Chapter 6 : A Planet In Need
An alarm blares through the speaker waking everyone up. The Paladins fling themselves out of bed and throw on their armor quickly before running to the bridge, Allura and Coran follow their suit. Aria was a little slower than the rest due to her slightly swollen stomach. She makes it there a little bit later than everyone else.
"Who's in trouble?" She asks resting her hands across her chest.
Everyone looks at her a little shocked as to how she knew someone was in trouble. "Well a planet near by has set off a distress beacon, it's our duty as Paladins to help them. We'll be arriving there shortly."
The Paladins nod and then leave the room, Aria follows suit and heads to the armor room to get her armor on. After a couple of minutes of trying to get it to fit she does the best of what she has and makes makeshift armor. She walks out of the armor room and heads down the hall to find the other Paladins.
The castle of lions lands on the beautiful blue, green and purple planet, the door opens and everyone steps out besides Coran. They are soon greeted by an alien in leaf crown, "Thank you so much for coming! We are in desperate need of help, so many of our soldiers are injured and the Galra are coming back to take our supplies. Please help us!"
"I can help heal their injured." Aria points out and Shiro nods.
"Khaki will escort you to the infirmary. Thank you so much Avatar." The leader says to Aria before she follows Khaki down the small hill.
She follows her to the infirmary and sees there is plenty of water around. Going to the first soldier she bends the water over to her and then gently puts it on the wounds, it soon starts to glow. After the glowing stops the alien sits up and starts to thank her for healing him. She moves around the room healing people's wounds, not stopping once. Once their all healed she sits at one of the cots and rests for a few minutes.
She exits the infirmary and sees a few Galra ships entering the atmosphere. The people of the village were running around yelling and screaming in terror. Using earthbending she bends a dome over the village, protecting them from the raining lasers that flew in their direction. The Paladins race over to her and Shiro quickly asks before anyone else could, "Should you be doing all of this in your current condition?"
"I value all of your concern but I'm fine, I won't over do it okay." She replies giving everyone around her a reassuring smile.
Shiro looks to his fellow Paladins and says, "Alright, we'll get into our lions and defend from the sky and make sure nothing gets inside the dome. If anything does the soldiers along with Aria and Allura will help hold them off."
The Paladins, all but Keith, run to their lions and head out into the air. Keith glances at his lion before he pulls Aria in for a quick kiss telling her to be careful. He takes off running towards his lion and soon joins the others in fighting the air attacks. Guards are positioned at the entrance and exits of the dome while Allura and Aria stay centered in the middle.
"How are you feeling?" Allura asks her as they wait for an attack.
"I feel fine. All except for this little one in here moving around at odd hours." She replies letting out a small laugh.
Glancing at the entrance Aria notices a few Galra soldiers sneaking up on the soldiers. She sends a blast of air knocking them down and then puts a rock over the entrance blocking them out. A few more soldiers scurry in through the exits and get a few shots off, hitting Aria straight in the should, before they're taken down by the soldiers.
Allura quickly rushes to her helps her up. The armor on her shoulders had taken the hit it had just knocked her down. "Are you alright?!"
Getting to her feet she replies, "Yes, it just hit my armor."
Dusting herself off she looks at the soldiers and then she encases their bodies in rock leaving their heads above the ground. The Paladins soon return and race over to where Aria and Allura were standing, Keith was the first one there and was pulling her into a hug.
"Are you okay?!" He asks completely worried for his significant other. "Red started to act up out there."
"I'm okay, my armor just got hit. I'm not hurt." She tells him as the two pull away. Looking back at Red she sees she's on edge, her yellow eyes glowing.
Aria's feet start to move and they don't stop until she gets to the Red Lion. She places a hand on the cold metal and the lion quickly is put at ease. The eyes quit glowing and the lion lets out a small growl. "Oh Red calm down, I'm fine."
Another growl is heard and she says, "Fine I'll come and see you tonight. How about that?"
The lion nods and she heads back over to the group and the Paladins look at her in shock. She opens her mouth to say something but just dismisses it, waving her hand at them. They dismiss it and continue on with conversation. After helping the people with their village Aria removes the dome and they all climb in their lions and heading back to the castle where Coran was patiently waiting with a surprise.
They get their lions into the hangers and then they meet Coran back at the bridge. Allura flies the ship back into space and Coran says to Aria, "I have something I want to show you, Aria."
Coran leads her out of the bridge and down the hallway to the elevator. They head to her old room and when he opens the door tears are brought to her eyes. Looking around the room she sees a nursery, it had a crib and things that babies need. She turns to him and then tackles him into a hug, "Oh my gods, Coran! It's beautiful. I love it. Thank you so much."
"You're welcome Aria. Ever since I found out about your pregnancy I've been coming in here and working on this. Since it's going to be somewhat altean I figured it was the best thing I could do." Coran replies in his normal cheerful tone as he returns the hug.
When they pull away she wipes away her tears and says, "Thank you so much, Coran. It means a lot."
