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"Lost Memories"
Part 6
"Lotor!" exclaimed Allura and thought ~No wonder I had those strange feelings."
"Guards!" yelled Lotor and ordered, "restrain these two and take them to the bridge."
As the guards handcuffed Allura and Pidge, Lotor traced her jaw with the tip of his finger and whispered in her ear, "you WILL be my queen, Allura."
"Never!" spat Allura.
"Take them," ordered Lotor, "I want to show your space explorer that I have you and I will wed you in front of him!"
The guards dragged the two to the bridge with Lotor following close behind. Admiring Allua's stubbornness and relishing in the knowledge that she will finally be his.
"Open a channel to those lions," ordered Lotor, then seeing Keith, said, "Voltron Force, I have what you want."
"Lotor if you hurt her in any way, I swear I'll rip your heart out!" growled Keith.
"Allura, it's up to you," said Lotor, "marry me and I'll stop the robeast from attacking the castle or have your friends and your planet perish."
"She'll never agree," growled Pidge.
"Allura, don't do it," pleaded Keith, "we'll get you out of this."
"I guess I don't have a choice," said Allura and trusting Lotor would keep to his word.
Lotor walked up to Allura, caressed her cheek with the back of his hand, and then leaned in to kiss her. But Allura turned her head and he kissed her cheek instead. "It's nice to see that you've come to you senses and realized that you love me," gloated Lotor.
"Lotor," growled Keith, "this isn't over."
"Last words from the defeated," laughed Lotor.
"Lotor!" said Allura, "you are THE most arrogant and conceited man I have ever met. And don't you begin to think that I love you, I'm only doing this to save my people."
Lotor grabbed her arm and growled, "You will know what love is, once we are wedded."
"Let go of me!" cried Allura, "you're hurting me!"
"Let her go Lotor!" shouted Keith and Pidge.
Suddenly, Lotor's ship was under attack by the Yellow Lion. Allura took this advantage to get away from Lotor and to release his grip on her. Without knowing it, Allura kneed Lotor in the groin. He crumpled over in pain, but now was gripping even tighter around her arm. He wasn't about to let her go, when he was so close to marrying her. Feeling the pain surge throughout her body she let out a scream and tears were running down her face. She needed to, she had to do something else to make him let go of her. Pidge ran over to help her, but Lotor swung his arm around, knocked him to the floor and he became a bit dazed from hitting his head on the floor. Thinking quickly, she kicked as hard as she could into his gut and that did it. Lotor had released his grip on her at once and fell to the floor gasping for air. Then the Yellow Lion reared its head though the hull of the ship. Before Allura ran with Pidge to the Yellow Lion, she kicked Lotor across the face for assaulting her. Allura ran to the Yellow Lion with tears forming in her eyes.
"Keith, I've got the Princess and Pidge," said Hunk, "I'm enroute to Pidge's lion."
"Good, we still have to destroy this robeast," replied Keith.
As Voltron fought the robeast, Allura slowly began to remember bits and pieces of her memory, but it wasn't enough. Crying and scared from her abduction, she wanted to remember anything that brought her comfort. But to no avail she couldn't, all she wanted was to have a good cry, and in no time at all she was fast asleep in Hunk's lion.
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"Keith?! What's going on? Where am I? Who am I?"
"You are Princess Allura, ruler of Planet Arus and pilot of Blue Lion."
"But I don't remember being a pilot, I can't seem to remember!"
"Yes you can, just believe in yourself . . ."
"Keith! Wait, where are you going! Keith!!!!!"
"You should have agreed to marry me Allura."
"I don't love you!"
"But you don't love him as well."
"Yes I do Lotor."
"Are you sure?"
Allura sat straight up in bed, terrified that she might not love Keith after all. She knew she didn't love Lotor, or did she. After reading her journal for the millionth time, she knew that she loved Keith and despised Lotor. ~But that was a different Allura," she thought. She was so confused, the only was she would understand everything was to have her memory back. That in itself was an impossibility. She need to talk to someone who could help her sort things out, to find out what was true and what wasn't. Quietly walking through the corridors of the castle, not knowing where she would end up.
A lone figure stood at the entrance to Castle Control, not wanting to disturb him, but needed to. Keith had heard the footsteps and turned around in the chair.
"Keith, I'm worried," said Pidge.
"Worried about who?" asked Keith.
"The Princess," replied Pidge. "Ever since we got her off Lotor's ship she . . . well she seems like . . ."
"Spit it out Pidge," said Keith with his arms folded over his chest.
"Hang on, I'm trying to find the right words here," snapped Pidge.
"Sorry," replied Keith.
"Anyway, she doesn't seem like her usual self, even with her amnesia," said Pidge.
"Well, the last time I checked on her she was still asleep," replied Keith. "When she wakes I'll talk to her."
"Thanks," said Pidge and left Castle Control to get a good nights sleep.
There was a knock at her door, which woke her. Practically sleep walking to the door she opened it and saw Allura with tears streaming down her face. She instantly woke up to comfort her.
"Come here child," said Nanny as she opened her arms to Allura.
"Oh, Nanny," sobbed Allura, "I'm so confused."
"Come, lets sit and talk," soothed Nanny. "Now, what are you so confused about."
"Keith," sobbed Allura.
"Shhh, calm down," whispered Nanny while rubbing her back. "What's wrong?"
"Before my amnesia, I could tell from my journal that I loved Keith," said Allura with tears still in her eyes. "And now I. . .I just don't know."
"You know Keith loves you," said Nanny, "he always will."
"I know that," replied Allura, "but I'm not sure if I love him."
"Why?" asked Nanny.
"Lately, he's been pushing me to be the Allura he remembers," answered Allura, "but I don't know that person."
"Well, what do you feel in your heart?" asked Nanny.
"Nothing," she replied. "Everyone keeps telling me that I DO love Keith, but I don't feel that I do. I thought I was falling in love with him, but since he's been pushing me. I just don't know."
"It's understandable," said Nanny. "You have amnesia, you've just returned from Prince Lotor's ship, where God knows what he did to you. . . Now, I'm going to suggest something that you may not want to do, but it's for the best."
"What?" asked Allura, curious to know what Nanny wanted.
"Break off the engagement with Keith," asked Nanny.
"No!" replied an astonished Allura. "I don't want to hurt him by doing that."
"Princess," said Nanny, "he will understand. You need time to sort things out and the only way to do that is by returning his ring and asking him for some time."
"But," replied Allura.
"No buts, just think about it," said Nanny. "It's the right thing to do."
"I'll think about it," replied Allura.
"Now, go get some sleep," said Nanny. "I'll see you in the morning. Goodnight"
"Goodnight, Nanny," said Allura.
To Be Continued
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