(A/N I do not own Voltron legendary defender or the Percy Jackson universe or any of the characters. I do not claim to.
This chapter is told from Keith's and his sister's perspective, because I suck at third person. It starts with his sister Sofia and a perspective change is indicated by this symbol ~~~
Keith is a son of hades as is his sister. This is the only way they are related. Season 7 hasn't happened because I don't like talking about it but the castle of lions isn't destroyed, it is still a thing. Keith is still half galra. Don't ask me how it works.
Sofia thinks of Keith and Nico as her full blooded brothers, they are not. Sofia's mother owned a morgue. Her name is Anaya. She died in the second giant war. This is 21 years after. Sofia was mostly raised by Chiron.
This chapter is mostly flashbacks, I'm sorry if Keith is out of character, this is my first time writing him.)
Chapter 1: I suck at chapter titles
"Hey, stop crying." My voice comes out harsh. The boy with dark purple eyes looks up at me.
"You must not have many friends." He says, his voice hoarse.
"Ding ding ding. Give him a billion dollars and a certificate, astounding observation," I say sarcastically, I mentally scold myself. This poor guy, finds out not only his mom left him but his dad faked his death to leave him as well. Then finds out hey your dad is the god of death and your mom meant nothing to him. Believe me I've been there before, "ok, I'm sorry. I just haven't had many friends that don't banter. I've never had a younger brother. I mean there's neeks, but now he's married to will and living in new Rome, I don't see him so often anymore."
I move over to his bunk and sit on the end. He looks up at me, his eyes dark purple. Sorry I'm just surprised that they're purple, it's a Dionysus thing. I don't feel sure about he doesn't feel human, but he's there. Not a cyclops, so he must be. He didn't know his mom so we can't determine what she was or is. But she must have been special, and Keith -the new camper- must be special. Otherwise hades would have dropped him off at camp 6 years ago. That's what he did to me.
8 years ago was the second giant war, many died, including Anaya. I'm told she was brave, apparently she could see through the mist and when an Aeternae (unicorn of death from India) broke through the wall of her house she stabbed it with a dagger my dad gave her before he left.
He came back a few hours later to see my mother dead on the floor a dagger in her hand, a hole in her stomach and a 1 year old crying baby. He picked me up and took me to camp and 8 years and 3 more deaths later, here I am.
2 of the prophetic 7 are dead. Jason had a fatal run in with a Roman emperor 7 years ago and 2 years ago piper got killed on a mission. She never got over Jason, I remember her crying every night and she did everything she could to make sure every demigod in the world was safe and never had to suffer like anyone that died in the Titan, giant and emperor wars. I remember her telling me that only after he died did she realise how much she loved Jason.
She was like my big sister, we were both brown (my mother was Indian) and she made me her first project. So basically I was raised by a 16 year old and Chiron. Chiron was more like my mentor than a parent but he was caring like he was to all other campers. Mr D was still rude as, but... you can't expect him to change.
When piper died I was devastated, I started missing meals, I practiced so hard I- I became under weight I was so near death, they had to force feed me. I still resisted, I had no reason to live and you could see it on me. I became suicidal. My dad even made a special visit, everyone was so worried about this ickle wickle seven year old. I'm nine now.
"Can you stay with me...? I just- I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be so rude I just have issues letting my walls down, you know because my mom left me, I have trust issues." Right then he burst into tears.
"Okay, stop crying. Never cry when talking about that again, whoever your mom was, she probably doesn't deserve your tears."
"THAT'S EASY FOR YOU TO SAY! I BET YOU GREW UP ALL COSY WITH A MOM WHO LOVES YOU AND TUCKS YOU IN EVERY NIGHT WITH A KISS ON THE FOREHEAD! WHO MAKES YOU COOKIES, READS BOOKS WITH YOU AND EVERYTHING ELSE A MOM DOES!"
I open my mouth. Then tears come streaming down my face because thinking of piper got me a little worked up, but... all this stuff piper did with me. Tears come falls down on my face like ketchup comes out of a bottle (terrible metaphor i know ,IM NOT A FREAKING CHILD OF ATHENA!)
"Keith," I look up to see the one and only Nico Di Angelo in the doorway of the hades cabin, "NEVER talk about her mother again."
"Neeks, it's fine."
