(Revised 06.01.2022)


Fry had found a room with the model of the system they were in.

"An eclipse." Fry said, after the model moved to show that the light from the suns would be blocked out.

Imam looked troubled.

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

Fry just stared at Riddick. She got up and Johns followed her.

"So, if we don't get off this planet by the time the eclipse hits, we're all dead?" Nova said.

Nova sat down looking utterly defeated.

"What? Are you afraid of the dark, too?" Riddick teased.

"Well unlike some people." Nova said, glaring at Riddick. "I can't see in the dark, but I can hear pretty well around me. But, if there's interference I can't tell what should or shouldn't be there." She said, never taking her eyes off him.

"Well," Riddick said, leaning forward in Nova's direction. "I guess your only chance is to be faster than the people around you." He said, smirking.

Nova got up to leave and Riddick grabbed her arm.

"Hey, it was just a joke." Riddick said.

"Well it wasn't very funny!" Nova spat, giving Riddick a death glare.

Riddick moved his arms so they were around Nova's waist and he lifted her up before setting her on the counter. She let out a heavy sigh and he let out an even heavier sigh, playfully mocking her.

"Do you just enjoy giving me a hard time?" Nova said, continuing to glare daggers at him.

"I have to admit, I do." Riddick said, smirking.

Riddick started trailing his hand up Nova's shirt, she grabbed onto his arm but didn't stop him. He lightly traced the pads of his fingers up and down her ribs, and buried his face in her neck.

"If there was ever a time to do this. I think it's now." Riddick said, pulling Nova closer to the edge so she could feel the bulge in his pants against her own privates.


Fry's Point of View

"So, who are you really? You're not a cop, are you?" Fry said.

"I never said I was, Carolyn." Johns said.

"No, you didn't." Fry said, walking over to where Johns was. "And you never said you were high up either." She finished, throwing down the shotgun shells she picked up.

The shells were filled with morphine shots.

"You have a little caffeine in the morning, and I have a little morphine. So, what?" Johns said.

"You got two mornings every day. Wow, you're born lucky." Fry said, unamused.

"It's not a problem unless you're going to blame me." Johns said.

"No! It becomes a problem, when you let, Owens, die like that!" Fry said. "You have enough drugs here to knock out a fucking mule team." She said, sternly.

"Owens, was already dead, his brain just hadn't caught on to the fact." Johns said.

Fry opened her mouth, but no noise came out. She was too shocked to say anything now.

"Is there anything else, I should know about you, Johns?" Fry asked.

Johns stayed silent, except for when he went to spit.

"You know I-I am letting you roll the dice on our lives. It is not unreasonable - " Fry started, before Johns grabbed her hand and placed it on his lower back.

"You feel that? That's from my first run in with Riddick. He went for the sweet spot and missed. He had to leave a piece of the shiv in there, Carolyn, and I can feel it pressing against the cord. So maybe the care and feeding of my nerve endings is my business." Johns said.

"… It's just that you could have done something, and you didn't." Fry said.

"Yeah, well look to thine own eyes first. Right, Carolyn?" Johns said.

One of Imam's acolytes had started yelling something once he got to where Fry was. The only word he said that was in English was, "Captain".

"I'm not your fucking captain." Fry said, heading out the door.


Normal Point of View

Nova was by the door when Fry came out. She had mustered all of her strength to pull away from Riddick in those previous moments. There were too many things to get done for them to give in to each other like that, now.

"Hey." Nova said, not really looking at Fry.

Nova had passed by in time to hear Johns' and her conversation.

"Hey." Fry said, not looking at Nova either, and continued to walk away.

Nova looked up to see Fry's facial expression change; it made her look in the same direction. The eclipse was already starting. Everyone just stood and stared at the planets and suns moving.

"What are my eyes seeing?" Paris said, as the nearest planet with rings on it started to rise from the horizon.

"If we need anything from the crash ship, I suggest we kick on. That sand cat's solar." Shazza said.

Shazza started it up and everyone started hopping in.

"Where's Riddick?" Jack asked, concerned.

"He'll be here soon, probably." Nova said, awkwardly.

"Leave him! He wouldn't wait for us." Paris said.

As soon as Paris finished his sentence Riddick jumped in from above and landed behind him.

"Thought we lost you." Paris said, without looking behind him.

Nova smiled at how quickly Paris changed his tune, trying not to laugh out loud.

"Johns!" Shazza called.

