The Descent into Hell
*put disclaimer here*
^Let the night terrors commence^
"Hey Fry, what cha doin'?" I asked as I walked inside the skiff
"I'm planning on doing a system's check, why?"
"Can I stay?"
"Don't see why not, just sit down and don't touch anything"
"Alright, thanks".
After flipping some switches she got up and turned around but stopped before passing the chairs. "What's wrong… oh, hi Riddick" I said seeing Riddick in the back.
"Looks like were a few shy… power cells" stated Riddick, I looked between him and Fry.
"They're coming" answered the captain, a slight quiver to her voice.
"It's strange, not doing a run-up on the main drive yet", Riddick stopped talking for a sec, taking this time to hang his breathing apparatus on a hook by the door. "Unless… unless he told you the particulars of my escape" he questioned, and or, stated. Fry then started moving answering without giving him a second glance, "I got the quick and ugly version".
"Well ain't you special… me on the other hand, I'm clueless as to what the hell's going on so a little sneak preview would be nice", I stood up and placed myself by Fry but was ignored all the same.
"Now you're worried about a repeat of history" Riddick spoke first, staring the captain.
"It has entered our minds", said Fry as she side step to turn off a screen to our left.
Abruptly Riddick moved in front of us… alright, he stood before Fry, "I asked what you thought".
I gave up caring and walked to the back to wait for the door to open so I could leave. I was nothing more than a fly on the wall. It was as if the fabled ring of Mordor had found purchase upon my finger, and the whole world was looking right through me… I love the classic fantasy books.
As I was staring a hole into the closed ramp, I must have zooned out again, but even still my subconscious picked up a very funny word… trickeration, he-he funny. When I came back from the happy place in my head I found that the conversation had covered, for all intensive purposes, absolutely no ground.
"Then again, I am worth twice as much alive. Oh, you didn't know that? Your Johns aint a cop", he was cheek to cheek with Fry. "He's got that nickel-slick badge and that blue uniform, but he's just a merc".
"Well damn Riddick, you might as well just tell everyone" I said, he continued only like I said nothing.
"And I'm just a payday, that's why he won't kill me, see? The creed… is greed"
"Don't waste my time", Fry snapped at him. "We're not gonna turn on each other, no matter how hard you try".
As Fry sat back down to finish the sys-check I went back to my own world, to once again wait for the stupid ramp to open.
I must have mastered the art of zoning out when I want, because all I heard was my own personal little mantra of "open… open…come on open… I need to friggin pee-tinkle".
Finally it started opening and while I waited for the door to stop moving Riddick just walked out, but before I could follow his lead and find a bathroom a voice called out from behind me.
"You knew, didn't you?" she said incredulously.
'Le sighs', "yep", I said popping the P. "I got it out of him while you played cat and mouse with the nasty beasties down below", I replied in a childish tone. "Don't look at me in that tone of voice, would you have believed me if I had told you? I don't think so", before she could say anything else I ran off like a bat outta hell looking for a bathroom… or at least a very private area.
Lucky me, I had found a bathroom in what I guess was the sleeping quarters. Back outside Jack, Imam, and Paris were looking at the sky, "what are we looking at?". Jack just pointed out towards were the sky met the earth, and I could see the problem. A planet was making its way higher, swiftly climbing its way towards the suns.
"Holy heart failure. I'd rather reenact the crash landing than deal with this shit", this moment was worse than when I found out there was three suns.
"What are my eyes seeing?" questioned Paris, asking no one in particular.
"An eclipse of epically shitty proportions", came my oh-so-witty remark.
"If we need anything from the crash ship, I suggest we kick on. That sand cat's solar", said Shazza. Her statement got everyone to kick it into high gear, heading full throttle to the aforementioned sand cat.
I sat as close to Jack as I could, I had grown fond of her, she was like the sister I never had, and I didn't want anything to happen to her. The Naginata also sat by my side, as I said before… I am so keeping this one.
"Where's Riddick?" called the panicked cry of Jack.
"Dear sweet Jack, one can only hope you would worry half as much if I had been the one missing", I said jokingly. 'I think I saw a blush, how cute'.