"No it isn't! I knew Anaya, she was an amazing person, Sofia. And you're all that's left of her. I am not allowing anyone to talk about her or you like that."
" Its fine neeks, it's his first day and he has mom issues as well. He's our brother. Us underworld kids have to stick together. Even though at least three of our mothers live there."
"The only reason you aren't dead yet is because of that." Nico looks at Keith who is crying under the blankets.
"DI ANGELO SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH BEFORE I FUCKING STAB YOU."
"Alright who fucking taught her to swear." We both laugh. It was what Percy said after I swore in front of him.
I look at Keith, "don't ever say fuck, fucking or anything with the consecutive letters f-u-c-k in front of Chiron, the horse guy. Ok, I thought he was gonna fucking murder Percy."
That got a genuine laugh from him.
"Look, umm Keith I'm sorry i death threatened you, it's just she was so fucking brave. I don't have good person skills. I'm sorry."
"I'm fucking sorry too, I was being a little shit. I was just so fucking pissed." Keith says cussing worse than a sailor. We all laugh, I really like this kid.
~~~Keith~~~
"Come on bauna, hit me." I hate that stupid nickname! She won't even tell me what it means.
I lunge at her with my sword. She just dodged it, effortlessly. She didn't even have a weapon, she had to exercise her powers as a child of Hades.
I grit my teeth, she was always besting me, she was always the better one out of us. I couldn't argue with that though she was too likeable to hate.
"HA!" She jumped on me from behind and wrestled me to the ground, she pinned my arms behind my back and pins my shoulders down with her legs. I struggle but she's got me pinned.
"Ok." I kick the ground, the signal to stop training. She gets off me in a black widow type style. She could be an assassin if she wanted to.
She hugs me her arms tight around my neck. Oh wait, she's a big softie. Apparently her mother was too. We never knew our mothers, mine left me. I had some walls up, she had none, she welcomed people into her life easily after she made sure they were trustworthy. We picked up our water bottles and sat on the benches spectating the training arena.
"So uhh, how's shiro?" She asked.
"Dead." I replied.
"Oh, that's nice. How?"
"Crash on the Kerberos mission."
"I call bull."
"Yep so does Katie, but I haven't heard from her in a while."
"So are you gonna go back or...?"
"Maybe, there were some-"
"Cute guys?"
"WHAT NO!"
"How's Adam doing?"
"Oh, he's devastated but they kinda broke up befor-"
"THEY WHAT!?"
"And there it is."
"The only reason I didn't chat up Adam is because I'm -like- 100% sure they're made for each other."
"Yep. That's what- I thought that too."
"What happened?"
"Adam got annoyed at Shiro for signing up for the Kerberos mission. I think he tried to convince him to not go because he said if he went don't expect him to be there waiting."
"... That sucks."
"I know. Shiro was determined though. I never thought he would die on a mission. Katie is Matt's sister and captain holt's daughter, she says it's a coverup."
"What do you say?"
I look at her, she's put her long, curly, dark brown hair up in a ponytail. Her face is a square face shape, her eyes were a deep brown and if you looked you could see flecks of black and gold in them, her mouth is in a grimace, her black training top is stuck to her with sweat, she's not wearing cargo pants as she normally does, she's wearing green leggings, her skin is a dark bronze.
"I dunno... it's fishy, but I have no idea on what could have happened."
"Maybe they were abducted by aliens. And they've kidnapped captain holt to design weapons for their universe conquering. Shiro is a gladiator in their arena to save Matt from dying. But the aliens ripped his arm off in there and they've replaced it with some sort of robot arm."
"That was oddly specific."
"Confession time? I saw it in a dream. And you know the whole demigod dreams package deal. But maybe it was just a regular dream."
"Yeah maybe..."
~~~Sofia~~~
"Hey Sof, Chiron's looking for ya!" Noah shouts at me. I get up and glare at the son of Poseidon, he'd be cute if he weren't such an idiot. He arrived at camp 2 years ago just a few months before Keith left to try and figure out what happened to Shiro.
"Yeah ok I'm coming."
"So uh- whaddya say about a date next Friday?" That makes me stop in my tracks. A date? I've only been out of camp once in my life, to visit Keith a few months before the Kerberos mission but that was a two-day trip. But you're allowed to for: bonding, quests and ,well if you're not a year rounder like me, when summer ends.
