Authors note~ yup, fourth chapter and only one faithful review, thank you Shatteredstar21. It seems like it's going really fast and I apologize if it isn't long enough for some people.

Disclaimer~ I do not own pitch black.

Both Emily and Ali were led back to the Cafeteria where they were given water and their wounds were looked at. As everyone sat around them, waiting to hear what happened, Emily counted her wounds.

"Thirteen cuts, 4 bruises and one sprained pinky toe." She sighed as Shazza cleaned out a cut just under her right eye. She winced as the alcohol touched.

"Emily, the pinky toe is fine, it's just a bruise." Taylor said. Emily pouted.

"Five bruises then!" She threw up her hands in an overdramatic manner. Kiba sat at Riddick's feet whom was standing over Emily looking at a particularly nasty cut on her arm. Emily kept a weary on him, the second they had sat her down on the chair to clean her wounds, the first words out of her mouth had been "No touchy!"

"So tell us all what happened." Shazza said as she stitched up the cut under her eye.

"I like your accent. Anyways, yes what happened? Well Ali had been playing around in the coring room and I thought it wasn't a safe place so I crawled in through that whole and was trying to pull him out when the dome opened and all these little hammerhead birds with scales started flying around pecking our brains out. I just managed to get him out before we were- Ow!" While she had been talking Riddick had pulled an inch and a half long fang out of her arm. "Mother Fuck!" was one of the more polite curses that streamed from her mouth. Shelby covered her ears and Taylor blushed. Jack was laughing and stored away some of the more exotic ones for later.

Riddick tossed it in the air and caught it before slipping it into a back pocket.

"Looks like they did more than peck." He commented. Emily glared at him before looking away. Shelby sighed and noticed Emily had a cut on her side, when she mentioned it Emily through a fit.

"Great, by the time we get out of here I'll be stark naked," She flopped back into her chair with a growl, examining her torn black tan top. "It must have been from the metal, I'm such a fat ass I couldn't fit through without touching it."

"No your not Emily, you just got wide hips. You've got a body made to be a mom." Shelby knew that comment would just piss her off more. And it did, Emily was so pissed off that when she got up to catch Shelby in a strangling grip she tripped and fell.

"I'm going to get you! You know I don't want to be a mom!" Taylor blinked and helped her up. Clearly this was the fist she'd heard of this.

"Why not?" Taylor asked.

Emily looked at her with a classic dead pan expression. Taylor tried to picture Emily as a mom and what she saw scared her. She paled.

"Never mind." Emily collapsed on the floor almost in tears.

"Oh, come on! I wouldn't be that bad, I'd just get annoyed some times." She sniffed.

"And then convicted of Child abuse." Shazza was smiling when she helped Emily back into her chair and Johns was laughing his ass off. Emily didn't even feel like sending him a glare. Fry was deep in thought and got up to go look at the skiff.

Shazza started to clean the cut on Emily's hip. When the alcohol touched this time Emily was ready to leave, it took both Taylor and Shelby to restrain her.

"I'm so suing when we get off this goddamned planet." She howled in pain and Kiba whined in sympathy. Riddick reached down to pat him and was a bit surprised when Kiba licked his outstretched hand. Riddick looked back at the struggling girl and noticed that her eyes were a deep blue-green and that right around the edges of her pupil was yellow. What color did his eyes used to be?

Later that day, well it normally would have been night, Emily's wounds had finally been cleaned. They all decided to finally get to sleep. Down the hall from the cafeteria were what looked like bedrooms, there were 20 of them. So every one chose where they wanted to sleep. Emily grabbed the first room with the biggest bed she could find and jumped into it. A few seconds later she was joined by Taylor and Shelby who lay on each side of her.

"You know, I think this will be important for us, some how, in the future." Emily said, Shelby nodded, they all felt the same.

Riddick had chosen a room next to the girls. Not that he was a stalker or anything; he just felt like he owed it to them, like he had to protect them. He sat on the bed, examining his make shift shiv. He could hear them talking on the other side of the wall.

"And Shelby thought this summer was going to be boring." Taylor laughed when Shelby kicked her.

"This reminds me of that one day at school when we were walking in the concourse and Mrs. Mallory was all like 'What are you guys, the three musketeers?'" Shelby mocked. Emily laughed and rolled over on her back. "Not only do hang out together we also go on life and death adventures together." They all laughed.

"We should have a party, you know, like a sleep over."

"Yeah, let's put on some music!"

