Riddick jolted out of his own induced cryo-sleep as they entered the atmosphere of Helion Prime and he set the ship down on the outskirts of the city. He unhooked Shadow and the hellhound gave a yawn before stretching like a cat. The hellhound watched Riddick grip a claw fastened to a chain before running off into the city.
Shadow closed his inner eyelids which acted like Riddick's goggles and ran after his human. Saliva dripped from his snout as he could smell all of the wonderful prey roaming around for the taking. "Don't eat anyone but the necros."
Riddick watched the hellhound's face for an answer and was rewarded with a nod of understanding. The two continued running and Shadow easily leapt forward to kill any unsuspecting armored prey. The hellhound then watched in confusion when Riddick gave a sad look at the claw in his hand and draped it over a door knob.
They continued on and Riddick killed one of the necromongers and fit on the dead man's armor. Once they neared the main ship, Shadow ran from Riddick's side and slipped in behind the guards. Once inside, Shadow waited down the nearest hallway while Riddick simply walked through the front door with his majestically billowing cape.
Riddick gestured for Shadow to follow and began walking down the hallway to the room of the quasi-dead. As they walked, Shadow jumped on the creature with the demented face mask and Riddick killed the necromonger.
Once in the room of the quasi-dead, they hid behind one of the creatures and Shadow pitched a fit the whole while. Riddick peered out the doors of the room once the scouts had checked the room and slashed two knives together causing the guards at the doors to turn. Riddick pieced the blades deep within the eyes of the guards causing them to topple over dead. He burst out the doors and grabbing the special knife, jumped up to the back of the throne to attack the Lord Marshal.
Shadow leapt up to the top of the throne and watched with hatred as their prey threw Riddick to the ground. Shadow gave a roar of anger as he saw Riddick having to get off the floor.
"Stay your weapons!" The Lord Marshal indicated for one of his newest converts to come forward. "He came for me."
Riddick grabbed his knife and began to get up but paused when the Lord Marshal lowered the hood of his cub, Kyra.
"Consider this, if you fall her, now, you'll never rise; but if you choose another way, the necromonger way, you'll die in due time and rise again in the under-verse. " Everyone watched as Kyra stepped forward at the Lord Marshal's beckoning and he then said, "Go to him."
She stepped forward in front of Riddick with a blank stare. "It hurts, at first, but after a while the pain foes away just as they promise."
Shadow began a low keen deep within his throat as Riddick whispered, "Are you with me Kyra?"
"There's a moment when you can almost see the under-verse with his eyes, makes it sound perfect, a place where anyone can start over."
"Are you with me, Kyra?" Riddick asked with a hint of anger coloring his voice.
Shadow's keening wail grew louder as the hellhound watched Riddick's cub walk past the man and disappear into the thick crowd of necromongers.
"Convert now or fall forever." The Lord Marshal said in a smug voice.
Riddick glared at the floor and said quietly, "You killed everything I know." Then with a tightened grip on his blade, he threw it at blinding speeds towards the Lord Marshal causing everyone to gasp in shock.
The man fell over to the floor and then stood up, "Been a long time since I've seen my own blood." The Lord Marshal indicated for everyone to back away and then dropped the blade to the floor.
Shadow pounced just as the Lord Marshal ran forward with his soul towards Riddick who was thrown backwards. Shadow roared in anger at his escaped prey and ran forward again only to be slammed away into the surrounding crowd of necromongers. Riddick began a slugfest with the Lord Marshal and got his ass handed to him.
Shadow screeched in pain when he landed because a necromonger immediately pinned his shoulder to the ground with a spear just as he was prepared to pounce again.
The hellhound struggled fiercely forcing another three necromongers to pierce his body and pin it to the floor just to keep him in one place. His legs were all skewered as Shadow struggled to get to Riddick as the Lord Marshal said, "These are his last moments."
The man reached forwards at Riddick and grabbed what looked to be a second image of Riddick. "Give me your soul." At those words, Shadow battled even more fiercely at the spears imbedded in his body even as a fifth necromonger jumped down on his back to help hold the hellhound down.
"Fuck you!" Riddick threw back the Lord Marshal who grabbed a spear from a statue to attack Riddick with.
"You're not the one to bring me down!" Shadow growled and with a mighty heave, broke free of the necromongers holding him down to jump at the Lord Marshal. Suddenly, the cub speared the Lord Marshal in the back before Shadow could get to him. The man threw Kyra into a column with spikes and Shadow jumped forward in time to catch her second skin in his jaws.
Shadow fell to the ground and with no energy left in his body since he was slowly bleeding out, collapsed on top of the cub, trapping her body underneath his. One of the necromongers jumped from another level with a three bladed halberd and stood threateningly over the Lord Marshal, "Forgive me."
Riddick stood tall at that moment with his blade in hand watching the soul of the Lord Marshal run from Commander Vaako. He shoved the blade sharply into the head of the Lord Marshal and then broke the blade off and kneeing the dead man in the face. Once the man collapsed to the ground, dead, Riddick worriedly looked over to where Kyra and his hellhound were on the ground in front of the throne.
He picked up the hellhound's head who whimpered at the jostling of his wounds. Kyra crawled away from the hellhound and stood up before inspecting the beast's wounds carefully. Vaako walked forward after glaring at the dead body of the Lord Marshal and kneeled in front of Riddick along with all of the necromongers in the throne room.
Riddick leaned back into the throne as he watched Kyra help his hellhound and it dawned on him,"You keep what you kill."
