Chapter two

After leaving the kid, Jack, and the Holy Man, Imam, on New Mecca, I went to a planet called Gemini, so named for its twin moons. Gemini is a little out of the way planet that I have been to before. I knew I could get lost there for awhile, build up some funds. I could re-route funds into various accounts without leaving a trace to lead anyone back to my location.

I had been there a couple weeks when I ran across someone I hadn't seen in 10 years.

Jalilah had lived on Gemini for about 2 years. She liked it there. She had a large house with a gym, pool, stables, and anything else a girl could want. She had her own ship with a private landing pad out back, and about 100 acres of land. She could come and go as she pleased, and in her line of work, that was a good thing. Everyone she knew, from hired help, all the way to her closest friends, which weren't many to begin with, thought she was a very expensive and highly sought after model. In reality, she was a very expensive and well trained assassin. The model thing was just her cover and a way to travel without drawing unwanted attention.

When she turned 18, she applied to a medical training facility. She made some friends, but none she cared about as much as her roommate. The night her roommate was raped and killed by her date, her world changed again.

A month later, she was at the gym working out and practicing the moves Rid had taught her, when she noticed someone watching her. She stopped what she was doing, started wiping down with a towel, and studied him. He was an older man, late 40s or early 50s, with shoulder length gray hair and a thick mustache.

"What are you looking at, old man?"

"You've got some skills kid, with some training, you could be so much more. I've been watching you for awhile now. I've been looking for an apprentice, someone with latent talent. And I think I just found her."

"Who are you?"

"My name is James Turner, but you might know me better as 'Talon'."

"You have GOT to be fucking with me." Of course I'd heard of him, you'd have to live under a rock not to.

"No, your to young for me. Got a daughter your age. It would be too weird. Anyway, how about it. Want to learn from the second best about how to kill for a living?"

"Well, if your ONLY the second best, then who's the first?" I was curious who could be better than 'Talon'.

"That would be Richard B. Riddick. But you knew that already. I know your history with him, and if you train hard, you might one day be ALMOST as good as him."

That was her life for the next few years. She still went to medical training during the day, and assassin training at night. She worked hard at both, the medical training came in handy when learning where best to shoot or slice someone. By the time she was done with medical training, she took over for 'Talon' and he retired to a nice, quite planet with his daughter.

She took jobs as 'Talon' and made a lot of money. She bought a ship and never settled down in one place, until she found Gemini.

A/N: Thanks to those who reviewed my very first chapter of my very first story. You know who you are. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.