Now that I'm 100% done with my first story, A Spider's Mark, I can put more focus into this story. And so far, you all really enjoy this one, so I'll stop talking and let y'all read now.
Alleyway
"You'll do just fine." The way this girl said that sentence not only creeped out Peter, but scared him a bit. It didn't help that this girl waving the knife was so cheerful that she was blushing.
"Craziness Meter: All the way full." Peter thought. The girl lunged at his face again, but was only able to make a tear in it. Peter needed to figure something out before his face got exposed, but knowing she had knives to throw discouraged him from swinging around. He decided on an alternative that worked 0% of the time: talking.
"So blondie, why did you kill that guy?" Peter asked while keeping the girl at a distance.
"I didn't mean to kill him. I just wanted some of his blood. He kept struggling, so I accidentally stabbed him."
"Well, any sane person would come to the logical conclusion that unless you were a doctor, his blood was supposed to stay inside of him." Peter quipped. The girl smiled at his response. So far, it seemed like crazy knife girl was getting the upper hand.
"I just realized something!"
"You should turn yourself in?"
The girl near ignored Peter as she lit up. She put her hands on her cheek, with the side of the handle pressed against her cheeks. "We don't know each other's names!"
Peter at this point was just half tempted to go back home. Not to his apartment, but all the way back to New York, due to how weird his 2nd villain in Japan was.
"I'll go first, I'm Himiko Toga."
Peter decided to go against his better nature and shot a web line to a building. He looked back at Toga and responded "And I'm leaving." He pulled on the webbing and started swinging again. Toga looked up at him as he left.
"Rude." Toga said. "But now I can see if he had what Tomura was looking for." Toga opened the suitcase the guy was holding and saw the inside only had a cracked vial with nothing in it.
"Dammmmnniiiittt" Toga whined in her head. "Tomura is gonna kill me." She knew it was still in there before that guy came and distracted her. Determined to find out where her "objective" was, she followed the web lines as best she could.
Peter's apartment.
During the swinging back home, he felt himself getting a bit sick. He didn't know why, but had a feeling that all those backflips on a empty stomach was a bad idea now. Once he landed on the window to his apartment, he opened it and changed into his pajamas. He felt like crap and didn't have anything to cure it expect for water and pills for migraines. He took the pills, and struggled to drink the water without spilling it. It wasn't working.
His body started to ache, and with that came rage. He was panicking in his own apartment and turned around and kicked a chair down. A minute later, loud music started playing across the hall. Normally, Peter would ignore it because he could sleep through it, but for some reason, Peter's ears were ringing as if he was about to go deaf. He quickly covered his ears as he went to his neighbor's door. He banged on it, careful to not accidentally break the door when his neighbor came out.
"Hey, I know you probably don't understand me, but can you keep the music down please?" Peter said. He hated it, as it made him sound like a old man.
The neighbor scoffed and looked at Peter. "You just moved in here yesterday and already at my door. What do you want?" The man said in Japanese. He was about to close the door when he saw Peter grab the frame of his door. He looked down at the floor. When he rose, the neighbor saw a face that wasn't human. He recoiled in terror, almost falling down as he said in Japanese. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Theneighborlocked his door and kept his music off the rest of the night.
Peter went back into his apartment, and felt a bit better somehow. He decided not to jinx anything and went to bed early. He fell asleep when he suddenly woke up in a dream. He was looking at himself, but almost in a near future. He was standing above the same girl he saw today, Toga. She was backing away in fear of him.
"Wh-What are you?" Toga said. Peter put his hand on her shoulder as a black substance began to form over his body until a monster was standing y'all over Toga. The monster showed half of Peter's face and it's own face as it spoke.
"We, are Venom."
Following morning
Peter woke up sweating and breathing deeply. His dream from last night was still playing in his head, and it confused the hell out of him. He hoped he wasn't going crazy as he got up from his bed and walked into his living room, where he saw some stuff knocked over. He figured it was him, with his outburst yesterday but paronia got the better of him and decided to check out the mess that led to his couch.
"Please don't be a animal. Or robber. Or both." Peter looked over his couch and saw nothing. Relieved, he took a deep breath to calm down, when he backed up into someone, who now had their arm around his neck and a knife against the side of his face.
"Found you!" Peter remembered the voice. It was that girl from last night, Toga. He didn't know how she got in, much less how she followed him for so long.
"H-How did you..."
"Find you?" Toga giggled as she continued. "It was easy, following your webs. It was even easier when I snuck through your open window."
