I was ones again frozen in a healing pod. I was happy that I at least got to see The King and Coran again before I was thrown into a pod again. Even in sleep i missed them. Uh, I never been this emotional with people before, I wonder if it's a Altura thing making my "womanly hormones" go up and down.

The world was still black,cold and quiet like the last time I had fallen asleep in a pod. The cold still bit at my fingers and toes, making shivers go up my spine as I stud. The only difference from last time was that my eyelids felt lighter like I could actually open them. I stopped for a moment, trying to open my eyes.

My eyelids fluttered for a second before there fully opened. It was almost like it had never opened my eyes do to the darkness that still stained my vision.

The only way you could tell the difference was the bright white sparkles that filled the air of the endless black space surrounding me. My dazed hazel colored eyes moved around the room looking for anything , only finding more open space with nothing insight. I looked down at myself. I was luckily still dressed in my Gray and white paladin suit and armor. Thinking for I moment I wondered, if I could move my eyes mabe I could move the rest of my body as well.

With all the energy I had left in my body in my nume state I tried to wiggle my frozen nume fingers.

The nume feeling mixed with the searing burn of the cold made me wince as my fingers moved up and down. The pain slowly died down only leaving the cold feeling in the joints. I tryed harder to move the rest of my body as I stated to move my toes and feet and slowly my arms and legs. The pain was intense as I got onto my feet and moved a step or two forward making me almost cry out.

The pain was nothing i had ever felt. The feeling of cutting glass filled my feet making me whimper before falling over on my knees.

I closed my eyes out of pain for only a moment and when I opened them my vision was filled with bright light. The bright light faded and only five pools of light covered the floor showing off the five giant metal lions that where there the last time I checked.

The ones quite void was now filled with the sound of booming voices.

"Red this is not the time to be messing with blue, we need to have a talk. I am the leader here

"But she started it, Black!!"

"No you did you over grown red rat!"

"Guys can we all just calm down? Green and me just want to sit down with the Gray Paladin and have a nice conversation with, her?? Black is it a girl?"

"Yes my big friend it is."

"You guys are so clingy."

"Green calm down, she's here."

The Black Lion turned it's head to me making me rear back a bit on the floor. The other lions snapped there attention to me by turning there gaze down to me on the floor. I pushed myself up a little looking back up at them.

This was the first time I meet them in person before.

Even after meeting Gray I never had the time to look and check out the other Lions. I could always keep myself busy with her. She always seemed to find a way to keep me entertained and busy for hours. It was her talent it seemed.

The Lions stud still for a moment before sitting down on the floor, still looking down at me from there hight. The Black Lion, as always seemed to be the leader of the five and was starting the most. He seemed to be unfazed at the panicked look on my face. The Black Lion spoke up saying " Well, aren't you a large female human??" He poked me with one of his paws.

I puffed out my cheeks saying " Hey what's that mean buddy!?" "I don't mean anything by it! I just mean most human females are short and bones right? That's what I see in my report from Earth. You are tall and uh more curved then what we expected."

My eye twitched, what where they looking at! Yes I was tall and a bit cubby around place thanks to the Altean's and there food but hey they didn't need to be looking at me like that. I looked back up at the large lion saying "So anyway, why am I here? I know I'm in a pod right now." The Lions looked at one another and back at me. Slowly but surely they all stud up and walked over to me and started to walk in a circle around me.

Ok not normal, but ok.

Slowly they all found a spot to lay next to me. The yellow lion nudged me with its nose saying " She smells nice.." the Red Lion shifted as it snuggled into my hair saying " She's warm to. " The Blue Lion let it's head rest near my leg letting the tip of its nose rest on my leg, saying "And soft ." The Green Lion wrapped it's tail around me saying "Squishy."

The Black Lion just laughed at his team mates. I found it sweet. I need to know why I was here. Most of the time, in pods you would have no dreams just the cold feeling and not knowing what was having out side the pod. The Lions wanted to talk to me about something and it had to be really interested if they tryed to contact me like this. I looked at the Black Lion saying " You need to talk to me right? I'm all ears."

The Black Lion let out a sigh " You can tell, you know, the original paladins are..gone now right? " I slowly nodded, he was right. The moment I stepped out of that pod before Coran put me in this one, I know Zarkon was attacking. The other paladins had fallen before Alfor did, he was the last one Zarkon was after, he was gone now. I would never see him again. My smile fluttered.

I was alone again.

Alfor was gone, I was the only original Paladin left.

I was next.

What if Gray choose a new Paladin?

I was useless to Voltron now, I could help no one now.

Tears dripped down my cheeks as I said " Did my Lion pick a new Paladin yet?" The Black Lion shook it's head saying " No, no your Lion could never choose a new Paladin when it's paladin is still alive and breathing. Your still alive Grace. Your still needed."

I wiped the tears from my face saying " What do you need of me?" The Lions looked away for a moment saying " You know we have chosen new paladin, unexperienced children. You job is long from over Grace, it's just getting started. We need you to teach them, take care of them, make them happy. You make us happy now all you have to do is help make them happy."

I looked though puffy eye into the empty black space of the room. Happy? How was i going to make them happy?

Mabe just being there would make them happy.

Before I could do anything my eyes closed and a bright light filled my vision. The Black Lion spoke ones more saying " Being happy starts with someone being there for you, no matter what. Look for that moment Grace. Good luck, take care of are paladins when we aren't there ok? Good luck young Gray Paladin! "

The voice cut out as a swipe of wind hit me and I felt myself fall forward.