Voltron Next Generation

Tenebris

"Shiro, we need answers," I said, keeping my gaze focussed on Kairos in the healing pod in front of me, and Allura in the one next to him. I could see Kaeza hit him with an accusatory glare out of the corner of my eye.

Shiro sighed. "About 1 month ago Allura and Kairos felt an energy, something potent and dark. It was controlling Quintessence, pure raw energy. The force was farther away than we had ever traveled, by a significant margin, exponential. As soon as they felt it, we ran to our lions, only to discover, they were no longer responding, and so, we opened the lions up to find new paladins, because if there's anything in the universe that could handle this, it was Voltron."

"What happened just now, was a surgance of the energy, it's on a level of magic only Altean sorcerors posses, which is why it only affected Kairos and Allura."

"When will they be out?" Py asked. 

"Not long, I'd say about half a Quintent," Coran spoke up from the monitors.

"How long is that?" Kaeza asked. 

"About 9 hours," Pidge said.

"What do we do until then?" Jake asked.

"Eat?" Hunk and Py asked in unison. 

And so we ate.

It was another kind of dinner where everyone was happy, we all tried to ignore the whole, evil energy thing and just bond with each other. Kaeza at one point whispered next to me "Look at how cute Keith and Lance are." She gushed.

"Kaeza they're married," I said with a curious smile.

"I know, but, I don't know, kind of makes me wonder if I'll ever find a wife out here in space."

"Did you have anyone back home on Decaria?" I asked her.

"No, I wish."

"I'm sure you'll find someone, you have a really magnetic personality and I mean, you are a paladin of Voltron."

She flashed me a cheeky grin "Well, did you have anyone on Earth?" 

"No, I didn't really have the opportunity you know?"

"Yeah, but you like boys right?"

"Yeah."

"How about Kairos then? He's pretty cute huh?" she wriggled her eyebrows at me.

I rolled my eyes "Chill out he's our team leader." I quickly made sure no one had heard what Kaeza said, and it looked like no one did except for Lance who winked at me as he talked to Pidge and Hunk about something.

Oh geez.

The meal ended and Shiro let us lose to talk with our mentors and do some training. I was planning to go check on Kairos and Allura first, but Keith and Lance scooped up Kaeza and I, and took us to the training deck. 

They started us on a gladiator fighter, and the most important things I found out where 1, I am not good at fighting, and 2, Kaeza's Bayard is hella sweet. It took the form of a slim and elegant trident and the prongs at the top were made of the same electric kind of thing the edge of my blade is made of. 

It was a while until Jake and Py joined us and all the original paladins went into the monitor room and watched us from there. It was a bit easier to fight off the gladiator with Jake's blaster, and Py's huge blaster canon, they made a great range team, and Kaeza and I were working together well with close combat. We even beat it a few times.

As good as we were feeling as a team, it felt empty without Kairos there. After we did a kind of invisible maze exercise, Shiro set us free for the day, and we only had 1 and a half more hours to go before Kairos and Allura where out of their healing pods.