Destiny: Chapter 7 Destiny
Ch. 7/?
By Arus
Disclaimer: "Voltron, Defender of the Universe", "Voltron 3D", and its characters are ©1984 & ©2000 World Events Productions, Ltd. This story is for entertainment purposes only. Original characters and storyline are property of the author, please do not use, reproduce, or repost without permission.
Alysson and Anala introduced Brendt to the rest of the Voltron Force the next morning, but the tension that was created from the events of the night before still hung like a thick blanket over everyone.
While Brendt and her mother decided to speak with Coran about Arus and Vallis, Anala took Lance by the arm and they both walked toward the infirmary.
"Aren't you supposed to be doing the talking in there?" he asked once he caught up with her.
"That's why you have advisors to the court," she said. "So you don't have to."
"I thought Xue was your court advisor?"
"He is, but mother knows Brendt better than Xue does."
"Where are we going?"
"See who that woman Hunk brought in is," she said.
*********
Dr. Gorma looked up as Anala entered the infirmary and greeted her with a clipboard.
"She's Vallusian," he started, before she could question him. "Approximately 25 Earth Standard Years, 22 Vallusian."
"She is one of us?" Anala asked as she looked at the chart on the clipboard.
"Yes," he said. "But you have to see this."
He then posted two x-rays on the viewer and showed them to her. "Seems like someone 'clipped her wings'," he stated.
Anala looked at the x-rays and noticed the deformations of where a female Vallusian wings would be.
"Can you determine how and when?"
"Can't determine how, but it was probably done to her when she was a child," he said. "Since the females on your planet are born with them."
"They prevented her from the ability to fly," Anala stated as she met his gaze.
"They didn't want her to escape."
Anala then looked passed him into the room where the woman was sleeping. She slowly walked up to the window partition.
"But the questions that remain now are, how did she escape, and why did she come to Arus?"
**********
"Will she remember everything from last night?" Alysson asked as she escorted Brendt to one of the conference rooms.
"Her episodes themselves cause her to lose some memory of any incident occurred from the Nilan," Brendt stated. "But, the longer she is subjected to it, she will lose herself to it. Maybe even who she is."
"What can we do to prevent that?"
"At this time, find the person who is responsible for it."
They stopped in front of the conference room and as the door slid open, Alysson took Brendt by the arm as she led him in. Allura smiled as she greeted them, and offered them a tray on which Nanny prepared some hot tea and biscuits.
"I hope that your trip here was a pleasant one," Allura stated as they took their seats in one of the couches. "Alysson was telling me that you are one of their Elders?"
"Yes," Brendt stated with a smile.
Allura smiled. "Forgive my ignorance on your status of your people, Alysson," Allura said. "But how do you separate yourselves from say people like Alysson and Anala?"
Brendt sipped from his cup before putting it down on the table before them. "Our status is determined by what stages of development we go through," he started. "Only a select few, as determined by nature, can go through more than one of the development stages."
"I see," she said. "And when did you find out that you were destined to become an Elder?"
"When I was no older than you, princess," he stated.
She smiled. "I see," she stated. "So what brings you here to Arus?"
"I came at the bidding of the Queen and her mother," he stated. "I was notified of the arrival of the strange girl last night."
"Yes," Allura stated. "Our doctor has been attending to her since her arrival, but she has yet to wake from the sleep she is under."
"I hope that I will get the chance to examine her," he said. "But, I also came to see your princess."
"Me?" she asked.
"I've been made aware of something you have been experiencing yourself."
"Like what?"
"Your dreams," he said as he met her gaze.
Allura's expression changed as she could only stare at him. "My dreams?"
"Of a man; half machine; he haunts your dreams, and you have no idea why."
"But….but..how…"
"His name is Kelar…"
"Kelar…but he..didn't he…"
"He has somehow tied himself to you and one other person on your team," he said.
"Tied?" Allura asked. "But I thought he..isn't he dead?"
"Death is only a state where we lose our physical forms, princess," he said. "Death doesn't stop the soul from venturing."
"What are you saying?"
"He has found a way to live…" he said. "Through someone else."
*********
"This was the only thing we could salvage from the ship," Hunk said as he dropped a disc onto the control panel. "Its totally trashed."
