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

Ch 5

After walking almost all the way around the big island. He found what looked like 'his' boat. He eyed the boat, then the people moving around. He slowly moved onto the boat, a little less worried then before. It rocked and he froze. When satisfied with the movement he looked at the engine. He moved over to it and tried to start it. It didn't start. He pulled the cord again, harder and it broke. "Shit!"

"Need some help?"

Riddick saw a Woman on the dock. She had long dark brown hair tied back and dark brown eyes. She wore tight black clothes, showing off her womanly figure. He's face reminded him a bit of Tallias.

"I'm Krista. Tallias sister. Herd you might be going to Siren, though you could use some help."

"I don't need help." Riddick poked at the engine, trying to look like he knew what he was doing.

Krista jumped into the boat making it rock uncontrollably. Riddick tensed. She moved beside him and took the string from his hand. She opened the top part of the engine, raped the string back around the spool and closed the engine. "You have to release the choke." She pushed a bottom, then pulled the string and the engine started.

Riddick only stared at her.

"You get so nervous. Don't you know how to swim?"

"Yah, but this is different."

"Mm hmm. Yah. I think I'm going to have to come with you." She untied the ropes holding the boat to the dock and moved the boat away from it. "Map." she held out her hand. Riddick handed it to her. She read it, then sped up the boat.

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Darkness and fog began to creep around them as they got closer to Siren. When Riddick could finally see the island he was in shock. Out of the fog appeared a massive tree; lights shone form parts of the tree like lights from an apartment building. The engines slowed and Krista puttered the boat around the tree revealing a giant black metal igloo.

"They sure know how to put the Eep! in creepy huh?" Krista poked at Riddick.

"The Eep?"

"Sorry. I was trying to be humorous."

"Don't." He noticed the stone statues and inscriptions carved in the metal as they got closer. "So…are you sneaking in with me or do you have some sort of civilians pass that lets you walk right in?"

"We can walk into the main hall and get off with a glance from whoever would still be in there at this hour, but beyond that would be sneaking."

"Great." As they approached the dock Riddick jumped out of the boat landing in a kneel on the motionless dock.

"My, my, I think your getting used to sea life."

"No, the teetering was just really starting to make me sick."

"Oh, really?" Krista backed the boat up a little.

"No, I was just trying to be humorous." He smirked at her. "But notice how I still haven't moved."

"I did notice that actually." She docked the boat and came on shore nudging him over.

Riddick stood up and walked to the gates of the igloo shaped councillors hall. He pried them open and let Krista go in first. "So why did they send you to be my chauffeur?"

"They wanted me to 'help' you because I'm older, wiser, I've been here before, and I know how to handle guys like you." She opened the doors to the counsellors hall, letting Riddick go in first.

"What do you mean, guys like me? You've aided criminals before." He stared her down as he passed her in the door way.

Classical Jazz music filled his ears. Burgundy carpets, creamy walls, old wooden side tables and matching chairs and lights. A man in a top hat and suit sat in one of the chairs sleeping. The scene before him remembered him of a movie he saw documenting old Earth and the many styles and cultures when he was younger.

"No, I've never helped a convict before. But I've helped a lot of big Evil men."

He looked away from the scene and gave Krista a once over. "Yah, I bet you have."

"Hey, what's that supposed to mean"

"Nothing." He moved to a door near the entrance of the building and tried to open it. Locked. "How are we supposed to sneak in if the doors are locked." His eyes scanned to door locking for a way to pick the lock.

Krista held up a blue card. "I have a key."

"You have a key and we have to sneak in?" He tried to take the key from her but she backed away.

"I can go anywhere. We have to sneak in." She moved her key card between the door and the wall. It clicked, buzzed then opened. "We have to go through that door." She pointed to a door at the back of the foyer. "It only opens from the other side, so you wait here and I'll go open it."

"No, let me go unlock it, and you wait here."

"I'll be passing many people and their weapons in there. I think it's best I go."

He backed away and watched her go in. He went to one of the chairs and sat. And sat……and sat. He schemed many plans in his head. Is she turning him in. Is this ala s cik joke. What's behind that door. Where does it go. How fast can he reach the oat. Is ther a hip somewhere here or is it just a myth.

He noticed the man in the top hat had disappeared. He searched around for movement. The only movement was fie fingers tapping on the arm of the chair to the music. He herd a click as the door at the end off the foyer began to open. He saw Krista's face and hand as she motioned for him to come in.

He looked around then stood up and walked over to her. He entered into the dark hallway that provoked him to take off his goggles. Krista grabbed his arm and began to feel her way down the hallway until she reached a door. She turned around to whisper something to him and gasped at the sight before her. Two silver orbs stared at her.

"Are we going in?"

She relaxed a little at the sound of his voice but couldn't stop staring at them.

"Are we going in?" He asked again.

"Huh?" She shook her head and turned around and opened the door.

A stream of light escaped into the hallway and Riddick put his goggles back on.

"Be invisible." Krista whispered and went inside.

Riddick followed her into a white room. Metal desks, men in white coats and no test tubes, boilers or chemicals. He ignored the stairs and just walked behind Krista.

They moved into the next room and Krista quickly closed the door behind them. Krista held out some cuffs, and he only stared at her blankly.

"Put them on." She demanded and moved closer to him. "If you don't we'll get more questioning stares then we need." She shook them in front of him, but she didn't get a response. "Ugh. Here's the key ok?" She handed him the key and cuffs and after a few more seconds he took them and put them on putting the key in his pocket.

She grabbed his hands, opened the door and dragged him through a room with guys in suits. Luckily the stares they received didn't last long. She stopped Riddick in front of a puffy man in a grey suit, who wiggled his moustache at them.

"This prisoner is to go to holding D. I have been told to request your key."

"I will take him them." He eyed Riddick suspiciously

"No he is in my custody."

The puffy man wiggled moustache again, then hesitantly surrendered his keys.

Krista bowed her head, took the keys and dragged Riddick around again. She unlocked a door with her new key and pushed him through.

"Ok, we have to run now, so take off your-" She turned to look at him and noticed his hands were already free.

"Right. Come on." She ran down hallways, Riddick tracing her steps. Down two flights of stairs. She fiddled with the keys trying to find the right one to open the door in front of them.
She found the right one and rushed in locking the door behind them. She flicked the lights and they stared at the glorious ship before them. They also saw 5 of the councillors.

"Now Krista," One of them said. "You should no better." Riddick prepared himself to fight, but this was a fight he could not win.

Two of the councillors had guns that shot out electric fields. They couldn't't be dodged and they both fell to the ground instantly.