Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or Pitch Black. I do not make any money from this story.

Pairings: Riddick/Harry

Rating: M – swearing and sex scenes

(ME) well I have chapter 10 all ready for you thanks to my beta who works so fast on these ^^ I am having trouble keeping up. Now that the results of the vote will Ali live or die in this well if you paid any mind to the votes you all have guess what is going to happen in this ^^ I won't keep you any longer, please enjoy your reading.

(Harry's Thoughts)

~Riddick's thoughts~

"Talking"

Chapter 10

Time change

Walking into the room the others were resting in, Riddick walked over to the table and grabbed one of the cups of water that Imam had set out. He downed it at once, it was stale and a bit gritty but after so long without drinking anything it was heaven.

They all finally had water to drink, after so long on only booze. The booze from earlier had only made him thirstier, he knew it would but anything to wet his throat was good at that point, plus it had turned his little Vixen on. Placing the cup down Riddick reached for another, when Johns stopped him.

"Here." Johns said pushing one of the cups towards him, Riddick gave him a long look before grabbing it, Johns turned from him grabbed the one he had been reaching for and walked away from him.

Moving towards a doorway, he looked down to look into the cup and smirked. It was just like Johns to give him the left over cup, with dirt and sediment inside it, Riddick wasn't surprised by the cop giving him this.

~Bastard, thinks I don't know what he is doing, like this will make me sick and weak to him. I haven't lasted this cause of clear water.~ he thought, smirking, though he wasn't going to drink it, he wasn't stupid after all.

"All praises be to Allah, for his many blessings to us." Imam toasted his glass of water to the others, before taking a sip.

Jack entered the room with his new look and grabbed a glass and everyone gave him look. Johns even leaned forward from where he was sitting to get a better look.

"What?" Jack asked, seeing the look the others were giving him.

Paris who was standing next to the boy, nodded his head in his direction, and jokily said, "It's the winner of the lookalike contest."

Riddick had to hold in another chuckle at the kid trying to look like him, he didn't know if he should be insulted or complimented that a kid wanted to be like him, a convicted murder and a man that's more animal than human.

~Not that my Vixen minds.~ Riddick thought, his mind going to what nearly happened back at the ship. Next time, he wouldn't stop because of someone coming their way.

He had been so close to taking his Vixen then, it wasn't even funny that he got cocked blocked by kids. The moment they got some time alone he was going to finish what he started that was for fucking sure.

"Who were these people, anyway? Miners?" Paris asked them curiously.

"No, looks like geologists. You know, advance team; moves from rock to rock," Shazza explained to him. She had seen some of the same equipment on different planets. Though some of the stuff here was out-dated.

"Nice of them to leave so much stuff here for us but why'd they leave their ship?" Fry asked as she looked to Johns then back to Shazza. Something about this settlement unsettled her, it was like a ghost town.

As they were talking, Riddick was the only one to notice Imam leaving the room with a concerned frown on his face. ~Most likely to look for his son, speaking of looking for the missing, where has Harry gone off to?~

Riddick thought of his little Vixen as he tipped the shitty water away. He would get some more later, the first cup had helped quench his thirst for now and he had suffered dehydration before and knew his limits.

Crossing his arms and leaning against doorframe, his mind went back to his mate. The way Harry moved was like a graceful cat or cunning fox out hunting for game, stealthy, silent and deadly to any that thought he was a weak target.

What still shocked Riddick was that he could see Harry in colour, which he was happy about. Whenever he stared into those precious emeralds that had so much life in them, knowing his mate was a part vampire, excited him, he had heard of those beings of the night, how strong and deadly they had been before being wiped when a sun imploded

He wondered what Harry's other half was. Being clean suddenly after their fun had been a surprise and whatever his vixen had done had had left behind a strange energy over his skin. It had tingled for a while after he had left too.

~Will have to ask my vixen about that later.~ Riddick though Johns' voice forced his thoughts away from Harry.

"It's not a ship, it's a skiff and it's disposable really," Johns said, taking a gulp of water.