"Well, maybe there is something on this thing that will tell us what is going on," Keith said as he grabbed the disc and inserted it in.
The view-screen before them then started up, showing blueprints of several buildings as well as machinery.
"Notice the dates," Hunk stated. "these are old plans. Almost 25 years ago."
"Now why would someone keep a disc with old information as this?" Keith asked. "Pidge, were you able to track a trajectory from which the ship came from?"
"I've been able to pin point it down from our first sighting of the ship on our satellite radars coming from the Crimson quadrant."
"Very strange," Keith said. "These are just pages and pages of schematics."
"There must be a reason as to why they, whoever they are, would send someone speeding across space in a ship that wasn't built to travel long distances, and have this disc aboard."
"Maybe its to give us information," Keith said. "Hunk, I need you to go through these schematics, and see what you can pull up from them."
"I guess its homework for me," Hunk stated.
"Pidge, keep on working on where that ship came from," he said. "See if you can pull up our aligned planets and tap into their satellites to see if they picked up the ship as well."
"Easier said than done," he said. "But I have a few favors I can cash in on some of those planets."
"This will be our little project until that woman wakes up," he said.
"Aye aye, cap!" Pidge said.
Then something on the view screen appeared that caught all of their attentions.
~to anyone viewing this disc, this is a plea for help!~
Keith could only stare at the fuzzy video that played before them, as a man, breathlessly, tried to communicate his hurried message.
~we are on planet lysia. We are slaves to the current dictatorship rule, commanded by Baron Akryl who is in league with Kelar of Vallis. WE need your help. We only number in a few thousand, but we are slowly dying. Please help us. Again, we are on planet Lysia., our time is short! We will all die if we are not freed from the evils of this rule. Please………~
The video then started to static out and the disc soon ended.
"Play that again," Keith said as he turned to Hunk.
Hunk quickly nodded and skimmed through the disc again as they came to the video.
"Pause it," Keith ordered.
"Keith, why does…"
"Can you clean the picture up?"
Hunk nodded as he adjusted some of the picture that was on the view screen before them.
"How can that be?" Hunk asked as he looked to Keith. "That man…he looks…"
"He looks like Xue," Pidge stated as he stood from his seat.
"It can't be," Keith mumbled to himself. "He's dead."
"He's what?" Hunk asked.
"Print me a picture of that," he said. "Pidge, find out where this Planet Lysia is."
"Never heard of it." Pidge said.
"See if you can patch into the data from Vallis," he ordered as Hunk passed him the printed picture. "Maybe Kelar kept something on file."
"It will take some time," he said.
"I know you can do it, Pidge," he said. "Hunk, study those schematics. I think its going to be our key to find out what is going on."
"Where are you going?"
"To confront a ghost."
*********
The doors to the infirmary slid open and as Keith entered, he saw that Anala, Lance, Brendth, and Alysson were watching as Dr. Gorma attended to their new guest. She was now fully awake, and he was running his normal tests to see if she was fine.
"Keith, she's awake now," Anala stated as she motioned him to join them. "As soon as Dr. Gorma gives his okay, we can find out who she is."
"Apparently we wont have time for that," he said.
"What?"
"Where's Xue?" Keith asked as he turned to his mother.
"He's with Coran right now," Alysson stated. "Why?"
Keith then turned and entered the room as the woman and Dr. Gorma looked up to him.
"Keith, what are you doing?" Gorma asked.
The woman then stared at him, and her eyes widened when she met his gaze.
"You," she said.
"No time for formalities," he said. "Who are you and why were you carrying a disc with this man on it?"
The woman looked from him to the picture he was holding and swallowed hard.
"Tell me!" Keith nearly yelled at her.
"Keith!" Anala yelled through the glass. "What's going on?"
"My name is Anri," she said quickly as she stared at him. "I am from planet Lysia, where we are slaves to Barron Akryl…"
"I"ve heard that before," Keith said. "What are you doing with a disc that has this man on it?"
"What man?" Alysson asked as she slowly entered the room.
"He…he is the leader of a small rebel faction," she stammered. "He made that disc to give information to whoever finds it, on where to find us and how to defeat the defense systems of Akryl's fortress."
"What is his name?"
"His name?" she asked.
"What is his name?"
"He goes by the name of Alex…."
