Chapter: A New Planet in a New System.

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There had been a notable difference in Vaako that Riddick saw, and Riddick knew the reason. The reason behind a difference in Vaako was because Reyna forgiven him, but also, must had said a few words to him too. Riddick began to see that Vaako was his usual vocal self, but he had confidence behind his words, his commands. Being married to the late Dame Vaako, Vaako was uncertain about his commands and did not have the confidence behind him. He would freeze and second guest himself. But now, Vaako stood with confidence, did not second guess himself and prove that he had the skill to take on a strong leadership role.

The air around Vaako had also changed too. He carried himself as an alpha, much to the amusement of Riddick. Riddick was amused because he knew that Reyna definitely got a hold of Vaako and made sure to unleash the animal side within. Riddick always knew that his twin sister could do it, and she could rile up anyone she chooses.

At the present moment, the carrier ship was landing on a new planet in a new system that was beside the Helion system. The planet had appeared to be covered in all water, except upon closer inspection, there were islands throughout the whole planet.

"This is beautiful." Reyna said, stepping off the transport drop ship between Riddick and Vaako.

The Purifier and troops stood behind them the three. The purifier was looking around, looking for any civilization to begin preaching about the Necromonger beliefs and try to persuade anyone to convert to their religion.

They had landed on one of the three largest mass of land on the planet. They stood on a beach that had many docks extending out into the water. There were a couple of docks that continued to stretch out, connecting to other small land masses that was spread throughout the island. The islands appeared to be connected with one another with docks. Vegetation was evident throughout the islands, especially the large island that they landed on. From a distance, toward the middle of the island, in the middle of all the vegetation, there were large and tall buildings breaking the tree tops. The buildings appeared to be built out of the woods that the island provided.

Reyna was the first to move, walking across the beach and toward the jungle where she saw a manmade path leading in.

"Reyna." Vaako said, going after her.

"You should be commanding the troops, Vaako." Reyna told him.

"They will follow." Vaako told her while at the same time he was glancing over his left shoulder to make sure that his troops were following.

"Stay alert." Riddick said as he was looking around at their surroundings.

They were walking through a jungle, the dirt trail that they were on had turned into pebbles. Reyna eyed the stones, eyes narrowing as she saw dark wet spots on the dark grey soon. Her eyes flickered up and around the jungle, thinking that something was off. Something did not sit right with her.

A whizzing sound splitting through the air tickle her ears. Her eyes shot to the side, diagonally to her right where she saw a spear sailing through the air and was aimed right at Vaako's head.

"Vaako!" Reyna lunged forward and she tackled him into the ground.

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Vaako grunted as Reyna tackled him to the ground. She sat up and on top of him, unsheathing her short swords with a growl. He pushed her off to stand up and his eyes shot to the spear that would had hit him if not for Reyna's inhuman senses.

"Stay alert." Vaako commanded his troops.

Rustling was happening all around them throughout the thick bushes.

"They are surrounding us to trap us. Do not let that happen." Vaako said causing his troops to fan out.

"Be partner up and do not look in the same spot. They have an advantage." Riddick shouted as he pulled his shivs out.

There was a warrior's cry coming to their left causing them to look and to see a person dressed in clothing that were made out of animal hide and netting, charing them.

"Pay attention to your own self." Reyna shouted as she noted that some of the troops were moving in to protect Riddick because he was the Lord Marshal.

When Reyna shut her mouth, she watched as a spear went through one of the Necromonger soldier's was a burst from the bushes, a wave of inhabitants of this place came charging out, yelling and attacking the Necromonger troops.

A frustrated growl escaped Reyna. She heard a pair of feet coming up behind her causing her to turn around to see a man charging her. Charging the man in return, Reyna jumped up and sent a powerful kick to the man's face causing him to stagger backwards. When she landed, bouncing on her toes, she lunged forward and stabbed her twin short swords through the man's chest, dropping him. Pulling her short swords out of the chest, she stood up and looked around, catching sight of Vaako fighting a very huge, burly man.

"Shit. He's huge." Riddick said as he caught sight of the man that was facing Vaako.

"That is one big man." Reyna mumbled.

Reyna saw that the troops had the advantage of weapons, shooting their gravity guns consistently while the inhabitants of this planet only had their handmade spears and knives. Yet, Reyna knew to never judge a book by its cover for these inhabitants had an advantage too; this was their home and they were used to this climate. The inhabitants began to use the jungle to hide and then attack before hiding again.

A bit away from them all, Reyna saw Vaako was handling himself okay with the huge man. She turned to face the others, preparing herself to defend, but she was caught off guard when something wrapped around her left ankle.

"What the—FUCK!"

"Reyna!" Riddick shouted, whirling around to see what happened.

Reyna found herself on the ground with a thick manmade net on top of her body. She let out a frustrated yell, struggling in the netting, but her actions had only caused her to become more tangled up in the net.

"We got a live one! A woman too!" Someone shouted amongst the trees.

