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Redemption and Destiny	By : alucardsangel1973 Category: +S to Z > Voltron Views: 2221 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: Voltron and its characters are property of World Event Productions. I do not own the fandom. No profit is made from this. This is purely a fanfiction that includes original characters from my imagination. Characters from the series and comic are not mine.

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chap5

Chapter
5: Redemption

The
workers were settling down to sleep. As Lotor began to drift off
himself, he heard a voice quietly trying to get his attention. He
looked around to make sure the guards weren't listening in. They
were themselves fast asleep. He looked and saw it was the young
woman who'd given him his dinner earlier. She crept away from the
other females in her cell and inched closer to the bars
seperating her cell from Lotor's.

"My
name is Miranda. I heard you talking to lord Kargos. King Zarkon
intends to launch an attack upon planet Arus?" She asked
nervously.

"He
does." He answered. "Was Arus your home world?" He
questioned.

"Yes.
I was a childhood friend of Princess Allura." Miranda
answered. "You are the one who covets her, aren't you?"
Miranda inquired.

"Yes."
Lotor answered in a solom tone.

"I
may be able to help you get away from this place." Miranda
said.

"Why
would you help me? I'm the reason you and so many others are here
in the first place." Lotor replied skeptically.

"Because
now you understand what it is to be one of us. Now you understand
what it's like to have everything you ever held dear taken away
from you." Miranda answered.

"Miranda!"
A voice hissed sharply. Miranda looked across from her to see a
man focusing his angry expression straight on her.

"Get
away from him! You have any idea who you're talking to?" He
said sternly.

Miranda
did as she was told and huddled back with the other female
prisoners. Then the man looked right at Lotor.

"Don't
get any ideas about my sister you fiend." He growled.

Lotor
said nothing. Before his ordeal he would have lashed out with
some snide or crude remark. But now he remained silent. Miranda's
brother was being protective. Not that Lotor could have done
anything to her anyway, but he understood her brother's anger.
Knowing that Allura could face the same fate, he truly understood
the brother's feelings.

"He
is justified. How many sisters became my slaves? How many fathers
lost their daughters because of me? How many husbands forced to
seperate from their wives..." His thought stopped as he
looked up at the ceiling.

"Before
I met Allura everything was so simple. My father made it all
sound so easy. Conquoer and destroy, that's all he ever cared
about. Love never fit into the picture. How is it he is not
capable of love yet I am?."

*********************************************************

Allura
stood on the balcony outside her bedroom. Tears poured from her
eyes. She had just been given the news that she would no longer
pilot the blue lion.

"I
don't understand. Coran wants me to be a responcible ruler and
protect my people. Yet he and the team decide I can't pilot the
blue lion anymore. I flew the blue lion before I ever met Lotor.
My life was in just as much danger before he came into my life.
Now that he's gone, why should it matter now? I take as much risk
as any of the other team members." She said to herself
wiping away her fallen tears.

"It's
just not fair. How can I protect my people if they won't let me?
I'm supposed to be an adult yet everyone treats me like I'm a
child." She sobbed.

As
she looked out into space she heard a knock at her door.
"Princess..." Keith called.

She
sighed and walked back into her room. She knew if she didn't open
the door the team would panic. They worried more than was needed
over her as it was. She opened the door.

"Princess,
please try to understand. We know you're a good pilot for the
blue lion. It's not that we don't have faith in your abilities.
It's just that with Lotor gone Zarkon won't show us any mercy. He
knows we care about you and if you were in that lion well...I'd
hate to think..."

"If
you had faith in my abilities you wouldn't doubt them now. I flew
the blue lion just fine before Lotor was even a thought in my
head. How can I protect my people if no one will let me?"
Allura protested.

"Allura,
you can't protect your people if you're dead or worse. What if
Zarkon captured you? I've been a prisoner of Zarkon. Trust me he
won't try to sweet talk you the way Lotor did." Keith
replied.

