Disclaimer: The characters from Chronicles of Riddick are not owned by Keltic Rave. She is making no money or profit from this, it is intended for entertainment purposes only. She also doesn't own Deep Impact.

A/N. I don't know much about astronomy, but I do know that only about three percent or so of the sky is being watched by astronomers, the rest is just left up to prayers and luck. This is what would happen if there were Necromongers, and we didn't see them.

Summary: What happens when our Earth in 2005 A.D. is attacked by the Necromongers?


The Life of Sirrah McCormic.

Ships and hostile take overs.

The Necromongers, a race of people, who have only one faith and one God, the Underverse. They say the comet appears in the sky signaling their approach. What most people don't know is that it doesn't signal, it is the approach. The armada of ships are formed in a cluster which causes gases to form from their ships emissions, the light and water vapors cause the comet like appearance. How do I know all this? The truth? No I'm not a necromonger, at least not yet, but in a few hours who knows what the future may hold. I know like many curious people in the world with telescopes, I looked at the comet and saw the face of death.

My name is Sirrah McCormic, I am nineteen years old and just nine days ago I was outside enjoying the weather when a newscast came on the radio and television informing us of the comet that was speeding towards Earth on a collision course. We had a little over nine days to prepare for the end. Ever seen the movie Deep Impact? Basically people reacted like that, some went to chruch to repent, some went on violent killing sprees, some just sat in shock, some cried, some even got up and went to work the next day.

My choice? I didn't go to work, I didn't kill anyone, after a few tears for my people, and their culture that would be destroyed I stopped crying, didn't go into shock, and sure as hell did not go to church. What is the point of church when life as you know it will end? I feel that in my few short years of living, I have never really believed in God, and going to church for a few hours and repenting, if there really is a God will get me in his good graces. Belief under pressure I feel is not worth anything so instead I stuck true to my beliefs, after talking to my best friend Bobbie, and spending some time with my parents and with my brother. I went hiking. Yes hiking, I love nature, and I live in the country and spending my time just being at peace with nature, well it just felt right to me.

I packed a tent, some food and water, my telescope, a book that I wanted to read, it was the Hobbit by Tolken, a gun for protection and went out to spend some time alone, maybe my parents and brother would follow, maybe they wouldn't, I was not going to force them to spend time with me if they didn't want to so I told them where I was going to be and left to spend the rest of my days at peace.

Well as relative as peace as I could get.

Six days later I looked at our impending doom with my telescope and saw the ships within the comet, phoned my house and left them a message. The eighth day they got my message and today the day that the comet/ship landed I hopped a ride with my brother and went into the city, for the ships had split and had landed in all the major cities of the world. Well landed would be too gentle of a word. They caused a giant explosion that caused the buildings around it in a two hundred block radius to collapse. People all around had gathered after the landings, I don't know what they were thinking. I guess the same as my brother and I. Cool! It's a spaceship! I wonder what the aliens look like? Well that's what thoughts were going around in my head. Basically anything that can level that many buildings but still travel through space is probably not very friendly. I was waiting to die, because I had made my peace with God in my own way and had said goodbye to everything I loved.

So here I am, watching as humanoid figures come marching out of the giant space ship. They are killing anyone who poses a threat, mainly the manly men who have guns, though the guns do bugger all to them, they have metal armor on, the police are not trained to handle anything like this, and were disposed of immediately. Slowly people are gathered up and now the soldiers are plodding us towards a park, and surrounding us civilians.

Why didn't I fight? I don't even know how to use a gun since that I didn't learn as a child, and I am Canadian. Why run, I bet when these people are finished they will nuke the planet anyway so it's better to let them do what they want, they are so much more highly advanced then us anyway. What is the worst that can happen? We die?

Two men are striding in armor to the center of the area that we are gathered. I make my way closer, to get a good look at them and lose my brother Damien in the process.

(Some of this is taken from the movie in my own words
describing the scene, and their talking.)

One man starts to speak, he is blond, and not build to be a fighter. "In this verse, life is antagonistic to the natural state. Here humans in all their various races, are a spontaneous outbreak, an unguided mistake. Our purpose, is to correct that mistake. Because there is another verse, a verse where life is welcome, cherished." Whispers are starting, people are starting to get restless. I don't see what the problem is, what he says is all true. The man continues on. "A ravishing ever new place, called Underverse. But the road to that verse crosses over the threshold."

The soldiers in the background shout out. "THRESHOLD! TAKE US TO THE THRESHOLD!"

The other man starts to speak. "What you call death." He seems to be a leader of some sort. All the soldiers are standing at rapt attention.

The other speaker starts up again. "So it is this verse, that must be cleansed of life, so that underverse can populate and prosper."

The leader starts up again. "Look around you, every Necromonger in this hall, every one of the legion vast that just swept aside your defenses in one hour, was once like you. Fought as feebly as you, every Necromonger that lives today is a convert." Convert? What the hell is a convert. I look quizzically at the guards. Ack! That one has scales!

The blond speaks up "We all began as something else. It was hard for me to accept too, when I first heard these words. But I changed, I let them take away my pain, just as you will change when you realize that the threshold to the underverse will be crossed only by those who have embraced the Necromonger faith, for those of you who will right now drop to your knees and ask to be purified."

At this, people got angry. A man yelled out. "And betray our own faith!"

The leader slowly starts to walk towards the man, who has stopped right in front of me. Fuck! This is not happening, I don't have faith and if the only way to live is to convert then by the underverse I will! I don't want the scary leader man to come anywhere near me.

"Blasphemy!" The man shouts.

Making up my mind I smack him upside the head speaking. "Idiot, so you are willing to die for a God that has done nothing for you. When was the last time you witnessed a miracle. Seen someone walk on water? Convert water to wine? or some other fucking thing in the Bible, Torah, or whatever?. Go die somewhere else!" I hissed at him.

He turns toward me and sneers. "Go back from whence you came!" I pause to look at the leader, who is shimmering, staring coldly at the man. Uh oh. I back away and say quietly."Your funeral, have fun with finding people to come." I look up and make eye contact with the leader who now seemed to be watching me. Oh fuck, wrong way to steer attention away from yourself Siri. Way to go. I can feel myself pale and back away further.

The man continues on unaffected with my little speech, and the look of hatred in the leaders eyes. "For I can not, will not be converted like the pathetic dogs you are!" With that exclaimation the leader reached the man and shimmered, like a ghost of movement. He reached out and tear's the man's soul from his body while speaking.

"Then I will take your soul." The man whose soul was taken, turns around and looking at his soul collapses. I can hear the soul screaming, both a high pitched whine and low humming. It almost seems as if it is falling apart by the second. He shakes it and it disappears in a whoosh.

His soul... I saw a soul, I saw a man pull out a soul of another man. All the swears I come up with are not enough to express the awe, terror and finality of it. How can...?

I then hear the ultimatum.

"Join him or join me."

Without another word I collapse to my knees, the first one to do so and the leader looks at me and smiles before walking towards the exit. Others follow my example. I don't know what to believe anymore. I only know that, no man on this planet in my life had the power to tear a man's soul from his body, and that scares the shit out of me.

Finis chapter one