Another lovely chapter! Super long this time, several things happen. It might be a couple of days before I update again so I figured I'd go ahead and post this one. Hope you like the slight change in events. Let me know! I want to hear some feed back please! :) Enjoy this lovely chapter that I worked so hard on.
Adaya scowled as she looked at her wide open bag, revealing all its contents to anyone who would have walked by, she glanced at where the convict had once been before looking back to her bag. She crouched down, shifting through the contents wondering what he had taken, if he had taken anything. She noticed one of her shivs were missing, a small smirk graced her full lips, before she glanced out toward the desert through her thick glasses. She grabbed a small dagger, with a serrated edge, before she strapped it into the custom sheath that was built into her combat boots that would hide the dagger from anyone. She grabbed a pair of leather gloves that had bright blue lines, and thick pads, on the palm side. She slid them on before closing the bag hiding it under some broken metal.
She ran out of the cabin, running towards the others as Johns returned from looking for Riddick. Johns glanced at her as she stopped beside him. A few of her stray strands of hair blew into her face to which she quickly used her hand to place them behind her ear.
"Does anyone have any weapons on them?" Johns asked while looking at Adaya purposefully. Adaya chose to ignore him, though she was sure he knew she was returning his gaze. She couldn't risk them asking to many questions, and pointing out that her bag was full of weapons, of a large variety would just raise suspicion.
"I might have something." Paris said, and with that very statement the group of survivors found themselves back in the luggage chamber shifting through Paris' belongings. Adaya leaned against the metal wall her arms crossed and her leg bent, as Paris passed out the ancient weapons he seemed to collect. He paused holding one out to her, though all she did was look at it.
"I don't need one." He nodded quickly shifting away from the intimidating woman, like the coward he was. He hated standing near her; she sent trimmers down his spine that screamed at him to run away. The way she watched everyone analyzing their every move reminded him of a predator watching its prey, tracking its every movement before pouncing, with deadly accuracy. He glanced at her as he walked away, wondering what someone like her could possibly been doing on the ship.
"And what the hell are these." Fry asked as Paris walked by her with his wide assortment of weapons. She looked at him confusingly, not really understanding how the weapons would help them in anyway. They looked dull, and some looked as if they wouldn't do much good against anyone.
"Martha war picks from northern India, very rare." He said looking at Fry as he walked by, as he got closer to Zeke, the English man reached out snatching an weapon away from Paris' grasp.
"And this?" Zeke asked looking at the object in his hands
"That's a hunting blow dart, and that's very very rare seeing as the tribe is now extinct."
"Probably because they couldn't hunt shit with these things be my guess." Paris looked exasperated as he looked at Zeke; he shrugged his shoulders as he placed some of the weapons down.
"What's the point anyway? I'm mean if the man is gone he's gone."
"Maybe to take watch you got," Johns began as he finished closing his gun case. "Maybe to work your nerves." He paused turning around to face the cowardly man. "Or maybe to come back and skull fuck you in your sleep."
"Sounds like a charmer." Shazza said stepping forward away from Jack who looked scared. Adaya shifted to walk closer to the others.
"Or maybe just to kill you," She said to Johns, who looked at her his hand unconsciously going to the gun strapped to his back. "After all what better way to insure your freedom with the cop whose got you caged dead. I mean," She paused looking at the others who had grown quiet as she began to speak. "That's what I would do."
Johns glared at the woman, as he stepped towards her getting in her face, attempting to intimidate her. "This isn't a joke, he's a killer, we're all in danger as long as he's out there, you understand?"
Adaya slowly reached up grabbing the edge of her glasses as she lifted them to rest on top of her head, her steel eyes staring back into Johns, own blue ones emotionlessly. "Do you find it comforting Johns, thinking you know everyone's darkest secrets here?" She paused as the man stepped away from her, a look of confusion covering her face. "Perhaps you should be more on your guard, I'm sure Riddick isn't the only monster here." Her lips twitched slightly as she attempted to hold in her smirk, before walking away from Johns and the others, placing her glasses back on her face.
Johns watched her walk away a sinking feeling growing in his stomach. He couldn't help but think of what she had said and related it to herself. She had been right though, he was assuming everyone her was innocent and naïve. He was sure she didn't know anything more about the others than he did, so she could've only been talking about herself. His eyes narrowed suspiciously at her back before she disappeared into the darkness. His suspicions only grew as he took note of the way she moved silently even though she wore heavy boots. She was hiding something and he would be sure to find out.
