"Normal Talking"

'Thinking'

[Text/Electronic Talking]

{Symbiote Talking}

(Symbiote Thinking)

I was walking home after a long day of work behind the counter at a local restaurant. I had decided to take the long way home as I enjoy the nice cool air of New York City. I heard a loud cracking noise, similar to what you can hear at a construction site, from down the alley that was to my right. Against my better judgment I went into the alley to investigate. I walked through the alley way cautiously so as to not get mugged or killed, I heard another loud cracking making me snap my head towards the end of the alley. I had made it to the end of the alley and peered around the corner. I froze in fear at what I saw. There was some kind of humanoid monster strung up by dozens of red and black tendrils. It had red skin with black all over its body. It's hands were black with black claws at the end of each finger. It had a black face, almost like a mask, with long and sharp black teeth, as well as large white eyes similar to my favorite super hero Spider-Man. It let out a large tongue as it seemed to be panting.

"Who knew birthing hurt so bad… Makes me feel so… wasted… and weak." The monster said to itself in obvious pain.

'Oh shit, it's a monster! It's Carnage! I heard its a serial killer that leaves behind a bloodbath wherever it goes, I need to get the hell out of here.'

I took a step backwards in an attempt to escape without being noticed.

Crunch*

I looked down at my feet and saw broken glass all around on the floor, I looked back up and saw the Villain looking directly at me, It's teeth seemingly formed into a smile. The tendrils retracted into Carnage and he jumped up high into the sky. I started running away as fast as I could but I hadn't gotten away. I felt something slam into my back, knocking the wind out of me, and slamming me to the ground with it on top of me. I was spun around and saw Carnage's face, It had an extremely menacing smile. I tried to crawl away and get air back into my lungs but the villain held me in place with the tendrils I previously saw.

"You will make a fine temporary host, you won't be able to hide from me for very long." It said as it threw me into a nearby dumpster knocking me unconscious.

It watched as a dark blue blob climbed onto my unconscious form and sunk into my skin. The red monster launched a tendril into the side of a building and launched itself into the night sky.

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I woke up to a bright light shining into my eyes. I looked around and saw I was in the same alley as I was in last night. I tried standing up and grimaced in pain.

'I survived? Albeit with at least a few bruised ribs, I better get home.'

I started to walk home and thankfully I didn't run into any trouble. I opened the door to the small apartment that housed my mother, my little brother, and myself. I walked inside and saw my mom rush up and and hug me, causing me pain but I didn't show it as she already has a lot on her plate. My mom had dark brown hair, jade green eyes, tan skin, and stood at about 5'6''. She almost always has bags under her eyes as she works a grueling work schedule of 5 to 7.

"Leo, Where were you, I was worried!?"

"Sorry, I slept over at a friends place, I forgot to leave a note."

"Alright, next time make sure you tell me beforehand."

"Yeah, no problem, let me get washed up."

She let go of me and I went into the bathroom. I undressed and turned on the water. I looked at myself in the mirror as I waited for the water to heat up. I had unruly raven black hair that can never be combed, dark blue eyes, fair skin, a pretty handsome face, I had a scar that went diagonally through the center of my right eyebrow, and I stood at about 5'10''. I got in the shower and washed myself and brushed my teeth.

'I still cannot believe I survived a run in with Carnage, A villain known to show no mercy. What did he mean when he said I would make the perfect temporary host?'

I turned off the water and dried myself off. I got dressed and went to the kitchen for some food. I grabbed my phone, which now had a large crack down the center, and texted my best friend Christopher Baker as I ate.

[You think you could help me out, Chris?]

[Sure, what do you need?]

[I didn't get the last few questions done on the science homework, I'll get you a fresh batch of cookies]

[Deal, I'll give you the answers before first period, but you better get me the cookies]

[Thanks]

I turned off my phone and finished the rest of the food on my plate. I put my dishes on the sink, packed my stuff for school, and left for school.

"Bye mom! tell Dave I said bye when he wakes up!"

"Bye honey, have a good day at school."

I closed the door and went to my bus stop. I waited a few minutes before the bus came. I climbed the steps and started looking for an empty seat. I was walking farther into the bus when someone stuck out their foot in the aisle tripping me. As I was falling the reflexes I never knew I had kicked in, I stuck both my hands on the ground and did a cartwheel, landing on my feet. Everyone who saw what I did were dumbfounded, impressed, and a couple were jealous. I pulled up the hood of my black hoodie and sat in an empty seat, trying to not get noticed as I disliked being the center of attention and I sat down in an empty seat.

'How the hell did I do that?'

