Play Your Part - Skalidra - Voltron: Legendary Defender [Archive of Our Own]

Play Your Part - Skalidra - Voltron: Legendary Defender [Archive of Our Own]

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Summary: Shiro knows it's the right decision to step into Matt's place in the gladiator arena. But when he defeats Myzax, and refuses to kill him, he sets a couple things in motion by mistake. One of these mistakes, is catching Emperor Zarkon's attention.


Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Shiro (Voltron), Zarkon (Voltron)
Additional Tags: Shiro's Missing Year, Imprisonment, Gladiators, Beating
Series: Part 2 of Cultural Differences

The crowd is screaming.

There's a fire in his blood, roaring in his chest, blanking out the pain of the scrapes and bruises littering his skin. His blade is to the throat of the gladiator beneath him, one foot pressed hard to the center of that massive chest, blood pooling beneath it from the slash he first used to knock the beast down. That damn orb weapon is lying in the dirt, out of reach of the massive hands, and the thing — is this a Galra? Is that the name of a species or a collection of species? An empire? — is glaring up at him.

He takes in a shallow breath, no deeper because his ribs ache, and presses the blade a little firmer against the grey-purple skin of his downed opponent. It doesn't seem to affect the gladiator — Myzax, he's pretty sure — at all, only gets him to show a bit more teeth and snarl. He can't even hear it past the roar of the crowd.

He does hear it when Myzax growls, "Finish it, slave."

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