Distant Ties

*disclaimer* I do not own Riddick, Carolyn, Johns, or Jack, but everyone else is mine. This is a work of fiction and only for fun. I will never make any money off it, so don't sue me, okay?

WARNING: THIS IS IN AN ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSE! I'M ONLY USING THEIR NAMES AND BASIC CHARACTERISTICS! Because, well, I think Riddick would be a sexy warlord. ;) Haha, you'll probably hate the story, but that's okay…. Just go read and review…

" I command the largest army, but yet, they still do not heed my warnings?" She cried angrily towards her council.

" It is this… m'lady."

She glared at the quiviling moron. " If you wish to say something, do it now, before I might just lose my temper."

He nodded and gulped. " They do not take you seriously because of your stature."

" My stature? My STATURE! Just because I'm a woman, they think that they will not lose their miserable homes to me. Ah, yes, we will see about that." She paced for a moment, snarling to herself. " My army will be assembled by tommorow morning's dawn. Make sure of that. We have land to conquer." She stated and stormed out of that tent and went into hers.

Jack sighed, muttered to herself. She would have to do something about that idiotic council which she assembled. Maybe she would kill them all, maybe she wouldn't. It all depended on how she felt tommorow mornifng.

Jack wasn't a normal inhabiter of the lands of Syble. She was a warrior by heart, and known by her name, feared by everyone. She was tall, almost menacingly, but the dark hair that hung on her shoulders made many men think otherwise. She could easily be a pretty wench in a bar, serving drinks. Equipped with dark emerald eyes and gazes that could make anyone stop in their boots, she was seemingly unstoppable. She wanted to rule the lands of Sybil, and Jack did always get what she wanted.

Jack sat down thoughtfully in her tent. She had to think of a plan to get rid of the morons in her council. They knew too much, and that wasn't good at all. She stroked at her hair and rested against her pillows. At least being the commander allowed an adequate tent she thought to herself.

A man walked through the doors and bowed in front of her. " M'lady, I have a message from another army."

She nodded. " Yes, let me see that."

He gave it to her, bowed, and slipped out of the tent while she read it.

Jack looked over it and laughed. They wanted to join together. Jack knew much better than to trust anyone, just yet at least. She would have to meet with this other commander. He could be a fun kill, or useful. It didn't matter to her, unless she got ahead in the end.

***

" M'Lady, we should get a move on," Carolyn, her third in command told her quietly.

Jack glared over at her. Turning on her horse she looked at her with an angry gaze. " We will leave when I tell them to. I know better, remember that." She turned back and kicked her horse ahead.

Johns turned to Carolyn. " Smart way to get on her good side."

Carolyn smirked. " I'm not trying to get on her goodside."

Johns laughed at his dimwitted friend. " I will, and I will be rewarded for my efforts, unlike you." Johns grinned. His boyish good looks gave him all the advantages he would need. He knew that too.

***

She looked around. She didn't see anyone, but she hadn't before she got shot with an arrow either. Muttering a curse, she walked in through the back of the tent.

The tent was filled with pillows and blankets. It was laviously filled with everything you could need. The glare of the hot sun was kept out of here. The only light was coming from a small torch.

" So you did come." A male voice said.

Jack looked to her left. There stood the other commander. " Yes, of course I did. Would you think otherwise?" She growled towards him.

" Of course not, my dear lady. I figured you would come in through the back. The front would be too guarded. All of who have seen you, seem to die mysteriously after." He grinned towards her, flashing bright silver, shined eyes.

" What is your name?" She demanded, still not letting her guard down. There could be a lot of people around, and she would have to leave quietly. She had many more things to plan. She couldn't look at him in the eyes, just yet. She looked at him. He was taller than her and his body was lined with sinewy muscle. He wore dark black clothes and small knife hung on his belt. Around his neck was a necklace, with a ring on the end. She looked at it for a moment, then she heard him speak.

" I, Riddick, command the largest army in Syble." He said, watching her closely as she stepped out of the shadows. He saw the dark look in her eyes and the rough jaw as she watched him.