She gives him a quick hug before he leaves to go back to the bridge. Looking around the room a giant smile all over her face. Keith knocks on the wall and she quickly whips around to face him. "Hi, you."
He walks over to her and says, "Hi to you too."
Bending down he places a hand on her stomach and says to the baby inside, "Hi in there. Hope you're not giving your mommy any trouble."
Seconds later a few kicks are felt by Keith's hand, a giant smile forms on his face as he looks up. "Is this what you feel all the time when it moves around in there?"
"Eh...sometimes. Sometimes it kicks a rib or my bladder." She replies answering his question.
His face wrinkles and he goes back to looking at her stomach. He gets back up to her level and looks at all the stuff in the room. "Who even did all of this?"
"Coran did. It's all beautiful." She replies smiling, wrapping her arm around Keith. Since she was shorter she rested her head on his side. He wraps his arm around her and gently places a kiss on her head. Seeing the red of his jacket and see remembers that she was going to talk to Red later.
"Oh my gods, I almost forgot." She grabs Keith's face and stands on her tippy toes placing a kiss to his lips before she heads out of the room, making her way towards Red's hanger.
Once she makes it there she sees Red sitting there. She sits down near her paw and Red leans her head and rests it on floor. The two begin talk for a little while, unbeknownst to her and Red the Paladins were watching the whole thing.
"I don't know where your getting that from but Lance doesn't have a big head." She replies letting out a small chuckle as she does so.
The lions speaks and then she's replying, "Oh my gods why would you even say that…"
Getting up from the floor she says to the Red Lion that's laying on the floor, "You dirty...d-dirty..lion-."
The room around Aria grew fuzzy, and her breathing became erratic. Different colored dots danced in her vision as she sees a group of figures rushing towards her. She quickly steadies herself and her visions soon clears. Her arms were out stretched and flailing around, trying to grab something. Two steady arms grab her and she vaguely hears voice.
"I think I just got up to fast…" She tells everyone after the dizzy spell clears.
Keith slides one arm behind her back and has ahold of one of her hands, "Come on, let's get you to bed. You look exhausted."
"But-. But we were going to have a movie night later." She says in protest as Keith leads her out of Red's hanger, everyone following behind the two.
"Don't worry, Aria. We can have one tomorrow night. You need your rest." Pidge says taking the words right out of Lance's mouth.
She stops protesting and lets Keith take her to her room. Once the door shuts Keith says to her while he attempts to take the armor off, "Lets get this armor off."
She instantly starts to shoo him when it gets caught. She lifts it over her head and then drops it to the ground, then she removed her leg armor. Giving him a small smirk she walks over to the bed and climbs in. Keith rolls his eyes and then soon joins her. "So what was Red saying back there?"
"Oh...you know...nothing much…" She says a little awkwardly, trying to avoid what Red said.
"Alrighty then.." He says as he lays an arm around her stomach. Closing his eyes he falls asleep pretty quickly falling into a screaming nightmare.
A few hours later Aria gets thrown awake by Keith violently thrashing around. Sitting up she tries to console Keith but nothing works. She doesn't notice the Marmora blade in his hand until it was too late, the blade hit her hands when she went up to block it. The first thing she did was quickly get out bed. The next thing she did was get up off the floor and make it to the hallway, moving down to Shiro's room.
She heads inside and yells, "Shiro! Wake up! It's Keith."
Right after she said his name he was up and after she finished talking he was gently pushing passed her and running down the hall to their room. Aria, at this point was shaking. She couldn't help but wonder what he was dreaming about. It must have been a bad nightmare for him to do that. He'd never hurt her on purpose.
After a couple of minutes Shiro comes out of their room and she quickly asks, "Is he okay?"
"Yeah he'll be okay. It was just a really bad dream, I don't think he'll remember hurting you." He wraps an arm around my shoulder and says, "Come on let's clean up your hands."
He leads her back to his room and to his bathroom. He turns on the faucet and gets a washcloth wet with warm water. He starts wipe the blood off and to both of their surprises the wound was completely healed. The two look up and shock covers both of their faces. "D-Did you heal yourself?"
"N-No….but maybe the baby did…" She replies throwing her theory out there.
"Maybe…" He hands her a small towel and she dries her hand. "Just go back to sleep, we'll figure it out."
She nods and heads to Lance's room, even though Shiro said Keith would be okay she didn't want to get hurt again. Lance was always the best bet when she'd have a bad dream or when she couldn't sleep. She always go to him, that was before she had Keith. The door opens and she walks over to the bed and climbs in next to Lance, she smiles as he doesn't even stir. She lays down and closes her eyes, falling fast asleep.
Word Count : 2153
A/N :
Oh my gosh did you guys hear?! Shiro is gay! It's aweaome! I can't wait for season 7. Also I was wanting your guys thoughts on what Aria's baby's gender should be. Leave a review and let me know or just leave me a review on how you think the story's going or if they're is anything you guys want to see!
~ Arixa
