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  Rating:
      Explicit
  Archive Warning:
      Underage
  Category:
      M/M
  Fandom:
      Voltron:_Legendary_Defender
  Relationship:
      Keith/Lance/OC_Riyluxmn, Lance/OC_Riyluxmn, Keith/Lance_(Voltron), OC
      Riyluxmn/Keith
  Character:
      Keith_(Voltron), Lance_(Voltron), Shiro_(Voltron), Pidge_|_Katie_Holt,
      Hunk_(Voltron), Allura_(Voltron), Coran_(Voltron), Matt_Holt, OC_Riylumn,
      Lotor_(Voltron), Kolivan_(Voltron)
  Additional Tags:
      Underage_Sex, Explicit_Sexual_Content, Mates, Galra_Keith_(Voltron),
      Galra/Dreauxee_Riylumn, Made_up_alien_species_-_Freeform, Tail_Sex,
      because_Riylumn_has_a_tail_and_it'd_be_stupid_of_me_not_to_use_it,
      Protective_Lance_(Voltron), Protective_Keith_(Voltron), Blade_of_Marmora
      OCs, Minor_Character_Death, pack_bonds, season_4, m/m/m_relationship
  Series:
      Part 1 of The_Castle_of_Lion's_Dreauxee
  Stats:
      Published: 2017-10-30 Words: 20387
****** The Blade's Prized Treasure ******
by Scarlett_sama
Summary
     After Keith had left Voltron to join the Blade of Marmora the last
     thing the team expected was for him to return as an escort the very
     next day. Kolivan and their ex-paladin leaving in their protective
     custody one of the Blade's most prized and valuable members, a
     Dreauxee by the name of Riylumn; who is none other than the
     organizations communication hub. Freaky right? Lance still can't get
     his head around the fact an alien hybrid a little taller than Pidge
     can be a living communication system, but looks can be deceiving and
     Riylumn is nothing like the ice cold members of the Blade of Marmora.
     No, he's kind and cautious and sweet and Lance can't understand why
     he feels the need to protect him, nor show him the universe, but
     being a paladin of Voltron can't let him do everything. Not when
     they're working towards finishing this war.
     Pretty much little scenes that correspond with the new season and add
     my OC into the mix while he builds a shaky relationship with Keith
     and Lance.
Notes
     Here's a pronunciation list for everyone in case you start reading
     and have no idea how to begin to pronounce the ridiculous names and
     words my brain came up with:
     Dreauxee - (Dre-ux-ee)
     Riyluxmn - (Ri-lux-m)
     Friedren - (Free-drin)
     As a side note: I meant to break the fic up into chapters, but at
     this point I'm leaving it as it is. I wrote it nonstop without taking
     chapters into consideration and trying to break it up now is
     pointless. So enjoy the incredibly long fic, no extra clicking
     needed.
Between the start of the coalition, Keith leaving the team to join the Blade of
Marmora permanently, and Shiro taking over as the black Paladin in a time frame
of twenty four hours no one expected Keith to arrive back at the castle with
Kolivan and another masked Marmora member the very next day. Nor did they
expect the slight awkward air that settled around them as Keith looked at each
one of them, Kolivan beside him, and the still masked member behind him, before
settling his eyes on the floor beneath his feet.
 
“Kolivan, what do we owe the pleasure?” Allura carefully asked the moment the
trio stepped onto the bridge and the princess noticed them.
 
“We came to escort one of our members to the castle of lions as we previous
spoke of,” Kolivan spoke as he gestured to the still masked member behind
himself and Keith. The small figure bowing their head when spoken of. “I
figured the sooner we placed him in your care the safer he’d be.”
 
“Of course,” Allura spoke in joy as her gaze fell on the masked figure and
smiled. “We’ll be sure to make sure he settles in and finds himself comfortable
here.”
 
A nod left the leader of the blade of Marmora, before he gestured to Keith.
 
“Then we’ll be taking our leave. Please look after him.”
 
“Of course,” Allura reassured as the pair headed for the door.
 
Kolivan halting beside the small figure, and placing a hand on their shoulder,
as he leaned down and whispered to them. A few nods being received, before the
leader swiftly left the room as quickly as he arrived and the doors slid behind
him and Keith. All eyes falling on the still masked figure, who looked almost
Pidge’s height, before the princess stepped forward and smiled toward their
newcomer.
 
“Welcome to the castle of lions. As Kolivan most likely informed you I’m
princess Allura and the people behind me are the Paladins of Voltron,” she
calmly spoke, introducing them. “We hope you find your stay here comfortable,
and if you need anything let us know.”
 
A small nod left the figure, before a small hand reached up and pulled their
hood down. The traditional Marmora mask fading away as if an illusion and their
newcomers face came into the light as silence filled the room.
 
Covered in raised pastel brownish purple scales and lighter pastel purple skin
the face of a teenager gazed at them with unique eyes. A sandy color dominated
the majority of those orbs, but the distinguishable Galra yellow ran around his
cat like pupils in a thin ring. A double eyelid protected his eyes in an
incredibly disturbing fashion every time he blinked and his ears twitched in a
unique fashion. Unlike the Galra cat ears most were used to seeing the pastel
purple ears on either side of the teens head looked almost elf like, with a
random patch of scales here and there, and what looked like soft fur covering
them. And while they could be easily mistaken as small cat ears at first
glance, the distinguishable pattern of cartilage looked almost human and moved
slightly as if they were cat ears. Last but not least the teenagers hair was a
darker brownish purple pastel color from his scales. The strands framing his
face and stopping just past his ears in the front, while a braid came from the
part in the middle of his head and around the left side of his face and over
his ear to disappear into the longer hair in the back. His hair currently
bunched up into a messy bun, but from the volume of it it was meant to fall a
few inches past his shoulders and be in a loose ponytail.
 
“Well I’ll be...a Dreauxee,” Coran spoke in awe as the teenagers ears twitched
in recognition. “I never thought I’d live to the day I’d see one with my own
eyes.”
 
“Sorry to interrupt, Coran, but what’s a Dre-whatever?” Lance asked as he eyed
their newcomer with a raised eyebrow. “He looks like a elf, lizard, Galra
experiment gone wrong.”
 
A sharp jab to his ribs from Pidge had the Cuban male sucking in a breath and
muttering out an apology while Allura stared at their newest member to the
castle of lions in awe.
 
“It’s pronounced Dreauxee, Lance, and they’re said to be guardians that live in
the sands of Veritale,” Coran corrected as he waggled a finger at the Red
Paladin. “They’re secretive creatures that stick to their packs and to
themselves, never coming in contact with outsiders, and are said to have a
special bond with their homelands. According to legend the sands of Veritale
blessed the Dreauxee for protecting its grounds for hundreds of years and gave
them the ability to communicate with one another even if they were out of ears
reach and thousands of miles away.”
 
“So telepathy?” Pidge questioned in wonder as she adjusted her glasses and
studied their newcomer.
 
“Essentially yes, but the requirements are far more particular,” Coran spoke.
“A Dreauxee can only communicate with a being they consider one of their pack
and to be included in a Dreauxee’s pack is a cosmic honor. They’re not ones to
trust others easily.”
 
“But why would Kolivan send him here?” Shiro questioned in confusion, eyebrow
raised. “I can understand seeing one of his kind is rare, but-”
 
A sudden violent twitch of the Dreauxee’s ears had the boy glancing around the
room as if searching for something, before his shoulders relaxed and his eyes
closed for a moment. Those sandy brown eyes opening to gaze at them with a soft
smile.
 
“I apologize for the late introduction, but I wanted to make sure Kolivan and
Keith returned to base safely,” the teenager spoke up. His voice silencing the
entire room as they blinked at him. “My name is Riyluxmn and I’m the Blade of
Marmora’s communication hub.”
 
The silence continued to stretch out as they all stared at the Dreauxee in a
stupor. Shiro the first to speak out of the lot of them:
 
“Communication hub?” He spoke with uncertainty as Riyluxmn nodded. “You mean as
in-”
 
“Any and all messages within the Blade of Marmora come into me and go out to
their destined sender,” Riyluxmn finished. “I keep communications between teams
going, keep track of members, missions, and help move important information
from one blade to another.”
 
“So you’re a living mail hub,” Pidge spoke in awe as she stepped closer and
studied him. “Is it instant? How long can the message be? Is it like a message
chat or video feed? Does it take longer to send a message out if you’re farther
away from someone? Is there a limit to your range? What about-”
 
“Pidge, one question at a time,” Shiro lightly scolded, the girls cheeks
coloring in embarrassment.
 
“Sorry.”
 
“It’s alright, green Paladin,” Riyluxmn spoke with a small smile. “As an
answer: it’s more like an open audio feed line. I can open a link between
members and communication can be established through me regardless of distance
between any of us. I can also contact members myself as well, but the idea is
the same. I have no range as it is limitless as long as they are part of my
initial pack, and due to the fact every member in the Blade of Marmora has
Galran heritage communication is as simple as breathing for me.”
 
“So you’re part Galra, too?” Hunk questioned, receiving a nod from their
newcomer.
 
“Half Galra and half Dreauxee,” Riyluxmn confirmed.
 
“How incredible,” Allura finally spoke. The princess finally snapped out of her
amazed stupor as she smiled at him. “Well welcome to the Castle of Lions,
Riyluxmn. This will be your new home now. So please don’t hesitate to ask for
something if you need it.”
 
“Of course princess,” Riyluxmn replied with a small bow of his head. “All I’ll
need for the time being is a place to rest. I won’t need much of anything
else.”
 
“That can be arranged. We have plenty of free rooms in our living quarters,”
Allura returned as she moved to the small teens side and gestured him to follow
her. “If you’d follow me we can get you settled in.”
 
A small nod was all she received as Riyluxmn followed after her and gave a
small nod of thanks to the others behind them. A few waves being directed after
the pair as the door closed behind them with a click. The echoed that followed
only signaling the beginning.
===============================================================================
 
After Riyluxmn’s introduction to the castle of lions everything mostly returned
to normal. Well, if Lance counted the fact Keith was gone, Shiro was back in
charge, the coalition performances were a mess, and it was extremely rare to
see Riyluxmn at all. The Dreauxee hybrid had disappeared into his own room in
the living quarters on his first day here and Lance had only seen him one other
time when we woke up in the middle of the night to get a glass of water and
found the hybrid eating in the kitchen. At the time he was too exhausted to
really conversate beyond giving Riyluxmn a nod in greeting, and informing him
the goop on his face moisturized his skin and wasn’t something that would harm
him, before he grabbed his glass of water and left. Now, a week later and semi
miserable with their crappy coalition performances Lance wondered where the
Dreauxee hybrid was and why he barely ever saw him.
 
“It might be because his species is secretive like Coran said,” Pidge had
answered when he brought it up in the lounge. “He did mention Dreauxee keep
away from outsiders from their initial pack, and since we’re not apart of his
pack I’m not surprised we don’t see much of him.”
 
“If anything I’m glad he’s eating the leftovers I leave for him every night,”
Hunk input with a small smile. “I was worried he wouldn’t eat anything we made,
or he wouldn’t trust us, but I’m glad he’s keeping himself healthy.”
 
“How can you even tell he’s healthy? We barely see him,” Lance argued as the
door to the lounge opened and Shiro walked in. “For all we know he eats the
food because there is nothing else and Riyluxmn hates us.”
 
“I don’t think that’s the case, lance,” Shiro spoke when he realized who they
were talking about and leaned against the back of the couch. “From what I’ve
seen Riyluxmn’s sleep schedule is different from ours.”
 
“So he’s nocturnal,” Pidge mused as she looked to the computer in her lap and
typed away at the keys. “That would make sense if his species lives in a
desert. It’s way too hot during the day.”
 
A chuckle left their leader as he watched Pidge mutter to herself.
 
“I don’t think it’s that either. If anything I think the blade’s work has his
attention throughout most of the day.” Shiro spoke. “From the reports we get
from Kolivan and the other blades their mission times and activity match when
Riyluxmn is in his room. If anything he working.”
 
“Then when does he sleep?” Lance questioned with a raised brow. “He can’t be
awake all the time.”
 
“He most likely sleeps while he trades information around,” Pidge spoke up as
she typed away at her computer. “He did mention that communicating with members
was easy because they’re all part Galra, but if he has to keep multiple groups
of members connected it’d take a lot of concentration and a clear mind to do
so. Sleeping while he works would be the easiest solution. It’d be a time when
he’s most relaxed and his head is clear.”
 
“Still find it fishy,” Lance muttered before a crash echoed and a cry followed.
 
Everyone’s heads in the room shooting up and looking around, before they were
all bolting out of the room and in search for the noise. The lot of them
separating to find the source and Lance heading toward the living quarters on
instinct as he rounded the corner and came to a screeching halt.
 
Leaned up against the hallway across from his room Riyluxmn was a complete
mess. His brownish purple hair undone from his low ponytail and the strands a
bird mess of tangles and frizz. His eyes red rimmed around the edges and his
blade uniform bunched and torn in places from the hybrids claws. Claws that
were currently clenched into fists and arms that were currently wrapped around
himself as tears rolled down his face.
 
“Riyluxmn?” Lance carefully spoke as he raised a hand and tried to get the
hybrids attention without moving toward him.
 
In a flash the Dreauxee’s head snapped up and scared brown and yellow eyes
looked up at him. The horror and sorrow in them making Lance's heart lurch as
he gave the other a small smile.
 
“Hey, is everything okay?” Lance gently asked.
 
