Right, I know this is super short but I've been on a Kingdom Hearts binge along with trying to work out a plot for an idea in said fandom I've had for a few years now and decided to try out, but I felt bad for leaving this where it was for so long and I need to set up for my next drabble idea anyway so here we go!

Lance was still staring. Keith's fur was still damp even after toweling off best he could, it made him cold and a bit cranky from his blanket cocoon on the common room couch.

"What?"

"You really haven't noticed yet?"

"Noticed what?"

Lance smiles and chuckles softly about to answer when Pidge ambles into the room grumbling to themselves while fiddling with a new gadget in their hands. "-should be working why-Keith what happened to your face?!" The object in their hands dropped to the floor with a clatter.

Keith's response was a low grumble as his ears pulled back, "You've seen me in fur before Pidge.."

"Yeah but since when is it red?"

Keith blinked at that, stunned for a moment before leaping up and scouring for some reflective surface. Making it over to the window a few button taps darkened the tint until he could faintly see himself.

Indeed, he was still Galra purple but now there were red markings flowing across his cheeks and forehead, some highlights in his hair and lines starting to creep down his neck and shoulders where it hadn't earlier. Oddly they reminded him of tiger stripes.

"What the crap…" Keith gawks. He felt a warm presence, a purring in his mind and what he would fail to describe as anything other than the ghost of a large warm tongue grooming his fur, red appearing wherever it did.

Not in so much a voice per say but with feelings and images. Red softly chastised her Pilotcub on letting himself stay in such a miserable state when he should learn how to properly take care of this fur. Red is the guardian of fire after all and Pilotcub should stay warm and dry and not sulk in the cold. When suddenly the markings faded away before they grew anymore, leaving plain purple.

Keith stood there shocked to silence, if he had any skin showing it would be red out of embarrassment.

Pidge ambles softly up behind him, "Keith? What happened? You ok?"

The taller teen startled slightly at their voice floundering for an answer while Lance giggles in the backround. "She marked you! She did! But it had to take a bath to do it!"

"What are you talking about?!"

It took a few tries for Lance to answer through his laughter. "Keith first off, think. How do cats take baths? Not in a pool that's for sure."

Keith groans softly hiding his face in his hands, that much he had figured out, though how exactly it worked that now his fur was dry and warm again while Red was still physically in her hanger wasn't as important as the fact that his lion had just gave him a tongue bath!

"Yes I get it.. What do you mean by marked?"

Lance was still grinning like an idiot, Pidge put the pieces together and was barely holding back both their cackles and burning new questions.

"The color just now, Red has officially marked you as hers. If it's anything like Blue explained to me about mine the color might come back when you are being particularly Paladiny."

"Wait, you change color now too?" Pidge snapped their head to him.

Lance shrugs, "It's not nearly as noticeable, maybe it's the fur or something, but I got these lines around my face and eyes when I was swimming earlier."

"I'd kinda like to see that-wait swimming?"

Lance grins again, looking much livelier than he had the day before maybe it really did help.

Ok a little explanation here, part of why I wanted to turn Lance part cat instead of just Keith is the whole soul bond with a magic lion thing. But I found some interesting fan art on tumblr by Polarspaz about Lance actually being descended from Thundarians (Thundercats) and his long dormant genes of such becoming active. Too many cute cat things to play with! The reason why they have the marks they do is because Polarspaz convinced me that Lance is pretty fitting as a cougar, but Keith seems more like a tiger to me. Yes they are still mainly lion based in general due to their being Voltron and all, but hey its all one big cat family I can play with it if I want! X3