"Leave him, he wouldn't wait for us", replied Paris. And as if he was waiting, Riddick jumped from the top of the building right behind us and next to Paris. "Thought we'd lost you", Riddick had scared Paris so bad you could hear the shaking in his voice.
"Johns", Shazza yelled trying to get him to hurry up his slow ass up.
"Now him we can leave" I said, smirking as we started off without him.
Unfortunately just as we started off he shows up and Riddick, of all people, has to go and help him onto the cat. 'So close, I was so damn close of being rid of him'. We were chugging along when out of my peripheral I saw Jack quickly duck down beside me, straight after which we hit a massive rib cage.
"That's what you get for not paying attention" I reprimanded her.
"Sorry", she apologized with a sheepish grin.
"Just, try to be more careful" I pulled her into a quick hug, and she seemed to curl into it.
In no time we reached the crash ship and all the guys ran off. Riddick, Johns, and Imam went to get the power cells and Paris went to… well I don't know why he left. I sat on the edge of the sand cat, watching as the planets moved high enough that my sunglasses where no longer necessary. It had grown dark enough that they had become more of a hindrance than a help, so I took them off.
"Nice eyes, can you see in the dark too?" asked Jack
"Only a little better than most", it was the truth. Though I couldn't actually see better than 20/20 during the day, at night I had a slight advantage over normal people. I could see in the lowest of light but it was blurs unless close enough to my face, thing is I really don't want these things that close to me for any reason.
As the beginning of the eclipse started Jack tried to clean dirt of the solar cell to keep the sand cat going, but it was no use. By the time the men returned with the cells the solar cat had died and all went quiet… for a few seconds anyway. The screeching of the demons below our feet filled the air, hell had finally arrived and its demons were hungry.
Just like their cries the beast's claimed the sky, hundreds upon thousands… hell it could have be millions of flesh hungry creatures ready and wanting to eat us alive. 'It would be my luck to get stuck on the one planet with flesh eating monsters, on the day that all hell lets loose'.
"How many are there?"
"Let's put it this way Johns, you really don't want to know" I told him.
I just barely heard Riddick's whisper since I was next to him, what beauty he saw I will never know. And since knowing would mean getting in his head, I'd rather not.
"Holy hell in a hand bag on Christmas day", I really hope I live through this, I really do.
Paris was shouting from next to the ship, "people, just a suggestion… perhaps you should flee!"
We all ran for the safety of the fallen ship. But as well of a runner as I was on hard surface… I was shit on sand, I was lucky to keep just in front of Riddick.
Our sprint to the shuttle was short lived as Shazza made a dive into the sand. I did the same but wound up rolling down a sand dune in a not so graceful form. Just as I stopped, Riddick rolled to a stop at my side seeming to have mimicked my half-hazard decent. Glanceing around I saw that we still had a few feet between us and the others, and Shazza was just ahead of us. I was so busy though trying to save myself, I didn't notice her make a run for the others till I heard Jack's cry of "stay down!"
"Jack, stay in the ship you hear me. Stay in the ship! Paris, don't let him watch. You turn him around now!" both did as they were told. My attention was now on Jack, the need to get to her was stronger than my sense of self-preservation. I attempted to get up but was pushed straight back down, the rush of wind across my back alerted me to the present danger that had descended. I knew, without a doubt, that Shazza was a goner.
Her screams were terrible, these looked like babies and even they were able to pull her to pieces, 'I hate to imagine what the bigger ones will do'. Before they flew off I got a good look at them: their heads were like that of a hammer head shark but with a ridge on the top and bottom as well, they had two limbs only but their hands had razor sharp claws, at the middle of their backs they had big wings, and at the tip of their long tail it split into two, both covered in razor ridges.
Only after they flew off with the remains of Shazza did Riddick and myself make our way back to the ship. I was running to Jack who looked close to a mental break down.
"It's ok, it's gonna be fine. Everything will be alright", I said as I pulled her to my side and maneuvered her inside. She was shaking like a leaf in a tornado as she clutched to my side, holding to me as if I could hold her sanity together. She was being held down by a wounded heart, but I know that all wounds heal when given the time. The question is… will any of us have the time?
*end part 6*
So now the real fun starts. What do you think? Good, bad… dismal at best?
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