Hey you guys, hope your still with me out there.

Before we get down to the story I would like to say a few things.

If there was any confusion about last chapter's descriptions, then just to clarify.

The characters described are: The Scream symbiote, The Scorn symbiote and the Hybrid symbiote. I've given them some names of my own design, said names will be revealed in this chapter.

Hope you will like the names upon their reveal.

This is the second-last chapter of this story, boys and girls.

The last chapter will also be published today.

And remember guys, in Fanfiction anything is possible.

Now onwards to the story.

Chapter 14: You're not the only one

From prom night to sudden standing in the middle of four demon-like creatures were definitely on the itinerary of the four Chamberlin natives.

All around them was fangs-filled mouth in front of them, growling at every side of them, white jagged eyes looking at them as they were being measured up. The natives heard some sneering coming from the bigger one of the creatures.

Carrie was feeling fear overtaking her, John noticed saw this and put an end to it. Taking a few steps so he now stood in front of the natives, all of them looking at him with "are you crazy-" looks as he looked like he would fight them.

Venom saw the rider's action and stepped forward as well, few steps himself till he stood face-to-face with the human. "What do you want, human?" the anti-hero sneered out at John.

Rolling his eyes, the rider crossed his arms over his chest. "Not much. But if you guys continue scaring my girlfriend, then we're definitely gonna have a problem, won't we?..." he leaned forward so only the black titan could hear him. "… David." He added with his own dark voice.

The black titan smiled, showing off his own fangs before bursting into laughter. The other creatures joined in, the laughter echoing in the alleyway. The natives had no idea what to make out of this situation.

"Sorry John. Had to be sure you didn't forget us." The titan apologized.

John chuckled at that. "Could never forget you guys, especially someone with your ugly-ass face." He said to the black titan who merely grinned in response. "So how about you guys get out of your suits, so I can introduce you guys?" he asked as he looked around the creatures.

The four creatures looked to each other for answers looking back to the rider. "Can we trust them?" the red creature asked as he pointed a clawed-finger at the natives.

John turned to them with a smile, Carrie becoming less tense as she saw the smile. He looked back to the creatures with the same smile. "Carrie already knows, and the two others are trustworthy. Trust me guys."

"Always do Johnny." The purple female said, gaining the attention of both groups, the humans surprised to not hear a demon-like voice.

"If John says when we can trust them, then we believe him." The long-haired female stated before her form started slithering. The other creatures did the same with their suits.

Sue and Tommy looked on with unbelief, seeing the giant form of the Venom suddenly shrinking down to a normal size man around their age.

The familiar sight of the man brought mouths to the ground. Now with his suit slithered within him once again, standing before the town-natives, in blue jeans and steel-toed black combat boots, and a white T-shirt underneath a black topcoat was David, the young man the natives had met before at prom.

Their eyes went to the long-haired female, who now stood before the group without her suit. Their eyes widened when they saw the familiar long-haired redhead, Scarlett from prom. She was wearing a white shirt underneath a red leather jacket. For pants, she wore dark-blue jeans. She beamed a big smile, Tommy saw the smile but his eyes drifted downwards to the girl's chest area.

Carrie looked behind her, and found the purple female's suit had slithered in, showing Ariel before her. She wore a blue shirt underneath a purple jacket. She also had red jeans on. Carrie saw the female looking her in the eyes with a bright smile, she waved to the town-native who waved back.

The group heard a pair of boots connecting with the ground, like it jumped down there. Turning to their side they saw the red creature's suit slithering in, slowly revealing the face of Jason. Standing proud in his dark-red trench coat with a dark blue shirt and dark jeans underneath it. The natives shivered when they saw his eyes were completely red.

The four outsiders moved to each other, standing in line on opposite of the three natives and the rider, who kept smiling towards the latest arrivals. "What so you gonna introduce us or what Johnny?" Jason asked. "Oh yeah, and before you ask. No, my eyes weren't always red." He added seeing Tommy and Sue stare at his eyes.