Adaya climbed on top of the shuttle looking over the vast desert before her. She could make out the distant dunes, and other structures, and she could only wonder which direction Riddick had gone. It was then she noticed something odd, she looked in both directions and for the first time she noticed the three suns that laid in the sky. She wondered briefly how long it would take the others to discover this new discovery.
"Where did you go?" She mumbled to herself as a gust of wind came through, whipping her hair in her face, she growled slightly as she grabbed her braid, ripping the hair tie out, releasing her hair from its confines. It fell to rest on her back in smooth waves, as she ran her fingers through the dark strands before gathering it up behind her head and tying the thick strands in a high ponytail.
She glanced down at the ground as the others piled out of the shuttle, she glanced back up before jumping down on the ground from her high perch. She landed in a crouch with a loud thud just behind the Jack who jumped as he turned around to face her. As he realized it was Adaya a smile came to his face.
"What's everyone doing?" Adaya asked looking over the child's shoulder, watching as Shazza and Zeke seemed to gather and collect certain objects. Jack followed her gaze before looking back at her.
"They're making something, that we can get hits of oxygen from, since the air is thin here." Adaya nodded before turning around going back to where she had hidden her bag. She heard Jack following her, before he caught up and walked beside her.
"What did you mean, when you said there were more monsters than Riddick here? Were you talking about yourself?" Adaya glanced at the kid, with a raised brow, she was slightly surprised he had picked up on her subtle hint.
"Perhaps, why?" Jack glanced behind him to see if any of the others were near before he looked back to the taller woman.
"I was just wondering, everyone is uneasy around you, but I feel safe beside you." This caught Adaya off guard as she stopped completely, quickly removing her glasses so Jack could look her in the eyes as she stared at him. She couldn't understand the kid, most people ran in fear of her, feeling the primitive animal that sat just below her surface. She scowled slightly, before she caught herself, being stuck on this planet was getting her to show her emotions more, she was losing her control.
"I'm not someone you should be around Jack."
"Why not?" Adaya looked over Jack's shoulder before continuing to her destination, but not before getting a firm hold on the child's elbow, dragging him along as she quickly walked to her bag crossing through the threshold. She let go of him as she bent down moving the metal that hid her bag from view and sliding it out to the open floor as it stopped in front of Jack's feet. Adaya stood looking at the child before glancing down at the bag.
"Open it." She demanded, Jack quickly glanced at her before looking at the bag that sat at his feet. Jack slowly bent down reaching out with a shaking hand to open the bag, the loud sound of the zipper moving seemed to break through the atmosphere. As Jack reached out to open the bag wider so he could see the contents better, his eyes widened before he looked back up at the woman before him.
Inside the bag, was a wide assortment of blades, most notable were the two full length swords that were identical in every way. But what caught Jack's attention the most was the the small rectangular box that looked like it folded out into something, he noted beside the box was a large pouch, which he quickly reached to grab curious about what was contained within. Quickly Jack undid the strings, opening the pouch to see small metal balls that had unique groves covering them. He stared at the objects in curiosity.
"They're arrows." Adaya said now crouched beside the child, Jack looked up at her confused. She reached in the bag grabbing the metal rectangle in her gloved hand, as she touched the object Jack watched as the blue stripes on her gloves seemed to turn on and start to glow, the groves in the object seemed to do the same as the object flipped open. It was a bow, a very high tech bow, Jack noted, as the string that he normally connected to a bow was a simple bright blue laser. The bow it's self was large, and Jack wondered briefly how it folded into such a small object. "Hand me one." He did as he was told, watching her every movement closely.
Adaya placed the small ball on the bright laser, the ball snapped undone, forming into a long arrow, the head a sharp jagged end, while the other end remained round making it easy for her to keep it in place, as she pulled back on the bow. Jack watched as she aimed at a small wire about twenty feet away, as she let go the arrow flew through the air hitting its target slicing through it and once through falling to the ground back into a metal ball.
"Who are you?" Jack asked completely confused, there was no way possible a simple woman could have such a high tech weapon and a wide assortment of blades.
"Someone very dangerous," Adaya said flicking her wrist slightly as the bow snapped back into its small form. She placed it on her hip, while she took the bag of arrows from Jack and tying the strings through a belt loop. As she focused on her task she didn't notice Jack zip up her bag, before standing above her.
"I won't tell the others." Adaya quickly looked up, scrunching her eyebrows in confusing wondering what he meant exactly. "About the weapons, I won't tell them. They're already scared enough of you."