"Alex?" Alysson asked.
She grabbed the picture from Keith and looked it over. Her own expression turned to one of surprise as she then looked up from it to meet Keith's.
"He's alive?"
"He was alive when I left Lysia," Anri stated. "Who are you people?" she asked and then turned to Keith. "And why do you resemble Alex?"
"Resemble?" Lance asked. "What is going on here."
Anala turned to him. "A very long story," she said.
*********
Lance could only stare at Anala as she stood across from him. He breathed in deeply as he looked from Anala, to Alysson, to Keith and back to Anala again. He then held his head in his hands as he seated himself in one of the chairs.
"This is just all to weird," Lance stated as he looked up again.
"If you want to know the whole story, I can make you remember again," Xue stated as he approached him.
"Make me remember what?" Lance asked.
"Of what happened to you and your friends 3 months ago," he said.
Xue then turned to Keith, who could only give him a nod.
"This will not hurt, Lance," he said.
He waved his hand over the young pilots own hands and chanted to himself. Lance closed his eyes and as if a book had opened, his mind was flooded with images, as if they were memories, locked away. He slowly opened his eyes to meet the concerned gazes of those in the room with him.
He closed his eyes and then shook his head as he came to understand the memories, as Anala came to his side and took his hands into her own.
"Just breathe in deeply," she said. "That usually helps with the dizziness."
"You mean, all that happened?" he asked as he tried to open his eyes again. "We….we helped you with the liberation of Kelar?"
"Yes," she said. "Your whole team did."
He opened his eyes again and then looked up and stared at Keith. His eyes then widened.
"You!" he exclaimed. "You…by all of Arus….you're a…."
"Lance, he's my brother," Anala stated as he turned to her. "Alysson is his mother as well."
"But…you….he…..we…"
"You must keep this to yourself, Lance," Anala said. "If anyone else knows…this could jeopardize everything that we've accomplished."
Lance turned to everyone in the room then came to look at her gain. He slowly nodded as she got to her feet.
"Now, we need your help as well," she said. "Something very odd is happening in this Castle and we are not able to find out what it is."
"What can I do?" he asked.
"Apparently, we have ghost haunting this Castle."
Ch. 7/?
By Arus
Disclaimer: "Voltron, Defender of the Universe", "Voltron 3D", and its characters are ©1984 & ©2000 World Events Productions, Ltd. This story is for entertainment purposes only. Original characters and storyline are property of the author, please do not use, reproduce, or repost without permission.
Alysson and Anala introduced Brendt to the rest of the Voltron Force the next morning, but the tension that was created from the events of the night before still hung like a thick blanket over everyone.
While Brendt and her mother decided to speak with Coran about Arus and Vallis, Anala took Lance by the arm and they both walked toward the infirmary.
"Aren't you supposed to be doing the talking in there?" he asked once he caught up with her.
"That's why you have advisors to the court," she said. "So you don't have to."
"I thought Xue was your court advisor?"
"He is, but mother knows Brendt better than Xue does."
"Where are we going?"
"See who that woman Hunk brought in is," she said.
*********
Dr. Gorma looked up as Anala entered the infirmary and greeted her with a clipboard.
"She's Vallusian," he started, before she could question him. "Approximately 25 Earth Standard Years, 22 Vallusian."
"She is one of us?" Anala asked as she looked at the chart on the clipboard.
"Yes," he said. "But you have to see this."
He then posted two x-rays on the viewer and showed them to her. "Seems like someone 'clipped her wings'," he stated.
Anala looked at the x-rays and noticed the deformations of where a female Vallusian wings would be.
"Can you determine how and when?"
"Can't determine how, but it was probably done to her when she was a child," he said. "Since the females on your planet are born with them."
"They prevented her from the ability to fly," Anala stated as she met his gaze.
"They didn't want her to escape."
Anala then looked passed him into the room where the woman was sleeping. She slowly walked up to the window partition.
"But the questions that remain now are, how did she escape, and why did she come to Arus?"
**********
"Will she remember everything from last night?" Alysson asked as she escorted Brendt to one of the conference rooms.
"Her episodes themselves cause her to lose some memory of any incident occurred from the Nilan," Brendt stated. "But, the longer she is subjected to it, she will lose herself to it. Maybe even who she is."