"You
think I don't know about Zarkon? He killed my father! I know
better than anyone what Zarkon is capable of!" Allura
shouted.

"Look
there's no need to fly off the handle. You would do well to
protect your people by protecting yourself. You're a brave girl,
but..."

"Girl!
Girl! I'm a woman! I'm a grown woman yet everyone around here
treats me like I'm a child!" Allura cried.

"Well
right now you are acting like a child. We're trying to do what's
best for you and here you are throwing a temper tantrum like a
two year old." Keith said sternly.

"I
have every right to fly the blue lion! And where were you and the
others when I needed you? You side with Coran and Nanny. I
thought you all trusted me to do my job, but apperently I was
wrong." Allura sobbed.

"We
do trust you. It's Zarkon we don't trust. Your people need you on
the ground. We have Sven back and, well, it's just that he can
keep himself out of danger..."

"Oh,
I see. Because he's a man he can handle himself better than I
can. That's it isn't it?" Allura asked.

"That
isn't what I meant, and you know it. You can fly the lion just as
well as Sven can, but he isn't in charge of an entire planet. You
are." Keith retorted firmly.

"Look,
I understand that you're upset. I can't say that I blame you for
it. But we're not only thinking about what's best for you, but
what's best for your people. When you've had a chance to think
about the bigger picture, you'll understand why we came to the
decision we did. It's better this way." Keith said and left
Allura's room.

The
princess was alone once more in her room. She walked over to her
bed and plopped down on it. She grabbed her favorite pillow
hugging it close to her. "Father, I wish you were here. I
wish you could tell me what's going on with me. I can't explain
why, but I actually regret Lotor being dead. I don't know why. I
shouldn't miss him. I shouldn't even give his name another
thought. He was a terrible, evil man. Yet I actually feel bad
about him being gone." The princess said to herself.

She
buried her face in her pillow as her tears dampened it's soft
exterior. "I feel so confused. Did he tell me he loved me
because he truly meant it? Now that he's dead I'll never know.
I'll never know if he truly meant what he said. Could I have
misjudged him? His methods were wrong. There's no mistaking that.
But could his intentions have truly been noble? Father I wish you
could tell me what to do."

*********************************************************

Keith
went back to the control room where the other team members and
Coran were waiting. "How is she Keith?" Coran asked.

"She's
still pretty upset. I'm beginning to wonder if we did the right
thing." Keith answered.

"We
did. When she has calmed down and thought things over, she will
realize what we all did was for the best. The safety of the
princess must be our number one priority. Even if she feels we
are wrong, we must do what is best for her." Coran said.

*********************************************************

Lotor
lay on his back in his cell. There wasn't much comfort to be
found in a cell on a cold stone floor, so he stayed in the only
position that was remotely comfortable. But sleep brought him no
comfort. His sleep was nothing but troubled. Knowing the fate
that awaited Allura, trying to find a way to escape to warn her,
and thinking about what Miranda had said to him earlier.

"This
is wrong." He thought. "This is no kind of
life. These people, I can't imagine how long they've had to live
with it. Many of them probably died this way."

Lotor
opened his eyes and looked up at the ceiling. It was no use
trying to sleep any longer. He could find no peace in it, so why
bother. "I always looked up to my father as a great
conquorer. He held so many civilizations at his feet and taught
me to do the same. He wanted me to be just like him."

*********************************************************

The
next day it was time for mining duty. The workers were harshly
awoken and forced out of their cells. They were taken into the
mine as they were every day to begin work. The guards stood by
watching the slaves making sure they did their work. They were
moved periodically in shifts to avoid overmining of the cave wall
and cause a collapse of the mine.

The
guards walked by each group of workers attacking any who failed
to fulfill their duties. But even those who did work diligently
were not safe from being harrassed or worse, especially the young
women. They derived twisted pleasure from the screams of young
women as they tortured them.

Lotor
stood at his post working his spot on the wall. He was
preoccupied with his thoughts of Allura and how to get away from
Carnos to warn her of his father's plans.

