The Selkie's song
Chapter 3- Taken
It has been almost 4 weeks since their battle against Zarkon and almost 4 weeks since Shiro had disappeared without trace. Sadly, the members of Blade of Marmora had to leave since the war was not over yet, there still a lot of Galra who were loyal to Zarkon and they follow his ideology. So they were alone to find the lost Black Paladin.
Since then everything started to fall apart. Pidge was working on machines that may help to localize Shiro without any resting, Hunk was cooking different types of recipes; as a way to distract his problems, Coran and Slav were updating the castleship´s systems, Allura was using the castleship radars to get any sign of Shiro.
But the worse was Keith; not only he lost the closest member of team to him, but he was now carrying the burden being their leader until Shiro is found. But he was not doing an excellent work. Keith was too focused on finding Shiro to notice how bad the situation of their team was.
She was not the only one worried about Keith's well being. Red Lion was also worried about her paladin's mental health, she even asked her to talk to him.
Lana finally had the courage enough to talk to him. Walking into the hangar in her male form, she found him inside of Black Lion. Keith was doing this for several days, in hopes to use the Black Lion to find Shiro through their bounds.
"Keith, may I talk to you?" Lana called
Keith tsked in annoyance as he got out from the Black Lion and glaring at Lana. "What you want?"
Lana could see Keith was angry for interrupting his process on Black Lion. She noticed Keith had dark circles under his eyes. The selkie realized the red paladin was getting exhausted like everyone else there.
"Keith, everyone is getting worried about you, even your Lion. Tell me Keith, when was the last time you ate and slept?" she asked, worried
Keith only scoffed in response. He told he was fine and their priority was to find Shiro as soon as possible. Lana frowned at him.
"Keith, you need rest. I know how important for us to find Shiro, but he would not want to see you or any of us damaging our health to find him. "
"How do you know that? If any of us was missing, Shiro would be restless until he finds us again!" he snapped angrily at her.
Without them knowing, Hunk, Pidge, Allura and Coran were watching their discussion on the door way. Hunk asked if it was better if they stop them, Allura told them it was better not since it was getting too personal. Plus, Keith needed to get everything out of his chest.
"Yes he would, but he would not act so reckless like you're doing to yourself!" Lana cried "Shiro would not want to see you like this,restless and exhausted!"
"How do you know what Shiro wanted?! You are just a beast pretending to be human!" he snapped angrily at her .
Then, the room were filled in silent. Keith soon regretted saying it out loud when he saw Lana started at him with blanked expression on her face. Then, she gave him an emotionless smile
"Heh, that what you think of me? A beast?" Keith shivered at the tone of her voice. It was out of her character. "Well Red Paladin, do you know what I am thinking in this moment? You are just a pathetic little omega who are completely lost without without their alpha nearby." Keith and everyone else shivered at the coldness in Lana's voice
Lana started to walk towards to Blue Lion. Keith tried to stop her to apologize but he was throw away against the wall by an invisible force. Lana turned to him with rage in her blue eyes; she was furious. Then, She ordered to him and anyone who were watching them to follow her because right now, she needed some time alone. With that, she left the castle with Blue Lion.
The others went over to Keith to help him to get up. Everyone was confused; what just happened?
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Lana was sobbing inside of Blue lion. She had to return to her female self because she was so disturbed she could not focus on to keep her illusion on.
"Blue please, take me somewhere with water." she sobbed. "I need an ocean…"
Her lion softly growled to her. She knew the right place for Lana to be as herself and giving some peace on her mind.
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Keith was in his room, thinking on the events happened early. He knew he screwed the things up badly; he almost revealed Lana's secret in the front of everyone, or at least he hoped. He never saw such rage in her eyes before, in a way, she looked a wild animal.
Then, Allura came into his room. From her face, Keith knew she was very upset and he was sure it was from his argument with Lana from early.
"What was that? What just happened back there?!" Allura asked, annoyed.
"We just had an argument, that's all." Answered Keith, looking at the other way. Right now he did not want to face Allura. He was already annoyed.
"Argument? It was more like a fight!" Allura snapped. "Keith, Lance already feels bad with everything happening to him and you just made him feel worse!"
