"You must take this staff" she said holding up a black staph that Riddick thought looked a bit heavy for a woman to carry until she handed it to him and he found that it weighed nothing. "You must journey to the underverse"she said in a whisper so that the rest of the court could not hear. "You must travel to the reach of the Chytrone lands and there you will find a deep portal. You must travel through the portal and at the end reach toward hope to exit. If you loose hope then you will surely die in the portal." She said holing her head high.
"I will not die" he said in his hushed voice. The women nodded and sighed. "The portal will lead you to a place where only half deads walk. All of the people who reside in this place have the same power of that the Lord Marshal had possessed. You must in this place find a girl who fears nothing and she will take you to the place that holds the souls and bodies remaining that had not been taken by the Lord Marshal but they were killed by him. You must find your girl and leave taking the fearless girl with you. The girl you search for in this place will be the last thing expected yet the first thing expected. Find her and you are sure to find your girl."
Riddick's face was grim indeed. "Fine" he said as he jumped from the window and look off into the water in a hurry.
Riddick it seemed, had no time to loose. He made only a few stops. One was to a family that had lost a husband and a father. The man had been a holy man and he had given his life to save his families. Riddick went to them and told them that it was now safe to build their home and that he would be leaving and they would probably never see him again.
The wife of the household gave him their blessing and told him that he always had a place to stay if the need came. He simply stared at her and then was off again without so much as a glance back. His next stop was a landing dock near the adequence (the center of the planet) he stopeed only long enough to steal a plane and then he headed off again. Riddick did not freeze himself as he should have. He was afraid of the dreams so he stayed awake and flew towards the dark stars that made up the Chrytone lands.
After three years he reached the lands and looked apon the planets with grave disappointment because there was no portal in sight. He hovered low until he found a watery serface which he passed by twice. On the second time he turned around and sped at the water at full speed. Suddenly he was in a watery…portal.
This is it. The kid is not far from here. I got just a little busyness in this god-forsaken land and then it will be just us.
Hope, the woman had said to hope. He thought of Keira as a kid, the scrawny 12 year old brat who had followed his every move.
Just you and me, kid. That is what you had in mind, right?
His mind popped back to the time when he had left the kid with the holy man.
She hated me for leaving, but I couldn't have lived with myself had I stayed., he thought as he remembered his conversation with the holy man.
Then I went all back-of-the-bus to get her out of Crematoria just to get her killed by the necros., he thought quiltily.
His mind returned then to the possibility of the kid's safety.
Just Wait. Just wait and I will help you. Just wait.
Suddenly a bright light flashed over the windshield of the ship he had stole. He opened the viser to find that he was heading full-speed towards a planet with no way to slow down. He put on his goggles and pulled on his coat and with that he stood up and braced himself for the impact. There was no fear or doubt in his mind as he raced towards the hard surface of the planet.