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"You know I can fight!" Jack said as she dodged a fist flying towards her face, she grabbed the arm of the man trying to hit her and threw him forward onto his back.

"The argument is over princess." Said Riddick from his observation point, leaning against a column as Jack ducked and kicked the legs out from underneath the next man who rushed her. They had been arguing all night and this morning when he had found her back at the training room, it had resumed.

Riddick tossed her one of the bamboo poles the trainees used and tossed it to her, Jack caught it and in one sweeping motion, used it to knock down three men.

"You know I'm good enough!" she protested as she used raised the pole to fend off another man as she used another bamboo pole against her.

"Not for what I have planned." Riddick said, watching the way Jack twirled the pole around her body until it was little more than a blur, she didn't seem to have trouble with it and didn't even wince as it made contact with another pole, held by one of the trainees. She swept the pole up and knocked the pole from the trainee's hands and pushing him back with a firm kick to the chest.

"You have something planned?" She asked Riddick, stopping to look at him. "What?"

she swung the pole back without looking and caught the man in the chest, not even looking back, Riddick had to admire her use of hearing.

"It's a surprise." He told her.

"I don't like surprises." She said.

"Learn to like them princess." He said, pulling his goggles down over his eyes and walking from the room.

"Don't call me Princess." Came her cry as she fought off another man.

Jack tracked him down two hours later as he studied complex maps of the main Necromonger ship.

"Riddick, what's going to happen?" she asked.

"Nothing you need to be concerned with." Riddick said, shuffling maps.

"Bullshit Riddick, I want in." She protested.

"You'll be helping." He said.

"Thankyou." She said, "Wait, helping how?"

"I still have details to go over, I'll tell you when I'm ready." He growled.

"What's wrong with now?" she asked.

"Because haven't planned everything." He said, not looking at her.

"Well I can help." She said.

"We are going up a race that we know nothing about, how can you help?" he growled.

"Well for one, I can tell you that your map is upside down." She pointed out. "Here's the main room, it appears that everything branches out from there, find the path, memorise the way to go, I'm assuming that's to find the person who runs this little freak show."

"I'll need a distraction." Riddick said.

"Well, you can kill the leader, me and some of the men will distract them." She suggested.

"What kind of suggestion are you talk about?" he asked.

"I think explosives will work nicely." Jack said.

"How do we get them into the ship in the first place?" asked Riddick, Jack grinned wickedly and he found himself almost dreading what she had planned.

The next day, Jack found herself talking to one of the trainees with an extensive knowledge of explosives, Riddick walked in to find them with their heads bent over a device and the man was showing Jack how to connect the wires.

"Can we rig them to give us time?" She asked.

"Yes, but not a lot, it's drop them and get out." The trainee said.

"Hey Riddick." Said Jack, not looking up, but instead studying the device carefully.

"Who is this?" he asked.

"This is Paolo, he is an explosives expert." She said.

"I found a way into the ship, the only problem is we have to wait for the thing to land." Riddick explained to her.

"Show me." She said, following him to the map room where several paths had been marked on the map. She pointed to a room on the map. "That's where the leader person is?"

"They call him the Lord Marshall." Came a voice from behind them. Riddick and Jack both turned to see Greayon standing in the doorframe, his dark hood covering his head.

"Is he killable?" asked Jack.

"By your hands, he believes he is." Greayon said, walking over to the map they were studying. "This will require great teamwork." He noted.

"We can do that." Jack said strongly.

"Well then, I have come to inform you that several ships outside the Lirage system picked up a commercial ship, on board was a holy man with his child and wife."

Jack perked up at the mention of Holy Man. "Imam?" she asked.

"He is being taken to safety, if you are able to stop the necromongers, then you will be able to see him again." Greayon informed them.

"Oh, so we do your dirty work and then we see him? You could have killed him, or not found him at all for all we know." Jack said, mad at the man. Riddick silenced her with a hand on her arm.

"We will allow you to see him then if that is how you feel." Said Greayon, before leaving the room.

"I think you offended him." Riddick commented to Jack.

"Good." Jack said, turning back to the map she began to mark the places she wanted the explosives to go. "You think this will work?" she asked Riddick softly.

"Of course it will, we're a team." Riddick said, looking into her eyes.

"Against a race of planet destroyers?" she asked sceptically.

"You won't let me die, I won't let you die, we're invincible." Riddick told her.

"I hope that's true." She said, looking away and back to the map.

"Hey." He said, grabbing her chin gently in her hands and making her look at him. "I won't let anyone touch you, okay?"

Jack smiled softly and nodded.

