The Chronicles of Riddick; UnderVerse

Chapter 1; A Way to Save Her

Apart from his whole life being completely turned upside down and fucked up entirely, and the only person he probably ever cared about in his entire life dead, Riddick was having a pretty fucking good day. He could get used to this lordship gig, but there was something missing…or rather, someone missing. Turning away from the throne room Riddick made his way to her room. He was supposed to be at some stupid coronation practice or some other bullshit like that. Fucking useless. Riddick only had one place he wanted to be, and it wasn't surrounded by fucking Necros. Slowly he opened the door and walked inside, he had ordered that she be brought here; he needed to time to think, time to come up with a plan. He was running out of time quickly. It wasn't like she was going to keep fresh.

Kyra lay on a luxurious bed draped in fine silks and a mountain of stain pillows. When her body was brought here Dame Vaako had two women plait her hair and paint her face. She didn't look like Kyra, she looked like a Necro and it was a fucking insult to the fight inside of her. Sitting beside her Riddick lifted Kyra off the bed, her lifeless body little more than a ragdoll in his arms. He rested her head against his shoulder as he loosened the tie at the end of her braid and began to untangle it. The natural curls framed her face in a wild mess. Carefully laying her body down he stared at her face. At least now she looked a little like her old self.

"You know, people may become insulted if you keep blowing them off for a dead woman." Riddick didn't' look over; he knew Vaako had been standing there for a while. Anger and fear washed over him in waves from the man Riddick took lordship from. However, both he and his wife knew better than to challenge Riddick. They both knew that there was no man on the planet who could take Riddick down. However…there was one woman. Vaako slowly walked into the room and looked at him, his eyes briefly glancing at Kyra before turning away. "If you're so attached to her…there could be a way to save her."

This caught Riddick's attention. He glanced at the man, who was leaning against the wall, his arms folded across his chest as he kept his eyes leveled on the ground. "You have my attention."

Vaako smirked and looked up, his eyes staring into Riddick's. "If you go to the UnderVerse, you could bring her soul back." Riddick thought about it for a moment…in actuality he would do anything to save Kyra. He didn't know why but there was something about Kyra that pulled Riddick to her, it had been that way since he first laid eyes on her when they were stranded on the planet with Johns. He'd known from the very beginning that she wasn't whom she claimed to be. While everyone thought Jack was a boy, Riddick knew better.

When he'd left her on Helium Prime it'd been for her own safety. Mercs were on his neck, mercs would always be on his neck, trying to win that once in a lifetime payday. When he found out what happened to her…when he found out she signed with the same fake badges that wanted to dump her and feed her off to some monsters so they could save their own skin…when he found out she was at Crematoria…

Riddick knew that he would always go for her…always save her ass. Why the hell she did this to him, he had no idea. Why she was so strongly connected to him…he had no idea. All he knew was that something in his life was missing and until he got it back he was going to be in a permanent state of mind fuck.

Leveling his lavender eyes on Vaako he smirked. "Dangerous?"

"Extremely."'

"Chance of success?"

"Minimal."

Riddick's smirk grew. "Sounds like my kind of game."

Three hours later he was in a part of the ship he'd never seen before. Vaako and Scale were there; apparently this part of the ship was off limits to most people, pretty much everyone save Riddick. Vaako and Scale were there to make sure that nothing went wrong and to keep guard over Riddick's body while he went into the UnderVerse to save Kyra.

"You sure you want to do this?" Vaako asked, looking at Riddick who, despite being the new Lord Marshal, was dressed in his usual attire of black cargo pants, perfect for hiding multiple weapons and his black tank top, perfect for seduction and easy mobility.

He pulled his goggles down over his eyes, blocking out all the light until his world went ultraviolet. "Just make sure nothing goes wrong." He turned and looked at Scale. "The second this fucker tries to do something to me while I'm in there, cut his dick off."

Scale smirked and looked over at Vaako. "I can do that."

"Good." Riddick stepped up to the platform in the middle of the room. There was a large basin on a pillar in the center of that with the disgusting black liquid that was used for practically everything around here. When he got back he was going to have to change that. "So all I do is put my face in here, and I'll go to the UnderVerse?"

"Your soul will yes," Vaako said leaning against the wall. "Your body will remain here, however I wouldn't stay there for long. The longer your soul is in the UnderVerse, the harder it is to come back." He smirked and looked at Riddick, taking in the intimidating man in front of him. "However, I've never heard of someone coming back with two souls before…that alone could make coming back impossible."

Riddick had considered that already. If it came down to it, he would send Kyra's soul back and he would remain in the UnderVerse. "My weapons will go as well?" he asked.

Vaako shared a look with Scale before replying. "It's possible. Honestly I don't know what's going to happen. I've never actually been to the UnderVerse, I've only heard rumors."

Riddick nodded. He could make due if his blades didn't follow him over. He was after all the man who had killed someone with a tea cup…

Because he'd had his hands all over Kyra…

Riddick growled and without a second though plunged into the basin.