Intruder Alert

Chapter 9

Keith had been relieved when he had heard Lance's voice approaching them, but when it had become known that he was alone that's when Keith went from relieved his shoulders visibly relaxing to sliding his knife out and jumping to a crouching position ready to attack at any moment.

The water had tossed everyone around until they lost all sense of direction. It had especially made the world spin around him as he narrowed his eyes to help focus on the creature walking in front of him.

The Lance impostor paced around the tunnel his eyes landing on everyone. His hand was still upturned a flame flickering in it. He observed them his eyes mischievous. They were all soaked and tired completely vulnerable and easy to target, picking them off one by one.

Keith watched his eyes following his every movement. The longer they sat there in drenched clothes the more likely they were to get hypothermia. The tunnels didn't seem to be warm and inviting, instead they were ice cold as you would think a tunnel would be.

He could feel the warmth being sucked from his body and in it's place he was beginning to shiver.

The alien stopped in front of him and smirked clenching his fist they were enveloped in darkness the creature laughing maniacally echoed throughout the tunnels.

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Lance felt chills down his spine as laughing reached his ears. Shaking his head from the images his mind conjured up of indescribable creatures he turned back to the task at hand.

Pidge was completely soaked in blood. Too much blood for Lance's liking. His shirt in which he had removed from his body to help stem the bleeding was soaked with a deep scarlet.

On his way to attack the alien he had stumbled over the flashlight that Pidge was carrying. He had picked it up and held onto it.

Now he was holding the flashlight, it's beam on Pidge. He held a hand over his mouth his eyes wide with shock. A sound that sounded like gagging mixed with fear escaped his lips.

Pidge who was still unconscious was looking a deathly pale. Her middle had scratches that ran deep all across it. There were pieces of skin still attached that shouldn't be. The muscles were shredded and were still attached to places under the skin.

As he sat their trying his best to thinks as to what he could do with limited resources, he came to realize he couldn't move her just by himself. He'd need at least one other person to help him hold her steady so her wounds wouldn't reopen.

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Keith trudged along beside Hunk according to Allura they should be getting close, but he could hear the uncertainty in her voice. He shivered wrapping his arms around him. His jacket stuck to his skin completely soaked through.

"You okay Keith?" Hunk asked shivering a little bit not as much as Keith was. The temperature seemed to have dropped extensively in the time they had been walking. Which didn't make much sense as there was not a reason for the temperature to be dropping.

"Y-Y-Yeah I'm f-f-fine," he mumbled. He was shivering more violently now and he clenched his teeth to keep them from chattering.

Allura stopped suddenly and stared curiously in front of her. She opened her mouth and exhaled. A small white cloud formed in front of her mouth before disappearing.

"Princess?" Coran asked.

Keith sighed in annoyance causing a white cloud to appear in front of him. It grabbed everyone's attention. They glanced at each other panic evident in their eyes.

Unless they could find the bunker they were going to be trapped in the tunnels completely soaked and from the looks of things now, snow was on it's way.