Firefly

Chapter 5

Princess Allura stood out on a balcony of the Marmoran outpost called Warfang, looking at the three moon's two of which were full while one was a new moon. "Allura, you're worrying too much. They'll be fine." Lance said said from where he was sitting on the couch. "Yes Princess, with those lions around nothing can hurt them." Coran agreed as Hunk nodded vigorously since he had his mouth stuffed full of exotic fruits. "Yes, but what if the Empire got too them." Allura worried. "You heard Kolivan. He has agents watching them." Lance said as Allura frowned at him while a Marmora agent named Gamma slid another exotic fruit toward Hunk who looked like he was in heaven. "I think what Lance is trying to say, is that Keith and Pidge have all the advantages they need." Shiro interjected shooting Lance a meaningful look that the blue paladin totally missed. "With or without the lions or Marmora agents." "Right." Lance agreed as Shiro noticed Hunk stuffing his face. "Hunk, you're gonna end up choking." Shiro said as the yellow paladin looked at him before swallowing what he had in his mouth.   And I though raising Keith was a handful. Shiro thought sighing and shaking his head. "Yeah don't worry Allura. If they get caught Pidge will figure out an escape plan and Keith is well...........Keith." Hunk said shrugging. "Alright. You've convinced me." Allura said as she walked back inside while Hunk picked up a red sphere shaped fruit. "Oh, I wouldn't..." Gamma started but Hunk already popped it in his mouth and started chewing. "But I still can't believe you let them go!" She said pointing at Shiro as Hunk made an " oh shit face." "At least Keith told me. He could've easily said nothing like Pidge wanted." Shiro protested as Allura narrowed her eyes at him. "I suppose so." She said as she sat down by Coran. "Are you okay Hunk?" Shiro asked as he saw a look of pure horror on the yellow paladins face. "Nymph, mouph is stuckmp." Hunk mumbled. "What?" Shiro said Hunk repeated what he said. "You want lamb stew?" Lance asked. "My jaws are stuck together because of this red sphere shaped fruit." Hunk told them telepathically as Shiro and Lance looked at Gamma. "I tried to warn him." Gamma said shrugging nervously.

Pidge ran toward her Dad and brother hugging them and telling them how much she had missed them. When they didn't respond or hug her back she slowly looked up at them fear creeping up her spine. She was hugging two skeletons! Out of pure horror Pidge let go with a cry of terror as she stumbled back into darkness. It can't be true! They can't be gone. Pidge thought as she refused to except that possibility. Suddenly there were thousands of voices whispering to one another incomprehensibly, drowning each other out and then dying off to reveal a pissed of looking female Galran storming out of a room. "If you want things done right, just have to do it yourself!" She growled disappearing to show Shiro running down a hallway with a species of alien Pidge had never seen before. The alien reminded her of the ferrets back on earth, just with cat-like ears, a beak, a bushy fox-like tail, and six arms. Suddenly the alien screamed and hid behind a column, causing Shiro to stop. "What, what's the problem?" He asked. "There's a crack in the floor!" The alien answered gesturing to the glowing cracks in the floor. "I was carrying you!" Shiro protested. "Oh, so I guess no one cares about their mother's backs anymore." The alien said crossing his arms as if he were pouting. "You know that nursery rhyme?" Shiro said looking puzzled as the scene shifted to show Haggar and her druids performing a ritual before disappearing. Making way for a male galran, flanked by four different species of aliens. The tallest had huge ears and scar over one eye, another one was mostly pink but had dots of other colors all over her. The third one had blue skin and small horns, carrying herself like a general, while the last on had a tail but no eyes, with a cat-like creature perched on her shoulder. Is it over?  Pidge thought as Zarkon's evil pinkish purple eyes blazed in the darkness accompanied by the sound of mechanical whirling.

Pidge jolted awake, her heart pounding in her chest as she looked around wildly. Where am I? Who is... Pidge thought before remembering that she was in Keith's arms because she was cold which surprisingly she still was. It's okay. I'm fine. She told herself trying to calm down her pounding heart as she laid back down, glancing over at the clock that said it was four thirty am. What kind of dream was that? She wondered as she glanced up at Keith. Instantly noticing his troubled expression and his tense muscles as if he were waiting for an attack he knew would hurt like hell and that he had no hope of blocking or dodging. Oh. Pidge thought a little alarmed as she snuggled closer trying to provide some comfort. Suddenly Keith jolted awake too, his red v glowing as he propped himself up. "Keith, are you okay?" Pidge asked sleepily as if he had woken her up. "I'm fine. Just a vision." Keith answered sighing as he laid back down. "Are you sure?" She asked. "I'm fine, Pidge. Just go back to sleep." Keith said a few moments later his breathing evening back out. If that was a vision does that mean my family is gone. Pidge worried. No, they're fine. I'll bug him about it later. She thought before falling asleep.

Lark walked into his room and shut the door sighing, before turning on his com. "Finally! I've been waiting for your report! Do you have them?" The female voice demanded. "Yeah, about that." Lark said slowly. "Don't tell me you lost them!" The voice hissed. "It's not my fault that you gave me these guards who can't do shit!" Lark protested. "Oh Lark, quit acting like a child!" The voice snapped. "Ligarius will not be pleased." "I know.¨ Lark said. ¨But I sent the Champion of Enoria and his friends after them.¨ "You sent the Champion? Well done, finally using your head for once." The voice said as Lark felt a little pride at her praise. "So can I come home now?" He asked. "Yes, Ligarius says you can come home but he wants a full debriefing once you get here.¨ The voice hissed. "Thank you, ma'am. I'll be home shortly." Lark said before hanging up.

The next morning Keith woke up around nine thirty, which was later than he liked. He slowly got off the bed careful not to disturb Pidge. There was a few times he thought he had woken her, but she was just rolling over. Keith got in the shower thinking about what his vision might mean, especially the part about Zarkon. Since Zarkon had never shown up in his visions before, until now. Keith just couldn't understand why, and he couldn't shake an uneasy feeling.  He put those thoughts aside and got out of the shower. Once he was dressed he walked out to see if Pidge was up, surprisingly she wasn't but that was okay. ¨OH SHIT, PIDGE!¨ He yelled grabbing her. ¨Huh? What? What's going on?¨ Pidge asked sitting up quickly looking around wildly as Keith started laughing. ¨You jerk!¨she said hitting him as he kept laughing.  ¨You should have seen your face.¨ Keith said. ¨I bet.¨ Pidge said laying back down. ¨Come on, get up.¨ Keith said. ¨No.¨ Pidge answered. ¨I thought you said you wanted to check out the town before we left?" Keith said as Pidge sat back up. ¨Can we eat first?¨ she asked. ¨After you take a shower.¨ Keith answered. ¨I don't need a shower.¨ Pidge protested climbing off the bed. ¨Just because you're pretending to be a guy doesn't mean you have to smell like one. Besides, I took one.¨ Keith pointed out.  ¨Okay, fine.¨ Pidge said grabbing her bag. ¨Oh, I kinda saw your vision last night. And I saw the part about my family turning into skeletons.¨ ¨You're family turned into skeletons?¨ Keith asked raising an eyebrow. ¨There was nothing about your Dad and Matt in my vision. It must have been your own nightmare.¨ ¨Oh.¨ Pidge said. ¨What did the rest of it mean?¨  ¨I'll tell you what I think when we eat.¨ Keith answered. ¨Also you have some explaining to do.¨ he said slightly hissing.  Oh boy what did I do?  Pidge thought as she walked into the bathroom and shut the door. Wait, what did I do? I don't remember walking back into the room.