moved my head to glare at her, and she just smirked.

She grabbed my face, and brought hers closer as she just stared while I continued to glare at her. She then put the poker on my ribs and I had to grit my teeth hard and curl my fist on my left hand since it hurt to move my other hand, to not break my glare to the witch. She just tilted her head to the side as she moved the poker across my ribs, and when she touched an injury, I felt how the pain was amplified to that area of skin, and winced in pain.

I looked away, but she shook my head until I looked up at her. She just smirked before she put more pressure on the wound, and I clenched my eyes shut not to reveal too much of the pain I was in.

After another minute of her touching all my wounds on my mid-section, she walked away as she put down the metal rod. She talked with the druids about something before she returned to me with her hands at her side.

"It seems that fire does change your quintessence," she said as she started to pace the floor with one hand on her chin as she started to talk, "Did you know that eyes are the window to, well, you I guess you can say, they can tell someone whatever they want without that person needing to speak," she said as she looked over to me, and momentarily stopped her pacing.

I just titled my head in response. I felt so soar.

"It takes a skill person to hide what they are feeling in their eyes, but it takes someone with more skill to be able to actually read what in their eyes. You seem to be able to hide your feelings, but when I started the tests, your eyes changed," she continued onto her pacing, "And you didn't just magically start to show me your secrets, but your eye color change," this made me a bit worried.

Haggar was a witch, but she was also someone who wants facts and sometimes the only way to get those facts were to experiment on them and get the results. If this mean that she wanted to do more experiment on him, especially his eyes...

It left a sour taste in my mouth.

"When we did first test, your eyes turned black, and your pupils turned into slits. Now your pupil change seems to be your galra nature showing more, but the eye color change is nothing like galra unless they turned complete yellow," she murmured something to herself before she shook her head and continued talking louder, "At first I thought it was the way light reflected off your eyes, but it doesn't seem that way, and then the iris of the eye change to a dark red, closer to the powerful spectrum of quintessence," she then stopped and looked up at me with wide eyes.

For a moment she didn't move, then she took three long strides until she was by my side and laid her cold hand on the arm she just burned. Her hand was cold, and I could feel the heat radiate from my skin. It made me jolt in surprise, that jostled my wounds which made me release a quiet wince of pain.

"Well that is interesting, it seems that your quintessence is stronger in the areas of the burns," she simply said as she finally looked up at me, "Do you feel different in any way?" she asked as she moved to in front of me.

Aside from the burning pain I was feeling that I definitely wasn't feeling before the test, but I did feel like I have energy, and the pain doesn't feel as bad as they should, but I wouldn't tell her anything and she just squinted her eyes for a second.

She huffed out a "fine, then start the next test," and with that she left the room with the other druids trailing behind her, and I dropped my head to my chest in exhaustion, the pain was starting to really set in.

(~_~)

"The only problem where Keith is located is that it is central command and last time, we almost didn't survive the mission. We had to rely on the blades, and I am going have to say we might have to do it again," Pidge spoke as she looked at where the command ship is at now.

"Ah don't worry number five, I have already contacted the blades, and Kolivan has already agreed to help with a small group of blades," Coran spoke from behind the group with his cheery attitude.

"Great, now all we need is a plan," Shiro spoke and we started to make a plan to save Keith from the hands of the galra empire.

(~_~)

"Graaaah!" the pain I felt from someone punching me in the ribs spread fire throughout all my bones. It hurt, pain was just the one thing my brain could comprehend.

After a few minutes of taking deep breathes, I finally looked up and saw that the druids seemed to be preparing something with their dark magic, and it made me gulp in fear. There were four druids, two were coming closer, and two of them were aiming at me with their hands aimed at with electricity crackling to life in their palms. The two coming closer unchained me, and grabbed me by my arms, but just pulled on all of my wounds that seemed to spark to life, making tears bead at the corner of my eyes as I winced. It hurt, everything hurt.

I couldn't move my legs underneath myself in time before they started to drag me out of the room and down the hallway, passing closed doors until we stopped at one that they had to scan their hands to open the door before we entered the cold room. When I was able to lift my head, I saw what looked like a tub with ice filled to the top.

"Let's begin with the first part of the test. Throw him in," croaked a voice from somewhere to my left, and before I could turn my head to face the witch behind the voice, the druids were dragging me over to the tub of ice. I could feel the temperature of the room go lower, and I start to try and pull away, but I was in too much pain.

My body felt like a huge bruise as the druid dragged me farther into the room and closer to the tub of ice. I tried to get away, but they just squeezed harder, and the arm that was burnt lit up in pain that I saw black spots in my vision. They then lifted me by my arms and just placed in me in the tub. I tried to lift my body above the cold, but it was inevitable and they just held me down.

It felt like everything slowed down as it became harder to breathe. It felt like all my muscles were frozen over, and every move I made to try to breathe, made it worse. This type of ice felt like a cocoon of a freezing blanket that is wrapped all around me. I still had on my prison clothes, but it just felt like the thin material did nothing against the cold.

I tried again to struggle out of the tub, but it just made all of my muscles feel like they were being pulled apart. The witch was in front of me after a couple minutes of me trying not to cry out in pain, and she placed her hand on the same area on the same arm. It somehow felt colder that the ice and made me flinch as I groaned in pain.

"It seems that the cold is making you weaker in your quintessence, interesting" she murmured before she let go of my arm, and then talked to the druids, "let's start the final part of this test of today,"

The druids nodded their heads before they grabbed my arms and lifted me out of the tub, but it felt like fire was burning under my skin, but I couldn't move any part of my body, so a groan in pain was the only sound of pain I released as they started to head out of the room. I just felt like I was wearing a weighted suit that clung to me, making it harder to breathe, and burning my wounds.

They dragged me out the room and down the hall until they stopped at another door. They opened it, and this time there was a tank of water with a chain that was out of the tank. I tried to stand, but all it just resulted in the druids to just tighten their hold on my arms. They brought me closer to the tank before I could see Hagger at the corner of my eye.

"Chain him up, and put him," she instructed.

I didn't want to be confined in the tank, being held down my the chains, but they didn't care.

"No, no no no," I tried to pull away, being able to get to my feet, but before I could put much more effort into pulling away, I heard some type of crackling before I felt a heated pain on the head, and all I saw was black.

(~_~)

"Okay, here's the plan," I started to say in front of Voltron and the Blades, "Voltron will attack central command as the blades will go in and find Keith. We'll then separate and one of the lions, whoever is closest, will pick up the blades and Keith, and hurry back to the castle to put him in a pod," I stated the quick plan.

The blades nodded their heads to the plan while team Voltron responded with a simple 'yeah'.

Hopefully this would work...