"What can we do to prevent that?"
"At this time, find the person who is responsible for it."
They stopped in front of the conference room and as the door slid open, Alysson took Brendt by the arm as she led him in. Allura smiled as she greeted them, and offered them a tray on which Nanny prepared some hot tea and biscuits.
"I hope that your trip here was a pleasant one," Allura stated as they took their seats in one of the couches. "Alysson was telling me that you are one of their Elders?"
"Yes," Brendt stated with a smile.
Allura smiled. "Forgive my ignorance on your status of your people, Alysson," Allura said. "But how do you separate yourselves from say people like Alysson and Anala?"
Brendt sipped from his cup before putting it down on the table before them. "Our status is determined by what stages of development we go through," he started. "Only a select few, as determined by nature, can go through more than one of the development stages."
"I see," she said. "And when did you find out that you were destined to become an Elder?"
"When I was no older than you, princess," he stated.
She smiled. "I see," she stated. "So what brings you here to Arus?"
"I came at the bidding of the Queen and her mother," he stated. "I was notified of the arrival of the strange girl last night."
"Yes," Allura stated. "Our doctor has been attending to her since her arrival, but she has yet to wake from the sleep she is under."
"I hope that I will get the chance to examine her," he said. "But, I also came to see your princess."
"Me?" she asked.
"I've been made aware of something you have been experiencing yourself."
"Like what?"
"Your dreams," he said as he met her gaze.
Allura's expression changed as she could only stare at him. "My dreams?"
"Of a man; half machine; he haunts your dreams, and you have no idea why."
"But….but..how…"
"His name is Kelar…"
"Kelar…but he..didn't he…"
"He has somehow tied himself to you and one other person on your team," he said.
"Tied?" Allura asked. "But I thought he..isn't he dead?"
"Death is only a state where we lose our physical forms, princess," he said. "Death doesn't stop the soul from venturing."
"What are you saying?"
"He has found a way to live…" he said. "Through someone else."
*********
"This was the only thing we could salvage from the ship," Hunk said as he dropped a disc onto the control panel. "Its totally trashed."
"Well, maybe there is something on this thing that will tell us what is going on," Keith said as he grabbed the disc and inserted it in.
The view-screen before them then started up, showing blueprints of several buildings as well as machinery.
"Notice the dates," Hunk stated. "these are old plans. Almost 25 years ago."
"Now why would someone keep a disc with old information as this?" Keith asked. "Pidge, were you able to track a trajectory from which the ship came from?"
"I've been able to pin point it down from our first sighting of the ship on our satellite radars coming from the Crimson quadrant."
"Very strange," Keith said. "These are just pages and pages of schematics."
"There must be a reason as to why they, whoever they are, would send someone speeding across space in a ship that wasn't built to travel long distances, and have this disc aboard."
"Maybe its to give us information," Keith said. "Hunk, I need you to go through these schematics, and see what you can pull up from them."
"I guess its homework for me," Hunk stated.
"Pidge, keep on working on where that ship came from," he said. "See if you can pull up our aligned planets and tap into their satellites to see if they picked up the ship as well."
"Easier said than done," he said. "But I have a few favors I can cash in on some of those planets."
"This will be our little project until that woman wakes up," he said.
"Aye aye, cap!" Pidge said.
Then something on the view screen appeared that caught all of their attentions.
~to anyone viewing this disc, this is a plea for help!~
Keith could only stare at the fuzzy video that played before them, as a man, breathlessly, tried to communicate his hurried message.
~we are on planet lysia. We are slaves to the current dictatorship rule, commanded by Baron Akryl who is in league with Kelar of Vallis. WE need your help. We only number in a few thousand, but we are slowly dying. Please help us. Again, we are on planet Lysia., our time is short! We will all die if we are not freed from the evils of this rule. Please………~
The video then started to static out and the disc soon ended.
"Play that again," Keith said as he turned to Hunk.
Hunk quickly nodded and skimmed through the disc again as they came to the video.
"Pause it," Keith ordered.
"Keith, why does…"
"Can you clean the picture up?"
Hunk nodded as he adjusted some of the picture that was on the view screen before them.
"How can that be?" Hunk asked as he looked to Keith. "That man…he looks…"
"He looks like Xue," Pidge stated as he stood from his seat.