"It's more like an emergency life raft, right?" Paris asked the others.

"Yeah. They probably had a big drop ship take them off planet," Shazza said like it was obvious.

~Don't these people get it? Whoever came to live on this planet, never made it off,~ Riddick thought before voicing his thoughts. "These people didn't leave. Come on. Whoever got Zeke got them… They're all dead," Riddick said, hitting them with the truth they wanted to hide from. Putting his goggles back on before looking at them and continuing, he said, "You don't really think they left with their clothes on the hooks…. photos on the shelves."

"Maybe they had weight limits. You don't know," Shazza said, trying to deny that that was what happened here.

"I know you don't prep your emergency ship unless there's a fuckin' emergency." Riddick said

"He's fucking right." Jack cursed, trying to sound tough like Riddick.

"Watch your mouth." Johns said to him, hating that the kid wanted to be like the killer. He knew kids could do stupid things but cutting his hair and wearing goggles was taking the cake.

It didn't help he was still pissed about Riddick getting so closer to Harry. He could see the attraction that was between them the two and he knew Riddick would fuck anyone that showed an interest, but he didn't want Harry hurt by the Big Bad. After all, an animal like Riddick wouldn't care about his partner, unlike him who would show Harry just what pleasure was, Johns smirked to himself. Looking over at the Big Bad he knew he'd have to put a stop to the attraction between the two.

"Hey, he's just saying what we're all thinking." Fry said with a grim look on her face as she turned to Riddick.

"So what happened? Where are they?" she asked Riddick like he knew all the answers, but before he could answer Imam entered the room looking worried. Riddick was also feeling the emotion entering his heart as his mate still had yet to enter the room. He also noticed the youngest boy was still missing alongside him.

"Has anyone seen the little one? Ali? Harry?" Imam asked the others, worry laced in his voice. Before anyone could answer him, a roar rang out through the air that sent shivers down there spines.

Riddick's head shot up in that direction, the other followed his line of site and without a word, Riddick moved into action before anyone could blink.

He sprinted out of the room and the others followed him as fast as they could, for a big man Riddick could move fast, only Johns was able keeping up with him.

Riddick raced towards the coring room where the sound had come from. The rage and the need to protect his mate ran through his blood giving him the strength to kick the locked door in, strength he unknowingly had, snapping the chain that had been locked on the inside making the double doors fling open with a crash just as the others came up behind him.

What meet them was a dark empty room and a deadly silence. Johns had his gun out as he and Riddick walked slowly into the room. The others stayed by the door, Fry pushing Jack back as he tried to enter the room with them. Johns told Imam to go slowly, but Imam was too worried, he walked right past them calling for Ali and Harry.

Moving around the room with caution, Riddick moved slowly, he could hear movement behind the door Imam was moving towards, but Harry's scent wasn't coming from there, what was coming from that door was death, their death.

Riddick moved to stop Imam from opening the door, but was sadly too late and the hatchlings from inside burst free, pushing Imam to the ground. They began swarming around the room, John started to fire but they were moving too fast for him to hit. Going unnoticed by them in the ensuing panic, some of the hatchlings were burning in the light. It all ended in a second as the hatchlings swarmed into the hole in the middle of the room.

"HARRY!" Riddick roared out, trying to keep the worried out of his voice.

They all turned suddenly as a sound reached them from the other side of the room. John held his gun to the crate as it rocked. Just as suddenly as it had started, it stopped and they towards it slowly, keeping their eyes pinned to it, they jumped back as it tipped to the side to reveal a scared Ali and a pale shaken Harry.

"Ali!" Imam cried as he ran to his son. Taking him from Harry, he pulled a crying Ali in a warm hug while Riddick made a beeline towards Harry. Standing in front of him, Riddick looked him over looking for any wounds. Seeing only scratches and bruises on his arms and face that were slowly healing already, Riddick ran his hands down Harry's arms trying to calm himself and his mate down, reassuring them both that everything was all right.