"Ok meet me by the beach next to cabin 3 next Friday 5pm!" He says running off. I shake my head, run to the big house. I walk through the door, Chiron looks at me, then looks away.
"What happened?" I ask scared, this is giving me déjà vu. It was like this when piper died, "What's going on?"
"Sofia, we hadn't gotten any iris messages in a month so we decided to look on the news to see-"
"What happened? ... WHAT HAPPENED?"
"There was an explosion, four kids are dead. Pidge gunderson, hunk garret,-"
"No-"
"Lance McClain and Keith I'm very sor-"
"No, no no no. NO NO! No no. This isn't- this is just a mistake."
"Sofia-"
"NO NO NO. HE'S NOT- HE'S NOT DEAD!"
"Sofia please, we need to accept this."
"He's not- he's not dead." My voice is pleading.
"Sofia, I know what it was like when piper died. But you can't do that again, you owe it to the people you love. I can't see you like that again."
"I won't, he's alive Chiron. I can't feel him like I felt piper. He is not in the underworld, if you say it's a month ago he died. My dad would have told me. He would have, wouldn't he?"
"I'm sorry Sofia. I don't know, he is a god but he's different. He is the one most involved with his kids. We can't say for sure." Chiron apologises over and over again. I don't hear it. He's not dead, he's not dead, he's NOT DEAD. Is he?
~~~Keith~~~
"Hey Keith!" I turn around at Lance's voice.
"What is it now?"
"Well there's a planet that is getting attacked by Sendak and that's kinda important-"
"WHAT? Lance why didn't you say earlier." He mumbled something about he doesn't want to face hunk right now. WHO CARES? Selfish, he is so selfish! I get into black and we fly down to the planet where a single fleet is attacking a city. Something feels familiar, I can't place it, it kinda feels like a warm smile from my mom.
After all this time I finally found my mom. It feels great! I finally found someone who loves me, apart from Sofia and Nico. My stomach twists at the mention of them, I love them with all my heart. I felt terrible leaving them behind. Then when pidge was going to leave to go find Matt I felt that I- should also care about my family that much. I felt terrible realising that if Sofia were in my position she would not stop until she found me.
Then I got thinking about what she'd be doing on earth, I was scared that she'd kill herself overworking, like when piper died. I felt terrible, I need to know if she's ok. When the fight is over I run to my room grabbing a jug of water, I make a rainbow and throw one of my three drachmas into it.
"Oh Iris, goddess of the rainbow please accept my humble offering," I say, "Sofia Patel, camp half blood..."
A woman's voice rings out, "Sorry there's no Sofia Patel at camp half blood. Are you sure you have the right name?"
"Who're you talking to, Keith?" That makes me spin around knife in my hand raised. To see... Lance. I could have sworn that was Sofia's voice, "Is it your girlfriend?"
"What? UM NO!" I'm gay doofus.
"Nuhuh, you seemed pretty upset when she didn't answer."
"She. Is. Not. My. Girlfriend."
"Ok mullet whatever you say."
"Don't call me that."
"Aww what's wrong mullet? Don't you-"
"Just don't."
"Anyway I came to ask what's wrong with you. Because you're acting all mopey since you found your mom."
"Just-" reminded me of my other family but I couldn't tell him that because: one, there was the whole demigod thing and two I don't think I could talk about it without crying. Or think about it apparently, I'm crying now. IM ALWAYS CRYING IN FRONT OF LANCE. He must think I'm some sort of freaking baby.
"Hey, don't cry. Just um there," he awkwardly patted my shoulder. I swear that guy, "We all miss people back home. I just thought you'd never-"
"Paladins come in," Allura's voice comes from the intercom, "We are receiving a distress signal from a nearby solar system. It seems that the galra have found some sort of conscious energy source, and it's fighting back. Come to the bridge immediately." Me and lance both looked up and sprinted to the bridge.
"I need- I don't know- I haven't done- I was looking- I can repay- drained- dying"
"It's just that on repeat. We need to help whoever is sending it, before it is too late." Allura debriefed us.
"Allura can you trace where it's coming from?" Shiro asked.
"Umm, I've tracked it best I could to a planet on the other side of the Galaxy. The teledav is in an unstable condition so it could take an hour max to get there." Pidge affirms.
"Well get there as fast as we can. Someone's dying." I order.
