Hi, guys! Sorry if I take so long to update, real life was bad and I could not even think 'bout fanfiction –grumble-
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Of the Darkness and the Light
Chapter Four
Going inside the makeshift holding chamber in the ship, Johns could not help smirking. Oh, he was quite the happy chap, especially after capturing..or is it re-captureing, the psycho convict Riddick.
Johns had thought that he was particulary lucky. But when he had realized that Riddick had escaped, he had felt like killing someone. After all that time spent pursuing the bastard, then seeing that he just up and disappeared out from under his nose.. now that peeved him. Yet, look at where Riddick was now. Chained in that damn room. Maybe, just maybe he could begin believing that there was a God… Maybe.
Upon Entering the room, he couldn't help feeling that those chains wouldn't be able to restrain Riddick for long. Though he hated to acknowledge it, he knew that Riddick was the better of the two of them. Still, his vote to just kill him was turned down by the rest of the survivors. They wanted to interrogate Riddick about Zeke's death. Not that he cared. After all, the less people who survived, the better of they were in this mess.
Still, he came down into the holding chamber, because maybe he could get in a good punch or three? Smirking, Johns stopped in front of a chained up Riddick.
"Well, well. How the mighty has fallen, right?" he said, wanting to find a response in Riddick's still form.
The convict was expertly ignoring him. Acting like there was no one esle in the room but himself.
Damn him! Johns mental figure was throwing a tantrum.
"Che. If you are so intent on ignoring me, then do so. It isn't like I care if you are bound in this room forever. It certainly saves me a lot of hard work. Still – "
The loud sound of a door banging open stopped him from saying whatever he was planning to say to Riddick.
Fry banged into the room. She had been waiting for Johns to come back with information about Zeke's demise. However, after a while when Johns still hadn't reappeared with the much antici[ated information. She had become tired of hearing Shazza crying, and even more so of the fact that the job of calming Shazza fell upon her shoulders. She was a pilot, damn it, not a psychologist. And in her frustaton went on a hunt for Johns, and information.
"Tell me, you jerk," Fry hissed venomously to Riddick, deliberately pushing Johns aside (serves him right!), "what did you do to Zeke!? And where the hell is his corpse?!"
Just like with Johns, Riddick expertly acted as though he was ignoring her, still if you were to look closely, you would be able to see that he was clearly amused with her reactions.
"Tell me!" Fry nearly shouted in her frustration. However, when she went to shake the convicts' shoulder, to maybe try to show him who the boss was, that was when they finally heard him speak.
"Why don't you go and find out for yourself? Afterall You know where to look." Riddick drawled, clearly amused even though his face appeared passive.
"You –" Johns was being driven mad with the way Riddick looked down on everyone..especially when that look was directed.. 'At him.'
"You find this funny?" Fry interrupted Johns. "You think that people's life are insignificant, don't you?"
Smirking at her words, Riddick drawled out in morbid humor"Its not as though you care about the lives of others, why should I?".
His words seemed to hit Fry right to her core, because without saying another word, she left the room just as quickly as she had entered. Johns who was tired of being ignored followed her out, but not without sending one last glare in Riddicks direction.
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while Rian was outside doing God-know-what, Caen was inside the cavern near the hatchlings' nest, having a good daydream. Caen hadn't seen Sira for hours, yes hours, and he was missing her prescence quite alot.
'Oh…Sssira…' the hormonal teenage bioraptor ( hey, bioraptors can be horny too!) was currently having a very intense daydream, or at least he was until Rian barraged into his spot.
'Argh… Rian, you jussst interrupted my ––! Ri! Hei… why are you breathlesss like that?' Caen asked curiosily. He was a bit worried as well when Rian didn't respond to his semi irate tirade.
"I'm… it's fine." Rian mumbled.
'Hei, don't give me that ssshit. What happened? Wasss it those foodsss? Ssshould I go and kill them?'
"No…no… it's not them. It just… me," Rian said, a bit lost.
'You? Rian, be clear. What are you talking about?'
"Well, …" and Rain told his best friend what had happened just moments ago.
… … …
'So, one of the foods, which actually isn't even a food, did something like what the foods in your little globe usually do, and you just ran away, because your 'part' is being weird?' Caen finally said after mulling what Rian had just told him.
"Uh-huh. It's called 'hugging' I think. " said Rian.
'So, what is the use of this 'hugging'thing actually?'
"I'm not really sure,"Rian shrugged.
'Hmm… If this 'hugging' is like what I had seen in that globe when you were gone–'
"Hey, that's invasion of privacy Caen!"
'—then it means that … Ohmigod!' If Caen had eyes, they would be glittery with tears of happiness right now.
"What?"
'Rion, you –' he stopped in the middle of his speech 'cause he smelt something that would have made him salivate, if only he could salvitate that is.
Rian blinked at his friend. If he hadn't known any better, he would have sworn that Caen had away gone to the Lala Land, imagining all the foods or Sira. it Figured…
"Caen? What are you doing?" he asked when his friend suddenly shot through the narrow passage of the cave and into the nest. He followed, that was when he smelt the the thing that had made all of the hatchlings and Caen so excited. The prey...the female…the food..
How stupid… Rain thought when he sensed the other survivors crowded around the entrance of the cave. One of them was preparing to enter.Do they not have any survival instincts once so ever?
…
When Cean came back empty handed, Rian was sitting off to the side filled with amusement. He had seen the hatchlings and Caen make a spectacle of themselves when they failed to capture the human, and it had been hilarious…
It looked like Caen needed to enter boot camp (Bioraptors' special boot camp) again, for he seemed to be rather slow nowadays. Must be because of all that time he spent daydreaming 'bout his girlfriend.'
'Shut up, Ri!' Caen snapped before Rian even had a chance to open his mouth.
Rian just kept snickering.
'You are so annoying.' Caen grumbled.
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It's short, but I'll try to update the next chapter faster. I promise you it won't take months.
Tell me what you think 'bout this chapter ^^
Later,
Fisca