EHHH OMG GUYS??! OVER 1K VIEWS??!!! THANK YOU?!

Like, I don't think you understand how awfully happy it makes me, and every notification, every time I see the views on my chapters, it just makes my heart very happy. It's such a thrill to know you're reading what I have had inside my head and decided to write it down. I'm really thankful for you just reading this and enjoying what I write.

I hope you are enjoying it....

And sorry if it took so long to come with another chapter, but I just had a very busy week.

AND OMG??!! SEASON 5 LEFT ME QUESTIONING MY WHOLE LIFE

Lance's POV

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It was one month ago Keith left.

It was simple; we needed to go for a mission and I protested every second of it. But Allura is even stronger than I already thought and she practically dragged me by the ear out of Keith's room. I had spent a lot of time there, just watching him sleep and stir now and then and it would happen that he asked for water and I would fly to the kitchen to get some.

I don't exactly know when he happened to wake up and act awfully normal, but I was just happy he didn't turn pink again. I don't know what happened after his violent shaking moment and what he dreamed about, but I do know I don't like it. At all. I didn't like it then, and I had my predictions that something would occur.

This occurred. Coran was frantically shouting in our intercoms, telling us to retreat to the castle immediately, because apperantly Keith left. He was specifically telling Coran where he was going but he knows we can't reach him anyways. He will always be out, drifting into open space and fighting and protecting and it won't be with us. Not with team Voltron. Not anymore.

Coran couldn't stop him from joining the Blade of Marmora. Not that he didn't want to stop him, just that he couldn't. Keith was gone before he could even react, is what Coran agitatedly yelled at us when we burst into the control room.

Shiro was having a silent and discreet breakdown, I think. He was breathing sharply and weirdly and his face looked grey, drowned in shadows. Pidge was cursing something fierce and it sent a clump of worry inside my stomach that Shiro didn't even blink. Hunk was everywhere in the castle, screaming and wheezing.

I locked myself inside my room. And didn't come out for a good amount of time. Inside I spent the rest of the week staring out my window and talking with myself in front of my mirror in my bathroom. It's sad, really. I don't know how crazy I must have looked, telling myself how I'm feeling and what a jackass Keith is. I punched the wall twice but both of the times I yelped because of the pain and the throbbing it sent to my hand. I needed to talk to myself because I could barely last one hour being silent. I doubted the other's would want to listen to my blabbering on what an idiot Keith is.

Oh God, what the hell has he done...

He shattered the team with his absence.

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I sigh as I tap my foot inside Red's hangar. There is this high level of boredom inside me and I don't know what to do to occupy my mind with something.

Everywhere is red around me. I look at my armor to see the blue parts of it turning slightly purple. I bite my lip and grip my own arms to hold onto something solid. My head is spinning.

"We can't find the gem", Pidge informs me and Shiro that are currently keeping guard and making sure not to be attacked on this awfully glittery planet.

"We can't find Keith either, but that's just how it is", I snap, my voice laced with toxin.

"Lance, shut the hell up", Pidge fires back through the intercoms. "Instead of spending all your time in your damn room, you could maybe try to find him."

"Guys..." Shiro turns in.

"What, just me? Don't you want to find him too? Or don't you have more time to look for other's than just Matt and your Dad..."

"What the heck did you just say, you piece of junk?!" Her voice is loud and high enough to make my ear pound and twinge. "Don't you ever bring my family in this ever again, you hear me..."

"Guys, stop..." Shiro tries again.

I straighten up on my chair and my whole tongue is dying to let all the words out. I feel my fingers shake of anger as I grip the handles. "I'll say whatever the hell I want. Now I state nothing else but true facts. And you know it. That's why you get so angry..."

"You wanna know why I get angry, because of your sorry ass. You think that you could be the only sad one here and think that because of that, you could say whatever you want and we would just accept it? Well, get back and reality and go to hell."

"Great, I'll see you there..."

"STOP IT!"

This is not Shiro's voice. Nor is it Allura's. Or Coran's, for that part. This voice is berserk and still has that sweet tone to it, no matter the circumstances.

Everything gets quiet, but I can still feel my heart screaming behind its hands.

"Stop it, please", Hunk whimpers through the intercom and I hold my breath. "Just stop arguing."

I don't just stop arguing, I stop breathing too. There is like a tennis table ball in the pit of my stomach, and it bobs every time I take a breath. It sends an uncomfortable feeling through my whole body, so I stop breathing completely.

"I don't know what has gotten into you two lately, but you aren't making this easier. This isn't how a team works", Hunk wails and I sit completely still, but still not still enough. "There is too much anger going on between us. We should support each other! That's what a team does. It goes through hard things together. But we can't come anywhere with this if we all fight with each other. That won't save the universe..." A slight pause. "... or Keith."

The imaginary object in my stomach moves again, and I get a slight humbuggery. My temples are throbbing and I can't seem to go back to my resting pulse. Did I even have one today? Or all the other days this painful month?