"On it." Coran and pidge say at the same time.
Something about that sets me on edge. Like I knew that we wouldn't get there in at least a day.
~~~Sofia~~~
"I need help. I don't know what's happening. I haven't done anything that I can think of that's wrong. I was looking for my brother. I can relay anyone who helps me with my service, I'm a good fighter. Just drained, I'm dying." I choke into the transmitter from the ship some rebels gave me. It's been about a week since I woke up on a neighbouring planet. If this is how Keith got out here I SWEAR TO all the gods. Keith's alive, he's a resourceful kid, I taught him everything I knew at the time.
I'm not losing another brother. My mom had another kid from a previous marriage. I'm not losing Noah. I look at the silver ring on my left hand. The band is waves and when they crash down there's an aquamarine crystal shard and on the middle there's a pearl surrounded by waves. Noah, I can't let him think I'm dead, I can't. I stare at it, like I have for the past month but this time I'm thinking of the giver instead of the wedding day.
The sky is blood red, but you can't see it because of the GIANT SPACESHIP in the way. I've lost a lot of blood, I can tell because I'm not even phased by this. It's been 2 days this thing has been following me, and it shows.
My brown hair that's half hanging round my face half in a ponytail frames my dirty face. Scars run up my arms around my ripped camp t-shirt and my green cargo pants are covered in holes and debris. My teardrop scar from last year has opened up and is gushing blood through the orange cloth. Beautiful, I look absolutely stunning. Sarcasm, not that I ever look beautiful anyway, might as well look badass.
My imperial gold sword is a meter away and I'm just chilling on the floor. Dying, melting into a puddle of darkness. The annoying thing is: I didn't use any of my powers. They hit me with this beam and it sapped all my energy, quintessence the rebel called it. Heh, the spaceship looks like an iron from here.
It seems to fire at something, a transformer? Robots in disguise. Ha, I laughed at my own joke. OH MY GOD. THE TRANSFORMER JUST SLICED THE FREAKING SPACESHIP IN HALF. AAHHHH ITS GONNA FALL ON ME. I can't say it was my proudest moment, I got up ran around in a circle screaming and fainted.
~~~Keith~~~
"You gotta admit she's kinda hot."
"Lance-" Princess allura sounds annoyed.
"Hey hey, just pointing out the facts you know my heart belongs to you princess."
"Lance she's half dead." Hunk says.
"Not mention married or engaged." Pidge points out the ring on her finger, "Lance you were too late."
"But she's still hot. Even Keith thinks so! And I thought he was gay"
"WHAT?"
"No need to be homophobic, I just never saw you have an interest in girls."
"WHY WOULD I AGREE WITH YOU?"
"Well uhh, you've been staring at her excessively."
"Keith," Krolia puts her hand on my shoulder, "he's right you know."
"Not helping."
"Sorry to interrupt, But who the hell are you guys? Wait!" The girl that was in the healing pod put a hand over her right eye and in a masculine voice she said, "Who the hell are you guys?"
"I like this girl already." Pidge said.
"Thank you for understanding that reference, but seriously," she grabs lance and get him into a head lock a knife against his neck, "who are you? Where am I? Answer or Valdez over here gets it."
"Who you calling Valdez? Is that hot alien for-"
"Shut it or I slit your throat."
Lance gulped. Valdez, he knew that name.
"Leo McShizzle man bad boy supreme? You should know better than to threaten us. We are the legendary defenders of the universe. We also have one from your side so back off." I say drawing my sword, not my bayard, my celestial bronze sword that Percy gave me.
She lets out a sob, drops the knife and throws her hands around me.
"You fucking idiot," she sobs out she smells nice, familiar, "Keith you have no idea how much I fucking missed swearing... and you obviously."
Then Sofia's yanked away from me, krolia's got her in a hold, lance's gun is on her and pidge is holding her bayard what she thinks is menacingly. She cries and cries. Then she starts laughing.
"Keith what did she say to you?"
"Couldn't you hear? It was pretty fucking loud."
"Who fucking taught him that?" Sofia says laughing.
"It was. But it was in a different language, Ancient Greek I think."
"Keith! They need to let go of me."
"Shut it," lance says in a mocking tone, "Valdez"
"No you need-"
"He said shut it." Krolia shouts.
"Ok see ya."
"I'll have you know I am a very highly trained officer?" Krolia opens her empty arms.