The response that followed only made Lance's chest hurt more as the teens lower
lips trembled and sharp teeth latched onto it to anchor it in place. Heavier
tears escaping the hybrids eyes as his gaze slid to the floor and lance took
careful steps toward the blade member.
 
“What’s wrong, Riy?” Lance gently asked as a small look of confusion was
directed towards him and the Cuban smiled. “Is it okay if I call you that? Your
name is a little hard to pronounce sometimes.”
 
A small nod was his only confirmation as the Red Paladin finally reached the
other and squatted down in front of him. Brown and yellow eyes watching him in
uncertainty beyond the tears and sorrow while Lance got himself comfortable and
sat cross legged in front of the hybrid.
 
“Can you tell me what’s wrong?” Lance asked once more as saddened eyes moved
away from him. “We heard a huge crash from the lounge and went out to search
for it.”
 
“S-Sorry, Red Paladin,” came the broken voice, claws digging into his uniform
and creating rips in the fabric.
 
“It’s alright. We just wanted to make sure everyone was alright,” Lance amended
with a smile. “Is everything okay?”
 
A shake of the head had Lance’s smile fading and following Riyluxmn’s gaze
toward his room. One of the sliding doors stuck in its track and bent at a
horrible angle, while claw marks dig into the metal. Almost as if an animal was
trying to desperately escape from a hunter.
 
“Frie-Friedren…” a heavy sob filled the air as gloved hands covered his eyes
and the facts clicked in place in Lance's head.  “Fri-”
 
“Shhh, it’ll be okay,” Lance gently spoke as he reached out and carefully
placed his hand on the Dreauxee’s head. “Do we need to contact Kolivan for
you?”
 
A shake of the head, followed by a heaving sob, slowly chipped away at Lance's’
heart before he had an arm full of Riyluxmn. The Dreauxee hybrid launching
himself at the Red Paladin and burying his face into the shoulder of Lance’s
hoodie as he grunted in surprise and wrapped his arms around the small figure.
 
“Riy?” Heavy sobs were his only answer as the small hybrid curled against him
and the others came around the corner.
 
Several of them opening their mouths to ask what was wrong before Lance quickly
silenced them and pointed to the hybrid in his arms. A few hand gestures
getting it across to them that it was bad news and Riy wasn’t taking it well,
before they all looked at the hybrid in worry. Shiro the first to walk toward
them and kneel beside the pair while Riy’s ears twitched between sobs. Brown
and yellow eyes leaving the comfort of Lance's shoulder to look at the black
Paladin.
 
“Hey Riyluxmn,” Shiro quietly spoke, an understanding look on his face. “Do you
need anything?”
 
Claws dug weakly into Lance’s jacket, careful not to tear the fabric, as more
tears filled the hybrids eyes and he shook his head.
 
“How about something to eat?” Hunk suggested as he came around to Lance’s other
side and smiled at the Dreauxee. “Do you have a favorite comfort food?”
 
“And a blanket,” Pidge added. Fingers pushing up her glasses as she eyed the
hybrids shredded uniform. “You look cold.”
 
It was then a very small, watery, smile took over Riyluxmn’s face and lance
couldn’t help but mirror it.
 
“Come on, Riy, let's go get you comfortable.” Lance gently spoke, getting a nod
in return.
===============================================================================
 
Twenty minutes later the Paladins of Voltron found themselves back in the
lounge with a slightly calmer Riyluxmn. The Dreauxee hybrid currently curled up
in several blankets and cradling a bowl of what looked like an alien ice cream,
bug, and rock experiment gone wrong. Nevertheless the small blade member was
eating the awkwardly colored concoction with a small smile on his face and
letting the spork linger in his mouth after every bite. A gesture Coran seemed
to appreciate by the huge smile on his face, considering he was the one to
suggest the weird alien ice cream to the small blade member in the first place.
 
“So a member of the Blade…” the rest of Allura’s sentence faded from across the
room as her eyes fell on the bundled up Dreauxee hybrid. Lance followed her
gaze and found small tears in Riy’s eyes with the princess’s words. The Cuban
male gently resting a hand on the hybrids back in comfort and rubbing soothing
circles into his back till Riyluxmn relaxed under his touch and started eating
again. “That’s the second one in two weeks.”
 
“It’s only natural though,” Shiro spoke with a heavy frown. “With how thin
their members are spread and the Galra’s influence as heavy as it is missions
can’t be easy for them.”
 
A sad nod left the princess as she watched the little hybrid and cautiously
moved towards the Paladins huddled around him. With Lance seated on Riyluxmn’s
left, Pidge was curled into the hybrids right and typing away at her computer.
Her posture and screen tilted so the Dreauxee could glance at it if he wished
and Hunk seated beside Pidge. All the while Riyluxmn slowly picked away at his
treat and a little over half its contents were currently gone.
 
“Riyluxmn,” Allura gently spoke. Slowly brown and yellow eyes shifted up
towards her and she gave him a small smile. “How are you feeling?”
 
“B-better,” Riyluxmn’s voice was hoarse from crying as he replied. His face
crinkling up at the sound as he picked at his ice cream. “I apologize for my
earlier behavior, princess.”
 
In an instant all eyes fell on him in surprise and Lance sat up properly from
his slouched position beside the hybrid.
 
“Hey, there’s no reason to apologize.” Lance defended, eyebrows furrowing. “You
had every right to be upset, Riy. We were just worried is all.”
 
“But the Blade-”
 
“You're in the castle, not in the blade’s base,” Lance interrupted with a
frown. “What they don’t know won’t hurt them, and besides, you have a right to
be upset. You…”
 
The moment of hesitation had all eyes on them and Riyluxmn raised an eyebrow in
question, spork resting in his bowl.
 
“You were with them when they- when Friedren… you know…” slowly Riy looked down
at his bowl and tightly grasped it in his hands when he gave a nod. His
shoulders hunching together and lance placing a gentle hand on his blanketed
back in comfort. “So you have every right to be upset. They was part of your
pack and you were there with them till the end, Riy. And I bet Friedren was
grateful you were there with them and you’re mourning them.”
 
A shaky nod left the Dreauxee hybrid as Hunk reached across Pidge to grab the
teens bowl before he dropped it. His gloved hands wiping at his tear filled
eyes and a soft sniffle leaving him as he leaned against Lance.
 
“S-She was always so nice to me,” Riyluxmn sniffled as he brought his legs
tightly to his chest and his ears lowered slightly. “She’d bring me treats from
any of the planets she visited and tell me stories about them. About the beings
living there and the creatures, and all the different kinds of food and
cultures.”
 
Slowly all eyes fell on the Dreauxee hybrid and Lance’s hand on the teens back
tightened around the fabric as his eyebrows scrunched together. Looks of
surprise and sadness falling over everyone’s faces.
 
“You mean you’ve never left the base?” Lance carefully asked and a small shake
of the teens head had his chest aching.
 
“I was born into the blade and they became my pack,” Riy sniffled, brown and
yellow eyes shifting up towards him. “And I’m their communication hub. The
castle of lions is the first place I’ve been to outside of the base.”
 
A heavy sigh left the Cuban male as he closed his eyes.  A few moments passing
before he got up to his feet and carefully took the hybrids hand into his own.
 
“Red Pal-”
 
“It’s settled then,” Lance announced, smile taking over his face. “Make sure
you tell Kolivan you’re off the rest of the day, because we’re going out.”
 
Wide eyes gazed up at him in fear as he tightly gripped Lance's hand and
everyone blinked at him in surprise.
 
“But I’m the blades communication hub,” Riy argued, worry dripping from his
tone. “They need me to-”
 
“And what you need is a new change of clothes and a few hours of fun.” Lance
interrupted, a grin plastered across his face as Riy looked down at his mostly
ruined uniform. “We’ll go somewhere safe and we’ll be with you the entire time.
Just an hour or two without anything to worry about and to relax.”
 
Moments of silence passed after as Riy chewed his bottom lip and gazed at the
floor. A look of contemplation on his face, before he looked up at Lance and
gave a small nod.
 
“A-Alright.”
 
“Then it’s settled,” Lance declared with a grin as he pulled Riy to his feet
and the startled Dreauxee hybrid stumbled into his chest. “Space mall time!”
 
The collective groans were more than apparent, but the look of wonder on
Riyluxmn’s face was worth it.
===============================================================================
 
“And done,” Lance spoke in triumph as he stepped back and everyone in the space
pod turned to look at Riyluxmn.
 
The Dreauxee wearing one of the rebellions cloaks similar to Matt’s, but a
charcoal black color, and a hood resting on his head and covering most of his
face. The only thing distinguishing he was Galra being the soft yellow glow of
the ring around his pupil as Riy blinked and tilted his head in wonder.
 
“Is my disguise okay?” Came the careful question as Matt smiled from beside his
sister and nodded.
 
“You look great Riyluxmn,” the rebel fighter spoke as he smiled. “I apologize
we weren’t introduced sooner, but I’ve been busy. The name is Matt and I’m
Pidge’s brother.”
 
“It’s a pleasure to meet you,” Riyluxmn returned with a bow of his head as
their pod touched down and Lance bounced up and down in excitement in his
regular clothes. “Red Paladin-”
 
“How many times do I have to tell you, Riy, call me Lance.” The Cuban
interrupted as he got grabbed the Dreauxee’s hand and pulled him to his feet as
the back door to the pod opened. “Now let’s go have some fun and get you some
new clothes.”
 
“Don’t  go overboard Lance,” Shiro warned as the Red Paladin started leading
the hybrid out of the ship with Hunk following after them in worry.
 
“Let’m Go, Shiro, they’ll be fine.” Matt chuckled as he watched them go. “I
think Lance is just excited to show Riyluxmn something new is all. Let him have
his fun.”
 
“You say that, but they’ll get into trouble anyway.” Shiro replied with a sigh
as Matt laughed.
 
The teens in question already walking through the entrance to the mall and
Riyluxmn pressed into Lance's side in caution as they stepped into the mall and
Riy straightened his posture. The Dreauxee shifting his head around in wonder
as he watched all the different aliens pass by them and his ears twitched under
his hood. A sight that had Lance smiling as he squeezed the hybrids hand and
brown and yellow eyes moved up to meet his blue orbs.
 
“So clothes or mindless window shopping first?” Lance questioned as Hunk
stopped behind them.
 
“I think we should get Riyluxmn new clothes first,” the Yellow Paladin spoke up
as he frowned at the cloak covering the teen. “That outfit can’t be
comfortable.”
 
“Is that okay?” Lance asked as Riyluxmn nodded and the Cuban boy looked around
them. “Then where should we start? I know there are at least a dozen or more
clothing stores around here.”
 
“It’s depends on Riyluxmn,” Hunk spoke as the Dreauxee tilted his head in
question. “Do you have any extra appendages? Like extra arms, legs, or a tail?”
 
In an instant the hybrid ducked his head in embarrassment and both Paladins
blinked at him in surprise.
 
“Riy?” A small nod left the Dreauxee and Lance tilted his head in question.
“Really? I didn’t see anything before.”
 
In response the Dreauxee tugged on the Cuban boys hand and started leading the
two Paladins through the mall. The little Blade of Marmora member quiet and
cautiously looking around at the different stores as Lance frowned and glanced
toward his best friend.
 
“I didn’t think it’d be embarrassing,” Lance quietly spoke as Hunk shrugged and
watched the smaller teen glance around. “You think he’s got extra arms or
something?”
 
“If he did his suit would fit differently,” Hunk pointed out just as Riyluxmn
came to a sudden halt and the two of them nearly ran into him. “Something wrong
Riyluxmn?”
 
“Here,” came Riy’s small voice as he pointed a gloved hand toward the store
beside them.
 
A look of curiosity taking over the two paladins as they followed his finger
toward the clothing space. Several mannequins in the display case showcasing
fabric that covered the entire front torso, but left most of the back exposed,
fake plastic wing- holy shit Riy had wings?!
 
A glance in the Dreauxee’s direction had the teen pulling the hood further over
his face and hunching his shoulders together in what Lance had to guess was an
embarrassed blush.
 
“You have wings and a tail?” Hunk questioned, making Lance do a double take as
he looked back at the mannequins and saw a tail on them and a slit in the back
of the pants for said tail. In response Riy gave a nervous nod and Hunk looked
at him in worry. “Then why haven’t we seen them?”
 
At his best friends question Lance suddenly froze and looked toward the little
blade member as the realization came to him, because Hunk was right and Lance
had never seen a tail or set of wings on Riy. When they first met Riy he was
wearing the Blade of Marmora uniform like he was now, and then and now he never
saw an indication Riy had either. If he was hiding them it had to be extremely
uncomfortable.
 
“Kolivan said I should hide them,” Riy practically whispered, his ears slumping
slightly under his hood. “He said I might attract attention.”
 
On one side of the argument Lance could kind of understand the logic behind it.
I mean most creatures they met had a tail, but wings? So far Lance hasn’t seen
many creatures with them and if Both Kolivan and Riy were nervous about letting
people see them there had to be a logical reason for it to protect the hybrid.
On the other side however...blue eyes raked over the small Blade and a frown
fell over his face. It had to be uncomfortable as hell for Riy to wear that
tight outfit all the time. If he had wings and a tail they had to be cramped
and in pain.
 
“Well let’s go in then,” Lance spoke as the Dreauxee lifted his head slightly
toward him. “Your wings and tail have to be uncomfortable in that suit and
you’ve got us here to protect you.”
 
“Lance is right,” Hunk joined in as the hybrids hand tightened around the
Cubans. “You should be in comfortable clothes, Riyluxmn.”
 
