Chapter 14

Two weeks had seemed to just drag by as Kirby stared out the window into a black nothingness filled with

little yellow spheres and clusters. 'Why Furya?' she thought boredly, 'I didn't want to go back to that war

ridden planet.' She remembered getting into trouble there like it was yesterday. That's where this journey

started. This 'expedition' that was more of a running from the bounty hunters and trying not to get killed.

The ship lurched suddenly and Kirby snapped out of her trance. Nikoli was having issues with the controls

as a planets gravity tried to snatch them faster than they should have gone in at.

"What the hell!" She yelled grabbing the arms of her chair.

Nikoli didn't answer and started to flip control switches.

She looked over to see a green and brown planet that was pulling them closer and closer...

Kirby crawled out of the broken door and onto the barren planet of Furya while coughing wildly from the

dust. She felt her forehead that had blood trickling down it and stared at her hand. It was evident Nikoli had

ditched her in fear for his own life when she had hit her head and knocked herself out on the way down to

the planet. Off in the distance she heard gun fire and explosions.

"Haven't changed have you?" she asked the planet as if expecting it to reply. Kirby gathered herself and

jumped to her feet. Looking around she figured that she would take refuge between two buildings still

standing. She tried to run over to the alley between them but then realized she could barely walk. When she

reached the alley she felt as if someone was watching her and noticed that the explosions were drawing

closer. Hobbling over to the wall she felt someone's presence behind her and turned around. Kirby let out a

cry as Riddick went to grab her. She turned around and ran towards the other end of the alley. As she did

there was an explosion and she fell down from the pain shooting up her leg. Riddick was walking towards

her calmly as she held onto her leg in agony. More explosions erupted around them and one of them right

above where Kirby lay. The building began to crumble and she saw him yell something. Pieces of bricks fell

around her and she looked up as a board fell down.

Riddick rushed to Kirby's side and lifted her head up to make sure she was breathing. When he found that

she was he let her head down and got a good grip on the board. With all of his might he picked it up and

threw it across the alley. He returned back to her side and tried to make her regain consciousness.

"Kirby!" He yelled shaking her a bit.

She didn't move she was still as lifeless as before. Riddick lowered his cheek to her mouth and felt a soft

breath against it. He tried shaking her again and stared at her. Her eyes fluttered open and she looked at him

in a 'I give up' way.

"You look a little beat up. "he said looking at the cuts and scraps on her face. Places on her body were

already bruising .

"And?" she asked.

He smirked, 'at least she still has her attitude'.

Riddick picked her up gently and started off for his ship.

Kirby woke up in bed and freaked out at her surroundings. Her sudden jerk made her body tense up and

ache in pain. She felt her face once the pain subsided a bit to find a bandage. Her arms had a few wraps on

them and so did her legs. The one that had been her downfall was in a cast and propped up on a pillow.

Kirby sat up as best as she could and got up out of bed a bit wobbly. It took her a moment to get a balance

and she went out into the hallway. She then realized she was in Riddick's ship as she made her way down

the hallway to the cock pit where he was sitting in the pilots seat staring out into space.

"You've been out quite awhile." He said.

"Yeah…"she mumbled hobbling over to the copilot's seat.

He sat silently still staring. The silence settled on them heavily as she sat down.

"Have you seen Nikoli?" he asked.

Kirby look at her hands, "He ditched me."

"I figured as much. What did he tell you?"

"Nothing." She lied clenching her fingers.

"Then why'd you leave?"

"Felt like it…"Kirby replied looking over at him. He looked rather displeased and tried not to look her in the

eyes.

"Let's get you back to bed." Riddick said standing up.

"I think I've had enough time in the bed, I'm fine"

"You still need bed rest." He said walking over to her and picking her up.

She let out a deep breath in response and he walked her to her room.

---Sorry it took so long guys, I have a lot of homework so it took awhile to get this up. I know it's not much :(