Forgotten Blizzard (ON HAITUS)

Lost Path

I promise Keith will appear in the next part!

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"What do you mean he didn't make it?" Hunk questioned the two.

"Just as it sounds..." "The huge gash go.. going across his chest.." Allura stuttered, trying to sound strong.

Hunk stood there, small creature in hand. He had a look saying its not true, tell me it isn't, his mouth slightly open, his brows furrowed.

"What the princess is trying to imply, is that the red paladin received too severe of a wound to make it.."

They all stood there, in silence for who knows how long, until the creature in Hunk's hand chirped?

"What is that Hunk?" Allura asked between slightly foggy eyes. "I'm not sure, but he found me after I left Shiro's hangar" he replied.

"Wait that's not important right now.. where's Shiro?"

As the three looked around in realization, Shiro, was in fact, missing.

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"If only Pidge was here with me, the tracker could be made faster" Hunk claimed, focused on his task.

Hunk proceeded to scramble around the ship to find more devices and scrap that broke off to finish the tracker. He found many smaller parts and wires.

He then went back to his 'workspace' and continued to tinker with his work.

As Allura and Coran peeked over Hunks shoulder in curiosity, he sat up too fast for the two to react.

"Finished!"

Left in shock, the two Alteans examined the new tracker Hunk made.

It was about the size of his hand, with a small screen at the top. A small line was circling around what looked like a map of their location.

He soon turned it on and a small, faint dot appeared.

All three let out a sigh in relief, then towards the direction the dot was blinking, the small creature chirped for hunk.

Looking over in curiosity, Hunk's eyes seemed to glow in joy as the small creature found a thinly carved path leading into the forest.

The path looked rushed.

The three then proceeded to follow the path. "Wait.. that's blood!" hunk noticed, feeling very slightly dizzy at the thought something happened to Shiro.

"We have to find him faster!"

Now rushing and panting heavily. The three took a stop at a questionable intersection.

'Why is there an intersection? What happened?' hunk thought to himself, deep in thought.

"Let's go left, he may have come back around" Coran suggested.

Lucky enough for them, or unluckily enough, they found small traces of more blood. Shiro's blood.

The dot on the tracker reappeared and they practically all started sprinting towards it to find a hazy figure just up ahead.

"Shiro!"

He turned around, shocked to see three familiar presences run up from behind.

Shiro was wondering 'why did they come from over there, I thought..' His thoughts interrupted by Hunk embracing him into the biggest hug.

"Why are you out here, your hurt!?"

"I thought I saw someone I-I knew, then I figured I'd retrace my steps... seems I went the wrong way" Shiro said in disbelief. Then shortly following behind the three. He was shocked when they passed the intersection.

He didn't remember walking the other way the path led too...

Shiro just decided he would retrace this path again later until chirp was heard from Hunk.

"What?"

He looked at Hunk questionably until Hunk turned around with a small creature on his shoulder. Alerted, Shiro pulled out his bayard.

"Wait! He's a friend!" Hunk almost shouted, defending his new friend.

Shiro slowly lowered his bayard, looking at Hunk with eyes saying 'I need answers'.

"He heled us find you when we noticed you were missing from the castle. Then Hunk's words were almost interrupted from a loud screech coming from around the forest.

The sky almost instantaneously turned to a darker color, alerting the two Paladins and Alteans. The screeching sound was heard again, but elsewhere from the first call.

The bushes seemed to stare back at the four around them.

About fourteen pairs of eyes circled around, twitching as another screech could be heard, until..