Glossary (Names I came up with)

Helos* Years

Advice

The hanger was quiet as Radar walked out. The other lions didn't say anything. Therron had blamed Radar for the deaths of his own paladins, but Sorrel knew they were all to blame. The Green Lion arched his back to stretch and Sorrel flicked his tail mischievously at Lux, who bared his teeth and gave a low growl. Sorrel ignored him walking over to the Black Lion, who was still watching the spot where Radar had left. Sorrel came up alongside Therron and rubbed against him. "Well done, fearless leader."

Therron pushed Sorrel away with his paw, but the small lion wrapped around to his other side. "An excellent plan."

"Sorrel," Lux growled again.

The Green Lion perked up, "What? It's quite impressive how he finds new ways and levels of enraging, Radar. Well done indeed."

Therron growled, swinging his paw at him with claws extended, but Sorrel was prepared and jumped out of reach.

"I'm merely being honest, but what would I know," Sorrel shrugged. He lay down on his back and pretended to ignore them.

"Sorrel, it's not funny," Waverly spoke up.

The Green Lion rolled over to look up at her. " I'm most serious about this. I assure you Wave, but sadly there is nothing I can do."

Waverly hung her head. Sorrel went to her side and wrapped his body around her and with his head turned away from Lux and Therron. He whispered into the Blue Lion's ear, "But I can think of one or two options for you."

"Sorrel, what are you telling her," Lux questioned.

"Nothing that concerns you."

"Stop giving her ideas."

Sorrel snapped around to face Lux. "Or what?" He walked towards Lux saying, "Ideas are just thoughts. It's up to the person to choose to act on them." When he was in front of Lux he stood on his hind-legged to meet him at eye level. "Perhaps you wish I gave you some."

"That's enough, Sorrel. I wish to speak to you in private," Therron said.

Sorrel sat down, puffing his chest and grinning proudly, "Certainly."

Waverly ran out leaving through a gateway, which had the brown and orange glimmer of Radar's plain. Lux was less than willing to leave, but Sorrel raised his paw and shooed him away. The Yellow Lion grumbled, but left through another gateway.

When the two lions were alone, Sorrel didn't press Therron into talking but observed him carefully. He analyzed the twitch of his ears, his claws extending and retracting, softening up the ground, and his black tail, wrapping around his body. Sorrel recognized his movements as the lion version of Therron contemplating. He had spent many long days in Therron's office when he was Altean or in the hangars, which he was often not invited too, where Therron would, at his desk, cross his legs and rub his nails against the arms of his chair or, in the hangar, he would cross his arms and rub his nails against his own arms. The one difference from then, being that he would look at Sorrel directly the whole time. Currently, he remained staring off at the spot where the gateway had closed. Sorrel's behavior and actions weren't to be the subject of scrutiny in this coming discussion.

"What would you suggest I do in this current situation?"

The Green Lion grinned, "Therron, I just want to be clear. Are you asking for my advice?"

"Yes," Therron growled, "Unless you convince me I have made a mistake."

"No, not at all I'm just curious why you chose me instead of Lux, but I approve of your choice without a doubt."

"Lux may be able to support me, but he can't council and advice like you."

Sorrel nodded and grinned again, "Yes, of course."

Therron crouched down almost like he was going to pounce, but his head came to eye level with Sorrel. "Don't let that go to your head."

"Course not," Sorrel said walked away. He flicked his tail, running it along underneath the Black Lion's chin. "However, I will want something in return for my advice.

"And here I thought it was free and my choice to ask on."

"Oh no, that would be ideas. Advice has an active listener. So see there is one requirement for my advice. Are you willing to accept."

"I don't think I have another choice."

"You do, but I wouldn't recommend it."

"Very well. What is the requirement?"

The Green Lion smiled. "The requirement is that no matter what my advice is. You will follow it."

"So I won't have a choice."

"Well you still have the option of not hearing the advice and then you don't have to follow it, but-"

"But you don't recommend that. I agree to your terms, get on with it Sorrel."

"Very well," Sorrel said. He stood up on his hind-legs like he had in front of Lux and came inches from the Black Lions face. "Do nothing." He dropped down and walked away.

"That's your advice."

"Yes and I trust you to follow through."

"How can that-"

"Radar is already on the defensive. He will bring on his own downfall, so long as you don't interfere. You have said your peace and told him you wish to have Keith as the black paladin let him worry about how you will steal him away and the whole time he will be driving his own gap between the others. Heed my advice Therron, do nothing."

