I couldn't care less about my homework at this pointーitslike3am,whattheheckiswrongwithyougetalifeーbut yay, update! Kudos to me for getting off my lazy butt and doing something. Also, just letting you know, I decided that the camp built a bigger infirmary outside of the big house in case you were wondering, so yeah. I don't own anything, btw.
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Coran widened his eyes and twisted his mustache fretfully. Where was Shiro? He just took a headcount of all the paladins and Shiro seemed to be missing. He looked back up at the monitor and Allura's worried face. She was on the verge of tears, blaming herself for this mess.
Coran walked up to her. "No sign of him, eh? He turn up eventually, don't worry." he tried to reassure her. She turned to him, the corner of her eyes tearing up, "Coran, I had to jump that wormhole. The Galra ships were right on top of us. Shiro would understand, right?"
Coran was about to reply before he was interrupted by the hiss of the bridge door opening. The four paladins walked in and slumped in their designated seats. They all pushed themselves looking for Shiro, but no luck.
"Okay," Keith began, "From what we know Shiro was in his lion's hanger, maybe trying to bond with it or something, but both him and the lion are gone. Maybe he took it out for a bit of flying and we accidently left him there when we wormholed."
Allura scowled. "Then that means we left him all on his own to fend off those fleets of Galra ships. We have to go back." The paladins exchanged looks and nodded. Allura walked up to the main control units and the two control pillars rose from the floor. She placed her hands gently on them as the crystal above her glowed with an otherworldly light.
Suddenly, the familiar wormhole gate opened up before them and she led the castle in. It was time to find Shiro.
The black paladin didn't really know what he was expecting but it definitely wasn't what he saw. From the corner of his eye, Shiro could see an archery range and sword fighting arena, but directly in front of him was a magnificent lake with six cabins on either side of the large body of water. There were more cabins being built, though.
As the walked to a rather normal looking house, which to Shiro wasn't normal since he hasn't seen one in about two years, he spotted a rock climbing wall which he assumed had lava pouring down the sides. There was a pavilion and an amphitheater, probably used for the whole camp, based on the size.
As they walked on a lot of the teens would wave to Chiron or Annabeth, but shot a few questioning glances towards Shiro. He decided to ignore them and followed the centaur to the relatively large house with a blue roof.
"Okay, this is the big house, but seeing you're much older than the usual time where the gods claim their children, you're probably not a demigod, you're more like, a special case like Rachel Dare, our oracle" Chiron stated, "You can stay here in the big house here with Mr. D and I. Annabeth do you mind grabbing Leo from his cabin and bringing him here?" Annabeth nodded and ran to one of the cabins by the lake.
"I would like to warn you Shiro that Mr. D, our camp director, is not a very happy person. Just...if he insults you, take it wordlessly. Don't make him mad." Chiron said before leading the black paladin into the house.
Instantly, Shiro could feel another otherworldly energy in the room, it was the kind of feeling he got whenever Allura activated the wormholes and it was powerful. The fireplace had a moving jaguar head, but that honestly didn't surprise him at all. The only thing that confused Shiro were the strange posters on the wall of old music artists and party ponies…? He didn't expect Chiron to have these kind of things hanging on the walls.
He looked behind him and saw Chiron stepping into a metal box of some sort. Then, Shiro's eyes widened when the box took on the shape of a wheelchair and a pair of fake legs, giving him the appearance of a normal person in a wheelchair.
"Wow.." Shiro whispered and Chiron gave him a kindly smile. "It never fails to amaze people I've noticed," Chiron chuckled, "But, I think you know much more than you're letting on. Don't worry, I'm not blaming you for being cautious," he raised his hands in a defeated position, "But if we're to help you, we're going to have to hear the full story." Shiro only nodded.
"Hear what full story? Ah, Chiron, it seems you've brought another one. Hmm, it bit on the older side, though." Shiro whirled around to see a chubby, red faced man wearing a loud tiger-print Hawaiian shirt and purple running shoes. He casually sipped from一was that diet coke? Who drinks diet coke? Shiro wondered.