"It can't be," Keith mumbled to himself. "He's dead."
"He's what?" Hunk asked.
"Print me a picture of that," he said. "Pidge, find out where this Planet Lysia is."
"Never heard of it." Pidge said.
"See if you can patch into the data from Vallis," he ordered as Hunk passed him the printed picture. "Maybe Kelar kept something on file."
"It will take some time," he said.
"I know you can do it, Pidge," he said. "Hunk, study those schematics. I think its going to be our key to find out what is going on."
"Where are you going?"
"To confront a ghost."
*********
The doors to the infirmary slid open and as Keith entered, he saw that Anala, Lance, Brendth, and Alysson were watching as Dr. Gorma attended to their new guest. She was now fully awake, and he was running his normal tests to see if she was fine.
"Keith, she's awake now," Anala stated as she motioned him to join them. "As soon as Dr. Gorma gives his okay, we can find out who she is."
"Apparently we wont have time for that," he said.
"What?"
"Where's Xue?" Keith asked as he turned to his mother.
"He's with Coran right now," Alysson stated. "Why?"
Keith then turned and entered the room as the woman and Dr. Gorma looked up to him.
"Keith, what are you doing?" Gorma asked.
The woman then stared at him, and her eyes widened when she met his gaze.
"You," she said.
"No time for formalities," he said. "Who are you and why were you carrying a disc with this man on it?"
The woman looked from him to the picture he was holding and swallowed hard.
"Tell me!" Keith nearly yelled at her.
"Keith!" Anala yelled through the glass. "What's going on?"
"My name is Anri," she said quickly as she stared at him. "I am from planet Lysia, where we are slaves to Barron Akryl…"
"I"ve heard that before," Keith said. "What are you doing with a disc that has this man on it?"
"What man?" Alysson asked as she slowly entered the room.
"He…he is the leader of a small rebel faction," she stammered. "He made that disc to give information to whoever finds it, on where to find us and how to defeat the defense systems of Akryl's fortress."
"What is his name?"
"His name?" she asked.
"What is his name?"
"He goes by the name of Alex…."
"Alex?" Alysson asked.
She grabbed the picture from Keith and looked it over. Her own expression turned to one of surprise as she then looked up from it to meet Keith's.
"He's alive?"
"He was alive when I left Lysia," Anri stated. "Who are you people?" she asked and then turned to Keith. "And why do you resemble Alex?"
"Resemble?" Lance asked. "What is going on here."
Anala turned to him. "A very long story," she said.
*********
Lance could only stare at Anala as she stood across from him. He breathed in deeply as he looked from Anala, to Alysson, to Keith and back to Anala again. He then held his head in his hands as he seated himself in one of the chairs.
"This is just all to weird," Lance stated as he looked up again.
"If you want to know the whole story, I can make you remember again," Xue stated as he approached him.
"Make me remember what?" Lance asked.
"Of what happened to you and your friends 3 months ago," he said.
Xue then turned to Keith, who could only give him a nod.
"This will not hurt, Lance," he said.
He waved his hand over the young pilots own hands and chanted to himself. Lance closed his eyes and as if a book had opened, his mind was flooded with images, as if they were memories, locked away. He slowly opened his eyes to meet the concerned gazes of those in the room with him.
He closed his eyes and then shook his head as he came to understand the memories, as Anala came to his side and took his hands into her own.
"Just breathe in deeply," she said. "That usually helps with the dizziness."
"You mean, all that happened?" he asked as he tried to open his eyes again. "We….we helped you with the liberation of Kelar?"
"Yes," she said. "Your whole team did."
He opened his eyes again and then looked up and stared at Keith. His eyes then widened.
"You!" he exclaimed. "You…by all of Arus….you're a…."
"Lance, he's my brother," Anala stated as he turned to her. "Alysson is his mother as well."
"But…you….he…..we…"
"You must keep this to yourself, Lance," Anala said. "If anyone else knows…this could jeopardize everything that we've accomplished."
Lance turned to everyone in the room then came to look at her gain. He slowly nodded as she got to her feet.
"Now, we need your help as well," she said. "Something very odd is happening in this Castle and we are not able to find out what it is."
"What can I do?" he asked.
"Apparently, we have ghost haunting this Castle."