Chapter: Extremely Bad Timing

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The cargo hall that they were trap in was shroud in pitch black darkness and the air was dry. A twitch in Nayla's nose made her to shove away Johns who were in front of her when he backed up a few steps because he ran slightly into a wall.

"What the—"

"You smell horrible." Nayla hissed at Johns, brushing by him with Riddick chuckling behind her as he followed after her. They could perfectly see in the dark, seeing everyone touching the wall with one hand and waving their other hand around them to find anyone or anything surrounding them. To Nayla and Riddick, the people before them were useless as they had no skill in using their senses or the obvious part, not able to see in the dark.

Riddick and Nayla stood with one another, staring around at the cramp metal hallway of the cargo hull. They tried to block out the fear that was emitting from those that were standing behind them.

A flicking sound made Riddick to glance back and see that the antique dealer Paris had a lighter. With another flick, the lighter came to life and a small flame had appeared. Then Johns and Imam turn on flashlights that they had on them, flashing the beam of light around to check out their surroundings.

"She should've stayed down. If she only would have stayed down, she'd be ok. She wouldn't have died." Jack lowly said in an upset tone.

"You remember the boneyard? These just might be the fuckers that killed every living thing on this planet." Johns stated.

"Thanks for the obvious, jackass." Nayla lowly mumbles causing Riddick to snort under his breath in amusement.

"What are we gonna do now?" Jack asked the question that they were all trying to figure out.

"Are these the only lights we have? Is this everything?" Paris shaky voice asked, glancing at everyone and holding up his lighter in the air.

"There's a cutting torch on the floor here somewhere. I just can't find it." Fry was saying, kneeling down on the floor and trying to find this said torch.

Screeching and low clicking sounds were heard closer to the hull making Nayla to stare up at the ceiling. She could hear those raptor creatures flying about and swiftly gliding through the air, around this hull. Those creatures knew that they were in here and most likely were going to find anything possibility to get inside to get them.

"Quiet, please, everyone." Imam said leaning his head near the metal door of the cargo hull with his followers, Jack and Fry listening too. Everyone stop talking and listen to the raptors lowly wailing outside.

"Why do they do that, make that sound?" Jack curiously asked.

"Perhaps it's the way they see with sound reflecting back—" Imam stop talking as something landed on top of the hull and was crawling across it.

"Sonar is what you are saying." Nayla lowly mused out, knowing what Imam mean about how these creatures were seeing and know where everything is.

Everyone stared at the end of the hallway that was in front of Nayla and Riddick. They ran their eyes over the walls as they could hear this rattling sound moving across the metal walls.

"Could be a breach in the hull. I don't know." Fry lowly said, stepping a bit forwards to stare at the area where the sounds were coming from.

"Come on, Johns. You got the big gauge." Riddick mockingly said, glancing slightly back to stare at Johns then looked forwards. His eyes were not faltering away from where those creatures were trying to get in. Riddick glanced at Nayla, knowing that she was probably thinking the same thing. Her eyes were glowing a bit as she narrow her eyes with this thinking look on her face.

"I'd rather piss glass." Johns replied, hooking the flashlight to the button of his shotgun and pointing the shotgun in the direction of the sounds.

"Why don't you go fucking check?" Johns then shot at Riddick, who grin a bit at the fear in Johns voice.

"I'm not staying here anymore." Paris said, pushing himself off the wall and moving to the other end of the hallway, far away from the sounds.

"Where you going? Hey! Hey!" Johns shouted, seeing how Paris was heading towards the cargo hull door.

"Paris!" Fry shouted, watching as Imam shoved Paris down and put his hand on the panic antique dealer shoulder. Once Imam step back, Fry was there in front of Paris and grabbed the scared man by the front of his robes.

"You don't know what's out there."

"I know what's in here." Paris retorted.

Hearing clacking behind them, Nayla glance back to see that Imam had manage to break open a door that led further into the cargo hull. Nayla bump into Riddick making him to turn around with her and headed into the cargo room with the others.

"Now we're trapped in a much smaller space. I hate this!" Paris shouted, staring around at everyone and at Imam, who had locked the door with a lock and was leaning on it.

Nayla moved around and her foot bumps into something. Glancing down, she smirked and bent down, picking up the cutting torch that Fry was looking for earlier. Standing back up, Nayla stepped up to Riddick and held it up in front of him.

Metal scrapping made them to look up to see this sharp bone like hook shape had stab through the thin metal door right next to Imam head. The holy man ran forwards with a frighten yelp and moved out of the way as Johns began firing at the door, trying to see if he could kill whatever was behind it.

"Good find." Riddick lowly told her, patting her butt as he took it from her. He played with the knobs then tipped the end of it in Paris's lighter flame. The torch came to life and moved over to a wall. He began cut into the wall making a circle, big enough for all of them to fit through.

Once finish, Riddick handed the cutting torch to Fry and he kicked the metal circle in. It fell into another cargo storage room making him to crawl in first to scout out the room. Nayla enter too, staring around and staring at supply crates outline by a silver bluish glow in the dark.

Soon, everyone came into the room too.

Nayla glanced to her left to see Riddick moving away from the group and went around crates to explore. Quickly she followed after him, jumping on a few crates then landed behind him.