There were cheers and howls from the group of inhabitants of this jungle who were constantly attacking them.

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With Reyna being caught, the inhabitants appeared to attack Riddick, Vaako and the Necromonger soldiers with full force now. It was almost immediately clear that the inhabitants were doing this as a distraction to take Reyna away. Riddick was the first to realize this and he went into berserk mode, taking down as many as he possibly could with no mercy.

Off to the side and still fighting, Vaako was trying everything to take down the giant man that he was facing. He went for pressure points, hitting areas that would cause extreme pain, but the giant kept coming at him. When Vaako went for the main arteries, the giant caught him and put Vaako into a headlock.

The screaming from Reyna caused Vaako to looked off to watch at two men trying to pull Reyna away, trying to get her further into the jungle. When one of the two men decided to go on top of her, looking like they had intentions to do something, Vaako saw red.

Needing to get out of the headlock, to do anything possible, Vaako bit down on the arm of the giant of a man, who let out a low whine at the feel of teeth sinking through sink. Vaako slammed his boot heel down on the giant's foot, where he felt the arms loosen up around his body. It was enough to allow Vaako to jolt forward, out of the arms. Vaako attempted to run to Reyna, but a hand wrapped around his braids and tugged him backwards causing him to slam onto his back. A low growl emitted from him as he stared up at the laughing giant that clenched his braids.

"Riddick! Vaako!" Reyna shouted as she tried to fight the man off her, but the netting was preventing her from doing so.

Vaako turned his head one way to see that Riddick was being bombarded by the opponent, one right after the other. It was clear that Riddick was the strongest one here, therefore, the inhabitants were attacking him the most.

The tug on the braids caused Vaako to hiss as he was brought up onto his knees. He was beginning to get a headache from his braids being pulled backwards causing his head to tilt back. Vaako heard Reyna yelled again, and he managed to turn his head enough to stare at her where he saw the man that was on top of her trying to slice her top open. The other man was boosting the man on top of Reyna, chanting for him to continue.

There was a dagger in his right boot, and his hand brushed the dagger before grasping the handle as he had to make a choice for Reyna was important.

His hand shot up and back then moving upwards. He felt himself fall forwards to which he caught himself on one hand. Being quick and needing to get to Reyna, Vaako was quick as he whirled around, getting back onto his feet and he was throwing his arm upwards. The dagger stabbed right between the giant eyes. With inhuman strength, Vaako applied pressure which caused the dagger to sink deeper through the skull. Vaako did not stop until the giant had fallen to his knees.

Vaako ripped his dagger away, where he watched as the large man fell to his side, not moving anymore. With that done, Vaako ran toward Reyna and he threw the dagger at the man that stood back. The dagger stabbed through the throat which caused the man to grab it, but then fallen to his knees when Vaako ripped the dagger out. Vaako did not waste time to throw the man on top of Reyna off of her before he began to stab the man with a lot of anger.

Blood splashed across his face as he continued to take his anger out until his arm got a twinge in it. He stopped and panted, his rage was simmering down. Vaako stood up and he walked over to Reyna where he knelt down to slice the net off her body and then the rope around her leg.

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"Vaako." Reyna stared at him as he was covered in blood.

"Are you all right?" Vaako helped her to stand up with him.

"Yes, he didn't get far. The netting stopped him." Reyna told him as her eyes looked over to the man that had once been on top of her. She noted that the man's face was unrecognizable now after Vaako was finished with him.

Reyna looked back at Vaako and took notice that his braids were gone. She walked around him to go over to the large man that was like a giant to them all. She knelt down to pull out a handful of braids from the man's large hand. Reyna stood up and turned to face Vaako as he followed her.

"I liked your braids."

"You're more important."

Her eyes shot up as he said this and her right hand clenched the braids close to her chest.

"Oi, let's go." Riddick shouted as he finished the last of the men that came at him.

Before they were to continue, they had done a headcount to see that they had lost four of their ten troops. The Purifier was hiding in the bushes and came out, staring around at the bloodshed. Shaking his head, the Purifier looked for Riddick to take the lead.

"We are running." Riddick shouted.

With Riddick's command, they were sprinting through the rest of the jungle until they came upon the area where the buildings were. Though they came to a halt when there were high walls that surrounded the area where the buildings were. Guard towers were located on top of the walls, guards stared down at them. A small door near the tall, double gates opened up, which caused their attention to be drawn to it. A tall man stepped out.

"Are you people crazy?"

"Not the first time I heard that one." Reyna muttered causing Riddick to snort and Vaako to shake his head.

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The man was known as Kan, and he welcome them into the walls after he had questioned about their sanity. Inside the walls, the buildings were tall, built out of thick wood and it was clear there were more than one person that lived inside these buildings that must be seen as apartments. There were markets spread out among the streets, clustered together and sold anything from different color dirts to various shiny handmade jewelry.

