Chapter 2: A Mark

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Keith continued to storm out of the room. As the door closed behind him he took a deep breath. Then he punched a wall. He was mad with Krolia. He couldn't really blame her though. The Galra Empire was still a threat and they had a lot of work to do before they returned to Earth. He now understood how Lance felt. Earth seemed so far away, which it was, and so did a happy family.

Keith sighed and began to walk back to his room. Then he heard the door open behind him. It was probably Krolia. Keith braced himself for what was about to come. "Listen, if you think I'm..." Keith turned to see that no-one was there. "Huh!" Keith said to himself looking around. Nobody. Keith continued to walk to his room.

TAP!

Keith turned again. Still nothing. He got the terrible urge that he as being followed. Keith decided not to go back to his room and go to the hangar. As he got inside the room, he looked around the place to make sure no-one was around. He took out his knife and then activated his mask. After a few moments of circling around the hangar, he stopped and headed towards the door.

Suddenly, he was pulled and pinned to the floor. "Ugh!" Keith looked up slightly to find he was being attacked by a member of his team. Not only that, but it was the Blade that was in the control room. Keith tried to struggle free from their grip. As he did, he felt his knife being taken from his sheath on his back. "Hey!" Keith yelled. "What are you doing?" The Blade, or the mysterious person, pointed the knife at Keith. Their grip on him had loosened. Keith quickly lifted himself and then slid one of his legs under theirs and kicked full force and tripped them. The knife fell out of their hands and slid along the floor. Keith then quickly grabbed his knife and ran around the hangar, behind all the pods and ships. The Blade went after him.

Keith continued to run and tried to look around for a place to hide. Not that it would help at all. Surely they would find him. And even if he did find a good place to hide, they seemed very fast. The Blade suddenly got down on all fours and pounced at Keith. He had to fight. He jumped out of the way of their attack. Using his knife, which now had turned into a sword, Keith tried to stab or at leased cut them, but the person dodged and avoided their attacks. The best Keith could do was graze their upper arm. Keith growled in frustration.

The Blade then did a mid air kick and hit Keith in the face. Keith tumbled to the floor. As he did, his mask deactivated. Keith looked up to see the person about to punch him. He tilted his head sideways to avoid the attack. He then kicked up and hit their stomach. The Blade tumbled to the floor. They tried to get up but Keith pinned them to the floor and held them down by the neck. "Who are you?" Keith asked forcefully. "What do you want from me?" They then punched Keith in the nose and Keith fell onto his back. The Blade rolled to their knees to take a breather after Keith had chocked them. Keith felt blood trickling through his nose.

The person saw the opportunity to escape and ran to their Galra battleship. "HEY!" Keith screamed wiping the blood from his nose. The Blade ran into the spacecraft and Keith followed. He just about got into the battleship when it took off. Keith looked around the ship quietly. He waited for the person to make a move. As he waited, Keith still felt the red liquid dripping from his nose. He wiped it again. As he did he felt himself being forcefully pulled by the neck and his left arm. "Let go...of me!" Keith ordered as he was being strangled. Then he felt his arm burning. Keith yelped in pain. The Blade noticed and when they saw the steam coming from Keith's arm they immediately let go of him. Keith saw an opportunity. First he reactivated his mask. He then, full-on, slapped them across the face with the back of his hand. The Blade fell on the dash board and their mask deactivated.

Keith heavily breathed before standing up straight. "Who are you?" Keith asked again. The person did not answer. Keith stomped up to them and grabbed their shoulder. "ANSWER ME!" He ordered. The person looked up revealing their face. Keith couldn't believe what he was seeing. "You're...Altean?" Keith exclaimed in utter shock. The person was a girl. She had short white hair with purple tips. Her skin was light and she had purple Altean marks under her amber coloured eyes. "I-I can't believe this?"

The girl reactivated her mask and pressed a button beside her. As soon as she did, Keith was shot out of the spacecraft and out into space. He tumbled a few times. Then to center himself, he used his jetpack. He then watched as the battleship zoomed off into space and disappeared from sight. Keith sighed. "Kolivan...could you send me a rescue pod out?" "Why?" Kolivan asked over the intercom. "I uh...kinda got myself in a situation..."

"What were you doing out there Keith?" Krolia asked concerned for her son's safety. Keith and his mother were now inside a pod. Keith didn't know know how he was going to tell his mom. "I was...uh..." "What happened to your arm?" Krolia asked a lot more concerned. Shoot! "I uh...burned it" Keith wasn't lying. "With what?" "Uh...jetpack...?"

"Nice try! What really happened?"

"I got attacked..."

"By who?"

"I...don't know..."

Krolia then tossed bandages at Keith. He then tied his burn.

Keith's burn in his arm really stung when he got back. Keith went to his room and untied the bandage. Keith gasped. A red mark had formed on his skin. It looked like this:

 It looked like this:

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