chapter 6
Worms and other disgusting creatures.
A burning sun scorched right through them, waiting, the equipment right
in place.
Just waiting. Lee and Gambler discussing something of trivial matters,
as usually. Wolf making sure that he wouldn't even dare to look at Jack,
as she kept her forced cool and kept the track on the Crawlers.
Riddick still watched her, carefully, surely.
he'd sent Thief, Bleeder and Rashanti down.
No objections there, the stiffness radiating from Jack was driving him crazy,
insane from the core. Not to mention that the small news called a recently
found daughter struck him like the devil's hand.
To think that Wolf had sent the fuck load of insane former serial killers
and young becoming ones, to gether on a mission, just after three of them
were probably less than emotionally stable.
Even Riddick had to try to keep himself balanced.
-Kids, hows it going?
His deep voice resounded through the radio system, on the deserted surface
of some old down sunken settlements.
A lively voice started off, like a bang of light into blackness. Paulie´s
rather self confidential voice made the brutal response.
-Wowa, man, these fucking A/Cs are...like....geese...tight. And I'm like,
in the fucking mine already. Shit man...wow...but it´s like, no shit down
here.
So the little big mouth hadn't found a thing, except that the A/c in the
apartment complex was linked with the mines, which was completely illegal.
But who cared about legality in this galaxy?
-Rashanti? Damien?
Some electric sparks were heard from the other side which the twins occupied.
Some talk, some voices and some replies crashing randomly and regularly back
at Riddick.
-You guys can make a worth it mission, this place really looks like a
potential breeding station.
*Breeding station?*
The words clung to his head, resounding intensely as Riddick's eyes wandered
over to Wolf. All that he needed to say was mirrored in the shined eyes.
Wolf's casual response, as she messed with some biotech equipment, was
simply to hum something casual like "yeah". The woman didn't even look at
him, ignored him.
Some truth was here, rather unspoken.
-Shouldn't you be over-viewing the Crawler's status?
That unusually deep female voice sounded cold, but yet warm, with some
intense emotionality that Riddick wasn't fully aware of yet, perhaps some
door of humanity he hadnt yet managed to open. Or maybe an emotion that did
not belong in the human race at all.
-Should I be over-viewing something I don't know about?
A short chuckle carried from the white lips, the already sunburned skin,
scorched by the suns.
In a cold way their eyes met, some hatred and some irrationality in the
woman's usually orderly eyes.
More suspects, more thoughts growing within Riddick's head.
Jack had grabbed the radio, in a monotone making several attempts to call
up both Bleeder and Thief.
No success at all, but their bio-signs were loud and clear, in the area
that was assumed to be the cargo sector was most defiantly containing two
red blinking spots, clearly signaled off as to be Bleeder and Thief, and
they were moving.
But no responses
-I'm gonna put open coms on.
And with a single flinch of her hand Jack had broken the privacy her
daughter and her best friend had kept.
Without the kids knowledge, they'd hear every single word that'd ever pass
them by.
******
-C´mon dude, let me see your thing!
The incessant voice Riddick had come to know as that of his daughter,
a voice he'd barely heard over the last few days. Jack's face looked
completely and utterly stunned at the words of a thirteen year old.
-No, mine ain´t as big.....
Riddick leaned forwards, listening at the conversation with interest and
actually some apprehension, that odd feeling in his stomach, wanting to
twist that boy's neck until the kid´d turn black and blue, even if it was
clear that it was most defiantly Bleeder who was trying...anything.
-It´s longer than mine!
A heavy sign smiled across the coms.
-Ofcourse it is, they're completely different!
-I've got two, they're small and "perky", but yours is big, I mean,
mine won't scare anyone, but I mean, you could do some serious damage
with that tool.
It sounded as if Bleeder were enchanted, under an intoxicating spell.
Riddick stole a look from Jack's frozen face.
Some incredible terror sleeping in her face, something speaking of more
than just the discovery of her daughters more....physical growth.
-OK, OK, i´ll let you see.
