Authors note~ Thank you guys for reviewing, I have a new reviewer too(cough, Sarah, cough) Like most people I listen to music when I type and the song I was listening to when I wrote the majority of this chapter was Poker Face by Lady gaga, hence the Russian Roulette thing.

Shelby and Taylor pulled Emily inside where she slumped to the floor, breathing hard.

"When we get back I am definitely going to start working out," She panted before pushing her hair out of her face and standing up in time to watch the last rays of sunlight disappear for good behind the ringed planet.

"Come people, let's get inside. You have to be inside to close the doors. Come on lets go!"

Fry watched as the light disappeared, her heart racing. She could hear the strange calls of the hammerhead like birds. "What is it, Riddick?" She asked.

Riddick lifted his goggles and his world was thrown into the purple hues that were his vision. "Like I said, it aint me you gotta worry about." And just like that the light was gone.

Shelby huddled between Taylor and Emily as the darkness became final. Emily pulled out the flashlight from her bag and turned it on.

"I never thought I would use this thing," She mumbled. She shone the light around on the floor, not wanting to blind anyone. She shivered as the hammerheads calling grew louder.

"She should of stayed down. If she had stayed down she'd be ok." Jack kept saying this over and over again and Emily realized she must have really liked Shazza.

"You remember the bone yard, these just might be the mother fuckers who killed every living thing on this damn planet," Johns said.

"Are these the only lights we have, is this everything?" Paris stuttered over his lighter.

"No, there's a cutting torch some where on the floor here, I just cant find it," Fry said.

"Quiet, please, everyone," Imam called, moving over to the outer wall as the creatures came closer.

Emily turned to Taylor. "Listen, this is where it gets messy and I don't know what will happen if either of you get hurt, so do everything…" She paused here, thinking back on the movie, trying to determine a person that would be best for them to follow, "Riddick tells you."

Taylor nodded, Shelby wasn't very afraid since they had lights now, but she was shaking after witnessing Shazza's death.

Suddenly there was a noise inside the ship and they all turned to look in the direction it had come from. Riddick, the furthest away from the light, had moved away from the wall.

"Could be breaching the hull, I don't know." Fry muttered.

"Come on Johns, you got the big gauge," Riddick mocked.

"I'd rather piss glass," was Johns reply. "Why don't you go fucking check?"

"I won't stay here one more second," Paris said, getting up in a panic.

"Where you going?" Johns asked. They all called after Paris as he tried to open the door to the outside. They pushed him down while Imam broke down another door that led deeper into the ship. They all moved in, Emily dragging Kiba behind her.

"Now we're trapped in an even smaller space," Paris complained.

"Oh shut up," Shelby snarled. Paris glanced at her before closing his mouth.

Imam leaned against the door, breathing heavily. He let out a sigh of relief when suddenly SOMETHING, pierced the wall he was leaning on. He screamed and lunged forward, away from the wall.

Paris crouched down and a burst of light startled him. Riddick was standing next to him, cutting torch in hand and burning.

They started to cut deeper into the ship to get away from the hammerheads. Shelby had a hold of Emily's flashlight with the girl in front of her while Taylor stood behind her. Kiba was at Emily's side, Emily felt like she was blind and Kiba was her seeing eye dog. She knew he could see in this dark, most animals had special eyes that allowed them to reflect the smallest bit of light. She wondered if that's how Riddick's eyes worked or if it was something else different entirely.

Riddick moved off in another direction as if he had heard something. Emily tried her hardest to remember what happened next, but it had been so long.

Jack was sitting next to Taylor and Shelby, while Emily stood over the group in thought.

"Hey, Emily?" Jack said in a quiet voice.

"Hmmm?" She looked down at the disguised girl.

"Do you think we can make it?"

This question caught Emily off guard. 'Of course we will,' was what she wanted to say but as she looked around them, seeing how frightened they were she realized that that would be lying to the girl. She sighed and rubbed her forehead before saying, "Depends on the person."

Jack looked down and played with a piece of metal on the floor, what had she meant?

Fry looked around, noticing for the first time that Riddick wasn't among the group.

"Riddick?" She called.

"Don't. Stop. Burning." His voice echoed from some unseen place.

Johns took the torch from fry and started to cut through another wall, giving her the flashlight. She moved forward, searching for Riddick.

