Rating: R for profanity and violence

Disclaimer: The Pitch Black characters are not mine, so don't sue. My characters are mine so please don't steal them.

Story outline/authors note: its just what the title says…Riddick..at sea.

Riddick at Sea

It was Eight in the morning when Keylala knocked at the door. She was wearing a dress today. Light Blue with splashes of Green. She looked beautiful.

She noticed his looks and began to blush a little. She snapped out of it when something grabbed her hand. She looked over to her side. "Oh. Right. This is my friend Tallia. She is going to help me give you a tour. And she really wanted to meet you."

"I know a little more about the darker parts of this city then she does." Tallia looked like a normal human girls. Tall, thin, tanned, brown hair, green eyes. No scales or unusual colouring.

Riddick just stared blankly.

"Umm. Anywhere you particularly want to go?" Keylala moved out of the way so Riddick could leave the room and they began to walk down the hallway.

"To a ship."

"Oh. I have a really nice ship. Want to see it?" Tallia began to grin.

"He means a space ship T. One to leave this planet."

"To leave?" She looked puzzled. "No body leaves this Planet." She silently laughed.

"And why the hell not. I want to leave." Riddick stopped at the top of the stairs.

"Umm." Neither of the girls new what to say.

"Well. There's no reason to leave. I don't think the people who brought you here want you to go." Keylala began to pull him down the stairs. She was actually pretty strong.

"Of course the people who brought me here don't want me to leave. They want to sell me. There Mercs. Don't you know what Mercs are." He stopped and dragged her back a few steps.

"No I don't. But it really doesn't matter because there's no way you can leave unless they come back." she began walking again.

"Come on you two." Tallia was getting impatient. She went behind Riddick and began pushing. "There's no ship. So just stay here until someone comes with a ship. Or I don't know, build your own. But that would probably take as long as someone coming here to get you. And we probably don't have the right equipment. Or you could-"

"Stop T." Keylala dragged her friend away from Riddick.

They silently walked the rest of the way down the stairs. When they reached the bottom and were outside, they were met by a crowd of people, all gazing at Riddick.

Keylala yelled at them in there language and they left. But Riddick noticed them following him.

The girls took him through the city. Stores, shops, merchants, restaurants and docks. Everything painted green. It was beginning to get to him. It was a big city, and He had lost track of his direction, but was starting to enjoy the girls talking about who knows what and forgot about his direction.

"I'm sure you're getting bored Mr. Riddick, so Tallia here is going to take you to the clubs and cult shops and stuff." Keylala talked to Tallia in there native tongue then left.

"Where's she going?" Riddick watched as she disappeared into the crowded streets.

"She's got other business to look after. Don't worry about her." Tallia linked her arm around Riddicks and began walking down the allies. "Were in the centre of town now. So its going to start getting a little darker. No sunlight in this area."

"thank god." Riddick noticed the light change and was about to take off his goggles, when lights blasted on around them.

"That's better." She lead him down some stairs to a black metal door. "This is Rhino. it's a nice place to come and unwind. Its not open this early, but I told my friend Matt I was going to bring the new guy in."

"The new guy?"

"Yah. You."

The door slowly opened a crack. "Were closed. Piss off."

"Matt open the damn door." Tallia opened the door herself.

"Oh, hey T." A man in all black stood before them. Red eyes shown through his long wavy black hair. "This must be Riddick. Hi, I'm Matt." He put out his hand for a hand shake, then put it down after a few seconds.

"So let us in already. Jeez." Tallia pushed past him, pulling Riddick with her.

It was a big open room. A bar and stools went all the way around it. Black walls with red lightning and fog machines on the ceiling. If it were party time it would probably look really cool and some what spooky. Riddick moved into the centre and looked around. He noticed the flirty interaction between Tallia and Matt.

Ignoring it he moved around the room. He didn't much care for it. He wasn't really the club life type of guy. He went into the back room. Crates of alcohol, coat check, glasses, and an empty room. Riddick found a locked door. Taking out one of his shivs he began to jab at the lock.

"Where do ya think you're going?" Tallia came into the room.

"Exploring. Why, are you my new keeper?" He hid his shiv and turned to Tallia.

"Haha. No. you're free here. Remember we're a pe-"

"Peaceful people. Right."

"I'm just showing you around. But if you'd rather go around your self. Be my guest. I have better things to do then baby-sit you."

"Fine." Riddick went back into the main room and stopped dead in his tracks. He smelt something very familiar. Blood. Male blood and fear. "Where's Matt."

"Matt? Oh. He had to leave." Tallia came up behind him.

Riddick followed the smell to one of the bars. He leaned over and saw Matt's body. He'd been stabbed. Several times.

"I didn't mean to." She looked afraid. Like she would get in so much trouble of anyone new. And she didn't want to know what would happen to her.

Riddick turned back around to see Tallia holding a bloody knife. It wasn't meant to be used. It looked like a show knife. Carvings and inscriptions all along it. Dull edges now smothered in blood.

"Peaceful people huh?" He whispered.