"You know Radar he will not let go easily."

"No, but like you said Lux will back you and if you follow through on keeping your word so will I."

"And what of Waverly?"

"That girl will stand at her brother's side no matter what, but three against two is still in our favor and Waverly will be needed to bridge the gap once Kieth becomes the black paladin. By the way, is there any chance you will tell me what really happened to Shiro."

"As I said our connection is severed."

"Yes, but was it before or after he disappeared?"

"He is gone, Sorrel. Leave it at that."

"Very well, but gone doesn't mean he is dead and I can still see in your eyes your holding back." Sorrel grinned turning and opened a gateway to his own plain.

"May I ask you to do me one favor before you leave?" Therron asked.

"You may ask," Sorrel replied.

"End your childish fight with Lux."

Sorrel burst out laughing. The gateway closed and Sorrel turned back towards Therron. "You're right. Childish is exactly what it is, but you don't need to tell me that. Lux is the one who needs to understand."

"Understand what?"

"That I'm not a child!" Sorrel's eyes narrowed and the shield on his back rose. He took a deep breath to calm himself before continuing. "Waverly is the same person they remember because she died before them. That is not the case with me."

"I know that."

"But the others don't. Surprisingly, Waverly is the only one who has noticed and has pulled away, but the other two ignore me because to them I'm still a child who knows nothing. I warned you all that sharing our memories with the paladins was a bad plan, but no one listened. Lux had the nerve to tell me just to do as you three said. Like my opinion didn't matter. I thought this will be a great lesson to learn and I was right. I'm not mad at Lux I understand why he did it, but I have nothing to apologize for. Nor do I expect him to apologize, so long as next time he takes my opinion into consideration. I told you all before that our past has only lead to dividing us and killing paladins. So don't put all the blame on Radar."

"I didn't intend too. It just came out."

"Wow, just stop. Your excuses are becoming worse every tick and it's not going to help get Keith away from Radar."

"What will?"

"I'm not sure yet, I thought it might just be Radar's fear of losing another person, but I think there might be something else between them."

"So what is your plan? To do nothing as well?"

"No Therron, I'm going to leave that up to you. I have already done my part. The next move will fall to Waverly I assume."

"Why her? You said she would be on Radar's side."

"That she will, but I also said she would be the one to bridge the gap between the fractions. I wonder how well she will do right now. Also, the two of us might not be as close, but I'm still the one she goes to after Radar pushes her away."

"She tells you everything that's going on with Radar?"

"She has in the past, but that's no concern of yours. Lux is a different story, he will most likely come to you. If that is the case, tell him to come speak to me and perhaps mention I'm not the person he remembers. Now if there is nothing else. I will be leaving to go plan my next move."

The gateway opened again and the Green Lion walked towards it.

"Sorrel, I trust you. Don't let me down."

Sorrel smiled, he recalled Therron telling him that same thing many years ago. He turned towards him saluting Therron with his paw before disappearing into the gateway.

Sorrel peaked down the long hallway, his mop of green hair, falling across his face. It reached his shoulders and he stood up straight behind the wall and pushed his pilot goggles around his neck up onto his head, like a headband, to keep his hair back. He looked down the empty identical Altean hallway again before jogging down. He stopped at every intersection to check that no one was walking by. Sorrel looked down at his monitor attached to his wrist, which read 40 ticks on the display and dropping. His time was sort and the camera's which he had hacked into would be back on before he even made it down the hallway. He cursed, grabbing hold of the straps to his bag on his back before charging down the hallway to the main hangar.

The doors opened, when the sensor noticed his presence, but the teen didn't slow his run. He used his momentum and slid in through the doors and behind a stack of cargo supplies. He looked out over the containers to see two Alteans checking the new shipment of supplies. Their heads turned towards the open bay doors, but Sorrel was already out of sight.

They returned to their task and Sorrel looked back at his monitor as the timer ran out. Sorrel was already prepared. He programmed the monitor and set the alarms off in the castle. The two Alteans head shot up at the sound of the alarms. They looked back towards the door and noticed Sorrel creeping up into one of the cruisers.

"Stop right there!" One of the Alteans shouted.

