Chapter 5:
Darkness
Riddick
slowly came out of his daze and, once again, only to have all the memories
resurface. It's become a wound within himself that never heals, a constant pain
in his being he wishes to forget, but is forced to relive ever endless night to
dawning day.
After he had left the forest he had gone into seclusion, doing only what he
needed to facilitate his survival. He killed, destroyed, beat, badgered, and
royally fucked up everything and everyone that crossed him. Riddick sought
revenge on all those who suppressed him in the past and met up with those who
owed him, but only reaped empty rewards.
Riddick got a ship and planet hopped, becoming a merc of types, and that's
where he is today. Still moving from place to place, with nothing and no one to
keep him or make him leave, he wanders as a nomad, alone.
His rage having subsided some in the last five years, he settled into the
groove of being the good old 'I don't give a fuck' Riddick, with the tormented
soul to tag along with it.
Something wasn't right, however, he could feel it. The very animal in him
screamed it; something was going to happen and soon. But what?
'Who the fuck cares anyhow. Someone tries to come fuck with me and I fuck with
them. End of story. That's how it's always been and that's how it always will
be. You weren't meant to have anyone in your life; never forget that.
Especially the next time you decide to get the ingenious idea of developing a
soul and actually giving a fuck about someone else.'
"Rule number 1: Worry about your own ass. Rule number 2: Never forget rule
number 1," he mumbled to himself out loud.
'That's right dipshit, shoulda remembered that one a long fucking time ago. No
one cares about you. No one will shed a tear when you die. Remember you're a
payday to everyone, nothing more than a big fat dollar sign everyone's waiting
to cash in on.'
The water had gone from scalding hot to subzero and Riddick got out and grabbed
a towel, he wrapped it around his waste. Just when he was about to turn around
a walk to his room, something pricked him in the neck.
"What the fuck?"
He reached back and ripped the hypo out, it was the one in his dream.
He turned and looked through the doorway and there, standing before his eyes,
were five very big and very loaded I.A's (intelligence assassins) from the very
same people who made him.
'This is fucking great'
"Richard B. Riddick you are to come peacefully with us. If you choose to do
other wise we will be forced to use any means necessary to apprehend and take
you back to base. Do you understand?" said, who appeared to be, the commanding
officer of the group.
"Oh I fucking understand all right. But I sure as hell am not going peacefully
and I'm quite positive I'm not going anywhere without killing a coupla of you
dick sucking lackeys in the process," he said with a sarcastic and menacing
smile on his face.
"Sir, why isn't the sedative working?" asked one of the men.
Before the question could be answered Riddick grabbed his shiv and lunged at
the asshole closest to him, the one who asked the question, and embedded the
shiv in the man's eye straight through his brain.
'One down four to go'
The other four panned out and circled the room causing Riddick to stand in the
center.
'Shit'
The first man pulled out a tazer gun and set it on its highest setting. He
aimed it at Riddick's back and fired. Riddick heard the noise of it going off
and ducked in time to see it hit the man he was facing and fry him till his
eyes popped out.
'Stupid fuckers'
While this was happening the other two men lunged at the crouching Riddick, but
one, unfortunately got to know what his own blood tasted like before he died.
This left Riddick open for a fraction of a second, giving enough time for the
other man lunging at Riddick to dodge out of his way as his shiv missed his
throat by millimeters.
Riddick lunged at the attacker and was about to shove the shiv into the
fucker's throat when he felt another prick in his back, and everything went
numb.
He fell instantly to the floor and as the room began to go black he noticed
they hadn't broken in.
'The bitch left the door open'