*Sorry 'bout this chapter being kind of dull.
Riddick re-lite the cutting torch with Paris' lighter and started cutting the wall while Johns fired some rounds keeping the creatures at bay. They were coming back and getting ansy. Riddick kicked in the wall and all proceeded into another room.
"Watch her." Riddick demanded to Jack placing his goggles onto his forehead and heading back out into the darkened hanger.
"Where are you going?" Rynn yelled out to Riddick.
"Stay put!" Rynn heard Riddick's voice yell from a distance.
Caroline took the opportunity to 'watch over' Rynn. She put her arm around Rynn's back to help support her. "I'm fine!" She snapped and swatted at Caroline who immeditaley removed her arm from Rynn like she had just gotten shocked.
"No, Rynn. Riddick said stay put." Jack managed to get to Rynn pulling on her arm to keep her there.
"I'll be right back." Rynn moved Jack aside to sneak away into the darkness to find Riddick.
She couldn't see a thing. There were times when she wished she had eyes like Riddick and this was one of those times. All she could do was feel her way around and hope she wasn't getting herself into a trap with those things.
Rynn kept feeling the wall as she walked. Her hand came across something more like someone. A torso. It wasn't Riddick. She knows his body. It was one of Imam's boys. He let out a sharp gasp at her touch. That gasp wasn't because of her touch. Something was wrong. Rynn turned around to the sound of the creatures' noise. She just about jumped out of her skin when Riddick came out of a darkend shadow his arm going under her breasts from behind away from her wound. His other hand clamped down over her mouth pulling her back against his body back into the shadows. "Extremely bad timing, baby. I told you to stay put." He whispered in her ear before looking to his left knowing Imam's boy was right next to him all along and Hasan had no clue Riddick was hidden in the shadows until he appeared in the light coming from a tear in the roof. Riddick released Rynn and moved her off to his right side and behind him to shield her from the creature."Extremely bad timing for you as well." Riddick directed that to Imam's boy who was shaking in his clothing. "Don't, Hasan." Rynn knew what he was going to do. He was going to run.
Riddick kept his eyes locked with the creature perched on top a crate above them. Rynn felt Riddick's hand brush over her sex before settling at the top of her thigh giving her leg a gently squeeze for comfort keeping his hand there silently telling her not to move.
"Riddick?!" Caroline called out.
"Don't. Stop. Burning." Riddick instructed and Caroline took over the cutting.
A second monster landed on top of another crate right in front of them.
"They're baiting him." Riddick whispered to Rynn.
The one above Hasan shot it's spike out of its claw quickly and Hasan took off running.
"No!" Rynn yelled and Riddick had to hold her back. It was too late to save the boy.
Hasan ran blindly into the trap of a third creature that waited in the darkness to slice him in two. The others took off and started to feed from Hasan.
"Oh god!" Rynn covered her mouth with her hand. She did her best to hold down the bile that wanted so badly to be thrown up. Gruesome sights like that were nothing new to Rynn. So why was this time different?
"You let him die." Rynn stated in between dry heaving.
"Better him than us." Was Riddick's cold answer and that earned him a slap across the chest.
Riddick's squeezed Rynn's thigh a little harder turning around to face her his hands on either side of her face. Rynn's arm went over her stomach and she hunched over resting her head onto Riddick's chest still fighting with all her might not to throw up.
"Side effects from the morphine."
"I-I can't keep it down." She warned as the sickening feeling in her grew more intense. She fell to her knees gripping Riddick's ankles throwing up between his boots.
"Nice present, baby." Riddick said sarcasticly. "I'd much rather have other bodily fluids coming out of you."
"Shut up!"
Riddick's dirty mind.
"Told you I couldn't hold it down."
Riddick smiled as he crouched down to rub her back up and down and in slow little circles while keeping an eye out for anymore hungry visitors.
The calm didn't last long. Riddick heard a big thud behind him. He looked back and saw yet another creature ready to attack. Riddick snatched Rynn's wrist in his hand and roughly jerked her to her feet practically dragging her to run in front of him. He didn't care that she just threw up or that she felt like crap at that moment. He only cared about fleeing from the creature.
