AN: Thank you for the reviews! They make me happy. Here I another chapter in my story. And if anyone was wondering the scene in the movie with Carolyn and Riddick in the skiff still plays out, I just don't write about it.
"Like I said, it's not me you gotta worry about." I heard the door slam shut behind them. None of us talked until we were well within the storage unit. We stopped walking. I could see them all clearly. The lone flashlight enough for my eyes. I heard the clicking of Paris trying to light a lighter.
"She should of stayed down. If only she would of stayed down. She wouldn't of died." Jack muttered to herself. I sighed feeling only a twinge bad for her.
"Do you remember the bone yard? These just might be the fuckers that killed every living thing on this planet." Johns, the stater of obviousness.
"What are we gunna do now?" Jack asked.
"Are these the only lights we have? Is this everything?" Paris sputtered along sounding freaked out. I coughed, the scent of them all was almost suffocating..
"No there's a cutting torch somewhere around here on the floor. I just can't seem to find it." Carolyn said digging around on the floor. I inched away from the group.
"Quiet, everyone please!" Imam said leaning up against the metal. The wailing began around us.
"Why do they do that, make that sound?" Jack asked half her face pressed into the metal.
"Perhaps it's the way they see." Imam said. "with sound reflecting bac-" a screeching deeper in the storage unit made us all look. I was up front with Riddick. Then the distinct sound of nails clicking on metal came from one of the walls.
"Could be a breach in the hull. I don't know." Carolyn said coming up behind Riddick.
"Come on Johns you got the big gauge." Riddick taunted the merc.
"I'd rather piss glass, why don't you fucking check?" Johns drawled out lazily.
"I'm not staying here anymore." Paris muttered beginning to move away. All hell broke loose as he tried escaping away. Imam stopped him. Carolyn pinned the prissy man to the wall where we was shoved against.
"You don't know what's out there." she sounded desperate.
"I know what's in here!" he spat at her looking at Riddick and me. I couldn't blame the guy. I looked back at Riddick who was still turned toward the noises. A loud grunting sound and a slow slip of something made me look back. Imam had opened another door.
"Hurry!" he yelled everyone piling into it. I touched Riddick's arm gaining his attention. I motioned for him to come and went to the door myself. When we were all through Imam closed the door.
"Now we're trapped in a much smaller space! I hate this!" Paris cursed looking around. Then Imam screamed. We all looked to see a claw like thing protruding through the door. We backed up from the door. I kept going until I hit the other wall. Another light flared in the room. Riddick had found the cutting torch. He went to the wall and began cutting into it. We were going to go deeper. At least this place was bigger.
I took deep breaths allowing all my senses to expand. I began exploring around the room, but I was cautious not to go towards total darkness. Something was down there. I looked and saw one of Imams sons walking toward the blackness. I followed him without much thought. The kid was an idiot going off on his own. He didn't even notice me. I heard a wet crunching before a slap on the floor. The boy gasped. I looked down seeing a meaty piece of purple and blue flesh. It smelled disgusting. I looked up pressing myself into the darkness. There was a creature. It had a hammer head, thin agile body with long and thin but deadly looking arms and legs. I pushed farther into the wires and such. The boy started hyperventilating.
"Extremely bad timing." well of course he's down here. I watched him come out of the shadows for a second making the kid look at him. The creature swung it's head around seemingly seeing us. I held my breath. "Just don't run." he whispered at the kid. But I could hear the boys breathing and heart beat. He was going to run.
"Riddick?" I heard Carolyn say her voice shaking.
"Don't. Stop. Burning." the creature flew over the boy on top of the cabinet thing above him. I watched as it's claws opened slowly. The boys breathing sped.
"Don't run kid." I hissed from my wiring cave. He didn't listen. He ran. I watched as another creature snapped his head off. The other one went to attack it. They fell in a brawl. I quickly got out of the wiring. I looked to see Riddick looking back. I looked passed him seeing another creature. "Ah shit." I muttered and ran.