A happy nod left the little blade as he dragged Lance inside and Hunk followed
behind them. The store clerk asking if they needed help as Lance turned them
down and said they were looking around for now as Hunk and himself kept an eye
on Riy while he browsed. The two Paladins giving the little hybrid his space to
explore and find something he liked while he pressed clothes up against himself
and put it back on the rack. The process going on for twenty minutes, the clerk
asking if they needed help every five minutes, and Lance turning them down
every time, before Riy finally paused in holding an article of clothing against
himself and brushed his gloved fingers against the fabric. His ears twitching
under his hood as Lance couldn’t fight the smile on his face when hunk nudged
him.
 
“Find something you like, Riy?” At Lance’s question the Dreauxee lifted his
head and bright eyes met his. The little hybrid nodding while the clerk snuck
over again and Lance waved at them. “You got a place he can try it on?”
 
“Oh course,” the clerk spoke happily as she smiled. “Do you want the matching
pants to go with it?”
 
An excited nod left the Dreauxee as the clerk helped him find a few pairs that
might fit him and directed him to the changing rooms with Lance and Hunk
following. The little hybrid disappearing into the room to change while the two
Paladins relaxed on the couch across from the room.
 
“He looked really happy,” Hunk spoke with a smile as Lance nodded with his own
smile. “I hope this is okay though.”
 
“What do you mean?” Lance questioned with a frown as he looked toward his
nervous friend.
 
“Well Riyluxmn said he was born into the Blade of Marmora, so what if we get
him in trouble?” Hunk spoke as Lance’s eyebrows furrowed and he looked to the
floor. “You’ve seen them operate and they seem really strict. What if we get
him in trouble for bringing him out here?”
 
“Then we take the blame,” Lance answered as he looked at his best friend. “It
was my idea anyway and Riy deserves to have a little time to himself in a new
place. Hell, one of the blades members died and you saw how he reacted. Shit,
Hunk, you should’ve seen him when I found him! He looked so scared and lost
like he didn’t know what was going on. I don’t think he even knew Friedren died
till I said something to him.”
 
“Crap,” Hunk muttered, eyes moving to look at the door Riy was behind. “I just
don’t want him to get in trouble and have to go back.”
 
“Me either. He looks happier than when he got to the castle,” Lance replied as
the door to the dressing room opened and the teen straightened as he looked
towards it. “How does it fit, Ri-....”
 
The rest of the Paladins sentence trailed off as the door swung open and
Riyluxmn came into view. His hair fixed and back in its proper style, courtesy
of lance, as the deep purple and gold top Riy picked out clung to his form. The
collar wrapping around his neck like the flight suit under the Paladin armor,
and decorated in gold trim, while it covered his front torso and long flowing
sleeves covered his arms right past the knuckles of his clawed hands. The
shoulders and sleeves decorated in gold trim, as well as the bottom of the skin
tight bottom of the shirt, while the back was left open minus the section of
his lower back. His pastel purple skin visible, and scales decorating the
entirety of his back in a mirade of different shades till they met the base of
his wings. Wings that came out in two sets and resembled a dragonfly almost to
a T. The rainbow effect in them when the light hit them just right making
Lance’s jaw drop, while the matching pants reached the blades knees and his
thin, snake-like, tail settled on the floor behind him. The appendage appearing
to be almost too big for his body if it didn’t move as if Riy had control of it
himself. A pair of boots covering his feet.
 
“Wow,” Hunk spoke in awe. Lance sinking his teeth into his lower lip to keep
himself from repeating the same words and adding something stupid along with
them. “How did you have them hidden so well?”
 
A flush covered Riy’s scaled cheeks as his wings fluttered behind him and they
bent at an almost awkward angle and pressed against his back. The teen turning
so they could watch them meld into his skin and created a scaled version of a
tattoo on his back. His tail suddenly disappearing into the back of his pants
and winding around his hips and torso till it looked like Riy was bigger than
he actually was and the hybrid glanced back at them.
 
“Incredible,” Hunk whispered as Riyluxmn’s tail slithered back out into the
open, but his wings stayed hidden. “No wonder we never noticed before. Does it
hurt?”
 
A shake of the head left the hybrid before Riy’s gaze fell on lance and the Red
Paladin reluctantly let go of his lower lip.
 
“You look great, Riy,” Lance spoke before the teen lit up and smiled. “Were
there any other colors you wanted?”
 
A nervous look fell over the teens face and when Lance’s smile widened Riy
seemed to gain his confidence and give a small nod.
 
“Then go ahead and keep those on,” Lance spoke just as the clerk came around to
check on them and stared at the Dreauxee in awe.
 
“Oh my,” she gasped as Riy stiffened and quickly ducked behind Lance in a
flash. “What a pretty little thing you are.”
 
In response Riyluxmn’s ears twitched in embarrassment and Lance held an arm out
in case things went sideways.
 
“It’s been ages since I’ve seen a Dreauxee in this store. Such a young one
too,” she cooed as Riy ducked begin Lance’s back one more and his tail twapped
against the floor. “Let me know if you need anything alright?”
 
Without another word she disappeared and the three of them blinked after her.
Riy slowly peeking over Lance's shoulder in curiosity, before relaxing behind
him. The Cuban boy letting out a small chuckle before glancing back at the
hybrid with a smile.
 
“So, what other colors were you thinking?”
===============================================================================
 
By the time everyone made it back to the castle Lance did end up getting them
into trouble. Of course Lance did stick to his word and got Riyluxmn new
clothes, as well as window shop, but the mall security guard had recognized
them and had given chase, resulting in the whole team getting involved till
they safely escaped back to their ship and erupted into laughter halfway back.
 
“I told you, Matt,” Shiro teased as the resistance fighter huffed.
 
“I don’t know about you but I had fun,” Matt teased back till he nodded his
head towards the others.
 
The pair looking over to find the other Paladins laughing about their adventure
with Riyluxmn seated between Lance and Pidge. His wings free and his tail
swaying in joy against the floor.
 
“Looks like they had fun too,” Matt added as their craft landed inside the
castle and everyone grabbed their purchases. “I’d call that a success.”
 
A small shake of the head left Shiro as Riyluxmn grabbed his bag and took
Lance's hand as they exited the ship. The Dreauxee tugging on Lance's arm in
joy as he lightly bounced.
 
“That was so much fun, Lance,” the hybrid spoke in happiness as he smiled up at
the Paladin. The bay doors opening across from them. “I’ve never experienced
anything like that before and-”
 
“Riyluxmn, what are you wearing?” Kolivan’s voice boomed across the space as
their entire group froze in their decent down the ramp and scared brown and
yellow eyes looked toward the leader of the Blade of Marmora. “Are your wings
out?”
 
In an instant the rainbow colored appendages did that freaky skin meld thing
from earlier and disappeared into his back. His tail slipping into and under
his pants the next as Keith appeared behind Kolivan and stood behind him with a
defeated look on his face.
 
“They're clothes,” Riyluxmn responded as Kolivan started making his way toward
them. “My suit was damaged and Lance-“
 
“I believe I told you that keeping your identity a secret was of the utmost
importance,” Kolivan interrupted, eyes narrowing when Lance stepped in front of
the hybrid protectively. “Red paladin-”
 
“It was my idea to take Riy to the space mall,” Lance spoke up, Keith looking
toward the Cuban boy when the Dreauxee’s nickname fell past his lips. “He was
really upset over Friedren’s passing and I wanted to make him feel better. His
clothes were damaged though.”
 
At the mention of the now passed blade, Kolivan frowned and Keith’s eyebrows
furrowed in distress.
 
“I see, so that's what happened,” Kolivan spoke as he closed his eyes. “I must
apologize then. I intended to send Keith to see to Riyluxmn when we heard the
news, but if Riyluxmn’s message and your information is correct you beat us to
it, Paladins.”
 
“Wait, so you're not mad?” Pidge, questioned in confusion.
 
“Yes and no,” was the Blade’s response as his gaze fell on Riy. “I'm not mad
you cheered him up when we couldn't, considering losing a member of their pack
is hard on a Dreauxee, but I am mad you brought him out to a public place.”
 
“Is Riyluxmn special or somethings?” Matt pressed with a frown. “It seems
illogical to rush over here to make sure he's alright if he's just another
member.”
 
“Lux is our communication hub,” Keith spoke up from behind Kolivan. The
nickname for the Dreauxee hybrid catching Lance’s attention. “He knows
everything about the Blade of Marmora and its members. So he's not just another
member, he's a goldmine of information for the Galra if they find out he
exists. Why do you think we brought him here with our numbers so spread out as
they are?”
 
Silence filled the air as all eyes fell on Riy and his ears slumped slightly.
Fear and worry in his brown and yellow orbs as Lance gave him a small
reassuring smile.
 
“If that's the case then you guys are worrying over nothing,” the Cuban make
spoke, sending a wink toward Riy. “All of us were at the mall with Riy the
entire time and he was as safe as could be.”
 
A relieved look fell over Kolivan and Keith’s face as Lance smirked and wrapped
an arm around Riyluxmn's waist with a grin on his face.
 
“And he'll continue to be safe as the copilot to the red lion,” Lance declared
in triumph. “When he isn't working of course.”
 
In an instant Riy lit up in a huge smile and looked up at Lance in excitement,
the others sending him disapproving looks.
 
“Lance,” Shiro warned.
 
“Red paladin.”
 
“Lance,” Keith growled.
 
“He would be safe inside the lion,” Matt mused out loud, Shiro sending him a
disapproving look. “And Voltron would be protecting him, still.”
 
“I don't like it.” Keith spoke up, disapproving look on his face. “It's too
risky.”
 
“Ain't really your choice, mullet,” Lance argued back as he pointed to the
sparkly-eyed Dreauxee clinging to his jacket.
 
At the look on Riy’s face Keith deflated a little and- holy quiznacking shit
was Keith pouting?!
 
“I don't like the idea much either,” Kolivan agreed, Riy deflating beside
Lance.  “The point of bringing him here was to keep him safe and unseen.”
 
“And he'll be safe and unseen in red,” Lance easily argued. “Besides, he'll be
alone in the castle when we do our performances. If he hangs out in red she'll
keep him safe.”
 
The look of disapprovement heightened and Riy’s ears violently twitched. The
Dreauxee focused on Kolivan and a silent conversation passing between them
while Lance watched in wonder as Riyluxmn's wings slowly unmelded from his
back. Each scale slowly lifting off pastel purple flesh and forming together
into clear rock solid wings, before they fluttered behind him and carefully
settled. Keith watching the entire time to Lance's own amusement.
 
“Then I won't argue any further,” Kolivan finally spoke as Riy’s eyes focused
and smiled up at Lance. “Riyluxmn will be in your care, Red Paladin, and his
safety will be your top priority.”
 
“Of course,” Lance easily replied as Kolivan nodded and headed for the bay
doors.
 
“Then we’ll take our leave.”
 
The leader of the Blade of Marmora disappearing through the bay doors and Keith
moving to follow, before he suddenly came to a halt and glanced toward Riy. The
Dreauxee's ears twitching and sorrowful look on his face, before a small smile
fell over Keith's face and he quickly left.
 
“What did you say to him?” Lance questioned as Riy looked up at him and smiled,
his ears twitching.
 
“What he needed to hear.”
===============================================================================
 
In the couple of weeks that followed things got better. Their collation
performances got better, mostly due to some alien brain bug Coran bought that
nearly got them killed, Keith was doing great work with the Blade according to
Riyluxmn, and Riyluxmn himself had warmed up to everyone in the castle.
 
Their new addition to the castle always diligent with his work, but outside of
it Riy had become a huge softy and Lance’s idea to let him chill in red during
their performances had paid off big time. True he had played it off as
protecting Riy, and he hadn’t been joking when he promised he would, but the
whole purpose of it was to get Riy out to different planets and see new things
and every time they returned to the castle the Dreauxee was bubbling over with
joy. His happiness contagious to everyone in the castle as the others starting
giving the hybrid gifts from other planets to see his reaction and Lance
followed suit.
 
Shiro brought the hybrid candles and scented goods, Hunk brought new
ingredients to make Riy’s favorite foods, Pidge invested in books she
downloaded onto Riy’s very own tablet, and Allura bought the Dreauxee any
beautiful jewelry she believed would suit the hybrid. All while Lance brought
their newest castle member anything he believed suited the Dreauxee or would
help him shine. From little glittering trinkets to new hair products to make
his hair soft, and a gel that made Riy’s scales shine. Every gift given, Lance
put thought behind and Riy was as happy and as comfortable as he could ever be.
Especially when Lance woke up one morning with his morning milk in hand and
stepped into the lounge to find Riyluxmn asleep on one of the couches.
 
The Dreauxee hybrid curled up into a ball against the huge cushion, a small
pillow wedged between his arms and below his head, while his freakishly long
tail and dragonfly wings were curled around him. The scales on his body and
tail practically glistening as the light brushed against his wings just right
and created a breathtaking rainbow effect. Each breath the hybrid took causing
everything to sparkle as Lance smiled proudly at the teen and quietly made his
way around the couches. His blue Paladin slippers, that Allura assures were his
to keep even after they all switched lions, soft against the cold castle floor
as Lance stopped just a foot or two from Riyluxmn and sat down. The cushion
dipping slightly as he settled in and idly sipped at his morning drink. Blue
eyes slowly shifting toward the sleeping hybrid as he watched the teen’s ears
and wings twitch occasionally. A tell tale sign everyone in the castle had
recognized to be Riyluxmn using his abilities and doing his job.
 