What Riddick really wanted to do was pull Harry into his arms and as Riddick didn't give a shit what the other thought he did just that. Harry didn't care if they saw either, he was just happy his mate had answered his call.

Harry didn't know why he feared the monsters in the dark as he was a part dark creature himself. Maybe it was because they were killing machines, their hunger inside outmatched anything he had ever felt before, they would die trying to get food.

Neither of his creature sides were like that, not even his vampire half, though at that moment he wished he had better sight from that side of him. He needed to change his eyes to be able to see the dark, however the catch to it, if there was light in the room or area, it would temporarily blind him if it went into his eyes.

Laying his head against the rock hard chest, Harry breathed in his Hunter's scent, letting it relax his tense body. What neither Harry nor Riddick saw were the jealous looks they were getting from Johns and Fry.

They couldn't believe what they were seeing. Johns was pissed that Riddick was getting closer to Harry and Fry was in a rage that the freak was being held by Riddick like he was his lover, though she would deny it to her last breath that she wanted to be in his place.

Jack, seeing no one stopping him from moved over to Harry and Riddick, both broke apart as Jack got closer.

Suddenly feeling shy, Jack moved from one foot to the other not knowing what to do now that he was close to them but he didn't really have to do anything as Harry took it out of his hands by pulling him into his arms.

"I was worried something happened to you like back at the hole," Jack whispered into his chest, letting his worry show through, but everyone could see it.

Shazza, who was standing not far from them was smiling at the scene, Harry would make a great father one day.

"It's ok little one, I'm not going anywhere…sh… it's alright Jack," Harry whispered back holding the boy in his arms. Children had always been a weakness of Harry's, he cared so much for the young ones of their little group that he didn't want to see anything happen to them. Though there was still something about Jack that he couldn't put his finger on, that didn't stop him from feeling love towards the young boy, just like he felt towards Ali and even his older brothers.

Harry looked to his mate with a sweet smile and all Riddick wanted to do was take him right then and there.

Imam, with Ali still in his embrace, walked up to Harry as Jack pulled away to stand beside him.

"Thank you, my son, for saving Ali. He told me that you pulled him into that crate. If you had not done that…" Imam stopped there, he couldn't finish that sentence but they all knew what would have happened to Ali if Harry hadn't been there. The same thing that had happened to Zeke.

"What I want to know is how he knew that he was in here in the first place and what made that loud roar." Fry demanded as she stormed over to them, pissed as hell after seeing Harry in Riddick's arms like old lovers when it should have been her not him.

"Well, Fry, how do you think I knew he was in here? I followed him of course." Harry said slowly like he was talking to a child that didn't know any better.

"You may believe in letting small children run around without supervision when monsters roam beneath the sands, but I have a different philosophy." He sneered, enjoying the chance to bait her.

"Of course, it could just be that my mothering instincts are sharper than yours, but then again, I'm a man." Fry's face went red with anger, she was about to respond but as she opened that big trap of hers, Johns stepped in thinking he needed to be on Harry's good side if he ever wanted to get into his pants.

"Enough, we don't have time for this. We should be happy they're both safe and that's that. Alright Fry?" Johns said, looking from one to the other. He didn't need a cat fight breaking out, not when they needed to find out what the hell was going on. Though thinking about it, he wouldn't mind seeing those to have a go at each other, though he already knew which of them would win in fight.

And it wasn't their dear old captain.

Fry shot them both a glare. She hated that again she wasn't backed up by the group, they seem to love this bastard, but she knew he was nothing but a freak. After all, there was that roar and it sounded more like an animal than human, and she didn't think those small creatures could create something so loud.

She was going to prove that Harry was something unnatural even if it was the last thing she did.

Turning she walked over to the hole that the creature went down, leaving behind a smirking Harry.

Harry just shook his head and pushed the smirk off his face before anyone saw, he loved seeing that bitch get knocked off her high horse. He had nearly died again and she had to try and make his secret known before he was ready.

And he had thought things couldn't get any worse.

