I had left the room where Riddick was chained, his image permanently burned in my memory.
Admit it. He's hott.
I see you're awake.
Yes, I am. Now stop changing to subject.
Fine, and no I do not think he's hott.
Yes you do!
Nuh uh! He's just built…and the coolest eyes…and I've never seen someone make no hair look SO good…OKAY! FINE! He is hott.
Told you.
Besides it doesn't matter. I will never love again.
Well, it never hurts to look!
And what about you missy. Where are you?
Trailing that Merc
WHAT!?!?!?!? If he finds you He'll know Nightmare is here and it won't take him long to figure out its ME!!!
Jeez, calm down. He isn't going to see me. I'm the best REMEMBER?!?!?
Okay Phantom, find me when you're done
Roger. Over and out.
I walked out into the sunlight and glanced around. Shazza, Zeke, and Jack the 'boy' stowaway were with Fry wrapping the dead they found. Paris was watching his stores. I climbed onto the top of the ship. In the distance I saw a familiar blue uniform running off in the distance.
Riddick escaped.
A voice purred in my head. I turned to my right. There besides me was something, something no ordinary person would notice. It was completely camouflaged matching perfectly with its surroundings. The only thing you would notice was the way to air around it was. It's hard to explain without see. Have you ever come up a paved road on a hot day and seen how the road was in the distance, wavering? That's sort of how it is. Most would shove this off as a trick of light but I knew better.
"There's no one around" I said turning back to face the looming desert. It changed. There stood a large wolf like creature, phantom. She looked liked a wolf but was far from it. I'll try to paint a mental picture for you, let's start with her head. That is the most wolf-like part about her. Her head is a little more angular then a wolf's but that's not the biggest difference. The biggest differences are the two horns sticking out from the back of her, just above her ears. Her ears ended off in points and her eyes were pure white, no pupil. Her legs and body were pretty much like dogs except her paws are not like dog paws. The toes were not rounded and right next to each other. They were long and clawed at the ends. Another different about her was; from the middle of her forehead down to the tip of her long thin tail was a mane like length of fur. The fur moved softly in the light breeze and reminded me always of black fire. But the thing people always noticed first were the large, black; bat-like wings that sprouted between her shoulders.
Here is the link for a picture of her. was phantom, my lifelong companion and friend. She sat next to me. Phantom and I had a connection no one knew about we both came from the same testing lab. Let's just say a doctor was combining DNA and created two things that did not like being caged. Phantom sat besides me and I began to scratch her behind the ears. I heard the group talking about Riddick. I jumped easily off the ship and landed gracefully on my feet. No one noticed when I appeared next to Paris.
I walked in just in time to hear Paris asking Johns hat Riddick would want with them. "Maybe to take what you got, maybe to work your nerves, or maybe he'll just come and skull fuck you in your sleep," Johns said. "What a charmer," Shazza replied. Paris turned and nearly ran into me. "Where did you come from?" He cried dropping the antique weapons he was carrying. I tipped my head to one side so some of my hair fell in front of my face. "My mommy and daddy, "I purred sarcastically. Jack Grinned at my comment. "Well, what's your name? I don't think I saw you on the ship before take off," Shazza Asked/said. "I saw you," I said coolly and turned to walk away, "And the name's violet." With that I walked out of the ship and into the scorching sunlight. Johns came trotting out of the ship and stood besides me.
"We're heading off to look for after soon," He said looking out to the horizon, obviously looking in the direction Riddick had gone, "you should stay here, we don't need you slowing us down." With that he walked off.
Pretty soon Johns, Fry, Imam, and the pilgrims were getting ready to look for water. Shazza had made O2 breathers and offered me one. "Here, you probably need this more then me," She said holding out the breather. I stared at her from my place in the shadow of the ship and shook my head. "You sure?" she asked. I nodded. She gave me a questioning look but nodded all the same. I sensed Phantom near me, her swishing tail kicked up dust every once and a while but that was all.
It looked like they were heading out. I walked quickly my strides were long. I glanced at the three suns.
Well, that rules out surface water.
I looked quickly around for Johns, my head never moved. A hand grabbed my arm. "I thought I said you're not coming," Said the owner of the arm. I turned and saw Johns
Well speaking of the devil
Bastard better walk or I'll saw him what these claws were made for.
I ignored Phantom, who was trotting next to me, and turned to Johns. "And I thought I said never to touch me again, but I guess we don't all get what we want do we?" I asked calmly shrugging off John's arm and catching the stride of Imam. After two false alarms on the part of Johns, he finally did something right, he spotted tree. Or so they thought. The three pilgrim kids ran up the slop shouting something in Arabic. I followed quickly but quietly. Something wasn't right about those trees. I came to the top of the hill where the rest of the group was. That's when what the 'trees' really were was revealed, Bones, An entire graveyard of them. "It's a communal graveyard, perhaps, Like the elephants of Earth," Imam said, one kid said something in Arabic. Imam translated, "He asks what could have killed so many great things." "Is this whole planet dead?" asked Fry.
No
Huh?
Don't you sense it? Something ancient lives here, hidden. I can feel it. And what ever it is, it's getting restless.
I thought aboutwhat phantom said. She was right, something was wrong here. I ran my hand over one bone.
Scratch marks? This was no natural death
Yes, something was definitely wrong here.
What could kill some many wondrous things?
Something worse then you, I, and Riddick combined.
Whatever it is, I sure as hell don't want to meet it.
Something tells me we will.
Yeah.
My eyes darted to one side just in time to see a pair of shined eyes disappearing into the darkness of a skull. With Riddick on the loose and whatever killed these beasts getting restless something was bound to happen. I just didn't know what.
