I don't own Riddick. I just think he's the biggest bad-ass ever and wish to continue his epic tale.

Chapter 3: Business as Usual

Riddick's POV: Feralium 2: a small back-water planet in the Vega System.

This place has great cliffs, gigantic cliffs, and full of hidden perches, places to see and not be seen. But, cliffs are about the only thing it has. When I first got here, I wondered what I would find. The last place that looked like this was the planet of the monsters, the Planet of Eclipse. I remember most of the things that went on there, but lately, I'm remembered my first conversation with Imam. He assumed that I didn't believe in God. I corrected him, I absolutely believe in God. And I absolutely hate the fucker. That was the truth then and it still is now. Only difference is, now I have to ask, all this shit that's happened, Kyra's death, all that Necromunger bullshit, was it God fucking with me? Don't know. Don't really care either. I'm pretty sure that since before I was born, I had a spot in Hell, and it's only and matter of time before I end up sitting in it. Maybe Johns and Toombs'll be there, that way I can fuck with them for all eternity.

Right now there are people in this gorge, looking for me no doubt. Good for them, it's been a while since I've carved a merc up. Two parties, one's a five-man crew, all male, all armed to the teeth. They'll go first. The other's got only two people. Man and a woman, barley armed at all. Probably a decoy team. I've learned all the terrain here, every single stone. Jumping from cliff to cliff is as simple as ever. And now it gets interesting. When I broke up the Necros, Vaaco and his wife Siritia stayed on Helion Prime. Vaaco was pissed, guess he didn't have anything else to do but be a Necro. So the dumb-ass became a merc. Beautiful, this is gonna be fun.

Vaaco's POV: Vaaco Desary had been a Necromunger commander, the first among generals. He and his wife had conspired to kill the Lord Marshall. For he to kill the Lord Marshall and her egging him on, filling his head with lies that the plan was flawless. It was ironic; Vaaco was by birth, an earthling and had moved to Deneb 5 just before it was taken over. He had loved Shakespeare, and Macbeth had been his favorite piece. And now he was a mercenary, a bounty hunter with only one thing in mind; revenge on Riddick. That Furion bastard had stolen the kill from Vaaco, and then destroyed the only thing he cared about. Less then an hour after the Necromunger's 'freedom', Vaaco left his Harpy of a wife and joined a merc squad, growing in the ranks faster then could ever be expected, mostly due to killing his first boss. Vaaco looked to his left and saw two of his five man squad, looking in different directions trying to spot Riddick, they were in it for the 1.7 million credits on his head. Vaaco had a much more personal reason, he didn't care at all for the money, and Riddick's head mounted on a wall would be worth more than all the credits in the world. He looked to his right and saw another member of the squad. Vaaco did a full 180 and saw Riddick jump down from the cliff-face and plunge a vicious dagger into the back of the merc behind him. The man was stabbed right in the neck, through the spinal cortex and had its point sticking out of his neck. The poor man never saw it coming. Vaaco wasn't surprised in the least.

Riddick removed the knife and lifted up his trade-mark goggles, showing his Silvery, eye-shined orbs. On the trip, a superstitious merc had told the crew "Anyone, man, woman or child, that sees those eyes, gets a one way ticket straight to hell." The man was probably right. Riddick smiled and in his deep, calm voice said "When are you retards going to learn?"

Naturally, the other mercs freaked. "Oh Holy Shit!" One yelled, and all three started to fire at Riddick, who was prepared as always and used the dead man as a human shield. He drew a pistol from its holster on the dead merc's leg, and fired two headshots on the man next to Vaaco, leaving only the two to his right. "Man, I never wanted any of this shit!" the suspiscious one yelled and ran off, his arm against his eyes. "There ain't no way in hell you can make me look into that demons eyes!" 'Fool' Vaaco thought. 'Even if Riddick doesn't hunt him down, he'll get lost in these winding paths.' The final merc, caught up in his panic, kept firing at the body, despite the fact Riddick had already moved on. His gun clicked, as if out of ammo, and the man looked down to see Riddick, who had just sliced the lower half of the ammo clip off. Riddick finished the flawless maneuver by quickly stabbing the poor merc 3 times, then an upward stab through the jaw for good measure.