The chubby man walked past both of them, as if he couldn't care less about their existence, and onto the deck. He motioned for them to follow him and with nothing else to do, they followed.
Just as he sat down at a small table, and Chiron wheeled himself up to it, Annabeth came running back from the lake with a scrawny young boy panting behind her. The boy was smeared with oil stains and kept twitching, as if he took a hit from Pidge's green bayard.
"Ah, Annabeth, Leo! You're right on time,"Chiron said as the red faced man motioned for Shiro to sit as well. Not wanting to offend him in case this was Mr. D, he sat. "Leo, Mr. D, this is Shiro. He's going to need your help soon after he tells us the full story of how he got here." Annabeth raised an eyebrow and pulled up a chair to sit at the table. Leo did the same.
"Here," Mr. D grunted to Chiron as he handed him half of a shuffled deck of cards, "Pinochle. I'm just going to assume you three either don't want to play or you just don't find it important enough to learn the rule in your busy little mortal lives." They were silent for a couple moments until Chiron finally turned to Shiro.
"Okay, now start from the beginning." he told him. Shiro gave him the shorter version of his adventures all the way from finding the blue lion to fighting Zarkon to refinding the paladins again and reclaiming the black lion (I know that's not canon, but I couldn't care less, so shush) to the unexpected attack. He decided to exclude the bitter history between him and the Galra, plus the cyborg arm, that was too stressful to live through again.
"Well, I remember I was in the hangar with my lion and suddenly, I heard Galra ships attacking. I thought the other paladins were going to come out soon enough, so I flew out of the castle. But, Allura decided to wormhole jump as I did that...but, I can't remember anything after that. Just waking up here."
He looked up from his folded hands to see varying expressions of shock on each of their faces, even Mr. D looked a little concerned. "Wait, wait, wait," Leo said holding up his hands, "You're saying that you casually fly through space each day and saved our planet multiple times?"
"Never mind that!" said Annabeth. Whatever hostility was there before, now was replaced with wonder in her eyes, "You use some of the most advanced technology in the universe and met new alien species!? That's..amazing!"
Chiron didn't say anything for a few minutes and they all stared expectantly at him, except Mr. D of course. He stroked his beard and sighed. "Well you said you came from space and I said we could send a signal to your friends, but I wasn't expecting to be sending it into remote system that we've never heard of until now."
Leo rubbed his hands together. "Don't worry I'll make a satellite so strong I can even send a signa一" "HEY, MR. D! CHIRON! WE FOUND SOMETHING COOL!" They turned away from their serious discussion to see a few kids sprinting towards them.
"Percy!" Annabeth shouted to one of the kids as they reached the deck. The boy Shiro assumed was Percy came up to her and gave her a bone-crushing hug. Shiro assumed they were dating. There were two other kids, a blonde boy with crooked glasses and an unnaturally pretty girl at his side who Chiron introduced as Jason and Piper, son of Jupiter/Zeus and daughter of Aphrodite/Venus.
"If you don't mind, we were having an actually intellectual discussion here. Something I never really get around here." Mr. D grumbled. The new arrivals ignored him and instead turned to Shiro.
"Who're you?" Jason asked. Leo jumped in front of Shiro and struck a very Lance-like pose. "Boys, beauty queen, this is the super awesome, intergalactic traveler of space, Shiro! Respect him, otherwise he might change his mind and let aliens destroy the Earth." The kids turned to him with even more confused expressions and Shiro just shrugged. "Ask Chiron," was all he replied with.
"Never mind that," Chiron said, "You needed to show me something?" The kids totally forgot about their previous confusion and brightened up immediately. "We found a big mechanical beast deep in the forest when we went to check up on Festus in Bunker Nine. It probably crashed last night, since it wasn't there before."
Shiro frowned, "Could you tell me what it looked like?" They paused for a moment and thought. "We could tell what it was supposed to look like, but it was definitely a dark color. Either navy blue or black." Shiro turned to Chiron and Chiron nodded back to him.
"Take us to it," he said.
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