"And Johns, you keep a strong spine" Riddick said, and with that the two ships parted, to go their seperation ways. Breaking through the atmosphere of the planet into space, there was a calmness, as if a huge weight was carried off Riddicks shoulders, no more running for a while. His plan was to go to Vaako, who assumingly took over and became The Lord Marshall, and try to convince him to take him to his home planet, Furya. Wasn't much of a plan, but it would all play out in due time.
Riddick switched the gear from manual to auto pilot and sat back in the head chair. It swiveled and could spin around to face the back of the small merc ship. The necromongers were days away from him, with a shitty little ship like that, he needed something to do, something to hold his attention for a while.
It wasn't long before Serene woke up from her sleep, her eyes shot open and she took a deep breath, as if she was holding it under water for forever. She leaned forward to move, but the chains holding her arms and legs refrained her from doing so.
'Where am I?' She thought to herself, as she looked around the familiar ship. Usually Santana was waiting right by her to kick her face or knock her back out with a gun, but this time it was silent, but she could feel the ship moving. "Santana!" She yelled "Santana! Where are we?" She demanded, but there was no reply. She dropped her head in defeat and tried to wiggle her wrists free of the chains binding her to the chair.
Riddick, by this time had fallen into a soft sleep, the screaming however pulled him from completely dozing off, he opened his eyes and looked around to hear and see no one. He lowered the goggles onto his eyes and got up to find where the noise came from.
"Diaz!" Serene screamed, but yet again no answer. Riddick heard the voice and quickly pulled a knife from his pants pocket. He crept through the shadows of the ship, walking down into the small holding bay. There he saw a girl, small, but stronger than most he had seen, striking blonde hair and fair skin. Her clothes were black and brown, torn and tattered. She wore black combat like boots that had several pockets for a knife to be held.
Her head was dropped down, she couldn't keep her strength enough to hold herself up anymore, she was weak, needing water and food. Riddick stood silently while she let out a few sobs and cursed to herself. It was when he shuffled his feet to walk towards her she shot up and looked around. Riddick had a knack for getting around quietly and unseen, how is it she could hear him lift his foot to step towards her.
"I can hear you" she said in a sarcastic taunting voice. "I can hear you breathing, feel you standing still, I can smell you" she said breathing in as much air as she could. Indeed she could hear him and smell, he was different than everyone else, someone new, someone, not human.
Serene opened her eyes, and to his surprise two pale silver like eyes looked directly at him. "How do I get eyes like that?" He said, feeling a deep anger that he now wasn't the only one who could see in the dark.
"Let's see, I would say, you gotta kill a few people, yeah that's how she said it, get sent to a slam where you'll never see daylight, dig up a doctor, pay him twenty menthol cools, do a shine job on your eyes. Twenty menthol cools my ass, took a lot more than some smokes to get this, only when she got there, he had been released, no other doctor could do it. What was her name...oh yeah, Kyra" Seren mockingly said, glaring at Riddick with her eyes, all she had known of Riddick was that he was a killer, and abandoned Kyra on New Mecca.
"Kyra, how do you know Kyra?" He questioned, never stepping out of the shadows, even though it did nothing, he still wanted to keep the darkness as his ally.
"Get me down and I'll tell you" she said, moving her eyes to a cabinet which held three keys. "They all unlock a different chain, get me down and I'll talk"
Riddick, without question walked over to the cabinet, he couldn't control himself, part of him was telling him to leave her there, she was only taunting him, but the other part, the animal side was growling at him, unlock her, see what she knows. He grabbed the keys and walked to the chains, unlocking each one, she dropped her arms and sighed in releif. Her feet became free, she was so tired from holding herself up she let herself drop to what she thought was the floor. Only to open her eyes to see herself laying halfway on Riddicks chest and halfway on his lap.
He let out a small smirk, and sat her up. "What do you know of Kyra?" He said, handing her a small canteen of water. Her eyes shot up to his, he had sadness in his voice, something had happened to her friend, but what?