"COME BACK!" I shout.
"Aww, you miss me?" Sofia taps my shoulder.
"Of course I did, bitch," I pick her up in a hug. I missed her. She starts talking in rapid Hindi, "A language we can all understand." I put her down. I can see tears in her eyes.
"How dare you use such language to describe me... bauna." She says with a smirk. I groan.
"S, i hate that stupid nickname."
"Wait, wait. HOLD UP. You guys know each other? How? Plus Keith are we forgetting she tried TO KILL ME?"
Sofia looks at me, she mouths the word "mortal" I nod. She picks up her knife.
"Well that would suck considering," she contemplates aloud, then throws the knife with deadly accuracy at lance, it passes through him whilst everyone screamed, "I was bluffing."
The room was silent for a whole 3 seconds, I couldn't control it I started laughing. Then she joined in, everyone's face's were too fucking hilarious.
"I missed you so much," I say, I grab her shoulders, " You have no idea how fucking worried I was. WHAT IF YOU DIED? WHAT IF YOU WENT INTO PIPER DIED MODE? You can NEVER do that again. I tried to I.M. you. You didn't pick up, I was so fucking worried you were dead. I can't lose, I can't lose you. You're like the mom I never had."
"Keith," she says grabbing my shoulders, " When piper died I was five. When you were found, you were seven, you never had a mom, your dad... my dad just dumped me there when I was one. Keith I remember what happened that night my mom died. I was one Keith. Where was I going with this?"
"You didn't go into suicidal mode?"
"Oh I did. They had to call Will's dad, to try and help me. Keith you were dead. You were in an explosion. You were supposed to go out with a bang not with a lame well, bang. I knew you were alive. Plus dad said he didn't get you in his halls."
"Hey, um hi I'm Krolia," Krolia put her hand on Sofia's shoulder, "From what I've heard you've helped my son?"
"Keith..."
"Yes?"
"Tell me this alien's your mom."
"Umm Yeah... is there a problem."
"No... just," she wiped away a tear, "Happy for you that you've found her."
"Ok but can she stay with me?" Pidge asks jumping up and down.
"I mean she's a pretty good warrior as demonstrated and she'd be a great help in the war effort."
"The war is OVER. Lotor is gone," Lance says, "plus we have too many people already. So we don't have any need to ask a defenceless citizen to stay and help because they make nerd references."
"Noah'll be worried about me, but I can't go back to earth. Not while my lil bro is out here fighting aliens."
"Wait, Noah?" I ask, "Noah Cooper? Cabin three kid, absolute dork? That Noah?"
She giggles? "Yep. Now don't get jealous..."
"Why would I be jealous he is so not my type he's too... lancey."
"What? So you're gay? Or bi? Or pan?" Lance splutters.
"Shit, you weren't out? Fuck," sofia apologises, "fuck, I fucked up."
"Sofia," shiro is stood in the doorway, "let's not use that type of language."
"Shit-o?... You're alive! Well...," she gestured to his white hair ripped off arm and scar across his nose, "You look absolutely fabulous darling. What moisturiser do you use?"
"Death." I say, finishing the joke from camp. The time Magnus Chase came over, Percy and Magnus should never ever be in the same room again.
"Ok this is, weird." Lance breathes, I wish he didn't do that sometimes.
"So you," Lance points at Sofia, "know him," points at shiro, "and you're his sister," he points at me, "Are you blood related or is it like shiro and Keith?"
"We umm have the same dad."
"What?" Krolia asks confused.
"My mom died before he knew you."
"Oh, I'm so sorry he never mentioned anything about... you said he dumped you. I don't understand."
"Keith, haven't you told her?"
"Mighta slipped my mind?"
"Oh my god Keith, this is why I am the better child."
"HEY. Obviously Nico is."
"Ok normally I'd be offended but that guy is freakishly good."
"Well apart from-"
"Oh yeah, I DIDNT GO EVIL for like a year. Neeks did. Booyah"
"Ok fine. But what about Bianca?"
"Well she's dead."
"Fair point."
"Course it is. Give me a hat and put me in cabin 5."
"UMM." Lance interrupts
"Interesting, but I'm still confused." Krolia says
"Oh," Sofia looks at Krolia, "he's a demigod. Son of hades."
Sofia is always one for dramatics.