From there minutes passed on as Lance finished his drink and set the cup off to
the side. The Cuban boy reaching into his robe pocket for his very own tablet,
which was the size of a normal phone and could act as such, as he turned it on
and idly scrolled through a few articles about their last performance for the
coalition. The fourth article he scrolled through being the moment Riy twitched
beside him and opened his eyes with a grumble. Brown and yellow orbs full of
drowsiness as he slowly sat up and rubbed at his eyes. Riyluxmn’s tail slowly
uncurling from around him and his wings fluttering softly behind him, till Riy
noticed Lance was beside him and suddenly scrambled to make himself decently
presentable and the Cuban boy laughed.
 
“You looks great, Riy,” Lance reassured him as the hybrid toyed with the ear
cuff on his left ear, courtesy of Allura, and gave a small nod. “Early morning
mission?”
 
A look of surprise fell over the other teen’s face, before he shook his head
and sat up properly.
 
“No, I’ve got another hour before they start up,” Riy replied as he carefully
stretched and a few pops were heard. “Keith just wanted to talk to me.”
 
In an instant Lance’s fingers halted from scrolling down the article on his
mini tablet and looked to the Dreauxee in slight worry.
 
“Is he okay?” Lance carefully asked as Riy blinked at him.
 
“Yes, he’s alright. Would he not be?” Riy returned.
 
“You tell me,” Lance spoke as he set down the device in his hands and watched
the hybrid. “Did he seem upset or anything?”
 
“Nothing beyond the usual,” Riy replied, till the look of worry increased on
Lance's face and the hybrids ears lowered slightly. “He just asked how everyone
in the castle was doing and how I was settling in. Asked if I needed anything
and then we got into some personal matters.”
 
“Personal matters?”
 
“Galra related stuff,” Riyluxmn clarified and Lance frowned.
 
“Is something wrong with Keith?” Lance asked as the Dreauxee looked at him in
confusion. “You know, that’s Galra related?”
 
“Nothing he isn’t aware of.”
 
A heavy frown took over Lance's features and Riy reached out to set his clawed
hand on top of Lance’s human one. Blue eyes meeting brown and yellow as Riy
gave him a small smile.
 
“It isn’t anything serious, Lance, so don’t worry over it too much,” Riy
reassured him as he got up from the couch and replaced the little pillow in its
proper place. “He knows what’s going on and he has the members from the Blade
of Marmora to help him adjust through it. He’s not alone.”
 
“Alright,” Lance quietly spoke as Riy sent him one last smile and left the
lounge.
 
The sound of the door closing with a click as Lance slumped against the couch
and frowned down at his lap. His mind whirling as Riy’s words swirled around in
his head.
 
Keith was having problems with being part Galra and he was confiding in the
Blade of Marmora and Riy about it instead of the Paladins of Voltron. Just the
thought crossing his mind drove a knife through Lance’s chest as he wrapped his
arms around himself. Was that why Keith left to join the Blade of Marmora? Was
that why Keith had slowly started distancing himself from the team before he
left, because he didn’t know what was happening and didn’t want to worry them
or freak them out? Is that why Keith had looked so sad just before he left that
day? Like he didn’t want to go, but for some stupid quiznacking reason he
believed it was for the best to protect them all? Or did he really believe he
had no place on the team anymore like Lance had once believed, because Shiro
was back and the black lion was originally his? So he joined the Blade of
Marmora because he had nowhere else to go and he wanted to be useful, to mean
something and to be of worth to someone. To do something that would help change
the universe like Voltron was. To finish what he had started as the Black
Paladin and find Lotor so they could end this in one fell swoop.
 
Each little thought only drove the knife in Lance’s chest deeper as he curled
up on the couch and glared down at the floor in concentration.
 
Lance was worried. Worried about Keith. Worried he might be in distress, trying
his hardest to figure out what was going on with himself and cope with it. Sure
Riy said Keith had the Blade members there to help him, but was it really
enough? Their code was knowledge or death and half of Lance knew they’d rather
leave Keith to his own devices than really help him if it didn’t benefit them
and their mission, but on the other hand Keith had been talking to Riy and at
least Riy was there to help the former Black Paladin through this. At least Riy
was Keith’s shoulder to lean on when Lance and the others couldn’t be there,
but…it still didn’t settle well with Lance. Not when he grew up in a big family
and was used to being helped through rough times and helping others, when he
knew love and compassion and Keith barely knew the concept of them, and it hurt
and drove him crazy when someone needed help and Lance couldn’t be there to
help guide them. Truth be told he prided himself on helping others, even if he
passed it off as a joke sometimes, and he enjoyed watching his fellow Paladins
cheer up and return to being happy every time he helped them. But with Keith
out of reach and with no way to really contact him, except through Kolivan
which would get him in trouble, Lance was at a huge loss. Why couldn’t Keith
have said something? Then Lance could’ve helped him like when Keith helped
Lance through his own insecurities. It all just didn’t add up and it drove
Lance crazy. What was the real reason Keith left, and couldn’t he have told
someone why?
 
The rest of his train of thought was interrupted as the lounge door slid open
and Pidge trudged in with a look of death on her face as per usual. Lance
quickly slipping on a happier mask as he greeted the Green Paladin and got his
usual grunt of the morning. Lance’s mind still whirling even as he started his
day and tried his best to focus on their future mission at hand, to reclaim a
huge chunk of the Galra empire, instead of thinking about Keith and why he
really left.
===============================================================================
In the short few days that followed Lance and Riy’s conversation in the lounge
the castle got busier and louder. Rebellion fighters and a few Blade of Marmora
members came in and out of the castle to grab supplies and discuss their future
mission to reclaim a huge chunk of the Galra empire. The mass amount of people
in the castle, and the noise they made, making it hard for Riyluxmn to properly
do his job till he stopped Coran one morning and asked if there was a
soundproof place he could sleep; while everyone continued to prepare for the
mission, and Allura’s advisor informed him his own room had a sound proof
feature he could activate. The information putting Riyluxmn at ease as he took
to hiding in his room for the time being and passing around the immense amount
of information their mission was going to need to successfully be pulled off.
All while Lance and the others occasionally checked up on him to make sure he
was alright and if he needed anything between their preparations. Something he
appreciated even if every time Lance came in to check on him he looked more
stressed each time and the fake mask on his face couldn’t hide the pain and
worry he was feeling.
 
Lance was in distress and as much as he wanted to help him out his job took top
priority and the Blade of Marmora needed him now more than ever.  
 
“Lux?”
 
The sound of Keith calling out for him had the Dreauxee halting his train of
thought as he stopped his pacing around the room and took a seat on his bed.
The hybrid having to step over a few trinkets from Lance, and set the ear cuff
he had been admiring from Allura before his mental tirade aside, as he settled
against the mattress and leaned against the wall. His eyes closing to improve
him focus as he reached out for Keith in turn and carefully connected their
minds. The mess of emotions that hit him making his chest ache as they suddenly
muted themselves like always and Keith’s mind bristled in embarrassment as per
the usual.
 
“Is it happening again?” Riyluxmn carefully asked. In response the muted
emotions coming from Keith wavered slightly and the Dreauxee’s heart ached once
more. “Just focus on the feeling Keith. Your instincts will do the rest.”
 
“I’ve been trying, Lux, and I’ve been at this for over an hour,” Keith returned
in frustration as the Dreauxee hybrid opened one eye to glance at the clock on
the wall and softly frowned at the time. Keith had been woken up again before
he was supposed to be up and preparing for the mission. “Why is this so
quiznaking hard? Kolivan said this should be as easy as breathing. Why can’t I
find them?”
 
“Maybe they’re too far away,” Riyluxmn carefully supplied and softly smiled at
the grumble he got in return. “Or maybe your human half is making this more
difficult than it should be.”
 
“Or maybe I’m not meant to find them or they’re dead,” Keith spoke in a
defeated tone, sadness breaking past his muted emotions and brushing against
their link. “Or maybe they can feel me, but don’t want me.”
 
As much as Riyluxmn wanted to argue with Keith’s logic and tell him that
couldn’t be the case he couldn’t, because there were times that was the case
and giving Keith false hope wasn’t something he was willing to do if it was
going to hurt him later.
 
“This takes time, Keith,” the Dreauxee decided to settle on instead. “Kolivan
might have said this would be easy, but I still can’t find mine either and my
abilities should make it easier on me. You’re not alone on this.”
 
“I know, I just…” the former Paladins thought trailed off and Riyluxmn sadly
smiled as uncertainty and doubt brushed the link. “I’m frustrated, Lux. I left
Voltron to figure this out and find Lotor and so far I haven’t made headway on
either and we’re about to execute one of the biggest missions ever and I just…I
want something to go right.”
 
“I know,” Riyluxmn spoke back in comfort, smiling when Keith relaxed a little
through their link. “We’ll figure this out together, just like I promised, even
if we have to wait till after the mission.”
 
“But what if they’re part of the Galra empire and they’re accidentally killed
during all this?”Keith returned in slight panic, making the Dreauxee hybrid
smile wider.
 
“You’ll know when they’re in danger, Keith, and your instincts will make sure
you’ll save them no matter what it takes. There’s no reason to worry or panic.”
 
Slowly their newest member relaxed and the tirade of emotions Keith had muted
earlier started to calm and disperse. The raging fire Riyluxmn was used to
feeling from Keith slowly sinking down to a dull roar as the hybrid relaxed
against the wall and sent out the emotion toward Keith through the link. His
fellow blade almost sighing through their link as he fully relaxed and Riyluxmn
smiled.
 
“I’ll help you find them, Keith, I promise. Just have a little more patience.”
 
Instead of the usual grumbled reply a soft nudge of certainty and understanding
brushed against the link. The calm radiating from Keith a rare feeling to
experience, and one Riyluxmn took time to drink in and enjoy himself, till
Kolivan’s voice echoed in his mind and the Dreauxee realized their time was up.
 
“I have to go, Keith,” Riyluxmn carefully spoke as his fellow Blade’s emotions
wavered and everything the hybrid had been feeling from the other was suddenly
gone as if sucked into a black hole. “We’ll try again after the mission if you
can’t find them by then.”
 
“Alright, Lux, thank you.”Keith spoke in sincerity, before their connection cut
off and the Dreauxee started clearing all the trinkets off his bed so he could
start today’s work before the mission started.
 
“You’ll find them Keith, I promise.”
===============================================================================
Everything had turned into a disaster in a matter of minutes. From the
weaponized Galra ships shutting down to the planet of Naxzela inverting the
gravity down on itself Riyluxmn’s communication line exploded with rushed and
hurried chatter. The amount of noise making his head ache and to curl up
against the sheets with a groan in his sleep, before he had heard it. Keith’s
voice practically screaming above all the other Blade’s voices and the tone
making Riyluxmn’s heart break as the chatter died in an instant.
 
“NO!”
 
Keith found them, his mate, who he had been searching for desperately, and they
were on Naxzela in the inverted gravity.
 
“Keith- KEITH, GET BACK HERE!”Kolivan yelled as one of the Blade’s called after
their newest member as well and demanded he come back with the Galra craft he
took.
 
A small broken smile making its way onto Riyluxmn’s face as Keith’s frantic,
worried, mantra filled his head and the hybrid held back his jealousy. Keith
was heading to Naxzela to rescue his mate, his destined being in the universe,
and the Dreauxee hybrid was jealous. Jealous he still hadn’t found his and
jealous of the protective and determined emotions Keith was giving off over his
endangered mate. Whoever they ended up being was going to be the luckiest being
in the entire universe, because they were going to have the most loyal, loving,
and protective mate in the entire galaxy by their side who was traveling
halfway across the star system to save them from certain death.
 
“KEITH!” Kolivan bellowed, before Riyluxmn sent calming emotions toward their
leader and felt him falter. “Riyluxmn?”
 
“Let him go, Kolivan,” Riyluxmn gently replied as he carefully cut Keith off
from the Blade’s huge link and reattached it to the Dreauxee hybrid in a
private channel. “They need him and he needs to go to them.”
 
A displeased wave crashed over the channel, before it calmed and Kolivan
sighed.
 
“Fine, but stay with him Riyluxmn,”came the order.
 
“Of course, sir.”
 
Without another word Riyluxmn shut down the Blade’s huge network channel and
focused on Keith. Keith who was practically hyperventilating through their link
and fighting to keep his sanity.
 
“Keith, you need to breathe,” Riyluxmn softly called out, harshly startling his
fellow Blade and making Keith jolt through their link. “Shhh, just relax
Keith.”
 
“They’re there, Lux. They’re on Naxzela. They need me!” Keith’s panicked voice
echoed back to him, his words trembling in fear. “I have to make it in-”
 
“You’ll make it, Keith,” the Dreauxee hybrid quickly reassured him, his heart
aching at the others panic. “You’ll make it in time and save them.”
 
“I don’t-” the rest cut out as Keith choked and Riyluxmn wrapped his arms
tighter around himself. Keith was fighting off tears, his panicked emotions
flooding and drowning their link in what if’s and deadly scenarios. “I can’t-”
 
“You’ll make it in time, Keith, and when you save and meet them this moment
will be your most prideful.” Riyluxmn reassured him, as the chaotic emotions
started to waver. “The moment you traveled across the star system on a heroic
mission to save your mate from death, but right now you need to calm down so
you can think straight to save them. You can’t do that in the mess you're in.”
 
“R-right,” Keith’s broken voice made the Dreauxee’s heart break as their newest
Blade struggled to reign in his emotions and the hybrid carefully helped him
nudge them in the right place. Keith slowly calming down, and the fear and
panic still present, but his mind clear as he let out a shaky breath and his
emotions stilled. “Th-thank you, Lux.”
 