Adaya didn't respond as she stared up at him, the kid completely shocked her. She had just revealed that she was indeed a very dangerous person, and instead of going to tell the others he chose to keep it to himself. She looked the kid up and down slowly taking in everything about him, it was then that decided she really liked the kid.
She stood smirking at him, which Jack smiled at, seeing her express something completely for the first time. She ruffled his hair as she glanced down at her bag. "Let's put it back where it was." Jack nodded before placing it back where he had seen her remove it from.
"Are we going to go join the others now?" Adaya nodded as the two of them walked out of the cabin. As they stepped out onto the sand she placed her glasses back on motioning for Jack to lead the way.
The two of them of them came upon the others as Fry was walking toward Imam talking about leaving to look for water. Paris was quickly walking towards them almost out of breath he leaned against his pick as he looked at Fry.
"Excuse me, I think you should see this." He motioned for the others to follow him quickly, Adaya glanced at Jack who smiled at her feeling the woman's gaze on him.
Jack stopped beside Fry as they all took in the wide open space, the others quickly catching onto the odd amount of sunlight.
"Three suns?" Jack asked turning to look away from the blue sun towards the other two suns in the distance.
"Bloody hell." Shazza stated completely shocked.
"So much for your night fall." Zeke stated resting his hands on his hips slightly irritated.
"So much for my cocktail hour." Paris added while scratching his face.
Imam and one of his sons walked towards the others, the older man's arm thrown of the child's shoulder with a wide smile on his face. "We take this as a good sign, a direction from Allah, blue sun means blue water."
Johns scowled slightly as he walked towards Zeke removing a gun from his back. "It's a bit of a bad sign as that's Riddick's direction." Fry quickly faced the cop completely confused.
"I thought you found his restraints towards sunset." Johns opened his mouth to reply however, Adaya beat him to it, though she wasn't facing either of them.
"Which means he went towards sunrise, common sense, why would he leave an obvious trail for you to follow?" Fry scowled at the woman's back, choosing to ignore her as they gathered together preparing to leave, Johns doing the same.
"Zeke," He paused cocking the gun, " Fully loaded clip, safety's on if you spot him."
"Don't tell me you're going to." Zeke asked slightly nervous.
"Yea."
Paris spoke wondering something. "What happens if Riddick spots us first?" Johns faced the man with a smile.
"There'll be no shots."
Adaya climbed up the large amount of rocks as Imam continued to sing in Arabic, Johns had already stopped them thinking he had heard Riddick as several stones fell from above. Adaya would've rolled her eyes, but she chose to ignore the jumpy cop, though she was beginning to feel as if they were being watched. She stopped looking over the small valley below, spotting something odd raised above the hills before them, with her keen eyesight should could make out the tree like structures.
She glanced over her shoulder briefly watching the others make their way down the hill, Jack making his way towards her.
"Do you think we'll run into Riddick?" Jack asked as he stopped beside her looking over the desert valley with her.
"I don't know." Though she was sure once they crossed the hill before them she would be running in to the convict the second she was alone. "Let's go."
The group made is way up the hill stopping once they reached the top to stare at the horrific sight before them. Adaya looking over the large skeletons wondering what the massive beast had looked like in their prime. One of the children spoke quickly to Imam in Arabic, as Imam looked over the graveyard.
"He ask what could've killed so many great things?" No one answered but Fry was the next one to speak.
"Is this whole planet dead?"
Adaya ignored the others as they stood there for a few more moments, making her way down towards the skeletons curious to look through the remains. She quickly disappeared from sight, making sure that Jack wouldn't be able to follow her. She ducked under a large bone fragment, drifting into the shadows of the remains, almost seemingly melting in to them.
She crept silently through the darkness, her attention to her surroundings, as she tried to listen out for anything, namely Riddick. She hoped the beast of a man would show, he intrigued her, the way her body and her mind seemed to react to him seemed odd to her and she only wanted to understand why.
Suddenly a hand wrapped around her mouth from behind, as she was pulled even deeper into the shadows being slammed into a well-defined chest. Her body shivered at the contact, meaning her assailant could only be one person. Slowly she tilted her head so she could look at him over her should, only to find him staring back at her through his dark goggles. He leaned forward towards her face, before inhaling deeply, causing his chest to press into her back even more.
He removed his hand slowly, as his other reached up to remove his glasses from his face, the hand that once covered her mouth reached up to remove her own simultaneously. They similar eyes stared into each other, as if something was passing through them unspoken. Riddick inhaled her rich scent again tilting his head slightly as he did so.
"It's been a long time since I smelt beautiful."