*Welcome one and all to Chapter 6!
*I've been waiting for so long to get this one out and I'm so happy to put it up!
*I want to get this one before Christmas, so I gotta be quick!
*Hopefully I remember where I left off last chapter. And yeah, the last chapter wasn't very good but hey, I was in a rush to getting it out. This one may be a bit shorter, due to me being sick and everything Christmas.
*Anywho, enjoy!
Upstairs, Shiro was sitting beside Keith, trying to calm him down. "Keith, c'mon. We're going to find out where he is. We need you to stay level headed." Shiro said. Keith was listening, but whispering out commands for Lance to come back. Shiro looked over to the others, who were also looking at him and the angry ball of fire.
"Keith, you can't just keep saying commands. It'll hurt him. If too many commands are said, he's going to get hurt. And badly at that." Thace started to say, walking over to Shiro and Keith. Keith looked up, glaring towards Lotor. He then stood up and pushed the Prince against the wall. "Tell me where he is. Now you dick!"
"Keith, please! Show some mercy! I don't know where he is!" Lotor called out, about to give up and tell where he hid Lance. Keith kept his grip on Lotor, not believing a word he said. "You know where he is, I know you do! Stop lying!"
Before Keith could do anything to hurt the Prince, Thace grabbed and pulled him back. "Keith, there's no time to be horsing around. We have to focus on finding Lance." Thace told him, trying to get him to calm down before he did anything else. Keith, growling and glaring at Lotor, calmed down after a minute, Thace then letting him go.
Keith sighed and kept his head down. "Well, I just got him back the other day, I'm not losing him again. Is that clear?" When he said the last part, he looked up to see everyone else nodding. "Okay, we'll split up into two teams. Me, Keith, Lotor and Matthew as group one and Zarkon, Thace, Pidge and Hunk as group two. An even amount. Is that fair?" Shiro suggested. The others nodded in agreement, going into their groups. Thace and Zarkon looked at each other, as did Pidge and Hunk.
"I think one of us should switch with Lotor, since Keith has bad feeling about him." Thace suggested. Shiro looked over to Keith, who was glaring at Lotor. He then nodded. 'Yeah, that sounds good. Thace, would you switch places with Lotor?" Shiro asked, getting a nod from Thace as he and Lotor switched places.
After a while, they all decided on a place of the palace to search. Zarkon, Lotor, Pidge and Hunk agreed to search the rooms and Shiro, Keith, Thace and Matthew decided to search the basement. When they decided on that, Lotor started to look suspicious, but tried not to show it.
When the search began, Shiro's group went to the basement. "Alright Keith, you've given out enough orders for the mark on him to start burning enough for it to hurt his shoulder. Say something." Thace told Keith, who was already about to give out an order. "Lance, I order you to get over here, now."
Right when Keith finished his order, they all heard a scream come from behind one of the doors in the hall. Thace went up to one of the doors and put in a passcode. "Lance is in one for these cells. We know he's down here now, we just need to figure out which one." Thace stated, opening the door he unlocked, then closing it, indicating that he wasn't in that one.
Thace moved to the next one, putting in a separate code into the padlock. "Each one of these doors have a passcode of their own, and only I know them out of the four of us." He then opened the door again, closing it like the other. Shiro stepped up and suggested a solution. "Maybe Keith can keep calling out orders, you know, so Lance can scream and we put our ears up to one of the doors to see if it's coming from one of them."
Thace looked at Keith, he looked to Matthew, then the three of them looked at Shiro. Thace sighed, giving his answer. "That could be risky..we could hurt him by doing that...but, that is the only other option we have. There's no choice, we have to. Keith?" Thace looked to Keith, as did Matthew and Shiro.
Keith looked like he didn't want to hurt his mate, but replied with his answer. "Yeah, you're right..it's our only choice. I'll do it." That said, they each put their ears against a separate door. Keith then gave out orders and commands for lance, hearing him call out, but not at one of the doors they were at.
An hour went by and they finally found the door lance was behind. Thace quickly ran over to the door and put the code in, opening it for the four of them to see Lance chained to the wall. When they saw him, Keith pushed by them and ran up to lance's side. "Lance, are you okay? Lotor hasn't done anything to you, has he?" Keith began to ask questions, obviously as worried as the others were.
The others came in to be with them while Thace stayed at the door incase someone wanted to come through. "...Y-yeah...I'm-I'm just fine…" Lance answered Keith, his voice hinting the pain that the orders caused. Keith looked down, feeling guilty. "Lance, I'm sorry for hurting you. We didn't have any other options." Keith apologize, getting a small laugh from the boy under him.
"It's okay, Keith...you guys did what you did to find me...and I'm glad you did. I don't know and I don't want to know what Lotor was planning to do with me.." Lance said, getting a lough from Shiro, Keith and Matthew. When they had the chains off of his wrists, they made their way out of the basement, upstairs and onto their lions with Pidge and Hunk.
"Don't worry. We'll make sure my son is punished for what he's done today." Zarkon told the team before they left, Lance getting onto Keith's lion, and Shiro carrying Lance's lion with his.
*FREAKING FINALLY!
*Jesus Christ I was so sick and busy with Christmas things!
*Chapter 7 will be out after New Years, I have two Shance fanfics I'm doing, so It'll be a while before these three are updated!
*In the meantime, share these with your friends and give a big like and follow if you enjoy them! I'll really appreciate it, and it'll encourage me to do my best!
*Have an amazing Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or whatever holiday you celebrate this month, I hope you have an amazingly awesome time!