In all honesty Emily would have screamed. They had been so close to getting off this planet without anyone getting separated when that stupid head like a hammer alien got in their way. Not that she wasn't terrified for her life right now, she was, and it's just that she was also PMSing.

As Riddick pulled Emily she could just see the skiff ahead. But Riddick was still running, which meant they were still being chased. He slid to a halt and glanced around them.

"Well, I don't think we're getting out of this without a few fatal injuries," Riddick muttered. Emily was beginning to realize why. Even though she could see the skiff, there was still a lot of shadowed land in between. She gulped.

"We're surrounded aren't we?" Emily's voice was shaky, even if she was 17, she was still young and had a lot to learn. Riddick sighed and pat her head again, it seemed to comfort her.

Kiba snarled and Emily squeezed her eyes shut. As the aliens drew closer Kiba's snarling became louder until suddenly, he howled. For whatever reason the aliens stopped and moved back, but they didn't leave.

Riddick gripped Emily's hand and looked down at her, "Let him go," He muttered. She nodded and whistled again.

"Keep howling Kiba!" The wolf ran straight for the circle of aliens. As he howled the aliens flinched away, but that didn't stop them from attacking. As they went by one would swipe at them with a claw or tail or try to take a peck at them.

"Faster!" Riddick shouted and Kiba understood, and sped up. Not even panting yet the wolf led them further and further into the aliens, but closer to the skiff.

Emily ignored all her cuts and bruises and flinched when an alien lunged at her, Riddick snarled and the alien backed off.

They broke through the chain of aliens that had surrounded them and made a mad dash for the skiff. They made it into the circle of light and slowed to a stop, Emily was leaning on her knees panting. She looked up the hatchway in time to see Shelby and Taylor before she was knocked to the ground by them.

"Ow," she said weakly, "I cant breath."

Kiba ran over to them, he stood over Emily and licked her face. "Who would of thought they'd be afraid of this cute face," Emily cooed as she rubbed his neck and behind his ears. Kiba whined.

"Oh, sorry, did I hurt your manly puppy pride?" Kiba seemed to sigh before climbing up the hatch.


Riddick jumped into the skiffs pilot seat while fry took co-pilot. So, in the end, Fry, Riddick, Imam, Ali, the older boy, Jack, Shelby, Taylor, and Emily made it off the planet alive, Kiba too of course.

Riddick powered down the ship and Fry looked at him, untrusting.

"What are you doing?" she asked.

"We cant leave without saying goodnight," Riddick looked back at Emily who had said it at the same time as him. She grinned and waved at him.

"Sorry, did I steal some of your badassness?" She asked politely.

Riddick turned back to the front, stopped as if in thought, then pulled his goggles over his eyes. He waited until the aliens slowly began to move in and began to claw at the skiff. When one started pecking at the windshield her turned the power back on.

They all heard the creatures scream as the engine fire and lights burned them. Emily started to laugh.

"We so kick ass," she said.

"If this was icarly then we would have a 'Random Dancing!' right about now," Shelby said matter of factly. Taylor looked at her then at Emily.

"Did you give her sugar?" Taylor asked Emily.

"No," She said, in an unconvincing tone.

"Yeah she did, she gave me three lollipops and four chocolates." Shelby said, Emily flinched as Taylor glared at her.

"Where the fuck are you keeping candy?" Taylor cried.

"In my candy stash bag," She pulled out a small bag labeled 'Candy Stash.'

"So while we're running for our lives you and Shelby have been munching on sugary food?"

Shelby and Emily looked at each other before smiling at Taylor, "Yup!" They both said.

Taylor smacked them both upside the head. "Ow"

Shelby looked at Emily, "It really does hurt!"

"I told you."


Emily was sulking in a corner with her candy bag when Jack and Ali sat next to her.

"Can we have some?" Jack asked. Emily sighed and pulled out two baby bottle pops.

"Yup!"

"Baby bottle pop~ Baby bottle pop~," Shelby sang.

"Now, there is a secret to eating these. You unscrew the lid, lick the lollipop on top, then stick it in the sugar. It's messy, so be careful." Both kids took one and Jack showed Ali how to eat it.

Emily sat back down with Shelby and Taylor while Kiba put his head on her lap. She whistled the tune to 'Don't worry be happy.'

