Chapter Five
Five years later, Riddick had returned to Helion Prime, where he had left both Asha and Jack in the care of Imam. He had thought that it would have been best for the girls if they both stayed away from him. Riddick had originally returned to kill the holy man, Imam who he had trusted as a friend because he had a bounty on his head for a million and half, private reward, which originated in Helion rime with thanks to Toombs, a mercenary who had provided Riddick with the information and his ship. However the bidder had been anonymous thus Riddick had mistaken Imam. He had quite a few surprises in store; he had found out that Imam had married to a beautiful woman called Lajjan and the fact that the couple had a beautiful little girl called Ziza. He had been informed that Imam himself had not placed the bounty on Riddick's head, which meant that the convict had to look elsewhere for the anonymous bidder in order to find out who the person was. Unfortunately a few soldiers had literally broken down Imam's front door as they had thought Riddick had been a spy; in order to stop Riddick from escaping, Imam had asked Riddick if he would leave his family to their fate just as he had done with THEM? Riddick stopped in his tracks, as he had intended to jump out the window in front of him, he watched as a few soldiers roughly dragged Lajjan and Ziza out of the house. He heard the soldiers entering the room he had been in and he faced some candles as he held his hands into the air. He had said that the light had hurt his eyes and asked them they weren't afraid of the dark then he used his hands to extinguish the flames. He jumped onto the roof beams and watched as the soldiers turned on one another and waited until his moment to attack which he had done so. He went down the stairs where a young soldier had a shiv against Imam's throat but he had ran off before Riddick even took another step. The male convict had told Imam that he mentioned THEM. The priest or holy man had nodded and mentioned how Asha and Jack had never forgiven Riddick for leaving her on Helion Prime with Imam when they were eighteen and twelve years old.
Unfortunately Asha had to leave Jack on her own with Imam because she couldn't let Imam or the kid be in danger for living among an wanted convict. After Asha had left, Jack decided to leave to look for Riddick; the man she looked up to and thought of as her older brother. Riddick had been told by the holy man that he heard that Jack had been sent to prison, where the surface had been so hot, nobody could set foot there. Crematoria. Soon enough Riddick had been caught by Toombs who had been hunting him due to this bounty which had been Riddick's plan all along because he had known that Toombs would sent him to a triple maximum slammer where daylight had not been an option. That had been fine with Riddick for he had business named Jack in Crematoria then he would find Asha. Jack was his first priority. She had decided to sign up with mercs so she could learn the trade in the hopes it would lead her to the man they were always were hunting for but they had slaved her out. She ended up being sent to Crematoria, where she was told that she would never see daylight again on a planet where you could not set foot on the surface for it was too hot. The prison was underground where Jack found out that there was not many women in the prison so she had to continually fight the other prisoners and guards. Her favourite game was "Who's the best killer". She grew up quickly and was pretty much a loner and the food in the prison was pretty crap; but whenever the guards shouted feeding time, it meant that they were releasing hell hounds that ate people so Jack often seen the prisoners running behind cages. She decided to change her name to Kyra and she would often confront the hellhounds and escape with a inch of her life. She had been in that hellhole of a prison for five years until she saw a man with goggles dangling down, handcuffed. She watched him tangling himself with the chain and soon he broke free with his strength and he was attacked by some of the other prisoners, while he was preoccupied with fighting a prisoner, another went to attack him from behind.
