CHAPTER FIVE
Lance looked up at Darkairai, "What have you done with Keith you monster?"
"I told you he is safe and my servant is tending to him," Darkairai answered, "And his soul is safe in a spirit jar."
Lance stood in anger, "You're going to give that body back to my friend right this minute! That body is not yours!"
"I will not do that boy!" Darkairai replied in anger as he aimed more fireballs at Lance, which he dodged each fireball.
Lance used his Voltcom to activate his dual pistols and fired at Darkairai.
"I did not know you had heat as well boy." Darkairai looked at his opponent.
"Yeah," Lance aimed his pistols towards Darkairai, "And you can stop calling me boy!"
Darkairai used Keith's Voltcom to activate the dual swords the Voltron Commander and grinned, "Let's dual."
"You're grinning but not for long."
Lance fired at Darkairai again and knocked the swords from his hands. Darkairai glared at him angrily as Lance fired at him again. Then the evil sorcerer got out the dagger of Pharias, blocking the attack.
"Nice blade," Lance said, "So that's why you went to the magical weapons market?"
Darkairai squeezed the handle of the dagger causing energy to come out of it. Lance dodged the blast before it can hit him.
"Whoa there!" Lance exclaimed, aiming his pistols at the sorcerer, "You sure don't know who you're dealing with…magical dagger or not."
"Attack me again with those blasted guns, and I will zap you in the chest stopping your heart from beating!" Darkairai glared at Lance and they shared that glance for the longest time.
"Lance!" Allura's voice called from the Voltcoms, "We need you in the control room, now!"
"On my way." Lance replied before leaving. Darkairai grinned with pleasure.
"Good," Darkairai declared returning to Keith's voice, "That's what I thought. Now to kill my daughter Kartrina and to destroy this universe."
Darkairai ran out of the area. At the hallways, Daniel, Larmina and Vince noticed him.
"Hey Keith," Daniel greeted happily, "What's up?"
Vince was sensing something unfamiliar with the guy that the three cadets thought was Keith and started to use his Voltcom power to sense his life force. Darkairai gasped and then threw a fireball at Vince, knocking him out unconscious.
"Vince!" Daniel exclaimed as he and Larmina ran to his side. Darkairai ran out of the castle in a bolt.
"I didn't know Keith could do that." Larmina said aloud.
"That couldn't be Keith." Daniel replied, "He seemed weird."
"We better head to the control room."
"What about Vince?"
"He's out cold. He'll have to sit out till he comes to."
Daniel and Larmina hurried to the control room where they met up with Lance, Allura, Hunk, Kite and Coran.
"What's going on here?" Daniel asked.
"Keith's possessed by some body hijacking sorcerer." Lance answered.
"You mean Darkairai." Allura said.
"Yeah. Wait a second. How did you know?"
"It's a long story," Allura looked at Daniel and Larmina, "Where's Vince?"
"Well the Darkairai you speak of knocked him out unconscious." Daniel answered.
"Like Vince was on to something." Larmina added.
"Great so Keith's possessed, Vince is out cold and Pidge is AWOL!" Lance exclaimed.
"Pidge's not AWOL," Hunk replied, "He and Tammy went to see Tammy's mother.
"Who is this Darkairai anyways? He seems evil and creepy." Daniel asked.
"He is evil," Allura answered, "He was an evil sorcerer that once tried to destroy this universe long ago by a deadly storm."
"And he almost killed me with a magical dagger!" Lance blurted out.
"The Dagger of Pharias!" Allura exclaimed, "He'll probably use that dagger to kill his daughter Kartrina. I was told that if used in the wrong hands the dagger can be used for evil."
"Darkairai must be stopped before the universal apocalypse begins!" Coran declared.
"But we're still two lion pilots short." Kite replied.
Daniel cleared his throat, "That's where us cadets come in!"
"Right, but I'm in charge!" Lance ordered, "Daniel, you have Black! Larmina you have Green! Kite, hop on with Hunk!"
