No Longer Hiding My Pain (Part 4)

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Previously: "Now Lance, please explain to me why you cut." I went straight to the point and sat next to him.

Lance's POV

'I need to make stuff up. I don't want him to...'

"I mean I started it when I got into the Garrison. It's not that the stress was too much, I mean that's like a part of it but... it was because of a...oh man this is gonna sound so stupid." I paused for a while, thinking about what I was gonna say.
'Let's say a um a classmate?... I mean... that's partly true. Ok whatever then.'

"Continue?" I snapped out of my thoughts and continued, looking at the ground.

"So it was because of a classmate. They were better then me. I didn't care at first, but then all of a sudden they left, everyone started comparing me to them and... that just gave me a lot of stress." I stopped and took a deep breath and continued.

"Under the stress of the school work and my other classmates 'judgements' I guess I just started. It was a way to release my anger and sadness... without causing too much noise and stuff like that. Basically why I started to cut." I looked at him and gave him a shrug.

There was a long uncomfortable silence until there was an alarm sounding throughly out the castle.

"PALADINS TO THE LIONS! GALRA ARE ATTACKING A NEAR BY PLANET!"

I was about to run out of the room until Keith grabbed my arm.

"This isn't over."

He then let go and went to get into him armor. I ran and dressed into my armor as quickly as possible but was still a bit late.

When we got there, it looked perfectly normal, from the atmosphere. As we approached closer towards the ground, there was houses on fire and a bunch of screaming.

Galra were on the ground, shooting and there were some in the air. We split up, Shiro taking the galra in the sky with his lion, I'm putting out the fires and Keith, Hunk and Pidge were taking on the galra on land. We thought this was gonna be easy, but we were so wrong.

As I finished putting out the fire, was about to help Shiro when I heard an ear piercing scream through my helmet. It belonged to Pidge. I was about to say something when 5 battleships came through the atmosphere and stared sending out more galra.

"WE NEED TO FORM VOLTRON!" Shiro

"...help..." Pidge

"Shi.t, Pidge hang in there. I'll be there in a sec." Keith

"Guys...what about those huge battleships in the air?!" Hunk

Keith's POV

There was a bunch of screaming going on. From Shiro, Hunk and me. I finished off some of the last galra on the ground and then went to find Pidge.

'Where was Lance? He better not be goofing aroun-' My thought was cut off as I saw the a blur of blue fly into the sky and then blue beams shooting into the smaller galra fighters.

When I found Pidge, she was lying on the ground with a huge slash from her shoulder to somewhere near her stomach. The galra was about to finish her off when I went behind it and plunged my sword into its stomach.

The galra was about to fall onto Pidge so I grabbed it and pushed it aside. I picked Pidge up as gently as possible and ran to my lion.

"Guys I have Pidge, she's not looking too well. We have to retreat!" I screamed over their voices.

"But the people?!" Hunk exclaimed as no one was screaming into their mics anymore.

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