"Well, ok I meant to." Her expression changed to normal. She moved the knife as she talked. "He was a real ass. Flirty fuck." She threw the knife over to Riddick. It hit the wall beside him.

"What happened to Peace?" Riddick pulled the knife out of the wall and carefully examined it.

"Peace is for the fools. This world isn't peaceful. That's bullshit. I hate it here. And I want to do anything I can to help you leave," She paused and moved closer to him. "As long as you take me with you."

He slowly cleaned the blade of blood and his fingerprints, contemplating the effects of his answer. "Ok." He dropped the knife onto the body.

"Really?" She perked up. This girl really was a basket of emotions. She was probably as sneaky as Riddick, just needed to learn a few more things.

"Where can we put the body?"

"Upstairs. In the hamper. I'll go get it. Then we can just roll him up stairs unnoticed." She went into the back room.

Her energy reminded him of Jack. Maybe thats why a part of him really wanted to help her off this rock.

She returned soon after with a hamper and Keylala.

"Hi Mr. Riddick."

He watched as Tallia and Keylala picked up Matt and put him in the hamper.

"Have you two…done this before?"

They both only looked at each other then silently began to wheel the hamper towards the back room, avoiding eye contact with Riddick. He stepped in there way.

"Have you two done this before?"

Tallia sighed. "We're part of a group that plans to leave this planet. Not everyone here is happy. The council say every Teen goes through this faze and it passes. But what they do on this planet it wrong. And we need your help Riddick."

"With what?" He didn't like where this was going.

"We've been sending threats and killing off the council. It's all very hush-hush of course. And now that a very accomplished killer has been delivered to us. Why not get him to help us. In return you'll get to leave."

"I'll 'get' to leave?"

"We know where there is a ship." Keylala began. "We just can't get to it yet. We would get caught if we tried, and we do not want to get caught."

"If you get caught," Tallia began to shake. "They do terrible things to you. Sometimes you don't even come back."

"Yah I've herd all that kind of shit before. Where is it?" He placed his hands on the edge of the hamper.

Tallia's eyes began to water. "They cut you open. Play with your insides. Probe your mind. Insert all these…" Tallia began to mumble.

Keylala put her arm around her friend. "Tallia's lost most of her family to the council trying to get off this planet. She's only got her sister and me now."

"What are they trying to hide?"

"What runs the city. Where they get the wood. How the city operates. What goes on underwater. There are many things unknown about our little water world, and they stay unknown or you get in trouble." She took her hand off Tallia. "Please Mr. Riddick will you help us?"

"Where's the ship?"

"There's only four of us. We're all female. Males get corrupted easier then women. They are more afraid. We need someone like you. Please. Please help us."

"Where is the ship?"

She let out a deep breath. "Siren."

"What?"

"Siren. That is where the ship is." She put her hands on the hamper and made Tallia grab it too and began to push it into the back room.

"Riddick." Tallia let go of the hamper. "You better get out of here. There coming. They know he has died." She was pulled back by Keylala. The door closed behind them and Riddick herd a knock at the front door of the club.

Riddick ran to the back room door and went in. The girls had disappeared through one of the doors but they were all locked. He closed the door he came in through and herd people rush into the club. "Shit." He quickly took out one of his shivs and began picking at one of the locks. He herd a woman scream. Must have discovered the blood. The lock broke and he entered through the door.

He walked down a long cream hallway until he got to another door. Unlocked and went in. It looked like he was in the foyer of and office building. Tilled green walls. People moving around with briefcases and clipboards. He didn't see Tallia or Keylala. They must have gone through a different door. He quickly went out of the building and onto the streets. He had to find out what Siren meant.

After asking about 20 people on the street, One of them new a little bit of English.

"Where is Siren?"

"Sorry Chum. Don't know what you mean."

"Information desk then?"

The man just looked confused.

"Information. Maps."

"Oh. Information desk. Umm." The man looked around. He pointed to a street. "Take that street. Second Left, Right, third Right, then just travel north for a while. You'll see it." The man walked off. Hitting a few people on his way.

Riddick attempted to follow the directions. After traveling north for a while. He came to a dead end. No information desk. He grabbed the closest person. "Where is the Information Desk?"

The nervous woman only pointed to a door.

Riddick dropped the woman and went inside the door. Charts on the walls and a little lady at a desk.

She perked up when he entered. "let me guess," Her voice was high-pitched. "You're the new guy. What can I help you with Sir?"

"Yah, hi. Where is Siren." He moved across the room to the desk.

"Siren? What would you want to do at Siren?" She curiously titled her head.

"A Vacation."

"Vacation? Sir, that's the councillors island. Councillors go there to have meetings. They discus issues."

"Yah and I'm one of the issues. So why don't you tell me where it is."

She stared at him for a moment then reached under her desk. Riddick tensed for a moment and put his hand on his shiv. The lady revealed a map. She took out a red pen and circles two areas.

She pointed to the bigger one, This is where you are now," She pointed to the smaller one on the other side of the map. "This is Siren. Think you can handle the rest big guy?"

Riddick grabbed the map and left the Information room. Now he had to find that boat.