Jack looked up at him and scowled even more then went to work with a fury on her bindings.
"What do you want?" asked Riddick now ready to deal.
"To watch you work," she said coming up behind him and pointing down. then she turned to him, "I've spent the later half of my life observing fantastic things. The work of terrible men, men such as yourself, but it's always after the fact when the moment of bloody creations is cold and passed. That changes now." she said and walked away.
Riddick could hear Junner playing with the buttons on his remote behind him. A door opened on the other side of the arena from Jack and Imam with a metallic clink. Riddick looked back when it had opened and nothing came out.
"I need to see it Riddick," said the crazy woman. "i need to see it with my own eyes, as it happens."
Riddick walked up to her and towered over, " i get outta there alive and you'll see it again," he leaned in to her face, "this close."
The woman smiled like the insane bitch she was, "No Riddick, I want your master piece." She waved his shiv under his chin clearly telling him he would never kill again after this, fat chance. "An artist is nothing without his instrument," she said and threw it on the floor. What a bitch.
Riddick walked up and grabbed it as Junner came to his bosses side to protect her, "When we meet again I'm gonna bury this in your eye," Riddick told him, taking off his goggles so he could see him clearly.
"Let him in," the woman said and Riddick turned ready, there was nothing he couldn't kill. Two hired mercs came up on him, one was a fat pathetic excuse of a man and the other was so green Riddick wondered how he even stayed alive. They were taken out easily with a kick to the face for the fat man and Riddick stabbing the other, the fat man tried to tackle Riddick and they both fell into the arena. Riddick used him to land on and break his fall, after all he had enough cushioning.
Riddick stood up and looked forwards, he wasn't overly concerned with getting Jack out just yet. Besides he had a feeling she would be out of those bondage's in a minute, so he ran just in front of them and stood ready to play body guard. Riddick could hear the whir of two machines coming closer before they came into the dim light and he could see them. Some where he could hear the priest mumbling about being on a pilgrimage and he didn't deserve this, where was his god for him now?
"How bad?" said Jack.
"Give it a minute," Riddick replied waiting for them to come closer so he could see them better. "Imam, pray," he said hoping that he would chill out.
The machines were really quit impressive, they looked almost like a squid, their arms floating around them, undoubtedly very deadly.
The fat man that fell in the pit behind him stood up and started wildly firing around, the thing picked him up with the tentacles and used one to inject something in his leg that looked like it belonged in a glow stick. then he got fatter and fatter, finally he literally exploded in front of Riddick into a ball of glowing matter and human body parts. Pretty impressive really Riddick thought.
He could hear Imam gasp when the man had started glowing and they could now most definitely see the pile of goo and body matter where he had been. Jack simply looked at it and said, "gross," then went back to work.
Riddick decided his best offense was defense and decided to avoid the thing currently in front of him, which worked well until he was knocked backwards into the ball Jack was standing on. She must have seen him coming because she took a deep breath and didn't struggle when it rolled away, he just say her pulling her arms under her legs to get them in front of her so she could flick him off before her heard the other thing coming.
Riddick went after the other thing and turned around to see Jack was MIA and Imam was holding himself up on his rope after kicking the ball and one of those things. Damn holy man, he thought and ran back jumping up on the thing the holy man had mowed over cut him down.
"Get up," he said walking away from an Imam straining to get his noose off while not being able to see.
"I can not see," he said, obviously, only Riddick could.
"You don't want to," said Riddick, wondering what in the world Jack was doing climbing her noose rope.
The two things were coming at him now and he was ready to play this time, one drove a tentacle at him and he sliced it in half with his shiv which made them both back off. He could see them communicating somehow with each other, then they went dark.
One lit up next to Imam but Riddick was ready for it and rolled the ball towards it crushing it against the wall, he ran up and sliced through the thing and it shrieked and fell over. that was too easy, he thought and turned around. the other one grabbed onto his arms and pulled him up in the air holding his arms out away from him, well, he thought, this isn't good. Then he looked behind the thing and saw Jack dropping off the rope behind it and smirked.
Jack snuck up behind the thing and grabbed a tentacle off the ground, she wound it around the body of the thing but it swept her away. Well shit, he thought, thanks for the help.
The thing exposed its toxin in a bottle clearly aiming for Riddick, but he jerked away from it and it hit itself instead.
He heard the unmistakable sound of his shiv sliding across the floor and shouted, "here," to which he was surprised by almost being stabbed through the hand with the damn thing. Damn but she was gonna be a huge job for him, he thought as he sliced through another tentacle and threw it in the twirling main body. Riddick was jerked off his feet by the thing and flew through the air at it with his shiv at the ready, the thing dropped and suddenly the lights turned up.
Jack stood there blinking in the rapid change of light as she heard a clapping noise from one person, the woman she had yet to meet who talked up a storm to Riddick as he walked in. Something about art or some shit, what a weird bitch. Riddick groaned as he stood up and then looked at her.
"Bravo, the grace, the expression, the sheer violence of it," she said making very odd expressions and gestures. "exquisite," she said closing her eyes, Jack could imagine she just had an orgasm for all of her writhing and weird expressions.
"the shiv," Riddick whispered to Imam who was closer.
"What?" he said too loudly.
"Give me the Shiv," Riddick repeated as loudly as he dared.
"Such complete and through performance," she continued not realizing that Imam was very unskillfully and not too quietly pulling the shiv from the corpse of the animal dead at his feet for Riddick. "It leaves only one question."
"I got a feeling your not gonna like it," said Jack with a scoff.
The lady turned and closed her eyes and at least Imam waited until then to throw the knife, "How will I ever have you mounted to do it justice."
Riddick raised his eyebrow and looked at her, then took his shiv and dug it into his neck, right over where they had implanted the device, "what are you doing?" she said worried, "No!" with that she dashed for the controller on her table, but too late she turned with it because Riddick had the device in his hand for her to see.
"Looks like you'll have to be an abstract piece," said the woman when she saw it.
"Get down now!" said Riddick and wound up his arm to throw the device, just in time because it blew up shortly after he threw it. Riddick could feel the slight tingle of burns on his arm but he still had adrenaline pumping too fast to really feel it. Jack ran up to grab him and started pulling him in the direction the holy man was running, out of the arena into a hallway, though the hole Riddick had blown in it. The could just hear a very angry woman saying something about a pursuit force, she was obviously throwing a fit.
OMG! not only 1 but 2 updates! im so excited to finnish this! :) :)