Some odd sounds, something slipping down, being slided off. As a father...
*A father? I didn't raise her, I don't know her*
..........he was seeing red.
-WOW
The girl sounded truly amazed.
Even Gambler and Lee had fallen silent now, listening carefully after
every single move the young...adults? would make.
-It´s sooooo big...can I touch...please, can I touch?
-OK, just, be careful, it´s a personal tool.
-Oh. My. GOODDDD!!!!!
Screams started coloring the air, red alert smiled then the bleeding screech,
inhuman and vicious kicked everyone.
Riddick called the kids out of the collapsed mine, Jack was already loaded,
so where Gambler and Lee.
This was obviously a familiar situation.
Wolf...but Wolf. Just stood there, holding something unfamiliar in her hand,
all emotion dead in her beautiful face. Waiting under the killer sun for
something life changing to take place.
Something did happen, something terrible enough to make Riddick's heart
beat faster than it ever had before.
Prologis was there, Thief carrying her as he could, she hung onto his
shoulder, trying to walk but almost failing miserably, collapsing as soon
as a mother, her mother, came close.
Close enough to see something bulge under the bloody skin, just beneath the
first layer of skin. A worm, of some sort, digging its way into the
adolescent body, causing the girl's face to deform in pure torture.
A memory of Shazza, being eaten alive, flared before Riddick's eyes.
Mercilessly taunting his eyes.
-FUCK! It´s a pari, it´s a fucking pari.
Jack's voice shook with fear, only a few hours ago she'd been the stern
survivor, now, just now, she was just another petrified mother.
All guns fell, angry sighs burned from all, except perhaps himself and Jack.
-Move away Jack..she knows what to do.
-Wolf, I'm her mother, I don't wanna....
With the ultimate cruelty Wolf hissed at her friend.
-Just fucking do it Jack, she knows what to do!
IN resentment Jack backed away, Riddick grabbing her arm spontaneously,
he hadn't meant to, but this irrational fear consuming him all of a
sudden fueled him to do it.
-Just what in hell's going on.
Ripping her arm away from him Jack gave him more than a mental slap and a
look.
She gave him words, almost an answer.
-There's a parasite in her leg, isn't it obvious? Or has the cryo made you
stupid?
He did saw her face, he did know that her attempts to hurt him were just an
attempt trying to get rid of some of her own.
All the rest now stood there, watching the squealing Bleeder, inhuman,
viciously inhuman, the sounds crawling out of her mouth.
Something got pulled together.
-What yah gonna do kid?
Riddick's words almost surprised himself, the tone his usual, his demeanor
usual...perhaps that crawled under his mentality, that he didn't act out of
the ordinary around a *thing* that was suppose o be his own flesh and blood.
*something*
Prologis' eyes opened slowly, her breath slowed and she sat up.
The worm still wiggling under her flesh, crawling up her shin.
leaving a painful trail of blood.
One of her knives in her hand, certainly in her eyes. Slowly it stuck into
her skin, slowly the blood welled up as the edge went deeper and deeper.
Her pupils narrowing and spreading in pain, yet she held perfectly still.
With a quick pull a trail of blood kissed the settling sunlight and one of
the ugliest creatures Riddick's shined eyes had ever seen came before him in
sight.
Lying there, in the blood, a painful mix of some creature that once had been
a parasitic worm, now mixed with a iron and the human made.
Prologis crawled away, using her hands and one left leg, tearing at the
ground until Gambler and Lee picked her up, not letting Riddick near her,
only by the look of their eyes.
-We're going back, now.
Wolf's eyes begun to shine silver as the sun settled, stood still when she
commanded Riddick to move his ass.
He only caught a glimpse of what his boss did.
In the darkness from atleast twenty meter range she took a small knife,
a small petite knife, one of many she carried in her belt.
An unnatural squeal, somewhat similar to the one that had pored from his
daughters lips.
That odd bald head had split the worm in two, "killed" it if so to speak.
What ever the truth that lay upon the bottom of this riddle Riddick would
have to find out.
Some ugly motherfucking shit.
