Holy War
By Ardath Rekha
Synopsis: This is in response to LadyElaine’s fiction challenge. The stipulations: No more than 250 words (this is exactly 250 words — LOL!) and no dialogue. Any Vin movie but TFATF. I hope a first-person narrative doesn’t violate the “no thoughts” aspect, but this is what came to me. Woo hoo!
Synopsis: This is in response to LadyElaine’s fiction challenge. The stipulations: No more than 250 words (this is exactly 250 words — LOL!) and no dialogue. Any Vin movie but TFATF. I hope a first-person narrative doesn’t violate the “no thoughts” aspect, but this is what came to me. Woo hoo!
Category: Fan Fiction
Fandom: Pitch Black (2000)
Series: None
Challenges: LadyElaine’s “Silent Solutions” challenge
Rating: M
Orientation:Gen
Pairings: None
Warnings: Adult Situations and Controversial Subject Matter (Predatory Grooming Practices)
Number of Chapters: 1
Net Word Count:For individual anthology stories that appear in the Read Online section, net word counts include only the story text on the actual story page, minus the title. 250
Total Word Count:For individual anthology stories that appear in the Read Online section, total word counts include all text present within the story tabs, excluding tab text, forward/back page links, and tooltips. This count tends to be slightly different from the eBook Total Word Count reported in aggregate on the anthology title page. 536
Story Length: Flash Fiction
The characters and events of Pitch Black are © 2000 USA Films, Gramercy Pictures, and Interscope Communications; Directed by David Twohy; Screenplay by Ken and Jim Wheat and David Twohy; Story by Ken and Jim Wheat; Produced by Tom Engelman. This work of fan fiction is a transformative work for entertainment purposes only, with no claims on, nor intent to infringe upon, the rights of the parties listed above. All additional characters and situations are the creation of, and remain the property of, Ardath Rekha. eBook design and cover art by LaraRebooted, using graphics provided by PngWing, the Windsong font from Font Meme, and background graphics © 1998 Noel Mollon, adapted and licensed via Teri Williams Carnright from the now-retired Fantasyland Graphics site (c. 2003). This eBook may not be sold or advertised for sale. If you are a copyright holder of any of the referenced works, and believe that part or all of this eBook exceeds fair use practices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, please contact Ardath Rekha.
Rev. 2022.10.09
Holy War
I watch the two of them together, from my seat on the floor, and wish things would have gone differently.
Carolyn could have prevented this. Shazza would have. But both are dead and now the girl is unprotected. And he is reeling her in.
She admires him. I know this. It offends me that she can think so well of him after everything that happened. Of course, she did not hear Carolyn’s whispered secret. She does not know that we were almost abandoned. And she does not know what he made Carolyn do on the wet ground beneath the skiff, to ransom back our lives.
He claimed, upon his return, that the monsters took our captain. But those are the monsters within his own heart. The demons within his black soul. And I had the audacity to think Allah had sped him back to
Still, Allah has turned the tools of Shaitan against themselves, and their master, before.
He will prey upon the girl. His smiles, his charm, they are weapons he will use upon her even as she willingly invites him within. Will he make her take Carolyn’s place? Is he that twisted? I do not know for certain but I cannot risk it.
Islam is peace. I am a man of peace. But Mohammad himself carried the sword into battle, when the cause was righteous. And what cause could be more righteous than defending the honor and innocence of a child?
Allahu akbar, Richard Riddick must die.