Hello and welcome back to chapter 3. I hope that you all enjoyed the last chapter and are ready for another. I was wondering where do you think everyone else is? Eh who knows, any who, enjoy.

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An excerpt from the Life of Lancelot

From the moment that Lancelot met Merlin they became fast and close friends. Lancelot had found a permanent job with the town doctor. He and Merlin would meet up when Lancelot would sneak into the forest to practice his swordsmanship. One day Merlin started to bring a friend with him who was the son of a knight. The boy was kind of arrogant at first but one day Lancelot managed to beat Artie. The boy smiled at him and that was the beginning of another friendship. When King Uther died the kingdom mourned for a week until it was time to crown the prince. Lancelot was shocked when Merlin brought him a personal invitation to the coronation. When he went to the coronation, he was shocked to see that his friend Artie was Prince Arthur Pendragon. He was even more shocked when Arthur removed the ban on both Magic and peasants being knights.

On October 25 of the new calendar Lancelot was knighted, and five years later Sir Lancelot du Loc was cursed.

Chapter 3: So That History Does Not Repeat

"Hey Mullet you look like you might need some help."

"Lance?"

Lance smirked at him and then turned back to the druid; he was not smiling.

"I don't know who you think you are, I honestly don't care. But you attacked my friends, my family. That I will not let go."

What followed Keith considered a one-sided fight, Lance kept Macidus on the defensive the entire fight.

"Keith, Keith are you there?'

"Shiro, it's Lance."

"Wait, Lance?"

Just as he said that Lance took down Macidus and turned back towards Keith.

"Hey are you Okay?"

Keith couldn't say anything he was too busy taking in the man in front of him. He looked older, Shiro was right. His hair was curly and it fell down in curls around his neck. He had freckles that were all over his face and down his neck. He was wearing a suit of armor that had a dragon roaring on the front. He had a blue cloak that was clasped on with a silver medal that had a lake surrounded by trees.

"Hey Mullet are you okay?"

"Are you real?"

"What, of course I am. Why wouldn't I be?"

Keith finally felt a wave off anger rush through him he looked up are glared into the blue eyes.

"You died." He stood up and started to poke the man in front of him.

Lance raised his hands, "Oh yeah, that might have happened."

"Excuse me, might, it might have happened?"

Finally, Lance grabbed Keith's hands, "Hey, it is complicated why don't we head back to the others and I will do my best to explain."

"You better not go anywhere."

Lance chuckled, "Don't worry I won't."

The next room that they came into Kolivan was hanging from the ceiling.

Keith ran over to Kolivan but just as he was going to reach him, the ceiling fell in, and Allura came down. The others quickly followed and when Shiro saw Keith he ran over and started to check him over. They did not notice Lance at first and he wanted to see how long it would take them.

Pidge was the first one to notice.

"Lance?"

Lance walked over and looked down at her, then the others noticed. "Hey Pidgeon, miss me?"

It did not take more than a second and Lance had an armful of crying girl.

"You are an idiot, a big idiot, a huge idiot."

Lance pulled her closer, "Yes I am an idiot."

Suddenly he was surrounded by the rest of the paladins, including Coran. Krolia, Romelle, and Lotor went to go get Kolivan down. They did not let him go until his armor started to poke Pidge in the face. She tried to wriggle out and that gave the hint for the others to let him go.

Allura pulled him back in for another hug, "Next time why don't you just tell me about the danger instead of jumping in front."

Lance smirked and gave a little bow, "But Princess that is my job as a knight and shining armor."

"Yeah Buddy, what is up with the armor."

Lance rubbed the back of his head, "that is kind of a long story, how about I take care of Mullet and the space furry over there first?"

Reluctantly Keith let go of his arm and Lance walked over to where Kolivan was laid down. He took the medallion off of his cloak and held it out. He said something that the others could not understand and it grew into a staff. It was made out of a silver wood with lines of blue that looked like water moving through it. Lance held the staff out over top of Kolivan and started to whisper something, his eyes, the staff, and Kolivan started to glow blue. This lasted for a minute before the glow started to fade from Kolivan and everyone else in the room felt a cool calming feeling wash over them, and they felt rejuvenated. That lasted a few minutes and it faded completely.

"There how does everyone feel?'

Coran was bouncing around the room, "I feel a thousand years younger."

Shiro was smiling softly, "Like I haven't felt in years, thank you."

Allura was also smiling, "Calm, thank you."

"I am glad." Lance was leaning on the staff looking around at everyone, "Alright I will take all questions now."

Everyone stopped and looked at each other.

"How are you not dead?" Keith asked the question on everyone's mind.

Lance sighed and waved his hand; Keith felt the book he had float out of his pocket.

"I can't stay dead, because of this." The Life of Lancelot was floating above his hand before it landed.

"You can't die because of a book?" Pidge asked confused.

Lance shook his head sadly, "No I can't stay dead, I can die. I have died, multiple times."

"What!" Hunk ran up and started to check over Lance.