" Largest army?" She laughed. " I, by far, have the largest army. Those who have seen it have not had the pleasure of telling anyone, by circumstances, I do suppose." She gave a quiet gulp and damned his robust face, and the virile eyes, the bright silver flashing as it clashed with the fire that lit the tent.

Riddick gave a little wry grin. He might like having her around. " Then combine them, if you think you're so strong."

Jack pulled up her guard again. " No. To do so would allow you to be ruler, when I have aimed tiresesly to get this area for me. I will rule it."

" Yes, by all means, you will, with me."

" By myself. I will do it again. As always, alone. Now, I will leave. Do not get in my way, or you will be destroyed also. I have no pity on insolence." She took a step away from him.

He grabbed her arm suddenly. " If we do join together, then we're indestructible." Riddick looked straight into her dark eyes and was lost for a moment.

She grinned. " I suppose we could be, but let's say this. If you get past my guards, and into my tent, while I'm there, without killing anyone, or being noticied, then I suppose we could do something. You must be there by tommorow night. The next time, I'm packing up camp."

Riddick nodded. " You will pleased."

Jack shrugged. " I haven't been pleased in a long time, but you can try." She slipped back into the shadows and then she was gone.

Riddick stood there, mulling over the possibilties. He would have to get in there. He wanted to have her by his side to rule over Syble. This would be perfect he laughed to himself as he went over his plans.

***

Jack paced her tent. What if he did get in here, she wondered. She had a problem with joining with him simply because she really didn't have the time to waste telling him plans, and then watching him probably tell an opposing army. She already had the sniviling morons of her coucil slaughtered this morning for their incompetence and simply because she was tired of them.

She looked around, but didn't hear anything. Unusually serene she thought to herseld and laid down on her many pillows and sighed thoughtfully. So many things to do she mused, but so little time. She couldn't believe how beautiful he could be, but yet so cunning. It amazed her. She would have to do something about that.

" I told you I would be here." A quiet, but deep voice said next to her ear.

She was stunned for a moment then looked to her left. He was bending right there, with a satisfied grin. She muttered an oath.

" So, do we have a deal?" He asked her, stepping over her and standing in the middle of the room.

Jack deftly swung one leg over the other and dangled it in the air. " I don't think that it would work." She sat up and turned to him instantly. " It wouldn't be right, for me to have someone else to rule with. My only living relative, Xanthe, I doubt, would like it much either."

" You… you're related to the girl Xanthe?" He asked, amazed.

" Xanthe is my younger sister. I take care of her, of course. She is a threat to these lands, and that's why I take care of her. So they will all bow to me, of course."

Riddick grinned. " Of course, Jack, you believe that."

Jack looked at him crossly. " And what do you mean by that, Commander?" She asked him. Jack studied his expression for a minute. It made her want to strangle him. She couldn't do that, just yet at least. She would use Xanthe for that.

Riddick only gave a curt, insane laugh. " You will see, my dear Jack." He smiled at her. He grabbed her arm and pulled her against him. " You will rule with me, or I could have your army turn on you in an instant. I will drag you out there, slit your throat, and command this army. That's how you got it, right?"

A tremor of fear ripped through her body. " Of course. Now let me go."

Riddick laughed menacingly. " I can't do that. We will rule together, right? Shake on it."

Jack hardened her jaw. She couldn't do this, or she could be killed. What would Xanthe do then? Dammit, she had to agree. She shook his hand then pulled away and sat down on the floor and grumbled to herself.

" We will be married you know."

Jack fell backwards. It hit her like a rock in the head. " I do not think that would work."

Riddick laughed. " Of course it will. Or is it that you're just scared of me?"

Jack gave a nervous laugh and tried to calm herself down. " Of course not, but marry you? I mean…" She looked at him sternly. " I will not do it."

" Then I will see that the gods find where Xanthe is and kill her!" Riddick yelled back at her.

" No!" Jack cried. She got up and ran over to him. She grabbed his arm pleadingly and looked at him. " You can't do that, Xanthe is my only relative. Please."

