Authors note~ only one or two more chapters left. Sorry for all my mistakes, I don't have a beta so I do the best I can. This was my favorite chapter to write towards the end. Enjoy!

As Riddick watched the man being eaten he noticed that three of the aliens were looking over in their direction, more specifically, Jacks direction. He glanced over at the girl then over at Emily. She WAS acting pretty bitchy, but then again, he didn't know how she acted in non-life threatening situations.

The point was, both girls were bleeding, and it wasn't from a wound.

They lit more whisky bottles and were moving again.

"Are we getting close?" Jack asked, holding her own bottle.

"Can we pick up the pace?" Fry called out.

Emily glanced back at Fry before looking ahead at the rest of the men. "I agree with the British lady!" Shelby snorted and Taylor smacked Emily upside the head. "Ow!"

Emily ran into Imam's back and moved around him only to see that they had crossed their own tracks. The other people began to question Riddick and Emily felt something akin to injustice build within her. 'How rude!' she huffed and crossed her arms.

"Listen!" Riddick shouted, it was the closest thing to anger that they had heard from him so far and they quieted. Kiba had been growling for a while but now that they were quiet they could all hear the cries of the aliens not far ahead.

"Canyon ahead, I circled once to buy some time to think," He said in a quieter tone.

"I think we should go now," Imam said.

"Oh I don't know about that," something in the way Riddick tilted his head when he said that made it seem like they were discussing what they should have for dinner, "It's death row up there, specially with the girls bleeding."

"What the fuck you talking about, none of them are bleeding." Johns looked over at Taylor, Shelby, and Fry.

"Not them, them." Riddick looked over at Jack and Emily. Emily had moved over towards Jack to give her support when the time came. There was a shocked silence where the only thing heard was a "you gotta be kidding me," from Johns.

Jack started to tear up, "I just thought it would be better-,"

"No ones blaming you Jack," Emily said curtly before anyone else could say anything, Jack began to sink to her knees but Emily pulled her up. "There's nothing wrong with what you did, my brother used to walk around in my moms high heels!" She snickered at the memory.

"The point is!" Emily said, getting back on track, "gods a bitch and decided it would be funny to torture women! And that's when Mother Nature came into the equation and said "oh I know, lets make them suffer cramps and aching backs while they bleed out between their legs just so we can laugh about it!" Jack sniffled but a distinct laugh could be heard coming from her.

"I swear to you Jack! When I die I am marching right up to him and shoving my foot up his ass." She made a triumphant pose and grinned. "Women power, unite!" She held her hand out and Shelby and Taylor stacked theirs over hers letting everyone know that they had done this several times before. Jack hesitantly added her hand on as well. Emily looked at Fry who rolled her eyes, but there was a smile on her face, and put her hand in too.

"Girls rule and boys drool!" Shelby cried.

"Boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider," Taylor sighed.

"As much as I appreciate those…Rhymes I think we should just say women are completely badass and men suck." Emily said. They all grinned and Emily nodded.

While the girls were having their miniature pep rally Imam turned to Riddick.

"They've been nose open for them ever since we left. In case you haven't noticed, they go off blood."

Emily was glad the whole entire situation where Johns told them all what Fry had almost done had been avoided. Johns lit another flare and walked ahead.

"Shelby, this might sound really stupid and I probably should of thought of it before, but, do you have your cell phone on you?" Shelby looked at her before pulling said phone out of her pocket.

"Yeah but I got no bars." She passed over the phone and Emily went to camera, flicking on the light.

"Jesus!" Shelby cried, covering her eyes.

"Fuck yes! I knew this thing was bright!" Emily cried, jumping up and down in delight. She waved it around, it almost illuminated the whole group. "Taylor, try your phone! Holy shit, we have all this fucking light and we never thought of it. I even got my camera!" All three of them had their phone lights on and were making a much bigger and brighter circle of light.

"Whoa! How'd you get those?!" Jack asked.

Emily smirked, "well my friend, where we come from we are rewarded these devices for being bad-OW!" Taylor had whacked Emily upside the head for the fifth time that day.

"It's a cell phone." Taylor said simply.