"Ok, I deserve getting robbed for leaving the window open, but why do you got a knife to my face?" Peter asked. He realized that probably wasn't the smartest sentence to ask since she could easily kill him, but she humored him with a response.
"The guy I kneeled over last night, he had something that one of my friends needed."
"Let me guess, your friend is also a baddie and wants to kill innocent people."
"Nobody is innocent. Either way, the thing he needs, you have." Toga said.
"I don't know what it is, but how about this? You let my go and go home, and I'll only tell the police the first half of your name."
"Sorry, not gonna happen...although." Toga said as a smile rose on her face. "Seeing some of your blood would make this trip worthwhile." Toga slowly began to cut down Peter's face as a cut started to form. Before either one of them knew what happened, a force pushed both Toga and Peter away from each other. Toga caught herself before she fell while Peter recoiled in shock of what just happened.
"Now eat her head." A voice growled. Peter looked around, but couldn't find a body to match, which left one thing. The voice was inside his head.
"Why would I do that?" Peter asked both scared and confused. Toga looked in amazement at what was happening in front of her.
"It's the parasite Tomura was talking about!" Toga said excitedly. Peter turned around to her with the voice still talking.
"She just tried to kill you. Make her suffer."
"I bet it's talking to you, isn't it? Tomura said it would happen."
Peter, at his breaking point and not knowing what to do, yelled.
"EVERYBODY JUST SHUT UP!"
Both the voice in his head and Toga got quiet. Toga stood up straight as she was thinking about how many times she said Tomura's name without thinking.
"First things first, what the hell is in me?" Peter said, looking at Toga.
"I don't know exactly, but from what I was told, it was a alien that landed here. I was sent to capture it."
"Which involved killing someone, and wearing a school outfit..." Peter said in disbelief.
"Hey, I WAS a student...but decided it was better to be on my own instead of being with people."
Peter rolled his eyes. "Because no one is obsessed with blood like you?"
"No!" Toga said defensively. "It's because everyone thought I was a freak with my quirk."
"Which is?"
"If I ingest someone's blood, I can transform into that person." Toga said. "As you could imagine, it made me the dangerous kid." She stopped to think. "I-I don't even know why I'm telling you this...you're probably gonna to try and get me arrested."
As much as Peter wanted to throw her in jail, it would've came with more questions he wouldn't be able to answer. "Look...I'm pretty sure I'm breaking some kind of rule in nature, but I won't tell anyone anything that happened about yesterday. As long as you tell your friends you couldn't find whatever this "thing" inside me is."
Toga was surprised by his response, and before thinking she gave him a hug.
"Thank you." Toga said.
"Great, now can you release a bit, I can't breathe." Peter said. Toga broke the hug and backed away a bit. She was about to leave when she thought of something.
"What if I live with you?"
Peter stopped working for a second as he processed what she just asked him. He only ever lived with his Aunt and Uncle, but logic would tell him that he was comfortable around them because they weren't murders. With that, Toga was getting too comfortable.
"I don't think that-"
"Cool. I call the couch when I come back." Toga cut Peter off before he could finish his sentence as she left through his window. Confused, Peter went back to his bed before he was interrupted by the voice in his head.
"Weird child. Why didn't you eat her?"
"Ok one, that doesn't sound right. Two, she obviously isn't all there, or is but is hiding it. And three, you still haven't explained what you are."
"Does it matter?"
"It does when you're telling me to eat people every 5 minutes." Peter said. The voice in his head has a deep, gravely voice. It reminded Peter of one of those old horror movie monsters that could talk in a sentence.
"Fine. For the time we are together, until I'm removed or you die horrifically, I'm Venom." Venom said.
"Definitely friendly." Peter quipped. "Mind if I take a nap so I can at least get rid of my new headache?"
Venom didn't respond to his question. "Guess it means yes." Peter went back into his bedroom and locked the door to prevent Toga from coming into his room if she came back. He laid down on his bed when he saw he got a text from Jiro.
"Me n Kaminari were planning to drag Momo to hangout today. Want 2 tag along?" Jiro's way of texting made Peter feel like she either didn't care, or was a secret hipster. He texted back.
"Sorry, don't really feel that good today. Besides, I got some catching up to do."
And Chapter 7 is done. Sorry for the shorter chapter, mostly this one was to establish a different way of depicting Toga, in a way. Plus, Venom. And seeing how the next few chapters are going to be on the villain attack on the training session, things will get interesting. But before I spoil anything, have a good day.
