The Selkie´s song
Chapter 4- Awakening
At the Castle of Lions, everybody were looking in concern at Keith who was inside of a healing pod. Red Lion and Blue Lion took Keith back to the castle. Everybody were horrified when they saw their conrade covered in blood and no sign of Lance.
"What could had happened?" Hunk was worried about his missing best friend.
"I don't know." Pidge said, worried as well. " Keith lost a lot of blood. Allura is now in the Blue Lion to see what happened to Lance."
That was when Allura came in the healing room along with Coran. Their faces had a shocked expression. Allura used the hologram screen to show Blue Lion´s security videos. The Voltron team were astonished when they saw Lance turning into a girl and more shocked when they saw the Blue Paladin turning into a sea lion on that tropical planet. They saw Keith in another video and they could see Keith already knew about Lance´s secret. Then, they saw a galra soldier attacking them and forcing Lance to go with him.
"I… I can not believe what I just saw." muttered Hunk, shocked. "W-what kind of creature Lance is?"
"I think I know." said Pidge. Coran, Hunk and Allura turned their attention on the Green Paladin. " I think Lance is a selkie."
"Selkie?" Allura was confused. The world was new to her " What is a selkie?"
Pidge started to explain selkies are magical sea creatures in the form of a seal but they can become human on the land by removing their seal skin. She mentioned she had no idea of selkies had other abilities since she never was interested on folklore legends, but she may have the idea on why Lance never mentioned he was a girl.
"When my brother and I were very young, our grandfather told us a story titled ´The lonely fisherman´. In the story, a lonely fisherman saw a beautiful woman on the shore of a beach. He became even more enchanted by her after he saw her becoming a seal, after she had dressed her seal skin. The fisherman found out she was a selkie and he wanted her to be his wife. One day, the fisherman stole her coat and forced the selkie to become his wife. The selkie even had children with her captor, but one day, through her children's song, she had the localization of her coat. As soon she got her coat back, she returned to the sea and never came back."
Coran, Allura and Hunk were amazed by the story. " Are you saying Lance disguise herself as a man because she was forced to be the wife to someone?" Coran asked to Pidge
Pidge soon shaked her head "What? No, no no! What I mean is in the story, and other stories very similar to this one, supernatural women have this tendency to have their important items stolen by men and being forced to become their wives. Without their item, they can not return home. In the selkies' case, they cannot return to the sea without their coats. I think Lance was afraid some men might steal her coat and forcing her to be their wife. That must be the reason why she disguised herself as a boy."
Hunk muttered that explained a lot on why Lance's room always smell like old sea water, even back on Earth, when they were in the Garrison their room always did smell like sea water. Pidge mentioned she saved Lance and Keith in some water and ice planet and she guessed Keith must had found out Lance's secret from there.
"Now we have to focus on finding Lance as soon as possible." Allura said in a very serious tone in her voice " Who knows what kind of torture she must be suffering."
They all were afraid for their missing friend well being. While they chat for ideas on how to find the Blue Paladin, inside of the healing pod, Keith's skin started to get some purple spots.
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Lana groaned as she opened her eyes. She raised from the bed and she noticed she was wearing a simple white gown. "W-what is this..?" She looked around and she realized she was not in her room but in someone else's room. Then, her eyes widen in horror when she remembered Keith badly hurt and she being forced to go with that galra to save the Red Paladin. Then, she noticed her coat was missing.
" Did you sleep well, Lana?"
She startled and turned around to see the owner of that voice;It was the galra who attacked them, but he was not wearing his helmet. For some strange reason, his face looked familiar to her.
"Who...who are you? And how did you know my name?" she demanded, glaring at him. But in the deep, she was very scared of him.
"You do not recognizing me, do you?" The galra asked, softly "I am not surprise. I think this may help you to remember me."
Then, she saw the color of his skin changing. It was turning into a dark brown color and his eyes were blue eyes. Lana gasped in astonishment as memories of her childhood came into her mind.
"L-Lotor?"
Lotor smiled and he hugged whispered how he had missed her. Lana shivered in fear. She could not believe her childhood friend was a Galra. She lighted pushed him away to look to his face.
"But how? Are you a galra!" she stepped backwards, afraid.
Lotor sighted when he noticed how afraid she was of him. He could not blame her; she fought against galra as soon she turned a paladin of Voltron.
