(Disclaimer: I do not own Riddick or any of the Chronicles of Riddick, or Pitch Black characters.)
She woke up to the roaring sound of a fire. She looked passed the flames to find Riddick sitting on the ground watching her. She stood up grabbing her stick and walked around the fire to him.
"Riddick…" She said as she knelt down beside him. She new yesterday he was so weak he almost died and was saved by a 12 year-old girl. "I'm sorry." She said to him looking at the ground. "I'm sorry I saved you, I'm sorry I came here." She stood up and started walking away; but he grabbed her hand, she stopped and turned around.
"I'm glad you came." He said pulling her close to him. He pulled her close so she could sit next to him. She sat down with her knees at her chest and her stick by her side.
"Ya know, a while ago I would have blamed you for this." She stated looking straight ahead. She heard Riddick grunt, but not as a threat as a question. "For me falling into the vat of bio chemicals and blinding me, but I did get a few things from it. I can hear your heart, and see the sound it creates. I can smell better then you." She explained. "Please tell me why I had to save you."
"Two days ago I went hunting…Two Urzo ambushed me and wounded me. I went hunting again yesterday and three ambushed me, they were moving in for the kill when you showed up." Riddick told her.
"I… I… felt it." Again she got the same question of a grunt. "On the ship here I felt a knife slice through my side, when I looked there was blood, but no cut. Then after I heard you yell I felt as if someone had shoved a spear through my stomach. I felt your pain, before I saw you or the Urzo; I didn't think you were in trouble because I didn't feel any fear. I felt your adrenaline rush and the hate you have, but I never felt fear." She turned so her body was facing him and lifted up her coat and shirt and felt around on her stomach to find scars coinciding to Riddick's wounds. She couldn't see his face but she knew he showed no emotion. She put out her hand to feel his face, but his hand took a hold on her wrist; waiting a moment he placed her hand on his cheek. She moved her hand up over his eyes and his forehead then with her other had she did the same, she had found him. She could she his magnificent bright eyes closing as she touched them. She felt him lean into her touch.
"Thank you." She heard his voice low and raspy. She felt tears coming on but she didn't want to show her own pain.
"When you left I thought I had lost you forever, then I come looking for you and find you dying in my arms. When I knelt at your side your heart was barely beating. I laid my head on your chest to feel your heart pumping blood out of your body. I thought I was gonna loose you again." She let her hands fall to his chest; then she snuggled up to him and laid her head in his lap as if he was her dad and she had, a bad day. She closed her eyes. "Please don't' leave me again." She whispered. She felt a hand by her eyes feeling the scars left by the chemicals. She just let the tears fall.
"I won't." Riddick made the promise not realizing what he was promising. If she stayed with him she would be taken by the mercs or worse killed by them to get to him.
"I know what you're thinking. You can't let me stay because you don't want mercs to take kidnap me or worse be killed by them to get to you. I can feel your hate. At first I didn't know what it was because it was new to me. You're my brother Riddick and I love you. You saved me and I saved you. I trained for nine months just to find you." She couldn't' hold them anymore, tears streamed from her faded blue eyes to wet Riddick's black pants. Jack held a grasp on a clump of his pants, she tightened her grip. She stood up taking her stick in hand, giving him a fighting stance. "I can't believe you left!" She yelled at him He stood up grabbing a spear he had on the wall. She shook her head picking up her saber claws (Riddick's present to her) she went at him but he blocked it, the two fought for about a minute before Jack caught him with one of her claws at his groin. He gave a grunt of approval but she didn't move.
"I should castrate you right now for leaving me. Take away something you love, something you need. Like you took away from me." She put more pressure on the blade.
"There's a Tracking Beacon on every New Meccan transport. And I know you didn't buy that ship." She didn't want to hurt Riddick but show him how she felt. She pulled away the knife and threw a punch his way as he dodged it. She threw another and he dodged that one as well, she gave him a combination of kicks and punches, combo's he'd never seen before. She kicked him in the chest and did a back flip landing in a crouched position. She ran at him with a yell and jumped over him giving him a nice round-house kick across the back, and an elbow in the neck. When he swung his leg behind him to trip her she jumped up and pushed his body to the ground. He jumped up, she stood waiting for him, She ran up the wall nearest her and did a back flip off it landing behind Riddick putting him in a head lock and body slamming him to the ice floor. She started cryin as she fought with him. He jumped to his feet she came at him with fire in her eyes and hate in her soul. She jumped into the air grabbing Riddick's body and pulling it to the ground; she landed on his chest with one of her blades to his throat.
"I can't kill you and you know it." Her hand started to shake. "I hate you." Jack yelled hitting the ground with her fist cracking the ice beneath it.
"Oh, and thanks for the blades Riddick. I wouldn't have been able to save you without them. Come, I'll show you where I landed." Jack headed out the cave with Riddick at her side. "If you can get me to the spot I found you I can go from there." Riddick did so he guided her to the ice valley she found him in hate still in here heart.
Jack slide down into the ice valley with Riddick close behind. She hit her stick on the ground to find the spot where the Urzo rushed at her. She followed the sound waves and saw the dark spot on the wall of the valley and walked up the side with a little help from Riddick. The wall was to steep to climb.
"How do we get up?" Jack asked looking up the wall then at Riddick. Riddick just grunted and squatted, she grabbed hold of his neck; he stood up and pulled out his sickles (To see what these knives look like go to and he's holding them across his chest, and to see Jacks blades go to Using his sickles Riddick climbed up the wall of ice with ease. At the top Jack led Riddick to her ship. They came to the spot where she had taken a rest and bled on the white snow.
"Where going the right way." The two kept walking until Jack could smell the sent of oil in the air. "Where about ½ kilometers away." Jack stopped at a sound she heard in the distance. "We have company, and if we don't hurry they're gonna catch up." Riddick started running; Jack heard him cutting the wind with his movement and followed. The ship started to come into view. Jack detected a strange odor in the air. "Urzo ahead." The ship was 100 yards and closing along with the Urzo guarding the ship. The two came face to face with one large Urzo. It stood between them and the ship.
"Um…Riddick, this one is way bigger then the other ones." Jack stated with her eyes wide open keeping her eyes on the large beast. She slowly pulled out her blades and banged them together to see where the creature stood. She went at it with her blades crossed over her chest. She did a slide on her stomach hopeing to make it under the Urzo's legs, but she didn't make it. The creature took its large foot and kicked her over to the side and went for her. She started to get up when the creature came in front of her doing a scoop with its claws and stabbing Jack in the stomach with four of its five claws. Riddick grunted loudly as he ran up behind the Urzo and stabbed it using both of his sickles.
Jack fell to the ground painting the snow a light crimson color. Riddick knelt at her head and placed it on his knees. His eyes glazed over with fear that she would leave him.
"Fear. I feel afraid. Won't leave you if you won't leave me." Jack said looking at Riddick. She couldn't see him well but she could see him. "I'm cold." She told Riddick as tears escaped from her eyes. Riddick slid his right arm under her legs and picked her up carrying her onto the platform and into the ship. He set her in the pilots chair, taking a few steps back he pulled off his first pelt and laid it on the floor; then he pick Jack back up and laid her down on it, straitening up he pulled of his second pelt laying it on top of her. He stepped outside grabbing her pack and walking back inside, he laid it under her head. He took the seat at the controls; he pulled a lever making the ramp raise. He got the ship off the ground and into space.
AN: I know, I know what happens next right? Well stay tuned for chp. 5. Hope you liked. Plz R&R:)
