Chapter 7: Revelations

By the time they got out that prison, it was night time and the guards were on their trail. Shadow felt vibration and a roar. Jack and Riddick froze as they heard that sound before. Jack ran towards Riddick and held her hand tight. The nightmares are not over not by a long shot.

"Riddick, they here. I'm scared." Jack said

"I know, I won't let anything happen to you." Riddick said

"Neither will I let anything happen to you." Growled Shadow " I see two of them and they are not normal."

"Another DNA is ejected into them." Riddick said.

"Listen up, Sarah take everyone to the ship and get it started. Don't leave anyone behind except for me if I'm not back in about an hour. Someone's bleeding and they are trying finding the scent. Remember, NO heroes!" she said. She saw the creatures running towards them. " RUN!"

She ran a different way from everyone else. The hammerheads chased her; she was running with full speed. Out of the corner of her eyes she saw Riddick behind the hammerheads towards them.

"I thought you said no Heroes" laughed Calandra. Shadow just growled. She took the shivs out of back pocket and dropped to the ground. Both ran pass her and she got up and ran up the back of the second one. She took her shivs and cut it to death. The hammerhead blood was everywhere on her. The first hammerhead landed on top her and jabbed with its hand and she let out a cry. It opened its mouth and dropped next to her. She felt her blood and saw Riddick standing over her. Shadow changed back to Calandra as Riddick picked her up and began carrying her back to the ship.

"Didn't I say, NO heroes." she weakly

"Do I ever listen and who said I was a hero?" he said

"Good answered." she said as she went unconscious.

Riddick walked inside the ship and commanded Sarah to get them the hell out of here. Riddick took Calandra into the medical room and the Elder followed him and so did Jack.

"Let me help her Mr. Riddick," said the Elder

"What makes you think I trust you old man?" growled Riddick

"You don't have too, but I going to do what I need to do for my granddaughter and for the queen of Pantoria." he said as he realized that he wasn't suppose to say granddaughter.

"Old man, you have a lot of answers." he said as he walked out of the room with Jack who was still silent and confused.

"As such as you and my granddaughter has with questions." said the elder.

Riddick and Jack went inside of Riddick's bedroom. It took him a minute for him to realize that she was actually lying there next to him. Jack looked totally different to him but smelled the same. He had a question for her, but he didn't know if it was the right time for it.

"I met Shadow on Old Earth, this was before I ever met you. I was running away from my stepfather because he was doing things that no man should not be doing. At that time I went anywhere I could, so I could feel safe for the night. I don't know how, but Shadow and I became close and I stayed with there with her. I was good with my hands and she was good in getting into places that no one could get into without a problem. We became the best computer theft and hacker on the planet. Until things went sour, I shouldn't have gone home, but I needed to check on my mother. I climbed inside the house like I usually do, but this time he was waiting on me. I couldn't see in the dark but I felt something hit me on the back. He pulled me by my hair and slammed me against the wall. He held me by the neck and did things to me that I cannot say and I dare not to say. After he did what he did, he beaten me close to death and left the house. I found my mother watching the whole thing, she told me that I deserved what had happen to me, so I left and went back to Shadow's. It was dark and I went to bed and the last thing I remember is that I saw two glowing eyes staring back at me. The next morning on the news it said that a man and woman was killed viciously at their home. The woman's throat was cut from ear to ear and the man's private part was cut off, put in his mouth and cut his throat from ear to ear. The attacker left a note on the victims who said: They can't hurt you no more I wouldn't let them. When I saw the attacker I couldn't believe it was she. I didn't know how she knew but she knew. Damn it, Riddick, she knew and I was very grateful and that was last time I heard from her. But there was always a connection and I never forgotten those glowing hazel eyes. I would do anything for her even if that means dieing for her I will." cried Jack. She couldn't breathe and yet she felt safe and loved with the two people who have given their freedom and life for her. Jack figured that Riddick and Calandra need each other now then ever and she was going to push them along the way. Riddick was shock and amazed how much Jack told him and how much she grew up in the past seven years. He held her more closely as more question came across his held and Jack knew it.

"Jack, " Riddick said

"Yeah?"

"How old were you when this happen?"

"I think I was around 13 years old, I just turned 14 years old when I met you. I think Shadow was about 17 or 18 years old when she was sent to Butcher Bay. I know she looked younger than she really is."

"How did you know that?"

"Know what?"

"How did you know what I was thinking? There's something that you are not telling me."

"What are you talking about Riddick?"

"Don't play coy with me Jack, how do you know what I'm going to say before I can even get it out?"

"Because I like I said I have a connection with Shadow and some of her rubbed off on me, Riddick"

"And what makes you think that?"

"The Elder."

"What about the old man?"

"He has the answer that you seek."

That was the last thing she said to him before she drifted off to sleep. The Elder had a lot of questions to answers. But right now is making sure that Calandra is going to pull through it.