I'm not really athletic but but i'm by no means over weight, if anything i'm slightly under weight. When the bus started moving I felt someone tap me on the shoulder. I turned my head and saw some blonde guy wearing a T-shirt with the name of some band on it.

"How the hell did you do that?" He asked.

"I have no idea." I replied as I plugged my earbuds into my phone and listened to music for the rest of the bus ride.

(TimeSkip- After school)

"I hate school." I said.

"Same, but at least the teachers are cool."

"Yeah, I guess so, anyways see ya later."

"Bye, don't forget my fresh cookies." He said as we fist bumped.

"Don't worry I won't forget."

We walked to separate buses. I got on the bus, but this time I wasn't tripped, instead I was shot at with spitballs. Just like this morning my new found reflexes kicked in, but it was a little different this time. The world slowed to a crawl, I could see every detail of everything in my line of sight. I could see the spittle dripping off of the three spit balls as they flew through the air, I saw the guy across from spitball boy recording with his phone. I stepped to the side dodging one of the three spitballs, I grabbed the pencil I had in my pocket and blocked the two remaining spitballs. Once again the people who saw were shocked at what I did, which was just a few, including myself. I sat down in a nearby seat and stared at my hands.

'I-I don't understand how I am doing this, I was never able to react to anything that fast before.'

I was brought out of my thoughts by my phone buzzing. I grabbed my phone out from my pocket and opened the text from my mom.

[I'm coming home a little late today and your brother is staying the night at the Jackson's house]

[Alright, i'm almost at my stop, i'll be home in about 10 minutes]

I turned off my phone, got off the bus, and walked six blocks to get to my house. I unlocked the door and walked inside, setting my school stuff on the kitchen counter. I walked into my room and plopped onto my bed ready to take a nice power-nap as I had a long night of studying and work ahead of me.

{Ca...ou...hea...e..?}

I jumped up out of my bed and was on high alert.

"Hello... Is somebody here?"

My question was left with silence and after another minute of silence I calmed down.

'My head must be playing tricks on me, I haven't slept that well in weeks.'

{Can you hear me now?}

I let out a not so manly yell and started looking around my room for the mysterious voice. I saw an old aluminum baseball bat laying against the wall next to me so I grabbed it and got ready to play ball.

"Who the fuck said that? I have a weapon so you better leave before you get hurt!" I yelled, hopefully threatening the intruder enough to make him leave.

{D-don't hurt me. I promise I mean no harm}

"If you mean no harm then show yourself!"

{Ar-are you sure... J-just don't freak out}

"What do yo-"

Before I could finish my sentence a Dark Blue, goo like liquid came out of my skin and came together on my chest. I started yelling and tried to scrape off the blue goo but it was to no avail as my hands seemed to go right through it. The goo had started to form a humanoid face, much similar to the super villain I had the misfortune of running into the other day. It had Large white eyes that curled into hooks at the top, Dark Blue skin, and It had no lips, only a multitude of large white teeth that looked like mini knives. I dropped my bat and fell to the floor, looking at the thing that protruded from my chest.

"Wha-What the hell are you."

{I am known as a Symbiote, a race that requires a host to survive.}

"S-so are you gonna take over my body or something?"

{No, It is a Mutual relationship, you gain super human abilities and I get to live.}

"You mean that I could be a super hero if I wanted to?"

{Exactly... Want to test out our new powers?} The Symbiote asked.

"Hell yes. What can you do though?"

{I am not fully sure myself, Only time will tell, but I do give you the powers of a hero known as Spider-Man, You can walk on walls, shoot spider webs, super human strength, etc. I may have looked through you memories a bit, that's how I know the Hero's name}

"Really! Wait a minute, are you the reason I was able o do those things earlier today?" I asked.

{Yup, you gained an ability called Spider Sense which allows you to react to incoming danger}

"How do I have all of the powers of spider man? Are you like a clone of him or something?"

{No, all Symbiotes have an ability called Genetic Memory that allows Symbiotes to copy the DNA of previous hosts and pass them down to their offspring. My grandfather, Venom, was the host of Spider-Man for a short period of time.}

"Ah, that makes sense, let's go test out these new powers."

The Symbiote nodded and retreated back inside of my body. I stared at my chest for a few seconds before I shook my head, knocking me out of my stupor, and I grabbed a hoodie and a black and white bandanna to act as a mask.

{What are you doing?}

"I'm grabbing stuff to hide my face, I don't want anyone to find out that I have powers."

{Hmm, you wont need that mask, trust me.}

"Alright, whatever you say."

I put the bandanna back on my dresser and put on my black hoodie. I locked up the house and started walking to an abandoned industry building. I arrived at the building and went into the alleyway that separated the industry building and some restaurant. When I walked into the alley I immediately smelt rotten food and nearly puked.

