So they start trudging along, dragging the power cells with them. Each of them was wrapped in feet of rope lights trying to gain just enough of a halo of light to keep the monsters at bay. With the worst and best monster leading them, they followed Riddick into the dark. He kept a quick pace ahead of everyone, he had some bright lights at his back but Jo was still worried that one of those things would become a little to hungry and be bold enough to try to grab him. She had been certain Riddick could hold his own against anything, but these creatures were bloodthirsty and as much as she didn't want to doubt him she didn't think even Riddick had a chance. Everyone once in a while she would point her flashlight out in front of Riddick, to others it seemed she was just looking ahead, but Jo was hoping that the little light would keep anything in front at a distance.

Jo walked closest to Jack constantly putting a hand out to make sure she was still between her and the sled. There were so few left of them now; Jo, Jack, Riddick, Johns, and Caroline, Imam and only one of his protégés and Paris. Jo wanted to survive this but every step they took away from the safety of the cargo ship made her feel they were getting closer and closer to death. She could hear the clicking and scratching of the creatures just outside their circle of light, they slowed down to a walk and she could feel the hairs on her neck stand on end, something was about to happen.

Soon Paris's blow torch ran out, he scrambled to stay inside the circle and grabbed for a bottle of liquor; in doing so though he knocked out a flare. Jack saw it and threw off her lights to reach for it, Jo grabbed for the back of her overalls but she got out of her reach. So Jo threw off her lights and jumped after her, and then they heard the screeching of those things. Next thing she knew Imam had grabbed her and Jack and rolled them to the side just in time. She felt the gust of the things wings against her face. The trio crawled back toward the sled but Paris began freaking out then a creature swooped down and knocked him on his back. He started crawling away from the sled his rope lights still around him, Caroline shouted at him to come back then everyone heard a crash and saw the flicker of the lights as the rope lights still attached to Paris pulled the entire power cell off the sled. The lights around everyone died, Jo hunched down; covering Jack with her body, and looked into the space where she thought Paris had crawled, she saw a fireball as he spit some liquor across his zippo, for a moment there was light and the hungry creatures that encircled Paris recoiled, but as soon as it came the light was gone. Jo closed her eyes even though she couldn't see anything, because she knew that just beyond them Paris was being ripped to shreds.

Everyone scrambled to light up the flares used them to light up the liquor torches. Riddick walked into the circle, no one had noticed when the lights went out that he circled around to the other side of Jo and had pulled out his shiv to keep any monsters from getting near her.

"Glad to see you're ok" Johns said.

Riddick looked out at Paris Caroline stepped forward "Do I even want to know?" He just shook his head slightly and everyone kept marching along.

"Are we getting close?" Jack asked Caroline.

Caroline called out to the guys in the front "Can we pick up the pace?"

Just then Johns stopped and threw down the rope for the sled. "Goddamit" He cursed under his breath. There were tracks on the ground in front of them, the tracks from the sled; they had just gone in circles. Jo looked up at Riddick who was standing a few yards ahead.

"We've crossed our own tracks? Why?" Jo was looking at Johns but she knew Riddick had a reason.

Johns walked over to him as he was crouched on the ground. "You wanna tell me what the hell is going on?"

"Listen"

Imam went and stood on the other side of Riddick. "Why have we circled? Are we lost?"

"Listen" Riddick said again.

"Do you even know where you are going!?"

"Listen! Canyon ahead, I circled once to buy some time to think."

That's when everyone heard it, the screeching coming from in front of them, Riddick knew they were about to walk into a choke point, handing themselves over on a silver platter. Riddick, Johns, and Imam started talking away from the group. Jo overheard Riddick talking about the creatures going off the scent of blood. Suddenly Jack came up behind her and tugged on Jo and Carolines shirts.

"Hey I gotta tell y'all something"

"What it is sweetie?" Jo whispered, Caroline gave Jo an odd look at the endearment.

"I'm bleeding"

Caroline raised an eyebrow and looked Jack over "I don't see any cuts, where…"

"I'm a girl!" She hissed through clenched teeth.

"You're what! A girl, jesus Jack why didn't you say something"

By this time no one had noticed Johns come up behind them, and he'd overheard enough to put it together. "You've got to be kidding me" Jo turned around startled and pushed Jack behind her back. "You mean this little kid is a girl"

Jack poked her head from behind Jo "I didn't want to get left behind, I'm sorry I should have said something and I could have stayed at the ship, I'm sorry"

Jo turned around and got on her knee and grabbed Jacks shoulders. "No No, it's going to be alright. Ok no ones leaving you anywhere. We will get through this. I will get you through this." Jo pulled her into her arms and held her.

Caroline walked over and sighed "Look this is not gonna work, we're gonna have to go back"

"What'd you say? You're the one who got us out here in the first place" Johns pointed a finger at her.

"Alright I was wrong. I admit it, now can we please just get back to the ship"

"Oh I don't know Caroline nice open space, cool breeze; I'm startin' to enjoy my fucking self."

"You high again Johns? Listen to yourself"

"You're right Caroline, what's to be afraid of; my life is just a meaningless piece of shit anyways"

Jo pulled Jack towards her; she could feel that there was something between Caroline and Johns that the rest of them didn't know. Then John's outed Caroline, she had told him how she had wanted to blow the passenger cabin; to save herself, when they were crashing. From the way Caroline was reacting and how angry she was getting Jo believed Johns was telling the truth. Caroline leapt at John's but he just threw her to the ground, Imam stepped in and forced them to separate.

"Grab the shit, put a cork in the kid and keep moving. The light is going forward"

Johns lit up a flare and started walking again; everyone else grabbed the sled and kept moving.