“It’s what I’m here for, Keith. Now go be their knight in shining armor.”
 
Keith’s laugh across the link brightened his mood, courtesy of Lance who taught
the Dreauxee the phrase, before his fellow Blade called on the resistance and
took charge. His backup following him to Naxzela and trying to help him break
down the shield around the strange looking ship, before Keith’s emotions
wavered and Riyluxmn nudged their link.
 
“Keith what’s wrong?”The Dreauxee carefully asked as the panic started to
return.
 
“The shield is too strong, Lux,” Keith’s voice shook, his emotional barriers
quaking. “Our weapons can’t break the shield and the planet- Lux, the gravity
is going to make the p-planet explode. Wh-what do I-”
 
“Let me see what’s going on, Keith.” Riyluxmn calmly demanded, Keith wavering
at the command.
 
“But h-how-?”
 
“Just trust me and let me in,” the Dreauxee hybrid calmly prompted. Keith’s
emotions shaking heavily through the link as Riyluxmn nudged him. “I promised
I’d help you find them and that hasn’t changed, Keith. Let me help you save
them.”
 
Slowly, ever so slowly, the Blade on the other side of the link let go. Keith’s
walls crumbling and Riyluxmn carefully slipping into his mind till an image
flickered between them. The strange shaped ship coming into focus beyond the
Galra ships controls Keith was sitting in. The resistance fighter ships
flanking either side of him and the huge shield covering the entire planet of
Naxzela coming into view as Keith’s hands strangled the controls.
 
“L-Lux…”
 
“Attack the ship again. I want to see it.”
 
As ordered Keith asked everyone to attack the strange cruiser again and the
range of blasts did nothing to the barrier. Keith’s worry and panic slowly
rising as Riyluxmn carefully soothed him and assessed the situation.
 
Truth be told the Dreauxee hybrid had no idea how to break down the barrier
around the strange battle ship. If normal battle grade weapons couldn’t crack
the shield than nothing short of the deactivated Galra battle cruisers would
shatter the shield in front of them and no matter what Riyluxmn couldn’t break
the news to Keith. Keith who was panicking and strangling the controls and
whose vision was blurring with tears of panic and fear. Panic and fear that was
directed to his possibly soon to be dead mate and…
 
The sudden halt in Keith’s emotion and shaking hands was almost unsettling.
Keith’s gaze focused on his hands before he looked up toward the cruiser and
his hands tightened on the control. His fear and panic now even more heightened
than before as he shoved it deep down and opened his trembling mouth.
 
“Lux, take good care of Lance for me.” Keith spoke aloud, voice shaking as he
readied the Galra ships controls. “Both of you keep each other happy in my
place.”
 
In seconds it hit the Dreauxee hybrid like a freight train. Keith’s decision
causing his emotions to suddenly spiral out of control and cause him to reach
out in his unconscious state and choke out the others name.
 
“K-Keith, d-don’t…there has to be another way!”Riyluxmn called out as his feed
from Keith’s eyes cut out and he let out a wounded cry when he was pushed out
and back into their link.
 
“I’m sorry, Lux…” came Keith’s shaking voice. “But I’d rather you two be alive
than Lance and myself be dead. J-just…just keep Lance happy for me, Lux.”
 
“K-Keith, n-no…!”Riyluxmn pleaded, before his link with the other cut out and
he let out a painful cry. “KEITH!”
 
In an instant the Dreauxee was awake and scrambling against the sheets. His
earlier mind meld trick with Keith robbing him of most of his strength as he
shakily scrambled out of the bed and crashed onto the floor, screaming the
fellow Blade’s name all the while. His distress so apparent that Coran came
rushing into the room all the way from the bridge and kneeled beside him to
carefully pull him into his arms and try and bring him back out of his panic.
 
“Riyluxmn, what’s wrong? Are you hurt?” The orange haired man asked in concern,
trying his best to sound calm as he stroked the Dreauxee behind the ears in an
attempt to calm him.
 
“K-Keith…” came Riyluxmn’s broken voice as he fisted his fingers into the man's
shirt and shook, tears streaming down his face. “Where’s Keith?!”
 
Coran’s eyes widened with the hybrids distress before the com on the Altean’s
ear started making noise.
 
“Keith? Coran is something wrong with Keith?” Lance’s voice called out as the
Dreauxee froze.
 
L-Lance was alive, which meant… heavy tears filled the hybrids eyes as he shook
and dig his claws into coran’s shirt. Keith was-
 
“I-I’m right here, Lance,” came Keith’s shaking voice the next moment. “I’ll
meet you all back at the castle.”
 
Keith?! Keith was alive!
 
“Keith, it’s good to hear from-” Coran had attempted to start till Riyluxmn was
scrambling to get to his feet and the Altean quickly grabbed him. “Riyluxmn,
you’re in no condition to be moving!”
 
“Is Riy hurt?!”
 
“Is Lux hurt?!”
 
Keith and Lance yelled at the same time, the tears blurring the hybrids vision
as he held back a sob with the sound of their voices.
 
“Riyluxmn has over exerted his powers and himself,” Coran tried to explain,
before the Dreauxee grabbed him by the collar and yanked him down. The
communicator on the Altean’s ear falling out of his ear and clattering to the
floor. “Riyluxmn-”
 
“T-take me to Keith,” he demanded in a broken voice, fingers shaking. “Now!”
 
In an instant the Altean was scrambling to his feet and grabbing the
communicator, before he was gathering the Dreauxee in his arms and running out
of the room like his life depended on it.
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He had to get to the castle of lions.
 
That was he only thought on Keith’s mind as Matt yelled at him over the
communication line, between him and the rebels ships, and raced across the star
system with Voltron flying ahead of him. His mind a calm storm of panic and
fear as he tightly gripped the controls and tried his best not to yell at
Pidge’s brother. Especially when Lance had been moments from dying and the only
reason they were all alive was because of Lotor, who they ordered to stay where
he was till they reached a final decision, and Lux who was in a blind panic
back at the castle. All because Keith did what he believed he had to do, to
protect the both of them, and the Dreauxee hybrid was suffering and in pain
because Keith could’ve just died and he was part of Lux’s pack.
 
“And do you even know-!” Matt continued to yell at him as Keith squeezed his
eyes shut tight and felt the muscles in his back contract.
 
“I know, Matt, I quiznacked up!” Keith practically screamed as the rebel
fighter fell silent on the com and the Blade strangled the controls. “And I
know you want to yell at me and make me realize what I did was stupid, but I
need to get back to the castle and make sure Lance and Lux are alright! So can
you please shut up for five minutes?!”
 
Silence followed after his tirade, before a heavy breath echoed through the
ship and Keith glanced at the controls.
 
“Alright, fine,” Matt gave in, his voice strained. “But that was extremely
stupid, Keith.”
 
“I know,” he replied back, as the castle came into view and Voltron disappeared
inside of it. His fingers loosening on the controls a little as he slowed his
speed and got ready to land. “But right now I need to make sure the both of
them are okay.”
 
A grunt was all he received as Keith shakily landed the Galra fighter ship and
opened up the back hatch. The Blade scrambling out of the ship as fast as he
could, and both male’s names on the top of his tongue, as his eyes fell on them
and his heart lurched.
 
Curled up in Lance’s arms and sobbing into his Paladin suit Lux was a mess of
tears and heavy, heaving, sobs. His wings shuddering with every shaky breath
and his tail snaked around Lance’s waist several times over as the Red Paladin
rubbed gentle circles into the Dreauxee’s back. Lux’s face buried into the
Cuban boys shoulder and Lance’s face buried into the hybrids hair, till blue
eyes noticed him and his fingers tightened around the little Blade as he opened
his mouth.
 
“Kei-”
 
In an instant Keith raced across the lions hangar, ignoring everyone watching
them, and collapsed to his knees beside the pair. Lux’s ears twitching with the
noise, and his head turning towards him, before Keith wrapped his arms around
the both of them. Lance stiffening in his hold and blushing, while the Dreauxee
recognized his scent and launched himself out of Lance's arms and against
Keith.
 
“Lance, Lux…” came his broken voice as the little Blade sobbed into his chest
and clawed hands dug into this suit.
 
“K-Keith…” a heavy sob filled the air as Lux let out a broken cry and the dark
haired male wove his fingers into the hybrids hair. “Y-you almost-”
 
“I know, Lux, and I’m so sorry.” Keith quietly hushed him as Lance seemed to
calm down and look at the pair of them in slight confusion. “I thought I had no
other choice, Lux. It was Lance and me or just me and I-...I couldn’t stomach
you being all alone.”
 
“Whoa, whoa, wait up a second!” Lance snapped, making Lux jolt between them and
curl up against Keith with his ears drooping slightly. A heavy and deadly glare
on the Cubans face. “What do you mean Lance and me or just me? Don’t tell me
you were about to crash your ship into the barrier?!”
 
In an instant chaos filled the air as everyone spoke at once and Lux shook in
between them, whimpering at the reminder and making Lance’s glare darken.
 
“You were, weren’t you?” Lance demanded.
 
“I would’ve if Lotor hadn’t stepped in,” Keith confirmed.
 
“Are you quiznacking crazy?!” Lance screamed, letting go of Lux with one hand
to grab Keith by the shoulder and shake him. “First you leave Voltron because
you're on some personal mission and now you try and kill yourself! Do we mean
nothing to you?!”
 
“You do!” Keith screamed back. His self control snapping as Lance reeled back
and stared at him in shock as the new Blade fought back tears. “Both Lux and
you mean the universe to me, Lance, and I had to choose between letting one of
you die to letting both of you live and and I had no other choice! It was me or
the two of us dying and I wasn’t going to let Lux live without one of his
mates!”
 
A deathly silence fell over the hangar as Keith’s voice echoed around them.
Tears already rolling down his face and Lance staring at him in complete shock.
The Cuban male opening and closing his mouth like a fish, trying to find
something to say, till the Dreauxee between them weakly clawed at Keith’s chest
and whimpered before slumping against him. The pair of them instantly looking
between them at the little hybrid in worry as Keith brushed the hand in his
hair over his head.
 
“Lux?” Keith gently cooed, getting no response.
 
“Riy, hey.” Lance gently spoke as he cradled the Dreauxee’s face in his hands
and a flush started to take over his cheeks. “Keith-”
 
“He overexerted himself,” Keith spoke in a rush as he quickly gathered the
little hybrid in his arms and stood up as fast as he could. “He mind melded
with me earlier because I couldn’t break the barrier on the cruiser and I was
scared and he used up most of his energy and then he came out here to meet us
and-”
 
In an instant Lance was on his feet and grabbing hold of the panicked Blade’s
shoulder to calm him and gain his attention.
 
“It’ll be alright, Keith,” Lance carefully spoke as he held his gaze with a
determined expression. “He’s just got a fever. He’ll be fine with a little
rest. Let’s go get him to his room.”
 
A hesitant nod left Keith before he was glancing towards the others watching
them with stressed looks on their faces and Shiro nodded. His approval spurring
Keith out of the hangar faster than he ever believed his legs could carry him,
Lance at his heels, and Lux’s cradled in his arms. His mates were alive and
safe, but one needed all the attention Keith could muster.
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By the time Keith and Lance reached the Dreauxee’s room and got him settled in
bed his fever had worsened. The little hybrid puffing out hot breaths of air
and whimpering in his sleep as the pair worked in tandem to get the youngest
fever down. Lance the most helpful throughout the entire ordeal as he
practically took over and gave Keith one order after another while he tended to
Lux. The pair never once complaining or arguing with one another till they had
gotten Lux’s fever to go down a considerable amount and collapsed beside one
another on the floor beside the hybrids bed.
 
“Can you tell me what the quiznack that was all about back there?” Lance
demanded once they had taken a few moments to relax.
 
“Which part?” Keith returned. The male beside him heavily frowning and his
expression screaming ‘everything’.
 
“You almost sacrificing yourself for...us?” The last bit was a bit strained,
uncertainty in the Cubans voice as his gaze shifted to Lux and then back to
Keith. “You said you had to choose between us two kicking it or just you, and
you picked yourself because you couldn’t let Riy be left alone.”
 
“I couldn’t. Lux would’ve died from the shock or his mind would’ve broken if we
both died,” Keith answered and the look of utter confusion on Lance’s face had
him sighing. “Alright, let me back up. Apparently Galra have predestined mates
and have the ability to search for them when they reach a certain age.”
 
“Like soulmates?” Lance interrupted, gaining a frown for Keith.
 
“Yes, like soulmates,” came the deadpanned reply, before the older cleared his
throat and the Cuban snapped his mouth shut. “Anyway, apparently the age to
find our mates for halfbreeds is different from a pure blooded Galra. I wasn’t
able to even try to start tracking mine down till a few months ago and it was
confusing me. Lux has been looking for his for two years.”
 
“Damn, how old is he?” Lance asked, as he glance back at the sleeping hybrid
and Keith frowned.
 
“He’s only sixteen, Lance,” came the reply as the others mouth fell open. “I
just told you the age is different for halfbreeds and Lux is a Dreauxee. Their
pure blooded species breeds at earlier ages because they usually don’t survive
long in the desert.”
 
“Well sorry I didn’t read up on his backstory, I always thought he was older
than you.” A heavy sigh left the older and Lance poured in return. “It was a
good theory. He is your superior and he’s got a higher ranking job than you.”
 
