Chapter 12 – Ta'gara
After cleverly out manoeuvring the welcome committee, Riddick sets the Shiv down in a large dark alleyway.
As he steps out onto the pre-morning surface, an onlooker glances up at him then looks away just as quickly.
Lina brushes past him relieved to be alive after the little encounter.
"This way." She instructs and starts off going deeper into the alley.
He follows her for about a minute and grins to himself. Lina stops dead in her tracks. In front of her are three men armed with axes, blades and chains.
She looks back at Riddick who is very much aware of the five other men behind him sporting similar weapons. He removes his goggles and cracks his neck.
One of the five men behind Riddick steps forward. "We want your Skiv." He demands and begins swinging his ball and chain combo. "And anything else you might have on you." He continues.
"You don't want this fight." Riddick warns and tilts his head at Lina who is starting to get angry. She's not about to be slowed down by a bunch of thugs who think they own the street.
Lina's head snaps back to face the men in front of her. She takes in a deep breath and they look at her unsuspectingly.
She raises her hands and in one rapid swoop, the three men go flying back several meters.
The man with the chain suddenly runs at Riddick swinging it in the air and yelling some lame war cry.
Riddick turns and catches the chain in his hand yanking the guy forwards to meet his other fist.
Confident that Riddick can take care of himself, Lina runs off to finish what she started. It feels good to let loose after being denied her power for sometime.
She runs into the misty alley and suddenly twists as an axe comes hurling towards her missing her by an inch. The axe lodges itself in a street pole behind her. The man who threw it smirks and stands ready for whatever she's about to dish out.
A dumpster stirs and the man looks away for just a second, he turns his head back and is greeted by his own axe neatly plunged into his large skull.
Lina hasn't moved. She used her telekinetic ability to return the axe to its owner. Not her fault he wasn't looking.
The dumpster stirs again and Lina disappears into a shadow.
Meanwhile, Riddick brings out his blade for some action. Between the hard hits and almost invisible slicing, it's not long before he makes a mockery of the men.
Satisfied that they are no longer any threat, Riddick goes to find Lina.
Didn't know who they were messing with. Should've just waited for us to leave and taken the damn thing. Was done with it anyway.
Before he could get any further, he notices a young homeless girl peering out from behind some boxes. Her eyes wide in amazement at the sight she's just witnessed.
Jack!?No, Jack's safe with Imman. No need to drag her into this kinda world. She deserves a chance at a normal life.
Lina sneaks up to the dumpster and slowly peers into it. One of the men she had flung back had landed in it and is unconscious.
Suddenly she startles as a small kitten jumps up at her trying to get out the dumpster.
She reaches in and grabs hold of the kitten.
"Urrg!" She cries out dropping the kitten on the ground. So distracted by the kitten that she left herself open for an attack from the third guy.
He has her in a firm neck hold pulling her backwards forcing her onto her toes.
Lina struggles and jolts her head back knocking the guy and causing him to let her drop.
He steps forward to grab her again but she quickly back kicks him in the groin and spins around following through with a nasty uppercut.
The man lies on the ground before her holding between his legs and cursing like it's a dying fashion and he's protesting.
Riddick steps out of the mists and places his foot on the naive guy's throat. A small crack and the man is silenced.
Lina looks at him and raises a brow. Riddick looks to the man on the floor with the axe in his skull and returns the raised brow.
Lina grins and shrugs as if to say 'did I do that?'.
They both leave the scene in sync and continue on to find Sam.