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The paladins of Voltron were currently in a strange alien planet, which by now was the norm so they really needed to stop thinking every planet was strange. Anyway, it was quite the beautiful place, a mostly mountainous planet with giant rock formations covered in grass and hardy trees where the inhabitants lived and made their homes, each mountain connected by many giant bridges.
Thankfully the planet was mostly untouched by the galra, not conquered yet but it was on the “to conquer” list, so when the paladins and the coalition arrived they were more than happy to join and receive them with open arms, yeah apparently people didn’t want to be enslaved and when someone offer to protect you from that alliances happen.
Even better they had come at the best possible moment not only just in time to destroy a galra fleet coming to conquer the planet but also in time for the annual wind festival which was also a perfect occasion for Katie and Keith to have a wonderful date!
This time it Katie decided to have the perfect date, since it was their first date in months, she had made plans, researched the food stalls that were being put up, what kind of shows or performances there would be and any activities they could enjoy together. It would be great, they would go out into town at 10, stroll around town for a few hours sightseeing and would sit down to eat something food from some of the stalls while watching the view near the edges of the mountain. After that they would go rent some kites and join in the kite flying part of the festival, they would have a small picnic while doing that until knight when a firework show would be presented. Of course it all would end in a romantic kiss under the night sky, maybe more when they came back home but that depended on the mood.
She had already asked Hunk for food for the picnic that night and made sure to have as many credits as needed, had Allura help her chose a nice outfit and was currently waiting for Keith to be ready, usually it didn’t take long but when Lance heard Allura would be helping her, he decided that the princess being the only one allowed to play dress up wasn’t fair, so now he was playing dress up with Keith who was never as cooperative with this kind of things as he really could.
Finally, Keith came, apparently having already erased most of Lance’s work in his hair, he was wearing his usual black t-shirt and jeans, no jacket this time but a plaid open shirt over it, fingerless gloves and a bandana. “if you have to know, lance said ‘bad boy’ style could work, whatever that means” he looked at her for a moment, yeah bad boy worked she wasn’t exactly overdressed, some jeans a nice form fitting blouse with long sleeves and a little open vest over all of that, with her hair let down.
“you look amazing” he said and took her hand, they walked out of the door, yeah operation Kite day was a go!
The day began much to her plans, sightseeing across town, playing some games, eating some food while enjoying the view of this planet and the many interesting flying creatures that looked kind of like dinosaurs that were natives to the area. There was only one little problem here, she may had made a mistake, when she heard of kite flying she imagined the usual human activity, take a kite and fly it around as you run safely on the ground.
Reality was a bit more…. dangerous let’s say, as the activity was to take giant kite, not even one made of some super strong cloth or something like on earth, and strap the two of them to it as they flung themselves off the mountain and flied using that. It was more like those old Japanese stories about ninjas flying around in normal wooden kites, did she mentioned they didn’t have their jetpacks or anything that would slow the fall and save their lives if something went wrong?
Of course, Keith was delighted by the idea “oh this will be amazing I haven’t gone kiting in years” he said inspecting the contraption.
“Keith that thing is made of cloth, it’s not even tarp”
“seems sturdy enough, I thought you trusted machines and engineering” he said already giving the person renting them the credits.
“I do, mostly when it’s not something that looks out of medieval japan” she objected looking at the kite in her boyfriend’s hands “also how did you ever do kiting? you lived in the desert”
“there are mountains and let’s just say someone shouldn’t send those things by mail”
“they mailed that?” she asked, did people really mail that kind of thing?
“you would be surprised by the things that can fall from the mail’s truck” he put a hand in her hips bringing her close to him “don’t worry, I promise you will enjoy it”
“fine, but if we die, I will strangle your soul” she said giving up and allowing Keith to tied them to the kite and secure them together, theirs was larger than most since it was made for two people. After securing themselves they walked to the edge of the mountain and at this point she was already having doubts about it “hey Keith what about just going back to the gam-“
“nope” he cut her off by simple throwing them off the mountain directly into the abyss, oh god she was going to die, oh god they were going to die, she didn’t want to die here, she needed to find her father, save the universe, she didn’t want to die until Keith and her got married and had children at least, and she was sure as hell she didn’t want to die because of a kite!
Then the fall stop, and she felt the air hit her face, looking around the landscape quickly moved, changing as she felt herself fly, this was totally different from flying in the lion or a controlled fall with jetpacks. They were flying like birds, real flying! It was breath taking, the pterodactyl looking birds coming closer, the canyons bellow them, at one point they even flew down rapidly and touched the water that ran at the bottom of the canyon. Yup her plan was a success, she didn’t even need the fireworks. This, being in the skies with him? this made it perfect.