"Hunk, Hunk, Hunk! I'm fine."

Hunk looked at him and then sat down pulling Lance down next to him. The other also sat down, Keith sat down next to Lance but angled towards him. Pidge sat down right in front of Lance so that she could look at him.

"What does a book have to do with you not staying dead? And how did you use the quintessence?" Allura asked

Lance sighed, "I will start at the beginning. This story starts a long time ago in a town called Meredith, I was born to a family of fishers."

He told them about wanting to be a knight when he grew up. He told them about growing up and learning the ways of the Druids and magic. How he was not allowed to be knight because he was a peasant, but he trained anyways. How he met Merlin and Artie, and finding out Artie was Prince Arthur. The quests that he went on and the fun that he had with the other Knights.

"I had just come back from visiting the Druids and was reporting to the Kings and Queens when we were cursed. I had not realized what had happened really until the first person had found my book, and I had died."

They sat there in silence trying to digest what they had just heard.

"How many times have you died?" Pidge asked not looking at him.

Lance smiled sadly at the younger girl, "you don't want to know Pidgeon."

"Please, we want to." Shiro said thinking about his own time he died.

"Somewhere in the five hundreds, I lost count after a while."

That set everyone off, Hunk was shaking, Pidge had crawled in Lance's lap, Shiro was quiet and stiff. Allura was softly crying and Coran was staring at him. Lance gave them some time to come to terms before he started to calm them down.

"Is there anything else that you want to ask?"

"Why did you come back now?" Shiro asked.

"From what I have figured out it is because of a combination of things. One someone needs to have my book, two they need something from me, and three they need to say my name or a version of my name. Keith had my book, he needed some help, and he called my name, therefore I appear."

"So does that mean that you aren't going to disappear" Pidge asked looking hopefully up at Lance.

"Yeah, Pidgeon that means I am not going to disappear." He said smiling softly down at the girl.

"Why did you never tell us, or me?" Hunk asked looking betrayed, "did you not trust us?"

Lance swung around fast to look at his devastated friends, "of course I trust you, or I would not have left my book with you. However, I have some slight PTSD from telling people about it."

"What do you mean?" Shiro asked hoping the answer wasn't what he thought.

Lance leaned back and looked at his book, his life source. "A long time ago when I was fighting in, I think the first world war, a General managed to get a hold of my book. He was ecstatic when he found out he had a soldier he could control and couldn't die. Most of my deaths were racked up during that war, I think I died over three hundred times. So yeah, it isn't that I don't trust you it is just that I have had some bad experiences; and when we managed to land ourselves in another war." He let them fill in the blanks and by the looks on their faces they figured it out.

"So, were you the only one affected?" Coran asked attempting to change the subject.

Lance shook his head, "Everyone at the round table was, over the years I have seen some of them. None of us have ever been in the same place at the same time. Except, there are four of us here now, Me, Merlin, the King himself and another, hiding."

"We know where two are but who has the third?" Allura asked looking around.

Lance smiled and looked at Krolia, "I believe that you stole it?"

Krolia looked confused, "What do you mean?"

"While you were on a mission did you happen to pick up a package that you just could not seem to ignore.

Krolia nodded and handed him a package and inside was a plain journal. There was nothing special it just looked like a farming journal, he smirked. "I have tried to get rid of it but I never could."

"Clever Witch always one step ahead of everyone, she knew who you were. Come now my Queen, you know it is rude to ignore others." Lance's eyes glowed blue and the book started to change.

Now sitting in his hands was a book covered in a golden-brown cloth with light purple spirals swirling among it. The title was, The Life of Morgana.

Keith was about to go get the other two books when Lance put up a hand, "wait until we get to Earth there is someone there who wishes to see them."

"It is going to be a while before we get to earth, especially on the limited fuel we have." Coran explained looking over at the lions.

Lance smirked again, "I wouldn't worry too much about that, Bob owes me a favor for being on his game show."

Keith gasped, "I knew that was you, why did you say it wasn't?"

Lance shrugged, "I had a few more things to do."

Before anyone could ask any more questions, Lance slammed his staff on the ground and a magic circle spread out. "Alright Bob ready whenever you are."

Then over top of Lance's circle a bigger one opened like a black hole. It looked like a planetary map spreading out forever. Lance turned his staff and a purple and blue light came out engulfing everyone. One moment they were there and the next they were standing in the middle of Garrison headquarters staring at Iverson.

Lance smiled and walked over to the Commander, "Iverson how are you my good man?"

Iverson sighed shook his head and took a swig of his coffee before saying, "I hate knights." And walking back into the Garrison.

Lance nodded his head, "yeah, that seems fair."

Then he turned back to the stunned group who were still sitting on the ground being stared at by other students. They were looking at him and then at where Iverson just went, with a what the quiznack face.

Lance shrugged, "What I have known him sense he was like nine."

Well, there you go, I know it has taken me a little while to write this. But I have some free time now. I hope you like it. Read and review.

This is luminoslight1313 signing out.