Hell's Prison

Chapter 12: Hell's Prison

End Flashback: Present

Riddick jolted awake, his entire body throbbed, and his head pounded. He had no clue where he was or for how long he'd been out, but he knew he was alone.

He slowly opened his eyes and saw his goggles and shiv lying beside him, but then he noticed the landscape as well.

"What the FUCK?!"

All around him was lava and fire: molten rock flowed lazily along the barren ground, precipices with lava falls encased a large cavern, and volcanoes and geysers released magma incessantly. There was no sun; there was no moon,

'Shit, I can't even see stars in the sky.'

The only glow of light emanated from the emissions of fire and the blaze from the lava; everything else was encased in feral darkness, Riddick's home.

He made his way slowly along, memorizing everything he crossed, and finally came upon a worn path. He followed it until it ended at the mouth of a cave; there, to his right, Riddick noticed a large boulder with writing on it.

# Petrin's Exile: Yreni Prison: Penal Colony 6: All who stand before here will be judged, and those that enter shall perish. Welcome to hell. #

'What the fuck, I guess I should enter and see what type of Bad Asses are lurking in the dark. To bad they're about to meet there fucking match.'

Riddick pulled his goggles over his head and grabbed his shiv tightly. He silently stalked down the snaking corridor until he came upon an immense cavern, entirely lit by torches, full of a hundred or so, big, ugly men.

'Shit.'

All the noise coming from the hall stopped, as one by one, the convicts noticed the man trespassing on their territory. The men nearest to Riddick stood up, brandishing crude weapons, and menacingly walked towards him.

Riddick, readying himself for attack, meticulously worked a plan in his head to get himself out of this one. To his surprise the men stopped ten feet in front of him, and the middle one spoke.

"Name," he grunted.

Riddick darted his eyes across all of the men and stopped on the one that had spoken to him. He stood normal and with a coy smirk on his face introduced himself.

"Richard B. Riddick," he said smugly.

The man only grunted in response and turned to his companions. After much whispering he looked back at Riddick and spoke again.

"Welcome to your worst nightmare," he said with a grin, a twinkle in his eye, and ushered Riddick inside.

To be Con't...