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The Princess Awakens

Allura heard a commotion outside her bedroom. She quickly got dressed, and tried to find out what was happening. Something was wrong, she could feel it. Her fears were increased when her electronic door wouldn’t open. Fortunately she was able to open the door manually.

“What’s wrong?”, she asked one of the guards who was running toward the control room.

“Your highness.”, he began, “There is no power throughout the castle, including the all castle defenses.”

“My God!”, she thought, “We’re vulnerable!”

Allura made her way to the control room. Coran, Hunk, Keith, and Nanny were already there. Everyone was in a panic. Nothing was working, not even the backup systems.

“Where are Lance and Pidge?”, Allura asked.

“We don’t know.”, said Keith, “The sensors are down as well, we can’t locate anyone.”

“What the hell is going on?”, they heard a voice ask.

“Lance?”, the princess asked, “Where’s Pidge?”

“Who the hell do I look like?”, he asked, “The little pip squeak's babysitter?”

“If you don’t stop vith dat awful language!”, Nanny yelled, “I vill vash your mouth out vith soap!”

“Please! Stop it you two!”, Allura began, “We have to find Pidge. He may be hurt.”

“We need to get to the lions.”, said Hunk, “My guess is that Lotor is behind this, and will be attacking soon.”

“I’m afraid that’s impossible.”, stated Coran, “All systems, even the launch pads to the lions, are down.”

“Then we’ll have to walk.”, said Keith, “Hunk is right, Lotor is probably behind this”

“I can’t even activate the entrance to the lion launch bays.”, Coran told them, “We have no access to them.”

Suddenly, some power came back online in the control room. However it was just the comm system and the view screen.

“Great job, Coran!”, said Allura, “You were able to restore some power.”

“I didn’t do that Princess.”, he told her, “It all came on by itself.”

Boom! Suddenly it felt as if the Castle was hit by a meteor. Coran turned on the view screen. They could see Lotor’s ship firing. However it was only firing around the castle, not directly at it. Then all of a sudden Lotor’s image appeared on the view screen.

“My beloved Allura!”, he began to say, “I didn‘t think it was possible, but you look even more beautiful then ever!”

“What do you want Lotor?”, Allura asked.

“The same thing I always want, my dear.”, he said to her, “You! What a lovely queen you will make. I will be the envy of every Drule leader throughout the Galaxy. With you by my side, and Voltron at my command, I will be unstoppable.”

“I will never marry you!”, she told him, “I will not let you enslave my people, or my planet! Voltron was created by my father to be used for good! It will never be used for evil!”

“But Allura.”, he began, “I have disposed of my father. I now rule Planet Doom! I know how much you hated him, I hated him too. I assure you his death was not in vein. I feed him to a group of prisoners that he was slowly starving to death.”

“Gross!”, screamed Lance, “That’s absolutely disgusting!”

“I wasn’t talking to you, fool!”, shouted Lotor. Lotor then turned his attentions back to Allura.

“Allura, will you become my bride?”, he asked.

“You know my answer, Lotor.”, she told him, “My answer is no!”

“How can you say that my dear?”, he asked, “I’ve already received your dowry.”

“What are you talking about?”, she asked.

“I have control of the Castle of Lions.”, he told her, “I will give you a little more power. Try to locate the green lion.”

Coran searched all five lions, but only four were in there rightful places. The green one was missing. Lotor began to laugh.

“If your looking for the green lion, you will find that it is no longer on planet Arus.”, said Lotor in a smug tone, “It is on Doom! I was just informed that it arrived there a few minutes ago.”

“How?”, asked Allura.

“Why don’t you ask your friends.” he told her.

The view screen panned away from Lotor. And there, chained to a wall, were Pidge and Romelle. Everyone was in disbelief. Tears came to Allura’s eyes.

“Pidge, Romelle.”, she cried, “No.”

“Yes, my dear!”, stated the evil king, “If you don’t want them harmed, then you’ll surrender to me!”

“What if we make our way to the other four lions, and just take you out now!”, yelled Hunk.

“With the help of a spell that Haggar cast on Romelle, Pidge believed she was his mother. Haggar was able to get your little friend to insert a disk into the green lion. It released a virus that gave me total control of the castle, and the lions. However, just to be safe, I sent the green lion to Planet Doom. That was to make sure there would be no Voltron.”