"Oh, I remember those, I used to hear stories about them from my gramps." Fry leaned forward, examining Emily's phone that was plastered in stickers and had a bell phone charm.

"I didn't realize we could use the light like this though," Emily said. "It's weird though, my phones completely charged."

"Mine too."

"So is mine," Shelby added.

Emily rubbed her chin in thought. The hairs on the back of her neck prickled, she glanced down at Kiba who was walking dutifully beside her and seemed relatively calm. She was confused until she looked up and saw Riddick's silver eyes glancing her way. Johns caught his attention and started talking to him again.

Emily growled and started to push her way through the group. Johns must be talking about using Jack as bait. She blinked, or her for that matter.

"Emily, what's wrong?" Shelby called after her, following. Emily was 10ft away from Johns and Riddick when she was grabbed by Fry, Taylor and Imam. Riddick stopped walking and turned to Johns, he was able to see the three pulling Emily back, who was practically clawing the air to get to Johns.

"I'm just wondering if we're gonna need a bigger piece of bait," Riddick looked at Johns with defiance.

"Like who?" Johns asked, his mind working over time.

In a flash Riddick knocked the flare from Johns hand and grabbed his gun, attempting to shoot the man but Johns blocked.

"Leave the site, lets move!" Fry shout. Kiba snarled as the aliens moved in, seeming to be interested in the fight.

"Beat the shit out of him!" Emily shouted before she was pulled back by Taylor, Kiba pulled with her. The Fiber optics cord, even unlit, made a good leash.

Emily never took her eyes of the fight, though she did feel a little queasy when Riddick snapped his wrist back into place.

Johns lay on the ground in pain, "You never taken the chains off Johns."

Johns turned over, feeling the cut fill with dirt, he hissed in pain. Not paying attention to the fact that the flare was burning out.

"You were one brave fuck before, really bad ass. Chains, gage, badge." His voice was slowly disappearing and Johns panicked. "Told you to ghost me."

Fry lead the group as they ran and Emily had the feeling that it was really stupid seeing as how she had no idea where she was going. They slowed to a stop and Fry did a 360, when she was about to turn back she was met by Riddick. She let out a short scream.

"Back to the ship, huh?" Riddick did a quick count of how many were left. "Just huddled together until the lights burn out, until you can't see what's eating you. That the big plan?"

"Where's Johns?" Imam's voice was grave.

Riddick turned to him, "Which half?"

"We're gonna lose everybody out here," Jack said, she looked back as a creature was heard close by, "we should'uv stayed at the ship."

"He died fast, and if we have any choice about it that's how we should all go." He moved his way through the group to stand behind Jack.

"Don't you cry for Johns, don't you dare." It was in a half whisper before he moved ahead.

Shelby was confused.

"Shelby's confused!" Shelby said. Taylor looked at her with another "WTF that was random" look.

"About what?" She asked.

"My phones been on the entire time with the light on, but the battery hasn't even gone down one bar." She scratched her chin in what looked like deep thought. Taylor waited for her to finish. Shelby looked up at Taylor, a surprised look on her face. "What?"

Taylor smacked herself in the forehead.

"Could have had a V8!" Shelby threw her hands up and shouted.

"Who gave you sugar?" Taylor asked.

Riddick stood in front of a skeleton. The hammerhead creature was missing and eye stock and had several scratches along the bone. Riddick leaned forward, picking up the fallen eye stock and holding it in place. He examined the distance between both eyes and would have laughed.

"Blind spot."

"Shall we pray together?" Imam asked. Riddick dropped the bone and turned towards Imam, startled.

Riddick turned and sat down. "I have already prayed with the others," Imam said, joining him. "It is painless."

"It's pointless," Riddick shot back, tying his pack together.

"Because you do not believe in god, does not mean god does not be-,"Imam began.

"Think someone can spend half their life in a slam with a horse bit in their mouth and not believe?" Imam was silent, realizing this is as close to a confession as he would ever get with Riddick. "Think you could start out in some liquor store trash bin with an umbilical cord wrapped around his neck and not believe?" Riddick paused and finished with his pack. "Got it all wrong holy man, I absolutely believe in god, and I absolutely hate the fucker."

