A/N: Sorry it has taken so long before Riddick finally gets to show up, but I had to put in a back story so everyone would hopefully know where everything is coming from. Hope you enjoy.
"Are you sure? He is your dad and my crew and I aren't going after him to bring him home to you or anyone else. We plan to take him to the slam that will pay the most for his ass and leave him there." Derick told Dannie holding onto her shoulders to make sure she understood everything. She looked up into his eyes and said in the clearest voice she could muster, "I said take me with you. I want to help you catch him. I want to put him in slam myself, have him see me make a deal for the best price. I want to be the one to lower him into a hole and never have to see him again. I want him to see just how strong his daughter really is." He has to pay for the murder of my mother.
He looked down at her with surprise and joy flowing through his body at this news. I won't have to try to trick her to get her to come along, she wants what I want. She'll help, she wants to be apart of the mission. Derick leaned down and kissed her for a long time, like he never wanted it to end, but, alas, it had to. "I'll go talk to the crew, and my captain. We could always use some muscle, especially if there are some brains attached to them. I'll be back as soon as I can." Derick went to leave, but turned back around and grabbed her for another kiss, but a much more excited one. He pulled back and smiled at her, then he left to go talk to his captain and crew, leaving Dannie alone near her mother's grave.
"Mom I know that you don't approve of any of this right now, but I promise that when everything is said and done, you will be proud of me." twig breaks in half Dannie turned around startled by the sound. "Derick? Is that you?"
"No, it's not Derick. Sorry to have startled you. I would have said something, but you seemed to be having a private moment with your mother, and I didn't think it right to disturb you." said a man that Dannie could not easily recognize. "So you thought it right to eaves drop on my private conversation with my mother? Yea, you got that right." Dannie said with a sarcastic tone in her voice.
"I didn't mean to eaves drop, I was just trying to listen for when you left so I could pay my respects to Zara without anyone around." Dannie gave the stranger a long hard look over, just trying to find something about him that might ring a bell in her mind about who he might be. Dannie was standing on a slightly elevated platform next to the grave site and he was standing at least thirty feet away on the slightly uneven ground and Dannie was looking him directly in his goggle covered eyes, so she knew he had to be tall; somewhere around six foot three inches, give or take two inches. The stranger had an upside-down triangle shaped upper body which meant that he was very well built. He had massive shoulders which held onto his even more massive arms. His legs looked like two well defined logs of lumber. He was wearing pitch black army boots, chocolate brown cargo pants, a low cut black shirt, probably a muscle shirt, and a long, dark, hooded cloak that covered his most of his body loosely. But then again, most of the people she fought at the ring wore something to that degree every night, so there wasn't much originality to his wardrobe. The only thing that really stood out about him was his bald head, more than likely shaved to be that way, and his perfectly groomed face.
He walked up closer to her and asked, "Are you Dannie?" She looked at him with surprise in her eyes. "How do you know my name?" "Don't worry, I'm not a stalker or anything like that, I just remember having met you before. I came here once looking for, her, but instead I found you. You were very young, so you may not remember me, but I was really close to Zara."
"Stop, just stop! I knew all of my mother's friends, and most of her enemies, and you don't ring any bells. What is your name?" "It doesn't really matter what my name is, I only came here to pay my respects to her, alone. Please leave so I can, and then I'll leave."
"Why didn't you come during the day while I was at work if you wanted to be alone? Because now that I am home and about to leave in the morning, I am spending my last few hours with her out here, so you can either do what you came to do with me out here, or you can leave." "Listen child, I only want a few moments alone out here. It's not like I'm asking you to leave for the rest of the night. When I'm done, then you can freeze out here for all I care."
Dannie walked right up to him, got in his face, and said, "No one ever talks to me like that in my own home," and punched him right across the face, "no one." She turned back to go over to her mother, but he stopped her by grabbing her wrist, "No one ever hits me and gets away with it," and back handed her across the face, "not even snot nosed little brats. Besides, you hit like a little girl." "The first one was a warning shot, now I'm pissed off."
The fight continued. Punches and kicks were thrown, blocked, and landed. He got her in a headlock and took a long sniff of her hair, "You smell just like her." Dannie elbowed him in the gut to get him to let her go, and landed another kick with her heel hitting his shoulder blade and knocking him down to the ground. She leaned down, got him in a headlock and said in his ear, "Don't ever do or say that again. How would you know what she smelled like? I was her daughter and I barely know." He threw her over his shoulder and she landed on the ground on her back. "Don't assume that you were the only person who was ever close to her.", the stranger said vehemically in Dannie's ear, "Kyra would be ashamed of you for even allowing me to get you to the ground after having spent all that time training you to fight as well as you do. Your even better than your mother was after I trained her and Kyra."
Something jogged in Dannie's memory. She reached up and removed his goggles to reveal his silver eyes. She looked into them and punched him again while he was refocusing his eyes to the light still in the night sky, and knocked him away from her. She got up and ran a couple of feet away from him to have a chance to think back to all of the stories that she had heard as a child.
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.
While she was putting the pieces together, Derick came back and he recognized the stranger right away. He pulled out his gun and yelled out, "Dannie get down, it's Riddick!" and he shot at him, but hit nothing. Riddick ran as fast as he could, but didn't go very far, just out of their visual range. Derick ran over to where Dannie was and fell down at her side to check her over for any bruises or slash marks. "Don't worry, he didn't pull out his shivs, we were only fighting hand to hand combat. It never registered that it was Riddick. I didn't even see his eyes until I ripped off his goggles. Did you get him?" "No, but let me get you inside so I can check you out more thoroughly, and get you warmed up."
Derick led her inside to her room, sat her down on her bed while he looked her over closely. She didn't have a scratch on her, but she did have a couple of new bruises forming fast. He gave her an aspirin and a glass of water to help get it down, and told her to get some sleep. As he was leaving, Dannie asked, "Derick, will you lay down with me? I still feel a little shaky and I don't want him coming in here if I am alone." "Sure," he laid down, put his arms around her, and kissed her on the top of her head, "good night Dannie." She would have answered, but she was already out cold with her arms wrapped around his chest, tightly. "I love you Dannie." he whispered to her so as not to wake her.
Bang! Crash! Clang! Argh! The sounds of a battle in a metal ship with metal weapons. I can see the entire thing from were the guard has me as he is taking me through the ship. The Lord Marshall and a bald man with silver eyes are fighting. I think that I have met this man before, but it has been so long since then, and the meeting was only for a brief instant. I can see Kyra and my mother standing in the crowd watching helplessly as the fight proceeds. Kyra is in the back of the crowd standing on a small platform so she can see above everyone's head, and my mother is closer to the front of the crowd, watching and waiting for the bald man to make his move and kill the Lord Marshall, but he is having trouble, the Lord Marshall is too fast and the man can't land a single punch. Mom looks around, but never sees me high above everything in the rafters watching as she picks up a spear and rushes over behind the Lord Marshall and stabs him in the back. She gets thrown into a pillar of blades, falls to the ground bleeding to death, but no one cares enough to go over and try to help her. I get away from the guard and run down to her limp body, but I can't get through the crowd. Kyra makes it over to her, but not until Riddick has killed the Lord Marshall and is over there himself. They both talk to her, taking her last breaths away from me. I hear mom call out the man Riddick, and he tells Kyra to leave. She does, but never sees me standing there. Riddick looks up and sees me standing there though. I am wearing the Necromunger garb, but I don't have the mark on my neck yet. We make eye contact for a brief moment, and I can see the disgust in his eyes. He looks away from me and I fall to my knees crying over my mother's dead body.
