Chapter 9: Releasing all that Matter
Calandra went to her room and shut the door. Out of the corner of her eyes she saw Riddick standing there. She sat on her bed with her head hanging down from being tired and stress. Her body aches from frustration. Riddick came behind and started rubbing neck and shoulders. She forgot that the only thing that she had on was a towel and her bathing suit.
"What do you want Riddick?
"Shhh, relax"
Riddick gently rubbed neck and her shoulders; he could feel the tension in her body. He could feel the pain in her body from what he couldn't understand. Her body starts to tremble. He told her to lie on her stomach and take off the towel and she did what she was told. He realizes that she needed to let it all at. All that she was keeping to herself was making her sick. His hands traveled to her back as he rubbed her down, there were nothing but silence. He noticed that she had two tattoos on her back, there was one of a black cat with a diamond in the middle of its forehead and the other was something written Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics. He went lower down her back and saw another, which said Jack and Sarah.
"Interesting" he whispered as he bent down to smell her and to get her scent in his nose.
"What is?" she mumbled
"You have three tattoos."
"Four."
"I only see three. You need to let it all out. What is bothering you?"
"Bad blood… He touched her in the wrong way… He must die."
"Who?"
"She got pregnant…miscarriage."
"Calandra?"
"Blood…so much of it I can smell it…pregnant when she met me…"
"Calandra?"
"I smell an unwanted child…beat her tried, to kill her, and the child…nearly succeeded"
"CALANDRA!"
"He knew, she knew, her mother knew…poor child came to me for help…she doesn't know and I'm glad that she doesn't remember that she was pregnant."
"Calandra come back to me."
"I falling in love with a man that I can't get to love me… Have another who raped me and he's obsessed with me."
"Calandra, Come back to me."
"A future that I don't understand and yet I have to kill another bastard to make things right…I'm a princess of land that I has never been too. I see the pain…God it hurts, the pain the mothers went through seeing their sons being killed with their own cords. I receive only half of the mark of Furya and I have to receive the other part from Riddick. Easier said then done, the Elder wants me began training in fighting and the proper way to control the animal in me."
Riddick rolled Calandra on her back and sat her as he looked at her. He noticed that she wasn't even there. She kept mumbling things in a different language and then she went completely silence. He didn't know what to do so he hugged her and she started to cry. He finally realizes she was under so much pressure that she didn't talk about it or even didn't know how to deal with it. He didn't know how he felt about Calandra, but he had to think of something quick. Calandra pushed Riddick away and stared at him.
"What happen?" she asked
"Nothing, you don't remember?"
"No, all I remember is about tattoos and massage. Oh please, tell me I didn't have an episode."
"An episode?"
"When there's a lot of things on my mind, start saying things on my mind and I won't stop until everything on my mind is off of chest. Usually the person do something to get my attention but it is better for me to go straight through because sometimes it can get worse and I don't come out of them. It happen to me once and I was surprise that she brought me out of it."
"Who?"
"Jack."
"She's a good person."
"Now, that is a true statement. Even when other people see the bad in people, for some reason she tried to see the good in people until they do something to her and I will kill them for that."
"Now that is something we agree on."
"Yep, and her name is Jack."
"Do you know her real name?"
"Jackie Amy Jones."
"Jack or JJ or short."
"Exactly, don't tell her that I told you."
"I won't. What is your full name?"
"Calandra Amanda Jones"
"What is Sarah full name?"
"Kimberly Sarah Tulio-Johns. What are you getting at?"
"The Book?"
"I know where the book is, it's right here," she said as she pointed behind the mirror in her room. Riddick went to the mirror and took down and saw a book inside of the glass safe. He turned around and looked at Calandra.
"How long did you known it was there?"
" Since you came in here and stood at that corner."
He began pacing back and forth, and then it came to clear to him what he had to do. He remembers all three names and types them inside the computer and it was invalid entry. Un matching DNA, it pop in his head that the ship needs Calandra's DNA to open the safe. He look down on the side of the keyboard and noticed that there was a riddle on the side to open the safe with the right DNA.
"Three names is the key to name the past queen and with future DNA of the next." he whispered and he went to Calandra. "What is your mother's name?"
"I don't know." she said, "No one will tell me."
"Fuck." he growled He paced back and forth and Calandra sat there looking at the safe. Then it pop in her head the answer that she was looking for.
"I got it." She said as she went into the safe and entered: Amy Calandra Tulio pressed entered. The lights flickered and safe open.
"Hello Calandra, Queen of Pantoria." said the computer
As soon Calandra touched the book, it wouldn't let go. Calandra's eyes rolled in the back of her head as she flew back on the bed. The light was so bright from the book that it blinded Riddick for a good minute. When the light was gone, the book dropped from Calandra's hand and everything went black for both of them.
