Purple Child

Keiths Nightmare

Everyone has gone to bed after a hard day of training. Keith laid onto his bed, he grabbed the knife under his pillow and raised it into the air to see the violet light glow past the cloth wrapping around it. He traced the symbol on it with his finger, he let out a sigh. He turned his body to lay on his right side, he tucked the knife under his pillow and shut his eyes.

Keith's eyes flung open he was in his old home back on earth, though it hasn't felt like home in years to him. Everything looked the same as the last time he saw it the crapy table, the dusty couch, the posters and papers that try to conceal the cracks and holes on the wall. 

While Keith was looking around a light hit his eye, it was coming from the wall behind one of the posters. Keith peeled the dirty paper off the wall to look at what was there. It was something metal wrapped in paper tucked neatly into the wall, "what is this?" Keith carefully pulled it out and dusted it off but before he could inspect it more there was a knock at the door. 

Keith put the object in his pocket and walked cautiously over to the door. As he opened the door ready to fight whoever was on the other side all he saw was the vast void of space. 

"What? There's no one." Keith questioned himself. As he was about to close the door a red-colored blob sprinted past him. 

Keith turned to give chase to it, not noticing that his home had vanished around him leaving him exposed to the void of space. "Wait get back here!" he commanded to the strange shape.

Keith was catching up getting closer to catching the creature he noticed what he was chasing was a very strangely colored cat. The cat looked back at Keith and took a sharp turn right into an open door

Keith ran into the door and finally grabbed the cat. "Hah! Finally ..caught... you." Keith stammered out of breath. Keith plopped to the floor to rest when saw a hue of blue come from the corner of his eye. It was another cat lying cozily on a cat bed. The red cat jumped out of Keith's hands to join the blue-colored one in its nap. Keith was amused by the two contrasting colored kitties looking all cozy together, suddenly he felt a tap on his shoulder. Keith jumped up in a panic and began to fall backward when he was caught by the wrist

"Woah, Keith, are you falling for me again?" Lance joked. 

"Lance, where did you come from?"

"What do you mean, I was always here," Lance asked confused 

"Nevermind," Lance helped Keith propped himself back up. Keith then realized that he wasn't in the void anymore. He looked at his surroundings to see that he was back in his house except everything was cleaned, there was no dust anywhere nor were there any cracks on the wall and the furniture was actually acceptable, Keith gave a strange look around.

"Keith are you okay there?" Lance questioned with concern.

"Oh no, I, the house it... just looks clean."

"Oh, then you finally notice that I cleaned."

"What do you mean I always notice when you do things," Keith smirked. 

Lance smiled and came closer and wrapped his arms around Keith's "I'm very happy to hear that." He chuckled. He then leaned in to give Keith a soft peck on the lips. 

"Lance, um, I--" 

Meow!!! Both looked down at their feet to see both cats with the blue one pawing at Lance. "Ohh, sorry there I forgot to give them their food, I'll be back." Lance unwrapped his arms from Keith's waist and headed to the fridge with both cats following. Keith touched his lips and smiled 

"Keith, ill be there in a second to continue where we left off this morning." Keith didn't know what lance meant but felt embarrassed hearing it. He walked to the comfortable-looking couch to relax and closed his eyes for a second but when he opened them the room was dark. He shot up both the cats and Lance were gone. Keith was in an empty house with only a chair and fireplace that wasn't there before.

Keith stepped closer to the fireplace, in front of it was the object that Keith had pulled out of the wall, "What? wasn't this in my pocket?" He stepped closer into the fire's light to pick up the object on the floor. He held it in his hand and noticed it was the item wrapped in paper. He took the paper off and inspected the object first. It was a silver lighter, Keith gave a confused look, he then turned his attention to the paper hoping it would give him an answer to the object. He opened the small strip of paper the words were covered in a thick layer of dust on it, he wiped it away to reveal what it said. 

You are always going to be alone, Keith's eyes widened and his heart sunk at each word. Keith then felt a hot burn in his hand, he looked to it to notice it was the lighter glowing and begging to melt. He immediately dropped the lighter to the ground along with the paper. Keith's breaths grew heavy, fear and panic begging to set in. From the lighter a powerful flame burst out, Keith turned and ran away feeling the intense heat behind him with the smoke starting to inch closer and surround him. It was suffocating to him, he was losing breath and the will to continue running until he heard something in the distance. 

"Keith!" a voice called out to him, it was Lance's voice. 

"Lance! where are you?" Keith gasped, picking himself up with whatever energy was left in him. 

"Keith!" 

Keith turned and looked around trying to follow where Lance's voice was coming from but the smoke was unbearable and he could hardly breathe. 

Out of energy, he fell to his knees tears begging to prick out of his eyes. "You are always going to be alone," whispered another familiar voice. 

"Who is that!?" He shouted it becomes silent for a moment before those same haunting words being to be chanted over and over, for him to  only for him to turn around and see himself whisper "We are always going to be alone." 

Keith sprang up from bed with a gasp, he was sweating all over and his heart was still beating fast he took in deep breaths to calm himself down and keeping tears from escaping him. After a few minutes, he got up from the bed and left his room.

So it's been a while since I wrote something this long so excuse any weirdness in the words. Also, excuse me if I'm incorrect on things since it's been a while since I've watched Voltron. Anyways hope you enjoyed and next Keith will talk about his dream to lance or at least part of it ;)