burning blue (KLANCE)

2. being dead sucks

LPOV

I wish I could tell you that a warm light wrapped around my body and lifted my ghost weightlessly out of my slashed flesh. That perhaps places and faces flashed before my eyes in a whirlwind that had tried to capture my entire life in a blink of a second. Between life and death my heart stuttered. But when it stilled, no such thing ever came. 

Instead, the pain that was pulsing through my limbs became so heavy that it pushed me under in a blanket of darkness. I'm sure the building continued to rain down on me. But as ashes scorched their print on my bloodless cheeks and walls broke down with blows of stone and dust, the last two glowing purple dots that had been ghosting before my eyes, soon became swallowed by the nothingness that had slipped into my brain. 

and then...

Well and then nothing really. 

Death had fallen over me like a slumber. However, it yanked its cold fingers back when electricity shot through my chest and made me shake and convulse with burning muscles. 

"Aaghfh!" 

My head was red from gasping for air. I blinked furiously at the piercing light above me before realizing I was looking up at the sky. The sound of heels digging in the dirt and bullets flying back and forth around me, slowly registered in my brain. I tried to toss around. 

"Stay still!" hissed a voice above me. Snake like eyes, framed in a beige scaled face, hovered in my vision. One cold arm was wrapped around my middle, while the other held their hand above my heart as tiny sparks danced around its clawed fingers. We moved forwards as the creature dragged my limp body like a torn rag doll further over the ground.

One of the Maroi, provided my brain helpfully. The species who are home to this desert like planet and who have been fighting the Galra in the dunes for months before calling for Voltron's help. I tried to dig my chin deeper in my chest to look at the hand.

"don't move, I'm the only thing keeping your heart pumping at the moment," They said in that same cold hissing tone, "Good I found you right on time beneath that debris. You can't restart a heart that hasn't beaten for a long while."

A dark green scarf was wrapped over its head and mouth, and floated like a blurry streak before my eyes. I groaned, my head pounding from the burning sun. There were blisters all over my face and arms, probably from laying in the heat that long. I wanted to ask them what on earth just happened but my mouth was as dry as sandpaper. Their tail swished behind them and made a dragging line through the loose sand. 

"W-where...?" I tried to bring out right when another spark fried through my chest. I made a gurgling sound, my body slightly straining under the electricity before falling flat against the Maroi again. 

"Keep quiet," they warned.

My head lolled to the side. Through the haze of heat and grogginess, I saw the standing remains of the building the Maroi had dug me out of. Figures that had turned into silhouettes against the blazing horizon ran with guns and swords through the maze of half crumbled down walls. A shout bounced through the ruins before an explosion blasted up from the ground, spewing an enormous roar of sand and flames up into the air. Between cries and fire, it rained down torn limbs. My mouth fell open. A wave of warm air filled my lungs. 

Good thing Keith and I aren't sitting there anymore. 

Keith...

Keith!

The ground around the building still shook from the blast which caused an enormous nearby pile of sand to roll over the last remains of stone and life. I watched as my eyes filled themselves with horror as the wave of golden grains buried what once had been the building Keith and I had hid in from an ambush. Like it never had been there in the first place.