"Yet he is with us nonetheless."

"One of your boys is already dead, how much faith do you have left, father?" Imam stood, brushing himself off he inclined his head towards Riddick before walking away to the rest of the group.

Riddick sat in thought for a moment, he was about to move when, from behind the skeleton he was sitting against Emily appeared. She smiled and sat down next to him.

"How's it going?" She asked casually. She had started to re-lace her converse while she waited for him to reply.

"It's going wonderfully," was his curt reply. Emily narrowed her eyes at him; the effect was ruined by her pouting lips.

"Well aren't you just a bottle of sunshine," She said, dusting off her hands.

"I noticed you have a thing against god," She said with a sigh.

"Don't you?" Riddick looked at her and Emily met his gaze, not even thinking of the fact that his eyes were beautiful in what little light they had. She just saw them as a persons eyes and she looked away in thought. Her knees were brought up and her arms rested on them while she set her chin on her arms. It was a child like position, Riddick noted.

"I'm just a 'I'll believe it when I see it' kind of person. Until then I'll make all the taco jokes I want about him." She yawned and rubbed at her eyes.

Riddick was stumped by her randomness but shook his head of the thoughts, "So, I know your from a different time and all that, but, tell me, how do you know what's going to happen? There's no way in hell you were with Hassen when he was killed, and the closer I got to blowing jacks cover the closer you got to her, are you some kind of fucking psychic?" Emily tucked her thumb into her fist and placed it against her mouth.

"I know, what's going to happen because I've already seen it. I'm no future seeing lady with a crystal ball. Where I came from, this whole event…is just a movie." Riddick wrapped his mind around the fact that, not only was this girl from another time, she just might be from another dimension. He fingered the sharp edges of his shiv in thought.

"I kind of miss it. Not having to worry about something coming up behind you and biting your head off." Riddick stood and messed with her hair.

"Honey, I don't think I ever knew what that felt like in the first place." Emily grinned and stood, putting her hair back in place. They both rejoined the group.

They stood at the entrance to the canyon. Riddick stood from his crouched position.

"I only see one way through, that way." He gestured in front of him.

"What about the cells?" Imam voiced the thought of all the others, except Emily. Well, and Kiba, he was working at a really bad itch and didn't hear.

Riddick looked back, "I'll take those."

After they had tied the cells to him and had formatted themselves to protect Jack and Emily Riddick pulled his goggles down.

"Move," he muttered.

"Are you sure you can-"

"MOVE!" He shouted.

The average person would have pissed their pants, well, these people just ran, and ran.

As they ran Riddick struggled behind them. He didn't have a problem keeping up though. Kiba snarled and this alerted Emily to the fact that a swarm of hatchlings were heading straight for them. They crouched and even then the swarm just missed them. Riddick had to dodge flaming corpses that flew towards him when the hatchlings flew through their torches.

As they ran further the familiar blue liquid began to fall on Emily.

"Do not look up," Riddick said. Fry was about to stop and look up when Emily pushed her forward.

"You stupid woman, do as your told for once," She snarled. Even without looking up they all knew what was happening, they were killing each other off. They dodged the falling aliens to the best of their abilities and Emily was tempted to stop a couple times as Riddick nearly fell to the ground trying to pull the cells through the muck of bloody mud. They came around a bend and had to stop because there was a giant skull in the way.

"Move! Keep moving!" Riddick said as he went past them. They pulled apart the skeleton then crawled through.

Just as the older pilgrim went past an alien latched onto his leg. The boy screamed and dropped his bottle. This is what saved his life since the dry bone of the skeleton caught on fire and the light burned the alien. They dragged the boy in through the skeleton.

Riddick kept moving. Emily, Shelby, and Taylor stopped to help the pilgrim. Emily took out her knife and turned to Jack, who was trying to follow Riddick. She was caught between the two and just as she moved to follow Riddick an alien attacked her.