I heard him behind me, I heard the creature wailing and pursuing. I turned seeing the others. Some reason they flashed all their lights at us. They hit me directly in my eyes. I hissed in pain my hands coming up to cover my eyes but kept running. I heard Riddick yell in pain and his thump when he fell. Guess his eyes were a lot more light sensitive them mine. I barely stopped when I got passed Johns who stared firing on the thing like crazy.
Everything was silent before the creature fell to the ground. Everyone screamed. I personally had no clue what was going on because all I could see were nasty white spots in my vision. I leaned against a wall rubbing my eyes. I opened them up in time to see Carolyn shine her light onto them. It burnt the flesh as it went.
"It's like the light is scalding it" Paris sounded amazed.
"it hurts them. Light actually hurts them." I turned away from them. More creatures squealing.
"Haasan!" Imam yelled.
"We'll burn a candle for him later." Johns said offhandedly. "Come on, let's get out of here." he broke down the new mini doorway. We all went into another small room. I crawled onto a crate and sat on it. Carolyn put the torch on a tool box. Riddick sat in front of me.
"We have one cutting torch, we got 2 hand lights. There's gotta be something we can rip out a of the crash ship." I leaned forward.
"Spirits. Anything over 45 proof burns rather well."
"How many bottle do you got?"
"I don't know maybe 10." I leaned in closer. My mouth right by Riddick's ear.
"She's thinking of doing something crazy." I whispered so only he would hear.
"Okay Johns, you got some flares." I looked up at Carolyn still bent over. "So maybe we got enough light."
"Enough for fucking what?" Johns nearly growled.
"We stick to the plan." she said sternly. "we get the four cells back to the skiff, we're off this rock."
"Look, I hate to ruin a beautiful theory with an ugly fact," Paris began walking towards Carolyn. "But that sand cat is solar." he sounded drunk. "it won't run at night."
"So we carry the cells." Carolyn muttered. "We drag them, whatever it takes."
"You mean tonight, with all those things still out there?" Jack asked rocking slightly back and forth.
"Deadly mother fuckers." I whispered again. He nodded slightly.
"All right, how long can this last?" Johns asked shaking slightly. "A few hours? A day tops?"
"I had the impression from the model that the planets are moving in sync now. An everlasting darkness." Imam sounded like a holy man about to break.
"Mm…these suns gotta come up sometime. And if these creatures are phobic about light, then we just sit tight, and we let the sun come up." I snorted quietly.
"I'm sure somebody else said that locked inside that coring room."
"Johns is a pansy." I smiled earning a low chuckle from Riddick.
"We need to think about everybody now, especially the kids. How scared will they be out in the dark?" Johns asked looking at Jack who was curled in a ball then me. I stood stepping away and off my crate.
"So I'm a kid now Johns?" I asked my voice deadly quiet. The others all looked to see. Johns swallowed, I heard his heart rate speed up.
"Last time I checked you were." he answered standing. I took a measured step towards him.
"And when was that?" I cocked my head to the side feeling all human emotion drain from my body. "Four years ago when your lovely brother told-"
"Shut your fucking mouth!" he grabbed his gun and went to point it at me, but Riddick got up causing Johns to point it at his chin. "Where are you going?" he asked his eyes almost crazed.
"This solves nothing." Imam said trying to calm people down with that statement. Riddick lifted his goggles and looked back at Johns. I heard a faint tapping and looked down to see Riddick had his shiv right on johns crotch.
"Okay." Johns said quietly sitting down. His blue eyes opened widely looking at Riddick like all he wanted to do was shoot him. He moved his gun down. I stayed standing feeling my blood begin to flow more freely in my veins.
"they're afraid of our light." Carolyn said holding Jack gently by the shoulders. "That means we don't have to be so afraid of them." her voice was soft.
"And you are sure you can get us there," Imam's voice changed slightly. "Even in the dark?" it sounded so…sinister. Carolyn looked up at him and stood.
"No I can't." she turned in Riddick's direction. "But he can." he stopped walking back to his seat and turned sharply. I blinked bewildered. They all looked up at him expectantly, well except Johns and me. I heard his almost silent curse.
