I apologize for the LONG wait in getting this out. It’s been a difficult stage to actually getting back on writing. But I do hope you like it, hon!
“Wait,” Lance blinked as the silence was interrupted, “that means…,” he counted with his fingers, multiplied in his head, and the math was beginning to make him feel nauseous, “you have to be over a thousand years old!”
The priestess sitting at the center of the lounge with all eyes on her could not help but feel her brow twitch in return. Out of the whole story she had given, that was what he had gotten out of it?
“Thank you, Lance, for making sure everyone was aware of that.” Pidge scoffed as she turned her focus on the priestess. It was one hell of a rescue, and the outcome was something none of them had planned. Heck, they had not even fathomed the idea of having to break someone out of a pink crystallized tomb, and a human nonetheless. “So~,” Pidge cleared her throat, “how exactly did you get into that sticky situation?”
“Yeah!” Hunk had been the most shocked out of all the moment Keith came out to their meeting place to escape the Galra ship to fish out information, but there laid the girl in his arms while Shiro and Lance battled it out for the escape. “It is unheard of for the Galra to have you unscratched, I mean…,” his eyes landed on Shiro.
Sighing under his breath, Shiro broke the curiosity bubbles by locking the girl’ blue eyes on him who sat across. “You said your name is Kagome, correct?”
“That much I remember.” She replied. That was no lie.
“Do you remember how you got to be on a Galra ship?” Shiro continued.
Kagome shook her head. That was the truth.
“Hm,” Coran rubbed his chin, “it certainly is puzzling to hear that you don’t remember how you got on their ship, yet you remember your past.”
Kagome nodded.
“That is absurd!”
Eyes landed on the red paladin who stood on the other side of the room leaning against the wall.
“Are you going to believe that this girl is from the twenty first century, and that she traveled back in her own time, exactly five hundred years from then?!” Keith had listened to the priestess’s story, and all of it sounded too fiction for him to believe. There was no way a girl like him could be alive from the twenty-first century and be here now!
“Yet,” Kagome’s brow rose in return, “you are here in space fighting against aliens? I would be the one rejecting this reality if you ask me.” She sighed, knowing it was going to be difficult for the others to accept her story, but it was true. She remember her past life and the last minutes of her life before she blacked out. The next thing she knew she was waking up in one of the lion ship things, and his nonetheless.
Raising her hand to stop the tension from rising, Allura’s eyes landed on the red paladin. “Keith, let’s calm down. We all have questions, and she has every right to be questioning as well.” Time traveling had been one thing, but time traveling to times of demons, war, and all because of an item that could have granted one’s wish? Of course it sounded absurd, but she was right to question where she was and who they were. She came from a time that all of this could only be made by fiction.
“Kagome.”
Pulled by Shiro’s voice, Kagome’s shoulders relaxed, or at least they tried. Was she scared? Of course. Was she going to show it? No. She needed to be strong. She needed to be. She had to be.
“I know you have your suspicions against us, and we will take them, but I want you to understand that we are the good guys.”
Her eyes narrowed slowly upon catching the spike in his aura.
“We are here to save the universe, and you can trust us.”
“Yeah!” Lance jumped in with a wide smile. “You can consider us your knights!”
“Knights?” Kagome repeated.
“Yeah, you know, since we saved you and all! Although,” his glare flew over to Keith who continued to have his arms crossed, “he wouldn’t let me carry you.”
“It was a about time!” Keith shouted back. “We had no time to be arguing about it!”
While listening to the two bickering, Kagome’s focus wandered on the others either laughing or trying to calm them down. All of it seemed unreal, and if anything, a dream she could have been conducting in her head. She had woken up from an eternal slumber into this?
“You are safe as long as you are here with us.”
Her head turned to Allura’s voice.
“Okay? You are welcome to stay with us.”
Giving out a stiff nod, Kagome was left to wonder if that was the smartest thing to do. Was she really safe? Or would she put them all in danger?