"Like a cat."

"I prefer panther."

Riddick chuckles while pushing his goggles up and walking beside her, glancing around their surroundings.

"This is probably the largest storage unit."

"Indeed. It has mostly industrial things and ships material." Riddick lowly said, pausing to stare at a few of the things.

They got closer to the back, but Nayla felt herself stop as she felt that something wasn't right. Her hand reached out, only to have Riddick grab her hand too. Slowly, he pulled her to him, wrapping his muscular arms around her waist and pulled her back into the darkest corner near them.

Both Furyans were staring up near the ceiling, opposite of their position to see one of those raptor creatures eating one of its own. The slurp and crunch sounds made Nayla to make a slight face, watching as one of the 'big boy' creatures was eating a baby one.

Nayla's back was pressed up against Riddick's chest, feeling his heartbeat was racing a bit upon seeing this creature.

They didn't glance away as they heard footsteps come closer and closer to them until the owner of the footfalls came close enough for them to glance at them in the corner of their eyes. It was one of Imam's followers, who was staring around with fearful eyes and panting a bit.

They watch as the young follower named Hassan froze near them when the raptor creature spit out some of its meal right in front of Hassan feet. A swish of the raptor creature's tail and crouching a bit made Riddick and Nayla to know that the creature has spotted its next target.

"Extremely bad timing." Riddick sarcastically said.

The creature made a slight chirp sound.

"Don't move, don't run, don't do anything." Nayla whispers, feeling Riddick's arms tense a bit around her waist.

"Riddick? Nayla?" Fry voice was heard about a few crate rows over, coming closer and closer to them.

"Don't stop burning." Riddick spoken a bit louder, hoping that they heard word for word of what he said because if those creatures move to strike, Nayla and him were getting the hell out of there. They hope that someone was cutting another route through the metal wall with that cutting torch.

A thud behind them caused the three of them to look up and see another one of those raptor creatures appear on the plastic stockpiles behind them. Riddick slowly step backwards, bringing Nayla into the dark with him again.

They watched as Hassan was trying not to move as the creatures were surrounding them, but mostly him. The creatures open up their claws were these weird tongue like spear shape slither out and jerked towards the young follower. That caused Hassan to run, but he was tore apart by a third raptor creature.

The other two had jump off the crate, fighting one another to get over to the now cut in half Hassan body.

"This is our time to go." Nayla said, pulling away from Riddick. They turn to see another one appeared behind them, screeching making Riddick to shove Nayla forwards in the direction that the group was.

They both sprinted around crates, jumping over a few then came around a corner where they see the light of the group. Hearing their feet the group whirled around, flashing their lights in Riddick and Nayla's eyes. It different effect Nayla as much as Riddick, but Riddick got a blunt load of light in his eyes then Nayla. He yelled out, grabbing his face and fell forwards, taking Nayla with him as the creature was behind them.

They landed in red rope, listening as the creature screech at the lights on it then fly up to the ceiling where Johns began to unload his shotgun after it. He stopped after five shots and kept it pointed at the ceiling, staring up and wondering if it was hiding up there.

However, the creature fell from the ceiling causing everyone, except Johns, Riddick and Nayla to scream out in fright.

"Is it alive?" Fry lowly asked, all of them slowly stepping forwards to stare at the raptor creature that was their predator.

Nayla pushed herself up, brushing herself off and glance to her right as Riddick stood up beside her. Both of them were staring at the raptor creature that had been chasing after them. They took note of the steam coming off its burnt skin. When the group flashed their flashlights over it, the skin began to sizzle and smoke even more.

"The light is its ultimate weakness and death for whatever the hell these fuckers are. That is why they have been hidden underground this whole time." Nayla pointed out, tilting her head a bit in slight wonderment at the new discovery.

Riddick had to look at Nayla fully when she said this and stepped a bit forwards with a curious face. He began to think that he had a scientist or something relevant on his hands. Then again, Nayla and he both could be medical people. They were good at slicing and knowing the strong points and weaknesses of the body. Riddick felt himself smirking at that thought.

"Light hurts them. It actually hurts them." Fry said in amazement, but gasped out with everyone as the creature claw flexed then dropped to its side.

Hearing a loud screech and shuffling, everyone looked around as they creatures were louder in this room. It was an instant realization that there was more than one of these creatures in the room with them or coming close to getting in.

"Hassan." Imam exclaimed, staring around with widen eyes.

"We'll burn a candle for him later. Come on, let's get out of here." Johns said, moving to the wall where he cut a new hole into another room. Kicking it in, they enter a square shape room that had some chests and a lot of straps—to hold crates down—where littering the floor.

They put the cutting torch on a chest and they circle around it, trying to come up with a plan because sooner or later the torch is going to run out. Once that happens, they are in the darkness again.

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Note:

Disclaimer: I don't own anything about the Riddick Series. The only thing that I do own is my original character named Nayla.

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Anyways, hello everyone…

I wanted to say thanks for the reviews and whatnot. I have decided to be nice today and post this chapter up too. So two chapters in one day!

Also, to answer a question, yes I will be doing sequels. I will be doing the Dark Fury and The Chronicles of Riddick too. The new movie that came out…well I have to see it first…but anyways….

Thank you my readers and for your gracious reviews.