"Half galra, I am part altean too. This is how I can change the color of my skin and eyes. I am used to spy other planets to see if they are worth for the empire's colonization, but my time with you on Earth were the best ones I ever had. After I left, I made sure Earth was out of my father's radar as long as I could."
"Y-Your father..?"
"Zarkon is my father. I am the prince of the Galra Empire."
Lana could not believe what she was listening, her childhood friend was not just a galra but a half altean and Zarkon's son.
Lotor told to Lana to not be worried about being a prisoner of war because she was not. Lana looked confused as Lotor explained they were in his secret sanctuary. None, not even Haggar and Zarkon know about the existence of his sanctuary.
"I would never let my bastard father or that Haggar witch touching you." he touched her face with his right hand, " You are very dear to me. I would destroy anything that cause you any harm. I would even destroy galaxies, galra and even Voltron to keep you save."
"What?" she was shocked
Lotor frowned and started to explain how Voltron was the reason why the war happened, how the empire became corrupted and the very reason why Altean was destroyed. To him, Voltron was the symbol of war and not of peace. Then, he hugged her.
"The only good thing from Voltron was it brought you back to me." Lana shivered. She could fell Lotor was serious. Then, he moved his arms away from her. She could see he was changing back to his galra form. "I have to go now. You're free to explore the sanctuary. If you want to swim, there's a small ocean outside. Your coat is in that chest over there. If you need anything else, ask to Sheik." Then, he kissed in her forehead. " I will back as soon as I can, my selkie." With that, Lotor teleported away leaving Lana alone.
Lana was paralyzed for a few seconds before she finally returned back to the reality. She rushed towards to the chest. When she opened, she sighed in relief , her coat was there. She took her coat and hug it tightly. Tears were rolling down on her face. Her childhood friend was a galra, Zarkon's son and he hurt Keith only to have her. She was so worried about Keith, she was not sure if she was able to heal him enough for their lions to bring him back to the Castle of Lions.
"I need get out here!"
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Keith found himself in a dark void. He was not sure how he got there. Then, he saw Shiro in a certain distance. Keith ran towards to the black paladin.
"Shiro!" Keith cried out. "Wait!"
Before Keith could even touch him, Shiro dissolves in smoke. Keith was standing in the same spot Shiro was a second ago. Then, he saw a floating sea lion swimming away around him. The sea lion had blue eyes and Keith recognized who the sea lion was.
"Lana?"
The blue eyed sea lion looked at him with very sad eyes before swimming away from him. Keith ran after her but a blast came out from nowhere and hitted his right arm, ripping it off. Keith cried out in pain as he fell on his knees , holding the bloody stump with his left hand. Then, he saw the helmeted Galra holding Lana, in her human form, in his arms. Lana was unconscious and only using her coat to over her body.
"You've failed, paladin." the galra said " She is mine now."
The galra started to walk away with Lana in his arms. Keith gritted his teeth and he tried to get up. He would not allow that galra taking Lana. But the pain was so great he had fall into the floor. But when he hit the floor, it become water. Keith could feel his body sinking deep in the waters. Then, a pair of hands grabbed his neck and started to choke him. Keith could see it was himself who was choking him.
"Why did you let her go? It's all your fucking fault we lost them!" his clone cried out in fury. Keith's eyes widen in pure horror when he saw his clone becoming a galra "You're weak! You do not deserve to live! It's all your fucking fault!"
Keith let out a cry of horror.
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Allura, Hunk, Pidge and Coran were startled by Keith's scream. They were running towards to the healing room to see if Keith was ok. When they arrived there, they saw Keith outside of the healing pod but his appearance was now like a galra. Keith kept his now golden eyes fixed on his hands.
" Keith..?" Hunk was the first to break the silent.
"This is my punishment for letting them down?" Keith asked, still looking at his clawed hands. "I let Shiro down and I let Lana down." he closed his hand tightly, so tightly his fingernails were making his hands to bleed. He was so furious at himself and he could not forgive
Then, Allura holds Keith's bleeding hands.
"Keith, we all know what Lance truly is through Blue's lion security videos and what happened to you both. Whatever healing methode Lance used on you, it might had awaken your dormant galra genes." Keith slowly looked at the princess. She had determination printed on her face " We will rescue Lance but first we need you becoming a true leader to Voltron. Shiro chose you for this, and I believe in Shiro did not make a mistake on choosing you."
Keith nodded as he removed the tears off from his face. This time we will not let anyone down if they want to bring Lana back save.
End of Chapter
Next chapter: Lana meets a very odd galra
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