Kyra suddenly grabbed a long chain and held one end as she flung the chain, which wrapped around his neck; she yanked it, causing the man to fly backward away from Riddick and crashed against the wall. At this point, Riddick finished fighting quickly and took off his black goggles and looked right at her as she pulled the chain back, wrapping around her elbow to her hand in a loop kind of style. She did not break eye contact but as soon as a male prisoner who was the pretty much the leader of the prisoners: the guv spoke, she walked off out of Riddick's sight, waiting for him to follow her. As Riddick walked into a room, she stepped out behind him and jabbed something very sharp in his back, not to stab him but enough for him to feel it. She asked how him how she would get eyes like his since she liked them and he responded that she had to kill. After saying that she had killed, a lot, he suddenly whirled around, grabbed her right arm and shoved her against a cage pressing against her as, lifting her right arm with one of his arms, he said that then she had to be sent to a slam. This only angered her and caused her to be a smart ass and responded coolly by saying that she was told that she would never see the daylight again and insulted his eyesight. He placed an arm between her legs and lifted her up, holding her there, which Kyra asked him if he was going to go for the sweet spot; he had told her to remember who she was talking to and used her previous name which caused the young woman to look down uncomfortably. Probably because he had sussed her out already. She told him that Jack was dead; that she was weak while slowly taking out a small piece of glass out of her mouth. She swung her right leg to hit the light on the top end of the cage to momentarily make Riddick blind seeing he hated bright things and she cut him with the glass on his left cheek and he let her go in reflex. She disappeared from his sight momentarily and smirked as he saw her again. She told him that Kyra was her name now and that she was a new animal and jumped over the railing of the landing she was on.
After a short while, a loud buzzing noise was heard and Kyra had heard the guards shouting out that it was feeding time and a herd of hellhounds were released. She looked one right in the eye and smirked as she jumped on the railing of the landing she was on and grabbed a role, narrowly missing the hellhound striking her and she jumped on top of a cage and went to her cell where about three guards were waiting to frisk her. She sighed and put her hands on the back of her head and leaned against her cell wall and a guard frisked her slowly because she was wary of the fact that she always had blades on her somehow. She was not happy when the guard touched her on the ass, the laughter of the other two guards did not help her temper any so she flicked her right boot and a hidden blade came out. It was then that she striked by hitting the guy on the head with the blade causing him to stumble backwards and Kyra whirled around and kicked him across the cell and he crashed against the wall. The other two guards looked at their fellow wounded guard and they advanced on the young woman. A guard came up behind her and hit her on the back of the head as she fought with the other. He turned her around and began to choke her with a pipe from behind but he was disturbed by Riddick leaning on the cell door drinking out of his teacup making a comment. The guard let go of Kyra and she moved to the side watching Riddick saying that he was going to kill him with his teacup which the guard had thought was a soup cup. It was obvious to Kyra; she knew that Riddick would use the cup even though the guards did not believe the guy. Shortly the guard went to advance on Riddick with a knife but Riddick had already slammed the teacup onto the guard's chest and twisted it into his heart. He died instantly; the guards took the wounded and ran for their lives. Kyra took out the teacup and muttered damn why did not she think of using a teacup with a smirk playing upon her lips. However, herself and Riddick had an argument about when she left looking for him; she told him about her signing up with the mercs, which made him possibly, angry and sad.
She explained to him that she had nobody else when Riddick stayed away from her for five years. She had then told him that Asha had left her with a note saying that she couldn't stay with her, so in order to find Asha, she would have had to enlist Riddick's help. But that meant that she had to find him first. He left as she walked away from him. After a while, she heard him talking to the guv about outing the prison and the guv scoffed saying that nobody outed the prison; ever. She made the guv jump when she said that Riddick was not nobody after he had left. Shortly, she looked up when she heard gunshots from the guard's quarters which was high up and she noticed Toombs, a merc sliding down the chain and holding on, Riddick jumped and climbed over Toombs and climbed into the guards' place. Kyra followed the other prisoners through the cages leading up to the quarters and leaned against the doorway after Riddick opened the cage door. She listened to what he had to say about what had happened although he had not been there when it happened which shocked Toombs. Riddick explained that it was originally his plan and she went to him as he opened the outer shield of the prison to look at the surface. She knew the look on his face despite the fact that she had not seen the look for five years. He had wanted to run the surface while the guards ran through the tunnels below. The guv commented that it could work as long as they stayed behind the night, ahead of the sun, seeing the sun would reach up to 700 degrees Celsius. They had to make their way to the volcano fields where the only ship was so they could make it out of the planet alive. Riddick told them that there was only going to be one speed. His. He told everyone do not step up unless they could keep up. If they could not, they would just die. Kyra knew she could keep up with Riddick, well she would learn how fast she was going to have to be. She ran behind Riddick, following him through the fields of rocks until she lost him but found him when he threw his cape down and she looked up to see him motioning to climb up. So she quickly climbed up and ran hard until they came to the field of ash.
