Riddick braced himself for the landing and felt a sickening blow to the head as the craft rammed fullspead into the planet. He then unbolted his seat strap and lifted himself from the seat seeing the world swirl before his eyes. He managed to lean on the bolted door and open it. He fell out onto the blue clayish ground that his craft had landed on. He thought to get up but before he could move he found his vision had begun once again to blur and he fell almost lifeless to the ground.
"This one took a blow to the head", said a man named Derrick. He was not quite a man but not quite anything else either. The lower part of his body was a mix of robotic parts and what looked like blue skin.
A girl that looked to be only 15 years old or so walked over and looked down at the man and gasped. "He is …Human!" she said. She leaned down to look more closely at him and carefully began to lift his goggles from his eyes. Suddenly the mysterious man's hand shot up and grabbed her wrist. "Don't." he said in a low voice. "The light hurts my eyes".
The girl scowled and wrenched her wrist from his grasp. "Open your eyes." She ordered. Riddick could tell by her voice that she was young but her voice had no trace of fear or even cautiousness. Riddick opened his eyes and saw…nothing. He reached up and took off his goggles and saw that it was dark.
Derrick gasped at the sight of the man's eyes and Riddick smiled when he was the girl's eyes. They were red and brown. "Nice eyes' the girl commented as Riddick stood up ignoring the ringing in his ears. "I was about to tell you the same" he said studying her intently. The girl's hair was long, straight, and red with sun-bleached streaks on it's surface, she wore a pair of baggy pants and a shirt that had been torn to show her stomach that was muscular, for a girl. The sleeves of the shirt were also torn off. She wore a pair off big boots and had a plentiful supply of daggers. The girl stood up and started to walk away. Derrick followed; "You are coming, are you not" the man inquired.
Riddick stood up and followed, not liking the idea of following some demented girl and her dissected friend. He was stunned when the girl took off at a run across the blue ground not looking back. Derrick began to follow. Riddick started to run finding that his leg was a bit sore. He caught up with Derrick and the man explained, "She trusts no one and the only pace she goes at is that of her own will at the time. I know it must sound strange but she is very careful about where she goes and who she allows to tag along."
Riddick nodded, he wanted to answer that it sounded like someone he knew but he did not. Instead he followed the girl as she led them to a steep cliff. "Derrick", the girl called. "Yes" he answered.
"The sun is coming early today. Time to sped up." And with that the girl took off running. Riddick had no problem catching up but he was surprised that such a small girl was capable of so much.
"The sun is not hot, nut it puts out a chemical that can kill a human if they breathe it in. We must hurry and get to shelter. Luckily the chemical stays about four feet in the air." , the girl explained, not looking back.
"What about your friend back there?", Riddick asked. The girl looked at him with a hint of a smile on her face. "Does he look human to you?" she asked.
Riddick did not answer but instead he followed her until they reached a rock with a crack in it that was just big enough for him to fir through. The girl crawled through into a much bigger, hollow space. As Riddick climbed through she turned to him and said "By the way, my name is Alerra." Then she turned and squirmed through a few more cracks and then went sown a pair of stair that had been carved in the stone.