John chuckled before turning to Carrie and stretched out his hand. "Carrie, I think it's time for you to meet some important people of my life." The young girl briefly turned to the foreigners before turning back to the rider.

She was a little nervous about meeting new people, especially after everything that have happened in her school. But more than that, she was scared of what they might do if she did or said something wrong to them, especially after seeing the new arrivals turning from demons to humans. But then she remembered something, or rather someone.

Knowing that John would never let anything happen to her no matter what, brought the young girl calmness. Her protector was beside her and would never leave her side. She made her decision and took hold of the offered hand. The ride smiled and led her to stand beside her.

"Carrie White, this is my family from New York." He gestured to the group of four. "Family, meet my girlfriend Carrie White." he introduced Carrie to his family.

The four foreigners smiled to her with wide smiles, the boys turned to each other knowing what the other was thinking before turning to the couple with teasing smiles.

"You mean the girl, you won't stop talking about at your house?" Jason said with a knowing tone. John blushed at the joke, his mate turning to him with wide eyes in shock.

"Yeah. He said she was beautiful beyond any measures, angelic-"

"No, no." Jason interrupted David before adding. "He said was and I quote: "Nothing short of a goddess."." he said with a big smile.

The two sisters giggled seeing John' s flustered face, Carrie saw his face looking redder than Jason's red eyes.

Looking at the two guys, John wanted to express his feelings. "I'm gonna kill you guys."

"Gonna kill us after three months without contacting us?" David added rhetorically, immediately regretting saying that as John casted his eyes down.

"David!" Ariel exclaimed as she elbowed him in his gut, the guy held his stomach in pain.

"Ow! Sorry John-" David stopped when the rider held his hand to him, telling to him to halt his apology.

"No ,you have every right to say that David. All of you do." He looked to the others. "I left you guys without saying anything. The two years together with you guys were the best for me… and Ruby. You became our family, and I turned my back to the family. And I know that, there's nothing I can say to make earn you forgiveness, but I'm sorry." John expressed to his family.

Silence filled the air as the group took in everything their brother-in-arms had just told them. The natives and the foreigners were all a little uncomfortable as they registered the words the rider had said. Scarlett got the attention of everyone as she stepped forward towards the rider. "John, there's nothing to forgive." John looked with disbelief, and was about to say something. "Don't speak, listen." The red-haired woman ordered the rider.

The younger sibling of the red-haired woman came forward to stand beside her elder sister. "There's nothing to forgive John. You lost your sister, your last living family member. No one here can blame you for suddenly leaving like that." Ariel explained to the rider.

Scarlett took hold of her sister's hand. "I don't know what I would have done differently if something like that had happened to Ari. I would have been devastated if just the smallest bad thing had happened to her."

This revelation widened Carrie's eyes. "They are sisters? They are really pretty… must be nice having a sibling like that. Wonder how they know John. Maybe they've been together before?" she thought to herself curiously, unbeknownst to her, Scarlett heard it all and started smiling sheepishly.

"We should have been there for you back then John." David explained to his friend before adding. "We thought you needed space, to move on perhaps. But what we should have done, was to stand beside you all the way, help your through the loss, the pain… everything."

"We're your family, man. We never should have kept our distance to you." Jason said. "We all lost Ruby that day, but we should have considered how it affected you. That's our fault. Hell, we're the ones who should ask for your forgiveness."

"No, you shouldn't. Guys come on. You did the best you could do. And I can't thank you guys enough for that, for giving me and Ruby a new family. I mean girls you took her shopping when she needed clothes or needed a cheer-up when I couldn't." He gestured to the siblings, who smiled. "David you drove her to school and picked her whenever I couldn't because my motorcycle was busted." David smiled. "And Jason, whenever she was sad or needed someone else to talk to besides me, you listened to her like a real big brother." Jason rubbed the back of his head sheepishly.

"You're my family, and I shouldn't have left you guys like that. My biggest mistake in life. And I'm sorry." John expressed his apology to his friends.

No one said anything, tears escaped the boys' eyes and the girls kept their hands on their mouths in shock for a moment. A few seconds passed before the girls came to the rider and hugged him tightly, John returned their hugs just as tightly while muttering "I've missed you all.".