"Hunk's right", Shiro adds and his voice is booming, shaking with leadership. I don't know how it does it, but he manages to take charge and add commanders onto everything with just his voice. "Everyone just needs to take a moment and calm down, and we need to work as a team. We can't do that if we're constantly angry with each other."

We all know me and Pidge is the only problem here.

"Pidge, Allura, Hunk, have you managed to find anything yet?" Shiro asks and the sudden switch in conversation confuses me.

"Not yet..." Allura's sentence is cut in the middle by the loud grumble concussing the sky. I look up to see a purple and black ship sinking down into the deserted planet. This ship is pointy, and unlike any I have seen. It's small, too, small compared to others.

It doesn't take long before it lands, a cloud of dust spreading around the vehicle as it meets the ground. I immediately take a hold of Red's handles and wait for Shiro's commando.

"We're not the only one here", he states, as if it wasn't obvious. "Pidge, Hunk and Allura, stay where you are. Me and Lance will fly closer and see who this is. It seems like a Galran ship, so be ready to assail if needed."

"Compy that." Pidge sounds bored.

"Come on", Shiro says and I quietly fly behind him as we slowly approach the ship ahead of us, behind weird looking rocks and caves. Everything seems to have glitter on them, glittery enough to make my eyes sting if I look at it for too long.

"Do you think it's the Galra's?" I ask when I catch up on his lion and I'm flying beside him.

"I don't know, but be ready for anything. I need you to put your anger aside for a moment, because it can disturb you and make you not think clear. Just try to focus."

"I'm not angry anymore." A lie. Honestly, I feel like ripping the whole universe apart and stomp on it until it's a flat piece. I feel like punching something again but I don't want my hand to hurt.

"Good." I can tell Shiro doesn't believe me.

As we get closer and closer to the ship, I think for every possibility. My hands tighten on the handles, and my eyes tighten on the target. My heart tries to skip a beat, then another. And another one, until it has skipped many enough for me to freak out.

"Shiro..." I start, but flinch when Coran's voice cuts through my ears like pins and croaking crows.

"Someone is sending a video message to the castle!" he informs very loudly. "I'm sending it to you right away. I think you want to see this..."

Me and Shiro both stop midair to receive Coran's message; I didn't even think he could send video messages from the castle to the lions, but there is clearly a lot of things I have yet to discover in the Voltron world.

Some seconds later, a full image of what I already know is a Galra takes over my whole screen, a Galra in charge of something. The first thing I notice is the big scar running through one of his eyes, and the dark purple setting behind him.

Kolivan.

He's wearing a serious face as he starts speaking.

"Greetings paladins. I belive it's time we start to discuss again. Concerning not only the war going on, but also your team itself."

"What about it?" Shiro asks, and even if his voice is laced with severity, I can hear the hint of hope. Hope for what?

"Please, land, we won't hurt you", Kolivan insists but his face remains dead serious. "That's not our intention."

"What's your intention in even coming here?" Shiro asks but I can still see him dive down and land carefully on the glittery and shiny ground. I do the same.

"I could ask you the same thing, but we're partly here because I had to contact you."

"What's happening?" Pidge's voice asks.

"Yeah, what's happening here?" Hunk follows in. I realize they must have no idea what we see, because the are probably not even in their lions. But neither me or Shiro answers their questions.

"Tell us what you have to say, Kolivan", Shiro says inpatiently. "Now."

"It's rather something I have to show."

The next second goes too fast. I see it, but I don't understand it. It's just there, but it can stick onto my mind. I see the contours of his body, slowly walking onscreen, his short little body beside Kolivan's big one. I feel his eyes on me, but I can't meet them. I'm looking at them, but I can't see them.

Keith looks over at us with an expressionless face and his features are the same but still so entirely different. I recognize him, but he's still a complete stranger. I have seen this man my whole life, but I still just met him.

My head starts to spin again and I realse my hold onto the handels.

"Oh God, Keith..." Shiro sighs and I imagine him closing his eyes for a moment. "You're okay... Thank God, you're okay..."

"My assumptions is that your team is starting to fall apart. I hope it's not the cause of Keith joining the Blade of Marmora."

Stupid Garla. Of course it is. What else would it be?
Keith is still staring at me, but he won't move a single muscle in his face. Can he see me? I hope not, because I probably look like a wreck right now. I feel like a wreck, and maybe something even worse.

"Keith... what are you doing? Come back to the team..." Shiro pleads but even the sorrow in his voice won't affect Keiths expression. "Why did you leave? You need to come back...the team needs you..."

I turn off the connection between mine, Pidge's, Hunk's and Alurra's intercoms. Now I can't hear them. I don't want to hear their voices in my ear.

"No", Keith says and his voice is lower than usual. He looks directly at me, or maybe it's Shiro, but something tells me that it's me.

"Why... Keith? Why did you leave without telling us? We could have helped you!" Shiro is begging now, and I consider turning off the connection between our intercoms too, but I need to hear what's going on.

"No, you couldn't"

"Dammit Keith! I order you to come back now!"

Keith blinks but his face stays the same. "I won't take orders from you. You're not my leader anymore."

He moves, and then the video message is over. My screen is back to normal, but my heart isn't.

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