“Oh course he does, he’s our communication hu- you know what, I’m not going
there,” came the defeat reply. “As I was saying there’s an age difference for
when we can look for our mate, but it’s more like sensing them than really
searching. The best way of describing it is like a sonar and we can reach out
in a certain direction to find them. But we can only go so far before it
becomes strenuous.”
 
“So kind of like when our lions called out for us” a nod left Keith in
confirmation as he played with his fingers.
 
“It was one of the reasons I joined the Blade of Marmora, because I had no idea
what was going on with me and they had the answers. The first day I came to the
base they introduced me to Lux and he started helping me try and find them.”
 
“What was the other reason you left?”
 
“Lotor.” A moment of silence passed between them, before Keith spoke up again.
“Anyway, I couldn’t find them no matter how hard I tried and dug through a
whole bunch of books the Blade had laying around about this stuff between
missions. I found out I was doing it right, and with Lux’s help it was easier,
but there were other ways that made a Galra aware of where there mate was.
Either their mate reached out for them in desperation, or they were put into
danger so great it threatened their life.”
 
Slowly realization took over Lance's face as he stared at Keith in shock.
 
“If one of the two conditions are met our instincts supply us with an exact
location so we can get to our mate and protect them with everything we have,
but when I got to Naxzela…” a distressed expression felt over Keith’s face as
he clenched his fists. “I tried everything I could to break the barrier to get
to the ship so we could free the planet, but nothing was working and I was in a
panic. And the longer I sat there I started to feel a second presence in my
head with yours and I knew I had to do something before the planet exploded and
both of you died. So I did the only thing I could and sent my ship toward the
barrier, but right after Lux realized what I was doing I realized he was the
second presence and I had no other choice at that point. If both of us died Lux
would either die from the shock of our deaths or the crippling package of a
pack member and two mates dying at the same time would break his mind, and I
couldn’t let him suffer through that. So I decided I had to sacrifice myself to
break down the barrier and keep both of you safe. That way Lux wouldn’t
completely break and have at least one mate to lean on when this was all over.”
 
A heavy silence fell over the room. Lances shocked expression now full of
concentration and understanding, his eyebrows furrowed and a small glare
directed to the floor as he clenched his hands into fists.
 
“Even if that’s true what gave you the right to make a decision like that?”
Lance demanded, blue eyes shifting to glare at him. “Even if it was to make
sure Riy didn’t break, did you even stop and think what it’d do to the rest of
us? Hell, I was alive and the moment I walked into the hanger Riy was barely
keeping himself together. Even after I let him climb all over me and he let me
hold him I was surprised he even knew who I was. If you really did die, Keith.
I don’t think Riy would be alive right now.”
 
Slowly the older’s gaze fell to the floor and he clenched his fists.
 
“Well it was the only choice I thought I had,” Keith quietly spoke, eyebrows
furrowing. “I couldn’t leave Lux all alone without a mate or he’d slowly die
without us.”
 
A look of understanding fell over Lance’s face as he reached out a hand and
placed it over Keith’s. Their eyes moving up to meet one another, before Lance
gave him a small smile.
 
“Well Riy won’t have to live through that now, anyway,” the Cuban boy spoke,
squeezing Keith’s hand. “Even if it’s Lotor, he saved us and broke down the
barrier so you wouldn’t have to sacrifice yourself and so the planet wouldn’t
explode. If anything it’s thanks to him we’re all here.”
 
A small nod came from Keith, before Lux whined behind them and shifted in his
sleep. The pair instantly turning toward him to see if he was alright before
looking to one another and smiling when they found him to be okay. If you
counted the outstretched hand toward them as okay.
 
“Looks like someone needs a little attention from their mates,” Lance teased
with a grin. Keith holding back a chuckle as he nodded.
 
“Looks like it. Hope you don’t mind a tight cuddle pile,” Keith returned, the
older getting to his feet. “Getting all three of us in the bed is going to be a
tight squeeze.”
 
“Oh, challenge accepted.”
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When Riyluxmn started to come two the first thing he noticed was the warmth
surrounding him in a soft blanket. Next, the arms wrapped around his waist and
chest, both from the front and back. The bodies that were pressed up against
his own, both different heights and warmth’s, and two faces buried into his
hair. And finally their scents completely blanketing him and soothing him,
while the Dreauxee’s own tail was curled around the figure behind him.
 
Even without opening his eyes the hybrid knew who they were, but when he slowly
opened his lids and found Keith curled around his front he couldn’t hold back
the tears. The warm drops sliding down his cheeks as he hesitantly reached out
and wrapped his arms around the male, burying his face into the older’s neck
and taking in a deep breath. Keith’s scent flooding his senses and letting him
know he really was real and alive, before the body against him shifted and the
arms wound around his chest tightened.
 
“Welcome back, Lux,” came Keith’s tired voice. The Dreauxee lifting his head to
meet the older’s sleepy gaze and warm smile. “You have us quite a scare.”
 
Us?
 
A grumble sounded behind the hybrid before the arms around his waist tightened
and the face buried in his hair cuddled further into him. Keith shaking his
head in dismay as he reached behind the youngest and shook the figure awake. A
protested whine filling the air as Lance sat up from behind the Dreauxee and
rubbed one of his eyes. The other’s blue eyes falling on him, before the Cuban
boy was suddenly awake and looking down at him in relief.
 
“Riy, you’re awake,” Lance happily spoke as he flopped down behind the Dreauxee
once more and wrapped his arms back over his waist in a quick squeeze. “You had
us so worried.”
 
“Us…” the word fell from the hybrids mouth in confusion as Keith nodded beside
him.
 
“Try sending out a signal, Lux,” he prompted.
 
The hybrids confusion only growing as he closed his eyes and sent out a signal
for his mate. The huge blip he was used to blasting out smashing back into him
in an instant, and making both males beside him flinch, before he opened his
eyes and looked up at Keith. Keith who was rubbing his head in pain and Lance
who was curled up behind him and groaning.
 
“Holy quiznack, what was that?” Lance complained, burying his face into the
Dreauxee’s back.
 
“Alright, maybe I should’ve said softly,” Keith groaned, trying to soothe his
aching head as the hybrid looked between them with tears gathering in his eyes.
“That was Lux sending out his signal for his mate, Lance.”
 
“Is that what it was? It felt like a car hit me or Red decided to eject me from
the pilot seat.”
 
“No kidding,” Keith groaned, before he got an armful of Riyluxmn and scrambled
to get his arms around him. “Lux?”
 
“You’re my mates, both of you,” the Dreauxee choked out as Lance’s arms snaked
around him from behind.
 
“Hell yeah we are,” Lance spoke in triumph as Keith smiled. “Don’t know how
exactly I feel about being Keith’s mate, but I could get used to being yours.
Think I’m developing a scale and snake kink.”
 
In an instant Keith sent the Red Paladin a disapproving look and Riyluxmn’s
face flushed. His tail suddenly unwinding from around Lance and curling around
his own legs, while the Cuban boy laughed.
 
“There’s no need to be embarrassed, Riy,” Lance cooed, his hand wandering down
the youngests hips and to his tail. Fingers slowly sliding down the scales and
making the smaller shiver. “I thought it was hot having your tail wrapped
around me.”
 
“Lance,” came Keith’s warning, a frown on his face. “Lux just woke up and his
fever broke an hour ago. He still needs to eat something. Don’t start
something.”
 
“He can eat after,” the Cuban boy huffed, a smug look taking over his features
as his fingers slid to the hybrids front. “Besides, someone is already a little
excited.”
 
The moment those long fingers slid against his crotch and squeezed the little
hybrid let out a soft cry and and fell back against the Cuban on the bed. A
knowing smirk falling over Lance’s face as Keith blushed and sent a glare
toward the teen behind Riyluxmn.
 
“I’m serious, Lance. Lux over exerted himself for us and he needs to fully
recover first.” Keith reasoned, his flushed cheeks betraying him.
 
“But we can help him fully recover,” Lance cooed, his fingers rubbing circles
against the bulge in the Dreauxee’s pants and making him whimper. “Riy was in
such distress earlier because he thought you died, and now that he knows we’re
his mates we should show him how alright we are. Show him how much we love
him.”
 
Slowly Lance buried his face into the Dreauxee’s neck and placed a gentle kiss
against his jaw bone. A shiver running through the hybrid as his tail unwound
from his legs and curled around Lance. A hum coming from the Cuban boy in
response as his blue eyes settled on Keith and his flustered expression as he
pressed his fingers into Riyluxmn again. The sudden cry that left him making
Keith visibly shiver and clench his fingers into fists.
 
“Don’t you want to show Riy you’re alright, Keith?” Lance nudged, the older
harshly swallowing. “Show him how much you love him, why you tried to sacrifice
yourself for him? He’s waiting for you.”
 
A well calculated squeeze had the Dreauxee crying out and arching into Lance’s
touch, his mouth falling open and his tail tightening around the taller. Small
tears gathering in his eyes as he whimpered. Keith’s whole body shaking the
entire time as Lance's other hand curled around the hybrids front and gently
grasped his chin to tilt his head toward Keith.
 
“Look at him, Keith, isn’t he beautiful,” Lance cooed as he placed kisses along
the smallers jaw bone and worked his way to behind his ear. The Dreauxee
whimpering with every touch and Keith visibly cracking in front of him. “And
he’s all ours, our mate.”
 
The moment the ‘m’ word fell past Lance’s lips, Keith snapped. The older
reaching out and grabbing the Dreauxee’s wrist, before he yanked him from
Lance’s grip, off the mattress, and against Keith. Their chests colliding and
the smaller scrambling to grab hold of the older’s shoulders, before hands
grabbed his ass and squeezed. A whimper falling past the hybrids lips while
Keith licked his lips and kneaded his fingers into the clothed flesh in his
palms. Riyluxmn’s clawed fingers digging into the fabric of Keith’s suit and
whimpering as the older leaned forward and brushed their lips together.
 
“Is this okay, Lux?” Keith softly asked, his voice lower and deeper than the
hybrid had ever heard it.
 
“Y-yes,” came the shaky whimper, before soft lips pressed into his own.
 
The touch hot and comforting as Keith’s tongue lapped against the smallers lips
and Riyluxmn shakily opened his mouth. The older Blade’s tongue delving into
his mouth and pressing wetly against his own as they danced against one another
and Keith played with the flesh in his palms. Each squeeze and knead from those
battle worn fingers electing a whimper from the hybrid, till Keith ground their
bodies together and a cry fell past the Dreauxee’s lips. Their mouths parting
with the cry and Keith giving him a smoldering look as arms curled around the
smaller’s chest and Lance's lips grazed the hybrids ear.
 
“Hey, now, don’t forget about me,” Lance teased. Fingers sliding down the
Dreauxee’s chest and delving underneath the tight fabric of his shirt. “I’d
like to partake too.”
 
A whimper fell past Riyluxmn’s lips before the Cuban boy tugged the shirt up
and over the Dreauxee’s heads. The fabric flopping onto the floor and long
fingers caressing the smaller’s chest as lips pressed into his shoulder.
Lance’s tongue gliding over his flesh, and traveling down his back, till the
wet tongue grazed against the scales of his wings and the Dreauxee shuddered.
His skin shifting under Lance’s ministrations and itching to separate and form
his wings.
 
“I want to love, Riy too,” Lance purred, his fingers rubbing over the smaller’s
nipples and wrenching a whimper out of him.
 
A huff as Keith’s only response as he dove back in for Riyluxmn’s lips and
delved his tounge back into the hybrids mouth. The older swallowing the
Dreauxee’s every sound as Lance lapped at the scales of his wings against his
back and Keith ground the smaller against his body. Their clothed erections
pressing up against one another and Lance pressing into him from behind, before
the hybrids fingers shakily slid to Keith’s back and traveled up his neck.
Clawed fingers finding the zipper to the Blade of Marmora suit and roughly
tugging on it as the drag of its teeth echoed in the air. Keith shivering
against him when the air in the room hit his bare skin as Riyluxmn tugged at
the fabric and started peeling it off the other.
 
Lance already a few steps ahead of them as he peeled his own flight suit off
his body and tossed it over their heads, never once stopping his assault
against the teen’s back. The Cuban boy’s arms winding around the smaller and
prying him from Keith’s hold, as Keith growled and Lance leaned back to give
the older a full view of the shivering wreck the hybrid had become.
 
“Suit off, Keith,” Lance purred as he ground his boxer clad erection against
the Dreauxee’s clothed rear and Riyluxmn whimpered. “Riy’s waiting.”
 
A heavy growl let the older as he practically ripped the suit off his body and
flung it behind him. The sight of his skin slowly splotching over in purple and
spreading making Lance’s jaw drop as Keith leaned over them and slid his
fingers under the waistband of the smaller’s pants. The fabric being yanked off
before the hybrid could even take in a proper breath and Keith pressing into
them, till Lance’s back hit the wall behind them and the Dreauxee was
sandwiched between them.
 
“Holy shit, Keith,” Lance breathed. His blue eyes taking in the gradual
coloring of the older’s skin and the purple eating up the pale cream flesh.
“That’s so hot.”
 
A pur left the olde as he leaned across Riyluxmn’s shoulder and captured
Lance’s mouth in a dirty kiss. Their tongues meeting and pressing up against
one another’s as Lance whimpered in response and grabbed for the others hair.
Keith’s hair already taking on a slight purple tinge and spreading, as his
sharpening fingers grabbed both teen’s boxers and yanked them down. Both Lance
and Riyluxmn whimpering in protest, before Keith was peeling his own off and
pulling away from Lance’s lips as he pressed them together.
 