Riddick helped Johns up as they were passing by in the sand cat. They looked at each other for a moment before Riddick pulled Johns onto it completely. Nova was sitting in the back with Jack and Riddick on either side of her, facing forward. Jack was looking at Riddick and pulled his make shift goggles down. Riddick had pointed in front of him without looking.

"Whoa!" Jack exclaimed, ducking.

They had started driving under the rib cage of a giant skeleton. The planet seemed to be rising faster as they neared the crash site. As soon as they were close enough they all jumped out. While most of them went into the ship, Paris had started going in a different direction.

"Hey! Where are you going!?" Nova and Shazza called in unison.

"I'm just going to get a couple things. It'll only be a few minutes. You wouldn't leave without me, would you?" Paris called back, continuing on.

The eclipse was now almost complete, Nova couldn't help but stare at it happening. Shazza backed the sand cat up closer to the ship so the others could get the power cells on faster. Jack started cleaning the bubble of the sand cat off so it could get as much sun as possible. The others had gotten the power cells onto it. Unfortunately for them, the suns started to be blocked out enough for it to stop running. Once it started to get dark the bioraptors become active. Suddenly, several of them started flying out of natural pillar-like structures in the ground.

"How many are there?" Johns asked.

"Beautiful." Riddick said, in a hushed voice.

"People, just a suggestion. Perhaps you should flee!" Paris called to the group.

"Let's go!" Fry urged, pulling the others from their half stupors.

"Come on, run!" Imam exclaimed.

"Shit!" Shazza yelled, frustrated, before jumping off the sand cat to run.

"Come on!" Nova exclaimed, pulling on Riddick's arm.

They all started running to where Paris was for cover.

"Come on!" Paris called.

Every few seconds the people in front would look back to see how fast the bioraptors were approaching. Nova, Shazza, and Riddick were still running.

"You don't have to keep pace with me! If you can run faster than me, do it!" Nova demanded Riddick.

"Not happening!" He responded.

"Get down!" Fry yelled, as the bioraptors got closer to the remaining three.

They all jumped and rolled down to a lower level of land.

"You okay?" Riddick asked.

"Fine. You?" Nova said.

"You know me." Riddick said, a smirk in his voice.

Nova heard Shazza's uneasy breathing, making her look up at her form. The bioraptors had passed by overhead by now.

"Shazza? I know it's tempting, but don't." Nova attempted to plead with Shazza.

Shazza scrambled to her feet.

"Damn it." Nova said.

"No, stay there! Stay down, Shazza, just stay down!" Jack pleaded.

Paris stopped Jack from leaving the safety of the hull they were in. Nova and Riddick watched Shazza run until the bioraptors came back. Riddick turned to lie flat on his back, while Nova was flat on her stomach. Nova looked up in time to see the bioraptors start to attack Shazza, and Jack trying to break away from Paris to help. Jack kept yelling to Shazza. The bioraptors kept attacking Shazza until they tore her in half and lifted her into the sky. What made it worse was the fact that she had still been screaming while she was in the air, torn in half, still alive. Riddick got up first to check if the coast was clear, when he was sure he gave Nova his hand to help her up, and they started towards the hull again.

"Please, I think we should go inside. We have to be inside to close the door. Come on, let's go!" Paris urged, running inside the safety of the hull. "Go, go, go!" He called to the others.

Nova, Fry, and Riddick were the only ones left outside. Fry turned back to where the noise of the bioraptors was coming from, or where she thought it was. The pillars started to crumble and hundreds of thousands more started to come out. Riddick used his eyes to see for himself.

"What is it Riddick? What is it now?" Fry asked.

"Like I said. It ain't me you gotta worry about." Riddick said.

Everyone was inside now, doors shut. Nobody getting out, nothing getting in, for now. They had a few flashlights so seeing wasn't too much of a problem.

"She should have stayed down. If she only would have stayed down, she'd be okay. She wouldn't have died." Jack said.

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

"Well, what are we going to do now?" Jack asked.

"Are these the only light we have? I-I-Is this everything?" Paris asked, thoroughly shaken.

"No, there's a cutting torch on the floor here somewhere. I just have to find it." Fry said, looking around.

"Quiet please, everyone." Imam said abruptly.

Everyone got quiet and they could hear the bioraptors making noise on the outside.

"Why do they do that? Make that sound?" Jack quietly asked.

"Perhaps, it's the way they see." Imam said. "With sound reflecting back." He finished.

There was a sudden sharp noise that made the others jump.