"Shelby! Your phone!" The only thing between Jack and the alien was a piece of bone. Shelby understood and shone her phone onto the alien while Emily flicked open her knife and ran at it. She had been planning on pulling the whole lunging at it to make it leave thing, but what it turned out to be was, Emily tackled the alien off of the bone and it basically turned into a power struggle. The things legs were weak and thin, like a birds. So it should have been easy to push them out of the way. But the thing was fast! She snarled and put the hilt of the knife in her mouth and once again she used her fingers like claws. Well, she had gotten them done before she left so they were pretty sharp.

She clawed, kicked and snarled while holding the things…beak? Snout? What ever it was closed. She was glad when Kiba got there and started tearing at its wings with his fangs.

"Riddick!" She screamed, though the act caused her to drop the knife. Riddick turned and it took a second to find Emily, struggling to hold one of them down. The others only could shine their light on it. Riddick dropped the cells and ran.

It took him three seconds to reach the struggling group and two to snap the things neck.

Emily felt like she was going to be sick as she felt the life ebb out of the things body. It went limp and she rolled off, panting. She stood and leaned on her knees before looking at it.

She blanched, "Are you fucking kidding me! I thought it was huge and that thing is only like, four feet tall!" Riddick shook his head but there was a small smirk on his face.

Shelby jumped onto Emily's back, making her fall forward onto her stomach. "Jesus Emily! If you die I'm taking all your mangas!"

"No! You! Are! Not!" Emily shouted as she used all her strength to sit up and send Shelby flying.

And then they were running again. The older boy was having trouble running and soon the holy man was cayring him. Shelby and Taylor were at the back, both with their cell lights on to fend off any aliens. Emily was in the front, still behind Riddick with her cell light on as well.

And then it started to rain and Emily felt like giving up just then. She would have if it weren't for Ali, who had been latched onto jack the whole entire time. In fact, Emily had almost forgotten about him. He had moved from Jack to her and had latched onto her studded belt.

Kiba nuzzled the boy to comfort him and Ali scratched behind his ears.

Up ahead Riddick was laughing. The laugh startled her at first but she tuned to him when he said, "So where the hell is your god now?"

They moved over to the wall of the canyon to rest. Fry and Jack worked on keeping the torches lit while the wholly man worked on the older boys leg. Kiba's ears were pricked and so were Emily's eyes. She kept an eye on the spot right above the boys head. As an after thought she lifted the light up, illuminating a cave.

"Riddick, are we almost there?" Fry asked the man who was standing above them, looking out towards the settlement.

"Just tell me its right there!" She shouted, in tears.

"We're not going to make it," he muttered.

Emily rolled her eyes and looked back just in time to see the alien who was supposed to take the older boy. She snarled, it was loud enough for Riddick to hear over the rain. He watched as the girl once again took out her knife and lunged at and alien hiding in a cave above her head.

The Alien in question cried out as the light from her cell phone scorched its eyes.

Riddick jumped down. He scanned the surrounding area before he found small cave in the canyon wall, he pushed a rock out of the way and looked in.

"Hide hear! Now!" The group moved into the whole, all except Emily and Kiba. Riddick growled. "Get in!"

Emily looked up at him and suddenly, it dawned on him, she knew exactly what he was going to do.

They stood there for what seemed like hours, staring at each other. She took in a shaky breath before she looked down at the ground, pushing wet hair out of her face before she looked back at him. "It really comes as a slap in the face when someone you trust does something like this to you, but I knew it was coming. So, Riddick, I'm going to tell you what happens. Close it." She gestures to the cave; Riddick does so, never taking his eyes off her.

She wipes away what might have been tears or rain, he couldn't tell, before she looked at him with her bright blue green eyes again. "You go and start up the ship and are ready to leave this rock far behind. But as you sit in the pilot chair you look out the window and see fry. She has a whisky bottle filled with glowing worms and she's holding it over her head. You lower the hatch and act all bad ass and try to get her to come with you. She throws herself at you and it turns into a power struggle which you win. And ask her, would she die for them? After a while she answers, yes, she would. So you go back for Jack and Imam." Riddick looked back at the blocked cave; they still had two of his boy, which meant that was her doing. "They make it to the ship, but you stay behind to lure them away from them. The blind spot works by the way, and you would have gotten out of there if another hadn't landed behind you." Riddick's pulse quickened, was she going to foretell his death?