As Imam started to call for his other boy Emily snarled, "I cant believe I forgot!" She ran off in the direction Fry's flashlight was pointed with the woman calling after her. She barely had time to take out her knife and flick it open when the boy ran past her. She turned to run after him when an immense force knocked her to the ground.

Emily's blood froze. She opened her eyes and could feel a scream building in her throat. One of them was on top of her. The alien was tilting its head from side to side to see her, just like a bird would. It pulled back its head as if it were going to strike. With a sudden burst of adrenalin she lifted her legs and kicked out, forcing the things head back. She swung up with her arm, knife in hand; she stabbed it in the neck and pulled the knife to the other side, nearly beheading it. She felt the warm blue liquid spill across her hand but she ignored it and ran.

She ran until she could see them. They were standing around a fallen hammerhead, watching as it burned under the light of their flashlights. She slowed and walked into the ring of light gasping for breath. It startled them to see her there, covered in blue, foul smelling blood and a knife in her hand.

Kiba had stayed by the girls and Emily was proud to see him there, he knew she would want him to protect them.

She couldn't hear anyone speaking even though she could see there mouths moving. A look of confusion crossed her face, what was going on?

She saw Johns turn and kick open the whole in the wall and watched as they began moving into the next room. She would have stood there in wonder for hours if it weren't for the strong hands pushing her forward. She obliged and was soon sitting with Kiba encircling her with his warmth, his head lay on her lap like his mothers had all those years ago.

"What's wrong with her?" Fry asked, leaning over Emily who was, at the moment, staring into Kiba's green eyes.

"She's in shock," Riddick said, looking at his shiv.

"Why?"

He glanced up at Fry, trying to determine if the woman was stupid or just to scared. He decided it was the later and stood, walking over to her. He kneeled in front of Emily. She looked up slowly and a smile worked its way to her face.

"She was attacked. For starters she's got their blood all over her. And, her knife," he pulled said knife from her iron grip, "does to."

Emily looked at the knife that she had gotten as a birthday present from a friend, and her eyes seemed to focus. Her breathing quickened and she looked down at her hands that were dyed blue. Shelby and Taylor moved closer to her as they felt her fear mounting.

Riddick flicked the knife closed and set it on the floor. He grabbed Emily by her shoulders, causing her to focus on his eyes.

"You survived." Those were the only words he said and they seemed to have multiple effects on her. At first she calmed down and had a triumphant look on her face, but then a tear fell from her eye.

"But he didn't," she whispered. Shelby and Taylor looked at each other, knowing that she had tried to save the kid because she had known it would happen. "I tried to save him, but I got there to late! And one of them knocked me to the ground so I did the only thing I could and I fought but I was scared. I didn't bother to see if he was still alive I just ran, I just…" she broke off and what would have been a sob was heard, though because she had tried to bite it back it came out as a whimper and she hated it. She sounded weak.

She looked at her blood stained hands and stood, she started to move in one direction and then the next, as if she couldn't make up her mind.

Riddick watched as the girl started to have a mental break down. He knew what should be done but he didn't think he should be the one to do it.

Shelby stood, grabbed Emily by the shoulders, reached back, and slapped her.

The sound rang throughout the room and Emily's head had been thrown sideways.

"You tried! That's all that matters, anyone else would have cowered in a corner," Shelby cried out. Emily's shoulders slumped and her breathing slowed. She looked down at her knife and picked it up, slipping it into her back pocket.

And just like that, it was over.

"So we got one cutting torch. We got three hand lights, there's gotta be something we can rip out of the crash ship" Fry said over the burning cutting torch every one sat around.

"Spirits, anything over 45 proof burns rather well," Paris added.

"How many bottles you got?" she asked.

"I don't know, I could check."

"Ok, Johns, you got some flares." She turned to Johns. "So, maybe we got enough light."

"Enough for fucking what?" Johns asked.

"We stick to the plan! We get the four cells back to the skiff. We're off this rock."

"Look, I'd hate to ruin a beautiful theory with an ugly fact, but that sand cat is solar, wont run at night." Paris said, moving to another location. Fry rubbed her forehead.

"So we carry the cells, we drag them whatever it takes." Fry said.

"You mean tonight, while those things are still out there?" Jack asked, fear in her voice.

"Alright, now how long can this last?" Johns asked. " A few hours, a day tops."

"I had the impression that the planets moved as one, making it a lasting darkness," Imam sighed.

"The suns gotta come up some time, and if these creatures are phobic about light then we just sit tight, and we let the sun come up" Johns stated matter of factly.