Emily pulled out her ipod and soon a song was blasting down the hall.

"Do you know the enemy!

Do ya know your enemy!

Well gotta know your enemy, right here!"

Shelby was jumping on the bed and Emily fell off. Taylor ,laughing, threw a pillow down after her. Emily stood and shouted. "Pillow Fight!!!!!" That was when all hell broke loose in that room. Shelby jumped off the bed, brining Taylor with her, each with a pillow. Soon the whole entire place was covered in feathers and the music was even louder.

"You know, I never knew there were actually feathers in these things!" Taylor had to shout to be heard over the music. Some one was knocking at the door but they couldn't hear it. Emily was in the middle of air guitar while Shelby and Taylor threw feathers and whatever in reach at each other, laughing their asses off.

The door burst open and they all looked up to see Johns, a really pissed off look on his face, but there was something else about him too.

"Dude, you are so high!" Shelby shouted over the music. He growled, taking out his gun and brandishing it.

"This is the last straw." He pointed the gun at them, his eyes ablaze. Kiba barked and launched himself at Johns, knocking the man over into the hallway. Riddick opened the door and looked down at the unconscious man.

Suddenly Emily appeared with a Sharpie in hand. She started doodling on his face. Shelby was laughing and Taylor took out some lip gloss from Emily's bag and put it on him. Soon Johns had a mustache and matching beard, a monocle and a un-i-brow. Riddick laughed, he would never let Johns live this down.

Emily stood, brushing her hands off with a triumphant smirk. Shelby took the marker away from her and wrote on his forehead. 'Shelby was here.' Taylor turned the music down and laughed.

"He's going to wake up in the mourning and hunt you down." She said to Emily.

Emily smirked "It's not my name written on his forehead."

"Oops," She squeaked out. They all laughed again.

Riddick looked at Kiba who was still growling at Johns. He pat the dog on his head before pushing Johns out of the way of the door. He left and went back to his room. Dark thoughts swirling around in his mind, Johns was going to have to go. He looked down at his shiv once again. He pulled up his goggles, enjoying the slight darkness of a room without windows, his silver eyes glancing around it before he laid back, his hands behind his head.

The next day Johns, Fry, Shazza, Riddick and the trio all went to the coring room. The light had chased away the aliens and now they could see the room for what it was, a death trap. Since the things didn't like the light the only place they could have gone was down the cellar.

Johns walked towards it; he lit the flare and dropped it in. They all leaned over, following the flare all the way down to the bottom with their eyes. Even Kiba was at the edge, though Emily had a hold of his fur. The green light illuminated a few dozen skeletons scattered down below. Riddick stepped closer. The others were standing on the mettle grill that separated them from the dirt floor, while Riddick was below, he looked down.

"Other buildings weren't secure, so they ran here, heaviest doors." He crouched at the edge and then continued. "Thought they'd be safe inside, but they forgot to lock the cellar."

Shelby leaned further over and Taylor and Emily had to pull her back.

Fry was looking at tables covered in different rock samples when Johns walked up to her.

"Whatever the fuck those things were, they seem to stick to darkness so if we stick to daylight we should be alright, ok? Lets go."

Fry was looking at a sample card when she said, "22 years ago."

"What?" Johns walked back over to her.

"These coring samples are dated. Last ones 22 years ago this month."

"Ok, is there something special about that?"

Fry leaned against the table in thought. "There could be." She suddenly walked out, heading for another building. Riddick looked up and followed. The girls looked at each other and ran after him, Kiba on their heels. When they found her she was turning the model of the universe, the numbers ticking up until they stopped at 22. When it hit suddenly, the three suns were blocked by other planets. Imam moved forward, his eyes wide.

"An eclipse," Fry whispered. Imam stroked his beard in thought. She moved it forward and back but the planet was still in an eclipse. Riddick smirked.

"You're not afraid of the dark, are you?"

Emily shivered, she was. And she knew for a fact Shelby was too. She gulped and stepped out of the building and into the light of the blue sun. She had been pushing it out of her mind and had nearly forgotten that people would die, she couldn't save them all. Her heart was racing but she took a deep breath and sighed.

She heard other people coming out so she hid behind a pile of kegs. It was Fry and Johns. She heard them talking about the power cells. She knew what would happen next, Johns would tell her how Riddick escaped. Emily ran over towards the skiff and hid around the other side. She looked under it and could See Riddick's black combat boots. She crawled under it and watched as Johns feet came off the skiff and walked around and stopped where she could hear him heaving. Her stomach clenched 'ew'.