(That will teach me teach to tempt fate.) Harry thought to himself.

"Are you ok Harry?" Shazza asked, when she step up to him.

"Yeah, only a few cuts and buries from being in that crate." Harry said, turning to her.

"What about your shoulder and chest?" she said worriedly, she knew that he was massively injured from going into that hole and now rushing could reopen the healing wounds. What she didn't know was that they were already healing under those bandages.

"Their fine, not paining me at all thankfully." He said with a little lie, he couldn't tell her that they were only an hour or less from being fully healed.

"If they pain you too much I will have a look at them for you." She offered, she still blamed herself for him getting so hurt in looking for Zeke and now he saved Imam's youngest as well.

She had never met anyone like Harry before. He thought of others before himself, and that was rare to find in this day and age. And she was glad that she had met him even under these circumstances.

"I will be ok, Shazza, no worries, but if they start paining me I will come right to you." He said smiling at her.

She nodded and smiled at him, she had a funny feeling it would take a lot for Harry to go to someone if he was hurt, but she will take his word for now.

Shazza made her way towards Johns and Fry as they slowly got closer to the hole. Harry watched her go, smiling, it seems he had made a friend on this shithole of a planet.

"I will take Ali from here, I do believe he has had enough excitement for one day." Imam said, his arm still wrapped around his little boy, he could feel how shaken the poor lad was and he wanted to get him out of here so he could relax after his scare.

"That would be for the best, Imam, after some water and rest he will start to feel as fine as we can get in this situation." Harry said.

"Thank you again for what you have done Harry, I couldn't imagine what would of happened if you weren't here for him." Imam said, he really couldn't imagine himself laying one of his children to rest.

"No thanks needed Imam. I would do it all over again, if I had to." Harry said strongly and Imam believed him. Harry was one that would risk his life others and was a protector at heart.

"Not alone." Riddick said suddenly behind him.

"Mr Riddick is right, not alone." Imam said, "I will be keeping a closer eye on them now that we know some of the buildings are not safe."

"If we're here any longer, we should think about clearing them to make sure they're safe." Harry said. The idea was a good one, as they didn't know when the skiff would be up and running again and they need somewhere to rest after being up for so many hours. All they knew a few days could have passed and they wouldn't have known it.

"There's no we, there be me and the others." Riddick rumbled. There was no way he was letting his mate do something like that, not after what just happened.

"Let me know when and where, and I will assist. For now I must get the little ones away from here. Come Jack." Imam said, turning from them and herding his family outside.

"But…" Jack started to say but Imam was already moving him from the room, this was no place for children after all. It wasn't long before they were outside and away from the building.

Leaving only Johns, Fry, Shazza, Harry and Riddick inside, Harry and Riddick watched them go before Riddick turned to Harry and was about to say something when Shazza called out from behind them.

"You need to see this." She said.

Harry stuck close to Riddick as they walked towards where the hatchlings had fled, Shazza, Johns and Fry had climbed the stairs onto the walkway that surround the hole, he and Riddick stayed below the others.

Harry didn't want to walk on something that had been there for how many years and leaned over a hole that held killer creatures inside. Looking over, they all peered down into the darkness.

Harry had the feeling of looking into the abyss. The hole stunk of death and very old blood that was spilt here. Johns lit one of his flares and let it fall into the darkness, lighting the way to what was down there. To say what they saw shocked them was an understatement.

Skulls and bones lined the walls, like decorations in a home. As the flare reached the bottom, there, littering the entire floor were more human bones in all shapes and sizes. Bones of the people before them, those who made the mistake of living on this god-forsaken hell hole and sadly they paid the price with their lives.

"Other buildings weren't secure. So they ran here. Heaviest doors. Thought they'd be safe inside. But they forgot to lock the cellar," Riddick said as he too looked into the abyss.

Harry used one of the abilities he got from his elf side, it called it past-sight, it allowed him to look into the past of whatever he was looking at, but it wasn't images he saw, but feelings and sound. If he had been a full elf he would of seen the past as well as felt the emotions that were there at the time, but being a Halfling made the power diluted, he would catch a image now and again, but not always.

