She was good at what she did, even Kyra had to admit it. However, she wasn't Dannie's mother so she never had any real authority over her and after she hit her teen years, they both knew it. All Kyra could do was hope that Dannie would be safe, and not get hurt and end up like her uncle did.
Dannie used to beg, when she was a child, to go with Kyra to help her find her father and not be left with Imam's wife, Nashun, and daughter, Zeeza. But she never got her wish, and Kyra always came home after six months or so.
Dannie hated the night before Kyra would leave for another deep run. But she would always have Kyra tell her a story, either how she met her mother, father, or how they all saved the planet from the Necros. Kyra used to tell her all three stories, but quit after Dannie developed nightmares when she told her about how they saved the planet from the Necros.
Both your mother and I met your father many years ago on a planet that was a desert in the light of three sun for around twenty-two years and then it was engulfed in complete darkness for a long time afterwards until the eclipse past by. We crashed landed on that planet after we past through a meteor shower that killed many people. We were only there for about a day, but it was the longest day of my entire life. Your father, Riddick, was being taken back to slam after being tracked all around the universe, by your uncle. Everyone thought that he was a cop, but it turned out that he was a merck and your father was his payday. "Didn't you and mom go after him as mercks?"
Yes, but when we did that, your mother and I were pissed off at your dad, and she wanted to find him however she could so she could bring him back to you so she could make you happy. Do you remember that birthday wish you had when you were little, well you mother couldn't stand seeing you so unhappy, so she went with me to go find him. To bring him back and to make sure that nothing happened to me. "But you guys didn't come back like you usually did."
No we were captured and sent to slam for some bad things that we did while trying to find him. But didn't you meet him when he came and saw Imam? "Yes."
But anyways, she didn't like your father when she first met him. She told me this story once long ago. She knew that her brother, Jonns, had been chasing him, and after the first meeting, Riddick had nearly killed him, but missed the sweet spot and the doctors had to leave a piece of the shiv in his back. He couldn't go back after him until he healed back up, and during that time he got hooked on morphine which changed him completely. He turned from a kind, loving brother to a cold, calculating, distant man who would have hit her just as soon as look at her if he didn't have a good spike.
She did everything to fight him and help her brother keep him under control, but the closer she would get to Riddick the more she would start to care for him and trust him. Jonns hated the idea, and Riddick became a witness to the abuse he caused. And I don't know when, but Riddick started being the one who was protecting her from her brother.
He was even the one who killed him, right in front of her. I saw her attack him after Jonns was killed by the things on that planet after Riddick slashed his back, but he managed to get her to calm down, I don't know why, but they ended up kissing at the end of their argument.After we got off that planet, Riddick stayed around for about a month and never left her side. They were either in their room, or outside with me, training. I wanted to learn how to fight and Riddick was the best person to teach me, but he also taught Zara, a few basic things. Just enough to help her get by in life, so she could at least defend herself. I got the more advanced training. When he left it broke Zara's heart and she grew bitter, so she started training with me and she even got better than me. She gave birth to you eight months after Riddick left, and when she wasn't training or taking care of you, she was trying to find a merck crew that would take us on and teach us the trade so we could find him.
We killed a few people, quite a few people, and we became a payday for the very mercks who had taken us on. They took us to slam when you turned four, and Zara began to believe that she would never see you again. She didn't know just how right she was.
Riddick came to Helion Prime and found you, but he never meant to. After meeting you and Zeeza, he came after Zara and I in Crematoria. He found us, got us off of that planet, with us all fighting the entire way. He saved her from getting shot, he saved me from getting fried on a mountain side, and we helped a Necromunger save him from getting fried on Crematoria. All three of us headed back to Helion Prime, Riddick, Zara, and I, to try to stop the Necros from destroying the planet, only a few hours behind the Necro ship ourselves.
We had hoped to find you before everything went down, but couldn't. We got on the ship, and Riddick fought the Lord Marshall in order to protect the planet. He almost died, if it hadn't been for your mother. I was too far away, and she was right there, watching the only man she had ever loved fighting to protect her, her child, me, and everyother person on this planet that he had never met. The Lord Marshall had Riddick down on the ground and was about to finish him off, when she ran up behind the Lord Marshall with a spear and plunged into his back to get his attention off of Riddick. She accomplished her mission, and she paid the price for her quick actions. She was thrown into a pillar with daggers sticking out all around it and she contracted a fatal wound. She died in Riddick's arms after he killed the Lord Marshall.He left with the Necros after that, he didn't even come back with me to try to find you. So I stayed behind to help raise you.
When she turned thirteen, Kyra couldn't deny that Dannie was so much like her father, defiant until the last. If Dannie wanted something, it was much harder to get her to accept "NO" for an answer without giving into something else.
So from then on, Dannie only agreed to stay where she was told and quit bugging Kyra about going with her to help find Riddick, as she had begun to refer to her father as, but only if Kyra agreed to train her. Dannie's argument was simply this, "You were my age when you started training, maybe even younger. And besides, if you don't train me, than I'll just have to find someone else who will. And I will never quit asking to go on the deep runs with you."
Dannie got her wish. Kyra began to train her when she was back on Helion Prime, but never around Zeeza, and only if she never tried to teach Zeeza anything.
Eventually, Dannie had begun to get better than Kyra as far as her fighting skills were concerned, but not her killing abilities. Kyra swore that she would never teach Dannie how to kill, and Dannie swore she would never ask to be taught. She had always said, "I only want to be able to defend myself, and have a way to be able to get out any frustration I may have. I don't want to turn out like my father, and I don't want to end up dead at an early age like my mother."
As Dannie got older, she began to grow into her looks. She used to keep her hair short to be like her mother, but eventually she began to let it grow past her shoulders like Kyra had always had it. Dannie's hair never curled up like her mother's did, but instead stayed straight, so Dannie would keep it in a tight braid at all times. By the time that Dannie got the look that she could handle and take care of the best, her hair reached down to the middle of her back. She had chocolate brown hair, emerald green eyes, and she filled out the rest of the way better than her mother ever could.
As Dannie got older, Kyra began to see that finding her father was beginning to grow farther from her mind. Kyra began to go out less and less, and even eventually found a man she could settle down with. Dannie liked him, and he liked Dannie. He treated her like she was really apart of their family, like she was really their daughter.
Connor was the only cop that Dannie had ever met. He didn't seem nearly as bad as some people said they were. Connor once had seen her and Kyra training and decided that Dannie would have been a great asset to the Helion Prime Police Force, and brought it up with Dannie and the local chief. The chief agreed that when she was old enough she could have a job if she wanted it.
Kyra married him after dating for one year and an engagement of only six months. Dannie was her Maid of Honor, watching as she became Mrs. Connor Hall.
After the wedding, Kyra quit going out on the deep runs all together. She moved to a different planet and left Dannie on Helion Prime with Zeeza and her mother until Dannie was old enough to go out on her own. Kyra would have told Dannie to come with them, but it wouldn't be fair to make her leave her home for just under a year when she would have gone back to Helion Prime anyways. And Dannie didn't want to intrude on the happy couple, but she knew that she would always be welcome in their home.
