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It was a simple mission, Allura said. It’s going to be the easiest treaty you’ll ever sign, she said. So, why is that I am pinned down by this annoyingly attractive man-bird-person?!
The wings from his back were pinning my shoulders down. He lined their length with my arms rendering them useless. I tried to kick him away, but he has a tail and held one of my legs down. He was using his hands to try and play with the belt of my suit. He furrowed his brows with every attempt when it wasn’t doing what he wanted. What did he want? I was still trying to use my other foot to kick him off until his knee held me down.
I couldn’t move. I started screaming hoping one of my fellow paladins were nearby. My helmet was far away, before the flying man attacked he came from behind me grabbing the helmet and he tossed it away. He said, “Why hide a face that pretty?” I charged at the long haired blonde assuming he was the reason behind why Team Voltron got separated from each other.
As he held me down I could only focus on his face. The angel had a carnivorous look in his eyes. His eyes were yellow, he had slits where pupils should have been. I kept struggling, but he kept looking down on me. I started to yell obscenities in his face so he could get off me, but he was not budging. Then suddenly, everything I wanted to punch in the face I wanted to kiss. The fangs I wanted to beat in. I now wanted to rub my tongue against. I felt a connection between us while staring into his soul. He was blindingly beautiful. I blinked it seems as if he is changing.
I thought his skin was porcelain before, but now it seems olive. His eyes glittered from yellow to blue. His slender nose became familiar. His sun-glistening hair turned copper as it became shorter to reveal a face of a person I think I knew. I would have let him do anything to me. I stopped resisting.
“The Gaze is working on you, good.” He whispered into my ear. I stayed motionless when he stopped using his wings to press me down. He told me to take off my red paladin outfit. I was about to start until I heard Lance screaming.
"Keith! Fight him!” He started to shoot frantically at the man hovering over me. The angel flicked his wing to deflect Lance’s lasers. His head ducked into his own wing as he winced.
Normally, Lance comes up with plans instead of rushing into battle. That was more of my thing. Luckily, he didn’t take his time, who knows what would have happened.
I put my hand to the thigh of my suit thinking of my weapon. My bayard came into hand as I hoped and before I unleashed my sword I aimed it to hit the man directly into his heart. I formed the blade and he let out a death-defying scream. He tried swatting it away with his wing, but I saw his eyes change when he accepted death. He forced his body further onto the sword getting closer to me.
“A parting gift.”
I felt a piercing pain into the side of neck. I let out a bloodcurdling scream. I heard Lance yell my name. He ran toward me and pushed the weight of the angel off of me. Instinctively, I moved my hand to my neck stop the bleeding. The sticky liquid was making it’s way to the back of my hair. Into my paladin outfit. Lance knelt down toward me and lifted my torso.
“Keith? My man? Are you alive? You’re bleeding alot!” He held me in his arms shaking me. My eyelids were fluttering.”Wow, Lance, why are there three of you?” I saw underneath his helmet Lance’s eyes shifted to the angel with a confusion expression.
“Why is there another me?” Before I passed out I caught a glimpse of the corpse beside me and it was Lance.
“That’s… weird.” I shut my eyes and heard Lance yelling. “Guys, uh, Keith needs some help!”
When I woke up, it was Shiro who had caught me from falling to my face from the cryopod.
“Thanks,” my voice is slurred. I steadied myself. Standing beside Shiro I became aware of the stinging on my body. I moaned feeling the tightness in my neck. My hand rubbed the right crook of my neck where the transforming angel got me.
“Are you alright, Keith?” Shiro asked quietly. I noticed the rest of Team Voltron had been sleeping in the center of all the cryopods.
“Did you all wait up for me? Or try to?” My eyes darted from the Princess and her mice resting against the adjacent pod from mine with Pidge laying against her. Hunk had fallen asleep standing against a pod close to mine. Hunk’s mouth was open as he snored. Coran was on the ground next to Hunk’s feet asleep. Lance was in the center of the center of all the cryopods with blankets and pillows around him he had on a sleeping mask. Nothing was going to make him uncomfortable.
I felt myself begin to tear up. Am I showing emotion? What? Why is this happening?
“You guys waited for me,” my bottom lip quivered. Why do I want to cry?
My eyes stared at Shiro and I strange pang of lust hit me like the Galra ships have before. I have always known Shiro is gorgeous, but I’ve never told him I thought of him that way before. He is the only thing that matters right now. Have you seen his arms?
I gently placed my hand to the side of his face. “You are so handsome, has anyone ever told you that before?” Shiro didn’t look surprised when I said this. After the words left my mouth and I registered what I had uttered. I found myself slapping my hands over them.
“I don’t know where that came from. I am sorry.” My face is as hot as the fire my lion spews out.
“Coran said this might happen.”
“What?”
“You got bit by an incubus,” My fingers rubbed around the two holes the angel, or the ‘incubus’ made. They turned to scabs now.
“The hell is an incubus?” Shiro awkwardly chuckled as he rubbed his metallic arm to the back of his neck.