Using the past-sight was something he didn't like doing often, but when faced with something like this, he needed to know what happened to these people, with that in mind, he looked down into the hole.

All the past feeling rushed through him, pain, fear, death. The things these poor people felt as they were slaughtered, hearing their children's cries of pain, not being able to see the claws of those monsters tear into their loved ones.

Harry turned off his elf sight, no longer wanting to feel the pain of the past.

Harry sighed and walked away from the hole, shaking away the feeling as much as he could. He moved towards what looked like core samples, most likely taking from the hole.

Looking them over he picked up one of the cards and looked over the information that was on it when he heard someone coming down the stairs of the cage quite loudly, turning he saw Shazza walking towards Riddick with a determined look on her face.

He watched on as she moved to stand a bit from Riddick and looked at him for a moment. She looked to be pondering something before she seemed to have made her mind up about whatever was bothering her.

Riddick had noticed her looking at him as well and stared back at her, wondering what she wanted.

They both soon learned what she was up to when she took off her breather she held it out to him.

"Here." She said passing him the breather, he looked at him before turning back to her.

"What, it's broken?" Riddick asked her as he held it, before throwing it on the floor.

Shazza looked pissed that he did that, she said, "No there still a few hits actually you asshole. What I am trying to say is that I am sorry."

Riddick didn't know what to say to that, he knew this must have had to be about before when she kicked him in the head, thinking he killed her lover, but he didn't want her apology. The only reason he hadn't ghosted her was because his mate liked her.

From behind them Johns came down the stairs and stepped up behind her, looking from her to Riddick. He hadn't like what he had heard, he didn't need these people seeing Riddick as a good guy.

"Ok," Johns said. "Let's board this place up and get the hell out of here."

Johns moved away from them and towards Fry and Harry, she had come over as Shazza was talking to Riddick, and had picked up one of the cards like himself. Harry didn't like being so close to the bitch but for now he would put up with it.

Harry watched her out the corner of his eye, he may hate the bitch, but he knew she could come in handy later.

"Whatever the fuck those things were, they seem to stick to darkness, so if we stick to daylight we should be alright. Okay. Let's go." John said to them before turning away but he didn't get very far.

"Twenty-two years ago." Fry said out of nowhere making everyone turned her.

"What?" Johns looked at her confused at what she was getting at.

"These corning samples are dated; last one's twenty-two years ago this month." She explained, the feeling of dread was spreading through her stomach, she knew this meant something.

"Okay. Is there something special about that?" Johns asked sounded like he was getting a little inpatient

"I don't know. There could be." Fry said before she walked out the room with Johns and Shazza following her.

Harry turned and saw Riddick picking up Shazza breather unit, he placed it over his shoulder and took a hit.

"Do you go around pissing people off my Hunter?" Harry said walking over to him.

"You pissed at me?" Riddick asked. He knew how much Harry has started to care for Shazza, he saw it when she spoke to him earlier.

"No, I know I was mad at her for kicking you and you have no reason to trust her word after that." Harry replied, he knew it was hard for his mate to trust people.

Once he was standing in front of Riddick he placed his hands on Riddick's shoulders.

"But I can't help but know that if something happened to you and the person I thought responsible was standing in front of me I would have acted the same way as her, though worse as I would've ripped them apart." Harry said. He knew if something had happened to his mate there would have been a blood bath.

Standing, Riddick wraps his arms around Harry and placed his forehead on his. His breath ghost over those red lips as he spoke, "Nothing is ever going to happen to me Vixen, you have no worries there, but I will try and be nicer to the woman as I know she cares about you."

"Thank you." Harry whispered back, he felt like some burden had been lift from his shoulders. He hadn't realised that he had been worrying about this so much, he had come to care about Shazza, and having her and Riddick at odds was hurting him inside, one side wanting to comfort his friend and the other wanting to protect his mate.