The moment flesh met flesh electing a broken whimper from the Dreauxee as he
pressed against Keith’s chest as far as he could go and the scales against his
back erupted from his flesh. Each scale fusing together to form his wings as
Lance gasped behind him and Keith growled, the olders ears already shifting to
resemble Galra ears.
 
“Oh god, Riy,” Lance choked out, gazing down at the rainbow reflecting wings
pressed against his chest and shifting his gaze to watch Keith’s fluffy ears
finish forming and the purple start to creep up his neck. “You two are going to
be the death of me.”
 
A vibrated hum left Keith as a clawed finger glided across the Cubans cheek and
his purple eyes sparkled.
 
“How about we test that, Lance,” Keith teased. His other hand caressing
Riyluxmn’s hip and tracking down his thigh, electing a whimper from him that
had Lance’s eyes on him in an instant. “Right, Lux?”
 
“Y-yes. Please?” Riyluxmn begged, fingers digging into Keith’s shoulders and
Lance shivering against his back. “Keith. Lance.”
 
“Oh god.” Lance whimpered, face flushed and his head hitting the wall behind
him. “You two are going to kill me.”
 
A pur left Keith in response as the Galra hybrid wrapped his arms around the
both of them and turned them around till they collapsed in a pile across the
mattress. Riyluxmn’s wings fluttering in anticipation as Keith pulled him into
a sitting position and resting across Lance’s thighs, the two half Galra’s
pressed against each other, before Keith pulled the Dreauxee into a kiss.
Riyluxmn eagerly returning it as Keith’s clawed fingers glided down his back
and delved between his cheeks. Fingers pressing against his entrance and a
whimper falling past the hybrids lips as Lance panted below them and whimpered.
 
“You’re already wet, Lux,” Keith purred, as he pulled away from the Dreauxee’s
lips and eyed the Cuban staring at them with wide eyes. “Oh, you didn’t know,
Lance? Lux’s species self lubricates.”
 
To prove the fact the former Paladin spread the youngers cheeks apart and
stretched the glistening hole open with his thumb. Thick liquid slowly sliding
out of the crevice and coating the olders thumb as Riyluxmn whimpered and
buried his face into the teens neck. Lance audibly swallowing beneath them as
Keith’s thumb pressed into the hybrids hole and the Dreauxee let out a cry. The
Cuban shakily reaching out a hand for them, before Keith was letting go of
Riyluxmn’s ass and slapping the others hand away from them
 
“No touching Lance, just watch.” Keith ordered, smirking when the taller
whimpered and the Dreauxee pressed against the finger buried in him. “Does that
feel good, Lux?”
 
“M-more,” came the pathetic whimper from the hybrid, watery brown and yellow
orbs looking up at him in distress. “Keith.”
 
“Alright, I got you,” Keith cooed, before he pulled his thumb out of the hybrid
and plunged two fingers inside the smaller. The Dreauxee letting out a broken
sob as he trembled against the older and Lance let out a gasp behind them.
“How’s that, Lux? Is that better?”
 
“K-Keith…” came the broken whimper, the Dreauxee burying his face into the half
breeds shoulder and pressing up against him. “Keith…”
 
A soft hush left the olders mouth as he pressed his fingers in deeper and
spread them. Riyluxmn crying out in Keith’s arms while Lance whimpered and
watched as Keith stretched the hybrid sitting in the Cubans lap. The now purple
skinned covered Blade coaxing the Dreauxee’s lips against his own before taking
over his mouth and slipping another finger into the smaller. Riyluxmn’s wings
trembling behind him as his tail tightened around Lance’s waist and the Cuban
whimpered.
 
“You two are killing me,” Lance choked out. Keith’s purple  eyes shifting to
the shaking, carmel skinned male and the hard erection resting against his
stomach as he fisted the sheets below him. “I so take it back. I have an alien
kink. A big, huge, quiznacking ass alien kink. Oh god, you two are so hot.”
 
A smirk made its way across Keith’s lips as he pulled away from Riyluxmn’s lips
and brushed his mouth against the hybrids ear.
 
“How about we put Lance out of his misery, Lux?” Keith teased as wide blue eyes
stared at them. “He’s practically begging for it.”
 
Slowly watery brown and yellow eyes turned and looked at the teen behind them.
The Dreauxee’s lips red and swollen, a deep flush across his face, and his hair
a mess as Lance groaned and tightened his fingers in the sheets.
 
“Riy, shit.”
 
“See, Lux,” Keith cooed, nose brushing against the smallers cheek and pressing
his fingers deeper into the hybrid. “Don’t you wanna finish him off?”
 
A whimper left the Dreauxee as he started to turn in Keith’s arms and the older
removed his fingers out the teen. Riyluxmn moving in Lance’s lap till he was
facing him and hovering over him on his knees. His tail unwinding from Lance’s
waist and swaying behind him as his wings fluttered.
 
“Lance…” Riyluxmn quietly spoke, brown and yellow eyes watching as the Cuban
harshly swallowed and his fingers in the sheets twitched. “Lance?”
 
“Go ahead,Lance,” Keith cooed, his clawed purple hands caressing the hybrids
thighs and coaxing the teen to lean back against him and give Lance a full view
of him. “Lux is waiting.”
 
If anything, the moment Lance’s hands moved, Riyluxmn didn’t think the Cuban
could get his arms to move fast enough, let alone to sink his teeth and cock
into the smaller before he completely lost himself. And when he finally did it
felt like heaven.
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When Lance finally sunk himself into the Dreauxee the only thing running
through his head was:
 
Holy quiznacking shit why didn’t he do this sooner?
 
Riy was so hot and wet around him, his body gripping tightly to his cock as
Lance dug his teeth into the hybrids shoulder and the smaller teen let out a
broken cry in his arms. His wings and tail trembling and shaking hands wrapping
around the Cuban boy and digging into his hair. Keith watching them in approval
as Lance let his hands wonder over the Dreauxee’s pastel purple skin. Fingers
caressing the scales covering the teens belly and surrounding the base of his
cock, the organ more tentacle like than his own, and the scales covering his
thighs that faded into skin at his knees. The very same scales wrapping from
his belly to his back and huge patches missing from the wings currently out and
quaking behind them. The Dreauxee’s tail suddenly wrapping around the Cuban
boys waist again and shoving him back down into the mattress as Lance blinked
up at him in confusion.
 
“Riy?” Lance shakily spoke, glossy brown and yellow eyes peering down at him as
Keith wrapped his arms around the smaller and smirked down at him. “Keith-”
 
“Keep him busy for me, Lux,” Keith purred, eyes boring into Lance as he ran his
clawed fingers along the Dreauxee’s dick and the organ trembled in response.
Liquid seeping out of it as the older let it drip into his fingers and licked
his lips. “See if you can break him before I get to him.”
 
A shiver ran up the Cubans spine, before Riy’s tail tightened around his waist
and the Dreauxee ground into his lap. A groan leaving Lance’s lips as Keith
purred in approval and disappeared behind the glossy eyed hybrid.
 
“O-oh god, you’re t-taking to him through a link. A-aren’t you?” Lance choked
out as Riy kept up the torturous pace and the Cubans legs were spread. “Wh-what
are you-”
 
The instant a slicked finger pressed against his ass Riy started actually
riding him and Lance let out a startled cry. The dual sensations taking his
body off guard as Keith’s finger slid into him and the Dreauxee on top of him
took control of him. Riy’s tail keeping him locked in place, trapped against
the mattress, while Keith started stretching the Cuban boy and the hybrids ears
twitched. It a no brainer that he was communicating with Keith and the two were
having a field day with the teen trembling under them as the older slid another
finger into him and Riy snapped his hips down onto him. Lance latching his
teeth onto his lower lip to hold back the sob in pleasure while Riy’s ears
twitched and Keith curled his fingers.
 
“Holy fuck!” Lance cried out, pleasure electrocuting his system as Keith’s
chuckle reached him from behind Riy and the Dreauxee started tightening around
him. “You two aretrying to kill me. I’m going to die from having sex with two
hot aliens.”
 
In response a third finger drove into Lance and the pleasure curling and
boiling in his stomach snapped. Riy’s eyes suddenly clearing as he snapped his
hips down onto the teens dick and let out a cry. Lance spilling his seed into
the Dreauxee and the hybrids tentacle looking dick splurting liquid all over
his stomach as Riy’s wings quivered. Keith’s head peeking out from over the
hybrids shoulder just as he wobbled and the purple skinned male quickly wrapped
an arm around the Dreauxee and nuzzled his neck.
 
“Shhh, Lux, I got you,” Keith’s voice echoed as Lance blinked in confusion
through his high and looked to the pair in front of him. Riy’s eyes slightly
glazed over and his entire body quivering. “You did great, love, why don’t you
cuddle with Lance?”
 
“Love?” Lance spoke aloud before he could stop himself and Keith suddenly
froze, violet eyes snapping to him. “U-um…”
 
“I-I connected us,” Riy’s voice echoed as Keith looked to the exhausted
Dreauxee and leaned against the male behind him. “H-he’s our mate, so I figured
it’d be okay if...if I let him in my pack.”
 
A soft blush spread across the Dreauxee’s cheeks and Lance couldn’t help the
soft smile that fell over his face. Keith’s own expression softening and the
older nuzzling into the hybrids neck.
 
“That’s perfectly fine, Lux, it’s your pack,”Keith cooed.
 
“Thanks, Riy,” lance carefully added, glazed brown and yellow eyes shifting to
him as the taller held his arms out. “How about you come here and cuddle with
me? You look beat.”
 
A soft smile made its way onto the Dreauxee’s face as he carefully stood up on
his knees and Lance’s dick slipped from his hole. Seed already sliding down his
scaled thighs as Keith gently helped the hybrid curl up against Lance’s side
and Riy’s tail freed Lance from its hold. The little hybrid making himself
comfortable as Lance wrapped an arm around his waist and kissed his forehead.
 
“Comfortable?”Lance asked as the Dreauxee nodded and laid his head in the teens
chest.
 
“Good, because I’m not done with you,” Keith’s voice echoed toward them, the
fingers Lance totally forgot about slid out of his ass and slid across the mess
Riy left on the Cubans stomach. “Or did you think I’d forget about you, lover
boy, Lance?”
 
In an instant a deep red flush dominated the tallers cheeks and Keith smirked
down at him.
 
Holy quiznack, did Keith really see their shows? Oh god, please tell him he
didn’t see his dancing. He had been doing it for the crowd, but it was still
embarrassing and if Keith- oh god please tell him he didn’t.
 
“Let’s see how flexible you really are,” Keith’s purred, slick covered fingers
gliding against his own dick and licking his lips. “Love, can you do me a favor
and hold his legs for me?”
 
In a flash Riy’s tail shot out and wrapped around Lance’s thighs, yanking his
legs back against his chest and exposing himself to the Galra male above him as
Lance’s cheeks lit up and he sputtered.
 
“K-Keith! Riy!”
 
A chuckle fell past the former Paladins lips as he lined his purple cock in
against Lance’s hole and smirked down at him.
 
“If you thought Lux broke you, you’ve got another thing coming, lover
boy.”Keith dangerously purred before plunging into him.
 
The sudden rush of hot, thick, flesh filling him causing a cry to escape the
Cuban boys lips as Riy’s tail tightened around his thighs and the tip of it
ticked the back of his knee. The pleasure and slight pain shocking his system
as he buried his face into the Dreauxee’s hair beside him and whimpered. The
hybrid nudging him back in comfort as Keith started thrusting into him and
clawed hands grabbed hold of the teens thighs. Riy’s tail letting go of the
Cubans flesh while Keith nearly bent him in half and leaned over him with a
deep purr.
 
“Oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god!”Lance sobbed out as Keith smirked above him
and licked his lips. “S-so hot!”
 
A hum filled the link as Keith plunged a little deeper and a sob fell past the
Cubans lips.
 
“Does it feel good?” Keith cooed, nails digging into the teens thighs and the
muscles quivering under his fingers. “Do you want me to stop?”
 
Lance couldn’t shake his head fast enough as he squeezed his eyes shut and
whimpered, his cock already hard and leaking between them as his arm tightened
around Riy and the hybrid nuzzled against his neck.
 
“M-more,” came the teens broken sob, the fingers of his other hand strangling
the sheets. “Harder!”
 
A deep rumbling purr echoed through the link that sent shivers down Lance’s
spine.
 
“You do realize if I go any deeper my knot will get stuck in you, right?”
 
In seconds Lance’s mind came to a screeching halt as he glanced over at the
place they were joined and noticed the raised flesh surrounding the base of
Keith’s dick. The knob a deep reddish purple and far thicker than the dick in
him currently.
 
“Holy quicknack.”
 
“And I’ll be stuck for awhile.”
 
“You’re killing me.”
 
“And if I do you’ll have to go another round.”
 
“Fuck me. Put it in and fuck me!” Lance pleaded, his face flushed a deep red
and tears welled up in his eyes. “Please! Kei-”
 
The sudden hard thrust into him had the teen crying out as Keith’s knot brushed
against his hole and stretched the flesh a little. Keith purring above him and
white of his purple eyes starting to turn yellow as he licked his lips and
shoved Lance’s knees against his shoulders. The sudden bend startling the
taller till Keith shoved his knot into him and Lance saw stars. The thick flesh
squeezing and barreling past his hole till it breached him and his body clamped
down around it in a harsh suction. The fullness inside him stretching him so
far it was nearly painful as he whimpered and cried out as Keith kept thrusting
and grinding into him. Lance nearly over the edge till Riy leaned over and sunk
his teeth into his shoulder.
 
