Blaze: Yea an update! I know, I know I took forever to update again…sorry. Well anyway I'll give no excuses, so on with the story! Oh and I decided this will be a RidxOC and I will try to describe the surroundings more instead of just my character…thanks for pointing it out, randomn.
Warning: There are a few gruesome depictions in this chapter, child deaths ahead. For those who can't stand those things, just thought I'd let you know.
Disclaimer: Oi, check the first chapter!
"…" speaking
'…' thoughts
Secrets in the Dark: Chapter 3
After being fed by Johns, Riddick was not happy to be back in chains. He was guided back through the long hallways of the back route ship. The lights were fairly blinding at an angle so Riddick could only see some of the time and relied on his other senses as he walked. Besides, of course, his chains being tugged along by the blue-eyed devil walking ahead of him. Turning a corner his thoughts strayed to how he was finally captured.
Flashback
Johns held the arm of a young child, no older than six. He stayed put rooted to the spot, scared out of his mind. He was afraid he would be shot if he even blinked, but could not help but tremble. He had good reason to fear the man gripping his arm; his once happy friend lay not far off to his right dead. His shotgun pointed at the kid, Johns stood sneering at Riddick. The Big Man watched from only feet away keeping a stoic appearance with a shiv in each hand. Inside, though, he was tensed and ready for anything that should happen to come his way. His eyes narrowed behind goggled view as he searched his surroundings for way of escape. He was backed into a corner alley, in the dump city Johns had chased him to. In front of him stood Johns and his hostage 'shield is more like it' while to their right Johns first victim lay. Behind them the slowly darkening streets of the slums, were open. The amount of people usually walking among them had thinned hours ago. That was the only exit and Johns was blocking it.
As he watched the said merc, the purple and grey shades of his vision mixed together around him almost waiting for him to kill the child. Predatory anger flashed in Riddick's mercury pupils before he dropped his weapons, his blank face changed with slightly clenched teeth. 'God did he hate this merc.' His surrender didn't go unprovoked though.
"What ya getting soft Riddick, can't handle a couple of kid's deaths?" Johns pressed, a wicked smile playing at his lips.
"You becoming a convict Johns?" The Big Man countered smirking.
"It was in the name of the law, convict, do not question my actions!" The merc snapped, now seething with rage.
He carefully moved over toward his target and chained him with a wary, but satisfied eye. He pushed Riddick forward and directed him towards the docking bay, which was only slightly farther up the road from their current position. They needed to find a usable ship to get to the next port. The convict obeyed and allowed Johns to control him for the time being as he secured him to a street lamp. He knew what was coming next and was not happy. He instantly regretted his decision of surrendering when Johns turned back and followed their previous path into the alleyway they were just at. The Big Man ignored the shot that rang out from behind him as the merc cleaned up. He had left the young boy to grieve his friend as he secured his target, and now the boy had joined his friend in the afterlife.
Riddick growled as Johns returned now steering. 'Bastard killed those two for no fucking reason!' He may be a murderer but even he had some morals. They headed of to the docking bay to find their next line of transportation.
Within the darkness of the alleyway lay the body of two children, both no older than age six each, dead. Shot from behind one with no clue what hit them, a surprised look etched onto one face, the other with a look of sadness. They lay in a pool of blood spilled from a shotgun hole to each in the head…
End Flashback
Before he realized it, Riddick and his keeper had reached the passenger cabin. Roughly Johns tugged him in, smirking as he grunted slightly in a surprised response. The Big man found there was someone else in the room who wasn't originally there at check in, as he followed his captor in. There were a couple Arabs, dressed in there holy robes and turbans, seated away from most of the passengers, talking amongst themselves. Two bushwackers, wearing leather and working gear were near the lockers putting away their tools. Many of the other guests were in cryo-chambers except for what seemed to be a traveling merchant of sorts who was busying himself with organizing a few of his loose items. He too was near the lockers shelving his values carefully and checking them over.
The newly arrived passenger sat on the opposite side of the room on the built in seats. He took in her appearance carefully as he sniffed the air, taking in her scent as he stood there. He was slightly surprised to smell blood. Blood that he knew wasn't hers unless she had a large gash hidden underneath her clothes. She wore clothes that hugged her body except a hooded cloak that hung around her. Looking her up and down he noticed she did the same to him. Her color was different. She was ghostly pale and wore dark colors, for what he guessed, as a bad ass look. He caught a brief glimpse of her eyes behind her sunglasses. 'Red? Interesting…' He prevented himself from grinning, with difficulty, at her presence. It was predatory just like his; the way she moved, breathed, and even looked. He figured she had a hard life and that this young woman was a survivor, had strong survival instinct. 'A trait I like in a woman' he thought, a different shine to his eyes.
She got up quickly, seemingly done with her inspection and walked to an empty cryo-chamber. With a hesitant glance at Riddick's captor she strapped herself in. Riddick turned his view to the said Johns, who he found glaring at the young female. If he hadn't been chased halfway around a couple galaxies by the mercenary he would have just thought of Johns' expression a normal glare, but he knew better. Johns recognized the her, he was thinking deeply about who she was. Realization flashed on the convict's face as he saw the glint in Johns' eyes. The girl was wanted, she had a bounty, that was obvious. He had looked at Riddick many times with those eyes. Yet Riddick also saw something else in the merc's icy stare. A hint of attraction towards the female was there, one that angered his captive target to no end.
