"I believe this is the man you are looking for!" Lotor holds up Klaizap.

The tiny man grins and holds out his hands, "You got me."

The commander just narrows his eyes at them, and after a moment another solider descends the stairs, calling out to him, "Sir, there's no sign of Sharpshooter."

Suddenly a neigh fills the room and the palace horse, Coran, bursts through the tavern door.

"Coran!" The commander gasps in surprise.

Coran puts his nose to the ground and sniffs the floor, follows the scent to the bar. He neighs and points a hoof at the lever.

However, the commander doesn't seem to understand. Coran huffs and shakes his head, then pushes down on the lever, opening up the passageway. "A passage! Come on, men, lets go. You!

Make sure those boys don't get away."

The sole guard left in charge of Sendak and Haxus swallows tightly, pointing his spear at the two of them. Sendak rolls his eyes and smacks his head against the guards, who instantly hits the ground.

Sendak props the spear up with his foot, and they use it to cut through their bonds. Haxus smirks, "I know where that goes. We'll play it safe, go get the crown."

Klaizap stumbles from the tavern, where he runs into Zarkon. Zarkon has been watching for long enough now to know that Keith left the tower of his own accord, and he is furious.

"Oh!" Klaizap grins, "Someone get me a glass, because I found me a tall drink of water."

Zarkon laughs, pretends to be flustered, "Oh stop it, you."

Klaizap is about to continue when Zarkon surges forward, pressing the point of the blade against his throat and growling, "Where does that tunnel let out?" 

"Knife." Klaizap whimpers.

"Well, I've gotta say, I didn't know you had that in you back there." Tailor admits, hefting the lantern up so they can see better, "That was actually... Impressive."

"I know!" Keith exclaims, then clears his throat and says more calmly, "I know." Tailor can't help but smile at Keith.

"So..." Keith speeds up a little so he's beside Tailor, "Tailor, where you from?"

"Oh no, blondie. I don't do backstory." Tailor shakes his head, "However, I am becoming very interested in yours. Now I know I'm not allowed to mention the hair."

"Nope."

"Or the father."

"No."

"Frankly I'm too scared to ask about the frog." Tailor admits.

Keith corrects, "Lizard."

"Whatever. Here's my question though. If you wanted to see the lanterns so badly, why haven't you gone before?"

Keith freezes, then glances at Pidge on his shoulder, "Ah, well..."

Before he can answer a small rock falls from the ceiling and hits his head. Keith frowns and the floor starts to shake, "Uh, Tailor?" Behind them the passage lights up and the guards that were at the tavern earlier appear, "Tailor!"

"Run!" Tailor pushes Keith in front of him, hastily collecting his hair and shoving it into his arms, "Run!"

They take off together down the dark passage, running in the darkness as Tailor has dropped the lantern in their haste. After a few moments light illuminates the tunnel, and they realize they're close to the end. Together they burst from the passage and onto the edge of a small cliff, just beside a massive dam.

Tailor pushes Keith toward a ladder he sees hanging from the edge, if they can get down it fast enough...

Sendak and Haxus burst from another passage at the bottom of the ravine. Keith gasps, "Who is that?"

"They don't like me!"

The guards finally make it out of the passage behind them, and Keith yells again, "Who is that?!"

"They don't like me either."

Amazingly, behind the guards, appears Coran the palace horse. "Who is-"

"Lets just assume that everyone here doesn't like me!"

Keith groans and hands his frying pan to Tailor, "Here!" Keith then tosses his hair towards a beam hanging from the channel they use to divert water from the dam, once he's sure the loop is strong enough to hold him, he runs and jumps, swinging his body across the gap and to the other side of the chasm. Keith lands perfectly on the rocky out cropping on the other side.

Tailor grins at him, but a laugh from behind him forces him to turn around. The commander smirks, "I've waited a long time for this."

Tailor looks at the frying pan in his hand, then at the swords in the hands of the guards. He swallows tightly and when the commander swings for him, he ducks before bringing the frying pan up and striking the man in the face with it. Even though he's wearing a helmet, the pan is heavy and knocks it off, and the commander spins before crumpling to the ground.

Tailor pares the next guards sword, before smacking him in the head as well. Somehow, Tailor manages to hit all the guards, blocking their swords with the pan any time they get close. When the last guard falls, he laughs triumphantly, "Wow! Oh man, I gotta get me one of these!"

The sound of a sword being drawn captures his attention, and he turns to see that the horse has a sword in its teeth. Tailor raises a brow, but hefts the frying pan up. The horse lunges toward him, and Tailor ducks, barely managing to avoid the blade. The horse fights insanely, maybe because he's a horse. Tailor scrambles around, all he can do it knock the sword aside, there's no way for him to get the upper hand. Tailor calls out to Keith, "You should know this is the strangest thing I've ever done!"

In his distraction, the horse knocks the pan from his hand, and it falls down toward the bottom of the ravine. They both watch it fall, then Tailor turns back to the animal and smiles sheepishly, putting up his hands, "Hey, best two out of three?"

"Tailor!" Keith yells, tossing his hair. It wraps around the hand that Tailor has up.

Tailor smirks, and grips it tightly, saluting the horse as he steps off the side of the out cropping and swings down toward the ravine floor. He's pretty amazed that Keith has managed to make a rope swing with his hair like this, and that he's strong enough to swing him along.

"Tailor, look out!"

Tailor comes back to reality and realizes that Sendak and Haxus are just below him. He scrambles higher up Keith's hair and yells as they narrowly miss him with their swords. "Ha! You should see your faces!" Tailor laughs loudly, "You look ridiculous!"

