Starlight~ voltron fan fiction

17: Damage

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4 years later

Everyone had changed. Gidget had more sharper features and longer hair, CIA had the same surprisingly and Tamara was now way more mature. Alex had grown too and he looked more charming.

Tamara has changed the most. She was 17 now and the youngest of the group. She had longer hair that reached just above her thighs with purple tips, more features, she even started growing little fangs. She changed and now was more confident in herself. She didn't talk a lot...but that wasn't by choice. 

She loved the way she turned out but the one she hated the most was her recent addition...

Tamara looked in the mirror and the first thing she saw was the huge nasty purple scar that ran through her right eye and ended just below her cheek bone. It was a reminder of all the torture she endured when she was captured by the Galra....by him.

The scar was so bad that it changed her right eye's color from brown to half brown, half purple. It pained her the first few months but now it wasn't a problem. She had visors that she would wear on missions to hide it anyway. It wasn't the only thing that she got. 

Because of him.....he took away her voice. She couldn't speak anymore. She didn't even know what she sounded like...and the memory was still fresh in her mind...

Flashback

They were on a mission to free prisoners that had just been captured from a local planet. They were done and were heading back to the ships until Tamara was struck with pain in her head. The same pain when she had a vision. Just before she could recover, she was hit in the head with a blaster and was knocked out cold. 

She woke up in a cell wearing prison clothing and had chains on her hands limiting her movement. A figure opens the door and looked at her.

"Well what do we have here...the famous Silent warrior. It's an honor to finally meet you." The figure told her but she kept silent. He bent down to her level and lifted up her chin. She tried biting him but he moved her head.

"Now now..there no need to be feisty...you're gonna do exactly as I say...my flower." He said and she tried to contain her fear and looked at him like she would kill him.

They tried to pry information out of her but she was silent. Even if he tried to be nice to her...she was silent. She didn't want him to hear her voice. If he did then he'll hurt her even more. All the torture she endured was already too much. She didn't need more.

After a month of suffering, she had enough. She was going to escape. The man she was captured by had now gone soft on her and actually looked and acted like he cared for her. He would bring her food on the days she was told to starve, taking her for a walk around the ship to stretch her legs , and even promoted her to his personal servant to make sure the other Galra wouldn't hurt her.  Obviously she knew it was a trick so he could get cozy around her and break her but it wasn't gonna work. She wasn't the gullible little girl she was before.

All those time they would walk, she would chart and plan her escape route, memorize the sentry patterns, and lay out traps for the big day. When she finally decided to escape, she had a full on plan but unfortunately there was a twist. As she was running to the ships she was stopped...by a Galra soldier...named Sendak. Besides him was the man who captured her. She didn't know his name but she knew he was important.

She fought her way through but was sliced on the face by her capturer. Blood masked her face and her vision dimmed. One of them picked her up and she couldn't tell.