The Last Paladin

Shiro's Escape

We all stood there as we watched Shiro struggle in the containment shell. Shiro was grunting.

"Is he okay?" Hunk asked.

"Sometimes the healing progress can cause involuntary brain wave reactions." Allura mentioned.

"Looks like he is having a bad dream." Hunk added.

"He just got blasted by a space witch and mauled by giant lizards. What dream could be worse than that?" Keith reminded. Eventually we saw him beginning to wake up. We all smiled in relief. He than began to talk about his dream. How he was released by some Galran and had coordinated in his arm.

"I'm not finding any coordinates in here. Are you sure this was more than just a dream?" Pidge asked.

"I'm positive. Someone helped me escape." Shiro denied Pidge's theory. I know of what he was talking about. Message gets around the Blade.

"And he was Galra?" Allura groaned.

"Yes." Shiro grunted.

"You know you cannot trust them." Allura blurted out.

"Your father must have trusted them once! Zarkon was the original black paladin wasn't he?" Shiro brought up. That nobody knew about.

"That was a long time ago." Allura muttered.

"Wait what?" I furrowed my eyebrows.

"Didn't you see how he stole the black lion right out from Shiro?" Keith asked me. "Or that he could do all that cool stuff with his bayard? Shiro's bayard? You know the black one."

"Why didn't you just tell us the truth about Zarkon?" Shiro muttered.

"I wanted to protect you from the dark history of the paladins, so that you would have a chance to bond with your lions on your own. You are the black paladin now. Not Zarkon." Allura explained herself.

"Yeah, well, the black lion may have a different take on the matter." Shiro responded in a harsh tone.

"Wait a second... I think I see it now." Pidge pointed at the screen. "Some repeating numbers in all this galra code. Let me extract it." Pidge typed. "They are coordinates! They lead here! The thaldycon system!" Pidge exclaimed.

"Then, that's where we're headed." Shiro commanded.

"Shiro, are you sure you can trust this?" Keith asked. "I mean after all the Galra have done to you... they—they—took your arm."

"It's worth the risk. Someone helped me escape. If we can locate some allies in our fight against Zarkon, especially the ones from his own side, we might just find a way to take him down." Shiro explained.

"We can check the location, but I do not like this." Allura added. "The Galra are not to be trusted."

The castle blasted into the location where there were large gemstones everywhere. Then, we heard someone breach. We all got in our suits and began to sprint around. Then, we overheard Lance say:

"I got him!"

Shiro responds:

"Keep an eye on him, Lance! We are all headed toward you."

When I saw the Blade of Marmora suit, I stood there in shock.

"Why are you standing around!" Keith yelled at me as he ran by me. I ran up and tried to trip him using my bayard, but I missed.

Then, Shiro stopped him with his arm. There was an awkward stance. We all didn't know how to react.

"Ulaz?" Shiro questioned. I recognized him. We only knew one another through the Blade. We sparred once or twice.