'Here's a little song I wrote
You might want to sing it note for note
Don't worry, be happy.
In every life we have some trouble
But when you worry you make it double
Don't worry, be happy.
Don't worry, be happy now.

Ain't got no place to lay your head
Somebody came and took your bed
Don't worry, be happy.
The landlord say your rent is late
He may have to litigate
Don't worry, be happy.

Ain't got no cash, ain't got no style
Ain't got no gal to make you smile
Don't worry, be happy.
'Cause when you worry your face will frown
And that will bring everybody down
Don't worry, be happy.

Emily leaned back with a lollipop in her mouth and sighed. Looking around at the people in the skiff, she realized she had changed the story. She grinned, she liked that power.

Fry moved away to sit near jack and Emily took her chance, launching herself into the co-pilots seat.

"Soooooo, I was wondering, how do we get home?" Emily asked.

Riddick glanced at her before shaking his head, "How would I know."

"Ok mister rainbow," She giggled and turned back to Shelby, "Shelby, I just thought about it but we really should have brought some sunny D."

"Sunny D kills vampires! And Light sensitive aliens!" Shelby shouted.

Emily laughed before sitting forward in the seat again. She brought her knees up and played with the laces of her shoes.

"I was kind of hoping it would be one of those, 'adventures over, lets go home now' things, but I guess it's not," she said around the lollipop in her mouth.

"If you don't get home you can probably bunk at the holy mans place," Riddick replied. Emily scrunched her nose. He wasn't sure but he thought he heard her mutter 'ew, religion.' He smirked.

Emily sighed and looked at her phone; the battery had finally gone down a bar. She 'hmm-ed' in thought before she put it back in her pocket.

"I guess we'll just have to go along with the flow for now," She looked out the window at the darkness of space, punctured only by the light of the stars. She sighed and looked at the floor in thought, her mind just now going back to her family. Their adventure had come at a good time, the heat between her family had begun to grow and she had been close to snapping. She leaned her head against the seat and closed her eyes.


When Emily woke it was because someone had been shaking her shoulder. She opened her eyes and mumbled about how she was still tired. She rubbed the sleep from her eyes and yawned before looking over at Riddick.

"Kid, you're disappearing," Emily's tired brain took a while to process the info.

"What?" She looked down and sure enough she could just see the seat through her stomach. She started to panic. "What's going on?" She stood and looked over at Riddick who was still seated.

"My guess is that you're going home, your friends are already gone." Riddick said quietly, Emily looked behind her and found that she didn't see Shelby or Taylor amongst the sleeping group. Kiba was still at her side however even if he was a bit transparent.

Out of habit Emily took her phone out to look at the time and found it to be 11:10 pm. That and her phone was almost dead. Emily pushed her hair out of her eyes and looked up at Riddick who had moved from his seat to stand in front of her.

"Well, it was a pleasure Ridd; I don't know what's going to happen after this. For all I know you'll completely forget we were ever here," she had a bright smile on her face and held her hand out.

Riddick took her hand and shook it before patting her on the head again. "Have fun, kid, be safe," he said before bending down and petting Kiba on the head, the wolf whined.

Emily nodded and looked down at her now unseen feet. "It was fun, despite the life threatening bit."

Riddick was silent as the girl had now disappeared from her waist down. Kiba was almost gone.

"Well, I'll be seeing ya!" Emily waved and was gone. The man looked down, Kiba was gone as well. He looked around before sitting in the pilots chair once again. He propped his feet up in thought.

It was only hours later that he realized she had left her Ipod and he was missing his shiv. He chuckled and slipped it into his back pocket, where the fang he had pulled out of her arm still rested.


When Emily opened her eyes she was in her room, surrounded by an excited Shelby and Taylor and a rather tired Kiba. She looked around her room with a sigh.

"Well that was interesting." Emily stood, brushing off her pants and looked out the window at the bright moon, fingering the hand made shiv she had swiped.

Authors note~ The End! Not really, there will be a sequel and I'm going to get started on it right away. I know there are mistakes and I have been told, I'll try to fix them, so keep your eyes open. Questions, comments, concerns? I don't care about those, just review! For this chapter I listened to 8th world wonder (remix) by Kimberly Locke.