"I'm sure somebody else said that…Locked inside that coring room." Fry said quietly.

"We need to think about everybody now, especially the kid." Johns looked around at everyone then back at fry.

Emily sighed and put her head on her knees, Shelby had started to doze off as the argument raged on, Taylor yawned, they were the relaxed ones of the group.

Emily stood, brushing off dust, anger was building in her. The emotional breakdown from earlier long forgotten. As Riddick stopped Johns from pulling the trigger Emily took a step closer and when Riddick moved away from the now seated Johns she pulled up a crate and slammed her foot down on it, resting her arm on her knee. Ok, so she was feeling a little bad ass right now, maybe it was because she was PMSing, but, hey, roll with the punches.

"So, Johns, I've been wondering now for a while now. Why is it, that out of all these people, you're the one scared so shitless you can't walk five steps without shaking?"

Emily leaned in towards him, an evil smirk on her face as the man with the gun moved away from her.

"Admit it, your bad ass is afraid to join in on our little game of Russian Roulette. Do even know what that is?" The man shook his head. "Didn't think so. Well, for starters you have a six-shot revolver and you place a single round in and spin the cylinder. Now, the game is played with six people and they pass around the gun and place it to each of their heads…and pull the trigger." She stepped off the crate and dusted her hands off. Suddenly, there in her hands was a silver revolver and a single round in the other. "Wanna play?"

The man took a step back, anger in his eyes. "Like you would do it!" He snarled. "Your just a worthless…" He stopped as she placed the round in, spinning the cylinder, she placed it to her head. By now everyone was ready to either duck out of the way or grab her. The grin on her face never left even when she saw the fire still in his eyes. She pulled the trigger.

There was a flash and what sounded like a gun shot, but Emily didn't move. She didn't fall either. The man had pissed himself! She laughed and threw the gun down at his feet.

"It's a dud ,dumb ass, it's been laying out at the settlement for years. Totally exposed to the elements." Shelby was almost in tears, but Taylor was grinning.

"I had a feeling it was something like that." She muttered to Shelby.

Riddick grinned in the shadows, this girl was insane.

"Suck it up fat ass and get you're a-whole moving." She said before turning away. The only one watching her was Riddick when she turned away and what he saw amazed him, fear and relief were written all over her face.

"No he cant read my poker face~" She sang as she sat back down next to Kiba.

Fry had gone over to Jack and had begun to comfort her when Imam asked, "And you're sure you can get us there, even in this dark?"

Fry turned away from jack with a sigh, "No, I can't. But he can." They all turned to see who it was she was looking at and were surprised to so Riddick. And by the looks of it they weren't the only ones surprised.

'Well fuck,' he thought as they all stared at him with hope in there eyes. He knew he should of just ghosted them from the beginning. He looked over at the three strange girls and noticed that Emily wasn't even paying attention. She was playing with Kiba. Something was up with her and he was going to find out what it was.

So as a group they huddled together at the door leading to the outside. Fry was in the front with the Cutting torch. She slid the door open and stepped out cautiously before moving forward. Slowly they all made it outside.

Emily had to hold Kiba by the scruff of his neck again. He was growling and snarling and she guessed he could see something that she couldn't.

Up ahead they had stopped at the entrance to the other half of the ship.

"Riddick," Fry whispered. The man moved forward, careful of the light until he was standing in front of them all. He pulled his goggles up and examined the ship.

"Looks clear." He said casually.

Johns took a step forward and dived down when a hammerhead flew out at them. Both men were flat on the ground.

"I thought you said it was clear!" Johns whispered harshly.

"I said it LOOKS clear," Riddick corrected.

Johns looked up cautiously, "Well, whats it look like now?"

Riddick looked up before looking back at Johns, "Looks clear." He said in an almost upbeat tone.

Emily was near the back and laughing her ass off next to a nervous Shelby. They were all crouched low in front of jack. Taylor had a hold of Kiba too, even though Emily was still holding him by the scruff of his neck while Shelby held the flashlight.

They all moved forward and soon they were grabbing every bit of light they could find. The girls were helping with the light cord when Emily started to sing.

"Heres a little song I wrote,

You might wanna sing it note for note

Don't worry, be happy.

In every life we have some trouble

But when you worry you make it double

Don't worry, be happy."

Shelby laughed, "Why are you singing a Bob Marly song?"