"Allura
if I had it all over to do again I would court you with the grace
you deserve. My father would have told me to just take you and be
done with it. Well to hell with him. He isn't going to stop me
from loving you anymore. If I had one chance, I would make up for
the way I treated you in the past Allura. I swear I would."

"Let
me go! Leave me alone!" A woman's voice echoed through the
mine. The cry abruptly brought Lotor out of his thoughts and back
to reality. He looked over his shoulder to find three guards
trying to force a young woman to come with them. From the looks
of things, they weren't having too much trouble but for her
struggling.

"Shut
up bitch! We can do with you as we please!" One guard
barked.

"Get
away from my sister you monsters!" A man shouted.

Lotor
recognized both voices. Miranda was the woman in trouble. Her
brother tried to fight the guards off only to find himself
knocked to the ground unconcious.

"You're
all ours now wench." Another guard growled as they started
dragging Miranda away.

"Let
her go!"

The
guards looked to find Lotor glaring them right in their faces.
His eyes narrowed showing the anger within. They glared back at
him and his audacity. How dare he interrupt their folly. One
guard held onto Miranda as she continued to struggle. The other
two squared off with Lotor. The other slaves stopped working to
watch the ensuing fight.

"You
never learn do you? You're not the master around here. You're the
slave." One guard snarled.

"I
said let her go. She's done nothing to any of you." Lotor
growled back.

"She's
ours to do with as we please. And we're going to do just that
after we beat you into oblivion." Another guard said as they
began advancing upon their target.

"All
right, let's see how good you filthy beasts really are."
Lotor challenged with a bit of a smirk on his face. This was
going to be a rematch from the first time he and the ogre guards
clashed on planet Doom. And this time he was ready.

"Well,
don't just stand there. Get him!" The guard holding Miranda
captive shouted.

The
two guards lumbered toward Lotor who ran toward them in turn.
Only when they brought their hammers down to smash him to pieces,
he sprang through the air executing a perfectly done front flip.
He landed on his feet behind the guards. His expression mocked
them behind their backs. Despite the pain in his body, he felt
renewed strength to put up a good fight.The ogres of Carnos
obviously didn't realize Lotor was a master of acrobatics. He
could dodge projectiles and lazar fire if given the proper amount
of space.

He
lept from the ground hurling himself through the air like a huge
ball effectively knocking the guards off their feet. They fumbled
to regain their footing. Lotor grabbed the first sharp tool he
could find and swung with all his might against the lazon wall. A
long, flat shard fell into his waiting hand. He found a ragged
cloth lying on the ground and wrapped it around one end of the
shard making a crude sword. When harnessed for its energy lazon
was deadly. But even in its raw material form, it still made for
a formidble weapon.

One
guard rushed toward Lotor only to have his gut split open by the
razor sharp edge of the blade. Another ran clumsily toward his
enemy. He raised his hammer to bring it down upon Lotor's head.
He got his hand cut off for his effort. As skilled as he was at
hand to hand combat and martial arts, he was deadliest when he
had a sword in his hands.

The
guard fell to the ground wailing in pain as he looked in shock at
the stump that was once his hand. Lotor raised his sword and ran
it through the guard's chest effectively impaling him through the
heart. He could now boast three ogres as his victims. He raised
the bloody weapon looking maliciously at the guard still
restraining Miranda.

"Now,
let her go!" He barked.

Seeing
what he'd done to his two comrads, the third guard released
Miranda. She ran to her fallen brother to try and revive him.

"So
are you going to back off or add to the body count?" Lotor
snarled with a maniacle look on his face. Miranda looked up to
see Kargos approach Lotor from behind. She was about to cry out
when his fist connected with the back of Lotor's head knocking
him unconcious.

"He's
killed two more of my guards! Now I'll have to have the witch
replace them! Get him out of my sight! Tomorrow he dies!"
Kargos screamed with fury.

to be continued...
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- 5
- 6
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