Somehow we were outside again. In a tight line, well they were. I stayed near the back watching all the hammer head creatures eye us group of misfit humans. I heard Carolyn hiss something at us. We stopped walking. I took a deep breath resisting the urge to take a breath through my nose. I was in my natural habitat. The darkness.
"Riddick." Carolyn whispered turning. Riddick made his way carefully toward the ship. He walked a few paces ahead of us before lifting his goggles.
"Looks clear." Johns began making his way towards the ship. I inched towards the others to get a little closer to the light. Johns had only gone one pace above Riddick when one of the creature flew out of the ship making Johns and Riddick drop to the ground. It flew away screeching wildly.
"You said "clear"!" Johns accused.
"I said it looks clear."
"Well what's it look now?" Johns asked glancing up. Riddick looked up at the ship again for a few seconds before looking back at Johns.
"Look clear." I snorted at his tone. We moved our group quickly into ship.
"Get any light you can!" Carolyn ordered. I helped pull the fiber optic wiring from the walls. While the others loaded the cells onto a sleigh. I was sitting on the floor coiling the blue lights with Jack when Riddick and Carolyn walked by.
"These bad boys know our blood now." Riddick said still shielding his eyes from the harsh light. I was squinting against it. I was use to squinting by now. I watched Jack's face pale and she stopped twisting the cable. I patted her shoulder reassuringly. She gave me a wide eyed look. I nodded once smiling slightly.
"You'll be fine, just listen to Riddick." was all I said as I got up to talk to Carolyn about my own personal problem.
"Fry!" I called causing them both to turn.
"What do you need?" she asked looking like the leader of this mission. I scowled.
"I have a slight problem." she paled.
"What is it?" she asked blinked a few times.
"I can't see correctly with the lights." my eyes still squinting against it all.
"What do you mean you can't see with the lights?" she hissed angrily.
"I have the same fucking problem as Riddick does except my eyes are perfectly natural!" I growled out earning a surprised gasp from Carolyn. I sighed pinching the bridge of my nose. "I grew up in a planet that was completely pitch black…light was optionally issued. Then I've been spending the bulk of my life in a blacked out prison cell or in cyro sleep. Light hurts my eyes."
"I thought you just needed glasses." my face dead panned. "So you walk in between us and Riddick. You'll have most light on your back, except for Riddick's lights he'll have strapped to his back." I nodded knowing that's what I'd do in the first place, but I just wanted her to know that.
In a few minutes we were nearly ready. Most of us were by the door of the ship. Jack was messing with the light, shining it through her hand. Imam and his only son left were leaning against the wall near the door. Paris had the cutting torch and was standing rigidly with it in his hands. I saw Carolyn go up the stairs where Johns was. Riddick was right below the floor behind a pole. I moved towards him silently.
"We're bound to loose a few people." I commented quietly so only me and him could hear.
"I know." he went from looking at the ceiling to looking at me.
I took a few steps forward coming head to chest with him. I stretched up on my toes hooking on of my arms around his neck and kissed him. It was slow at first, but quickly grew in heat. I felt his arm wrap around my waist and lift me up slightly making it easier to kiss him., his other hand tangling in my brown hair. He bit my bottom lip wanting access. I opened mine willingly. His tongue explored my mouth before coaxing mine into action. He tasted even better then he smelled. The sharp tang of killer making it all the better. I pulled away when I had to breath.
"What was that for?" his voice was rough with lust. I chuckled pulling away from him.
"Didn't want to die not trying that." I shrugged with a slight smile. He smirked opening his mouth to say something, but Johns voice rang out loudly.
"You give him the cells and the ship and he'll leave you all out here to die." I glanced up. "He'll leave all of you…even that little minx of a murderer." I looked at Riddick who was looking out into the darkness. His silver eyes glinting in the light.
"I don't get it Johns." Carolyn said sounding unholy pissed off. "What is so damned valuable in your life that you are so afraid of loosing? Is there anything at all?" I heard a low tired snort. "Besides your next spike." I heard her turn to leave.
"Ask Kat." he bit out, but Carolyn didn't stop. I watched her walk by glancing at me quickly before looking away.
AN: Please review and till next time!