Hey guys sorry for the long wait! I feel bad but Christmas break was... different this year and I wasnt able to write as much. School is starting back up next week but I will try and upload the next chapter soon. Here is a long chapter! Sorry again guys! And wow this story is popular! Thanks so much for the reviews! Keep them coming! Tell me what you think about this chapter cause to me something seems a little off and I can put my finger on it...
Riddick, Fry, Shazza, Johns and myself went back into the coring room when everyone else had left. Riddick was on the floor below us looking down the hole to inspect this 'cellar' further. Johns ignited a flare and dropped it down. It landed at the bottom of the hole, judging by how long it had took it had to be at least 20 feet deep. Shazza and Johns stood and looked down as Fry and I squatted trying to get a closer look.
"That's a long way down. Are those bones?" I said upon closer inspection.
"Other buildings weren't secure, so they ran here. Heaviest doors. Thought they'd be safe inside. But they forgot to lock the cellar." Riddick said.
Fry and Shazza walked down to the lower floor to leave but I watched Shazza stop at Riddick.
"Here." She said tossing him her oxygen bag. She folded her arms.
"What it's broken?" Riddick said throwing the bag on the ground.
"No. There's still a few hits. Actually, you asshole, I'm trying to say that I'm sorry." Shazza said offended. Johns and I walked into them at this point.
"OK, lets board this place up and get the hell out of here." Johns said bringing the beginning of what could be a fight to a close. Shazza kicked the bag and then followed Johns out the door.
"What a bitch." I said looking at the bag then to Riddick. "Do you think that's what killed everything on this planet?" Riddick shook his head.
"No, something bigger." he said as he picked up the bag and walked out of the coring room. I followed being slightly spooked and saw Fry and Johns heading to the building that had the model of planets. We both followed the two. Everyone was in there watching as Fry moved the model.
"I found a coring sample dated 22 years ago today." She said the model showed her exactly what it showed me. "An eclipse."
"You're not afraid of the dark are you?" Riddick said. Now with everyone discouraged we all walked out of the building and went about our business with much more haste. I walked over to the well and drank some water then walked around exploring the place. I eventually found myself in the sleeping rooms of the people before us. I looked through their stuff and found nothing in particular except for pictures and other personal items. One picture, however, caught my eye. It was of a family, the parents with three children posing on this planet. The kids looked to be the same age as my family had been before they died.
"Mom, Dad? Seriously not this again." I said referring to the meal they had laid out in front of us. My father had just been laid off his job and mush was all my mother could afford to feed us.
"Deja, this is what we have." Mother said.
"I can work you know." I said sitting at the table my brother and sister shortly joining us.
"No! Your education is too important!"Father said with a stern voice.
"Yeah." My sister said in a mock voice. We sat there eating the mush. I looked at my small family and started to wonder if I was really a part of them. I mean for one thing they all had blonde hair, mine was pitch black. That doesn't usually happen. Of course their your family Tealisha, why would you even think that. Just then the front door broke down. Startling the entire family, my parents reached for my younger siblings.
"What do you want? Get out of my house!" my father said in front of us. The man lifted his gun and shot my father down. I ran to my siblings and told them to run. I looked up to see men shoot my mother. I grabbed a butcher knife and crept around the corner. Then another man walked into the room with my siblings.
"Kill them too." the original man said. I stood there in shock watching my brother and sister get shot.
"NO!" I screamed dropping the knife. Both men turned towards me.
"Well, well, what do we have here?" one of the men said.
"Looks like a hot piece of ass." the other said.
"You go first." the first man said with a smirk. I fell to the ground in a distraught state at my family who were all bleeding out on the kitchen floor. The man grabbed my hair and tried to lift me up. I grabbed the knife and sliced his throat. He fell to the floor with my parents and bled out, the other man tried to shoot but the gun became jammed. I threw the knife at him hoping it would do something as it stabbed in in the neck. He fell down and began choking on his own blood.
"I will kill every last one of you if it's the last thing I do." I said kicking the knife further into his neck.
"Captain! Captain!" I heard the two remaining boys of the holy man yell. I looked back down at the picture and left the bunking area. When I walked outside and looked on the horizon you could see rings from the distant planet. The eclipse was coming sooner than we realized.
"What are my eyes seeing?" the mouse man said.
"The fucking dinner bell." I said.
"If we need anything from the crash ship I suggest we kick on. That sand cat's solar" Shazza said, running to the sand cat. After a couple of minutes we all piled onto the sand cat except for two people.
