Of The Pack
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The vines were large, stiff, gnarly, and thick-stemmed, with blue leaves as big and round as dinner plates, but Shiro's battle-arm was able to sever several long straggles with ease. The vines draped easily enough over the shuttle and hid it quite handily from view. “Good enough, I suppose,” Shiro said, glaring at the empty greenish-blue sky. “Come on, let's... Hunk? What's the matter?”
Hunk was staring at something behind him. “Shiro, don't make any sudden moves just now, but there's a really big lizard thing standing right behind you. Um. Two of them.”
Surprised, Shiro turned, albeit carefully. He'd never even heard them approach. That was rather impressive, considering the size of the beasts. It was as though someone had taken a pair of Arizonan horned lizards and rebuilt them more on the lines of a tiger without leaving out any of the spikes, then expanded them to about the size of an Indian elephant and added six large, intelligent blue eyes. Understandably, Shiro froze in place.
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- Part 1 of Of The Pack
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Keith sniffled. “Don't say that, Mom. Every time a long-lost relative says that, they wind up dead a little while later.”
His mother snorted. “Ah, yes. I spent a great deal of time watching that sort of thing on television while living with your father. Garbage, child. I am not a Human. I am a Galra, and a very highly-trained warrior at that. If anyone tries to come between us again, I will kill them and make you a gift of their skulls.”
Keith chuckled damply. “No thanks, I've got too much stuff on my shelf already. I'll settle for having my own Space Ninja Mom instead.”
“I'll keep the skulls, then,” she said, squeezing him gently. “Tell me, then, if you can bear to, what happened to you and your father after I left?”
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- Part 2 of Of The Pack
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The girl looked up, seeing something towering above her, sand-colored and spiky with a wide streak of glittering blue down its throat. Something about the colors and the spikes was comforting, and she relaxed a little and turned her attention back to the other creature, who was muttering grumpily as it sifted through other blurs.
“What's your name, girl, if it can be told?” the mild voice from above asked quietly.
The girl opened her mouth to reply, but couldn't. She had no answer to give. “I don't know,” she whispered, and was surprised at the unfamiliar sound of her own voice.
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- Part 3 of Of The Pack
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Haggar growled and gave the man another zap just for that. “No man has ever landed a blow like that on me before, nor will one do so ever again. This one will come to regret that he did not die in the arena soon enough.”
“Never... happen,” the man on the table rasped. “No... matter... what you... do to... me, it's too late. You've... already... lost.”
“What?” Zarkon said ominously.
Amazingly, the prisoner smiled. “You'll... never... regain... control of ... the Lions... now. Never again. You had... one chance... both of you. It's gone... forever. You're... you're dead. Your Empire... is doomed. You just don't know it yet.”Series
- Part 4 of Of The Pack
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“When she can't sharpen her nails on the people who offend her, at least. Bloodthirsty woman,” Pendrash said grimly. “I suspect that something will have to be done about her eventually, her and a great many others. Twice, Vardok. Twice has the Emperor sustained serious injury at the hands of the Paladins, and the High Houses have taken note. Zarkon is not invulnerable in their eyes anymore.”
Vardok hissed. “Treason?”
“Not yet.” Pendrash glared pensively at the scarred surface of the table for a long moment. “No, not quite yet. They are still very wary. He still lives, and he is still powerful, and Haggar stands ready to destroy anyone who threatens either him or herself, and the Houses do not dare make any move just yet... but they know about the bone spear, and that a Paladin can use it.”Series
- Part 5 of Of The Pack
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Shiro glanced up at the Castle again, cold and distant as the neighboring mountain peaks. This was Zarkon as he had been ten thousand years ago, on a planet that no longer existed. Still young, still a hero, still untouched by the evil that had claimed him. Shiro could not bring himself to lie to this young man, who knew nothing of what he would one day become.
“No,” he said quietly, “I'm an Oracle, and I'm having a Vision.”Series
- Part 6 of Of The Pack
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Something like a trio of stars flashed across his inner vision, and something great and dark moved in the night. Bright dark, dark that shone, and a sound as of some sort of heavy fabric billowing in the wind. Gray-white gleam, black flash, pale gold and deep, fiery red, a shred of song as of the god of all things whale-like. The void weight jerked back, pulling in its field—it had attracted something diametrically opposed to it, and its aperture was in danger...
Shiro let out an explosive breath and groped for one of the beverage packets he kept in his lunchbox. The weight had vanished, popping like a soap bubble and so had the Vision, and the Lens had gone still for the time being. Nobody had asked what that was, because none of them knew, and nobody particularly wanted an answer.
“My goodness,” Allura said faintly from the Castle's command deck.Series
- Part 7 of Of The Pack