#almost death mention
Whumptober 2021
No. 19 - JUST A SCRATCH
bitten | bleeding | stabbing
⚠️ Read the tags for warnings ⚠️
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Allura and lotor where in the quintessence field when Keith returns to the castle of lions. He looks stressed and it doesn’t take the paladins long to notice. Keith explains to them that lotor has been playing them to gain there trust. He catches them up on all the information he has gathered on motors plan.
The paladins and Keith stood around catching up waiting for lotors arrival. Once he enters the room with the princess they are all stood waiting for him. It doesn’t take long for lotor to figure out that they are onto him. At first he’s not sure what to do but then he sees the blade attached to alluras suit. He reaches for it and at first he thinks no one had seen him until the former red paladin was charging at him with his blade. Lotor being much taller than Keith had the advantage and simply knocked the blade from his hand.
Lotor dug the blade straight into Keith’s chest narrowly avoiding his heart. The other paladins don’t register what happened until Keith let’s out a gut wrenching scream. Lotor quickly pulls back the blade letting Keith drop to the floor before running out towards an escape pod. Keith was left laying in a pool of his own blood. Shiro and Coran where the first to react, running to Keith’s side.
Keith couldn’t describe the pain he felt in that moment. His lungs felt like they would explode at any moment. The pool of blood beneath him was only growing bigger. Thick red blood continued to spew out of his open chest. His breathing was quick and uneven which concerned Coran. Soon after reaching Keith’s side Shiro lifted him into his arms and quickly made his way to the healing pods. He suddenly grew concerned when Keith went limp in his arms, when he looked down he realised that his eyes were shut and his chest was barely rising. He yelled in a panicked tone for Coran to hurry up with setting up the pod. Once it was completely set up Shiro quickly and carefully placed Keith inside and allowed the pod to close.
Suddenly all the paladins realised that in there panic about Keith lotor somehow managed to escape. Now not only did they want him dead because he lied to them and used them he also almost killed one of their friends, a part of their family. There was no way any of the paladins where letting him get away with this.
[Word count - 420]