"Bad time," there was the sound of metal against metal, "Shaking like that in this heat."

"I thought I said no shivs." Johns gagged again.

"Shivs, this, no. This is just a personal grooming appliance." Johns left and Emily sighed.

"You can come out now, kid." Riddick called as he once again cleaned the blade of oil. Emily pulled herself out on the other side and stumbled into a standing position. She dusted herself off. Looking at Riddick as he shaved she gulped, though he hadn't done anything to her and she hadn't shown it, she was weary of him. She shook her head.

"Riddick, Johns, he told Fry," she paused and wiped the sweat from her brow, "he told her, how you escaped." He paused in shaving and looked towards her, the shiv resting against the metal barrel he sat in front of. After a few seconds he looked away and went back to shaving. Emily, deciding there was nothing else to say. Left to go find some food, she was starving.

Emily was hungry but the main reason she didn't want to stick around was because she was slightly jealous of Fry. She clenched her hands into fists, every flaw she had ran through her head as she thought about her life while sitting over a bowl of soup. She had wanted to change the world. That had been her dream, to do something good that she would be known for. She had always wanted adventure. She had wanted so much but she had never tried to get it. Now she had a chance and here she was, already bruised and bleeding and the main event hadn't even started.

Fry had it easy, Riddick was looking out for her, he liked her. She remembered all the words he said to her on the skiff, they echoed in her head and wouldn't leave her alone. She slammed her fist down onto the table.

Picking up the scalding hot bowl of soup she chugged it and through it across the room in a fit of anger, the eclipse would begin in an hour or so and she needed to find Shelby and Taylor as well as Kiba. She turned to go and found Riddick standing in the door way. She lifted her chin and rested a hand on her hip.

"What's up?"

"How old are you kid?" Riddick's voice echoed in her head.

"17," She answered curtly. Riddick walked over toward her and rested his hand on her shoulder. He pushed her down into her seat and he sat down next to her.

"Jack is a girl, and I have a feeling you know this." Emily looked at him with a hint of anger that was slowly ebbing away, but the fire was still there. She nodded and ran her hand through her now let down hair. "I need you to keep an eye on her, what ever it is that lives on this planet are vicious." A twinge of emotion ran through her mind, 'so he already feels for jack.' She stood and clenched her fists, looking down at him she felt like she wanted to punch him.

"I have to watch out for Shelby and Taylor, unlike me, they don't know how it works." Riddick looked up at her and then down.

"Why don't you tell me where you're from and how you got here, because I know you weren't on the ship." Emily swallowed before crossing her arms.

"We're from Earth." She said. The light was beginning to dim and Emily's heart began to race in fear.

Riddick looked up suddenly, it all fell into place. "What year?"

Emily sighed and rubbed her forehead before answering, "2009, may 26, 11:10 pm. Last time I checked." Riddick stood and studied her before nodding. "Worry about getting off this planet first." He walked out, Emily following.

Every one was piling onto the sand cat and Emily found Shelby and Taylor and sat next to them, Kiba faithfully at her side.

"Emily, what's wrong?" Shelby asked.

"I told him." She said sadly. Taylor sighed.

"I think it was a good idea, he could help us."

Emily shook her head, "I doubt it, I wish you guys had seen the whole movie." She dropped her head into her hands. Kiba whined and laid his head on her lap. The sand cat was driven by Shazza, the women was in such a hurry that when they were going through the graveyard of those huge skeletons she ran right through the ribcage. Shelby covered her face as bone bits flew in every direction.

The sand cat stopped in front of the wreckage that was once a ship. There was no discussion about it, people jumped off and began to load the cells. Johns, Imam, and Riddick went into the ship.

Emily stood and watched as the ringed planet inched its way through the sky, as if it were slowly devouring it.

Taylor was holding Kiba so he wouldn't jump out of the vehicle. When Shelby spoke her voice was hesitant and shaky.

"Uh, Emily, what happens next?" It was the first time either of them had spoken to her about the fact that they were in a movie, it had been ok since it was bright out, but now that the eclipse was coming they began to worry.

Emily sighed and turned to them slowly, her eyes downcast. She spoke quietly so no one else could hear, "It goes pitch black, and people die." She was practically in tears. But as she looked at Shelby and Taylor, who both looked frightened, a kind of protective feeling washed over her. This had happened before, in October she and her friend Sarah had gone to Hallowscream, when they went through a haunted house Emily remembered cussing out every single person that tried to scare them. And when they walked down the path outside and Sarah had freaked out at all the people dressed in black that would pop out of nowhere and she had said, 'It's ok Sarah, there not hard to miss, they all look like cross dressers!' She had even laughed when one started to follow them.