Riddick didn't look at her. " Then go along with my plans."

" As you wish…" Jack murmured.

Riddick smiled. " Well then, come outside and talk about the union of the two parties?"

Jack sighed. " Of course."

Riddick thought about something for a moment. " Kill off Johns."

Jack stopped dead in her tracks. " I will not kill Johns, he is essiental."

Riddick muttered, " And he is also trying to kill you, Aster. Why do you think he has been so nice to you?" He whispered standing behind her. He put his hands on her shoulders. " You think because he realizes your strengths… oh no, he wants to see what you're truly like, and then after… murder you while you sleep." He moved his hands up quickly to her neck and felt her gulp. " Never thought you would hear it, would you, Aster?"

" Why do you keep calling me that?" She demanded, spinning around and glaring at him.

" Because, that's what you are my dear, a star amoung the heavens, no one can touch you, because you do not let them." He stared into her dark emerald eyes, swirling with mystery.

She looked down and away from his hungry gaze. " I think we shall go announce it now…"

He nodded and they both left the tent together.

***

Jack muttered another oath as the army clapped and cheered. She didn't smile or make like she was happy. Nothing about this 'marriage' would be normal. Two bloodthirsty people coming together for a common goal: Power. She saw the flash and backed away. It had to be Xanthe.

Xanthe appeared. She stood before her sister, then sighed. Her honey wheat hair blew lightly and her sky blue eyes peered directly at Jack. She pushed back her white robe and walked towards her. " Jack, a word with you, if I may?"

Jack nodded sharply and gave a look to Riddick before she left.

" So you are getting married I take it?" Xanthe said, quietly.

She sighed. " Xanthe, it was either that or I get killed. I couldn't let you be alone, being in your new state and all."

Xanthe gave a short, punctured laugh. " Jack, I love you, you are my sister, but you need not watch over my all the time. I am a Deity now, I watch for myself, and my servants see to my safety too."

Jack sighed. " You are still my sister."

Xanthe gave an acknowledged look and sighed. " I am your sister, but you must do what you have to do. Why not peacefully?"

Jack laughed harshly and gave her sister a look. " You must be kidding. Xanthe, I am most powerful woman in the world, without being a Deity."

" Yes, but you do have some powers like us." Xanthe smirked.

She shrugged. " Only to change my hair and eyes. Nothing more. That helps, but still, I am the most powerful, and I want to have these lands for my own. They were once all our fathers you know."

Xanthe looked at the spacious land, empty and barren. Fires ablaze and smoke drifting in the air. " Yes, and what has it become. Just another battle ground, sister."

Jack grinned. " Yes, but not for long. Riddick and I are the most powerful together. I believe that we will be able to gain all the land in a short amount of time without harming many others."

" And when you two are alone?" Xanthe asked, curious of her harsh and powerful sister.

Jack glared at her sister. "Nothing, we are going to be married for the power, we need this power."

Xanthe rolled her eyes. " Two bloodthirsty people going into a power trip? I do not think the gods will like this." She muttured.

" And the gods do not like you."

She only smiled. " Ah, yes they do. They understand my importance, I have made a few friends, only the war and death bearing gods, goddesses and deities hate me, which is a small few."

Jack groaned. " So it didn't matter? I can not back out of this deal I made with Riddick now."

Xanthe grinned. " This is your problem, my dear sister. I am off, the gods are calling me." Xanthe vanished in a flash of light.

Jack walked away from the still cheering crowd and stormed into her tent. She heard someone following, and she knew it had to be Riddick, of course it would be. " What do you want?" She growled at him.

" We need to talk." He said simply and twirled the dagger on the tip of his finger, and then grinned at her. They would talk… how they would talk.

Tbc… probably…

(a/n: yeah… this is another story about them… god I never stop do I? Heh… and if you wondering about my other story, I am boycotting it by my own accord. I don't know when I'll have another chapter up, if I will. So there. Now, go review because I worked my ass on this story. REVIEW!)