“He’s right.”, stated Coran, “According to the sensors, none of the lions are not operational.”

“Now princess.”, Lotor began, “I think you may want to reconsider my marriage proposal. I only fired around the castle, I have no desire to destroy it. More the anything I want you as a willing bride. However, I will do whatever it takes to make you my queen. If I must destroy your planet, and make you a slave queen, then so be it. I could easily destroy everything on this planet, and just spare you. I promise you Allura, I will lay the universe at your feet. But I am just as willing to lay it at your feet if they are in chains.”

“I don’t know what to do.”, she thought, “I hate him, but I must think of my people.”

“I am loosing patience princess!”, he said in a commanding voice, “However, because of my love for you, I will give you five minutes to decide. Do you want a formal wedding on a free Arus tomorrow, or a claiming ceremony on Doom tonight? If you choose the latter, I will do to Arus what I did to Planet Balto.”

Lotor then blacked out the screen.

“What do I do?”, cried Allura.

“I tell you what we do.”, said Keith, “We fight!”

“How Keith?”, she asked, “How do we fight? If you can think of a way out of this, tell me now. Other wise, I’ll have to…”

“Don’t say it!, he shouted, “We’ll get help from Bandor, or Galaxy Garrison.”

“Pollox is no longer in a close orbit to Arus.”, she said, “It is too far away, Arus would be destroyed by then. Galaxy Garrison is also too far away, plus their hands are full with the rest of the Drule empire. Even if either one could get here on time, it wouldn’t matter. Lotor has control of everything. We couldn’t get a message out anyway.”

“No princess.”, said Keith, “There has to be another way."

“You have one minute to tell me what that is.”, she told him.

Tears came to his eyes, he couldn’t look at her. He knew she had no choice. She had to surrender.

Lotor then came back on the view screen. He had an evil smile on his face. He knew what her answer would be, and he couldn’t wait to hear her say it.

“Well my love?”, he asked.

“All right, Lotor.”, she told him with a solemn look on her face, “I accept your terms, but under one condition. You spare the lives of everyone. That includes Romelle, the Voltron force, and everyone in the castle. In exchange I will give you what you want most. Tonight I will willingly consummate our marriage before the wedding. I will give you my virginity.”

Lotor was more then pleased. Not only would he finally make love to her, but she would willingly be his. He would now get everything he deserved.

“Very well, Allura.”, he told her, “Have your chef prepare your favorite meal. Tonight we will dine in your bedroom. I will bring you wine, and flowers. I will also send you a gown to wear. It will be suitable for my future queen. Also, as lovely as you are with your hair up, I want you to wear it down. That is when you are at your most beautiful. Until tonight my love.”

The view screen went black again. Keith wanted to reach right through it, and rip out Lotor’s heart. He also loved her, secretly, and could not stand the thought of Lotor touching her. Now he wished he had only told her how he really felt.

“Princess, No!”, he cried, “You can’t do this!”

“I have no choice.”, she told him while tears were coming to her eyes, “I have to put my people, and the rest of you, before myself. If I marry him this would be inevitable anyway. If it will save lives, then I will give myself to him tonight. Perhaps I’ll just close my eyes and pretend it’s you. I wish I had told you under different circumstances. This isn’t how I wanted you to find out how I really feel.”

“Allura, I…”, Keith began.

“Please don’t say it.”, she cried, “I couldn’t bear to hear it right now. This is already hard enough. I need to prepare for tonight.”

Everyone was stunned as she walked away. They couldn’t let this happen, but they didn’t know what to do. Everyone felt helpless.

“Vee can’t let her do dis.’, cried Nanny, “I vill not let dat monster touch my poor baby.”

“I don’t know what to do.” Coran said, “The truth is we are defenseless, and in the end it is her decision. I promised her father that I would protect her. I have failed. I would gladly give my life to protect her, but even that wouldn’t do any good. Maybe she can convince Lotor to let you return to Earth, and Romelle to Pollux.”

“Lotor will never keep his word!”, yelled Hunk, “He never has! Why should he start now?”

