Left For Dead

Coming Home

The screen turned off. I stare at the screen, 'So they are coming now, am I ready to leave? What will happen to Nestra, will she be able to visit me? Will I ever see her again? What if she gets injured and left behind just like I was?'. I feel a warmth on my good shoulder, "Are you ready green paladin?" I snap back to reality and look up into Krolia's eyes, "For what?". She sighs "To go back to Voltron". I gave her a half-hearted smile, "ready as I will ever be".

I roll out of the room to go back to the medical bay. I needed to get my paladin armor ready and on before Keith gets here. I see Keyla walking out of the Med bay, "Hey Keyla, do you know where my armor might be?". She scratched her head, "Last time I remember Nestra brought it to the workshop where they were going to fix and clean your armor, Nestra was going that way I think". Keyla pointed down the hallway that was left of the entrance to the Med Bay. 

I thank Keyla and start to roll down the hallway, the dark blues and purple that lights the hallways weren't as calming and bright as the castles but the colors of the Blades were dark blues and purples. I knew I wasn't gone for long but I still missed them, even though they forgot me. How could they have forgotten me? 

I push those thoughts away as I hear a voice, "Hi Pidge, I wanted to make sure that your armor was good as new so I brought it here as the doctors were helping you". I roll over to her in the wheelchair the Blades gave me, "thanks, so is it ready yet?". She holds up her finger and goes over galran working on my armor. She walks back over to me, "She said it will be ready in about 10 dobashes, so what do you want to do to pass the time?".

I start to fiddle with my hands, "You could tell me stories about your time before the war?". Her face expression changes from filled with happiness to filled with sadness. I stammered, "you don't have to if you don't want to". She crosses her arms, " It's alright, I think it is time for you to know, Can we go somewhere else to have this conversation?" I stop fiddling with my hands and look up into her sparkling eyes, "Of course".

We both move down the hallway, far enough for no one to hear us from the workshop bur close enough to know when my armor is done. Nestra leans up against the wall, her arms still crossed. Her normal sparkling sea blue eyes start to become glossy and one tear rolls down her face.

She uncrosses her arms and rubs away the tear. "Okay, I guess I should start...So it all started on my home planet of Kolier, my brother named Treave and I lived an okay life. Since our father was Galra most of the people in our part of the city feared us and made fun of us. My mother died when she gave birth to me and our father left after our mother died because he couldn't stand being around me because I murdered the love of his life."

"Treave was the only true family I had, he was the person who made me what I am today. Until the galra attack Kolier, our planet had this very valuable crystal that made very powerful weapons. I perfect opportunity for a power hungry race like the galra. I was about 14 when they attack. Ran shaking everyone and everything in sight. 

"Once the galra finished looting the person or their home, they would be murdered most by gun. But the people that fought back and were harder to kill would be killed by the blade. Thousands of dead bodies filled the streets, their dark green blood sweeping into dirt roads".

"At the outskirts of town Treave and I hide in a shed that we have called home for as long as I can remember, over the years the place became more of our place. Treave kept a picture of him with Mom and Dad, they looked so happy. Mom's long dark navy hair that went all the way down her back and her eyes were like the sky filled with bright stars. My father was muscular, his purple skin mixed with my mothers light blueish purple skin made them perfect for each other".

"In the middle of them was Treave but much younger. He smiled so brightly and cheerful, I never knew he could ever be that happy. They were the perfect family before I came. I messed everything up, it was all my fault".