She grinned at Shelby and Taylor, "Don't worry, I got your backs." She could do it, as long as she had someone that needed protection, she could do it. She was startled from her thoughts when Riddick dropped two power cells onto the cat. Emily had a laugh behind her hand when Johns could only carry one. But as Imam placed the last one on the cat the sun was covered by the rings and it grew even darker. The cat's solar engine stopped working and slowly the cries of the hammerheads echoed through the sky. Kiba howled, long and loud.

Emily clenched her hands around the collar on her neck, panic gripped her heart. Every ones fear grew as they glanced around, the sounds were coming from every direction. They could see them, just barely as they shot into the air, the cries echoing even louder.

Johns walked up behind Riddick, "How many are there?" he asked, his voice low. Riddick ignored him, watching as they swarmed, "Beautiful," he whispered.

Paris, who was on the other side of the crash sight called, "People, just a suggestion, perhaps you should Flee!" Suddenly, every one was moving.

"Go!" Emily ushered Shelby and Taylor off the Cat. As they jumped off and headed for the hull of the only part of the ship that didn't have wholes in it, Kiba ran in the opposite direction. Emily gasped, 'Curse his little doggy brain!' She ran after him, he was heading right for the entire swarm! She could picture what would happen to him and it almost made her sick.

Kiba's long quick strides were almost impossible to catch up to, but with fear in her heart he legs carried her faster than ever before. She grabbed him by the scruff of his neck and pulled him back. He's barking and growling with his hackles raised and Emily wouldn't have been surprised if he turned around and bit her.

"Kiba, come on!" As she turned Kiba followed her, but his hackles were still raised. She could see that the others had made it to the ship. She could also see Shazza ahead, but where was Riddick? She found out where he was when she looked behind her. He was right there, not three feet away.

"Get down!" Fry shouted from the ship. Emily did just that, she jumped and she knew Kiba would follow her. He was smart. She knew that.

Flashback~

As a 12 year old Emily sat on her grandma's porch lightning flashes. Her grandma lived up north in the mountains and it was summer break so they had gone for a visit. Emily really hadn't wanted to go but she said ok only because she liked to explore the woods around her house.

She heard a howl coming off in the distance and she was enchanted, the howl was soon followed by a gunshot. Emily looked back inside the house and saw her family sitting around the table laughing at some joke or other. She made a face before jumping off the porch and into the rain.

It didn't take her long to find the scene of a hunt, and not a legal one. There on the ground was a big black wolf, its bright green eyes staring into her sole. But the wolf was dyeing, its foot was caught in a bear trap and there was a bullet through its side. But what brought tears to Emily's eyes, was the single white pup cuddled against its side.

Emily crouched down near the mother and brought her hand up; she rested it on her head and was glad that the wolf didn't growl. She scratched her behind the ears.

"I'm sorry mama, if only I could help." He voice was quivering as she cried for the mother of a single pup.

Emily sat with the mother until she died; resting her head in her lap she had simply closed her eyes and ceased her breathing. Emily wiped her nose on her sleeve and looked over at the small white cub. She lifted the mothers head and rested it on the ground, standing she picked up the small growling pup.

"I'll take you home with me, Kiba"

End flashback.

Emily felt Kiba hit the ground just after her; she turned and hugged him to her to keep him down. Riddick came after.

"Don't move," Was all he said. The swarm flew over them and Emily squeezed her eyes shut, breathing in the smell of Kiba. He was still growling, 'the little brat' she thought through her fear.

"Riddick, Shazza, she's going to make a run for it." The man stared at her before he rolled over and crawled over to Shazza.

He was about to grab onto her and hold her down when she stood and made a run for it. Emily whimpered, when she heard the screams. As for Riddick, when the swarm flew by he stood and dusted his hands off, as if didn't matter to him.

Emily stood, pulling Kiba up with her. She looked around before following Riddick, her shoulders slumped. When they reach the inside and closed the doors Kiba shook the sand and dust out of his coat. Emily groaned, "Kiba, come on! Why'd you wait till we were inside?" She sneezed and Kiba looked up at her apologetically.

Authors Note~ yup, I added a flash back, if you got a problem with it then bite me! Read and review people!