They were soon attacked by the guards from a tunnel outing with gunshots; Riddick had swung something while standing above the guards and hit a guard through the eye. Kyra got out her gun and started shooting at the guards as they started to close the entrance of the tunnel. she ran to the entrance and yelled in fury as she ran out of bullets. Riddick looked at her and he ran off, she quickly followed, when they jumped onto a log above he lava, he asked her what was her shooting all about. She merely replied by saying she did not care if she died as long as she killed them first. Riddick smoothly replied by saying maybe he did. Shortly they came to a cliff, which they had to climb as the volcano field was above them behind the cliff. While climbing to the top, Kyra encountered difficulties trying to grip onto the rocks, she had heard Riddick yelling her name as he finished climbing, now standing at the top waiting for the others, she didn't respond because she was concentrating on climbing, she heard him yelling her name again she yelled what at him to get him to tell her why he was yelling at her for as he was distracting her. He didn't let her yell faze him as he yelled back, yelling at her to get that arse moving as he put his goggles on because the sun was fast approaching. She quickly came to the top and went into a crevasse, which the sun would burn out by mistake, but she could not change places because the sun was about to come. She yelled Riddick's name and she asked him if he remembered when she said that she did not care if she lived or died, he knew that she was kidding right? She slid down the shadowed part and hugged her knees. When she saw the sun was about to approach, she quickly stood up and yelled Riddick's name. Next thing she knew, Riddick had used a rope to swing around and he grabbed her by her waist, causing her to wrap her right arm around his neck, holding him closely. As the sun approached. They landed onto the safe part of the cliff where the sun would not shine and she sat up looking at Riddick and glanced at her right arm with the wraparound to see if it was burnt.
It wasn't so she looked up at Riddick and didn't break eye contact with him until he ran off to catch up with the other prisoners who were currently in the volcano fields, climbing up the rocks. She kept up with him and was not far behind when he grabbed the guv's right foot. The small group of prisoners sat down and Kyra calculated the time the sun would arrive and burn out the entire volcano field and let the group know after being told about the guards who were preparing the ship in the hangar. She wanted to go as she tied up her hair into a messy bun but Riddick told her to wait. Riddick asked Kyra about her favourite game and she smirked slightly and responded "Who's the best killer?" she looked up at him as he took out his shiv and said let's play. Only three of the prisoners had survived and that had been Riddick, Kyra and Guv. They had managed to kill all of the guards and hauled all of their asses inside the ship where Riddick had successfully flew them out just as the sun had burnt out the whole valley, the dust had knocked the ship about. They had to stop off Helion Prime, in order for their repairs plus they needed to stop at Imam's for food and a change of clothes. Luckily Riddick had all of that in mind as he had managed to score a couple of fake identity cards and unlimited credit which had suited Kyra perfectly. She had cut her long curly hair into a shorter style, into a bob with a red colour with black streaks. Her new clothes basically consisted similar to what Asha had wore five years ago. Kyra had a sleeveless red vest with black trousers and boots with a deep red long trench coat and a couple of necklaces and a black studded cuff on her left wrist. She had kept her wraparound. Both Guv and Riddick had not changed their identities much except for a cleaner batch of clothes and weapons. A realisation had been brought up to the group; the repairs needed for the ship had to take at least a couple of months which had irritated Kyra because she had wanted to find Asha to see if she had been alive after all this time or worse; dead? Riddick wouldn't tell her but somehow he had known that she was still alive, he could sense her almost. He vaguely wondered if Asha had changed her appearance.