Now Keith was confused what did she meant that? Allura just sighed in frustration and she answered before Shiro's disappearance, she knew Lance was feeling depressed. She mentioned she once caught Lance talking to Blue Lion and their talk was very sad.
"He said to Blue Lion he was starting to regretting everything because he felt useless on this team and he should never had left his home. While everyone here has a special talent, Lance felt he was not worth to be in this team and he was afraid we would substitute him for someone else."
Keith was surprised by this revelation. He knew Lana missed the ocean on Earth but he never had imagined she was feeling that depressed to the point to start to regret to be in the Voltron Team. Then, Allura angrily appointed to the door. " Go after him and apologize!"
Keith looked confused "W-wait, what?"
"Did you not hear me?!" She snapped angrily to him " Go after him and apologize to him before I rip your dick and feed it to an akabeko!"
Keith gulped in fear; he had no idea what an akabeko was but he did not want to find out. He soon rushed to Red Lion and flew off to the space. Good news everyone still think Lana was a guy and bad news was that Allura can be very scary when she wanted it. Then, he heard Allura's voice on the radio.
"I already transferred the coordinates of Blue Lion to Red Lion. It's better you apologize to him or else...!" then, the radio turned off.
Keith vowed to never anger Allura ever again.
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One hour later Keith finally arrived to the planet where Blue Lion was. He landed Red Lion beside her. He could see Blue was inside of her barrier, which means Lana was outside of her Lion. He had noticed they were near of a beach. In a way, this planet's beach was similar to the tropical ones from Earth, except the sand was light blue and the sky were pink
Keith started to walk on the beach looking for the missing Blue Paladin. Then, he blinked confused when he spotted on the sand Lana's casual clothes. He blushed on the though she was naked but then it hit him: she must be in her sea lion form. Keith started to look around and he finally spotted Lana, in her sea lion form, lying on a rock in the middle of the sea. Keith could see she was very sad.
"Hey Lana!" Keith called out to get her attention.
The sea lion raised her head and she looked Keith on the shore. She narrowed her eyes angrily at him as she raised one of her flippers. Then, Keith noticed something was blocking the sun. When he looked up, Keith could see it was a huge water bubble. When she waved her flipper down, the water bubble busted and the water fell on him. Keith yelped when the cold water hit him. He had blanked expression on his face but he could swear their lions were laughing at him.
"Ok, I kinda deserved this." he muttered darkly, he did not like to be soaked. "Come on Lana, just come to the shore, I really need to talk to you."
But Lana was showing to be very difficult to Keith. She just stick her tongue at Keith and turned around. She lay her body on the rock, showing her back to him. Keith could feel a vein on his forehead pulsing as he gritted his teeth in anger. Keith took a few deep breaths before he finally cooled his head.
"Look, I want to apologize for what I said early." He finally said. "I was a jerk and a fool. I should not had said all those things to you. The true is I am scare." Lana still did not turned around but that did not matter to Keith, the important was he hoped she was listening to him. " Shiro chose me to lead Voltron but the problem I always had been a lone wolf. I do not know how to lead. It's a kinda of burden I never wanted it. Shiro is the leader of Voltron, he's the one who could keep us together. He is the true alpha, not me. Like you've said before, I am just a little omega who not do anything without my alpha around."
Tears were rolling from his eyes as he finally got everything out from his chest. He still could see Lana not giving any response. She was still showing her back to him. Then, she got off from the rook and dived into the water. Then, she swam to the shore. When her body touched the sands of the shore, she returned to her human self, with only her sea lion skin covering her naked body. She walked towards to Keith with sad eyes.
"You are not the only one who felt lost with Shiro's disappearance." she said, crying "I miss him, I miss my home and I miss my ocean. I always ask to myself why fate had chose me to be a paladin. I mean, look at you guys, each of you have a special gift. What about me? I got nothing useful to this team." she sobbed.
Keith finally could see Lana was depressed and feeling worthless. Keith mentioned that was not true, she had her own talents. He mentioned she was a good sniper, she had a charisma to make everyone warm to her and the most important, she made them laugh, even if the situation was dark.
"I am surprised you could do these water tricks." he mentioned. "How come you did not show these before?"
