Voltron One Shots

Lullaby

Prompt: My prompt is that Lance and the team are on a planet and are trying free the alien prisoners and when all the prisoners are in blue Lance hears a scream so he goes to investigate and he finds a child holding on to his/her dead mom and tried to calm then down by singing.

A/N: This got out of hand and it might be a little bit scatterbrained because I wrote most of it really late last night and I was exhausted lol.

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Something flew over Lance's head, landing only a few feet behind him. He lunged at the man next to him and tackled him to the ground, barely covering him before the object exploded behind him. Lance's ears were ringing as he scrambled to his feet and helped the man up, ushering him toward the blue lion. He double checked the building that he had been clearing to make sure that he had gotten everyone.

"Lance? Where are you?" Shiro's voice crackled over his headset. Lance peeked around the last corner, his blaster in hand before he replied.

"Yeah, I just got the last of the prisoners" he said. "This is a weird place to keep them" he commented. It was an old rundown building.

"I know," Shiro said quietly. "Something doesn't feel right" Lance's stomach sank. Nothing even ended well when someone said that.

"Great, Shiro" he said, throwing his hands up. "Now you've jinxed us! I swear to god if I die I'm going to haunt you"

"You're not going to die" Shiro said flatly. "Just get out of there. Get the prisoners back to the castle so we can transport them from there. I don't like the idea of them all being inside the lions"

"We didn't have any other choice" Lance said as he headed back toward Blue. "There weren't supposed to be this many, there was no way that they were all going to fit in the ship we brought" Shiro sighed.

"I know..." Lance jumped over a rock. He was staying alert, making sure that there was no one around. As he walked, he tried to keep his eyes from lingering on the bodies that were littered around him. Something had gone wrong when they arrived. There were more people than they had anticipated, and there were more guards too. The guards were everywhere, and they had weapons too. Their bombs-like weapons had been raining down since the moment they stepped out of their lions. But it was all over now. The guards had retreated, and they had all the prisoners in the lions. All Lance had to do now was get out.

He was almost to the lion when he heard a something behind him. Lance whipped around, scanning for the source of the noise. His hand was positioned on his bayard at his hip, ready to pull it out at any moment. He let out a breath when he didn't hear anything else. He must've imagined it.

Suddenly a cry rang out.

He tensed up and cautiously began shuffling back towards the building. He definitely hadn't imagined that. He kept his eyes trained on the door, expecting someone to jump out and fire at him.

But nothing happened. He crept around the side of the building and looked around the backside. Something was leaning against the wall. The noise was coming from there. It sounded like a choked scream. Lance pulled out his gun when he saw movement, but quickly lowered it when he saw what was in front of him.

A child, no older than six or seven, was cradling his mother in his arms. Her head was limply bobbing up and down as he cried into her shoulder.

Lance heart stopped in his chest.

"Hello...?" he said hesitantly. The child looked up and let out a bloodcurdling scream. Lance dropped his gun on the ground and put his hands up. "It's okay!" he said in a hushed voice, glancing around nervously. "It's okay, I'm here to help you! I can help you" The child continued to scream at the top of his lungs. He was going to attract attention if he didn't quiet soon. Lance had to act fast to get him out of here. "Please," he said to the child while inching forward. "Come with me. I have to get you out of here. We need to leave" the child stopped screaming, but still continued to cry loudly.