“Lotor will have his way with her, and then kill us all!”, yelled Lance, “Look you all can be a part of this, but I’m out of here!”

“Lance!”, shouted Keith, “Where are you going?”

“Anywhere but here!”, Lance shouted back, “I’ve given the last few months of my life busting my ass, and having the shit beat out of me. And for what, to become a slave? Because if he lets us live, that’s what we’ll be! Well fuck that, and fuck the rest of you if you wait around for it! From now on, I’m only looking out for number one!”

All they could do was watch him walk away. A voice came over the comm system. It was one of the captains of the Doom soldiers. He ordered the castle to officially surrender. Coran had no choice but to order the palace guards to lay down there arms. All seemed lost.

“Well.”, said Lotor, “This is working out better then I planned."

“Lotor!”, began Haggar, “Are you actually going to spare the Voltron force?”

“I promised Allura that I would let them live, I never said anything about sparing them. I’m sure there are plenty in the Drule empire who would pay a high price for slaves that were part of the Voltron force.”, he laughed, “Of course I will wait until after the wedding.”

“You monster!”, cried Romelle, “You won’t get away with this, I’ll tell Allura!”

“I don’t think so my dear.”, said Lotor, “Unless you want me to skin your brother alive right before your eyes.”

Just then a door to one of the corridors of the ship opened up, two dark figures appeared. Romelle could not believe her eyes. It was a guard and his prisoner. How could it be? How was he Lotor’s prisoner?

“Bandor!”, she cried, “No! How did they capture you?”

“With the same trick that Haggar played on Pidge!”, laughed Lotor, “I needed to test out my plan before I tried it on Pidge. Your brother was the perfect guinea pig.”

“Romelle, I thought you were calling for me!”, he cried, “I thought you had escaped, and that you needed me. Lotor, and Haggar landed on Pollox undetected. When I came looking for you, that’s when I was taken. Don’t worry our highest ranking military officer knows that he is in charge of Pollox if anything happens to me. At least our world is safe.”

“Not for long you little fool!”, said Lotor, “You see Romelle, Allura doesn’t know that I have Bandor. I never promised her his life. So if you want him to live, you won’t say anything. That goes for you as well you little bastard. Pidge is it? I would love to slit your throat, for humiliating me, but I think I will keep you as a personal slave. I will make you wish you were in hell by the time I’m done with you. If you say anything, Bandor’s slow and bloody death with be on your conscious. Just ask Romelle about her two friends, they had to pay the price for her defiance.”

“You rat bastard!”, yelled Romelle.

Lotor became angry, and was about to strike her. He then remembered that she was now a hot commodity. She had to stay perfect if she was going to fetch him a high price.

“Haggar?”, asked Lotor, “Have we had any offers on Romelle?”

“We’ve had hundreds.”, she told him, “The most notable are from Hazar himself, and Queen Merla.”

“Merla?”, he laughed, “I should have known.”

He hated both Merla and Romelle, but he couldn’t help but imagine them together. After all he was a man. The thought was very erotic. However he had more important things to think about. Tonight he would finally make love to Allura.

“I will kill you!”, yelled Bandor, “I won’t let you do this to my sister!”

“I can’t stand to look at these three anymore!”, shouted Lotor, “Take them all to the brig!”

As they were being escorted away, Lotor began to fantasize about his evening with Allura. It all of a sudden dawned on him, that even though she was giving him her consent, he knew that she would feel that he was raping her. That’s the last thing he wanted. Haggar could tell that he was troubled.

“What’s wrong my king?”, asked Haggar.

“Allura is going to let me have her.”, he sighed, “But she is going to hate me the whole time.”

“I could always mix up a love potion.”, she told him.

“No!”, stated Lotor, “I want her to truly love me, not your magical concoctions.”

“Then how about this.”, she said, “Let me put a special aphrodisiac in the wine. It effects humans, but not Drules. You can also drink the wine, and she won’t be suspicious. It will only last until she wakes the next morning. You can give it to her every time you make love to her. Over time she will think her sexual emotions for you are real. She will then fall in love with you on her own.”

“What a wonderful idea Haggar.” he told her, “I am glad I let you live. Until tonight my beloved Allura, it shall be the greatest night of out lives.!”

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