The Guide in the Darkness

by CosmicHorse

As the darkness closes in, a lone figure protects the survivors of the crashed crew. She doesn't speak much and doesn't even seem human. Along the way, Riddick finds himself drawn to this woman who responds to the name Guide. Somehow, some way, he plans to get at least him and her off that rock in relatively one piece. But she is holding something from the group. Riddick x OC

14. Chapter 14

Chapter 14 ~ Prophecy

"I'm so glad I could steal you away for a moment. Doesn't it strike you odd? Here we have the current Lord Marshal... destroying entire societies, and yet he can't bring himself... to kill one stranded Elemental." Dame Vaako said to Aereon after taking the Air Elemental into a ship.

"Why is that?" Aereon asked, already knowing the answer.

"You don't pray to our god. You pray to no god, I hear." Dame Vaako replied.

"Elementals... we calculate." Aereon stated plainly.

"Don't we all. But now let's have first things first. What of Riddick?" Dame Vaako asked.

"In truth, I don't know where he went." Aereon replied, slyly.

"In truth, I'm more interested in where he came from. Watch your step. I've always wondered, does an air Elemental fly? Now do me a favor. Calculate the odds of you getting off this planet alive... and now cut them in half." Dame Vaako asked Aereon, taking a large blade and slicing towards the Air Elemental

"No, we can't fly. But we glide very well." Aereon replied, gliding accros the hole in the bottom of the ship. "Save your threats, Necromonger. I would have told you about Riddick for the asking. It concerns a foretelling, a prediction now more than 30 years old. A young warrior once consulted a seer. He was told a child would be born on the planet Furya... a male child... who would someday cause the warrior's downfall. Cause his untimed death."

"Furya? Furya's a ruined world. No life to speak of." Dame Vaako replied, very skeptical.

"For good reason. This young warrior mounted an attack on Furya, killing all young males he could find, even strangling some with their birth cords. An artful stroke, wouldn't you say?" Aereon asked.

"So this warrior, the one who tried to outwit the prediction, would later become..." Dame Vaako continued.

"That's why he worries." Aereon said.

"The Lord Marshal. Which would make the man-child..." Dame Vaako said but stopped herself.

"He worries he missed killing that child in its crib." Aereon continued.

"Riddick." Dame Vaako whispered, barely believing herself.

"But what the young warrior didn't hear from the seer was another part of the prophecy, of which very few know of." Aereon continued.

Dame Vaako looked at Aereon, willing her to continue. "The seer also saw that a woman, of unknown origin, would help the child born of Furya. This woman would come from a mother who held no love for the child and a father not even breathing. This woman was of part darkness and part life." Aereon told the Necromonger.

"Who is that woman?" Dame Vaako asked.

"I met her once, she called herself Guide." Aereon said, recalling the strange woman. "She had beautiful eyes."

"How would she help?"

Now, Aereon faltered. This part always made her very sad. "Through her love of the Furyan, this woman . . . this woman would give her life for the Furyan."

[AN: Now, we jump to the fight scene. See why this was kinda important?]