Carrie witnessed the entire conversation, hearing every word that was exchanged between them. Still feeling like she knew nothing of what to make of the background for the conversation, but she felt grateful for John's sake. Seeing him so happy and smiling brought her nothing but happiness. "I happy for you Johnny." She thought to herself.

Scarlett snapped her eyes open as she heard the thoughts of John's girlfriend entering her mind. "Wait a second, John." She and her sister pulled away from the rider before remembering something. "You told at your house that Carrie had more in common with us in a specific way, but you didn't explain it." She said getting nods of confirmation from the others.

"Before we get to that part…." David pointed behind Carrie. "… something wrong with those two?"

John and Carrie turned around and saw Tommy and Sue. The lacrosse player, for some reason, was lying flat on the asphalt with closed eyes. His girlfriend however was still standing, but her mouth was covered by her hands.

"Sue, are you okay?" Carrie with a tone of confusion and worry.

Sue didn't give an answer as she kept her hands, her eyes however kept shifting from one of the new arrivals to the other. Then her eyes widened when she laid them on the rider as realization came over her. "OH MY GOD!" She exclaimed as she started jumping up and down in joy.

"Is she a…" the symbiote left off as it watched and heard the tall blonde react the way she did.

"Yeah I think she is." John muttered under his voice, hoping inwardly that he was wrong.

His friends had the same exact reactions on their faces. Hoping that this girl was not what they feared she was. A creature worse than any super villain possible, far more horrifying any ill-willed extraterrestrial life form. A creature that not even a Lethal Protector would dare cross paths with….

"YOU'RE THE LETHAL PROTECTORS!" Sue happily yelled out to the group whose faces instantly paled when they now stood before their worst enemy.

… a fangirl.

Carrie became more confused by this. Having no idea who or what a lethal protector is and why Sue was exclaiming so excitedly. The young telekinetic became worried when she saw John's paled face and went to him. "John, is something wrong?" she asked concerned.

"Um how to explain this in a non-strange way." He asked himself, looking for a good way to explain his feelings.

"We don't do well with… fans." David explained.

"Meaning, the moment we see them, we run the other way." John further explained to his girlfriend, who looked confused by the answers. "We don't like them." He continued with a shaking voice, the girl giggling hearing his frightened voice.

"I can't believe it! John, you're a Lethal Protector! I met a Lethal Protector! No, I've met them all today!" Sue exclaimed, the other boys stepping back in case she started asking for something. "Oh my god, John why didn't you tell me? Wait scratch that, your secret, you decide who to tell. But you did tell Carrie, right? And wait… you were the one who thrashed Billy's car right?" she asked the rider.

"Yeah I told Carrie not too long ago. And yes I was the one who smashed the coward's car." John said casually, his girlfriend nodding in confirmation.

"Wait…" Sue pointed at David who smiled. "Venom."

Then at Jason. "Red Spider."

Then at Scarlett. "Medusa Spider."

Then at Ariel. "Techno Spider."

Finally. she pointed at John. "Then that means you are…"

Instead of waiting for her to finish her sentence, he showed her. Letting half of his face be covered, showing half of his face as Anti-Venom and half of his own. "I am Anti-Venom." He said with a morphed voice of his own and his demonic-like voice before slithering the symbiote back in.

"That's incredible." Sue said in awe of them.

"Now, that's that outta the way, what about your beau down there?" Ariel asked curiously as she pointed at Tommy.

"I think he passed out from shock, I guess." Sue said unsure of the cause.

"Cool, so we have a fangirl, her unconscious boyfriend, our friend from home," Jason looked to Carrie. "… and a girl who's has something in common with us."

Carrie turned to John, thinking that he told them her secret. The protector turned to her, seeing and knowing what she was thinking. "I didn't tell them anything Carrie. It's your secret not mine. But trust me, these guys they are more like you, and I think one of them will be able to help you in the near future if you want to." He pointed to the confused Scarlett.

Briefly looking between the arrivals and the rider, before making her decision.