Lana blinked
"Oh, you mean water bending? All selkies can do this. I did not show this for two reasons; 1- I wanted to keep my selkie secret save and 2- space do not have much source of water."
"Speaking in secrets, Allura and others still think you're a guy. When will you reveal yourself to them?" he asked.
Lana sighted. She wanted to tell her secret to the rest of their team but she was afraid how they would react, especially Hunk and Pigde. She was afraid of their reaction would turn bad. Keith smiled and placed his hand on her shoulder.
"Do not worry, I think they will understand, especially Pidge. I mean, she disguise herself as a boy to enter into the garryson to find out clues about her missing family."
Lana was feeling better now. Maybe entering on the space program was not bad like she had thought before.
"Let's go back?" He asked, smiling " Everyone else must be worried about us."
Lana nodded and smiled to him. She mentioned she would just grab her clothes, so they could leave. When she grabbed her shirt from the sand, a blast passed by her side. She turned around and her eyes widen horrified when she saw the blast had hit Keith, ripping his right arm in the process. She could see in slow motion Keith falling into the sand.
"Keith!" she cried out, horrified.
She rushed towards him and she knelt beside him. Lana could see so much blood around the wound. Keith was gritting his teeth in pain as he placed his hand on his bloody stump
"Come with me." a voice said.
Lana shivered in fear as she turned her head. She could see a Galra soldier pointing his gun at them. His face was hidden behind of a helmet.
"W-What?" she was confused. The Galra wanted her?
Then, he fired again and this time the lazer hit Keith's left leg. This time the lazer was not strong enough to rip Keith's leg but it still made him cry in pain.
In act of despair, Lana puts herself between Keith and the Galra soldier. "Stop!" she cries " I will come with you! But please, let me heal him first!" Lana begs, with tears on her face
The Galra soldier nodded to her but he told her if she tried any trick, he will hit the paladin's heart.
Lana sobbed as she took off her coat and she used to cover Keith's bloody body, not caring if she was naked in the front of a Galra soldier or in the front of Keith. The most important thing was to heal Keith.
"L-Lana, do not … do not do it."" Keith begged, in pain. He grabbed her arm with his left hand.
"Shhh… everything will be ok." she whispered while smiling sadly to him.
Then, her body and the coat started to glow in blue color as she sand. Keith would feel his wounds were healing and his arm was attaching back to his tumb. Then, he heard Lana starting singing.
"You are the ocean's gray waves, destined to seek
Life beyond the shore just out of reach
Yet the waters ever change
flowing like time
The path is yours to climb"
When she stopped, she took off her coat from Keith and she used it to cover herself again. Keith only watched in horror when Lana slowly standed up from the sandy floor and making her way towards the mysterious Galra soldier.
"No No no! Lana stop! I can't lose you too!" Keith cried. He wanted to get up but he was feeling so much pain, it was impossible for him to stand up. All he could do was stretching left his arm as a way to reach to Lana.
Lana could see the Galra soldier raising his hand towards her, Lana only cried as she took his hand. She yelped in surprise when the Galra suddenly pulled him hard towards him and Lana hissed in discomfort when she collided against the Galra's dark hard armor chest.
There was smoke coming from the floor and Lana knew it was Galra's druid magic was making its debut.
Keith saw Lana giving him a small sad smile before muttering 'goodbye' to him. Then they were gone ; both Lana and the Galra soldier were gone in a blink of eye.
Keith could not breath. He could not believe what just happened to them. First he lost Shiro and now he just lost Lana. Sobs were escaping uncontrollably from his mouth.
"LANA!" he cried out before everything became dark to him.
Next Chapter: Lana becomes Lotor's prisoner and something happens to Keith.
I hope you liked this chapter as much as I did. Now what will happen to Lana now she is the Galra's prisoner? And Keith? What will happen to him? You have to wait to see the next chapter!
Yeah. I made Lana singing "Lost in Thoughts, All Alone" from Fire Emblem Fates sang by Azura. I Admit I love the song and I think this song is perfect to be a selkie's song. Chapter 4 will be up as soon I finish it. Remember, do not forget to leave your review. Suggestions are also welcome. See you guys in the next chapter!