"Alright, since I have Spider-Man's powers than I should be able to climb the wall."

{Yup, just wait a second}

"Huh?"

The blue goo appeared like it did earlier when the Symbiote showed itself, but instead of it all gathering in one spot it started to cover my whole body, starting at my feet and working its way up. The goo covered my entire body until you couldn't see any part of my skin or clothing. I looked down and saw that my body seemed to be in a skin-tight blue and black jumpsuit. I touched my face and felt that I also had it on my face. I saw a window and I walked up to it, looking at my reflection. The costume had black on my waist down to my feet, There was black that went from my elbow to my fingertips, The rest of the costume was dark blue except for the large black spider that was decorated on my chest. The face was all blue with large white eyes that curved into hooks at the top, along with a black hood.

"Whoa, I look so cool!"

{Now try out our abilities}

I put my hand up against the wall and then my foot. I started crawling up the wall slowly, once I was a few feet up I let my hands off and only had my feet holding me up. My body fell backwards and I had to use my abdomen to keep my self standing straight. I lifted a foot and nearly fell off the wall, I corrected my self and started taking small steps. After I got a little used to it I started taking faster steps until I was running up the wall. I reached the top off the wall and fell to the ground of the roof, catching my breath. My abdomen hurt a bit from keeping myself upright but I was fine other than that. I got up and stretched out my legs a little as they were a little cramped.

"Alright let's test out the spider webs."

{Hehe, it's funny and sad how weak you are, you lost your breath just by running up that wall}

"Sh-shut up, I'm not gonna be weak like this for very long! Now let me focus."

{Whatever}

I aimed my arm towards another building across the street and made with my palm open and facing towards the sky. I brought my middle and ring finger to my palm which made a black and blue web shoot out of my wrist. The web connected to the side of the building I pointed my arm towards and I grabbed the web with both hands.

"Alright, I can do this... I can do this."

I walked towards the edge and looked down. I saw the street with the occasional car passing by from a hundred or two feet up in the sky.

"I can't do this... I can't do this."

{Well your doing it anyway!}

I tried to take a step backwards but my legs wouldn't move an inch.

{Some people sometimes need a little push.}

"Don't you DAAAAGGGGHHHH!"

The symbiote had made me jump off the roof and now I was free falling to the ground. The web that I was still holding onto lost all slack and I was heading straight towards the window of the building I attached my web to. I flew straight through the window and a wall. The building was an office building that had four stories and two hundred or so employees. I stood up albeit in pain. I looked around and saw around thirty people taking pictures of me, recording me, and just staring at me. Even more people were rushing down the stairs to see what the commotion was all about.

"Umm, sorry about the window... and the wall."

My apology had knocked a couple of people out of their stupor as they started firing questions at me.

"Who are you?" "Are you a hero?" "Why did you crash through the window?" "Will you tell us your real identity?"

I looked for a way out but found none as the exit was blocked and every other direction was blocked by people as everyone from upstairs came down here and joined in on the recording and questions.

"I-I, uh... um...erm..." I couldn't speak as I was overwhelmed with questions.

'Damn, I can't even speak, I hate large crowds... I can't breath'. I started to hyperventilate.

Parts of my body started to blend in with the environment around me until I was completely invisible to the naked eye. Everyone looked confused as I had seemed to vanish into thin air and I was just as confused as the workers. The boss came down and told everyone to clear out as he had to call a repair team.

'It's like they couldn't even see me.'

{Look down at yourself, looks like we got a new ability.}

I looked down and couldn't see my body.

"Oh my god, i'm dead... Where's my body, I died from a heart attack or something didn't I?"

{*Sigh* No you idiot, you're camouflaged.}

My body started to reappear and I was feeling a bit tired. I looked around and saw that almost everyone had left, the people who remained were too busy gathering their stuff to notice me. I quickly left the building and, thankfully, I went unnoticed. I walked away from the building after the suit had retreated back into my body.

'I just realized I never asked what the creatures name is.'

{Well, I don't really have one.}

'Wait, you can hear my thoughts?'

{Yeah, we bonded, we are one being.}

'Okay, anyways, since you don't have a name then why don't I give you one?'

{I don't see why not.}

"Hmm, let's see, since you hate your father why not name you after your grandfather... Hmm, how about Toxin? Venom comes from from a living organism, but toxin comes from non-living organisms."

{Alright, my name is Toxin}

"Let's go home Toxin, its been a long day and I have some cookies that require baking!"

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-Venom POV-

(I sense one of my kin have recently been born, This one feels... different. Perhaps it is the prophesied one, I must get to it before Carnage does!)

I took control of my host and swung around New York searching for the prophesied one... and eating a snack or two on the way.