Chapter Two
A growl escaped her throat as Asha lunged herself toward Johns and delivered a hard kick toward his spine with her left foot, which caused the merc to stumble forward, and drop his truncheon onto the ground so he whipped around to face who had attacked him, a smirk lit up his face as he saw the young woman in front of him. Ah the other lovebird. Before Asha could react, Johns had punched her left cheek with his right hand that had, he had smiled in satisfaction as Asha's head had snapped to the right. Her cheek throbbed as she stumbled backwards and the two women who were behind me; grabbed both of Asha's arms as to restraint her after Riddick had been knocked out by Shazza's hard kick to the face. The young convict struggled to become free; she had tried to wrench herself away from both Fry and Shazza. They were going to regret starting a fight with her; she was going to make sure of that. Asha had suddenly spat at Johns face as he had came close to her face, the women stopped struggling with her, as it had became silent as he wiped the spit off his face. He punched the young woman in her stomach, which caused her to double over in pain; she had spat out her blood onto the dusty desert ground, coughing. She yelled out in pain as Johns gripped a fistful of her black hair behind her head, yanking her upward. Asha had just slammed her head backward and she had managed to smash it onto his face since he had been leaning over. As Johns had stumbled backward, Asha stood upright quickly, and let a smirk appear on her face as she had spread her hands and with all her strength and speed, she then yanked them out of the current hold she had been currently in. The two women; Fry and Shazza had stumbled forward in surprise, Asha then grabbed their hairs, and dug her long nails into their scalps, deep enough to cause them to curse at me and threaten to kill me due to the pain that Asha had inflicted. Anger bubbled; swirling in the pit of Asha's stomach as her blue eyes smouldered a darker shade of colour. With that said, she had then slammed their heads together, causing them to fall onto the ground on their backs, unconscious momentarily.
Asha had then noticed movement from the corner of her eyes and a brown gleam, had flashed in the searing sunlight. She jumped into the air, upwards and swung her body around to deliver a roundhouse kick to the John's left hand; which had knocked what appeared to be the truncheon out of his hand, which flew towards the ground roughly about a yard away and had somehow embedded itself into the dry dusty earth with a hollow thunk noise. Asha panted as she looked directly into John's face then he had lunged at her and Asha blocked his series of punches and kicks. Asha noticed that Johns had been getting tired and was obviously in great amount of pain inflicted by her. She quickly grabbed the merc's right wrist and jerked it to the right and flipped him over her right shoulder. He landed upon the ground on his back, Asha had then went to punch his face to finish him off but she had then been struck on the back of her head by Shazza's high kick who had managed to recover alongside with Fry, which caused the young convict to fall to the ground, surrending to the unconsciousness once again. When Asha had woken up, she found herself back inside the broken ship, chained to Riddick, her body slumped onto the cold floor. A soft groan escaped her lips as a mild pain flooded through her body, an grunt caused Asha to twist her head to her right slightly and saw Riddick's head bowed down and knew by instinct that he was not unconscious. She had been right since Riddick raised his head up and opened his eyes to stare upon hers. Not a word had been spoken between the two, only understanding had passed between them until Riddick had spoken in his deep voice, which startled Asha slightly as she hadn't expected the big bad man to even register that she had been there. He had asked her what had been up with her eyes for he could tell that she had a shine job and yet it only showed in the darkest places or in other terms; the dark. The young woman had told Riddick to imagine a seven-year-old kid just out of orphanage claimed by her long distanced uncle and strapped to a chair in a white unknown lab, scared out of her mind as she had been drilled with a surgical shine job without being doped. Then she passed out due to the pain thus not having a lot of shine for the eyes.
Asha closed her eyes in the memory of that particular day having been tortured by her uncle and for what? She had been his lab rat for years until he had sent her to a slammer for murdering his scientists when she had turned sixteen years old. The detail of the lab was etched into her mind, literally burned where it had haunted her sleep, every time she had closed her eyes. It had been pure white, the walls, the floor, even the ceilings had been white, including the furniture. After that seven year old child had been subjected to a shine job, she had come to realise that she could see pretty good when it was dark, her vision actually changed to a hazy pink, silver and red colours instead of the normal colourful, human vision that she had during the light times. When her uncle had found out the result of that particular shine job, he had been intrigued and so subjected her to more ungodly experiments to see how weak or strong she could grow up to be; hence the scars that Asha had on her person at this point of her life. Riddick could see the young woman's jaw had been closed and extremely tense and figured that particular uncle subject was touchy for her. She couldn't have been older than eighteen - nineteen years old currently. The kid had guts he had to admit and noticed that a bruise had formed on her left cheek and knew that Johns had done it. Oh speak of the devil, Johns had chosen that precise moment to venture in casually to greet his two prizes and smirked as he saw Asha's face had darkened into pure anger. He ignored her for the moment as he asked Riddick what he had meant by the whispers he had told him earlier but when he had no answer from him, he had then turned to go but not before smugly stating that the group outside had currently been in the middle of the discussion whether to let both Riddick and Asha live or die. It was that moment that Riddick had finally spoke. Much to the annoyance of Johns when he had spoke of the spinal injury that the male convict had given to him and the son of the bitch was rubbing it in which amused Asha as she sat silently beside Riddick.