"Good girl." He growled, letting her get back to her plotting.

He looked at her, with her serious expression and her hair falling over her face, she didn't look anything like the kid he had rescued, she had hair for one, but the eyes hadn't changed, they were still big and green, good at hiding her emotions. She had the same stubborn set to her jaw when she wanted something to go her way, she still wasn't a morning person, and little things still annoyed her. even now, she was getting frustrated with her hair hanging over her face, swiping it back repeatedly, only to have it fall back over her eyes, finally she straightened up and pulled it all up on top of her head. Seeing Riddick looking at her, she frowned.

"What?" she demanded. Riddick reached up and pulled off his goggles so he could look at her properly. Reaching forward, he grabbed her chin and pulled her closer, leaning down and captured her lips in a kiss that seemed to go on forever.

He shifted Jack around and lifted her so she was sitting on the table as he continued to kiss her, hands running through her hair to pull out the band in her hair and let the silky waves cascade down. Her hands went around his neck and she kissed him back, just as hard as he kissed her.

They were interrupted by someone clearing their throat as they walked in the door. Jack and Riddick broke apart and looked to the door where Kalen was standing.

"Forgive me for, interrupting." He said, looking between them. "Greayon would like to talk to you master Riddick."

"What about this time?" he asked.

"Have fun." Jack said sarcastically.

"You, stay." Riddick ordered Jack before following Kalen out.

"Sorry big guy." She muttered, grabbing the maps and walking from the room.

When Riddick walked into the room, he was tensed, ready for a fight, nothing had changed, but he was angry at Kalen for interrupting, knowing Jack, she had already grabbed her things and fled from the room, as she tended to do after any sort of confrontation.

When Greayon walked into the room almost five minutes later, Riddick was ready to slit his throat, especially after the man took his time getting to the point.

"Hurry it up." Riddick growled.

"Am I to assume that you will help us?" he asked.

"No bounty, on either of us?" Riddick growled.

"None, you will both be free." Greayon promised.

"Fine, but we do things our way." Riddick said, before walking from the room.

As he had predicted, Jack had left the work room, but her scent still lingered in the room, he contemplated going to find her, but he decided to give her space, finding a spare map that she hadn't taken, he set to memorising the route to the chambers of the Lord Marshall.

Jack was woken in the middle of the night by consistent noise coming from the big room down the hall. Opening her door, she stuck her head out to see several people standing there.

"What's going on?" she asked Kalen, seeing him standing there.

"The full moon, the night of Allatar, they are preying to him." He explained.

"And that's what's with the noise?" She asked.

"Yes, they start at midnight and will not stop until the sun rises." He said.

"So no sleep?" she asked, rubbing her heavy eyes.

"What's going on?" asked Riddick.

"Big chanting thingy, don't stop till morning, keep us all awake." Jack muttered through a yawn. "I'm going to try sleep." She said, walking back to her room. Riddick listened for a few moments and followed Jack into her room. she was on the bed with a pillow clamped over her head to try drowning out the sound of the chanters. Riddick slipped into the bed beside her and wrapped his arms around her as they tried to sleep through the noise.

Jack awoke to a pounding headache from all the noise last night and Riddick's arms wrapped around her. she was surprised to see that Riddick was still asleep.

Mercifully, the chanting had stopped, but Jack was left with her headache and the bags under her eyes as proof of the rituals.

Sliding out from underneath Riddick's arms, she winced as her feet made contact with the bare floor, she walked over to the wardrobe and found clean clothes.

While she showered, she mentally went over everything they had planned, a lot of things were based on chance and some things were risky, and it had to be fast, really fast or else they would all blow up with the ship.

When she got dressed, she walked back into her room, to no surprise Riddick had disappeared, she made her way down the hall and to the training room, where all the men were already assembled. It had become a morning ritual for her, to join them and see how many of them she could fight off, sometimes they even threw in weapons to make it more complicated.

Today, like always, Riddick came to watch her, she tried her best to ignore him as she was attacked by one of the men, she set him back with a firm punch to the head and sent him flying with a kick to the abdomen.

She looked over and saw the expression on his face, jumping down from the platform, she discarded the metal pole she held and walked over to him.

"What's wrong?" she asked.

"We're going to Helion four." He said.

"Why?" Jack asked.

"Because, we need to set some stuff up." Riddick explained.

"When do we leave?"

"How soon can you be ready?" he asked.

"Soon." She said.

"Our ship is in the hanger, ready to go." Riddick said to her.

"Meet you there in an hour?"

"Make it half." He said, she nodded and walked back to her room.

He he, he called her princess, review plz and i will try to update asap.