“Well, you see, it’s kind of like,uh - so, like, um, ya know. Imagine one of those things-” I crossed my arms, feeling frustrated, my foot began to tap impatiently.
“Spit it out!” I yelled a little bit too loudly causing a stir in the Team. They began to wake up. My name quickly spilled out of the rest of the team’s mouth as the stumbled over to crowd by Shiro and I.
“That’s what she said,” I heard Lance mumble while he was startled into waking up.
Ignoring him I ask “What’s an incubus?” There was almost complete silence amongst the group as they each shot looks toward each other, but silence wasn’t really Lance’s style. He laughed as he explained an incubus to the whole group.
“Well, you see here, Keith, an incubus is a magical creature who feeds off of sexual energy and get strength by doing the hanky panky, the nasty, the do.They tend to have wings, and you know what else they have?” Lance was being annoying setting up the punchline of his joke. I am aiming to ruin that.
“Tails.” I spoke, but Lance was slightly louder than me. “The ability to turn into the person you desire most! And remember who he turned into when you looked at him?”
“Yeah, it was you.” The team seemed shocked at my admission, but I didn’t see why. “I was going to almost be killed and you were saving the day of course you were going to be what I wanted the most.”
“That’s right Keith got a big old crush on me,” Lance closed his eyes with a grin plastered all over his face until he paid attention to what I said.“Wait what?” Pidge and Hunk started to snicker.
“We knew there was no way Keith was into you Lance.” Pidge laughed into their palm. Hunk patted Lance on the back. “How’s your ego doing?” Lance flushed. “My ego is fine, it’s doing great because Keith is going to end up falling in love with me anyway.” Lance spoke defensively as he crossed his arms turning his back toward Hunk pouting.
“Lance, that is most certainly not going to happen.” Then the Team simultaneously sucked their teeth in. As if they don’t believe me. Why don’t they believe me?
“Well, Keith there’s a tad bit Lance left out about Incubi,”Allura began to explain. “If they bite you, you start to gain symptoms of an incubus, but in your case this will be temporary. If Lance’s description of what happened in your fight is accurate,” she glanced down at my waist, quickly, but shook her head. “Which I assume is, since your paladin outfit was intact, I don’t believe the incubus touched you?”
“He did.” For a moment everyone looked aghast.
“What? We were fighting.”
“Oh,” everyone said and let out a sigh of relief.
“Just fighting, right, fully clothed?” Allura seemed worried at what my response was going to be.
“Of course.” Why would I be less than fully clothed?
“Good, anyway Keith. You are going to start having more,uh,” I saw in her blue eyes she was searching for the right words. “Attractions, or impulses towards practically any male you meet to want to, um,” Allura was stammering on her words. Lance put his hands over Pidge’s ear.
“She mean you’re going to want to get fucked by men.” Lance spoke bluntly.
“Lance!” Shiro and Allura shouted toward him. Lance brought his arms back as he shrugged. “What! It’s the truth! That’s what an incubus’ bite does. He is going to be like a puppy in heat for like what next two months,” he motioned to Coran who nodded in agreement. “He is going to be very ‘active’ until the bite wears off!”
I stepped back into the pod.
“Freeze me.”
“Why?” Hunk asked.
“Sadly, I think Lance is telling the truth and if these impulses are true I don’t want to want him to touch me, no offense Lance,” Lance raised his arms up clearly offended. I continued. “Freeze me up. I can wait out two months.”
“The universe can’t wait two months. You still need to be awake to fight off Zarkon,” Allura spoke. “Also, the bite’s poison would still linger in you, in the pod. You’d have to deal with it eventually.”
“Poison?!”
“Don’t worry, Keith it isn’t lethal,” Pidge said. “It’s just going to be really annoying for you.” They were laughing.
“Why?” I directed it toward Pidge, but Shiro answered. “You’re going to be like a fledgling Incubus so you’ll need to do what they do in order to survive.”
“Survive?” I questioned. “I could die from this bite?”
“Pfft.” Lance said. “Dude, you got the best medicine to an illness I’ve ever heard of.” Shiro continued.
“Keith, you’re going to need,” His eyes peered to Lance then to Pidge. Lance nodded as he put his hands around Pidge’s ear. They grumbled. “I know what you’re going to say already.”
“Incubus need the seed of life to live,”
“By that he means come,” Lance cut him off.
“Come?” My eyebrows were brought together and one raised. “What’s that?” Hunk and Lance seemed bewildered at how I don’t know what it is. “You mean like come over here word like that kinda come?”
“No, I mean like, you know the white stuff that comes out when you reached your climax when you masturbate?” Lance asked. Allura gagged. “I never expected this to be a conversation I’d hear.”
“Neither do I, Princess. Also to answer your question, no, Lance. I don’t do that. Unlike you, I use my hands for sword fighting.”
“I mean, you technically can say that I am also practising with my sword-” I saw Hunk laughing until Shiro said. “Lance, no!” Lance raised his hands in defeat, but quickly put them back on Pidge’s ears.
“Lance, is right though. You need the white stuff, a.k.a semen or else you don’t make it out these two months.”
