Chapter 2
You kidding Right?
She tossed and turned around in the bed unable to get comfortable, every position she put herself in only caused her more pain. " Wait…bed" she said to her self as her arms explored the soft mattress and sheets. Realizing that she was, in fact, laying on a bed and not on the cold, wet asphalt of the alley her eyes shot open revealing the bright lights of the room. The bright lights pierced her sensitive eyes forcing her to squint until she got used to the lights.
She quickly shot up from the bed, and got halfway across the room before her body caught up to her actions and gave out. She hit the ground with a hard thud and an "oowff. Just as she managed to crawl back over to the bed, the door to the room opened.
A large well, built man with a shaved head and black goggles walked in and stood in the doorway staring at her as she sat next to the bed on the floor.
She sat there staring at the man as he stood in the door way staring back at her, after what seemed like an hour the man broke the silence by asking in a deep commanding voice " you ok?"
She cocked her head to one side and answered in a shallow voice and a puzzled look on her face " Ya, I think so" and as if satisfied with her answer the man turned around and walked out of the room, as he walked down the hallway she heard him say "I will be back later with food."
She sat there staring down the long dark hallway, wondering how she came to be in a bed and not dead. She slowly got up out off the bed and walked over to the door to the room and closed it, she then went back over to the bed and sat on the corner of it and looked around the room. It was a small white room, with a bed centered in the middle, on one of the walls, there was two doors to the right of the bed and the door in front of her that led out of the room, that was all there was. As her eyes started to adjust to the light she noticed that there wasn't a lot of light, the room wasn't completely dark but there was enough light to where she could clearly make out everything in the room. She got up and walked over to the two doors on the right and opened them. One was a small closet that was empty except for a blanket and spare pillow. The second door led to a bathroom, also very small, there was a shower, sink with a small mirror over it and a toilet, nothing more nothing less. She walked over to the mirror and looked at the reflection staring back. Her face was a black and blue mess of bruises and cuts. She looked down at the ground not wanting to see herself in that way. She had looked bad before, a black eye, or bruised cheek but it had never been this bad, but it had also never gotten that far. She shook the images out of her head; the last thing she wanted to think of was her father. As she started to wake up more she noticed that everything in the room had a weird look, almost unreal. Like something you would see in a low budget horror film space movie.
She moved over to the bed and sat on the end of it, her body was still screaming at her, ever muscle in her body seemed to have its pains and aches. As she slowly ran her hands over the slim curves of her shoulders and neck, the door opened. In walked the man from before. She jumped back to the back of the bed just at the sight of him, he frightened her, even though her inner self (intuition) told her he wouldn't harm her. He tossed a small bag of crackers onto the bed next to her and said. " Hear you should eat before we enter cryo-sleep" a cold chill ran up her back and down to the tips of her toes. "Cryo-sleep?" She replied with a shaky voice.
" It's a long trip to Harvester 9 and I really don't want to sit around for 34 days"
As he stood there looking at the puzzled, frightened look on her face, he suddenly remembered what he had read on the information screen before heading for earth.
EARTH: a small planet consisting of only humans and animals, not far advanced and no known space explorations at this time. Humans are of a peaceful nature and know nothing of the true violence that exists in the universe. They also believe that they are the only advanced life form in existence.
A smile crept across his face, there was nothing quite as funny as seeing someone go under in a cryo-sleep for the first time, the way they fought the sedation as if it where to save there vary sole from the cold hand of death it was truly an entertaining site. He looked at her and then said "follow me, I have something to show you" and at that he turned and walked off. Not sure what to do she slowly got up and limped her way behind him, being careful not to lose site of him in the long dark hallways.
They came to a small cabin like area with two seats and a shit load of flashing lights and buttons. The man motioned for her to sit in what looked like a copilots chair as he sat down in the pilot's chair.
" I'm Riddick, and your on my ship, were heading for the planet of Harvester 9. I brought you along because I believe you can help me find what I'm looking for."
The young girl smiled, and was on the verge of braking down and laughing, until she saw the look of seriousness on Riddicks face.
"Um, space ship?" was all she could squeak out with out starting to laugh. Her smile soon faded as a grin crept its way onto Riddicks face. He leaned forward and pushed a small yellow button off to the side of his chair. She sat there thinking to herself about what short of luni-ben this guy had escaped from, but she was stopped in mid thought with the sound of metal scraping agent metal, she turned her gaze towards the front of the ship and saw that there was what looked like a windshield being revealed. Her mouth dropped open as the vast numbers of stars and planets came into view. There where so many colors on a black background. Everything was so clear and perfect. She had never in her life imaged seeing something so perfect in her life. The very look of the universe seemed to cleanse her sole of the many sins that defiled it.