Riddick's P.O.V: So, with the amateurs out of the way, it's just me and Vaaco. "So then, are we gonna do this or is this a social call?" He draws a long, slender sword, looks like it's the same style as every other Necro weapon I've ever seen. "You destroyed everything I ever gave a damn about." He says. "Welcome to the fuckin' club. Now you know how I felt after your Precious Marshall killed Kyra. Wait, scratch that, you were going to kill him yourself so I guess he wasn't that precious to you after all."

He scowls, opens his mouth to say something and then comes straight at me, the dumb fuck screaming "Obedience without question, loyalty 'til Underverse come!" I dodge the downward chop and punch him in the head with my free hand. "Hey Nut-job, that doesn't mean shit anymore!" He rips his sword out of the rock with incredible ease. Now I remember, Vaaco was a Necromunger commander, even if he is a traitorous dumb-ass, he does have some skills. For all the good that'll do him.

"You couldn't just stay away could you?" he roars, "You went into isolation anyway! Why the hell couldn't you have stayed away!" The sword, despite its slender form, is big and bulky. Vaaco has to swing it with both hands and in long swings, leaving himself vulnerable. He should know that, but he's to blinded by rage to do anything but take a chop at me anyway.

"Bad Move."

I move under his arm, it's too far out in his giant swing, and move to gut him; he takes the bait, moving the hidden blade in his other arm to deflect the move. I drop down to his legs, and stab my blade around his shin, and into the soft calf, just below the Achilles tendon. Not a full hamstring, but he won't be prancing around anywhere. He screams, baby. The downward stab might have nicked me if he had stayed quite. As I get out of his range, I give him a punch to his left kidney and he keels over, into a kneeling position. "Tell you what; I'll let you have a nice Necro death, painful." I draw my largest dagger, flip it over to reverse the blade, and plunge it into his skull. "I've just stabbed you just behind the right cerebral cortex. The only place you could be stabbed in the head and still live. If I break the blade, like with the Marshall, you die fairly quick. But I'm going to take it out, and you'll be able to sit here in constant pain, for the next two hours." He can't talk, but he looks right at me. "You don't deserve this, but you really pissed me off, see you in hell."

So, one down, one less merc on my hide and one less pain in my ass. I wonder what Siritia will do. I don't have to go far; her party is just behind the wall to my left. A quick throw takes out the single guard, and she looks at me, completely unsurprised, like Vaaco. "What would you say, if I told you I just killed your husband?" She smiles, not missing a beat. "I'd say, he's not my husband anymore. And I never did like him much." I move next to her. "Why doesn't that surprise me?" I take a deep whiff of her scent. She's a conniving snake, but she, unlike many women in the galaxy, smells beautiful. She smiles, "Been a long time since you smelled beautiful, Riddick?" Its almost ironic, Vaaco and other mercs, they barge in; try to kill me on the move. Yet, for the second time this woman has gotten me into a dangerous position, at least it would have been, if I didn't know I'd killed her only back-up. I look right at her, "What am I going to do with you?"

She gets up; we both know the time for false friendship is over. "I suspect you'll kill me like you did my husband." "We'll, if I recall correctly, you were masterminding the whole plot. It only seems fair." I shoot back, drawing a knife.

She turns a resigned smile on her face. "Yes, I suppose it does, but I did not come here for your head, Riddick. I came to warn you. While you sit here, on this barren rock, the outside world bustles, you have grown more popular then ever, and with more then one side. This time Riddick, it is your fight, and the only way you'll win it is by charging into the belly of the beast."

I killed her, it only seemed reasonable. Warning true or not, there was no point in leaving a loose end, especially one as dangerous as an unpredictable Necromunger. I took Vaaco's ship, it was larger. So, Mercs. Not like that's anything new, but the way Siritia said it, sounds like this will actually be a challenge. Makes me wonder, besides, the usual suspects, who would be stupid enough to come after me?

Elsewhere: The crew got ready to head out, 6 man crew; you can't be too prepared when it's Riddick. It was a challenge getting a crew brave (or stupid) to sign up for a Riddick hunt, a suicide mission. The captain stood in the cock-pit, mentally preparing. Vengeance, would finally be achieved