Instead of showing his emotions, Riddick remained silent and studied Johns. His captor seemed to be struggling with a decision within himself. 'Those scientists are offering big for her, alive, and I was going to catch her after I put Big Evil away. This is your opportunity Johns take it! Two birds with one stone and a whole lot of credits!' With that decided, he turned to his first prize, his smirk still plastered on his face.
"Hope you don't mind sharing your cryo-chamber, because you're going to have a friend for our trip."
His smirked faltered though when his expectations towards Riddick's response did not occur. The Big Man's face showed no emotion towards the comment, not even a twitch of a muscle. He had not bothered to pay much attention to the merc's annoying gloating. Even if he did he wasn't going to respond to anything he said, it was rather pointless and he liked to piss Johns off when he got the chance. Johns became slightly peeved, but stopped himself from saying anything. 'He wants you to make a mistake, don't give him the pleasure, man!' He reminded himself and turned away. He tugged at the chain meaning for Riddick to come, found his captive didn't bother to follow his silent order. He hadn't moved at all and seemed that he didn't intend to, even as the merc pulled at the chain again, harder this time. Johns had been peeved at first, but with his prisoner's lack of action he became full blown pissed off.
Riddick knew he wasn't helping himself by messing with the blue-eyed devil in front of him, but he didn't like that Johns was going after someone else while he still had himself to lock up, it's not like he was going to make it easy for the persistent merc. Besides that he was getting annoyed with acting like some obedient dog, coming whenever his master called. He was a wild animal and would not be tamed by this master with his nickel slick badge. He watched as Johns reached for his baton, the man's anger flaring, but Riddick decided that this time he would comply. He did not want to have Johns' bad side surfacing again. When that happened victim's arose, Riddick would get the blame. Unfortunately the Big Man didn't know this until what happened in the alley where the merc had managed to capture him. He walked towards his cryo-chamber obediently, although he almost openly gagged when Johns replied to his actions with a "good boy."
'Does he really think of me as his damn dog?' he asked himself in disgust, as he allowed himself to be strapped in. His cryo-chamber was the biggest of all and most secured. Locked in nice and tight for the flight, he watched as Johns carefully double checked his work and then content, backed out of the now smaller looking chamber. Riddick took up more space than most passengers. He then did something the convict did not expect. Johns left open the chamber door and slowly, but determinedly moved towards another one of the chambers. It was occupied and Riddick reminded himself amusedly that it was that females locker, Johns next target. Recalling Johns previous gloat, Riddick thought 'This is going to be one Hell of a ride…' as he watched the merc work.
Johns used his ID to force open the chamber doors. By now all the other passengers were asleep in their own Cryo-chambers allowing him to work with no interruption. The crew had gone to do a systems check before they too went to sleep and leaving it on autopilot. Johns quickly caught the now free female, removed her Cryo-sleep equipment, and transported her to Riddick's container. He strapped her in and secured her thoroughly with special bonds he bought in preparation for his next bounty. He hooked her back up to the Cryo-sleep equipment in Riddick's chamber, keeping her in her state of fantasy.
Once he was satisfied with the results he took a last look at his original prisoner. He knew Riddick would not easily let himself fall into Cryonic-sleep like everyone else. No, he was too wild for that, but he saw that the convict was not as awake as he had been, though he was still very alert. Johns shut and locked the chamber door, allowing the sign on top of it to glow, its words spelling out "No Early Release". With his job done, Johns moved to his chamber and strapped himself in. Before he fell asleep he glanced at the locked chamber next to him where his now two captured convicts were. The crew was now entering the cabin as well and strapping themselves in, meaning that take off was going to be real soon. With that thought Johns fell into a deep, but alert sleep.
To Be Continued…
Blaze: There you have it! Another chapter done…and hopefully it has better descriptions than the last, heh. So R/R my faithful readers and I will try and update soon. Suggestion welcome!
I would like to thanks all my reviewers so far for keeping me going with this fic! I really appreciate the suggestions you gave me and I hope I didn't disappoint you with this chapter.
By the way to answer your questions radomn:
It does seem unlikely that a vampire could be in this, but it's a big universe and you have to remember that Riddick's a Furyan a different…umm…breed(?), I guess, of human, so it could be possible that there is a world of vampires or something…I don't know exactly where I came up with idea though. I just really like vampires and thought it would be pretty cool to have one in here. Glad you love it though, XD! As for the name, I've always like the name Nyra (pronounced: Nigh-ra) and I have always associated the name with the moon, for some reason…so a vampire with that name seemed logical to me (I'm weird, lol). I wasn't actually thinking of Kyra when I named my young vampire, and didn't really think about it until you mentioned it…I always hated that Kyra died in the movie though…and I like to read those fics where Jack goes with Riddick after Pitch Black, so I don't think of Kyra much…hmmm, anyway thanks for the review!
I'll try and answer any questions in reviews, if anyone else has any so feel free to ask away, lol, but I won't give any spoilers so don't bother asking about those! R/R Thanks!
Love ya,
Blaze