While Kan showed them around, he explained that the planet was called Uncharted D Planet. The area that they had landed on was in the poverty area of the planet. Each of the large islands represented the class status of the inhabitants. There was the middle class island and then a high class island where the government of the planet was located.

"Who were those men outside the walls?" Reyna asked.

"Those were rogues or outcasts. They committed a crime and were casted off the main islands. Each island cities are surrounded by these walls to keep them out. There is usually guards located on parts of the planet to make sure that the convicts don't break down or through the walls."

"Great warning for incoming guests." Reyna muttered as she was still bitter about what had happened in the woods.

"I do apologize about all of that." Kane said as he stared at Reyna with a peak of interest.

"It is fine." Reyna nose twitched a little, a small indication she was still ticked off.

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The man known as Kan eyed Reyna with a smile that was obviously supposed to charm. It had Vaako to get a snarl on his face. He had stepped around the group to stand on the other side of Reyna and to get in between Kan and her. By his action, Kan had straighten up his height and actually began to sizing Vaako up and down in a challenging manner. Vaako could not help but chuckle as he found Kan's action amusing.

"What is so funny?"

"You are actually sizing me up. That indicates a challenge." Vaako growled and he went to step at Kan, but Riddick held his hand up to stop Vaako from moving any closer to Kan.

"Do not mine my commander. He is still on an adrenaline rush, especially protecting his wife."

"Oh, she is your wife." Kan stature appeared to deflate a little.

"Yes." Vaako said through clenched teeth.

"My apologies, but when we see a beautiful creature we try to impress them and hope for a fruitful marriage." Kan said as he placed his hand across his chest in an apologetic manner.

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Riddick was getting a kick out of this whole situation as he was watching the way that Vaako's jaw was flexing in irritation. Reyna rolled her eyes at the showcase of alpha mode by Vaako over her. It was as Vaako was pissing on his claim.

A few chuckles escaped from Riddick.

Vaako went to open his mouth, but Riddick stepped in. He did not want to deal with anymore conflicts on this new planet. He wanted to check it out and explore, plus, to further understand this new planet and its system that was not in their records.

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Kan had led them to a place that looked to be a tavern. He led the group to tables outside due to more room, and for the troops to be able to stand around on guard.

"I am curious about something." Reyna started.

"What is that?" Kan replied with a small tilt of his head.

"How many planets in this system?"

"Four."

"If this system is nearby Helion, why did it appear out of nowhere?" Reyna asked next.

Riddick and Vaako looked at Reyna with raised eyebrows. She glanced at the two of the men as they stared at her as they did not understand why she asked this question. She turned to face them a little to explain why she asked this particular question.

"I looked through all the systems and around Helion Prime. This planet appeared out of nowhere. It does not make sense, so why now."

"Because this systems orbit is unpredictable." Kan chuckled which brought her attention back onto him.

"What?"

"It goes through different courses through various time. The system is alive. It had a strange orbit, but moves in various patterns around the galaxy."

Reyna glanced over at Riddick as she thought that maybe that was why there wasn't much about Furya. It might of have a crazy orbital track that it was never in one place. It would move in various ways throughout the system. She looked back at Kan as he was thanking a bartender who brought a tray of water over.

"Do you know of a planet called Furya?" Riddick asked.

Kan appeared to pale at the mention of the name of Furya. His eyes had gone to the bartender that went wide eyes before they had quickly scurried off. The reaction had instantly got everyone's attention. They leaned closer to stare at Kan, wanting answers.

"No one speaks of that planet."

"Why not?"

"It is haunted."

"Is it in this system?"

"No, but we pass the system that it is near. The system that it is in is the same as this one as it has a wild orbital movement around its system. I wish not to speak about that planet. No one talks about that planet."

Riddick let out a deep exhale from his nose as he looked between Reyna and Vaako before his eyes were back at Kan. It was clear that they were not going to get anymore answers from Kan about Furya.

Reyna did not touch the drink. None of them did as they could not trust anyone. Instead, they listen to Kan discuss more about the planets in this system before he finally asked them what was their purpose on their planet. It was clear that Kan did not know about the Necromonger and if he did not know—which he appeared to be a man that knew everything about his people and planet—then these people on this planet and through this system would not know about the Necromonger history.

Riddick, Reyna and Vaako left the explaining to the Purifier to explain about Necromonger and the religion. Riddick, Reyna and Vaako stood away from everyone and formed a triangle to stare at each other.

"We have to get to the mainland." Vaako stated.

"I know. We will return back to the ship and make way to the mainland." Riddick said and he glanced back to see Kan was shaking his head at the Purifier.

"Our people do not want a part of this." Kan stood up from his seat.

"Off to the mainland." Reyna mumbled. She was trying not to smirk as she saw the Purifier huff and Riddick to wave him off as if he knew this would happened.

"I just want to get off this blasted planet." Vaako muttered as he reached to the back of his head where his braids were gone and at the same time, he was glaring at Kan once again, seeing how the man kept eyeing Reyna.

"Now." Vaako muttered underneath his breath.

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