Worms and other disgusting creatures.
A burning sun scorched right through them, waiting, the equipment right
in place.
Just waiting. Lee and Gambler discussing something of trivial matters,
as usually. Wolf making sure that he wouldn't even dare to look at Jack,
as she kept her forced cool and kept the track on the Crawlers.
Riddick still watched her, carefully, surely.
he'd sent Thief, Bleeder and Rashanti down.
No objections there, the stiffness radiating from Jack was driving him crazy,
insane from the core. Not to mention that the small news called a recently
found daughter struck him like the devil's hand.
To think that Wolf had sent the fuck load of insane former serial killers
and young becoming ones, to gether on a mission, just after three of them
were probably less than emotionally stable.
Even Riddick had to try to keep himself balanced.
-Kids, hows it going?
His deep voice resounded through the radio system, on the deserted surface
of some old down sunken settlements.
A lively voice started off, like a bang of light into blackness. Paulie´s
rather self confidential voice made the brutal response.
-Wowa, man, these fucking A/Cs are...like....geese...tight. And I'm like,
in the fucking mine already. Shit man...wow...but it´s like, no shit down
here.
So the little big mouth hadn't found a thing, except that the A/c in the
apartment complex was linked with the mines, which was completely illegal.
But who cared about legality in this galaxy?
-Rashanti? Damien?
Some electric sparks were heard from the other side which the twins occupied.
Some talk, some voices and some replies crashing randomly and regularly back
at Riddick.
-You guys can make a worth it mission, this place really looks like a
potential breeding station.
*Breeding station?*
The words clung to his head, resounding intensely as Riddick's eyes wandered
over to Wolf. All that he needed to say was mirrored in the shined eyes.
Wolf's casual response, as she messed with some biotech equipment, was
simply to hum something casual like "yeah". The woman didn't even look at
him, ignored him.
Some truth was here, rather unspoken.
-Shouldn't you be over-viewing the Crawler's status?
That unusually deep female voice sounded cold, but yet warm, with some
intense emotionality that Riddick wasn't fully aware of yet, perhaps some
door of humanity he hadnt yet managed to open. Or maybe an emotion that did
not belong in the human race at all.
-Should I be over-viewing something I don't know about?
A short chuckle carried from the white lips, the already sunburned skin,
scorched by the suns.
In a cold way their eyes met, some hatred and some irrationality in the
woman's usually orderly eyes.
More suspects, more thoughts growing within Riddick's head.
Jack had grabbed the radio, in a monotone making several attempts to call
up both Bleeder and Thief.
No success at all, but their bio-signs were loud and clear, in the area
that was assumed to be the cargo sector was most defiantly containing two
red blinking spots, clearly signaled off as to be Bleeder and Thief, and
they were moving.
But no responses
-I'm gonna put open coms on.
And with a single flinch of her hand Jack had broken the privacy her
daughter and her best friend had kept.
Without the kids knowledge, they'd hear every single word that'd ever pass
them by.
******
-C´mon dude, let me see your thing!
The incessant voice Riddick had come to know as that of his daughter,
a voice he'd barely heard over the last few days. Jack's face looked
completely and utterly stunned at the words of a thirteen year old.
-No, mine ain´t as big.....
Riddick leaned forwards, listening at the conversation with interest and
actually some apprehension, that odd feeling in his stomach, wanting to
twist that boy's neck until the kid´d turn black and blue, even if it was
clear that it was most defiantly Bleeder who was trying...anything.
-It´s longer than mine!
A heavy sign smiled across the coms.
-Ofcourse it is, they're completely different!
-I've got two, they're small and "perky", but yours is big, I mean,
mine won't scare anyone, but I mean, you could do some serious damage
with that tool.
It sounded as if Bleeder were enchanted, under an intoxicating spell.
Riddick stole a look from Jack's frozen face.
Some incredible terror sleeping in her face, something speaking of more
than just the discovery of her daughters more....physical growth.
-OK, OK, i´ll let you see.
Some odd sounds, something slipping down, being slided off. As a father...