Stretching out her hands towards the garbage container, the arrivals followed the direction of her hands and their eyes widened when the container opened itself and five garbage bags of different sizes floated out. The bags went above their heads and started flying around the arrivals, Scarlett watched carefully as each of the trash bags never once shook as they floated around.

"She's telekinetic." Scarlett announced with a smile.

"And a pretty good one at that too." An impressed Jason added when the trash bags floating higher and higher above them. Ariel and David watched with smiles themselves.

"Incredible Carrie." Sue said she stepped closer to her friend.

Sighing as she put the bags back into the container. "I've only been able to do this since the locker room incident." She told Sue before looking to the arrivals, waiting to see a different reaction from them.

"The probably think I'm cursed." She thought to herself, Scarlett gained the attention of them all with as she gasped at the young girl's thoughts.

"Carrie why would you think you are cursed?" the tall redhead asked worried.

"How? What?" Carried responded to the older girl, curiously.

"Scar? You can't read people's mind like that, you know." Jason told the elder girl before turning to Carrie. "And Carrie you're not cursed. You've just been given a power, that's not a curse." He explained.

"But…" she trailed off unsure of what to make of this, as she felt John took hold of her hand and entwined his fingers with her own.

David saw the action between the two lovebirds and smiled before looking to his friends with an idea. "Guys, since she showed hers, how about we show ours." He proposed to his friends.

Getting nods of agreement from the others, David went to the wall and picked an object up. It was an old beer bottle, that he held out in the palm of his hand. Nothing happened as he got all eyes on him, then suddenly a moment later, the bottle started to slowly turn red, almost as if it was… heating up?

"Our… gift, I guess you can call it, is Heat Manipulation. And as the name says, we can manipulate the heat of things around us, and in some cases generate flames, which is pretty cool." He added as the bottle suddenly melted in his hand, surprised the town-natives who watched as he simply rubbed the remaining substance off his hand. "And Carrie and Sue, the reason we talk in plural is because of our partner" he explained to the girls. Sue didn't know he meant by partner, Carrie did.

Jason stepped forward, choosing to show his gift next. "And my gift is-" his eyes shined bright red, surprising the natives as he suddenly disappeared leaving a gust of wind behind. The girls looked around for him, but didn't find him anywhere.

"Up here!" the girls turned their heads up to see Jason sitting on the edge of the rooftop. He smiled as the girls widened their eyes in awe before his eyes shined again and disappeared. The girls turned down to the ground and saw the red-eyed man leaning against the wall. "My gift is Superhuman Reflexes and Speed. I can react faster than the average human mind normally does and I can run faster than a human does, and that's without using my additional powers."

Sue didn't know what he meant by that however Carrie did since John told her about symbiotes and the protection they offer their hosts.

"Then how about I continue our little show here." Ariel said as Jason returned to his spot before she narrowed her eyes at Sue. She shivered as she saw the eyes laid upon her as her phone started vibrating rapidly before she took it out and her eyes widened at the sight.

Her screen was filled with purple lines full of rapidly changing numbers, before it suddenly disassembled itself in her hand. Her mouth was gaped apart when the parts began floating around in her hand. "My gift is Technopathy and Technology Manipulation. I can manipulate technology with my mind and you want the newer model, right?" Ariel asked, Sue nodding in response.

Ariel smiled as her mind concentrated on the phone as the parts assembled itself. Sue's eyes widened and her mouth formed a smile when the phone in her hand was a different model, the newer model that she had been saving up for the last month. "You are amazing, thanks." Sue said with a smile. The platinum blonde stuck out two fingers in a "peace"-sign.

"Saving the best for last." The redhaired elder sibling of Ariel stepped forward as the last one to show her gift. "Carrie, you're gonna love this one." Scarlett told the young girl who became intrigued.

Like Carrie did, she struck out her hand towards the container. She concentrated on the container and a second later, to Carrie's surprise, Scarlett lifted the entire container without touching it. The lid opened up and the trash bags began flying out like before.

"Wait. You? What?" Carrie asked astonishly, while John smiled widely.