Emily pulled back her hair and looked off in another direction in a huff. "They were going to leave you until they heard you scream," Tears are rolling down her face now, he could tell, he could smell their salty scent, "Fry goes to help you and your half dead. You guys almost make it but right when you can see the ship, she's taken from you." She sniffed. "And before you think you acted all bad ass about it, let me tell you what you did. You fell to the ground, bleeding and broken, and you cried, 'not for me!' is what you said. So, just save yourself the grief, and don't leave us here." She cried. Kiba whined as she took a step closer towards him.

Riddick looked at her and he almost looked saddened. He patted her head and smirked. "All right, here's the plan. We'll go start up the ship like you said, and then we'll come back for them." Emily nodded and wiped her eyes on her jacket sleeve, even though it was soaked.

So they ran for the ship, Kiba never once running away or falling behind, and as they moved Emily found she could get the smallest of services with her phones, she texted Shelby what was going on.

Riddick pulled the cells and Emily kept her cell phone light moving around them while Kiba snarled at anything that moved. He was big enough to be a horse, and like she had said some time ago, she didn't want to be the one to piss Kiba off.

They made it to the ship without any delay and soon it was powered up and lights shining. Emily grinned and jumped.

"Fuck yes, these fuckers are going down!" She moved to get a high five but was left hanging as Riddick walked by.

"Come on, lets go get your… our friends." He walked down the hatchway and Emily had to run after him. All they had was the light on Riddick's back, Emily's cell phone and her flashlight which she had strapped to Kiba's collar. She decided Kiba could go with out the leash.

As they ran back, the aliens were startled and moved away from them, Emily wouldn't have doubted if it was just because of the noises Kiba was making. He was practically foaming at the mouth.

As they made it back to the cave, they pushed the rock away and found the group huddled together, expecting an alien. Emily grinned as she heard Jack laugh, "Never had a doubt."

Shelby launched herself at Emily but at the last second turned and hugged Kiba. Emily clenched her fist and was going to punch Shelby but Taylor held her back with a hug.

"Lets go." Emily said.

So it was basically Emily and Riddick at the front with Ali between them. Shelby and Taylor helped Imam carry the older boy while Taylor gave Fry her phone so the woman had their backs. Not only that but they had also gotten the bottles of glowie worms so just about every one had their own source of light.

This time the rules wasn't "Stay in the light", it was, "don't let go," because in fact, every one was holding each others hand. Except for Kiba because he was circling the group and acting like the savage beastie he was. Emily giggled at the thought.

As they all crouched down at Riddick's orders Emily moved in next to him.

"This is the same way it happened before, but we have more people and two more of us are bleeding. So it's going to have to be a lot quicker. I'm hoping Kiba can scare them off, but he isn't THAT big." Riddick nodded as he watched the group of aliens butt heads on the only pathway towards the skiff. Riddick grabbed her hand and she grabbed Ali's. And so it went. They formed a bright, human chain with one dog circling them. Emily whistled and Kiba barked in joy. At last, he was free to attack!

The wolf launched himself forward and Riddick followed, pulling Emily with him. They ran, following Kiba. The wolf barked and snarled and they heard the aliens cry out a few times.

"Jesus, he's a beastie!" Emily called to Riddick. The man tightened his grip on her hand in reply.

As they climbed over the hill Emily stayed behind with Riddick to make sure they all made it over. She started to follow but an alien moved in her path.

"Fuck! Fuck a Fucking Duck!" She shouted. Her scream seemed to throw the creature off, but it lunged at her. Riddick and Kiba met it in mid air. It wasn't hard for them to kill the thing but there were more coming.

"Let's move!" Emily had a questioning look on her face as Riddick grabbed her hand again, but as they ran she realized something. Behind her, were the sounds of hundreds of aliens, crying out for a taste of human flesh.

Authors note~ for the part where Emily's telling Riddick what happens I played the song, don't let me get me, by pink.

Thanks Silverman101! I'm laughing maniacally over here; Emily is based off of me! That was a nice ego boost. Muwahahahaha!