"Actually it was by some guy named Bobby McFerrin." She pulled hard on a strand of light cord. "And I thought it would be fun." Taylor rolled her eyes at Emily before pulling too. They continued to sing.

Through the time it took for them to pull out the cord and Fry to come check on them they had dissolved into a mock light saber fight, sound effects and all.

"The force is strong with this one." Emily said, holding the light cord out in front of her.

"Emily, I am your mother." Shelby said in an over dramatic voice. Emily dropped the cord and shook her head.

"You ruined it, Shelby." Emily sighed in a defeated tone.

"What, how'd I do that?"

"I'll never look at a star wars movie the same way again. Good bye cruel world." She pretended to strangle herself with the cord. "I see the light!"

Taylor was laughing and Shelby was crawling towards Emily, "No, don't go into the light, wait, yes go towards it, the aliens wont follow you!" Emily was choking on her own laughter.

"Ok, I know this is really going to ruin the whole evil man eating alien thing we have going on but, Take me to your leader." Emily couldn't stop laughing.

Fry chose this time to clear her throat. She was happy the girls were ok, but they needed to get ready.

Emily jumped up from the ground and dusted herself off before looking up at fry.

"Sorry, got distracted. Bright things make me feel warm and fuzzy inside." She held the fiber optics cord as if it were a stuffed animal.

Shelby smacked her in the back of the head, "You stole that from finding nemo!"

"You know it does look like that." Emily examined the light. Taylor smacked herself in the head.

"come on children," She said, ushering them away. They gathered as much of the stuff they could. Emily watched as Fry followed Riddick through the ship while he instructed her.

"oooh, Emily! What was that?" Taylor asked. Emily turned to look at her.

"What?"

"You were looking at him~" Taylor sang.

"Was not!"

They brought the cable over to the pile and dropped it all on top, before moving to help with something else.

Soon they were all ready to leave, with Fry telling them to stay together, Emily was ready to smack the woman. 'Like we're going to run off to play hide and go seek.' She rolled her eyes.

She had put Kiba's collar back on him and wrapped a Fiber optics cord around it to work as a leash.

Fry went back to grab Johns, she winced in Sympathy for Riddick. She walked over to him, pulling Kiba with her. "Can you test this for me? I don't know if it'll hold Kiba for long or not. Because for some reason he feels the need to run after those things."

Riddick gazed at her for some times before taking the fiber optic cord.

"It should hold, in general this stuff is strong, just make sure the knot doesn't come undone." He had pulled and twisted the cord but seeing that it wouldn't break, gave it back. Emily smiled and walked back to Shelby and Taylor. The objection had been to distract him, she hoped it had worked.

When they had all gathered they began to leave, each with a fiber optic cord wrapped around them. Riddick ran in front with only the few lights on his back. Kiba didn't really need to be pulled away from the creatures because he felt the need to protect Emily. Said person was slightly miffed that Kiba, even if he was a wolf, could keep up with them easily and wasn't even panting.

They were near the front of the group this time when they began to slow. Jack was looking a bit skittish, glancing around and looking back often.

Paris watched as the cutting torch went out with a last flare. The aliens seemed to notice and raised their cries. Kiba snarled and barked at something close to Shelby's feet. Emily shown her flashlight in that general direction and was rewarded with a screech before whatever it was flew off.

"Keep up the good work, boy," she said with a hint of pride as she scratched behind his ears.

Paris reached for a bottle of whisky to burn but as he pulled one out a flare rolled away.

"Wait," Jack said, she took off the fiber optics cord and reached for the small capsule.

"Jack!" Fry shouted. Imam untangled himself and pulled the girl down as a hammerhead flew over, teeth barred.

Johns started shooting at whatever moved. Paris was freaked and tried to crawl away, pulling the fiber optics power source with him. The power went out and Emily heard Paris stop. She gulped and looked back and Shelby and Taylor. She handed Shelby the light, knowing it would make her feel better. Taylor moved closer to the others.

Kiba snarled, Emily hopped it would be enough to keep those things away.

Johns lit a flare, lighting the bottles of whisky. The group was illuminated in green light.

"Well, it's good to see your ok," Johns said as Riddick came back into view. Riddick stopped to watch as the aliens pulled and pecked at Paris's body. Fry looked at his back.

She was about to as him, "Do I even want to know?" But before she could Emily asked.

"Do you even want to ask?" Her voice was laced with annoyance and disgust.