"That's right, Carrie. We're telesisters!" Carrie snapped her head around in search of the foreign voice in her head. She looked to Scarlett, seeing the older girl telekinetically juggling the trash bags as it was nothing. "Sorry about that, Carrie. But thought that was a nice way to show you my gift: Telekinesis." She announced.

"We're the same. But you got into my head? And you called us telesisters?" Carrie shot off her questions.

"Remember when I said you're the second telekinetic I have met?" Carrie nodded to John's question. "I was talking about Scarlett back then, though her abilities are more evolved I guess."

"You told her about me?" Scarlett asked John who nodded. "Cool, hope it's good things only." The others laughed at that. "Oh, Carrie something you should know. My gift is Telekinesis and Telepathy. I can go into people's minds, hear their thoughts, go into their minds and poke around." She explained to the young girl. "And we are telesisters because we can both use Telekinesis." She added with a twirl.

Carrie then realized something that, if Scarlett could hear her thoughts, then she heard her thoughts from before. "Um, did you hear what I…"

"Yeah I did." Scarlett answered as she put the container and its content back to their original places. "And no, me and Johnny never had a relationship, he's like my brother. So, no worries, he's all yours." She added a wink at her words.

Carrie tried to hide her blush as she was caught red-handed like that. Her breath froze as she felt two big arms wrap around her from behind, looking up to see John looking down at her. "Sorry , but you're the only one for me. Nothing to worry about there." He told the young girl as his hands entwined her own over her stomach.

"Well, as you can see Carrie. You're not the only freak in town anymore." Jason said with a chuckle.

"You're not freaks." The group turned their attention to Carrie with wide eyes. "You're not freaks. You are just people with unique traits that makes you special from others. Unique people who helped me from having the best night of my life taken from me, so thank you." She said with a smile.

The girls were absolutely stunned by the town-native's words, so much that they couldn't stop themselves from smiling as the words repeated themselves in their heads. Sue smiled too as the words, but she did feel out of place from being around so many powered people in one place, but she smiled nonetheless. Her boyfriend was still passed in shock.

The boys were shocked by the girl's worlds, especially since their abilities tend to scare people off, superspeed and heat powers are not the ideal fundamental for a friendship. The boys did blush when they saw the smile on the girl's face, feeling jealous of her boyfriend all of sudden. "John." The rider turned his eyes to David who raised a finger and pointed at his girlfriend.

"Marry that girl."

His words left everyone stunned, Carrie's and John's faces burned instantly red, redder than any fresh-picked tomato could be. David snorted before he crashed down on the ground in laughter as he took in their reactions.

"David, you better run or else John's gonna kill you." Jason warned his friend with chuckle.

"That might be a good idea. John, gonna crash at your house how about that?" David asked rhetorically as he let his symbiote slither around his body to reveal Venom to the town of Chamberlain once again. He shot a line of black webbing at Tommy, picking up the unconscious boy before swinging away.

"That idiot. Well me and Ari, are gonna go as well, Johnny see you at home." Scarlett said to their friend before the siblings let their symbiotes slither around them, letting Medusa Spider and Techno Spider enter the fray again before they jumped into the air before shooting off weblines to swing.

"Me too, see you back there J." Jason said before he went to Sue. "Need a lift?" he asked, Sue nodded. The red-eyed man took hold of her waist before his symbiote came out and Red Spider showed his face again. He bent down on his knees before jumping up into the air, letting him and his passenger take flight.

Now Carrie and John were the only ones who were left back. They turned to each other before John went around to stand in front his girlfriend. "Ready for another adventure, Carrie?" he asked he held out his hand.

Carrie giggled before she went towards, passing his offering hand and got on her toes and kissed the rider on his lips. He responded immediately, kissing back and pulled her tighter to him.

"With you? Always." Carrie said after she and the rider parted lips. He smiled as his symbiote slithered around his body, Anti-Venom breathing in the town air again as he took hold of Carrie's waist and swung into the air with his beloved by his side.

To be continued…

Now that's one chapter down, next one coming up soon, AKA today. And hope you all like the names.