Riddick rubbed his head against Harry for a minute before saying, "You have to stop scaring me like this Harry. I can't keep you safe if you go running off like this."

"Trouble seems to find me anywhere I go, Riddick, and I couldn't let Ali die when I knew I could stop it." Harry said, "Plus I don't see myself doing something like that again anytime soon, I've had enough excitement for one day."

"Life won't be boring with you, will it?" Riddick smirked, he had to have a mate that was a trouble magnet.

"Would you want it to be?" Harry asked smiling. He knew life was going to be different now and he had to think about now throwing himself into danger now, but life wouldn't be dull with Riddick around.

Riddick chuckled deeply, before he remembered something. He had noticed when they were at the hole that Harry was doing something, the scent of pain and fear was coming from him but it hadn't feel like his mate's.

"What were you doing back at that hole?" Riddick asked.

"Huh?" Harry was confused about what he was going on about.

"I could smell you, Vixen, it was like you were in pain, but not at the same time." Riddick explained.

"Oh, I was using my elf past-sight, to see what happened here." Harry told him, "What you were picking up was what I was sensing."

"Elf?" Riddick asked in surprise, that wasn't what he expected Harry to say.

"Oh yeah I didn't get around to telling about what my other half was, did I." harry said sheepishly. "Well, as I said before I am part vampire but my other half is elf. I was also a wizard before I became a hybrid and I still have my magic. I'm an unusual mix that's for sure."

Riddick looked at him in shock, taking off his goggles he stared into those green eyes and saw the truth of his mate's words.

Harry was about to explain about his past so Riddick got the whole story, when a shout from outside interrupted him.

"Harry!" Jack called from outside.

"We better go see what Fry has discovered." Harry sighed. Every time he and Riddick were alone they got interrupted by one of the other survivors.

"You will explain about this later, Vixen." Riddick said. He was curious about what his mate had told him, he wasn't only a vampire but an elf as well, and that bit about being a wizard explained some of the things he had witnessed and experienced before.

Getting up, they both made their way outside and saw Jack waving from outside one of the other buildings. Making their way over, they stepped in after the boy and saw everyone already inside the room.

Finding a spot to stand, Harry stayed near his mate. He was still a little shaken up from before and didn't want to be away from him anytime soon.

He didn't know what had sent Fry into a panic but he had a bad feeling that things were going to get bad again. Looking up at Riddick, who nodded to him, he knew he wouldn't be doing it alone this time.

Taking a look around the room they were in, Harry saw that the place was filled with sand and dust from years of non-use, but the state of the room left his mind when something caught his eye.

In the middle of the room there was a model of planets. It was the solar system they were in, it had the three suns, but also two larger planets and in the middle was a smaller one.

(This must be the one we have landed on.) Harry thought as he watched Fry moved towards the model.

Harry hoped Fate would be kind and didn't have something worst planned for them being nearly killed twice now was not what he called having a good day.

(As soon, the bitch has shown them what she wanted I am going to find some where to shower this blood off and sleep.) Harry thought to himself. He didn't know how long they had all be awake since landing on this planet but he knew a full day must have passed by now.

Hearing a clicking sound broke Harry from his thoughts and he turned his attention back to Fry and watched her as she moved the model. On the front of it appeared to be some kind of counter and the numbers were slowly going up, the further up they went the more worried Harry became. It was like watching the countdown to your own demise.

(Morbid much.) Harry though before he saw the numbers stop at twenty-two.

And that is when fear hit him hard, along with everyone else in the room, the small planet in the middle was covered in darkness, the two big planets had aligned and blocked out the suns light, placing the small planet that they were on in pitch blackness.

"An eclipse," Harry whispered but they all heard him as they stared in shock at the model. "Hell's gate will open and the world will be bathed in eternal darkness…"

"You're not afraid of the dark, are you?" Riddick said smirking at them.

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(Me) Ali lives! XD we are getting closer to the darkness coming and the yummy bit as well hehe again I hope you enjoyed the changes and let me know what you think of the whole story so far ^^

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