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Chapter 1
It had been 5 years since the chaos that occurred on the planet Hades when a ship, the Hunter-Gratzner, crash landed. When it had first crashed there had been 12 survivors but as their time continued on the planet their numbers began to decrease. It was mostly due to the carnivorous, flying creatures that inhabited the planet called bio raptors. By the time the ship was prepared there were only five survivors. Four of the five survivors were a rather strange family that had developed on the planet that consisted of a famous criminal, Riddick, two children Jack and Ali, and a mysterious woman with an unknown past named Shadow.
After dropping off the holy man Imam, the fifth survivor, the family seemed to disappear. Mercs searched for Riddick and his family but were unsuccessful. Throughout the years they had lived in peace but now things are going downhill and they must come back to rescue one of their own and get rid of the threat they now face.
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A man with long dreads and a beard dressed in thick, dark clothing ran on top of and across a field of thin ice walls towards a valley. Right behind him was a merc ship that had two gunman hanging off the sides. In the cockpit was the captain, Toombs a disgusting and greedy merc who was only concerned about his next pay. One of the crew stood behind him, glancing worriedly at the approaching valley.
"Toombs we're running out of road"
"Shut up, I got this take the shot!" he yells at the gunman.
He fires and the net hits the man's leg causing him to go down, Toombs stops the ship just before the valley and watched the spot carefully. The man pulls out the spike from his leg with a growl and stands up. Taking out two curved blades, he holds them out at his sides. His eyes were covered by black goggles and his long snow covered hair blew around him.
Toombs glared and bared his teeth at the mysterious man, uttering a single name that made a chill run down the rest of the crew gain a chill, not from the snow.
"Riddick."
The man now known as Riddick, twitched his head and began running further into the valley.
"It looks tight Toombs"
"Not from where I'm sitting, so put on a fresh pair of panties and get ready"
With that Toombs eased the ship forward, all of them unaware of the two pairs of eyes watching them from above. Everyone in the ship was quiet and tense as they moved forward. Two almost silent thuds radiated off the top of the ship and one of the men looked up, curious but shrugged it off as nothing. If only he had said something maybe they would have survived a little longer.
On top of the ship was two figures, dressed similar to Riddick, one of them taller than the other. The tallest pulled down its hood to reveal a woman with short red and black hair and mercury colored eyes. She moved to the side left side of the ship and took out a long blade and swiftly cut the lines that were holding one of the gunman to the ship.
He fell with a scream that attracted the crew's attention and when they all looked out they saw the cut lines blowing in the wind. Groaning Toombs turned his head to the side without taking his eyes off of the lines.
"Taz do you have a visual on Riddick?"
No response.
"Taz!"
Toombs and the others looked over to see that he was no longer there. Now there was only two people left, the last crew member and Toombs.
"W-where is he?!" he said freaking out, unconsciously backing up towards the open door.
"What the hell are you doing? Get back here!" Toombs shouted just as the merc tripped and fell out the ship, screaming.
Toombs cursed before looking back out the front window looking for Riddick. In that moment three thuds could be heard and Toombs froze in his seat before pressing auto pilot and turning around the see Riddick leaning against the now closed door while the woman from earlier was sitting down along with the other figure.
"Hello Toombs" said a gravely and deep voice that belonged to the convict.
"Riddick" Toombs said stiffly
"I don't believe you've met Shadow and Ali" Riddick continued with a smirk first gesturing to the woman and then to the young boy.
"Hello Toombs. You honestly don't look like much to me, just a regular old, disgusting merc" Shadows said speaking in silky and smooth voice. If you didn't know her you would think she would be a sweet and gentle person due to her voice and appearance. However, she was the complete opposite of gentle and innocent.
He leered at her which got him a glare from Riddick.
"Hey sugar tits why don't you move that sweet ass over here and –" before Toombs could finish, he yelled out in pain as Ali took a small butterfly knife and made a long and deep cut in his right leg.
"You little brat!" he shouted as he clutched his leg.
Ali just smiled and went and sat next to Shadow who wrapped an arm around him, smiling with pride. Riddick and Toombs began to talk as they both stood up straight and Toombs glanced at the gun on the wall. Riddick put a hand behind his back slowly and made a hand sign to which Shadow nodded slightly. It was tense when Toombs made a move for the gun and the merc and convict began to fight. Shadow and Ali ran over to the cock pit and Ali took over the controls as Shadow got them prepared for flight.
"Riddick!" she shouted and he looked at her briefly "we're good to go."
Nodding, he punched Toombs in the face before pressing him against the wall holding him up by his neck causing him to choke. "You know I'm kind of offended you came to get me with only a three man crew and on a piece of crap ship. Also you disrespecting my mate and cub? Definitely not a good idea in the least. I expected more Toombs to be honest, guess I overestimated you. That's something that won't happen again"
With those words he punched him in the face and knocked Toombs out for the time being.
"So where do you want to drop him?" Ali asked curiously
"How about...Hades?" Riddick suggested. Shadow raised an eyebrow before shrugging and setting the coordinates.
"Dad how did they find us?"
Riddick frowned and ruffled his hair causing the boy to smile, "I don't know cub but I only told one person where we would be. I hope I didn't make a mistake in doing so."
Ali nodded before getting up to explore the small ship.
"So to Helion Prime?" Shadow asked softly
"Yeah," he responded with a dark smirk "it's about time we visited an old friend."
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Well here you go the first chapter to Survival of the Fittest! I hope you guys enjoyed this!
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