The White Paladin

~Chapter Two~

     A while later. Keith brings us to a small shack in the desert. He talks with, a now awake Shiro, outside, as we all recuperate inside.

    "Hey (Y/N) I know you've got some." Pidge randomly states and the two boys turn towards me.

    I sigh reaching for my bag and toss her a juice box.

    "Do you guys want one?" I ask and they quickly nod their heads.

    I toss one to each and grab one for myself. We all simultaneously slurp the juices then throw out our trash. As we settle down again, Keith and Shiro enter.

    "Hello everyone." Shiro greets and I shyly nod back.

    "I want to thank you all for helping rescue me." Shiro says while shaking everyone's hands.

   When he reaches me I barely make eye contact as I'm staring at the metallic that replaces what used to be an arm. I shake my head, realizing my rudeness, and weakly shake the cold metal.

    "Thank you." He says to me once again and I nod my head with a smile.

    "So Shiro, what happened?" Lance questions and I shoot a glare at him which makes him jump.

   "I'm not sure to be honest. It's all mostly just a blur. I remember being captured by aliens and they wanted a device called Voltron. It must be a weapon of some sort, and we can't let them have it." Shiro answers with a stern expression and Pidge looks towards me and I nod.

   "Do you remember what could have happened to the other crew members?" Pidge questions quickly and he shakes his head.

    "Like I said, most of my memory is a blur. I'm sorry." Shiro responds and Pidge hangs her head.

     "Hey Shiro, this is what I wanted to show you." Keith says while taking a tarp off of a board he had on the wall and everyone turns their attention towards him.

     The board was covered in writing, as well as pictures, coordinates, and what looked like types of frequencies. I look around it pin pointing the words "Blue Lion".

     "What's all this mean?" Lance questions while quizzically looking at the board.

     "After I got expelled I was drawn to this place. I explored around and found this outcropping with strange symbols depicting a story about a blue lion." Keith explains.

    "Hey, some of those words and frequencies match the ones from Pidge's diary. And I also found a picture of him and a girl, but that's less important."

     Pidge and I whip our heads towards Hunk who, yet again, was holding her diary in his hands.

     "Give it back!" Pidge yells while attempting to take it from his long arms.

     "Wait Hunk, what did you say?" I ask as I was about to take it from his outstretched arm.

     "The frequencies in here match the ones on Keith's board." Hunk says and we look from the page to the board examining the lines.

     "What does that mean?" Lance questions as I take the book from his hands and stare at the frequencies that Pidge and I have been working on for the past few weeks.

    Looking back from the book to the board I follow what Hunk was thinking and turn towards him with a smile, which he returns.

    "The frequencies that the aliens were saying look like a Frau Hougher line." I announce and everyone looks to me with astonishment.

    "A what?" Lance questions and Hunk smiles.

    "It's a number describing the emission spectrum of an element, but this element doesn't exist on Earth. It could be this Voltron thing." Hunk describes to us as Pidge still stares at me with astonishment.

   "So I made this machine to test it out and look." Hunk continues after pulling out what looks like a calculator-radio mixture and shows us the screen.

    Looking from the image on the screen to the formations on Keith's board. They were a perfect match.

   "Well I think I know where we're going." I say while pulling my bag over my shoulder and pulling Pidge off the couch and out the door.

     After about an hour trek through the desert we reach a cave which Hunk's machine went crazy as we approached it. We all looked towards each other then made our way inside.

   In the cave were, what seemed like, hieroglyphics. They described, like Keith said, a story of a blue lion. We all looked around in awe at the beauty of it.

    "This is beautiful." I announce while placing my hand on one of the pictures.

     "Not as beautiful as you." Lance says while placing his hand on the wall next to mine with a smirk, and the ground seems to rumble.

     The hieroglyphics begin to glow outwards from his hand and we look around at them in surprise.

    "They never did this before." Keith announces and we stare at him as the ground begins to rumble again.

    Before anyone could say another word, the ground opened up from below us and we were falling straight down. We all screamed as we fell and when we landed it was in a small pool of water.

    Yet I wasn't in water. I was in Lance's lap. I quickly get off of him with a blush and begin to fix myself.

    But I then looked up and find a huge mechanical blue lion, surrounded by a barrier just a few feet in front of me.

      I'm sorry this one is short. Also, I definitely spelt Frau Hougher wrong....oh well! There's more to come so thank you for reading!
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