godless star

Rebirth

Those demented white walls, the smell of heavy cleaning supplies burning through Lances nose. A door to his right opened abruptly, the plaque beside the door read 261.

The room he needed. A doctor and nurse walked out of the room, the first one in a white lab coat carrying a clipboard and aggressively marking things on the paper muttering to herself. She side stepped Lance not paying him any mind. The second one, a man in a nice purple uniform said his goodbyes to the patient asking if said patient needed anything. The patient didn't. The nurse glanced at Lance and smiled.

"You're Lance right?" He nodded, "don't worry your dad is going to make a full recovery! Right now he just needs rest!"

Lance nodded and walked into the room. The nurse was standing in the doorway looking at a chart and filling a check list. The nurse once again turned to Lance this time he crouched down to Lances level.

"The cafeteria is serving pudding and Arroz con lech, do you want to get some for your dad and yourself?" The nurse grabbed a card from a side table next to the door "this is the card for patients to get free food, it's just so we can keep track of what food goes to which rooms". When the card was given to Lance and idea formed in his head. Nodding to both the nurse and his papa, Lance left the room.

Lance only had to ask for directions once! That was better than getting lost like the time they were visiting Abuelo.

Once in the cafeteria Lance found the line for food and waited for his turn. When Lance got the food and headed to find his papas room a lady with flowers came up to him. She didn't say anything to him just handed him a bouquet, patted his head and walked away.

Lance was very confused.

Seeing the plaque with room number 261 he entered the room. Looking around he didn't se the nurse, turning to his papa, lance stoped in his tracks.

There was the beeping of the machine next to his papa but something was wrong.

The beeping was off.

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The beeping was very off.

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The beeping got very loud and very long.

This happens in movies when a character dies. Something is very wrong. No one was coming. Why is no one here? He can't leave. Papa can't die. Papa won't die.

Lance climbed up onto the bed, trembling hands grabbing and shaking his papa, nothing happened.

Lance started to cry, his sobs turned to wails as he tried to wake up his papa. Nothing worked. Lance's breathing picked up. His heart rate spiked.

The flowers next to the bed started to wilt, slowly. In tandem with Lances heart rate, the decay speed up.

Lance remembers how on tv they press on the person's chest and they come back. They called it CBR or something, Lance started whatever it's called pressing on his chest and prayed that his papa would come back.

His hand glowed green, unbeknownst to Lance.

Papa took a large and deep breath, sitting up and coughing. A commotion was right by the door and three doctors rushed in, none of them being his papas doctor from earlier.

The next few hours were wiped from Lance's brain, hazy fog from exhaustion and pain kept him asleep.

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Haggar entered the room, a look of surprise graced her features. Whatever concerned or surprised Haggar would be something that she would tell Lance at some point. Whenever the topic of conversation outside of what Haggar called "his temple" was about Lace she told him, like a loyal spy.

"The picking of priests will have to be latter sadly, so many young we're looking forward to learn from you," She paused, "the counselors would like to meet you, they do not believe in your power, they wish to undermine you, my deity" taking a deep breath as if getting ready to deliver bad news she continued.

"The emperor would like to meet you, his name is Zarkon."

The news isn't bad it's catastrophic.

Lances breathing became labored but was quiet as Zarkon entered the room

"My god

Zarkon is here

My deity

Why is it here

My divine

Why is it speaking

I pledge myself

Keithkeithkeith

and my empire to you.

what are you doing

I will conquer systems in you name, your honor.

why are we not forming Voltron

my being

you can't fight him on your own

my blood

Imnotthereimnotthereimnotthere

my soul

What

is yours to command."

Oh

Zarkons voice was filled with reverence, complete awe, worship. He's kneeling to Lance.

Oh .

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The meeting with the council had started and they did seem to care about him all that much. They look at him like he is a piece of meat to pick apart. It's unnerving.

Haggar had mentioned that they wouldn't respect him, and despite his own beliefs the galra seem to base their hierarchy off of who is more powerful. Why not scare them.

Stepping towards to the pool of quintessence, Lance stepped into the pool. Sighing out in relief he continued till it was up to his waist, at this point he considered just dunking himself into the water like substance but he had an audience, so he slowly sunk down till he was submerged and laid on the floor of the pool.

Lance reached out to the energy and it answered, manipulating itself to his beck and call.

The raw energy mimicked the look of a temple only contained by the runes on the edge of the pool. Pillars of quintessence reached to the ceiling and steps at the base of the 'temple' sat Lance, quintessence dripping off him like water. Smirk on his face he simply threatened.

"I am your God treat me like it."