*A father? I didn't raise her, I don't know her*
..........he was seeing red.
-WOW
The girl sounded truly amazed.
Even Gambler and Lee had fallen silent now, listening carefully after
every single move the young...adults? would make.
-It´s sooooo big...can I touch...please, can I touch?
-OK, just, be careful, it´s a personal tool.
-Oh. My. GOODDDD!!!!!
Screams started coloring the air, red alert smiled then the bleeding screech,
inhuman and vicious kicked everyone.
Riddick called the kids out of the collapsed mine, Jack was already loaded,
so where Gambler and Lee.
This was obviously a familiar situation.
Wolf...but Wolf. Just stood there, holding something unfamiliar in her hand,
all emotion dead in her beautiful face. Waiting under the killer sun for
something life changing to take place.
Something did happen, something terrible enough to make Riddick's heart
beat faster than it ever had before.
Prologis was there, Thief carrying her as he could, she hung onto his
shoulder, trying to walk but almost failing miserably, collapsing as soon
as a mother, her mother, came close.
Close enough to see something bulge under the bloody skin, just beneath the
first layer of skin. A worm, of some sort, digging its way into the
adolescent body, causing the girl's face to deform in pure torture.
A memory of Shazza, being eaten alive, flared before Riddick's eyes.
Mercilessly taunting his eyes.
-FUCK! It´s a pari, it´s a fucking pari.
Jack's voice shook with fear, only a few hours ago she'd been the stern
survivor, now, just now, she was just another petrified mother.
All guns fell, angry sighs burned from all, except perhaps himself and Jack.
-Move away Jack..she knows what to do.
-Wolf, I'm her mother, I don't wanna....
With the ultimate cruelty Wolf hissed at her friend.
-Just fucking do it Jack, she knows what to do!
IN resentment Jack backed away, Riddick grabbing her arm spontaneously,
he hadn't meant to, but this irrational fear consuming him all of a
sudden fueled him to do it.
-Just what in hell's going on.
Ripping her arm away from him Jack gave him more than a mental slap and a
look.
She gave him words, almost an answer.
-There's a parasite in her leg, isn't it obvious? Or has the cryo made you
stupid?
He did saw her face, he did know that her attempts to hurt him were just an
attempt trying to get rid of some of her own.
All the rest now stood there, watching the squealing Bleeder, inhuman,
viciously inhuman, the sounds crawling out of her mouth.
Something got pulled together.
-What yah gonna do kid?
Riddick's words almost surprised himself, the tone his usual, his demeanor
usual...perhaps that crawled under his mentality, that he didn't act out of
the ordinary around a *thing* that was suppose o be his own flesh and blood.
*something*
Prologis' eyes opened slowly, her breath slowed and she sat up.
The worm still wiggling under her flesh, crawling up her shin.
leaving a painful trail of blood.
One of her knives in her hand, certainly in her eyes. Slowly it stuck into
her skin, slowly the blood welled up as the edge went deeper and deeper.
Her pupils narrowing and spreading in pain, yet she held perfectly still.
With a quick pull a trail of blood kissed the settling sunlight and one of
the ugliest creatures Riddick's shined eyes had ever seen came before him in
sight.
Lying there, in the blood, a painful mix of some creature that once had been
a parasitic worm, now mixed with a iron and the human made.
Prologis crawled away, using her hands and one left leg, tearing at the
ground until Gambler and Lee picked her up, not letting Riddick near her,
only by the look of their eyes.
-We're going back, now.
Wolf's eyes begun to shine silver as the sun settled, stood still when she
commanded Riddick to move his ass.
He only caught a glimpse of what his boss did.
In the darkness from atleast twenty meter range she took a small knife,
a small petite knife, one of many she carried in her belt.
An unnatural squeal, somewhat similar to the one that had pored from his
daughters lips.
That odd bald head had split the worm in two, "killed" it if so to speak.
What ever the truth that lay upon the bottom of this riddle Riddick would
have to find out.
Some ugly motherfucking shit.
