The Red Paladins Klance

Chapter 39

Keith gently ran his fingers through Lance’s curly brown locks, focused on the tablet he was holding, reading through important information that was going through the Coalition. He and Lance were sitting in the lounge, with Lance’s head in Keith’s lap as they worked. The others were doing the same work, filing through info. Keith mainly kept a close eye on the Blade of Marmora, to see what his mother and Kolivan were up to with continuing their search for missing Blades that were in space. “They’ve been creating new advanced stuff in Olkarion.” Lance suddenly noted. “They’re always creating newly advanced stuff.” Keith said, gently scratching his head. The motion made Lance let out a hiss, and he sighed, catching Keith’s attention. He looked down at him, seeing he was rubbing his forehead, putting his tablet down. “What’s wrong? Does your head hurt?” Keith asked, concerned.

    “God, yeah, it’s been hurting all day. Your scratching it kinda helps, please keep doing it.” Lance said. Keith continued to gently scratch and rub his head. He went back to his tablet, but kept a close eye on Lance, concerned. “Take a break.” He said. “I would, but I can’t. Gotta sift through all this info.” Lance said, picking up his tablet, scrolling through it again. “You don’t need to, you can take a break and come back to it.” Keith said. “I’m fine, I swear. It’s just a headache.” Lance said. But the more Keith scratched and rubbed his head, he could see he was falling into a doze from his touch. So he kept at it as he slowly took Lance’s tablet and set it aside. “You strain your eyes too much when you’ve got a headache.” Keith murmured. But not more than two seconds passed when an alarm rang throughout the Castle, jolting Lance out of his doze as he bolted upright, gasping.

Keith instantly reached out and touched his shoulder to steady him before standing up, “Trouble?” He asked to Allura, seeing she was also standing up.

She nodded, and they all made for the observation deck. Allura went up to the glowing red screen, Keith following her. Allura gasped, and her skin went pale. “What? What is it?” Keith asked, alarmed. “The distress signal. It is coming from your planet, Treyiv.” Allura said. Keith let out a sharp breath, horrified. He turned to Lance, who had the same look. “Oh my god. Queen Loucia. Lux, Koda! Why are they sending a distress signal, what’s happening?” He said, panicked. “It says they’ve suddenly been brought under a random attack.” Allura said. “How? Our enemy is dead, who would be attacking them? Why?” Keith said. “I-I do not know. It does not say.” Allura said.

   Keith instantly turned around to the others, “I know you guys don’t know Treyiv as well as Lance and I do, but~” He said, but Pidge cut him off. “Aren’t you going to tell us to suit up and get into our lions?” She said. Keith nodded in understanding. “All right. Suit up. Get into your Lions. We head straight for Treyiv.” He said. In space, Keith could hear Lance muttering to himself. “Come on, come on...Answer me, Lux…” Keith felt very worried, but tried to keep calm. “They’re fine. She probably can’t answer right now. They’ll all be fighting off whoever’s attacking them.” Keith assured. “I have the most terrible feeling, Keith. Something is wrong. Something feels so wrong.” Lance said. “I know. I feel it too. But we can’t let it get to us. We have to focus. Treyiv’s our second home. We will do everything in our power to protect it.” Keith softly admitted.

“You’re right.” Lance said.

When they got close to Treyiv, Keith could quite literally see the explosions erupting from the planet. “Oh my God.” Lance gasped. Keith pushed Black’s control, urging him to go faster. They got onto the ground, and Keith turned to the others, “Allura, Hunk, Pidge, you guys go and see who needs help. Be ready to fight. Lance and I will head to the Castle to find the Queen and her daughter.” Keith said. They took off, and he and Lance ran toward the Castle, hearing shouting in the distance. But what they both stopped at was the agonizing, heartbroken wail that echoed from the Castle, splitting through the air. “Koda!” Lance cried, and they both ran faster, bursting through the Castle doors. And what they found in the courtyard made them both skid to a stop. “No…” Lance whispered. Koda clutched a limp, bloodied Lux in her arms, crying in anguish.