Lance cut in. “It can’t be your own either,” Lance began to stammer. “I only asked because, I thought that’d be funny if you were eating your own semen smoothies.” I roll my eyes at him.
“Okay so, like words, things, people, questions,”I began to speak nonsense to divert their attention as I tried to close my pod and freeze myself, ignoring my problems, let the universe be damned. it closed for a moment until Allura opened it back up again.
“Fine,” I groan. “I will have sex with people and live to save the universe,” Lance had stared at me as if I had no right to be complaining.
“Not people just men, actually.” Allura added quickly.
“Why?” I ask out of curiosity. I prefer men.
“Had a succubus bit you, you would need to get the seed from a female, but you were bit by an incubus therefore,”
“Just males.” I finished her sentence and sighed. A question came to my mind. “Hold on, where am I going to get this ‘seed’ from? We’re in space all the time, we can’t exactly make trips just for-” Lance cut me off.
“Oh, come on! This isn’t fair. I know exactly where this is leading. Keith gets to ask us ‘Who’s going to take one for the team and fuck me?’But when I do it,” he started putting up air quotations. “ It’s wrong, unacceptable, and makes people uncomfortable.”
“This is different Lance,” Coran commented. “You’re, well, you’re Lance, but Keith has a medical condition.”
“Oh seriously?!” Lance started to storm into my pod. “Keith looks pretty damn healthy to me” Lance seemed upset, I started to chuckle. My eyes could only focus on him. Reality became altered. This sun-kissed boy with blue eyes was all I could notice.
“You look sexy when you’re upset.” I brought my hand to the back of his hair and kissed him. I never noticed how soft he was. Whether it’s his skin or his hair. I could feel his brown hair tickle my forehead. My hands flickered between touching the nape of his neck and his hair. So soft. I could touch him all day.
My eyes start to close. I was melting into this lip lock, but I came to my sense that my lips were on his lips. My lips, Keith Kogane’s lips were on Lance McClain’s lips. This understanding rushed me out of my ‘impulse’ and back to reality. We stared at each other wide eyed for a few seconds.Too many seconds if you asked me. I pushed him back and he fell on his ass out of the pod.
“Allura, do not reopen this pod!” I screamed as I tried so very hard to close it, but it wouldn’t close. I gave up and slumped down onto the floor and cried.
“I kissed Lance,” I covered my arms over my chest. I pulled my knees in close. “Why, me? Why god?What did I do to deserve this?”
Lance blushed. “I’ve never gotten that reaction before!” Hunk looked down at him. “How is that ego doing again?”
“Shut up, Hunk!”
“Why am I crying? I feel so emotional.” I said in between whimpers bringing my hands to my eyes. If I were the Keith I was this morning I would have been more embarrassed about crying in front of the team, but I am not the Keith I was this morning. I am the version of me who wanted, who wants, to kiss Lance.
“Another side effect of the bite.”Shiro stated. I tried to stifled down my sniffles as I rubbed my eyes. “How long can I go without doing anything promiscuous and survive?” Coran started talking about math and measurements throwing in his knowledge of incubi. As the royal advisor he knows a lot about other creatures, I think he is our main source of info about this bite.
“Two days may be your limit.”
“Cool, how about we focus on the problem then?” I am eager to get out of here and heading to the training deck. Fighting a robot is much less awkward than discussing my future sex life to Team Voltron.
“But, Keith we need to think about who will help you, when you need it. Luckily for us,” Allura fists bump Pidge. The woman and non-binary kid. “Pidge and I can’t help you nor would we want to. So, boys?” She eyed the men to see who was willing.
“I am sorry Keith, but my moustache doesn’t agree.” Coran said. “Understandable,” I said. I don’t need to understand how that worked, but I’m not going to cry about it.
“I may or may not have a thing with Shay and I kinda don’t want to risk that, so, no.”
“And that leaves Shiro and Lance,” Allura said. “Anymore objections?”
Lance grinned placing his hands on his hips.
“No way am I going to pass up an opportunity to make Keith my bit-” Hunk hit Lance upside the head before he could complete the word. “Ow!” Lance started rubbing the back of his super soft head.
“I’ll do it, too,” Shiro said which resulted in everyone turning their heads toward him. “Lance you seem a bit too excited for this.” Shiro’s lip turned upward slightly on one side as he eyed Lance. It caused Lance to heat up. His tanned cheeks were turning red which complimented his freckles.
It was cute.
“Lance, maybe we should go to your bedroom now.” I wink towards him. He starts to flush even more at the insinuation of my statement. As soon as I think back to what I just said, so do I.
“I did not want to say that,” I shook my head. “I don’t even want you, Lance. I much prefer Shiro. Have you seen his arms? I would be safe in those.” I bit my own tongue trying to keep myself from furthering my foolery. In a pained voice I shout “I’m going to go to the training deck. Bye.”
I jet out of the cryopod rushing past everyone. I heard them calling my name, but I would like very much to not think about anything that happened in that meeting. Or what’s going to inevitably happen over the course of the next couple of months.
My hands rushed over my wound as I began to feel it pulse.
A parting gift.