Johns noticed the smirk on the corner of Asha's pale pink lips and snapped at her what had amused her so and the reply was enough to cause him to slash her throat. She had told him that Johns amused her, which had caused him to lunge forward for her, Asha quickly shifted out of his way and sat between Riddick's legs where he had crossed them over her body as a form of protection in a way. His legs prevented Johns from venturing forward and Asha from attacking Johns. Asha heard the unmistakeable growl deep in Riddick's throat stilling Johns in his path as he lunged forward, his face only inches from Johns showing his silvery eyes. A movement caught both Riddick's and Asha's attention as a kid climbed down a ladder asking how the hell could he get eyes like that. Asha silently listened to Riddick informing the kid that he had to kill people and the reply amused Asha as the kid replied that he could do that. He had guts Asha thought as Riddick then said that he then had to be sent to a slammer where he wouldn't see daylight again then dig up a doctor to do a surgical shine job for twenty menthol kools. Asha nodded as the kid Jack asked the reason for that was to see if anyone sneaked up behind during the dark. Asha knew that Riddick was amused when he had said exactly but a sharp tone from Johns told Asha otherwise, that he was losing his patience. He had told the kid; Jack to leave as Riddick sat down after he had left. Johns had found out that Zeke's killer had not been Riddick or Asha this time. He told Riddick in a tone that he had already looked in the hole and that Zeke's body was not there at all. Riddick's response to Johns was to look deeper and a comment from Asha only prompted an idea from Johns when she had asked Johns whether he was blind or not. He pointed his gun directly at her head and told her that SHE was to look in the hole and let her chains go and started dragging her outside, ignoring her struggles. He laughed and glanced over his right shoulder and had told Riddick that his bitch would be back in due time. He had heard Riddick yelling and yanking at his chains and knew that he had pissed him off. Goal achieved.
Shortly after the safety clip has been fastened around Asha's waist, she glanced toward the holy man; Imam and he had nodded as if to say that he had her. Truth be told, better him than Johns. The kid, Jack had offered Asha a torch but a smirk curled up a corner of her lips as she ruffled his hair, declining to use one but she took it anyway to sooth his fears. Johns shoved her onto her knees and she let out a growl, her teeth snapped for him, causing him to jump backward. The only sound the small group had heard had been both Jack's and Asha's laughter. It was literally pitch black inside the hole where Asha had crawled. Against her better judgement, she flicked on the torch and waved the dust from her face, coughing slightly as she had edged forward. She could hear the whispers growing louder, it had almost pierced her eardrums apart but she ignored the pain and kept going forward until she heard a scuttling sound so she stopped in her tracks. The young woman's eyes flickered between blue and silver as she used the torch to follow her visual movement and she had found something that she had not wanted to see. Zeke's right ankle with his foot intact with blood dripping from it. Asha could taste the bile rising from her stomach to her throat but she had forced it back down to her stomach. The scuttling sound grew louder so she jerked around and just dropped her torch and hauled her ass up a passage she had found directly up ahead and decided to climb upward. Oh shit. Something was dragging the safety line downward, causing her body to slide down momentarily until she reached down with her right hand to yank the line up so she could continue to climb up. It was then she started to shout for help. The whisperings started to freak her out so she yelled at the top of her voice for help. She could have swore she heard Riddick's chains rattling and shit very faintly but she had put it to her imagination due to fear most probably. Damn whatever was dragging her downward had been very strong as she kept sliding down until two pair of hands knocked through the hollow wall of the passage and she reached out with her right, then her left. Johns and Imam with Jack stating that he had heard her first had then pulled her out. She had ignored the others.
Next thing that Asha knew, she then went flying backward, she had felt a sharp yank then she crashed into the passage, struggling to get out until Johns and Imam came to her rescue with her screaming to Johns to cut her line loose then finally he did so and at the very bottom something had made a grab for her line. After Asha had got rid of what had been left of her line, she saw that Johns went back inside the ship and followed him; he had waited to speak until she followed which he knew that she would. She stood near the entrance and leaned against a beam and raised her eyebrow when Riddick suggested to Johns that he ghost him after Johns had proposed both Riddick and Asha a deal. But instead of shooting his gun directly at Riddick's head, he aimed for the machine that held Riddick's chains up. The tall man's arms slumped and he stood up to wreck the chains he had cuffed to his wrists and swiped the gun from Johns' hands and had told him to go fuck himself. Rightly so Asha had thought. She left with Riddick trailing not long after. The pair of convicts were the last two people behind the small group walking across the desert tugging some cargo behind him, which had weight on them. A bottle of booze had fell out of a man's bag in front of them and Asha bent down and tossed the bottle to Riddick who promptly drank it. The man with glasses introduced himself as Paris. P. Olive and Asha introduced herself as Natasha M Sorenson, escaped convict, and murderer as Riddick finished drinking the booze. He had also introduced himself to Paris as Richard. B. Riddick, escaped convict, murderer that had amused Asha mildly as she watched Paris's facial expression. The young woman let out a breath as she wiped the back of her hand against her forehead, and wiped away the perspiration that had started to form and carried on walking, tugging the excess weight she had trailing behind her. Suddenly the load had been taken off her, she saw that Riddick had taken most of the weight onto himself, adding to his cargo and walked past her with no effort whatsoever. She stopped in her tracks momentarily and smirked. Guy certainly had charms.