Assignments and Hidden Poems
Disclaimer: I do not own Voltron Force
So, this is a short and kind of sweet chapter. It's one of three parts, since the events all occur in close range. This is leading up to the soon relationship between Daniel and Larmina.
Enjoy
2 weeks later
The cadets sat in class, listening to Lance give his speech on important documents and how they were composed.
"Lance, that's a poem, not an important document." James said smartly. The others just rolled their eyes and ignored him. In the last two weeks tensions between the cadets had grown and James didn't seem to care if they talked to him. When I take over, they'll have to listen to me, whether they want to or not. James thought smugly.
"Actually James, if you paid more attention, you'd understand that this poem is very important, because it's a secret message to Allura from her father when he was under attack from the Druel army, when they got bold and attacked Arus. The force was gone on another mission. When the king was captured he wrote a distress call disguised as a poem. Listen: Doom has encroached, the light unseen. The darkest star is falling, the brightest night bring, a blazing light, beautiful, dancing. The home of the hope, the victim of doom, now needing more light, more might, or soon, the hope will be lost; the day will be dark, unless the bright night shows the way to freedom." Lance read.
(A/N) It took me forever to come up with the poem Lance is reading and figure out how to hide meanings. I think I did a good job.
"Ok, so he wrote a sad poem." James said, slouching in his chair.
"No nimrod, look between the lines. 'Doom has encroached' meaning that the planet Doom has invaded. 'Darkest star falling', if my guess is right, the symbol for Doom is a falling, black, star. 'Brightest night bring, a blazing light…' he left out the 'k' to not give away that he was speaking of Voltron and his blazing sword. 'Home of the hope, the victim of doom, now needing more light…' the castle of lions is Voltron's home, and it was under siege and they needed help to win back their home. It's not that hard to figure out." Milani said.
"Correct Milani. I hope everyone else caught onto that too." Lance said, smiling at Milani.
"Kiss up." James grumbled.
"So, you have an assignment due next week. You have to write a poem. It can be any style you choose, but it either has to be about an event or a person, not yourself mind you. Class dismissed." Lance chuckled.
"Hey Larmina." Serenity chirped before exiting.
"Hello." Larmina replied, smiling. Once the cadets had presumably left, James being the only one to actually leave, Larmina crossed the room the Lance.
"What brings you here today lovely duchess Larmina." Lance chuckled.
"Nothing, I'm just bored." Larmina said.
"Alright, what do you really want?" Lance chuckled.
"When we had to do this assignment, you read them aloud, except for Daniel, I'm just curious as to why you didn't read his aloud." Larmina said.
"He asked me not to because he was more shy then, you know that." Lance said.
"Who or what was it about?" Larmina asked.
"I'm not supposed to tell, but if you're curious, the key to the file cabinet in the first drawer on the left hand side of my desk." Lance said before leaving. The cadets all ducked behind the corner, hoping Lance wouldn't come their direction, which he didn't.
Larmina eyed the drawer for a moment and then opened the drawer and snatched the key. Now part of her really felt like she shouldn't do this, but she really wanted to know, it had annoyed her beyond all reason that Lance hadn't read Daniel's poem, she already knew that Vince knew what the poem was about. She opened the file cabinet and found the file and grabbed it. Quickly scanning the paper's she found the poem.
"I don't know why this is bugging me so much. I've been irrational lately, and I really need to stop talking to myself." Larmina mumbled to herself. Larmina pulled the paper out and began to read it.
Fire
Dancing beauty, life
Combat, agile, pure heart, eyes
Like crystals, true love
Larmina read the poem two times over before realizing it was about her. Her jaw went slack and her heart skipped a few beats. Larmina never knew that there were security cameras in the room, or who was watching the whole time.
Cliffy! Yes, it's haiku, the 5-7-5 pattern as most haiku is written, this also took me forever because I had to come up with stuff that described Larmina. The next two parts of this should be up tomorrow, or at least the next chapter. R&R.