Sorrel jumped down and ran out back towards the bay doors. The Alteans followed after and once they were gone the real Sorrel stood up from behind the cargo and raced towards the cruiser that his program clone had tried to take. He threw his bag in and strapped himself into the seat. He turned the cruiser on and pulled his goggles over his eyes. He had been planning on this for weeks now and could see his freedom. He slowly pulled the cruiser out of its station and into the center of the hangar.

As the cruiser lined up with the runway the hangar door began to close. Sorrel turned towards his monitor displaying the rear of the cruiser and saw Therron standing trying to catch his breath with his hand over the hangar door.

"No!" Sorrel jumped out of his seat and opened up the cruisers monitor panels. He started fiddling with the wires. He synced the monitor in his arm with the panel and searched for a way to open the hangar doors remotely from the cruiser.

"Sorrel, wait!"

Sorrel ran back to the main controls and activated the cruisers shield. He saw Therron on the monitor, but ignored him, returning to the panel.

"Sorrel, please. Don't do this. Let's talk this out."

"There is nothing to talk about. You can't keep me here."

"I'm sorry about your father."

"No, you're not. You don't care about anyone, but yourself. Everyone is gone. Waverly, Radar, Lux and now my father. There is nothing left to keep me here."

"You can see the others again."

"You don't know that! I always wondered why you never let me into their hangars, but I finally figured it out. They may be active, but there is no evidence that their subconscious still remains. You tried to keep me out so I wouldn't find out the truth, but it didn't work."

"Sorrel, you agreed to this."

"I did and I promised Lux I would trust you, and I plan to keep those promises."

"Then why are you leaving?"

"Because those promises don't have to be meet for another two helos. If I'm going to give up my life to become a stupid machine. I'm at least going to have lived my life first the way I know Radar and Lux wanted me too before I do."

"Then you will return?"

"Yes, not for you, but for Lux and the others. On my sixteenth helos I will return and not a day earlier."

"Then you have made up your mind and I can't stop you."

"You can try, but you know I will just find another way to escape. Sneaking into the hangars isn't the only thing I'm good at."

"Very well."

Sorrel heard the hangar doors open and he stopped fiddling with the panel to look up and sure enough, the doors were opened once again.

"You can go, and I suggest quickly before the guards return."

Sorrel climbed back into the pilot seat. He opened the window to look back on Therron one last time."

Therron stood his arms crossed, watching the cruiser. "Sorrel, I trust you. Don't let me down."

Sorrel grinned, saluting Therron before closing the window and taking off into the sky. He looked back at the Castle of Lions, which had been his prison for over a helos. He looked up at the clear sky and headed towards the outer hemisphere. Before he could make it three cruisers started to tail him. Sorrel swerved to the side trying to figure out a way he could lose them. If he continued into outer space he would be followed and they wouldn't stop until they caught up too him.

Sorrel swerved through the tall city buildings. He lost sight of them for a moment, but as he started his climb upward the cruisers followed. He dove back down into the protection of the buildings but knew there was no escape. His plan had failed. Sorrel cursed Therron for stalling him. He turned back towards the Castle of Lions, deciding it was better to bid his time and come up with a new plan.

As he broke free from the cities protective walls, he saw four gateways from the Teladov simultaneously open behind the Castle of Lions in the sky. A wide grin spread across his face. Therron was helping him escape. Sorrel sped up, pushing the cruiser as fast as it would go into the middle gateway on the right side. The cruiser sailed through and the gate closed right after he was through.

Sorrel slowed the cruiser and breathed. He didn't notice he was holding his breath until that moment. He was free and there was no way for the other cruisers to track him. They would be able to look at the coordinates Therron had used for the gateways, but it would be a guessing game as to which one he took and by that time Sorrel would be well gone.

He couldn't wipe the smile off his face as he approached the nearby planet. Sorrel only trusted Therron because Lux had told him too. Therron had never given him a reason to until now. He planned on honoring his word to return to Altea in two helos, but for the first time, he respected Therron. Sorrel would never tell him, but he knew that he and Therron were more alike than either of them cared to admit and he would repay the favor in time.

Kestle:

Hey, Y'all here is the second chapter. The next chapter will be for Voltron: Origins and is the long-awaited Pidge chapter, which I haven't started yet :) Sorry, but it will be some time.

Please comment and tell me what you think about this series.

I know it's a little slow moving and the opening to the first chapter is a little hard to follow. I'm still debating about changing it, but I'm not sure :/ but let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions I love to hear them.

Thanks again.