Lucky Silver Sun
Lucky Monkey

"Lovely."

The pout on Pidge's face was amusing, and the corners of Shiro's mouth couldn't help but twist up. The antics of the younger paladins chased away the darkness, taking delight in their innocent youthfulness that he felt he himself had lost. The black paladin chose not to think much on the matter, preferring the good, positive feeling over the bad, negative one.

The two left the bridge then, heading to the place which held the regular shuttlecraft within the Castle of Lions. It wasn't that long after Pidge admitted utter defeat that a ball of energy crashed into Shiro's back before bouncing off. The black paladin turned, seeing that the youngest paladin had followed after, the look of determination back on her face. "Hold on a second Keith. Did you say you know my brother?"

Shiro watched Keith turn, his entire body tensing up. If the action wouldn't have caused more discomfort for the red paladin, the older teen would have chuckled. "How are you going to handle this situation?" The red paladin handled the situation by looking at Shiro, a look of desperation on his face. Social interaction was far from his strong point. The older teen pushed his lips together and shook his head. "Sorry, but no."

Keith's disappointment squeaked out before he turned to head to the hanger. Shiro watched Pidge's lip curled up, and knew what was coming next. The very small, very limber paladin launched herself at the red paladin, clamoring up his back and nearly knocking the taller teen over. The black paladin continued to feel his mouth twist up in amusement, thinking suddenly that Keith would have made a great, if not highly awkward older brother.

For a minute the dark feelings flickered in, nearly knocking the good feeling from his mind. Keith turned to look over his shoulder. The red paladin let out a huff, before continuing to the hanger. His mouth twisted up in frustration. "Pidge! Get off of me! You can't come!"

"That's not what I want!"

Shiro took a deep breath, watching Keith's mouth continue to twist, but handle the situation awkwardly. The situation became even more awkward as the door opened up to the hanger, revealing the other two paladins. Lance stood with his arms crossing his chest. "Seriously, the way Shiro favors…" The blue paladin looked up with his companion, realizing two others had entered the room. "… Keith isn't fair."

"Hi! Nothing's happening here!" Hunk held up his hands as if to try and hold off some kind of argument.

Lance's blue eyes narrowed. "Keith, why do you have a Pidge monkey on your back."

"Honestly, I'd like to know the answer to that myself." The red paladin leaned over slightly. "Pidge, could you get off my back so that Shiro and I can go after your brother?"

"Hold on!" The blue paladin threw out his arms. "Are you telling me that you two are going without Pidge to go after her brother? In other words, Shiro's playing favorites again!"

"Actually, Keith's still in charge." The black paladin watched the red paladin's eyes drift over to look at him. Keith's dark-blue eyes were wide, his jaw dropped in disbelief. His mouth moved, likely to say Shiro was in fact evil, only for the blue paladin to react.

"You!" Lance pushed at Keith while Pidge still clung on. "What is with you, hogging Shiro like that!"

"Hey! Be careful. You might end up hurting Pidge by doing that."

The blue paladin's nostrils flared before he poked Keith in the chest. "How is this fair? You leaving Pidge out of finding her brother just so you can spend some time with Shiro! That's just wrong! Why can't you know, have Pidge and Hunk go to gather supplies, while you, me and Shiro team up for this mission? Huh?"

Keith crossed his arms, his discomfort regarding Pidge hanging onto his back remaining. His dark-blue eyes blinked, while Shiro's mouth twisted into a smirk, wondering how the red paladin would handle this dilemma. Keith's shoulders shrugged. "Okay."

"That…" Lance's eyes blinked." Wait…

"Yes!" Pidge's arms flew up in the air. "That means…"

Shiro's eyes widened as the green paladin finally managed to knock the red paladin off balance, and he toppled over onto her. The two younger paladins let out a groan, and the black paladin reached down to help them up. "You guys should be more careful."

"It wasn't my idea for Pidge to clamber up my back like a monkey."

"Yeah, well, Pidge is Pidge." The black paladin remembered fondly the time they encountered the sloth-like alien, and how Pidge had clamored up his own back when they both startled at the sudden action. "So you should know better."

The look Keith gave him then was an utter shock, and yet Shiro didn't care. Things were normal, and nobody ended up seriously hurt. The red paladin still had something to say about the incident. "You're evil Shiro! Super, super evil!"

"I know." The smirk spread across the black paladin's face, only to disappear when Shiro saw the glare upon Lance's face. Something was definitely upsetting the other paladin.

"I'm piloting." Lance piped up.

"Oh, no you're not," Keith muttered under his breath, crossing his arms across his chest.

Shiro took a deep breath, wondering if his luck had run out, only for Hunk to pipe up. "Wait, who's going to pilot our shuttlecraft?"

"How about Allura?"

The black paladin's eyes blinked, taking a deep breath. "I don't think Coran…" The four younger paladins glared at him, and he held up his hands, choosing to maintain his luck by not arguing back about how the princess should likely stay with the Castle of Lions. "Okay, okay." Shiro watched as Pidge grabbed onto Hunk's arm, and then the green paladin proceeded to pull the yellow paladin away. "We'd better get going ourselves."

A smirk played across his face, as the black paladin was emotionally glad he was back with the other paladins. Out of the corner of his eye, he caught the look on Lance's face before the blue paladin turned to Keith. His attempt to whisper failed. "Hey, is Shiro feeling alright?'

"What do you mean?" Keith, of course, remained clueless as ever, making the smirk on Shiro's face remain even longer, but also cause his head to turn back.

"I don't know. He just seems…" Lance narrowed his eyes at Shiro as the red paladin began to prepare for the shuttlecraft launch.

"Evil?"

A laugh finally escaped Shiro's mouth even though he'd so far avoided anything that might set Keith off. The red paladin glared, while Lance whistled. The blue paladin shook his head, before pointing a finger at his head and indicated Shiro had lost it. "He's not normally this chipper."

Keith stared at the other teen who was around his own age, confused in regards to why the blue paladin would say that. "No, this is the way Shiro acts when he's in a good mood."

Lance slowly took in what Keith said before his eyes narrowed, and his mouth twisted into a frown. "You know, I'm not talking to you."

The black paladin held back a chuckle. Keith's dark-blue eyes blinked, his head tilting slightly as he tried understanding what his fellow paladin said. "Why not?"

"Shiro likes you more, that's why."

The person in question watched Lance get into the shuttle before turning to Keith. "So, I guess since Lance is coming, we'll have to talk later?"

Keith flinched, before turning to look him in the eye. After a few moments, which seemed longer than they really are, he took a deep breath. "Why?"

"Why not?"

"Because Lance hates it?"

"I could talk to him."

"Shiro, you've…" Keith's mouth snapped shut, refusing to tell the older teen that he was, in the red paladin's opinion, just making things work, thus making Shiro's lucky feeling remained. Finding Matt after all, after a year of being a Galra prisoner was indeed a good thing.