"Where's Riddick?" Jack said concerned.
"Leave him. He wouldn't wait for us." the mouse man said. Jack and I both glared at the man as Riddick appeared next to him scaring the excuse of a man. "Thought we'd lost you." he said cowering at Riddick's feet.
Jack smiled up at Riddick as I smirked.
"Johns!" Shazza yelled before she put the cat into drive. Riddick helped Johns onto the cat but not without tension.
Jack stood up so he could be eye level with Riddick. He put on his goggles and stared at Riddick. Shazza drove through a rib cage very poorly causing everyone to duck. I looked over the horizon you could now see a large chunk of the planet next to us.
"It's oddly beautiful." I said aloud not realizing it. I looked around to see if anyone heard me. Riddick was smirking at me, something you don't see to often.
The moment the crashed ship came into sight the cat began to slow. Johns and a few others jumped off before the cat even stopped. They ran into the ship and grabbed the cells. I stayed outside watching the planet rise. The mouse man ran off to where his items were. I ignored his pansy ass. Shazza and Jack continued to clean off the solar receiver so it would get more light. I rolled my eyes. We're too late. We wont make it back to the camp in time. Jack stood next to me. I could tell the poor kid was scared shit-less, even if he was trying to cover it up. He placed his goggles on his head the fear now evident in his eyes. The planet began to get darker slowly.
"We're not going to make it." Jack said to me.
"Jack," I said kneeling to his level. "You have me and Riddick to look after you. And even John and Fry. If anyone is going to make it, it'll be us." I said looking into his eyes.
"Promise?" Jack said.
"I promise at the very very least you, Riddick and I will survive." I said with a smile. I looked over Jack shoulder and saw everyone lugging out the cells onto the sand cat. "Lets go help them shall we?" I said. He gave a brief nod and we ran over. He once again began to clean the receiver I pulled the cells more onto the cat to make more room for the others. The light dwindled and everyone looked up out of breath and discouraged. The planet was almost completely in front of the sun.
"Shit." Shazza said as the sand cat died.
Various screeching noises could be heard on the horizon.
"It about to get interesting." I said , Riddick gave me a small smirk and looked out onto the horizon. Creatures began to fly out of the comb like things that made the land less dull. They came out by the thousands, these must be the things that killed the holy mans son. Thinking back on it these creatures sounded different then the one I had heard underground. "No, something bigger." Riddick's words echoed through my mind and sent chills through my body.
"How many are there?" Johns asked Riddick.
"Beautiful." Riddick said as the creatures danced into the sky.
"People, just a suggestion. Perhaps you should flee!" He yelled in a loud fashion I would never expect. Everyone began running around and get to where the mouse man was.
"Lets go." Fry yelled as she ran.
"Come on, man." the holy man said as he ran with his boys.
"Shit!" Shazza screamed as she jumped out of the vehicle.
I began to run and heard Riddick running behind me. The screeching was getting closer, those things could tear us apart. I ran a little faster catching up with Shazza.
"Get down!" Fry yelled.
Shazza jumped into a crater next to us, I was about to jump as well when an arm slithered around my waist, I was lifted off the ground and thrown down to it two seconds later. Riddick laid on top of me, both of us out of breath from running. The creatures flew over us and were gone in seconds. Riddick looked into my eyes and we thought the same thing, it wasn't over yet.
"Stay there! Stay down, Shazza. Just stay down!" Jack yelled I looked over at her as she got up to run. Riddick rolled over onto his back flattening his self further. The creatures flew over us again but lower this time. I could hear them tear into Shazza before she began to scream. Both Riddick and I got up as soon as we were sure they were gone. Too busy feeding I suppose. We walked to were everyone was standing shocked at what just happened.
"Please I really think we should go inside. We have to be inside to close the door." The mouse man said scared out of his wits. "Come on lets go! Go, go, go, go, go."
Riddick, Fry and I stood at the entrance and at a very familiar sound turned back to the horizon. The creatures from below were coming out. Crushing the combs the creatures burst out wailing and screeching. Riddick took his goggles off and peered into the darkness.
"What is it Riddick? What is it now?" Fry said. I stood there barely seeing the objects in the sky. I could feel them running to the exit under ground.
"Like I said, it ain't us you gotta worry about." Riddick said slightly grazing my arm with his. And with one last flash of sunlight the world became pitch black.