Chapter
14: Myths
Riddick
wasn't sure what possessed him to go on this mad run for some fucked up
monster, but he knew he had to get away from these people, and think of away to
get off of this rock.
He solemnly walked out the door after Kane explained where to find the
creatures, leaving the madness behind him,
'I just need to be alone.'
He walked until he came upon the lava pit that Kane had described and slowly
climbed his way down, weary of the lava falls, and landed in the center.
Intricate tunnels bore into the walls twisting and turning within each other,
and he could hear the faintest of echoes escaping their mouths. Carefully
approaching one of the entrances he noticed strange insignias along the sides
of each cavity,
'They almost look familiar.'
Regardless of this strange occurrence, he moved forward, and continued down the
small, narrow passage. As he got nearer and nearer to the core the space seemed
to become smaller and smaller for his massive body, to a point where he had no
choice but to crawl on his hands and knees. When he finally reached the end it
opened up to a wider area only to lead to another tunnel; the sounds he heard
became clearer but seemed farther away some how.
Slowly he made his way through the next channel and came across something
covered in the sand and rock,
'What the…'
And when he reached to pick it up, he pulled out a human skull with a large
hole in the side.
'Looks like I'm getting close.'
His interest began to amplify itself as his senses kicked into overdrive, but
he got a strange feeling, and his instincts were taking over; his mind, the
beast, was telling him to get his ass out of there and to stop chasing fairy
tales, but he couldn't stop, and that's when he heard it.
He had come to a mediocre opening where he could stand and the hairs on his
neck stiffened when he fully entered the area; all around him were bones of
past hunters left to rot where they had died, killed by the beasts.
The growl came out of nowhere but when Riddick turned around to face his
attacker, what stood before him was no creation of nature but one of science;
bigger than a lion, more powerful, and pissed off as hell, mouth foaming and a
odd glimmer in its eyes.
What struck Riddick as strange was that he couldn't sense the diavolo as he
could other things, it was as if the creature was just reacting, and that's
when it all made sense. He wasn't sure what made him believe it or think it
would work, call it instinct.
The creature lunged at him, but instead of Riddick fighting back, he slid
forward so he was on his back under the diavolo's belly. He placed his shiv in
an upward ark from the creature's ass to the belly, and instead of guts and
blood splaying Riddick's features, wires and cables fell on top of him.
'Fucking figures these assholes would make A.I (Artificial Intelligence) to
scare the living shit out of the convicts, making them believe there was some
hideous monster lurking around. The only fucking monster her is ME and the
fucking company has thoroughly pissed me the fuck off…but now if these shits
are fake, what are they hiding?'
He didn't have time to think long, if he wanted answers he would have to hack
into the mainframe before the piece of crap's termination sequence kicked in,
and with the looks of things, it was starting.
He moved quickly and even though he didn't figure out everything he wanted to
know he found out enough for now and gathered up whatever scrap he thought
would be important or salvageable and headed back to Colony 6.