Daniel went into the black lion. Lance went into Red Lion. Larmina got into green lion. Allura went into blue lion. Kite and Hunk went into yellow lion and the five lions blasted off.
Darkairai arrived at the cottages where he heard beautiful music playing.
"She's in that cottage," said Darkairai pointing at the second cottage to the left, "Excellent! Soon my plan will go as I have planned and this body will be mine forever as well as this universe!"
Kartrina was strumming her beautiful golden harp, trying to calm this storm on Arus. Darkairai walked into the cottage as she was playing the harp.
"Greetings." Kartrina smiled as she looked at the man in black.
"Your music is rather lovely and so are you." Darkairai said to her.
"Thank you."
"I had no idea that my daughter would have such beauty all around her," Darkairai continued, returning to his normal voice, "Or the talent that goes with it."
Kartrina stopped her music and made an unsettling realization as she stood up, "Father? How?"
"I have returned to conquer what is mine." Darkairai replied as he grinned. Keith's blue eyes turned to Darkairai's shade of red and the evil sorcerer continued on, "And it is universe and all that goes with it."
Kartrina formed an orange energy ball and aimed for Darkairai. He dodged and said, "My my, your magic is definitely weak."
"And yours is useless father! My music from my harp will protect me from you and your horrid storm!"
"Do you really think I need magic to kill you my sweet daughter?"
Darkairai got out the magical blade, putting Kartrina by surprise.
"The dagger of Pharias!" Kartrina gasped.
"I've been waiting a thousand years for this!" Darkairai as he threw a fireball at Kartrina. She used her harp as a shield.
"Well, let the games begin!"
At Tammy's cottage, Tammy and Pidge looked in surprise as Maahox glared at them and Patrick held the spirit jar containing Keith's soul.
"That jar has Keith's spirit in it?" Pidge asked.
"Precisely," Maahox answered, "Patrick's master Darkairai, an evil sorcerer, and one of my favorites by the way, didn't have a body of his own so he "borrowed" your commander's body. Interesting choice I'll admit it."
"How ironic that my master would possess the leader of your team Tammy!" Patrick exclaimed, "All part of the deal I made with Maahox to wreck Voltron in exchange of Darkairai being awakened."
"Pidge?" Tammy whimpered looking at the green lion pilot.
"It's okay Tammy," Pidge assured her, "We'll get Keith to safety."
"Pidge?" Pidge and Tammy heard Keith's voice, "Is that you?"
"Keith! Hang on!" Pidge called out, "We'll get you back to your body!"
"I wouldn't get your hopes up commander," Maahox said, "a universal apocalypse is on the way and you'll only be in the way."
Maahox signaled Patrick to throw the jar over the nearby cliff that was close to their cottage. Patrick inched in to a correct spot and threw the jar to that area where the cliff was.
"NO!" Pidge screamed, "KEITH!"
Tammy got on her helmet to her Voltron Suit as she saw the jar only landed close to the cliff's edge as the ongoing rain was now pouring more heavily.
"Find my mother!" Tammy told Pidge before going after the spirit jar. Tammy ran and tripped over a rock, falling over where the jar was. Tammy grabbed the jar and held on to it tightly, "You're okay Keith. I got you."
Tammy gasped as she looked down to see a waterfall a mile straight down the cliff.
"Deal with green boy Maahox," Patrick told Maahox, "I want to deal with Tammy personally."
Maahox was face to face with Pidge as Patrick went to get his revenge on Tammy.
"So we're face to face again." said Pidge.
"Yes we are," Maahox replied, "Except we're not on Balto and your people are not ninja scientist zombies."
"And that reminds me why I have a score to settle with you. You even made my brother Chip one of the zombies!"
Tammy slowly stood up, holding Keith's spirit jar in her hands and found herself face to face with Patrick.
"Well well girl," Patrick smirked, "It looks like you're in a tight situation here."
Tammy found herself being backed up as she was close to fall off the cliff's edge.