The sudden pain causing him to snap as cum exploded across his stomach and
Keith cursed above him. The teen writhing against the mattress through his
orgasm as Riy softly cooed at him through their link and Keith’s dick twitched
inside of him. Hot seed suddenly flooding his insides as Lance let out a
whimper and sobbed, kisses brushing against his cheeks as he slowly opened his
eyes and found Riy cradling his face.
 
“L….L-nce...Lance?” The Dreauxee’s voice echoed through the link as he
whimpered in response and the hybrid softly smiled at him. “We lost you for a
moment.”
 
“Keith nearly killed me.”Lance choked out as the older huffed and the teen
turned to find his legs still bent and Keith still hovering over him with a
frown. The yellow in his eyes nearly overtaking his irises and pupils.
 
“You’re the one that wanted my knot, sadist.” Keith grumbled as he looked down
at where they were joined and Lance blushed when he could still feel the other
hard inside of him. “I wasn’t kidding about the second round either. I’m gunna
be stuck for a long while if I don’t cum again.”
 
A heavy groan left Lance as Riy shakily sat up beside him and his tail slid off
the bed with its weight.
 
“I could help,”Riy spoke as Keith looked at him with a disapproving frown and
Lance’s face flushed deeper.
 
“You should just relax, Lux, we don’t want to make you over exert yourself.”
Keith replied till the Dreauxee’s tail slithered back on the bed and brushed
against the others thighs. The purple male jolting, and pressing his dick
deeper into Lance with the movement as they both groaned and Keith’s cheeks
colored. “I don’t think-”
 
“Oh, god. You wanna fuck Keith with your tail?” Lance groaned as Keith’s cheeks
turned red and the Dreauxee leaned up against the older and nuzzled into his
shoulder. “I lied. Snake and tail kink coming back.”
 
“W-Will you shut up,” Keith snapped, glaring at him and his flushed cheeks.
“I’m not-”
 
“So you’re not gunna let Riy love you too?” Lance teased as the purple male
above him faltered and glanced as the hybrid cuddled up against his side, tail
laying in his lap and waiting. “He doesn’t even have to move.”
 
In response a grumble left the older before he threaded his fingers through the
Dreauxee’s hair and glazed brown and yellow eyes looked up at the former
Paladin.
 
“Fine,” Keith caved, as Riy straightened in excitement. “But only his once!”
 
A chuckle escaped Lance as Riy beamed up at the other and his tail swayed back
and onto the mess covering Lance’s chest. The mix of cum and slick coating the
tip of his tail, before it swayed out of sight and Lance wiggled his hips.
Keith’s eyes immediately on him as the Cuban boy raised an eyebrow.
 
“You gunna start that second round, kitten?”Lance teased, while Keith made a
face.
 
“Don’t call me kitten.”In response Lance wiggled his hips again.
 
“Then you better shut me up, ki-”
 
A sudden hard thrust had Lance gasping out as the hard flesh pressed further
into him and made a dirty squelching sound. The knot on Keith’s dick still
locking them together and keeping the cum from leaking out, while Riy shifted
slightly and the base of his tail jolted. Keith suddenly lurching forward, and
nearly knocking their heads together, as he gasped for air and whimpered.
Yellowing eyes screwing shut and he shook above lance and his dick twitched
violently.
 
“Lux…” came Keith’s broken whimper as Lance stared at the male above him in
surprise and Riy' cuddled against him. “Holy quiznack…!”
 
Again Keith lurched forward and ground them together in the process. Lance
letting out a moan, while Keith practically curled into him and dug his nails
into lances thighs. His eyes still screwed shut as he gasped for breath and
whimpered. The sight turning on Lance more than it should as the older lurched
forward again and let out a cry.
 
“LUX!” Keith’s voice went straight to Lance’s dick as he whimpered and squirmed
beneath the Galra half breed.
 
“Keith…”
 
“I-I can- AH!” Keith’s cry echoed again as he lurched forward and it was then
that Lance noticed it. The slight bulge in the olders stomach and the tears
filling his eyes. Half of Riy’s tail missing against the mattress and the
hybrids eyes closed as he cuddled against Keith. “I can’t take anymore.”
 
The last of Keith’s words were whimpered out, his body trembling as he opened
his now fully yellow eyes and laid his cheek against the Cubans knee.
 
“I can’t- Lance…”
 
Holy quiznack.
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He couldn’t move. Keith couldn’t move.
 
“Lux…”
 
A jerk jolted through him as the Dreauxee’s tail drove deeper into him and
stretched him further. The smooth, slicked, scales rubbing against his insides
and making his stomach swirl in pleasure as his dick twitched. The foreign
sensation of the tail in him turning him on more than he could handle as his
stomach stretched with the strain. Tears clouding his vision as he strangled
Lance’s thighs and leaned against his knee. Hot, gasping breaths leaving his
lips as Lance stared up at him in shock and raised an eyebrow at him.
 
“Keith?” Slowly the teen below him reached a hand out toward him and caressed
his face. Fingers brushing against his ear and a shiver lashing through the
older. “Holy quiznack, Riy, what did you do to him?”
 
A soft chuckle vibrated through the link as the tail in him drove deeper and
Keith let out a strangled cry.
 
“You like it,” Lux gently purred as Lance’s eyes widened. “Can you take more?”
 
“N-no…” came the broken whimper. The tail inside him twitching as Keith jerked.
“D-Don’t…”
 
The purr he received was the only warning he got before it drove in deeper,
shoving him further into Lance and stretching his own stomach as they both
gasped and the Dreauxee’s tail stilled.
 
“Good boy,” Lux cooed as Keith shivered and slumped against the Cuban below
him. Lance lightly panting below him and staring at him in surprise. “Don’t
leave Lance hanging.”
 
“I c-can-…I can’t move.”Keith whimpered, his legs shaking and his insides
filled to the brim. “I can’t-”
 
“Keith…”Lance’s voice echoed in an awed stupor between the link.
 
“S-So full, I c-can’t…”
 
“Shhh, I got you,”Lux purred, before he tail twitched and the older whimpered.
 
“N-no…!”
 
A cry spilled from Keith’s lips as the tail in him slid out halfway and thrust
back in. The force driving him into Lance and making the teen beneath him moan
as long fingers wove into his hair and caressed his Galra ears.
 
“L-Lance…”
 
“Just let Lux take care of us, Keith,” Lance softly spoke, thumb brushing his
cheek. “Let go.”
 
A whimper fell past his lips before Lux cuddled against him and started
thrusting his tail in and out of the older. Each driving thrust pushing him
into Lance and each pull backwards nearly pulling them apart as whimpers and
moans filled the room. Keith clinging desperately to the teen below him and
Lance’s nails digging into his skull as he whimpered and gasped for breath.
Lance’s blue eyes boring into him and his legs spreading apart further as he
wrapped them around the olders back and pulled them closer. Their foreheads
pressing together and every gasping breath mingling together as fingers brushed
against Keith’s jaw and their lips brushed against each others.
 
“L-Lance…”
 
A soft hush drifted between them as their lips connected and their tongues
rushed out to meet one another. The sound of their moans and gasps muffled
between their mouths, till Lance trembled beneath him and pulled away with a
whimper.
 
“Keith…”
 
“R-Right-Ah!” The hard thrust of Lux’s tail had him quivering and biting his
lower lip. “Behind you.”
 
A whine left the Cuban boy below him as he screwed his eyes shut and gasped for
breath. The pair of them teetering on the edge, till Lux purred across the link
and shoved his tail as deep into Keith as his body would let him. A scream
falling past the olders lips as he drove into Lance and the both of them came.
Lance crying out below him as cum covered the both of them and Keith emptied
his cock into the teen below him. Lux’s tail slowly sliding out of him and
leaving an empty feeling in its wake while the knot in Keith’s cock finally let
go. The older barely pulling out of the male below him, before he collapsed
onto the bed with a heavy groan and the mental link between them snapped.
 
“A-are you okay, Lux?” Keith shakily gasped, his voice wrecked as a whine
reached him and the older chuckled. “Lance?”
 
“Y-you both killed me,” Lance lightly laughed, his voice hoarse and his legs
draped across Keith’s thighs.
 
Laughs passing over them til Lux’s tail flopped off the bed and he whined.
 
“Cuddle,” the Dreauxee pleaded as both males groaned and rolled over to look
towards the other. The little hybrid laying on his side and arms reached out
toward them both. “Please.”
 
Slowly both of them glanced at one another and smiled, before slowly
maneuvering around and pulling the hybrid between them. None of them caring
about the mess they were, or how tired and sore they were, as they curled
around each other and relaxed against the sheets.
 
“Cuddle pile,” Lance lightly joked, before groaning and closing his eyes.
“Let’s not get up till tomorrow.”
 
“Agreed.”
 
“Agreed.”
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Bonus scene
 
“I was wondering when we’d see you guys again,” Pidge teased as the trio
dragged themselves into the dining room the next morning. Lance carrying Keith
on his back and Riyluxmn leaning against the Cuban as everyone’s eyebrows
raised and the taller teen dumped Keith into a chair with a groan. “Holy crap,
what happened to you guys?”
 
“Bonding moment,” Lance muttered as he sat in the chair beside Keith and
Riyluxmn made himself comfortable in his lap.
 
Everyone at the table flushing as the Dreauxee curled up against Lance and the
door to the room slid open. Lotor strolling in like he owned the place, and
considering he was present meant Shiro and Allura approved of his alliance
proposal, as he gaze fell on the trio and his eyebrows raised.
 
“I wondered where you two were yesterday,” the ex-prince spoke as he moved
toward the table and noticed the Dreauxee hybrid. “Oh my, and what a rare
sight. I didn’t know you had a Dreauxee among you?”
 
“That’s Riyluxmn,” Shiro supplied as the Galra halfbreed’s eyebrows raised.
 
“And a beautiful unique name to boost, what a treat.” Lotor continued as Keith
glared toward the other and growled in warning, Lance wrapping his arms around
the hybrid and Riyluxmn’s tail swayed dangerously. “Is he take-”
 
Before anyone could react Riyluxmn leaned forward out of Lance’s arm and hissed
dangerously. His wings flying out of his back and his tail raising as the
scales covering him flared out. Each of them easing off his skin and tail into
dangerous points as his eyes glowed. Huge fangs elongating and a hiss erupting
from his throat as everyone froze and Lance and Keith smirked in response.
 
“He’s taken,” Lance spoke matter of factly as he wrapped his arms around the
smaller and every place he touched smoothed over and the scales flattened.
Keith reaching over and trailing his fingers against the barbed tail and
smirking toward the ex prince when the scales flattened at his touch.
 
“And he’s lethal,” Keith added. Riyluxmn slowly relaxing and his appearance
returning to normal with his hiss fading.
 
“And poisonous,” the hybrid added as he leaned back against a slightly
surprised Lance . “So stay the quiznack away from my mates, Loturd.”
 
Silence slowly filled the room as all eyes fell on the Dreauxee and Lance threw
his arms around the hybrid and squeezed him.
 
“I quiznacking love you, Riy! Best comeback ever!” The Cuban laughed as Keith
snorted and a few snickers drifted around the room. “I call for one huge cuddle
pile after breakfast.”
 
“I second that,” Keith motioned while the hybrid hummed and Shiro and Allura
frowned.
 
“You guys do realize just because your mates doesn’t mean you don’t have jobs
to do, right?” Shiro spoke as Lance beamed and squeezed the Dreauxee in his
lap.
 
“Doesn’t mean we don’t get a few days off to plan our next attack and relax a
little. We did just save a huge chunk of the universe from Zarkons control.”
Lance pointed out as the hybrid in his lap purred. “So cuddle pile after
breakfast?”
 
“I’m in the middle this time,” Keith spoke up as he waved his hand and ignored
the surprised looks on everyone’s face, while the Dreauxee’s tail wrapped
around his wrist. “Allura is there a room with a bigger bed in the living
quarters?”
 
“E-excuse me?” The princess stuttered.
 
“So we can make one big cuddle pile and not worry about falling off the bed,”
Lance clarified as Hunk came out of the kitchen and set their breakfast down.
“Might make it our new room too. Riy is a huge cuddler.”
 
“Uh, I think so.” Allura replied as Lance picked up the hybrid in his arms, got
to his feet, swung them around and set the smaller in the chair.
 
“Sold, I’ll go stake out a room. Enjoy breakfast Keith, Riy.” Lance spoke
happily as he placed a kiss on both their cheeks and headed for the door. The
Cuban stopping in front of Lotor and jabbing a finger into his chest. “And if
you even take a glance at my mates, I’ll make sure the first enemy that comes
after your ass isn’t killed by my sharp shooting skills, Loturd.”
 
Without another word the Cuban turned around in a dramatic fashion and walked
out of the room with a happy wave and both Riyluxmn and Keith smirked, pointing
toward the now closed door. Riyluxmn’s scales flaring out and Keith letting his
Galra side take over in warning.
 
“What he said.”
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Scarlett: *blushes and buries her head into a pillow* A huge portion of my
brain is embarrassed I wrote this, but I hope some of you enjoy it. I'm usually
cautious with making OC stories for fandoms because not a lot of people like
them, but I hope this was alright for you all.
 
Edit: Nov 4th 2017- Since some readers requested it, I drew a character sheet
for Riyluxmn for everyone. I was going to do it digitally, but the colors
wouldn't turn out right so I did it was markers. Hope that's okay with
everyone! Just follow the link -> Riyluxmn's_Character_Sheet
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