Finding Zona (A Voltron OC Fanfic) [IN EDITING]

Chapter 5

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"So you need me as bait? That sounds dangerous," I squeal in excitement, "I'm in!"

"Jeez," Zoey mutters, "your like a child.." Shut up, parasite.

After calmly trying to explain the basics of my abilities and them telling me how my father was being held hostage, Keith explains that they need me to act as a decoy while they free him. While explaining things we manage to meet up with Dex who goes all fatherly on me. He's always done it even when I was a kid. You can say it's because he's a castle guard, but that's an understatement. To me, Dex isn't just a guard, he's like a father and his wife Audrey isn't just a nurse, she's like a mom.

"You are way too excited about this," Keith says with a serious tone. I glare at him and cross my arms.

"Well yeah I'm excited," I respond and stare back at Dex who was watching me like a hawk. "I never get to do anything like this. I've never had a reason too."

"Zona, you've never used your abilities against anyone other than me," Dex says, crossing his arms.

"Dex, I'm not five," I mumble, "I'm sixteen... not a kid. I can handle myself. I got Lance out of the agwo vines and lead those two back."

Dex sighs and shakes his head, "just be careful. I don't want to be responsible for you getting hurt."

I sigh and hug Dex. He jumps a bit before returning the hug. "I'm always careful, Dex."

"Aww that's adorable-" Lance begins to say but gets interrupted by Keith elbowing him.

After getting teased by Lance, we finally start to make our move. Instead of going in together, we ended up being split apart. I ended up with Keith and with my help, we managed to sneak back into the castle. There were a few times when I had to use my shapeshifting. Not going to lie, it was pretty badass. I went from my current form to a Galra soldier, to several different animals, and Keith.

Finally, we reach the throne room where my dad was being held captive. We stand there peaking in and glance at one another. My eyes catch glimpse of my dad's. I take a deep breath and focus on his heartbeat.

"Dad, it's me... is your okay?" I stare at him and focus on sharing my heart rhythm. My dad spots me and blinks like he doesn't know who I am. I glance at Keith and shift into a mouse. I hope onto his shoulder and stay there.

"Keith I have an idea," I whisper.

He blinks and looks down at me, responding, "what is it, princess?"

"So umm... I'm what you call a master shifter. I can use a difficult form of shapeshifting to mimic others' heartbeat," I start to explain, "anyways, if you can knock one out, I can shift into them and mimic their heartbeat so nobody knows it's me."

"With all due respect, princess," Keith whispers as I shift back into my normal form, "I can't let you put yourself in harm's way."

"I know what I'm doing," I protest and take a step back. I trip over my foot, falling into the room. The centuries guarding my father see me and rush to my side. Before they could touch me, I shift into a mouse only to get caught by a galra with a dark purple scar over their eye.

"So the one we've been looking for has been here right under our noses this whole time," They snicker and smirk, squishing my tiny body. I squeal and try to wiggle out of their grasp, forgetting that I could shift into something smaller to escape them.