Rynn relied on Riddick's night vision as he kept her moving having no clue where she was running to in the darkness. A flash from a bright light from Johns gun startled her and blinded Riddick. He groaned from the pain of the light. His hand coming up to shield his eyes. The light threw Riddick off balance a bit tackling Rynn from behind falling hard onto her forcing her to land on her stomach even harder as the creature that was behind them got shot down by Johns.
"AAhhh!" Rynn screamed. "Get off me!"
Riddick quickly rolled off of her helping her up. Caroline along with the others screamed when the creature Johns shot hit the ground limply. Dead.
Everyone except Riddick and Rynn crept closer to the creature to inspect it.
"Look. Light actually hurts them." The light was making the skin of the creature boil and dissolve.
Everything has a weakness.
"Hassan?" Imam called out to his boy. But there was no sense in it.
"Sorry, Imam." Rynn again offered her condolences to yet another one of Imam's boys that were dropping like flies.
"We'll burn a candle for him later." Johns said. "Let's get the hell back into that room and regroup."
Back inside Riddick came over to where Rynn was sitting. "You alright?"
She looked up at him. "Yeah. It's just throbbing a bit."
"Got more if you want, Rynn." Johns offering her more morphine holding it up for her to see.
"She ain't gettin' no more!" Riddick's deep voice hardened.
Caroline went over what they had in their possession to get off the planet realizing the most important thing they will need to get the skiff going would be difficult. "We're going to have to carry the cells."
Rynn moved to sit next to Jack knowing he was scared out of his mind and rightfully so. "We can't go out there. Those things are still out there. We can't get those cells. We're going to die here." Jack was blurting random things out. Rynn did her best to try and ease Jack's fright. She rubbed the kids back with her hand while Riddick watched. Rynn leaned into Jack more placing an arm around the kids shoulder. Rynn knew that wasn't the real reason why Jack was afraid. She has been watching Jack and caught her in a hanger alone. Something had paid the kid a visit and it was the reason those creatures wouldn't leave them alone.
Rynn whispered low enough in Jack's ear that no one else could hear except maybe Riddick. "I know, Jack."
Jack looked up at her. "Know what?" Whispering back with a confused look.
"I know that your not really a boy. Boys don't get periods. Don't bleed."
Jack's face went pale.
"I won't tell anyone. Promise."
"How do you know?"
"I followed you into that hanger. Plus a woman knows."
"Rynn...I had to do this...look like this..."
Rynn knew by the sound of her voice Jack was frightened and panicing at everyone finding out her true gender. "I made you a promise. I keep them. Relax. You don't need to explain."
Jack nodded with a shy smile. She rested her head on Rynn's shoulder as Rynn comforted her more bringing her into a better embrace. The two were brought out of that moment by Caroline and Johns arguing.
"I'm trying to find a way out that doesn't involve mass suicide."
"How much do you weigh, Johns?"
"Why?"
"How much?!" Caroline raised her voice.
"About seventy-nine kilos."
"Does your seventy-nine kilos of gutless-"
The argument was getting out of control and Rynn was getting tired of hearing Johns tirate. She shot up to her feet as Johns quickly done the same. He ripped out his gun from its holster on the side of his leg and was ready to point it at Rynn and would have but Riddick stepped between them. Rynn never backed down. Johns wasted no time turning his gun onto Riddick placing it under his chin. "Where you goin'?"
"Solves nothing." Imam inputted.
Riddick placed his goggles on his forehead and looked over at Johns while tapping his blade on the inner thigh of Johns's leg close to his jewels giving him a silent warning. Johns realized he almost made the mistake of pointing his gun at Rynn. He sits back down with a simple. "Okay." Backing off.
"Are you sure you can get us to the skiff. In the dark?" Imam hoped as Caroline crouched down on the other side of Jack also trying to reassure the girl who everyone else still thought was a boy.
"They're afraid of out light." Was all the comfort Jack got from Caroline. She stood back up to answer Imam's question. "No I can't..." A pause from her as she looked at Rynn before looking to the back of Riddick's head. "...But he can."
Riddick looked over his shoulder at Caroline.
"Will you help us?"
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