Copy Right goes to those who directed and produced the Riddick sage, anything you recognise is not mine, I only own Angie. This story will follow all Riddick movies.
Small spaces, that was my biggest phobia, it made me feel helpless. It came from when I was a young child and my mother forced me into a small closet, where I was forced to listen to what those men did to her, forced to listen her screams and pleas for them to stop. Now every time I was stuck in a small space I thought of that moment, when I had felt so helpless having to listen to my mother, the only person I had, get murdered. That is why I went into full on panic mode when I woke up finding myself stuck in my cryo chamber, apparently we had crash landed.
Without thinking I started to kick and punch the glass, hoping somehow I could do some damage and get myself out of there. What made the situation worse was the fact that the emergency release handle was broken. and my kicking and punching wasn't doing any damage to the glass. Tears were streaming down my face and I couldn't breathe. Suddenly I became scared for another reason, normally when I was this distressed he would be here in a blink of the eye, and that meant one of two things, he was still in the merc's custody or he was dead. It was the second thought that made me give up, if he was dead then there was no point to fight anymore. Of course my inner animal was trying to tell me that that was bullshit and we would know if he wasn't dead, but my panic induced mind refused to listen to her.
Just before I blacked out from lack of air a shadow fell over my chamber and all I could see we're black goggle covered eyes, causing a small smile of relief to grace my lips.
When I came to to, I saw three people standing over me, without a second thought I shot up and went into defensive mode, glad that my knives hadn't fallen out of their places during the crash.
"Woah," A guy pretending to be a cop put his hands up in surrender. "We not going to hurt you so how about you put those knives away."
Looking at the other to people I sensed no danger from them so I nodded and put my knives back in their place, but kept a weary eye on the dirty blonde haired dude, something was off about him, maybe it was the fact he stunk of morphine, a hype no doubt, or it could be the fact that I could smell Riddick's blood on him. That was all I needed to realise that this was the merc who captured him.
"Sorry, just don't like waking up in a strange place with people I don't know hovering over me." I held my hand out, "the name is Angie,"
The merc grabbed it with a smirk, "Johns" he offered back.
I looked at the other to people expectantly.
"My name is Imam, I apologise for scarring you, none of us expected you to wake so suddenly." The holy man offered with a kind smile.
"No harm done, a girl can't be to cautious." I shrugged.
He seemed to understand, everyone knew the dangers of a girl travelling alone.
The girl with the two men never said her name, but that didn't bother me. Johns led us back to the ship and introduced me to everyone else. There was the skittish antiques dealer Paris, a woman with a funny accent called Shazza, and a girl pretending to be a boy who was no older then thirteen and would be starting her cycle quite soon that went by Jack. Something about the kid brought out a protective streak in me, which was odd cause I tended to avoid kids in general, but she reminded me of myself when I was that age, only difference was that I could at least fend for myself so there was no need for me to hide my gender.
Tying my auburn hair into a messy bun to stop it from sticking to my neck, I made my way to where the group was congregated. They were having a discussion about what they should do with the convict, apparently he killed one of them. Feeling the need to protect him, which I would no doubt regret later, because he was no doubt listening to them, I put my two sense in.
"You said there was blood every where by the hole where Zeke was burying the bodies?" I asked and they nodded, "how much blood did Riddick have covering him then?"
"That's the thing he was clean, not a drop of blood on him" Jack explained.
"Not possible, if it was a messy kill there would have been blood splatter, he would have blood on him, no matter how good you are." They all looked at me suspiciously. "Look, I'm not trying to defend the guy, but I helped my uncle work some police jobs a few years back and some with them were messy, every person we convicted had tried to get rid of the evidence by attempting to burn the clothes they wore, maybe you should ask him what happened. Better then playing the guessing game." I shrugged.
Fry, the person who took place of the dead captain seemed to agree with me as well as Imam, Shazza and Johns weren't to impressed and walked off to sulk when Fry said she would talk to the convict. That caused me to roll my eyes, he was going to have fun with that one, and not in the crude sense, in the fact that she would be an easy target for his mind games.
A few minutes later she came out of the hold looking slightly shaken, I didn't pay attention to what was said as I looked in all directions and found this planet had three suns which meant no darkness. Yet something didn't sit we'll with me, crouching down I placed my hand flat on the ground, there was movement under neath and whatever it was felt rather excited. Knowing I was going to regret this later, I happened to hear Fry ask if anyone wanted to go down the hole, when no one stepped forward I did. I could protect myself because I could see in the dark, something that was weird because unlike Riddick I didn't have a shine job, frankly I was glad I could see in the dark because having silver eyes like Riddick just wouldn't suit me and I loved the chocolate brown colour they were.
"I'll do it, if anything happens to me it won't affect the chance of us getting off this planet, you said there was a high chance that ship you found in the settlement could still work right?" It was a lie, I just wanted to know what the hell we might be up against, "They are going to need you to fly off this planet."
Everyone agreed and it wasn't long before they had attached a rope to me, and I was crawling through the very small tunnel with a flash light in my hand. Trying to ease my panic that was starting to creep up, I focused on the task at hand, and that was finding what was at the end of this tunnel. The further I crawled the louder a clicking sound became, a sound that sent shivers done my spine and that wasn't a good thing.
Finally I made it to an underground cave, and I knew that I was not alone. Weird bird like creatures were crawling alone the wall, paying close attention to me. The way they stuck to the darkness meant that light was their weakness, which was a good thing for us. Breathing in the scent of blood hit me, following it I found a human foot that I assumed belonged to Zeke, the man Riddick supposedly killed. Suddenly there was a change iin the air around me and the creatures were no longer watching me but were now hunting me. Grabbing one of my knives I started to climb up one of the hollow tiers, hoping to get as far away from them as possible. One tried to grab my foot with its tail but I quickly pulled my legs up. Using my knife I tried to make a hole in the tier hoping then I could call for help.
"Somebody help me" I yelled out while trying to break the rock.
Just as I made a hole a hand grabbed hold of my hand and pulled me through.
"Get this rope off me," I demanded, just as I was yanked back.
Imam was quick to react and used his ceremonial dagger to cut the rope, before the creatures could pull me all the way back.
"Pray to what ever God you believe in, and hope that it stays light because if it ever gets dark we are royally fucked. Riddick didn't kill Zeke, the things under the ground did."
Without waiting to hear what they had to say I made my way back to the ship, needing to compose myself before I could face any of those people. Twice now I let my emotions take hold of me, and it almost got me killed. I couldn't risk it happening again, not if I wanted to get off this fucked up planet alive.