With his last exclamation he slams into the side of the channel, groaning loudly at the pain in his stomach. Keith winces in sympathy, but before he can call out, the horse has knocked down one of the support beams to the dam and is making its way across to the part of the cliff Keith is on.

"Come on, silver!" Tailor calls, holding tightly to the end of his hair, "Jump!"

Keith doesn't hesitate, doesn't have time to. He runs and jumps off the edge of the out cropping. Tailor is holding onto his hair tightly, and Keith swings under the channel, his feet gently brush the water there and he lands almost gracefully. Keith turns around to see Sendak and Haxus running his way. He grabs his hair and sprints in the opposite direction, toward the mouth of what he assumes is the way out of this place.

Tailor watches Keith run before sliding his way down the channel. The water drizzle is thick enough, of the wood is slimy enough, that he slides down quickly and with little effort. Tailor vaults himself over the edge, and the bottom part of the channel falls apart. He tucks his body in and rolls as he hits the ground. Once he's sure he's clear, Tailor jumps up, scoops the rest of

Keith's hair into his arms, and runs beside him. They're so close to freedom, they can make it out!

Just then, the dam gives way and water starts rushing into the ravine. Tailor can hear Keith scream beside him, and he also hears Sendak and Haxus pick up the pace behind them. Unfortunately for his former thieving buddies, they're too close to the water, and they get swept away.

"Come on!" Tailor urges, they're so close, "We can make it!"

The water takes down an unstable rock formation just behind them, and their path is engulfed in shadows. They both run even faster, because now, if they don't make it, they'll definitely be crushed.

Somehow they duck into the entrance of the tunnel just in time. It's pitch black inside, and the way in instantly seals off as the rock falls in front of it. Water still quickly begins to fill the cavern, however, and in that moment, they realize this isn't a tunnel, it doesn't go anywhere.

Tailor panics and starts pulling at the rock wall, Keith is hitting it with the frying pan that has somehow made it in here with them. Tailor takes a breath and dives into the water, searching below, hoping to find a break in the rocks there. He comes up for a breath and then dives again, and again, and again.

Tailor comes back up and slams his body against the wall, but it doesn't budge. Keith's parrot is here too, he's just now realizing, and it's screaming swear words at the both of them. Tailor reaches up toward the ceiling and finds he can get his hand between two rocks. He grips one of them and pulls it as hard as he can, but his hand is wet, so it slides off. Tailor hisses in pain as it cuts deeply into his hand and blood flows quickly from the wound.

Tailor shakes his head, the pain clearing his thoughts, and dives back under the water again, there has to be something!

When he resurfaces, Keith is still trying to move rocks, hitting them with the frying pan as hard as he can. Tailor shakes his head, gasping for breath, "It's no use! I can't see anything!"

Keith breathes heavily beside him, then dives down into the water. Tailor panics and goes after him, pulling him back up quickly, before he can hit his head or hurt himself down there.

"Hey! There's no point!" Tailor gently brushes the wet strands of hair from Keith's face, struggling to see him in the darkness, "It's pitch black down there."

Keith backs against the rock wall and Tailor leans up beside him, both of them are breathing heavily, and water is still filling up the cavern. Keith presses a hand to his face, "This is all my fault. He was right. I never should have done this."

Keith sucks in a breath and Tailor knows that he must be crying. He wants to say something, but nothing comes out.

"I'm so-" Keith breathes deep, "I'm so sorry, Tailor."

He sighs softly, "Lance." "What?" Keith sniffles.

"My real name is Lance McClain." Lance finally admits, "Someone might as well know." Keith smiles a little bit, and admits his own secret, "I have magic hair that glows when I sing."

"What?" Lance nearly shrieks.

Keith blinks then grins, "I have magic hair that glows when I sing!" The water is rising, so he pushes the words out as quickly as he can, "Flower gleam and glow, let your power shine-"

They both suck in a breath as the water covers their heads. It's pitch black, but after a moment, Keith's hair does begin to glow, and the entire cavern is lit with its light. Lance shrieks again, then covers his mouth so he doesn't lose any more precious oxygen.

Keith's hair is being pulled toward some rocks, like there's a current there. Lance and Keith share a look, and they swim toward it and begin digging the rocks away.

Amazingly, they clear the rocks and a passage opens up, Keith's hair isn't glowing anymore, so as they spiral in the darkness, lungs aching for breath, they have no idea where they'll come out.

The two of them slam against another rock wall, but this one must be weak because their combined weight easily knocks it down, and they both spill out into a river. Lance and Keith drag themselves to the edge of the water, coughing and spluttering.

After a few moments Keith laughs, a bit hysterically, "We made it!"

"His hair glows!" Lance smacks his head against the ground, still shocked.

"We're alive!" Keith laughs again and pulls himself from the river, running toward the forest, "We're alive!"

"I didn't see that coming." Lance pushes a hand through his hair and looks at the soaking wet parrot beside him, "His hair actually glows."

Pidge huffs at him but nods.

"Lance."

"Why does his hair glow?!" Lance yells at Pidge, still freaking out.

"Lance!"

"What!?" Lance finally looks over at where Keith is attempting to get the water from his hair and clothing.

"It doesn't just glow."

Lance looks down at Pidge, who is looking awfully smug for a lizard, then he looks back up at Keith, "Why is she smiling at me?"

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Hello Paladins! 

Here is the new chapter! Hope you all like it, so they finally had a fight scene and the secret Keith had about his hair revel. But why is Pidge so happy when Lance's afraid? Well you will have to wait for the next chapter to see. 

I'm sorry I didn't post Sunday but I'll post the next monday. Hope you like and comment on the chapter and tell me. Did you saw the new season?

~Pam