Keith One Shots

~Touch Pt. 1/2~

Keith had been on a solo mission. The paladins had dropped him off onto a galra ship and his job was to rescue the prisoners. He had willingly agreed to do this mission, as he loved nothing more then seeing the prisoners happy faces when they were set free. Keith especially loved the hugs they would give. They made him feel proud to be a paladin...

Keith ran into the prison block and started looking around for aliens aboard. He found it very worrying when he couldn't find anyone. He looked in every cell twice until he started looking in other places. Maybe the galra had hidden them?

Keith was about to give up, when he heard a blood curdling scream. He started running towards he direction of the scream. He reached to room, his red bayard in hand, prepared for anything that was going to be in this room. He never could of been ready for this....

He opened the door and rushed in.

He stopped at what he saw.

There was blood...

everywhere.

The walls, the ceiling and the floor. They were all covered in splatters of thick blood. That wasn't the worst part though. Limbs of aliens lay on the floor, most of them still moving. Some were heads, some were legs and some were arms. Keith's face went pale. He felt like he was going to be sick. He just stood there, watching as the body parts wriggled around. That was when he noticed, they had started to crawl towards him. Some were inching across to him, but some more intact bodies were walking to him, the ones with top halves giving evil glares.

Keith was about to run away when he realised that a top half of a body had closed the door behind him. He began to panic. He couldn't think straight due to him feeling so sick.

Slowly, he backed into a wall, being cornered by the limbs.

And suddenly....

All at once....

They jumped on him....

He felt hands grab onto him and legs kick him. he felt heads trying to bite through his armour. He felt hands crawl up his body. He screamed in horror. Blood smeared onto his armour, making him feel even more sick. He knew he should've fought them but...

these were no galra limbs...

they were the limbs of the prisoners....

It took him hours to pluck up the courage to chop them to pieces. As he did so he felt the guilt hit him like a train. He was slaying the creatures he was meant to save....

He arrived back at the castle using a galra escape pod. The team were all in the landing bay waiting for him to come out with prisoners. Shiro was ready to introduce himself to them. But then he saw that Keith was in a one-seated ship. He assumed the mission had just been a failure. He wasn't ready for the news... None of them were.

Shiro heard the pod open and close. He went over to hug Keith, only to find that Keith walked towards them first.

When the team saw him...

They....

Were....

Shocked...

Shiro looked at all the blood running down Keith's suit. Some of it was a brownish colour which means it must of dried. But some of it was still a deep red. Shiro didn't think he could see anything worse, until he saw Keith's face.

Keith was worryingly pale. He wasn't smiling but he wasn't frowning. His mouth was neutral. The worst parts were his eyes. They looked like an empty void, with no emotions. Keith also had small smears of blood running across his face. Everyone was speechless until someone finally spoke up.

"Keith, what happened?" Shiro knew someone had to ask so he did the job himself.

Shiro noticed Keith wasn't looking directly at him. He wasn't really looking anywhere. He was just..... staring.

"Are you okay buddy?" said Hunk, just as concerned about the red paladin as everyone else was.

At first, there was no reply. Then, the only words that came from his mouth were....

"I was too late"

Keith still was looking in the same area as before. He didn't seem to be listening but that the same time he was.

"W-what exactly happened?" Pidge asked. She looked like she regretted asking.

"I went into the cells. Nothing there. I heard a loud scream so I went to the room it came from and I was met with blood. It was everywhere. It was EVERYWHERE"

Keith's voice didn't sound like Keith at all. He sounded like he was losing it. Shiro was about to speak when Keith continued.

"Not just blood. Limbs. Arms. Legs. Heads. Even eyeballs. They crawled towards me. They cornered me. The blood was everywhere. It was all red. All I could see was red. I couldn't take it I couldn't take it I couldn't take it!" Keith put his hands over his ears and shook his head, as if he were trying to shake the memory away.

As Keith did this, the other paladins just looked at him in shock. What were they to do?

Shiro stepped up and put a hand on Keith's shoulder, not knowing he would regret it.

The minute Shiro had touched Keith, Keith had started screaming. He backed away from Shiro as quickly as possible and began shaking his head, his hands clutching his hair. Everyone was terrified. No one knew what to do.

Eventually Keith calmed down a bit, but the group could tell that Keith still wasn't with them. The screams turned into cries as Keith curled himself up in a ball, crying into his knees. Shiro wanted to give him a hug so badly but Keith could scream again.

All the paladins were at a loss for words. They just stood there watching Keith. Until Pidge finally spoke.

"How do we help him?"

END OF PART ONE!!!! I might make like 3, 4 or 5 chapters of this. This first chapter is just kinda the introduction. I don't know exactly how many chapters yet but hey we'll see. In case you didn't realise, this is set during season 2. Anyways, I hope you liked it!

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~Author Mill